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SUMMARY AUGUST 28th 2011
8/28/11
8.28.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/3aU27
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Sat eve: Armed reconnaissance patrol over Tripoli by RAF aircraft was tasked by NATO to prosecute a FROG 7 ballistic missile launch vehicle.
The ballistic missile launch vehicle had been seen in hands of Qadhafi’s forces near the former regime’s artillery depot south of Tripoli.
A long range if not very accurate heavy artillery rocket, the weapon represented a significant potential threat to the population of Tripoli
Sat eve: Our aircraft successfully engaged the missile launcher with a Paveway guided bomb.
At sea, the Royal Navy continues to support NATO’s maritime operations, conducting vital surveillance tasks off the Libyan coast.
Ali Tweel
here is shortage of water, also food, but u know the libyan spirit, we help each others & hopfully no budy will feel hungry.
Power is back 2:04pm some areas around me got it before me but it’s fine, better than nothing. I just wish knowing why is this happenning?
you mean am not pm !” ooops yes the power got back in 2am not pm!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Seriously, have to take media w/ grain of salt, caught most of them in lies to “make” news, raise ratings over last 6 months
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Abdullah Senoussi’s son was spotted in Tripoli’s Al-Afia hospital, according to the AP report I just RT’d.
dovenews Libyan™
#Libya ambassador to #Malta threatened by #Gaddafi loyalists via phone call from #Tunisia via @ksnavarra #Libya #Tunisia #Malta
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tunisia has offered to send policing forces to help with the security in #Libya #Feb17
#Malta to expel two #Gaddafi secret service agents sent from #Tripoli to ‘mind’ #Libya ambassador. #Feb17
Ex #Gaddafi SHIP (Unspecified Type) “SATRA” anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
Turkey CARGO SHIPS “HACI MEHMET KAPTAN” & “SEREN AYANOGLU” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Moldova CARGO SHIPS “MAR BIANCO” & “AZZURRA” remain in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
Ex #Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ANWAAR LIBYA” remains in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Syria CARGO SHIP “LADY SEHAM” remains in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
Turkey CARGO SHIP “DERIN” remains in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “FEYZA GENC” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “RECEP KURU” now anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “ARON” & “KURUOGLU 3” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
Turkey CARGO SHIPS “DENIZ YILDIZI S” & “BANU GENC” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “KEREM AYANOGLU” & “ILKE METE” now anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
This is a must read:
Ghazi Gheblawi: We’ve been liberated from our fear – The Independent ind.pn/qYgoEc #Libya #Tripoli #Feb17 #MoNabbous
Khalifa
Joke of the day, #AU: The new Libyan Government must represent all Libyans and must include #Gadhafi supporters.
MONEY< MONEY< MONEY $$$$$$$$$$$
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Seems like the power station was sabotaged by Gaddafi thugs. Maintenance work is being carried out slowly
MachahirNews is a HUGE fraud. Pretending to be a reporter (with Aljazeera). This guy should get sued.
LaurenBohn Lauren E. Bohn
Gilded traces of the lives Qaddafis led: nyti.ms/o66xeg #Libya
English Libya TV
Setting the pillars for a great nation
It is due time that (we) ‘free’ citizens of Libya begin to set the pillars for building a great and a prosperous nation. We must all believe in ourselves and in the future of the country. We must live with hope and a desire to pursue with vigor our country’s highest aspirations.
Libya’s faith is no parallel to any other nation (at least in modern history). This unprecedented opportunity to shape our future is the responsibility of each of us. By pursuing the just principles of freedom, human rights, and democracy; we will build the foundation of an unimaginable dignified, free and prosperous nation. Therefore, below are some sample points to bear in mind whilst considering what is needed for Libya:
Social Development is the qualitative change in the structure and framework of a society, which in turn helps the society to better realize its aims and objectives. We
must raise awareness amongst Libyans of their rights and the duty of their duly (future) elected government as well as harnessing the available social energies and skills and resources of Libya towards a socially developed nation. Accordingly this will yield to a greater level of efficiency, quality, productivity, complexity, comprehension, creativity, mastery, enjoyment and accomplishment of the Libyan Society as a whole.
Education is simply the most effective process by which a society could share and transmit and improve its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. Education is the process by which people learn through instruction; i.e. the facilitating of learning by teachers. Teaching is the actions of a real live instructor to impart learning to the student. Learning is preparing learners with specific knowledge, skills, or abilities that can be applied immediately upon completion of an education degree. The current education system is in dire need of reform and development inclusive of the national curriculum, school standards, quality of teacher’s accreditation, and overall educational facilities.
Healthcare is practically nonexistent in Libya. Libyans are in desperate need for a workable and effective Healthcare system whereby the process, equipment and facilities for medical diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments are available to all Libyans. As it is the case for all countries; establishing a reliable and effective healthcare system in Libya will require a robust financing mechanism; well-trained and adequately paid workforce; reliable information and data on which decisions and policies could be made; and well maintained facilities and logistics to deliver quality medicines and technologies.
Infrastructure: Without a proper, organized, efficient and sufficient investment in any nation’s infrastructure; growth will remain limited. Libya’s infrastructure development is not a choice but rather it is the necessity for a modern physical and organizational structure which is needed for a society to operate by providing the facilities crucial for any nation to function and grow. The technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth are deeply lacking in Libya.
Therefore, Libya’s future government and Libya’s citizens’ must have the ability to understand, advocate, and direct capital toward durable widespread societal benefits, whilst bearing in mind the future societal growth and development.
Economy: Libya is in dire need of professional, well organized and thorough research of its major economic indicators; production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Moreover, Libya requires a clear analysis of its economic activity vis-a-vis the Libyan society, business sector, finance, government, as well as Libya’s education sector, healthcare, laws, politics, religion, and social institutions.
It is crucial that Libya’s economic well being be drawn and planned for in accordance to its microeconomics and macroeconomics indicators; i.e. the behavior of basic elements in the economy, including individual markets and agents (such as consumers and firms, buyers and sellers), and the issues affecting the entire
economy, including unemployment, inflation, economic growth, and monetary and fiscal policy.
Libya must refrain from it’s over dependence on its oil production which is evidentially only at best 25 years reserve. Libya must explore its economic activity in regards to other complementary and effective principles; such as small to medium manufacturing, hospitality and tourism, open market trade, and others.
Therefore, it is crucial to reform Libya’s major financial institutions; i.e. Libyan Central Bank, LIA, Libyan Foreign Bank and others as well as establishing a regulatory body and/or supervisory framework for Libya’s financial sector. A financial sector reform program must be thoroughly planned and expedited, to include major restructuring of banks and financial institutions. Organizing the right employee talent by provide training and certification for financial professionals to bring about positive change in Libya.
Each of us can make a difference in the lives of over 6 million people! We urge you to be involved, help yourself and help your nation. Have faith in yourself and in your country’s future.
Converting Libya’s fighter helicopters to medical evacuation helicopters. #libya #feb17 fb.me/BODvWH6o
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp8dLxZI2uI
Sky News: A Pilot Swaps His Joystick For A Gun To Fight Against The Gaddafi Regime
How Pilot Became Rebel With A Cause
A pilot who swapped his joystick for a gun to fight alongside the Libyan rebels was shot in the head when he entered Colonel Gaddafi’s compound – but survived. Sky’s Mark Stone reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuaJPmMA9Z0&fea...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Must Read! – Gaddafi’s Fleeing Mercenaries Describe the Collapse of the Regime shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-… #Libya
If we have the courage, more tyrants like Gaddafi will fall shabablibya.org/news/if-we-have-the-cou... #Libya
MERCEDES CONVOY STORY:
Hadeel
Talked to Dr 2day who said Mohammed Senoussi tried to control his hospital near airport with his soldiers
Dr said M. Senoussi looked tired, defeated, called himself a “Dead man walking”
Dr said M. Senoussi told him he was only defending his father, not the regime cuz he didn’t believe in the regime any longer
Dr said one of his gadhafi soldier patients said they were waiting for Khamis in the farms near airport and would flee to Bani Walid
Dr said yday, 4 black armored #Mercedez cars pulled up, took #Gadhafi patients, M. Senoussi, and left.
Salma
#Libya will not descend into anarchy. Tribes will not battle each other. #Benghazi and #Tripoli will not divide. #shutupalready
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Rockets, gunfire and the kindness of strangers shabablibya.org/news/rockets-g… #Libya
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Qatari-Algerian tension over Libya Spills onto the Soccer Pitch bit.ly/ph0esD By @mideastsoccer for Middle East Online
Tasbeeh
Most ideal resolution with pro-Gaddafi civilians is reconciliation, not revenge. Save the vindictive impulses to deal w/ Kousa & his ilk.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tanzania CARGO SHIP “AMAL” now anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. #Feb17
#US PLEASURE CRAFT “LORELEI” now anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. #Feb17
#Italy OIL TANKER “VALLERMOSA” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-29 04:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#NTC will shortly distribute 30,000 tons of petrol to #Tripoli residents & will provide cooking gas within the next 48 hours.
#Libyan embassy in #Algeria burned, government may want to hide documents of cooperation & mercs. RT via @LibyanHawk.
Fadwa
#Gaddafi used to sell oil to Russia, China, India & money goes in his pockets. Instead, we’ll now sell to UK,France & money goes to #LIBYA
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#WadiAlAhmar reported to have been heavily mined by #Gaddafi filth.
The Echo
Kosovo recognises National Transitional Council as government of Libya
Kosovo has recognised the anti-Gaddafi National Transitional Council (NTC) as the sole governing authority in Libya, according to a letter sent on August 27 2011 by Kosovo foreign minister Enver Hoxhaj to the NTC’s Mahmoud Jibril.
Kosovo, whose 2008 declaration of independence is recognised by 80 countries but opposed by Serbia – with the backing of UN Security Council members Russia and China – never won recognition from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, who chose to back the Serbian camp.
Hoxhaj’s letter, a copy of which was posted on the Kosovo foreign ministry website, told Jibril: "After a long journey and many efforts of the Libyan people, recognition of
your government, as the only legitimate representative of the Libyan people, derives from faith and our understanding that this government can manage the process to build a united Libya, free and democratic, based on the rule of law, in accordance with high standards of human rights and freedoms.
“We are confident that all the Libyan security will be guaranteed in order to open a new chapter of the great freedom and justice and that this moment of commitment to become sustainable progress,” Hoxhaj said.
www.sofiaecho.com/2011/08/28/1145968_ko...
Gaddafi ready to enter talks, but National Transitional Council insists he must surrender first gu.com/p/3xg27/tw via @guardian
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Mutassim Gaddafi’s ex tells of the final days of Libyan regime tinyurl.com/3mmeptg Playboy models and whiskey and Coke
Mutassim Gaddafi’s girlfriend tells of the final days of Libyan regime
Mutassim Gaddafi’s former girlfriend, Dutch glamour model Talitha van Zon, talks to Nick Meo about the dying days of the Gaddafi regime.
Filipino servants wearing spotless white jackets mixed his favourite Jack Daniels whisky and coke, and then Mutassim Gaddafi raised his glass and toasted the victory that he was sure was close.
Relaxing in one of his Tripoli homes just over a week ago, during a break from commanding at the front, the fifth son of Libya’s ruler was in a defiant mood. Soon, he boasted to the blonde foreigner sitting with him, he would lead his father’s regime to a victory over the “rats”.
“I was shocked when I met Mutassim. He had changed,” said Miss van Zon. “It was the first time I had seen him since just before the February uprising. He had a beard, he was sitting on a couch strewn with automatic weapons, and he was guarded by unsmiling 16-year-old boys with sub-machine guns.” On the wall behind was a huge
portrait of his father, Muammar Gaddafi.
The hedonist son also had ambitions for power, inspired by his father’s example. “He worshipped his father,” Miss Van Zon said. “He talked a lot about Hitler, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez. He liked leaders who had a lot of power. He always said ‘I want to do better than my father’.”
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Seems like the vital coastal road all the way from #tripoli to Tunisia /Ras Ajdir has been secured. Important 4 supplies #Libya
Tahar
La question que se posent tous les libyens: Ou est parti Kadhafi #libya#kadhafi
Vlog contributing to the discussion “Has the Arab Spring Failed”, and also introducing a major writing project, “The Arab Spring Manifesto”. By Iyad El-Baghdadi.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lda9EiolJE4
American escapes Tripoli prison
bit.ly/onhPm5 (via @cnni) ignorant #Gaddafi thugs
URGENT ! #MALTA TWEEPS ! HELP #LIBYA pls take FOOD and WATER from 8am to 4pm at #Shipwright #Wharf #MARSA via @spiritofscouse
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI TWEEPS @libyatvarabic needs ContactNr of @libyaarabic he is looking4 missing #JABALLA #MATAR Allegedly Freed From #AbuSalim #Libya
Triploli Chilling discovery in School in Medina Khadima
Inside Gaddafi’s torture chamber: The bloodstained cells inside a former primary school used to brutalise his enemies
The secret door in the corner of the nondescript office swung open and I was ushered through.
The walls were hung with pictures of Tripoli’s beautiful old city because the former primary school was serving as the headquarters of the historic buildings society.
But behind this innocuous facade lay scenes of horror. For this was where Muammar Gaddafi’s secret police kept watch on the traders and residents of the city centre – and beat them if they stepped out of line.
goo.gl/LT7xo #Libya
or:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-203093...
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH FF spokesman Mohammed al-Rajali Sunday; GF Fled Westward from #BinJawad Likely to join regime forces in #Sirte #Libya Bin #Jawwad
#FUNNYnews: #Musa #Ibrahim, Gaddafi spokesman called AP #NewYork Saturd G. still in #Libya OFFERS talk 2 FF Forming Transitional Government
kosovo_
Miki Stojcic dangerous Gadaff/Serb spy agent cameraman infiltrated with RAI (italian TV staff in Tripoli)rts.rs/page/stories/s…
or:
www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
Ahmed
Gaddafi has no army. All are blood thirsty criminals that kill for $s.
Some are payed monthly, some daily. Once they hear the devil’s caught/killed they’ll all run for the hills/desert and never come back
Gaddafi has nowhere to run. He’s in Tripoli and I’m 99.98485% sure. 100% sure one of his kids are in the capital pulling the strings.
إن مع العسر يسرا : “with hardship comes ease”…
Some stories bring tears of joy and others tears of sadness. #Libya #Prisoners
Some prisoners that were shot in the leg (whilst tied) were sent to military hospitals where Gaddafi soldiers forced doctors to amputate
The dead are martyrs in a place better than anything we can imagine. The living are alive and will be victorious iA
ProudLibyan
As I mentioned a while back, Gaddafi was a one man show, but many ppl ensured he stayed alone on stage and they took care of it for him.
AP: Libyan forces killed detainees: rights group. goo.gl/WSxIf #libya
UNICEF: UNICEF responds to the emerging water crisis in #Tripoli goo.gl/ONfbU #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
BBC: #UK announces humanitarian aid for conflict-torn #Libya goo.gl/CUlwK #libya
Edinburgh Evening News: We’re reaching out to children traumatised by the conflict in #Libya goo.gl/QfvAH #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Euronews: Rush to bury bodies in #Tripoli goo.gl/EXzCY #libya
ABC: Humanitarian crisis worsens in war-torn #Libya goo.gl/oM9fs #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Tripoli
CNN: Witness to Libyan prison massacre seeks justice for victims goo.gl/74YsH #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Guma El Gamaty on AJE now dicussing the AU’s lack of recgonition of NTC, once again very well spoken Great job!!
Telegraph: Why the fall of #Tripoli will not be another Baghdad goo.gl/XAco3 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Please visit this site to honour our fallen heroes. RIP. الله يرحم شهداء ليبيا feb17martyrs.com #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Telegraph: How the special forces helped bring #Gaddafi to his knees goo.gl/GHdOL #libya #feb17 3gaddaficrimes
AJE: #Libya regains Arab League seat goo.gl/dAkNn #libya #feb17
AJE: Musa Ibrahim calls AP to report that he is in #Tripoli and that #Gaddafi is still in #Libya #shutupalready #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
The right and the wrong lessons to draw from #Libya’s liberation. goo.gl/sCBoV #gaddaficrimes #feb17
‘I stole Gaddafi’s sunglasses’: a rebel tells his extraordinary story goo.gl/IQJHo #Libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
VIDEO: AFP: Freedom Fighters from #Benghazi celebrate in #Tripoli Aug 28 2011 goo.gl/3lVHj Truly Beautiful to see. #Libya #feb17
Countries who recognize the NTC as the legitimate government of #Libya. I guess the others haven’t gotten the memo… goo.gl/QQqlY
Libya: Gaddafi ‘offers to form transitional government’ shabablibya.org/news/libya-gaddafi-offe... (Is he for real?) #Libya
ProudLibyan
Gaddafi state TV must have an archive of TV footage of Gaddafi crimes esp. of student executions in 1970’s/80’s, hope they can retrieved.
Tweeting Tripoli
100s of doctors were arrested for helping the protesters many escaped to Nafousa and Tunisia.
The deans were always pro-G just like other schools at the uni, but most professors were anti-G and that is 4 sure.
Tasbeeh
Mutassim Gaddafi’s GF says he admired Hitler. #Libya
Touching and funny “I stole Gadddafi’s sunglasses…. I took some of his underpants and some of his wife’s” www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/28/th...
MUST READ:
Times of Malta
Gaddafi ‘raped’ his female bodyguards
‘She refused his advances and he raped her’
Five women who formed part of Muammar Gaddafi’s select unit of female bodyguards are claiming they were raped and abused by the now hunted dictator.
The women have told Benghazi-based psychologist Seham Sergewa they were sexually abused by Col. Gaddafi and his sons before being discarded once they were “bored” with them.
One of the women told Dr Sergewa how she had been blackmailed into joining the bodyguard brigade, once believed to number as many as 400 women, after the regime fabricated a story that her brother was carrying drugs on his way back to Libya from a holiday in Malta.
“She was told ‘you either become a bodyguard or your brother will spend the rest of
his life in prison,’” Dr Sergewa told The Sunday Times.
The woman in question knew exactly what this meant, Dr Sergewa explained, because she had been raped a few weeks before this by Col. Gaddafi.
“She had been expelled from university and was told to seek Gaddafi’s intervention to be reinstated. She was told she had to undergo a medical test that included an HIV test that was administered by an East European nurse.”
Eventually she was taken to meet Col. Gaddafi at his Bab Aziziya compound in Tripoli. She was led to his private quarters where she found him in his pyjamas.
“She could not understand because she saw him as a father figure, leader of the nation, that sort of thing. She refused his advances and he raped her,” Dr Sergewa said.
A pattern emerged in the stories. The women would be first raped by the dictator and then passed on, like used objects, to one of his sons and eventually to high-ranking officials for more abuse before eventually being let go.
It started about a month into the uprising, in March, when Dr Sergewa, a child psychologist by specialisation, was approached by the mothers of three children she was treating with harrowing stories of rape by militiamen.
“At first I thought these were isolated incidents but I kept thinking about it and felt I should try to look into it further,” Dr Sergewa said.
The stories were as grim as they get.
“Women came forward saying they had been raped by as many as 20 soldiers, sometimes in front of their husbands and children. In one case, a girl, around 18 or so, said she was raped in front of her father. She kept telling him not to look at her…”
Many of the victims have been deeply scarred by the abuse, with a number committing suicide or contemplating it.
“Others have signs of psychosomatic stress and develop conditions like bulimia and anorexia.”
Source:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
Tweeting Tripoli
Yippee. Just got me some fuel. Going out in a big tour round Tripoli in a moment, will try to describe the general atmosphere later. kthxbye
Teresa
found out from ex reporters @ rixos that 2 bad reporters were Q-loyals tweeting him or sons about info good journos had on Q.
what I’m sayin is,if any Tripoli journos brag abt being held N Rixos,caution abt what ppl say 2 them.Gonna take time2weedout.
Lizzie Phelan, Thierry Meyssan & Mahdi Nazemroaya r pro-G-spies from the #RIXOS
Ben Ashour #Tripoli. A center can treat surgical casualties. Personal: 0912155844/0927202007 – Center: 0913858152/0922371346/0913858153
Ali Tweel
Miss van Zon recalled. “Mutassim said ‘about $2 million’. I said ‘you mean a year?’ He said ‘no – a month’.” << thats our money!
I remember watching a show made by BBC called “the house of saddam”, do you think there will be some day “the house of gaddafi” and when?
feb17libya Feb17Libya
To families in #Tripoli: those who are able to provide food for the wounded in the hospitals and to FF please call this number – 0913088827.
SKY NEWS
Libya moving forward
Libyan freedom fighters embarked on the job of getting the capital up and running again, as a gruesome find near a base of Muammar Gaddafi’s elite troops highlighted the brutality of his regime.
The fighters said they had captured the base of the elite 32 Brigade commanded by Gaddafi’s son Khamis after a NATO airstrike and seven hours of fierce fighting.
In a building nearby local residents showed journalists the charred remains of some 50 people they said were captives killed on Tuesday with rifles and grenades.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/libya-moving-forward
LA TIMES
Libya rebels bask in victory and look to the future
The two cousins still couldn’t believe it. Just six months ago, they were working-class guys in the coastal town of Misurata making ends meet inMoammar Kadafi’s Libya. Now they were in their pickup cruising around the capital. A capital they controlled.
Abdul Hamid Issa, 46, was a construction worker, Mohammad Issa, 45, a carpenter. But then came the Arab Spring.
“We are building a new Libya,” said Mohammad. “The sacrifices we made were for the sake of children, so they can live in a prosperous Libya.”
The odds are against them. Many revolutions throughout history have ended badly, especially ones that allowed thousands of weapons to fall into the hands of young men.
The rebels may have put aside their class, regional and tribal differences to defeat Kadafi, but those divisions have not been overcome.
Full art.:
feb17.info/news/libya-rebels-bask-in-vi...
Moussa Ibrahim
Moussa Ibrahim, Gadhafi’s chief spokesman, called AP headquarters in New York late Saturday and said Gadhafi is offering to negotiate with the rebels to form a transitional government. Ibrahim, identified by his voice, said Gadhafi appointed his son al-Saadi to head the negotiations. Ibrahim said he saw Gadhafi on Friday but would say only that he is in Libya. Ibrahim said he himself was in Tripoli.
AP
Rebel fighters have pushed increasingly leaderless regime gunmen to the outskirts of Tripoli on Saturday, as severe shortages of fuel, water and electricity paralyzed the battle-scarred capital and the stench of growing piles garbage filled the air.
The rebels, who now control most of Libya, said they are preparing for an assault on Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, his last major bastion, if negotiations with tribal leaders there fail. Rebels deployed in Bin Jawad, a town about 150 kilometers east of Sirte,
said they are waiting for NATO to bomb Scud missile launchers and possible weapons warehouses there.
The infamous golden fist in Gaddafi’s Bab Al Aziziya compound has officially been brought down.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: First Friday prayers since the fall of the Kadhafi regime. bit.ly/otCcMv #libya
Libyan Novelist Recounts His Father’s Abduction : The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/09/05/11090... via @NewYorker
OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
Reuters has reported Libya’s rebel government will not negotiate with Muammar Gaddafi unless he surrenders tinyurl.com/42ln8va
Sirtawi
Via Thuraya: According to caller’s estimation, situation will be critical if another week goes by with no end to this crisis
Via Thuraya: Electricity still down in #Sirte. Shortage in coal & wood supplies as ppl use them to cook, gas running out quickly.
dovenews Libyan™
HRW: Libya: Gaddafi Forces Suspected Of Executing Detainees. goo.gl/jLyQY #Libya #Feb17 #HRW #GaddafiCrimes
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Had many calls from friends in free tripoli saying city recovering fast thanks 2 energy & resourcefulness of its people. Makes me so proud!!
Those who thought & said Libya will b another Iraq should adjust their thoughts & give Libyans some credit! Young Libyans r simply awesome!!
CHANNEL 4 NEWS:
alextomo alex thomson
Tonight on #c4news the British connection with Colonel Gaddafi’s notorious military base in Tripoli. #Libya
Graphic eyewitness accounts this morning on the massacre at Khamis military base in Tripoli. #c4news #Libya
We find 9 Nigerians captured by rebels, terrified they’ll be shot #c4news #Libya
They beg us to stay. Kept saying if we left they’d be shot #c4news
They were terrified, crying and praying. Eventually made sure they got out of #Khamis alive #c4news
#c4news we have named dated photo IDs of dozen British men from Khamis base
#c4news british photo IDs are titled “Collaborator Of 32 Brigade”. Dated 2009
MUST READ:
channel4news Channel 4 News
by alextomo
No more “crazy” hair as Gaddafi’s Libya lies wrecked – @alextomo blogs for #c4news bit.ly/nOG3Jg
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blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Libyans really don’t like the comparison to Iraq. Best to prove them wrong, not whine about them.
LOVE THIS TWEET:
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Moussa says #Gaddafi willing to discuss a transfer of power. The Col clearly doesn’t have a TV or he’d see it’s already taken place.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
The ntc army is insisting they be allowed to enter sirte and the sirte elders are saying they must go round.
4Adam Adam
Construction sites in Tajoura used as weapon depots for Gaddafi forces. facebook.com/video/video.ph… #Libya #Tripoli
Amazing footage of Bab Aziziya battle – Part 1/3 (by @almostakbal) dai.ly/nzCSwm #Libya #Tripoli
Amazing footage of Bab Aziziya battle – 3 dai.ly/rb204B
3 dai.ly/ppFCmv #Libya #Tripoli via @almostakbal
4Adam Adam
We all more Libyan now,… even those who ain’t Libyans.. they wish they were! youtube.com/watch?v=mJffA7… #Libya #Feb17
*Must read piece for those who can’t distinguish between ‘Middle East’ and ‘North Africa’ – Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri... #Libya #Feb17
AP- HRW says evidence indicates that Gaddafi regime killed at least 17 detainees and executed 10s of civilians as rebels moved into #Tripoli
#HRW’s Clive Baldwin’our ppl in #Tripoli have seen so many atrocities committed by Gaddafi regime.We expect more charges to be added by ICC’
#nyt – #Libya’s Interim Leadership Releases Its Members’ Names nytimes.com/2011/08/28/wor… #NTC #Feb17
#AJE’s James Bays with the latest updates from Tripoli youtube.com/watch?v=BM6PPr… #Libya #Feb17
#Libya is ~2 million square kilometers, expecting the hide and seek w/ Gaddafis will take sometime. but have no idea why the world cant wait
A cry for medical help from #Tripoli hospitals. Doctors work in difficult conditions Arabic www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4fkcS7DqYk #Libya
English Libya TV
NTC minister: we won’t hand over Lockerbie bomber
Libya will not extradite Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing, a minister in Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) said today.
“We will not give any Libyan citizen to the West,” Mohammed al-Alagi, the NTC justice minister, told reporters in Tripoli.
“Al-Megrahi has already been judged once and he will not be judged again … We do not hand over Libyan citizens, (Muammar) Gaddafi does.”
NEIGHBOURS DESCRIBE WEALTHY RECLUSE
Neighbours of al- Megrahi described a wealthy recluse, constantly surrounded by security guards.
Al-Megrahi, who had been diagnosed with cancer, served only eight years in a
Scottish jail for orchestrating the attack on Pan Am 103, before being released on compassionate grounds in 2009 and flown back to Libya after doctors gave him only months to live.
He was received with a hero’s welcome on his return to Tripoli, and the televised images of cheering crowds angered many relatives of the 270 people killed in the attack, 189 of whom were Americans.
The Obama administration harshly criticised Scotland’s decision to release Megrahi and many U.S. politicians and victims’ families have pressed for his extradition to the United States.
One of Megrahi’s neighbours said he had been whisked away by security guards last week when Tripoli fell to revolutionaries battling forces belonging to Gaddafi, who like Megrahi, has gone into hiding. Libya’s new government is likely to come under pressure to find Megrahi and hand him over.
“The day Tripoli fell, four security men, his private security, took him, his wife and his sons and left. They left in a Mercedes,” said Ahmed Mlaaty, 20, a student and one of Megrahi’s neighbours, standing outside his handsome villa.
As a condition of his release, Megrahi had been obliged to check in regularly with Scottish authorities, who said last week they had lost contact with him in the “dust of battle”.
Neighbours said Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence operative, owns several properties in the Demeshk area of Tripoli’s Hadba district, one of the smartest in the city.
Megrahi’s properties appeared empty, with a padlock on the gate of one residence
where he was said to receive guests.
Sprays of bougainvillea, tall palm trees and brightly coloured flowers could be seen behind the high walls of the neighbourhood’s large villas.
“He kept himself to himself …. He’s a millionaire. He gets his money from big daddy (Gaddafi). People keep their distance. They don’t want to get into state affairs as it will only bring trouble,” Mlaaty said.
Another neighbour who had sat with Megrahi at local functions but had never spoken to him said he appeared a reserved, well-turned-out man.
Most neighbours said Megrahi appeared unwell, but there is controversy over his severity of his condition — diagnosed by Scottish doctors as terminal prostate cancer — and whether it warranted his release.
“I saw him many times, he was in a wheelchair, he looked very ill, very thin. He always had security, more than one car. He never went anywhere without them,” said senior policeman Ali Ahmed al-Khudair, 40, who said he resented the security patrols that accompanied Megrahi’s arrival in the neighbourhood.
“He wasn’t a millionaire before, but he is now. He came here after he was released from prison. Then he bought these houses. This is one of Libya’s top neighbourhoods,” he added.
Another neighbour said Megrahi caused no one any harm, and said his complicity in the bombing had not been proved.
“Everyone associates him with Lockerbie, but I’m not sure he was involved,” said Noora Abdul Hadi, 27, a doctor.
Attiya al-Usta, 77, said he had seen Megrahi just before the February uprising against Gaddafi’s 42-year-rule.
“When he came back from Europe he looked ill. But recently he looked fit and neat. I saw him just before the revolution. He didn’t look ill at all. He was sitting in a chair on his balcony. He looked 100 percent.”
Reuters
FACTBOX – Countries that recognize Libyan rebel council reut.rs/oWZttU via @reuters #Libya #Feb17 #NTC
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Worth reading in the Observer – One fighter’s perspective – “I stole Gadaffi sunglasses” bit.ly/pgfo8Q
Sky’s @kileysky
‘heavy fighting between rebel special forces and Gaddafi forces in Wadi al hammer east Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown’ #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BBC Newsnight August 24. Video: goo.gl/D9lw4 @Guma_el_gamaty did an excellent job here! Not much can be said about the other speaker
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels now pushing forward, commander of rebel special forces has told @kileysky that they think they could be in Sirte by tonight. #Libya
SkyNewsCamera Nathan Hale
Near Bin Jawad. Jets heard overhead. Large explosions in the distance toward Sirt
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
We are hearing reports that talks have stalled between sirte elders and ntc.
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Just had update on rebel plans for Sirte. Sounds like negotiations have not failed – but certainly rather stuck
AJE
Guma_el_gamaty
“Africa has to decide if they want to be in the past w Gaddafi or in present & future with the #Libya’n people”
“Need explanation from AU as 2 why they were silent over mass murder, rape&destruction committed by Gaddafi "#Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan rebels are 30 kilometers away from #Gaddafi hometown #Sirte, says military chief.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
We’re now about 10 km past Bin Jawad, front line about 8km ahead – NATO planes over head #Libya
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
Reuters Reuters Top News
Libyan rebel commander: It will take more than 10 days to take Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s home town and one of his last bastions of support
hominoid555 whitewakbar
On the eastern front, and “the thwar (rebel fighters) from Misrata are 30 kilometres from Sirte” in the west, Fortiya said.
Libyan FFs forces moved 30 kilometres (18 miles) closer to Sirte from the west.
Arab league concludes its emergency session over Libya, Syria www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/... via @AddThis
The Arab League called upon the United Nations to recognize Libya’s transitional council as one of its members GOOD POINT
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
The view from my hotel balcony in Tripoli. (A bullet hole in the glass) yfrog.com/menzqj ##LIBYA
hominoid555 not sayin
Qatar has reportedly stopped issuing visas to Algerians.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Sporadic shelling of the area around Bin Jawad by Gaddafi’s forces #Libya
Major General Nick Pope, spokesman for UK Defense Staff, said its forces spotted a FROG 7 ballistic missile launch vehicle near Bin Ghashir
Libya rebels clear road, opening vital supply route west #cnn edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28...
There are widespread shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, particularly in the Nafusa Mountains and Tripoli," U.N. Secretary-General
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Ras Jdir border crossing with #Libya reportedly open from 1130 GMT i.e right now! Cuts down time- Tunisia to #Tripoli by 8 hrs
LibyaLiberty Hunting the Beard
FF taking turns sitting in #Shakeer’s studio set, calling him Shikhsheer (means sock). Delicious Disrespect. fb.me/EMUrYA5i
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
by LibyanPilot
VIDEO: AFP: Freedom Fighters from #Benghazi celebrate in #Tripoli Aug 28 2011 goo.gl/3lVHj Truly Beautiful to see.
OmarAmer
Senior military official says FF on West are now 30km from Sirte, FF on the East are now under 100km from the town
One of the main reasons negotiations are breaking down for peaceful entry to Sirte, the G loyalists don’t want the FF 2 enter at all
The Libyan National Army are now at Nawfalia, just before Wadi al Ahmar, Nawfalia the historic boundary of Cyrenaica – Tripolitania
Sky news correspondent: The Libyan National army could reach Sirte this evening
Khalifa
and the humiliation of #Gadhafi continues, someone was filmed cleaning his shoes using one of Gadhafi’s “iconic” shirts.
“We free now, we are free now” dancing in the streets www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6NrjY7p7k&fea...! #Libya
Al-Orouba TV is reported to be off air. #Gadhafi used AL-Orouba TV for his last 2 rants.
Sirtawi
A group of ladies from #Sirte, a part of #Feb17. Date of video unknown. (Arabic) youtube.com/watch?v=iQ9U90…
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Saws two Ukrainain ids & Libyan residencies they got in July. Rebels say both r snipers & have detained them. #Libya
Alex
SIRTE UPDATE: #FF will be on the outskirts of #Sirte by tonight – there have been major gun battles at Wadi Ahmar Red Valley – which is about 100km east of #Sirte – the hometown of #Muammar #Gaddafi.
FF are well armed & supplied – but the local tribe is very pro Gaddafi – and a range of local obstacles include per @Palm_Maple “Bad Geography, animistic tribes, minefields & Maginot-like defense Line”.
The most recent news – at midday – is that #FF have gained the upper hand at #WadiAhmar – and are now able to advance again – as pro G are retreating – and a #FF just interviewed on SKY predicted that they would be at Sirte early evening.
NIZ
NGOs have brought people to tripoli from bengazi. They may take people out if on route to tunisia.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Witness to Libyan prison massacre seeks justice for victims bit.ly/nwj8ng #libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
To those women who have suffered rape or torture under #Gaddafi’s orders….you are “Strong Enough”. Dedication to you. goo.gl/gNNEh
Reuters: Witness reports Tunisian authorities open main border crossing into Libya #Libya
NTC spokesman says Libya gas pipeline to Europe has been repaired #Libya
Libyans count deadly cost of battle for Tripoli shabablibya.org/?p=6086 #Libya
Rastko
I am from Serbia and I support the revolution. I organised a protest of support to the freedom fighters in Belgrade on 5 April.
Libiya_min_Hollanda
I want 2 thank all u guys whom supported me when I really needed it and forgive me if I said anything that hurted anyone ;)
Joy and happines is something I will experians when all of #Libya is liberated!!!! And when we catch the G crimenal family!!!
My dad spoke 2 my bro and he told us that they are all fine, other relatives we couldnt reach do 2 the bad phone lines :(
I’m happy for them that QBG is Leberated, finaly ppl can have some rest, and not being stressed out.
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI WATER CUT OFF Latest is… FF believe Gaddafi F Switched off the water flow in #Tahuna FF on way now 2sort it via @Skynews
#FLASH #Benghazi Colonel #NTC Militairy Spokesman #LIVE #Gas lines are up and running along the coast #Libya
FF spokesman abt #SIRTE “We’re still waiting for them 2to stop fighting and open their city We’ve had no result yet.”
Oil-rich #Libya not looking for a loan goo.gl/fb/1JHcn
#Tripoli residents still not complaining Woman: “We can wait 2wks for water, we waited 42 yrs for freedom” #Libya via @bbclysedoucet
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
My guess for water/ #Tripoli: main control for water supply is Ben Ghashir (GMRA) very sophistic. electronic. G forces may ve destroyed it.
water 4 tripoli does come mainly from area south of jebel nafusa, tarhuna is GMRA line 2
u can see the wells if u google my name & GMRA – fotos on my blog
One of the BBC team Chris Cobb-Smith has just found the cell he was held in at the Khamis brigade HQ #Tripoli #Libya in March
@dovenews Libyan™
#FLLA spokesperson Live: A convey of cars tried to cross #Tarhuna area, #FF tried to stop the convey, the ppl in the cars opened fire 1/3
on #FF, #FF have engaged & hit 2 cars directly, the 2 cars went on flame with the drivers inside, we cant identify the bodies but 2/3
we think they were the guards of #Khameais Gaddafi, however, we cant confirm at this stage. 3/3
Libiya_min_Hollanda
Those 2 cars where the cars that left yesterday from Qaser ben Gashir, they had someone imp. In them.
dovenews Libyan™
AP: reported earlier that Moussa Ibrahim, had said Gaddafi had offered 2 negotiate 2 form a transitional gov with #FF 1/4
& that Gaddafi was still in Libya. No negotiation is taking place with Gaddafi," said Ali Tarhouni, the NTC official in charge of oil 2/4
and financial matters. “If he wants to surrender, then we will negotiate and we will capture him.” 3/4
NTC wont negotiate wth Gaddafi unless he surrenders, a top NTC official told Reuters Sunday, adding NTC didnt know Gaddafi’s whereabouts 4/4
English Libya TV
Revolutionaries reject Gaddafi’s offer to talk
Revolutionaries today rejected an offer by Muammar Gaddafi to negotiate and said they have captured the eastern town of Bin Jawwad, forcing regime loyalists to flee after days of fighting.
The opposition fighters have threatened to advance westward on the coastal road toward Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte if tribal leaders there don’t agree to surrender peacefully. The fighting in the east comes as the revolutionaries consolidated their hold on the capital, Tripoli, some 560 kilometers to the west of Bin Jawwad.
Mohammed al-Rajali, a spokesman for the revolutionaries on the eastern frontlines, said they captured Bin Jawwad at about 10 p.m. last night and deployed forces in the
city after days of fighting. He said Gaddafi’s forces fled westward and were likely to join regime forces in Sirte, the headquarters of Gaddafi’s tribe and his last major bastion of support.
The opposition has threatened to assault the city, which has been heavily targeted by NATO airstrikes, if tribal leaders there refuse a peaceful surrender.
With Gaddafi on the run, his spokesman Moussa Ibrahim called The Associated Press yesterday to say Gaddafi is still in Libya and offering to have his son, al-Saadi, lead talks with the revolutionaries on forming a transitional government. In the past, Gaddafi referred to the revolutionaries as “thugs” and “rats.”
Ibrahim said he saw Gaddafi Friday in Libya but would not give more details.
Mahmoud Shammam, the information minister in the revolutionary Council, rejected the offer.
“I would like to state very clearly, we don’t recognize them. We are looking at them as criminals. We are going to arrest them very soon,” he said at a news conference.
“Talking about negotiations is a daydream for what remains of the dictatorship.”
Source:
english.libya.tv/2011/08/28/revolutiona...
dovenews Libyan™
#Bin #Jawad is completely under #FF control. Confirmed
UPDATE: Tunisian authorities reopened #Ras #Ijdir bordr crossing into Libya on Sunday, dozens of vehicles moved through goo.gl/9myBz
Funny African Guy “Libya is situated in Africa & must engage with the African countries” REALLY! #Libya
HRW: Libya: Gaddafi Forces Suspected Of Executing Detainees. goo.gl/jLyQY #Libya #Feb17 #HRW #GaddafiCrimes
dovenews Libyan™
A natural gas pipeline from Libya to Europe has been repaired, paving the way for resumed shipments,NTC military spokesman Bani said on Sun
#FF control the road between Tripoli & Sabha, a bastion of support for deposed Gaddafi in the southern desert, Bani told a news conf on Sun
SPY EMBEDDED WITH ITALIAN JOURNOS AT RIXOS:
kosovo
Miki Stojcici dangerous Gadaff/Serb spy agent Journalist infiltrated with RAI (italian TV staff in Tripoli)rts.rs/page/stories/s…
Several months ago this pigg was spying in Ajdabia front www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
Miki Stojcici dangerous Gadaff/Serb spy agent Journalist infiltrated with RAI (italian TV staff in Tripoli)www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
SerbianMiki Stojcic was also in Ajdabia front several months ago and he was spyning for Gadfafi forces there very dangerous
Maby he is using false identity / not with this name ..but his face is in the video www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
This Serb/Gadafi spy several months ago was passing Gadaffi pigs chek points in the frontlin of Ajdabia/giving info. about FF
I survelianced Serbia RTS-TV channel several months ago when there was fighting around and in Ajdabia..he was there
This Serbian piggy spy was then reporting to Serbia RTSTV chanel that he as SERB was lewelocmed by G soldiers/he was spying FF
This pig serb might have false identitiy/passoprt/name but he is cunnignly all the time hidding behind as cameraman of RAI
He knows many things about G piggs in Tripoli and whole lybia/ interogate him roughly/show no mercy
It is 100% sure, here is him reporting from Bengazi ..19 of March 2011….www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
Tripolitano
reservoir of sidi al sayah feeds tripoli. It’s fed from Hasawna reservoir. Told turbines there not functioning
NTC Military Spokesman: Those who hold power in Sirte at the moment are the ones who are close to Gaddafi and his regime #Libya #Sirte
NTC Spokesman: To some extent the people in Sirte have been kept from the knowledge of our peaceful offer due to those in control #Libya
NTC Military Spokesman: Those saying there are terrorist factions in Libya are misinformed
Nikola
I am from Serbia and I support the revolution just like alot of other Serbians, including the Serbian government.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya: Nato must learn from its success shabablibya.org/?p=6088
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Responding to a question what if Abdullah Sanussi turns G in: ‘’he will receive the £1M reward, but then will be taken to court himself :)’’
NTC Military spokesman: The most powerful countries have recognised the NTC, we do not wait for the ones who refused (cont) #Libya
(cont) ‘’There will come a day when they are scrambling to recognise us and ask for our favours, this is the general view of the Libyans’’
NTC Military Spokesman: The purpose of the negotiations with Sirt are only to reduce the bloodshed, we will liberate these towns soon #Libya
NTC Military spokesman responding to ’has G fled to Zimbabwe, This is a new story to us, we hope he is still in #Libya
NTC: Responding to shortages of money/elect/food etc: There are a lot of shortages to be expected, but our people are patient #Libya
NTC Spokesman: Between 57-60,000 prisoners in Tripoli since Feb17.only 10,11k have been released, Libyans ask where are all the rest? #Libya
NTC: we ask anyone with knowledge of other prisons or mass graves, they must come forward or they r considered participants of this #Libya
NTC: There is a difference between coming forward as a witness voluntarily or being forced to do so, we urge them to make their minds up
NTC: There is no running away from the truth. The truth will be brought to the surface,
this is an announcement not a threat
Answering question, do you believe tens of thousands may have been killed? NTC: This is what is clear, there is a big diff in the numbers
Ali Tweel
It’s very quite in tripoli, i didn’t hear a single shoot this morning.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#FF’s expected to enter #Sirte later today. Fighting some 30km away from the city as #NTC still negotiating with tribe leaders to surrender
3 #Italy nationals arrested by #Gaddafi forces and released by rebels, together with 2 other kidnapped and released journos on way to #Malta
#Libya gas pipeline to #Europe ‘restored’ and will re-start supplying gas: #NTC Ahmed Bani
‘#Gaddafi offer to negotiate power transfer is delirious’ – #UK foreign secretary William Hague
Khamis #Gaddafi Brigade has killed and burnt the bodies of some 130 rebels. Horrific discovery found today
#FF’s expected to enter #Sirte later today. Fighting some 30km away from the city as #NTC still negotiating with tribe leaders to surrender
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
I’ve just been told NTC documented those arrested by #Gaddafi regime + of 67000 arrested, only 11000 have been released.
BREAKING: 10,000 prisoners have been freed and 50,000 are still missing
الثوار:تحرير عشرة الاف سجين في ليبيا ولا يزال 50 الفا في عداد المفقودين
Libya_Awake_United
The ammo store which was discovered by FFs in #Tajoura #Libya under a civilian buildings facebook.com/video/video.ph… #Feb17 #TRipoli
Sarah
I can’t believe it .. Eid in #Libya this year.. First time in my life ! #Benghazi #Libya
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Up to 50 thousand missing political prisoners are feared dead or held in underground prison bunkers in Tripoli and elsewhere, acc NTC #Libya
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Opened Ras Jdir border crossing to Tunis helping things in #Libya. Blackmarket petrol price down 30% o/night. Food trucks rolling
moi a table
#Libya to recruit Egyptian teachers before start of school year. tinyurl.com/3jaqjsq #Tripoli #Benghazi #NTC
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Minister of Health tells me in interview “within 72 hrs, #Libya(ns) will hear good news about resuming flights from #tripoli intnl airport.”
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC desperately appealing for information on where #Gaddafi’s underground prison bunkers are, to save those still trapped #Libya #Tripoli
Libiya el Haqiqiya
thanku! Do u know anything about jaballa matar from ajdabiya? We heard there are tunnels under d prison?
We heard that there r tunnels under #abusalim prison, in which a"very important" prisoner from Ajdabiya was held. Anybody knows about this?
BREAKING: FFs are now battling to Liberate Nawfalia,, which is west of Bin Jawad and east of #Sirte, #NATO jets can be heard overhead.
FunGuerilla
OTPOR gave advice to the movements in the MENA countries so the Arab Spring has also some roots in Serbia…
.this is important to note since many people only know about the Serbian mercenaries working for Gaddafi.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
A young ff has just come from front suffering from shock after seeing 3 gads killed in air strike.
He said he tried to save the gad soldiers life by carrying him to a medic but he died in his arms.
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Market is open 2day in #tripoli.Saw 2 men swimming in sea.Women/ kids out in #babelaziziya.No water in most city.Electricity on & off
aquaamr
Few shops open today #Tripoli small grocery stores, been able to stock on drinks and snacks. Looks like life will continue only after Eid.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#ff are trying to take nofilia right now.Nato can be heard above.
New east frontline #ff have now advanced beyond bin jawwad. #gads have retreated to wadi al ahmar
More info: nato hit a convoy of 5 gad vehs. 3 dead. 4 veh destroyed 1 rocket launcher captured by ff.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Abdel AlHafeth Arbeesh is the NEW free #Libya #football team and Insha allah there first match will be in #Cairo towards end of #September
How the special forces helped bring Gaddafi to his knees
British combat jets pounded Libyan forces in a series of strikes over the weekend targeting command and control bunkers and missile sites.
The attacks took place on the southern outskirts of Tripoli, a few miles north east of the international airport, where a brigade headquarters and a helicopter facility was based.
The targets were destroyed with Paveway IV satellite guided bombs prior to a secondary attack on a BM21 Grad rocket launcher west of the port of Ras Lanuf, which had been earlier spotted by a Nato reconnaissance patrol.
Full story:
feb17.info/news/how-the-special-forces-...
#SBEA Residents say convoy of 50Vehicles Convoy from Khamis 32Brigade Base in #Saladin FLED yesterday towards #Bani #Walid via @Tom_Rayner
FromJoanne Joanne
On Way to FRONT line near #Sirte Dr Father and son Sanad @SanadAttia VERY proud of you Sanad Give it to them :) yfrog.com/z/kl6lqcfj #Libya
#TRIPOLI IS #SEARCHING 46.000 ppl Still Missing Col Bani URGES ppl with INFO to contact #NTC Ppl still Alive in UndergroundBunkers #Libya
Col Bani There R so many RATholes in #Tripoli. We R Searching4 #Gaddafi in the Holes and 46.000 prsioners thought 2bAlive in Bunkers #Libya
#MISSING…. CONCERNED Tweep asks me : Anyone Knows What Happened to #SIRTE #OIL Company #STAFF Forced To Work at #Brega ? #Libya
#Tripoli Underground BUNKERS #NTC CONTACT: Bil_-finger_Berger known in #Libya #MediteraneanSeaEngineering&Construction Comp. 4 PLAN or MAP
#SIRTE ALSO HAS HUGE NETWORK of Holes / BUNKERS #Libya
Libiya_min_Hollanda
My causin on frontline of the Brega said days ago that they found Oil Eng. killed in al Brega by G Troops cant confirm its them.
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
Massive protest in #Tripoli after Eid!!
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Tunisia police have arrested a member of #Gaddafi forces and 3 locals for planning attacks on #Libya refugees and rebel supporters
Tunisian police have arrested a member of Libya’s pro-Gaddafi forces and three locals for planning attacks on Libyan refugees and rebel supporters, a spokesman said Sunday
dovenews Libyan™
ANALYSIS- #Germany’s Angela Merkel is kicking herself for not helping the Libyan revolution. goo.gl/gqF7O #LibyanPie #Libya
ANOTHER GADDAFI HIDING PLACE:
kosovo
Gadafi is hiding in Bunker in Sebha airport compound guarded by 700 strogn piggy Serbia army
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Message to the media, @nabilaramdani is no expert on Libya,she is a friend of Saif Gaddafi and this is her only ‘expertise’ on #Libya
Enes
NabilaRamdani is probably being paid a hefty sum to spread this bull…
Divisive
In the UK she constantly appears on the mainstream media as a Middle East expert but got pretty much everything on Libya wrong
Hunting the Beard
@NabilaRamdani Interesting you’re defending the man responsible for a human bar b q in Tripoli hospitals.You are a disgrace to journalism.
Alex
“Saif received me in a private suite in Mayfair’s Connaught Hotel” – PASS THE VOMIT BAG – @NabilaRamdani SUCKS UP TO #Saif:
“Saif’s Anglophile views should not be discounted as a stunt cooked up by his newly hired PR firm. It was only last year that he completed his doctorate in Governance at London School of Economics.
He is imbued with unremittingly liberal ideas about the future of his country and the redistribution of its estimated £65bn in energy-wealth profits.
A desire to turn Libya into a modern democracy based on the rule of law is expressed at every opportunity, with Saif always highlighting economic progress over dogma.
Saif’s reforming record to date is certainly impressive.”
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/j... #Libya
Ali Tweel
@NabilaRamdani I’m reporting your twitter account as a spam since you are a disgrace to journalism.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. by Martin Luther King Jr.
Sami
@nabilaramdani you describe yourself as a French journalist. You’re Algerian. The only thing French about you is your passport. #MURTAZAKA
MoKoussa Moussa Koussa
@NabilaRamdani Nabila’s latest statement on #Gaddafi reflects her desire to sound like an journalist while in fact supporting mass murder
Lil
@NabilaRamdani Libya is no more ‘tribal’ then Britain. In 1945 we built the NHS, why do you say that Libyans are inferior to Britons?
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Mustafa Abdel Jalil has arrived to Doha on sunday afternoon on a short visit
HOSPITAL NEWS:
Two branches of the Mutawassit Hospital in Tajoura and Nofleen are accepting wounded for treatment and surgery.
The Petroleum Hospital in Gharoor opposite to the Mercedes showroom is accepting all wounded and has the medical tools needed to treat the wounded.
Dr Khalifa AlSaeedi, General Surgery consultant, is currently accepting all emergency cases in the British Libyan Center (previously the Swiss Center) for free, in Jaraba street in Ben Aashoor. The center has facilities for surgery. The doctors numbers are: 0927202007 and 0912155844. The center no. are: 0913858153, 0922371346 and 0913858152.
Abu Salim hospital has been liberated, however it lacks ambulances and cars to transport medication. There is medication in storage but no one to transport it to the hospital.
The central hospital is running out of patient clothing and bed sheets.
Dr. Abusnana encourages anyone wishing to help, to contact him:
Tel: (+971) 0567603782
Email: sabusnana@hotmail.co.uk
Exhausted Libyan Freedom fighter friends tell of battles
AL-JAMIL, Libya — They fought on the front in west Libya and in battles in Tripoli, and now they are trying to take the south. Marwan and Elias are both exhausted but upbeat — and determined to finish the job.
The two friends, proudly declaring themselves to be citizens of the Libyan revolution, recount the fierce firefights that preceded the rebel seizure of strongman Moamer Kadhafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound in the capital.
But upon arriving in the small town of Al-Jamil, close to Libya’s border with Tunisia, the pair are at a loss for words to describe their accomplishments.
“It tastes just like the aroma of freedom,” shouts Marwan Meyouf, 30, amid cries of joy and celebratory machine-gun and cannon fire.
Full story:
shabablibya.org/news/exhausted-libyan-f...
Ali Tweel
sohour ends 4:59am and iftar starts on 7:41pm tripoli time. but it changes over the month by minutes, this was yesterday timing!
md azim
may peace and tolerance blossom in Libya with #Gaddafi is finally fall!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
#Malta CARGO SHIP “PURKI” & #Turkey SHIP (Unspicified Type) “KAZIM GENC” both now nearing dest. port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#NTC desperately appealing for info on where #Gaddafi’s underground prison bunkers are. #Libya #Feb17
#Tanzania CARGO SHIP “AMAL” now departing port #Misrata #Libya for dest. #Benghazi. #Feb17
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
One resident of Sbea said his relative in Bani Walid had told him the hospital there was surrounded by Gaddafi troops.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Egypt CARGO SHIP “RAS MOHAMED” now departing port #Alexandria for dest. #Tobruq #Libya #Feb17
AJE just reporting from km 60 from Misrata towards Sirte. Heavy FF buildup with many tanks reported.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Gaddafi’s private plane, so much for that stupid tent !!! twitpic.com/6cma6p twitpic.com/6cma7l twitpic.com/6cma8w …..#Libya
Video: #BBC’S John Simpson tours Gaddafi “modest” private plane …. SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT ! bbc.in/nOV2Yl … #Libya
African migrants suspected of being Gaddafi mercenaries , released outside the military base in #Tripoli twitpic.com/6cmwxq .. #Libya
Libya_Awake_United
September 1st 2011 will be dictated as a day to collect the garbage which accumulated for the last 42 yrs from all over #Tripoli #Libya
Alex
THE TIMES: Residents in #Tripoli setting up gun registers – in local neighborhoods – so neighbors no who has got what – also collecting guns
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan Ras Lanuf refinery ready to restart-manager shabablibya.org/?p=6099 #Libya
AP:
Libya FF reject ex regime offer to talk. hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBY...
BBC
Living conditions in Tripoli ‘difficult’
Almost a week after the final battle for Tripoli began, there is growing concern about the increasingly difficult living conditions in the Libyan capital.
Many people are without water and electricity, food is scarce and there are growing sanitation problems.
Amid warnings from the United Nations that millions in the city are at risk – the rebels say they’re trying to increase the supply of fuel – and to deliver water and medicine.
The BBC’s John Simpson has been to visit Tripoli Airport, where he discovered a part of Col Goddafi’s previous luxurious lifestyle.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14694700
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Heavy clashes in #Rigdalean near #Tunisia border.
bintlibya BintLibya
#Ras_Lanouf refinery found intact Oil company Rasco says it could soon restart producing 220,000 barrels a day
Ali Tweel
This line of cars was 2km long waiting for fuel in mar2011, i spent there 4 days! twitpic.com/6bo7rb
twitpic.com/6bo97c
LOOK AT THIS PHOTO:
Ibn
AMAZING. Girls in #Yemen wear flags of protesting countries. From right: #Tunisia #Egypt #Libya Yemen #Syria
yfrog.com/gyipxhtj
pdanahar Paul Danahar
We now know warehouse near Khamis Brigade HQ where civilians executed by #Gaddafi army is same place BBC team tortured in March. #Libya
Zlitniya
Eyewitnes frm Zliten:Guards started shooting,then threw 8 grenades.2nd day they burnt bodies.@4.34 men break down youtube.com/watch?v=hPDsF0… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPDsF0UyhLM&fea...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Home health for injured #Libyan freedom fighters: #Misrata guys changing their bandages at a Tunis flat last nite twitpic.com/6c31mv
wheelertweets:
Tunis last night: ER doctor says “I hope we’re all okay. I mean, we’re full. All the hospitals full. And more keep coming””
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
We are advancing up road with ff convoy now
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Injured Libyan FFs are inspirational ppl.
TristanAJE Tristan Redman
NTC spokesman tells us there are almost 50,000 missing prisoners in #Libya, appeals for info on their whereabouts from former guards
Libya:
NTC releases member names. Council expanded from 31 to 40 members. Planning increase to 80. nytimes.com/2011/08/28/wor…”
Mohammed Ghademesi returns to Abu Salim prison and explains to CNN on the conditions of detention. fb.me/1f3siF6Dn
Free Libya
The thought of people stuck in bunkers or unknown prisons without any food or water all over #Libya, not just #Tripoli. Ya Allah :’(
Michael
Sirte Bunker positions fit profiles 4 weapons & ammunition bunkers.They are dispersed throughtout cityscape. Sent NATO 8/26 #Bunkers #NTC
BOYS RAPED by G military (1987)
Melita
1-#Gadaffi military have been raping boys and girls for decades. Spk to a man who went to Hayder Sati school who’s friends were raped #Feb17
-2 boys as young as 13 taken by #Gadaffi military teachers raped with no mercy, in particularly fair boys, Hayder Sati school 1987
wheelertweets James Wheeler
40 more injured from #Libya went thru Tataouine yesterday. Patient volume in Tunisia continues to mount.
friend in Tripoli called me this am. young doctor went back from Tunisia to c his family. Said the freedom was shocking”
Libya: Phone calls between Tripoli & Tunisia are not a problem these days. But the
#Nafusa Mtns are cut off. Worse than earlier this month.
26 yr old #Libyan FF Haytim Hamuda from Gharyan on Thursday nite August 25. HIs leg was amputated the next nite. twitpic.com/6cnfav
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #AbdelhakimBelhadj Newly appointed #TRIPOLI Military Council Commander is former EMIR of #Libyan #Islamic #Fighting Group LIFG #Libya
Ibn
youth in #tripoli clean the streets. #libya #feb17 yfrog.com/khksbcnj
“Raise your head high, you are a free #Libyan” #Libya #Tripoli yfrog.com/gzazsxaj
Armchair Arab
From what I hear they’re appointing General from Mgerhif brigade that attacked misrata as head of Tripoli security.
We will continue until ALL stories have been told. Sign and support #TripoliPrisoners in their quest for justice tinyurl.com/43axoz2 #Libya
JomanaCNN
“Journalists found print outs of some of our emails in the #Rixos – proof to what we knew all along, they hacked our emails”
Aya
May the liberation of #Libya open way of truth for Lockerbie , abuslim massacre & the where abouts of Izzat megariaf
Noah O’Connell
@Guma_el_gamaty Just watched the #BBC show you were on with Nabila. Nicely done! You exposed her for the paid mouthpiece that she is.
shaimaa
rebels in #Tripoli are combing different areas in hope of trying to find underground bunkers where over 40,000 prisoners are believed to be
Zlitniya
#Zliten FF released from #Tripoli prisons to date=68, 3 of whom are injured.&were killed directly/died under torture,4of whom were military
Reuters
Libyan forces close in on Gaddafi’s home town
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan forces closed in on Muammar Gaddafi’s home town on Sunday, vowing to seize it by force if negotiations failed, and their leaders ruled out any talks with the deposed ruler.
Gaddafi’s foes were advancing on his birthplace of Sirte, which straddles the east-west coastal road, but one commander said “liberating” the city could take more than 10 days.
Full story:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
Shaimaakhalil shaimaa khalil
Back frm #NTC military presser, Says about 57, 60 thousand prisoners have been captured in the last six months only 11 thousand were found
Nasr
I suspect #Sirte ppl negotiating w/ FFs are using talks to buy time for a surprise, treacherous attack. Remember Mutassim is in charge there
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: These amazing freedom fighters have done what previous generations & the rest of the world didn’t do. They toppled #Gaddafi.
Independent:
Yesterday, The Independent on Sunday learned that the rebel military commander behind the successful assault on Tripoli had fought in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban and was an Islamist terror suspect interrogated by the CIA. Abdelhakim Belhadj, the newly appointed commander of the Tripoli Military Council is a former emir of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) – banned by Britain and the US as a terrorist organisation after the 9/11 attacks.
The 45-year-old first went to Afghanistan in the late 1980s, where he fought against occupying Soviet forces. Arrested in Malaysia in 2004, he was interrogated by the CIA
in Thailand before being extradited to Libya, where he was released from prison last year; he has since renounced violence. Mr Belhadj has become a hero of the Libyan revolution – and ally of the West.
A former comrade-in-arms insisted the rebel leader was not a future enemy in waiting. Noman Benotman, once a senior LIFG figure, and now senior analyst at the Quilliam think-tank, said: “I strongly believe he is capable of rationalising even the rogue elements within the rebels. He will do everything possible to prevent chaos.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Home health for injured #Libyan freedom fighters: #Misrata guys changing their bandages at a Tunis flat last nite twitpic.com/6c31mv
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
In #Tripoli Al-Shababiyah AlHuraa #FM has opened!
Breaking Libya News – عاجل ليبيا أخبار
BREAKING: AFP: Heavy clashes taking place in the city of Ragdlin west Libya
عاجل: عاجل ليبيا أخبار: أ ف ب: اشتباكات بالاسلحة الثقيلة في رغدلين بغرب ليبيا
BREAKING: Gaddafi’s troops have been pushed back to the red valley east of Sirte
k_thos k kim
#Tripoli Prisons map: twitpic.com/5hfsq9/full (6/26/2011) These were the only ones I could find over last 6 months. #Libya
Jonas
do y know the Constitutional Charter for the transitional Stage made by NTC ? when not see here bit.ly/oDXD9g
septimius_sever septimius severus
Despite all the horrors and pains, #Eid in #Libya this year is something else!!! #Libya
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Searching for Lockerbie bomber al Magrahi. His doctors says no longer under his care at #Tripoli medical centre, but ‘a sick man’.
Magrahi’s brother told me on Friday he’s ‘at the hospital’. Mystery surrounds, but US wants him back in jail. #lockerbiebomber
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Nofilia: #Freedomfighter convoy ambushed on outskirts of town by #Gaddafi filth just minutes ago
Khalifa
Khamis #Gadhafi is dead again.
Ali Tweel
One of the epic moments: thid guy is kicking gaddafi in the face LIVE! (happened in benghazi) twitpic.com/6coaqz
dovenews Libyan™
#Libya plans to ship crude from #Tobruk by end-Sept goo.gl/Itw5J #Libya
#Zakat #AlFiter is 3.00 LYD for this year: goo.gl/Qu5tP #Ramadan #Eid #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Ff who came back with shock is on his feet after being given water. Feeling better now.
Captured truck had a leaflet from gaddafi. It said ‘god is on your side we are going to win’ ff didnt like us filming it so they burnt it.
Ff convoy just got ambushed on outskirts of nofilia. 2 grads came in within 400 m
Then a Gad technical came round corner and put down inaccurate machine gun fire before driving off. No ff injuries
LOOKING FOR PRISONERS:
MORE BUNKERS:
Jamal
More bunkers in Sirte under the conference centre building!
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH Colonel Ahmed #Bani asked PPL 2Come 4ward if they have #BUNKERINFO #Tripoli but also #Sirte is known 2hv #BunkerNetwork #Libya
Michael
Search for prisoners under Horse Club track, under Sports Complex stadium, and under Zoo Park grounds..
WldSougAlJumaa
Should someone ask Dr Aref Nayed of #NTC UAE ambassador to help us find map of bunkers his dad built for #Gaddafi #Libya #IRONY
Tripoli Underground BUNKERS #NTC CONTACT: Bil_-finger_Berger known in #Libya #MediteraneanSeaEngineering&Construction Comp. 4 PLAN or MAP
Heba
Gaddafi is more known for his desert prisons
I think #NTC know exactly who’s who & R not bothered. #Libya #Belfinger #ArefAliNayid #Bunkers
Michael
18 bnkrs 31.159328N 16.5729403E, 9 bnkrs 31.1817729N 16.5484732E,4 bnkrs 31.1669479N 16.552658E, 3 bnkrs 31.1767152N 16.5517616E
Locations of Tripoli Prisons,holding facilities, & torture facilities. All should be searched twitpic.com/4whkoh/full #Libya #Tripoli
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Arabiya: Libyan TNC: We will not hand over Abdelbaset al-Megrahi #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BBC: #Gaddafi’s Airbus340-fully loaded. The self proclaimed ‘Bedouin’ is indeed a notorious thief. goo.gl/RF7zG #corruptthug #feb17
#Libya receives Norwegian Oil Assistance: goo.gl/rkxcV #libya
Dernawiya
NTC& NATO shld drop leaflets letting ppl of sirte know tripoli liberated&G on the run. Drops were vey effctive in tripoli
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
FT: Gamble on Libya pays off for Qatar on.ft.com/o08vHL by @simeonkerr quotes @thegulfblog
Adel
BREAKING: 11 men killed by retreating Gaddafi battalion at ‘bawabat al harsha’ on way back to tripoli, blood still fresh, killed by ‘meemta’
It’s very sad, as these Gadaffi militia were retreating in defeat they butchered 11 young men who were guarding the checkpoint at al harsha
My dad is there now, he says it’s 11 young men, blood everywhere and I can hear men crying in the background, la hawla wall quwata ila bilah
my father is there right now, I was on the phone to him and can hear the men crying in background, he is on the Zawiya council
yes Zawiya, they were retreating when they committed the atrocity.
yea right now bro, my dad is there at harsha, they just discovered the bodies, blood still fresh. So sad wallah
Riyadh al Hatheri, brother of Khalid al Hatheri confirmed as one of the 13 killed by Katayeb in harsha checkpoint, may Allah grant him Janna
He was a close friend of my father, his whole family fighting with the thuwaar mashallah, men like these are real heroes!
the Katayeb were retreating from zuwara, harsha checkpoint is only 10km from our farm in Zawiya
harsh is outskirts of zawiya, the gadaffi troops were retreating when they came across checkpoint and massacred the men there
Hanan
#Libya: #NATO must learn from its success shabablibya.org/?p=6088
PHOTO: Statement of the Supreme Council for Issuing Fatwas concerning what the amount of Zakat al-Fitr is for Libya
عاجل ليبيا أخبار: صور: بيان المجلس الأعلى للافتاء بخصوص تحديد مقدار زكاة الفطر
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=238540&l...
AJE: Libyan exiles in London follow developments at home
Libyans living outside their their country are following developments inside Libya for various reasons.
Many have families and friends who have been involved in the conflict, but for some the end of a Gaddafi regime signals a new beginning.
Al Jazeera’s Emma Hayward reports from London to find out from Libyan exiles what the revolution means for them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMfgjWxK_l8
Aljazeera: For the first time the The Libyan free national anthem was played in Qatar when Mustafa Abdel Jalil visited today
الجزيرة: عزف ولاول مرة النشد الوطني الليبي نشيد الاستقلال في دولة قطر خلال زيارة مصطفى عبدالجليل لقطر
BREAKING: FFs free army liberated Nawfaliyah fully and the FFs have strated combing the red valley (Wadi AlHamra:
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: جيش التحرير الوطني يسيطر على النوفلية بالكامل ويبدأ في تمشيط الوادي الحمر
We’re told that 30 thousand tonnes of petrol has docked in #Tripoli along with 4 million gallons of water today. #Libya" @GavinLeeBBC
klaas
Friend of mine who is currently trapped inside Sirte told me hes seen an increase of Drones in the air last few days
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tarhuna reported surrounded on all sides, #Freedomfighters who are heading there mostly from #AlKhums & #Gheryan. #Libya #Feb17
NTC spokesman says that the water supply to #Tripoli was ‘poisoned’ by #Gaddafi filth. No result yet from chemical testing. #Libya #Feb17
#Malta to serve as #UN aid hub for #Libya
#Gaddafi filth have retreated to #WadiAlAhmar outside #Sirte. #Freedomfighters hope
to enter Sirte in 4 days.
That info was FROM FF commander
#Freedomfighters have liberated #Nawfaliyah & have started combing the #WadiAlHamra.
Reuters: Released from Abu Salim Prison, young men reunite with family in Benghazi
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=khTCOC7QvVs&fea...
English Libya TV
Ras Lanuf refinery reopens
Libya’s largest oil refinery, Ras Lanuf, on the Mediterranean Coast is is intact despite intense fighting nearby between revolutionaries and Gaddafi’s troops and staff are preparing to restart operations at the 220,000 barrel per day plant, the general manager told Reuters.
“Since February we have been shut down. We are now planning to restart the
complex. We are ready to start, “Nagib Burweiss” general manager for the refinery at the Ras Lanuf Oil and Gas Processing Company (RASCO) told Reuters in an interview late yesterday in its offices in Benghazi.
Video: Rebels from Benghazi celebrate in Tripoli
Rebels come to celebrate the victory over Gaddafi in Libya
Source:
feb17.info/media/video-rebels-from-beng...
AJE: Jacky Rowland reports from Eastern Frontline; #Bin #Jawad, #Libya goo.gl/bUVvf #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Libyan NTC fear for Gaddafi prisoners shabablibya.org/?p=6124 #Libya
An honourable intervention. A hopeful future
If Libya doesn’t build on what’s been achieved, then that’s Libya’s tragedy, not ours
It’s a simple question. Is the glass of Libyan rebel victory half empty or half full? And the answer, of course, is equally simple. Perhaps this cup doesn’t run over, but it is full enough for everyone involved – except Colonel Gaddafi.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/an-honourable-inte...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya plans to ship crude from Tobruk by end-Sept shabablibya.org/?p=6119 #Libya
#Tripoli situation map goo.gl/2ECkw goo.gl/z4UCd via @k_thos
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC insist that #Gaddafi forces don’t control the water supply into #Tripoli from the great man made river. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI Story and many Photos of Gaddafi Underground #TUNNELS goo.gl/BWqwo #Libya
EYES ON; #BaniWalid goo.gl/NF8HR 20km W of GaddafiTroops Massing build along Banks Of Wadi #Home2WarfallaTribe goo.gl/jt6xr
#TRIPOLI HOSPITALS Call for Residents who have experience in washing the Dead 2 HELP Mediacl STAFF Due to Huge amount of corpses #Libya
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Our piece from yday — rebels control vital coastal highway betwn Tripoli and border goo.gl/VLka6
MUST READ:
Alexblx’s posterous
“5 LIES ‘MENA expert’ Nabila Ramdani has peddled about Libya”:
alexblx.posterous.com/67364607
live2Tripoli
Change is happening and it’s happening fast. #Tripoli is moving at an amazing pace. #Libya #feb17
It’s only barely a week since #Aug20 and security is becoming less of an issue. Many people are out trying to live their lives again.
Alex
HUGE CONVOY on way to #Sirte – 100+ vehicles – many tanks – gun cars & buses with #FF – NOW ALMOST THRU RED VALLEY youtube.com/watch?v=l1l-2N…
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Libya’s new Justice Minister has just told me he won’t extradite al Magrahi, even under pressure from Washington. #lockerbiebomber
Say’s he’s been judged already, you can’t try him once again. ’It’s a mtter of justice’. See intv ITV 18.45 #lockerbiebomber
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#sabratha: power on, many stores open, women shop 4 eid. #TNC #Feb17 to give e family 500 dinars 4 Eid. Local govt clears war debris.
Life slowly returning 2 normal in #Sabratha but still many shabab driving in stolen cars with weapons. Traffic lights out and lines 4 bread
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I’m absolutely sick of people mentioning Libya and AlQaeda in the same sentence. They are as unwelcome as foreign boots in #libya #feb17
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Saw much cheering today as police officers arrived on Martyrs Square for first time since Tripoli fell to rebels. Life returning to normal
Tripoli feels like a very different city today. Lots of traffic, shops open, people shopping, cars blaring Libya’s old national anthem
Water tankers all over Tripoli today 2 address shortages. Saw man laughing w/ relief as he stood under mouth of tanker for impromptu shower
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
Tonight’s story is about Wanise Isawi, eyewitness to the 1996 Abu Salim massacre. He has never spoken before. It… fb.me/QJfrHIZc
Understanding the 1996 #Abusalim massacre #tripoli, is the key to knowing why #Libyans had to rise against #ghaddafi. But it took so long.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
More on the missing political prisoners in #Tripoli, majority of the 46 thousand were arrested in Tripoli + surrounding areas, acc NTC#Libya
live2Tripoli
New photos from the streets of #Tripoli flickr.com/photos/live2tr… #Libya
Ibn
I believe that one of #Libyan Twitter users greatest accomplishments was that we were able to agree on a spelling of #Gaddafi. #Libya
Hayat
It’s the spelling that made it sound more like “my puke” :l
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: For 42 years U & your children have paid 4 this, paid 4 freedom w/ your blood, w/ your families, your children, let NO 1 drag U down
k_thos k kim
Many reports that prisoners were sent through or to Sirte, but I didn’t get a chance to document specific locations.
Via reuters: #Gaddafi will try to sell Libyan gold: ex-central banker reut.rs/nUTBwu #Libya
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
1000s of missing prisoners still need our voice, one signature=one voice tinyurl.com/3lmpuff show ur supprt w/ a badge tinyurl.com/3rvap4v
Hayat
#BigDamnHeroes #Misrata #MISRATA #Misratagrad #Libya #Feb17 thank you for freeing up pretty much all of #Libya – you are Lions among lions!
God is great, God is most merciful. It is all by His will- may He help us endure whatever still has to come, what has passed.
CNN’s Arwa Damon reports from Qasir Ben Ghashir – Libyans celebrate as rebels take control.
A tiny Libyan town celebrates as rebels take control. CNN’s Arwa Damon reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ddaDtGs7o
Libya_Awake_United
For those who were spreading a false propaganda that Libyans are racists, see this photo from #Tripoli celebrations flickr.com/photos/live2tr…
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I just did my first ever interview of man while he was driving a tank down the road. couldn’t hear a word he said.
I saw no injuries. it was a ‘shoot and scoot’ mission by pro-Gads just to see how many rebels were coming i guess.
He pulled up to me and said hello, his head poking out of a little hatch. was quite surreal. #FF are very friendly like that.
As we got close to Nofilia we saw a very happy smiling family escaping the town waving hands and shouting ‘shukran’ to #FF
a jeep with a gun on the back en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
I am back from Tour DeTripoli. Was very nice :) Actually Tripoli is back to normal, almost. yfrog.com/khx4uzjj
They actually had time to paint Independence flags over warehouses doors ;) yfrog.com/mmu34bj
Families drive around with huge Indep Flags displayed proudly from cars… yfrog.com/h3ioagvj
Even kids managed to express themselves on a wall in some street… yfrog.com/kgn4ehjj
Freedom fighters were very nice and polite, despite their obvious lack of sleep they continued to check for weapons. yfrog.com/h6nbnlpj
Nice to see revolutionary Graffiti without being painting over by the goons ;) yfrog.com/h6djrxuj
Soug Alguma pedestrian bridge… Big battle went on there on Aug 20th. Burned G cars were removed today. yfrog.com/184lbuj
Prices still high, many items are mysteriously returned to shops. Milk and Eggs are back :)
dovenews Libyan™
NATO said its warplanes had struck #Sirte
Sirte liberators – GREETED BY CROWDS @ Nawfaliyah – a town B4 Sirte @fieldproducer “kids running alongside us with rebel flags” #Libya
Alex
NATO – is paving way 4 #FF by #Sirte – clearing #Gaddafi rocket launchers & tanks – B4 #FF arrive – hence progress to Sirte is good #Libya
Captain!
#Alwigh and #Marzug in the south are freed, whilst #Sabha is still being sieged by #Gaddafi troops.
septimius_sever septimius severus
“Tomorrow we will join our friends to attack & Liberate #Ghadames!! " google.com/hostednews/afp… #Libya (AFP)
4Adam Adam
#Zuwara – at least 1 #FF killed 7 injured 1 missing in an ambush by G loyalists in Regdaleen. Loyalists in Ajaylat cut Ras Jjder #Tripoli Rd
#Libya: “If Saadi #Gaddafi friends made him angry for any reason, he would put them in the cage” m.triblive.com/triblive/db_/c… via @betsy_hiel
BBC News -#Libya: New evidence of atrocities by #Gaddafi’s forces bbc.in/qLYMFM
HalaJaber Hala Jaber
#Libya To every Libyan and other enjoy. You sure did. سوف نبقى هنا youtube.com/watch?v=2rNosi…
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Google transparency report. Internet access returning to families in Libya as freedom fighters take control of #Tripoli google.com/transparencyre…
Ibn
just talked to a friend of mine who was in the #tripoli brigade. so proud of him. and he’s so happy that #tripoli is free
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
The water is back on at the Radisson Blu hotel in #Tripoli!! Is it just our hotel? Or back across Tripoli? If in the city, let me know.
Sirtawi
BBC Arabic will be talking about #Sirte, probably the city’s rep at NTC will be on too. #Libya #Feb17
REUTERS – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) shipped in 10 tonnes of drugs from Malta to help the war-wounded in Tripoli.
Libya In Me
The two martyrs I am about to tweet are brothers. Both detained by Gaddafi forces. Both killed in Tripoli this week. God bless their souls.
Name: Dr. Ali Darrat. Medical doctor in Germany. Flew in to aid his people. Detained, tortured,& found dead this week. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=574
Name: Abdel Hamid Darrat. Successful businessman in Canada. Detained in March. Among the 70 found killed this week. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=579
Dr. Ali was a great human being, he only spent few days with us in Malta and we feel like we lost a brother or a close friend.
Name: Izz Al-Arab Matar. 22yr old engineering student. Fought in Ajdabiya, Brega, & Misrata; killed in Bab Al-Aziziyah. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=570
4Adam Adam
PHOTO’S:
Political prisoners who were released from Abu Salim prison leaving #Zintan for #Benghazi is.gd/uiefZg #Libya #Feb17
Libya rebels take key areas as Gaddafi son offers talks #cnn www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28/lib... #Libya #Feb17
LPC #Tripoli: Libyans are going to need to learn how to disagree and then move forward…democracy in its full sense #Libya
4Adam Adam
Religious clerk used by Gaddafi’s propaganda to incite the killing of Libyan people captured by FF in #Tripoli. [AR] facebook.com/video/video.ph…
Motasem Gaddafi castle in Tripoli. 7 click next for more www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2754... #Libya #Feb17
For those who dn’t know where Motasem Gaddafi castle is. If interested it’s only 15 mins fr BabAziziya 32°52’18"N 13°12’34"E #Libya #Tripoli
Divided loyalties in Tripoli neighborhood #AbuSalem by @ZeinakhodrAljaz AJE correspondent www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5I0wUqFo24&fea... #Libya #Tripoli #Feb17
borzou Borzou Daragahi
Dramatically lighter mood in Tripoli 2day, more shops open inc. kids’ clothes, more foot & car traffic, less gunfire. #libya #feb17
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Minster of Health told me in intrvw, “they still don’t know which #arabic countries could be part of the police peace unit coming 2 #libya.”
Viewpoint: Ivory Coast, Libya crises expose African Union – Newsday: Everyday News for Everyday People: bit.ly/oZ1cQq via @AddThis
hominoid555 not sayin
Gaddafi out of power, has exposed the African Union (AU) as a toothless bulldog: able to bark, but unable to bite.
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Found today at the Khamis Brigade h.q. in #Tripoli – Belgian made “less lethal” weapons. yfrog.com/mnv8ocj
hominoid555 not sayin
Gadhafi open to Libya power transfer, that’s funny for a man left with no choice !
The shocking manner in which the Zimbabwe government has treated Libyan ambassador. www.thestandard.co.zw/component/content...
SecularLibya
Good news: Traffic jams back in #Tripoli :D, so petrol increasingly available. Some banks open, so ppl have cash.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
The rebels in the east have taken another town. We entered Nawfalyah this evening just after it had been taken by the rebel forces #Libya
I’m currently tweeting from a BGAN so can only do it when we fire it up, apologies for the sparse tweeting-will try & upload pics shortly…
Hayat
#Sabha in South of #Libya is suffering from lack of power, and any form of communication, last we heard there were martyrs killed by mercs.
The disabled children in the hospice meant for them were found abandonned to die of starvation, few alive in a critical condition #Tripoli
Bradley
Chink in the siege of Tripoli: Nobody seemed to think about securing the water links in the s. mtns and e. near Surte www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middl...
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Just got back home and families are out and about doing MAJOR clothes shopping. good to see!
Reem
Raiding of #Gaddafi’s compound reminds me of when we took over state security in #Egypt. #AmnDawla The once ‘almighty’ keep falling. #Libya
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
A factory producing Libyan Independence flags in #Rehaibat #Nafusa (for free) on.fb.me/p4ur7N #Libya #Feb17
Libya_Awake_United
A snap shot from one of Hana #Gaddafi’s surgical book at her room in #BabAziziya compound #Libya #feb17 twitpic.com/6crhf4
Free Libya Now
Firms from #Austria also contributed to Underground Prison networks built for Dictator Gadafi
Khiria
Uncle in #Tripoli says they’ve started collecting weapons from people. #Libya
HRW
Libya: Gaddafi Forces Suspected Of Executing Detainees
(Tripoli) – Evidence indicates that forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi killed at least 17 detainees in a makeshift prison as rebel forces began advancing on the neighborhood of Gargur in Tripoli around August 21, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. According to one witness who survived the killing, Libyan security forces shot the detainees at the Al-Amal al-Akhdar building belonging to the Libyan Internal Security
service.
Human Rights Watch has also documented evidence of suspected arbitrary executions of dozens of other civilians, including medical professionals, by Gaddafi loyalists over the past week.
“Torture was rife in Gaddafi’s prisons but to execute detainees days before they would have been freed is a sickening low in the government’s behavior,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch said. “The evidence we have been able to gather so far strongly suggests that Gaddafi government forces went on a spate of arbitrary killing as Tripoli was falling.”
Separately, on August 26, Human Rights Watch found 18 bodies rotting in small groups near the Internal Security building in a dry riverbed between Gargur and Bab al-Aziziya, Gaddafi’s former compound. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that Gaddafi forces had killed them at different times in the week prior to August 25, when Libyan rebels seized control of the area. It is unclear if any of those killed were armed
at the time of their death, but Human Rights Watch observed two among the 18 bodies had their hands tied behind their backs and two were wearing the green scrubs of Libyan doctors and nurses. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that several others were unarmed.
Human Rights Watch also documented 29 other bodies found in and around a makeshift field clinic outside Bab al-Aziziya where there were signs that Gaddafi loyalists had been present. Four bodies were found lying on beds in the clinic itself, and several more were lying on cushions in and around what looked like military tents. Volunteers took the bodies into trucks. Human Rights Watch inspected one corpse with a gunshot wound to the head, and one body with his hands tied behind his back. Khalid Kofran, 35, who volunteered on the team that was removing the bodies, said he had seen at least three or four corpses with their hands and legs tied. Human Rights Watch has not collected sufficient information to date to indicate who may be responsible for the deaths, and there is no forensic analysis yet.
“Just Finish Them Off”
Human Rights Watch interviewed three people with direct knowledge of the execution of detainees, including one survivor. Seventeen of the bodies were taken to the Matiga Hospital in Tripoli on August 24, according to medical professionals who inspected them.
On August 25, Human Rights Watch also examined two corpses that were still in place at the Al-Amal al-Akhdar Internal Security building in Gargur where the suspected execution of detainees took place.
Osama Hadi Mansur Al-Swayi was one of the survivors of the massacre at the Internal Security building. He was one of approximately 25 people who were held there. He told Human Rights Watch:
The Khamis Brigade took me on August 19. One of the guards in the house where they took me told me that if I am innocent, Khamis could solve my problems. It happened at 2 p.m. on Monday August 21. We started hearing the rebels yelling Allahu Akbar. We were so happy, and we knew we would be released soon… Snipers were upstairs; then they came downstairs and started shooting. An old man and another person were shot outside our door. The rest of us ran out because they opened the door and said, “Quickly, quickly, go out.” They told us to lie down on the ground. When I opened my eyes, I saw three dark men. One soldier gave the order, “Just finish them off,” but I don’t know who it was. There were four of them who fired at us: one was an old man with a grey beard, and three were dark-skinned, maybe from the south. I was near the corner and got hit in the right hand, the right foot and the right shoulder. In one instant, they finished off all the people with me. What I saw I haven’t ever seen even in a movie. No one was breathing. Some of them had head wounds.
On August 26, Human Rights Watch also found two additional bodies in the closet under the stairs in the Al-Amal al-Akhdar Internal Security building where Al-Swayi said he had been detained for two days. Al-Swayi told Human Rights Watch that two men had also been killed on the ground floor where he was held just before the massacre, not in the courtyard. It could not be confirmed that these corpses were of the same men. There were dozens of spent cartridges and bloodstains on the ground in the outdoor courtyard where he said the majority of the detainees had been killed.
A medical professional who inspected the 17 bodies that were transferred from the Internal Security building to Matiga Hospital said that about half of the entrance wounds were to the back of the head, and the rest were to the chest and face. He also noted recent abrasions and lacerations on the ankles and wrists suggesting that they had been cuffed. The hospital administrator introduced Al-Swayi to Human Rights Watch as a survivor from the same massacre from which they received the 17 corpses.
Under international humanitarian law, violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds of civilians and persons not engaged in combat such as detainees is always strictly prohibited and constitutes a war crime. This is irrespective of whether the conflict is an international or non-international conflict.
“If he is a civilian, still kill him”
In addition, near the Internal Security building, Human Rights Watch inspected 18 bodies in situ rotting in a dry riverbed between Gargur and Bab al-Aziziya and
interviewed five eyewitnesses.
In a suspected extra judicial execution by Gaddafi forces, Salah Saeed Kikli, 52, a medical laboratory engineer, told Human Rights Watch that he saw Gaddafi fighters in green military uniform kill two unarmed men, including one in medical scrubs, at a checkpoint by his home on August 24 around 11 a.m. after the fighters had previously approached him and threatened to kill him.
I was fixing my car. An African came to my corner of the street and asked if I was civilian or military. I said I live here. There was another black man behind who said, “if he is civilian, still kill him. No problem…” Five or ten minutes later… I saw them taking a doctor and another guy from an ambulance, and I saw them shoot the two men. The military guys stole the petrol from the ambulance… The ambulance said “February 17 Misrata” on it. February 17 is a sign of support for the rebels.…The men did not resist at all. They were medical people.
Another witness to the same incident, Juma’ Al-Murayd, 31, told Human Rights Watch that two people with dark skin and in civilian clothes were driving the ambulance when they dumped three bodies next to his house on the dry riverbed between Bab al-Aziziya and Gargur. Human Rights Watch inspected the three bodies with Kikli, across from Al-Murayd’s house, two of whom were wearing the green medical scrubs that
doctors and nurses wear in Libya. Kikli said that the third body, dressed in civilian clothes, was that of the driver.
Al-Murayd also said that separately he had witnessed other Gaddafi fighters kill three more civilians on August 23 at a checkpoint across the riverbed from his home, after having beaten them with the butt of a Kalashnikov. “One of them was just driving his car, unarmed,” he told Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch inspected five bodies dumped in the riverbed near the spot Al-Murayd identified as the location of the checkpoint where the three men were executed. Human Rights Watch does not have evidence to date of how the other two were killed. All five bodies were dressed in civilian clothes.
In another incident in the same area, Siraj Salah Kikli, 18, told Human Rights Watch that he witnessed a policeman from Dam el-Merkezi kill two people and then spoke to a third who survived the shooting. He said that the policeman, whom he knew, was wearing civilian clothes and a military flak jacket. He and another man had forced the three victims to get out of their vehicle. “They didn’t beat them,” Siraj Kikli recalled, “they just shot them straight away.” The bodies were removed from the site on August 25.
Adel Muhammad Abdulgader, 36, also said he witnessed Gaddafi forces kill two men
in a vehicle stopped at a checkpoint, ostensibly because one of the men was wearing a rebel hat, which the forces took and burned. He said that the incident took place on August 22 or 23 at 7 a.m.
“These incidents, which may represent only a fraction of the total, raise grave questions about the conduct of Gaddafi forces in the past few days, and whether it was systematic or planned,” said Whitson. “If these incidents are proven to be extra judicial killings they are serious war crimes and those responsible should be brought to justice.”
bottidavid David Botti
Amazing…the BBC’s full-time Tripoli correspondent writes of reporting while in hiding these past 6 months: bbc.in/pVMv09 #libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
26/8/2011 #Tripoli airport, aircraft burning on the tarmac youtube.com/watch?v=mgWdxb… #Libya
acarvin Andy Carvin
by septimius_sever
Crawford: I don’t feel gung-ho at all. In fact much of the time I feel really scared. #mgeitf #libya
Crawford: I spent a lot of my life trying to be a foreign correspondent, and I’ve only just got there – 6 years now. #mgeitf #libya
Crawford: Whether other news orgs are covering it, just being able to cover the liberation of Tripoli is what it’s all about #mgeitf #libya
Sirtawi
Even Facebook Admins defect from the regime and raise the Independence flag! __ lol facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
REUTERS – A senior Egyptian diplomat will lead a delegation to Libya this week to offer help to its new rulers, according to MENA
Libya In Me
Can I have the bravery of the freedom fighters, determination of the people, and the love for Libya? I would seriously be complete…
FFs of Souq Al-Jumuaa preparing meals for FFs in Mitiga Airbase #Brotherhood pic.twitter.com/uT9MjGL
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
I know that some released prisoners were staying in a mosque in Zawiya road in tripoli.
Alex
#TripoliPrisoners – #NTC fear “a desperate humanitarian situation” 4 political prisoners possibly trapped underground for 6 days – as some were in #Benghazi – & only rescued from underground tombs many days after liberation:
BENGHAZI SECRET PRISONS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPvRKOz5osA
Hence the NTC are urgently appealing for information on where #Gaddafi’s underground prison bunkers are – so those still trapped can be saved – and are appealing to former prison officers and wardens – to come forward and tell them anything they know that may save these prisoners.
Of the 67000 #Tripoli people – the NTC documented as arrested by the #Gaddafi Regime – so far only 11000 have been released – just over 16% of the #TripoliPrisoners #Libya #GaddafiCrimes
according to a recent report in THE TIMES – #AbuSalim was improved – the reporter interviewed an ex prisoner who said this
Tweeting Tripoli
Talked to many brave FF from Misrata and Tripoli, they are well organized, most have badges with their names and each is under a brigade.
I have been to Mateega airport, lots of burned and bullet ridden cars. Many were crashed into a tree or a wall, when G thugs were escaping.
Klaas
telegraaf.nl/buitenland/104… UN sending water to libya
17 minutes ag
Libya
Werfalla FF residing in all cities of Libya r gathering and r now upto 5000 nd r planning 2 head 2 BaniWalid.Not waiting for negotiations.
Ragdaleen (AFP) – Libyan rebels were locked in fierce fighting Sunday w/ G forces as they tried to take full control of the west of #Libya.
4Adam Adam
Black Africans ‘mercenaries’ and Britain’s cozy military relationship with Gaddafi youtube.com/watch?v=sFxgLx… #Libya #Feb17 #Tripoli
k_thos k kim
Reasonable explanation for water shortage in #Tripoli thenational.ae/news/worldwide…
READ THIS:
Explanation for water shortage in Tripoli:
The National AE
Libya needs water despite Qaddafi’s Great Manmade River
Rumours have swirled about the former regime sabotaging Tripoli’s main source of water in Jebel Al Hasawinah, and even the poisoning of an underground reservoir further up the line.
Shamsiddin Ben Ali, a spokesman for the NTC, said yesterday that facilities had been
sabotaged at Ash Shuwayrif and Sidi as Sayd.
But an official in the Great Manmade River Authority in Benghazi, Abdussalam Jehawi, said yesterday that the crisis was an unavoidable result of the battle to seize the capital last week. A combination of power outages, attacks on staff manning the water network and a backup reservoir being held hostage have led to the crisis.
The problems came within the first day of the battle. Tripoli had an 18-hour power outage that stopped pipeline pumps, cutting off the supply of new water.
But when power began flickering on again, the main station supplying Tripoli from Jebel Al Hasawinah was attacked by what his team described as African mercenaries and Qaddafi loyalists. The main supply of the water is near the city of Sabha, which is still under the former regime’s control.
“Our staff were terrorised,” said Mr Jehawi, a board member of the authority. The loyalists “stole their four-wheel drive vehicles, used machine guns, took all their food”.
Pumps were switched off and staff could not get back inside to restart them.
To make matters worse, a site critical to the backup plan was also under the control of Qaddafi fighters.
The system was set up so that engineers can supply Tripoli with water from the east. But the facility where engineers can turn the water on is inside Sirte, Col Qaddafi’s
hometown and one of the last two holdouts of soldiers against the rebels.
If NTC fighters can take control of the city, the Great Manmade River can begin supplying Tripoli with 250,000 cubic metres of water per day – enough to cover about half the demand.
“This could be taken care of soon if Sabha and Sirte are taken by the rebels,” Mr Jehawi said. “Until then, there is not much we can do.”
Read full story here:
www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middl...
BBC
Libya: New evidence of atrocities by Gaddafi’s forces
In Libya, there is new evidence of atrocities carried out by Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in their final days of power.
Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered dozens of arbitrary executions of civilians.
Just outside Tripoli, the BBC has filmed the aftermath of an apparent massacre in a military base with testimony from men who escaped – forced to leave relatives behind.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14700876
4Adam Adam
Large # of GF still in Ajalat & Jamil + some locals still blocking roads. but the majority waiting for FF to enter
ChangeInLibya
News fr Zuwara early today ‘1 #FF killed 7 injured 1 missing in an ambush by G loyalists in area betwen Zuwara and regdaleen’
Aljazeera
Libyan fighters close in on Gaddafi hometown
Libyan rebel fighters are closing in on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte.
The city — Gaddafi’s birthplace and one of the last still held by his men — is now the main target for the fighters allied to the National Transitional Council.
Meanwhile, in Tripoli, signs of normal life are returning. Citizens are venturing out of their homes and some shops are opening.
But there have also been reports of mass abuses against civilians taking place.
And the whereabouts of the Libyan leader are still unknown.
Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd0kHBrgWgk
Libya_Awake_United
In Tripoli Medical center things almost going back to almost to normal function with most of the staff showed up today working #Libya #Feb17
alextomo alex thomson
bit.ly/oCVfQM is link to words on being young, black male and in wrong place in Libya #libya
alex thomson
bit.ly/roi5R9 link to today’s VT I think
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Op-Ed: “Revolution in #Libya has been a pluralistic coalition of people from all walks of life”, writes Marwan Bishara aje.me/oiU5cz
dovenews Libyan™
The Eduction official: The first day in school will be on 17th #September across the country. #Libya #NTC
CNN finds Lockerbie bomber comatose, near death, family says
Tripoli, Libya (CNN)– Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is comatose, near death and likely to take secrets of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 to his grave.
CNN found al-Megrahi under the care of his family in his palatial Tripoli villa Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip. The cancer-stricken former Libyan intelligence officer may be the last man alive who knows precisely who in the Libya government authorized the bombing, which killed 270 people.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/cnn-finds-lockerbie-bom...
libyatv Libya TV
NTC warns against abusing prisoners | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/08/28/ntc… #libya #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
Electricity is cut off on #Sirte for 4wks, ppl R fed Gaddafi’s fight the traitors & crusaders propaganda & #FF will rape & kill ur families
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Regarding Meghrahi… many of us in Libya think the guy was a scapegoat. A Libyan airline employee that took the fall for Senussi/Gdfi plans
I really hope that we catch Gaddafi or Senussi so that they can tell us the whole lockerbie story (or else find documents)
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Doctor told me a while back that 1/4 of injuries at his hospital in Benghazi were b/c of falling bullets. It’s crazy.
Heard back from a few ppl in Tripoli. Looks like water restored in some areas, while it’s its off in others.
libyatv Libya TV
Does Libya need a foreign police presence to ensure stability? | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/08/28/doe… #libya #feb17
@danieljerivers Dan Rivers
Watch my exclusive report on nanny who worked for Hannibal Gaddafi – horrific burns she says inflicted by Hannibal’s wife Aline.
CNN
Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound
As we were about to leave, one of the staff told us there was a nanny who worked for Hannibal Gadhafi who might speak to us. He said she’d been burnt by Hannibal’s wife, Aline.
I thought he meant perhaps a cigarette stubbed out on her arm. Nothing prepared me
for the moment I walked into the room to see Shwygar Mullah.
At first I thought she was wearing a hat and something over her face. Then the awful realization dawned that her entire scalp and face were covered in red wounds and scabs, a mosaic of injuries that rendered her face into a grotesque patchwork.
Read full report here:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28...
FromJoanne Joanne
Tank transporters with Soviet-designed T-55 tanks drove in direction #Sirte Tanks were seized from abandoned military base in #Zlitan #Libya
#NATO Spokesman in #Brussels #Nato struck at #Sirte for a third day on Sunday Just getting rid of last Gaddafi Regime remnants #Libya
RAF Spy Planes crack SAS troops MI6 intelligence experts all Search 4 the #Libya Monsters Gaddafi and sons goo.gl/yDHdq
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Here is #Sabratha colosseum. #Gaddafi neglect. I can understand #Libya archeologists afraid to speak up. But Europeans? pic.twitter.com/rzD4CRN
Here I am at #Sabratha Colosseum. Locals say just a busload of tourists a month used to visit. yfrog.com/mmk7agj
@FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #AbdelhakimBelhadj Newly appointed #TRIPOLI Military Council Commander is former EMIR of #Libyan #Islamic #Fighting Group LIFG #Libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
yup and heard here that his brother was close to #OBL #FLASH #AbdelhakimBelhadj #TRIPOLI #Libyan #Islamic #Fighting #Libya
Ahmed
#Gaddafi froces captured in #Brega. One was found w/ a black magic charm around his upper arm. goo.gl/ROuLH #Libya #Feb17
Libye Libre
La Tunisie rouvre le poste-frontière libyen de Ras Jdir, d’importance cruciale pour le ravitaillement des Libyens j.mp/nHzWWQ
AGI
LIBYAN REBELS CLAIM ONCE AGAIN KHAMIS GADDAFI IS DEAD
(AGI) Tripoli – The Libyan TNC claims once again Khamis Gaddafi is dead. Khamis, known to be the Colonel’s bloodthirty son, was the commander of the much feared 32nd brigade. The rebels claim Khamis was killed yesterday in a gunfight between Gaddafi’s loyalists and the rebels in Tarhuna, about 80 km south east of Tripoli. . .
dovenews Libyan™
Abudall Salam Alnadab: an ex security guard for Gaddafi from 89 – 92. here is what he said
Abudall Salam Alnadab: Gaddafi used to sleep with the wives/daughters of most ppl who hold high positions in the Libyan gov.
Abudall Salam Alnadab: Gaddafi thugs told me; do u want money or high position, bring ur sisters, I refused, they arrested me & locked
Abudall Salam Alnadab: me up for 20days in Abu Salam prison, a female told, are going to do wht have askd u to do, I said no, thy forced
Abudall Salam Alnadab: me 2 write & sign a papr saying I’m traitor & I get paid from CIA, thn told me I hv 1hr 2 leave & we hv the proof
That was short tweets from Abudall Salam Alnadab’s story which was aired on Libyatv
Abudall Salam Alnadab also said that Gaddafi & sons are on cocaine.
Ali Tweel
People were celebrating since 10:45pm around my neighbourhood first using bullets but now they r just chanting and singing. Good. now 2:10am
I will never understand these 2 kind of people: those who double park, and those who shoot bullets in the air.
I just can’t stop thinking about all those Libyans who died so i can have peace. I hope all Libyans appreciate these sacrifices.
This was the night Nato bombed BabAzizia for 30 minutes, but my son Shehab remained asleep with hands on ears! twitpic.com/6ctkwb
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Don’t blame #Tripoli’s people for setting off homemade fireworks & shooting in the air to celebrate. They’ll get over it. Look at #Benghazi
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#BREAKING: REBEL SOURCES HERE IN #TRIPOLI TELL ME: #GADDAFI AND SOME OF FAMILY MEMBERS ARE RIGHT NOW IN WESTERN #LIBYAN CITY OF BANI WALID.
dovenews Libyan™
Deputy FM Ayman al-Mashrafa said Egypt was ready to help its neighbour rebuild after six months of war. MENA
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
British charity workers assess Tripoli danger shabablibya.org/?p=6151 #Libya
Last throes of Libya war focus on Sirte shabablibya.org/?p=6145
arwaCNN
ppl we talked2say they heard&knew of mercilessness of regime but is1st time they R seeing it 4 themselves,truth no longer hidden
Libya_Awake_United
The Adam’s Family New Season. Fresh from #BabAziziya compound #Libya #Tripoli #feb17 twitpic.com/6ctm15
AJE: British defence minister Liam Fox discusses #Libya goo.gl/KGMCM #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
LPC #Tripoli: Internet has returned in many areas of the city. #Libya
OppContact: Some say: “don’t criticize transitional administration yet.” Why? This becomes an excuse to deflect important questions #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Once again Khamis #Gaddafi is dead agi.it/english-versio… #Libya #Feb17
Libyan assets to be unfrozen, including £1bn worth of dinar banknotes www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/26/li... #Libya #Feb17
#NATO bombed #Sirte again Sunday night.
Tripoli_Latest Niz – Nizar Mhani
Martyrs portrait memorial board now up in Martyrs Square to a lovely reception & media attendance.Will extend length in coming days #Tripoli
Will have missing persons board up soon to aid families looking for loved ones. If anyone can assist with a list of missing
Distributing 150 containers of food to hospitals & opposition fighters around Tripoli.If anyone knows somewhere in DEFINITE need,let me know
MaryFitzgerldIT
The joy of seeing water flow from a tap after four days of nothing, not even a drip.
Alex
#Gaddafi lived like the richest of billionaires post.ly/310br
Najat
Family in #Tripoli says that family & neighbors around are eager to get back to work & start rebuilding the country #Libya
Libyans Revolt
Being very busy, lack of organisation and war time stress can be difficult – 500 women just marched by house singing. So uplifting #libya
Michael
Tunnel entrance for vehicles at RIXOS. Blow doors open. May lead to underground prisons.
FF found vehicle ramp at RIXOS. Went to doors which would not open, handles removed. May be key to getting in the larger tunnels.
Other prisons:
Intel Building, Nat’l Security Bldg, Police Academy, New Tobacco Factory, Old Tobacco Factory, Jdola Prison, Ayn Zara Prison,
External IUntel office, Sharaa Duoll Bunker, Secretariat of Communications, Revolutionary Committee Building, Green Book Study Ctr
Ghot Alsha aall prison, Al Nast prison, Assrayah Alhambr Museum, Larger of 2 stadiums at the Sports Complex, Infield of Horse Club
Check gov’t bldgs, Sports Complex stadiums (2), Horse Club infield, Zoo Park greenspace
Libya In Me
“After Gaddafi’s compound fell, we went back to where we were staying in a school building and we all cried, about 200 guys” #EpicFFQuotes
“In this war we have all lost someone, a brother, a friend or a cousin. I lost my best friend, Alla Ekshem, a week ago.” #EpicFFQuotes
“We will go on. We will go on to the end and finish this war.” #EpicFFQuotes
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Issues left to be solved in Tripoli: Fuel, water and electricity.
The libyan people have proved to be thinking just fine. they have enough mentality to had removed the worst tyrant
SUMMARY AUGUST 29th 2011
8/29/11
8.29.11
Don’t be the prisoner of your past, be the architect of your future.
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Oks96
@FromJoanne Joanne
Tank transporters with Soviet-designed T-55 tanks drove in direction #Sirte Tanks were seized from abandoned military base in #Zlitan #Libya
( FYI: FF’s)
Libya In Me
Abdul Jalil leading prayers in Qatar.. :’) pic.twitter.com/9zNz4ph
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Picture of the scene as we drove in to Nawfaliyah, with @skynewscamera in shot on.fb.me/oDHE6D #Libya
Crowds on the streets of Nawfaliyah this evening just after it was taken by the rebels #Libya on.fb.me/odmjk2
Picture of some of Gaddafi’s forces land mines that were abandoned near Ras Lanuf www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2057571...
ProudLibyan
RT=“Russia Today” or is it “Remove Truth”? #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Freedom fighters at the Nawfliyah beach, east of Sirte #libya #feb17 fb.me/GiDZHa70
Via English Libya TV:
Tearing down the fist of oppression
Residents of Tripoli and revolutionary fighters continued to dismantle Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound over the weekend. One group unbolted and removed the iconic “Fist Crushing a US fighter jet” statue in front of a salivating group of TV cameras hoping to create a moment similar to the tearing down of Saddam in Baghdad.
Shouts of Allah akhbar rang out and victory rounds from all sorts of weaponry including large caliber anti aircraft cannons were fired high into the sky to land who knows where. In the courtyard in front, men took turns with a spray can covering the hated green walls with anti-gaddafi graffiti. Flags were burned while behind the the graffiti covered statue, looters continued ransacking the compound for anything of worth. Three blacked corpses of loyalist fighters and thousands of shell casings lay strew around the grounds, remains of the battle three days before.
english.libya.tv/2011/08/28/tearing-dow...
Michael
Get DNA from Khamis Gadafi and shoot him again, just in case…this coming back from the dead business is unnerving!
Kosovo
Russia spies A. Koc& D.Stešin outsmart airport comm Abdulakim Abdulgadar/let R.spies visit 5 serb killers www.kurir-info.rs/planeta/ovo-su-srbi-z...
Gadafi is hiding in Bunker in Sebha airport compound guarded by 700 strogn piggy Serbia army
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
We are advancing further up road with convoy of #ff technicals in to gad area
We are advancing further up road with ff convoy.
a little boy just came up to me in #Nawfaliyah and asked if I had any chicken. they have not had chicken here since March.
Every time i see a train of grad rocket launchers coming down the road i’m surprised just how many they have. proper army now.
BBC just interviewed a #FF from Brighton UK. He said the Pro-Gads they have captured recently are not properly trained soldiers…
they are just ‘die hard nut jobs’ who are fanatical supporters of #Gaddafi but little fighting experience. Rolls reversed from March
dovenews Libyan™
Leaflets by #AlHadabah youth. #Tripoli goo.gl/O9isJ
6 explosions were heard in the distance early Monday in Tripoli just after a NATO warplane flew over the Libyan capital. AFP
3 #FF were killed & 10 injured in #Algaradha after Gaddafi’s militias attacked the area with rocket launchers. #Sabha
FromJoanne Joanne
Freedom Fighters are moving the tanks on the coastal highway east of Tripoli in direction of Sirte #Libya
#NTC Pleads 4No Revenge kilings Law & order should prevail QST= What would U do if yr Bro or Dad was Tortured and u knew sadist name?
Fitting story 4brave war correspondent @johnrayitv How & why we escaped from the #Rixos #Tripoli # Libya itv.co/lQ1iw2 #Libya #ITV
#TRIPOLI Despite Huge shortages of Water still controlled by GF Fuel + Medicines Electricity Ppl have started to clean up the city #Libya
#TRIPOLI HANNIBAL BURNT NANNY #Shweyga story of @danieljerivers #ICRC will help her get Surgery bit.ly #Libya #LessonLearned
#HRW REPORT 133 ppl MASS #MURDER #Khalida #Ferjan area #Salahaddin S Tripoli next2 #Yarmouk Khamis Military Base goo.gl/CAGf3 #Libya
#Tripoli MassMurder #AbdulrahimIbrahimBashi + Moiayad Abu Ghraim told #HumanRightsWatch Commander KhamisBrigade was #MuhammadMansour #Libya
#NAWFALIYAH @fieldproducer #NATO planes have been over head in the last half hour, heard 7 explosions in the distance #Libya #Libya
CNN
Captives executed in Libya
CNN’s Arwa Damon reports on a prisoner of Gadhafi forces who says he escaped a massacre of his fellow captives
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
LibyanYouthMovement
I think they expected those loyalists in Sirte to surrender with Tripoli’s liberation, but Sirte are cut off (tv etc)
Vai Shabab
Daily Mail
Gaddafi’s girl executioner: Nisreen, 19, admits shooting 11 rebel prisoners, now she is shackled to hospital bed awaiting justice
Nisreen Mansour al Forgani is a pretty 19-year-old. She was also a serial killer for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Yesterday, in a heavily guarded room at the Matiga military hospital in Tripoli, she
admitted to the Mail that she had executed as many as 11 suspected rebel prisoners in the days leading up to the fall of the Libyan capital last week. Shot at point-blank range, in cold blood.
One of thousands of girls and young women recruited by Gaddafi’s all-female militias, Nisreen is now a prisoner of the rebels and in fear of her life. Yet despite her killings, it is impossible not to feel pity for her.
Her parents split up when she was a child, and Nisreen did not like her father’s new wife so she went to live with her mother.
One of her mother’s friends, a woman called Fatma al Dreby, was the leader of the female branch of Gaddafi’s Popular Guards militia – and this, it seems, was the fateful factor.
Last year, Nisreen left college intending to look after her mother, who was sick with cancer. Instead, Fatma recruited her for the Popular Guards.
The family protested, but Fatma would not be swayed. Nisreen was young and pretty – just the type they wanted. ‘There were about 1,000 girls from all over Libya,’ Nisreen recalled of their training camp in Tripoli. ‘I was there with a girl called Faten, whom I knew from college.’
‘Fatma had an office at the 77 Brigade base and there was a room with a bed next door. One day, she summoned me and put me in that room by myself. Mansour Dau, who was the commander of 77 Brigade, then came in and shut the door.’
He raped her.
Read more here:
shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-girl-exec...
bint-trablis
this is her pic she wasn’t forced into any thing..she knows what is was doing and convinced
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2333932...
edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201... …. another summer house in Regatta … Hannibal !!
Rana
very sickening story part of me feels bad for her but part of me wonders if she’s lying to escape harsh punishment
yasmarah ياسمين
This article hit me hard. Twisted on all sides of the spectrum.
Broun
Thats funny i didn’t feel sorry for her when reading that. I imagined killing her
LibyanYouthMovement
it is a seriously messed up situation
cultrdpurl
serial killer – or just following orders?
AJA: heavy clashes in Algarda, Sabha, 3 opposition fighters killed and 10 injured.
Libiya_min_Hollanda
My relatives are trying 2 find my dads cousin, they are afraid he would be between the bodies that has been burned by G Troops :(
NYT: Gilded Traces of the Lives #Gaddafis Led goo.gl/7J3F8 #libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
My cousin’s car window smashed w/falling bullet: goo.gl/x5WFM After repair: goo.gl/PJ6Uc Alhamdulilah he wasn’t injured
#Benghazi-My uncle’s car bumper hit with an AK-47 round goo.gl/ZwpJ3 He was unharmed-celebratory gunfire must stop now!!
rmehlinger Richard Mehlinger
someone could make a fortune if they could come up with a blank cartridge “party round” for AKs
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Time: On Patrol with the #Benghazi Brigade: Winning Hearts and Minds in #Triopli goo.gl/t8E4e #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA About to head out and about. But so far seems quiet this morning in Tripoli.
Aljazeera
Latest Development in Libya August 28, 2011
Source- Al Jazeera compiled by Dr. Hussein Al-Omari
shabablibya.org/news/latest-development...
Sky News:
They were there all along
An aircraft engineer trained in Daytona was not the first person I expected to meet returning to the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli.
Najib was a wearing a baseball cap in rebel colours and had an AK47 hanging from his shoulder.
“Were you staying here?” he asked.
I told him I’d spent 6 weeks at the Rixos under the oppressive restrictions of the Gaddafi regime earlier this year.
Then he saw the Sky News stickers plastered all over the cases of broadcasting equipment I had come to recover.
“Ah, Sky News! We watch you on the roof from across the way, then we watched you on our television downstairs.”
Read more:
goo.gl/aeXCk
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
by ShababLibya
#Libya, Still no running water in many areas of #Tripoli, electricity erratic, #Libya
#Libya, More bodies are being found in the #Yarmouk military barracks of the #Khamis #Gaddafi brigade, Libya, #Tripoli
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The 3 security contractors from Italy released by #FF’s after one month in Abu Salim prison arrive in #Malta and returning home
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
We have a police force. We have a functioning army. We don’t need “peacekeepers”. #NoBoots
Libya is not Iraq. Tripoli is not Baghdad. #NoBoots
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Freedom Fighters are in Al Nawfaliyah and have secured the small town some 120km East of Sirte
Lars
If you represent your own views, you’re a debater, not an independent journalist
Knott
if they are promoting their own views while claiming to be an independent journo, they r a fraud!
Reuters
Anger simmers among pro-Gaddafi Libyans in Tripoli
In a part of Tripoli known for its loyalty to Muammar Gaddafi, two men vented their fury over the fall of the Libyan leader, shouting abuse at the media and calling journalists liars, traitors and spies.
The tens of thousands of jubilant Libyans who cheered the rebels on their march to the capital have stolen the media limelight. But among others in the city, anger simmers over the rebels’ successful revolt against Gaddafi’s 42-year-rule.
“You media don’t tell the truth, you’re all traitors, spies,” shouted a taxi driver, his face contorted with anger, not caring that nearby were armed and zealous rebels.
“You sold our country out,” shouted another man who came to join him, before a deafening crack prompted the shoppers in the busy street to duck and flinch.
“Look at this,” shouted the taxi driver, pointing at the young rebel across the street who had fired an anti-aircraft gun into the air.
“This is what our country has come to,” he said.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/anger-simmers-amon...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi still a threat, says Libya council chief shabablibya.org/?p=6178 #Libya
Gaddafi’s foes advance on his hometown shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-foes-adva... #Libya
Eni CEO Scaroni meets NTC leaders in Libya shabablibya.org/news/eni-ceo-scaroni-me... #Libya
Enigmatic in Power, Qaddafi Is Elusive at Large shabablibya.org/news/enigmatic-in-power... #Libya
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#BBC Justice minister Mhd AlAlagi says AlMegrahi already been judged once, won’t be judged again. Also, #NTC busy liberating #Libya.
France reopens Tripoli embassy
France reopened its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli today after it had been closed for the last six months, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
“Our embassy in Tripoli has reopened today,” Bernard Valero said in a press briefing.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Maltese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Maltese embassy in Tripoli was never closed, but it was manned by locally-engaged staff over the past few months.
A decision on the return of the Maltese staff will be taken as the situation in Tripoli improves.
Malta, however, intends to keep open a liaison office set up two months ago in Benghazi.
Source Times Of Malta
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BBC were left on the back foot by Sky News who reported things as they were.. BBC had to add their twist on it
Huffington Post
Libya Through the Looking Glass
The uprising of Libyans against their long-time dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has succeeded in toppling him and his regime. Now the post mortems begins. What lessons are to be drawn from the affair?
It is important to address this question sooner rather than later, for predicting the past has become chancy. History is no longer written mainly by historians.
Full story:
www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-brenner/...
ksnavarra
Malta ship with 350 tons of water ,communications equipment, food and medicine to set sail for #Tripoli today
منزل موسى ابراهيم The home of Musa Ibrahim
Gaddafi spokesman musa ibrahim house in tripoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8uVOQO3VA
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Foreign Policy: Give Optimism And Credit To Libya shabablibya.org/news/foreign-p… #Libya
Expatica
Germany seeks to turn new leaf over Libya
Germany Monday sought to turn a new leaf by stressing its readiness to help with reconstruction and aid in Libya after failing to provide military assistance to the campaign against Moamer Kadhafi.
Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend an international conference on Libya’s future in Paris on Thursday, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said Monday.
“We will do everything we can” to provide humanitarian assistance to the Libyan people in the wake of the toppling of the Kadhafi regime, he told a news conference.
“The German government is happy the rebels have been victorious,” he added.
Read more:
www.expatica.com/de/news/german-news/ge...
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels are consolidating their position around Nawfaliah,expecting some NATO air strikes on Gaddafi’s forces position between here & Sirte
I’ll try & upload a few more pics from #Libya to my album, see the ones I’ve filed so far here www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.20577...
Rebels are bringing in multi-Grad rocket launchers to reinforce the area around Nawfaliyah #Libya
Just interviewed a rebel fighter here at Nawfaliyah who is originally from Scotland
NATO planes have been over head in the last half hour, heard 7 explosions in the distance #Libya
Libya
Sick of nonlibyans commenting that Libyans r religious zealots who wud welcome Qaeda.
Mark
they are in the minority, most of us look at the Libyans as an inspiration to the world for freedom.
SecularLibya MargBar Khamenei
Heinz, 24 hrs. ago: Qadafi and one of his sons have been spotted. #Libya #Feb17
Heinz 12 hrs ago: Qadafi is hiding in a spider hole like Saddam. He has no more contact. Mutassim has been located &should get caught.
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
NTC: we ask anyone with knowledge of other prisons or mass graves, they must come forward or they r considered participants of this #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Running around with the independence flag is the new thing for Tripoli kids… yfrog.com/kgcalnpj
Libya
Most important thing now. My cousin in Tripoli is one of d ppl collecting weapons and he said so far ppl r cooperating. Good news
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
I hear they ran out of soap at the four seasons in Doha because Kusa keeps trying to wash the blood off his hands
Marcos
Ex-Gs properties are Libian people’s properties now and should NOT be appropriated by individual persons.
Children not sleeping when Nato boms:
Tweeting Tripoli
same thing happened to my kids, only thing kept them going and falling asleep is when I tell them NATO attacked monsters.
Ex-Gaddafi ‘Nun’ Reveals Perverse Regime Secrets (Translated)
An ex-Gaddafi Revolutionary Committee member, or what he likes to call “nun,” speaks out of the disturbing, sick and ruthless behavior Muammer Gaddafi has committed in the last four decades. Gaddafi called many of his female personal guards or members nuns because he usually refused for them to get married and have children. Her stories are extremely disturbing, but shed a necessary light on what this evil demon has done for years from raping young boys and girls to kidnappings and murders. Must watch from start to finish.
Watch Video:
feb17.info/media/ex-gaddafi-nun-reveals...
Khamis dead ( again)
Tweeting Tripoli
Oh no, not again!!! Won’t read or watch unless there is a video showing him dead :(
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
I continue to be shocked by #Gaddaficrimes as they’re all uncovered. Just as i think i’ve heard it all something more disturbing comes out
Niz Mahani:
We’re going to try to demilitarise Martyrs Square (Green Square) and use TV ads to persuade people to stop firing into the air.
Rukaya
I knew #Gaddafi was bad; but these atrocities that are coming out are beyond what I expected. How on earth was this able to go on for 42yrs?
Tweeting Tripoli
they did not prepare food for prisoners. Only bread and water once a day, prisoners tell me in Soug Aljuma.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Can’t stop listening to this brilliant speech.. #AL #libya #feb17 fb.me/DNghBmxZ
Tweeting Tripoli
Seems that the #Gaddafi family lack any normal human feelings & emotion. Even members of their own families are abused” yes true.
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
The Gaddafis chained a nanny to the bathtub, poured boiling water over her repeatedly, & locked her up until maggots came out of her head…
m_madi Mohamed Madi
I can vouch for @simondenyer’s experience of hospitality in #Libya, truly humbling. In two weeks there I didn’t need to spend a penny
You’ll never go hungry or be without somewhere to rest your head as a visitor in #Libya
It’s considered a big embarrassment if someone visits your town or area and isn’t well looked after #Libya
A photographer who had been in Nafusa for months told me hadn’t spent a penny either, had been put up and fed wherever he went
Ibn
Can u imagine being from the nafusa mountains, living in huts, and arriving to #gaddafi and his childrens’ homes and seeing how they lived?
Another reason to be cautiously optimistic abt #Libya | a must-read piece by Jim Traub on rebels’ postwar planning: bit.ly/oGiBWe
Tweeting Tripoli
Sep 1st, the national cleaning day in #Libya: Relatives & Freinds already looking forward to it, and are going zanga zanga to encourage ppl.
Skyman64 Ian Woods
A new experience in air travel. Tunis Air cabin crew laughing as they waved two toy guns at passengers. I’m still not sure why…
Tweeting Tripoli
ROFL. The G goon Colonel they caught (0:40) just confessed he was Al-Qaida. He thinks FFs are Al-Qaida and was playing clever!
Tweeting Tripoli
They’re put in temporary secret locations until it’s over to stand trials. That’s what I’ve been told yesterday by FF commander.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Hala (Pistol) Sakal, said she ws held hostage at Leebya TV for 3 mths sleeping on the bare floor, was forced to lie: youtube.com/watch?v=qkp_yo…
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
My mother let a white moth enter our house today… Says it’s a good omen. Maybe they’ll catch Gaddafi tomorrow, who knows? #hopeso
Mike
I’m trying to decide if #Gaddafi followers are ignorant, in denial or just downright despicable
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
The 1st of September, which would have marked the 42nd anniversary of gaddafi’s rule, is now a national litter/garbage cleanup day #libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
CNN
Video: Captives executed in Libya bit.ly/qsDXsx #libya
Aljazeera
The NTC has been nominating members for a new government, but there is public resistance to the appointments. Libyans have held protests within the country accusing the NTC of not being transparent enough.
Andrew Simmons, reporting from a protest in Misrata, said: “They the protesters say the old guard of the Gaddafi regime are far too prominent in the list of people issued so far.
“They are also insisting there should be new faces for a new Libya.
“A lot of this is due to communications and the way the National Transitional Council has been concentrating so much on diplomacy and the economy, and maybe not looking inwards enough.”
Via Feb17
Reuters
Muammar Gaddafi, who has not been seen since rebels took over the Libyan capital of Tripoli a week ago, is still a threat to the country and the world, the chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Monday.
Speaking at a meeting in Doha, Qatar, of defence ministers from countries supporting the insurgency against Gaddafi’s rule, NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil called on NATO to keep supporting the movement.
“I call for continued protection from NATO and its allies from this tyrant,” Abdel Jalil said.
The NTC, which is hunting Libya’s deposed leader and pushing to take over his hometown of Sirte east of Tripoli, said on Saturday it had no firm information on his whereabouts. It has offered a $1.3 million reward and amnesty from prosecution for anyone who kills or captures Gaddafi.
The NTC has been nominating members for a new government, but there is public resistance to the appointments. Libyans have held protests within the country accusing the NTC of not being transparent enough.
Aljazeera
A leaked United Nations plan for post-Gaddafi Libya calls for the deployment of 200 unarmed military observers and 190 UN police officers to start a transition leading to elections in six to nine months.
The ten page document, published by Inner City Press, the UN watchdog site, was written by a special UN team led by Ian Martin, the former British head of Amnesty International.
Amnesty International
Key prison records and other documentation are at risk of being lost as sites remain unsecure and documents destroyed or taken away in Libya, Amnesty International warned today.
In a press release Amnesty International said:
“The Transitional National Council (NTC) authorities must protect such evidence where it is found or collect it in a central repository for safe-keeping. They should also appeal to those individuals who have taken any such documents to return them to the authorities as soon as possible.”
Full press release here.
AP
A rebel military spokesman says rebels have freed more than 10,000 from Moammar Gadhafi’s prisons since entering Tripoli last week. But Ahmed Bani said that some 50,000 people are unaccounted for
HRW
Human Rights Watch said members of the Khamis Brigade, a force commanded by Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis, appeared to have carried out the killings on Aug. 23. Human Rights Watch said it inspected the charred skeletal remains of about 45 bodies, still smouldering, on Saturday. The remains were spread throughout the warehouse in the Khalida Ferjan neighbourhood in Salahaddin, south of Tripoli, adjoining the Yarmouk military base.
CNN
Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is said to be “comatose” and “near death” at his villa in the Libyan capital Tripoli, where he was “surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip” under the care of his family. It wasn’t immediately possible to independently confirm Mr. Megrahi’s condition
Nofilia
The opposition fighters have taken the small town of Nofilia on their way to Sirte.
NTC
National Transitional Council (NTC) head Mustafa Abdul Jalil said Nato and other allies must continue supporting rebels against the “tyrant”.
France
France reopened its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday after it had been closed for the last six months, a foreign ministry spokesman said. “Our embassy in Tripoli has reopened today,” Bernard Valero said in a press briefing.
Leaked Plan:
A leaked document apparently detailing United Nations preparations for its role in post-Gaddafi Libya reveals plans for the world body to deploy military observers and police officers to the North African country.
The 10-page document, apparently written by a special UN team led by Ian Martin, the former British head of Amnesty International, was obtained and published by Inner City Press, the UN watchdog website.
The document outlines plans for UN-assisted elections in the next six to nine months. It also calls for the deployment of 200 unarmed military observers and 190 UN police officers to serve as trainers.
Reuters
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte are urging people to fight or be killed by bloodthirsty attackers, complicating efforts to arrange a peaceful surrender of the city, opponents of the Libyan leader said on Monday.
BBC
British diplomats have arrived in Tripoli as part of the government’s plan to increase its presence in the Libyan capital. The small Foreign Office team will prepare for the arrival of more diplomats, but no date has been set for reopening the British Embassy.
Oil
Libya plans to resume production in the oil fields east of the country in mid-September and export of crude from the port of Tobruk at the end of the same month.
Reuters
Libya, which is nearly under the control of rebels seeking to oust Muammar Gaddafi, will take a close look at its currency to determine whether it should be kept and exchange rates maintained, the central bank governor told Arabiya television.
Qatar
Qatar became the first country in the world yesterday to accord state welcome to the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdul Jalil. Jalil was given the guard of honor as part of state reception which is given to visiting heads of state. As is customary, national anthems of the two countries were played and the new national flag of Libya was displayed along with the Qatari flag.
Reuters
Unit led by Gaddafi’s son carried out Tripoli massacre-HRW
A military unit commanded by one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons appears to have been responsible for the summary execution of dozens of detainees in a warehouse near Tripoli last week, a human rights organisation said on Monday.
Three days later the warehouse, which had been used as a prison, was set on fire but the cause was unknown, Human Rights Watch said.
Since the fall of Gaddafi just over a week ago, evidence has emerged of numerous killings. Dozens of bodies, some from Gaddafi’s troops and others of detainees held by the ousted government, have been discovered in the Libyan capital.
Human Rights Watch said it inspected the charred skeletal remains of about 45 bodies, still smouldering, on Saturday. The remains were spread throughout the warehouse in the Khalida Ferjan neighbourhood in Salahaddin, south of Tripoli, adjoining the Yarmouk military base.
At least two more corpses were lying outside, unburned.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/unit-led-by-gaddafis-so...
Mirror UK
Saadi Gaddafi locked up his best pal for rejecting his gay advances
Tyrant’s son Al-Saadi Gaddafi threw his best friend in jail for turning down his gay advances.
Reda Thawargi said he was locked up for two and-a-half years before he was released and Saadi begged him for his support to quell the uprising.
Rebels who raided married Saadi’s opulent mansion this week found gay porn DVDs in his office.
The sprawling property near Tripoli has its own football pitch and outside disco, as well as an outhouse with three cell-like rooms and a caged building where Saadi is said to have set dogs on people who displeased him.
Reda said: “Saadi is gay. He tried to have sex with me but I refused. I only like girls. So he threw me in military jail.”
Reda was a close friend of the dictator’s son for 13 years.
They both played football for Tripoli’s Al Ahli football club and spent two years together in Italy drinking and partying.
However, Saadi became infuriated by Reda’s refusal to sleep with him and put him on trial in a Libyan court – but without a specific charge. Reda said: “The judge told me, ‘if Saadi says you have done wrong, then you must go to prison’.”
He was eventually freed in February.
Reda added: “When the uprising began Saadi called me to ask me to go on state TV to support him because of my fame as a footballer. I refused and hid away.
“I want to be the first to punch him now. If you find him, tell me.”
Source:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/...
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Exciting movie trailer for the documentary “The Rebels of Libya”. Watch here: vbs.tv/watch/vbs-news… – #Libya #Feb17
#Libya Central Bank governor will take a close look at the Libyan dinar to determine whether it should be kept. t.co/7fHZ8vT
Presumably we hope the Libyan Central Bank governor discontinues the dinar with #Gaddafi’s face & print the dinar with true heroes – #Libya
Italy ENI:
Italy’s Eni SpA signed a deal with Libya’s rebel government on Monday aimed at quickly restarting its oil and gas operations in the country following concerns it could lose its dominant position to rivals.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Turkish airlines should start flights this week to #Benghazi if Benina airport can be repaired in time.
Protest in #Misrata “New #Libya New Faces” attacking #NTC nominating former #Gaddafi filth for gov’t posts. #Feb17
The idea of it IS worrying but I ‘ve since found out it was VERY few complaining and those few weren’t even from Libya.
Video: The sheer brutality of the #Gaddafi regime youtu.be/swht21KfotU #Libya #Feb17
#Tripoli:L #NATO dropped 6 bombs on outskirts of city early Monday morning. Targets unknown as yet.
Important Article: #Misrata #Freedomfighters defy #Libya’s new regime www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/29/mi... #Feb17
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
Jacqui
Libyans returning from Tunisia:Road to #Tripoli still open, but there are still loyalist ambushes. DO NOT fly flags. #Libya
SAFIA, AISHA, MOHAMMED, HANNIBAL AND GRANDCHILDREN OF GADDAFI
ARE IN ALGERIA
CNN
Libyan war ‘not over’ as Gadhafi family members flee conflict
But instability simmered as family members of Moammar Gadhafi fled across the border to Algeria and foreign military leaders meeting in Qatar underscored that the “war in Libya is not over.”
Gadhafi’s wife and three children of Moammar Gadhafi are in Algeria, the nation’s Foreign Ministry said. His wife Safia, his daughter Aisha, two of his sons, Hannibal and Mohamed and their children, came there via the Libyan border.
Noit
We reported on the convoy of Mercedes cars few days ago.
This was confirmed by eye witnesses.
We reported on shooting at the border as it happened.
Algeria denied our reports at that time.
Official Algerian Government report says they crossed border at 8.45 this morning.
Who knows what the truth is?
Maybe interviewing the staff would shed some light on day of departure, although G
family could of course also have been in hiding in different places for a few
days…..
Personally I think the Algerian government is less than truthful concerning the arrival date of the G clan into Algeria.
I am convinced they crossed the border last Friday, (today=Monday).
Friday is when the shoot out happened.
Clarification:
We also talked to a Dr. who saw jr. Senussi on Thursday evening in hospital and who
told us that they ( meaning jr Senussi and co) were waiting for more people, Khamis
was mentioned at that point), to escape Tripoli. The word was spread that they would
be going to Sabha / Sirte, but that might have been distraction….
There was also talk about Khamis going to Bani Walid at that time.
Must have gone via Bani Walid to Algeria.
A convoy of Mercedes cars was spotted by several eye witnesses.
Must have been quite a group of people. We roughly estimated that around 30 – 40
people were about to flee in that convoy.
Knowing the way Algeria reacts my bet would be that Algeria is never going to admit
voluntarily that ICC wanted Gaddafi’s would have entered, so IF those members of
the G family were amongst those that crossed the border, Algeria would stay quiet
about that and only mention those that are NOT on the ICC wanted list.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: The #NTC SHOULD be all inclusive at this time, SOME who worked for #Gaddafi CAN be of use during this TRANSITIONAL period.
#Libya: Remember: The National TRANSITIONAL Committee ( #NTC) is TEMPORARY, support them as they work to bring organization to Libya.
#Libya: Be wary of outside groups w/ only their own interests in mind such as Gov. of #Turkey, #Iran & #Algeria, Muslim Brotherhood & #AU.
At the moment Libya hasn’t many w/ the experience to do these jobs. Once the foundations are laid they can be eased out & replaced
Gaddafi is gone forever & will never have power in Libya again, while these ARE criminals, why not use them for what they can do?
Scotland says not interested in extradition of #Lockerbie bomber Megrahi from #Libya. #Feb17
It’s a proven fact #Algeria sent over 500 #Polisario to support #Gaddafi.
#Libya: More bodies are being found in the #Yarmouk military barracks of the #Khamis brigade.
#France & #UK to be among first to reopen embassies in #Tripoli. Both to be opening soon.
The depth of Gaddafi pure evil and acts of extreme depravity are unimaginable, the stories yet to be told, staggering.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Gaddafi’s plan to launch an anti-NATO PR campaign in Britain. Guess it never got off the ground. t.co/47FcR0O
France24
Gaddafi ‘still a threat’ says NTC as fighters reach Sirte
Libya’s National Transitional Council warned that Muammar Gaddafi “is still a threat” Monday, asking NATO for continued protection from the “tyrant”, as its fighters surrounded the fugitive leader’s hometown of Sirte, following NATO bombing there.
Read more and watch video:
www.france24.com/en/20110829-libya-rebe...
Independent UK
Can you vacate your room, sir? Libya’s new government needs it
The new rulers of Libya, the Transitional National Council (TNC), have arrived in town. I know this because they just kicked me out of my painfully acquired hotel room when they took over the whole of the eighth floor of the Radisson Blu Hotel where I am staying.
My eviction did not elicit much sympathy from other journalists, many packed two or three to a room, when I explain I have been given another room and have it all to myself. The previous occupant, who had not done much clearing up before he departed, left behind an Omani military yearbook and some torn-up notebooks. He may have been one of the elusive group of Arab military officers who gave technical advice to the rebels, assuring their victory.
Read more:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa...
UAE pledges to help Libyan people in meeting with Abdul Jalil yest gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/government/u...
Aljazeera | Libya : As Libyan fighters advance towards Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, they are waiting for reinforcement from the capital. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting live from Tripoli, said.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
CNN reporter Nic Robertson has reportedly tracked down Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in Libya. He’s posted a picture… fb.me/12WQhO7Av
Libya : Schools will open in 17 September and this time no Green books
عاجل ليبيا أخبار : مسؤول ملف التعليم: العودة للدراسة ستكون يوم 17 سبتمبر بكامل التراب الليبي, و هذه السنة لا توجد كتب خضراء
Latest news from #Tripoli:
1. Normal life is starting to return to the city after a week since liberation… Shops have begun to re-open their doors…Some banks have also opened to pay people their salaries..
2.Big clean-up campaign launched by the youth of Tripoli to clean the streets and neighborhoods of the city
Aljazeera
-#Libya, Still no running water in many areas of #Tripoli, electricity erratic, #Libya.
-#Libya, Some supermarkets in #Tripoli are now open but shelves almost empty, #Libya
-#Libya, Thousands of libyans missing … Believed to have been held in #Gaddafi prisons, #Libya, #Tripoli
-#Libya, A woman has been searching for her brother taken by #Gaddafi forces weeks ago, she visits prisons where many were killed, #Libya
h2. —#Libya, More bodies are being found in the #Yarmouk military barracks of the #Khamis #Gaddafi brigade, Libya, #Tripoli
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, tweeted
Aljazeera :
Members of the Khamis Brigade, appear to have summarily executed detainees in a warehouse in Yarmouk near Tripoli on August 23, Human Rights Watch approx 150 dead bodies were found inside a makeshift jail when “Gaddafi’s forces opened fire and threw grenades” at the detainees.
BREAKING: Clashes are taking place between FFs and Gaddafi forces in Ragdaldeen, Massalata and Sabha.
alextomo alex thomson
Tripoli Roadblocks – The C4N User’s Guide t.co/jjTjKLK
Libiya el Haqiqiya
hi, we would be really greatfull if you would be able to ask around for Jaballa Matar, he has been in prison since 21 yrs…
Jaballa Matar from Ajdabiya has been in prison n Tripoli since 21 yrs. He is still missing. Anybody who has any info plz let us know! #libya
If anybody knows more about tunnels under Abu Salim prison in #Tripoli #Libya plz let me know or inform the NTC! #AbuSalim
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Speaking of ‘off’… how does one convince the rebel fighters to silence their guns? #endthecelebratorygunfireplease!
Telegraph The Telegraph
Libya: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi found ‘close to death’ in Tripoli tgr.ph/rqMooI
Dan Rivers reports from Tripoli, where the fight for freedom now includes a fight for clean water. bit.ly/qkcy6B #tripoli #libya
Qaddafi’s sons are monsters bit.ly/pQ4sB5
Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis reportedly visited prisoners hours before they were massacred
SURVIVORS of a massacre in which at least 55 Libyan prisoners were herded into a barn, machine-gunned and set alight by regime loyalists have described how one of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s sons visited the site last week, hours before the order was given to execute the men.
“Khamis Gaddafi was here just before the killings,” said Mustafa Abdullah El Hitri, a 27-year-old lawyer who escaped death by hiding under the bodies of his friends and later fleeing with the help of a guard.
“I saw him standing in the middle of the yard with his security detail and two commanders as I was taken from a prison van and marched into the barn. He was
giving orders to his men."
The atrocity, one of the worst documented during Libya’s revolution so far and part of an escalating trend of vengeance and retribution, may include as many as 140 victims once two suspected mass graves at the scene have been excavated.
It occurred early on Tuesday evening in a yard used to store farm machinery in the Yarmouk area of Tripoli’s Salahuddin district, adjacent to the capital’s largest military headquarters, “Leewa 32”, the command centre run by Khamis.
Read full art.:
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/mua...
4Adam Adam
Alaan TV:
The Funniest interview of #NTC minister very scared because of celebratory gunfire
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=908eICTDSr4
Triumphal arch restaurant twitpic.com/6cywlj/full #Tripoli #Libya
Libya’s NTC health minister tackles ‘daunting’ challenges www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/... #Libya #Tripoli
Found only in #Nafusa Mountains twitpic.com/6cz2bf/full #Libya.
Ancient Yefren – Nafusa Mountains twitpic.com/6cz42q/full #Libya
Found Only in Nafusa Mountains (II) twitpic.com/6cz77f/full #Libya
Tripoli – Nalut Road to the Nafusa (Western) Mountains twitpic.com/6cz95q #Libya
Tripoli – Nalut Road to the Nafusa (Western) Mountains twitpic.com/6cz95q/full #Libya
Telegraph UK:
Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford’s husband complains of sexism
The husband of Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford has defemded her against ‘’those who tried to pigeonhole her as a woman, wife and mother’’
Ms Crawford, whose highly commended reporting from Libya has made her something of a star, bridles at being labelled ‘’a female reporter’‘, Richard Edmondson said.
Also guaranteed to make her angry is the suggestion ’’she does not care much about her children’’, he said.
‘’Tell her that a woman journalist should not be going to war zones, especially when there are kids back home to cuddle,’’ he wrote in The Independent. ‘’It would be a swifter end than strychnine.’’
Ms Crawford, who entered Tripoli on Sunday night with the rebel convoy, told the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival yesterday that ’’it’s frankly really insulting and very, very sexist’’ when people tell her she should not be doing the job she does.
Speaking live by satellite link from Libya, she said: ’’I’m working alongside today the chief correspondent who’s a man who’s got three children and there will be no-one who says ‘what do you think you’re doing, how awful, what are you doing to your children?‘’’
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Palatial homes tell of Gaddafi kids’ life of privilege www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/world/2011/0... #Libya #Tripoli
4Adam Adam
Common theme heard in the Libyan capital ‘You are in Tripoli not in Baghdad’ but journalists still didn’t get it news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today… #Libya
Aljazeera
Dissent in Libya against NTC nominations
The NTC has been nominating members for a new government, but there is public resistance to the appointments. Libyans have held protests within the country accusing the NTC of not being transparent enough.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons, reporting from a protest in Misrata, said: "They the protesters say the old guard of the Gaddafi regime are far too prominent in the list of people issued so far.
“They are also insisting there should be new faces for a new Libya.”
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons reporting from Misrata.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB4w_J_rHZA
#Misrata – Demo in Libya against any ‘international peacekeeping force’ and #NTC nominations youtube.com/watch?v=c6R_Ss… #Libya #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6R_Ss2m97s
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Just as in Benghazi, there are lots of Libyan Boy Scouts helping out in Tripoli’s hospitals these days
Lots of traffic jams in Tripoli today as people rush to prepare for Eid. Queues outside banks too
FunGuerillaz
It seems the events in Libya have a large influence on Syria: aje.me/oZGTho – Renewed energy in protests & now widespread defections.
pdanahar Paul Danahar
NTC says it’s going to start process of collecting guns from civilians in the coming days now the fighting is dying down #Libya #Tripoli
NTC says collection centers will be set up to gather guns in Tripoli from locals. #Libya is awash with them so sensible move #Tripoli
UK says now has small foreign office team in #Tripoli preparing for the opening up of an Embassy following fall of #Gaddafi regime
Nehanda Radio
Zimbabwe army panic over Libya revolt
Robert Mugabe’s regime is worried about events in Libya and over the weekend got Zimbabwe National Army Commander Lieutenant-General Philip Valerio Sibanda to issue what was meant to be a re-assuring statement that Mugabe would not be toppled by rebel forces as happened in Libya.
In an interview after a passout parade at Imbizo Barracks on the outskirts of Bulawayo yesterday, Lt-Gen Sibanda said the rebellion in North Africa, particularly Libya, was not a threat to Zimbabwe.
“Certain things have happened. There are threats of divisions within the African Union over events like in Libya where people are fighting to further their own interests. It is such events that show weaknesses of organisations like the AU when they fail to deal with rebels with one voice and with a common goal as a continent.
But amidst the bravado, his speech betrayed a deepening fear within the regime that events in the North of Africa where repressive governments in Egypt, Tunisia and now Libya have been toppled might be replicated in Zimbabwe. Discussions by Zimbabweans on social networking sites show a desire for similar rebellion.
Last week the ZANU PF side of the coalition government decided to expel the Libyan ambassador in Harare, Taher Elmagrahi. This follows his defection to rebels that have taken over the Libyan capital Tripoli and ousted long time dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Read more:
nehandaradio.com/2011/08/29/zimbabwe-ar...
Foreign and Commonwealth Office:
UK preparatory team in Tripoli
FCO diplomatic and technical staff are now on the ground in Tripoli as part of preparations for a wider diplomatic presence.
A Foreign Office spokesperson said:
“The Prime Minister announced on 22nd August that the UK would establish a British diplomatic presence in Tripoli as soon as it is safe and practical to do so.
A small FCO-led team, consisting of diplomatic and technical staff, is now on the ground in Tripoli as part of the preparations for that wider diplomatic presence. This reflects the recent military progress which means that some members of the NTC have already moved to Tripoli.
We remain in regular consultation with the NTC about our plans. Notwithstanding the deployment of a preparatory team, no date has been set for the opening of the British Embassy. This will depend on political and security developments over the coming days."
Source:
www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?vie...
Foreign Office UK:
Foreign Secretary’s Eid ul fitr message
Foreign Secretary William Hague has sent his best wishes to mark the end of the month of Ramadan.
Speaking today the Foreign Secretary said:
“I am delighted to send my best wishes to Muslims in Britain and across the world as they mark the end of the month of Ramadan.
Eid ul fitr celebrates the completion of a month of fasting, prayer, devotion and charitable giving. It is a fitting time to remember all those who are in need around the world, in particular those who are struggling to build a better future for their societies in the Middle East and North Africa.
So to Muslims around the world on this very important day of celebration, I send my very best and wish you Eid Mubarak.”
Aljazeera
Zeina Khodr reports the latest from southern Tripoli
Video report:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XirRWpgxLMg&fea...
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
just ate a #nawfalia plum. a vegetable truck arrived. kids were playing. but some families left as well heading east. #onroadtosirte
Nawfallia is not on the main highway leading to #Sirte. A few kms south. small village. not much sign of fighting there.
Reuters
Gaddafi forces use “scare tactics” in Sirte: rebels
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte are urging people to fight or be killed by bloodthirsty attackers, complicating efforts to arrange a peaceful surrender of the city, opponents of the Libyan leader said on Monday.
“They’re trying to tell the people that the battle is no longer for Gaddafi but to protect themselves,” he told Reuters, adding that three days ago a message from Gaddafi was broadcast in Sirte, urging people to fight to save themselves.
NTC spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah said most people in Sirte were against Gaddafi. “But it’s the minority of Gaddafi loyalists who have the weapons,” he said. “They’re using all kinds of scare tactics but it’s a losing strategy.”
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/us-l...
wafa
How rationally or “honourably” would most people act if they have a gun pointed to their head?
FRAUD ALERT!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: Please beware: @ TMCSCLibya NOT a representative of #NTC or any Military Council. FRAUD. #Feb17
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#EU to remove sanctions imposed on 6 harbours to allow humanitarian aid
Libya Constitutional Declaration Ah right ok i’ll come back later www.ntclibya.com/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID...
hominoid555 not sayin
Libya: 50,000 missing prisoners of Gaddafi regime | GlobalPost t.co/gTYRraD
Yahoo News
Iran ‘discreetly aided Libyan rebels’
Iran “discreetly” provided humanitarian aid to Libyan rebels before the fall of Tripoli, Jam-e-Jam newspaper quoted Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Sunday as saying.
“We were in touch with many of the rebel groups in Libya before the fall of (Moamer) Kadhafi, and discreetly dispatched three or four food and medical consignments to Benghazi,” Salehi told the daily.
“The head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, sent a letter of thanks to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for having been on their side and helping,” he added.
Since the Libyan uprising erupted in mid-February, Iran has adopted a dual approach — criticising the Kadhafi regime for its violent assaults on the rebels while at the same time condemning NATO’s military intervention.
On Tuesday, Iran “congratulated the Muslim people of Libya” after rebels overran the capital Tripoli, but it has so far distanced itself from officially recognising the NTC.
Source:
news.yahoo.com/iran-discreetly-aided-li...
Tripoli humanitarian situation new battle for Libyan rebels
Libyan rebels face a new battle, struggling to provide Tripoli’s residents with water, electricity, petrol and food, amid power outages and with much of the capital’s water cut.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzNdpMJl6yQ&fea...
Tripoli crossfire shocks Abu Slim residents
Shell-shocked residents are taking stock of their losses three days after a fierce battle pitting forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi against rebels reduced a neighbourhood in southern Tripoli to rubble.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H73JTAofyaI&fea...
Aljazeera
NTC leaders meet NATO in Qatar
The head of the National Transitional council (NTC) has called on NATO to keep up the military pressure of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil who is meeting NATO officials in Qatar warned “Gaddafi is still capable is doing something awful in the last moments.”
Al Jazeera’s Emike Umola reports from Doha.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nozUBWCETpU
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
FF soldiers at the front knew nothing about ceasefire for Eid. they want to fight on. orders obviously haven’t reached them yet.
Colonel at the front says that negotiations are taking place between Gads and FF for a temporary ceasefire over Eid.
francediplo France Diplomatie
#Libye L’ambassade de France à Tripoli est réouverte aujourd’hui. Une équipe diplomatique est arrivée ce matin. goo.gl/cS0Ak
Eni visits Libya Monday where they signed a non-binding agreement to restore the Italian oil company. www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Busin...
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#sabratha opens for business amid war damage yfrog.com/kjillxij
Jon Lee
At a mass execution site in Tripoli, Qaddafi’s troops kept camels to hide the stench. Neighbor: “Live camels smell worse than dead humans.”
dovenews Libyan™
Egyptian border guards have seized a “large quantity” of weapons at the border with Libya, state television reported on Monday.
Aid floods into Tripoli as fighting stops goo.gl/sKG2c #Tripoli #Libya
Tripoli police overcome fears and return to work #Tripoli #Libya 1/3
“Today’s the first day we’re back in uniform because we were afraid of what the reaction would be” said Osama AlZawya, a 40yr old police 2/3
Visitors to one police station step on a rug featuring Gaddafi’s face and drivers roll over a poster of him at a checkpoint outside. 3/3
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
In Tripoli situation improving daily. Electricity & water comes and goes. More traffic but most shops still closed. #Libya #Feb17
Key concern in Tripoli is fifth column with weapons. Some are even manning checkpoints pretending to be be Pro revolution.
cheisalif
#Libya embssy #Moscow #NewFlag
We did rehearsal in the embassy and about to start to do it!!!!!
The NEW FLAG IS FLYING OVER LIBYAN EMBASSY IN MOSCOW! We DID IT!!!!!!!! #LIBYA #EMBASSY
Libya #Moscow embassy lifting the New Flag
twitrpix.com/gdil
Strapazzaburdok:
“Transitional Military Council for South & Central #Libya” by “defecting” Massoud Abdelhfid tiny.cc/hysul #Sebha
Noit
Not sure at all about validity of that report.
Where is NTC announcement?
As army chief of #Gaddafi Massoud Abdelhfid is deeply involved in his crimes. His “council” is a try to get out. Won’t succeed #Libya
Noit
Last I heard is that T M C S C Libya doesn’t exist.
Need clarification from NTC first, until then I consider TMCSC to be a fraudulent account!
AbdullahTarhoni:
To FFs firing in the air, Tarhuna FFs facing retreating Daffy thugs r in extreme shortage of ammunitions. #Libya"
ceoDanya
Islamic Relief UK is in #Tripoli & ready to tell people the humanitarian situation & what the needs are. Their contact #: 00218925432392.
raggzeb:
Cutting my break short, getting my stuff together then heading back to #brega. i was really the rest though, never mind eh!"
septimius_sever septimius severus
An interesting read : re-inventing #Libya’s economy | FT beyondbrics on.ft.com/nBcnjt
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Looking for secret prisons must be number one priority now. Prisoners n underground prisons have no food or water since FFs entered #Tripoli
Anyone has any clue about underground prisons, plz pass it on. If u were a worker in #Libya & helped in building underground pass us info.
Prisoners in underground prisons ve no food or water for the 9 days. If u have info about underground building pass the info & save a soul.
ADVICE TO TNC:
Alex
#NTC shld TV offer a big reward 4 location of secret #Tripoli prisons- #Gaddafi jailors wont act on conscience – but will 4 money & immunity
THAT WS A DRAFT TV ADVERT 4 #NTC – IN CASE THEY R 2 BUSY 2 DO IT “full pardon & $1000- per prisoner – 4 every live #TripoliPrisoner” #Libya
U gotta love the humour & sharp tongue of #Libya people – as #Tripoli was falling – most pop chant in the streets was – "IT’S OVER FRIZZI!
TrabulsiyahFeb17th
family in #tripoli :we need 2get pro #Gaddafi stations الراي and العروبةoff the air in #Libya they r still doing harm!
#Tuareg Mercenaries come home from #Libya: … n24.cm/pWbcmH (AFP)
Armed Tuaregs from #Mali and #Niger who fought for Gaddafi have started to return to their home nations. www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/hundreds-ret... … #Libya
#Gaddafi, Saif and the wizard of Oz ind.pn/bU9k2U .. #Libya
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
For those who were spreading a false propaganda that Libyans are racists, see this photo from #Tripoli celebrations flickr.com/photos/live2tr…
The story of the House Help (tortured by Hannibal #gadhafi and his wife) (Arabic) www.alquds.com/news/article/view/id/274688
Reaction to the nanny who was burnt by Hannibal’s wife:
freedom4libya
There was a similar story of a chief also burned by Hannibal wife, I tweeted the story weeks ago. I will find it again and RT.
The true face of the #Gadhafi regime edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Bought some freedom flags today for bare walls of injured FFs hospital room in Tunis. He loved it. Wish we had money for lots more.
Khalifa
poet under fire facebook.com/video/video.ph… #Libya
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Just back from a day out filming in Tripoli. Streets and shops very busy ahead of Eid.
Sirtawi
Been on BBC again. Talked abt how ppl in #Sirte normally get along with G-loyalists there. Hoping we’ll be free of the likes soon.
Negotiations underway within #Sirte. News of some Gaddafi loyalists willing to adhere to peace, still they remain a minority
We’re guessing since loads of Pro-Gs have defected so far that we’ll be seeing something similar in #Sirte as well
therefore the % there might have significantly shifted now that loyalists to G realize there’s no way out. We don’t know yet.
Seems like today’s the last day of Ramadan for KSA. Happy Eid to all our brothers & sisters! Praying #Libya will enjoy a stable life soon :)
robcrilly Rob Crilly
I think it’s fair to describe Gaddafi as the world’s most wanted man, right?
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
It will be very interesting to see how the Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte etc react to the news of half of Muammar’s family fleeing #Libya
Sirtawi
A gobsmacked Pro-G? Tempting!
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Could you pls RT request for photo or known whereabouts of Col Khalid Zouzou, former head of security at Bab alAzizia.
Eyewitness accuses him of shooting 11 yr old boy in the back on Tuesday 23rd Aug
Alex
KHAMIS KILLED?: “#Bani also said rebel forces may have killed #Gaddafi ’s son #Khamis in a clash Saturday. Rebel clashed with a military convoy in the town of #Tarhouna, 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli, destroying two vehicles in the convoy.
The bodies in the cars were burned beyond recognition, he said, but captured soldier said they were Khamis #Gadhafi ’s bodyguards. #Libya
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBY...
ntc_of_libya – PUT YR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS – OFFER BIG REWARD & PARDON FOR INFO ABOUT #TripoliPrisoners – 50000 STILL ENTOMBED! #Libya
Gaddafi jet is worth £73million – about $110m
Aristotle said 360 B.C “Libya always bears something new” still true till 2011
New @NTC HEAD of #Tripoli POLICE join Rev in APRIL- Feed inside info 2 #NTC – so was undercover #FF – #Gaddafi wld kill him if busted #Libya
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Amnesty on prison records “For the courts and for the sake of those who have lost loved ones these files must be preserved.” #Libya #Tripoli
Alex
TripoliPrisoners “no water or food for 6 days – some of us R DEAD- some injured from torture – DO ANYTHING U CAN 2 SAVE US NOW”
Last tweat was sent on behalf of 50000 #TripoliPrisoners – who have no voice on the internet – or contact with the world beyond their dark bloody bars – apart from their own fading crys for help they haven’t seen or heard a human voice for 6 days – so I created their message to speak for them.
The only people who know where the secret jails containing the 50000 entombed prisoners are located – are the #Gaddafi jailors – they have no conscience – and don’t care if they all die – but they may act for a big reward plus a pardon.
Please put heavy pressure on @ntc_of_libya to offer a reward – $2000 per LIVE prisoner – will add up to $100m if they are all rescued – and this can be covered from the sale of Gaddafi ’s private jet – which is worth about $110m – CHECK IT OUT AND SEE WHY:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
At most we have about 24 hours to make a serious attempt to save these 50000 entombed innocents!
Its no use the @ntc_of_libya – just putting out a public appeal for info – an appeal to the conscience of a Gaddafi jailor is at best an exercise in optimism – its unlikely to work – and we only have hours not days left to save these guys – but money and a pardon might work.
WANT TO SEE WHAT A #GADDAFI SECRET ENTOMBED PRISON LOOKS LIKE?
alexblx.posterous.com/tripoliprisoners-...
DO SOMETHING IF U CAN PLEASE – THAT’S WHAT TWITTERS ALL ABOUT AIN’T IT?
Please read:
VOICE FROM THE TOMB OF A TRIPOLI PRISONER
alexblx.posterous.com/voice-from-the-to...
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Went to traffic police HQ – they are fully operational – and white-suited officers are back at their posts
flyingbirdies أكرم
Morjan Market in Ben Ashour crowded with shoppers #Tripoli
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Tripoli recovering! a call from tripoli confirms fuel is now available in petrol stations and shops r re- opening also security much better!
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
Colleagues arrived via Ras Ajdir crossing – say its bustling with Eid shopping. Road to Tripoli safe. Life’s rhythms resume #Libya
Alex
Were Hannibal & Mohammed #Gaddafi implicated in crimes – Saif Khamis Muttasain & Aisha urged killing of non G supporters were #Libya
Khamis Muttasain & Saadi #Gaddafi – as leaders of battalions shelling civilians in cities – must join Saif in war crimes charges.
NTC & @NATO – can mount sanctions campaign agst Algeria – if refuse to return any indicted Gaddafi – but must 1st file charges in Libya
Evidence re Khamis death is strong – his bodyguard survived – confirms he was in the bombed car – all bodies were obliterated by jet strike
Sirte will now be less likely to fight on 4 Gaddafi – if Gaddafi sons themselves wont fight 4 dad- & instead opt 2 flee 2 Algeria
SIrte tribal leaders shd say 2 Gaddafi – ‘your own sons refuse to fight for U – so how can U expect us to sacrifice our sons for U’ Libya
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! #Khameais Gaddafi is getting buried in #Zlitan after his death. via libyatv
HANNAH GADDAFI
from Martin Chulov
@martinchulov Across the arab world
covering the Middle East for The Guardian
Dr in #Tripoli hosp told me #Gaddafi’s daughter Hannah who worked there ordered staff not to treat rebel wounded over past 6 months
Found #Libya card issued to mercenary from Chad. Said ‘carry this with you & u will be safe & ’I am here to protect the king of kings’
#Tripoli’s Abu Selim hosp closed & being disinfected. A rank mess of bloodied trolleys outside. Pervasive stench of death #Libya
Algerian govt say #Gaddafi family members entered Algeria 8:45am, which means they weren’t in convoy of limos that crossed Fri.
Libya In Me
Sky’s Ian Woods describes the generous hospitality of Libyans :) youtube.com/watch?v=Th_snw… #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
They found a warehouse full of SCUDs & technical vehicles for preparation of SCUDS near the airport.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Algiers confirms more than 30 members of #Gaddafi’s family are now in Algeria. Including 2 of his sons #Libya #Tripoli
Ali Tweel
Tripoli today: Petrol stations are working, shops are crowded, people are happy, walls are full of Libyan flag and paintings.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
only way for gaddafi to go from tripoli to Algeria was through bani walid
Libya17Feb Tripoli Youth
I will be attending my first #Eid after 16 years in Free #Libya (Hajer, Benghazi).. Eid Mubarak to everyone around the world
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: Libya rebels say will seek extradition of Gaddafi family from Algeria
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
I call on the International community: Boycott #Algeria & officially censure them in @UN until they hand over #Gaddafi family to #Libya #NTC
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC says it’s identified a #Gaddafi prison employee suspected of knowledge of #Tripoli’s secret underground prisons.Search now on #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
#Algeria denied that armored cars passed through borders a couple of days ago. Now it confirms that G family is there. Bloody liars.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole Gaddafi family is there, and that Algeria only mentioned names not wanted by #ICC
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Algeria better extradite these murderers
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Breaking: Algerian foreign ministry has just confirmed that Safiya, Aysha, Hannibal and Mohamed entered Algeria at 08:45 am
Ali Tweel
I remember when i was reporting in february crying&screaming 4 journalists 2 come, now seeing them reporting free from tripoli is priceless!
if you are in tripoli you can call 1616 for any information about the city services.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC urgently appealing for medical staff of any nationality to help in #Tripoli hospitals.Britain still advises against all travel to #Libya
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
This file of a prisoner since 2008 have committed suicide in solitary cell. His crime: insulting brother leader. yfrog.com/h8xibbfj
Good Riddance, Gaddafi – Libya will be just fine. www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/... #libya #feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
Just came back from helping FF search for missing prisoners from another notorious political prison. Have loads of pictures. Will post soon.
I am in shock after what I have seen. Very scary place. Can’t imagine what was in the prisoners minds when they were under Gaddafi’s terror.
Meanwhile let me give you our new Libyan Army. Mateega Airbase. Today 11:30 AM. t.co/TfWQqZs
By they way, I did ask for permission to post it on the net. Now they are issuing FF with name badges.
I am afraid I found proofs of suicide. Will show later. Lots of images I need to sieve through. It’s heart breaking.
Here is a freedom fighter from Doug Algoma. Guarding Mateega AirBase. t.co/Btnc91b
We went there after prison neighbors said they heard what appeared to be cry voices from the prison last night.
This file of a prisoner since 2008 have committed suicide in solitary cell. His crime: insulting brother leader. t.co/8mH6AMs
kids were part of the reason why Libyans have revolted. Will never let my kids suffer quarter of what we had in 42 yrs.
they said on TV what they’re going to do with us Tweeps and Internet infidels. Hang us from lamp poles. Aisha G said that.
Soug Al-Guma the cradle of Tripoli’s revolution.Like Tajoura, they never bowed to Gaddafi. #feb17 #Libya pic.twitter.com/7BVmTtY
Freeeeeedoooom!! Ain Zara Prison. #feb17 pic.twitter.com/o6ATwWd
Ain Zara is said to be a 5 star prison. In comparison to other prisons. Yet it was shocking. pic.twitter.com/ha3oqL7
I get claustrophobic just looking at this image. pic.twitter.com/JldOIu9
All medicines in the prison pharmacy was expired. This Asthma medicine expired a year and a half ago. pic.twitter.com/wfLvVHc
At least when the guards fled they left the keys behind. Unlike Abusleem prison where they had to break all locks. pic.twitter.com/YLSm8O5
We checked every corner in case there are any left prisoners, even underground spaces not sure what they do with them.
underground rooms found empty… pic.twitter.com/T2s0tUE
Prison from rooftop. pic.twitter.com/S6xRgU7
This proud freedom fighter said he freed many of his friends who were captured during early days of rev. pic.twitter.com/RBiUCad
This is a luxury suit in the 5 star cell. Sleeping on a thin mattress. My bones just hurt seeing it. pic.twitter.com/pnKhUqe
Prisoners made their own calenders to stay oriented. They encraved them on the inside of cell doors. pic.twitter.com/dIVCeyt
ianbirrell ianbirrell
Some residents not had water for 10 days now but amazing how Tripoli streets being swept, roadblocks lifted, normality returning so fast
They Were There All Along | Tom Rayner | blogs.news.sky.com/frontlineblog/Post:a... via @SkyNewsBlogs #libya
Sirtawi
In a new speech via #Sirte local radio, Gaddafi calls upon locals to fight till the end and threatens anyone who leaves the city
Hayat
Dear people of #Algeria , please be the next in the #ArabSpring to bloom! reuters.com/article/2011/0… and get these back where they belong. JAIL!
Ahmed
Sky News just said ‘rebels’ then corrected herself to ‘Anti-Gaddafi’! At least she’s trying eh? #libya
EH
#gaddafi wearing a proper suit #Libya twitpic.com/6d5ulq
Still no water in #Tripoli
2days ago in bosleem hospital #Tripoli dead bodies being removed but still not buried. Approx 163 bodies #Libya twitpic.com/6d5w5n
I spoke to an escapee from there, very harrowing emotional story #Libya
More shops r oped today. Fresh fruit & veg r starting to trickle into #Tripoli
Ppl in #Tripoli r out buying water pumps & pipes to start using old wells as running water still cut
Been to bosleem & hadba yesterday. Independence flag flying everywhere. But ppl there just swapped sides when tripoli was liberated
Long queues in front of a handful Of banks in #Tripoli
#NTC should set up an office where ppl can hand over any documents. I’ve got loads at home that would have been burned
FromJoanne Joanne
Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragi, #Tripoli Brigade says Has confirmation #Khamis was badly wounded in clash nr #BaniWalid & #Tarhouni #Libya
Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragigot Commander #Tripoli Brigade says got news confirmed that Khamis died in Hospital and buried in area #Libya
James S
Hello. ORLA GUERIN BBC mentioned CELLS in locked basement of Gaddafi Homeland Security Blding. HAVE THEY BEEN SEARCHED?
CNN
Is this Gaddafi’s mobile home?
CNN’s Arwa Damon visits a well-equipped mobile home said to belong to Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi.
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/08/25/damon.gadhafi.rv.cnn
Joanne
Night before #Eid is already starting very well with some Gaddafi family members FLEEING #Libya getting better by the hour
#ICC in TheHague #Netherlands says they want to put another son on their WANTED #Libya list #Libya #Dutch
#URGENT #Tripoli PPL seen taking away VITAL Docs + Files from Abu Salim prison Need 2 Return Them to #NTC goo.gl/D5KcR #Libya
#BREAKING \NTC says \Algeria sheltering Gaddafi Family members is Act of AGGRESSION and NTC will seek Extradition
We already knew that from captured G Goons in #QasrbenGashir GF R massing #BaniWalid
#Confirmed Imam in QasrBenGashir Khamis seen several times Visited Prisoners Just b4 Carnage goo.gl/FQzwi
#Watch Interview with ABUSED nanny of #Hannibal #Gaddafi goo.gl/AcFBl #Libya
Palm Maple
Stuart Ramsay of Sky talked 2 Khamis bodyguard near a bombed VIP car in Terhouna & confirmed Khamis died in NATO bombing
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH Gaddafi wife Safia daughter Aicha sons Hannibal+Mohamed accompanied + children entered #Algeria @ 08h45 am via Algerian-Libyan border
#CONFIRMED by Algerian Foreign Ministry; Safiya, Ayesha Hannibal + Mohammed Gaddafi crossed into #Algeria from #Libya this morning
#Breaking 2 SONS of Muammar #Gaddafi + his wife and his daughter Entered #Algeria via Algerian press service.
dovenews
6- Countries that recognized NTC: #Turkey, #United #Arab #Emirates, #United #States & #Zimbabwe.
KHAMIS:
Nato hit:
tarhouna contact: there were 3 cars that went on fire, 20ppl surrendered, when interrogated they said #Khamis was in1of the cars
contact in Tarhouna is close family friend
FromJoanne Joanne
Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragigot Commander #Tripoli Brigade says got news confirmed that Khamis died in Hospital and buried in area
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
What impact will the coming of Eid have on the fighting in Libya?
Paul Wood (BBC correspondent) is about to do R4 PM from just behind the front line. am switching Bgan to ISDN mode
Power cut in ras where we are staying. Problem as our generator is out too.No more tv until we find power
dovenews Libyan™
#Saudi #Arabia, #Qatar have announced tomorrow is the first day in #Eid. #HappyEid
#UAE has announced tomorrow is the first day in #Eid.
Reuters: Israel says Gaza gets anti-plane arms from Libya. Lets not forget that Gaddafi used to get arms from Israel.
PLEASE RT: Doctors able to go to #Libya please mail libyanemergencyaid@gmail.com w/ CV & availability ASAP! Sponsorship available. #Feb17
Forces loyal to Gaddafi in #Sirte are urging people 2 fight or be killed by bloodthirsty attackers! thats #Freedom Fighters to u & me
1- Countries that recognize NTC: #Albania, #Australia, #Austria, #Bahrain, #Belgium, #Benin, #Britain, #Bulgaria, #Burkina #Faso, #Canada,
2- Countries that recognized NTC: #Chad, #Croatia, #Czech #Republic, #Denmark, #Egypt, #Finland, #France, #Gabon, #Gambia, #Germany,
3- Countries that recognized NTC: #Greece,#Guinea, #Iraq, #Italy, #Ivory #Coast, #Japan, #Jordan, #Kuwait, #Latvia, #Lebanon,
4- Countries that recognized NTC: #Luxembourg, #Maldives, #Malta, #Montenegro, #Morocco, #Netherlands, #Niger, #Nigeria, #Palestinian,
5- Countries that recognized NTC: #Panama, #Portugal, #Qatar, #Senegal, #Slovenia, #Spain, #Togo, #Tunisia
6- Countries that recognized NTC: #Turkey, #United #Arab #Emirates, #United #States & #Zimbabwe.
#Zimbabwe???, it was reported by Reuters, I tried to speak to Dictator #Mugabe, he was unavailable to comment!
The African U Commission’s Chairman Jean Ping has acceptd that Gaddafi was a defeated man but stoppd short of officially recognising the NTC
China has not formally recognised the NTC, but has said it had “always attached significance to (its) important role”
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow might establish formal relations with the NTC if they
were able to “unite the country for a new democratic start” 2/2 We will pass ur offer #Dmitry, we are not interested 2 little 2 late!
1/2 of Gaddafi family ran to Algeria, the other half 1/2 still in BeniWalid according to Italian sources. #Libya
Gaddafi’s family arriving to Algeria only confirms the involvement of the Algerian Gov with Gaddafi. #Algeria #Land of #Million #Martyrs
dovenews Libyan™
NTC: Libya to seek return of Gaddafi family from Algeria goo.gl/L5WvQ #Libya #Algeria
BREAKING! Algeria sources: President #Abdelaziz #Bouteflika who had planned & allow Gaddafi’s family to enter #Algeria.
FLASH: White House says no indication Gaddafi has left Libya, if had information on his location would pass along to #FF forces. #Reuters
Inglesi
“Passed through Zawiyah on our way in. Lots of shops open, people going about their business one week aftr serious fighting there”
dovenews Libyan™
On Libya, Leaked UN Report Sees 200 Military Observers, NATO but Not AU Role Given by Ban Ki-moon: Exclusive innercitypress.com/un1replibya082… NOOOOOOO
I think #Gaddafi might escape 2 #Algeria too & from there 2 #Mali & perhaps to #Chad as final destination, too risky 2 go 2 #Sirte or #Sabha
dovenews Libyan™
@UN keep your 200 Military Observers away from Libya.
كل عام وانتم بخير Happy Eid to everyone! I hope this #Eid is better thn the last one.
kosovo
Serbia Embassy in Tripoli to be searched for serbian snippers hidding there/ and be closed immediatelly
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Gaddafi forces suspected of executing detainees-evidence of war crimes before #Tripoli fell goo.gl/5u1Yt #gaddaficrimes #feb17
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Italian News Agency: Gaddafi and his sons Alsaadi & Saif Al Islam are in town of Bani Walid south of Tripoli. #Libya
AJE: Zeina Khodr reports latest from S. #Tripoli ~150 dead bodies found in jail in Yarmouk goo.gl/7COvJ #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
AJE: NTC leaders meet NATO in #Qatar. Abduljalil-“#Gaddafi still poses danger, asking NATO to continue its support” goo.gl/Zg3xh
AJE: Foreign migrants at risk in #Libya goo.gl/g5z1A #libya #feb17
Please Sign Petition: Support Ashour Ben-KHaial for Ambassador to #Canada: goo.gl/QaFMV #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes RT!
Sky News: Foreign Office says it is aware of reports that members of the Gaddafi family are in Algeria #Libya
Reuters: White House says has no indication Muammar Al Gaddafi has left #Libya, if they have information they will pass onto the NTC
Reuters FLASH: NTC ’Algeria’s sheltering of Gaddafi family members ls act of aggression’ #
Reuters FLASH: Libyan NTC say will seek extradition of Gaddafi family from Algeria #Libya
Sky News correspondent claims the FF commanders told him the body of Khamis was taken to Beni Walid
ProudLibyan
The criminal gang of Generals in Algeria who destroyed a beautiful country, murdered 100’000’s will one day fall as other despots have.
m_madi Mohamed Madi
31 family members in Algeria? Must have found a really cheap package #wereallgoingonasummerholiday
Gaddafi wife and three children in Algeria: report shabablibya.org/?p=6232 #Libya
Christopher R. Albon
Dear Sirte, historical precedent regarding last stands is stacked against you. Surrender for the sake of the civilians.
JTSkyNews #
Libya FF show #skynews Stuart Ramsay burned out car in which they claim #Khamis Gaddafi killed.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
I have come to the conclusion that Khamis is one of a quadruple #Kamis123&4 #Libya
Sky Sources: FF commanders claim Khamis Gaddafi has been killed. Sky News show a burnt out land cruiser, however still no body shown #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Landscape: The cost of change in Libya shabablibya.org/?p=6227 #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
It will be very interesting to see how the Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte etc react to the news of half of Muammar’s family fleeing #Libya
So half of Gaddafi’s family have exiled themselves #Ironic
Reuters: ICC prosecutor says Khamis Gaddafi may be placed on war crimes court wanted list
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Hundreds of returning Tuaregs alarm Mali, Niger shabablibya.org/?p=6223 #Libya
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
Khalifa Hifter needs to step down, comments today on Alarabiya were ludicrous. He wants to control the #libyan army and feels threatened
Nusaybah Khalil
To all the Libyans celebrating Eid in #Libya- congratulations! You deserve it ! Have fun & enjoy a FREE Eid ;) #Tripoli #Benghazi #FreeLibya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyans squeeze Gaddafi bastion, Tripoli revives shabablibya.org/news/libyans-s… #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya will reassess currency – Libyan central bank gov shabablibya.org/?p=6216 #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gadhafi’s daughter to give birth amid Libya’s violent aftermath t.co/89tew9r #Libya
Darreg
how does that add up? She claims a her months old daughter was killed recently.
Algeria and Libya meet to ease row: report
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci has held talks with a topLibyan rebel official, the highest-level contact in months of fraught relations between Libya’s new leadership and their Algerian neighbours.
Algeria is the only one of Libya’s North African neighbours which has yet to recognize theNational Transitional Council, Libya’s de facto government after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
shabablibya.org/news/algeria-and-libya-...
There are gonna be more rows now!
Give us the criminals back!
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
AJA: Abduljalil live via phone: can’t confirm the death of Khamis #Libya
AJA: Council has been established in #Tripoli to to receive names of those missing since the revolution began #Libya
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
USA said Monday it has asked Libya NTC to re-examine the case of the Libyan convicted of plane bombing over… fb.me/17rf7R07s
Al Arabiya
Rebel officer says Qaddafi’s son Khamis killed in clash near Tripoli
Fallen Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi’s son Khamis has been killed in a clash near Tripoli, a senior rebel officer said on Monday.
Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragi, in charge of the Tripoli Brigade of the rebel army, said he had confirmation that Khamis was badly wounded in the clash near Ben Walid and Tarhoni.
He was taken to a hospital but died of his wounds and was buried in the area, Haragi said, without confirming the date of his death. No independent confirmation of the death was available.
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the United States could not yet independently confirm Khamis’ death but said similar information was being received in Washington from “reliable sources.”
Read more:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/...
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
“What’s coming ahead is going to be tough, but at least for once in over four decades Libyans can direct their gaze forward.”
Wikipedia: “Khamis Gaddafi, son of Libyan dictator. Died on 27 Feb, 6, 21, 26 March, 15, 21, 30 April, 5 May and 29 Aug 2011” via @afelyun
Noit
WOW!
That makes 9!
Does that make him a zombie now?
acarvin Andy Carvin
Same source, same lack of evidence. “@KathrynHallPR: In this CNN report they’ve buried Khamis! (pics??) bit.ly/p9uyXL”
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
100% behind the Algerian revolution, Lets go again! May #Sep17 be Algeria’s #feb17! #Libya #Algeria
Darreg
I have verified that al_jamahiriya, claiming to tweet out of the Tripoli is in the Uk.
david_bachmann_:
advice for surviving in #Libya: believe only what u see with your own eyes
janeikelboom Jan Eikelboom
Overigens: ik heb de Libiërs ervaren als ongelofelijk aardige en gastvrije mensen #datwildeiknogevenkwijt
CEO Danya
(LOL at “almost”) #NTC has “almost certain information” that Gaddafi’s intelliegence chief (Abdullah Senussi) was killed on Saturday. NTC spokesman tells – Al Arabiya.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Luckily, it was just another cell that had another door from the back of the building. Phew! yfrog.com/mnr3euaj
BREAKING: A Cease fire has been agreed on the Sirte frontilne for two days because of Eid
عاجل : مفاوضات لاجل وقف إطلاق نار على جبهة سرت سيتم لمدة يومين بسبب العيد
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
#Tripoli: Please call “1616” for any info about services in Tripoli,
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: AJ: FFs a call was made/recieved to Gaddafi in Tripoli عاجل: التوار رصدوا اليوم مكالمة للقذافي من طرابلس
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Mass murder Crime in Khums: 2 containers found in Barkow area, full with burnt bodies after executed by gunshots
richardengelnbc Richard Engel
#Tripoli, People coming up and thanking foreigners for NATO’s help, very welcoming
Hayat
#Gaddafi thugs are STILL in #Tripoli burning down every public institution containing important documents of ppl-that’s for being merciful.
Sky’s security editor Sam Kiley
If the battle for Sirte comes down to street-to-street fighting, it is possible that the local population will take up arms themselves.
SKY NEWS
Rebels: Gaddafi’s Son ‘Killed In Air Strike’
Rebel commanders say one of Colonel Gaddafi’s most feared sons has been killed in an air strike 60km away from Tripoli – as it emerges other members of the dictator’s family have fled to Algeria.
Khamis Gaddafi is said to have been in an armoured Toyota Land Cruiser when it was reportedly blasted off the road by a missile apparently launched from a Nato Apache helicopter.
Sky’s chief correspondent Stuart Ramsa said a man claiming to be Khamis’ bodyguard confirmed that he had died in the vehicle, part of a convoy in Tarunah, southeast of the capital.
The explosion incinerated the 4×4 and was so intense it set nearby trees on fire, Ramsay reports.
A senior rebel officer in Tripoli said Khamis had been badly wounded and taken to hospital, where he died of his wounds
Read more and watch video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
SMILE:
FreeLibyan
When #Gaddafi 1st came to power in 1969, the age of #Obama, #Cameron & #Sarkosy was 8, 3, 14 years respectively. D:.
LibyaNewMedia
Seems revolutionaries are too busy celebrating while Gaddafi’s brainwashed thugs are preparing to kill more people.
WAPO
Libyan opposition leaders rule out major role for foreign peacekeepers; U.N. shifts planning
Libya’s opposition leaders have ruled out any major role for foreign peacekeepers in the country after the fall of Moammar Gaddafi, insisting that a new transitional government will take the lead in establishing security, according to top U.N. Officials.
More here:
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint...
libertad
2011 à Tripoli Aïd al-Fitr est l’Aïd de la Victoire #Libye #Algerie #Tunisie
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Mothers and kids all out buying toys and clothes for Eid. #libya #tripoli
AJA BREAKING: FFs confirm they tracked a phone call for #Gaddafi this morning in #Tripoli. #Libya
Raw Video: Rebels Capture Gadhafi Loyalists
Dramatic footage filmed on the road to Sirte on Monday showed rebel fighters capturing two suspected Moammar Gadhafi loyalists (Aug. 29).
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO33mRy1P90&fea...
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
We made it to Tarhuna today – around 80km south of Tripoli. Saw remains of 2 Khamis brigade trucks & armoured land cruiser struck by NATO
Libiya el Haqiqiya
Jaballa Matar from Ajdabiya has been in prison n Tripoli since 21 yrs. He is still missing. Anybody who has any info plz let us know!
FromJoanne Joanne
This year people of #Libya got an Eid present what no money can buy FREEDOM Power water and communications r still cut but every1 is happy
This year people of #Libya got an Eid present what no money can buy FREEDOM Power water and communications r still cut but every1 is happy
Ava
my contact says they r sure both senoussi&khamis were attacked & injured by tarhuna ffs &then died in baniwalled
ya and I heard seif al islam and saadi escaped to baniwaleed I am not sure if they were harmed
WHERE ON EARTH IS MOUSSA KOUSSA? I SAY GET HIS MURDEROUS ASS BACK 2 #libya AND MAKE HIM PAY 4 HIS CRIMES + HE MIGHT KNOW SOMETHING #feb17
Seraj
Guards told prisoners on September 1st they’d all be executed… wow, that was GOOD luck they got out.
Gaddafi forces using human shields, Libya rebels claim gu.com/p/3xg5v/tw via @guardian
Ali Tweel
Happy eid everyone, we say here: Kul Aam Wa Antum Bekhair :) and yes we made the crazy family escape like (…..) put here what suits you ;)
Via Shabab
Rebels believe Gaddafi intelligence chief is dead
CAIRO- Libyan rebels have “almost certain” information that Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi was killed on Saturday along with Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis, rebel military spokesman Ahmed Bani told Al Arabiya television on Monday.
A senior rebel commander had earlier reported that Khamis had died from wounds suffered in fighting.
“We have almost certain information that Khamis Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi were killed on Saturday by a unit of the national liberation army during clashes in Tarhouna (90 km southeast of Tripoli). Khamis Gaddafi was buried in Bani Walid,” Bani told the pan-Arab channel.
shabablibya.org/news/rebels-believe-gad...
Q:
are you sure nato struck the convey in tarhuna, i heard it was freedom fighters. can u ask if abdallah senoussi was hit
A:
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
99% sure it was NATO – no sign of fighting. Car had back end splayed out suggesting apache missile, trucks hit from above
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
The local rebel Colonel claims to have captured Khamis’ bodyguard, who has said his boss was in the car that was destroyed. #Libya
Better PIC: Land Cruiser #FF claim was carrying #Khamis twitpic.com/6db0uu v @Tom_Rayner
dovenews Libyan™
Alrachad Algerian movement: The latest explosion in Algeria was planned by the Algerian gov & generals, not Islamist groups as gov claimed
Alrachad Algerian movement: the reason for the explosion is to blame #FF & 2 say Libya is unsafe & weapons R reaching #AlQaeda in #Algeria
#Misrata: “Whoever helped kill Libyans will never lead us” guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug… @NTC_of_Libya
TIME: Why Is Much of Africa Giving #Libya’s Rebels the Cold Shoulder? goo.gl/tg9b3 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
HRW: #Libya: Evidence Suggests #Khamis Brigade Killed 45 Detainees goo.gl/w3TYu #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Reuters: Joy and tears as Eid arrives in post- #Gaddafi #Libya goo.gl/RD7Ts #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
We made it to Tarhuna today – around 80km south of Tripoli. Saw remains of 2 Khamis brigade trucks & armoured land cruiser struck by NATO
Mood in Tarhuna is odd – there are rebel flags & a checkpoint, but also lots of Green flags & residents who didn’t look very happy to see us
Man from mosque said people of Tarhuna were getting along, even if some still prefer Gaddafi – said they’re happy to have 2 flags for now.
AJA: Fierce clashes rage on in #Sebha as they fight to liberate their city. #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Interstingly many cells have prisoners from supposedly loyal cities, Beni Walid & Sabha. pic.twitter.com/d4OZksl
Some found refuge in painting on the walls. Poor souls. pic.twitter.com/5FAzjTf
Bani Walid prisoner and another poem :) pic.twitter.com/XNaCiN1
Poem: Your absence hurt my eyes and killed them. Set up funeral tents,and give my condolences to her family. pic.twitter.com/iFDrxFy
Prisoners made their own stuff: a praying beads and a spoon. pic.twitter.com/TRfZUjX
Really crying now as I try to translate the poem. He must have missed his loved ones dearly. I wonder how old was the poet?
It was from the political prison of Ain Zara.
We opened a door and then we found…. a wall! pic.twitter.com/FAbGFZC
Trying to break into the hidden room to see if there is any thing… yfrog.com/khhisxlj
Luckily, it was just another cell that had another door from the back of the building. Phew! yfrog.com/mnr3euaj
Just to go into a happier mood. Here is Dr Evil’s portrait on a wall, in Znata, Tripoli pic.twitter.com/NJ2fT0w
And this is ABOSHAFSHOOFA, for non-Libyans, this is Gaddafi. pic.twitter.com/AFvzhDO
The FF are protecting the prison right now, and will go back tomorrow to help them collect all documents and transfer them to TNC.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Khamis #Gaddafi reported killed again, this time in clashes in Southern Libya. And he will be buried for perhaps the 5th time. – #Libya
#Saudi Arabia has announced it will celebrate #Eid al-Fitr on Tuesday, August 30 – Not on Gaddafi’s so called Fatah day – Thank God
libyatv Libya TV
Gaddafi wife and three children in #Algeria | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/08/29/gad… #libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Khamis #Gaddafi has been buried in #Zlitan after kill by #UK #Nato apache helo
G SAFE PASSAGE OFFERED BY ALGERIA:
#Algiers has offered safe passage to the #Gaddafi family to a third country. RT via @tunanymous404
Urgent – Alger a offert un passage à la famille de Kadhafi pour un pays tiers (rébellion libyenne)
IMPORTANT:
Michael
Chief of Tripoli Prisons: Abdusalam Hmouda, Tripoli, lives Bin Ahsur area close to Mothaleth Market.Ordered to execute prisoners
Chief of Tripoli Prisons: Abdusalam Hmouda, Tripoli, lives Bin Ahsur area close to Mothaleth Market.Ordered to execute prisoners
Arem Nagaa, Tripoli Double Agent working for both NTC Intel asset and Gadafi. Was used to feed false information to Gadafi Regime.
Capture of Abdulsalam Hmouda would get information on where hidden prisoners are. Priority! Prison HQ files need searching too.
alextomo alex thomson
New Reconstruction Minister tells me Gadd forces have cut the water miles inland. #c4news #libya
acarvin Andy Carvin
I think Saleh has accepted the GCC proposal about as many times as Khamis Gaddafi has died. #losingcount #yemen #libya
4Adam Adam
AJA- caller fr Sirte, there’s been no negotiation btwn elders of city & NTC. People beleive Tripoli is still under Gaddafi control
Libya’s Ex-Prisoners Finding Their Way Home | n.pr/nqEXI0 #npr #Libya #Tripoli
(AP) – The Obama administration has asked NTC to review the case of Lockerbie bomber.
Does anyone understand this tweet?
Sarah can you be a bit more clear in your question plz?
You’re the CNN journo:)
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
CNN reporting Hannibal Qadhafi is in Alergia. Wonder if there is anyone else with in?
4Adam Adam
NATO was v active in the area of Tarhoun and Beniwalid, just wondering how the Gaddafi family escaped safely to Algeria! was there any deal!
richardengelnbc Richard Engel
by the way, my apt in new york lost hot water. where i’m staying in tripoli never did (just saying)
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
In Abu Slim Tripoli, one of last districts to fall here, some buildings still smouldering, tension also still palpable #Libya
SUMMARY AUGUST 30th 2011
8/30/11
8.30.11
NATO
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/5×4uB
Tripoli_Latest Niz – Nizar Mhani
100+ Chicken+rice meal distributed to hospitals and freedom fighters and refugees in Tripoli.There is no shortage of food for all.. #Tripoli
Martyrs Square full of peaceful unarmed rejoicing families! #Tripoli
will provide videos of the Square soon…. #Tripoli
More DEAD #TripoliPrisoners found 2day – at same #Khamis HQ as burnt bodies – more may be buried in HQ grounds. #Libya edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Reports of #NATO jets over head as of 15 minutes ago.
AJA: Fierce clashes rage on in #Sebha as they fight to liberate their city.
dovenews Libyan™
Unquestionably, Libyans support the NTC. That doesn’t mean they support all actions the NTC takes.
Libya In Me
Dear Algeria, I am really hating you right now. Sincerely, a Libyan citizen.
Noit
Don’t blame the Algerian population, blame the Algerian government!
Contra
Dear #Algerian Gov & #Gaddafi sympathizers, I’m also really hating you right now. Hope your fate is worst than Gaddafi’s
BentBenghazi G
I just want to clarify: Libyans HATE the Algerian govt, we have nothing against its ppl:) I love my Algerian friends
Libya In Me
LOL three people unfollowed me when I tweeted that, I thought it was obvious it’s the gov’t not the people _’
HOLD MY HAND:
Eid mubarak to my twitter family…I dedicate this song to you www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohumOy6Py0M...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohumOy6Py0M
Sirtawi
In a new speech via #Sirte local radio, Gaddafi calls upon locals to fight till the end and threatens anyone who leaves the city.
this is broadcast via large screen mid city.
TBC: A group of Anti-Gaddafi locals from #Sirte managed to flee the city reaching #FFs at western front line, telling of crisis in city.
#FF Milt source says Ahmed Ibrahim is the one in charge of military operations inside #Sirte, preventing #FF from entering the city. #Feb17
AHMED IBRAHIM / SIRTE:
Ahmed Ibrahim, now head of military operations in Sirte: PIC
goo.gl/10T6p
WELL WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
It’s all in the family!
Yes, Ahmed Ibrahim is Moussa Ibrahim’s uncle.
THE ONE AND ONLY ORIGINAL ADDAMS FAMILY:
Nightmares, anyone?
Gaddafi’s wife, son and daughter photo:
goo.gl/HShPp
MORE YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW:
LibyanPilot
Ahmed ibrahim, Musa’s uncle was head of centre for research in the green book
Iulia
In other words an Idiot
Ahmed Ibrahim al guhsi al gaddafi is refusing to enter peace talks. Wants to fight until last G loyalist. Even tho sme elders wana end it
Ahmed ibrahim is now head of the Gaddafi loyalist resistance in Sirte
So ahmed ibrahim, Musa ibrahim’s uncle was head of centre for research and study in the green book
MORE THREATS
Source from #Sirte on AJA earlier: People in #Sirte threatened to be killed by regime in front of their families if they joined #FF #Feb17
DougSaunders Doug Saunders
Now that it’s allowed the Gaddafis to flee across its Libyan border, Algeria has decided to close it to anyone else. is.gd/JL2C9t
Did you ask how much they charged for that?
feb17voices: AJA: the road from #Tripoli to #Ras Jidr is secured. #Libya.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Yes we came along it today, no problem. RT @feb17voices: AJA: the road from #Tripoli to #Ras Jidr is secured. #Libya.
taimur_ly تيمور عبد العزيز
Hey guys, I just created this movie poster about #gaddafi .. I hope you will like it :) twitpic.com/6dbdbb #libya #funney
MyFreeLibya Rubicon
Eid Sa3eed ya tweeps! #Eid #Libya #ArabSpring
LibyaNewMedia
How much of the Libyan people’s gold will Algerian generals receive for protecting the master of murder, torture & rape?
Michael
Gadafi drivers were seen and reported in Ghat 4 days ago. Sure enough, it was the escape route into Algeria.
WldSougAlJumaa
#EidMubarek to Muslims around the world. #Libya ’s first real Eid. Alhamdulla. Wish everyone happiness
Khalid Khan
Libya: destruction in Zuwara twitpic.com/6dbccr twitpic.com/6dbceu twitpic.com/6dbcf3 western Libya
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Rebels climb the gate of Tarhuna as the first rebel colours are painted on lamp posts and walls #Libya twitpic.com/6db3hn
Hayat
Dear #ArabNations There’s really absolutely #nothingwrongwith that sudden urge to topple your corrupt governement-Go for it #ArabRevolutions
Ibn
#Tripoli Medical Center flying the new flag. #Libya #Feb17 yfrog.com/h47fycej
Marc_Herman_ Marc Herman
Elders visiting pro-qaddafi neighbors in Gorji, Tripoli neighborhood where I am, to ask for peaceful surrender of arms. So far it’s worked.
Omar
Algerians reading Libyan tweets and becoming upset over this, you must understand our anger is directed at ur gov not you , eid mubarak
FreeBenghazi
#Bouteflika & military junta will be facing the #Algeria’n & #Libya’n ppl, Sep17. This isn’t over.
Ibn
btwwwwwww #EIDMUBARAK WORLD! :D
#Sirte Poet detained earlier in this revolution for defying regime is now free #Tripoli. PIC Agila Khalifa Ferjani facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
Eid mubarak and much love twitter fam!
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
OppContact: some fighters in #Misrata threatened to stop fighting in Sirte over Shakal appointment. unspecified number
Hanan
Video: Martyrs’ Square – People of #Tripoli sing “We remain here” bit.ly/olBxIR #libya
Niz_FGM Niz
Will be revealing what happened to us in weeks leading up to zero hour to cause us to “disappear” & pretend to be in Tunis..watch this space
#Tripoli food distribution by FGMovement…. youtube.com/watch?v=mLMfRr…
Martyrs Square today… www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o-JkN7usj4
kosovo
5 SERBS mercen in ZINTAN for sure killed hundreds of FF.youtube.com/watch?v=W2l7QC…
BREAKING: #Colonel #Gaddafi’s son #Khamis’ bodyguard tells #Sky News that Gaddafi was in Tripoli until Friday
BREAKING: #Colonel #Gaddafi’s son #Khamis’ bodyguard tells #Sky News that Gaddafi was last seen heading south towards #Sabha
BREAKING: News conference LIVE with Musatafa Jalil!
BREAKING: We will have cease fire on the #Sirte frontline until #Saturday!
BREAKING: Mustafa Jalil: There will be no need anymore for Police officers from #Muslim and #Arab countries.
BREAKING : NTC chief asks Libyan rebels to withdraw heavy weapons from the streets of Tripoli
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil: #Algeria is only a transit for Gaddafi’s family before they travel to another country. #Libya
NTC sets Saturday ultimatum for Sirte
The NTC gave Gaddafi forces a four-day deadline to surrender towns still under their control or face military force.
As the hunt for Gaddafi himself goes on, Libyan officials accused neighbouring Algeria of an act of aggression for admitting his fleeing wife and three of his children.
Algeria’s Foreign Ministry said Gaddafi’s wife Safi, his daughter Aisha and his sons Hannibal and Mohammed had entered Algeria on yesterday, along with their children.
That stirred a diplomatic row just as the NTC works to consolidate its authority and capture places still loyal to Gaddafi, notably the coastal city of Sirte.
“By Saturday, if there are no peaceful indications for implementing this we will decide this matter militarily. We do not wish to do so but we cannot wait longer,” Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the NTC, told a news conference.
Anti-Gaddafi forces have converged on Sirte from east and west, but have stopped short of an all-out assault in hopes of arranging a negotiated surrender of Gaddafi’s birth-place.
Gaddafi has been on the run since his foes captured his Tripoli compound on Aug. 23 and his 42-year-old dictatorship collapsed after a six-month uprising backed by NATO and some Arab states.
Alex
DAVID ROBERTS IN LINE 4 £500.000 FROM #Gaddafi – He said after #ZAWIYA siege “no evidence” #Gaddafi bombarded its people – on behalf of a fictitious group opposing @NATO and #UN – “BRITISH CIVILIANS FOR PEACE”
INFO FROM #Libya PM list sezied by #FF – cant wait to see #Saif ’s list.
“The proposal to pay groups for spreading Libya’s message also identifies seven foreigners that the regime was hoping to pay £500,000 for undertaking fact-finding missions in Tripoli, including David Roberts, a Socialist Labour Party activist, and British resident Mohammad Elhaddad.
Mr Roberts led a British Civilians For Peace in Libya mission to Tripoli in April during which he told the press that there was “no evidence” that the regime had bombarded
its own people to quell protests in the capital.
Mr Roberts could not be reached for comment yesterday. The overall budget for the political and public relations campaign was set at €10 million (£8.8 million), to be allotted from a sanctions-breaking bank account ultimately controlled by the regime’s henchmen. Its activities were to take place in Britain, France and America."
TELEGRAPH:
shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-regime-ha...
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC says it’s identified a #Gaddafi prison employee suspected of knowledge of #Tripoli’s secret underground prisons.Search now on #Libya
Libya’s fighters advance toward Sirte
Libya’s revolutionary fighters have already taken Tripoli, now they are heading to the bastion of Muammar Gaddafi support, the Libyan leaders hometown of Sirte.
Sirte is one of the last strongholds for Gaddafi loyalists. As fighters advance West their convoys grow longer.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from right outside the town of Nawfilyah in Libya.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=32zbWBgVRsY&fea...
CNN
Libya’s National Transitional Council holds briefing on the state of the country. Live: on.cnn.com/cnndcl1
Libya In Me
FUN Read: "Pass notes NO 3,035: Mustafa Abdul Jalil guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug… #Libya
“The museum… was a microcosm of the extraordinary revolutionary drama played out in Libya over the past two weeks”
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/a...
Aisha
I’m getting sick of #Gaddafi criminals playing the victim card..They rape ,kill & murder & then claim they were forced , raped, beaten…etc
MyFreeLibya Rubicon
Just came from Eid Prayer! Feel soo high…All Qataris said to pray the next one in Libya together! #AllahAkbur #El7amdulilahAllah
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
I should say, this eid is bitter sweet. We will never forget the loved ones we lost whom we owe our freedom for all eternity. #Libya
Nusiba
My dad’s cousin who was in AbuSalim for 6 years arrived in #Benghazi yesterday al7amdulilah.
4Adam Adam
Tripoli – Waterfront Park twitpic.com/6df2tc/full #Libya
Sirtawi
Many G-Loyalists fled 2 #Sirte at beginning of Rev, security’s been quickly enforced there as unrest spread across #Libya
therefore, #Sirte’s become packed with security officials, Milt forces etc & was made spring board for operations..
ive2Tripoli
As I tweet right now. I keep having to remind myself we’re in #Tripoli! Finally did it! #AllahuAkbar Thank god!
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
Eid mubarak to all my followers! Allahu akbar! The first Eid of a free #Libya!
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
What we suspected and now know: #Gaddafi recorded 30 million mins of private phone conversations a month. #Libya online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
Firms Aided Libyan Spies on.wsj.com/okvM8x via @WSJ
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
What happened to all those pictures of Muammar that used to have pride of place on office walls of key officials? yfrog.com/mn45mwj
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Why are the russians so against Libyan Revolution? Russia Biz TV suggests they will lose $10Bn of contracts
Khalifa
Celebratory gunfire!! The only person having fun is the one doing the firing, everybody else is basically running for cover.
We count on our brothers and sisters in #Algeria to start their revolution #Sep17.
Libyana was is up and running in #Nefusa. Phone calls in #Gadhafi yrs lasted 5 minutes at best, today I was on the phone for 2 hours.
i never thought family members in #Libya can talk this much.
Tripoli celebrating and no “celebratory” gunfire AWESOME www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLpIvLfwq34&fea...!
Or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLpIvLfwq34&fea...
BBC:
ليبيا : من داخل مقر الأمن الداخلى للعقيد القذافي
misratapost Mon 29/08/2011
BBC — Libya:
Inside Col Gaddafi’s homeland security Headquarter
ليبيا : من داخل مقر الأمن الداخلى للعقيد القذافي
29 August 2011 — As forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi retreat from Tripoli, they have left a trail of evidence about how his regime operated.
The BBC’s Orla Guerin gained access to Col Gaddafi’s homeland security headquarters and found hundreds of secret files. www.facebook.com/misratapost
www.facebook.com/pages/misratapostcom/2...
Libya Libyan Tripoli Misrata Misurata Zintan Zawia Benghazi youth revolution, the rebels February 17 NATO alliance now free dialogue France Saadi Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam rebels Misurata Ras Abu Salim corner Lanuf head Brega Alzentan door Azizia Benghazi mercenaries bin and hand Tunisia syria algaddafi qaddafi
ليبيا حرة بنغازى البيضاء البريقه مصراته الزاويه طبرق اجدابيا الزنتان ترهونه ورفله نالوت تجى القلعة الرحيبات يفرن غريان درنة المرج الخمس زليتن طرابلس سرت سبها غات الركدالين البريقه هون الجفرة تاجوراء زوارة العجيلات صرمان صبراته مسلاته بن جواد راس نالوف غدامس الكفرة شباب الاحرار ليبيا ليبيا المجاهدة ثورة 17فبراير ثورة عمر المختار
ليبيا الشبابية الجماهيرية الليبية الثوار ثورة 17 فبراير الناتو التحالف الآن الحرة الحوار فرنسا الساعدي سيف الإسلام القذافي المتمردين مصراته الزاوية أبوسليم طرابلس رأس البريقة الزنتان باب العزيزية بنغازي مرتزقه بن واليد تونس مصر سوريا
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTKTPDrELjw&fea...
OmarAmer
Sirte update: today many locals managed to escape via western gates they told of a dire situation in the town, elec still cut and also.
They confirmed the presence of Mu’tasam al gaddafi as well as Ali al kelani. They said many 5th column and soldiers for G escaped the.
Liberated parts of the country and are there now. Also said many many mercenaries, and are now more than ppl on the streets
Gaddafi made another radio broadcast to Sirte telling them to fight on to the last man, victory is close and threatened anyone who leaves
Also the town of #Sirte will be the only place in #Libya that will be celebrating Eid tomorrow
And finally, the ntc have asked the Libyan National Army in the East to exercise full restraint when they enter #Sirte
So glad we have #Egypt and #tunisia as neighbours, wouldn’t swap you guys for anyone else lool. :p
www.facebook.com/Algeria.September17 انتفاضة 17 سبتمبر 2011-لنجعله يوم للغضب في الجزائر Algerian day of anger Sept 17 :o #Algeria
Ok there isn’t much point sleeping now. only an hour until eid prayer :s
The Libyan pilots successfully flew 3 aircraft out of Tripoli and into Benina Benghazi airport
As I understand it, Libyan Airlines will initially begin flights out of Benghazi as the Libyan capital is still being made secure
the NFZ is for Gaddafi and his loyalists, it will be removed in the coming days InshAllah
WARNING, this clip is disturbing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMHcgaSx-kg man… la ilaha ilaAllah. #Libya #Sirte
8am and i’m still up, salat al eid in 30 mins lol RT @LibyanGirlyGirl 10:00AM.. and I’m still up
AJE reports that a battalion from the Libyan National Army are heading south, it seems they will attack Sirte from 3 sides, #Libya #Sirte
Ammar
Was yesterday at Bab Al Aziziya compound where I found amazing pictures of Aisha, posing in various ‘model’ attitude… #Tripoli #Libya
I’ll put them on Facebook soon, when I’ll have a better internet line… And of course I’ll offer them to magazines… ;-)
There are many roadblocks in #Tripoli but after noon only… In the morning, the young rebels controlling the city are all sleeping
Official Algerian source announces Aisha Gaddafi just gave birth to a baby girl… will she call her ‘Facebook’ ??
Aisha Gaddafi’s baby girl named Safiya, like Aisha’s mother
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tripoli: Many Pro Gaddafi supporters who took part in killings, check points & have weapons still not been detained. Worrying #feb17
Tripoli streets & buildings strewn with #feb17 graffiti & Independence flags. Celebratory fire decreasing. Smiles & Joy all round #Libya
Tripoli: Police are returning to the streets. Just saw two officers directing traffic near Martyr Square in Al Wady street
Situation in Tripoli constantly improving. Even the internet is fast today. Mobile connection is improving too
Eid in Libya is on Wednesday. Eid Mubarak all
Tripoli services now run by the Feb17 coalition of Tripoli headed by AbdelRazaq
BuHajar. Group coordinated zero hour in Tripoli
Feb17 coalition of Tripoli headed by AbdelRazaq BuHajar is acting Tripoli local council from Beladia building in Beladia St
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
no elec in #RasLanuf. fighters & doctors had iftar in the twilight. now every1 seeped in the dark. #onroadtosirte
the highway of war is v. different this time. less fighters, more organised, no shooting in the air constantly #onroadtosirte
but 6 months have taken a toll. several kms of trash thrown by the side of the road near #Ajdabiya.#onroadtosirte
Tankers in #Brega & #Raslanuf on fire. thick black smoke. v. few civilians. #Libya #onroadtosirte
most fighters think G in #Sirte but many raised #BaniWalid as another option. but no one really know. #onroadtosirte
fighters asking me if today is Eid. With no comms or electricity nobody here knows. #onroadtosirte #libya
just saw 2 pick up vehicles with stickers stating " revolutionary brigade of Sirte" – #onroadtosirte
rebel tanks moving west towards #Sirte. been asked to return to #nawfallia, told about light clashes near Harawa.#onroadtosirte
The torture of prisoners www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeMXdeV4jdE&fea... via – youtu.be/3saxpWeZQ3w
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3saxpWeZQ3w&fea...
fieldproducer Neal Mann
At Wadi al Humra rebels sending scouting teams forward to check position of Gaddafi forces, they say there were NATO strikes over night
We were at Wadi al Humra late yesterday with a rebel forward recon team quite quickly we were targetted by shelling & pulled back
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
AJA- caller fr Sirte, there’s been no negotiation btwn elders of city & NTC. People beleive Tripoli is still under Gaddafi control
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
pdanahar Paul Danahar
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil says #Gaddafi supporters in #Sirte have until after Eid ie Saturday to give up.
Irish Times
Irish-Libyan rebel leader says securing Tripoli a six-week task
THE IRISH-LIBYAN who led the main rebel brigade into Tripoli estimates it will take at least six weeks to ensure full control over the city.
Mahdi al-Harati, a teacher of Arabic who lives in Dublin with his Irish-born wife and family, was last week appointed deputy leader of Tripoli’s military council, a body which hopes to merge all rebel units into one national army.
“Most of Tripoli is now under our control, but parts are in chaos. I would say 90 per cent is under control, militarily, and the remainder is made up of pockets of resistance from Gadafy loyalists,” he told The Irish Times . “Every day we work on sweeping the city, area after area.”
Full art.:
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/...
This is a must read OUR NIZ:
WAPO
Hunted by regime, Tripoli activist kept flame of protest burning
The Libyan government had shut down access to the Internet when the uprising began, but his 26-year-old cousin, Mukhtar Mhani, was a government IT expert. He said he hacked into the government’s still-functioning intranet system and used it to access a government satellite dish to transmit messages of protest to the outside world.
Within a few weeks, though, as their acts of defiance got play on television stations around the world, members of the group realized that the regime would be looking for them and could potentially trace them through that intranet route. So, with their hearts in their mouths, they went to Mukhtar’s workplace, climbed to the roof and found a 1.8-meter satellite dish.
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danieljerivers
Shweyga is now in hospital at the burns unit in #Tripoli. We are exploring options to help further. #NannyInNeed
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil: No charges against Gaddafi’s family as yet however, they need to be questioned about their fortunes.
Pro-Gadhafi troops perched children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said in a report on Tuesday.
Gaddafi’s children: extravagant and ruthless
Muammar Gaddafi’s children earned reputations for extravagance, violence and dysfunctional behaviour that attracted almost as many hostile headlines as their eccentric and ruthless father.
For years, jealousy and greed had poisoned relations within the family, but as rebels challenged the Libyan ruling system, Gaddafi’s seven sons and one daughter closed ranks around their father, breaking off lives that in many cases had been lived abroad, sometimes in the harsh glare of publicity.
www.stuff.co.nz/world/5535885/Gaddafis-...
Khamis Qaddafi, leader of the feared Khamis Brigade, is leaving a trail of death and rumor across Libya.
Saif, the wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing “reformer” and outsider who spent most of his time in Europe
Mutassim, the sneering nationalist and regime insider once described as “a bloody man and not terribly bright.” www.theatlantic.com/international/archi...
Tank burns at Libya’s biggest oil terminal | Reuters reut.rs/plOoo5 via @reuters
hominoid555 not sayin
By giving the Gaddafi family refuge, Algeria’s gerontocracy is putting itself on the wrong side of history
Salehi invites Abdul Jalil to Iran – Politics – iloubnan.info www.iloubnan.info/politics/actualite/id... via @iloubnan
The Philippines recognizes the National Transitional Council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people www.isria.com/pages/30_August_2011_79.php
Nasr
People close 2Aisha #Gaddafi say she has a huge amount of gold including 24k bullions she smuggled to #Algeria bribing senior Algerians
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Nato: Main focus of Libya operations for Nato is an area on eastern edge of Sirte
cnni CNN International
Burned Gadhafi nanny in hospital goo.gl/fb/7qwPo
SmithInAfrica David Smith
No hint of trouble on night ride from Tripoli to Misrata. All traces of Gaddafi wiped out except green street lights. Hotels full or grim.
Saw Niz Mahani of Free Generation Movement erect martyrs wall in Green Square. First face on there is his cousin Solomon, killed aged 19.
Niz Mahani: We’re going to try to demilitarise Martyrs Square (Green Square) and use TV ads to persuade people to stop firing into the air.
hominoid555 not sayin
Libya conflict: David Cameron chairs national security council meeting, oops someone else going to get 4 years for expressing himself on FB
Roundup: Libyan rebels give Gadhafi loyalists an ultimatum, that’s a good idea weed killer should do the job !
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
many fighters also moving towards the south through newly liberated Nawfallia. residents cheering them as heroes.#onroadtosirte
Ibn
last year #libyans fear #gaddafi. this year #gaddafi fears libyans. i <3 2011. #libya
Joy and tears as Eid arrives in post-Gaddafi Libya
The first Eid al-Fitr, (the great feast that closes the Muslim holy month of Ramadan), celebrated by Libyans after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi is marked by a shortage of everything from water to money.
Yet nothing seems able to spoil the celebration of freedom — what the people of Tripoli are calling the Eid of Victory.
After almost 42 years of Gaddafi’s rule, this Eid will live in Libyans’ memory.
“Every year we celebrate Eid with new clothes, big meals and home-made sweets. There are shortages this year. But we have managed so far. Thank God this Eid has a special flavour. This Eid we have freedom,” said Adel Kashad, 47, a computer science engineer in an oil company.
Full art.:
english.libya.tv/2011/08/30/joy-and-tea...
Salma
#Libya will not descend into anarchy. Tribes will not battle each other. #Benghazi and #Tripoli will not divide. #shutupalready
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Hugo Chavez says that TV pictures of rebels taking over the Green Square were made-up scenes filmed in Qatar with actors
LNA soldiers who patrolling and protecting the airport area arrested looters www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1493... #Libya #Tripoli
Man escapes Tripoli disguised as curtains. lockerz.com/s/133762719
Misrata FF storming Yarmouk camp (Headquarters of the 32th brigade) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNH3Jj3Q3H4 #Libya #Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
by FunGuerillaz
Mustafa AbdulJalil (NTC leader) has issued a few important orders today: 1) All heavy weapons must be pulled out of Tripoli
Mustafa AbdulJalil: 2) All freedom fighters that came from outside Tripoli are to be stationed at the city’s outskirts
Mustafa AbdulJalil: 3) All non-FF weapons will be confiscated. Only NLA/registered FF will be allowed to carry weapons in #Tripoli
Mustafa AbdulJalil: 4) Celebratory shooting must stop immediately. It has caused too many accidental deaths. Weapons will be confiscated
From a Facebook group where Libyans are sharing designs for the new #Libya passport: yfrog.com/j2c1kaj http://yfrog.com/mea7azj
4Adam Adam
Madena Qadema Entrance (Suq al Mushir) Tripoli #Libya twitpic.com/6dfgze/full
Libyan carpets and tradition stuff in Madena al Qadema twitpic.com/6dfivs Tripoli #Libya
So Libyan!! Just about everything … twitpic.com/6dfjvw/full #Tripoli
Ahmed Basha Qaramanli Mosque near the Martyr Square twitpic.com/6dfl9k #Tripoli #Libya
Ahmed Basha Qaramanli Mosque near the Martyr Square twitpic.com/6dfm4s Tripoli #Libya
Ali Tweel
About 6 huge pickup trucks full of food and medics passed by my house now 1:19pm using there horns loudly as a celebration :)
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news #libya Hannibal Gaddafi’s nxtdr neighbr tells me how people got beaten to a pulp at his office
just back from inside Hannibal Gaddafi’s private dungeon at his office
Chez Gaddafi meets Gangsta’s Paradise bit.ly/rrncxc #c4news #libya
Michael
Libyan people would like to see justice done Hope Algeria helps extradite Gadafi trash back, in handcuffs..
Manager of Tripoli Medical Center complicit in many deaths. Cannot defend himself. Ask him where Hanna Gadafi is.
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news #libya EXCLUSIVE new govt says Brit cops “definitely” welcome to probe Y Fletcher case in Libya.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya announces the severance of diplomatic relations with #Algeria lanationdz.com/2011/08/29/urg… #Feb17
This may be a prelude to war. Earlier today Algeria closed the border & posted military
Also, the Algerian Freedom Fighters I’ve spoke with today are saying the people are NOT happy this is going on there
#Malta PASSENGER SHIP “SEAHORSE” now departing Malta for #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Moldova FERRY “FEHIM BEY” now approaching #Malta from #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
Libyana is working again in #Jabal #Nafusa. #Libya #Feb17
PLEASE RT: Sources in #Algeria tell me #Gaddafi family are currently in the #Tuareg town of #Djanet #Algeria (24°33′N 9°28′E). #Libya #Feb17
Press statement of the Islamic Salvation Front, about the #Gaddafi family in #Algeria www.algeriatimes.net/algerianews17716.h... #Libya #Feb17
Reports that a unit of #Freedomfighters of Southern #Libya are preparing on the move to cut roads into #Algeria. #Feb17
Confirmed: #Gaddafi family are currently in the #Tuareg town of #Djanet #Algeria (24°33′N 9°28′E). #Libya #Feb17
#Malta OIL TANKER “NORIENT STAR” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-30 07:00 (UTC). #Feb17
English LibyAa TV
NATO says Libya’s sides are talking in Sirte
NATO says Libya’s warring sides in the Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte are now engaged in “discussions.”
Col. Roland Lavoie also says NATO’s role will continue as long as civilians in the country are under threat, although the area around the capital Tripoli is now “essentially free.”
He spoke to reporters today near Naples, where NATO’s Libya’s operation is headquartered, and by video link to journalists in Brussels, as well.
NATO says does not know fate of Gaddafi’s son Khamis
NATO said today it did not know the fate of Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis, who was said by opponents of the deposed dictator to have been killed at the weekend.
“There are a lot allegations and rumours on Khamis. We don’t know,” NATO spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie, speaking from Naples, told a briefing.
Anti-Gaddafi forces trying to mop up Sirte and other strongholds of supporters of the deposed leader said Khamis Gaddafi and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi
had both been killed on Saturday.
Khamis had already been reported killed twice during the uprising.
Cyberwar: Gaddafi’s online mercenary army
Brandishing Kalashnikovs and bloodstained baseball caps, these were Libya’s revolutionaries. Men, young and old, fighting on the frontline to claim victory and liberation for the country they call home.
Social networking sites allowed pro-regime propagandists to spread global conspiracy theories in the comfort of their own home, without any scars or wounds of war. No combat experience, basic training or Libyan citizenship was required in the recruitment process for Gaddafi’s online army.
To coin the old saying “the first casualty in war is the truth” has been apparent in the airtime for Iran state television, Press TV and publicly funded Russian network, RT. These channels were the chosen platform for pro Gaddafi journalists to provide their independent dossiers- a biased eyewitness account to the situation inside Libya.
For instance, a young female journalist and male documentary filmmaker that RT and Press TV featured in their reporting made statements claiming that international media and the Libyan revolutionaries are “slaves to NATO and the Western colonialist Empire.” Further reports of the female journalist said her “sources were saying Gaddafi was in Green square and the revolutionaries did not have control of Tripoli as international media had reported.”
Further blog, Facebook posts and Youtube videos the female journalist broadcasted accused CNN, MI6 and the CIA of being assassins and have threatened to kill her while inside the Rixos hotel. After she broadcasted these messages online, her Facebook, Twitter and Blog were removed. What followed was an online uproar as her fans, Gaddafi loyalists, predominately non Libyan were furious her accounts were deleted.
In an ironic twist of events, the young lady, along with her pro Gaddafi Facebook friends begged the UK government to bring her back to English soil. Back to the very regime she, along with her fans so blatantly condemned.
Read full art.:
english.libya.tv/2011/08/30/cyberwar-ga...
The Mirror
Colonel Gaddafi’s henchman threatened to rape American brain surgeon
An American brain surgeon who joined the rebel frontline in Libya told yesterday of his horrific torture ordeal at the hands of Colonel Gaddafi’s henchmen.
Libyan-born US citizen Rida – Mazagri and a friend were ambushed in March as they drove towards a conflict zone near Ajdabiya in Western Libya.
He told the Sunday Mirror: “They tied us up and threw us into the back of an army truck blindfolded.”
Father-of-four Rida was taken to a military camp in Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte – where one thug kicked him in the genitals before whipping his back with an electric flex – the first of many horrific beatings.
Fighting back tears, he recalled how another young soldier whispered in his ear: “My friends and I are going to rape you tonight.”
Full horrible story here:
feb17.info/news/colonel-gaddafis-henchm...
Via Feb17
AP
Libyan troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, “disappearances” and other war crimes that they said they found.
Physicians for Human Rights was able to get a team of interviewers into the embattled city of Misrata from June 5-12, just after Libyan rebel forces expelled Gadhafi’s loyalists.
Interviewing dozens of survivors of the two-month siege, the Boston-based PHR found widespread evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including summary slayings, hostage-taking, rapes, beatings, and use of mosques, schools and marketplaces as weapons depots.
Reuters
Police in Tripoli are overcoming fears they would not be welcomed by Libya’s new masters and are slowly returning to work, taking pains to distance themselves from ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi and win the public’s trust.
Visitors to one police station step on a rug featuring Gaddafi’s face and drivers roll over a poster of him at a checkpoint outside.
The district’s policemen on Monday spent their first day in uniform since Gaddafi’s overthrow. Senior officers had for days urged colleagues to return to work, through announcements at mosques and word of mouth.
The former Libyan leader had a formidable security apparatus that was notorious for its brutality.
The National Transitional Council, Libya’s new governing body, is hoping to avoid the same kind of lawlessness seen after the fall of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and want to co-opt Gaddafi-era policemen, not dismiss them.
AFP
Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha, who fled to Algeria with other family members, has given birth to a baby girl, Algerian authorities announced Tuesday.
“Aisha gave birth very early this morning. She had a little girl. Mother and daughter are doing fine,” said a government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Reuters
Police in Tripoli are overcoming fears they would not be welcomed by Libya’s new masters and are slowly returning to work, taking pains to distance themselves from ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi and win the public’s trust.The district’s policemen on Monday spent their first day in uniform since Gaddafi’s overthrow. Senior officers had for days urged colleagues to return to work, through announcements at mosques and word of mouth.
BREAKING: #NATO spokesman: #Libya job continues but ‘the #Tripoli region is essentially free’
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe expelled the Libyan ambassador and his staff on Tuesday for switching allegiance to Libya’s ruling interim council, the foreign minister said. President Robert Mugabe is a strong ally of deposed Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, who had signed several economic deals with Harare, including an agreement to supply fuel.
NTC
Libya’s interim government signed at least two contracts to buy French wheat using funds unfrozen in France earlier this month, four sources close to the deals said on Tuesday. France’s foreign ministry in early August said it would un-freeze $259 million of Libyan assets and place them at the disposal of Libya’s National Transition Council (NTC) to help the North African country recover from a six-month civil war.
“It’s part of two contracts that the NTC signed for wheat for about 60,000 tonnes each,” said a senior executive at French grains firm Soufflet, which won one of the deals. He added that these contracts were worth around $22 million each and that the other contract was granted to Nidera.
Hunt f
or Gaddafi: Saddam all over again?
Dictator Muammar Gaddafi is on the run, his capital all but fallen to revolutionaries, his hometown under siege.
Now comes another difficult task for the revolutionaries and the civilian government they are trying to install: capturing Gaddafi before the fugitive dictator is able to mount a revenge assault from hiding or inspire an insurgency that could drag on for years.
Gaddafi’s wife and three of his children fled Libya to neighboring Algeria yesterday. But the Obama administration said it has no indication Gaddafi has left the country.
As U.S. forces learned in the massive, months-long manhunt for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, intelligence will be key to finding him.
Thanks to NATO and its small cadre of military advisers on the ground in Libya, the revolutionaries will be able to draw on electronic clues known as signals intelligence, ranging from images from drones, spy planes and satellites to stolen transmissions from radio and phones — an advantage U.S. troops did not have in 2003 in Iraq, when the use of such equipment was in its infancy, and the intelligence not well shared with those on the ground.
Full art.:
english.libya.tv/2011/08/30/hunt-for-ga...
AP
Liberated inmates tell of ‘dark age’ under Gadhafi
When Said Abdullah arrived in Libya’s notorious Abu Salim prison in 1996, he said he was “welcomed with blows and torture” for membership in an Islamist group. He was held in a small cell with 12 others, no mattresses and one squat toilet they had to unblock with their hands.
Read more:
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Eid Mubarek ~ كل عام وأنتم بخير
We would like to wish our readers and supporters around the world a happy and blessed Eid
As we enter into the Eid celebrations, we reflect on how special the past thirty days have been for Libya. The month of Ramadan has been a blessed one with much to remember.
With the help of God, revolutionaries liberated the Nafusa mountains in the early days of Ramadan, freedom next reached to Zawiya, and finally, with ease to our capital Tripoli.
We ask God to accept all of our fasting, prayers, and duaas, to accept our fallen heroes as shuhada, and to protect and liberate the people in the remaining occupied cities.
We hope you and your families can celebrate this joyous time with peace, comfort, and happiness in whatever part of the world or country you are from.
Happy Eid & God Bless,
Feb17.info
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
#Gaddafi’s former intelligence files should NOT be being looked through by journalists, or the public. Why can anyone just stroll in? #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
I wish NTC send African mercenaries back to Africa, but prevent them from entering Libya ever again. Take fingerprints and photographs.
Unconfirmed reports: “Armed Pro-G loyalist who took Bani Walid hostage and massacared the 13 peaceful protesters” are ready to surrender.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
El Watan: Algeria has closed borders with Libya. Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted? #LIBYA.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
At Wadi al Humra rebels sending scouting teams forward to check position of Gaddafi forces, they say there were NATO strikes over night
We were at Wadi al Humra late yesterday with a rebel forward recon team quite quickly we were targetted by shelling & pulled back
Pulled back slightly after advice from rebel recon party – then watched from a distance as number of shells landed close to where we were.
There appears to now be no formal front line between our location and Sirte, small number of rebel forces moving down the road
Have heard NATO planes over head again, rebels will probably have to wait for them to do their job before moving forward… #Libya
Tristan
Abdel Jalil #benghazi presser: essentially declares Eid ceasefire in #Libya. Assault on Sirte to begin again on saturday if no peace deal
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Another hot day in #Libya, we’re now a long way from any food supply – did a four and a half hour round trip to get food & water last night
Petrol is also hard to find, but still available if lucky from tankers about an hour back from the front
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
No more #Gaddafi, No more #Gaddafi , No more #Gaddafi … Happy Double Eid for everyone #Libya #Tripoli #Feb17 twitpic.com/6demy7
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NATO focuses Libya operations on Sirte shabablibya.org/?p=6268 #Libya #Sirte
Algeria: Gaddafi’s daughter gives birth shabablibya.org/news/algeria-gaddafis-d... #Libya
The NTC have given Gaddafi loyalists 4 days, which will include the 3 days of Eid starting tomorrow to surrender and embrace Free #Libya
Analysis: Security fears behind Algeria haven for Gaddafi family
Saad Djebbar, a UK-based Algerian lawyer who once advised Gaddafi’s government, said Algeria would be justified in allowing even Muammar Gaddafi himself to enter the country if that brought a swifter end to the fighting in Libya.
“If you allow Gaddafi to continue to be where he is, that means he could carry on his acts of sabotage or violent operations … to undermine security,” Djebbar said.
“But if he was in Algeria, the Algerians could control him … (prevent him) from him being active in the Libyan territory any more.”
Algeria will not be too troubled by adverse diplomatic reaction in the West because it has been in that position before.
Full art.:
shabablibya.org/news/analysis-security-...
Ahmed Bani, NTC military spokesman: The people of Sirte want to join #Feb17 but Gaddafi loyalists are controlling the town #Libya #Sirte
kosovo
piggy gadafi is in SABHA.bunker 280m deep at airpot compound/protected by piggy Serbian army ..news24.com/Africa/News/Ga…
News24
Gaddafi reportedly in Sabha
London – Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is reported to have been in the capital Tripoli as late as last Friday and to have gone from there to the southern desert town of Sabha, Britain’s Sky News said on Tuesday, quoting a 17-year-old bodyguard of his son Khamis
Full art.:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Gaddafi-repo...
IMPORTANT:
NTC say 17 CROATS mercen. arrested/beware they are mainly SERBS mercenaries with false Croatioan passports
17 Croats among foreign mercenaries arrested in Tripoli
The member of the Libyan National Transitional Council in charge of justice, Mohammed al-Alagy, has said that there are a lot of foreigners among those arrested in Libya, including Croats.
“The prisoners are being treated well. Those who did not commit crimes will be released after questioning, while the rest will be tried,” al-Alagy said on Monday, adding that foreign mercenaries, including 17 Croats, had been arrested in Tripoli.
The Croatian Foreign Ministry told press on Tuesday it had received no official information that any Croatian nationals had been arrested. The ministry said it would ask the Libyan diplomatic mission in Zagreb whether any Croatian citizens had been arrested in Libya.
daily.tportal.hr/145757/17-Croats-among...
Kosovo
5 SERBS mercenar in Z INTAN works for Private Security Company in Serbia sent in Lybia to help gadafi..www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2l7QC0-x4Q
a mother of one of them said he is working for Private Security company in Serbia and Company has sent him there
they lie saying having come to lybia 12 days ago..!!!!doing construction in the middle of the war……one might be crazy to believe
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Ahmed Bani also said those loyalists in Sirte who are putting up a fight are ‘stuck’ with the regime due to their crimes etc
Ahmed Bani, NTC Military spokesman says we want everyone to know, Zero hour is quickly approaching, the final battle is close Sirte
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Latest from military intelligence on #Gaddafi,"Definitely not in Sirte.He’s either in #Tripoli, Bani Walid or further south in the mountains
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Latest report from my BBC Team. Corr Paul Wood, Camera Tim Facey: bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
#Sirte radio station has been used to TX #Gaddafi broadcasts. Although this doesn’t necessarily mean he is there. could be tapes #Libya
Zimbabwe orders Libyan envoy to leave country for supporting rebels.
Daily News ZW says: Gaddafi is legitimate leader of #Libya
What we suspected and now know: #Gaddafi recorded 30 million mins of private phone conversations a month. #Libya online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111...
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi’s policing state, fortunately only air he couldn’t censor youtube.com/watch?v=oTKTPD… #Libya
Unconfirmed reports #Saif & #Saadi #Gaddafi are in #BaniWalead. ya aheel werfala entim wayin nudhoo yaser yaser gaddafi zawa alyah alshytan
Libya owns The Michelangelo Hotel in South Africa. www.lhw.com/Hotel/The-Michelangelo-Hote... NTC should sell all investments in S Africa
African U: Jean Ping Arrogantly said “black Libyans make 1/3 of the population & NTC thinks every black person is an African mercenary” 1/2
I say to Jean Ping we only have to look at your face to distinguish the difference. 2/2 #Libya
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil: Gaddafi still has capability to do damage, however, he can only operate in small radius.
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil: No deal with Algeria to hand over criminals. #libya
Muatassim Gaddafi’s city underground, offices, hospital, hideaway, restaurant www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCDt9OEsQg&fea... #How #Rats #Live #MAZE
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCDt9OEsQg&fea...
The manager of #Tripoli #Medical #Center was arrested & trying 2 defend himself www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBfhXQTYK0&fea... #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Aug27 Muammar+Aysha Gaddafi ARRIVED in Salooncar @ #Khamis Compound in #TRIPOLI then changed in2 4×4 headed2 #SEBHA Khamis headed2 BaniWalid
#Gaddavi alive and well Hardcore #Libyans and some Aricans (as #Khamis young guard called them) are fighting in the Gaddafi Forces #Libya
17yr old Guard from of #Khamis on friday Gaddafi with #Aisha arrived in salooncar met with Khamis then left for #Sebha
#FLASH Aisha Gaddafi gave birth to a little monster baby girl in #Algeria
#BREAKING #Bodyguard tells @Skynews Gaddafi was Inside #Tripoli till Friday #Libya after that G met up with Sons and daughter then left
#NATO Officers says regions of #Sirte #BaniWalid south of and #Sebha further south are conflict area Batlles E of #Sirte reported #Libya
#TRIPOLI KristalinaGeorgieva,European commissioner 4AID says :EU Opened Humanitarian Office 2help distribute Medical +Emergency aid #Libya
Hunted by Gaddafi regime, #Tripoli activist 30 yr old dentist #NIZ Nizar Mhani kept flame of protest burning goo.gl/R06WT #Libya
#Nato has been bombing Targets in #Sirte fearing GF forces will target humanitarian Jets & Fire SCUDS onto Misrata or other towns #Libya
#Sirte + #Hun + #Bani Walid (where GF are massing) A whole range of GF targets were Bombed by #NATO yesterday and overnight Via @Skynews
Reports that Saadi #Gaddafi is detained in #Libya via Skynews
#MISRATA FF Refuse Accept #NTC Appointment of former Gaddafi ALLY Albarrani Shkal as #Tripoli Security Chief goo.gl/FPsqB
Liberty4Libya Free Libya Now
Wepond recovery programs have been established in Tripoli. Caution is high for suspected Gadafi terrorists looking to destabilize process.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Monday night in Tunis: Received a mobile phone call this evening from Kikla. Libyana is working again in Jabal #Nafusa. #Libya
Ava
well this time khamis is dead. was attacked in tarhuna and injured then died and buried in bani waleed maybe seoussi is dead 2
Libya – Capturing a symbol: a Misrata brigade has carried Gaddafi’s giant fist to their beach camp
Libya – The Libyan capital of Tripoli faced severe water and food shortages Saturday as the country’s transitional authorities turned their attention to Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown, which they vowed to take by force should negotiations fail.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTsdFEg6Q7s
ATTENTION everyone in Tripoli: Red Cross has room for 2 kids to travel to the Netherlands with the burned nanny, contact @apk222
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The main battalion stalling peace talks in Sirte is believed to be headed by Mu’tasam Al Gaddafi who remains in #Sirte
NTC head AbdulJaleel: Peacekeepers not needed in Libya #Libya
fieldproducer Neal Mann
I’ve uploaded more pictures to my gallery from Eastern #Libya here facebook.com/media/set/?set…
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: Young activist group puts up a memorial wall to display the names and faces of those who have died in #Tripoli. feb17.info/news/libya-liv…
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Given the birth of Aisha’s daughter, it is clear that the plan is to produce Gaddafis faster than the rebels can kill or capture them
Libiya el Haqiqiya
Aparently there are still ca. 30 people trapped in Abu Salim prison. #Tripoli #Libya #AbuSalim
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
by FunGuerillaz
Gaddafi’s intelligence service could “locate any person owning cellphone in Libya, even in idle mode.” #Libya bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Médecins Sans Frontière’s report that they have witnessed small pockets of fighting in #Tripoli today #Libya
hominoid555 not sayin
The Slovak Republic recognize the National Transitional Council of Libya. isria.com/pages/30_Augus…
ianbirrell ianbirrell
Pix of Gaddafi are everywhere in Tripoli – but instead of being found on walls they are on streets to drive over and as doormats to step on
pdanahar Paul Danahar
For anyone wondering where #Gaddafi is it’s quite instructive to open out a map & remind yourself #Libya is a bloody big place to hide in
septimius_sever septimius severus
Oops, the editor of the investor’s daily .com is angry! oh well! #Tripoli Pirates In #Libya Again? goo.gl/fb/2BXFR #Libya #Feb17"
CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
Crowds gather at #BabalAziziya. Laughing, singing. Like villagepeople coming to see the dragon is really dead. #Libya #Tripoli
#Tripoli fighter in Suq ul Juma say many mercs detained. At least 50 to 60 women among them. Heard similar rumours in #Nalut. #Libya
robcrilly Rob Crilly
LIbyan rebels say accomplice to the killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher has been found dead in Tripoli tinyurl.com/42rahep
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Tripoli: seeing more traffic & traffic cops, refuse collections, stores opening. Long way from normality but first steps— calm returning
#FFs at the ready 100km east of #Sirte (via AlJazeera) youtube.com/watch?v=RmA5it…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmA5it8mMaM&fea...
NTC’s @Guma_el_gamaty says the Gaddafi family convoy of six armoured Mercedes bound for Algeria left from Bani Walid. #Libya #Gaddafi
Noit
We knew that:)
They all met up before splitting into 2 groups.
One group went to Sabha the other to Algeria via Bani Walid.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
#Tripoli: Many shops are open today, some of them giving clothes and food for free. #Tomorrow is the first day of #Eid in #Libya
Via Feb17
Libya’s largest oil terminal has been damaged during fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, oil workers and witnesses said, A Reuters witness saw flames and black smoke spurting from a tank at the Es-Sider oil terminal, which loaded an average of about 450,000 barrels per day before the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi began in February. “One tank is on fire now, and we expect it will be damaged completely,” one oil worker who declined to be named said, adding he believed it was hit by a rocket in the last four days.
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: An estimated 50,000 people were killed since start of Libya uprising -NTC commander
hominoid555 not sayin
UN gives Ramadan meals to 55000 Libyans refugees in Tunisia
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Back in Misrata. Strange coming thru #Zliten after visiting the frontline so often there in July.
martinchulov Martin Chulov
War wounded from Zintan taken over #Gaddafi beach house. Lounge furniture on sand. These rebels don’t want to go home for Eid #Libya
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Our hearts go to those who can’t feel Eid in #Sirte, #Sebha, #BaniWalid, #Syria, #Somal, #Yemen … & all the oppressed every where. #Libya
Ali Tweel
Tripoli citizins are feeling better. More shops are open, the roads are crowded. The celeberatory firing are less to nothing.
Sandra
#NTC showing remarkable restraint. Ppl of Sirte are caught in a nightmare. #Mutassim must be stopped 2 stop the battle.
LibyanTweet
Mutassim is the most brutal person at #Gaddafi family, he’s more cruel than his father himself.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte +nearby collection of bunkers #Nato confirmed = giving its unique and special attention to Gaddafi targets around Sirte #Libya #Sknws
hominoid555 not sayin
Russia counts Libya losses. tios.co.za/russia-counts-…
A delegation of Turkish businessmen is expected to travel to Benghazi this week, Zafer Caglayan, the Turkish economy minister.
RexBrynen:
Algeria admission of Aisha, Hannibal, Muhammad #Gaddafi is apparent violation UNSC 1970 (2011)… (cont) http://deck.ly/~7cnCM"
GRLibya Global Relief Libya
URGENT call for #Dialysis equipment for #Tripoli. Please contact us.
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Spotted in Tripoli bridal shop window today: mannequins in dresses made from Libya’s pre-Gadafy national flag, now adopted by rebels
‘Misrata will inspire the world’ – graffiti left behind by rebel fighters at Khamis Brigade base in southern Tripoli
Many looters picking over remains of Khamis Brigade base in southern Tripoli today, taking chairs, marble slabs, cement + office equipment
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI DR #GassemBaruni head of #Tripoli Medical Center says #Hana Gaddafi worked for Him as Surgeon b4 She Disappeared last Friday #Libya
#FLASH #Zimbabwe Expels #Libya ambassador Due to hime defecting to the #NTC … tinyurl.com/43bu8xb #Reuters
ceoDanya Danya B Mohammed
reut.rs/nQzMQD #Gaddafi forces cut off most of #TRIPOLI’s water
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
50,000 killed in Libya amid report that French firm helped Qaddafi spy on opponents goo.gl/I9JNW #alarabiya
Aljazeera
Migrants in Libya camp claim rape
Aid workers say they are taking seriously alleged sexual assaults of up to two dozen women at camp for migrant workers.
Migrant workers living in a squatter settlement outside Tripoli have claimed that nearly two dozen women in the camp have been raped since opposition forces began their final push on the capital two weeks ago.
At the abandoned fishing harbour about 27km west of Tripoli, Nigerian maids Rose Johnson and Darcy Ikibueka said on Monday they are two of more than 20 women in the camp who have been raped by armed men whose identities and affiliations remain unknown.
The names of the women have been changed to protect their identities.
The claims were bolstered by aid workers from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who gained access to the camp on Saturday. Simon Burroughs, MSF emergency coordinator, said women had approached the staff with claims of rape and had received counselling.
On the night of August 19, gunmen entered the harbour camp. They fired their guns in the air, shouting “God is great”. That night, Johnson and Ikibueka said, they were raped at gunpoint.
Anthony Ogiexeri , a 37-year-old Nigerian pastor who lives in the camp, gave Al Jazeera this account:
“The came in, some of them they were shooting all around, and they ordered girls to come out. When they came out, they laid them down. Some of them were saying they should allow the girls [to] go, and some of them said, ‘No, they were going to rape them’. And at the end they submitted to the men, and they raped them. And after they left.”
Some Libyans have donated food and supplies to the camp, but in recent days, groups of armed men and boys have regularly entered the camp at night, robbing the refugees of food and money.
They also take women away to use them for sex, Ogiexeri said.
“We try to connect lights so we can see ourselves at night, but they take them to the dark places.”
Video and read more:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera’s James Bays in #Tripoli: The timing of Eid forced a return to normality quicker than expected.
Aljazeera
Libyan troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, “disappearances” and other war crimes that they said they found.
Physicians for Human Rights was able to get a team of interviewers into the embattled city of Misrata from June 5-12, just after Libyan rebel forces expelled Gadhafi’s loyalists.
Interviewing dozens of survivors of the two-month siege, the Boston-based PHR found widespread evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including summary
slayings, hostage-taking, rapes, beatings, and use of mosques, schools and marketplaces as weapons depots. -
Al Arabiya
Algeria would hand over Qaddafi to ICC as Libya ‘final battle’ approaches
Algeria would hand over Muammar Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court if he entered the North African country, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday, a day after Algiers gave safe haven to members of his family, as the rebels’ military chief said the final battle in Libya was imminent.
Algeria announced on Monday that Qaddafi’s wife, two of his sons and his daughter had crossed into its territory, prompting Libya’s ruling interim council to demand that they be handed back to face trial.
Quoting Algerian sources, the el-Shorouk newspaper said on its website that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had told government ministers during a cabinet meeting on Monday that Algeria would respect international law on all matters related to the Libyan conflict.
“Should Qaddafi try to enter Algerian soil amid talk that the rebels are tightening their grip on the border with Tunisia, and Egyptian (border) restrictions, Algeria would arrest him and hand him over to the International Criminal Court in compliance with international agreements,” the newspaper said, according to Reuters.
It said the decision was not a reaction to the toppling of the Qaddafi regime but was in accordance with the ICC’s arrest warrants for Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and his intelligence chief over accusations they committed crimes against humanity.
No one was immediately available for comment from the government.
In a separate report, Shorouk said Qaddafi’s family members, who had crossed into Algeria, were in the southeastern Illizi province, which borders Libya, and would not be allowed to go to the capital Algiers.
Qaddafi’s location remains unknown a week after Tripoli fell to his foes.
Meanwhile, Algeria’s al-Watan newspaper said the country was closing the southern part of its border with Libya. Quoting diplomatic sources, al-Watan said an instruction had gone out to security services to close the southern part of the border with Libya, because of the “precarious situation” there, according to Reuters.
The Algerian government could not immediately be reached for comment. Algeria’s border with Libya is hundreds of kilometers long and stretches through vast expanses of empty desert.
Algerian officials say they are concerned that Islamist militants have infiltrated Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), and that al-Qaeda’s North African wing will exploit the chaos in Libya to acquire weapons and explosives.
The NTC has angrily denied those charges and in turn accuses Algeria of siding with Muammar Qaddafi during Libya’s civil war, something the Algerian authorities deny.
“Zero hour approaching”
The rebels’ military chief Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani, meanwhile, told reporters on Tuesday the launch of the final battle in Libya was imminent.
“Zero hour is quickly approaching. We would like everyone to know that we are ready for a final military battle,” he told a news conference in the rebel stronghold in the east, according to AFP.
“So far we have been given no indication of a peaceful surrender. We want everyone to know that we are prepared militarily for the battle that will end the conflict,” Bani said.
Asked about possible rebel moves, he replied this was “military intelligence” and declined to elaborate.
“We continue to seek a peaceful solution, but on Saturday we will use different methods against these criminals,” he said.
Earlier, National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil told reporters in Benghazi that the NTC was giving a Saturday ultimatum for Muammar Qaddafi’s forces to surrender or face a military onslaught.
Bani expressed “surprise” that the inhabitants of Sirte “still reject our peaceful overtures to avoid the spilling of blood on both sides.”
He also said that rebel fighters may have killed Qaddafi’s intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court.
Rebel fighters had destroyed two armored vehicles between the towns of Bani Walid and Tarhuna, southeast of Tripoli, and captured Kadhafi loyalists told them that one of the passengers was Senussi, Bani said.
The vehicles were destroyed by fire after the convoy refused to stop as rebel fighters demanded, he said, adding that Senussi has yet to be buried.
In June, the Hague-based court issued arrest warrants for Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and Senussi for murder and persecution since mid-February, when a bloody uprising started.
Senussi is Qaddafi’s brother-in-law.
Khamis Qaddafi alive
Separately, Libyan state television denied in a message posted on the Internet on Tuesday that Khamis Qaddafi, a son of the strongman, was dead as claimed by the rebels.
“We repeat that information on the death of Khamis Qaddafi is a lie," the Allibya network, which is run by Seif al-Islam, reported on its Facebook page, according to AFP.
Late on Monday, opposition officials said that Khamis, 28, was killed south of Tripoli and buried on Monday, citing rebel leaders.
The death of Khamis, a feared military commander, has been prematurely announced several times during the Libyan conflict.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
EU governments could agree by Thursday to lift sanctions against 6 Libyan ports: diplomats #alarabiya #Qaddafi #Tripoli
NTC: we have a ‘good idea’ where Muammar Al Gaddafi is and we will catch him – AP
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Soldiers in the Libyan National Army break their fast East of Sirte as Ramadan has come to an end in #Libya
robcrilly Rob Crilly
lovely evening walk along the Benghazi seafront
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
If Khamis Gaddafi “died” 5 times, how many times will his sister Aicha’s baby Safiya be born ???
A colleague just gave a nice description of Gaddafi’s #Libya : a mixture of North Korea and Disneyland… It’s very true !!! #Tripoli
evanchill Evan Hill
The call to prayer going out over #Tripoli now. Ramadan officially over. First post-Gaddafi Eid sure to be a big party tomorrow. #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “ARON” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya after having last resupplied #Gaddafi’s regime. #Feb17
16 #Gaddafi snipers arrested carrying fake #Croatian passports while they are in fact from #Serbia. #Libya #Feb17
#Sirte: #Freedomfighters continue talks w/ #Gaddafi filth in attempt to have town surrender. Deadline is Saturday. #Libya #Feb17
Gouvernement de l’ #Algérie: gratuit la #Libye ne va pas s’en aller, l’abandon de la famille #Kadhafi ou avoir un ennemi à votre porte.
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Huge bunker under Mutassim #Gaddafi’s house amazing. Full hospital set-up. Built by Germans mid-90s. Rebels rifling thru it #Libya
Among things looted from Mutassim’s bunker today a consultancy project by Janes Defence on restructuring #Libya military
AJELive AJELive
World Food Programme is looking to procure 250,000 metric tons of #gasoline for #Libya rebels t.co/eDobJw4 #AJEnglish
#Maersk Line, the world’s biggest container shipping firm, to resume service to #Libya #port aje.me/jQEpiq #AJEnglish
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Demands from Algeria The Immediate Return Of the Gaddafi Clan : Safiya Gaddafi daughter #Ayesha and sons #Hannibal and #Mohammed #Libya
DEAD: Misrata + Zlitan around 16.000 Jebel Nafusa many deid Liberated abt 28,000 prisoners We presume Missing Ppl r dead #Libya via #NTC
Col. Hisham #Buhagiar commander of FF #NTC troops“About 50,000 people were killed since Febr17 " goo.gl/r7IHQ #Libya
Subsidiary of #French IT firm #Bull helped Gaddafi’s regime SPY on emails chat +msges as well as #China telecom firm ZTE #Libya
How #Gaddafi hid Arms from #Nato Food Processing Plant nr #Tripoli used 2hide heavy munition Some still there Pix soon #Libya
Gaddafi PM AlBaghdadi #Mahmudi DENIED that he fled #Tripoli 2 #Tunisia Says He is staying with his family + people #LIBYA via @zakichehab
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Muammar Gaddafi and #Aisha left #Khamis Camp in Tripoli on Friday in convoy of 25 Vehicles heading for #Sabha #Libya
SMH
Laughter, joy, relief and unspeakable memories
IT WAS a reunion neither saw coming. In the yards of the notorious Abu Salim prison, the site of the massacre in 1996 of 1200 prisoners and countless abuses at the hands of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, Ashraf Sueden and Abdel Anser el-Musbahi saw each other and cried out in shock.
Moments later they were in each other’s arms, laughing and sobbing with disbelief. Ashraf had been a prisoner from 1989 to 1996, Abdel from 1990 to 2001.
Both had been jailed without charge after being swept up in security operations that targeted men worshipping at mosques. Neither thought he would survive the horror.
More and more men arrived at the prison, some with their sons in tow. Many were reliving the terrible years spent behind bars, others simply taking a look inside another of the instruments of fear Colonel Gaddafi used so effectively during his 42 years in power.
Read more:
www.smh.com.au/world/laughter-joy-relie...
FromJoanne Joanne
Badly burned nanny Is receiving medical treatment Tuesday in Burn Unit of #Tripoli hospital on.cnn.com/oWWcvz #Libya #Hannibal #wife
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
A friend is imitating Gaddafi’s weird act when Zuma & the gang came to Tripoli back in April. That was the place. t.co/fuNUR4T
PHOTO’S:
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Misrata FF cruising around BA proudly. yfrog.com/kgme4evj
The first gate of BA. I never thought I could ever, in my life time, just drive in!!! yfrog.com/kfnxmepj
Second BA gate… yfrog.com/h4uf2orrj
Third BA gate, phew almost there… yfrog.com/hwsyyiaj
Fourth BA gate, I thought they were only 3 gates?!! yfrog.com/mn8iuxj
Yesss! I am in, finally. yfrog.com/h66pjtdj
Recognize that building? yfrog.com/mn1ehhj
This is the house, people just rush in amazement and disbelief. But they all sounded happy. yfrog.com/kirt6xgj
Gaddafi’s fortified meeting hall… yfrog.com/mezcgaj
This is the Balcony where Gaddafi and Aisha gave their last video speeches. The “I am here” speech. yfrog.com/kiogjduj
Lots of Gaddafi’s pictures are there were left there for people to tear apart and feel good. yfrog.com/klu2syhj
This is one of the left unburned tents. People were furious shouting: “He lied to us, these tents were only for show”. yfrog.com/h46vuysj
Gaddafi’s backyard not many seen before. This area was private I have been told. Was off limits even for guards. yfrog.com/18vg0hj
His private home which he goes to off-camera… yfrog.com/me6sdxj
More pics from Gaddafi’s private house at BA. yfrog.com/mmyh6wdj
Have to go and break my fast. Stay tunes. Have loads of images of Daffy’s home. :)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Maersk Line World’s biggest Container shipping line will resume its Cargo service to #Libya on Sept. 8 in its first shipment since February
Safe World for Women:
Libya: The women of the revolution
Six women tell how they did their part to help the men take Tripoli from Gadhafi in their jihad, or struggle, against the regime.
They prepared sharba — a soup of meat, tomato, oil and water.
Collected clothes and money from trusted friends.
Called anyone of influence outside the country to tell their side’s story, disposing of the SIM card after each call.
And prayed.
Jihad was made for men and women
Seated in a row, six women, most of them engineering students, say they did their part to help the men take Tripoli from Gadhafi in their jihad, or struggle, against the regime.
“Jihad was made for men and women. There is no difference. But we are not warriors,” says Randa Al Alam, 26.
Auhood Elkhabule, 25, adds: “Most of the women went out and tried to help the men. But many of them say, ‘We are men, we do it ourselves.’ I couldn’t just sit and say let them do it. Many of my friends have been killed.”
Elkhabule, her sister and their friends sit on a long, brocade-covered couch, the tri-coloured rebel flag pinned to the wall above their head. Several wear the same red, black and green on bracelets.
Elkhabule’s father Abdalluh, a professor, brings their guest a sweet blend of Arabic coffee in a china demitasse and a plate of crumbly basbousa cakes, and sets them on ornately carved end tables, all very quietly. It is his house but not his time to speak.
Auhood: “We have all shared this kind of . . . we call it privacy. They make us feel very scared. You can’t express your mind.”
Her sister Khulood: “You go to get a master’s degree, but you are supposed to be at home and support the men. There is no way for a woman to express her voice. If you insist, you are going to be followed and they try to kill your voice.”
They moved cautiously using simple codes
“I was in a group trying to gather money, food, trying to get them to the revolutionaries,” said Sanaa Eljerbi, 25. “We are already under the eyes of the regime, and it was hard to do. We used simple codes, without telling (anyone who might overhear) why we need it.”
They say they tried to call media outlets outside the country to tell what was happening inside Libya’s borders. But that, too, required some guile.
Auhood says Gadhafi’s government has eavesdropped landline calls and tracked cell phones.
“When my brother called from the U.S. (worried about conditions in Libya), I said, ‘Relax. Nothing is happening.’ A spy came on the line, said, ‘You heard her, right? Everything is ok.’ ”
For each call they bought SIM cards from people who had extra or no longer needed them. When possible they did not buy them at a store, where they say the cards could have been tracked.
Jihad in a different way
Could they have done more? Handle a gun if asked?
Narjes Elshaksto, 28: “I had jihad in a different way: praying for them.
Farah Al Mohalhel, 25: “Some women wanted to handle guns.”
Auhood Elkhabule starts shifting on the couch, eager to get a word in.
“Many girls, they can’t kill an insect, even a simple fly. For what Gadhafi did, I want to choke him, burn him alive.”
That, or: “Put him in a cage and put him in a zoo.”
“I am a rebel.”
Speechless
More than a week since the fight for Tripoli began, the women are asked how it feels to sit and talk freely with a foreign reporter.
“I am speechless,” Auhood says, then laughs when she realizes she is, in fact, not.
Her sister Khulood, 29, says: “This is a proper jihad. You don’t choose what you want from the Qur’ran. It’s fixed, it’s right.”
SkyNewsPix Ed Bayliss
Ex-bodyguard of Khamis #Gaddafi interviewed on #skynews today – see our report online at bit.ly/nKW2J4
FOLLOWING ARTICLE EXPLAINS A LOT:
Alternet
Exposed: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Bloggers Conducted Secret 10-Year Campaign to Fan Fear of Muslims
Extremist foundations, think tanks, pundits, and bloggers carried out a 10-year-old campaign to promote fear of Islam and Muslims in the U.S.
The 130-page report, ‘Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America’, identifies seven foundations that have quietly provided a total of more than 42 million dollars to key individuals and organisations that have spearheaded the nation-wide effort between 2001 and 2009.
They include funders that have long been associated with the extreme right in the U.S., as well as several Jewish family foundations that have supported right-wing and settler groups in Israel.
The network also includes what the report calls “misinformation experts” – including Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), Daniel Pipes of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum (MEF), Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, David Yerushalmi of the Society of Americans for National Existence, and Robert Spencer of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) – who are often tapped by television news networks and right-wing radio talk shows to comment on Islam and the threat it allegedly poses to U.S. national security.
Please read more:
www.alternet.org/story/152197/exposed%3...
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
This morning rebels cancelled at last minute a planned offensive on #BaniWalid because town celebrates Eid today, contrary to rest #Libya
Seif el Islam el Gaddafi was last night in the house of Mohammad Abdul Hadi Iqteet: rebel sources
Gadaffi and members of his family are in #BaniWalid: rebel sources
In four days, after Eid, offensive #BaniWalid will start: rebel sources
AmbassadorRice Ambassador Rice
Best wishes and Eid Mubarak to Muslim communities around the world
Michael
#Sabha #Libya G has a mansion ~ 4 mi S of airport probably riddled w/ tunnel, comm et al. twitpic.com/6dnsqz
Tight shot on G’s mansion 4mi S of #Sabha #Libya airport. twitpic.com/6dntx4
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi: “I am here!!” #libya #feb17 fb.me/Qr5sZuBd
PHOTO’S:
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Obviously, his pool was not used for several months. Maybe he did’nt stay here. yfrog.com/h8z0dovj
yfrog.com/mf4xgyj
yfrog.com/h0xawksj
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Water valve allowing transfer of 200,000 cubicm/day from Eastern system is in #Sirte & #Gaddafi forces are keeping it closed.
#NTC in talks with #Greece about using some of its water tanker vessels to ship in water to #Tripoli. #Libya #Feb17
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Gadhafi loyalists blamed for Tripoli water crisis dlvr.it/jTSp4
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UN Sanctions Committee agrees unfreezing of 1.86bn Libyan Dinar of UK held bank notes, to help the people of #Libya – bit.ly/qjZDqJ
Guardian
Gaddafi’s son abandons his lions in flight from Tripoli
Saadi Gaddafi and his bodyguards visited his nine lions in Tripoli’s zoo every day until rebels overran the city
Until one month ago the location of Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi wasn’t a mystery at all. Every day Saadi would drive with a couple of low-key bodyguards to Tripoli’s zoo. The zoo – located right next to Gaddafi’s heavily protected Bab al-Aziziya complex – was closed to ordinary visitors. But for Saadi it was always open.
Saadi, Gaddafi’s third son, would come to visit his favourite animals: the lions. Nine of the zoo’s 18 lions belonged to him personally; he was usually found crouching in front of their spacious enclosure. As Libya’s rebels advanced inexorably towards Tripoli, Saadi reassured the zoo’s director there was nothing to worry about. “He told me: ’It’s OK. The situation is normal’,” said Dr Abdulfatah Husni, the zoo’s director.
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/ga...
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Opinion: “Will falls of Gaddafi and Gbagbo result in an era of external interventions?”, writes Mahmood Mamdani @mm1124 aje.me/rl97qv
cswift2 Cara Swift
Fmr #Libya State News agency Jana announces new name #Libyan News Agency (WAL), says ‘We begin….our news in a new age and with a new name’
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
happy eid #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Having a daytime coffee for the first time in a month, I feel like I’m on speed #eidmubarak
Not that I know what being on speed is like, mind you.
Khamis Gaddafi, the Libyan Rasputin j.mp/oVzXaV
It seems Tripoli and the road there from Ras Ijdir are very safe now, alhamdulilah.
I don’t think anybody predicted that the battle for Tripoli would be this quick and that order would return so quickly.
Just confirmed that I’ll be going to #Tripoli via Djerba this weekend for two weeks! (personal visit, with family)
I can’t wait to see #Tripoli again, to see my grandmother, aunties, uncles and cousins who have been there throughout.
I haven’t left yet, I’ll be flying to Djerba on Sunday and crossing the day after iA. I’ll post updates when I can
I will of course be taking photographs and posting them on the revived nafusa.tumblr.com blog
Me and my family have been to Libya almost every summer for as long as I can remember, but this visit will be the most memorable.
When things get back to normal, I think #Libya will be the new “must-go” holiday destination. Beaches, sun, hospitality, food, the lot.
MORE PHOTO’S:
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Another view of Gaddafi’s private home at BA. Car drive way and the private clinic to the left. yfrog.com/mghuvsj
Private class room for Hana Gaddafi. yfrog.com/h8b8paucj http://yfrog.com/h7u5kjpmj
LOL. Can’t make what this is. Ready to escape from a back window? yfrog.com/h87bhegj
Have no clue what this ladder for. It leads from/to a back window. yfrog.com/h8mgnxej
LOL at Gadaffi’s taste in cloths! Private tailor. yfrog.com/h4r6uyymj http://yfrog.com/gy6n9dmj
Recognize the “Zanga Zanga” head scarf? yfrog.com/hw7t0tj
One of Gaddafi’s pool side bedrooms. No mattress? yfrog.com/hs2mvyjj http://yfrog.com/klsinxlj
Signs of ferocious battles in BA. yfrog.com/gzli6uauj http://yfrog.com/hs765jbj
One of Gaddafi’s buses… yfrog.com/kirb8gfj http://yfrog.com/gy5ogizj
I spotted Nabous’ Libya Alhura TV in Tripoli… yfrog.com/nw840qj
Some of the FF guarding the BA compound. yfrog.com/g0qyyvj
Gaddafi shot peaceful protesters with these. Left (AK47), Right (14.5 AA). I witnessed that. yfrog.com/h86lcxuwj
Williamson
I hope all #Gaddafi former homes, prisons, palaces are re-used as rehab centres for the injured, holiday places for kids, workshops, studios
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Algeria; Gaddafi family members ikely to get refuge in #Illizi province rather than in Capital Algiers #libya
Gaddafi’s female bodyguards say they were raped, abused by the Libyan leader
Five women who were part of Col. Moammar Gaddafi’s elite team of female bodyguards say they were raped and abused by the now fugitive Libyan leader.
The Sunday Times of Malta reports that the former bodyguards said Gaddafi and his sons raped and abused them and then discarded the women once the men became “bored” with them.
“A pattern emerged in the stories,” the Times reports. “The women would be first raped by the dictator and then passed on, like used objects, to one of his sons and eventually to high-ranking officials for more abuse before eventually being let go.”
Read more:
goo.gl/8zxA8
FromJoanne Joanne
UN human Rights Rupert Colville says Shutting off Water supply willfully could possibly b classified as a Crime Against Humanity #Libya
Once #Tripoli WATER engineers arrive&Repair water system in #Hassouna It will take 36hrs 4 water supply 2return to full capacity #Libya
#Tripoli main WATER supply comes from #Jebel #Hassouna region to the south where only 30 of 580 wells are now operational Says #Echo
#Sirte Valve was switched off by Gaddaf troops 200,000 cubic mtrs pd Cutoff leaving only 100,000 cubic metres available for Tripoli
Its not my quote
“28.000 prisoners released”its Colonel Hisham Buhajar who released that figure Here; goo.gl/r7IHQ #Libya
AJELive AJELive
#Libya: #NATO has said it conducted 120 air sorties on Monday, including 42 strike sorties. aje.me/jQEpiq #AJEnglish
Libya rebels get taste of luxury at Gaddafi family resort
Rebels who took part in the assault on Tripoli relax in opulent setting unfathomable to war-weary revolutionaries
Hazem Mehdi’s withered right shoulder is pink and raw and inflamed by sea salt. Yet as he emerges from the ocean outside the Gaddafi family’s beach house, he says the pain no longer bothers him.
“I don’t want to go home,” he says as he tinkers away with an outboard motor, propped up by a cushion from a sofa inside worth several thousand dollars. “I’ll go home for Eid the Islamic festival to mark the end of Ramadan tomorrow and then I’m coming back here.”
His two friends agree, oblivious to the cost of the cushion swilling in the sea beneath them and unaware of the value of almost everything in the opulent house up the hill.
Full story:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/li...
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Burned AK47 storage facility, apparently from a NATO strike. yfrog.com/h2kfdtwj
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafi Convoy7 4×4drive vehicles with 31 ppl motstly women + children Had 2WAIT @ #Libya Algeria Border4 12HRS b4 allowed enter #Algeria
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Opinion: “Berbers are almost certain to want a federal state in post-Gaddafi #Libya”, writes George Joffe aje.me/q9cu41
#BBC: News that Mutassim Gaddafi has left #Sirte probably headed for Bani Waleed.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
UK says UN sanctions committee agreed to release 950 million pounds worth of Libyan banknotes frozen in Britain: Reuters #alarabiya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
BBC Video: Libya rebels offer ceasefire ahead of Eid holiday bit.ly/oHs6WA #libya
Libyan ‘behind Yvonne Fletecher’s killing’ found dead bit.ly/nStdx4 #libya
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP "FARWA 35.73855˚/14.86352˚has departed #Sfax #Tunisia for unlisted dest. #Libya #Feb17
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “FARWA” Prior to #Sfax this ship was in #Syria, #Algeria & #Slovenia. Privateer. #Libya #Feb17
Smiffy’s Wife
Expert on the Libyan water system on Sky news( he helped build it) says his only explantion to the water is, it’s cut off at Bani Walid.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports last night that a group of Southern #Freedomfighters were headed to #Algeria border to cut roads, prevent #Gaddafi escape. #Libya
echoroukonline ( Algeria)
Gaddafi Family Members Enter to Algeria
Algeria authorities have authorized family members of Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to enter to the country via Tinalcom crossing post in Illizi province, on south east border, official source told Echorouk.
The convoy comprises 7 four wheels drive vehicles carrying 31 people, including
Gaddafi wife, Safia, her daughter Aisha, her sons Mohamed and Hanibal, in addition to Gaddafi’s grandchildren.
The source said the convoy of Gaddafi family members were waiting for 12 hours near the crossing post, before being authorized to enter to Algeria.
Aisha Gaddafi was in a critical health situation as she is pregnant in her 9th month, noting that the convoy carried many children and women, which prompted the authorities to let the convoy entering to Algeria, in accordance with international treaties stipulating offering help for people in the times of war, the source added.
Gaddafi family members are likely to get refuge in Illizi province, rather than in the capital Algiers, the source added.
To recall, an international arrest warrant has been issued two months ago against Muammar Gaddafi, his son Seif al Islam and Chief of Intelligence Service, Abdullah al-Senoussi.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta PASSENGER SHIP “SEAHORSE” now en route to #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#MarshallIslands OIL TANKER “SALACGRIVA” now en route to dest. #Zawia #Libya from #Malta ETA: 2011-08-31 04:00 (UTC). #Feb17
AP
Body found of suspect in British police death
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Authorities in Tripoli have discovered the body of a top Libyan regime official suspected of a role in the 1984 shooting of a British policewoman outside the Libyan embassy in London, a senior official said Tuesday.
The body of Abdel Kader Baghdadi, former head of Moammar Gadhafi’s Revolutionary Guards, was found along with several other corpses in a government building Tripoli’s Tajoura neighborhood, said Usama el-Abed, deputy chief of Tripoli’s new city council
More here:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...
Hauslohner
Seif #Gaddafi had massive arsenal on his farm: 10+ huge hidden bunkers with M-120 bombs, rockets, guns, gas masks, flak vests, APCs #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Just wondering: Can the #NTC & or Free Libya contact #Interpol & put out arrest warrants for ALL #Gaddafi family members? #Libya #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KURUOGLU 3” remains anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
NTC: No positive progress in negotiations over the surrender of Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte #Libya #Sirte #Arabiyah
Ahmed
Do what?! RT@LIBYA_BREAKNEWS: Libyan PM Bagdadi Mahmoudi sent a statement to Al-Arabiya declaring that he is now with the feb 17 revolution
That’s way past the deadline:)
Rima
People in #Homs chant about Misurata..wallahi we can’t be truly happy until they’re free too :( #Libya #Syria youtube.com/watch?v=bPaoaY… (Via FB)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tunisia #Egypt #Libya Three down 2 to go : #Algeria and #Morocco
#TRIPOLI about 200 PPL pounded a the door and demanded promised 250 Dinar to cover #Eid holidays from a bank in Souk al Juma’a #Libya
#Libya #Oil minister #Tarhouni Expects #Libya wells to start pumping oil in coming days close to as normal Signed OilContracts be Respected
#NouriBerouin chairman #NOC: Most #oil fields r “fine” Not suffered major damage but minefields arnd #Brega Exp. terminal =problem #Libya
Quoting diplomatic sources #ElWatan media reports Algeria Closed southern part of its border with #Libya
Pres #Bouteflika had told gov. ministers @cabinet meeting Mond #Algeria would respect Int. law on all matters related to #Libya conflict
#Libya revolutionary forces FF have entered the western town of #Ghadames near the border with #Algeria
#FLASH AYESHA BABY was born in #Djanet An oasis deep in #Sahara Djanet lies about 500 km southwest of #Sabha #Libya
#Algeria allowed Gaddafi family memebers enter via #Tinalcom Bordepost in Illizi province on SE border via #Echorouk media #Libya
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
Tripoli interim city councillor: could take two weeks or more to get water running. Gadhafi brigade sabotaged pumps at source in desert.
Tripoli engineers trying 2 reach damagd water pumps @JebelHassouna, 600k s of Tripoli, but 2 unsafe to enter. Red Cross now negotiatg access
Saw big clean up crew in Martyrs Sq preparing for Eid celebrations tonight and tomorrow. Very impressive.
Tripoli Interim Council: 5 crisies: water, security, health, energy, food. Last 2 can be managed. First 3 very serious threats to stability.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
FF drive around in Gaddafi’s Limo! Guys take to NTC, they’ll surely need one soon :-) yfrog.com/kjvzeklj
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I hope that @LibyaTV will broadcast the Eid prayers in Martyr Square, Tripoli… I’d love
to see that #libya
Khalifa
Libyans abroad used to avoid one another now they seek each other out. Freedom is wonderful. #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#Gaddafi soldiers raped rebels/ male prisoners: Amnesty tells me Watch: bit.ly/pLlBrd #libya #tripoli
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Seif el Islam el #Gaddafi was accompanied by his close aid Abdul Jalil al Taher Abdul Hadi Iqteet: Rebel sources #Libya
Deputy defense Minsiter tells me: " We ask #algerian people to pressure government to give back the #gaddafi family members." #libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Roadside arrest of TV actor Mukhtar al-Aswad shows dangers of mob rule in post Gaddafi #Libya tgr.ph/ntOuWh Telegraph
How it used to be:
#TRIPOLI A day with Gaddafi s female bodyguards bydo.ug/4c #Libya
SMILE but true:
Tripolitano
When leaving #Libya a check points. #Gaddafi thugs used to ask “do u have fazebook?!” meaning laptop!!
ARRESTS:
dovenews Libyan™
#Ghryan #FF have arrested Major General Hadi Emberesh & Brigadier General Mohammed Abdu a commander of the military police in 1/2
#Algawasim area, while they were trying to escape to #Algeria via #Ghadamis route. 2/2
Lisa
#FreeLibya Amazing accomplishments by #FreeLibya in only 6 months!! Imagine what they can accomplish in 6 years :O
4Adam Adam
People across Tripoli are tentatively preparing for a double Eid celebration youtube.com/watch?v=06-GHk… #Libya #Tripoli
Ali Tweel
big celebrations are on the roads of Tripoli right now… and yes you guessed it!! …accompanied with celebratory firing.
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
tripoli resident on challenge of bldg new democratic institutions:“we got rid of gadhafi regime now we have 2 get rid of gadhafi mentality”
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Impressive “message discipline” from the rebels today. Civilian then military leadership delivering ultimatum on Sirte. Not seen that before
AJE: Saadi may be willing to give himself up #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Saadi Gaddafi was inclined to surrender. Belhaj said he had an idea of where Saadi was and that his family was nearby #Libya
AJE: Tripoli Military, Belhaj reports to James Bays that Saadi was in touch by phone.
Gaddafi forces hang on in Sirte while he hides
shabablibya.org/news/gaddafi-forces-han...
OmarAmer
Just spoke with the pilot who flew planes,here is ur final summery. 3 planes are completely damaged, further 10 have minor/med damage #libya
Damaged aircraft: buraq has 3 damaged, two of which are their new boeing 737-800s. Afriqiyah: 4 damaged, 5A-onj,k,d,I (A320/19s)
Libyan airlines have a brand new CRJ 900ng and 2 brand new A320s riddled with bullet holes, but can be repaired.
The 3 aircraft completely damaged are 2 older A300s belonging to Libyan airlines, a big loss.. And 1 afriqiyah A300 presidential
Gaddafi’s own A340 which was bought from saudi. A vip aircraft is ok but has some damage under the nose. 3 planes flown to benghazi now
Ali Tweel
Libyans are trying to convert the 1st September day to a Clean garbage day :)
Gaddafi’s spying systems أنظمة التجسس والتنصت لنظام القذافي ow.ly/6h4Tr via @AlArabiya
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING #Tripoli Mil Council #BELHAJ says has unconfirmed reports where Muammar Gaddafi is + Saadi Gaddafi talks abt surrender #Aljezeera
BREAKING Head of ;Tripoli Militairy says Saaidi + 90% of inner circle Regime believed 2speaking from not 2far away ready2surrender #Libya
Hana S.
Relatives in #Tripoli say last time they’ve been in contact with #Sirte was Aug 20th same as everyone else, talking in codes on the phone.
#Saadi Gaddafi and other high ranking G goons negotiating surrender with #Tripoli Military committee Via #Aljezeeera Heard it myself
NTC confirms it knows whereabouts of Matouk (Yvonne Fletcher) Matouk attempted 2defect to NTC when Tripoli fell #Libya
Aljazeera
Gaddafi’s son ‘ready to surrender’
A senior NTC official has said that Saadi Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader’s third son, is willing to give himself up
A senior National Transitional Council official in Libya has told Al Jazeera that Saadi Gaddafi is willing to give himself up. He is the third son of the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The NTC’s military leader in Tripoli, Abdelhakim Belhaj, said on Wednesday that Saddi called him and asked if he can surrender.
In an exclusive interview, Belhaj said the revolutionaries know for sure where some of the regime leaders are, including unconfirmed reports on where Gaddafi is.
Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from Tripoli said: “We asked him Abdelhakim Belhaj about the military situation, remaining members of the Gaddafi family, and he said that he believes one of Gaddafi’s sons, Saadi, is preparing to surrender.
“According to Belhaj, Saddi doesn’t want to leave Libya, he wants to talk to the national council and negotiate his surrender. He thinks he knows the whereabouts of Saddi Gaddafi from the phone call. Also says he believes some senior figures of the government are now ready to surrender, such as the former prime minister.
“Belhaj made a point of saying that any of those who do surrender will be treated properly, and court cases will be held to international norms. Belhaj thought that Muammar Gaddafi is less likely to surrender, but would be treated fairly if he did. He would be held in custody with proper human rights.”
More and source:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
FromJoanne Joanne
#No #Comment: Saadi #Gaddafi today expressed his desire to be part of the #Febr17 Revolution #Libya
Gaddafi ’Fled #Tripoli And Headed South @Skynews goo.gl/ZjIhV
Return 2 #Rixos: #Gaddafi regime did not mess around (Only)Now we (media) R beginning 2see Horrifying Evidence of that goo.gl/UvYSJ
Walid وليد
My father was last night appointed as the head of the military council (munasaq elaskry) in his local area in #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
he feels proud 2 b finally getting recognition as 1 of the 1st men 2 attempt 2 kill Gadafi in 1969…it haunts him that he failed
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Back from flood-lit Martyrs Sq in Tripoli, packed tonight with thousands of men, women + children celebrating with songs + chanting
Aljazeera
Freed Libyan prisoner tells his story
Like many Libyans, Masoud Marghani was arrested and held in prison for defying Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Masoud Marghani and his 13 cellmates in Tripoli’s Jdaida Prison could hear freedom on the doorstep.
Anti-aircraft guns manned by troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi thundered on the roof. Outside the walls of the compound, there was shouting, explosions and the chatter of small-arms fire.
It was the night of August 20, and rebels had entered the capital. Inside their second-floor cell, Marghani and the others waited. As the sound of fighting drew closer, they became agitated. Guards pointed their AK-47s into the cells, threatening to kill the men if they didn’t shut up.
Nobody slept. The fighting continued through the night. One by one, guards deserted their posts. Gunfire continued into the morning, and no one came to deliver food or check on the inmates.
At one point, the warden Haj al-Fituri walked by Marghani’s cell.
“What time is it?” a prisoner asked.
“It’s too late,” Fituri said. Then the warden went downstairs, and the men never saw him again.
By afternoon, rebels had cautiously entered the compound, but Marghani and the others remained trapped on the second floor. In an interview with Al Jazeera, he described how he and three other men unhinged their bathroom door and used it to smash open the cell. He opened his hands to show the scars on his palms.
The inmates poured out and began freeing others on their floor. Down below, Marghani saw a man below in civilian clothes toting an AK-47.
“When I saw a civilian man inside with a gun, I understood,” he said. “The guards didn’t go inside with their guns.”
Marghani had spent the past two months incarcerated. He was first in the notorious Abu Salim prison, then transferred to Jdaida, where rules were lax. Like hundreds of others, he was thrown in jail for protesting against Gaddafi.
Marghani is a fifth-year medical student who workrfas a pharmacist and then at a medical supply company to support himself.
His mother comes from Benghazi, long a hot bed of anti-regime sentiment and the stronghold of the National Transitional Council. Her father had six wives, and it was Marghani’s network of 13 uncles who first told him about the uprising that broke Gaddafi’s grip on the east.
Marghani and his friends had seen the Facebook call for a “revolution” on February 17, but many didn’t believe it could happen.
“They felt afraid even of the idea,” he said.
‘This is a rat’
Two days before the scheduled uprising, when protests broke out in Benghazi over the arrest of well-known human rights lawyer Fathi Terbil, Marghani’s uncles called him in Tripoli.
When the protests escalated into a brutal regime crackdown and an armed resistance that brought down the local military garrison, they kept him informed.
On February 20, when the garrison fell, his uncles called him in tears.
“We are free here. We are free. How are you,” one said.
While they were speaking on the phone protesters were out in force on the streets of Tripoli, and it looked as if Gaddafi’s government would soon be toppled.
Marghani turned the phone to the crowd so his uncles could hear the chants of “With our soul, with our blood, we’ll defend you Benghazi”.
“I thought everything would be done when I saw people in the streets everywhere,” Marghani said.
But Gaddafi did not back down. As the crowd marched to the Tuesday Market roundabout in Margahni’s western neighbourhood of Gargaresh, they ran into two anti-aircraft guns. When the artillery opened fire, the protesters scattered.
Tripoli was shut down in the months to follow. Mobile phone and Internet services were disabled for two weeks. Military, security and mercenary forces were deployed throughout the capital. Civilians were shot dead for venturing outside their homes after 6pm.
Marghani stayed inside. His brother was in Spain working as a banker, so he wanted to help his father protect the family. His mother had asked him not to leave.
Petrol, food and other goods became scarce and prices went up. Fuel queues sprang
up across Tripoli. The government capped the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn from banks to 1,000 dinars ($832), then 500, then 250.
In June, Marghani set out to take his father, mother, two nephews and pregnant 40-year-old sister to Tunisia. When they reached the border crossing at Ras Ajdir, Marghani was taken aside. His mother’s family’s name, well known in Benghazi, had raised a red flag.
A customs officer told him his picture in the computer system was too blurry. They took him to a small shack, promising only a few questions. Soon, plainclothes guards with AK-47s took over and pushed him outside, following him with their guns.
“What did you do?” his father asked.
“I didn’t do anything,” he said.
“This is a rat!” the guards shouted.
Taking up a weapon
Marghani was taken for interrogation then shipped to Tripoli. He spent 35 days in Abu Salim. The prison housed more than 1,000 inmates and was known for violence. Rebels emptied Abu Salim after seizing the area earlier this month.
Officers told Marghani he was being charged with helping to burn down a police station and two other building’s belonging to Gaddafi’s oppressive People’s and Revolutionary Committees.
In fact, it was true. Marghani assumed that informants for the regime had been among the crowd, perhaps even taking part. Even so, he denied any part in the torched buildings.
He was brought to a tent in a courtyard, blindfolded, and grilled with questions. Beside him, at the next interrogation desk, he heard an officer play a recorded phone call to an inmate. The officer paused the recording repeatedly to ask the man if it was his voice speaking on the phone.
Marghani could hear the man on the phone call; he spoke of standing with his gun in the middle of Zawiya – a town rebels seized before entering Tripoli from the west.
“We’re going to kill Muammar like a dog,” he said on the recorded call.
When the man denied it was him, guards beat him. Marghani also received beatings
but was never tortured, though he said others were.
Marghani was moved to Jdaida, in southeast Tripoli, a dirtier prison but where inmates were allowed cigarettes and phone calls.
Marghani and others eventually learned of the fall of Zawiya and of Gharyan, to the south. Within two hours of arriving in Tripoli on August 21, rebels had freed all the inmates in Jdaida, breaking open cell doors with steel rods.
There were no common criminals in Jdaida, Marghani claimed, only political prisoners and opponents of the regime like himself.
After being freed, he spent two days with friends in Souq al-Jomaa, a staunch anti-Gaddafi neighbourhood. He then returned home to Gargaresh to see his family, who never escaped to Tunisia.
After a short visit, Marghani left again. His friends told him about a Gaddafi weapons depot hidden in the basement of a nearby apartment building, and Marghani wanted to go there to secure himself a gun.
Rebel fighters tried to tried to stop him from entering the depot, but let him through when he told them he had done time in Abu Salim. He took an AK-47 and some ammunition.
These days Marghani mans checkpoints in his neighbourhood, waiting for the conflict in Triploi to finally settle down.
“Actually, I am a doctor, a medical student,” he said. “Hopefully, I will hand over my gun and get back to a normal life.”
Daily Motion
Tense Libyan capital celebrates ‘double’ Eid
People across Tripoli are tentatively preparing for a “double Eid” celebration to mark both the end of the Kadhafi regime and the end of Ramadan, in a city slowly returning to normal amidst the debris of recent fighting. Despite food shortages and localized sniper activity, a few shopkeepers have opened their doors, and in the markets conversation is turning from violence to its effect on the price of groceries.
Video:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xksmch_tense-...
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I have good news for Baghdadi Mahmudi: Being Gaddafi’s slave earned you a spot on the ICC list. You are days away from being an int criminal
Calling Arabiya and saying that you defected isn’t going to win you amnesty, respect or any form of support Mr Baghdadi Mahmudi
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
A heavily guarded Ali Tarhouni, Libya’s de facto deputy PM, addressed crowds at Martyrs Sq tonight + led rendition of old national anthem
Marc_Herman_:
Am sitting next to an office full of Tripoli fighters registering their machine guns w/ the neighbourhood council. #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan NTC can now do business in the US shabablibya.org/news/libyan-nt… #Libya
The Libyan National Army is now 70km East of Sirte v AJA #Libya #Sirte
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
Under a democratic gov’t, issues of racism and S. African human rights can be tackled more aggressively. Under #Gaddafi, they flourished.
LIBYA TRIPOLI
A look again at Inside #Gaddafi’s tunnels youtube.com/watch?v=I3Nng9… #Libya #Tripoli
dovenews Libyan™
Amnesty: Libya: Prison records at risk of being lost goo.gl/m4px2
Libya_Awake_United
Two bomb cars where discovered and dismantled today in Souq aljuma district of #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
dovenews Libyan™
Abdelaziz Bouteflika "We will arrest Gaddafi if he enters #Algeria. Allowing Gaddafi’s family is “purely for humanitarian reasons” #Libya
I wish if Abdelaziz Bouteflika could equally look at the Libyan people in “purely humanitarian way”
Niz_FGM Niz
The Free Generation Movement would like to thank #UN for its water distribution program in #Tripoli with the help of Trip Stabilisation Team
wheelertweets James Wheeler
@
@wheelertweets Went to Misrata by ambulance August 24. Waited till road was safe. Left Misrata by boat 3am Monday. Arrived Tunis 4pm Tuesday
tom
What a day. Eid now definitely rivaling Christmas in my books
Free Libya Now
Libyan Ambassador to Tanzania, Prof Ahmed El Ash’ab, raising free Libya flag, Tanzania FM summons him for not consulting with him. #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli: A music festival going on now… yfrog.com/18p91bj
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Eid prayer in #Tripoli: Tomorrow, 8am (Libya time) at Martyr’s square #libya
SUMMARY AUGUST 31st 2011
8/31/11
8.31.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/x5vLV
NATOpress NATO Press
#NATO Secretary General travels to Paris to attend the International Conference on #Libya on 1 Sept 2011 – goo.gl/9hl8f
#NATO destroyed yesterday more than 45 military pieces for the battalions #Gaddafi of armored vehicles , #tanks and rocket launchers in addition to headquarters of command in each of the #Sirte ,Bani Walid and Huwn
flyingbirdies أكرم
Am at 17feb street #Tripoli yfrog.com/mgggcooj
AJELive AJELive
#Gaddafi loyalists in #Sirte are refusing to surrender. NTC says they have until Saturday or will attack aje.me/p2YvYv
EndTyranny101 Ahmed Sanalla
Thousands of men women & children gathered in Martyr square in Tripoli for Eid prayers chants of ‘hold your head up high, U R a free Libyan’
KatzOnEarth Jonathan M. Katz
So, uh, that was Gadhafi’s spokesman on the phone …
Ibrahim called to say a NATO attack on Sirte killed 1,000 people during public Eid prayers. This cannot be immediately confirmed.
He said that he thinks NATO believes Gadhafi is in Sirte, hence the alleged and unconfirmed bombing.
Wouldn’t disclose Gadhafi’s location except that he is “in Libya, of course.” Ibrahim said he himself is “somewhere south of Tripoi.”
He also told me the regime will reject the rebels’ ultimatum. “No dignified honorable nation would accept an ultimatum from armed gangs.”
He reiterated that Gadhafi wants to send his son al-Saadi (“he is famous for loving sports”) to negotiate with the rebels in #Libya.
As we say here, the alleged attack could not be immediately confirmed, and Gadhafi’s regime has consistently exaggerated casaulty tolls.
Tweeted. Would bet we’re not the only ones who got that call.
I hear there’s spam going around claiming that he’s dead. When you click on it, you download malware.
Muhammad
its funny when journos say can’t be confirmed when its blatantly a lie!
Valerie. err I thought libya was celebrating eid on Wednesday!
KatzOnEarth Jonathan M. Katz
I was confused by that too actually. Were there any Eid celebrations in Libya yesterday?
m_madi Mohamed Madi
libya is celebrating eid on wednesday, unless sirte did so differently this year
AJELive AJELive
#Libyan rebels find evidence that #Gaddafi’s daughter, who reportedly died in a 1986 US air strike, was never killed aje.me/psxH9h
Maidaan El Shohadaa2 – ميدان الشهداء بطرابلس 30 اغسطس .mp4
ميدان الشهداء او ما يعرف ايام النظام الديكتاتوري بالساحة الخضراء ليلة 30 اغسطس
تحية للشعب الليبي الحر وتقبل الله شهدائنا الابرار في فسيح جناته
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgjIA2WZkLE&fea...
AJELive AJELive
#Libya’s NTC knows the whereabouts of Yvonne Fletcher’s killer. She was shot in 1984 outside Libyan embassy in London aje.me/nK1J3q
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Aisha Gaddafi is reported to have just given birth to a baby in Algeria, when she reportedly had a 4months-old baby killed on 30Apr.
Maybe that 4 month old baby ghost was a sister of little ghost Hannah?
نون عربيه
A 4 month baby in April and deliverng again now, that doesn’t add up!
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
My mind, heart, soul and spirit will be in Tripoli tomorrow. Kul sana wenty tayba ya 7abeebatena Trablis <3. #Eid #Tripoli #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Voice of America: #Gaddafi Son’s House Gives No Hint Family Would Fall. Video: goo.gl/cJk8f #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Veterans Today
Gaddafi’s Israeli Intel Mercenaries Uncovered
Tripoli Homeland Security bunker run on Israeli equipment and personnel
The pro Gaddafi media has been on steroids shoveling out all their NATO monster stories…slaughtering civilians intentionally, destroying civilian infrastructure, etc. And when it comes to the rebel command we have heard of them being Al Qaeda led, CIA, SAS, …almost like they had a roulette wheel somewhere with all their favorite villains on in.
We now have incontrovertible proof that Israelis, working in Tripoli, actively managed Gaddafi’s intelligence services. When the inner sanctum was cranked open and BBC video teams entered, the documentation of this strange partnership was exposed for the world to see.
With Intel analysis you are also always looking for what is conspicuously missing. And in the present case, has been Israel. Despite their historically having their noses in everything in the region securitywise, there has not been a single mention.
VT has uncovered that Israel has been working so closely with the Gaddafi regime that they were running his Homeland Security Headquarters…the countrywide communications intercepts and the torture chambers downstairs.
The companies identified, French and Israel partnerships which include EADS and IAI (Israeli Aircraft Industries,) manufacturer or the EAGLE systems, drones used for surveillance, signals intelligence gathering, target acquisition and attack, are identified as contractors.
Their drones are being used in Gaza now, not just for target acquisition but
for delivering cluster munitions and American “Hellfire” ordnance as well.
There were rows and rows of hard copy archive shelving holding what was treasure trove of intercept records. Obviously phosphorus grenades must have been in short supply, or these folks took off at the last minute. But then it got better.
As the tour continued there was shot after shot of signs, admin instructions and documents…all in English !!!
Let that sink in a minute. Here were are in Tripoli, in Gaddafi’s security brain center, something which had obviously been in operation a long, long time…and the language de jour???….English.
During the Libyan war mass media gave virtually no background coverage to Gaddafi’s long time dealings with the Israelis.
We have reported here that the Gaddafi sons, particularly Saif, were shuffling back and forth to Israel, with one trip lasting a week.
The early African mercenary story with the Israeli contractor was in the Israeli print news. And Gordon Duff recent article reporting Said Gaddafi’s funding of the Africa Islamic Council’s anti-Hezbollah efforts in Lebanon.
Why was Saif doing that? The benefit to the Israelis is obvious. But what was Saif getting in return for the effort?
Was he there to borrow money maybe, or to tap into the Israeli’s talent reservior for electronic intercept hardware, software, and experienced personnel, especially the language skills necessary.
Are there other suspects, the Serbians, Turks, Belorussians, Poles, Georgians ??? What could they really bring to the table in this capacity. Nothing really.
So there are really only two choices…one of the main NATO countries, or Israel. We have placed our bet. Welcome to the real world folks. It’s a nasty place.
More will be coming on the Gaddafi white collar mercs….the civilian technicians and military officers. There is a long history here.
Full report and video:
www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/30/gaddaf...
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#Zwara plans citywide cleanup on 3rd day of Eid. Crisis Management Group already planning to turn over power then to mejlis mahali #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
#North #Korea yet to recognize Libya’s #NTC. “Not yet … (we’ll have to) wait and see.” koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/natio… #Libya
Gaddafi’s compound becomes a big attraction www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/... #Libya
Iran Reaches Out to Libya’s Rebels www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-eas... #Libya #Iran
AFP: Canada aims to unlock $2 billion in Libyan assets www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A... #Libya #Canada
Abandoned Gaddafi homes reveal champagne lifestyle goo.gl/1b1Do
Jezebel
Female Bodyguards Say Qaddafi And Sons Raped, Abused Them
In the early days of the Libya rebellion, the fatigue-clad, heavily made-up women that surrounded Muammar Qaddafi became a source of international amusement. But Qaddafi’s eccentricity could distract from the brutality, including with those same bodyguards, several of whom have now told a Benghazi psychologist that they were repeatedly raped by the dictator and his sons.
In an interview with the Sunday Times of Malta, Seham Sergewa described the accounts of five former bodyguards she came across when trying to investigate claims of Viagra-aided mass rape by soldiers. One “was told ‘you either become a bodyguard or your brother will spend the rest of his life in prison,’” and then, before being brought to Qaddafi, told she had to take a medical test, including for HIV. According to The Times,
A pattern emerged in the stories. The women would be first raped by the dictator and then passed on, like used objects, to one of his sons and eventually to high-ranking officials for more abuse before eventually being let go.
Full story:
jezebel.com/5835724/female-bodyguards-s...
dovenews Libyan™
“Come with me,” said the man, “and I will show you where Gaddafi buried people alive.” vancouversun.com/Horrors+from+L… #Libya
Khiria El-Feghi
#SaadiGaddafi wants to join the #Feb17 revolution. Yeah, I’m sure #Gaddafi himself wants to defect now too.
grafixel guess what
globalization is a bitch RT @al_habieli: Tehran Times: Qurans outsourced to China filled with spelling mistakes is.gd/LUi2zW
dovenews Libyan™
Turkish companies eager to get back into Libya for post-Qaddafi work thenational.ae/news/worldwide… #Libya #Turkey
Libyans want #OFWs to stay www.mb.com.ph/articles/332578/libyans-w... #Libya #Philippines
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Image- Historic moment: Eid prayers in Maydan Shuhada, Tripoli & seaside courthouse, Benghazi – Eid Mubarek Free #Libya pic.twitter.com/cig2iGt
BREAKING: REPORTS: #Russian envoy will attend ‘Friends of #Libya’ meeting in #Paris
Tripoli Freedom Park, Speakers Corner حديقة الحرية طرابلس
I would love to see Bab Al-Azyzia turned into a “Freedom Park” and would love to see a corner dedicated to free speech, political, religious or whatever subject the speaker would choose. No violence no terror. Just express your self. Our revolution would be declared successful, only if we could criticize the Prime Minster and the President of Libya.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PJuntKHt48
Mike
Aisha baby born Jan, NATO kills it Apr when 4mth old. Aisha gives birth new baby end Aug after 9 mth pregnancy. You work it out – MIRACLE
Tweeting Tripoli
OMG, our first national soccer match will be this Saturady in Egypt. African Football Ass refused to postpone. New Anthem, New Jersey ;)
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
One woman in Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square said to me: “I need a million words to express what I feel today – we are free!”
They tried to stop fighters shooting into air to celebrate but the Misrata boys couldn’t contain themselves in Martyrs’ Sq #libya
pdanahar Paul Danahar
UK water engineering expert tells BBC #Gaddafi forces in Bin Walid hold generating plants that power pumps 4 #Tripoli water supply #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Last night I spoke to some of the previously active Pro-G neighbors. It was nice to see that they are now welcoming the new era :)
Heinz: Qadafi is in Sebha in his very deep underground bunker. He has helicopters. He will either fight to the end, or flee.
Tweeting Tripoli
Always knew my BBQ set could have other useful purposes. Good, cause I really need to loose few kgs :) yfrog.com/nzsniyj
17FebRev 17 Feb Revolution
About khamis, Don’t spread the word he could be trying to runaway or it’s another pro gaddafi trick!
Gaddafi’s secret underground TV station / محظة تلفزيون القذافي السرية
Alex Thomson burrows down into the tunnels beneath the Tripoli compound of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya – and finds "a world of total wackiness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=--QL7sr9TeY
Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli: Eid prayers from Martr Square, now. yfrog.com/h43hirauj yfrog.com/nx5nluj yfrog.com/nvxuajj
Libya vs Mozambique, Saturday, Cairo. Unfortunately no fans allowed: sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/soccer/w...
Even if we lose in score, we win in uniting more people. Yippee. Win-Win situation ;)
Aljazeera
Libyans celebrate Eid in Tripoli
Thousands pour into capital’s main square to mark the end of Ramadan and the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Thousands of Libyans have gathered in Tripoli to mark the end of Ramadan and celebrate Eid al-Fitr, kneeling in prayer in Martyrs’ Square as they rejoiced in the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
At dawn on Wednesday, families began to pour into the square, which had been dubbed “Green Square” by Gaddafi, as women ululated in triumph and spontaneous cries of joy erupted.
“This is the best holiday of my life,” said Adel Masmoudi, who at 41 was born the year Gaddafi seized power.
An imam leading the dawn prayer urged all Libyans to stand united and hailed the ousting of “the tyrant Gaddafi”, prompting jeers from the crowd at the mention of the former leader’s name.
Rebel forces had set up a security belt around the square, as armed guards patrolled the area and snipers took position on rooftops overlooking the gathering which ended peacefully later in the morning.
The Eid celebrations had began late on Tuesday with bursts of red tracer rounds fired into the sky as a substitute for fireworks.
“This is the first time we have felt relaxed in 42 years,” Amari Abdulla, 24, told the AFP news agency.
“We will celebrate as in the past but this time it is simply better. It is a new Libya.”
While anti-Gaddafi rebels claim to have “liberated” most of the country, negotiations are still underway for the surrender of regime loyalists in Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown.
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of the rebels’ National Transitional Council (NTC), said on Tuesday that forces loyal to Gaddafi have until Saturday to surrender or face a military assault.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
In #Misrata – quiet first morning of Eid. Huge explosions last night were fireworks mostly, makes a change from last visit (mostly grads)
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
Incredible emotion as Libyans celebrate Eid al-Fitr freely and for first time no #Gaddafi speech on TV #Libya #c4news
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
As promised, pix of food processing factory in #Tripoli #Libya where #Gaddafi hid heavy weapons from #Nato pic.twitter.com/e6Qohq6
or:
twitter.com/#!/WyreDavies/status/108847319918714880/photo/1/large
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Thousands throng Tripoli’s landmark Martyrs Sq (ex Green Sq) for morning Eid prayers. Celebrations there lasted long into night yesterday
Eid mubarak to my driver Mansour + his family. He’s half Arab, half Amazigh (Berber), hails from western Libya, and is a font of knowledge
Tomorrow marks 42 years since Gadafy seized power in a military coup on Sept 1, 1969. Billboards referring to anniv in Tripoli all shot up
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera’s James Bays in #Tripoli: Car bomb in Tripoli. Funeral held in Martyr’s square.
Mirror UK
Dad murders three teenage daughters raped by Gaddafi thugs
THREE young sisters raped in Libya were murdered by their own dad for bringing “shame” on the family, horrified human rights campaigners claimed last night.
The girls, aged 15, 17 and 18, had been attacked by Colonel Gaddafi’s marauding troops at a school in Tomina during a two-month siege on the nearby town of Misrata.
Their twisted dad slit their throats in an honour killing, according to the US-based group Physicians for Human Rights.
The shocking report comes as it was also claimed Gaddafi’s thugs set up “rape
camps” and used civilians, including children, as human shields in a bid to stop Nato airstrikes on the retreating troops.
“One father told PHR how soldiers forced his two young children to sit on a military tank and threatened the family, saying: ‘You’ll stay here and if Nato attacks us you will die too.’
“One witness reported that Gaddafi’s forces transformed an elementary school into a detention site where they reportedly raped women and girls as young as 14.” There were unconfirmed claims of brutal troops fuelling sex attacks with Viagra.
Full story:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/...
Aljazeera
China:
China said Wednesday it was sending a vice-minister to “observe” a Paris conference on the future of Libya, whose rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) Beijing has not officially recognised.
Around 60 nations are expected to be represented at Thursday’s Friends of Libya conference, to be co-chaired by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron.
US Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have all said they will attend, while most other participants said they would send their foreign ministers.
China said it would be represented by its Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun at the meeting, which will seek to address the reconstruction of Libya after months of violence and decades of misrule under Moamer Kadhafi’s regime.
China’s foreign ministry said Jun would attend “as the representative and observer of the Chinese government”.
“China supports relevant parties’ efforts to restore the stability of Libya and facilitate
the stable transfer of Libya’s political power," spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement.
“We are also willing to play a positive role in the future rebuilding of Libya together with the international community.”
Aljazeera
Hana Gaddafi
Since the rebel takeover of Tripoli, evidence has been mounting that Muammar Gaddafi may have lied about the death of his adopted baby daughter Hana in a 1986 US airstrike.
The strike hit Gaddafi’s home in his Tripoli compound, Bab al-Aziziya, in retaliation for the Libyan-sponsored bombing of a Berlin nightclub earlier that year that killed two US servicemen. At the time, Gaddafi showed American journalists a picture of a dead baby and said it was his adopted daughter Hana – the first public mention that she even existed.
Diplomats almost immediately questioned the claim. But Gaddafi kept the story alive through the years.
Then, when investigations into the 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, pointed to a Libyan hand in the attack, some theorized that Gaddafi had ordered it to avenge Hana’s death in the US airstrike.
But when Libyan rebels took over Tripoli and Bab al-Aziziya last week,they found a room in Gaddafi’s home with Hana’s birth certificate and pictures of a young woman with the name “Hana” written on the back,possible indications that she lived well beyond infancy. A Tripoli hospital official surfaced, saying Hana worked for him as a surgeon up until the rebels came to town.
And on Tuesday, Swiss officials confirmed that Hana’s name had briefly appeared earlier this year on a Swiss government document listing the names of senior Libyan figures targeted for sanctions.
Many Libyans believe Hana was never killed and talked about her existence openly.
Adel Shaltut, a Libyan diplomat at the UN in Geneva, said it was common knowledge that Hana Gaddafi wasn’t killed in the airstrike.
“All Libyans knew from the very beginning that it’s a lie,” he told The Associated Press, saying that Hana was married and had children.
However, some in Libya believed that after Hana’s death, Gaddafi adopted another daughter and gave her the same name in a memorial tribute.
Libya’s new interim leadership knows the whereabouts of one of the former diplomats wanted for the 1984 killing of a British woman police officer outside the Libyan embassy in London, Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper said on Wednesday.
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Eni aim 4 Oct15 2restart #GAS exports from #LIBYA #Greenstream pipeline runs from #Mellitah #Wafa #field (State unknown) 2 #Sicily
Nieuwsuur
Bab al-Azizya: symbool overwinning
De opstandelingen vieren feest in de huizen van Kadhafi. Zijn compound, Bab al-Azizya, is nu het symbool van de overwinning.
Dutch video report;:
nieuwsuur.nl/video/268425-bab-alazizya-...
NYT
Tripoli Divided as Rebels Jostle to Fill Power Vacuum
There are growing hints of rivalry among the various brigades over who deserves credit for liberating the city and the influence it might bring. And attempts to name a military leader to unify the bands of fighters have instead exposed divisions within the
rebel leadership, along regional lines but also between secularists and Islamists.
www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/world/africa...
Dan
Do you still read NYT?
I stopped, they make up stories all the time.
NYT always tries to stir up trouble these days, looks like they think if you repeat it long enough people will believe it.
evanchill Evan Hill
Lots of celebrating in Martyrs’ Square for Eid and still a huge amount of firing in the air, though some fighters tried to stop it
A Libya chant I haven’t totally figured out yet.. Wayn wayn wayn.. means where where where? Need Libya friends to explain
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Sanctions on #Libya will be lifted next #Friday. #feb17
Lucie
Libya is getting over Gadaffi quicker than ever. Just show’s you what a drain on Libya he was.
michael
Wonderful to see #BabAlAzizya change from a symbol of oppression, to a symbol of freedom, democracy and free speech! #FreedomPark
Tweeting Tripoli
Did you know, one of Gaddafi’s most brutal henchmen has this name: Al-Tayeb Al-Safi (The-Kind The-Pure). Talk about irony!!!
C4NForeign Sarah Corp
Amazing scenes in Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Sq as people celebrate Eid #c4news #Libya
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
Incredible scene at Martyrs Sq as thousands celebrated Eid and Victory. “We have two Eids,” one told me. Imam thanked Qatar & NATO.
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Underground prison was found in Ain Zara, #Tripoli, this morning. 4000 prisoners were released. #Libya
Heard petrol in #Tripoli is free, queues have died down. #Libya
Helsingin Sanomat International Edition Foreign
Libyan rebels search for Gaddafi in desert city partly built by Finns
Weapons factory camouflaged as a school
The search for Libya’s deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi has turned eyes toward a desert city that was partly built by Finns.
The desert centre of Bani Walid, which lies 200 kilometres southeast of the capital Tripoli, was home to many Finns in the early 1980s, when Finnish companies working
together with Soviet builders, built a large building covering 200,000 square metres. The Finns designed the walls and roof, and the Soviets brought in the machinery. Officially the building was supposed to be an annex to school. Supervisors of the construction work got used to talking about a “sewing machine factory”.
However, those who were there understood that the facility would be put to completely different use. This was already suggested by the remote location and gigantic dimensions of the building.
“It is clear that such a hall was not being built for sewing machines or as a school. It was used at least for the assembly of Kalashnikov’s Soviet model assault rifles, and possibly other weapons”, says a former worker interviewed by Helsingin Sanomat.
The worker, who wishes to remain anonymous, lived in Bani Walid (sometimes also spelled Beni Walid) for about three years in the mid-1980s. He said that access to the construction area, which was surrounded by walls and barbed wire, was restricted to those with passes granted by the Libyan army.
Full art.:
www.hs.fi/english/article/Libyan+rebels...
hominoid555 not sayin
South Africa Skips Libyan Conference on.wsj.com/qznZbJ via @WSJ surprise surprise !
Egyptian fishing boat mistaken for Gaddafi getaway detained in Libya – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online j.mp/pTN3j9 via @AddToAny
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NTC spokesman says #Gaddafi luggages ‘detected’ being smuggled out via sea from #Tripoli
fieldproducer Neal Mann
We’re at Um-Al Gindeel about 4km short of our position yesterday, rebels being held
back here as told NATO are due to strike up ahead #libya
Rebels here tell me a shell landed about 50 yards back down the road this morning & they hope NATO will knock out what it was fired from
This is the nearest rebel position to Sirte, despite potential NATO strikes they are still sending out the odd scouting party #Libya
Libyan ambassador to leave Zimbabwe: n24.cm/qcXzoV via @News24
Libyan leaders turned down the proposed UN deployment of military observers.
hominoid555 not sayin
Russia is stepping up attempts to repair ties with Libya’s new leadership by supplying it with much needed fuel.
Naharnet
Libya Rebels Say have ‘Right to Kill’ Gadhafi
Libya’s rebels said Wednesday Moammar Gadhafi is almost certainly in Libya and that they have a “right to kill” him, while giving the fugitive strongman’s remaining troops until Saturday to surrender.
“The information I have is this: it is 80 percent certain that Gadhafi is still in Libya,” Omar Hariri, head of military affairs, told Agence France Presse in Tripoli.
Hariri said rebels suspect Gadhafi is hiding either in Bani Walid, southeast of Tripoli, or in the outskirts of the capital. He stressed, however, that since Libya is in a state of war information changes rapidly.
Read more:
www.naharnet.com/stories/en/14003-libya...
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
5 dead in #Tripoli weapons explosion. Probable accident but heightened fears in the city about reprisals #Libya yfrog.com/gzdbssaj
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
several rockets were fired by G forces w of Nawfalia junction.Fighters cut eid celebrations short.NATO jets now overhead.#onroadtosirte
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA spent the morning in Martyrs’ (green) square. Thousands turned out for Eid prayers.
#LIBYA as square emptied – fighters turned up firing round after round of celebratory gunfire in the air.
Eid prayers in martyrs’ (green) square yfrog.com/nyvmdj
Media Lens
HRW: A loyalist insurgency wld have access to ’1000 times the explosives that the insurgents in Iraq had’ tinyurl.com/42uv8eq
inglesi Piers Scholfield
colleagues went down road to Bani Walid last night, elder from there told them Saif al-Islam had been seen in BW hospital on Sunday. #Libya
Malta Today
Libya’s rebel commanders discussed Tripoli invasion in Malta
Misurata’s most senior officials were assisted by the Maltese government for secret talks at the French ambassador’s home in Zebbug, just four weeks before the rebels final assault on Tripoli.
General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel Ahmed Hashem, Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, and Suleiman Fortiya, Misurata’s minister on the Benghazi-based Transitional Council, were brought to Malta by sea and given special visas to land and attend the talks which were held here on 19 July.
The delegation was driven under escort by security branch police in unmarked cars to ambassador Daniel Rondeau’s home in Zebbug.
Unknown to Libyan secret service operatives, who were sent to Malta to mind him following the uprising, Libyan ambassador Saadun Suayed managed to attend the secret meeting and talk with the Misurata representatives.
Zarmuh, Hashem, Betal Mal and Fortiya reportedly discussed the preparations for the Tripoli assault, and Malta’s strategic role to further assist the operation.
The delegation from Misurata later met with French intelligence operatives at the Excelsior Hotel in Floriana, and was later secretly flown to Paris and received by President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace.
In Paris, the Libyan rebels secured the delivery of weapons, communications and other equipment that was to be used to arm the brigades that stormed Tripoli via Misurata and took over Col. Gaddafi’s Bab Aziziya compound.
Two weeks after the Malta meeting, the alarming news of the death of General Abdel Fatah Younes, commander of the rebel forces, forced the French government to insist on sticking to August 20 as the date during which the assault on Tripoli had to commence.
In a bid to avoid serious splits within the NTC in Benghazi, President Sarkozy gave the order to have weapons sent over to the Libya rebels.
Assisted by covert French, British and Qatari operatives, hundreds of Misurata fighters received day and night training and were regularly supplied from Malta with communication and other materials.
While weapons were dropped by French aircraft over the Nafusa mountains and in villages around Zawiya and Zliten, the French Navy assisted in the deliveries to Misurata via the French assault ship Mistral, which came to Malta twice in a week during August and departed from Malta on the morning of 20 August, reaching the Libyan coast by nightfall and assisting the rebels in their sea landing on Tripoli via Misurata.
Meanwhile, two Libyan secret service agents are set to be expelled from Malta after it was discovered that they sent diplomatic cables to Tripoli throughout the uprising, giving names of Libyan dissidents in Malta.
The names include prominent Libyan dissident Tarek Tarhouni and businessman Mario Debono, who were earmarked as ‘conspirators’ against the regime.
Tarhouni and Debono fronted the I-Go Libya Foundation which provided humanitarian aid for Misurata.
The cables were intercepted by the French secret service and copies of which have been seen by senior government officials.
While Tarek Tarhouni is in Tripoli at the moment and unable to react, Mario Debono told MaltaToday that all he did was to help the Libyan people at this difficult moment.
“It shows that Col. Gaddafi had something for who was providing humanitarian aid to
his people,” Debono said, adding that he lost many Libyan friends during the revolution.
“Every life of a friend lost during the revolution doubled my resolve to help the Libyan people, and I will continue to do it for as long as it is necessary,” he said.
Spokesmen for both the Office of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Ministry did not reply to requests sent in MaltaToday.
Source:
www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/lib...
4Adam Adam
Gaddafi’s infamous ‘religious clerk’ used to incite the killing of Libyan people captured by FF in #Tripoli. vimeo.com/28374048 #Libya
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
ReutersIndia Reuters India
FLASH: Russia, China to be represented at Thursday’s Friends of Libya conference in Paris – French government source
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Breaking UK government released 1860 million LD currency notes held since feb. first shipmt arrived in benghazi salaries can now be paid!!
Number still unclear, reports of 4 or 5 killed:
BREAKING #AJE reports of car bomb attack in central #Tripoli. Four thuwar were killed.
More reporst coming in that it is true:)
BREAKING: 4000 prisoners were released today in Tripoli, Ein Zara they were found in an underground prison
Martyrs Sqaure, Tripoli, 31/08/2011
ميدان الشهداء 31/08/2011
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1001464&...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Opinion: NTC: Mounting challenges english.alarabiya.net/views/2011/08/… #libya #gaddafi
LibyanTweet
Gaddafi Intel paid many online scamers to spam and flood the cyber space with bullshit. Money can do U know
Tweeting Tripoli
We’re promised help frm previous guard to help reveal if there’re any prisoners in secret places.
Local military council told us that they will take care of the prison and its records. They
now guarding it.
Any one noticed Aljazera Arabic and Aljazera Live being jammed recently? Botafliqa getting first hand experience from Daffy? Ahead of revol?
Abdallah
Irony of ironies, Gaddafi himself is named “The Builder”, Mo3ammar
FromJoanne Joanne
Images of #ECSTATIC #Tripolitans Celebrating #Eid #Tripoli Imam leads Prayer in #Martyr Square goo.gl/Lf7KK #Libya #video
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-sRha3GDEQ&fea...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
EU sanctions on 6 #Libya ports, 4 oil companies and other entities could be lifted as early as Friday: EU diplomats #alarabiya #Qaddafi
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Zliten youth cleaning and painting the town youtube.com/watch?v=ix-___… #Libya
Gaddafi gives another speech to the general Sirte population telling them the NTC’s 4 day ultimatum is a trap to take their weapons v fb
tenthdoctor45 md azim bin md noor
it will be very interesting to hear Germans may prosecute their own for illegally dealing with Gaddafi!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
German rifles in Gaddafi compound shabablibya.org/news/german-ri… #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi loyalists hold out during Eid, Italy says fall of Sirte to signal Colonel’s end goo.gl/E1uQh
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libya’s interim leaders reject UN military personnel bit.ly/nnzQTn
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Abdul Rahman al-Rashed: Arabs celebrating Eid without Qaddafi goo.gl/LHT4o
Mashallah #Eid in #FreeLibya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Thousands celebrate Eid in Tripoli shabablibya.org/?p=6356 #Libya
France wants 1.5 bln euros Libyan assets unblocked shabablibya.org/?p=6351 #Libya
ArmchairArab Armchair Arab
Good to hear Jibril addressing the libyan people rather than his usual routine of schmoozing with foreign diplomats.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Opinion: NTC: Mounting challenges english.alarabiya.net/views/2011/08/… #libya #gaddafi
THIS IS A MUST READ:
TNW MIDDLE EAST
How far Gaddafi went to monitor Libya’s Internet activity:
thenextweb.com/me/2011/08/30/how-far-ga...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Fletcher suspect Matouk Mohamed Matouk found in Libya shabablibya.org/news/fletcher-… #Libya
NickKristof
A Libyan FF soldier asked me if NYC was safe. When I looked puzzled, he added: “Irene,” and asked how he could help.
GADDAFI AND THE TOUAREG: Love, hate and petro-dollars
Touareg attitudes to Gaddafi vary wildly, depending on country of origin and history (First published by Monocle Magazine – Online only, March 2011)
If Gaddafi goes, then the Touareg will be in great danger. But Gaddafi hasn’t been recruiting in Kidal. I don’t think so anyway.”
Despite Ahmed’s claims, it now seems certain that up to 800 young Touareg have been lured north from Mali and Niger to go and fight as mercenaries for Gaddafi since the start of the Libyan uprising. This is unsurprising perhaps if you consider the dire state of poverty and joblessness in the southern Sahara. Decades of drought, under-development and ethnic conflict have recently been exacerbated by the presence of Al-Qaeda In the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) whose kidnappings have put an end to tourism and foreign investment in the region. Gaddafi’s promise of arms and petrodollars represent a pill of hope, albeit a bitter tasting one. Some Touareg youth feel they have no option but to swallow it.
Read more:
www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-th...
dovenews Libyan™
WE SAY NO TO ANY TROOPS IN ANY FORMS, EVEN IF THEY WERE DANCERS, NEVER MIND “SECURITY ENVOY” CHANGING THE NAME DOESN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE
Canada should have eyes, ears in Libya: Defence expert said. www.montrealgazette.com/news/Canada+sho... ARE YOU DEAF & BLIND? WE SAID NO, WE STILL SAYING NO
Libya NTC rulers don’t want U.N. forces: envoy www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/30/us-l... WE SUPPORT THAT, WE SAID NO NEED!
Alex
KHAMIS DEATH: DETAILS:
“Their flight came as rebels hailed the death of #Gaddafi ’s youngest son, Khamis, the commander of one of the most feared military units, in fighting to the south of the capital at the weekend.
Only hours beforehand Khamis was present for a final meeting with his father and heavily pregnant sister at the Salahuddin military barracks in the southern suburbs of #Tripoli.
Abdusalam Taher Ali, a soldier who was present, said: “We were trying to hold the southern suburbs when we were suddenly told to retreat to barracks for a new mission.
We saw Khamis, Gaddafi’s son, dressed in green military fatigues. Then Gaddafi himself arrived in an ordinary civilian car.
“At the same time, Aisha drove in separately in a white Hyundai saloon. They were both in civilian clothes and were accompanied by two bodyguards.” Mr Ali, who is being held by rebels, then described how Gaddafi and his son — but not Aisha — huddled together for a family talk lasting 10 to 15 minutes.
“They had their backs to me. I could not hear what they were saying,” he said. “But their body language looked worried.” Separating after their talk, Gaddafi and Aisha changed cars, getting into two Toyota Land Cruisers. They left, heading to the south in a 25-car convoy, he said.
“As they got in, I heard one of the drivers say that they would be going toward the city of Sabha,” he said.
#Sabha, in the middle of the Sahara, has long been mooted as the dictator’s final redoubt.
Bidding their farewells, the dictator and his daughter stepped into the convoy and sped away.
Outside the compound, television camera crews noted a sudden blast of gunfire aimed at the encircling rebels at 1.30pm.
What appeared to be a last act of defiance from the loyalists camped inside, now appears to have been covering fire for Gaddafi’s retreat from Tripoli.
Khamis then gathered the 90 or so soldiers, including Mr Ali, around him for what was to prove his final journey.
“He looked a little bit nervous,” said Mr Ali. “He told us to be ready, we were going to #BaniWalid.”
The town, about 95 miles to the south-east of Tripoli, was on the only route not under rebel control.
Mr Ali said there were 60 vehicles in the convoy, ranging from ordinary cars to ammunition lorries, anti-aircraft artillery pieces and truck-mounted machineguns.
“At first Khamis decided to ride in a Mercedes,” he said. “Then he got out and rode in an armoured Toyota Land Cruiser. I closed the door behind him and we set out.”
That same armoured Land Cruiser now stands, burned out and wrecked, its armoured glass broken and melted.
The wreckage lies just outside the town of Tarhouna, about 80 miles south-east of Tripoli, where it was ambushed by rebel soldiers before it reached Bani Walid.
None of its occupants survived, says Mr Ali, who was travelling three vehicles behind.
“When the attack started, Khamis stopped the car and talked to us all,” Mr Ali said.
“He said we must counterattack and then he drove forward. But they shot out his tyres, he was stuck on the road and then the fire was all around him. The car was a mass of flame. Nobody could have survived it.”
Col Abdurazzik al-Nathuri, the deputy commander of rebel forces in #Tarhouna, said: “We had advance warning that the Khamis convoy was coming from our scouts along the road 20 miles ahead.
“So our patrol came along the side of the road and hid. There were protection cars first, but they did not see us and went back to tell the main convoy that it was safe to approach.
“Then we attacked, with rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns.
“We killed 15 members of the convoy and took 13 prisoners. We have no doubt that Khamis was among the dead in the armoured Toyota, because the prisoners told us he was.
“There were only three people in that car, they said, and we pulled out three bodies. Khamis had no chance to escape, the battle was too intense.”
The rebels took photographs and DNA samples from the bodies before burying them, he said.
Where Gaddafi went after leaving his son remains unclear.
But with exits from the city to the south blocked by rebel forces, the convoy is thought to have taken a loop east and then south towards Bani Walid.
Reports, emanating from Libyan diplomatic sources, claimed that the colonel met there with his trusted sons #Saif al-Islam and Saadi as recently as Monday.
Last night Ali Tarhouni, the oil and economy
minister in the transitional government, said rebels now had a “very good idea” of Gaddafi’s whereabouts.
Aisha was later to join her mother and brothers as a separate convoy of 31 people
made its way across the country towards Algeria. “People from the Touareg tribe helped them find their way into Algeria,” said Shamsiddin Ben-Ali, a spokesman for the transitional council.
It was reported last night that Aisha Gaddafi named her daughter Safiya after her grandmother. The daily newspaper Ennahar also reported that the family had been placed under house arrest.
The birth could create a stumbling block for efforts to extradite the Gaddafis because she was born on Algerian soil.
Algeria is the only north African nation not to have recognised the transitional council as the legitimate leaders of Libya and has retained links to Gaddafi throughout the conflict.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
#ALGERIA VIOLATED #UN #Libya travel ban on Dictator’s children: "Gadhafi ’s two sons who fled, Hannibal and Mohammed, along with his daughter, Aisha, are specifically named in the U.N. travel ban for “closeness of association with (the) regime.”
“We care, in terms of the fact that under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1970, the Gadhafi family was subject to a travel ban,” Nuland said. “So, they have now traveled.
The government of Algeria has now sent a letter to the UN. We are reviewing that letter now in New York but, clearly, there has to be an international community decision and response in regard to the travel ban restrictions that (the resolution) imposes.”
#Tripoli
shabablibya.org/news/u-s-reviewing-alge...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
@Niz_FGM @Tripoli_Latest was just on #AJE!!! :)
WilliamJHague William Hague
Thanks for all your #Libya Qs. I have to finish as due to speak to #NTC leaders now by telephone #askFS
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Family seem soo happy different from when #Gaddafi was there,,, (tears streaming down my eyes)
So happy,, all my family in #Libya is calling us soo happy,, seems like in #Benghazi they can now call abroad via #mobile #phone! :)
Bagdadi Mahmoudi has given himself in to the #Tripoli Military council fb.me/KhaOKuO8
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
The #foreign #Ministry of #Italy has announced that it will re-open its #embassy in #Tripoli on Thursday
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Black people have been attacked/detained by Libyan rebels suspecting mercenaries but to say any black person is unsafe here is going too far
I’ve seen black Libyan rebel fighters + last night lots of black Libyans among those celebrating in Tripoli’s Martyrs Sq
NYT confused:
bungdan Dan Murphy
NYT article says “Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi” (the guy from Derna?) and Abdel Hakim Belhaj are same guy. I had no idea. nytimes.com/2011/08/31/wor…
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
They are getting confused about his nom de guerre, which is Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
I noticed that too. They are not the same guy. I met al-Hasadi in Derna + saw Belhaj here in Tripoli at the weekend
FromJoanne Joanne
Report said PrisonDocs burned 2daysAgo twas from day one, other soca and prisoners passports were salvaged and in safe keeping.
#NATO destroyed yesterday more than 45 military pieces for the battalions #Gaddafi of armored vehicles , #tanks and rocket launchers in addition to headquarters of command in each of the #Sirte ,Bani Walid and Huwn
BREAKING: #Saadi #Gaddafi the infamous #footballer wants to desert to #FFs fearing inevitable death or being killed by #Gaddafi for deserting family!!
via @Guma_el_gamaty
#Lebanon will participate in the “friends of #Libya” meeting in #Paris.
Tweeting Tripoli
We never had issues with race or color before. But we have issues with people who came to kill us.
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
Saw several chadians catpured by FF on #roadtosirte. They say living in #Libya for years. FF say they were found in a trench
chadians had a lot of cash on them.suspected to be spotters for GF. but they denied.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
@WilliamJHague sincere thanks & gratitude for UK strong resolve & standing by libyan people from day1! great friendship & cooperation ahead!
The Atlantic
Former Qaddafi Mercenaries Describe Fighting in Libyan War
To prove he had been in Libya he produced a document — with a passport photo attached and a stamp from the Malian consulate in Tamanrasset — identifying him as a refugee from Libya. He said that that he went to Libya in 2007 with his wife and children. They were given short-term residence papers in exchange for his enlistment in the Libyan army. He was assigned to a Tuareg brigade in the southern town of Awbari.
Two years ago, he was granted full residency status. In addition to the 1,500 dinars (about $1,300) he was paid per month — much of which he sent back to family living in small encampments near Timbuktu — his wife and children received free medical care, and his children went to a Libyan school. “A very good school,” he said. He was promised a house and a car if he stayed in the army. “They always promised a house and a car, but very few Tuareg ever got them,” he said. “I think Qaddafi tried very hard to keep the Tuareg in Libya. I think he smelled something was coming.”
When the protests began in Tripoli, his unit was attached to the infamous 32nd brigade, led by Qaddafi’s son Khamis, and was sent to disperse the unarmed marchers. “That was easy,” he said with startling nonchalance. “We would kill three or four in the front of the crowd and they all ran away. It was very easy.”
I asked if he had seen any civilians killed. In Misrata, he says, “We tried to find everyone there. One half of the city was cleaned.”
“What do you mean ‘cleaned?’” I asked.
“The people were killed. Women, children, everyone there.”
Who did the killing?
Full story:
m.theatlantic.com/international/archive...
Rubicon
PHOTO:
This is a girl from Zawiya. She is 17 years old and never once left Zawiya from the very beginning of Feb17 revolution..apprehensive of putting this up (she consented), don’t think i can look at it twice.
Victim of sniper fire, as she came out and greeted the FF, her dad died in front of her eyes, her sister was also injured. In some twisted way, she is meant to be lucky to only of lost her leg.
There was another girl. Another Zaweeya. Another 17 year old, but this was a victim of shelling by mortar fire.
How ever many battles you fight, nothing quite like being shelled while you are in your own shelter…The prevailing feeling of helplessness, no where to go, no prospect of escape…That ultimate human fear, whose only refuge is the greater fear of God.
www.rubiconmango.com/post/9623171516
Egyptian Chronicles
Libyan Revolution : Aisha Qaddafi’s baby boom !!
The Algerian authorities announced yesterday that Aisha Qaddafi has delivered a baby girl yesterday in Algeria after less than 24 hours from her arrival along with 30 members of Qaddafi clan including her mom and 2 of her brothers. According to the Algerian press the Algerian president let the Qaddafi clan enter the country after knowing that Aisha was giving a baby.
Now there is something interesting I found thanks to tweeps , in early June 2011 Aisha Qaddafi filed a complaint before Belgian courts for war crimes against NATO after the raid of the alliance that allegedly killed her younger brother Seif Al Arab Qaddafi. This news included a very interesting detail because in that complaint Aisha claimed that the NATO raid on April 30,2011 killed her 4 months baby girl
“Mastoura” along with her brothers’ kids “Seif” and “Carthage”
This was an official complaint that was rejected by the court in Belgium on July 28th. Interestingly enough here is an interview with Aisha Qaddafi after the alleged attack in French and she did not seem pregnant to me.
Before that raid and that interview Aisha addressed the public in a stupid speech if you remember, I searched in her photos to see if there is any baby bump and honestly I can’t judge based on the photos as she is tall and slim.
Still how could Aisha Qaddafi have a 4 months baby in April 2011 and later gave a birth to another baby in August 2011 !? Either she hires surrogate mothers or there is another option : There is no Mastoura or there is new baby girl born in Algeria or may be there is Mastoura but there is no new baby girl. Of course there is another crazy explanation : She got two wombs , oh yes there are women who got two wombs !!!
May be baby Mastoura and her uncle Seif Al Arab along his kids are still alive just like his adopted sister Hana whom the Libyans are insisting that she is alive after 25 years of Qaddafi’s claims that she was killed.
Libya has demanded officially Algeria to hand over these runaways.
Source:
egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/08...
FromJoanne Joanne
PL HELP Injured #Libya -ns Get MEDICAL AID via personally found utterly trusted : libyanemergencyaid.com Run by @abeneihum and his Dr Mother
#HELP 4 #Ethiopia NANNY Cruelly and Horribly burned by wife of #Hannibal Gaddafi PLS DONATE: antislaveryfundraising.org/helpshweyga #Libya
hominoid555 not sayin
Moammar Gadhafi is (pretty much) gone, and right on cue there’s increasing talk about applying the Libya “model” to Syria.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Misurata #FF’s landed by sea on #Janzour and #Tripoli shores on night 20 Aug via #France amphibious ships from #Mistral that left #Malta
adammbaron Adam Baron
tricolor flag flying over #libya embassy #sanaa #yemen
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Warship arrives off #Tripoli harbour. British?, French? (two helicopters flying from it) pic.twitter.com/lwokCL2
More on warship in #Tripoli harbour. What appears to be Italian flag on landing craft with handful of marines/soldiers aboard heading in.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
That looks like F-584 an Italian Lupo Class Frigate; but hard to be certain unless you can see the number
They usually only carry one helicopter; but two can land on it if one goes in hangar.
Souffian Tripoli
My Fam. In tripoli went to Bab alAzizia to have look there. To see things for them selves. And went to the martyrs square in #Tripoli
Tripoli1000s Tripoli1000’s
Map of #Liberated Prisons in #Tripoli #Libya : tinyurl.com/3n6w6ol via The Independent – So many still unaccounted for . Pray for them.
Libya’s new rulers set out steps to elections | Reuters reut.rs/ot7dBY via @reuters
With source of water still in Gadhafi hands, Tripoli goes thirsty | McClatchy: bit.ly/mS2v2W via @AddThis
markito0171 Mark
#Misrata in Tomina GF raped 50 woman & girls in school 3 girls told the crime their father Shame was huge took a knife & cut necks through
Witness to War Crimes: Evidence from #Misrata physiciansforhumanrights.org
Gaddafi spokesman rejects rebel demand to surrender – The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/war-zones/... via @washingtonpost
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Video: UN on New Libya english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… #Libya #UN #BanKimoon #Rebels #Qaddafi #AlArabiya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Italy to re-open embassy in Tripoli on Thursday: foreign ministry #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
feb17libya Feb17Libya
War’s forgotten: Tripoli Zoo animals suffer, lacking food, water bit.ly/q41b56 #libya
Attacks by #Gaddafi’s forces on water engineers in the desert have caused a widespread water shortage in #Tripoli. feb17.info/news/live-libya-unrest-augus...
Live: Libya Unrest: August 31, 2011 bit.ly/qAA0uE #libya
From Baghdad to Tripoli bit.ly/pKPhKu #libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Strange that the town the Gaddafi family ran to (Djanet) in Algeria is a Taureg stronghold.
THerwees
Bernard Henri-Levy: War profiteer, opportunist, peddler of Zionist/racist propaganda.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
On behalf of all Libyans, we would like to thank you @WilliamJHague for all your hard work and efforts in helping the Free ppl of #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
100s perhaps 1000s of ethnic Tuaregs left Mali to fight for Muammar Qaddafi. some r returning home to tell their story goo.gl/JlDIw
RAF flies £950m unfrozen cash assets to Libya
The RAF is flying £950m of Libyan cash to Libya after an assets freeze aimed at Col Muammar Gaddafi was lifted.
Notes, amounting to 1.86 billion Libyan dinars that were printed in the UK, will be handed to Libya’s Central Bank.
A Whitehall official said the money should be available to load into cash machines and distribute to banks in Libya very quickly.
The currency was released following a decision by the United Nations sanctions committee in New York.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14734420
Souffian Tripoli
Dear #Libya people tomorrow is 1sep. So stay alert and protect #tripoli. Gaddafi thugs my use this date to create attacks or problems.
kelvinbrownnews Kelvin Brown
The NTC tell the BBC they have found an underground prison in #Tripoli , holding 140 people alive. They had to break through a 40cm wall.
NTC sources say Matouk Mohammed Matouk, one of the alleged accomplices to the murder of Yvonne Fletcher, is wanted for a range of crimes.
NTC sources tell us they have not yet arrested Matouk Mohammed Matouk, playing down reports they know where he is.
Telegraph
Libya: Col Gaddafi’s family dash across desert to Algeria
Last Friday, more than three days after the fall of Col Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Azizia compound, the soldiers of the Khamis Brigade in southern Tripoli were told to stand by for an important visitor.
Soon afterwards Gaddafi, sitting in the back seat of a black Hyundai saloon and dressed in a green civilian shirt and trousers, was driven through the gate.
Such was the chaotic nature of their flight that, at one point, they blundered across the wrong border — entering into Tunisia before reaching Algeria thanks only to the intervention of local tribesmen.
Arriving in Tunisia, which has had its own revolution, could have resulted in their arrest rather than sanctuary.
Read full story and watch video:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
a-Col-Gaddafis-family-dash-across-desert-to-Algeria.html
robcrilly Rob Crilly
NTC has the coast, but much of the interior is beyond their reach. Lots of reports of G forces regrouping to south
You think Saadi Gaddafi, former footie player, knows its transfer deadline day??? G son says he wants to surrender: tinyurl.com/42x2wet
Um-Al Gindeel about 4km short of position yesterday, rebels being held back here as told NATO strike due ahead #libya
Libyan rebels control most of the coast – but it’s a vast country and Gaddafi isn’t finished yet (latest blog) tinyurl.com/3uwp7jv #libya
Lovely line in AP story: Belhaj (rebel commander) says al-Saadi (Gaddafi) called back again early Wednesday, but he missed the call. DOH
Also, Saadi was with three different Italian Serie A clubs, Sampdoria, Perugia and Udinese over four seasons. And managed three matches
RAF not only bombing but also bringing in money. Today they are delivering 1.8bn of LYD to NTC for cash machines
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Just spent a few hours with friends who live in #Tripoli . Told me lots of nervousness that #Gaddafi supporters will launch bombing campaign
Rumor mill on over drive in #Tripoli Everyone worried if #Gaddafi not found will organize chaos in #Libya like he did in other countries
Am told some people at armed checkpoints in residential areas where pro #Gaddafi just weeks ago making locals nervous about 5th columnists
Told #Libya State TV anchors threatened viewers with witchcraft in last weeks of regime. One produced green egg as proof God with #Gaddafi
Ridiculously long queues around #Tripoli for petrol but price now of half what was a week ago now Djerba border open
m_madi Mohamed Madi
yep that was Yusuf Shakir, a rotund but spritely character who has also summoned genies and ancient kings to fight for Gaddafi
The Libyan flag in the fifties on a cyclist’s jersey. Too cool:
Lojacono on the left and Gino Cason aka “il biondino” ( “the fair-haired”) champion cyclist of Tripolitania in the 50s.
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LATEST NEWS:
#Tunisian authorities prevented named Ammar Elteef to travel from #Carthage airport at the request of the #NTC
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
The woman who chose female bodygaurds 4 #gaddafi; my interview: . bit.ly/nr60r2 second part of interview later 2nite
or:
akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-reports/Ais...
France24
Inside Gaddafi’s underground labyrinth
A week after rebel forces captured Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya’s former leader is still at large. FRANCE 24 has captured images of the vast underground tunnel system by which Gaddafi most likely escaped.
Full art. and video:
www.france24.com/en/20110831-libya-gadd...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
#Italy has unblocked 500 million #euros in #Libyan assets for the Libyan People
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Plenty of gunfire here but all celebratory as elders arrive on buses from Misrata to give Eid greetings to the frontline fighters
Also say no orders to advance on Bani Walid, some 100k to the west. They hope for an uprising from within. #Libya
#Misrata fighters here say they lost too many men already so they will only advance into #Sirte after #Benghazi fighters take the city.
dovenews Libyan™
Abdel Hakim Belhaj shouldn’t trust #Alsaadi nor #Gaddafi. Dont tell media until surrendr #Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They’re Hatch.
Khiria
#Gaddafi referred to us as AlQaeda even though he’s the one setting up explosive cars. #Libya #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
Just watched Abosowa capture vid on Alarabia TV. They removed 5 sec part showing FF commander instructing his men not to humiliate him, why?
Was the best part. As much as I hated this double-faced Abosow, I liked how FF chief was instructing his men not to hurt him.
evanchill Evan Hill
AJE’s Jamal Elshayyal uncovers evidence that David Welch and Dennis Kucinich may have gone to bat for Gaddafi regime
Communication with US officials
I managed to smuggle away some documents, among them some that indicate the Gaddafi regime, despite its constant anti-American rhetoric – maintained direct communications with influential figures in the US.
I found what appeared to be the minutes of a meeting between senior Libyan officials – Abubakr Alzleitny and Mohammed Ahmed Ismail – and David Welch, the former assistant secretary of state who served under George W Bush and the man who brokered the deal which restored diplomatic relations between the US and Libya in 2008.
Welch now works for Bechtel, a multinational American company with billion dollar construction deals across the Middle East. The documents record that, on August 2, 2011, David Welch met with Gaddafi’s officials at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cairo, just a few blocks from the US embassy there.
During that meeting Welch advised Gaddafi’s team on how to win the propaganda war – suggesting several “confidence building measures”, the documents said. The documents appear to indicate that an influential US political personality was advising Gaddafi on how to beat the US and NATO.
Minutes of this meeting note his advice on how to undermine Libya’s rebel movement,
with the potential assistance of foreign intelligence agencies, including Israel. “Any information related to al-Qaeda or other terrorist extremist organisations should be found and given to the American administration but only via the intelligence agencies of either Israel, Egypt, Morroco, or Jordan… America will listen to them… It’s better to receive this information as if it originated from those countries…”
The papers also document that Welch advised Gaddafi’s regime to take advantage of the current unrest in Syria, pointing out: “The importance of taking advantage of the Syrian situation particularly regarding the double-standard policy adopted by Washington… the Syrians were never your friends and you would loose nothing from exploiting the situation there in order to embarrass the West.”
Read story and watch video:
english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/...
Reuters
Gaddafi loyalists under fire as Libya celebrates
Libyan forces backed by NATO bombers struck at loyalist troops dug in around Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown on Wednesday, as refugees streamed out of the besieged bastion fearing a bloody showdown in the coming days.
Art.: and video:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/us-l...
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Hawkers now selling revolutionary tat including keyrings, badges, banners, hats + balloons on Tripoli’s Martyrs (ex Green) Square
Saw little boy hanging out of window of passing car near Martyrs Sq – he was firing plastic rifle in the air in imitation of rebel fighters
FromJoanne Joanne
Dr #Mazagri + 45 incl businessmen Journalists,Drs eevn #Talitha v #Zon arrived in #Valletta Malta on Monday #Libya fb.me/1bafn1WMa
#FLASH #NTC has set out steps leading to democratic ELECTIONS monitored by the United Nations within 18 months #Libya
FF commander on road2 #BaniWalid: Awaiting orders 2either negotiate with Gaddafi forces or to attack BW @SkyNews goo.gl/3Mtj7 #Libya
Inside Gaddafi’s factories of War www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14726852 how they used them as Arms Depots #Libya
#TRIPOLI ZOO Nasr Forest also needs URGENT volunteers See @NicRobertsonCNN Timeline Only 10 of 200 ppl looking after animals Pls HELP #Libya
#Libya being taken over by Islamic radicals @realDonaldTrump Where do u get that notion from ? U have no clue about #libya
#Tripoli Commander #Belhaj says #Al-Saadi Gaddafi told him (by phone ) Saadi had not killed any1 and " was not against the people" #Libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
hey, its because Saadi lived there that #zwara got paved roads and street lights #Tripoli #Belhaj #Al #Libya
The Gaddafis left their legacy allover# Libya in that way where ever they lived Everything suddenly got upgraded
FromJoanne Joanne
same happened in #Sabha @annmarlowe in my own area Hadbah al khadra I always had electricity Thanks to an Energy min. living there #Libya
#Tripoli Heartbreaking to watch gentle spoken Nanny inHospital Hannibal Wife Burned Nanny with Boiling Water #Libya goo.gl/K5Aij
Khalifa
That’s gotta be the joke of the day. #SaadiDidNotKillAnyone
kristin
ah.. see aishas dead husband has turned up in Algeria
The daily Ennahar newspaper reported Wednesday that up to 62 Gathafi clan members had entered Tunisia.
The government source would not confirm that figure, but Algeria’s UN ambassador said that the spouses of Gathafi’s two sons and daughter also entered the country, with several of their children.
goo.gl/juF0k he allegedly died on1 26 July, miracle births/deaths
or:
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=...
FromJoanne Joanne
So far there =only 1 woman in the #NTC but take it from me she will fight like a lion 4WomensRights in new #Libya much will change
FromJoanne Joanne
#Mutassim Gaddafi Head IntelligenceService allegedly was protected by 16Yr oldBOYS bc they wre seen as less likely 2defect + gullible #Libya
Oman Daily Observer
Desert town of Bin Jawad pays price of betrayal
BIN JAWAD, Libya — Burned and ransacked houses in the Libyan desert town of Bin Jawad, east of Sirte, serve as evidence that fighters have not forgotten or forgiven an act of betrayal dating back several months.
Gaddafi’s troops were invited back to kill.
“Dozens of our men were struck down like dogs, as they slept or in the mosque,” said Omar, a 30-year-old fighter whose combat group, the Zintan Brigade, is back in Bin Jawad with Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte again in sight.
Read more:
main.omanobserver.om/node/63427
Mark
dispute in german goverment about #Nato-mission in #Libya and the voting in UN resolution 1973. foreign minister have to go
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
At today’s Ramadan service in Martyrs Sq Imam who lead the service thanked NATO for its role in the revolution.
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Electricity is stabilized in Tripoli in the last 48 hours Good Job
Croatia seeks info about detained mercenaries. main.omanobserver.om/node/63421
Mugabe — circling the wagons, are the apache coming for him www.newsday.co.zw/article/2011-08-31-mu...
NYTimesCohen Roger Cohen
White House tells me US flown10% of strike missions in #LIbya, 47% support missions. Some say that leading from behind. I say it’s smart.
frankentele Sean Carberry
According to our sources, the Tripoli blast reported by Al Jazeera was just kids playing with a hand grenade – an accident. #Libya
hominoid555 not sayin
Why The African Union Won’t Recognize Libyan Rebels !! Libyan rebels are killing black Africans, what’s the next excuse !!
NTC fighters said they clashed with Gaddafi forces patrolling in the area west of Sirte.
libyanproud libyanandproud
Thank you @UN and @UNICEF for the water ! They did an excellent and swift job in distributing drinking water to #Tripoli. #Feb17 #Libya
North Korea yet to recognize Libya’s rebel NTC. www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/20...
Libya Seeks to Import 500,000 Tons of Wheat, Reuters Reports – Bloomberg bloom.bg/orwPHS via @BloombergNews
#Tripoli : Looting minimal, all lootings i saw or heard about are done by thieves who stole in the past, present, and future.
#Tripoli : GUNS : Weapons are registered by local councils and given ID, to be later submitted.Some ppl have unreg guns, neighbors knw them
#Tripoli : I have been CELEBRATING and Guarding checkpoints. I am on vacation but i have a feeling will have to start working soon #Feb17
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Libya latest report: lovely shots from our Cameraman Tim Facey bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
youngamazigh youngamazigh
Flying the flag for North Africa’s ‘Berber spring’ – bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #amazigh #libya #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
#Libyan #Money: US $34B, UK $19.2B, Swiss $827M, Luxembourg $1.39B, Italy $8B, Germany €7B, France $11B, Canada $2.4B, Austria €1.2Billion
libyanproud libyanandproud
THANK YOU and HAPPY EID to everyone who belived and stood by our struggle for Freedom ! #Feb17 #Libya #Tripoli
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Khamis #Gaddafi’s guards say they saw their boss die in ambush last Fri & 2 hours earlier saw Gaddafi in south Tripoli base #Libya
Spoke to 2 guards who say the Col. was at Khamis’s base in Salahedin. Khamis tried to meet Mutassim in Bani Walid. #Gaddafi went south
Bani Walid still not secure. Frontline from north around 30km short of town. Nato bombed it today. Lots of interest #Libya
fpleitgenCNN Frederik Pleitgen
On the front line near Sirte. #cnn cnn.com/video/data/2.0…
Mauritania leader sets off to Libya talks in Paris. www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Qaddafi loyalists under fire as Libya celebrates. arabnews.com/middleeast/article496078.ece
ITwitius Tim Marshall
#Libya Whitehall source – ‘A new UN Resolution on Libya’s assets will take a few more days but it will be discussed in Paris’.
@FromJoanne Joanne
#HELP 4 #Ethiopia NANNY Cruelly and Horribly burned by wife of #Hannibal Gaddafi PLS DONATE: antislaveryfundraising.org/helpshweyga #Libya
Hayat
That woman is SICK she’s not even Libyan! She used to work in brotherl in Lebanon! She always burns her servants with hot water!
Isn’t this crime enough to demand she be recommended to the #ICC as well as her husband and Libyan in-laws!? #Freaks
hababbi dee
gadaffis son stole our house in benghazi years ago we had 2 homes. said he liked it wanted it and took it
FromJoanne Joanne
Remember the days that there were reports Gaddafi was burning ppl in #Tripoli like the nazis did with the Jews ?
FromJoanne Joanne
I am afraid its not true I have asked several ppl inside Tripoli Nobody can confirm 4000 underground bunkersFree
TheyCallMeSof Sofyan Amry
by ChangeInLibya
Eid Prayer in liberated #Tripoli. The day Ive been waiting for MY ENTIRE LIFE! youtu.be/eKcZ40sRbis
AJELive AJELive
Oil trading company Gunvor Group Ltd sending cargo of diesel #fuel to #Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi aje.me/jQEpiq #AJE
ahmedfudge Fudge
by 20arb11
Skype needs to update the Libyan flag…
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
Saadi is gay…like the Hana-being-alive thing, Libyans have known this for a while.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
1st of September tomorrow. No more flashing green lights all over tripoli and ugly Gaddafi parades thank god
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
Tonight on @channel4news: #Eid in #Tripoli, women in the revolution and where is #Ghaddafi?
dovenews Libyan™
Abdu, 21 Lost both eyes, needs surgery youtube.com/watch?v=f8Z1IB… please contact @OmarAlmoktar #Libya #helpAbdu
FunGuerillaz FunGuerilla No.1
The German State TV just aired a report on the German automatic guns found @ Bab al Aziziya. There will most probably be a criminal inquiry.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
BTW, Dennis Kucinich and David Welch are not “senior U.S. officials.” One is an embarrassing congressman, the other an EX-official
Hayat Libya
Tomorrow is September 1st- Expect something from #Gaddafi -according to my engineer friend-could range from Scods to a giant fart #Libya :P
FromJoanne Joanne
#Breaking Abdulati AlBaydi FM of Gaddafi ARRESTED in alSerraj West #Tripoli #Libya Musa Kusa Position after he fled #Libya via #Skynews
AJELive AJELive
#Libya: #Italian energy firm #Eni has said it will resume natural #gas production from October 15 aje.me/jQEpiq #AJE
dovenews Libyan™
Will Gaddafi go & stay in the New Jersey Mansion? mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives… #NO #Libya
#Gaddafi has not escaped from #Libya and is most probably hiding in the desert, Italian Foreign Minister Franco #Frattini said ON Wednesday.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tawerga civilians fearing MAJOR Battle in #Sirte streamed by in Packed2Hilt vehicles along coastal highway some flying white flags #Libya
AJELive AJELive
About 500 #Tuaregs hunted by #Libyan rebels have entered #Algeria: Government source aje.me/jQEpiq #AJE
acarvin Andy Carvin
Meanwhile, in other news…. RT @RashidAlghatam: Woman saves small dog ‘Fudge’ by punching bear in face: bit.ly/ph49Gr
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova FERRY “FEHIM BEY” now departing #Malta for dest. #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Gaddafi: “Those of you who support me leave #Tripoli before 2am tonight. Those that stay are in for surprise”. via AlRaiy TV #Libya #Feb17
#Gaddafi: “Woof! Bark bark! woof, woof Bark woof! Zenga Zenga”. via AlRaiy TV #Libya #Feb17
#Freedomfighters reach #Thalatheen area, 30km west of #Sirte akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-re… #Libya #Feb17
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “FARWA” absent from #Libya since #Feb17 now anchored 82.1 NM out from port #Tripoli Libya.
wa7fwr Jim Henager, III
U.S. Citizens: If you object to a pro-Gaddafi traitor holding a U.S. Congressional seat, please sign: tinyurl.com/3gqra2v
speaking of David Welch, isn’t an act of treason committed by a US citizen against the US govt. punishable by death?
SkyNewsBreak
Reuters: Colonel Gaddafi’s Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi arrested by Anti-Gaddafi forces west of Tripoli
Tweeting Tripoli
Historical moment: First ever Amazegh SMS sent by NTC to Libya. Hurry up people tell me what it says :) yfrog.com/khgmeuoj
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Ar-Rai TV Saif #Gaddafi speaking. #Libya
ShababLibya:
Saif now on the phone to Arabiyah following Saadi’s call #Libya”
Fissa82
Underground prison was found in Ain Zara in Tripoli, this morning. 4000 prisoners were released. ALLAHO AKBAR :) fb.me/1gn14Qkyr
feb17libya Feb17Libya
LIVE: Shalgam: They are looking for an exit. Each son is taking a different approach
4Adam Adam
Saif Gaddafi: I contacted all Libyan tribes they say ’ we with the leader’ ‘we have enough arms’ ‘We are making progress and gaining ground’
Omar
Saif: Sirte has 20,000 armed men ready to repel any rebel attack
BREAKING: Seif #Gaddafi says he and father are fine, victory is soon. عاجل: سيف القذافي يقول انه و والده بخير و ان النصر قريب
feb17libya:
LIVE: Shalgam reaction to Saif Al Islam – They are in a coma (insane), I am from Fezzan
Mushu
#Saif inciting + encouraging violence+bloodshed.
Good question:)
Sunny
Saif says “we are drinking tea and coffee, am asking everyone to attack the rats.” Why not stop drinking and attack them yourself? #libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Fight goes on, says Qaddafi son Seif al-Islam: TV audio tape. english.alarabiya.net
Breaking Libya News – عاجل ليبيا أخبار
PROOF SAIF ISLAM HAS LOST THE PLOT AND GONE MAD!!
Saif: NTC’s head Jalil is a liar, they did not take Bab Azizia, it was bombed many times by NATO and was opened to visitors #denial #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
LIVE: Shalgam reaction to Saif Al Islam – There are not 20,000 armed people in Sirte – we have captured Abdel Hadi Mbarish, General of Sirte
Keith
Why is Syrian media giving airtime to Saif Gaddafi? Isn’t he just a an ex-Phd student and has-been son of an ex-leader. Next!
MilitantNews
#Libya I don’t quite understand why, if Saadi Gaddafi supposedly wants to surrender, he didn’t he go to Algeria with the rest of the family
jd2folife
Remember when there 65,000 loyal Gaddafi supporters all willing to die in Tripoli? That was awkward…lol
Adel
what happd to the millions? “@feb17libya: LIVE: Saif Al Islam on Al Arabiyah: “There are 20,000 armed people in Sirte” -
lissnup
Quick, get some video up of Aisha giving birth and a radio broadcast from Muammar, it’s family night for the Gaddafi’s!
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Ah, Saif, ever the optimist. RT @AlArabiya_Eng: BREAKING: Seif al-Islam: We are making progress and gaining ground
S K
oh lord saif is on the phone someone trace that call #libya #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
Saadi wants to surrender & Saif wants to fight ??? MAD Family
youngamazigh
we should hang saadi gaddafi in the football stadium (riyadhia) the place that he destoyed, he destroyed libyan football! #cheat #libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Saif Islam has gone mad,, and when i mean mad i mean physiologically mad!!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
LIVE: Saif Al Islam Gaddafi on Al Arabiyah: “If you find anyone against us, kill them”
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi’s son #Saadi tells Al Arabiya TV that his father is ready to hand power over to the rebels and calls for a truce to end bloodshed
Ali
CONFIRMED:
Souffian Tripoli
This is a code !!! Saadi and Saif #Gadaffi broadcasting their voice via TV stations prior to 1st September. These are codes. !!!!!
Saadi al-gaddafi: I am not in Sirte. I cannot say where I am.
Saadi called the rebels his brothers. Change of tone massively from the Gaddafi regime.
S K
btw i consider #kucinich mckinney farrakahn zuma and david welch to be war criminals for aiding and abetting the enemy
Alex
#Saif gives anr delusional speech – "attack “rats” & “gangsters” day & night" – #BaBAz was just a camp – we r still strong & will win #Libya
Who are the “rebels” ?
Guardian UK
Libya’s unlikely rebel with a cause against Gaddafi
When the history of the 2011 Libyan revolution is written, it will consist largely of the stories of hundreds of men like Walid Danna.
Cosmopolitan, travelled, an urban professional with a penchant for fishing, watching movies and drinking latte, Danna was living the quiet life in Tripoli with his family – mother, father, four brothers and his younger sister. In his spare time he hung out with his friends in the cafes of the capital, or else swam in the Mediterranean or worked out.
Before February, he was indifferent to the Gaddafi clan, happy enough to bank a decent salary as an oil engineer. He had studied in London for a master’s in business administration. He had never even seen a machine gun, still less handled one.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/29/li...
evanchill Evan Hill
Saadi Gaddafi refers to NTC fighters as “thuwar” – revolutionaries, the name they use for themselves – and says NTC can take power. #Libya
EXCLUSIF: Alger refuse l’entrée à El Gueddafi. www.elwatan.com/une/exclusif-alger-refu...
Al Arabiyah:
Shalgam reaction to Saadi Gaddafi – His talk is not correct. 10% of Sirte is with Gaddafi. – #Libya #Feb17
Carol Viana
We want your daddy, silly. RT @ShababLibya: Saadi: I will surrender myself if this will end bloodshed #Libya #wearewaiting
Richard A.
i hope Saadi does it soon the lions in the zoo need some food fast
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
It seems that #Saadi #Gaddafi shares similar public speaking skills to his father…..none whatsoever
Saadi says he would never take a weapon against a Libyan, is he for real? after 50,000 martyrs?
Why Does Muammar Qaddafi Own a Mansion in New Jersey?
Almost thirty years ago, in 1982, the Libyan government paid a million bucks for this three-story, 10,000 square foot, 25-bedroom mansion, which they inexplicably named “Thunder Rock,” on Palisade Avenue in Englewood, a suburb in Bergen County. It’s a bizarre choice of neighborhood for a government that has made a habit of bankrolling terrorists and talking about how much they hate Israel, considering it’s right smack in the middle of a sizeable Orthodox Jewish community. In fact, Thunder Rock is directly next door to the largest yeshiva in town, and just a short walk from the home of one Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who, if in case you missed that episode of Oprah, is an outspoken leader in the American Jewish community and a former spiritual mentor to Michael Jackson.
Read the story:
shabablibya.org/news/why-does-muammar-q...
dovenews Libyan™
Saif Gaddafi was naming specific areas in Tripoli & other various cities, exactly like his dad’s, coded sms 2 sleeper cells. So Desperate
How do Gaddafi & sons think? If we cant have it, no body will. #Spoiled #MORONS
Lets not forget that Gaddafi’s FM Al-Obeidi was arrested by #FF. Maybe Saif is upset about that in his Rat HOLE. #Coffee
After listening 2 #Saadi #Gaddafi again, he’s still referring 2 #FF as insurgents & his dad as a Leader. Personally I wuld dismiss his offer
Could we start a campaign demanding the resignation of the US congressman #Denis #Kucinich english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/...
weddady
Behavior like this is why distrust of Americans runs so deep in the Mddle East
Alex
Its regrettable that last chapter of #Libya Revolution – cannot be closed peacefully – but no surprise – #Gaddafi will kill until last man.
#FF must now focus on final battle tribal elders cant defy #Gaddafi thugs #BaniWalid must be liberated asap – so water 4 #Tripoli & #Libya
#Saif #Gaddafi – Dad & I will have cup of tea while U must go & sacrifice yr lives 4 us & go kill rats & gangsters so we keep #Libya bilns
#Saif says he has 20000 armed fighters – means he probably has about 2000 mercenaries & hardliners. #Libya #Sirte #BaniWalid
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
If you study the sociology of students in j-school, you’d have a pretty acute idea of why journalism is in such a deplorable state. #lazy
Another huge problem is the shallowness of a j-school education. Students want to report about the ME with no knowledge of its history.
My friend was reporting frm Libya – called her peers “wannabe war-heroes” but were incredibly lazy when it came to real reporting.
In the context of my experiences in j-school, none of this is a surprise. They don’t care about people, only their byline.
very rarely you come across excellent journalists
Journo friend said her peers had little interest in learning about local culture. Simply wanted to get the story out
Hence, sweeping generalizations and flat out nonsense about MENA and its peoples
You know how sometimes we’re shocked when actors don’t believe a word they utter on film? Same for journos. It’s a gig
man if you met some of my classmates, none of this is shocking. All Greek society airheads or Andy Cooper wannabes.
tv news is the WORST. I’ve spent some time in the newsroom, and it’s all theatrics and narcissism.
As news consumers, you need to be skeptical of everything you hear, contextualize it and read between the lines.
Hence, sweeping generalizations and flat out nonsense about MENA and its peoples
And realize that some journos are orientalist bastards.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Sayf says to #FF: ‘you are welcome to come and visit #Sirte, there are 20,000 armed people there’ #Libya
Sayf claims 20k people will defend #Sirte judging by usual pro-gad inflation of numbes that means 200 fighters. #Libya
just based purely on what i saw with my own eyes in Tripoli, Zlitan, Zawiyah. they always inflated numbers of supporters.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Benghazi museum shows scars, triumphs of Libya revolt shabablibya.org/news/benghazi-… #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Someone needs to sit Saif down and explain one or two things to him. #Libya
vatyma
before you sit him down, give the kid some ritalin #saif #gaddafi
LOL Mushu
Aisha Gaddafi = TheToughestGaddafiSon
iglooo101
Saif sit sit…good boy , good boy
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
I wish Saif would stop throwing his toys out of the pram.
Hanan
Classic Case of Sibling Rivalry! Saadi spoke? Seif has to one-up him!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
FACTBOX-Latest developments in the Libyan conflict shabablibya.org/news/factbox-l… #Libya
PHOTO’S ENJOY!
Eid Al-Fitr in Free Libya
By Libyan Youth Movement •
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feb17libya Feb17Libya
The Gaddafi’s sound a bit ticked off today – The beautiful Eid prayers from Tripoli to Benghazi must have gotten under their skin – #Libya
BBC
Why did Algeria take the Gaddafis?
feb17.info/editorials/why-did-algeria-t...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya rebels say security guaranteed for Saadi Qaddafi if he surrenders #Libya #Saadi
Souffian Tripoli
Don’t forget the Gaddafi sponsored terrorism internationally. And can continue to do so. Proof will come out
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Nice profile of Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/…
Niz_FGM Niz
confusion in Tripoli regarding explosion Wed morning. Rumours regarding the cause are endless.
Still no running water in #Tripoli
Power cuts have subsided in #Tripoli
Gas cylinders (for cooking) now in supply again at normal prices after the shipment of gas to #Tripoli
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
US says Qaddafi’s daughter gave birth on Algeria border goo.gl/iLT8O
An Algerian letter? Oh, I see……..
Must read:
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s Abu Salim prison ‘rats’ faced brutality english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/…
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Tripoli bookworm thrilled by Libya’s new chapter bit.ly/o3bcJm #libya
4Adam:
Hey Gaddafi, check your inbox! #NTC sent today a SMS message congratulating Libyans on Eid al-Fitr in Tamazighet language."
BreakingNews Breaking News
by AmmarParis
Gadhafi’s son, on Al Arabiya TV, says his father is seeking a role in govt with rebels. more – @AlArabiya bit.ly/kYTe6o
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Saif sounds like he’s resolved himself to going down with his father #Gaddafi #Libya
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Very quiet day on the eastern front, rebels moving artillery forward but commanders say no attack on Sirte until at least Saturday
I’ve uploaded new photos to my gallery from Eastern Libya, you can see them here www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.20577...
A medic exhumes the body of a pro-Gaddafi soldier who was buried in a road side grave after an air strike www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2071661...
fpleitgenCNN Frederik Pleitgen
Fireworks in Misrata. City celebrating first Eid without Gaddafi in a long time and their survival after a horrible onslaught. #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Alarabia TV says it’s been under jamming attacks like ALjazeera, Algeria is preparing for Sep 17th?
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
Reports that Gadhafi has been found in Bani Walid. Cannot confirm independently.
hominoid555 not sayin
Is Libya’s Muammar Gadhafi finally cornered? kinda looks like it eh !
One of the officials also says Wednesday that Gadhafi forces and rebels are fighting near the town of Bani Walid.
Jibril, Executive Office of the President: the courts should start to receive people’s complaints
Metro – Rebels: son of Libyan intelligence chief killed www.metronews.ca/toronto/world/article/...
Conference on Libya: Algiers dispatch its foreign minister. www.ennaharonline.com/en/news/7144.html I don’t think the Libyans will be charmed by this !
danieljerivers Dan Rivers
Wow! someone just pledged 10,000 dollars to #nannyinneed
inglesi Piers Scholfield
People of #Sirte are waiting for rebels to arrive, resident told me. Not many people support Gaddafi there, just his own tribe. #Libya
Misratan fighters under orders not to allow anyone into Misrata, for fear of fifth columnists. Say it will change after Saturday. #Libya
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Amid all the revolutionary graffiti in Tripoli, I’ve seen lots of the Amazigh (Berber) emblem painted by rebels from Amazigh areas
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
3 cars near #MaydanElShuhada, planning on bombing area, were chased to #Tajoura; 2 caught, 1 got away. #Libya #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#FOREIGN #Firms Aided #Libyan SPIES a Look Inside Security Unit Shows How Citizens Were Tracked goo.gl/9azAF #Libya
#CHILLING: Arwa Damon meets young #Libya woman who says she was forced to kill FF prisoners goo.gl/5HqbX
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFF18h1bZLk
Abdelsalam
i can confirm that Abdelati Alobaidi has been arrested by Janzur #FF.I saw it myself.am in Janzur now.He was hiding in his farm
inglesi
Sirte resident Conditions there Terrible: no electricity short on basic supplies “like living in a prison” pple r afraid #Libya
#IMPORTANT Documented by Physicians for Human Rights : Widespread #Gaddafi war crimes #Misrata PDF goo.gl/ePWMK
Tweeting Tripoli
Watch this vid at 1:20 the FF chief giving instructions not to hurt Him youtube.com/watch?v=uTgDjo… Here FF disappears at 0:07 youtube.com/watch?v=YARlfP…
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Saif is a total #PSYCHOPATH he said he went through many areas of #Tripoli today and the rebels are not there it is safe!
#Libya is seeking to import 500,000 tonnes of wheat and 400,000 tonnes of flour in the next two to three months,… fb.me/MBfgZOLJ
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Head of #tripoli military council Belhaj confirms to me that #baniwalid and #sert are giving refugee to #gaddafi & family members. #libya
Head of #tripoli military council Belhaj tells me in interview: #Saadi #gaddafi is considering surrender and it can happen any moment #libya
Belhaj tells me in interview:If negotiations 2 enter #sert & #baniwalid peacefully are not fruitfull, we will use force. #libya #tripoli
Belhaj tells me as well: #saadi #gaddafi told us that #gaddafi is an old man and we all make mistakes. #libya #tripoli
Belhaj: #saadi asked that his dad #gaddafi doesn’t stand trial.We said he’ll b treated fairly, those who did mistakes will b tried. #libya
Here is my full interview with Abdul Hakim Belhaj, Head of #tripoli military council: bit.ly/pjT3w8 #tripoli #libya
AJE: UK Plane lands in #Benghazi delivering ~$200 million to NTC for salaries of government workers, nurses & drs in efforts to lift spirits
UriLF:
Kucinich denies Al Jazeera report that he worked with Qaddafis bit.ly/n5yZJw
Gaddafi falsified all the classified secret documents? Is that what Kucinich is saying?
Yeah, right….
FromJoanne Joanne
On March1 2friends were Arrested 4HRS aft calling Foreign Journo from #Tripoli Cell Phone according to relative; goo.gl/9azAF #Libya
Alexblx
Tweet 2 @realDonaldTrump Sign @ recent #Libya ‘rebels’ gathering in #Benghazi – “USA U have a new ALLY in NORTH AFRICA” yfrog.com/nvy48zj
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Don’t forget tomorrow is Sept 1 – National Cleanup Day in #Libya. It’s time to paint over, scrub off, & trash the past 42 years of #Gaddafi
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Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/3aU27
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Sat eve: Armed reconnaissance patrol over Tripoli by RAF aircraft was tasked by NATO to prosecute a FROG 7 ballistic missile launch vehicle.
The ballistic missile launch vehicle had been seen in hands of Qadhafi’s forces near the former regime’s artillery depot south of Tripoli.
A long range if not very accurate heavy artillery rocket, the weapon represented a significant potential threat to the population of Tripoli
Sat eve: Our aircraft successfully engaged the missile launcher with a Paveway guided bomb.
At sea, the Royal Navy continues to support NATO’s maritime operations, conducting vital surveillance tasks off the Libyan coast.
Ali Tweel
here is shortage of water, also food, but u know the libyan spirit, we help each others & hopfully no budy will feel hungry.
Power is back 2:04pm some areas around me got it before me but it’s fine, better than nothing. I just wish knowing why is this happenning?
you mean am not pm !” ooops yes the power got back in 2am not pm!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Seriously, have to take media w/ grain of salt, caught most of them in lies to “make” news, raise ratings over last 6 months
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Abdullah Senoussi’s son was spotted in Tripoli’s Al-Afia hospital, according to the AP report I just RT’d.
dovenews Libyan™
#Libya ambassador to #Malta threatened by #Gaddafi loyalists via phone call from #Tunisia via @ksnavarra #Libya #Tunisia #Malta
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tunisia has offered to send policing forces to help with the security in #Libya #Feb17
#Malta to expel two #Gaddafi secret service agents sent from #Tripoli to ‘mind’ #Libya ambassador. #Feb17
Ex #Gaddafi SHIP (Unspecified Type) “SATRA” anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
Turkey CARGO SHIPS “HACI MEHMET KAPTAN” & “SEREN AYANOGLU” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Moldova CARGO SHIPS “MAR BIANCO” & “AZZURRA” remain in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
Ex #Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ANWAAR LIBYA” remains in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Syria CARGO SHIP “LADY SEHAM” remains in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
Turkey CARGO SHIP “DERIN” remains in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “FEYZA GENC” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “RECEP KURU” now anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “ARON” & “KURUOGLU 3” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
Turkey CARGO SHIPS “DENIZ YILDIZI S” & “BANU GENC” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “KEREM AYANOGLU” & “ILKE METE” now anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
This is a must read:
Ghazi Gheblawi: We’ve been liberated from our fear – The Independent ind.pn/qYgoEc #Libya #Tripoli #Feb17 #MoNabbous
Khalifa
Joke of the day, #AU: The new Libyan Government must represent all Libyans and must include #Gadhafi supporters.
MONEY< MONEY< MONEY $$$$$$$$$$$
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Seems like the power station was sabotaged by Gaddafi thugs. Maintenance work is being carried out slowly
MachahirNews is a HUGE fraud. Pretending to be a reporter (with Aljazeera). This guy should get sued.
LaurenBohn Lauren E. Bohn
Gilded traces of the lives Qaddafis led: nyti.ms/o66xeg #Libya
English Libya TV
Setting the pillars for a great nation
It is due time that (we) ‘free’ citizens of Libya begin to set the pillars for building a great and a prosperous nation. We must all believe in ourselves and in the future of the country. We must live with hope and a desire to pursue with vigor our country’s highest aspirations.
Libya’s faith is no parallel to any other nation (at least in modern history). This unprecedented opportunity to shape our future is the responsibility of each of us. By pursuing the just principles of freedom, human rights, and democracy; we will build the foundation of an unimaginable dignified, free and prosperous nation. Therefore, below are some sample points to bear in mind whilst considering what is needed for Libya:
Social Development is the qualitative change in the structure and framework of a society, which in turn helps the society to better realize its aims and objectives. We
must raise awareness amongst Libyans of their rights and the duty of their duly (future) elected government as well as harnessing the available social energies and skills and resources of Libya towards a socially developed nation. Accordingly this will yield to a greater level of efficiency, quality, productivity, complexity, comprehension, creativity, mastery, enjoyment and accomplishment of the Libyan Society as a whole.
Education is simply the most effective process by which a society could share and transmit and improve its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. Education is the process by which people learn through instruction; i.e. the facilitating of learning by teachers. Teaching is the actions of a real live instructor to impart learning to the student. Learning is preparing learners with specific knowledge, skills, or abilities that can be applied immediately upon completion of an education degree. The current education system is in dire need of reform and development inclusive of the national curriculum, school standards, quality of teacher’s accreditation, and overall educational facilities.
Healthcare is practically nonexistent in Libya. Libyans are in desperate need for a workable and effective Healthcare system whereby the process, equipment and facilities for medical diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments are available to all Libyans. As it is the case for all countries; establishing a reliable and effective healthcare system in Libya will require a robust financing mechanism; well-trained and adequately paid workforce; reliable information and data on which decisions and policies could be made; and well maintained facilities and logistics to deliver quality medicines and technologies.
Infrastructure: Without a proper, organized, efficient and sufficient investment in any nation’s infrastructure; growth will remain limited. Libya’s infrastructure development is not a choice but rather it is the necessity for a modern physical and organizational structure which is needed for a society to operate by providing the facilities crucial for any nation to function and grow. The technical structures that support a society, such as roads, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth are deeply lacking in Libya.
Therefore, Libya’s future government and Libya’s citizens’ must have the ability to understand, advocate, and direct capital toward durable widespread societal benefits, whilst bearing in mind the future societal growth and development.
Economy: Libya is in dire need of professional, well organized and thorough research of its major economic indicators; production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Moreover, Libya requires a clear analysis of its economic activity vis-a-vis the Libyan society, business sector, finance, government, as well as Libya’s education sector, healthcare, laws, politics, religion, and social institutions.
It is crucial that Libya’s economic well being be drawn and planned for in accordance to its microeconomics and macroeconomics indicators; i.e. the behavior of basic elements in the economy, including individual markets and agents (such as consumers and firms, buyers and sellers), and the issues affecting the entire
economy, including unemployment, inflation, economic growth, and monetary and fiscal policy.
Libya must refrain from it’s over dependence on its oil production which is evidentially only at best 25 years reserve. Libya must explore its economic activity in regards to other complementary and effective principles; such as small to medium manufacturing, hospitality and tourism, open market trade, and others.
Therefore, it is crucial to reform Libya’s major financial institutions; i.e. Libyan Central Bank, LIA, Libyan Foreign Bank and others as well as establishing a regulatory body and/or supervisory framework for Libya’s financial sector. A financial sector reform program must be thoroughly planned and expedited, to include major restructuring of banks and financial institutions. Organizing the right employee talent by provide training and certification for financial professionals to bring about positive change in Libya.
Each of us can make a difference in the lives of over 6 million people! We urge you to be involved, help yourself and help your nation. Have faith in yourself and in your country’s future.
Converting Libya’s fighter helicopters to medical evacuation helicopters. #libya #feb17 fb.me/BODvWH6o
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp8dLxZI2uI
Sky News: A Pilot Swaps His Joystick For A Gun To Fight Against The Gaddafi Regime
How Pilot Became Rebel With A Cause
A pilot who swapped his joystick for a gun to fight alongside the Libyan rebels was shot in the head when he entered Colonel Gaddafi’s compound – but survived. Sky’s Mark Stone reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuaJPmMA9Z0&fea...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Must Read! – Gaddafi’s Fleeing Mercenaries Describe the Collapse of the Regime shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-… #Libya
If we have the courage, more tyrants like Gaddafi will fall shabablibya.org/news/if-we-have-the-cou... #Libya
MERCEDES CONVOY STORY:
Hadeel
Talked to Dr 2day who said Mohammed Senoussi tried to control his hospital near airport with his soldiers
Dr said M. Senoussi looked tired, defeated, called himself a “Dead man walking”
Dr said M. Senoussi told him he was only defending his father, not the regime cuz he didn’t believe in the regime any longer
Dr said one of his gadhafi soldier patients said they were waiting for Khamis in the farms near airport and would flee to Bani Walid
Dr said yday, 4 black armored #Mercedez cars pulled up, took #Gadhafi patients, M. Senoussi, and left.
Salma
#Libya will not descend into anarchy. Tribes will not battle each other. #Benghazi and #Tripoli will not divide. #shutupalready
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Rockets, gunfire and the kindness of strangers shabablibya.org/news/rockets-g… #Libya
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Qatari-Algerian tension over Libya Spills onto the Soccer Pitch bit.ly/ph0esD By @mideastsoccer for Middle East Online
Tasbeeh
Most ideal resolution with pro-Gaddafi civilians is reconciliation, not revenge. Save the vindictive impulses to deal w/ Kousa & his ilk.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tanzania CARGO SHIP “AMAL” now anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. #Feb17
#US PLEASURE CRAFT “LORELEI” now anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. #Feb17
#Italy OIL TANKER “VALLERMOSA” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-29 04:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#NTC will shortly distribute 30,000 tons of petrol to #Tripoli residents & will provide cooking gas within the next 48 hours.
#Libyan embassy in #Algeria burned, government may want to hide documents of cooperation & mercs. RT via @LibyanHawk.
Fadwa
#Gaddafi used to sell oil to Russia, China, India & money goes in his pockets. Instead, we’ll now sell to UK,France & money goes to #LIBYA
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#WadiAlAhmar reported to have been heavily mined by #Gaddafi filth.
The Echo
Kosovo recognises National Transitional Council as government of Libya
Kosovo has recognised the anti-Gaddafi National Transitional Council (NTC) as the sole governing authority in Libya, according to a letter sent on August 27 2011 by Kosovo foreign minister Enver Hoxhaj to the NTC’s Mahmoud Jibril.
Kosovo, whose 2008 declaration of independence is recognised by 80 countries but opposed by Serbia – with the backing of UN Security Council members Russia and China – never won recognition from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, who chose to back the Serbian camp.
Hoxhaj’s letter, a copy of which was posted on the Kosovo foreign ministry website, told Jibril: "After a long journey and many efforts of the Libyan people, recognition of
your government, as the only legitimate representative of the Libyan people, derives from faith and our understanding that this government can manage the process to build a united Libya, free and democratic, based on the rule of law, in accordance with high standards of human rights and freedoms.
“We are confident that all the Libyan security will be guaranteed in order to open a new chapter of the great freedom and justice and that this moment of commitment to become sustainable progress,” Hoxhaj said.
www.sofiaecho.com/2011/08/28/1145968_ko...
Gaddafi ready to enter talks, but National Transitional Council insists he must surrender first gu.com/p/3xg27/tw via @guardian
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Mutassim Gaddafi’s ex tells of the final days of Libyan regime tinyurl.com/3mmeptg Playboy models and whiskey and Coke
Mutassim Gaddafi’s girlfriend tells of the final days of Libyan regime
Mutassim Gaddafi’s former girlfriend, Dutch glamour model Talitha van Zon, talks to Nick Meo about the dying days of the Gaddafi regime.
Filipino servants wearing spotless white jackets mixed his favourite Jack Daniels whisky and coke, and then Mutassim Gaddafi raised his glass and toasted the victory that he was sure was close.
Relaxing in one of his Tripoli homes just over a week ago, during a break from commanding at the front, the fifth son of Libya’s ruler was in a defiant mood. Soon, he boasted to the blonde foreigner sitting with him, he would lead his father’s regime to a victory over the “rats”.
“I was shocked when I met Mutassim. He had changed,” said Miss van Zon. “It was the first time I had seen him since just before the February uprising. He had a beard, he was sitting on a couch strewn with automatic weapons, and he was guarded by unsmiling 16-year-old boys with sub-machine guns.” On the wall behind was a huge
portrait of his father, Muammar Gaddafi.
The hedonist son also had ambitions for power, inspired by his father’s example. “He worshipped his father,” Miss Van Zon said. “He talked a lot about Hitler, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez. He liked leaders who had a lot of power. He always said ‘I want to do better than my father’.”
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Seems like the vital coastal road all the way from #tripoli to Tunisia /Ras Ajdir has been secured. Important 4 supplies #Libya
Tahar
La question que se posent tous les libyens: Ou est parti Kadhafi #libya#kadhafi
Vlog contributing to the discussion “Has the Arab Spring Failed”, and also introducing a major writing project, “The Arab Spring Manifesto”. By Iyad El-Baghdadi.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lda9EiolJE4
American escapes Tripoli prison
bit.ly/onhPm5 (via @cnni) ignorant #Gaddafi thugs
URGENT ! #MALTA TWEEPS ! HELP #LIBYA pls take FOOD and WATER from 8am to 4pm at #Shipwright #Wharf #MARSA via @spiritofscouse
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI TWEEPS @libyatvarabic needs ContactNr of @libyaarabic he is looking4 missing #JABALLA #MATAR Allegedly Freed From #AbuSalim #Libya
Triploli Chilling discovery in School in Medina Khadima
Inside Gaddafi’s torture chamber: The bloodstained cells inside a former primary school used to brutalise his enemies
The secret door in the corner of the nondescript office swung open and I was ushered through.
The walls were hung with pictures of Tripoli’s beautiful old city because the former primary school was serving as the headquarters of the historic buildings society.
But behind this innocuous facade lay scenes of horror. For this was where Muammar Gaddafi’s secret police kept watch on the traders and residents of the city centre – and beat them if they stepped out of line.
goo.gl/LT7xo #Libya
or:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-203093...
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH FF spokesman Mohammed al-Rajali Sunday; GF Fled Westward from #BinJawad Likely to join regime forces in #Sirte #Libya Bin #Jawwad
#FUNNYnews: #Musa #Ibrahim, Gaddafi spokesman called AP #NewYork Saturd G. still in #Libya OFFERS talk 2 FF Forming Transitional Government
kosovo_
Miki Stojcic dangerous Gadaff/Serb spy agent cameraman infiltrated with RAI (italian TV staff in Tripoli)rts.rs/page/stories/s…
or:
www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
Ahmed
Gaddafi has no army. All are blood thirsty criminals that kill for $s.
Some are payed monthly, some daily. Once they hear the devil’s caught/killed they’ll all run for the hills/desert and never come back
Gaddafi has nowhere to run. He’s in Tripoli and I’m 99.98485% sure. 100% sure one of his kids are in the capital pulling the strings.
إن مع العسر يسرا : “with hardship comes ease”…
Some stories bring tears of joy and others tears of sadness. #Libya #Prisoners
Some prisoners that were shot in the leg (whilst tied) were sent to military hospitals where Gaddafi soldiers forced doctors to amputate
The dead are martyrs in a place better than anything we can imagine. The living are alive and will be victorious iA
ProudLibyan
As I mentioned a while back, Gaddafi was a one man show, but many ppl ensured he stayed alone on stage and they took care of it for him.
AP: Libyan forces killed detainees: rights group. goo.gl/WSxIf #libya
UNICEF: UNICEF responds to the emerging water crisis in #Tripoli goo.gl/ONfbU #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
BBC: #UK announces humanitarian aid for conflict-torn #Libya goo.gl/CUlwK #libya
Edinburgh Evening News: We’re reaching out to children traumatised by the conflict in #Libya goo.gl/QfvAH #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Euronews: Rush to bury bodies in #Tripoli goo.gl/EXzCY #libya
ABC: Humanitarian crisis worsens in war-torn #Libya goo.gl/oM9fs #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Tripoli
CNN: Witness to Libyan prison massacre seeks justice for victims goo.gl/74YsH #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Guma El Gamaty on AJE now dicussing the AU’s lack of recgonition of NTC, once again very well spoken Great job!!
Telegraph: Why the fall of #Tripoli will not be another Baghdad goo.gl/XAco3 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Please visit this site to honour our fallen heroes. RIP. الله يرحم شهداء ليبيا feb17martyrs.com #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Telegraph: How the special forces helped bring #Gaddafi to his knees goo.gl/GHdOL #libya #feb17 3gaddaficrimes
AJE: #Libya regains Arab League seat goo.gl/dAkNn #libya #feb17
AJE: Musa Ibrahim calls AP to report that he is in #Tripoli and that #Gaddafi is still in #Libya #shutupalready #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
The right and the wrong lessons to draw from #Libya’s liberation. goo.gl/sCBoV #gaddaficrimes #feb17
‘I stole Gaddafi’s sunglasses’: a rebel tells his extraordinary story goo.gl/IQJHo #Libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
VIDEO: AFP: Freedom Fighters from #Benghazi celebrate in #Tripoli Aug 28 2011 goo.gl/3lVHj Truly Beautiful to see. #Libya #feb17
Countries who recognize the NTC as the legitimate government of #Libya. I guess the others haven’t gotten the memo… goo.gl/QQqlY
Libya: Gaddafi ‘offers to form transitional government’ shabablibya.org/news/libya-gaddafi-offe... (Is he for real?) #Libya
ProudLibyan
Gaddafi state TV must have an archive of TV footage of Gaddafi crimes esp. of student executions in 1970’s/80’s, hope they can retrieved.
Tweeting Tripoli
100s of doctors were arrested for helping the protesters many escaped to Nafousa and Tunisia.
The deans were always pro-G just like other schools at the uni, but most professors were anti-G and that is 4 sure.
Tasbeeh
Mutassim Gaddafi’s GF says he admired Hitler. #Libya
Touching and funny “I stole Gadddafi’s sunglasses…. I took some of his underpants and some of his wife’s” www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/28/th...
MUST READ:
Times of Malta
Gaddafi ‘raped’ his female bodyguards
‘She refused his advances and he raped her’
Five women who formed part of Muammar Gaddafi’s select unit of female bodyguards are claiming they were raped and abused by the now hunted dictator.
The women have told Benghazi-based psychologist Seham Sergewa they were sexually abused by Col. Gaddafi and his sons before being discarded once they were “bored” with them.
One of the women told Dr Sergewa how she had been blackmailed into joining the bodyguard brigade, once believed to number as many as 400 women, after the regime fabricated a story that her brother was carrying drugs on his way back to Libya from a holiday in Malta.
“She was told ‘you either become a bodyguard or your brother will spend the rest of
his life in prison,’” Dr Sergewa told The Sunday Times.
The woman in question knew exactly what this meant, Dr Sergewa explained, because she had been raped a few weeks before this by Col. Gaddafi.
“She had been expelled from university and was told to seek Gaddafi’s intervention to be reinstated. She was told she had to undergo a medical test that included an HIV test that was administered by an East European nurse.”
Eventually she was taken to meet Col. Gaddafi at his Bab Aziziya compound in Tripoli. She was led to his private quarters where she found him in his pyjamas.
“She could not understand because she saw him as a father figure, leader of the nation, that sort of thing. She refused his advances and he raped her,” Dr Sergewa said.
A pattern emerged in the stories. The women would be first raped by the dictator and then passed on, like used objects, to one of his sons and eventually to high-ranking officials for more abuse before eventually being let go.
It started about a month into the uprising, in March, when Dr Sergewa, a child psychologist by specialisation, was approached by the mothers of three children she was treating with harrowing stories of rape by militiamen.
“At first I thought these were isolated incidents but I kept thinking about it and felt I should try to look into it further,” Dr Sergewa said.
The stories were as grim as they get.
“Women came forward saying they had been raped by as many as 20 soldiers, sometimes in front of their husbands and children. In one case, a girl, around 18 or so, said she was raped in front of her father. She kept telling him not to look at her…”
Many of the victims have been deeply scarred by the abuse, with a number committing suicide or contemplating it.
“Others have signs of psychosomatic stress and develop conditions like bulimia and anorexia.”
Source:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
Tweeting Tripoli
Yippee. Just got me some fuel. Going out in a big tour round Tripoli in a moment, will try to describe the general atmosphere later. kthxbye
Teresa
found out from ex reporters @ rixos that 2 bad reporters were Q-loyals tweeting him or sons about info good journos had on Q.
what I’m sayin is,if any Tripoli journos brag abt being held N Rixos,caution abt what ppl say 2 them.Gonna take time2weedout.
Lizzie Phelan, Thierry Meyssan & Mahdi Nazemroaya r pro-G-spies from the #RIXOS
Ben Ashour #Tripoli. A center can treat surgical casualties. Personal: 0912155844/0927202007 – Center: 0913858152/0922371346/0913858153
Ali Tweel
Miss van Zon recalled. “Mutassim said ‘about $2 million’. I said ‘you mean a year?’ He said ‘no – a month’.” << thats our money!
I remember watching a show made by BBC called “the house of saddam”, do you think there will be some day “the house of gaddafi” and when?
feb17libya Feb17Libya
To families in #Tripoli: those who are able to provide food for the wounded in the hospitals and to FF please call this number – 0913088827.
SKY NEWS
Libya moving forward
Libyan freedom fighters embarked on the job of getting the capital up and running again, as a gruesome find near a base of Muammar Gaddafi’s elite troops highlighted the brutality of his regime.
The fighters said they had captured the base of the elite 32 Brigade commanded by Gaddafi’s son Khamis after a NATO airstrike and seven hours of fierce fighting.
In a building nearby local residents showed journalists the charred remains of some 50 people they said were captives killed on Tuesday with rifles and grenades.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/libya-moving-forward
LA TIMES
Libya rebels bask in victory and look to the future
The two cousins still couldn’t believe it. Just six months ago, they were working-class guys in the coastal town of Misurata making ends meet inMoammar Kadafi’s Libya. Now they were in their pickup cruising around the capital. A capital they controlled.
Abdul Hamid Issa, 46, was a construction worker, Mohammad Issa, 45, a carpenter. But then came the Arab Spring.
“We are building a new Libya,” said Mohammad. “The sacrifices we made were for the sake of children, so they can live in a prosperous Libya.”
The odds are against them. Many revolutions throughout history have ended badly, especially ones that allowed thousands of weapons to fall into the hands of young men.
The rebels may have put aside their class, regional and tribal differences to defeat Kadafi, but those divisions have not been overcome.
Full art.:
feb17.info/news/libya-rebels-bask-in-vi...
Moussa Ibrahim
Moussa Ibrahim, Gadhafi’s chief spokesman, called AP headquarters in New York late Saturday and said Gadhafi is offering to negotiate with the rebels to form a transitional government. Ibrahim, identified by his voice, said Gadhafi appointed his son al-Saadi to head the negotiations. Ibrahim said he saw Gadhafi on Friday but would say only that he is in Libya. Ibrahim said he himself was in Tripoli.
AP
Rebel fighters have pushed increasingly leaderless regime gunmen to the outskirts of Tripoli on Saturday, as severe shortages of fuel, water and electricity paralyzed the battle-scarred capital and the stench of growing piles garbage filled the air.
The rebels, who now control most of Libya, said they are preparing for an assault on Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, his last major bastion, if negotiations with tribal leaders there fail. Rebels deployed in Bin Jawad, a town about 150 kilometers east of Sirte,
said they are waiting for NATO to bomb Scud missile launchers and possible weapons warehouses there.
The infamous golden fist in Gaddafi’s Bab Al Aziziya compound has officially been brought down.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: First Friday prayers since the fall of the Kadhafi regime. bit.ly/otCcMv #libya
Libyan Novelist Recounts His Father’s Abduction : The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/09/05/11090... via @NewYorker
OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
Reuters has reported Libya’s rebel government will not negotiate with Muammar Gaddafi unless he surrenders tinyurl.com/42ln8va
Sirtawi
Via Thuraya: According to caller’s estimation, situation will be critical if another week goes by with no end to this crisis
Via Thuraya: Electricity still down in #Sirte. Shortage in coal & wood supplies as ppl use them to cook, gas running out quickly.
dovenews Libyan™
HRW: Libya: Gaddafi Forces Suspected Of Executing Detainees. goo.gl/jLyQY #Libya #Feb17 #HRW #GaddafiCrimes
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Had many calls from friends in free tripoli saying city recovering fast thanks 2 energy & resourcefulness of its people. Makes me so proud!!
Those who thought & said Libya will b another Iraq should adjust their thoughts & give Libyans some credit! Young Libyans r simply awesome!!
CHANNEL 4 NEWS:
alextomo alex thomson
Tonight on #c4news the British connection with Colonel Gaddafi’s notorious military base in Tripoli. #Libya
Graphic eyewitness accounts this morning on the massacre at Khamis military base in Tripoli. #c4news #Libya
We find 9 Nigerians captured by rebels, terrified they’ll be shot #c4news #Libya
They beg us to stay. Kept saying if we left they’d be shot #c4news
They were terrified, crying and praying. Eventually made sure they got out of #Khamis alive #c4news
#c4news we have named dated photo IDs of dozen British men from Khamis base
#c4news british photo IDs are titled “Collaborator Of 32 Brigade”. Dated 2009
MUST READ:
channel4news Channel 4 News
by alextomo
No more “crazy” hair as Gaddafi’s Libya lies wrecked – @alextomo blogs for #c4news bit.ly/nOG3Jg
or:
blogs.channel4.com/world-news-blog/no-m...
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Libyans really don’t like the comparison to Iraq. Best to prove them wrong, not whine about them.
LOVE THIS TWEET:
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Moussa says #Gaddafi willing to discuss a transfer of power. The Col clearly doesn’t have a TV or he’d see it’s already taken place.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
The ntc army is insisting they be allowed to enter sirte and the sirte elders are saying they must go round.
4Adam Adam
Construction sites in Tajoura used as weapon depots for Gaddafi forces. facebook.com/video/video.ph… #Libya #Tripoli
Amazing footage of Bab Aziziya battle – Part 1/3 (by @almostakbal) dai.ly/nzCSwm #Libya #Tripoli
Amazing footage of Bab Aziziya battle – 3 dai.ly/rb204B
3 dai.ly/ppFCmv #Libya #Tripoli via @almostakbal
4Adam Adam
We all more Libyan now,… even those who ain’t Libyans.. they wish they were! youtube.com/watch?v=mJffA7… #Libya #Feb17
*Must read piece for those who can’t distinguish between ‘Middle East’ and ‘North Africa’ – Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri... #Libya #Feb17
AP- HRW says evidence indicates that Gaddafi regime killed at least 17 detainees and executed 10s of civilians as rebels moved into #Tripoli
#HRW’s Clive Baldwin’our ppl in #Tripoli have seen so many atrocities committed by Gaddafi regime.We expect more charges to be added by ICC’
#nyt – #Libya’s Interim Leadership Releases Its Members’ Names nytimes.com/2011/08/28/wor… #NTC #Feb17
#AJE’s James Bays with the latest updates from Tripoli youtube.com/watch?v=BM6PPr… #Libya #Feb17
#Libya is ~2 million square kilometers, expecting the hide and seek w/ Gaddafis will take sometime. but have no idea why the world cant wait
A cry for medical help from #Tripoli hospitals. Doctors work in difficult conditions Arabic www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4fkcS7DqYk #Libya
English Libya TV
NTC minister: we won’t hand over Lockerbie bomber
Libya will not extradite Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing, a minister in Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) said today.
“We will not give any Libyan citizen to the West,” Mohammed al-Alagi, the NTC justice minister, told reporters in Tripoli.
“Al-Megrahi has already been judged once and he will not be judged again … We do not hand over Libyan citizens, (Muammar) Gaddafi does.”
NEIGHBOURS DESCRIBE WEALTHY RECLUSE
Neighbours of al- Megrahi described a wealthy recluse, constantly surrounded by security guards.
Al-Megrahi, who had been diagnosed with cancer, served only eight years in a
Scottish jail for orchestrating the attack on Pan Am 103, before being released on compassionate grounds in 2009 and flown back to Libya after doctors gave him only months to live.
He was received with a hero’s welcome on his return to Tripoli, and the televised images of cheering crowds angered many relatives of the 270 people killed in the attack, 189 of whom were Americans.
The Obama administration harshly criticised Scotland’s decision to release Megrahi and many U.S. politicians and victims’ families have pressed for his extradition to the United States.
One of Megrahi’s neighbours said he had been whisked away by security guards last week when Tripoli fell to revolutionaries battling forces belonging to Gaddafi, who like Megrahi, has gone into hiding. Libya’s new government is likely to come under pressure to find Megrahi and hand him over.
“The day Tripoli fell, four security men, his private security, took him, his wife and his sons and left. They left in a Mercedes,” said Ahmed Mlaaty, 20, a student and one of Megrahi’s neighbours, standing outside his handsome villa.
As a condition of his release, Megrahi had been obliged to check in regularly with Scottish authorities, who said last week they had lost contact with him in the “dust of battle”.
Neighbours said Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence operative, owns several properties in the Demeshk area of Tripoli’s Hadba district, one of the smartest in the city.
Megrahi’s properties appeared empty, with a padlock on the gate of one residence
where he was said to receive guests.
Sprays of bougainvillea, tall palm trees and brightly coloured flowers could be seen behind the high walls of the neighbourhood’s large villas.
“He kept himself to himself …. He’s a millionaire. He gets his money from big daddy (Gaddafi). People keep their distance. They don’t want to get into state affairs as it will only bring trouble,” Mlaaty said.
Another neighbour who had sat with Megrahi at local functions but had never spoken to him said he appeared a reserved, well-turned-out man.
Most neighbours said Megrahi appeared unwell, but there is controversy over his severity of his condition — diagnosed by Scottish doctors as terminal prostate cancer — and whether it warranted his release.
“I saw him many times, he was in a wheelchair, he looked very ill, very thin. He always had security, more than one car. He never went anywhere without them,” said senior policeman Ali Ahmed al-Khudair, 40, who said he resented the security patrols that accompanied Megrahi’s arrival in the neighbourhood.
“He wasn’t a millionaire before, but he is now. He came here after he was released from prison. Then he bought these houses. This is one of Libya’s top neighbourhoods,” he added.
Another neighbour said Megrahi caused no one any harm, and said his complicity in the bombing had not been proved.
“Everyone associates him with Lockerbie, but I’m not sure he was involved,” said Noora Abdul Hadi, 27, a doctor.
Attiya al-Usta, 77, said he had seen Megrahi just before the February uprising against Gaddafi’s 42-year-rule.
“When he came back from Europe he looked ill. But recently he looked fit and neat. I saw him just before the revolution. He didn’t look ill at all. He was sitting in a chair on his balcony. He looked 100 percent.”
Reuters
FACTBOX – Countries that recognize Libyan rebel council reut.rs/oWZttU via @reuters #Libya #Feb17 #NTC
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Worth reading in the Observer – One fighter’s perspective – “I stole Gadaffi sunglasses” bit.ly/pgfo8Q
Sky’s @kileysky
‘heavy fighting between rebel special forces and Gaddafi forces in Wadi al hammer east Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown’ #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BBC Newsnight August 24. Video: goo.gl/D9lw4 @Guma_el_gamaty did an excellent job here! Not much can be said about the other speaker
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels now pushing forward, commander of rebel special forces has told @kileysky that they think they could be in Sirte by tonight. #Libya
SkyNewsCamera Nathan Hale
Near Bin Jawad. Jets heard overhead. Large explosions in the distance toward Sirt
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
We are hearing reports that talks have stalled between sirte elders and ntc.
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Just had update on rebel plans for Sirte. Sounds like negotiations have not failed – but certainly rather stuck
AJE
Guma_el_gamaty
“Africa has to decide if they want to be in the past w Gaddafi or in present & future with the #Libya’n people”
“Need explanation from AU as 2 why they were silent over mass murder, rape&destruction committed by Gaddafi "#Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan rebels are 30 kilometers away from #Gaddafi hometown #Sirte, says military chief.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
We’re now about 10 km past Bin Jawad, front line about 8km ahead – NATO planes over head #Libya
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
Reuters Reuters Top News
Libyan rebel commander: It will take more than 10 days to take Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s home town and one of his last bastions of support
hominoid555 whitewakbar
On the eastern front, and “the thwar (rebel fighters) from Misrata are 30 kilometres from Sirte” in the west, Fortiya said.
Libyan FFs forces moved 30 kilometres (18 miles) closer to Sirte from the west.
Arab league concludes its emergency session over Libya, Syria www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/... via @AddThis
The Arab League called upon the United Nations to recognize Libya’s transitional council as one of its members GOOD POINT
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
The view from my hotel balcony in Tripoli. (A bullet hole in the glass) yfrog.com/menzqj ##LIBYA
hominoid555 not sayin
Qatar has reportedly stopped issuing visas to Algerians.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Sporadic shelling of the area around Bin Jawad by Gaddafi’s forces #Libya
Major General Nick Pope, spokesman for UK Defense Staff, said its forces spotted a FROG 7 ballistic missile launch vehicle near Bin Ghashir
Libya rebels clear road, opening vital supply route west #cnn edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28...
There are widespread shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, particularly in the Nafusa Mountains and Tripoli," U.N. Secretary-General
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Ras Jdir border crossing with #Libya reportedly open from 1130 GMT i.e right now! Cuts down time- Tunisia to #Tripoli by 8 hrs
LibyaLiberty Hunting the Beard
FF taking turns sitting in #Shakeer’s studio set, calling him Shikhsheer (means sock). Delicious Disrespect. fb.me/EMUrYA5i
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
by LibyanPilot
VIDEO: AFP: Freedom Fighters from #Benghazi celebrate in #Tripoli Aug 28 2011 goo.gl/3lVHj Truly Beautiful to see.
OmarAmer
Senior military official says FF on West are now 30km from Sirte, FF on the East are now under 100km from the town
One of the main reasons negotiations are breaking down for peaceful entry to Sirte, the G loyalists don’t want the FF 2 enter at all
The Libyan National Army are now at Nawfalia, just before Wadi al Ahmar, Nawfalia the historic boundary of Cyrenaica – Tripolitania
Sky news correspondent: The Libyan National army could reach Sirte this evening
Khalifa
and the humiliation of #Gadhafi continues, someone was filmed cleaning his shoes using one of Gadhafi’s “iconic” shirts.
“We free now, we are free now” dancing in the streets www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J6NrjY7p7k&fea...! #Libya
Al-Orouba TV is reported to be off air. #Gadhafi used AL-Orouba TV for his last 2 rants.
Sirtawi
A group of ladies from #Sirte, a part of #Feb17. Date of video unknown. (Arabic) youtube.com/watch?v=iQ9U90…
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Saws two Ukrainain ids & Libyan residencies they got in July. Rebels say both r snipers & have detained them. #Libya
Alex
SIRTE UPDATE: #FF will be on the outskirts of #Sirte by tonight – there have been major gun battles at Wadi Ahmar Red Valley – which is about 100km east of #Sirte – the hometown of #Muammar #Gaddafi.
FF are well armed & supplied – but the local tribe is very pro Gaddafi – and a range of local obstacles include per @Palm_Maple “Bad Geography, animistic tribes, minefields & Maginot-like defense Line”.
The most recent news – at midday – is that #FF have gained the upper hand at #WadiAhmar – and are now able to advance again – as pro G are retreating – and a #FF just interviewed on SKY predicted that they would be at Sirte early evening.
NIZ
NGOs have brought people to tripoli from bengazi. They may take people out if on route to tunisia.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Witness to Libyan prison massacre seeks justice for victims bit.ly/nwj8ng #libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
To those women who have suffered rape or torture under #Gaddafi’s orders….you are “Strong Enough”. Dedication to you. goo.gl/gNNEh
Reuters: Witness reports Tunisian authorities open main border crossing into Libya #Libya
NTC spokesman says Libya gas pipeline to Europe has been repaired #Libya
Libyans count deadly cost of battle for Tripoli shabablibya.org/?p=6086 #Libya
Rastko
I am from Serbia and I support the revolution. I organised a protest of support to the freedom fighters in Belgrade on 5 April.
Libiya_min_Hollanda
I want 2 thank all u guys whom supported me when I really needed it and forgive me if I said anything that hurted anyone ;)
Joy and happines is something I will experians when all of #Libya is liberated!!!! And when we catch the G crimenal family!!!
My dad spoke 2 my bro and he told us that they are all fine, other relatives we couldnt reach do 2 the bad phone lines :(
I’m happy for them that QBG is Leberated, finaly ppl can have some rest, and not being stressed out.
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI WATER CUT OFF Latest is… FF believe Gaddafi F Switched off the water flow in #Tahuna FF on way now 2sort it via @Skynews
#FLASH #Benghazi Colonel #NTC Militairy Spokesman #LIVE #Gas lines are up and running along the coast #Libya
FF spokesman abt #SIRTE “We’re still waiting for them 2to stop fighting and open their city We’ve had no result yet.”
Oil-rich #Libya not looking for a loan goo.gl/fb/1JHcn
#Tripoli residents still not complaining Woman: “We can wait 2wks for water, we waited 42 yrs for freedom” #Libya via @bbclysedoucet
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
My guess for water/ #Tripoli: main control for water supply is Ben Ghashir (GMRA) very sophistic. electronic. G forces may ve destroyed it.
water 4 tripoli does come mainly from area south of jebel nafusa, tarhuna is GMRA line 2
u can see the wells if u google my name & GMRA – fotos on my blog
One of the BBC team Chris Cobb-Smith has just found the cell he was held in at the Khamis brigade HQ #Tripoli #Libya in March
@dovenews Libyan™
#FLLA spokesperson Live: A convey of cars tried to cross #Tarhuna area, #FF tried to stop the convey, the ppl in the cars opened fire 1/3
on #FF, #FF have engaged & hit 2 cars directly, the 2 cars went on flame with the drivers inside, we cant identify the bodies but 2/3
we think they were the guards of #Khameais Gaddafi, however, we cant confirm at this stage. 3/3
Libiya_min_Hollanda
Those 2 cars where the cars that left yesterday from Qaser ben Gashir, they had someone imp. In them.
dovenews Libyan™
AP: reported earlier that Moussa Ibrahim, had said Gaddafi had offered 2 negotiate 2 form a transitional gov with #FF 1/4
& that Gaddafi was still in Libya. No negotiation is taking place with Gaddafi," said Ali Tarhouni, the NTC official in charge of oil 2/4
and financial matters. “If he wants to surrender, then we will negotiate and we will capture him.” 3/4
NTC wont negotiate wth Gaddafi unless he surrenders, a top NTC official told Reuters Sunday, adding NTC didnt know Gaddafi’s whereabouts 4/4
English Libya TV
Revolutionaries reject Gaddafi’s offer to talk
Revolutionaries today rejected an offer by Muammar Gaddafi to negotiate and said they have captured the eastern town of Bin Jawwad, forcing regime loyalists to flee after days of fighting.
The opposition fighters have threatened to advance westward on the coastal road toward Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte if tribal leaders there don’t agree to surrender peacefully. The fighting in the east comes as the revolutionaries consolidated their hold on the capital, Tripoli, some 560 kilometers to the west of Bin Jawwad.
Mohammed al-Rajali, a spokesman for the revolutionaries on the eastern frontlines, said they captured Bin Jawwad at about 10 p.m. last night and deployed forces in the
city after days of fighting. He said Gaddafi’s forces fled westward and were likely to join regime forces in Sirte, the headquarters of Gaddafi’s tribe and his last major bastion of support.
The opposition has threatened to assault the city, which has been heavily targeted by NATO airstrikes, if tribal leaders there refuse a peaceful surrender.
With Gaddafi on the run, his spokesman Moussa Ibrahim called The Associated Press yesterday to say Gaddafi is still in Libya and offering to have his son, al-Saadi, lead talks with the revolutionaries on forming a transitional government. In the past, Gaddafi referred to the revolutionaries as “thugs” and “rats.”
Ibrahim said he saw Gaddafi Friday in Libya but would not give more details.
Mahmoud Shammam, the information minister in the revolutionary Council, rejected the offer.
“I would like to state very clearly, we don’t recognize them. We are looking at them as criminals. We are going to arrest them very soon,” he said at a news conference.
“Talking about negotiations is a daydream for what remains of the dictatorship.”
Source:
english.libya.tv/2011/08/28/revolutiona...
dovenews Libyan™
#Bin #Jawad is completely under #FF control. Confirmed
UPDATE: Tunisian authorities reopened #Ras #Ijdir bordr crossing into Libya on Sunday, dozens of vehicles moved through goo.gl/9myBz
Funny African Guy “Libya is situated in Africa & must engage with the African countries” REALLY! #Libya
HRW: Libya: Gaddafi Forces Suspected Of Executing Detainees. goo.gl/jLyQY #Libya #Feb17 #HRW #GaddafiCrimes
dovenews Libyan™
A natural gas pipeline from Libya to Europe has been repaired, paving the way for resumed shipments,NTC military spokesman Bani said on Sun
#FF control the road between Tripoli & Sabha, a bastion of support for deposed Gaddafi in the southern desert, Bani told a news conf on Sun
SPY EMBEDDED WITH ITALIAN JOURNOS AT RIXOS:
kosovo
Miki Stojcici dangerous Gadaff/Serb spy agent Journalist infiltrated with RAI (italian TV staff in Tripoli)rts.rs/page/stories/s…
Several months ago this pigg was spying in Ajdabia front www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
Miki Stojcici dangerous Gadaff/Serb spy agent Journalist infiltrated with RAI (italian TV staff in Tripoli)www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
SerbianMiki Stojcic was also in Ajdabia front several months ago and he was spyning for Gadfafi forces there very dangerous
Maby he is using false identity / not with this name ..but his face is in the video www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
This Serb/Gadafi spy several months ago was passing Gadaffi pigs chek points in the frontlin of Ajdabia/giving info. about FF
I survelianced Serbia RTS-TV channel several months ago when there was fighting around and in Ajdabia..he was there
This Serbian piggy spy was then reporting to Serbia RTSTV chanel that he as SERB was lewelocmed by G soldiers/he was spying FF
This pig serb might have false identitiy/passoprt/name but he is cunnignly all the time hidding behind as cameraman of RAI
He knows many things about G piggs in Tripoli and whole lybia/ interogate him roughly/show no mercy
It is 100% sure, here is him reporting from Bengazi ..19 of March 2011….www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/10/Sve...
Tripolitano
reservoir of sidi al sayah feeds tripoli. It’s fed from Hasawna reservoir. Told turbines there not functioning
NTC Military Spokesman: Those who hold power in Sirte at the moment are the ones who are close to Gaddafi and his regime #Libya #Sirte
NTC Spokesman: To some extent the people in Sirte have been kept from the knowledge of our peaceful offer due to those in control #Libya
NTC Military Spokesman: Those saying there are terrorist factions in Libya are misinformed
Nikola
I am from Serbia and I support the revolution just like alot of other Serbians, including the Serbian government.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya: Nato must learn from its success shabablibya.org/?p=6088
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Responding to a question what if Abdullah Sanussi turns G in: ‘’he will receive the £1M reward, but then will be taken to court himself :)’’
NTC Military spokesman: The most powerful countries have recognised the NTC, we do not wait for the ones who refused (cont) #Libya
(cont) ‘’There will come a day when they are scrambling to recognise us and ask for our favours, this is the general view of the Libyans’’
NTC Military Spokesman: The purpose of the negotiations with Sirt are only to reduce the bloodshed, we will liberate these towns soon #Libya
NTC Military spokesman responding to ’has G fled to Zimbabwe, This is a new story to us, we hope he is still in #Libya
NTC: Responding to shortages of money/elect/food etc: There are a lot of shortages to be expected, but our people are patient #Libya
NTC Spokesman: Between 57-60,000 prisoners in Tripoli since Feb17.only 10,11k have been released, Libyans ask where are all the rest? #Libya
NTC: we ask anyone with knowledge of other prisons or mass graves, they must come forward or they r considered participants of this #Libya
NTC: There is a difference between coming forward as a witness voluntarily or being forced to do so, we urge them to make their minds up
NTC: There is no running away from the truth. The truth will be brought to the surface,
this is an announcement not a threat
Answering question, do you believe tens of thousands may have been killed? NTC: This is what is clear, there is a big diff in the numbers
Ali Tweel
It’s very quite in tripoli, i didn’t hear a single shoot this morning.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#FF’s expected to enter #Sirte later today. Fighting some 30km away from the city as #NTC still negotiating with tribe leaders to surrender
3 #Italy nationals arrested by #Gaddafi forces and released by rebels, together with 2 other kidnapped and released journos on way to #Malta
#Libya gas pipeline to #Europe ‘restored’ and will re-start supplying gas: #NTC Ahmed Bani
‘#Gaddafi offer to negotiate power transfer is delirious’ – #UK foreign secretary William Hague
Khamis #Gaddafi Brigade has killed and burnt the bodies of some 130 rebels. Horrific discovery found today
#FF’s expected to enter #Sirte later today. Fighting some 30km away from the city as #NTC still negotiating with tribe leaders to surrender
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
I’ve just been told NTC documented those arrested by #Gaddafi regime + of 67000 arrested, only 11000 have been released.
BREAKING: 10,000 prisoners have been freed and 50,000 are still missing
الثوار:تحرير عشرة الاف سجين في ليبيا ولا يزال 50 الفا في عداد المفقودين
Libya_Awake_United
The ammo store which was discovered by FFs in #Tajoura #Libya under a civilian buildings facebook.com/video/video.ph… #Feb17 #TRipoli
Sarah
I can’t believe it .. Eid in #Libya this year.. First time in my life ! #Benghazi #Libya
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Up to 50 thousand missing political prisoners are feared dead or held in underground prison bunkers in Tripoli and elsewhere, acc NTC #Libya
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Opened Ras Jdir border crossing to Tunis helping things in #Libya. Blackmarket petrol price down 30% o/night. Food trucks rolling
moi a table
#Libya to recruit Egyptian teachers before start of school year. tinyurl.com/3jaqjsq #Tripoli #Benghazi #NTC
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Minister of Health tells me in interview “within 72 hrs, #Libya(ns) will hear good news about resuming flights from #tripoli intnl airport.”
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC desperately appealing for information on where #Gaddafi’s underground prison bunkers are, to save those still trapped #Libya #Tripoli
Libiya el Haqiqiya
thanku! Do u know anything about jaballa matar from ajdabiya? We heard there are tunnels under d prison?
We heard that there r tunnels under #abusalim prison, in which a"very important" prisoner from Ajdabiya was held. Anybody knows about this?
BREAKING: FFs are now battling to Liberate Nawfalia,, which is west of Bin Jawad and east of #Sirte, #NATO jets can be heard overhead.
FunGuerilla
OTPOR gave advice to the movements in the MENA countries so the Arab Spring has also some roots in Serbia…
.this is important to note since many people only know about the Serbian mercenaries working for Gaddafi.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
A young ff has just come from front suffering from shock after seeing 3 gads killed in air strike.
He said he tried to save the gad soldiers life by carrying him to a medic but he died in his arms.
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Market is open 2day in #tripoli.Saw 2 men swimming in sea.Women/ kids out in #babelaziziya.No water in most city.Electricity on & off
aquaamr
Few shops open today #Tripoli small grocery stores, been able to stock on drinks and snacks. Looks like life will continue only after Eid.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#ff are trying to take nofilia right now.Nato can be heard above.
New east frontline #ff have now advanced beyond bin jawwad. #gads have retreated to wadi al ahmar
More info: nato hit a convoy of 5 gad vehs. 3 dead. 4 veh destroyed 1 rocket launcher captured by ff.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Abdel AlHafeth Arbeesh is the NEW free #Libya #football team and Insha allah there first match will be in #Cairo towards end of #September
How the special forces helped bring Gaddafi to his knees
British combat jets pounded Libyan forces in a series of strikes over the weekend targeting command and control bunkers and missile sites.
The attacks took place on the southern outskirts of Tripoli, a few miles north east of the international airport, where a brigade headquarters and a helicopter facility was based.
The targets were destroyed with Paveway IV satellite guided bombs prior to a secondary attack on a BM21 Grad rocket launcher west of the port of Ras Lanuf, which had been earlier spotted by a Nato reconnaissance patrol.
Full story:
feb17.info/news/how-the-special-forces-...
#SBEA Residents say convoy of 50Vehicles Convoy from Khamis 32Brigade Base in #Saladin FLED yesterday towards #Bani #Walid via @Tom_Rayner
FromJoanne Joanne
On Way to FRONT line near #Sirte Dr Father and son Sanad @SanadAttia VERY proud of you Sanad Give it to them :) yfrog.com/z/kl6lqcfj #Libya
#TRIPOLI IS #SEARCHING 46.000 ppl Still Missing Col Bani URGES ppl with INFO to contact #NTC Ppl still Alive in UndergroundBunkers #Libya
Col Bani There R so many RATholes in #Tripoli. We R Searching4 #Gaddafi in the Holes and 46.000 prsioners thought 2bAlive in Bunkers #Libya
#MISSING…. CONCERNED Tweep asks me : Anyone Knows What Happened to #SIRTE #OIL Company #STAFF Forced To Work at #Brega ? #Libya
#Tripoli Underground BUNKERS #NTC CONTACT: Bil_-finger_Berger known in #Libya #MediteraneanSeaEngineering&Construction Comp. 4 PLAN or MAP
#SIRTE ALSO HAS HUGE NETWORK of Holes / BUNKERS #Libya
Libiya_min_Hollanda
My causin on frontline of the Brega said days ago that they found Oil Eng. killed in al Brega by G Troops cant confirm its them.
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
Massive protest in #Tripoli after Eid!!
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Tunisia police have arrested a member of #Gaddafi forces and 3 locals for planning attacks on #Libya refugees and rebel supporters
Tunisian police have arrested a member of Libya’s pro-Gaddafi forces and three locals for planning attacks on Libyan refugees and rebel supporters, a spokesman said Sunday
dovenews Libyan™
ANALYSIS- #Germany’s Angela Merkel is kicking herself for not helping the Libyan revolution. goo.gl/gqF7O #LibyanPie #Libya
ANOTHER GADDAFI HIDING PLACE:
kosovo
Gadafi is hiding in Bunker in Sebha airport compound guarded by 700 strogn piggy Serbia army
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Message to the media, @nabilaramdani is no expert on Libya,she is a friend of Saif Gaddafi and this is her only ‘expertise’ on #Libya
Enes
NabilaRamdani is probably being paid a hefty sum to spread this bull…
Divisive
In the UK she constantly appears on the mainstream media as a Middle East expert but got pretty much everything on Libya wrong
Hunting the Beard
@NabilaRamdani Interesting you’re defending the man responsible for a human bar b q in Tripoli hospitals.You are a disgrace to journalism.
Alex
“Saif received me in a private suite in Mayfair’s Connaught Hotel” – PASS THE VOMIT BAG – @NabilaRamdani SUCKS UP TO #Saif:
“Saif’s Anglophile views should not be discounted as a stunt cooked up by his newly hired PR firm. It was only last year that he completed his doctorate in Governance at London School of Economics.
He is imbued with unremittingly liberal ideas about the future of his country and the redistribution of its estimated £65bn in energy-wealth profits.
A desire to turn Libya into a modern democracy based on the rule of law is expressed at every opportunity, with Saif always highlighting economic progress over dogma.
Saif’s reforming record to date is certainly impressive.”
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/j... #Libya
Ali Tweel
@NabilaRamdani I’m reporting your twitter account as a spam since you are a disgrace to journalism.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. by Martin Luther King Jr.
Sami
@nabilaramdani you describe yourself as a French journalist. You’re Algerian. The only thing French about you is your passport. #MURTAZAKA
MoKoussa Moussa Koussa
@NabilaRamdani Nabila’s latest statement on #Gaddafi reflects her desire to sound like an journalist while in fact supporting mass murder
Lil
@NabilaRamdani Libya is no more ‘tribal’ then Britain. In 1945 we built the NHS, why do you say that Libyans are inferior to Britons?
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Mustafa Abdel Jalil has arrived to Doha on sunday afternoon on a short visit
HOSPITAL NEWS:
Two branches of the Mutawassit Hospital in Tajoura and Nofleen are accepting wounded for treatment and surgery.
The Petroleum Hospital in Gharoor opposite to the Mercedes showroom is accepting all wounded and has the medical tools needed to treat the wounded.
Dr Khalifa AlSaeedi, General Surgery consultant, is currently accepting all emergency cases in the British Libyan Center (previously the Swiss Center) for free, in Jaraba street in Ben Aashoor. The center has facilities for surgery. The doctors numbers are: 0927202007 and 0912155844. The center no. are: 0913858153, 0922371346 and 0913858152.
Abu Salim hospital has been liberated, however it lacks ambulances and cars to transport medication. There is medication in storage but no one to transport it to the hospital.
The central hospital is running out of patient clothing and bed sheets.
Dr. Abusnana encourages anyone wishing to help, to contact him:
Tel: (+971) 0567603782
Email: sabusnana@hotmail.co.uk
Exhausted Libyan Freedom fighter friends tell of battles
AL-JAMIL, Libya — They fought on the front in west Libya and in battles in Tripoli, and now they are trying to take the south. Marwan and Elias are both exhausted but upbeat — and determined to finish the job.
The two friends, proudly declaring themselves to be citizens of the Libyan revolution, recount the fierce firefights that preceded the rebel seizure of strongman Moamer Kadhafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound in the capital.
But upon arriving in the small town of Al-Jamil, close to Libya’s border with Tunisia, the pair are at a loss for words to describe their accomplishments.
“It tastes just like the aroma of freedom,” shouts Marwan Meyouf, 30, amid cries of joy and celebratory machine-gun and cannon fire.
Full story:
shabablibya.org/news/exhausted-libyan-f...
Ali Tweel
sohour ends 4:59am and iftar starts on 7:41pm tripoli time. but it changes over the month by minutes, this was yesterday timing!
md azim
may peace and tolerance blossom in Libya with #Gaddafi is finally fall!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
#Malta CARGO SHIP “PURKI” & #Turkey SHIP (Unspicified Type) “KAZIM GENC” both now nearing dest. port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#NTC desperately appealing for info on where #Gaddafi’s underground prison bunkers are. #Libya #Feb17
#Tanzania CARGO SHIP “AMAL” now departing port #Misrata #Libya for dest. #Benghazi. #Feb17
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
One resident of Sbea said his relative in Bani Walid had told him the hospital there was surrounded by Gaddafi troops.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Egypt CARGO SHIP “RAS MOHAMED” now departing port #Alexandria for dest. #Tobruq #Libya #Feb17
AJE just reporting from km 60 from Misrata towards Sirte. Heavy FF buildup with many tanks reported.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Gaddafi’s private plane, so much for that stupid tent !!! twitpic.com/6cma6p twitpic.com/6cma7l twitpic.com/6cma8w …..#Libya
Video: #BBC’S John Simpson tours Gaddafi “modest” private plane …. SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT ! bbc.in/nOV2Yl … #Libya
African migrants suspected of being Gaddafi mercenaries , released outside the military base in #Tripoli twitpic.com/6cmwxq .. #Libya
Libya_Awake_United
September 1st 2011 will be dictated as a day to collect the garbage which accumulated for the last 42 yrs from all over #Tripoli #Libya
Alex
THE TIMES: Residents in #Tripoli setting up gun registers – in local neighborhoods – so neighbors no who has got what – also collecting guns
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan Ras Lanuf refinery ready to restart-manager shabablibya.org/?p=6099 #Libya
AP:
Libya FF reject ex regime offer to talk. hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBY...
BBC
Living conditions in Tripoli ‘difficult’
Almost a week after the final battle for Tripoli began, there is growing concern about the increasingly difficult living conditions in the Libyan capital.
Many people are without water and electricity, food is scarce and there are growing sanitation problems.
Amid warnings from the United Nations that millions in the city are at risk – the rebels say they’re trying to increase the supply of fuel – and to deliver water and medicine.
The BBC’s John Simpson has been to visit Tripoli Airport, where he discovered a part of Col Goddafi’s previous luxurious lifestyle.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14694700
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Heavy clashes in #Rigdalean near #Tunisia border.
bintlibya BintLibya
#Ras_Lanouf refinery found intact Oil company Rasco says it could soon restart producing 220,000 barrels a day
Ali Tweel
This line of cars was 2km long waiting for fuel in mar2011, i spent there 4 days! twitpic.com/6bo7rb
twitpic.com/6bo97c
LOOK AT THIS PHOTO:
Ibn
AMAZING. Girls in #Yemen wear flags of protesting countries. From right: #Tunisia #Egypt #Libya Yemen #Syria
yfrog.com/gyipxhtj
pdanahar Paul Danahar
We now know warehouse near Khamis Brigade HQ where civilians executed by #Gaddafi army is same place BBC team tortured in March. #Libya
Zlitniya
Eyewitnes frm Zliten:Guards started shooting,then threw 8 grenades.2nd day they burnt bodies.@4.34 men break down youtube.com/watch?v=hPDsF0… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPDsF0UyhLM&fea...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Home health for injured #Libyan freedom fighters: #Misrata guys changing their bandages at a Tunis flat last nite twitpic.com/6c31mv
wheelertweets:
Tunis last night: ER doctor says “I hope we’re all okay. I mean, we’re full. All the hospitals full. And more keep coming””
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
We are advancing up road with ff convoy now
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Injured Libyan FFs are inspirational ppl.
TristanAJE Tristan Redman
NTC spokesman tells us there are almost 50,000 missing prisoners in #Libya, appeals for info on their whereabouts from former guards
Libya:
NTC releases member names. Council expanded from 31 to 40 members. Planning increase to 80. nytimes.com/2011/08/28/wor…”
Mohammed Ghademesi returns to Abu Salim prison and explains to CNN on the conditions of detention. fb.me/1f3siF6Dn
Free Libya
The thought of people stuck in bunkers or unknown prisons without any food or water all over #Libya, not just #Tripoli. Ya Allah :’(
Michael
Sirte Bunker positions fit profiles 4 weapons & ammunition bunkers.They are dispersed throughtout cityscape. Sent NATO 8/26 #Bunkers #NTC
BOYS RAPED by G military (1987)
Melita
1-#Gadaffi military have been raping boys and girls for decades. Spk to a man who went to Hayder Sati school who’s friends were raped #Feb17
-2 boys as young as 13 taken by #Gadaffi military teachers raped with no mercy, in particularly fair boys, Hayder Sati school 1987
wheelertweets James Wheeler
40 more injured from #Libya went thru Tataouine yesterday. Patient volume in Tunisia continues to mount.
friend in Tripoli called me this am. young doctor went back from Tunisia to c his family. Said the freedom was shocking”
Libya: Phone calls between Tripoli & Tunisia are not a problem these days. But the
#Nafusa Mtns are cut off. Worse than earlier this month.
26 yr old #Libyan FF Haytim Hamuda from Gharyan on Thursday nite August 25. HIs leg was amputated the next nite. twitpic.com/6cnfav
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #AbdelhakimBelhadj Newly appointed #TRIPOLI Military Council Commander is former EMIR of #Libyan #Islamic #Fighting Group LIFG #Libya
Ibn
youth in #tripoli clean the streets. #libya #feb17 yfrog.com/khksbcnj
“Raise your head high, you are a free #Libyan” #Libya #Tripoli yfrog.com/gzazsxaj
Armchair Arab
From what I hear they’re appointing General from Mgerhif brigade that attacked misrata as head of Tripoli security.
We will continue until ALL stories have been told. Sign and support #TripoliPrisoners in their quest for justice tinyurl.com/43axoz2 #Libya
JomanaCNN
“Journalists found print outs of some of our emails in the #Rixos – proof to what we knew all along, they hacked our emails”
Aya
May the liberation of #Libya open way of truth for Lockerbie , abuslim massacre & the where abouts of Izzat megariaf
Noah O’Connell
@Guma_el_gamaty Just watched the #BBC show you were on with Nabila. Nicely done! You exposed her for the paid mouthpiece that she is.
shaimaa
rebels in #Tripoli are combing different areas in hope of trying to find underground bunkers where over 40,000 prisoners are believed to be
Zlitniya
#Zliten FF released from #Tripoli prisons to date=68, 3 of whom are injured.&were killed directly/died under torture,4of whom were military
Reuters
Libyan forces close in on Gaddafi’s home town
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan forces closed in on Muammar Gaddafi’s home town on Sunday, vowing to seize it by force if negotiations failed, and their leaders ruled out any talks with the deposed ruler.
Gaddafi’s foes were advancing on his birthplace of Sirte, which straddles the east-west coastal road, but one commander said “liberating” the city could take more than 10 days.
Full story:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
Shaimaakhalil shaimaa khalil
Back frm #NTC military presser, Says about 57, 60 thousand prisoners have been captured in the last six months only 11 thousand were found
Nasr
I suspect #Sirte ppl negotiating w/ FFs are using talks to buy time for a surprise, treacherous attack. Remember Mutassim is in charge there
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: These amazing freedom fighters have done what previous generations & the rest of the world didn’t do. They toppled #Gaddafi.
Independent:
Yesterday, The Independent on Sunday learned that the rebel military commander behind the successful assault on Tripoli had fought in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban and was an Islamist terror suspect interrogated by the CIA. Abdelhakim Belhadj, the newly appointed commander of the Tripoli Military Council is a former emir of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) – banned by Britain and the US as a terrorist organisation after the 9/11 attacks.
The 45-year-old first went to Afghanistan in the late 1980s, where he fought against occupying Soviet forces. Arrested in Malaysia in 2004, he was interrogated by the CIA
in Thailand before being extradited to Libya, where he was released from prison last year; he has since renounced violence. Mr Belhadj has become a hero of the Libyan revolution – and ally of the West.
A former comrade-in-arms insisted the rebel leader was not a future enemy in waiting. Noman Benotman, once a senior LIFG figure, and now senior analyst at the Quilliam think-tank, said: “I strongly believe he is capable of rationalising even the rogue elements within the rebels. He will do everything possible to prevent chaos.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Home health for injured #Libyan freedom fighters: #Misrata guys changing their bandages at a Tunis flat last nite twitpic.com/6c31mv
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
In #Tripoli Al-Shababiyah AlHuraa #FM has opened!
Breaking Libya News – عاجل ليبيا أخبار
BREAKING: AFP: Heavy clashes taking place in the city of Ragdlin west Libya
عاجل: عاجل ليبيا أخبار: أ ف ب: اشتباكات بالاسلحة الثقيلة في رغدلين بغرب ليبيا
BREAKING: Gaddafi’s troops have been pushed back to the red valley east of Sirte
k_thos k kim
#Tripoli Prisons map: twitpic.com/5hfsq9/full (6/26/2011) These were the only ones I could find over last 6 months. #Libya
Jonas
do y know the Constitutional Charter for the transitional Stage made by NTC ? when not see here bit.ly/oDXD9g
septimius_sever septimius severus
Despite all the horrors and pains, #Eid in #Libya this year is something else!!! #Libya
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Searching for Lockerbie bomber al Magrahi. His doctors says no longer under his care at #Tripoli medical centre, but ‘a sick man’.
Magrahi’s brother told me on Friday he’s ‘at the hospital’. Mystery surrounds, but US wants him back in jail. #lockerbiebomber
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Nofilia: #Freedomfighter convoy ambushed on outskirts of town by #Gaddafi filth just minutes ago
Khalifa
Khamis #Gadhafi is dead again.
Ali Tweel
One of the epic moments: thid guy is kicking gaddafi in the face LIVE! (happened in benghazi) twitpic.com/6coaqz
dovenews Libyan™
#Libya plans to ship crude from #Tobruk by end-Sept goo.gl/Itw5J #Libya
#Zakat #AlFiter is 3.00 LYD for this year: goo.gl/Qu5tP #Ramadan #Eid #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Ff who came back with shock is on his feet after being given water. Feeling better now.
Captured truck had a leaflet from gaddafi. It said ‘god is on your side we are going to win’ ff didnt like us filming it so they burnt it.
Ff convoy just got ambushed on outskirts of nofilia. 2 grads came in within 400 m
Then a Gad technical came round corner and put down inaccurate machine gun fire before driving off. No ff injuries
LOOKING FOR PRISONERS:
MORE BUNKERS:
Jamal
More bunkers in Sirte under the conference centre building!
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH Colonel Ahmed #Bani asked PPL 2Come 4ward if they have #BUNKERINFO #Tripoli but also #Sirte is known 2hv #BunkerNetwork #Libya
Michael
Search for prisoners under Horse Club track, under Sports Complex stadium, and under Zoo Park grounds..
WldSougAlJumaa
Should someone ask Dr Aref Nayed of #NTC UAE ambassador to help us find map of bunkers his dad built for #Gaddafi #Libya #IRONY
Tripoli Underground BUNKERS #NTC CONTACT: Bil_-finger_Berger known in #Libya #MediteraneanSeaEngineering&Construction Comp. 4 PLAN or MAP
Heba
Gaddafi is more known for his desert prisons
I think #NTC know exactly who’s who & R not bothered. #Libya #Belfinger #ArefAliNayid #Bunkers
Michael
18 bnkrs 31.159328N 16.5729403E, 9 bnkrs 31.1817729N 16.5484732E,4 bnkrs 31.1669479N 16.552658E, 3 bnkrs 31.1767152N 16.5517616E
Locations of Tripoli Prisons,holding facilities, & torture facilities. All should be searched twitpic.com/4whkoh/full #Libya #Tripoli
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Arabiya: Libyan TNC: We will not hand over Abdelbaset al-Megrahi #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BBC: #Gaddafi’s Airbus340-fully loaded. The self proclaimed ‘Bedouin’ is indeed a notorious thief. goo.gl/RF7zG #corruptthug #feb17
#Libya receives Norwegian Oil Assistance: goo.gl/rkxcV #libya
Dernawiya
NTC& NATO shld drop leaflets letting ppl of sirte know tripoli liberated&G on the run. Drops were vey effctive in tripoli
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
FT: Gamble on Libya pays off for Qatar on.ft.com/o08vHL by @simeonkerr quotes @thegulfblog
Adel
BREAKING: 11 men killed by retreating Gaddafi battalion at ‘bawabat al harsha’ on way back to tripoli, blood still fresh, killed by ‘meemta’
It’s very sad, as these Gadaffi militia were retreating in defeat they butchered 11 young men who were guarding the checkpoint at al harsha
My dad is there now, he says it’s 11 young men, blood everywhere and I can hear men crying in the background, la hawla wall quwata ila bilah
my father is there right now, I was on the phone to him and can hear the men crying in background, he is on the Zawiya council
yes Zawiya, they were retreating when they committed the atrocity.
yea right now bro, my dad is there at harsha, they just discovered the bodies, blood still fresh. So sad wallah
Riyadh al Hatheri, brother of Khalid al Hatheri confirmed as one of the 13 killed by Katayeb in harsha checkpoint, may Allah grant him Janna
He was a close friend of my father, his whole family fighting with the thuwaar mashallah, men like these are real heroes!
the Katayeb were retreating from zuwara, harsha checkpoint is only 10km from our farm in Zawiya
harsh is outskirts of zawiya, the gadaffi troops were retreating when they came across checkpoint and massacred the men there
Hanan
#Libya: #NATO must learn from its success shabablibya.org/?p=6088
PHOTO: Statement of the Supreme Council for Issuing Fatwas concerning what the amount of Zakat al-Fitr is for Libya
عاجل ليبيا أخبار: صور: بيان المجلس الأعلى للافتاء بخصوص تحديد مقدار زكاة الفطر
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=238540&l...
AJE: Libyan exiles in London follow developments at home
Libyans living outside their their country are following developments inside Libya for various reasons.
Many have families and friends who have been involved in the conflict, but for some the end of a Gaddafi regime signals a new beginning.
Al Jazeera’s Emma Hayward reports from London to find out from Libyan exiles what the revolution means for them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMfgjWxK_l8
Aljazeera: For the first time the The Libyan free national anthem was played in Qatar when Mustafa Abdel Jalil visited today
الجزيرة: عزف ولاول مرة النشد الوطني الليبي نشيد الاستقلال في دولة قطر خلال زيارة مصطفى عبدالجليل لقطر
BREAKING: FFs free army liberated Nawfaliyah fully and the FFs have strated combing the red valley (Wadi AlHamra:
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: جيش التحرير الوطني يسيطر على النوفلية بالكامل ويبدأ في تمشيط الوادي الحمر
We’re told that 30 thousand tonnes of petrol has docked in #Tripoli along with 4 million gallons of water today. #Libya" @GavinLeeBBC
klaas
Friend of mine who is currently trapped inside Sirte told me hes seen an increase of Drones in the air last few days
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tarhuna reported surrounded on all sides, #Freedomfighters who are heading there mostly from #AlKhums & #Gheryan. #Libya #Feb17
NTC spokesman says that the water supply to #Tripoli was ‘poisoned’ by #Gaddafi filth. No result yet from chemical testing. #Libya #Feb17
#Malta to serve as #UN aid hub for #Libya
#Gaddafi filth have retreated to #WadiAlAhmar outside #Sirte. #Freedomfighters hope
to enter Sirte in 4 days.
That info was FROM FF commander
#Freedomfighters have liberated #Nawfaliyah & have started combing the #WadiAlHamra.
Reuters: Released from Abu Salim Prison, young men reunite with family in Benghazi
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=khTCOC7QvVs&fea...
English Libya TV
Ras Lanuf refinery reopens
Libya’s largest oil refinery, Ras Lanuf, on the Mediterranean Coast is is intact despite intense fighting nearby between revolutionaries and Gaddafi’s troops and staff are preparing to restart operations at the 220,000 barrel per day plant, the general manager told Reuters.
“Since February we have been shut down. We are now planning to restart the
complex. We are ready to start, “Nagib Burweiss” general manager for the refinery at the Ras Lanuf Oil and Gas Processing Company (RASCO) told Reuters in an interview late yesterday in its offices in Benghazi.
Video: Rebels from Benghazi celebrate in Tripoli
Rebels come to celebrate the victory over Gaddafi in Libya
Source:
feb17.info/media/video-rebels-from-beng...
AJE: Jacky Rowland reports from Eastern Frontline; #Bin #Jawad, #Libya goo.gl/bUVvf #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Libyan NTC fear for Gaddafi prisoners shabablibya.org/?p=6124 #Libya
An honourable intervention. A hopeful future
If Libya doesn’t build on what’s been achieved, then that’s Libya’s tragedy, not ours
It’s a simple question. Is the glass of Libyan rebel victory half empty or half full? And the answer, of course, is equally simple. Perhaps this cup doesn’t run over, but it is full enough for everyone involved – except Colonel Gaddafi.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/an-honourable-inte...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya plans to ship crude from Tobruk by end-Sept shabablibya.org/?p=6119 #Libya
#Tripoli situation map goo.gl/2ECkw goo.gl/z4UCd via @k_thos
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC insist that #Gaddafi forces don’t control the water supply into #Tripoli from the great man made river. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI Story and many Photos of Gaddafi Underground #TUNNELS goo.gl/BWqwo #Libya
EYES ON; #BaniWalid goo.gl/NF8HR 20km W of GaddafiTroops Massing build along Banks Of Wadi #Home2WarfallaTribe goo.gl/jt6xr
#TRIPOLI HOSPITALS Call for Residents who have experience in washing the Dead 2 HELP Mediacl STAFF Due to Huge amount of corpses #Libya
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Our piece from yday — rebels control vital coastal highway betwn Tripoli and border goo.gl/VLka6
MUST READ:
Alexblx’s posterous
“5 LIES ‘MENA expert’ Nabila Ramdani has peddled about Libya”:
alexblx.posterous.com/67364607
live2Tripoli
Change is happening and it’s happening fast. #Tripoli is moving at an amazing pace. #Libya #feb17
It’s only barely a week since #Aug20 and security is becoming less of an issue. Many people are out trying to live their lives again.
Alex
HUGE CONVOY on way to #Sirte – 100+ vehicles – many tanks – gun cars & buses with #FF – NOW ALMOST THRU RED VALLEY youtube.com/watch?v=l1l-2N…
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Libya’s new Justice Minister has just told me he won’t extradite al Magrahi, even under pressure from Washington. #lockerbiebomber
Say’s he’s been judged already, you can’t try him once again. ’It’s a mtter of justice’. See intv ITV 18.45 #lockerbiebomber
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#sabratha: power on, many stores open, women shop 4 eid. #TNC #Feb17 to give e family 500 dinars 4 Eid. Local govt clears war debris.
Life slowly returning 2 normal in #Sabratha but still many shabab driving in stolen cars with weapons. Traffic lights out and lines 4 bread
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I’m absolutely sick of people mentioning Libya and AlQaeda in the same sentence. They are as unwelcome as foreign boots in #libya #feb17
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Saw much cheering today as police officers arrived on Martyrs Square for first time since Tripoli fell to rebels. Life returning to normal
Tripoli feels like a very different city today. Lots of traffic, shops open, people shopping, cars blaring Libya’s old national anthem
Water tankers all over Tripoli today 2 address shortages. Saw man laughing w/ relief as he stood under mouth of tanker for impromptu shower
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
Tonight’s story is about Wanise Isawi, eyewitness to the 1996 Abu Salim massacre. He has never spoken before. It… fb.me/QJfrHIZc
Understanding the 1996 #Abusalim massacre #tripoli, is the key to knowing why #Libyans had to rise against #ghaddafi. But it took so long.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
More on the missing political prisoners in #Tripoli, majority of the 46 thousand were arrested in Tripoli + surrounding areas, acc NTC#Libya
live2Tripoli
New photos from the streets of #Tripoli flickr.com/photos/live2tr… #Libya
Ibn
I believe that one of #Libyan Twitter users greatest accomplishments was that we were able to agree on a spelling of #Gaddafi. #Libya
Hayat
It’s the spelling that made it sound more like “my puke” :l
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: For 42 years U & your children have paid 4 this, paid 4 freedom w/ your blood, w/ your families, your children, let NO 1 drag U down
k_thos k kim
Many reports that prisoners were sent through or to Sirte, but I didn’t get a chance to document specific locations.
Via reuters: #Gaddafi will try to sell Libyan gold: ex-central banker reut.rs/nUTBwu #Libya
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
1000s of missing prisoners still need our voice, one signature=one voice tinyurl.com/3lmpuff show ur supprt w/ a badge tinyurl.com/3rvap4v
Hayat
#BigDamnHeroes #Misrata #MISRATA #Misratagrad #Libya #Feb17 thank you for freeing up pretty much all of #Libya – you are Lions among lions!
God is great, God is most merciful. It is all by His will- may He help us endure whatever still has to come, what has passed.
CNN’s Arwa Damon reports from Qasir Ben Ghashir – Libyans celebrate as rebels take control.
A tiny Libyan town celebrates as rebels take control. CNN’s Arwa Damon reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ddaDtGs7o
Libya_Awake_United
For those who were spreading a false propaganda that Libyans are racists, see this photo from #Tripoli celebrations flickr.com/photos/live2tr…
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I just did my first ever interview of man while he was driving a tank down the road. couldn’t hear a word he said.
I saw no injuries. it was a ‘shoot and scoot’ mission by pro-Gads just to see how many rebels were coming i guess.
He pulled up to me and said hello, his head poking out of a little hatch. was quite surreal. #FF are very friendly like that.
As we got close to Nofilia we saw a very happy smiling family escaping the town waving hands and shouting ‘shukran’ to #FF
a jeep with a gun on the back en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
I am back from Tour DeTripoli. Was very nice :) Actually Tripoli is back to normal, almost. yfrog.com/khx4uzjj
They actually had time to paint Independence flags over warehouses doors ;) yfrog.com/mmu34bj
Families drive around with huge Indep Flags displayed proudly from cars… yfrog.com/h3ioagvj
Even kids managed to express themselves on a wall in some street… yfrog.com/kgn4ehjj
Freedom fighters were very nice and polite, despite their obvious lack of sleep they continued to check for weapons. yfrog.com/h6nbnlpj
Nice to see revolutionary Graffiti without being painting over by the goons ;) yfrog.com/h6djrxuj
Soug Alguma pedestrian bridge… Big battle went on there on Aug 20th. Burned G cars were removed today. yfrog.com/184lbuj
Prices still high, many items are mysteriously returned to shops. Milk and Eggs are back :)
dovenews Libyan™
NATO said its warplanes had struck #Sirte
Sirte liberators – GREETED BY CROWDS @ Nawfaliyah – a town B4 Sirte @fieldproducer “kids running alongside us with rebel flags” #Libya
Alex
NATO – is paving way 4 #FF by #Sirte – clearing #Gaddafi rocket launchers & tanks – B4 #FF arrive – hence progress to Sirte is good #Libya
Captain!
#Alwigh and #Marzug in the south are freed, whilst #Sabha is still being sieged by #Gaddafi troops.
septimius_sever septimius severus
“Tomorrow we will join our friends to attack & Liberate #Ghadames!! " google.com/hostednews/afp… #Libya (AFP)
4Adam Adam
#Zuwara – at least 1 #FF killed 7 injured 1 missing in an ambush by G loyalists in Regdaleen. Loyalists in Ajaylat cut Ras Jjder #Tripoli Rd
#Libya: “If Saadi #Gaddafi friends made him angry for any reason, he would put them in the cage” m.triblive.com/triblive/db_/c… via @betsy_hiel
BBC News -#Libya: New evidence of atrocities by #Gaddafi’s forces bbc.in/qLYMFM
HalaJaber Hala Jaber
#Libya To every Libyan and other enjoy. You sure did. سوف نبقى هنا youtube.com/watch?v=2rNosi…
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Google transparency report. Internet access returning to families in Libya as freedom fighters take control of #Tripoli google.com/transparencyre…
Ibn
just talked to a friend of mine who was in the #tripoli brigade. so proud of him. and he’s so happy that #tripoli is free
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
The water is back on at the Radisson Blu hotel in #Tripoli!! Is it just our hotel? Or back across Tripoli? If in the city, let me know.
Sirtawi
BBC Arabic will be talking about #Sirte, probably the city’s rep at NTC will be on too. #Libya #Feb17
REUTERS – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) shipped in 10 tonnes of drugs from Malta to help the war-wounded in Tripoli.
Libya In Me
The two martyrs I am about to tweet are brothers. Both detained by Gaddafi forces. Both killed in Tripoli this week. God bless their souls.
Name: Dr. Ali Darrat. Medical doctor in Germany. Flew in to aid his people. Detained, tortured,& found dead this week. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=574
Name: Abdel Hamid Darrat. Successful businessman in Canada. Detained in March. Among the 70 found killed this week. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=579
Dr. Ali was a great human being, he only spent few days with us in Malta and we feel like we lost a brother or a close friend.
Name: Izz Al-Arab Matar. 22yr old engineering student. Fought in Ajdabiya, Brega, & Misrata; killed in Bab Al-Aziziyah. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=570
4Adam Adam
PHOTO’S:
Political prisoners who were released from Abu Salim prison leaving #Zintan for #Benghazi is.gd/uiefZg #Libya #Feb17
Libya rebels take key areas as Gaddafi son offers talks #cnn www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28/lib... #Libya #Feb17
LPC #Tripoli: Libyans are going to need to learn how to disagree and then move forward…democracy in its full sense #Libya
4Adam Adam
Religious clerk used by Gaddafi’s propaganda to incite the killing of Libyan people captured by FF in #Tripoli. [AR] facebook.com/video/video.ph…
Motasem Gaddafi castle in Tripoli. 7 click next for more www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2754... #Libya #Feb17
For those who dn’t know where Motasem Gaddafi castle is. If interested it’s only 15 mins fr BabAziziya 32°52’18"N 13°12’34"E #Libya #Tripoli
Divided loyalties in Tripoli neighborhood #AbuSalem by @ZeinakhodrAljaz AJE correspondent www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5I0wUqFo24&fea... #Libya #Tripoli #Feb17
borzou Borzou Daragahi
Dramatically lighter mood in Tripoli 2day, more shops open inc. kids’ clothes, more foot & car traffic, less gunfire. #libya #feb17
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Minster of Health told me in intrvw, “they still don’t know which #arabic countries could be part of the police peace unit coming 2 #libya.”
Viewpoint: Ivory Coast, Libya crises expose African Union – Newsday: Everyday News for Everyday People: bit.ly/oZ1cQq via @AddThis
hominoid555 not sayin
Gaddafi out of power, has exposed the African Union (AU) as a toothless bulldog: able to bark, but unable to bite.
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Found today at the Khamis Brigade h.q. in #Tripoli – Belgian made “less lethal” weapons. yfrog.com/mnv8ocj
hominoid555 not sayin
Gadhafi open to Libya power transfer, that’s funny for a man left with no choice !
The shocking manner in which the Zimbabwe government has treated Libyan ambassador. www.thestandard.co.zw/component/content...
SecularLibya
Good news: Traffic jams back in #Tripoli :D, so petrol increasingly available. Some banks open, so ppl have cash.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
The rebels in the east have taken another town. We entered Nawfalyah this evening just after it had been taken by the rebel forces #Libya
I’m currently tweeting from a BGAN so can only do it when we fire it up, apologies for the sparse tweeting-will try & upload pics shortly…
Hayat
#Sabha in South of #Libya is suffering from lack of power, and any form of communication, last we heard there were martyrs killed by mercs.
The disabled children in the hospice meant for them were found abandonned to die of starvation, few alive in a critical condition #Tripoli
Bradley
Chink in the siege of Tripoli: Nobody seemed to think about securing the water links in the s. mtns and e. near Surte www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middl...
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Just got back home and families are out and about doing MAJOR clothes shopping. good to see!
Reem
Raiding of #Gaddafi’s compound reminds me of when we took over state security in #Egypt. #AmnDawla The once ‘almighty’ keep falling. #Libya
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
A factory producing Libyan Independence flags in #Rehaibat #Nafusa (for free) on.fb.me/p4ur7N #Libya #Feb17
Libya_Awake_United
A snap shot from one of Hana #Gaddafi’s surgical book at her room in #BabAziziya compound #Libya #feb17 twitpic.com/6crhf4
Free Libya Now
Firms from #Austria also contributed to Underground Prison networks built for Dictator Gadafi
Khiria
Uncle in #Tripoli says they’ve started collecting weapons from people. #Libya
HRW
Libya: Gaddafi Forces Suspected Of Executing Detainees
(Tripoli) – Evidence indicates that forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi killed at least 17 detainees in a makeshift prison as rebel forces began advancing on the neighborhood of Gargur in Tripoli around August 21, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. According to one witness who survived the killing, Libyan security forces shot the detainees at the Al-Amal al-Akhdar building belonging to the Libyan Internal Security
service.
Human Rights Watch has also documented evidence of suspected arbitrary executions of dozens of other civilians, including medical professionals, by Gaddafi loyalists over the past week.
“Torture was rife in Gaddafi’s prisons but to execute detainees days before they would have been freed is a sickening low in the government’s behavior,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch said. “The evidence we have been able to gather so far strongly suggests that Gaddafi government forces went on a spate of arbitrary killing as Tripoli was falling.”
Separately, on August 26, Human Rights Watch found 18 bodies rotting in small groups near the Internal Security building in a dry riverbed between Gargur and Bab al-Aziziya, Gaddafi’s former compound. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that Gaddafi forces had killed them at different times in the week prior to August 25, when Libyan rebels seized control of the area. It is unclear if any of those killed were armed
at the time of their death, but Human Rights Watch observed two among the 18 bodies had their hands tied behind their backs and two were wearing the green scrubs of Libyan doctors and nurses. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that several others were unarmed.
Human Rights Watch also documented 29 other bodies found in and around a makeshift field clinic outside Bab al-Aziziya where there were signs that Gaddafi loyalists had been present. Four bodies were found lying on beds in the clinic itself, and several more were lying on cushions in and around what looked like military tents. Volunteers took the bodies into trucks. Human Rights Watch inspected one corpse with a gunshot wound to the head, and one body with his hands tied behind his back. Khalid Kofran, 35, who volunteered on the team that was removing the bodies, said he had seen at least three or four corpses with their hands and legs tied. Human Rights Watch has not collected sufficient information to date to indicate who may be responsible for the deaths, and there is no forensic analysis yet.
“Just Finish Them Off”
Human Rights Watch interviewed three people with direct knowledge of the execution of detainees, including one survivor. Seventeen of the bodies were taken to the Matiga Hospital in Tripoli on August 24, according to medical professionals who inspected them.
On August 25, Human Rights Watch also examined two corpses that were still in place at the Al-Amal al-Akhdar Internal Security building in Gargur where the suspected execution of detainees took place.
Osama Hadi Mansur Al-Swayi was one of the survivors of the massacre at the Internal Security building. He was one of approximately 25 people who were held there. He told Human Rights Watch:
The Khamis Brigade took me on August 19. One of the guards in the house where they took me told me that if I am innocent, Khamis could solve my problems. It happened at 2 p.m. on Monday August 21. We started hearing the rebels yelling Allahu Akbar. We were so happy, and we knew we would be released soon… Snipers were upstairs; then they came downstairs and started shooting. An old man and another person were shot outside our door. The rest of us ran out because they opened the door and said, “Quickly, quickly, go out.” They told us to lie down on the ground. When I opened my eyes, I saw three dark men. One soldier gave the order, “Just finish them off,” but I don’t know who it was. There were four of them who fired at us: one was an old man with a grey beard, and three were dark-skinned, maybe from the south. I was near the corner and got hit in the right hand, the right foot and the right shoulder. In one instant, they finished off all the people with me. What I saw I haven’t ever seen even in a movie. No one was breathing. Some of them had head wounds.
On August 26, Human Rights Watch also found two additional bodies in the closet under the stairs in the Al-Amal al-Akhdar Internal Security building where Al-Swayi said he had been detained for two days. Al-Swayi told Human Rights Watch that two men had also been killed on the ground floor where he was held just before the massacre, not in the courtyard. It could not be confirmed that these corpses were of the same men. There were dozens of spent cartridges and bloodstains on the ground in the outdoor courtyard where he said the majority of the detainees had been killed.
A medical professional who inspected the 17 bodies that were transferred from the Internal Security building to Matiga Hospital said that about half of the entrance wounds were to the back of the head, and the rest were to the chest and face. He also noted recent abrasions and lacerations on the ankles and wrists suggesting that they had been cuffed. The hospital administrator introduced Al-Swayi to Human Rights Watch as a survivor from the same massacre from which they received the 17 corpses.
Under international humanitarian law, violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds of civilians and persons not engaged in combat such as detainees is always strictly prohibited and constitutes a war crime. This is irrespective of whether the conflict is an international or non-international conflict.
“If he is a civilian, still kill him”
In addition, near the Internal Security building, Human Rights Watch inspected 18 bodies in situ rotting in a dry riverbed between Gargur and Bab al-Aziziya and
interviewed five eyewitnesses.
In a suspected extra judicial execution by Gaddafi forces, Salah Saeed Kikli, 52, a medical laboratory engineer, told Human Rights Watch that he saw Gaddafi fighters in green military uniform kill two unarmed men, including one in medical scrubs, at a checkpoint by his home on August 24 around 11 a.m. after the fighters had previously approached him and threatened to kill him.
I was fixing my car. An African came to my corner of the street and asked if I was civilian or military. I said I live here. There was another black man behind who said, “if he is civilian, still kill him. No problem…” Five or ten minutes later… I saw them taking a doctor and another guy from an ambulance, and I saw them shoot the two men. The military guys stole the petrol from the ambulance… The ambulance said “February 17 Misrata” on it. February 17 is a sign of support for the rebels.…The men did not resist at all. They were medical people.
Another witness to the same incident, Juma’ Al-Murayd, 31, told Human Rights Watch that two people with dark skin and in civilian clothes were driving the ambulance when they dumped three bodies next to his house on the dry riverbed between Bab al-Aziziya and Gargur. Human Rights Watch inspected the three bodies with Kikli, across from Al-Murayd’s house, two of whom were wearing the green medical scrubs that
doctors and nurses wear in Libya. Kikli said that the third body, dressed in civilian clothes, was that of the driver.
Al-Murayd also said that separately he had witnessed other Gaddafi fighters kill three more civilians on August 23 at a checkpoint across the riverbed from his home, after having beaten them with the butt of a Kalashnikov. “One of them was just driving his car, unarmed,” he told Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch inspected five bodies dumped in the riverbed near the spot Al-Murayd identified as the location of the checkpoint where the three men were executed. Human Rights Watch does not have evidence to date of how the other two were killed. All five bodies were dressed in civilian clothes.
In another incident in the same area, Siraj Salah Kikli, 18, told Human Rights Watch that he witnessed a policeman from Dam el-Merkezi kill two people and then spoke to a third who survived the shooting. He said that the policeman, whom he knew, was wearing civilian clothes and a military flak jacket. He and another man had forced the three victims to get out of their vehicle. “They didn’t beat them,” Siraj Kikli recalled, “they just shot them straight away.” The bodies were removed from the site on August 25.
Adel Muhammad Abdulgader, 36, also said he witnessed Gaddafi forces kill two men
in a vehicle stopped at a checkpoint, ostensibly because one of the men was wearing a rebel hat, which the forces took and burned. He said that the incident took place on August 22 or 23 at 7 a.m.
“These incidents, which may represent only a fraction of the total, raise grave questions about the conduct of Gaddafi forces in the past few days, and whether it was systematic or planned,” said Whitson. “If these incidents are proven to be extra judicial killings they are serious war crimes and those responsible should be brought to justice.”
bottidavid David Botti
Amazing…the BBC’s full-time Tripoli correspondent writes of reporting while in hiding these past 6 months: bbc.in/pVMv09 #libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
26/8/2011 #Tripoli airport, aircraft burning on the tarmac youtube.com/watch?v=mgWdxb… #Libya
acarvin Andy Carvin
by septimius_sever
Crawford: I don’t feel gung-ho at all. In fact much of the time I feel really scared. #mgeitf #libya
Crawford: I spent a lot of my life trying to be a foreign correspondent, and I’ve only just got there – 6 years now. #mgeitf #libya
Crawford: Whether other news orgs are covering it, just being able to cover the liberation of Tripoli is what it’s all about #mgeitf #libya
Sirtawi
Even Facebook Admins defect from the regime and raise the Independence flag! __ lol facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
REUTERS – A senior Egyptian diplomat will lead a delegation to Libya this week to offer help to its new rulers, according to MENA
Libya In Me
Can I have the bravery of the freedom fighters, determination of the people, and the love for Libya? I would seriously be complete…
FFs of Souq Al-Jumuaa preparing meals for FFs in Mitiga Airbase #Brotherhood pic.twitter.com/uT9MjGL
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
I know that some released prisoners were staying in a mosque in Zawiya road in tripoli.
Alex
#TripoliPrisoners – #NTC fear “a desperate humanitarian situation” 4 political prisoners possibly trapped underground for 6 days – as some were in #Benghazi – & only rescued from underground tombs many days after liberation:
BENGHAZI SECRET PRISONS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPvRKOz5osA
Hence the NTC are urgently appealing for information on where #Gaddafi’s underground prison bunkers are – so those still trapped can be saved – and are appealing to former prison officers and wardens – to come forward and tell them anything they know that may save these prisoners.
Of the 67000 #Tripoli people – the NTC documented as arrested by the #Gaddafi Regime – so far only 11000 have been released – just over 16% of the #TripoliPrisoners #Libya #GaddafiCrimes
according to a recent report in THE TIMES – #AbuSalim was improved – the reporter interviewed an ex prisoner who said this
Tweeting Tripoli
Talked to many brave FF from Misrata and Tripoli, they are well organized, most have badges with their names and each is under a brigade.
I have been to Mateega airport, lots of burned and bullet ridden cars. Many were crashed into a tree or a wall, when G thugs were escaping.
Klaas
telegraaf.nl/buitenland/104… UN sending water to libya
17 minutes ag
Libya
Werfalla FF residing in all cities of Libya r gathering and r now upto 5000 nd r planning 2 head 2 BaniWalid.Not waiting for negotiations.
Ragdaleen (AFP) – Libyan rebels were locked in fierce fighting Sunday w/ G forces as they tried to take full control of the west of #Libya.
4Adam Adam
Black Africans ‘mercenaries’ and Britain’s cozy military relationship with Gaddafi youtube.com/watch?v=sFxgLx… #Libya #Feb17 #Tripoli
k_thos k kim
Reasonable explanation for water shortage in #Tripoli thenational.ae/news/worldwide…
READ THIS:
Explanation for water shortage in Tripoli:
The National AE
Libya needs water despite Qaddafi’s Great Manmade River
Rumours have swirled about the former regime sabotaging Tripoli’s main source of water in Jebel Al Hasawinah, and even the poisoning of an underground reservoir further up the line.
Shamsiddin Ben Ali, a spokesman for the NTC, said yesterday that facilities had been
sabotaged at Ash Shuwayrif and Sidi as Sayd.
But an official in the Great Manmade River Authority in Benghazi, Abdussalam Jehawi, said yesterday that the crisis was an unavoidable result of the battle to seize the capital last week. A combination of power outages, attacks on staff manning the water network and a backup reservoir being held hostage have led to the crisis.
The problems came within the first day of the battle. Tripoli had an 18-hour power outage that stopped pipeline pumps, cutting off the supply of new water.
But when power began flickering on again, the main station supplying Tripoli from Jebel Al Hasawinah was attacked by what his team described as African mercenaries and Qaddafi loyalists. The main supply of the water is near the city of Sabha, which is still under the former regime’s control.
“Our staff were terrorised,” said Mr Jehawi, a board member of the authority. The loyalists “stole their four-wheel drive vehicles, used machine guns, took all their food”.
Pumps were switched off and staff could not get back inside to restart them.
To make matters worse, a site critical to the backup plan was also under the control of Qaddafi fighters.
The system was set up so that engineers can supply Tripoli with water from the east. But the facility where engineers can turn the water on is inside Sirte, Col Qaddafi’s
hometown and one of the last two holdouts of soldiers against the rebels.
If NTC fighters can take control of the city, the Great Manmade River can begin supplying Tripoli with 250,000 cubic metres of water per day – enough to cover about half the demand.
“This could be taken care of soon if Sabha and Sirte are taken by the rebels,” Mr Jehawi said. “Until then, there is not much we can do.”
Read full story here:
www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middl...
BBC
Libya: New evidence of atrocities by Gaddafi’s forces
In Libya, there is new evidence of atrocities carried out by Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in their final days of power.
Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered dozens of arbitrary executions of civilians.
Just outside Tripoli, the BBC has filmed the aftermath of an apparent massacre in a military base with testimony from men who escaped – forced to leave relatives behind.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14700876
4Adam Adam
Large # of GF still in Ajalat & Jamil + some locals still blocking roads. but the majority waiting for FF to enter
ChangeInLibya
News fr Zuwara early today ‘1 #FF killed 7 injured 1 missing in an ambush by G loyalists in area betwen Zuwara and regdaleen’
Aljazeera
Libyan fighters close in on Gaddafi hometown
Libyan rebel fighters are closing in on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte.
The city — Gaddafi’s birthplace and one of the last still held by his men — is now the main target for the fighters allied to the National Transitional Council.
Meanwhile, in Tripoli, signs of normal life are returning. Citizens are venturing out of their homes and some shops are opening.
But there have also been reports of mass abuses against civilians taking place.
And the whereabouts of the Libyan leader are still unknown.
Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd0kHBrgWgk
Libya_Awake_United
In Tripoli Medical center things almost going back to almost to normal function with most of the staff showed up today working #Libya #Feb17
alextomo alex thomson
bit.ly/oCVfQM is link to words on being young, black male and in wrong place in Libya #libya
alex thomson
bit.ly/roi5R9 link to today’s VT I think
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Op-Ed: “Revolution in #Libya has been a pluralistic coalition of people from all walks of life”, writes Marwan Bishara aje.me/oiU5cz
dovenews Libyan™
The Eduction official: The first day in school will be on 17th #September across the country. #Libya #NTC
CNN finds Lockerbie bomber comatose, near death, family says
Tripoli, Libya (CNN)– Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is comatose, near death and likely to take secrets of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 to his grave.
CNN found al-Megrahi under the care of his family in his palatial Tripoli villa Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip. The cancer-stricken former Libyan intelligence officer may be the last man alive who knows precisely who in the Libya government authorized the bombing, which killed 270 people.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/cnn-finds-lockerbie-bom...
libyatv Libya TV
NTC warns against abusing prisoners | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/08/28/ntc… #libya #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
Electricity is cut off on #Sirte for 4wks, ppl R fed Gaddafi’s fight the traitors & crusaders propaganda & #FF will rape & kill ur families
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Regarding Meghrahi… many of us in Libya think the guy was a scapegoat. A Libyan airline employee that took the fall for Senussi/Gdfi plans
I really hope that we catch Gaddafi or Senussi so that they can tell us the whole lockerbie story (or else find documents)
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Doctor told me a while back that 1/4 of injuries at his hospital in Benghazi were b/c of falling bullets. It’s crazy.
Heard back from a few ppl in Tripoli. Looks like water restored in some areas, while it’s its off in others.
libyatv Libya TV
Does Libya need a foreign police presence to ensure stability? | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/08/28/doe… #libya #feb17
@danieljerivers Dan Rivers
Watch my exclusive report on nanny who worked for Hannibal Gaddafi – horrific burns she says inflicted by Hannibal’s wife Aline.
CNN
Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound
As we were about to leave, one of the staff told us there was a nanny who worked for Hannibal Gadhafi who might speak to us. He said she’d been burnt by Hannibal’s wife, Aline.
I thought he meant perhaps a cigarette stubbed out on her arm. Nothing prepared me
for the moment I walked into the room to see Shwygar Mullah.
At first I thought she was wearing a hat and something over her face. Then the awful realization dawned that her entire scalp and face were covered in red wounds and scabs, a mosaic of injuries that rendered her face into a grotesque patchwork.
Read full report here:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28...
FromJoanne Joanne
Tank transporters with Soviet-designed T-55 tanks drove in direction #Sirte Tanks were seized from abandoned military base in #Zlitan #Libya
#NATO Spokesman in #Brussels #Nato struck at #Sirte for a third day on Sunday Just getting rid of last Gaddafi Regime remnants #Libya
RAF Spy Planes crack SAS troops MI6 intelligence experts all Search 4 the #Libya Monsters Gaddafi and sons goo.gl/yDHdq
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Here is #Sabratha colosseum. #Gaddafi neglect. I can understand #Libya archeologists afraid to speak up. But Europeans? pic.twitter.com/rzD4CRN
Here I am at #Sabratha Colosseum. Locals say just a busload of tourists a month used to visit. yfrog.com/mmk7agj
@FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #AbdelhakimBelhadj Newly appointed #TRIPOLI Military Council Commander is former EMIR of #Libyan #Islamic #Fighting Group LIFG #Libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
yup and heard here that his brother was close to #OBL #FLASH #AbdelhakimBelhadj #TRIPOLI #Libyan #Islamic #Fighting #Libya
Ahmed
#Gaddafi froces captured in #Brega. One was found w/ a black magic charm around his upper arm. goo.gl/ROuLH #Libya #Feb17
Libye Libre
La Tunisie rouvre le poste-frontière libyen de Ras Jdir, d’importance cruciale pour le ravitaillement des Libyens j.mp/nHzWWQ
AGI
LIBYAN REBELS CLAIM ONCE AGAIN KHAMIS GADDAFI IS DEAD
(AGI) Tripoli – The Libyan TNC claims once again Khamis Gaddafi is dead. Khamis, known to be the Colonel’s bloodthirty son, was the commander of the much feared 32nd brigade. The rebels claim Khamis was killed yesterday in a gunfight between Gaddafi’s loyalists and the rebels in Tarhuna, about 80 km south east of Tripoli. . .
dovenews Libyan™
Abudall Salam Alnadab: an ex security guard for Gaddafi from 89 – 92. here is what he said
Abudall Salam Alnadab: Gaddafi used to sleep with the wives/daughters of most ppl who hold high positions in the Libyan gov.
Abudall Salam Alnadab: Gaddafi thugs told me; do u want money or high position, bring ur sisters, I refused, they arrested me & locked
Abudall Salam Alnadab: me up for 20days in Abu Salam prison, a female told, are going to do wht have askd u to do, I said no, thy forced
Abudall Salam Alnadab: me 2 write & sign a papr saying I’m traitor & I get paid from CIA, thn told me I hv 1hr 2 leave & we hv the proof
That was short tweets from Abudall Salam Alnadab’s story which was aired on Libyatv
Abudall Salam Alnadab also said that Gaddafi & sons are on cocaine.
Ali Tweel
People were celebrating since 10:45pm around my neighbourhood first using bullets but now they r just chanting and singing. Good. now 2:10am
I will never understand these 2 kind of people: those who double park, and those who shoot bullets in the air.
I just can’t stop thinking about all those Libyans who died so i can have peace. I hope all Libyans appreciate these sacrifices.
This was the night Nato bombed BabAzizia for 30 minutes, but my son Shehab remained asleep with hands on ears! twitpic.com/6ctkwb
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Don’t blame #Tripoli’s people for setting off homemade fireworks & shooting in the air to celebrate. They’ll get over it. Look at #Benghazi
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#BREAKING: REBEL SOURCES HERE IN #TRIPOLI TELL ME: #GADDAFI AND SOME OF FAMILY MEMBERS ARE RIGHT NOW IN WESTERN #LIBYAN CITY OF BANI WALID.
dovenews Libyan™
Deputy FM Ayman al-Mashrafa said Egypt was ready to help its neighbour rebuild after six months of war. MENA
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
British charity workers assess Tripoli danger shabablibya.org/?p=6151 #Libya
Last throes of Libya war focus on Sirte shabablibya.org/?p=6145
arwaCNN
ppl we talked2say they heard&knew of mercilessness of regime but is1st time they R seeing it 4 themselves,truth no longer hidden
Libya_Awake_United
The Adam’s Family New Season. Fresh from #BabAziziya compound #Libya #Tripoli #feb17 twitpic.com/6ctm15
AJE: British defence minister Liam Fox discusses #Libya goo.gl/KGMCM #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
LPC #Tripoli: Internet has returned in many areas of the city. #Libya
OppContact: Some say: “don’t criticize transitional administration yet.” Why? This becomes an excuse to deflect important questions #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Once again Khamis #Gaddafi is dead agi.it/english-versio… #Libya #Feb17
Libyan assets to be unfrozen, including £1bn worth of dinar banknotes www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/26/li... #Libya #Feb17
#NATO bombed #Sirte again Sunday night.
Tripoli_Latest Niz – Nizar Mhani
Martyrs portrait memorial board now up in Martyrs Square to a lovely reception & media attendance.Will extend length in coming days #Tripoli
Will have missing persons board up soon to aid families looking for loved ones. If anyone can assist with a list of missing
Distributing 150 containers of food to hospitals & opposition fighters around Tripoli.If anyone knows somewhere in DEFINITE need,let me know
MaryFitzgerldIT
The joy of seeing water flow from a tap after four days of nothing, not even a drip.
Alex
#Gaddafi lived like the richest of billionaires post.ly/310br
Najat
Family in #Tripoli says that family & neighbors around are eager to get back to work & start rebuilding the country #Libya
Libyans Revolt
Being very busy, lack of organisation and war time stress can be difficult – 500 women just marched by house singing. So uplifting #libya
Michael
Tunnel entrance for vehicles at RIXOS. Blow doors open. May lead to underground prisons.
FF found vehicle ramp at RIXOS. Went to doors which would not open, handles removed. May be key to getting in the larger tunnels.
Other prisons:
Intel Building, Nat’l Security Bldg, Police Academy, New Tobacco Factory, Old Tobacco Factory, Jdola Prison, Ayn Zara Prison,
External IUntel office, Sharaa Duoll Bunker, Secretariat of Communications, Revolutionary Committee Building, Green Book Study Ctr
Ghot Alsha aall prison, Al Nast prison, Assrayah Alhambr Museum, Larger of 2 stadiums at the Sports Complex, Infield of Horse Club
Check gov’t bldgs, Sports Complex stadiums (2), Horse Club infield, Zoo Park greenspace
Libya In Me
“After Gaddafi’s compound fell, we went back to where we were staying in a school building and we all cried, about 200 guys” #EpicFFQuotes
“In this war we have all lost someone, a brother, a friend or a cousin. I lost my best friend, Alla Ekshem, a week ago.” #EpicFFQuotes
“We will go on. We will go on to the end and finish this war.” #EpicFFQuotes
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Issues left to be solved in Tripoli: Fuel, water and electricity.
The libyan people have proved to be thinking just fine. they have enough mentality to had removed the worst tyrant
SUMMARY AUGUST 29th 2011
8/29/11
8.29.11
Don’t be the prisoner of your past, be the architect of your future.
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Oks96
@FromJoanne Joanne
Tank transporters with Soviet-designed T-55 tanks drove in direction #Sirte Tanks were seized from abandoned military base in #Zlitan #Libya
( FYI: FF’s)
Libya In Me
Abdul Jalil leading prayers in Qatar.. :’) pic.twitter.com/9zNz4ph
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Picture of the scene as we drove in to Nawfaliyah, with @skynewscamera in shot on.fb.me/oDHE6D #Libya
Crowds on the streets of Nawfaliyah this evening just after it was taken by the rebels #Libya on.fb.me/odmjk2
Picture of some of Gaddafi’s forces land mines that were abandoned near Ras Lanuf www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2057571...
ProudLibyan
RT=“Russia Today” or is it “Remove Truth”? #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Freedom fighters at the Nawfliyah beach, east of Sirte #libya #feb17 fb.me/GiDZHa70
Via English Libya TV:
Tearing down the fist of oppression
Residents of Tripoli and revolutionary fighters continued to dismantle Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound over the weekend. One group unbolted and removed the iconic “Fist Crushing a US fighter jet” statue in front of a salivating group of TV cameras hoping to create a moment similar to the tearing down of Saddam in Baghdad.
Shouts of Allah akhbar rang out and victory rounds from all sorts of weaponry including large caliber anti aircraft cannons were fired high into the sky to land who knows where. In the courtyard in front, men took turns with a spray can covering the hated green walls with anti-gaddafi graffiti. Flags were burned while behind the the graffiti covered statue, looters continued ransacking the compound for anything of worth. Three blacked corpses of loyalist fighters and thousands of shell casings lay strew around the grounds, remains of the battle three days before.
english.libya.tv/2011/08/28/tearing-dow...
Michael
Get DNA from Khamis Gadafi and shoot him again, just in case…this coming back from the dead business is unnerving!
Kosovo
Russia spies A. Koc& D.Stešin outsmart airport comm Abdulakim Abdulgadar/let R.spies visit 5 serb killers www.kurir-info.rs/planeta/ovo-su-srbi-z...
Gadafi is hiding in Bunker in Sebha airport compound guarded by 700 strogn piggy Serbia army
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
We are advancing further up road with convoy of #ff technicals in to gad area
We are advancing further up road with ff convoy.
a little boy just came up to me in #Nawfaliyah and asked if I had any chicken. they have not had chicken here since March.
Every time i see a train of grad rocket launchers coming down the road i’m surprised just how many they have. proper army now.
BBC just interviewed a #FF from Brighton UK. He said the Pro-Gads they have captured recently are not properly trained soldiers…
they are just ‘die hard nut jobs’ who are fanatical supporters of #Gaddafi but little fighting experience. Rolls reversed from March
dovenews Libyan™
Leaflets by #AlHadabah youth. #Tripoli goo.gl/O9isJ
6 explosions were heard in the distance early Monday in Tripoli just after a NATO warplane flew over the Libyan capital. AFP
3 #FF were killed & 10 injured in #Algaradha after Gaddafi’s militias attacked the area with rocket launchers. #Sabha
FromJoanne Joanne
Freedom Fighters are moving the tanks on the coastal highway east of Tripoli in direction of Sirte #Libya
#NTC Pleads 4No Revenge kilings Law & order should prevail QST= What would U do if yr Bro or Dad was Tortured and u knew sadist name?
Fitting story 4brave war correspondent @johnrayitv How & why we escaped from the #Rixos #Tripoli # Libya itv.co/lQ1iw2 #Libya #ITV
#TRIPOLI Despite Huge shortages of Water still controlled by GF Fuel + Medicines Electricity Ppl have started to clean up the city #Libya
#TRIPOLI HANNIBAL BURNT NANNY #Shweyga story of @danieljerivers #ICRC will help her get Surgery bit.ly #Libya #LessonLearned
#HRW REPORT 133 ppl MASS #MURDER #Khalida #Ferjan area #Salahaddin S Tripoli next2 #Yarmouk Khamis Military Base goo.gl/CAGf3 #Libya
#Tripoli MassMurder #AbdulrahimIbrahimBashi + Moiayad Abu Ghraim told #HumanRightsWatch Commander KhamisBrigade was #MuhammadMansour #Libya
#NAWFALIYAH @fieldproducer #NATO planes have been over head in the last half hour, heard 7 explosions in the distance #Libya #Libya
CNN
Captives executed in Libya
CNN’s Arwa Damon reports on a prisoner of Gadhafi forces who says he escaped a massacre of his fellow captives
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
LibyanYouthMovement
I think they expected those loyalists in Sirte to surrender with Tripoli’s liberation, but Sirte are cut off (tv etc)
Vai Shabab
Daily Mail
Gaddafi’s girl executioner: Nisreen, 19, admits shooting 11 rebel prisoners, now she is shackled to hospital bed awaiting justice
Nisreen Mansour al Forgani is a pretty 19-year-old. She was also a serial killer for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Yesterday, in a heavily guarded room at the Matiga military hospital in Tripoli, she
admitted to the Mail that she had executed as many as 11 suspected rebel prisoners in the days leading up to the fall of the Libyan capital last week. Shot at point-blank range, in cold blood.
One of thousands of girls and young women recruited by Gaddafi’s all-female militias, Nisreen is now a prisoner of the rebels and in fear of her life. Yet despite her killings, it is impossible not to feel pity for her.
Her parents split up when she was a child, and Nisreen did not like her father’s new wife so she went to live with her mother.
One of her mother’s friends, a woman called Fatma al Dreby, was the leader of the female branch of Gaddafi’s Popular Guards militia – and this, it seems, was the fateful factor.
Last year, Nisreen left college intending to look after her mother, who was sick with cancer. Instead, Fatma recruited her for the Popular Guards.
The family protested, but Fatma would not be swayed. Nisreen was young and pretty – just the type they wanted. ‘There were about 1,000 girls from all over Libya,’ Nisreen recalled of their training camp in Tripoli. ‘I was there with a girl called Faten, whom I knew from college.’
‘Fatma had an office at the 77 Brigade base and there was a room with a bed next door. One day, she summoned me and put me in that room by myself. Mansour Dau, who was the commander of 77 Brigade, then came in and shut the door.’
He raped her.
Read more here:
shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-girl-exec...
bint-trablis
this is her pic she wasn’t forced into any thing..she knows what is was doing and convinced
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2333932...
edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201... …. another summer house in Regatta … Hannibal !!
Rana
very sickening story part of me feels bad for her but part of me wonders if she’s lying to escape harsh punishment
yasmarah ياسمين
This article hit me hard. Twisted on all sides of the spectrum.
Broun
Thats funny i didn’t feel sorry for her when reading that. I imagined killing her
LibyanYouthMovement
it is a seriously messed up situation
cultrdpurl
serial killer – or just following orders?
AJA: heavy clashes in Algarda, Sabha, 3 opposition fighters killed and 10 injured.
Libiya_min_Hollanda
My relatives are trying 2 find my dads cousin, they are afraid he would be between the bodies that has been burned by G Troops :(
NYT: Gilded Traces of the Lives #Gaddafis Led goo.gl/7J3F8 #libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
My cousin’s car window smashed w/falling bullet: goo.gl/x5WFM After repair: goo.gl/PJ6Uc Alhamdulilah he wasn’t injured
#Benghazi-My uncle’s car bumper hit with an AK-47 round goo.gl/ZwpJ3 He was unharmed-celebratory gunfire must stop now!!
rmehlinger Richard Mehlinger
someone could make a fortune if they could come up with a blank cartridge “party round” for AKs
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Time: On Patrol with the #Benghazi Brigade: Winning Hearts and Minds in #Triopli goo.gl/t8E4e #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA About to head out and about. But so far seems quiet this morning in Tripoli.
Aljazeera
Latest Development in Libya August 28, 2011
Source- Al Jazeera compiled by Dr. Hussein Al-Omari
shabablibya.org/news/latest-development...
Sky News:
They were there all along
An aircraft engineer trained in Daytona was not the first person I expected to meet returning to the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli.
Najib was a wearing a baseball cap in rebel colours and had an AK47 hanging from his shoulder.
“Were you staying here?” he asked.
I told him I’d spent 6 weeks at the Rixos under the oppressive restrictions of the Gaddafi regime earlier this year.
Then he saw the Sky News stickers plastered all over the cases of broadcasting equipment I had come to recover.
“Ah, Sky News! We watch you on the roof from across the way, then we watched you on our television downstairs.”
Read more:
goo.gl/aeXCk
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
by ShababLibya
#Libya, Still no running water in many areas of #Tripoli, electricity erratic, #Libya
#Libya, More bodies are being found in the #Yarmouk military barracks of the #Khamis #Gaddafi brigade, Libya, #Tripoli
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The 3 security contractors from Italy released by #FF’s after one month in Abu Salim prison arrive in #Malta and returning home
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
We have a police force. We have a functioning army. We don’t need “peacekeepers”. #NoBoots
Libya is not Iraq. Tripoli is not Baghdad. #NoBoots
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Freedom Fighters are in Al Nawfaliyah and have secured the small town some 120km East of Sirte
Lars
If you represent your own views, you’re a debater, not an independent journalist
Knott
if they are promoting their own views while claiming to be an independent journo, they r a fraud!
Reuters
Anger simmers among pro-Gaddafi Libyans in Tripoli
In a part of Tripoli known for its loyalty to Muammar Gaddafi, two men vented their fury over the fall of the Libyan leader, shouting abuse at the media and calling journalists liars, traitors and spies.
The tens of thousands of jubilant Libyans who cheered the rebels on their march to the capital have stolen the media limelight. But among others in the city, anger simmers over the rebels’ successful revolt against Gaddafi’s 42-year-rule.
“You media don’t tell the truth, you’re all traitors, spies,” shouted a taxi driver, his face contorted with anger, not caring that nearby were armed and zealous rebels.
“You sold our country out,” shouted another man who came to join him, before a deafening crack prompted the shoppers in the busy street to duck and flinch.
“Look at this,” shouted the taxi driver, pointing at the young rebel across the street who had fired an anti-aircraft gun into the air.
“This is what our country has come to,” he said.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/anger-simmers-amon...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi still a threat, says Libya council chief shabablibya.org/?p=6178 #Libya
Gaddafi’s foes advance on his hometown shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-foes-adva... #Libya
Eni CEO Scaroni meets NTC leaders in Libya shabablibya.org/news/eni-ceo-scaroni-me... #Libya
Enigmatic in Power, Qaddafi Is Elusive at Large shabablibya.org/news/enigmatic-in-power... #Libya
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#BBC Justice minister Mhd AlAlagi says AlMegrahi already been judged once, won’t be judged again. Also, #NTC busy liberating #Libya.
France reopens Tripoli embassy
France reopened its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli today after it had been closed for the last six months, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
“Our embassy in Tripoli has reopened today,” Bernard Valero said in a press briefing.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Maltese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Maltese embassy in Tripoli was never closed, but it was manned by locally-engaged staff over the past few months.
A decision on the return of the Maltese staff will be taken as the situation in Tripoli improves.
Malta, however, intends to keep open a liaison office set up two months ago in Benghazi.
Source Times Of Malta
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BBC were left on the back foot by Sky News who reported things as they were.. BBC had to add their twist on it
Huffington Post
Libya Through the Looking Glass
The uprising of Libyans against their long-time dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has succeeded in toppling him and his regime. Now the post mortems begins. What lessons are to be drawn from the affair?
It is important to address this question sooner rather than later, for predicting the past has become chancy. History is no longer written mainly by historians.
Full story:
www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-brenner/...
ksnavarra
Malta ship with 350 tons of water ,communications equipment, food and medicine to set sail for #Tripoli today
منزل موسى ابراهيم The home of Musa Ibrahim
Gaddafi spokesman musa ibrahim house in tripoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8uVOQO3VA
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Foreign Policy: Give Optimism And Credit To Libya shabablibya.org/news/foreign-p… #Libya
Expatica
Germany seeks to turn new leaf over Libya
Germany Monday sought to turn a new leaf by stressing its readiness to help with reconstruction and aid in Libya after failing to provide military assistance to the campaign against Moamer Kadhafi.
Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend an international conference on Libya’s future in Paris on Thursday, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said Monday.
“We will do everything we can” to provide humanitarian assistance to the Libyan people in the wake of the toppling of the Kadhafi regime, he told a news conference.
“The German government is happy the rebels have been victorious,” he added.
Read more:
www.expatica.com/de/news/german-news/ge...
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels are consolidating their position around Nawfaliah,expecting some NATO air strikes on Gaddafi’s forces position between here & Sirte
I’ll try & upload a few more pics from #Libya to my album, see the ones I’ve filed so far here www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.20577...
Rebels are bringing in multi-Grad rocket launchers to reinforce the area around Nawfaliyah #Libya
Just interviewed a rebel fighter here at Nawfaliyah who is originally from Scotland
NATO planes have been over head in the last half hour, heard 7 explosions in the distance #Libya
Libya
Sick of nonlibyans commenting that Libyans r religious zealots who wud welcome Qaeda.
Mark
they are in the minority, most of us look at the Libyans as an inspiration to the world for freedom.
SecularLibya MargBar Khamenei
Heinz, 24 hrs. ago: Qadafi and one of his sons have been spotted. #Libya #Feb17
Heinz 12 hrs ago: Qadafi is hiding in a spider hole like Saddam. He has no more contact. Mutassim has been located &should get caught.
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
NTC: we ask anyone with knowledge of other prisons or mass graves, they must come forward or they r considered participants of this #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Running around with the independence flag is the new thing for Tripoli kids… yfrog.com/kgcalnpj
Libya
Most important thing now. My cousin in Tripoli is one of d ppl collecting weapons and he said so far ppl r cooperating. Good news
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
I hear they ran out of soap at the four seasons in Doha because Kusa keeps trying to wash the blood off his hands
Marcos
Ex-Gs properties are Libian people’s properties now and should NOT be appropriated by individual persons.
Children not sleeping when Nato boms:
Tweeting Tripoli
same thing happened to my kids, only thing kept them going and falling asleep is when I tell them NATO attacked monsters.
Ex-Gaddafi ‘Nun’ Reveals Perverse Regime Secrets (Translated)
An ex-Gaddafi Revolutionary Committee member, or what he likes to call “nun,” speaks out of the disturbing, sick and ruthless behavior Muammer Gaddafi has committed in the last four decades. Gaddafi called many of his female personal guards or members nuns because he usually refused for them to get married and have children. Her stories are extremely disturbing, but shed a necessary light on what this evil demon has done for years from raping young boys and girls to kidnappings and murders. Must watch from start to finish.
Watch Video:
feb17.info/media/ex-gaddafi-nun-reveals...
Khamis dead ( again)
Tweeting Tripoli
Oh no, not again!!! Won’t read or watch unless there is a video showing him dead :(
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
I continue to be shocked by #Gaddaficrimes as they’re all uncovered. Just as i think i’ve heard it all something more disturbing comes out
Niz Mahani:
We’re going to try to demilitarise Martyrs Square (Green Square) and use TV ads to persuade people to stop firing into the air.
Rukaya
I knew #Gaddafi was bad; but these atrocities that are coming out are beyond what I expected. How on earth was this able to go on for 42yrs?
Tweeting Tripoli
they did not prepare food for prisoners. Only bread and water once a day, prisoners tell me in Soug Aljuma.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Can’t stop listening to this brilliant speech.. #AL #libya #feb17 fb.me/DNghBmxZ
Tweeting Tripoli
Seems that the #Gaddafi family lack any normal human feelings & emotion. Even members of their own families are abused” yes true.
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
The Gaddafis chained a nanny to the bathtub, poured boiling water over her repeatedly, & locked her up until maggots came out of her head…
m_madi Mohamed Madi
I can vouch for @simondenyer’s experience of hospitality in #Libya, truly humbling. In two weeks there I didn’t need to spend a penny
You’ll never go hungry or be without somewhere to rest your head as a visitor in #Libya
It’s considered a big embarrassment if someone visits your town or area and isn’t well looked after #Libya
A photographer who had been in Nafusa for months told me hadn’t spent a penny either, had been put up and fed wherever he went
Ibn
Can u imagine being from the nafusa mountains, living in huts, and arriving to #gaddafi and his childrens’ homes and seeing how they lived?
Another reason to be cautiously optimistic abt #Libya | a must-read piece by Jim Traub on rebels’ postwar planning: bit.ly/oGiBWe
Tweeting Tripoli
Sep 1st, the national cleaning day in #Libya: Relatives & Freinds already looking forward to it, and are going zanga zanga to encourage ppl.
Skyman64 Ian Woods
A new experience in air travel. Tunis Air cabin crew laughing as they waved two toy guns at passengers. I’m still not sure why…
Tweeting Tripoli
ROFL. The G goon Colonel they caught (0:40) just confessed he was Al-Qaida. He thinks FFs are Al-Qaida and was playing clever!
Tweeting Tripoli
They’re put in temporary secret locations until it’s over to stand trials. That’s what I’ve been told yesterday by FF commander.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Hala (Pistol) Sakal, said she ws held hostage at Leebya TV for 3 mths sleeping on the bare floor, was forced to lie: youtube.com/watch?v=qkp_yo…
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
My mother let a white moth enter our house today… Says it’s a good omen. Maybe they’ll catch Gaddafi tomorrow, who knows? #hopeso
Mike
I’m trying to decide if #Gaddafi followers are ignorant, in denial or just downright despicable
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
The 1st of September, which would have marked the 42nd anniversary of gaddafi’s rule, is now a national litter/garbage cleanup day #libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
CNN
Video: Captives executed in Libya bit.ly/qsDXsx #libya
Aljazeera
The NTC has been nominating members for a new government, but there is public resistance to the appointments. Libyans have held protests within the country accusing the NTC of not being transparent enough.
Andrew Simmons, reporting from a protest in Misrata, said: “They the protesters say the old guard of the Gaddafi regime are far too prominent in the list of people issued so far.
“They are also insisting there should be new faces for a new Libya.
“A lot of this is due to communications and the way the National Transitional Council has been concentrating so much on diplomacy and the economy, and maybe not looking inwards enough.”
Via Feb17
Reuters
Muammar Gaddafi, who has not been seen since rebels took over the Libyan capital of Tripoli a week ago, is still a threat to the country and the world, the chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Monday.
Speaking at a meeting in Doha, Qatar, of defence ministers from countries supporting the insurgency against Gaddafi’s rule, NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil called on NATO to keep supporting the movement.
“I call for continued protection from NATO and its allies from this tyrant,” Abdel Jalil said.
The NTC, which is hunting Libya’s deposed leader and pushing to take over his hometown of Sirte east of Tripoli, said on Saturday it had no firm information on his whereabouts. It has offered a $1.3 million reward and amnesty from prosecution for anyone who kills or captures Gaddafi.
The NTC has been nominating members for a new government, but there is public resistance to the appointments. Libyans have held protests within the country accusing the NTC of not being transparent enough.
Aljazeera
A leaked United Nations plan for post-Gaddafi Libya calls for the deployment of 200 unarmed military observers and 190 UN police officers to start a transition leading to elections in six to nine months.
The ten page document, published by Inner City Press, the UN watchdog site, was written by a special UN team led by Ian Martin, the former British head of Amnesty International.
Amnesty International
Key prison records and other documentation are at risk of being lost as sites remain unsecure and documents destroyed or taken away in Libya, Amnesty International warned today.
In a press release Amnesty International said:
“The Transitional National Council (NTC) authorities must protect such evidence where it is found or collect it in a central repository for safe-keeping. They should also appeal to those individuals who have taken any such documents to return them to the authorities as soon as possible.”
Full press release here.
AP
A rebel military spokesman says rebels have freed more than 10,000 from Moammar Gadhafi’s prisons since entering Tripoli last week. But Ahmed Bani said that some 50,000 people are unaccounted for
HRW
Human Rights Watch said members of the Khamis Brigade, a force commanded by Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis, appeared to have carried out the killings on Aug. 23. Human Rights Watch said it inspected the charred skeletal remains of about 45 bodies, still smouldering, on Saturday. The remains were spread throughout the warehouse in the Khalida Ferjan neighbourhood in Salahaddin, south of Tripoli, adjoining the Yarmouk military base.
CNN
Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is said to be “comatose” and “near death” at his villa in the Libyan capital Tripoli, where he was “surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip” under the care of his family. It wasn’t immediately possible to independently confirm Mr. Megrahi’s condition
Nofilia
The opposition fighters have taken the small town of Nofilia on their way to Sirte.
NTC
National Transitional Council (NTC) head Mustafa Abdul Jalil said Nato and other allies must continue supporting rebels against the “tyrant”.
France
France reopened its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday after it had been closed for the last six months, a foreign ministry spokesman said. “Our embassy in Tripoli has reopened today,” Bernard Valero said in a press briefing.
Leaked Plan:
A leaked document apparently detailing United Nations preparations for its role in post-Gaddafi Libya reveals plans for the world body to deploy military observers and police officers to the North African country.
The 10-page document, apparently written by a special UN team led by Ian Martin, the former British head of Amnesty International, was obtained and published by Inner City Press, the UN watchdog website.
The document outlines plans for UN-assisted elections in the next six to nine months. It also calls for the deployment of 200 unarmed military observers and 190 UN police officers to serve as trainers.
Reuters
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte are urging people to fight or be killed by bloodthirsty attackers, complicating efforts to arrange a peaceful surrender of the city, opponents of the Libyan leader said on Monday.
BBC
British diplomats have arrived in Tripoli as part of the government’s plan to increase its presence in the Libyan capital. The small Foreign Office team will prepare for the arrival of more diplomats, but no date has been set for reopening the British Embassy.
Oil
Libya plans to resume production in the oil fields east of the country in mid-September and export of crude from the port of Tobruk at the end of the same month.
Reuters
Libya, which is nearly under the control of rebels seeking to oust Muammar Gaddafi, will take a close look at its currency to determine whether it should be kept and exchange rates maintained, the central bank governor told Arabiya television.
Qatar
Qatar became the first country in the world yesterday to accord state welcome to the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdul Jalil. Jalil was given the guard of honor as part of state reception which is given to visiting heads of state. As is customary, national anthems of the two countries were played and the new national flag of Libya was displayed along with the Qatari flag.
Reuters
Unit led by Gaddafi’s son carried out Tripoli massacre-HRW
A military unit commanded by one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons appears to have been responsible for the summary execution of dozens of detainees in a warehouse near Tripoli last week, a human rights organisation said on Monday.
Three days later the warehouse, which had been used as a prison, was set on fire but the cause was unknown, Human Rights Watch said.
Since the fall of Gaddafi just over a week ago, evidence has emerged of numerous killings. Dozens of bodies, some from Gaddafi’s troops and others of detainees held by the ousted government, have been discovered in the Libyan capital.
Human Rights Watch said it inspected the charred skeletal remains of about 45 bodies, still smouldering, on Saturday. The remains were spread throughout the warehouse in the Khalida Ferjan neighbourhood in Salahaddin, south of Tripoli, adjoining the Yarmouk military base.
At least two more corpses were lying outside, unburned.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/unit-led-by-gaddafis-so...
Mirror UK
Saadi Gaddafi locked up his best pal for rejecting his gay advances
Tyrant’s son Al-Saadi Gaddafi threw his best friend in jail for turning down his gay advances.
Reda Thawargi said he was locked up for two and-a-half years before he was released and Saadi begged him for his support to quell the uprising.
Rebels who raided married Saadi’s opulent mansion this week found gay porn DVDs in his office.
The sprawling property near Tripoli has its own football pitch and outside disco, as well as an outhouse with three cell-like rooms and a caged building where Saadi is said to have set dogs on people who displeased him.
Reda said: “Saadi is gay. He tried to have sex with me but I refused. I only like girls. So he threw me in military jail.”
Reda was a close friend of the dictator’s son for 13 years.
They both played football for Tripoli’s Al Ahli football club and spent two years together in Italy drinking and partying.
However, Saadi became infuriated by Reda’s refusal to sleep with him and put him on trial in a Libyan court – but without a specific charge. Reda said: “The judge told me, ‘if Saadi says you have done wrong, then you must go to prison’.”
He was eventually freed in February.
Reda added: “When the uprising began Saadi called me to ask me to go on state TV to support him because of my fame as a footballer. I refused and hid away.
“I want to be the first to punch him now. If you find him, tell me.”
Source:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/...
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Exciting movie trailer for the documentary “The Rebels of Libya”. Watch here: vbs.tv/watch/vbs-news… – #Libya #Feb17
#Libya Central Bank governor will take a close look at the Libyan dinar to determine whether it should be kept. t.co/7fHZ8vT
Presumably we hope the Libyan Central Bank governor discontinues the dinar with #Gaddafi’s face & print the dinar with true heroes – #Libya
Italy ENI:
Italy’s Eni SpA signed a deal with Libya’s rebel government on Monday aimed at quickly restarting its oil and gas operations in the country following concerns it could lose its dominant position to rivals.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Turkish airlines should start flights this week to #Benghazi if Benina airport can be repaired in time.
Protest in #Misrata “New #Libya New Faces” attacking #NTC nominating former #Gaddafi filth for gov’t posts. #Feb17
The idea of it IS worrying but I ‘ve since found out it was VERY few complaining and those few weren’t even from Libya.
Video: The sheer brutality of the #Gaddafi regime youtu.be/swht21KfotU #Libya #Feb17
#Tripoli:L #NATO dropped 6 bombs on outskirts of city early Monday morning. Targets unknown as yet.
Important Article: #Misrata #Freedomfighters defy #Libya’s new regime www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/29/mi... #Feb17
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
Jacqui
Libyans returning from Tunisia:Road to #Tripoli still open, but there are still loyalist ambushes. DO NOT fly flags. #Libya
SAFIA, AISHA, MOHAMMED, HANNIBAL AND GRANDCHILDREN OF GADDAFI
ARE IN ALGERIA
CNN
Libyan war ‘not over’ as Gadhafi family members flee conflict
But instability simmered as family members of Moammar Gadhafi fled across the border to Algeria and foreign military leaders meeting in Qatar underscored that the “war in Libya is not over.”
Gadhafi’s wife and three children of Moammar Gadhafi are in Algeria, the nation’s Foreign Ministry said. His wife Safia, his daughter Aisha, two of his sons, Hannibal and Mohamed and their children, came there via the Libyan border.
Noit
We reported on the convoy of Mercedes cars few days ago.
This was confirmed by eye witnesses.
We reported on shooting at the border as it happened.
Algeria denied our reports at that time.
Official Algerian Government report says they crossed border at 8.45 this morning.
Who knows what the truth is?
Maybe interviewing the staff would shed some light on day of departure, although G
family could of course also have been in hiding in different places for a few
days…..
Personally I think the Algerian government is less than truthful concerning the arrival date of the G clan into Algeria.
I am convinced they crossed the border last Friday, (today=Monday).
Friday is when the shoot out happened.
Clarification:
We also talked to a Dr. who saw jr. Senussi on Thursday evening in hospital and who
told us that they ( meaning jr Senussi and co) were waiting for more people, Khamis
was mentioned at that point), to escape Tripoli. The word was spread that they would
be going to Sabha / Sirte, but that might have been distraction….
There was also talk about Khamis going to Bani Walid at that time.
Must have gone via Bani Walid to Algeria.
A convoy of Mercedes cars was spotted by several eye witnesses.
Must have been quite a group of people. We roughly estimated that around 30 – 40
people were about to flee in that convoy.
Knowing the way Algeria reacts my bet would be that Algeria is never going to admit
voluntarily that ICC wanted Gaddafi’s would have entered, so IF those members of
the G family were amongst those that crossed the border, Algeria would stay quiet
about that and only mention those that are NOT on the ICC wanted list.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: The #NTC SHOULD be all inclusive at this time, SOME who worked for #Gaddafi CAN be of use during this TRANSITIONAL period.
#Libya: Remember: The National TRANSITIONAL Committee ( #NTC) is TEMPORARY, support them as they work to bring organization to Libya.
#Libya: Be wary of outside groups w/ only their own interests in mind such as Gov. of #Turkey, #Iran & #Algeria, Muslim Brotherhood & #AU.
At the moment Libya hasn’t many w/ the experience to do these jobs. Once the foundations are laid they can be eased out & replaced
Gaddafi is gone forever & will never have power in Libya again, while these ARE criminals, why not use them for what they can do?
Scotland says not interested in extradition of #Lockerbie bomber Megrahi from #Libya. #Feb17
It’s a proven fact #Algeria sent over 500 #Polisario to support #Gaddafi.
#Libya: More bodies are being found in the #Yarmouk military barracks of the #Khamis brigade.
#France & #UK to be among first to reopen embassies in #Tripoli. Both to be opening soon.
The depth of Gaddafi pure evil and acts of extreme depravity are unimaginable, the stories yet to be told, staggering.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Gaddafi’s plan to launch an anti-NATO PR campaign in Britain. Guess it never got off the ground. t.co/47FcR0O
France24
Gaddafi ‘still a threat’ says NTC as fighters reach Sirte
Libya’s National Transitional Council warned that Muammar Gaddafi “is still a threat” Monday, asking NATO for continued protection from the “tyrant”, as its fighters surrounded the fugitive leader’s hometown of Sirte, following NATO bombing there.
Read more and watch video:
www.france24.com/en/20110829-libya-rebe...
Independent UK
Can you vacate your room, sir? Libya’s new government needs it
The new rulers of Libya, the Transitional National Council (TNC), have arrived in town. I know this because they just kicked me out of my painfully acquired hotel room when they took over the whole of the eighth floor of the Radisson Blu Hotel where I am staying.
My eviction did not elicit much sympathy from other journalists, many packed two or three to a room, when I explain I have been given another room and have it all to myself. The previous occupant, who had not done much clearing up before he departed, left behind an Omani military yearbook and some torn-up notebooks. He may have been one of the elusive group of Arab military officers who gave technical advice to the rebels, assuring their victory.
Read more:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa...
UAE pledges to help Libyan people in meeting with Abdul Jalil yest gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/government/u...
Aljazeera | Libya : As Libyan fighters advance towards Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, they are waiting for reinforcement from the capital. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting live from Tripoli, said.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
CNN reporter Nic Robertson has reportedly tracked down Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in Libya. He’s posted a picture… fb.me/12WQhO7Av
Libya : Schools will open in 17 September and this time no Green books
عاجل ليبيا أخبار : مسؤول ملف التعليم: العودة للدراسة ستكون يوم 17 سبتمبر بكامل التراب الليبي, و هذه السنة لا توجد كتب خضراء
Latest news from #Tripoli:
1. Normal life is starting to return to the city after a week since liberation… Shops have begun to re-open their doors…Some banks have also opened to pay people their salaries..
2.Big clean-up campaign launched by the youth of Tripoli to clean the streets and neighborhoods of the city
Aljazeera
-#Libya, Still no running water in many areas of #Tripoli, electricity erratic, #Libya.
-#Libya, Some supermarkets in #Tripoli are now open but shelves almost empty, #Libya
-#Libya, Thousands of libyans missing … Believed to have been held in #Gaddafi prisons, #Libya, #Tripoli
-#Libya, A woman has been searching for her brother taken by #Gaddafi forces weeks ago, she visits prisons where many were killed, #Libya
h2. —#Libya, More bodies are being found in the #Yarmouk military barracks of the #Khamis #Gaddafi brigade, Libya, #Tripoli
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, tweeted
Aljazeera :
Members of the Khamis Brigade, appear to have summarily executed detainees in a warehouse in Yarmouk near Tripoli on August 23, Human Rights Watch approx 150 dead bodies were found inside a makeshift jail when “Gaddafi’s forces opened fire and threw grenades” at the detainees.
BREAKING: Clashes are taking place between FFs and Gaddafi forces in Ragdaldeen, Massalata and Sabha.
alextomo alex thomson
Tripoli Roadblocks – The C4N User’s Guide t.co/jjTjKLK
Libiya el Haqiqiya
hi, we would be really greatfull if you would be able to ask around for Jaballa Matar, he has been in prison since 21 yrs…
Jaballa Matar from Ajdabiya has been in prison n Tripoli since 21 yrs. He is still missing. Anybody who has any info plz let us know! #libya
If anybody knows more about tunnels under Abu Salim prison in #Tripoli #Libya plz let me know or inform the NTC! #AbuSalim
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Speaking of ‘off’… how does one convince the rebel fighters to silence their guns? #endthecelebratorygunfireplease!
Telegraph The Telegraph
Libya: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi found ‘close to death’ in Tripoli tgr.ph/rqMooI
Dan Rivers reports from Tripoli, where the fight for freedom now includes a fight for clean water. bit.ly/qkcy6B #tripoli #libya
Qaddafi’s sons are monsters bit.ly/pQ4sB5
Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis reportedly visited prisoners hours before they were massacred
SURVIVORS of a massacre in which at least 55 Libyan prisoners were herded into a barn, machine-gunned and set alight by regime loyalists have described how one of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s sons visited the site last week, hours before the order was given to execute the men.
“Khamis Gaddafi was here just before the killings,” said Mustafa Abdullah El Hitri, a 27-year-old lawyer who escaped death by hiding under the bodies of his friends and later fleeing with the help of a guard.
“I saw him standing in the middle of the yard with his security detail and two commanders as I was taken from a prison van and marched into the barn. He was
giving orders to his men."
The atrocity, one of the worst documented during Libya’s revolution so far and part of an escalating trend of vengeance and retribution, may include as many as 140 victims once two suspected mass graves at the scene have been excavated.
It occurred early on Tuesday evening in a yard used to store farm machinery in the Yarmouk area of Tripoli’s Salahuddin district, adjacent to the capital’s largest military headquarters, “Leewa 32”, the command centre run by Khamis.
Read full art.:
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/mua...
4Adam Adam
Alaan TV:
The Funniest interview of #NTC minister very scared because of celebratory gunfire
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=908eICTDSr4
Triumphal arch restaurant twitpic.com/6cywlj/full #Tripoli #Libya
Libya’s NTC health minister tackles ‘daunting’ challenges www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/... #Libya #Tripoli
Found only in #Nafusa Mountains twitpic.com/6cz2bf/full #Libya.
Ancient Yefren – Nafusa Mountains twitpic.com/6cz42q/full #Libya
Found Only in Nafusa Mountains (II) twitpic.com/6cz77f/full #Libya
Tripoli – Nalut Road to the Nafusa (Western) Mountains twitpic.com/6cz95q #Libya
Tripoli – Nalut Road to the Nafusa (Western) Mountains twitpic.com/6cz95q/full #Libya
Telegraph UK:
Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford’s husband complains of sexism
The husband of Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford has defemded her against ‘’those who tried to pigeonhole her as a woman, wife and mother’’
Ms Crawford, whose highly commended reporting from Libya has made her something of a star, bridles at being labelled ‘’a female reporter’‘, Richard Edmondson said.
Also guaranteed to make her angry is the suggestion ’’she does not care much about her children’’, he said.
‘’Tell her that a woman journalist should not be going to war zones, especially when there are kids back home to cuddle,’’ he wrote in The Independent. ‘’It would be a swifter end than strychnine.’’
Ms Crawford, who entered Tripoli on Sunday night with the rebel convoy, told the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival yesterday that ’’it’s frankly really insulting and very, very sexist’’ when people tell her she should not be doing the job she does.
Speaking live by satellite link from Libya, she said: ’’I’m working alongside today the chief correspondent who’s a man who’s got three children and there will be no-one who says ‘what do you think you’re doing, how awful, what are you doing to your children?‘’’
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Palatial homes tell of Gaddafi kids’ life of privilege www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/world/2011/0... #Libya #Tripoli
4Adam Adam
Common theme heard in the Libyan capital ‘You are in Tripoli not in Baghdad’ but journalists still didn’t get it news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today… #Libya
Aljazeera
Dissent in Libya against NTC nominations
The NTC has been nominating members for a new government, but there is public resistance to the appointments. Libyans have held protests within the country accusing the NTC of not being transparent enough.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons, reporting from a protest in Misrata, said: "They the protesters say the old guard of the Gaddafi regime are far too prominent in the list of people issued so far.
“They are also insisting there should be new faces for a new Libya.”
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons reporting from Misrata.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB4w_J_rHZA
#Misrata – Demo in Libya against any ‘international peacekeeping force’ and #NTC nominations youtube.com/watch?v=c6R_Ss… #Libya #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6R_Ss2m97s
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Just as in Benghazi, there are lots of Libyan Boy Scouts helping out in Tripoli’s hospitals these days
Lots of traffic jams in Tripoli today as people rush to prepare for Eid. Queues outside banks too
FunGuerillaz
It seems the events in Libya have a large influence on Syria: aje.me/oZGTho – Renewed energy in protests & now widespread defections.
pdanahar Paul Danahar
NTC says it’s going to start process of collecting guns from civilians in the coming days now the fighting is dying down #Libya #Tripoli
NTC says collection centers will be set up to gather guns in Tripoli from locals. #Libya is awash with them so sensible move #Tripoli
UK says now has small foreign office team in #Tripoli preparing for the opening up of an Embassy following fall of #Gaddafi regime
Nehanda Radio
Zimbabwe army panic over Libya revolt
Robert Mugabe’s regime is worried about events in Libya and over the weekend got Zimbabwe National Army Commander Lieutenant-General Philip Valerio Sibanda to issue what was meant to be a re-assuring statement that Mugabe would not be toppled by rebel forces as happened in Libya.
In an interview after a passout parade at Imbizo Barracks on the outskirts of Bulawayo yesterday, Lt-Gen Sibanda said the rebellion in North Africa, particularly Libya, was not a threat to Zimbabwe.
“Certain things have happened. There are threats of divisions within the African Union over events like in Libya where people are fighting to further their own interests. It is such events that show weaknesses of organisations like the AU when they fail to deal with rebels with one voice and with a common goal as a continent.
But amidst the bravado, his speech betrayed a deepening fear within the regime that events in the North of Africa where repressive governments in Egypt, Tunisia and now Libya have been toppled might be replicated in Zimbabwe. Discussions by Zimbabweans on social networking sites show a desire for similar rebellion.
Last week the ZANU PF side of the coalition government decided to expel the Libyan ambassador in Harare, Taher Elmagrahi. This follows his defection to rebels that have taken over the Libyan capital Tripoli and ousted long time dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Read more:
nehandaradio.com/2011/08/29/zimbabwe-ar...
Foreign and Commonwealth Office:
UK preparatory team in Tripoli
FCO diplomatic and technical staff are now on the ground in Tripoli as part of preparations for a wider diplomatic presence.
A Foreign Office spokesperson said:
“The Prime Minister announced on 22nd August that the UK would establish a British diplomatic presence in Tripoli as soon as it is safe and practical to do so.
A small FCO-led team, consisting of diplomatic and technical staff, is now on the ground in Tripoli as part of the preparations for that wider diplomatic presence. This reflects the recent military progress which means that some members of the NTC have already moved to Tripoli.
We remain in regular consultation with the NTC about our plans. Notwithstanding the deployment of a preparatory team, no date has been set for the opening of the British Embassy. This will depend on political and security developments over the coming days."
Source:
www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?vie...
Foreign Office UK:
Foreign Secretary’s Eid ul fitr message
Foreign Secretary William Hague has sent his best wishes to mark the end of the month of Ramadan.
Speaking today the Foreign Secretary said:
“I am delighted to send my best wishes to Muslims in Britain and across the world as they mark the end of the month of Ramadan.
Eid ul fitr celebrates the completion of a month of fasting, prayer, devotion and charitable giving. It is a fitting time to remember all those who are in need around the world, in particular those who are struggling to build a better future for their societies in the Middle East and North Africa.
So to Muslims around the world on this very important day of celebration, I send my very best and wish you Eid Mubarak.”
Aljazeera
Zeina Khodr reports the latest from southern Tripoli
Video report:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XirRWpgxLMg&fea...
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
just ate a #nawfalia plum. a vegetable truck arrived. kids were playing. but some families left as well heading east. #onroadtosirte
Nawfallia is not on the main highway leading to #Sirte. A few kms south. small village. not much sign of fighting there.
Reuters
Gaddafi forces use “scare tactics” in Sirte: rebels
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte are urging people to fight or be killed by bloodthirsty attackers, complicating efforts to arrange a peaceful surrender of the city, opponents of the Libyan leader said on Monday.
“They’re trying to tell the people that the battle is no longer for Gaddafi but to protect themselves,” he told Reuters, adding that three days ago a message from Gaddafi was broadcast in Sirte, urging people to fight to save themselves.
NTC spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah said most people in Sirte were against Gaddafi. “But it’s the minority of Gaddafi loyalists who have the weapons,” he said. “They’re using all kinds of scare tactics but it’s a losing strategy.”
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/us-l...
wafa
How rationally or “honourably” would most people act if they have a gun pointed to their head?
FRAUD ALERT!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: Please beware: @ TMCSCLibya NOT a representative of #NTC or any Military Council. FRAUD. #Feb17
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#EU to remove sanctions imposed on 6 harbours to allow humanitarian aid
Libya Constitutional Declaration Ah right ok i’ll come back later www.ntclibya.com/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID...
hominoid555 not sayin
Libya: 50,000 missing prisoners of Gaddafi regime | GlobalPost t.co/gTYRraD
Yahoo News
Iran ‘discreetly aided Libyan rebels’
Iran “discreetly” provided humanitarian aid to Libyan rebels before the fall of Tripoli, Jam-e-Jam newspaper quoted Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Sunday as saying.
“We were in touch with many of the rebel groups in Libya before the fall of (Moamer) Kadhafi, and discreetly dispatched three or four food and medical consignments to Benghazi,” Salehi told the daily.
“The head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, sent a letter of thanks to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for having been on their side and helping,” he added.
Since the Libyan uprising erupted in mid-February, Iran has adopted a dual approach — criticising the Kadhafi regime for its violent assaults on the rebels while at the same time condemning NATO’s military intervention.
On Tuesday, Iran “congratulated the Muslim people of Libya” after rebels overran the capital Tripoli, but it has so far distanced itself from officially recognising the NTC.
Source:
news.yahoo.com/iran-discreetly-aided-li...
Tripoli humanitarian situation new battle for Libyan rebels
Libyan rebels face a new battle, struggling to provide Tripoli’s residents with water, electricity, petrol and food, amid power outages and with much of the capital’s water cut.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzNdpMJl6yQ&fea...
Tripoli crossfire shocks Abu Slim residents
Shell-shocked residents are taking stock of their losses three days after a fierce battle pitting forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi against rebels reduced a neighbourhood in southern Tripoli to rubble.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H73JTAofyaI&fea...
Aljazeera
NTC leaders meet NATO in Qatar
The head of the National Transitional council (NTC) has called on NATO to keep up the military pressure of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil who is meeting NATO officials in Qatar warned “Gaddafi is still capable is doing something awful in the last moments.”
Al Jazeera’s Emike Umola reports from Doha.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nozUBWCETpU
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
FF soldiers at the front knew nothing about ceasefire for Eid. they want to fight on. orders obviously haven’t reached them yet.
Colonel at the front says that negotiations are taking place between Gads and FF for a temporary ceasefire over Eid.
francediplo France Diplomatie
#Libye L’ambassade de France à Tripoli est réouverte aujourd’hui. Une équipe diplomatique est arrivée ce matin. goo.gl/cS0Ak
Eni visits Libya Monday where they signed a non-binding agreement to restore the Italian oil company. www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Busin...
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#sabratha opens for business amid war damage yfrog.com/kjillxij
Jon Lee
At a mass execution site in Tripoli, Qaddafi’s troops kept camels to hide the stench. Neighbor: “Live camels smell worse than dead humans.”
dovenews Libyan™
Egyptian border guards have seized a “large quantity” of weapons at the border with Libya, state television reported on Monday.
Aid floods into Tripoli as fighting stops goo.gl/sKG2c #Tripoli #Libya
Tripoli police overcome fears and return to work #Tripoli #Libya 1/3
“Today’s the first day we’re back in uniform because we were afraid of what the reaction would be” said Osama AlZawya, a 40yr old police 2/3
Visitors to one police station step on a rug featuring Gaddafi’s face and drivers roll over a poster of him at a checkpoint outside. 3/3
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
In Tripoli situation improving daily. Electricity & water comes and goes. More traffic but most shops still closed. #Libya #Feb17
Key concern in Tripoli is fifth column with weapons. Some are even manning checkpoints pretending to be be Pro revolution.
cheisalif
#Libya embssy #Moscow #NewFlag
We did rehearsal in the embassy and about to start to do it!!!!!
The NEW FLAG IS FLYING OVER LIBYAN EMBASSY IN MOSCOW! We DID IT!!!!!!!! #LIBYA #EMBASSY
Libya #Moscow embassy lifting the New Flag
twitrpix.com/gdil
Strapazzaburdok:
“Transitional Military Council for South & Central #Libya” by “defecting” Massoud Abdelhfid tiny.cc/hysul #Sebha
Noit
Not sure at all about validity of that report.
Where is NTC announcement?
As army chief of #Gaddafi Massoud Abdelhfid is deeply involved in his crimes. His “council” is a try to get out. Won’t succeed #Libya
Noit
Last I heard is that T M C S C Libya doesn’t exist.
Need clarification from NTC first, until then I consider TMCSC to be a fraudulent account!
AbdullahTarhoni:
To FFs firing in the air, Tarhuna FFs facing retreating Daffy thugs r in extreme shortage of ammunitions. #Libya"
ceoDanya
Islamic Relief UK is in #Tripoli & ready to tell people the humanitarian situation & what the needs are. Their contact #: 00218925432392.
raggzeb:
Cutting my break short, getting my stuff together then heading back to #brega. i was really the rest though, never mind eh!"
septimius_sever septimius severus
An interesting read : re-inventing #Libya’s economy | FT beyondbrics on.ft.com/nBcnjt
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Looking for secret prisons must be number one priority now. Prisoners n underground prisons have no food or water since FFs entered #Tripoli
Anyone has any clue about underground prisons, plz pass it on. If u were a worker in #Libya & helped in building underground pass us info.
Prisoners in underground prisons ve no food or water for the 9 days. If u have info about underground building pass the info & save a soul.
ADVICE TO TNC:
Alex
#NTC shld TV offer a big reward 4 location of secret #Tripoli prisons- #Gaddafi jailors wont act on conscience – but will 4 money & immunity
THAT WS A DRAFT TV ADVERT 4 #NTC – IN CASE THEY R 2 BUSY 2 DO IT “full pardon & $1000- per prisoner – 4 every live #TripoliPrisoner” #Libya
U gotta love the humour & sharp tongue of #Libya people – as #Tripoli was falling – most pop chant in the streets was – "IT’S OVER FRIZZI!
TrabulsiyahFeb17th
family in #tripoli :we need 2get pro #Gaddafi stations الراي and العروبةoff the air in #Libya they r still doing harm!
#Tuareg Mercenaries come home from #Libya: … n24.cm/pWbcmH (AFP)
Armed Tuaregs from #Mali and #Niger who fought for Gaddafi have started to return to their home nations. www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/hundreds-ret... … #Libya
#Gaddafi, Saif and the wizard of Oz ind.pn/bU9k2U .. #Libya
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
For those who were spreading a false propaganda that Libyans are racists, see this photo from #Tripoli celebrations flickr.com/photos/live2tr…
The story of the House Help (tortured by Hannibal #gadhafi and his wife) (Arabic) www.alquds.com/news/article/view/id/274688
Reaction to the nanny who was burnt by Hannibal’s wife:
freedom4libya
There was a similar story of a chief also burned by Hannibal wife, I tweeted the story weeks ago. I will find it again and RT.
The true face of the #Gadhafi regime edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Bought some freedom flags today for bare walls of injured FFs hospital room in Tunis. He loved it. Wish we had money for lots more.
Khalifa
poet under fire facebook.com/video/video.ph… #Libya
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Just back from a day out filming in Tripoli. Streets and shops very busy ahead of Eid.
Sirtawi
Been on BBC again. Talked abt how ppl in #Sirte normally get along with G-loyalists there. Hoping we’ll be free of the likes soon.
Negotiations underway within #Sirte. News of some Gaddafi loyalists willing to adhere to peace, still they remain a minority
We’re guessing since loads of Pro-Gs have defected so far that we’ll be seeing something similar in #Sirte as well
therefore the % there might have significantly shifted now that loyalists to G realize there’s no way out. We don’t know yet.
Seems like today’s the last day of Ramadan for KSA. Happy Eid to all our brothers & sisters! Praying #Libya will enjoy a stable life soon :)
robcrilly Rob Crilly
I think it’s fair to describe Gaddafi as the world’s most wanted man, right?
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
It will be very interesting to see how the Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte etc react to the news of half of Muammar’s family fleeing #Libya
Sirtawi
A gobsmacked Pro-G? Tempting!
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Could you pls RT request for photo or known whereabouts of Col Khalid Zouzou, former head of security at Bab alAzizia.
Eyewitness accuses him of shooting 11 yr old boy in the back on Tuesday 23rd Aug
Alex
KHAMIS KILLED?: “#Bani also said rebel forces may have killed #Gaddafi ’s son #Khamis in a clash Saturday. Rebel clashed with a military convoy in the town of #Tarhouna, 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli, destroying two vehicles in the convoy.
The bodies in the cars were burned beyond recognition, he said, but captured soldier said they were Khamis #Gadhafi ’s bodyguards. #Libya
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBY...
ntc_of_libya – PUT YR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS – OFFER BIG REWARD & PARDON FOR INFO ABOUT #TripoliPrisoners – 50000 STILL ENTOMBED! #Libya
Gaddafi jet is worth £73million – about $110m
Aristotle said 360 B.C “Libya always bears something new” still true till 2011
New @NTC HEAD of #Tripoli POLICE join Rev in APRIL- Feed inside info 2 #NTC – so was undercover #FF – #Gaddafi wld kill him if busted #Libya
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Amnesty on prison records “For the courts and for the sake of those who have lost loved ones these files must be preserved.” #Libya #Tripoli
Alex
TripoliPrisoners “no water or food for 6 days – some of us R DEAD- some injured from torture – DO ANYTHING U CAN 2 SAVE US NOW”
Last tweat was sent on behalf of 50000 #TripoliPrisoners – who have no voice on the internet – or contact with the world beyond their dark bloody bars – apart from their own fading crys for help they haven’t seen or heard a human voice for 6 days – so I created their message to speak for them.
The only people who know where the secret jails containing the 50000 entombed prisoners are located – are the #Gaddafi jailors – they have no conscience – and don’t care if they all die – but they may act for a big reward plus a pardon.
Please put heavy pressure on @ntc_of_libya to offer a reward – $2000 per LIVE prisoner – will add up to $100m if they are all rescued – and this can be covered from the sale of Gaddafi ’s private jet – which is worth about $110m – CHECK IT OUT AND SEE WHY:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
At most we have about 24 hours to make a serious attempt to save these 50000 entombed innocents!
Its no use the @ntc_of_libya – just putting out a public appeal for info – an appeal to the conscience of a Gaddafi jailor is at best an exercise in optimism – its unlikely to work – and we only have hours not days left to save these guys – but money and a pardon might work.
WANT TO SEE WHAT A #GADDAFI SECRET ENTOMBED PRISON LOOKS LIKE?
alexblx.posterous.com/tripoliprisoners-...
DO SOMETHING IF U CAN PLEASE – THAT’S WHAT TWITTERS ALL ABOUT AIN’T IT?
Please read:
VOICE FROM THE TOMB OF A TRIPOLI PRISONER
alexblx.posterous.com/voice-from-the-to...
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Went to traffic police HQ – they are fully operational – and white-suited officers are back at their posts
flyingbirdies أكرم
Morjan Market in Ben Ashour crowded with shoppers #Tripoli
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Tripoli recovering! a call from tripoli confirms fuel is now available in petrol stations and shops r re- opening also security much better!
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
Colleagues arrived via Ras Ajdir crossing – say its bustling with Eid shopping. Road to Tripoli safe. Life’s rhythms resume #Libya
Alex
Were Hannibal & Mohammed #Gaddafi implicated in crimes – Saif Khamis Muttasain & Aisha urged killing of non G supporters were #Libya
Khamis Muttasain & Saadi #Gaddafi – as leaders of battalions shelling civilians in cities – must join Saif in war crimes charges.
NTC & @NATO – can mount sanctions campaign agst Algeria – if refuse to return any indicted Gaddafi – but must 1st file charges in Libya
Evidence re Khamis death is strong – his bodyguard survived – confirms he was in the bombed car – all bodies were obliterated by jet strike
Sirte will now be less likely to fight on 4 Gaddafi – if Gaddafi sons themselves wont fight 4 dad- & instead opt 2 flee 2 Algeria
SIrte tribal leaders shd say 2 Gaddafi – ‘your own sons refuse to fight for U – so how can U expect us to sacrifice our sons for U’ Libya
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! #Khameais Gaddafi is getting buried in #Zlitan after his death. via libyatv
HANNAH GADDAFI
from Martin Chulov
@martinchulov Across the arab world
covering the Middle East for The Guardian
Dr in #Tripoli hosp told me #Gaddafi’s daughter Hannah who worked there ordered staff not to treat rebel wounded over past 6 months
Found #Libya card issued to mercenary from Chad. Said ‘carry this with you & u will be safe & ’I am here to protect the king of kings’
#Tripoli’s Abu Selim hosp closed & being disinfected. A rank mess of bloodied trolleys outside. Pervasive stench of death #Libya
Algerian govt say #Gaddafi family members entered Algeria 8:45am, which means they weren’t in convoy of limos that crossed Fri.
Libya In Me
Sky’s Ian Woods describes the generous hospitality of Libyans :) youtube.com/watch?v=Th_snw… #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
They found a warehouse full of SCUDs & technical vehicles for preparation of SCUDS near the airport.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Algiers confirms more than 30 members of #Gaddafi’s family are now in Algeria. Including 2 of his sons #Libya #Tripoli
Ali Tweel
Tripoli today: Petrol stations are working, shops are crowded, people are happy, walls are full of Libyan flag and paintings.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
only way for gaddafi to go from tripoli to Algeria was through bani walid
Libya17Feb Tripoli Youth
I will be attending my first #Eid after 16 years in Free #Libya (Hajer, Benghazi).. Eid Mubarak to everyone around the world
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: Libya rebels say will seek extradition of Gaddafi family from Algeria
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
I call on the International community: Boycott #Algeria & officially censure them in @UN until they hand over #Gaddafi family to #Libya #NTC
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC says it’s identified a #Gaddafi prison employee suspected of knowledge of #Tripoli’s secret underground prisons.Search now on #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
#Algeria denied that armored cars passed through borders a couple of days ago. Now it confirms that G family is there. Bloody liars.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole Gaddafi family is there, and that Algeria only mentioned names not wanted by #ICC
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Algeria better extradite these murderers
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Breaking: Algerian foreign ministry has just confirmed that Safiya, Aysha, Hannibal and Mohamed entered Algeria at 08:45 am
Ali Tweel
I remember when i was reporting in february crying&screaming 4 journalists 2 come, now seeing them reporting free from tripoli is priceless!
if you are in tripoli you can call 1616 for any information about the city services.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC urgently appealing for medical staff of any nationality to help in #Tripoli hospitals.Britain still advises against all travel to #Libya
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
This file of a prisoner since 2008 have committed suicide in solitary cell. His crime: insulting brother leader. yfrog.com/h8xibbfj
Good Riddance, Gaddafi – Libya will be just fine. www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/... #libya #feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
Just came back from helping FF search for missing prisoners from another notorious political prison. Have loads of pictures. Will post soon.
I am in shock after what I have seen. Very scary place. Can’t imagine what was in the prisoners minds when they were under Gaddafi’s terror.
Meanwhile let me give you our new Libyan Army. Mateega Airbase. Today 11:30 AM. t.co/TfWQqZs
By they way, I did ask for permission to post it on the net. Now they are issuing FF with name badges.
I am afraid I found proofs of suicide. Will show later. Lots of images I need to sieve through. It’s heart breaking.
Here is a freedom fighter from Doug Algoma. Guarding Mateega AirBase. t.co/Btnc91b
We went there after prison neighbors said they heard what appeared to be cry voices from the prison last night.
This file of a prisoner since 2008 have committed suicide in solitary cell. His crime: insulting brother leader. t.co/8mH6AMs
kids were part of the reason why Libyans have revolted. Will never let my kids suffer quarter of what we had in 42 yrs.
they said on TV what they’re going to do with us Tweeps and Internet infidels. Hang us from lamp poles. Aisha G said that.
Soug Al-Guma the cradle of Tripoli’s revolution.Like Tajoura, they never bowed to Gaddafi. #feb17 #Libya pic.twitter.com/7BVmTtY
Freeeeeedoooom!! Ain Zara Prison. #feb17 pic.twitter.com/o6ATwWd
Ain Zara is said to be a 5 star prison. In comparison to other prisons. Yet it was shocking. pic.twitter.com/ha3oqL7
I get claustrophobic just looking at this image. pic.twitter.com/JldOIu9
All medicines in the prison pharmacy was expired. This Asthma medicine expired a year and a half ago. pic.twitter.com/wfLvVHc
At least when the guards fled they left the keys behind. Unlike Abusleem prison where they had to break all locks. pic.twitter.com/YLSm8O5
We checked every corner in case there are any left prisoners, even underground spaces not sure what they do with them.
underground rooms found empty… pic.twitter.com/T2s0tUE
Prison from rooftop. pic.twitter.com/S6xRgU7
This proud freedom fighter said he freed many of his friends who were captured during early days of rev. pic.twitter.com/RBiUCad
This is a luxury suit in the 5 star cell. Sleeping on a thin mattress. My bones just hurt seeing it. pic.twitter.com/pnKhUqe
Prisoners made their own calenders to stay oriented. They encraved them on the inside of cell doors. pic.twitter.com/dIVCeyt
ianbirrell ianbirrell
Some residents not had water for 10 days now but amazing how Tripoli streets being swept, roadblocks lifted, normality returning so fast
They Were There All Along | Tom Rayner | blogs.news.sky.com/frontlineblog/Post:a... via @SkyNewsBlogs #libya
Sirtawi
In a new speech via #Sirte local radio, Gaddafi calls upon locals to fight till the end and threatens anyone who leaves the city
Hayat
Dear people of #Algeria , please be the next in the #ArabSpring to bloom! reuters.com/article/2011/0… and get these back where they belong. JAIL!
Ahmed
Sky News just said ‘rebels’ then corrected herself to ‘Anti-Gaddafi’! At least she’s trying eh? #libya
EH
#gaddafi wearing a proper suit #Libya twitpic.com/6d5ulq
Still no water in #Tripoli
2days ago in bosleem hospital #Tripoli dead bodies being removed but still not buried. Approx 163 bodies #Libya twitpic.com/6d5w5n
I spoke to an escapee from there, very harrowing emotional story #Libya
More shops r oped today. Fresh fruit & veg r starting to trickle into #Tripoli
Ppl in #Tripoli r out buying water pumps & pipes to start using old wells as running water still cut
Been to bosleem & hadba yesterday. Independence flag flying everywhere. But ppl there just swapped sides when tripoli was liberated
Long queues in front of a handful Of banks in #Tripoli
#NTC should set up an office where ppl can hand over any documents. I’ve got loads at home that would have been burned
FromJoanne Joanne
Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragi, #Tripoli Brigade says Has confirmation #Khamis was badly wounded in clash nr #BaniWalid & #Tarhouni #Libya
Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragigot Commander #Tripoli Brigade says got news confirmed that Khamis died in Hospital and buried in area #Libya
James S
Hello. ORLA GUERIN BBC mentioned CELLS in locked basement of Gaddafi Homeland Security Blding. HAVE THEY BEEN SEARCHED?
CNN
Is this Gaddafi’s mobile home?
CNN’s Arwa Damon visits a well-equipped mobile home said to belong to Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi.
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/08/25/damon.gadhafi.rv.cnn
Joanne
Night before #Eid is already starting very well with some Gaddafi family members FLEEING #Libya getting better by the hour
#ICC in TheHague #Netherlands says they want to put another son on their WANTED #Libya list #Libya #Dutch
#URGENT #Tripoli PPL seen taking away VITAL Docs + Files from Abu Salim prison Need 2 Return Them to #NTC goo.gl/D5KcR #Libya
#BREAKING \NTC says \Algeria sheltering Gaddafi Family members is Act of AGGRESSION and NTC will seek Extradition
We already knew that from captured G Goons in #QasrbenGashir GF R massing #BaniWalid
#Confirmed Imam in QasrBenGashir Khamis seen several times Visited Prisoners Just b4 Carnage goo.gl/FQzwi
#Watch Interview with ABUSED nanny of #Hannibal #Gaddafi goo.gl/AcFBl #Libya
Palm Maple
Stuart Ramsay of Sky talked 2 Khamis bodyguard near a bombed VIP car in Terhouna & confirmed Khamis died in NATO bombing
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH Gaddafi wife Safia daughter Aicha sons Hannibal+Mohamed accompanied + children entered #Algeria @ 08h45 am via Algerian-Libyan border
#CONFIRMED by Algerian Foreign Ministry; Safiya, Ayesha Hannibal + Mohammed Gaddafi crossed into #Algeria from #Libya this morning
#Breaking 2 SONS of Muammar #Gaddafi + his wife and his daughter Entered #Algeria via Algerian press service.
dovenews
6- Countries that recognized NTC: #Turkey, #United #Arab #Emirates, #United #States & #Zimbabwe.
KHAMIS:
Nato hit:
tarhouna contact: there were 3 cars that went on fire, 20ppl surrendered, when interrogated they said #Khamis was in1of the cars
contact in Tarhouna is close family friend
FromJoanne Joanne
Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragigot Commander #Tripoli Brigade says got news confirmed that Khamis died in Hospital and buried in area
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
What impact will the coming of Eid have on the fighting in Libya?
Paul Wood (BBC correspondent) is about to do R4 PM from just behind the front line. am switching Bgan to ISDN mode
Power cut in ras where we are staying. Problem as our generator is out too.No more tv until we find power
dovenews Libyan™
#Saudi #Arabia, #Qatar have announced tomorrow is the first day in #Eid. #HappyEid
#UAE has announced tomorrow is the first day in #Eid.
Reuters: Israel says Gaza gets anti-plane arms from Libya. Lets not forget that Gaddafi used to get arms from Israel.
PLEASE RT: Doctors able to go to #Libya please mail libyanemergencyaid@gmail.com w/ CV & availability ASAP! Sponsorship available. #Feb17
Forces loyal to Gaddafi in #Sirte are urging people 2 fight or be killed by bloodthirsty attackers! thats #Freedom Fighters to u & me
1- Countries that recognize NTC: #Albania, #Australia, #Austria, #Bahrain, #Belgium, #Benin, #Britain, #Bulgaria, #Burkina #Faso, #Canada,
2- Countries that recognized NTC: #Chad, #Croatia, #Czech #Republic, #Denmark, #Egypt, #Finland, #France, #Gabon, #Gambia, #Germany,
3- Countries that recognized NTC: #Greece,#Guinea, #Iraq, #Italy, #Ivory #Coast, #Japan, #Jordan, #Kuwait, #Latvia, #Lebanon,
4- Countries that recognized NTC: #Luxembourg, #Maldives, #Malta, #Montenegro, #Morocco, #Netherlands, #Niger, #Nigeria, #Palestinian,
5- Countries that recognized NTC: #Panama, #Portugal, #Qatar, #Senegal, #Slovenia, #Spain, #Togo, #Tunisia
6- Countries that recognized NTC: #Turkey, #United #Arab #Emirates, #United #States & #Zimbabwe.
#Zimbabwe???, it was reported by Reuters, I tried to speak to Dictator #Mugabe, he was unavailable to comment!
The African U Commission’s Chairman Jean Ping has acceptd that Gaddafi was a defeated man but stoppd short of officially recognising the NTC
China has not formally recognised the NTC, but has said it had “always attached significance to (its) important role”
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow might establish formal relations with the NTC if they
were able to “unite the country for a new democratic start” 2/2 We will pass ur offer #Dmitry, we are not interested 2 little 2 late!
1/2 of Gaddafi family ran to Algeria, the other half 1/2 still in BeniWalid according to Italian sources. #Libya
Gaddafi’s family arriving to Algeria only confirms the involvement of the Algerian Gov with Gaddafi. #Algeria #Land of #Million #Martyrs
dovenews Libyan™
NTC: Libya to seek return of Gaddafi family from Algeria goo.gl/L5WvQ #Libya #Algeria
BREAKING! Algeria sources: President #Abdelaziz #Bouteflika who had planned & allow Gaddafi’s family to enter #Algeria.
FLASH: White House says no indication Gaddafi has left Libya, if had information on his location would pass along to #FF forces. #Reuters
Inglesi
“Passed through Zawiyah on our way in. Lots of shops open, people going about their business one week aftr serious fighting there”
dovenews Libyan™
On Libya, Leaked UN Report Sees 200 Military Observers, NATO but Not AU Role Given by Ban Ki-moon: Exclusive innercitypress.com/un1replibya082… NOOOOOOO
I think #Gaddafi might escape 2 #Algeria too & from there 2 #Mali & perhaps to #Chad as final destination, too risky 2 go 2 #Sirte or #Sabha
dovenews Libyan™
@UN keep your 200 Military Observers away from Libya.
كل عام وانتم بخير Happy Eid to everyone! I hope this #Eid is better thn the last one.
kosovo
Serbia Embassy in Tripoli to be searched for serbian snippers hidding there/ and be closed immediatelly
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Gaddafi forces suspected of executing detainees-evidence of war crimes before #Tripoli fell goo.gl/5u1Yt #gaddaficrimes #feb17
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Italian News Agency: Gaddafi and his sons Alsaadi & Saif Al Islam are in town of Bani Walid south of Tripoli. #Libya
AJE: Zeina Khodr reports latest from S. #Tripoli ~150 dead bodies found in jail in Yarmouk goo.gl/7COvJ #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
AJE: NTC leaders meet NATO in #Qatar. Abduljalil-“#Gaddafi still poses danger, asking NATO to continue its support” goo.gl/Zg3xh
AJE: Foreign migrants at risk in #Libya goo.gl/g5z1A #libya #feb17
Please Sign Petition: Support Ashour Ben-KHaial for Ambassador to #Canada: goo.gl/QaFMV #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes RT!
Sky News: Foreign Office says it is aware of reports that members of the Gaddafi family are in Algeria #Libya
Reuters: White House says has no indication Muammar Al Gaddafi has left #Libya, if they have information they will pass onto the NTC
Reuters FLASH: NTC ’Algeria’s sheltering of Gaddafi family members ls act of aggression’ #
Reuters FLASH: Libyan NTC say will seek extradition of Gaddafi family from Algeria #Libya
Sky News correspondent claims the FF commanders told him the body of Khamis was taken to Beni Walid
ProudLibyan
The criminal gang of Generals in Algeria who destroyed a beautiful country, murdered 100’000’s will one day fall as other despots have.
m_madi Mohamed Madi
31 family members in Algeria? Must have found a really cheap package #wereallgoingonasummerholiday
Gaddafi wife and three children in Algeria: report shabablibya.org/?p=6232 #Libya
Christopher R. Albon
Dear Sirte, historical precedent regarding last stands is stacked against you. Surrender for the sake of the civilians.
JTSkyNews #
Libya FF show #skynews Stuart Ramsay burned out car in which they claim #Khamis Gaddafi killed.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
I have come to the conclusion that Khamis is one of a quadruple #Kamis123&4 #Libya
Sky Sources: FF commanders claim Khamis Gaddafi has been killed. Sky News show a burnt out land cruiser, however still no body shown #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Landscape: The cost of change in Libya shabablibya.org/?p=6227 #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
It will be very interesting to see how the Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte etc react to the news of half of Muammar’s family fleeing #Libya
So half of Gaddafi’s family have exiled themselves #Ironic
Reuters: ICC prosecutor says Khamis Gaddafi may be placed on war crimes court wanted list
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Hundreds of returning Tuaregs alarm Mali, Niger shabablibya.org/?p=6223 #Libya
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
Khalifa Hifter needs to step down, comments today on Alarabiya were ludicrous. He wants to control the #libyan army and feels threatened
Nusaybah Khalil
To all the Libyans celebrating Eid in #Libya- congratulations! You deserve it ! Have fun & enjoy a FREE Eid ;) #Tripoli #Benghazi #FreeLibya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyans squeeze Gaddafi bastion, Tripoli revives shabablibya.org/news/libyans-s… #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya will reassess currency – Libyan central bank gov shabablibya.org/?p=6216 #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gadhafi’s daughter to give birth amid Libya’s violent aftermath t.co/89tew9r #Libya
Darreg
how does that add up? She claims a her months old daughter was killed recently.
Algeria and Libya meet to ease row: report
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci has held talks with a topLibyan rebel official, the highest-level contact in months of fraught relations between Libya’s new leadership and their Algerian neighbours.
Algeria is the only one of Libya’s North African neighbours which has yet to recognize theNational Transitional Council, Libya’s de facto government after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
shabablibya.org/news/algeria-and-libya-...
There are gonna be more rows now!
Give us the criminals back!
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
AJA: Abduljalil live via phone: can’t confirm the death of Khamis #Libya
AJA: Council has been established in #Tripoli to to receive names of those missing since the revolution began #Libya
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
USA said Monday it has asked Libya NTC to re-examine the case of the Libyan convicted of plane bombing over… fb.me/17rf7R07s
Al Arabiya
Rebel officer says Qaddafi’s son Khamis killed in clash near Tripoli
Fallen Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi’s son Khamis has been killed in a clash near Tripoli, a senior rebel officer said on Monday.
Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragi, in charge of the Tripoli Brigade of the rebel army, said he had confirmation that Khamis was badly wounded in the clash near Ben Walid and Tarhoni.
He was taken to a hospital but died of his wounds and was buried in the area, Haragi said, without confirming the date of his death. No independent confirmation of the death was available.
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the United States could not yet independently confirm Khamis’ death but said similar information was being received in Washington from “reliable sources.”
Read more:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/...
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
“What’s coming ahead is going to be tough, but at least for once in over four decades Libyans can direct their gaze forward.”
Wikipedia: “Khamis Gaddafi, son of Libyan dictator. Died on 27 Feb, 6, 21, 26 March, 15, 21, 30 April, 5 May and 29 Aug 2011” via @afelyun
Noit
WOW!
That makes 9!
Does that make him a zombie now?
acarvin Andy Carvin
Same source, same lack of evidence. “@KathrynHallPR: In this CNN report they’ve buried Khamis! (pics??) bit.ly/p9uyXL”
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
100% behind the Algerian revolution, Lets go again! May #Sep17 be Algeria’s #feb17! #Libya #Algeria
Darreg
I have verified that al_jamahiriya, claiming to tweet out of the Tripoli is in the Uk.
david_bachmann_:
advice for surviving in #Libya: believe only what u see with your own eyes
janeikelboom Jan Eikelboom
Overigens: ik heb de Libiërs ervaren als ongelofelijk aardige en gastvrije mensen #datwildeiknogevenkwijt
CEO Danya
(LOL at “almost”) #NTC has “almost certain information” that Gaddafi’s intelliegence chief (Abdullah Senussi) was killed on Saturday. NTC spokesman tells – Al Arabiya.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Luckily, it was just another cell that had another door from the back of the building. Phew! yfrog.com/mnr3euaj
BREAKING: A Cease fire has been agreed on the Sirte frontilne for two days because of Eid
عاجل : مفاوضات لاجل وقف إطلاق نار على جبهة سرت سيتم لمدة يومين بسبب العيد
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
#Tripoli: Please call “1616” for any info about services in Tripoli,
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: AJ: FFs a call was made/recieved to Gaddafi in Tripoli عاجل: التوار رصدوا اليوم مكالمة للقذافي من طرابلس
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Mass murder Crime in Khums: 2 containers found in Barkow area, full with burnt bodies after executed by gunshots
richardengelnbc Richard Engel
#Tripoli, People coming up and thanking foreigners for NATO’s help, very welcoming
Hayat
#Gaddafi thugs are STILL in #Tripoli burning down every public institution containing important documents of ppl-that’s for being merciful.
Sky’s security editor Sam Kiley
If the battle for Sirte comes down to street-to-street fighting, it is possible that the local population will take up arms themselves.
SKY NEWS
Rebels: Gaddafi’s Son ‘Killed In Air Strike’
Rebel commanders say one of Colonel Gaddafi’s most feared sons has been killed in an air strike 60km away from Tripoli – as it emerges other members of the dictator’s family have fled to Algeria.
Khamis Gaddafi is said to have been in an armoured Toyota Land Cruiser when it was reportedly blasted off the road by a missile apparently launched from a Nato Apache helicopter.
Sky’s chief correspondent Stuart Ramsa said a man claiming to be Khamis’ bodyguard confirmed that he had died in the vehicle, part of a convoy in Tarunah, southeast of the capital.
The explosion incinerated the 4×4 and was so intense it set nearby trees on fire, Ramsay reports.
A senior rebel officer in Tripoli said Khamis had been badly wounded and taken to hospital, where he died of his wounds
Read more and watch video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
SMILE:
FreeLibyan
When #Gaddafi 1st came to power in 1969, the age of #Obama, #Cameron & #Sarkosy was 8, 3, 14 years respectively. D:.
LibyaNewMedia
Seems revolutionaries are too busy celebrating while Gaddafi’s brainwashed thugs are preparing to kill more people.
WAPO
Libyan opposition leaders rule out major role for foreign peacekeepers; U.N. shifts planning
Libya’s opposition leaders have ruled out any major role for foreign peacekeepers in the country after the fall of Moammar Gaddafi, insisting that a new transitional government will take the lead in establishing security, according to top U.N. Officials.
More here:
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint...
libertad
2011 à Tripoli Aïd al-Fitr est l’Aïd de la Victoire #Libye #Algerie #Tunisie
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Mothers and kids all out buying toys and clothes for Eid. #libya #tripoli
AJA BREAKING: FFs confirm they tracked a phone call for #Gaddafi this morning in #Tripoli. #Libya
Raw Video: Rebels Capture Gadhafi Loyalists
Dramatic footage filmed on the road to Sirte on Monday showed rebel fighters capturing two suspected Moammar Gadhafi loyalists (Aug. 29).
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO33mRy1P90&fea...
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
We made it to Tarhuna today – around 80km south of Tripoli. Saw remains of 2 Khamis brigade trucks & armoured land cruiser struck by NATO
Libiya el Haqiqiya
Jaballa Matar from Ajdabiya has been in prison n Tripoli since 21 yrs. He is still missing. Anybody who has any info plz let us know!
FromJoanne Joanne
This year people of #Libya got an Eid present what no money can buy FREEDOM Power water and communications r still cut but every1 is happy
This year people of #Libya got an Eid present what no money can buy FREEDOM Power water and communications r still cut but every1 is happy
Ava
my contact says they r sure both senoussi&khamis were attacked & injured by tarhuna ffs &then died in baniwalled
ya and I heard seif al islam and saadi escaped to baniwaleed I am not sure if they were harmed
WHERE ON EARTH IS MOUSSA KOUSSA? I SAY GET HIS MURDEROUS ASS BACK 2 #libya AND MAKE HIM PAY 4 HIS CRIMES + HE MIGHT KNOW SOMETHING #feb17
Seraj
Guards told prisoners on September 1st they’d all be executed… wow, that was GOOD luck they got out.
Gaddafi forces using human shields, Libya rebels claim gu.com/p/3xg5v/tw via @guardian
Ali Tweel
Happy eid everyone, we say here: Kul Aam Wa Antum Bekhair :) and yes we made the crazy family escape like (…..) put here what suits you ;)
Via Shabab
Rebels believe Gaddafi intelligence chief is dead
CAIRO- Libyan rebels have “almost certain” information that Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi was killed on Saturday along with Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis, rebel military spokesman Ahmed Bani told Al Arabiya television on Monday.
A senior rebel commander had earlier reported that Khamis had died from wounds suffered in fighting.
“We have almost certain information that Khamis Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi were killed on Saturday by a unit of the national liberation army during clashes in Tarhouna (90 km southeast of Tripoli). Khamis Gaddafi was buried in Bani Walid,” Bani told the pan-Arab channel.
shabablibya.org/news/rebels-believe-gad...
Q:
are you sure nato struck the convey in tarhuna, i heard it was freedom fighters. can u ask if abdallah senoussi was hit
A:
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
99% sure it was NATO – no sign of fighting. Car had back end splayed out suggesting apache missile, trucks hit from above
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
The local rebel Colonel claims to have captured Khamis’ bodyguard, who has said his boss was in the car that was destroyed. #Libya
Better PIC: Land Cruiser #FF claim was carrying #Khamis twitpic.com/6db0uu v @Tom_Rayner
dovenews Libyan™
Alrachad Algerian movement: The latest explosion in Algeria was planned by the Algerian gov & generals, not Islamist groups as gov claimed
Alrachad Algerian movement: the reason for the explosion is to blame #FF & 2 say Libya is unsafe & weapons R reaching #AlQaeda in #Algeria
#Misrata: “Whoever helped kill Libyans will never lead us” guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug… @NTC_of_Libya
TIME: Why Is Much of Africa Giving #Libya’s Rebels the Cold Shoulder? goo.gl/tg9b3 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
HRW: #Libya: Evidence Suggests #Khamis Brigade Killed 45 Detainees goo.gl/w3TYu #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Reuters: Joy and tears as Eid arrives in post- #Gaddafi #Libya goo.gl/RD7Ts #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
We made it to Tarhuna today – around 80km south of Tripoli. Saw remains of 2 Khamis brigade trucks & armoured land cruiser struck by NATO
Mood in Tarhuna is odd – there are rebel flags & a checkpoint, but also lots of Green flags & residents who didn’t look very happy to see us
Man from mosque said people of Tarhuna were getting along, even if some still prefer Gaddafi – said they’re happy to have 2 flags for now.
AJA: Fierce clashes rage on in #Sebha as they fight to liberate their city. #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Interstingly many cells have prisoners from supposedly loyal cities, Beni Walid & Sabha. pic.twitter.com/d4OZksl
Some found refuge in painting on the walls. Poor souls. pic.twitter.com/5FAzjTf
Bani Walid prisoner and another poem :) pic.twitter.com/XNaCiN1
Poem: Your absence hurt my eyes and killed them. Set up funeral tents,and give my condolences to her family. pic.twitter.com/iFDrxFy
Prisoners made their own stuff: a praying beads and a spoon. pic.twitter.com/TRfZUjX
Really crying now as I try to translate the poem. He must have missed his loved ones dearly. I wonder how old was the poet?
It was from the political prison of Ain Zara.
We opened a door and then we found…. a wall! pic.twitter.com/FAbGFZC
Trying to break into the hidden room to see if there is any thing… yfrog.com/khhisxlj
Luckily, it was just another cell that had another door from the back of the building. Phew! yfrog.com/mnr3euaj
Just to go into a happier mood. Here is Dr Evil’s portrait on a wall, in Znata, Tripoli pic.twitter.com/NJ2fT0w
And this is ABOSHAFSHOOFA, for non-Libyans, this is Gaddafi. pic.twitter.com/AFvzhDO
The FF are protecting the prison right now, and will go back tomorrow to help them collect all documents and transfer them to TNC.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Khamis #Gaddafi reported killed again, this time in clashes in Southern Libya. And he will be buried for perhaps the 5th time. – #Libya
#Saudi Arabia has announced it will celebrate #Eid al-Fitr on Tuesday, August 30 – Not on Gaddafi’s so called Fatah day – Thank God
libyatv Libya TV
Gaddafi wife and three children in #Algeria | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/08/29/gad… #libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
- AlJufra reported to have been liberated by #Freedomfighters according to #Zintan FB page.
#Khamis #Gaddafi has been buried in #Zlitan after kill by #UK #Nato apache helo
G SAFE PASSAGE OFFERED BY ALGERIA:
#Algiers has offered safe passage to the #Gaddafi family to a third country. RT via @tunanymous404
Urgent – Alger a offert un passage à la famille de Kadhafi pour un pays tiers (rébellion libyenne)
IMPORTANT:
Michael
Chief of Tripoli Prisons: Abdusalam Hmouda, Tripoli, lives Bin Ahsur area close to Mothaleth Market.Ordered to execute prisoners
Chief of Tripoli Prisons: Abdusalam Hmouda, Tripoli, lives Bin Ahsur area close to Mothaleth Market.Ordered to execute prisoners
Arem Nagaa, Tripoli Double Agent working for both NTC Intel asset and Gadafi. Was used to feed false information to Gadafi Regime.
Capture of Abdulsalam Hmouda would get information on where hidden prisoners are. Priority! Prison HQ files need searching too.
alextomo alex thomson
New Reconstruction Minister tells me Gadd forces have cut the water miles inland. #c4news #libya
acarvin Andy Carvin
I think Saleh has accepted the GCC proposal about as many times as Khamis Gaddafi has died. #losingcount #yemen #libya
4Adam Adam
AJA- caller fr Sirte, there’s been no negotiation btwn elders of city & NTC. People beleive Tripoli is still under Gaddafi control
Libya’s Ex-Prisoners Finding Their Way Home | n.pr/nqEXI0 #npr #Libya #Tripoli
(AP) – The Obama administration has asked NTC to review the case of Lockerbie bomber.
Does anyone understand this tweet?
Sarah can you be a bit more clear in your question plz?
You’re the CNN journo:)
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
CNN reporting Hannibal Qadhafi is in Alergia. Wonder if there is anyone else with in?
4Adam Adam
NATO was v active in the area of Tarhoun and Beniwalid, just wondering how the Gaddafi family escaped safely to Algeria! was there any deal!
richardengelnbc Richard Engel
by the way, my apt in new york lost hot water. where i’m staying in tripoli never did (just saying)
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
In Abu Slim Tripoli, one of last districts to fall here, some buildings still smouldering, tension also still palpable #Libya
SUMMARY AUGUST 30th 2011
8/30/11
8.30.11
NATO
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/5×4uB
Tripoli_Latest Niz – Nizar Mhani
100+ Chicken+rice meal distributed to hospitals and freedom fighters and refugees in Tripoli.There is no shortage of food for all.. #Tripoli
Martyrs Square full of peaceful unarmed rejoicing families! #Tripoli
will provide videos of the Square soon…. #Tripoli
More DEAD #TripoliPrisoners found 2day – at same #Khamis HQ as burnt bodies – more may be buried in HQ grounds. #Libya edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Reports of #NATO jets over head as of 15 minutes ago.
AJA: Fierce clashes rage on in #Sebha as they fight to liberate their city.
dovenews Libyan™
Unquestionably, Libyans support the NTC. That doesn’t mean they support all actions the NTC takes.
Libya In Me
Dear Algeria, I am really hating you right now. Sincerely, a Libyan citizen.
Noit
Don’t blame the Algerian population, blame the Algerian government!
Contra
Dear #Algerian Gov & #Gaddafi sympathizers, I’m also really hating you right now. Hope your fate is worst than Gaddafi’s
BentBenghazi G
I just want to clarify: Libyans HATE the Algerian govt, we have nothing against its ppl:) I love my Algerian friends
Libya In Me
LOL three people unfollowed me when I tweeted that, I thought it was obvious it’s the gov’t not the people _’
HOLD MY HAND:
Eid mubarak to my twitter family…I dedicate this song to you www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohumOy6Py0M...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohumOy6Py0M
Sirtawi
In a new speech via #Sirte local radio, Gaddafi calls upon locals to fight till the end and threatens anyone who leaves the city.
this is broadcast via large screen mid city.
TBC: A group of Anti-Gaddafi locals from #Sirte managed to flee the city reaching #FFs at western front line, telling of crisis in city.
#FF Milt source says Ahmed Ibrahim is the one in charge of military operations inside #Sirte, preventing #FF from entering the city. #Feb17
AHMED IBRAHIM / SIRTE:
Ahmed Ibrahim, now head of military operations in Sirte: PIC
goo.gl/10T6p
WELL WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
It’s all in the family!
Yes, Ahmed Ibrahim is Moussa Ibrahim’s uncle.
THE ONE AND ONLY ORIGINAL ADDAMS FAMILY:
Nightmares, anyone?
Gaddafi’s wife, son and daughter photo:
goo.gl/HShPp
MORE YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW:
LibyanPilot
Ahmed ibrahim, Musa’s uncle was head of centre for research in the green book
Iulia
In other words an Idiot
Ahmed Ibrahim al guhsi al gaddafi is refusing to enter peace talks. Wants to fight until last G loyalist. Even tho sme elders wana end it
Ahmed ibrahim is now head of the Gaddafi loyalist resistance in Sirte
So ahmed ibrahim, Musa ibrahim’s uncle was head of centre for research and study in the green book
MORE THREATS
Source from #Sirte on AJA earlier: People in #Sirte threatened to be killed by regime in front of their families if they joined #FF #Feb17
DougSaunders Doug Saunders
Now that it’s allowed the Gaddafis to flee across its Libyan border, Algeria has decided to close it to anyone else. is.gd/JL2C9t
Did you ask how much they charged for that?
feb17voices: AJA: the road from #Tripoli to #Ras Jidr is secured. #Libya.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Yes we came along it today, no problem. RT @feb17voices: AJA: the road from #Tripoli to #Ras Jidr is secured. #Libya.
taimur_ly تيمور عبد العزيز
Hey guys, I just created this movie poster about #gaddafi .. I hope you will like it :) twitpic.com/6dbdbb #libya #funney
MyFreeLibya Rubicon
Eid Sa3eed ya tweeps! #Eid #Libya #ArabSpring
LibyaNewMedia
How much of the Libyan people’s gold will Algerian generals receive for protecting the master of murder, torture & rape?
Michael
Gadafi drivers were seen and reported in Ghat 4 days ago. Sure enough, it was the escape route into Algeria.
WldSougAlJumaa
#EidMubarek to Muslims around the world. #Libya ’s first real Eid. Alhamdulla. Wish everyone happiness
Khalid Khan
Libya: destruction in Zuwara twitpic.com/6dbccr twitpic.com/6dbceu twitpic.com/6dbcf3 western Libya
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Rebels climb the gate of Tarhuna as the first rebel colours are painted on lamp posts and walls #Libya twitpic.com/6db3hn
Hayat
Dear #ArabNations There’s really absolutely #nothingwrongwith that sudden urge to topple your corrupt governement-Go for it #ArabRevolutions
Ibn
#Tripoli Medical Center flying the new flag. #Libya #Feb17 yfrog.com/h47fycej
Marc_Herman_ Marc Herman
Elders visiting pro-qaddafi neighbors in Gorji, Tripoli neighborhood where I am, to ask for peaceful surrender of arms. So far it’s worked.
Omar
Algerians reading Libyan tweets and becoming upset over this, you must understand our anger is directed at ur gov not you , eid mubarak
FreeBenghazi
#Bouteflika & military junta will be facing the #Algeria’n & #Libya’n ppl, Sep17. This isn’t over.
Ibn
btwwwwwww #EIDMUBARAK WORLD! :D
#Sirte Poet detained earlier in this revolution for defying regime is now free #Tripoli. PIC Agila Khalifa Ferjani facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
Eid mubarak and much love twitter fam!
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
OppContact: some fighters in #Misrata threatened to stop fighting in Sirte over Shakal appointment. unspecified number
Hanan
Video: Martyrs’ Square – People of #Tripoli sing “We remain here” bit.ly/olBxIR #libya
Niz_FGM Niz
Will be revealing what happened to us in weeks leading up to zero hour to cause us to “disappear” & pretend to be in Tunis..watch this space
#Tripoli food distribution by FGMovement…. youtube.com/watch?v=mLMfRr…
Martyrs Square today… www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o-JkN7usj4
kosovo
5 SERBS mercen in ZINTAN for sure killed hundreds of FF.youtube.com/watch?v=W2l7QC…
BREAKING: #Colonel #Gaddafi’s son #Khamis’ bodyguard tells #Sky News that Gaddafi was in Tripoli until Friday
BREAKING: #Colonel #Gaddafi’s son #Khamis’ bodyguard tells #Sky News that Gaddafi was last seen heading south towards #Sabha
BREAKING: News conference LIVE with Musatafa Jalil!
BREAKING: We will have cease fire on the #Sirte frontline until #Saturday!
BREAKING: Mustafa Jalil: There will be no need anymore for Police officers from #Muslim and #Arab countries.
BREAKING : NTC chief asks Libyan rebels to withdraw heavy weapons from the streets of Tripoli
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil: #Algeria is only a transit for Gaddafi’s family before they travel to another country. #Libya
NTC sets Saturday ultimatum for Sirte
The NTC gave Gaddafi forces a four-day deadline to surrender towns still under their control or face military force.
As the hunt for Gaddafi himself goes on, Libyan officials accused neighbouring Algeria of an act of aggression for admitting his fleeing wife and three of his children.
Algeria’s Foreign Ministry said Gaddafi’s wife Safi, his daughter Aisha and his sons Hannibal and Mohammed had entered Algeria on yesterday, along with their children.
That stirred a diplomatic row just as the NTC works to consolidate its authority and capture places still loyal to Gaddafi, notably the coastal city of Sirte.
“By Saturday, if there are no peaceful indications for implementing this we will decide this matter militarily. We do not wish to do so but we cannot wait longer,” Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the NTC, told a news conference.
Anti-Gaddafi forces have converged on Sirte from east and west, but have stopped short of an all-out assault in hopes of arranging a negotiated surrender of Gaddafi’s birth-place.
Gaddafi has been on the run since his foes captured his Tripoli compound on Aug. 23 and his 42-year-old dictatorship collapsed after a six-month uprising backed by NATO and some Arab states.
Alex
DAVID ROBERTS IN LINE 4 £500.000 FROM #Gaddafi – He said after #ZAWIYA siege “no evidence” #Gaddafi bombarded its people – on behalf of a fictitious group opposing @NATO and #UN – “BRITISH CIVILIANS FOR PEACE”
INFO FROM #Libya PM list sezied by #FF – cant wait to see #Saif ’s list.
“The proposal to pay groups for spreading Libya’s message also identifies seven foreigners that the regime was hoping to pay £500,000 for undertaking fact-finding missions in Tripoli, including David Roberts, a Socialist Labour Party activist, and British resident Mohammad Elhaddad.
Mr Roberts led a British Civilians For Peace in Libya mission to Tripoli in April during which he told the press that there was “no evidence” that the regime had bombarded
its own people to quell protests in the capital.
Mr Roberts could not be reached for comment yesterday. The overall budget for the political and public relations campaign was set at €10 million (£8.8 million), to be allotted from a sanctions-breaking bank account ultimately controlled by the regime’s henchmen. Its activities were to take place in Britain, France and America."
TELEGRAPH:
shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-regime-ha...
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC says it’s identified a #Gaddafi prison employee suspected of knowledge of #Tripoli’s secret underground prisons.Search now on #Libya
Libya’s fighters advance toward Sirte
Libya’s revolutionary fighters have already taken Tripoli, now they are heading to the bastion of Muammar Gaddafi support, the Libyan leaders hometown of Sirte.
Sirte is one of the last strongholds for Gaddafi loyalists. As fighters advance West their convoys grow longer.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from right outside the town of Nawfilyah in Libya.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=32zbWBgVRsY&fea...
CNN
Libya’s National Transitional Council holds briefing on the state of the country. Live: on.cnn.com/cnndcl1
Libya In Me
FUN Read: "Pass notes NO 3,035: Mustafa Abdul Jalil guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug… #Libya
“The museum… was a microcosm of the extraordinary revolutionary drama played out in Libya over the past two weeks”
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/a...
Aisha
I’m getting sick of #Gaddafi criminals playing the victim card..They rape ,kill & murder & then claim they were forced , raped, beaten…etc
MyFreeLibya Rubicon
Just came from Eid Prayer! Feel soo high…All Qataris said to pray the next one in Libya together! #AllahAkbur #El7amdulilahAllah
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
I should say, this eid is bitter sweet. We will never forget the loved ones we lost whom we owe our freedom for all eternity. #Libya
Nusiba
My dad’s cousin who was in AbuSalim for 6 years arrived in #Benghazi yesterday al7amdulilah.
4Adam Adam
Tripoli – Waterfront Park twitpic.com/6df2tc/full #Libya
Sirtawi
Many G-Loyalists fled 2 #Sirte at beginning of Rev, security’s been quickly enforced there as unrest spread across #Libya
therefore, #Sirte’s become packed with security officials, Milt forces etc & was made spring board for operations..
ive2Tripoli
As I tweet right now. I keep having to remind myself we’re in #Tripoli! Finally did it! #AllahuAkbar Thank god!
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
Eid mubarak to all my followers! Allahu akbar! The first Eid of a free #Libya!
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
What we suspected and now know: #Gaddafi recorded 30 million mins of private phone conversations a month. #Libya online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
Firms Aided Libyan Spies on.wsj.com/okvM8x via @WSJ
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
What happened to all those pictures of Muammar that used to have pride of place on office walls of key officials? yfrog.com/mn45mwj
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Why are the russians so against Libyan Revolution? Russia Biz TV suggests they will lose $10Bn of contracts
Khalifa
Celebratory gunfire!! The only person having fun is the one doing the firing, everybody else is basically running for cover.
We count on our brothers and sisters in #Algeria to start their revolution #Sep17.
Libyana was is up and running in #Nefusa. Phone calls in #Gadhafi yrs lasted 5 minutes at best, today I was on the phone for 2 hours.
i never thought family members in #Libya can talk this much.
Tripoli celebrating and no “celebratory” gunfire AWESOME www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLpIvLfwq34&fea...!
Or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLpIvLfwq34&fea...
BBC:
ليبيا : من داخل مقر الأمن الداخلى للعقيد القذافي
misratapost Mon 29/08/2011
BBC — Libya:
Inside Col Gaddafi’s homeland security Headquarter
ليبيا : من داخل مقر الأمن الداخلى للعقيد القذافي
29 August 2011 — As forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi retreat from Tripoli, they have left a trail of evidence about how his regime operated.
The BBC’s Orla Guerin gained access to Col Gaddafi’s homeland security headquarters and found hundreds of secret files. www.facebook.com/misratapost
www.facebook.com/pages/misratapostcom/2...
Libya Libyan Tripoli Misrata Misurata Zintan Zawia Benghazi youth revolution, the rebels February 17 NATO alliance now free dialogue France Saadi Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam rebels Misurata Ras Abu Salim corner Lanuf head Brega Alzentan door Azizia Benghazi mercenaries bin and hand Tunisia syria algaddafi qaddafi
ليبيا حرة بنغازى البيضاء البريقه مصراته الزاويه طبرق اجدابيا الزنتان ترهونه ورفله نالوت تجى القلعة الرحيبات يفرن غريان درنة المرج الخمس زليتن طرابلس سرت سبها غات الركدالين البريقه هون الجفرة تاجوراء زوارة العجيلات صرمان صبراته مسلاته بن جواد راس نالوف غدامس الكفرة شباب الاحرار ليبيا ليبيا المجاهدة ثورة 17فبراير ثورة عمر المختار
ليبيا الشبابية الجماهيرية الليبية الثوار ثورة 17 فبراير الناتو التحالف الآن الحرة الحوار فرنسا الساعدي سيف الإسلام القذافي المتمردين مصراته الزاوية أبوسليم طرابلس رأس البريقة الزنتان باب العزيزية بنغازي مرتزقه بن واليد تونس مصر سوريا
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTKTPDrELjw&fea...
OmarAmer
Sirte update: today many locals managed to escape via western gates they told of a dire situation in the town, elec still cut and also.
They confirmed the presence of Mu’tasam al gaddafi as well as Ali al kelani. They said many 5th column and soldiers for G escaped the.
Liberated parts of the country and are there now. Also said many many mercenaries, and are now more than ppl on the streets
Gaddafi made another radio broadcast to Sirte telling them to fight on to the last man, victory is close and threatened anyone who leaves
Also the town of #Sirte will be the only place in #Libya that will be celebrating Eid tomorrow
And finally, the ntc have asked the Libyan National Army in the East to exercise full restraint when they enter #Sirte
So glad we have #Egypt and #tunisia as neighbours, wouldn’t swap you guys for anyone else lool. :p
www.facebook.com/Algeria.September17 انتفاضة 17 سبتمبر 2011-لنجعله يوم للغضب في الجزائر Algerian day of anger Sept 17 :o #Algeria
Ok there isn’t much point sleeping now. only an hour until eid prayer :s
The Libyan pilots successfully flew 3 aircraft out of Tripoli and into Benina Benghazi airport
As I understand it, Libyan Airlines will initially begin flights out of Benghazi as the Libyan capital is still being made secure
the NFZ is for Gaddafi and his loyalists, it will be removed in the coming days InshAllah
WARNING, this clip is disturbing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMHcgaSx-kg man… la ilaha ilaAllah. #Libya #Sirte
8am and i’m still up, salat al eid in 30 mins lol RT @LibyanGirlyGirl 10:00AM.. and I’m still up
AJE reports that a battalion from the Libyan National Army are heading south, it seems they will attack Sirte from 3 sides, #Libya #Sirte
Ammar
Was yesterday at Bab Al Aziziya compound where I found amazing pictures of Aisha, posing in various ‘model’ attitude… #Tripoli #Libya
I’ll put them on Facebook soon, when I’ll have a better internet line… And of course I’ll offer them to magazines… ;-)
There are many roadblocks in #Tripoli but after noon only… In the morning, the young rebels controlling the city are all sleeping
Official Algerian source announces Aisha Gaddafi just gave birth to a baby girl… will she call her ‘Facebook’ ??
Aisha Gaddafi’s baby girl named Safiya, like Aisha’s mother
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tripoli: Many Pro Gaddafi supporters who took part in killings, check points & have weapons still not been detained. Worrying #feb17
Tripoli streets & buildings strewn with #feb17 graffiti & Independence flags. Celebratory fire decreasing. Smiles & Joy all round #Libya
Tripoli: Police are returning to the streets. Just saw two officers directing traffic near Martyr Square in Al Wady street
Situation in Tripoli constantly improving. Even the internet is fast today. Mobile connection is improving too
Eid in Libya is on Wednesday. Eid Mubarak all
Tripoli services now run by the Feb17 coalition of Tripoli headed by AbdelRazaq
BuHajar. Group coordinated zero hour in Tripoli
Feb17 coalition of Tripoli headed by AbdelRazaq BuHajar is acting Tripoli local council from Beladia building in Beladia St
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
no elec in #RasLanuf. fighters & doctors had iftar in the twilight. now every1 seeped in the dark. #onroadtosirte
the highway of war is v. different this time. less fighters, more organised, no shooting in the air constantly #onroadtosirte
but 6 months have taken a toll. several kms of trash thrown by the side of the road near #Ajdabiya.#onroadtosirte
Tankers in #Brega & #Raslanuf on fire. thick black smoke. v. few civilians. #Libya #onroadtosirte
most fighters think G in #Sirte but many raised #BaniWalid as another option. but no one really know. #onroadtosirte
fighters asking me if today is Eid. With no comms or electricity nobody here knows. #onroadtosirte #libya
just saw 2 pick up vehicles with stickers stating " revolutionary brigade of Sirte" – #onroadtosirte
rebel tanks moving west towards #Sirte. been asked to return to #nawfallia, told about light clashes near Harawa.#onroadtosirte
The torture of prisoners www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeMXdeV4jdE&fea... via – youtu.be/3saxpWeZQ3w
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3saxpWeZQ3w&fea...
fieldproducer Neal Mann
At Wadi al Humra rebels sending scouting teams forward to check position of Gaddafi forces, they say there were NATO strikes over night
We were at Wadi al Humra late yesterday with a rebel forward recon team quite quickly we were targetted by shelling & pulled back
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
AJA- caller fr Sirte, there’s been no negotiation btwn elders of city & NTC. People beleive Tripoli is still under Gaddafi control
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
pdanahar Paul Danahar
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil says #Gaddafi supporters in #Sirte have until after Eid ie Saturday to give up.
Irish Times
Irish-Libyan rebel leader says securing Tripoli a six-week task
THE IRISH-LIBYAN who led the main rebel brigade into Tripoli estimates it will take at least six weeks to ensure full control over the city.
Mahdi al-Harati, a teacher of Arabic who lives in Dublin with his Irish-born wife and family, was last week appointed deputy leader of Tripoli’s military council, a body which hopes to merge all rebel units into one national army.
“Most of Tripoli is now under our control, but parts are in chaos. I would say 90 per cent is under control, militarily, and the remainder is made up of pockets of resistance from Gadafy loyalists,” he told The Irish Times . “Every day we work on sweeping the city, area after area.”
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This is a must read OUR NIZ:
WAPO
Hunted by regime, Tripoli activist kept flame of protest burning
The Libyan government had shut down access to the Internet when the uprising began, but his 26-year-old cousin, Mukhtar Mhani, was a government IT expert. He said he hacked into the government’s still-functioning intranet system and used it to access a government satellite dish to transmit messages of protest to the outside world.
Within a few weeks, though, as their acts of defiance got play on television stations around the world, members of the group realized that the regime would be looking for them and could potentially trace them through that intranet route. So, with their hearts in their mouths, they went to Mukhtar’s workplace, climbed to the roof and found a 1.8-meter satellite dish.
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danieljerivers
Shweyga is now in hospital at the burns unit in #Tripoli. We are exploring options to help further. #NannyInNeed
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil: No charges against Gaddafi’s family as yet however, they need to be questioned about their fortunes.
Pro-Gadhafi troops perched children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said in a report on Tuesday.
Gaddafi’s children: extravagant and ruthless
Muammar Gaddafi’s children earned reputations for extravagance, violence and dysfunctional behaviour that attracted almost as many hostile headlines as their eccentric and ruthless father.
For years, jealousy and greed had poisoned relations within the family, but as rebels challenged the Libyan ruling system, Gaddafi’s seven sons and one daughter closed ranks around their father, breaking off lives that in many cases had been lived abroad, sometimes in the harsh glare of publicity.
www.stuff.co.nz/world/5535885/Gaddafis-...
Khamis Qaddafi, leader of the feared Khamis Brigade, is leaving a trail of death and rumor across Libya.
Saif, the wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing “reformer” and outsider who spent most of his time in Europe
Mutassim, the sneering nationalist and regime insider once described as “a bloody man and not terribly bright.” www.theatlantic.com/international/archi...
Tank burns at Libya’s biggest oil terminal | Reuters reut.rs/plOoo5 via @reuters
hominoid555 not sayin
By giving the Gaddafi family refuge, Algeria’s gerontocracy is putting itself on the wrong side of history
Salehi invites Abdul Jalil to Iran – Politics – iloubnan.info www.iloubnan.info/politics/actualite/id... via @iloubnan
The Philippines recognizes the National Transitional Council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people www.isria.com/pages/30_August_2011_79.php
Nasr
People close 2Aisha #Gaddafi say she has a huge amount of gold including 24k bullions she smuggled to #Algeria bribing senior Algerians
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Nato: Main focus of Libya operations for Nato is an area on eastern edge of Sirte
cnni CNN International
Burned Gadhafi nanny in hospital goo.gl/fb/7qwPo
SmithInAfrica David Smith
No hint of trouble on night ride from Tripoli to Misrata. All traces of Gaddafi wiped out except green street lights. Hotels full or grim.
Saw Niz Mahani of Free Generation Movement erect martyrs wall in Green Square. First face on there is his cousin Solomon, killed aged 19.
Niz Mahani: We’re going to try to demilitarise Martyrs Square (Green Square) and use TV ads to persuade people to stop firing into the air.
hominoid555 not sayin
Libya conflict: David Cameron chairs national security council meeting, oops someone else going to get 4 years for expressing himself on FB
Roundup: Libyan rebels give Gadhafi loyalists an ultimatum, that’s a good idea weed killer should do the job !
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
many fighters also moving towards the south through newly liberated Nawfallia. residents cheering them as heroes.#onroadtosirte
Ibn
last year #libyans fear #gaddafi. this year #gaddafi fears libyans. i <3 2011. #libya
Joy and tears as Eid arrives in post-Gaddafi Libya
The first Eid al-Fitr, (the great feast that closes the Muslim holy month of Ramadan), celebrated by Libyans after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi is marked by a shortage of everything from water to money.
Yet nothing seems able to spoil the celebration of freedom — what the people of Tripoli are calling the Eid of Victory.
After almost 42 years of Gaddafi’s rule, this Eid will live in Libyans’ memory.
“Every year we celebrate Eid with new clothes, big meals and home-made sweets. There are shortages this year. But we have managed so far. Thank God this Eid has a special flavour. This Eid we have freedom,” said Adel Kashad, 47, a computer science engineer in an oil company.
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Salma
#Libya will not descend into anarchy. Tribes will not battle each other. #Benghazi and #Tripoli will not divide. #shutupalready
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Hugo Chavez says that TV pictures of rebels taking over the Green Square were made-up scenes filmed in Qatar with actors
LNA soldiers who patrolling and protecting the airport area arrested looters www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1493... #Libya #Tripoli
Man escapes Tripoli disguised as curtains. lockerz.com/s/133762719
Misrata FF storming Yarmouk camp (Headquarters of the 32th brigade) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNH3Jj3Q3H4 #Libya #Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
by FunGuerillaz
Mustafa AbdulJalil (NTC leader) has issued a few important orders today: 1) All heavy weapons must be pulled out of Tripoli
Mustafa AbdulJalil: 2) All freedom fighters that came from outside Tripoli are to be stationed at the city’s outskirts
Mustafa AbdulJalil: 3) All non-FF weapons will be confiscated. Only NLA/registered FF will be allowed to carry weapons in #Tripoli
Mustafa AbdulJalil: 4) Celebratory shooting must stop immediately. It has caused too many accidental deaths. Weapons will be confiscated
From a Facebook group where Libyans are sharing designs for the new #Libya passport: yfrog.com/j2c1kaj http://yfrog.com/mea7azj
4Adam Adam
Madena Qadema Entrance (Suq al Mushir) Tripoli #Libya twitpic.com/6dfgze/full
Libyan carpets and tradition stuff in Madena al Qadema twitpic.com/6dfivs Tripoli #Libya
So Libyan!! Just about everything … twitpic.com/6dfjvw/full #Tripoli
Ahmed Basha Qaramanli Mosque near the Martyr Square twitpic.com/6dfl9k #Tripoli #Libya
Ahmed Basha Qaramanli Mosque near the Martyr Square twitpic.com/6dfm4s Tripoli #Libya
Ali Tweel
About 6 huge pickup trucks full of food and medics passed by my house now 1:19pm using there horns loudly as a celebration :)
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news #libya Hannibal Gaddafi’s nxtdr neighbr tells me how people got beaten to a pulp at his office
just back from inside Hannibal Gaddafi’s private dungeon at his office
Chez Gaddafi meets Gangsta’s Paradise bit.ly/rrncxc #c4news #libya
Michael
Libyan people would like to see justice done Hope Algeria helps extradite Gadafi trash back, in handcuffs..
Manager of Tripoli Medical Center complicit in many deaths. Cannot defend himself. Ask him where Hanna Gadafi is.
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news #libya EXCLUSIVE new govt says Brit cops “definitely” welcome to probe Y Fletcher case in Libya.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya announces the severance of diplomatic relations with #Algeria lanationdz.com/2011/08/29/urg… #Feb17
This may be a prelude to war. Earlier today Algeria closed the border & posted military
Also, the Algerian Freedom Fighters I’ve spoke with today are saying the people are NOT happy this is going on there
#Malta PASSENGER SHIP “SEAHORSE” now departing Malta for #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Moldova FERRY “FEHIM BEY” now approaching #Malta from #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
Libyana is working again in #Jabal #Nafusa. #Libya #Feb17
PLEASE RT: Sources in #Algeria tell me #Gaddafi family are currently in the #Tuareg town of #Djanet #Algeria (24°33′N 9°28′E). #Libya #Feb17
Press statement of the Islamic Salvation Front, about the #Gaddafi family in #Algeria www.algeriatimes.net/algerianews17716.h... #Libya #Feb17
Reports that a unit of #Freedomfighters of Southern #Libya are preparing on the move to cut roads into #Algeria. #Feb17
Confirmed: #Gaddafi family are currently in the #Tuareg town of #Djanet #Algeria (24°33′N 9°28′E). #Libya #Feb17
#Malta OIL TANKER “NORIENT STAR” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-30 07:00 (UTC). #Feb17
English LibyAa TV
NATO says Libya’s sides are talking in Sirte
NATO says Libya’s warring sides in the Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte are now engaged in “discussions.”
Col. Roland Lavoie also says NATO’s role will continue as long as civilians in the country are under threat, although the area around the capital Tripoli is now “essentially free.”
He spoke to reporters today near Naples, where NATO’s Libya’s operation is headquartered, and by video link to journalists in Brussels, as well.
NATO says does not know fate of Gaddafi’s son Khamis
NATO said today it did not know the fate of Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis, who was said by opponents of the deposed dictator to have been killed at the weekend.
“There are a lot allegations and rumours on Khamis. We don’t know,” NATO spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie, speaking from Naples, told a briefing.
Anti-Gaddafi forces trying to mop up Sirte and other strongholds of supporters of the deposed leader said Khamis Gaddafi and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi
had both been killed on Saturday.
Khamis had already been reported killed twice during the uprising.
Cyberwar: Gaddafi’s online mercenary army
Brandishing Kalashnikovs and bloodstained baseball caps, these were Libya’s revolutionaries. Men, young and old, fighting on the frontline to claim victory and liberation for the country they call home.
Social networking sites allowed pro-regime propagandists to spread global conspiracy theories in the comfort of their own home, without any scars or wounds of war. No combat experience, basic training or Libyan citizenship was required in the recruitment process for Gaddafi’s online army.
To coin the old saying “the first casualty in war is the truth” has been apparent in the airtime for Iran state television, Press TV and publicly funded Russian network, RT. These channels were the chosen platform for pro Gaddafi journalists to provide their independent dossiers- a biased eyewitness account to the situation inside Libya.
For instance, a young female journalist and male documentary filmmaker that RT and Press TV featured in their reporting made statements claiming that international media and the Libyan revolutionaries are “slaves to NATO and the Western colonialist Empire.” Further reports of the female journalist said her “sources were saying Gaddafi was in Green square and the revolutionaries did not have control of Tripoli as international media had reported.”
Further blog, Facebook posts and Youtube videos the female journalist broadcasted accused CNN, MI6 and the CIA of being assassins and have threatened to kill her while inside the Rixos hotel. After she broadcasted these messages online, her Facebook, Twitter and Blog were removed. What followed was an online uproar as her fans, Gaddafi loyalists, predominately non Libyan were furious her accounts were deleted.
In an ironic twist of events, the young lady, along with her pro Gaddafi Facebook friends begged the UK government to bring her back to English soil. Back to the very regime she, along with her fans so blatantly condemned.
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The Mirror
Colonel Gaddafi’s henchman threatened to rape American brain surgeon
An American brain surgeon who joined the rebel frontline in Libya told yesterday of his horrific torture ordeal at the hands of Colonel Gaddafi’s henchmen.
Libyan-born US citizen Rida – Mazagri and a friend were ambushed in March as they drove towards a conflict zone near Ajdabiya in Western Libya.
He told the Sunday Mirror: “They tied us up and threw us into the back of an army truck blindfolded.”
Father-of-four Rida was taken to a military camp in Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte – where one thug kicked him in the genitals before whipping his back with an electric flex – the first of many horrific beatings.
Fighting back tears, he recalled how another young soldier whispered in his ear: “My friends and I are going to rape you tonight.”
Full horrible story here:
feb17.info/news/colonel-gaddafis-henchm...
Via Feb17
AP
Libyan troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, “disappearances” and other war crimes that they said they found.
Physicians for Human Rights was able to get a team of interviewers into the embattled city of Misrata from June 5-12, just after Libyan rebel forces expelled Gadhafi’s loyalists.
Interviewing dozens of survivors of the two-month siege, the Boston-based PHR found widespread evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including summary slayings, hostage-taking, rapes, beatings, and use of mosques, schools and marketplaces as weapons depots.
Reuters
Police in Tripoli are overcoming fears they would not be welcomed by Libya’s new masters and are slowly returning to work, taking pains to distance themselves from ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi and win the public’s trust.
Visitors to one police station step on a rug featuring Gaddafi’s face and drivers roll over a poster of him at a checkpoint outside.
The district’s policemen on Monday spent their first day in uniform since Gaddafi’s overthrow. Senior officers had for days urged colleagues to return to work, through announcements at mosques and word of mouth.
The former Libyan leader had a formidable security apparatus that was notorious for its brutality.
The National Transitional Council, Libya’s new governing body, is hoping to avoid the same kind of lawlessness seen after the fall of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and want to co-opt Gaddafi-era policemen, not dismiss them.
AFP
Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha, who fled to Algeria with other family members, has given birth to a baby girl, Algerian authorities announced Tuesday.
“Aisha gave birth very early this morning. She had a little girl. Mother and daughter are doing fine,” said a government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Reuters
Police in Tripoli are overcoming fears they would not be welcomed by Libya’s new masters and are slowly returning to work, taking pains to distance themselves from ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi and win the public’s trust.The district’s policemen on Monday spent their first day in uniform since Gaddafi’s overthrow. Senior officers had for days urged colleagues to return to work, through announcements at mosques and word of mouth.
BREAKING: #NATO spokesman: #Libya job continues but ‘the #Tripoli region is essentially free’
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe expelled the Libyan ambassador and his staff on Tuesday for switching allegiance to Libya’s ruling interim council, the foreign minister said. President Robert Mugabe is a strong ally of deposed Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, who had signed several economic deals with Harare, including an agreement to supply fuel.
NTC
Libya’s interim government signed at least two contracts to buy French wheat using funds unfrozen in France earlier this month, four sources close to the deals said on Tuesday. France’s foreign ministry in early August said it would un-freeze $259 million of Libyan assets and place them at the disposal of Libya’s National Transition Council (NTC) to help the North African country recover from a six-month civil war.
“It’s part of two contracts that the NTC signed for wheat for about 60,000 tonnes each,” said a senior executive at French grains firm Soufflet, which won one of the deals. He added that these contracts were worth around $22 million each and that the other contract was granted to Nidera.
Hunt f
or Gaddafi: Saddam all over again?
Dictator Muammar Gaddafi is on the run, his capital all but fallen to revolutionaries, his hometown under siege.
Now comes another difficult task for the revolutionaries and the civilian government they are trying to install: capturing Gaddafi before the fugitive dictator is able to mount a revenge assault from hiding or inspire an insurgency that could drag on for years.
Gaddafi’s wife and three of his children fled Libya to neighboring Algeria yesterday. But the Obama administration said it has no indication Gaddafi has left the country.
As U.S. forces learned in the massive, months-long manhunt for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, intelligence will be key to finding him.
Thanks to NATO and its small cadre of military advisers on the ground in Libya, the revolutionaries will be able to draw on electronic clues known as signals intelligence, ranging from images from drones, spy planes and satellites to stolen transmissions from radio and phones — an advantage U.S. troops did not have in 2003 in Iraq, when the use of such equipment was in its infancy, and the intelligence not well shared with those on the ground.
Full art.:
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AP
Liberated inmates tell of ‘dark age’ under Gadhafi
When Said Abdullah arrived in Libya’s notorious Abu Salim prison in 1996, he said he was “welcomed with blows and torture” for membership in an Islamist group. He was held in a small cell with 12 others, no mattresses and one squat toilet they had to unblock with their hands.
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Eid Mubarek ~ كل عام وأنتم بخير
We would like to wish our readers and supporters around the world a happy and blessed Eid
As we enter into the Eid celebrations, we reflect on how special the past thirty days have been for Libya. The month of Ramadan has been a blessed one with much to remember.
With the help of God, revolutionaries liberated the Nafusa mountains in the early days of Ramadan, freedom next reached to Zawiya, and finally, with ease to our capital Tripoli.
We ask God to accept all of our fasting, prayers, and duaas, to accept our fallen heroes as shuhada, and to protect and liberate the people in the remaining occupied cities.
We hope you and your families can celebrate this joyous time with peace, comfort, and happiness in whatever part of the world or country you are from.
Happy Eid & God Bless,
Feb17.info
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
#Gaddafi’s former intelligence files should NOT be being looked through by journalists, or the public. Why can anyone just stroll in? #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
I wish NTC send African mercenaries back to Africa, but prevent them from entering Libya ever again. Take fingerprints and photographs.
Unconfirmed reports: “Armed Pro-G loyalist who took Bani Walid hostage and massacared the 13 peaceful protesters” are ready to surrender.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
El Watan: Algeria has closed borders with Libya. Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted? #LIBYA.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
At Wadi al Humra rebels sending scouting teams forward to check position of Gaddafi forces, they say there were NATO strikes over night
We were at Wadi al Humra late yesterday with a rebel forward recon team quite quickly we were targetted by shelling & pulled back
Pulled back slightly after advice from rebel recon party – then watched from a distance as number of shells landed close to where we were.
There appears to now be no formal front line between our location and Sirte, small number of rebel forces moving down the road
Have heard NATO planes over head again, rebels will probably have to wait for them to do their job before moving forward… #Libya
Tristan
Abdel Jalil #benghazi presser: essentially declares Eid ceasefire in #Libya. Assault on Sirte to begin again on saturday if no peace deal
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Another hot day in #Libya, we’re now a long way from any food supply – did a four and a half hour round trip to get food & water last night
Petrol is also hard to find, but still available if lucky from tankers about an hour back from the front
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
No more #Gaddafi, No more #Gaddafi , No more #Gaddafi … Happy Double Eid for everyone #Libya #Tripoli #Feb17 twitpic.com/6demy7
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NATO focuses Libya operations on Sirte shabablibya.org/?p=6268 #Libya #Sirte
Algeria: Gaddafi’s daughter gives birth shabablibya.org/news/algeria-gaddafis-d... #Libya
The NTC have given Gaddafi loyalists 4 days, which will include the 3 days of Eid starting tomorrow to surrender and embrace Free #Libya
Analysis: Security fears behind Algeria haven for Gaddafi family
Saad Djebbar, a UK-based Algerian lawyer who once advised Gaddafi’s government, said Algeria would be justified in allowing even Muammar Gaddafi himself to enter the country if that brought a swifter end to the fighting in Libya.
“If you allow Gaddafi to continue to be where he is, that means he could carry on his acts of sabotage or violent operations … to undermine security,” Djebbar said.
“But if he was in Algeria, the Algerians could control him … (prevent him) from him being active in the Libyan territory any more.”
Algeria will not be too troubled by adverse diplomatic reaction in the West because it has been in that position before.
Full art.:
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Ahmed Bani, NTC military spokesman: The people of Sirte want to join #Feb17 but Gaddafi loyalists are controlling the town #Libya #Sirte
kosovo
piggy gadafi is in SABHA.bunker 280m deep at airpot compound/protected by piggy Serbian army ..news24.com/Africa/News/Ga…
News24
Gaddafi reportedly in Sabha
London – Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is reported to have been in the capital Tripoli as late as last Friday and to have gone from there to the southern desert town of Sabha, Britain’s Sky News said on Tuesday, quoting a 17-year-old bodyguard of his son Khamis
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IMPORTANT:
NTC say 17 CROATS mercen. arrested/beware they are mainly SERBS mercenaries with false Croatioan passports
17 Croats among foreign mercenaries arrested in Tripoli
The member of the Libyan National Transitional Council in charge of justice, Mohammed al-Alagy, has said that there are a lot of foreigners among those arrested in Libya, including Croats.
“The prisoners are being treated well. Those who did not commit crimes will be released after questioning, while the rest will be tried,” al-Alagy said on Monday, adding that foreign mercenaries, including 17 Croats, had been arrested in Tripoli.
The Croatian Foreign Ministry told press on Tuesday it had received no official information that any Croatian nationals had been arrested. The ministry said it would ask the Libyan diplomatic mission in Zagreb whether any Croatian citizens had been arrested in Libya.
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Kosovo
5 SERBS mercenar in Z INTAN works for Private Security Company in Serbia sent in Lybia to help gadafi..www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2l7QC0-x4Q
a mother of one of them said he is working for Private Security company in Serbia and Company has sent him there
they lie saying having come to lybia 12 days ago..!!!!doing construction in the middle of the war……one might be crazy to believe
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Ahmed Bani also said those loyalists in Sirte who are putting up a fight are ‘stuck’ with the regime due to their crimes etc
Ahmed Bani, NTC Military spokesman says we want everyone to know, Zero hour is quickly approaching, the final battle is close Sirte
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Latest from military intelligence on #Gaddafi,"Definitely not in Sirte.He’s either in #Tripoli, Bani Walid or further south in the mountains
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Latest report from my BBC Team. Corr Paul Wood, Camera Tim Facey: bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
#Sirte radio station has been used to TX #Gaddafi broadcasts. Although this doesn’t necessarily mean he is there. could be tapes #Libya
Zimbabwe orders Libyan envoy to leave country for supporting rebels.
Daily News ZW says: Gaddafi is legitimate leader of #Libya
What we suspected and now know: #Gaddafi recorded 30 million mins of private phone conversations a month. #Libya online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111...
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi’s policing state, fortunately only air he couldn’t censor youtube.com/watch?v=oTKTPD… #Libya
Unconfirmed reports #Saif & #Saadi #Gaddafi are in #BaniWalead. ya aheel werfala entim wayin nudhoo yaser yaser gaddafi zawa alyah alshytan
Libya owns The Michelangelo Hotel in South Africa. www.lhw.com/Hotel/The-Michelangelo-Hote... NTC should sell all investments in S Africa
African U: Jean Ping Arrogantly said “black Libyans make 1/3 of the population & NTC thinks every black person is an African mercenary” 1/2
I say to Jean Ping we only have to look at your face to distinguish the difference. 2/2 #Libya
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil: Gaddafi still has capability to do damage, however, he can only operate in small radius.
NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil: No deal with Algeria to hand over criminals. #libya
Muatassim Gaddafi’s city underground, offices, hospital, hideaway, restaurant www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCDt9OEsQg&fea... #How #Rats #Live #MAZE
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCDt9OEsQg&fea...
The manager of #Tripoli #Medical #Center was arrested & trying 2 defend himself www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBfhXQTYK0&fea... #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Aug27 Muammar+Aysha Gaddafi ARRIVED in Salooncar @ #Khamis Compound in #TRIPOLI then changed in2 4×4 headed2 #SEBHA Khamis headed2 BaniWalid
#Gaddavi alive and well Hardcore #Libyans and some Aricans (as #Khamis young guard called them) are fighting in the Gaddafi Forces #Libya
17yr old Guard from of #Khamis on friday Gaddafi with #Aisha arrived in salooncar met with Khamis then left for #Sebha
#FLASH Aisha Gaddafi gave birth to a little monster baby girl in #Algeria
#BREAKING #Bodyguard tells @Skynews Gaddafi was Inside #Tripoli till Friday #Libya after that G met up with Sons and daughter then left
#NATO Officers says regions of #Sirte #BaniWalid south of and #Sebha further south are conflict area Batlles E of #Sirte reported #Libya
#TRIPOLI KristalinaGeorgieva,European commissioner 4AID says :EU Opened Humanitarian Office 2help distribute Medical +Emergency aid #Libya
Hunted by Gaddafi regime, #Tripoli activist 30 yr old dentist #NIZ Nizar Mhani kept flame of protest burning goo.gl/R06WT #Libya
#Nato has been bombing Targets in #Sirte fearing GF forces will target humanitarian Jets & Fire SCUDS onto Misrata or other towns #Libya
#Sirte + #Hun + #Bani Walid (where GF are massing) A whole range of GF targets were Bombed by #NATO yesterday and overnight Via @Skynews
Reports that Saadi #Gaddafi is detained in #Libya via Skynews
#MISRATA FF Refuse Accept #NTC Appointment of former Gaddafi ALLY Albarrani Shkal as #Tripoli Security Chief goo.gl/FPsqB
Liberty4Libya Free Libya Now
Wepond recovery programs have been established in Tripoli. Caution is high for suspected Gadafi terrorists looking to destabilize process.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Monday night in Tunis: Received a mobile phone call this evening from Kikla. Libyana is working again in Jabal #Nafusa. #Libya
Ava
well this time khamis is dead. was attacked in tarhuna and injured then died and buried in bani waleed maybe seoussi is dead 2
Libya – Capturing a symbol: a Misrata brigade has carried Gaddafi’s giant fist to their beach camp
Libya – The Libyan capital of Tripoli faced severe water and food shortages Saturday as the country’s transitional authorities turned their attention to Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown, which they vowed to take by force should negotiations fail.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTsdFEg6Q7s
ATTENTION everyone in Tripoli: Red Cross has room for 2 kids to travel to the Netherlands with the burned nanny, contact @apk222
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The main battalion stalling peace talks in Sirte is believed to be headed by Mu’tasam Al Gaddafi who remains in #Sirte
NTC head AbdulJaleel: Peacekeepers not needed in Libya #Libya
fieldproducer Neal Mann
I’ve uploaded more pictures to my gallery from Eastern #Libya here facebook.com/media/set/?set…
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: Young activist group puts up a memorial wall to display the names and faces of those who have died in #Tripoli. feb17.info/news/libya-liv…
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Given the birth of Aisha’s daughter, it is clear that the plan is to produce Gaddafis faster than the rebels can kill or capture them
Libiya el Haqiqiya
Aparently there are still ca. 30 people trapped in Abu Salim prison. #Tripoli #Libya #AbuSalim
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
by FunGuerillaz
Gaddafi’s intelligence service could “locate any person owning cellphone in Libya, even in idle mode.” #Libya bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Médecins Sans Frontière’s report that they have witnessed small pockets of fighting in #Tripoli today #Libya
hominoid555 not sayin
The Slovak Republic recognize the National Transitional Council of Libya. isria.com/pages/30_Augus…
ianbirrell ianbirrell
Pix of Gaddafi are everywhere in Tripoli – but instead of being found on walls they are on streets to drive over and as doormats to step on
pdanahar Paul Danahar
For anyone wondering where #Gaddafi is it’s quite instructive to open out a map & remind yourself #Libya is a bloody big place to hide in
septimius_sever septimius severus
Oops, the editor of the investor’s daily .com is angry! oh well! #Tripoli Pirates In #Libya Again? goo.gl/fb/2BXFR #Libya #Feb17"
CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
Crowds gather at #BabalAziziya. Laughing, singing. Like villagepeople coming to see the dragon is really dead. #Libya #Tripoli
#Tripoli fighter in Suq ul Juma say many mercs detained. At least 50 to 60 women among them. Heard similar rumours in #Nalut. #Libya
robcrilly Rob Crilly
LIbyan rebels say accomplice to the killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher has been found dead in Tripoli tinyurl.com/42rahep
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Tripoli: seeing more traffic & traffic cops, refuse collections, stores opening. Long way from normality but first steps— calm returning
#FFs at the ready 100km east of #Sirte (via AlJazeera) youtube.com/watch?v=RmA5it…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmA5it8mMaM&fea...
NTC’s @Guma_el_gamaty says the Gaddafi family convoy of six armoured Mercedes bound for Algeria left from Bani Walid. #Libya #Gaddafi
Noit
We knew that:)
They all met up before splitting into 2 groups.
One group went to Sabha the other to Algeria via Bani Walid.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
#Tripoli: Many shops are open today, some of them giving clothes and food for free. #Tomorrow is the first day of #Eid in #Libya
Via Feb17
Libya’s largest oil terminal has been damaged during fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, oil workers and witnesses said, A Reuters witness saw flames and black smoke spurting from a tank at the Es-Sider oil terminal, which loaded an average of about 450,000 barrels per day before the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi began in February. “One tank is on fire now, and we expect it will be damaged completely,” one oil worker who declined to be named said, adding he believed it was hit by a rocket in the last four days.
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: An estimated 50,000 people were killed since start of Libya uprising -NTC commander
hominoid555 not sayin
UN gives Ramadan meals to 55000 Libyans refugees in Tunisia
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Back in Misrata. Strange coming thru #Zliten after visiting the frontline so often there in July.
martinchulov Martin Chulov
War wounded from Zintan taken over #Gaddafi beach house. Lounge furniture on sand. These rebels don’t want to go home for Eid #Libya
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Our hearts go to those who can’t feel Eid in #Sirte, #Sebha, #BaniWalid, #Syria, #Somal, #Yemen … & all the oppressed every where. #Libya
Ali Tweel
Tripoli citizins are feeling better. More shops are open, the roads are crowded. The celeberatory firing are less to nothing.
Sandra
#NTC showing remarkable restraint. Ppl of Sirte are caught in a nightmare. #Mutassim must be stopped 2 stop the battle.
LibyanTweet
Mutassim is the most brutal person at #Gaddafi family, he’s more cruel than his father himself.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte +nearby collection of bunkers #Nato confirmed = giving its unique and special attention to Gaddafi targets around Sirte #Libya #Sknws
hominoid555 not sayin
Russia counts Libya losses. tios.co.za/russia-counts-…
A delegation of Turkish businessmen is expected to travel to Benghazi this week, Zafer Caglayan, the Turkish economy minister.
RexBrynen:
Algeria admission of Aisha, Hannibal, Muhammad #Gaddafi is apparent violation UNSC 1970 (2011)… (cont) http://deck.ly/~7cnCM"
GRLibya Global Relief Libya
URGENT call for #Dialysis equipment for #Tripoli. Please contact us.
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Spotted in Tripoli bridal shop window today: mannequins in dresses made from Libya’s pre-Gadafy national flag, now adopted by rebels
‘Misrata will inspire the world’ – graffiti left behind by rebel fighters at Khamis Brigade base in southern Tripoli
Many looters picking over remains of Khamis Brigade base in southern Tripoli today, taking chairs, marble slabs, cement + office equipment
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI DR #GassemBaruni head of #Tripoli Medical Center says #Hana Gaddafi worked for Him as Surgeon b4 She Disappeared last Friday #Libya
#FLASH #Zimbabwe Expels #Libya ambassador Due to hime defecting to the #NTC … tinyurl.com/43bu8xb #Reuters
ceoDanya Danya B Mohammed
reut.rs/nQzMQD #Gaddafi forces cut off most of #TRIPOLI’s water
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
50,000 killed in Libya amid report that French firm helped Qaddafi spy on opponents goo.gl/I9JNW #alarabiya
Aljazeera
Migrants in Libya camp claim rape
Aid workers say they are taking seriously alleged sexual assaults of up to two dozen women at camp for migrant workers.
Migrant workers living in a squatter settlement outside Tripoli have claimed that nearly two dozen women in the camp have been raped since opposition forces began their final push on the capital two weeks ago.
At the abandoned fishing harbour about 27km west of Tripoli, Nigerian maids Rose Johnson and Darcy Ikibueka said on Monday they are two of more than 20 women in the camp who have been raped by armed men whose identities and affiliations remain unknown.
The names of the women have been changed to protect their identities.
The claims were bolstered by aid workers from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who gained access to the camp on Saturday. Simon Burroughs, MSF emergency coordinator, said women had approached the staff with claims of rape and had received counselling.
On the night of August 19, gunmen entered the harbour camp. They fired their guns in the air, shouting “God is great”. That night, Johnson and Ikibueka said, they were raped at gunpoint.
Anthony Ogiexeri , a 37-year-old Nigerian pastor who lives in the camp, gave Al Jazeera this account:
“The came in, some of them they were shooting all around, and they ordered girls to come out. When they came out, they laid them down. Some of them were saying they should allow the girls [to] go, and some of them said, ‘No, they were going to rape them’. And at the end they submitted to the men, and they raped them. And after they left.”
Some Libyans have donated food and supplies to the camp, but in recent days, groups of armed men and boys have regularly entered the camp at night, robbing the refugees of food and money.
They also take women away to use them for sex, Ogiexeri said.
“We try to connect lights so we can see ourselves at night, but they take them to the dark places.”
Video and read more:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera’s James Bays in #Tripoli: The timing of Eid forced a return to normality quicker than expected.
Aljazeera
Libyan troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, “disappearances” and other war crimes that they said they found.
Physicians for Human Rights was able to get a team of interviewers into the embattled city of Misrata from June 5-12, just after Libyan rebel forces expelled Gadhafi’s loyalists.
Interviewing dozens of survivors of the two-month siege, the Boston-based PHR found widespread evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including summary
slayings, hostage-taking, rapes, beatings, and use of mosques, schools and marketplaces as weapons depots. -
Al Arabiya
Algeria would hand over Qaddafi to ICC as Libya ‘final battle’ approaches
Algeria would hand over Muammar Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court if he entered the North African country, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday, a day after Algiers gave safe haven to members of his family, as the rebels’ military chief said the final battle in Libya was imminent.
Algeria announced on Monday that Qaddafi’s wife, two of his sons and his daughter had crossed into its territory, prompting Libya’s ruling interim council to demand that they be handed back to face trial.
Quoting Algerian sources, the el-Shorouk newspaper said on its website that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had told government ministers during a cabinet meeting on Monday that Algeria would respect international law on all matters related to the Libyan conflict.
“Should Qaddafi try to enter Algerian soil amid talk that the rebels are tightening their grip on the border with Tunisia, and Egyptian (border) restrictions, Algeria would arrest him and hand him over to the International Criminal Court in compliance with international agreements,” the newspaper said, according to Reuters.
It said the decision was not a reaction to the toppling of the Qaddafi regime but was in accordance with the ICC’s arrest warrants for Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and his intelligence chief over accusations they committed crimes against humanity.
No one was immediately available for comment from the government.
In a separate report, Shorouk said Qaddafi’s family members, who had crossed into Algeria, were in the southeastern Illizi province, which borders Libya, and would not be allowed to go to the capital Algiers.
Qaddafi’s location remains unknown a week after Tripoli fell to his foes.
Meanwhile, Algeria’s al-Watan newspaper said the country was closing the southern part of its border with Libya. Quoting diplomatic sources, al-Watan said an instruction had gone out to security services to close the southern part of the border with Libya, because of the “precarious situation” there, according to Reuters.
The Algerian government could not immediately be reached for comment. Algeria’s border with Libya is hundreds of kilometers long and stretches through vast expanses of empty desert.
Algerian officials say they are concerned that Islamist militants have infiltrated Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), and that al-Qaeda’s North African wing will exploit the chaos in Libya to acquire weapons and explosives.
The NTC has angrily denied those charges and in turn accuses Algeria of siding with Muammar Qaddafi during Libya’s civil war, something the Algerian authorities deny.
“Zero hour approaching”
The rebels’ military chief Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani, meanwhile, told reporters on Tuesday the launch of the final battle in Libya was imminent.
“Zero hour is quickly approaching. We would like everyone to know that we are ready for a final military battle,” he told a news conference in the rebel stronghold in the east, according to AFP.
“So far we have been given no indication of a peaceful surrender. We want everyone to know that we are prepared militarily for the battle that will end the conflict,” Bani said.
Asked about possible rebel moves, he replied this was “military intelligence” and declined to elaborate.
“We continue to seek a peaceful solution, but on Saturday we will use different methods against these criminals,” he said.
Earlier, National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil told reporters in Benghazi that the NTC was giving a Saturday ultimatum for Muammar Qaddafi’s forces to surrender or face a military onslaught.
Bani expressed “surprise” that the inhabitants of Sirte “still reject our peaceful overtures to avoid the spilling of blood on both sides.”
He also said that rebel fighters may have killed Qaddafi’s intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court.
Rebel fighters had destroyed two armored vehicles between the towns of Bani Walid and Tarhuna, southeast of Tripoli, and captured Kadhafi loyalists told them that one of the passengers was Senussi, Bani said.
The vehicles were destroyed by fire after the convoy refused to stop as rebel fighters demanded, he said, adding that Senussi has yet to be buried.
In June, the Hague-based court issued arrest warrants for Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and Senussi for murder and persecution since mid-February, when a bloody uprising started.
Senussi is Qaddafi’s brother-in-law.
Khamis Qaddafi alive
Separately, Libyan state television denied in a message posted on the Internet on Tuesday that Khamis Qaddafi, a son of the strongman, was dead as claimed by the rebels.
“We repeat that information on the death of Khamis Qaddafi is a lie," the Allibya network, which is run by Seif al-Islam, reported on its Facebook page, according to AFP.
Late on Monday, opposition officials said that Khamis, 28, was killed south of Tripoli and buried on Monday, citing rebel leaders.
The death of Khamis, a feared military commander, has been prematurely announced several times during the Libyan conflict.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
EU governments could agree by Thursday to lift sanctions against 6 Libyan ports: diplomats #alarabiya #Qaddafi #Tripoli
NTC: we have a ‘good idea’ where Muammar Al Gaddafi is and we will catch him – AP
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Soldiers in the Libyan National Army break their fast East of Sirte as Ramadan has come to an end in #Libya
robcrilly Rob Crilly
lovely evening walk along the Benghazi seafront
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
If Khamis Gaddafi “died” 5 times, how many times will his sister Aicha’s baby Safiya be born ???
A colleague just gave a nice description of Gaddafi’s #Libya : a mixture of North Korea and Disneyland… It’s very true !!! #Tripoli
evanchill Evan Hill
The call to prayer going out over #Tripoli now. Ramadan officially over. First post-Gaddafi Eid sure to be a big party tomorrow. #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “ARON” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya after having last resupplied #Gaddafi’s regime. #Feb17
16 #Gaddafi snipers arrested carrying fake #Croatian passports while they are in fact from #Serbia. #Libya #Feb17
#Sirte: #Freedomfighters continue talks w/ #Gaddafi filth in attempt to have town surrender. Deadline is Saturday. #Libya #Feb17
Gouvernement de l’ #Algérie: gratuit la #Libye ne va pas s’en aller, l’abandon de la famille #Kadhafi ou avoir un ennemi à votre porte.
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Huge bunker under Mutassim #Gaddafi’s house amazing. Full hospital set-up. Built by Germans mid-90s. Rebels rifling thru it #Libya
Among things looted from Mutassim’s bunker today a consultancy project by Janes Defence on restructuring #Libya military
AJELive AJELive
World Food Programme is looking to procure 250,000 metric tons of #gasoline for #Libya rebels t.co/eDobJw4 #AJEnglish
#Maersk Line, the world’s biggest container shipping firm, to resume service to #Libya #port aje.me/jQEpiq #AJEnglish
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Demands from Algeria The Immediate Return Of the Gaddafi Clan : Safiya Gaddafi daughter #Ayesha and sons #Hannibal and #Mohammed #Libya
DEAD: Misrata + Zlitan around 16.000 Jebel Nafusa many deid Liberated abt 28,000 prisoners We presume Missing Ppl r dead #Libya via #NTC
Col. Hisham #Buhagiar commander of FF #NTC troops“About 50,000 people were killed since Febr17 " goo.gl/r7IHQ #Libya
Subsidiary of #French IT firm #Bull helped Gaddafi’s regime SPY on emails chat +msges as well as #China telecom firm ZTE #Libya
How #Gaddafi hid Arms from #Nato Food Processing Plant nr #Tripoli used 2hide heavy munition Some still there Pix soon #Libya
Gaddafi PM AlBaghdadi #Mahmudi DENIED that he fled #Tripoli 2 #Tunisia Says He is staying with his family + people #LIBYA via @zakichehab
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Muammar Gaddafi and #Aisha left #Khamis Camp in Tripoli on Friday in convoy of 25 Vehicles heading for #Sabha #Libya
SMH
Laughter, joy, relief and unspeakable memories
IT WAS a reunion neither saw coming. In the yards of the notorious Abu Salim prison, the site of the massacre in 1996 of 1200 prisoners and countless abuses at the hands of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, Ashraf Sueden and Abdel Anser el-Musbahi saw each other and cried out in shock.
Moments later they were in each other’s arms, laughing and sobbing with disbelief. Ashraf had been a prisoner from 1989 to 1996, Abdel from 1990 to 2001.
Both had been jailed without charge after being swept up in security operations that targeted men worshipping at mosques. Neither thought he would survive the horror.
More and more men arrived at the prison, some with their sons in tow. Many were reliving the terrible years spent behind bars, others simply taking a look inside another of the instruments of fear Colonel Gaddafi used so effectively during his 42 years in power.
Read more:
www.smh.com.au/world/laughter-joy-relie...
FromJoanne Joanne
Badly burned nanny Is receiving medical treatment Tuesday in Burn Unit of #Tripoli hospital on.cnn.com/oWWcvz #Libya #Hannibal #wife
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
A friend is imitating Gaddafi’s weird act when Zuma & the gang came to Tripoli back in April. That was the place. t.co/fuNUR4T
PHOTO’S:
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Misrata FF cruising around BA proudly. yfrog.com/kgme4evj
The first gate of BA. I never thought I could ever, in my life time, just drive in!!! yfrog.com/kfnxmepj
Second BA gate… yfrog.com/h4uf2orrj
Third BA gate, phew almost there… yfrog.com/hwsyyiaj
Fourth BA gate, I thought they were only 3 gates?!! yfrog.com/mn8iuxj
Yesss! I am in, finally. yfrog.com/h66pjtdj
Recognize that building? yfrog.com/mn1ehhj
This is the house, people just rush in amazement and disbelief. But they all sounded happy. yfrog.com/kirt6xgj
Gaddafi’s fortified meeting hall… yfrog.com/mezcgaj
This is the Balcony where Gaddafi and Aisha gave their last video speeches. The “I am here” speech. yfrog.com/kiogjduj
Lots of Gaddafi’s pictures are there were left there for people to tear apart and feel good. yfrog.com/klu2syhj
This is one of the left unburned tents. People were furious shouting: “He lied to us, these tents were only for show”. yfrog.com/h46vuysj
Gaddafi’s backyard not many seen before. This area was private I have been told. Was off limits even for guards. yfrog.com/18vg0hj
His private home which he goes to off-camera… yfrog.com/me6sdxj
More pics from Gaddafi’s private house at BA. yfrog.com/mmyh6wdj
Have to go and break my fast. Stay tunes. Have loads of images of Daffy’s home. :)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Maersk Line World’s biggest Container shipping line will resume its Cargo service to #Libya on Sept. 8 in its first shipment since February
Safe World for Women:
Libya: The women of the revolution
Six women tell how they did their part to help the men take Tripoli from Gadhafi in their jihad, or struggle, against the regime.
They prepared sharba — a soup of meat, tomato, oil and water.
Collected clothes and money from trusted friends.
Called anyone of influence outside the country to tell their side’s story, disposing of the SIM card after each call.
And prayed.
Jihad was made for men and women
Seated in a row, six women, most of them engineering students, say they did their part to help the men take Tripoli from Gadhafi in their jihad, or struggle, against the regime.
“Jihad was made for men and women. There is no difference. But we are not warriors,” says Randa Al Alam, 26.
Auhood Elkhabule, 25, adds: “Most of the women went out and tried to help the men. But many of them say, ‘We are men, we do it ourselves.’ I couldn’t just sit and say let them do it. Many of my friends have been killed.”
Elkhabule, her sister and their friends sit on a long, brocade-covered couch, the tri-coloured rebel flag pinned to the wall above their head. Several wear the same red, black and green on bracelets.
Elkhabule’s father Abdalluh, a professor, brings their guest a sweet blend of Arabic coffee in a china demitasse and a plate of crumbly basbousa cakes, and sets them on ornately carved end tables, all very quietly. It is his house but not his time to speak.
Auhood: “We have all shared this kind of . . . we call it privacy. They make us feel very scared. You can’t express your mind.”
Her sister Khulood: “You go to get a master’s degree, but you are supposed to be at home and support the men. There is no way for a woman to express her voice. If you insist, you are going to be followed and they try to kill your voice.”
They moved cautiously using simple codes
“I was in a group trying to gather money, food, trying to get them to the revolutionaries,” said Sanaa Eljerbi, 25. “We are already under the eyes of the regime, and it was hard to do. We used simple codes, without telling (anyone who might overhear) why we need it.”
They say they tried to call media outlets outside the country to tell what was happening inside Libya’s borders. But that, too, required some guile.
Auhood says Gadhafi’s government has eavesdropped landline calls and tracked cell phones.
“When my brother called from the U.S. (worried about conditions in Libya), I said, ‘Relax. Nothing is happening.’ A spy came on the line, said, ‘You heard her, right? Everything is ok.’ ”
For each call they bought SIM cards from people who had extra or no longer needed them. When possible they did not buy them at a store, where they say the cards could have been tracked.
Jihad in a different way
Could they have done more? Handle a gun if asked?
Narjes Elshaksto, 28: “I had jihad in a different way: praying for them.
Farah Al Mohalhel, 25: “Some women wanted to handle guns.”
Auhood Elkhabule starts shifting on the couch, eager to get a word in.
“Many girls, they can’t kill an insect, even a simple fly. For what Gadhafi did, I want to choke him, burn him alive.”
That, or: “Put him in a cage and put him in a zoo.”
“I am a rebel.”
Speechless
More than a week since the fight for Tripoli began, the women are asked how it feels to sit and talk freely with a foreign reporter.
“I am speechless,” Auhood says, then laughs when she realizes she is, in fact, not.
Her sister Khulood, 29, says: “This is a proper jihad. You don’t choose what you want from the Qur’ran. It’s fixed, it’s right.”
SkyNewsPix Ed Bayliss
Ex-bodyguard of Khamis #Gaddafi interviewed on #skynews today – see our report online at bit.ly/nKW2J4
FOLLOWING ARTICLE EXPLAINS A LOT:
Alternet
Exposed: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Bloggers Conducted Secret 10-Year Campaign to Fan Fear of Muslims
Extremist foundations, think tanks, pundits, and bloggers carried out a 10-year-old campaign to promote fear of Islam and Muslims in the U.S.
The 130-page report, ‘Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America’, identifies seven foundations that have quietly provided a total of more than 42 million dollars to key individuals and organisations that have spearheaded the nation-wide effort between 2001 and 2009.
They include funders that have long been associated with the extreme right in the U.S., as well as several Jewish family foundations that have supported right-wing and settler groups in Israel.
The network also includes what the report calls “misinformation experts” – including Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), Daniel Pipes of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum (MEF), Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, David Yerushalmi of the Society of Americans for National Existence, and Robert Spencer of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) – who are often tapped by television news networks and right-wing radio talk shows to comment on Islam and the threat it allegedly poses to U.S. national security.
Please read more:
www.alternet.org/story/152197/exposed%3...
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
This morning rebels cancelled at last minute a planned offensive on #BaniWalid because town celebrates Eid today, contrary to rest #Libya
Seif el Islam el Gaddafi was last night in the house of Mohammad Abdul Hadi Iqteet: rebel sources
Gadaffi and members of his family are in #BaniWalid: rebel sources
In four days, after Eid, offensive #BaniWalid will start: rebel sources
AmbassadorRice Ambassador Rice
Best wishes and Eid Mubarak to Muslim communities around the world
Michael
#Sabha #Libya G has a mansion ~ 4 mi S of airport probably riddled w/ tunnel, comm et al. twitpic.com/6dnsqz
Tight shot on G’s mansion 4mi S of #Sabha #Libya airport. twitpic.com/6dntx4
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi: “I am here!!” #libya #feb17 fb.me/Qr5sZuBd
PHOTO’S:
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Obviously, his pool was not used for several months. Maybe he did’nt stay here. yfrog.com/h8z0dovj
yfrog.com/mf4xgyj
yfrog.com/h0xawksj
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Water valve allowing transfer of 200,000 cubicm/day from Eastern system is in #Sirte & #Gaddafi forces are keeping it closed.
#NTC in talks with #Greece about using some of its water tanker vessels to ship in water to #Tripoli. #Libya #Feb17
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Gadhafi loyalists blamed for Tripoli water crisis dlvr.it/jTSp4
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UN Sanctions Committee agrees unfreezing of 1.86bn Libyan Dinar of UK held bank notes, to help the people of #Libya – bit.ly/qjZDqJ
Guardian
Gaddafi’s son abandons his lions in flight from Tripoli
Saadi Gaddafi and his bodyguards visited his nine lions in Tripoli’s zoo every day until rebels overran the city
Until one month ago the location of Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi wasn’t a mystery at all. Every day Saadi would drive with a couple of low-key bodyguards to Tripoli’s zoo. The zoo – located right next to Gaddafi’s heavily protected Bab al-Aziziya complex – was closed to ordinary visitors. But for Saadi it was always open.
Saadi, Gaddafi’s third son, would come to visit his favourite animals: the lions. Nine of the zoo’s 18 lions belonged to him personally; he was usually found crouching in front of their spacious enclosure. As Libya’s rebels advanced inexorably towards Tripoli, Saadi reassured the zoo’s director there was nothing to worry about. “He told me: ’It’s OK. The situation is normal’,” said Dr Abdulfatah Husni, the zoo’s director.
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/ga...
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Opinion: “Will falls of Gaddafi and Gbagbo result in an era of external interventions?”, writes Mahmood Mamdani @mm1124 aje.me/rl97qv
cswift2 Cara Swift
Fmr #Libya State News agency Jana announces new name #Libyan News Agency (WAL), says ‘We begin….our news in a new age and with a new name’
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
happy eid #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Having a daytime coffee for the first time in a month, I feel like I’m on speed #eidmubarak
Not that I know what being on speed is like, mind you.
Khamis Gaddafi, the Libyan Rasputin j.mp/oVzXaV
It seems Tripoli and the road there from Ras Ijdir are very safe now, alhamdulilah.
I don’t think anybody predicted that the battle for Tripoli would be this quick and that order would return so quickly.
Just confirmed that I’ll be going to #Tripoli via Djerba this weekend for two weeks! (personal visit, with family)
I can’t wait to see #Tripoli again, to see my grandmother, aunties, uncles and cousins who have been there throughout.
I haven’t left yet, I’ll be flying to Djerba on Sunday and crossing the day after iA. I’ll post updates when I can
I will of course be taking photographs and posting them on the revived nafusa.tumblr.com blog
Me and my family have been to Libya almost every summer for as long as I can remember, but this visit will be the most memorable.
When things get back to normal, I think #Libya will be the new “must-go” holiday destination. Beaches, sun, hospitality, food, the lot.
MORE PHOTO’S:
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Another view of Gaddafi’s private home at BA. Car drive way and the private clinic to the left. yfrog.com/mghuvsj
Private class room for Hana Gaddafi. yfrog.com/h8b8paucj http://yfrog.com/h7u5kjpmj
LOL. Can’t make what this is. Ready to escape from a back window? yfrog.com/h87bhegj
Have no clue what this ladder for. It leads from/to a back window. yfrog.com/h8mgnxej
LOL at Gadaffi’s taste in cloths! Private tailor. yfrog.com/h4r6uyymj http://yfrog.com/gy6n9dmj
Recognize the “Zanga Zanga” head scarf? yfrog.com/hw7t0tj
One of Gaddafi’s pool side bedrooms. No mattress? yfrog.com/hs2mvyjj http://yfrog.com/klsinxlj
Signs of ferocious battles in BA. yfrog.com/gzli6uauj http://yfrog.com/hs765jbj
One of Gaddafi’s buses… yfrog.com/kirb8gfj http://yfrog.com/gy5ogizj
I spotted Nabous’ Libya Alhura TV in Tripoli… yfrog.com/nw840qj
Some of the FF guarding the BA compound. yfrog.com/g0qyyvj
Gaddafi shot peaceful protesters with these. Left (AK47), Right (14.5 AA). I witnessed that. yfrog.com/h86lcxuwj
Williamson
I hope all #Gaddafi former homes, prisons, palaces are re-used as rehab centres for the injured, holiday places for kids, workshops, studios
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Algeria; Gaddafi family members ikely to get refuge in #Illizi province rather than in Capital Algiers #libya
Gaddafi’s female bodyguards say they were raped, abused by the Libyan leader
Five women who were part of Col. Moammar Gaddafi’s elite team of female bodyguards say they were raped and abused by the now fugitive Libyan leader.
The Sunday Times of Malta reports that the former bodyguards said Gaddafi and his sons raped and abused them and then discarded the women once the men became “bored” with them.
“A pattern emerged in the stories,” the Times reports. “The women would be first raped by the dictator and then passed on, like used objects, to one of his sons and eventually to high-ranking officials for more abuse before eventually being let go.”
Read more:
goo.gl/8zxA8
FromJoanne Joanne
UN human Rights Rupert Colville says Shutting off Water supply willfully could possibly b classified as a Crime Against Humanity #Libya
Once #Tripoli WATER engineers arrive&Repair water system in #Hassouna It will take 36hrs 4 water supply 2return to full capacity #Libya
#Tripoli main WATER supply comes from #Jebel #Hassouna region to the south where only 30 of 580 wells are now operational Says #Echo
#Sirte Valve was switched off by Gaddaf troops 200,000 cubic mtrs pd Cutoff leaving only 100,000 cubic metres available for Tripoli
Its not my quote
“28.000 prisoners released”its Colonel Hisham Buhajar who released that figure Here; goo.gl/r7IHQ #Libya
AJELive AJELive
#Libya: #NATO has said it conducted 120 air sorties on Monday, including 42 strike sorties. aje.me/jQEpiq #AJEnglish
Libya rebels get taste of luxury at Gaddafi family resort
Rebels who took part in the assault on Tripoli relax in opulent setting unfathomable to war-weary revolutionaries
Hazem Mehdi’s withered right shoulder is pink and raw and inflamed by sea salt. Yet as he emerges from the ocean outside the Gaddafi family’s beach house, he says the pain no longer bothers him.
“I don’t want to go home,” he says as he tinkers away with an outboard motor, propped up by a cushion from a sofa inside worth several thousand dollars. “I’ll go home for Eid the Islamic festival to mark the end of Ramadan tomorrow and then I’m coming back here.”
His two friends agree, oblivious to the cost of the cushion swilling in the sea beneath them and unaware of the value of almost everything in the opulent house up the hill.
Full story:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/li...
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Burned AK47 storage facility, apparently from a NATO strike. yfrog.com/h2kfdtwj
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafi Convoy7 4×4drive vehicles with 31 ppl motstly women + children Had 2WAIT @ #Libya Algeria Border4 12HRS b4 allowed enter #Algeria
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Opinion: “Berbers are almost certain to want a federal state in post-Gaddafi #Libya”, writes George Joffe aje.me/q9cu41
#BBC: News that Mutassim Gaddafi has left #Sirte probably headed for Bani Waleed.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
UK says UN sanctions committee agreed to release 950 million pounds worth of Libyan banknotes frozen in Britain: Reuters #alarabiya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
BBC Video: Libya rebels offer ceasefire ahead of Eid holiday bit.ly/oHs6WA #libya
Libyan ‘behind Yvonne Fletecher’s killing’ found dead bit.ly/nStdx4 #libya
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP "FARWA 35.73855˚/14.86352˚has departed #Sfax #Tunisia for unlisted dest. #Libya #Feb17
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “FARWA” Prior to #Sfax this ship was in #Syria, #Algeria & #Slovenia. Privateer. #Libya #Feb17
Smiffy’s Wife
Expert on the Libyan water system on Sky news( he helped build it) says his only explantion to the water is, it’s cut off at Bani Walid.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports last night that a group of Southern #Freedomfighters were headed to #Algeria border to cut roads, prevent #Gaddafi escape. #Libya
echoroukonline ( Algeria)
Gaddafi Family Members Enter to Algeria
Algeria authorities have authorized family members of Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to enter to the country via Tinalcom crossing post in Illizi province, on south east border, official source told Echorouk.
The convoy comprises 7 four wheels drive vehicles carrying 31 people, including
Gaddafi wife, Safia, her daughter Aisha, her sons Mohamed and Hanibal, in addition to Gaddafi’s grandchildren.
The source said the convoy of Gaddafi family members were waiting for 12 hours near the crossing post, before being authorized to enter to Algeria.
Aisha Gaddafi was in a critical health situation as she is pregnant in her 9th month, noting that the convoy carried many children and women, which prompted the authorities to let the convoy entering to Algeria, in accordance with international treaties stipulating offering help for people in the times of war, the source added.
Gaddafi family members are likely to get refuge in Illizi province, rather than in the capital Algiers, the source added.
To recall, an international arrest warrant has been issued two months ago against Muammar Gaddafi, his son Seif al Islam and Chief of Intelligence Service, Abdullah al-Senoussi.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta PASSENGER SHIP “SEAHORSE” now en route to #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#MarshallIslands OIL TANKER “SALACGRIVA” now en route to dest. #Zawia #Libya from #Malta ETA: 2011-08-31 04:00 (UTC). #Feb17
AP
Body found of suspect in British police death
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Authorities in Tripoli have discovered the body of a top Libyan regime official suspected of a role in the 1984 shooting of a British policewoman outside the Libyan embassy in London, a senior official said Tuesday.
The body of Abdel Kader Baghdadi, former head of Moammar Gadhafi’s Revolutionary Guards, was found along with several other corpses in a government building Tripoli’s Tajoura neighborhood, said Usama el-Abed, deputy chief of Tripoli’s new city council
More here:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...
Hauslohner
Seif #Gaddafi had massive arsenal on his farm: 10+ huge hidden bunkers with M-120 bombs, rockets, guns, gas masks, flak vests, APCs #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Just wondering: Can the #NTC & or Free Libya contact #Interpol & put out arrest warrants for ALL #Gaddafi family members? #Libya #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KURUOGLU 3” remains anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
NTC: No positive progress in negotiations over the surrender of Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte #Libya #Sirte #Arabiyah
Ahmed
Do what?! RT@LIBYA_BREAKNEWS: Libyan PM Bagdadi Mahmoudi sent a statement to Al-Arabiya declaring that he is now with the feb 17 revolution
That’s way past the deadline:)
Rima
People in #Homs chant about Misurata..wallahi we can’t be truly happy until they’re free too :( #Libya #Syria youtube.com/watch?v=bPaoaY… (Via FB)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tunisia #Egypt #Libya Three down 2 to go : #Algeria and #Morocco
#TRIPOLI about 200 PPL pounded a the door and demanded promised 250 Dinar to cover #Eid holidays from a bank in Souk al Juma’a #Libya
#Libya #Oil minister #Tarhouni Expects #Libya wells to start pumping oil in coming days close to as normal Signed OilContracts be Respected
#NouriBerouin chairman #NOC: Most #oil fields r “fine” Not suffered major damage but minefields arnd #Brega Exp. terminal =problem #Libya
Quoting diplomatic sources #ElWatan media reports Algeria Closed southern part of its border with #Libya
Pres #Bouteflika had told gov. ministers @cabinet meeting Mond #Algeria would respect Int. law on all matters related to #Libya conflict
#Libya revolutionary forces FF have entered the western town of #Ghadames near the border with #Algeria
#FLASH AYESHA BABY was born in #Djanet An oasis deep in #Sahara Djanet lies about 500 km southwest of #Sabha #Libya
#Algeria allowed Gaddafi family memebers enter via #Tinalcom Bordepost in Illizi province on SE border via #Echorouk media #Libya
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
Tripoli interim city councillor: could take two weeks or more to get water running. Gadhafi brigade sabotaged pumps at source in desert.
Tripoli engineers trying 2 reach damagd water pumps @JebelHassouna, 600k s of Tripoli, but 2 unsafe to enter. Red Cross now negotiatg access
Saw big clean up crew in Martyrs Sq preparing for Eid celebrations tonight and tomorrow. Very impressive.
Tripoli Interim Council: 5 crisies: water, security, health, energy, food. Last 2 can be managed. First 3 very serious threats to stability.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
FF drive around in Gaddafi’s Limo! Guys take to NTC, they’ll surely need one soon :-) yfrog.com/kjvzeklj
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I hope that @LibyaTV will broadcast the Eid prayers in Martyr Square, Tripoli… I’d love
to see that #libya
Khalifa
Libyans abroad used to avoid one another now they seek each other out. Freedom is wonderful. #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#Gaddafi soldiers raped rebels/ male prisoners: Amnesty tells me Watch: bit.ly/pLlBrd #libya #tripoli
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Seif el Islam el #Gaddafi was accompanied by his close aid Abdul Jalil al Taher Abdul Hadi Iqteet: Rebel sources #Libya
Deputy defense Minsiter tells me: " We ask #algerian people to pressure government to give back the #gaddafi family members." #libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Roadside arrest of TV actor Mukhtar al-Aswad shows dangers of mob rule in post Gaddafi #Libya tgr.ph/ntOuWh Telegraph
How it used to be:
#TRIPOLI A day with Gaddafi s female bodyguards bydo.ug/4c #Libya
SMILE but true:
Tripolitano
When leaving #Libya a check points. #Gaddafi thugs used to ask “do u have fazebook?!” meaning laptop!!
ARRESTS:
dovenews Libyan™
#Ghryan #FF have arrested Major General Hadi Emberesh & Brigadier General Mohammed Abdu a commander of the military police in 1/2
#Algawasim area, while they were trying to escape to #Algeria via #Ghadamis route. 2/2
Lisa
#FreeLibya Amazing accomplishments by #FreeLibya in only 6 months!! Imagine what they can accomplish in 6 years :O
4Adam Adam
People across Tripoli are tentatively preparing for a double Eid celebration youtube.com/watch?v=06-GHk… #Libya #Tripoli
Ali Tweel
big celebrations are on the roads of Tripoli right now… and yes you guessed it!! …accompanied with celebratory firing.
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
tripoli resident on challenge of bldg new democratic institutions:“we got rid of gadhafi regime now we have 2 get rid of gadhafi mentality”
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Impressive “message discipline” from the rebels today. Civilian then military leadership delivering ultimatum on Sirte. Not seen that before
AJE: Saadi may be willing to give himself up #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Saadi Gaddafi was inclined to surrender. Belhaj said he had an idea of where Saadi was and that his family was nearby #Libya
AJE: Tripoli Military, Belhaj reports to James Bays that Saadi was in touch by phone.
Gaddafi forces hang on in Sirte while he hides
shabablibya.org/news/gaddafi-forces-han...
OmarAmer
Just spoke with the pilot who flew planes,here is ur final summery. 3 planes are completely damaged, further 10 have minor/med damage #libya
Damaged aircraft: buraq has 3 damaged, two of which are their new boeing 737-800s. Afriqiyah: 4 damaged, 5A-onj,k,d,I (A320/19s)
Libyan airlines have a brand new CRJ 900ng and 2 brand new A320s riddled with bullet holes, but can be repaired.
The 3 aircraft completely damaged are 2 older A300s belonging to Libyan airlines, a big loss.. And 1 afriqiyah A300 presidential
Gaddafi’s own A340 which was bought from saudi. A vip aircraft is ok but has some damage under the nose. 3 planes flown to benghazi now
Ali Tweel
Libyans are trying to convert the 1st September day to a Clean garbage day :)
Gaddafi’s spying systems أنظمة التجسس والتنصت لنظام القذافي ow.ly/6h4Tr via @AlArabiya
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING #Tripoli Mil Council #BELHAJ says has unconfirmed reports where Muammar Gaddafi is + Saadi Gaddafi talks abt surrender #Aljezeera
BREAKING Head of ;Tripoli Militairy says Saaidi + 90% of inner circle Regime believed 2speaking from not 2far away ready2surrender #Libya
Hana S.
Relatives in #Tripoli say last time they’ve been in contact with #Sirte was Aug 20th same as everyone else, talking in codes on the phone.
#Saadi Gaddafi and other high ranking G goons negotiating surrender with #Tripoli Military committee Via #Aljezeeera Heard it myself
NTC confirms it knows whereabouts of Matouk (Yvonne Fletcher) Matouk attempted 2defect to NTC when Tripoli fell #Libya
Aljazeera
Gaddafi’s son ‘ready to surrender’
A senior NTC official has said that Saadi Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader’s third son, is willing to give himself up
A senior National Transitional Council official in Libya has told Al Jazeera that Saadi Gaddafi is willing to give himself up. He is the third son of the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The NTC’s military leader in Tripoli, Abdelhakim Belhaj, said on Wednesday that Saddi called him and asked if he can surrender.
In an exclusive interview, Belhaj said the revolutionaries know for sure where some of the regime leaders are, including unconfirmed reports on where Gaddafi is.
Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from Tripoli said: “We asked him Abdelhakim Belhaj about the military situation, remaining members of the Gaddafi family, and he said that he believes one of Gaddafi’s sons, Saadi, is preparing to surrender.
“According to Belhaj, Saddi doesn’t want to leave Libya, he wants to talk to the national council and negotiate his surrender. He thinks he knows the whereabouts of Saddi Gaddafi from the phone call. Also says he believes some senior figures of the government are now ready to surrender, such as the former prime minister.
“Belhaj made a point of saying that any of those who do surrender will be treated properly, and court cases will be held to international norms. Belhaj thought that Muammar Gaddafi is less likely to surrender, but would be treated fairly if he did. He would be held in custody with proper human rights.”
More and source:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
FromJoanne Joanne
#No #Comment: Saadi #Gaddafi today expressed his desire to be part of the #Febr17 Revolution #Libya
Gaddafi ’Fled #Tripoli And Headed South @Skynews goo.gl/ZjIhV
Return 2 #Rixos: #Gaddafi regime did not mess around (Only)Now we (media) R beginning 2see Horrifying Evidence of that goo.gl/UvYSJ
Walid وليد
My father was last night appointed as the head of the military council (munasaq elaskry) in his local area in #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
he feels proud 2 b finally getting recognition as 1 of the 1st men 2 attempt 2 kill Gadafi in 1969…it haunts him that he failed
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Back from flood-lit Martyrs Sq in Tripoli, packed tonight with thousands of men, women + children celebrating with songs + chanting
Aljazeera
Freed Libyan prisoner tells his story
Like many Libyans, Masoud Marghani was arrested and held in prison for defying Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Masoud Marghani and his 13 cellmates in Tripoli’s Jdaida Prison could hear freedom on the doorstep.
Anti-aircraft guns manned by troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi thundered on the roof. Outside the walls of the compound, there was shouting, explosions and the chatter of small-arms fire.
It was the night of August 20, and rebels had entered the capital. Inside their second-floor cell, Marghani and the others waited. As the sound of fighting drew closer, they became agitated. Guards pointed their AK-47s into the cells, threatening to kill the men if they didn’t shut up.
Nobody slept. The fighting continued through the night. One by one, guards deserted their posts. Gunfire continued into the morning, and no one came to deliver food or check on the inmates.
At one point, the warden Haj al-Fituri walked by Marghani’s cell.
“What time is it?” a prisoner asked.
“It’s too late,” Fituri said. Then the warden went downstairs, and the men never saw him again.
By afternoon, rebels had cautiously entered the compound, but Marghani and the others remained trapped on the second floor. In an interview with Al Jazeera, he described how he and three other men unhinged their bathroom door and used it to smash open the cell. He opened his hands to show the scars on his palms.
The inmates poured out and began freeing others on their floor. Down below, Marghani saw a man below in civilian clothes toting an AK-47.
“When I saw a civilian man inside with a gun, I understood,” he said. “The guards didn’t go inside with their guns.”
Marghani had spent the past two months incarcerated. He was first in the notorious Abu Salim prison, then transferred to Jdaida, where rules were lax. Like hundreds of others, he was thrown in jail for protesting against Gaddafi.
Marghani is a fifth-year medical student who workrfas a pharmacist and then at a medical supply company to support himself.
His mother comes from Benghazi, long a hot bed of anti-regime sentiment and the stronghold of the National Transitional Council. Her father had six wives, and it was Marghani’s network of 13 uncles who first told him about the uprising that broke Gaddafi’s grip on the east.
Marghani and his friends had seen the Facebook call for a “revolution” on February 17, but many didn’t believe it could happen.
“They felt afraid even of the idea,” he said.
‘This is a rat’
Two days before the scheduled uprising, when protests broke out in Benghazi over the arrest of well-known human rights lawyer Fathi Terbil, Marghani’s uncles called him in Tripoli.
When the protests escalated into a brutal regime crackdown and an armed resistance that brought down the local military garrison, they kept him informed.
On February 20, when the garrison fell, his uncles called him in tears.
“We are free here. We are free. How are you,” one said.
While they were speaking on the phone protesters were out in force on the streets of Tripoli, and it looked as if Gaddafi’s government would soon be toppled.
Marghani turned the phone to the crowd so his uncles could hear the chants of “With our soul, with our blood, we’ll defend you Benghazi”.
“I thought everything would be done when I saw people in the streets everywhere,” Marghani said.
But Gaddafi did not back down. As the crowd marched to the Tuesday Market roundabout in Margahni’s western neighbourhood of Gargaresh, they ran into two anti-aircraft guns. When the artillery opened fire, the protesters scattered.
Tripoli was shut down in the months to follow. Mobile phone and Internet services were disabled for two weeks. Military, security and mercenary forces were deployed throughout the capital. Civilians were shot dead for venturing outside their homes after 6pm.
Marghani stayed inside. His brother was in Spain working as a banker, so he wanted to help his father protect the family. His mother had asked him not to leave.
Petrol, food and other goods became scarce and prices went up. Fuel queues sprang
up across Tripoli. The government capped the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn from banks to 1,000 dinars ($832), then 500, then 250.
In June, Marghani set out to take his father, mother, two nephews and pregnant 40-year-old sister to Tunisia. When they reached the border crossing at Ras Ajdir, Marghani was taken aside. His mother’s family’s name, well known in Benghazi, had raised a red flag.
A customs officer told him his picture in the computer system was too blurry. They took him to a small shack, promising only a few questions. Soon, plainclothes guards with AK-47s took over and pushed him outside, following him with their guns.
“What did you do?” his father asked.
“I didn’t do anything,” he said.
“This is a rat!” the guards shouted.
Taking up a weapon
Marghani was taken for interrogation then shipped to Tripoli. He spent 35 days in Abu Salim. The prison housed more than 1,000 inmates and was known for violence. Rebels emptied Abu Salim after seizing the area earlier this month.
Officers told Marghani he was being charged with helping to burn down a police station and two other building’s belonging to Gaddafi’s oppressive People’s and Revolutionary Committees.
In fact, it was true. Marghani assumed that informants for the regime had been among the crowd, perhaps even taking part. Even so, he denied any part in the torched buildings.
He was brought to a tent in a courtyard, blindfolded, and grilled with questions. Beside him, at the next interrogation desk, he heard an officer play a recorded phone call to an inmate. The officer paused the recording repeatedly to ask the man if it was his voice speaking on the phone.
Marghani could hear the man on the phone call; he spoke of standing with his gun in the middle of Zawiya – a town rebels seized before entering Tripoli from the west.
“We’re going to kill Muammar like a dog,” he said on the recorded call.
When the man denied it was him, guards beat him. Marghani also received beatings
but was never tortured, though he said others were.
Marghani was moved to Jdaida, in southeast Tripoli, a dirtier prison but where inmates were allowed cigarettes and phone calls.
Marghani and others eventually learned of the fall of Zawiya and of Gharyan, to the south. Within two hours of arriving in Tripoli on August 21, rebels had freed all the inmates in Jdaida, breaking open cell doors with steel rods.
There were no common criminals in Jdaida, Marghani claimed, only political prisoners and opponents of the regime like himself.
After being freed, he spent two days with friends in Souq al-Jomaa, a staunch anti-Gaddafi neighbourhood. He then returned home to Gargaresh to see his family, who never escaped to Tunisia.
After a short visit, Marghani left again. His friends told him about a Gaddafi weapons depot hidden in the basement of a nearby apartment building, and Marghani wanted to go there to secure himself a gun.
Rebel fighters tried to tried to stop him from entering the depot, but let him through when he told them he had done time in Abu Salim. He took an AK-47 and some ammunition.
These days Marghani mans checkpoints in his neighbourhood, waiting for the conflict in Triploi to finally settle down.
“Actually, I am a doctor, a medical student,” he said. “Hopefully, I will hand over my gun and get back to a normal life.”
Daily Motion
Tense Libyan capital celebrates ‘double’ Eid
People across Tripoli are tentatively preparing for a “double Eid” celebration to mark both the end of the Kadhafi regime and the end of Ramadan, in a city slowly returning to normal amidst the debris of recent fighting. Despite food shortages and localized sniper activity, a few shopkeepers have opened their doors, and in the markets conversation is turning from violence to its effect on the price of groceries.
Video:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xksmch_tense-...
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I have good news for Baghdadi Mahmudi: Being Gaddafi’s slave earned you a spot on the ICC list. You are days away from being an int criminal
Calling Arabiya and saying that you defected isn’t going to win you amnesty, respect or any form of support Mr Baghdadi Mahmudi
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
A heavily guarded Ali Tarhouni, Libya’s de facto deputy PM, addressed crowds at Martyrs Sq tonight + led rendition of old national anthem
Marc_Herman_:
Am sitting next to an office full of Tripoli fighters registering their machine guns w/ the neighbourhood council. #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan NTC can now do business in the US shabablibya.org/news/libyan-nt… #Libya
The Libyan National Army is now 70km East of Sirte v AJA #Libya #Sirte
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
Under a democratic gov’t, issues of racism and S. African human rights can be tackled more aggressively. Under #Gaddafi, they flourished.
LIBYA TRIPOLI
A look again at Inside #Gaddafi’s tunnels youtube.com/watch?v=I3Nng9… #Libya #Tripoli
dovenews Libyan™
Amnesty: Libya: Prison records at risk of being lost goo.gl/m4px2
Libya_Awake_United
Two bomb cars where discovered and dismantled today in Souq aljuma district of #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
dovenews Libyan™
Abdelaziz Bouteflika "We will arrest Gaddafi if he enters #Algeria. Allowing Gaddafi’s family is “purely for humanitarian reasons” #Libya
I wish if Abdelaziz Bouteflika could equally look at the Libyan people in “purely humanitarian way”
Niz_FGM Niz
The Free Generation Movement would like to thank #UN for its water distribution program in #Tripoli with the help of Trip Stabilisation Team
wheelertweets James Wheeler
@
@wheelertweets Went to Misrata by ambulance August 24. Waited till road was safe. Left Misrata by boat 3am Monday. Arrived Tunis 4pm Tuesday
tom
What a day. Eid now definitely rivaling Christmas in my books
Free Libya Now
Libyan Ambassador to Tanzania, Prof Ahmed El Ash’ab, raising free Libya flag, Tanzania FM summons him for not consulting with him. #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli: A music festival going on now… yfrog.com/18p91bj
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Eid prayer in #Tripoli: Tomorrow, 8am (Libya time) at Martyr’s square #libya
SUMMARY AUGUST 31st 2011
8/31/11
8.31.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/x5vLV
NATOpress NATO Press
#NATO Secretary General travels to Paris to attend the International Conference on #Libya on 1 Sept 2011 – goo.gl/9hl8f
#NATO destroyed yesterday more than 45 military pieces for the battalions #Gaddafi of armored vehicles , #tanks and rocket launchers in addition to headquarters of command in each of the #Sirte ,Bani Walid and Huwn
flyingbirdies أكرم
Am at 17feb street #Tripoli yfrog.com/mgggcooj
AJELive AJELive
#Gaddafi loyalists in #Sirte are refusing to surrender. NTC says they have until Saturday or will attack aje.me/p2YvYv
EndTyranny101 Ahmed Sanalla
Thousands of men women & children gathered in Martyr square in Tripoli for Eid prayers chants of ‘hold your head up high, U R a free Libyan’
KatzOnEarth Jonathan M. Katz
So, uh, that was Gadhafi’s spokesman on the phone …
Ibrahim called to say a NATO attack on Sirte killed 1,000 people during public Eid prayers. This cannot be immediately confirmed.
He said that he thinks NATO believes Gadhafi is in Sirte, hence the alleged and unconfirmed bombing.
Wouldn’t disclose Gadhafi’s location except that he is “in Libya, of course.” Ibrahim said he himself is “somewhere south of Tripoi.”
He also told me the regime will reject the rebels’ ultimatum. “No dignified honorable nation would accept an ultimatum from armed gangs.”
He reiterated that Gadhafi wants to send his son al-Saadi (“he is famous for loving sports”) to negotiate with the rebels in #Libya.
As we say here, the alleged attack could not be immediately confirmed, and Gadhafi’s regime has consistently exaggerated casaulty tolls.
Tweeted. Would bet we’re not the only ones who got that call.
I hear there’s spam going around claiming that he’s dead. When you click on it, you download malware.
Muhammad
its funny when journos say can’t be confirmed when its blatantly a lie!
Valerie. err I thought libya was celebrating eid on Wednesday!
KatzOnEarth Jonathan M. Katz
I was confused by that too actually. Were there any Eid celebrations in Libya yesterday?
m_madi Mohamed Madi
libya is celebrating eid on wednesday, unless sirte did so differently this year
AJELive AJELive
#Libyan rebels find evidence that #Gaddafi’s daughter, who reportedly died in a 1986 US air strike, was never killed aje.me/psxH9h
Maidaan El Shohadaa2 – ميدان الشهداء بطرابلس 30 اغسطس .mp4
ميدان الشهداء او ما يعرف ايام النظام الديكتاتوري بالساحة الخضراء ليلة 30 اغسطس
تحية للشعب الليبي الحر وتقبل الله شهدائنا الابرار في فسيح جناته
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgjIA2WZkLE&fea...
AJELive AJELive
#Libya’s NTC knows the whereabouts of Yvonne Fletcher’s killer. She was shot in 1984 outside Libyan embassy in London aje.me/nK1J3q
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Aisha Gaddafi is reported to have just given birth to a baby in Algeria, when she reportedly had a 4months-old baby killed on 30Apr.
Maybe that 4 month old baby ghost was a sister of little ghost Hannah?
نون عربيه
A 4 month baby in April and deliverng again now, that doesn’t add up!
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
My mind, heart, soul and spirit will be in Tripoli tomorrow. Kul sana wenty tayba ya 7abeebatena Trablis <3. #Eid #Tripoli #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Voice of America: #Gaddafi Son’s House Gives No Hint Family Would Fall. Video: goo.gl/cJk8f #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Veterans Today
Gaddafi’s Israeli Intel Mercenaries Uncovered
Tripoli Homeland Security bunker run on Israeli equipment and personnel
The pro Gaddafi media has been on steroids shoveling out all their NATO monster stories…slaughtering civilians intentionally, destroying civilian infrastructure, etc. And when it comes to the rebel command we have heard of them being Al Qaeda led, CIA, SAS, …almost like they had a roulette wheel somewhere with all their favorite villains on in.
We now have incontrovertible proof that Israelis, working in Tripoli, actively managed Gaddafi’s intelligence services. When the inner sanctum was cranked open and BBC video teams entered, the documentation of this strange partnership was exposed for the world to see.
With Intel analysis you are also always looking for what is conspicuously missing. And in the present case, has been Israel. Despite their historically having their noses in everything in the region securitywise, there has not been a single mention.
VT has uncovered that Israel has been working so closely with the Gaddafi regime that they were running his Homeland Security Headquarters…the countrywide communications intercepts and the torture chambers downstairs.
The companies identified, French and Israel partnerships which include EADS and IAI (Israeli Aircraft Industries,) manufacturer or the EAGLE systems, drones used for surveillance, signals intelligence gathering, target acquisition and attack, are identified as contractors.
Their drones are being used in Gaza now, not just for target acquisition but
for delivering cluster munitions and American “Hellfire” ordnance as well.
There were rows and rows of hard copy archive shelving holding what was treasure trove of intercept records. Obviously phosphorus grenades must have been in short supply, or these folks took off at the last minute. But then it got better.
As the tour continued there was shot after shot of signs, admin instructions and documents…all in English !!!
Let that sink in a minute. Here were are in Tripoli, in Gaddafi’s security brain center, something which had obviously been in operation a long, long time…and the language de jour???….English.
During the Libyan war mass media gave virtually no background coverage to Gaddafi’s long time dealings with the Israelis.
We have reported here that the Gaddafi sons, particularly Saif, were shuffling back and forth to Israel, with one trip lasting a week.
The early African mercenary story with the Israeli contractor was in the Israeli print news. And Gordon Duff recent article reporting Said Gaddafi’s funding of the Africa Islamic Council’s anti-Hezbollah efforts in Lebanon.
Why was Saif doing that? The benefit to the Israelis is obvious. But what was Saif getting in return for the effort?
Was he there to borrow money maybe, or to tap into the Israeli’s talent reservior for electronic intercept hardware, software, and experienced personnel, especially the language skills necessary.
Are there other suspects, the Serbians, Turks, Belorussians, Poles, Georgians ??? What could they really bring to the table in this capacity. Nothing really.
So there are really only two choices…one of the main NATO countries, or Israel. We have placed our bet. Welcome to the real world folks. It’s a nasty place.
More will be coming on the Gaddafi white collar mercs….the civilian technicians and military officers. There is a long history here.
Full report and video:
www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/30/gaddaf...
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#Zwara plans citywide cleanup on 3rd day of Eid. Crisis Management Group already planning to turn over power then to mejlis mahali #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
#North #Korea yet to recognize Libya’s #NTC. “Not yet … (we’ll have to) wait and see.” koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/natio… #Libya
Gaddafi’s compound becomes a big attraction www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/... #Libya
Iran Reaches Out to Libya’s Rebels www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-eas... #Libya #Iran
AFP: Canada aims to unlock $2 billion in Libyan assets www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A... #Libya #Canada
Abandoned Gaddafi homes reveal champagne lifestyle goo.gl/1b1Do
Jezebel
Female Bodyguards Say Qaddafi And Sons Raped, Abused Them
In the early days of the Libya rebellion, the fatigue-clad, heavily made-up women that surrounded Muammar Qaddafi became a source of international amusement. But Qaddafi’s eccentricity could distract from the brutality, including with those same bodyguards, several of whom have now told a Benghazi psychologist that they were repeatedly raped by the dictator and his sons.
In an interview with the Sunday Times of Malta, Seham Sergewa described the accounts of five former bodyguards she came across when trying to investigate claims of Viagra-aided mass rape by soldiers. One “was told ‘you either become a bodyguard or your brother will spend the rest of his life in prison,’” and then, before being brought to Qaddafi, told she had to take a medical test, including for HIV. According to The Times,
A pattern emerged in the stories. The women would be first raped by the dictator and then passed on, like used objects, to one of his sons and eventually to high-ranking officials for more abuse before eventually being let go.
Full story:
jezebel.com/5835724/female-bodyguards-s...
dovenews Libyan™
“Come with me,” said the man, “and I will show you where Gaddafi buried people alive.” vancouversun.com/Horrors+from+L… #Libya
Khiria El-Feghi
#SaadiGaddafi wants to join the #Feb17 revolution. Yeah, I’m sure #Gaddafi himself wants to defect now too.
grafixel guess what
globalization is a bitch RT @al_habieli: Tehran Times: Qurans outsourced to China filled with spelling mistakes is.gd/LUi2zW
dovenews Libyan™
Turkish companies eager to get back into Libya for post-Qaddafi work thenational.ae/news/worldwide… #Libya #Turkey
Libyans want #OFWs to stay www.mb.com.ph/articles/332578/libyans-w... #Libya #Philippines
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Image- Historic moment: Eid prayers in Maydan Shuhada, Tripoli & seaside courthouse, Benghazi – Eid Mubarek Free #Libya pic.twitter.com/cig2iGt
BREAKING: REPORTS: #Russian envoy will attend ‘Friends of #Libya’ meeting in #Paris
Tripoli Freedom Park, Speakers Corner حديقة الحرية طرابلس
I would love to see Bab Al-Azyzia turned into a “Freedom Park” and would love to see a corner dedicated to free speech, political, religious or whatever subject the speaker would choose. No violence no terror. Just express your self. Our revolution would be declared successful, only if we could criticize the Prime Minster and the President of Libya.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PJuntKHt48
Mike
Aisha baby born Jan, NATO kills it Apr when 4mth old. Aisha gives birth new baby end Aug after 9 mth pregnancy. You work it out – MIRACLE
Tweeting Tripoli
OMG, our first national soccer match will be this Saturady in Egypt. African Football Ass refused to postpone. New Anthem, New Jersey ;)
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
One woman in Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square said to me: “I need a million words to express what I feel today – we are free!”
They tried to stop fighters shooting into air to celebrate but the Misrata boys couldn’t contain themselves in Martyrs’ Sq #libya
pdanahar Paul Danahar
UK water engineering expert tells BBC #Gaddafi forces in Bin Walid hold generating plants that power pumps 4 #Tripoli water supply #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Last night I spoke to some of the previously active Pro-G neighbors. It was nice to see that they are now welcoming the new era :)
Heinz: Qadafi is in Sebha in his very deep underground bunker. He has helicopters. He will either fight to the end, or flee.
Tweeting Tripoli
Always knew my BBQ set could have other useful purposes. Good, cause I really need to loose few kgs :) yfrog.com/nzsniyj
17FebRev 17 Feb Revolution
About khamis, Don’t spread the word he could be trying to runaway or it’s another pro gaddafi trick!
Gaddafi’s secret underground TV station / محظة تلفزيون القذافي السرية
Alex Thomson burrows down into the tunnels beneath the Tripoli compound of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya – and finds "a world of total wackiness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=--QL7sr9TeY
Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli: Eid prayers from Martr Square, now. yfrog.com/h43hirauj yfrog.com/nx5nluj yfrog.com/nvxuajj
Libya vs Mozambique, Saturday, Cairo. Unfortunately no fans allowed: sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/soccer/w...
Even if we lose in score, we win in uniting more people. Yippee. Win-Win situation ;)
Aljazeera
Libyans celebrate Eid in Tripoli
Thousands pour into capital’s main square to mark the end of Ramadan and the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Thousands of Libyans have gathered in Tripoli to mark the end of Ramadan and celebrate Eid al-Fitr, kneeling in prayer in Martyrs’ Square as they rejoiced in the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
At dawn on Wednesday, families began to pour into the square, which had been dubbed “Green Square” by Gaddafi, as women ululated in triumph and spontaneous cries of joy erupted.
“This is the best holiday of my life,” said Adel Masmoudi, who at 41 was born the year Gaddafi seized power.
An imam leading the dawn prayer urged all Libyans to stand united and hailed the ousting of “the tyrant Gaddafi”, prompting jeers from the crowd at the mention of the former leader’s name.
Rebel forces had set up a security belt around the square, as armed guards patrolled the area and snipers took position on rooftops overlooking the gathering which ended peacefully later in the morning.
The Eid celebrations had began late on Tuesday with bursts of red tracer rounds fired into the sky as a substitute for fireworks.
“This is the first time we have felt relaxed in 42 years,” Amari Abdulla, 24, told the AFP news agency.
“We will celebrate as in the past but this time it is simply better. It is a new Libya.”
While anti-Gaddafi rebels claim to have “liberated” most of the country, negotiations are still underway for the surrender of regime loyalists in Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown.
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of the rebels’ National Transitional Council (NTC), said on Tuesday that forces loyal to Gaddafi have until Saturday to surrender or face a military assault.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
In #Misrata – quiet first morning of Eid. Huge explosions last night were fireworks mostly, makes a change from last visit (mostly grads)
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
Incredible emotion as Libyans celebrate Eid al-Fitr freely and for first time no #Gaddafi speech on TV #Libya #c4news
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
As promised, pix of food processing factory in #Tripoli #Libya where #Gaddafi hid heavy weapons from #Nato pic.twitter.com/e6Qohq6
or:
twitter.com/#!/WyreDavies/status/108847319918714880/photo/1/large
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Thousands throng Tripoli’s landmark Martyrs Sq (ex Green Sq) for morning Eid prayers. Celebrations there lasted long into night yesterday
Eid mubarak to my driver Mansour + his family. He’s half Arab, half Amazigh (Berber), hails from western Libya, and is a font of knowledge
Tomorrow marks 42 years since Gadafy seized power in a military coup on Sept 1, 1969. Billboards referring to anniv in Tripoli all shot up
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera’s James Bays in #Tripoli: Car bomb in Tripoli. Funeral held in Martyr’s square.
Mirror UK
Dad murders three teenage daughters raped by Gaddafi thugs
THREE young sisters raped in Libya were murdered by their own dad for bringing “shame” on the family, horrified human rights campaigners claimed last night.
The girls, aged 15, 17 and 18, had been attacked by Colonel Gaddafi’s marauding troops at a school in Tomina during a two-month siege on the nearby town of Misrata.
Their twisted dad slit their throats in an honour killing, according to the US-based group Physicians for Human Rights.
The shocking report comes as it was also claimed Gaddafi’s thugs set up “rape
camps” and used civilians, including children, as human shields in a bid to stop Nato airstrikes on the retreating troops.
“One father told PHR how soldiers forced his two young children to sit on a military tank and threatened the family, saying: ‘You’ll stay here and if Nato attacks us you will die too.’
“One witness reported that Gaddafi’s forces transformed an elementary school into a detention site where they reportedly raped women and girls as young as 14.” There were unconfirmed claims of brutal troops fuelling sex attacks with Viagra.
Full story:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/...
Aljazeera
China:
China said Wednesday it was sending a vice-minister to “observe” a Paris conference on the future of Libya, whose rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) Beijing has not officially recognised.
Around 60 nations are expected to be represented at Thursday’s Friends of Libya conference, to be co-chaired by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron.
US Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have all said they will attend, while most other participants said they would send their foreign ministers.
China said it would be represented by its Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun at the meeting, which will seek to address the reconstruction of Libya after months of violence and decades of misrule under Moamer Kadhafi’s regime.
China’s foreign ministry said Jun would attend “as the representative and observer of the Chinese government”.
“China supports relevant parties’ efforts to restore the stability of Libya and facilitate
the stable transfer of Libya’s political power," spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement.
“We are also willing to play a positive role in the future rebuilding of Libya together with the international community.”
Aljazeera
Hana Gaddafi
Since the rebel takeover of Tripoli, evidence has been mounting that Muammar Gaddafi may have lied about the death of his adopted baby daughter Hana in a 1986 US airstrike.
The strike hit Gaddafi’s home in his Tripoli compound, Bab al-Aziziya, in retaliation for the Libyan-sponsored bombing of a Berlin nightclub earlier that year that killed two US servicemen. At the time, Gaddafi showed American journalists a picture of a dead baby and said it was his adopted daughter Hana – the first public mention that she even existed.
Diplomats almost immediately questioned the claim. But Gaddafi kept the story alive through the years.
Then, when investigations into the 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, pointed to a Libyan hand in the attack, some theorized that Gaddafi had ordered it to avenge Hana’s death in the US airstrike.
But when Libyan rebels took over Tripoli and Bab al-Aziziya last week,they found a room in Gaddafi’s home with Hana’s birth certificate and pictures of a young woman with the name “Hana” written on the back,possible indications that she lived well beyond infancy. A Tripoli hospital official surfaced, saying Hana worked for him as a surgeon up until the rebels came to town.
And on Tuesday, Swiss officials confirmed that Hana’s name had briefly appeared earlier this year on a Swiss government document listing the names of senior Libyan figures targeted for sanctions.
Many Libyans believe Hana was never killed and talked about her existence openly.
Adel Shaltut, a Libyan diplomat at the UN in Geneva, said it was common knowledge that Hana Gaddafi wasn’t killed in the airstrike.
“All Libyans knew from the very beginning that it’s a lie,” he told The Associated Press, saying that Hana was married and had children.
However, some in Libya believed that after Hana’s death, Gaddafi adopted another daughter and gave her the same name in a memorial tribute.
Libya’s new interim leadership knows the whereabouts of one of the former diplomats wanted for the 1984 killing of a British woman police officer outside the Libyan embassy in London, Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper said on Wednesday.
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Eni aim 4 Oct15 2restart #GAS exports from #LIBYA #Greenstream pipeline runs from #Mellitah #Wafa #field (State unknown) 2 #Sicily
Nieuwsuur
Bab al-Azizya: symbool overwinning
De opstandelingen vieren feest in de huizen van Kadhafi. Zijn compound, Bab al-Azizya, is nu het symbool van de overwinning.
Dutch video report;:
nieuwsuur.nl/video/268425-bab-alazizya-...
NYT
Tripoli Divided as Rebels Jostle to Fill Power Vacuum
There are growing hints of rivalry among the various brigades over who deserves credit for liberating the city and the influence it might bring. And attempts to name a military leader to unify the bands of fighters have instead exposed divisions within the
rebel leadership, along regional lines but also between secularists and Islamists.
www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/world/africa...
Dan
Do you still read NYT?
I stopped, they make up stories all the time.
NYT always tries to stir up trouble these days, looks like they think if you repeat it long enough people will believe it.
evanchill Evan Hill
Lots of celebrating in Martyrs’ Square for Eid and still a huge amount of firing in the air, though some fighters tried to stop it
A Libya chant I haven’t totally figured out yet.. Wayn wayn wayn.. means where where where? Need Libya friends to explain
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Sanctions on #Libya will be lifted next #Friday. #feb17
Lucie
Libya is getting over Gadaffi quicker than ever. Just show’s you what a drain on Libya he was.
michael
Wonderful to see #BabAlAzizya change from a symbol of oppression, to a symbol of freedom, democracy and free speech! #FreedomPark
Tweeting Tripoli
Did you know, one of Gaddafi’s most brutal henchmen has this name: Al-Tayeb Al-Safi (The-Kind The-Pure). Talk about irony!!!
C4NForeign Sarah Corp
Amazing scenes in Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Sq as people celebrate Eid #c4news #Libya
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
Incredible scene at Martyrs Sq as thousands celebrated Eid and Victory. “We have two Eids,” one told me. Imam thanked Qatar & NATO.
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Underground prison was found in Ain Zara, #Tripoli, this morning. 4000 prisoners were released. #Libya
Heard petrol in #Tripoli is free, queues have died down. #Libya
Helsingin Sanomat International Edition Foreign
Libyan rebels search for Gaddafi in desert city partly built by Finns
Weapons factory camouflaged as a school
The search for Libya’s deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi has turned eyes toward a desert city that was partly built by Finns.
The desert centre of Bani Walid, which lies 200 kilometres southeast of the capital Tripoli, was home to many Finns in the early 1980s, when Finnish companies working
together with Soviet builders, built a large building covering 200,000 square metres. The Finns designed the walls and roof, and the Soviets brought in the machinery. Officially the building was supposed to be an annex to school. Supervisors of the construction work got used to talking about a “sewing machine factory”.
However, those who were there understood that the facility would be put to completely different use. This was already suggested by the remote location and gigantic dimensions of the building.
“It is clear that such a hall was not being built for sewing machines or as a school. It was used at least for the assembly of Kalashnikov’s Soviet model assault rifles, and possibly other weapons”, says a former worker interviewed by Helsingin Sanomat.
The worker, who wishes to remain anonymous, lived in Bani Walid (sometimes also spelled Beni Walid) for about three years in the mid-1980s. He said that access to the construction area, which was surrounded by walls and barbed wire, was restricted to those with passes granted by the Libyan army.
Full art.:
www.hs.fi/english/article/Libyan+rebels...
hominoid555 not sayin
South Africa Skips Libyan Conference on.wsj.com/qznZbJ via @WSJ surprise surprise !
Egyptian fishing boat mistaken for Gaddafi getaway detained in Libya – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online j.mp/pTN3j9 via @AddToAny
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NTC spokesman says #Gaddafi luggages ‘detected’ being smuggled out via sea from #Tripoli
fieldproducer Neal Mann
We’re at Um-Al Gindeel about 4km short of our position yesterday, rebels being held
back here as told NATO are due to strike up ahead #libya
Rebels here tell me a shell landed about 50 yards back down the road this morning & they hope NATO will knock out what it was fired from
This is the nearest rebel position to Sirte, despite potential NATO strikes they are still sending out the odd scouting party #Libya
Libyan ambassador to leave Zimbabwe: n24.cm/qcXzoV via @News24
Libyan leaders turned down the proposed UN deployment of military observers.
hominoid555 not sayin
Russia is stepping up attempts to repair ties with Libya’s new leadership by supplying it with much needed fuel.
Naharnet
Libya Rebels Say have ‘Right to Kill’ Gadhafi
Libya’s rebels said Wednesday Moammar Gadhafi is almost certainly in Libya and that they have a “right to kill” him, while giving the fugitive strongman’s remaining troops until Saturday to surrender.
“The information I have is this: it is 80 percent certain that Gadhafi is still in Libya,” Omar Hariri, head of military affairs, told Agence France Presse in Tripoli.
Hariri said rebels suspect Gadhafi is hiding either in Bani Walid, southeast of Tripoli, or in the outskirts of the capital. He stressed, however, that since Libya is in a state of war information changes rapidly.
Read more:
www.naharnet.com/stories/en/14003-libya...
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
5 dead in #Tripoli weapons explosion. Probable accident but heightened fears in the city about reprisals #Libya yfrog.com/gzdbssaj
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
several rockets were fired by G forces w of Nawfalia junction.Fighters cut eid celebrations short.NATO jets now overhead.#onroadtosirte
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA spent the morning in Martyrs’ (green) square. Thousands turned out for Eid prayers.
#LIBYA as square emptied – fighters turned up firing round after round of celebratory gunfire in the air.
Eid prayers in martyrs’ (green) square yfrog.com/nyvmdj
Media Lens
HRW: A loyalist insurgency wld have access to ’1000 times the explosives that the insurgents in Iraq had’ tinyurl.com/42uv8eq
inglesi Piers Scholfield
colleagues went down road to Bani Walid last night, elder from there told them Saif al-Islam had been seen in BW hospital on Sunday. #Libya
Malta Today
Libya’s rebel commanders discussed Tripoli invasion in Malta
Misurata’s most senior officials were assisted by the Maltese government for secret talks at the French ambassador’s home in Zebbug, just four weeks before the rebels final assault on Tripoli.
General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel Ahmed Hashem, Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, and Suleiman Fortiya, Misurata’s minister on the Benghazi-based Transitional Council, were brought to Malta by sea and given special visas to land and attend the talks which were held here on 19 July.
The delegation was driven under escort by security branch police in unmarked cars to ambassador Daniel Rondeau’s home in Zebbug.
Unknown to Libyan secret service operatives, who were sent to Malta to mind him following the uprising, Libyan ambassador Saadun Suayed managed to attend the secret meeting and talk with the Misurata representatives.
Zarmuh, Hashem, Betal Mal and Fortiya reportedly discussed the preparations for the Tripoli assault, and Malta’s strategic role to further assist the operation.
The delegation from Misurata later met with French intelligence operatives at the Excelsior Hotel in Floriana, and was later secretly flown to Paris and received by President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace.
In Paris, the Libyan rebels secured the delivery of weapons, communications and other equipment that was to be used to arm the brigades that stormed Tripoli via Misurata and took over Col. Gaddafi’s Bab Aziziya compound.
Two weeks after the Malta meeting, the alarming news of the death of General Abdel Fatah Younes, commander of the rebel forces, forced the French government to insist on sticking to August 20 as the date during which the assault on Tripoli had to commence.
In a bid to avoid serious splits within the NTC in Benghazi, President Sarkozy gave the order to have weapons sent over to the Libya rebels.
Assisted by covert French, British and Qatari operatives, hundreds of Misurata fighters received day and night training and were regularly supplied from Malta with communication and other materials.
While weapons were dropped by French aircraft over the Nafusa mountains and in villages around Zawiya and Zliten, the French Navy assisted in the deliveries to Misurata via the French assault ship Mistral, which came to Malta twice in a week during August and departed from Malta on the morning of 20 August, reaching the Libyan coast by nightfall and assisting the rebels in their sea landing on Tripoli via Misurata.
Meanwhile, two Libyan secret service agents are set to be expelled from Malta after it was discovered that they sent diplomatic cables to Tripoli throughout the uprising, giving names of Libyan dissidents in Malta.
The names include prominent Libyan dissident Tarek Tarhouni and businessman Mario Debono, who were earmarked as ‘conspirators’ against the regime.
Tarhouni and Debono fronted the I-Go Libya Foundation which provided humanitarian aid for Misurata.
The cables were intercepted by the French secret service and copies of which have been seen by senior government officials.
While Tarek Tarhouni is in Tripoli at the moment and unable to react, Mario Debono told MaltaToday that all he did was to help the Libyan people at this difficult moment.
“It shows that Col. Gaddafi had something for who was providing humanitarian aid to
his people,” Debono said, adding that he lost many Libyan friends during the revolution.
“Every life of a friend lost during the revolution doubled my resolve to help the Libyan people, and I will continue to do it for as long as it is necessary,” he said.
Spokesmen for both the Office of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Ministry did not reply to requests sent in MaltaToday.
Source:
www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/lib...
4Adam Adam
Gaddafi’s infamous ‘religious clerk’ used to incite the killing of Libyan people captured by FF in #Tripoli. vimeo.com/28374048 #Libya
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
ReutersIndia Reuters India
FLASH: Russia, China to be represented at Thursday’s Friends of Libya conference in Paris – French government source
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Breaking UK government released 1860 million LD currency notes held since feb. first shipmt arrived in benghazi salaries can now be paid!!
Number still unclear, reports of 4 or 5 killed:
BREAKING #AJE reports of car bomb attack in central #Tripoli. Four thuwar were killed.
More reporst coming in that it is true:)
BREAKING: 4000 prisoners were released today in Tripoli, Ein Zara they were found in an underground prison
Martyrs Sqaure, Tripoli, 31/08/2011
ميدان الشهداء 31/08/2011
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AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Opinion: NTC: Mounting challenges english.alarabiya.net/views/2011/08/… #libya #gaddafi
LibyanTweet
Gaddafi Intel paid many online scamers to spam and flood the cyber space with bullshit. Money can do U know
Tweeting Tripoli
We’re promised help frm previous guard to help reveal if there’re any prisoners in secret places.
Local military council told us that they will take care of the prison and its records. They
now guarding it.
Any one noticed Aljazera Arabic and Aljazera Live being jammed recently? Botafliqa getting first hand experience from Daffy? Ahead of revol?
Abdallah
Irony of ironies, Gaddafi himself is named “The Builder”, Mo3ammar
FromJoanne Joanne
Images of #ECSTATIC #Tripolitans Celebrating #Eid #Tripoli Imam leads Prayer in #Martyr Square goo.gl/Lf7KK #Libya #video
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-sRha3GDEQ&fea...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
EU sanctions on 6 #Libya ports, 4 oil companies and other entities could be lifted as early as Friday: EU diplomats #alarabiya #Qaddafi
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Zliten youth cleaning and painting the town youtube.com/watch?v=ix-___… #Libya
Gaddafi gives another speech to the general Sirte population telling them the NTC’s 4 day ultimatum is a trap to take their weapons v fb
tenthdoctor45 md azim bin md noor
it will be very interesting to hear Germans may prosecute their own for illegally dealing with Gaddafi!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
German rifles in Gaddafi compound shabablibya.org/news/german-ri… #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi loyalists hold out during Eid, Italy says fall of Sirte to signal Colonel’s end goo.gl/E1uQh
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libya’s interim leaders reject UN military personnel bit.ly/nnzQTn
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Abdul Rahman al-Rashed: Arabs celebrating Eid without Qaddafi goo.gl/LHT4o
Mashallah #Eid in #FreeLibya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Thousands celebrate Eid in Tripoli shabablibya.org/?p=6356 #Libya
France wants 1.5 bln euros Libyan assets unblocked shabablibya.org/?p=6351 #Libya
ArmchairArab Armchair Arab
Good to hear Jibril addressing the libyan people rather than his usual routine of schmoozing with foreign diplomats.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Opinion: NTC: Mounting challenges english.alarabiya.net/views/2011/08/… #libya #gaddafi
THIS IS A MUST READ:
TNW MIDDLE EAST
How far Gaddafi went to monitor Libya’s Internet activity:
thenextweb.com/me/2011/08/30/how-far-ga...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Fletcher suspect Matouk Mohamed Matouk found in Libya shabablibya.org/news/fletcher-… #Libya
NickKristof
A Libyan FF soldier asked me if NYC was safe. When I looked puzzled, he added: “Irene,” and asked how he could help.
GADDAFI AND THE TOUAREG: Love, hate and petro-dollars
Touareg attitudes to Gaddafi vary wildly, depending on country of origin and history (First published by Monocle Magazine – Online only, March 2011)
If Gaddafi goes, then the Touareg will be in great danger. But Gaddafi hasn’t been recruiting in Kidal. I don’t think so anyway.”
Despite Ahmed’s claims, it now seems certain that up to 800 young Touareg have been lured north from Mali and Niger to go and fight as mercenaries for Gaddafi since the start of the Libyan uprising. This is unsurprising perhaps if you consider the dire state of poverty and joblessness in the southern Sahara. Decades of drought, under-development and ethnic conflict have recently been exacerbated by the presence of Al-Qaeda In the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) whose kidnappings have put an end to tourism and foreign investment in the region. Gaddafi’s promise of arms and petrodollars represent a pill of hope, albeit a bitter tasting one. Some Touareg youth feel they have no option but to swallow it.
Read more:
www.andymorganwrites.com/gaddafi-and-th...
dovenews Libyan™
WE SAY NO TO ANY TROOPS IN ANY FORMS, EVEN IF THEY WERE DANCERS, NEVER MIND “SECURITY ENVOY” CHANGING THE NAME DOESN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE
Canada should have eyes, ears in Libya: Defence expert said. www.montrealgazette.com/news/Canada+sho... ARE YOU DEAF & BLIND? WE SAID NO, WE STILL SAYING NO
Libya NTC rulers don’t want U.N. forces: envoy www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/30/us-l... WE SUPPORT THAT, WE SAID NO NEED!
Alex
KHAMIS DEATH: DETAILS:
“Their flight came as rebels hailed the death of #Gaddafi ’s youngest son, Khamis, the commander of one of the most feared military units, in fighting to the south of the capital at the weekend.
Only hours beforehand Khamis was present for a final meeting with his father and heavily pregnant sister at the Salahuddin military barracks in the southern suburbs of #Tripoli.
Abdusalam Taher Ali, a soldier who was present, said: “We were trying to hold the southern suburbs when we were suddenly told to retreat to barracks for a new mission.
We saw Khamis, Gaddafi’s son, dressed in green military fatigues. Then Gaddafi himself arrived in an ordinary civilian car.
“At the same time, Aisha drove in separately in a white Hyundai saloon. They were both in civilian clothes and were accompanied by two bodyguards.” Mr Ali, who is being held by rebels, then described how Gaddafi and his son — but not Aisha — huddled together for a family talk lasting 10 to 15 minutes.
“They had their backs to me. I could not hear what they were saying,” he said. “But their body language looked worried.” Separating after their talk, Gaddafi and Aisha changed cars, getting into two Toyota Land Cruisers. They left, heading to the south in a 25-car convoy, he said.
“As they got in, I heard one of the drivers say that they would be going toward the city of Sabha,” he said.
#Sabha, in the middle of the Sahara, has long been mooted as the dictator’s final redoubt.
Bidding their farewells, the dictator and his daughter stepped into the convoy and sped away.
Outside the compound, television camera crews noted a sudden blast of gunfire aimed at the encircling rebels at 1.30pm.
What appeared to be a last act of defiance from the loyalists camped inside, now appears to have been covering fire for Gaddafi’s retreat from Tripoli.
Khamis then gathered the 90 or so soldiers, including Mr Ali, around him for what was to prove his final journey.
“He looked a little bit nervous,” said Mr Ali. “He told us to be ready, we were going to #BaniWalid.”
The town, about 95 miles to the south-east of Tripoli, was on the only route not under rebel control.
Mr Ali said there were 60 vehicles in the convoy, ranging from ordinary cars to ammunition lorries, anti-aircraft artillery pieces and truck-mounted machineguns.
“At first Khamis decided to ride in a Mercedes,” he said. “Then he got out and rode in an armoured Toyota Land Cruiser. I closed the door behind him and we set out.”
That same armoured Land Cruiser now stands, burned out and wrecked, its armoured glass broken and melted.
The wreckage lies just outside the town of Tarhouna, about 80 miles south-east of Tripoli, where it was ambushed by rebel soldiers before it reached Bani Walid.
None of its occupants survived, says Mr Ali, who was travelling three vehicles behind.
“When the attack started, Khamis stopped the car and talked to us all,” Mr Ali said.
“He said we must counterattack and then he drove forward. But they shot out his tyres, he was stuck on the road and then the fire was all around him. The car was a mass of flame. Nobody could have survived it.”
Col Abdurazzik al-Nathuri, the deputy commander of rebel forces in #Tarhouna, said: “We had advance warning that the Khamis convoy was coming from our scouts along the road 20 miles ahead.
“So our patrol came along the side of the road and hid. There were protection cars first, but they did not see us and went back to tell the main convoy that it was safe to approach.
“Then we attacked, with rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns.
“We killed 15 members of the convoy and took 13 prisoners. We have no doubt that Khamis was among the dead in the armoured Toyota, because the prisoners told us he was.
“There were only three people in that car, they said, and we pulled out three bodies. Khamis had no chance to escape, the battle was too intense.”
The rebels took photographs and DNA samples from the bodies before burying them, he said.
Where Gaddafi went after leaving his son remains unclear.
But with exits from the city to the south blocked by rebel forces, the convoy is thought to have taken a loop east and then south towards Bani Walid.
Reports, emanating from Libyan diplomatic sources, claimed that the colonel met there with his trusted sons #Saif al-Islam and Saadi as recently as Monday.
Last night Ali Tarhouni, the oil and economy
minister in the transitional government, said rebels now had a “very good idea” of Gaddafi’s whereabouts.
Aisha was later to join her mother and brothers as a separate convoy of 31 people
made its way across the country towards Algeria. “People from the Touareg tribe helped them find their way into Algeria,” said Shamsiddin Ben-Ali, a spokesman for the transitional council.
It was reported last night that Aisha Gaddafi named her daughter Safiya after her grandmother. The daily newspaper Ennahar also reported that the family had been placed under house arrest.
The birth could create a stumbling block for efforts to extradite the Gaddafis because she was born on Algerian soil.
Algeria is the only north African nation not to have recognised the transitional council as the legitimate leaders of Libya and has retained links to Gaddafi throughout the conflict.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
#ALGERIA VIOLATED #UN #Libya travel ban on Dictator’s children: "Gadhafi ’s two sons who fled, Hannibal and Mohammed, along with his daughter, Aisha, are specifically named in the U.N. travel ban for “closeness of association with (the) regime.”
“We care, in terms of the fact that under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1970, the Gadhafi family was subject to a travel ban,” Nuland said. “So, they have now traveled.
The government of Algeria has now sent a letter to the UN. We are reviewing that letter now in New York but, clearly, there has to be an international community decision and response in regard to the travel ban restrictions that (the resolution) imposes.”
#Tripoli
shabablibya.org/news/u-s-reviewing-alge...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
@Niz_FGM @Tripoli_Latest was just on #AJE!!! :)
WilliamJHague William Hague
Thanks for all your #Libya Qs. I have to finish as due to speak to #NTC leaders now by telephone #askFS
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Family seem soo happy different from when #Gaddafi was there,,, (tears streaming down my eyes)
So happy,, all my family in #Libya is calling us soo happy,, seems like in #Benghazi they can now call abroad via #mobile #phone! :)
Bagdadi Mahmoudi has given himself in to the #Tripoli Military council fb.me/KhaOKuO8
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
The #foreign #Ministry of #Italy has announced that it will re-open its #embassy in #Tripoli on Thursday
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Black people have been attacked/detained by Libyan rebels suspecting mercenaries but to say any black person is unsafe here is going too far
I’ve seen black Libyan rebel fighters + last night lots of black Libyans among those celebrating in Tripoli’s Martyrs Sq
NYT confused:
bungdan Dan Murphy
NYT article says “Abdel Hakim al-Hasadi” (the guy from Derna?) and Abdel Hakim Belhaj are same guy. I had no idea. nytimes.com/2011/08/31/wor…
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
They are getting confused about his nom de guerre, which is Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
I noticed that too. They are not the same guy. I met al-Hasadi in Derna + saw Belhaj here in Tripoli at the weekend
FromJoanne Joanne
Report said PrisonDocs burned 2daysAgo twas from day one, other soca and prisoners passports were salvaged and in safe keeping.
#NATO destroyed yesterday more than 45 military pieces for the battalions #Gaddafi of armored vehicles , #tanks and rocket launchers in addition to headquarters of command in each of the #Sirte ,Bani Walid and Huwn
BREAKING: #Saadi #Gaddafi the infamous #footballer wants to desert to #FFs fearing inevitable death or being killed by #Gaddafi for deserting family!!
via @Guma_el_gamaty
#Lebanon will participate in the “friends of #Libya” meeting in #Paris.
Tweeting Tripoli
We never had issues with race or color before. But we have issues with people who came to kill us.
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
Saw several chadians catpured by FF on #roadtosirte. They say living in #Libya for years. FF say they were found in a trench
chadians had a lot of cash on them.suspected to be spotters for GF. but they denied.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
@WilliamJHague sincere thanks & gratitude for UK strong resolve & standing by libyan people from day1! great friendship & cooperation ahead!
The Atlantic
Former Qaddafi Mercenaries Describe Fighting in Libyan War
To prove he had been in Libya he produced a document — with a passport photo attached and a stamp from the Malian consulate in Tamanrasset — identifying him as a refugee from Libya. He said that that he went to Libya in 2007 with his wife and children. They were given short-term residence papers in exchange for his enlistment in the Libyan army. He was assigned to a Tuareg brigade in the southern town of Awbari.
Two years ago, he was granted full residency status. In addition to the 1,500 dinars (about $1,300) he was paid per month — much of which he sent back to family living in small encampments near Timbuktu — his wife and children received free medical care, and his children went to a Libyan school. “A very good school,” he said. He was promised a house and a car if he stayed in the army. “They always promised a house and a car, but very few Tuareg ever got them,” he said. “I think Qaddafi tried very hard to keep the Tuareg in Libya. I think he smelled something was coming.”
When the protests began in Tripoli, his unit was attached to the infamous 32nd brigade, led by Qaddafi’s son Khamis, and was sent to disperse the unarmed marchers. “That was easy,” he said with startling nonchalance. “We would kill three or four in the front of the crowd and they all ran away. It was very easy.”
I asked if he had seen any civilians killed. In Misrata, he says, “We tried to find everyone there. One half of the city was cleaned.”
“What do you mean ‘cleaned?’” I asked.
“The people were killed. Women, children, everyone there.”
Who did the killing?
Full story:
m.theatlantic.com/international/archive...
Rubicon
PHOTO:
This is a girl from Zawiya. She is 17 years old and never once left Zawiya from the very beginning of Feb17 revolution..apprehensive of putting this up (she consented), don’t think i can look at it twice.
Victim of sniper fire, as she came out and greeted the FF, her dad died in front of her eyes, her sister was also injured. In some twisted way, she is meant to be lucky to only of lost her leg.
There was another girl. Another Zaweeya. Another 17 year old, but this was a victim of shelling by mortar fire.
How ever many battles you fight, nothing quite like being shelled while you are in your own shelter…The prevailing feeling of helplessness, no where to go, no prospect of escape…That ultimate human fear, whose only refuge is the greater fear of God.
www.rubiconmango.com/post/9623171516
Egyptian Chronicles
Libyan Revolution : Aisha Qaddafi’s baby boom !!
The Algerian authorities announced yesterday that Aisha Qaddafi has delivered a baby girl yesterday in Algeria after less than 24 hours from her arrival along with 30 members of Qaddafi clan including her mom and 2 of her brothers. According to the Algerian press the Algerian president let the Qaddafi clan enter the country after knowing that Aisha was giving a baby.
Now there is something interesting I found thanks to tweeps , in early June 2011 Aisha Qaddafi filed a complaint before Belgian courts for war crimes against NATO after the raid of the alliance that allegedly killed her younger brother Seif Al Arab Qaddafi. This news included a very interesting detail because in that complaint Aisha claimed that the NATO raid on April 30,2011 killed her 4 months baby girl
“Mastoura” along with her brothers’ kids “Seif” and “Carthage”
This was an official complaint that was rejected by the court in Belgium on July 28th. Interestingly enough here is an interview with Aisha Qaddafi after the alleged attack in French and she did not seem pregnant to me.
Before that raid and that interview Aisha addressed the public in a stupid speech if you remember, I searched in her photos to see if there is any baby bump and honestly I can’t judge based on the photos as she is tall and slim.
Still how could Aisha Qaddafi have a 4 months baby in April 2011 and later gave a birth to another baby in August 2011 !? Either she hires surrogate mothers or there is another option : There is no Mastoura or there is new baby girl born in Algeria or may be there is Mastoura but there is no new baby girl. Of course there is another crazy explanation : She got two wombs , oh yes there are women who got two wombs !!!
May be baby Mastoura and her uncle Seif Al Arab along his kids are still alive just like his adopted sister Hana whom the Libyans are insisting that she is alive after 25 years of Qaddafi’s claims that she was killed.
Libya has demanded officially Algeria to hand over these runaways.
Source:
egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/08...
FromJoanne Joanne
PL HELP Injured #Libya -ns Get MEDICAL AID via personally found utterly trusted : libyanemergencyaid.com Run by @abeneihum and his Dr Mother
#HELP 4 #Ethiopia NANNY Cruelly and Horribly burned by wife of #Hannibal Gaddafi PLS DONATE: antislaveryfundraising.org/helpshweyga #Libya
hominoid555 not sayin
Moammar Gadhafi is (pretty much) gone, and right on cue there’s increasing talk about applying the Libya “model” to Syria.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Misurata #FF’s landed by sea on #Janzour and #Tripoli shores on night 20 Aug via #France amphibious ships from #Mistral that left #Malta
adammbaron Adam Baron
tricolor flag flying over #libya embassy #sanaa #yemen
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Warship arrives off #Tripoli harbour. British?, French? (two helicopters flying from it) pic.twitter.com/lwokCL2
More on warship in #Tripoli harbour. What appears to be Italian flag on landing craft with handful of marines/soldiers aboard heading in.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
That looks like F-584 an Italian Lupo Class Frigate; but hard to be certain unless you can see the number
They usually only carry one helicopter; but two can land on it if one goes in hangar.
Souffian Tripoli
My Fam. In tripoli went to Bab alAzizia to have look there. To see things for them selves. And went to the martyrs square in #Tripoli
Tripoli1000s Tripoli1000’s
Map of #Liberated Prisons in #Tripoli #Libya : tinyurl.com/3n6w6ol via The Independent – So many still unaccounted for . Pray for them.
Libya’s new rulers set out steps to elections | Reuters reut.rs/ot7dBY via @reuters
With source of water still in Gadhafi hands, Tripoli goes thirsty | McClatchy: bit.ly/mS2v2W via @AddThis
markito0171 Mark
#Misrata in Tomina GF raped 50 woman & girls in school 3 girls told the crime their father Shame was huge took a knife & cut necks through
Witness to War Crimes: Evidence from #Misrata physiciansforhumanrights.org
Gaddafi spokesman rejects rebel demand to surrender – The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/war-zones/... via @washingtonpost
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Video: UN on New Libya english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… #Libya #UN #BanKimoon #Rebels #Qaddafi #AlArabiya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Italy to re-open embassy in Tripoli on Thursday: foreign ministry #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
feb17libya Feb17Libya
War’s forgotten: Tripoli Zoo animals suffer, lacking food, water bit.ly/q41b56 #libya
Attacks by #Gaddafi’s forces on water engineers in the desert have caused a widespread water shortage in #Tripoli. feb17.info/news/live-libya-unrest-augus...
Live: Libya Unrest: August 31, 2011 bit.ly/qAA0uE #libya
From Baghdad to Tripoli bit.ly/pKPhKu #libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Strange that the town the Gaddafi family ran to (Djanet) in Algeria is a Taureg stronghold.
THerwees
Bernard Henri-Levy: War profiteer, opportunist, peddler of Zionist/racist propaganda.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
On behalf of all Libyans, we would like to thank you @WilliamJHague for all your hard work and efforts in helping the Free ppl of #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
100s perhaps 1000s of ethnic Tuaregs left Mali to fight for Muammar Qaddafi. some r returning home to tell their story goo.gl/JlDIw
RAF flies £950m unfrozen cash assets to Libya
The RAF is flying £950m of Libyan cash to Libya after an assets freeze aimed at Col Muammar Gaddafi was lifted.
Notes, amounting to 1.86 billion Libyan dinars that were printed in the UK, will be handed to Libya’s Central Bank.
A Whitehall official said the money should be available to load into cash machines and distribute to banks in Libya very quickly.
The currency was released following a decision by the United Nations sanctions committee in New York.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14734420
Souffian Tripoli
Dear #Libya people tomorrow is 1sep. So stay alert and protect #tripoli. Gaddafi thugs my use this date to create attacks or problems.
kelvinbrownnews Kelvin Brown
The NTC tell the BBC they have found an underground prison in #Tripoli , holding 140 people alive. They had to break through a 40cm wall.
NTC sources say Matouk Mohammed Matouk, one of the alleged accomplices to the murder of Yvonne Fletcher, is wanted for a range of crimes.
NTC sources tell us they have not yet arrested Matouk Mohammed Matouk, playing down reports they know where he is.
Telegraph
Libya: Col Gaddafi’s family dash across desert to Algeria
Last Friday, more than three days after the fall of Col Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Azizia compound, the soldiers of the Khamis Brigade in southern Tripoli were told to stand by for an important visitor.
Soon afterwards Gaddafi, sitting in the back seat of a black Hyundai saloon and dressed in a green civilian shirt and trousers, was driven through the gate.
Such was the chaotic nature of their flight that, at one point, they blundered across the wrong border — entering into Tunisia before reaching Algeria thanks only to the intervention of local tribesmen.
Arriving in Tunisia, which has had its own revolution, could have resulted in their arrest rather than sanctuary.
Read full story and watch video:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
a-Col-Gaddafis-family-dash-across-desert-to-Algeria.html
robcrilly Rob Crilly
NTC has the coast, but much of the interior is beyond their reach. Lots of reports of G forces regrouping to south
You think Saadi Gaddafi, former footie player, knows its transfer deadline day??? G son says he wants to surrender: tinyurl.com/42x2wet
Um-Al Gindeel about 4km short of position yesterday, rebels being held back here as told NATO strike due ahead #libya
Libyan rebels control most of the coast – but it’s a vast country and Gaddafi isn’t finished yet (latest blog) tinyurl.com/3uwp7jv #libya
Lovely line in AP story: Belhaj (rebel commander) says al-Saadi (Gaddafi) called back again early Wednesday, but he missed the call. DOH
Also, Saadi was with three different Italian Serie A clubs, Sampdoria, Perugia and Udinese over four seasons. And managed three matches
RAF not only bombing but also bringing in money. Today they are delivering 1.8bn of LYD to NTC for cash machines
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Just spent a few hours with friends who live in #Tripoli . Told me lots of nervousness that #Gaddafi supporters will launch bombing campaign
Rumor mill on over drive in #Tripoli Everyone worried if #Gaddafi not found will organize chaos in #Libya like he did in other countries
Am told some people at armed checkpoints in residential areas where pro #Gaddafi just weeks ago making locals nervous about 5th columnists
Told #Libya State TV anchors threatened viewers with witchcraft in last weeks of regime. One produced green egg as proof God with #Gaddafi
Ridiculously long queues around #Tripoli for petrol but price now of half what was a week ago now Djerba border open
m_madi Mohamed Madi
yep that was Yusuf Shakir, a rotund but spritely character who has also summoned genies and ancient kings to fight for Gaddafi
The Libyan flag in the fifties on a cyclist’s jersey. Too cool:
Lojacono on the left and Gino Cason aka “il biondino” ( “the fair-haired”) champion cyclist of Tripolitania in the 50s.
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LATEST NEWS:
#Tunisian authorities prevented named Ammar Elteef to travel from #Carthage airport at the request of the #NTC
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
The woman who chose female bodygaurds 4 #gaddafi; my interview: . bit.ly/nr60r2 second part of interview later 2nite
or:
akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-reports/Ais...
France24
Inside Gaddafi’s underground labyrinth
A week after rebel forces captured Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya’s former leader is still at large. FRANCE 24 has captured images of the vast underground tunnel system by which Gaddafi most likely escaped.
Full art. and video:
www.france24.com/en/20110831-libya-gadd...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
#Italy has unblocked 500 million #euros in #Libyan assets for the Libyan People
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Plenty of gunfire here but all celebratory as elders arrive on buses from Misrata to give Eid greetings to the frontline fighters
Also say no orders to advance on Bani Walid, some 100k to the west. They hope for an uprising from within. #Libya
#Misrata fighters here say they lost too many men already so they will only advance into #Sirte after #Benghazi fighters take the city.
dovenews Libyan™
Abdel Hakim Belhaj shouldn’t trust #Alsaadi nor #Gaddafi. Dont tell media until surrendr #Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They’re Hatch.
Khiria
#Gaddafi referred to us as AlQaeda even though he’s the one setting up explosive cars. #Libya #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
Just watched Abosowa capture vid on Alarabia TV. They removed 5 sec part showing FF commander instructing his men not to humiliate him, why?
Was the best part. As much as I hated this double-faced Abosow, I liked how FF chief was instructing his men not to hurt him.
evanchill Evan Hill
AJE’s Jamal Elshayyal uncovers evidence that David Welch and Dennis Kucinich may have gone to bat for Gaddafi regime
Communication with US officials
I managed to smuggle away some documents, among them some that indicate the Gaddafi regime, despite its constant anti-American rhetoric – maintained direct communications with influential figures in the US.
I found what appeared to be the minutes of a meeting between senior Libyan officials – Abubakr Alzleitny and Mohammed Ahmed Ismail – and David Welch, the former assistant secretary of state who served under George W Bush and the man who brokered the deal which restored diplomatic relations between the US and Libya in 2008.
Welch now works for Bechtel, a multinational American company with billion dollar construction deals across the Middle East. The documents record that, on August 2, 2011, David Welch met with Gaddafi’s officials at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cairo, just a few blocks from the US embassy there.
During that meeting Welch advised Gaddafi’s team on how to win the propaganda war – suggesting several “confidence building measures”, the documents said. The documents appear to indicate that an influential US political personality was advising Gaddafi on how to beat the US and NATO.
Minutes of this meeting note his advice on how to undermine Libya’s rebel movement,
with the potential assistance of foreign intelligence agencies, including Israel. “Any information related to al-Qaeda or other terrorist extremist organisations should be found and given to the American administration but only via the intelligence agencies of either Israel, Egypt, Morroco, or Jordan… America will listen to them… It’s better to receive this information as if it originated from those countries…”
The papers also document that Welch advised Gaddafi’s regime to take advantage of the current unrest in Syria, pointing out: “The importance of taking advantage of the Syrian situation particularly regarding the double-standard policy adopted by Washington… the Syrians were never your friends and you would loose nothing from exploiting the situation there in order to embarrass the West.”
Read story and watch video:
english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/...
Reuters
Gaddafi loyalists under fire as Libya celebrates
Libyan forces backed by NATO bombers struck at loyalist troops dug in around Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown on Wednesday, as refugees streamed out of the besieged bastion fearing a bloody showdown in the coming days.
Art.: and video:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/31/us-l...
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Hawkers now selling revolutionary tat including keyrings, badges, banners, hats + balloons on Tripoli’s Martyrs (ex Green) Square
Saw little boy hanging out of window of passing car near Martyrs Sq – he was firing plastic rifle in the air in imitation of rebel fighters
FromJoanne Joanne
Dr #Mazagri + 45 incl businessmen Journalists,Drs eevn #Talitha v #Zon arrived in #Valletta Malta on Monday #Libya fb.me/1bafn1WMa
#FLASH #NTC has set out steps leading to democratic ELECTIONS monitored by the United Nations within 18 months #Libya
FF commander on road2 #BaniWalid: Awaiting orders 2either negotiate with Gaddafi forces or to attack BW @SkyNews goo.gl/3Mtj7 #Libya
Inside Gaddafi’s factories of War www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14726852 how they used them as Arms Depots #Libya
#TRIPOLI ZOO Nasr Forest also needs URGENT volunteers See @NicRobertsonCNN Timeline Only 10 of 200 ppl looking after animals Pls HELP #Libya
#Libya being taken over by Islamic radicals @realDonaldTrump Where do u get that notion from ? U have no clue about #libya
#Tripoli Commander #Belhaj says #Al-Saadi Gaddafi told him (by phone ) Saadi had not killed any1 and " was not against the people" #Libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
hey, its because Saadi lived there that #zwara got paved roads and street lights #Tripoli #Belhaj #Al #Libya
The Gaddafis left their legacy allover# Libya in that way where ever they lived Everything suddenly got upgraded
FromJoanne Joanne
same happened in #Sabha @annmarlowe in my own area Hadbah al khadra I always had electricity Thanks to an Energy min. living there #Libya
#Tripoli Heartbreaking to watch gentle spoken Nanny inHospital Hannibal Wife Burned Nanny with Boiling Water #Libya goo.gl/K5Aij
Khalifa
That’s gotta be the joke of the day. #SaadiDidNotKillAnyone
kristin
ah.. see aishas dead husband has turned up in Algeria
The daily Ennahar newspaper reported Wednesday that up to 62 Gathafi clan members had entered Tunisia.
The government source would not confirm that figure, but Algeria’s UN ambassador said that the spouses of Gathafi’s two sons and daughter also entered the country, with several of their children.
goo.gl/juF0k he allegedly died on1 26 July, miracle births/deaths
or:
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=...
FromJoanne Joanne
So far there =only 1 woman in the #NTC but take it from me she will fight like a lion 4WomensRights in new #Libya much will change
FromJoanne Joanne
#Mutassim Gaddafi Head IntelligenceService allegedly was protected by 16Yr oldBOYS bc they wre seen as less likely 2defect + gullible #Libya
Oman Daily Observer
Desert town of Bin Jawad pays price of betrayal
BIN JAWAD, Libya — Burned and ransacked houses in the Libyan desert town of Bin Jawad, east of Sirte, serve as evidence that fighters have not forgotten or forgiven an act of betrayal dating back several months.
Gaddafi’s troops were invited back to kill.
“Dozens of our men were struck down like dogs, as they slept or in the mosque,” said Omar, a 30-year-old fighter whose combat group, the Zintan Brigade, is back in Bin Jawad with Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte again in sight.
Read more:
main.omanobserver.om/node/63427
Mark
dispute in german goverment about #Nato-mission in #Libya and the voting in UN resolution 1973. foreign minister have to go
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
At today’s Ramadan service in Martyrs Sq Imam who lead the service thanked NATO for its role in the revolution.
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Electricity is stabilized in Tripoli in the last 48 hours Good Job
Croatia seeks info about detained mercenaries. main.omanobserver.om/node/63421
Mugabe — circling the wagons, are the apache coming for him www.newsday.co.zw/article/2011-08-31-mu...
NYTimesCohen Roger Cohen
White House tells me US flown10% of strike missions in #LIbya, 47% support missions. Some say that leading from behind. I say it’s smart.
frankentele Sean Carberry
According to our sources, the Tripoli blast reported by Al Jazeera was just kids playing with a hand grenade – an accident. #Libya
hominoid555 not sayin
Why The African Union Won’t Recognize Libyan Rebels !! Libyan rebels are killing black Africans, what’s the next excuse !!
NTC fighters said they clashed with Gaddafi forces patrolling in the area west of Sirte.
libyanproud libyanandproud
Thank you @UN and @UNICEF for the water ! They did an excellent and swift job in distributing drinking water to #Tripoli. #Feb17 #Libya
North Korea yet to recognize Libya’s rebel NTC. www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/20...
Libya Seeks to Import 500,000 Tons of Wheat, Reuters Reports – Bloomberg bloom.bg/orwPHS via @BloombergNews
#Tripoli : Looting minimal, all lootings i saw or heard about are done by thieves who stole in the past, present, and future.
#Tripoli : GUNS : Weapons are registered by local councils and given ID, to be later submitted.Some ppl have unreg guns, neighbors knw them
#Tripoli : I have been CELEBRATING and Guarding checkpoints. I am on vacation but i have a feeling will have to start working soon #Feb17
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Libya latest report: lovely shots from our Cameraman Tim Facey bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
youngamazigh youngamazigh
Flying the flag for North Africa’s ‘Berber spring’ – bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #amazigh #libya #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
#Libyan #Money: US $34B, UK $19.2B, Swiss $827M, Luxembourg $1.39B, Italy $8B, Germany €7B, France $11B, Canada $2.4B, Austria €1.2Billion
libyanproud libyanandproud
THANK YOU and HAPPY EID to everyone who belived and stood by our struggle for Freedom ! #Feb17 #Libya #Tripoli
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Khamis #Gaddafi’s guards say they saw their boss die in ambush last Fri & 2 hours earlier saw Gaddafi in south Tripoli base #Libya
Spoke to 2 guards who say the Col. was at Khamis’s base in Salahedin. Khamis tried to meet Mutassim in Bani Walid. #Gaddafi went south
Bani Walid still not secure. Frontline from north around 30km short of town. Nato bombed it today. Lots of interest #Libya
fpleitgenCNN Frederik Pleitgen
On the front line near Sirte. #cnn cnn.com/video/data/2.0…
Mauritania leader sets off to Libya talks in Paris. www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Qaddafi loyalists under fire as Libya celebrates. arabnews.com/middleeast/article496078.ece
ITwitius Tim Marshall
#Libya Whitehall source – ‘A new UN Resolution on Libya’s assets will take a few more days but it will be discussed in Paris’.
@FromJoanne Joanne
#HELP 4 #Ethiopia NANNY Cruelly and Horribly burned by wife of #Hannibal Gaddafi PLS DONATE: antislaveryfundraising.org/helpshweyga #Libya
Hayat
That woman is SICK she’s not even Libyan! She used to work in brotherl in Lebanon! She always burns her servants with hot water!
Isn’t this crime enough to demand she be recommended to the #ICC as well as her husband and Libyan in-laws!? #Freaks
hababbi dee
gadaffis son stole our house in benghazi years ago we had 2 homes. said he liked it wanted it and took it
FromJoanne Joanne
Remember the days that there were reports Gaddafi was burning ppl in #Tripoli like the nazis did with the Jews ?
FromJoanne Joanne
I am afraid its not true I have asked several ppl inside Tripoli Nobody can confirm 4000 underground bunkersFree
TheyCallMeSof Sofyan Amry
by ChangeInLibya
Eid Prayer in liberated #Tripoli. The day Ive been waiting for MY ENTIRE LIFE! youtu.be/eKcZ40sRbis
AJELive AJELive
Oil trading company Gunvor Group Ltd sending cargo of diesel #fuel to #Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi aje.me/jQEpiq #AJE
ahmedfudge Fudge
by 20arb11
Skype needs to update the Libyan flag…
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
Saadi is gay…like the Hana-being-alive thing, Libyans have known this for a while.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
1st of September tomorrow. No more flashing green lights all over tripoli and ugly Gaddafi parades thank god
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
Tonight on @channel4news: #Eid in #Tripoli, women in the revolution and where is #Ghaddafi?
dovenews Libyan™
Abdu, 21 Lost both eyes, needs surgery youtube.com/watch?v=f8Z1IB… please contact @OmarAlmoktar #Libya #helpAbdu
FunGuerillaz FunGuerilla No.1
The German State TV just aired a report on the German automatic guns found @ Bab al Aziziya. There will most probably be a criminal inquiry.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
BTW, Dennis Kucinich and David Welch are not “senior U.S. officials.” One is an embarrassing congressman, the other an EX-official
Hayat Libya
Tomorrow is September 1st- Expect something from #Gaddafi -according to my engineer friend-could range from Scods to a giant fart #Libya :P
FromJoanne Joanne
#Breaking Abdulati AlBaydi FM of Gaddafi ARRESTED in alSerraj West #Tripoli #Libya Musa Kusa Position after he fled #Libya via #Skynews
AJELive AJELive
#Libya: #Italian energy firm #Eni has said it will resume natural #gas production from October 15 aje.me/jQEpiq #AJE
dovenews Libyan™
Will Gaddafi go & stay in the New Jersey Mansion? mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives… #NO #Libya
#Gaddafi has not escaped from #Libya and is most probably hiding in the desert, Italian Foreign Minister Franco #Frattini said ON Wednesday.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tawerga civilians fearing MAJOR Battle in #Sirte streamed by in Packed2Hilt vehicles along coastal highway some flying white flags #Libya
AJELive AJELive
About 500 #Tuaregs hunted by #Libyan rebels have entered #Algeria: Government source aje.me/jQEpiq #AJE
acarvin Andy Carvin
Meanwhile, in other news…. RT @RashidAlghatam: Woman saves small dog ‘Fudge’ by punching bear in face: bit.ly/ph49Gr
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova FERRY “FEHIM BEY” now departing #Malta for dest. #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Gaddafi: “Those of you who support me leave #Tripoli before 2am tonight. Those that stay are in for surprise”. via AlRaiy TV #Libya #Feb17
#Gaddafi: “Woof! Bark bark! woof, woof Bark woof! Zenga Zenga”. via AlRaiy TV #Libya #Feb17
#Freedomfighters reach #Thalatheen area, 30km west of #Sirte akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-re… #Libya #Feb17
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “FARWA” absent from #Libya since #Feb17 now anchored 82.1 NM out from port #Tripoli Libya.
wa7fwr Jim Henager, III
U.S. Citizens: If you object to a pro-Gaddafi traitor holding a U.S. Congressional seat, please sign: tinyurl.com/3gqra2v
speaking of David Welch, isn’t an act of treason committed by a US citizen against the US govt. punishable by death?
SkyNewsBreak
Reuters: Colonel Gaddafi’s Foreign Minister Abdelati Obeidi arrested by Anti-Gaddafi forces west of Tripoli
Tweeting Tripoli
Historical moment: First ever Amazegh SMS sent by NTC to Libya. Hurry up people tell me what it says :) yfrog.com/khgmeuoj
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Ar-Rai TV Saif #Gaddafi speaking. #Libya
ShababLibya:
Saif now on the phone to Arabiyah following Saadi’s call #Libya”
Fissa82
Underground prison was found in Ain Zara in Tripoli, this morning. 4000 prisoners were released. ALLAHO AKBAR :) fb.me/1gn14Qkyr
feb17libya Feb17Libya
LIVE: Shalgam: They are looking for an exit. Each son is taking a different approach
4Adam Adam
Saif Gaddafi: I contacted all Libyan tribes they say ’ we with the leader’ ‘we have enough arms’ ‘We are making progress and gaining ground’
Omar
Saif: Sirte has 20,000 armed men ready to repel any rebel attack
BREAKING: Seif #Gaddafi says he and father are fine, victory is soon. عاجل: سيف القذافي يقول انه و والده بخير و ان النصر قريب
feb17libya:
LIVE: Shalgam reaction to Saif Al Islam – They are in a coma (insane), I am from Fezzan
Mushu
#Saif inciting + encouraging violence+bloodshed.
Good question:)
Sunny
Saif says “we are drinking tea and coffee, am asking everyone to attack the rats.” Why not stop drinking and attack them yourself? #libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Fight goes on, says Qaddafi son Seif al-Islam: TV audio tape. english.alarabiya.net
Breaking Libya News – عاجل ليبيا أخبار
PROOF SAIF ISLAM HAS LOST THE PLOT AND GONE MAD!!
Saif: NTC’s head Jalil is a liar, they did not take Bab Azizia, it was bombed many times by NATO and was opened to visitors #denial #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
LIVE: Shalgam reaction to Saif Al Islam – There are not 20,000 armed people in Sirte – we have captured Abdel Hadi Mbarish, General of Sirte
Keith
Why is Syrian media giving airtime to Saif Gaddafi? Isn’t he just a an ex-Phd student and has-been son of an ex-leader. Next!
MilitantNews
#Libya I don’t quite understand why, if Saadi Gaddafi supposedly wants to surrender, he didn’t he go to Algeria with the rest of the family
jd2folife
Remember when there 65,000 loyal Gaddafi supporters all willing to die in Tripoli? That was awkward…lol
Adel
what happd to the millions? “@feb17libya: LIVE: Saif Al Islam on Al Arabiyah: “There are 20,000 armed people in Sirte” -
lissnup
Quick, get some video up of Aisha giving birth and a radio broadcast from Muammar, it’s family night for the Gaddafi’s!
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Ah, Saif, ever the optimist. RT @AlArabiya_Eng: BREAKING: Seif al-Islam: We are making progress and gaining ground
S K
oh lord saif is on the phone someone trace that call #libya #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
Saadi wants to surrender & Saif wants to fight ??? MAD Family
youngamazigh
we should hang saadi gaddafi in the football stadium (riyadhia) the place that he destoyed, he destroyed libyan football! #cheat #libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Saif Islam has gone mad,, and when i mean mad i mean physiologically mad!!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
LIVE: Saif Al Islam Gaddafi on Al Arabiyah: “If you find anyone against us, kill them”
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi’s son #Saadi tells Al Arabiya TV that his father is ready to hand power over to the rebels and calls for a truce to end bloodshed
Ali
CONFIRMED:
Souffian Tripoli
This is a code !!! Saadi and Saif #Gadaffi broadcasting their voice via TV stations prior to 1st September. These are codes. !!!!!
Saadi al-gaddafi: I am not in Sirte. I cannot say where I am.
Saadi called the rebels his brothers. Change of tone massively from the Gaddafi regime.
S K
btw i consider #kucinich mckinney farrakahn zuma and david welch to be war criminals for aiding and abetting the enemy
Alex
#Saif gives anr delusional speech – "attack “rats” & “gangsters” day & night" – #BaBAz was just a camp – we r still strong & will win #Libya
Who are the “rebels” ?
Guardian UK
Libya’s unlikely rebel with a cause against Gaddafi
When the history of the 2011 Libyan revolution is written, it will consist largely of the stories of hundreds of men like Walid Danna.
Cosmopolitan, travelled, an urban professional with a penchant for fishing, watching movies and drinking latte, Danna was living the quiet life in Tripoli with his family – mother, father, four brothers and his younger sister. In his spare time he hung out with his friends in the cafes of the capital, or else swam in the Mediterranean or worked out.
Before February, he was indifferent to the Gaddafi clan, happy enough to bank a decent salary as an oil engineer. He had studied in London for a master’s in business administration. He had never even seen a machine gun, still less handled one.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/29/li...
evanchill Evan Hill
Saadi Gaddafi refers to NTC fighters as “thuwar” – revolutionaries, the name they use for themselves – and says NTC can take power. #Libya
EXCLUSIF: Alger refuse l’entrée à El Gueddafi. www.elwatan.com/une/exclusif-alger-refu...
Al Arabiyah:
Shalgam reaction to Saadi Gaddafi – His talk is not correct. 10% of Sirte is with Gaddafi. – #Libya #Feb17
Carol Viana
We want your daddy, silly. RT @ShababLibya: Saadi: I will surrender myself if this will end bloodshed #Libya #wearewaiting
Richard A.
i hope Saadi does it soon the lions in the zoo need some food fast
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
It seems that #Saadi #Gaddafi shares similar public speaking skills to his father…..none whatsoever
Saadi says he would never take a weapon against a Libyan, is he for real? after 50,000 martyrs?
Why Does Muammar Qaddafi Own a Mansion in New Jersey?
Almost thirty years ago, in 1982, the Libyan government paid a million bucks for this three-story, 10,000 square foot, 25-bedroom mansion, which they inexplicably named “Thunder Rock,” on Palisade Avenue in Englewood, a suburb in Bergen County. It’s a bizarre choice of neighborhood for a government that has made a habit of bankrolling terrorists and talking about how much they hate Israel, considering it’s right smack in the middle of a sizeable Orthodox Jewish community. In fact, Thunder Rock is directly next door to the largest yeshiva in town, and just a short walk from the home of one Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who, if in case you missed that episode of Oprah, is an outspoken leader in the American Jewish community and a former spiritual mentor to Michael Jackson.
Read the story:
shabablibya.org/news/why-does-muammar-q...
dovenews Libyan™
Saif Gaddafi was naming specific areas in Tripoli & other various cities, exactly like his dad’s, coded sms 2 sleeper cells. So Desperate
How do Gaddafi & sons think? If we cant have it, no body will. #Spoiled #MORONS
Lets not forget that Gaddafi’s FM Al-Obeidi was arrested by #FF. Maybe Saif is upset about that in his Rat HOLE. #Coffee
After listening 2 #Saadi #Gaddafi again, he’s still referring 2 #FF as insurgents & his dad as a Leader. Personally I wuld dismiss his offer
Could we start a campaign demanding the resignation of the US congressman #Denis #Kucinich english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/...
weddady
Behavior like this is why distrust of Americans runs so deep in the Mddle East
Alex
Its regrettable that last chapter of #Libya Revolution – cannot be closed peacefully – but no surprise – #Gaddafi will kill until last man.
#FF must now focus on final battle tribal elders cant defy #Gaddafi thugs #BaniWalid must be liberated asap – so water 4 #Tripoli & #Libya
#Saif #Gaddafi – Dad & I will have cup of tea while U must go & sacrifice yr lives 4 us & go kill rats & gangsters so we keep #Libya bilns
#Saif says he has 20000 armed fighters – means he probably has about 2000 mercenaries & hardliners. #Libya #Sirte #BaniWalid
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
If you study the sociology of students in j-school, you’d have a pretty acute idea of why journalism is in such a deplorable state. #lazy
Another huge problem is the shallowness of a j-school education. Students want to report about the ME with no knowledge of its history.
My friend was reporting frm Libya – called her peers “wannabe war-heroes” but were incredibly lazy when it came to real reporting.
In the context of my experiences in j-school, none of this is a surprise. They don’t care about people, only their byline.
very rarely you come across excellent journalists
Journo friend said her peers had little interest in learning about local culture. Simply wanted to get the story out
Hence, sweeping generalizations and flat out nonsense about MENA and its peoples
You know how sometimes we’re shocked when actors don’t believe a word they utter on film? Same for journos. It’s a gig
man if you met some of my classmates, none of this is shocking. All Greek society airheads or Andy Cooper wannabes.
tv news is the WORST. I’ve spent some time in the newsroom, and it’s all theatrics and narcissism.
As news consumers, you need to be skeptical of everything you hear, contextualize it and read between the lines.
Hence, sweeping generalizations and flat out nonsense about MENA and its peoples
And realize that some journos are orientalist bastards.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Sayf says to #FF: ‘you are welcome to come and visit #Sirte, there are 20,000 armed people there’ #Libya
Sayf claims 20k people will defend #Sirte judging by usual pro-gad inflation of numbes that means 200 fighters. #Libya
just based purely on what i saw with my own eyes in Tripoli, Zlitan, Zawiyah. they always inflated numbers of supporters.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Benghazi museum shows scars, triumphs of Libya revolt shabablibya.org/news/benghazi-… #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Someone needs to sit Saif down and explain one or two things to him. #Libya
vatyma
before you sit him down, give the kid some ritalin #saif #gaddafi
LOL Mushu
Aisha Gaddafi = TheToughestGaddafiSon
iglooo101
Saif sit sit…good boy , good boy
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
I wish Saif would stop throwing his toys out of the pram.
Hanan
Classic Case of Sibling Rivalry! Saadi spoke? Seif has to one-up him!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
FACTBOX-Latest developments in the Libyan conflict shabablibya.org/news/factbox-l… #Libya
PHOTO’S ENJOY!
Eid Al-Fitr in Free Libya
By Libyan Youth Movement •
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.19843...
feb17libya Feb17Libya
The Gaddafi’s sound a bit ticked off today – The beautiful Eid prayers from Tripoli to Benghazi must have gotten under their skin – #Libya
BBC
Why did Algeria take the Gaddafis?
feb17.info/editorials/why-did-algeria-t...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya rebels say security guaranteed for Saadi Qaddafi if he surrenders #Libya #Saadi
Souffian Tripoli
Don’t forget the Gaddafi sponsored terrorism internationally. And can continue to do so. Proof will come out
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Nice profile of Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/…
Niz_FGM Niz
confusion in Tripoli regarding explosion Wed morning. Rumours regarding the cause are endless.
Still no running water in #Tripoli
Power cuts have subsided in #Tripoli
Gas cylinders (for cooking) now in supply again at normal prices after the shipment of gas to #Tripoli
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
US says Qaddafi’s daughter gave birth on Algeria border goo.gl/iLT8O
An Algerian letter? Oh, I see……..
Must read:
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s Abu Salim prison ‘rats’ faced brutality english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/…
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Tripoli bookworm thrilled by Libya’s new chapter bit.ly/o3bcJm #libya
4Adam:
Hey Gaddafi, check your inbox! #NTC sent today a SMS message congratulating Libyans on Eid al-Fitr in Tamazighet language."
BreakingNews Breaking News
by AmmarParis
Gadhafi’s son, on Al Arabiya TV, says his father is seeking a role in govt with rebels. more – @AlArabiya bit.ly/kYTe6o
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Saif sounds like he’s resolved himself to going down with his father #Gaddafi #Libya
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Very quiet day on the eastern front, rebels moving artillery forward but commanders say no attack on Sirte until at least Saturday
I’ve uploaded new photos to my gallery from Eastern Libya, you can see them here www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.20577...
A medic exhumes the body of a pro-Gaddafi soldier who was buried in a road side grave after an air strike www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2071661...
fpleitgenCNN Frederik Pleitgen
Fireworks in Misrata. City celebrating first Eid without Gaddafi in a long time and their survival after a horrible onslaught. #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Alarabia TV says it’s been under jamming attacks like ALjazeera, Algeria is preparing for Sep 17th?
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
Reports that Gadhafi has been found in Bani Walid. Cannot confirm independently.
hominoid555 not sayin
Is Libya’s Muammar Gadhafi finally cornered? kinda looks like it eh !
One of the officials also says Wednesday that Gadhafi forces and rebels are fighting near the town of Bani Walid.
Jibril, Executive Office of the President: the courts should start to receive people’s complaints
Metro – Rebels: son of Libyan intelligence chief killed www.metronews.ca/toronto/world/article/...
Conference on Libya: Algiers dispatch its foreign minister. www.ennaharonline.com/en/news/7144.html I don’t think the Libyans will be charmed by this !
danieljerivers Dan Rivers
Wow! someone just pledged 10,000 dollars to #nannyinneed
inglesi Piers Scholfield
People of #Sirte are waiting for rebels to arrive, resident told me. Not many people support Gaddafi there, just his own tribe. #Libya
Misratan fighters under orders not to allow anyone into Misrata, for fear of fifth columnists. Say it will change after Saturday. #Libya
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Amid all the revolutionary graffiti in Tripoli, I’ve seen lots of the Amazigh (Berber) emblem painted by rebels from Amazigh areas
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
3 cars near #MaydanElShuhada, planning on bombing area, were chased to #Tajoura; 2 caught, 1 got away. #Libya #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#FOREIGN #Firms Aided #Libyan SPIES a Look Inside Security Unit Shows How Citizens Were Tracked goo.gl/9azAF #Libya
#CHILLING: Arwa Damon meets young #Libya woman who says she was forced to kill FF prisoners goo.gl/5HqbX
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFF18h1bZLk
Abdelsalam
i can confirm that Abdelati Alobaidi has been arrested by Janzur #FF.I saw it myself.am in Janzur now.He was hiding in his farm
inglesi
Sirte resident Conditions there Terrible: no electricity short on basic supplies “like living in a prison” pple r afraid #Libya
#IMPORTANT Documented by Physicians for Human Rights : Widespread #Gaddafi war crimes #Misrata PDF goo.gl/ePWMK
Tweeting Tripoli
Watch this vid at 1:20 the FF chief giving instructions not to hurt Him youtube.com/watch?v=uTgDjo… Here FF disappears at 0:07 youtube.com/watch?v=YARlfP…
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Saif is a total #PSYCHOPATH he said he went through many areas of #Tripoli today and the rebels are not there it is safe!
#Libya is seeking to import 500,000 tonnes of wheat and 400,000 tonnes of flour in the next two to three months,… fb.me/MBfgZOLJ
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Head of #tripoli military council Belhaj confirms to me that #baniwalid and #sert are giving refugee to #gaddafi & family members. #libya
Head of #tripoli military council Belhaj tells me in interview: #Saadi #gaddafi is considering surrender and it can happen any moment #libya
Belhaj tells me in interview:If negotiations 2 enter #sert & #baniwalid peacefully are not fruitfull, we will use force. #libya #tripoli
Belhaj tells me as well: #saadi #gaddafi told us that #gaddafi is an old man and we all make mistakes. #libya #tripoli
Belhaj: #saadi asked that his dad #gaddafi doesn’t stand trial.We said he’ll b treated fairly, those who did mistakes will b tried. #libya
Here is my full interview with Abdul Hakim Belhaj, Head of #tripoli military council: bit.ly/pjT3w8 #tripoli #libya
AJE: UK Plane lands in #Benghazi delivering ~$200 million to NTC for salaries of government workers, nurses & drs in efforts to lift spirits
UriLF:
Kucinich denies Al Jazeera report that he worked with Qaddafis bit.ly/n5yZJw
Gaddafi falsified all the classified secret documents? Is that what Kucinich is saying?
Yeah, right….
FromJoanne Joanne
On March1 2friends were Arrested 4HRS aft calling Foreign Journo from #Tripoli Cell Phone according to relative; goo.gl/9azAF #Libya
Alexblx
Tweet 2 @realDonaldTrump Sign @ recent #Libya ‘rebels’ gathering in #Benghazi – “USA U have a new ALLY in NORTH AFRICA” yfrog.com/nvy48zj
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Don’t forget tomorrow is Sept 1 – National Cleanup Day in #Libya. It’s time to paint over, scrub off, & trash the past 42 years of #Gaddafi