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SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 16th 2011
9/16/11
9.16.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/SQ8E6
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Wed am: RAF Tornado GR4s from RAF Marham fired Storm Shadows at targets in and around Sebha.
Targets near Sebha included: military vehicle depot & buildings NATO had confirmed were in use as a base for Qadhafi troops and mercenaries.
Thu am: Tornados from Gioia del Colle conducted mission to Sebha, following reports Qadhafi’s troops actively shelling civilian population.
Sebha mission saw the salvo firing technique for Brimstone missiles used for the first time in action, with some two dozen missiles fired.
7 or 8 target vehicles were observed on fire & precision nature of Brimstone’s warhead means other targets were likely destroyed or damaged.
Thu: Near Sirte, RAF aircraft used Paveway bombs & Brimstone missiles to destroy 1 tank, 4 multiple rocket launchers & 4 armed vehicles.
HMS Liverpool has conducted boarding inspections of merchant shipping & HMS Bangor has helped keep sea lanes free from residual mine threat.
SMILE:
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Gaddafi’s escape to Niger fb.me/1cj5nZwN6
Reuters
Libyan NTC forces storm Gaddafi’s home town
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
Wefaq #Libya: 9 martyrs from #Misrata and over 50 injuries in today’s battle for Sirte. #feb17"
Sirtawi
PIC: Ussama Muftah Safrouni 12-09-2011 #Sirte #RIP #gaddaficrimes pic.twitter.com/Grv6Rj6J
Usama Safrouni’s uncle managed to call his sister (Ussama’s mom) in #Sirte. She’s strong and patient. #FreeSirte #gaddaficrimes
Usama Safrouni’s mom witnessed his death. His last words were: “Forgive me. I’m a martyr! I’m a martyr!”
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
We’re in Niamey, Niger, expecting arrival of Libyan NTC delegation asking to take Saadi Gadhafi, who is holed up here, back to Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan Freedom Fighters raised in Manchester helped in the fight against Gaddafi – Picture in Tripoli facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Manchester
Gaddafi’s birthplace ‘captured by FF’ in battle for last Libya coast stronghold is.gd/JyQA7m #Libya
Air Malta looks forward to relaunching Libya flights is.gd/707hlP
Libya Awalan TV Channel reporter in Sirte reported the death of Mousa Ibrahim. His body is on its way to Musrata. #libya
Can’t picture #MousaIbrahim out firing a gun – or being dead! Too real! Any more information pls?
Abdullah
I doubt this story of Mussa Ibrahim death, he spoke few hours ago to Alray TV and seemed very calmly hiding in a safe place.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Breaking Libya 100’s of FF r now monitoring escape roots out of Baniwalid & also in positions now to block most escape roots south 2 Niger!!
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Ras Ajeder till Salloum. Then Egypt – Libya – Tunis will be in the hand of Revolutionaries. (arab media never speak about ‘rebels’)
LVview
Now that’s what I call hot gossip! Musa Mansour Ibrahim is biological son of Gaddafi!! as the DNA analysis will confirm!
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Support from free #Libya to #syria(n) revolution. “Zanga Zanga Dar Dar, we will defeat you #Bashar!” My story: bit.ly/p3y8P4 #tripoli
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
The FF have surrounded #baniwalid cutting off all exits
Sanna
Pray for FF in Bani Walid, Sirte and Sabha, that they succeed very soon and can go home to celebrate their freedom!
4Adam Adam
Niger, has about 32 Gaddafi supporters, + son Saadi, says France should not interfere in its relations with #Libya. #SAFEHEVEN #NIGER
LibyanAffairs Libyan Affairs
Strange report on Alaan TV about a Gaddafi secret place in Fateh university! #Libya Disgusting family!
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Photo: Col. Ahmed Bani on Flickr. Col. Ahmed Bani is the official military spokesperson for the NTC. tumblr.com/xxw4pkrmpp
Major petrol shortage in Tripoli now, source of problem still unclear
Just got back from Mutassim Gaddafi’s house in Bin Ashur, Tripoli. A huge complex, with 10 metre high walls and swimming pools
Mutassim Gaddafi’s house has indoor and outdoor pools, sauna complex, gym and underground hospital, didn’t have time to check it all out
On the floor in the grounds of Mutassim Gaddafi’s house I found a bank statement dated 25/9/2002. US dollars in bank = 2,713,535.93
Photo: Outhouse on Flickr. Fighters from the “Shuhadaa al-Asima” battalion from Nalut inspect an outhouse… tumblr.com/xxw4pll35o
Photo: Steam room on Flickr. Fighters from the “Shuhadaa al-Asima” battalion from Nalut pose in one of the… tumblr.com/xxw4plp6tg
Photo: Lake on Flickr. Via Flickr: A fighter from the “Shuhadaa al-Asima” battalion checks out an artificial… tumblr.com/xxw4plutdp
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Anti #Gaddafi Forces have entered Sirte. Latest details bbc.in/qpxTBR #Libya #Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Libya TV – it’s a new channel on Nilesat l-tv.tv nd is owned by the same people as Libya FM libya.fm
Niz_FGM Niz
Meeting with Shamam tomorrow. We intend to grill. forward us anything you will like to ask him about or quiz him on.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Anti-Qaddafi forces speed towards Bani Walid #Alarabiya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Unfortunately more mass graves are being discovered around Libya (and #Tripoli) – Prisoners that were killed as Gaddafi forces fled. #libya
The #Tripoli military council & NTC are in fact trying to bring in special machines from Europe that can search soil for mass graves
A few days ago, a dozen executed prisoners wre found bloated/decomposing at a ditch near Souk Al Thulata (#Tripoli) covered by garbage (cnt)
The bodies were only found when local residents complained about the smell. They seem to date back to 20th August or so.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
It is Erdogan’s turn to visit Tripoli, a day after Sarkozy’s and Cameron’s joint visit there goo.gl/RxXkc
septimius_sever septimius severus
By far the one picture that sums up #Feb17 … no name or face above #Libya إنا على الدهر جنودلا نبالي إن سلمت من هلك pic.twitter.com/dlkbrVya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Saleh, Khalifa, Assad, Butafliqa & all Arab Dictators your end will be like Gaddafi,Mubarak & Ben Ali
Video of capture of AbdAllah Senusi’s nephew from Sebha is.gd/WeqU0u #Feb17 #Libya
Mark
Chamis #Gaddafi Units of 32nd brigade are reported 2b barricaded inside a row of Villas along #Sirte Beachfront #Libya static.panoramio.com/photos/origina…
Niz_FGM Niz
There is consensus forming on Shamam concerns. All questions noted…will pose as many as i can. Keep them coming.. we want to be your voice
Joanne
Hello @DrMoussaIbrahim Can u Hear me through the night ? If so U are NOT Dead If I get no reply I assume u r dead At least dead today #Libya
UK to provide £600,000 for de-mining efforts and £60,000 to pay for a police communications system #Libya
#Europe is ready to recognise #Libya ’s interim government in the United Nations, #UN but will push it to become more inclusive
#UK will make 50 places available SpecialistHospitals 4critically ill #Libya ns visa requirements 2b waived 4patients +1 accompanying person
The #Gaddafi katibah forces in #Sirte is called Saadi katibah… You tell me if Saadi in Niger is innocent or not! #libya #feb17
bebird
I think Sarkowzy should be made an honorary Libyan for sending in the planes to save Benghazi when everyone else talked.
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Pockets of resistance remain with Gaddafi forces surrounded in the city centre Headquarters of an Insurance company #Libya
#SIRTE Khamis Gaddafi iand his Units of the 32nd brigade are reported 2b Barricaded inside a row of Villas along #Sirte Beachfront #Libya
If #Sirte is liberated it opens main EastWest coastal highway allowing #Benghazi-based #NTC to move by road to the capital #Tripoli #Libya
Rebels claim control of centre of #Sirte after 3pronged attack with Gaddafi son #KHAMIS said 2b barricaded in @seafront goo.gl/UoSSy
He he Yes Tweeps Its reported that #Khamis #Gaddafi has Risen from the Death Yet Again At least on paper : goo.gl/UoSSy #Libya
#Sirte #Nato planes still overhead 8 Strikes in Sirte in the last 24 hours #Libya
#FLASH #Turkey #Erdogan, is expected to Arrive in time for #Friday prayers in #Tripoli #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Musa Ibrahim brother, Moses Ibrahim captured & taken to #Misrata central hospital after suffering injuries. #Libya #Feb17
Many sleeper cells that fled #BaniWalid to #Tripoli disguised as women have been arrested. They were found w/ weapons & cash.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
We wrote this Feb 22 – “A Lesson from our True Leader: Omar Al Mukhtar, Libya’s Freedom Fighter” feb17.info/general/a-less… #Libya
RIP Omar Almukhtar (1862 – September 15, 1931) – #Libya #Feb17
BANI WALID:
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
25% of the population of Baniwalid is displaced into the the Tenenai and the Shmeikh regions.#libya #feb17
Families in Baniwalid are with the FF, and have been receiving gas, food and drink from the FF for the people leaving.
Caravans were sent in carrying food and other supplies into Baniwalid.
Pro Gaddafi forces have only been kept in the Soug region of Baniwalid (Market). The rest has been freed.
They tried telling the people it was the FF that were shelling them, as to instigate
problems.
Revolutionaries have their own radio station in Baniwalid, called Libya al7urra miin baniwalid (free libya, from baniwalid)
They have been broadcasting calls, revolutionary songs, quran and such. the frequency is 92.00 FM, please retweet! #baniwalid
Also the feb17 FF in baniwalid have set up safe places for families that have left to stay at, that have all supplies and healthcare needed
There are 3 locations of these safe areas for the families that have left #baniwalid
Many families have joined their relatives in Tripoli, and are very secure, and fed well.
the FF have 4 or 5 service groups. Healthcare with 40,doctors, 15 ambulances, and a field hospital 40 km from the city. n another 60 km away
They have also upgraded tarhouna hospital and have put staff from baniwalid there.
The health centre in Shtata (closed for 30 years) is now reopened and working with doctors from Baniwalid.
They have also returned madar and libyana service to #baniwalid despite the gaddafi brigades sabotage attempts. #libya
Also electricity lines have been fixed by the FF. #baniwalid #libya
There is also a group that takes care of the injured people, and martyrs. #baniwalid #libya
There is support from all over Free Libya helping out :) #libya #baniwalid
There is also a security group, in charge of prisoners of war (35 of them, only 5 of which are from #baniwalid. the rest are from all over).
Many sleeper cells that fled from #baniwalid to tripoli disguised as women have been arrested. They were found with weapons and cash. #libya
Big battle in Sirte has ensued today. Certain areas under FF control.
The kataeb in Baniwalid have been shelling the freed areas of the city.
Areas shelled at are Dahra, Sikba, and the airport area.
The FF are preparing their assault pending the families that are leaving the city. #baniwalid
The FF have surrounded #baniwalid cutting off all exits. #libya
BreakingNews Breaking News
‘Bani Walid will be free today,’ Libyan fighter says as rebel forces push into Gadhafi stronghold on.msnbc.com/qEEZgz
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Scores of NTC trucks, several tanks, advancing on Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte #Alarabiya
AlertNet AlertNet
Alert: Explosions and gunfire heard inside Libya’s Bani Walid, as anti-Gaddafi troops pour into town – Reuters reporter #libya
FRANCE24 FRANCE 24
LIBYA: Erdogan heads to Libya as NTC and pro-Gaddafi forces clash f24.my/r80vBu
Libya In Me
I’ve moved onto the addiction stage. Can’t get enough of this revolution song youtu.be/wIPXPynCggg
BreakingNews Breaking News
At least 11 killed as Libyan rebel fighters attack Sirte, Misrata Military Council says – Al-Jazeera aje.me/qNu2Eh
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Great EXCLUSIVE by @bencnn & team in #Libya : Anti- #Gadhafi forces surge into Sahara #cnn cnn.com/video/data/2.0…
DavidPoort David Poort
Tripoli’s Martyr Square in anticipation of friday prayers with Turkish PM Erdogan pic.twitter.com/h5wUHBub
FRANCE24 FRANCE 24
LIBYA: Sarkozy, Cameron cheered in Benghazi as NTC troops enter Sirte f24.my/nqfdFj
Scalded Gaddafi family nanny in Malta www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011... #Libya
BreakingNews Breaking News
Libyan fighters capture the airport in Sirte from Gadhafi forces – Reuters
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: we shared our campsite north of Sabha with this colourful chap. #Libya yfrog.com/nwktadj
Photo: fighters atop an old training aircraft at al-Juloud Airbase, Birak, southern #Libya yfrog.com/nu6egrj
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan NTC fighters say seize valley leading into center of Bani Walid from Qaddafi forces, advancing on central stronghold #Alarabiya
Scores of NTC trucks, several tanks, advancing on Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte #Alarabiya
Explosions and gunfire are heard inside Libya’s Bani Walid as anti-Qaddafi troops pour into the town
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Reuters Head of Syrian-based TV channel says he has footage of Gaddafi recorded in last 48 hrs & would broadcast it soon #Libya
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Why Misrata FF r taking part in liberating Sirte & Sabha but will not go near Baniwalid?!! Its a historical reason which Libyans understand!
‘We are going in’: Libya forces attack Gaddafi’s desert stronghold after two-week siege
Libyan fighters poured into a desert town held by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi on Friday as explosions and gunfire echoed around the town’s hills and valleys, a Reuters reporter said.
Bani Walid, 110 miles south of Tripoli, has been under siege for two weeks, with hundreds of die-hard Gadhafi loyalists concentrated at its center.
Earlier Friday, truckloads of anti-Gadhafi troops shouting “Let’s go! Bani Walid!” and columns of pickup trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns were seen speeding toward the town, kicking up clouds of dust in the desert.
“We are going in. We finally have the orders. God is greatest. God willing, Bani Walid will be free today,” fighter Mohamed Ahmed said, his rifle sticking out of his car window.
Anti-Gadhafi forces also stormed the ousted ruler’s birthplace of Sirte late on Thursday, coming under heavy fire from loyalists in the northern coastal city.
Al-Jazeera reported that Libyan forces were engaged in fierce fighting with Gadhafi’s troops Friday.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/we-are-going-in-li...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya’s Agoco to pump 200,000 bpd by end-Sept is.gd/7XZBMm #Libya
Libyan fighters have captured the airport in Sirte from forces loyal to Gaddafi, Al-Jazeera reported on Friday. Reuters
The airport lies some 10 km (6 miles) south of Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown and one of the last strongholds controlled by Gaddafi. Reuters
Hundreds of FF advanced on Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte on Friday, a Reuters witness said. #Libya
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is welcomed in Tripoli by NTC Head AbdulJaleel #Libya #Tripoli
Libyan fighters move on Gadhafi area is.gd/CmhNDY #Libya
Libyan ff advance on Sirte is.gd/tmprDA #Libya
“We are now inside Bani Walid but clashes are still ongoing.” AJA
AJA reporting live from inside Beni Walid #Libya
Link to AJA live from Beni Walid www.livestation.com/channels/43-al-jaze... #Libya #AJA
Madprof666
The conflict in #Libya is not a civil war, but a war of liberation against an insane dictator.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Sirte has many many armed loyalists but the civilian population are against
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Libya Alhurra carrying Friday sermon from Tripoli live – Erdogan and Abduljalil in first row. Meanwhile, @LibyaTV showing reruns… #libya
malonebarry Barry Malone
Reuters @mariagolvnina has witnessed NTC forces pouring into pro-Gaddafi Bani Walid as explosions and gunfire echo round the valley #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Sign being carried by Zawiya’s freedom fighters as they head south to Sabha #libya fb.me/wKnP9SUv
FreeBenghazi
Mohammed Ibrahim, brother of Gaddafi spokesman, Musa Ibrahim, captured. Wounded in both feet & receiving treatment in Misrata
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Aljazeera live from one of the residential areas of Bani Walid… FF in control here. #libya #feb17
BREAKING: BANI WALID: AJA: “We are now INSIDE Bani Walid but clashes are still ongoing.” – Commotion in the background #libya #feb17
Live scenes of fighting in Bani Walid right next to scenes of Erdogan arriving in Tripoli to participate in Friday prayers #libya #feb17
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Libya Alhurra carrying Friday sermon from Tripoli live – Erdogan and Abduljalil in first row. Meanwhile, @LibyaTV showing reruns… #libya
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
18 Bodies found in freezer within Tripoli Med Ctr, some were identified as bodies of NFSL members martyred in May/June 1984, never buried!
Fadwa
@libyatv @libyatvarabic WAKE UP!!!! AJA REPORTER IS INSIDE BANI WALID AND YOU’RE PLAYING MUSIC!!! ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS???!!!!!!!
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
by ChangeInLibya
Just met Makhlouf al Firjan spox for rev. mil council of #Sirte. says fighters control most of west, south and north of city. (1/2)
(2/2) – HE says civilians are living under dire conditions inside #Sirte due to 3 months of intense pressure by G loyalists-
libyanproud libyanandproud
Battles for the last three #Gaddafi strongholds are on their way : #BaniWalid, #Sirte, and #Sebha. #Feb17 #Libya
Zlitniya
I feel sorry for the free ppl of #Sirte #Sebha and #BaniWalid -their cities will be associated w #Gaddafi 4a LONG time #shame
BintTarablis Nusaybah (KC)
Today,Sept 16, marks the 80th anniversary of Libyan hero Omar Al-Mukhtar’s martyrdom- who fought in wars against Italy occupation of #Libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Libyan freedom fighters are fully control of #Sirte airport & more military reinforcements sent to forntline #Alarbiya #Libya #feb17
Reuters: Scores of NTC trucks and tanks advancing on Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte
BREAKING: In fierce push, Libya fighters stream into Bani Walid, one of remaining Gaddafi bastions #AP
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Niger Min of Justice on record saying won’t send Saadi G home where NTC wants him to face justice. Saadi G says was told can stay in Niger.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
This is a XLL flag, I would say! yfrog.com/keb0tqdj
You go out first… No, you go first!!! You’re the Prime Minster! yfrog.com/h4mh2loj
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Protest planned in Benghazi today that some say is largely against Ali Salabi, Islamist cleric who criticized ‘extremist secularists’ in NTC
Tweeting Tripoli
Also Saddi Brigade is named after a Warfalli hero named Alssadi Altubuli who fought the Italian invaders.
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Off to Friday prayers in Martyr’s Square
BaniWalid, Sirte and Sabha are now experiencing the same tragic events that we in Tripoli went through during the period before August 20th.
Wasn’t Salabi the one who met secretly with Gaddafi’s lot last May or June?
WEELULE WEELULE
From what I read and heard about Salabi, my conclusion he is either still working for G or has his own agenda, power seeker
A Free Libyan
Yeah, he did deal with G officials. What Salabi is doing is 100% for himself, not Libya. All he wants is power….
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: ‘Rebels’ entering Bani Walid and Sirte, clashes, deaths among Gaddafi fighters.
HaraldDoornbos Harald Doornbos
Bezocht appartement van Khadaffi op campus universiteit Tripoli, woonkamer, slaapkamer, jacuzzi en…prive gynaecologie kliniek. Luguber.
Vond verhuisdoos in Khadaffi love nest met namen van 2 NL bedrijven erop, ook factuur uit juni 1993, toen er nog sancties golden tegen Libie
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Ali Salabi and other Islamists (from Qatar) try to strenghten Islamists in Libya by several means. Weapons from Qatar go to Islamists..
..brigades and not the Libyan Liberation Army, acc to high ranking military sources.
And Ali Salabi uses AlJazeera to launch his ideas, attacks on liberal politicians, Mahmoud Jebril has to step down, acc to Ali Salabi.
Statement by Misrata Military Council about the entry to Sirte15-09-2011 #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSmqTmC8p0
Elysee Elysee
@NTC_of_Libya @Number10gov Les photos du déplacement de N. #Sarkozy et D. #Cameron en #Libye goo.gl/CnTSf twitpic.com/6llzpf
via ArabTimesOnline: New #Libya enters #Sirte – #UK, #France to hunt Gaddafi, Cameron pledges support to hunt Gaddafi www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tab...
English Libya TV
Libyan NTC fighters seize Sirte airport
Hundreds of fighters loyal to Libya’s new rulers advanced on Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte today, a Reuters witness said.
Scores of trucks mounted with machine guns and four tanks were seen on the road leading into the city
Today, Libyan fighters also captured the airport in Sirte from forces loyal to Gaddafi.
The airport lies some 10 km (6 miles) south of Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown and one of the last strongholds controlled by soldiers loyal to the deposed leader.
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Just received a text on the Al-Madar network – it says that regime henchmen like Abdallah Sanusi are using hire cars to perform sabotage 1/2
and gives numbers for people to call if they see anything suspicious, also promises financial reward for those who help catch henchmen
befroggled Miss B
Tonight 6pm UK/5pm GMT on Al Jazeera Documentary – The story of the Abu Salim massacre as told never before; on.fb.me/mTNE0p #Libya RT!
The documentary was filmed by a friend in June ‘11 in #Libya and features exclusive interviews with witnesses of the Abu Salim massacre.
I was meant to have work on the documentary but went on #AidTrip instead so my contribution was filming the recreation scenes.
The documentary was made by a small group of very committed people, so watch, let us know what you think & I’ll relay the feedback :)
kosovo_01
Serb mercenary Radunkovic hidden in Serbia Embassy in Tripoli/might be more G. merc in Serbia Embassy..english.blic.rs/Society/8007/D…
will see he is in the anti-nuclear bunker in sebha airport we will see it soon whether I was right in locating him
Palm Maple
According 2 late Gen Younus, Khamis brigade is called after Gaddafi uncle from mother side & not his son. Not sure of S
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
it seems u r right. Shaari told me the same thing
Tweeting Tripoli
Also Saddi Brigade is named after a Warfalli hero named Alssadi Altubuli who fought the Italian invaders.
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH Was a #MousaIbrahim MIXUP RT @EmadDlala Brother of Moussa Ibrahim is captured in #Sirte and he’s now in #Misrata. He’s injured #Libya
#FLASH 2 #DUTCH FIRMS #Simed Int. delivered Medical instruments + #Varekamp Industrieel transported them 2 Gaddafi Love Nest #Libya
#BANIWALID All Hell Broke Loose in #Bani #Walid this Morning #NTC Freedom Fighters Rushed inside town Now engaged in Ferocious battle #Libya
On Way to #SABHA #Benwedeman is with #NTC Fighters in S Libya the #Sahara FF Massing for final showdown goo.gl/efOTH
#Tripoli #University #PROVE : Gaddafi Love Nest Box Found with Medical Stuff from #Holland Ordered in 1993 twitpic.com/6lm2dv/full #Libya
#FLASH Erdogan was greeted by Jalil this morning #Turkey contractors had 214 Building Projects value of $15 billion before Febr17 #Libya
urtakingthemick
The final victory is getting closer,my best regards to all those who have worked so hard for this result.On twitter +front line.
#TURKEY Firms were building hospitals, shopping malls + 5star Hotels in #Libya b4 Feb17 #Erdogan in #Tripoli Got BILLIONS of $$$ 2 Discuss
Mesh3adi مش عادي
But behind the scene it was the #Turkish drug mobs doing enormous laundering in #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE #Statement by the #Misrata Military Council; 11 NTC fighters have been killed and 34 wounded yesterday Fighting for #Harrawa #Libya
#TRIPOLI #Erdogan will attend Midday #Friday Prayers at #Martyr #Square the Turkish energy minister says #TPAO will resume work asap #Libya
#FLASH #NTC to vet 3,000 mainly sub-Saharan migrants in #Sabha b4 evacuate abroad 2Ensure NONE were #Gaddafi #s Mercenaries #Libya
#FLASH: Abdeljalil Mayuf Agogo SpokesMan #Agoco is producing 150,000 bpd from 100 wells We will try 2get to 200,000 bpd by end Sept #Libya
#Sirte UPDATE; West north + southern parts in #NTC control Situation DIRE Civilians have no water or electricity and Barely any food #Libya
#SIRTE UPDATE: Eastern area of #Sirte is still Flying green flag These are towns and villages still supporting Gaddafi #Libya
#Harawa town nr #Sirte was supposed to surrender but it didnt happen yet this is Base of #Khamis brigade with many G Supporters #Libya
Sirte Fighter who came from city last night says #Sirte has been underSiiege by Gaddafi forces for at least three months #Libya
#Tripoli Martyr Square #Feb22; youtube.com/watch?v=vmozB7… where #Erdogan and #Jaleel today attended prayers in an almost Free #Libya
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
#FFs in #Sirte have full control of Gurdabiya airport while fighting continues S of Wadi Jaref w/retreated G forces. pic.twitter.com/yX8UDLCM
#FFs attempted to station in #Sirte Sports center but came under sniper gunfire from #3 residential complex buildings. #FreeSirte #Feb17
Screaming was heard from Hay Al-Naga (mostly loyalists) which indicates some might have died during clashes in that neighborhood. #Sirte
FRANCE24: #LIBYA:
Erdogan heads to Libya as NTC and pro-Gaddafi forces clash f24.my/r80vBu
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta navy P-61 returns to #Valletta from #Tripoli with 2 wounded #Libya civilians who will be given treatment in #Malta hospital
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: fortified hanger at al-jaloud airbase, Birak, #Libya, hit in NATO bombing. yfrog.com/mmqroukj
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Erdogan and AbdulJaleel sit in the front row for Friday prayers in Tripoli’s Martyrs Square #Libya
Picture – Erdogan and Abduljaleel sit in front row of Friday prayers www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2056881... #Libya #Tripoli
Libyan commander tells the AP that fighters are about a mile from the heart of Bani Walid, the Gaddafi stronghold. – AP #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Front row at Tripoli’s friday sermon. Erdogan and AbdulJalil #Turkey #NTC #Libya fb.me/SR3LFS7X
LibyaNewMedia
Guy on the right is foreign minister Davutoglu.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Following my last tweet Baniwalid is being liberated by its own FF also last 6 months FF from Wirfalla fought in misrata against G brigades
Tweeting Tripoli
Looking at pictures coming from Sirte & BW, I now realize this not only a popular revolution, it’s also a war to liberate my country.
libyanproud libyanandproud
Much respect to @AJArabic ! Reporters in every Front in #Libya ! #ShammamTV your a waste of Satellite space !
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
The building you see on AJA is the Administrative Building, BW center: 31°45’16.85"N 14° 1’22.56"E المبنى الإداري pic.twitter.com/ThehmOGs
What an irony, his name is “Safe” and yet hie is extremely unstable and dangerous!!! pic.twitter.com/uhpne0Kb
libyanproud libyanandproud
AJA : Journalist has been injured in #BaniWalid . #Feb17 #Libya anyone know which journo is there ?
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING: One of Gaddafi’s sons is in #Bani #Walead. Alj reporter
misrati_free
3 Injuries so far today to the Western Field hospital in #Sirte.
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
#FFs also tried to enter Al-Markaziya school (indicated in blue) where ammo suspected to be hidden in basement. #Sirte pic.twitter.com/uDOWhdoT
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Sirte: Libyan FF found SCUD launchers and SCUD missiles that were being prepared by Gaddafi forces to be fired at Misrata/Tripoli #libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
5 revolutionaries killed in Bani Waleed in fighting today. #Libya
befroggled Miss B
Fierce gun battle between freedom fighters and Gaddafi loyalists in Bani Walid live on Al Jazeera now. #Libya
CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
#Misrata mil. council tells me they found 6 scud missiles in #Jareff valley near #Sirte. #Libya
calperryAJ Cal Perry
GREAT live TV on @AJEnglish right now: Live signal of combat in #Libya. Gun trucks lighting up front lines … #BaniWalid
English Libya TV
Turkey’s PM Erdogan arrives in Tripoli
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Tripoli today, broadcaster CNN Turk reported, on a North African tour to assert Ankara’s regional influence.
His visit came a day after the French and British leaders won a hero’s welcome there for helping to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi and in the midst of a fierce battle over Gaddafi’s home town.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said today on a visit to Libya that those who inflict repression on the people of Syria will not survive, stepping up his rhetoric against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“You are the ones who showed the whole world that no administration can stand in the way of the might and will of the people,” he told a cheering Libyan crowd in a public square in Tripoli.
“Do not forget this: Those in Syria who inflict repression on the people will not be able to stand on their feet,” said Erdogan, who is in Libya as part of a tour of Arab countries.
AJELive AJELive
As the battle rages, watch the fight for the inland oasis town Bani Walid live on Al Jazeera aje.me/fwtYjF
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
In #Baniwaild more than 16 mercenaries were captured by FF #libya #feb17
FreeBenghazi
Misrata fighters found another 4 SCUD missiles in WadiJifra. 2 were set to launch. Earlier, 2 missiles were found directed at Misrata #Libya
Nusaybah (KC)
I’m am a British Libyan and I support the Syrian National Council. #SNC #SNCinAssadOUT #Syria #basharcrimes #Mar15
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Sirte: Freedom fighters entered Wadi jarf in Sirte an area that is thought to be Gaddafi’s hometown. They even found his old pictures #libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Al Jazeera reporter from the South Gate of #Sirte said FFs are in control of area & the FFs are sweeping the entire valley #Libya #feb17
“AP:
Loyalists in two key Gadhafi strongholds put up a fierce fight as Libyan fighters mount major offensives: apne.ws/oTFkd9 #libya
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
FF are competing which town would be liberated first: #Baniwaild or #Sirte ? #libya #feb17 love libyans lions
freedomgroupTV
Misrata fighters found another four SCUD missiles in WadiJifra. Two were set to launch. Earlier, two missiles were found directed at Misrata.
Ali Tweel
trables.com/archive/ #TrabelsiBlog
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
No street fighting in Bani Waleed if we have to rely on the scenes. Revolutionaries just outside the city though. #Libya
Emo
#Misrata FFs set a record in planning, courage & behavior. They deserve all respect from the NTC & world. #Libya
Al Jazeera: the FFs freed three districts in #BeniWalid, & #Gaddafi battalions stationed in the #Zeitoun neighborhood #Libya #feb17
frankentele Sean Carberry
Via @nprnews: Libya’s Oil Production To Resume Shortly | n.pr/r6mJST #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan Independence flag is waving in Wadi Jaref, Gaddafi’s birthplace in the town of Sirte #Libya AJA
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Mustafa Abdel Jalil talking about lessons offered by Turkish model during press conf w/ Erdogan. Many Libyan Islamists also look to Turkey
Niz_FGM Niz
Hatem of the Free Generation Movement, 1 of lead organisers of med unit going to Sabha, talks to Ben Wedeman of CNN. facebook.com/FGMovement
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Libyan fighters press into Gadhafi strongholds, met stiff resistance from snipers & loyalist gunners #Sirte #BaniWalid hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie…
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Amazing, amazing scenes from Bani Walid and Sirte… took me back to the Zawiya and Tripoli days… God bless our FF. What a feeling. #libya
Feb17Libya
Tripoli Festival 2011 will be held on September the 24th 2011. For more details follow
@TripoliFestival – #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
TelegraphNews:
Libyan revolutionaries enter Bani Walid in final push tgr.ph/nBfCsG” #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Heavy fighting in/around Bani Waleed & Sirte. Al Jazeera cameras outside Bani Waleed with heavy gunfire audible.
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
I like FF saying that Gaddafi must see us live now to know how much he lost
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
BRKING live footage from wadi Jarif near #Sirte FF found houses of #Gaddafi cousins full of ammo,AJA showing G album found in 1house #libya
Sarah LFFR
#AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar
malvernchela
What will he do? Fight to death, suicide, surrender, something else? RT@freedom4libya: Looks like #Saif is trapped in Bin Waled. #Libya
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
Urgent: Mahmoud Jibreel of #NTC is forming a broad cabinet that represent all #Libya – Mahmoud Shamam #
Urgent: Mahmoud Jebreel will be #Libya FM for short period of time till we find the right candidate -Shamam
Urgent: Defense and interior posts in the new cabinet will be given to those who played a vital role in the revolution –Shamam #Libya #Sirte
Urgent: Omer Muktar was executed today and that’s why we selected 16/09 to liberate BaniWalid and #Sirte #Libya #Gaddafi #NTC #Gaddafi
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
Wadi Jirf that FF liberated is Gaddafi’s tribe area
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
times have changed- watching TV live picture of press conference room at the #Rixos #Tripoli this time for #Turkey PM Erdogan presser #Libya
Proudlibyandoc
Would you like to know about the #Libya #revolution? don’t turn to #ShammamTV, go to #AJA #aljazeera.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Breaking Libya expect total liberation of Baniwalid & Sirte today last obstacle is snipers but FF have good experience of dealing with them!
AJELive AJELive
#Turkey’s Erdogan speaking next to NTC’s Abdel Jalil: “We will be hand-in-hand, shoulder-to-shoulder with #Libya” aje.me/fwtYjF
MUST READ:
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
US official: Program aimed at preventing chem, bio nuclear Libyan scientists from working for terror groups #Libya forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/…
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Erdogan: We will now intend to go to Misrata then onto Benghazi where we will hug our Libyan brothers #Libya
Erdogan: Turkish airlines have already commenced the renovation of Benghazi Benina International #Libya
Erdogan: Teams will arrive from turkey with aid for victims of Libya conflict #Libya #Turkey
Turkey PM Erdogan says in Tripoli: “#Libya must continue to belong to the people of Libya and never turn into an Iraq” aje.me/fwtYjF
Erdogan: We would like to help Libya in schools courthouses and police stations #Libya #Turkey
Erdogan: Libya belongs to the people of Libya and must remain this way #Libya #Turkey
Erdogan: people of Sirte must also support this struggle, I believe in their hearts they have support this #Libya #Sirte
English libya TV
Poland reopens embassy in Tripoli
Poland says it has reopened its embassy in Libya’s capital after it was closed earlier this year as authoritarian ruler Muammar Gaddafi sought to enforce his rule.
The embassy reopened yesterday at its previous site in Tripoli. For more than two months, it operated from a temporary location in Benghazi, under the control of Libya’s revolutionary forces.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement today that the presence of the permanent mission in Tripoli will help bilateral ties under new political conditions.
In May, Poland was among the first nations to recognize Libya’s National Transitional Council as the only Libyan partner for talks.
Gaddafi remains on the run since late August, and Tripoli is now under the control of the NTC.
Guma El Gamaty:
Breaking Libya expect total liberation of Baniwalid & Sirte today last obstacle is snipers
AJELive AJELive
Erdogan says that today “has been declared a day of martyrs throughout Libya” at live event w/ #Libya #NTC Abdel Jalil aje.me/fwtYjF
Dernawiya Hanan
Libya total liberation expected of Baniwalid & Sirte today! Via Guma AlGumaty
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
by liberatelibya
#Sirte: The fighting is concentrated on September 1 Street, residential zone 2 in the city center and around the airport.
Hanan
Omar Al Mukhtar, the Lion of the desert, was martyred Sept 16 1931. #Libya #Hero
dovenews
5 #FF were killed in #Bani #Walead battle. More reinforcement have reached #FF in #Bani #Walead
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC leader: “Looking forward to a democratic Islamic country that will make use of the experiments of the Turkish” #Libya AJE
panosharitos panos haritos
#Libya TV report: Fighting in Sirte leaves at least 12 dead, 59 injured
hathbenali HAITHAM BEN ALI
Al Arabiya correspondent: NTC flags are raised on the governmental headquarters in Sirte
Suzanne
RIP brave freedom fighters RT@LibyaNewMedia: 5 revolutionaries killed in Bani Waleed in fighting today. #Libya
Breaking News: NTC forces advance into Bani Walid and Sirte
The forces of Libya’s new leaders attacked two besieged towns today, storming into Bani Walid and pushing forward at Sirte, as they tried to finish off resistance from diehard supporters of Muammar Gaddafi.
At Bani Walid, a bastion of tribal loyalists in the desert 180 km southeast of Tripoli, a Reuters correspondent watched anti-Gaddafi fighters move forward under mortar, rocket and sniper fire, advancing from house to house and sheltering behind walls as shrapnel and bullets flew.
Though the forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC) said they took a key valley leading to the centre, the defence remained ferocious after a two-week siege of the town where senior figures in the old government may have taken refuge.
On the outskirts of Sirte, Gaddafi’s birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, another Reuters correspondent watched scores of trucks mounted with heavy machineguns, as well as four tanks, advancing on the sprawling seaside city.
Read more:
english.libya.tv/2011/09/16/revolutiona...
dovenews Libyan™
In this day the Italian occupation has hanged the Lion of the desert #Omar #Mukhtar September 16, 1931 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Mukh… #LionOfDesert
malonebarry Barry Malone
Turkey’s Erdogan appeals to Gaddafi fighters in Sirte, Sabha and Bani Walid to join the revolution: “Come and join your brothers”
borzou
Just shook hands w #Turkey foreign minister Ahmet Davatoglu at luncheon in Rixos w Erdogan, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Jibril #libya #feb17
jessradio Jess Hill
There’s some serious action going down in #Sirte. Misrata Military Council is emailing updates on the battle every half-hour or so. #Libya
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Our report in Sirte says that the city should be completely liberated within the next few hours
English Libya TV
TV chief: Gaddafi broadcasts are “sacred right”
The head of a Syrian-based television channel which has become Muammar Gaddafi’s last platform for the outside world said he had a duty to broadcast the ousted Libyan dictators comments and promised another video statement soon.
Former Iraqi MP Mishaan al-Jabouri said he remained in daily contact with either family or close associates of Gaddafi, who he said was in Libya and in good spirits, though he declined to say exactly where.
Jabouri said he was not a supporter of Gaddafi but his channel stood by opponents of Libya’s “occupation” and people had “a sacred right” to hear both sides of the story.
“Today, the media are all reporting NATO’s point of view,” Jabouri told Reuters, referring to the Western military alliance which helped revolutionary forces oust Gaddafi from Tripoli last month.
“The other side has no voice… It is our moral and professional duty to deliver this message, whether we agree with it or not,” he said by phone from Syria late on Thursday.
Gaddafi has defiantly spoken several times on Arrai TV since losing control of Tripoli on Aug. 23, calling on his supporters to continue their resistance to the new authorities.
“We have in our hands (in Libya) footage of a speech by Gaddafi,” Jabouri said, adding it had been recorded in the last 48 hours and would be broadcast as soon as what he called technical problems in Libya were overcome.
Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat said last week it had no right to switch off Arrai, although local distributor Noorsat had removed another of Jabouri’s channels, al-
Oruba, after being contacted by Eutelsat.
Jabouri said Arrai’s philosophy was to “stand beside any people defending themselves, who want to liberate their land, or who are subject to aggression… wherever they are, in Latin America or the Middle East”.
GADDAFI “THREATENED ARRAI”
A wealthy businessman, Jabouri was once close to Saddam Hussein’s son Uday but fled to Syria before the U.S. invasion toppled the Iraqi leader in 2003. He returned later and was elected to the Iraqi parliament but left for Syria again to escape corruption charges, which he says were fabricated.
Jabouri says he has funded his television business himself and received no money from Gaddafi apart from $400,000 four years ago and two payments totalling around $50,000 in April and May for broadcast equipment and training.
“I don’t support Muammar Gaddafi. He contacted the Syrian leadership six months ago and told them ‘I will blow up Arrai station if it doesn’t stop (covering) the Egyptian revolution’,” Jabouri said.
He also said his station had supported Libya’s uprising when protests first erupted in Benghazi.
Arrai’s Libya coverage is not the first time it has been a source of Western irritation. A leaked cable from the U.S. embassy in Damascus in October 2008, published on the WikiLeaks website, said Arrai was glorifying insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.
“Additionally, the station in its editorial capacity seeks to discredit Arab leaders, except Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,” it said. “Now may be the time to call on pan-Arab satellite providers … to discontinue broadcasting Arrai TV.”
Jabouri said he was not worried by efforts to shut down his station. “We have come under greater pressure than that. We have been threatened to be blown up by rockets,” he said.
Defending its coverage in Iraq, he said Arrai distinguished between support for attacks on U.S. military bases, which he said was legitimate resistance against an occupying force, and attacks on civilians including American contractors or Iraqi translators for U.S. forces, which he said was terrorism.
“Military forces who attack another country, or occupy another land — we call them occupiers and those who attack them we call resistance,” he said.
“We are with Gaddafi today because he is fighting attackers. I am not saying Gaddafi was a just leader … But we are talking about an aggression …killing women and children”.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyans Refuges Returns Home english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #Refuges #Qaddafi
Two more martyred in fighting to liberate #Sirte; Musbah Omar Suaib & second fighter, name unknown الله يرحمهم #Libya v @freedomgrouptv
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Photo #BBC: #NTC fighters take cover from sniper fire by pro-#Gaddafi loyalists in #BaniWalid #Libya #feb17 yfrog.com/h66jxxsj
KhadijaMAli Khadija Ali
AJM (live): battle for Bani Walled; Thuwar, you have revolutionized the media. #Libya #feb17
Arabic
Gaddafi photo album found as thuwar enter #Sirte
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka6ye9K1o78
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
80th anniversary of hanging our icon Omar AlMokhtar by fascist italy. He said “we never surrender we win or we die” I am so proud 2 b Libyan
LibyanLion17 A Free Libyan
Mosques in #BaniWalid chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ constantly. Freedom is in sight for the people of BW. Pray for them! #Libya #Feb17
feb17libya Feb17Libya
80 years later & his spirit still runs through our veins – R.I.P. Omar Mukhtar -(8/20/1861 – 9/16/1931) – #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/n11z3DtO
The North Africa Daily is out! bit.ly/dRzwj9
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Relieved @bbcarabic’s Mohammad Ballout ok after shot in arm near #BaniWalid. Was among group of reporters targeted by snipers in town #Libya
NTC fighter from #BaniWalid says it is a ‘ghost town’. Claims 500 families have fled north over past 2 days #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Obama to meet Libya’s NTC leader on Tuesday at the UN #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Received another update 11 minutes ago – Misrata Military Council still reporting fighting.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Omar Al Mokhtar’s memorial site in Benghazi is being rebuilt after Gaddafi destroyed it and moved Mokhtar’s body to the desert #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Picture of the execution of Omar Al-Mokhtar, 1931 Sept 16th. yfrog.com/h8p7uzgtj
Gaddafi’s fake mullah “Tantoosh” is in Sirte. Wanna bet they will catch him without the beard? yfrog.com/kgigpatj
Sirtawi
G forces tried to centralize in #Sirte’s #3 residential area with Grad rocket launchers but #FFs managed to push them back. #FreeSirte
Heavy fighting took place at Wumala gas station on the road leading to #Sirte airport. #FreeSirte #Feb17
hominoid555 Russell
FFs control the cache of weapons in the area of Abu Hadi in Sirte.
Sirte Violent clashes between the rebels and al-Gaddafi near the Ibn Sina hospital
Sirte Jadu FFs with their fellow FFs from several other areas arrived at the outskirts of Brac, and the beach there is now violent clashes
Clashes between the FFs and the remnants of battalions in the vicinity of what is known as compound secretariats in the heart of Sirte.
SKY NEWS
LIBYA: Anti-Gaddafi Troops Enter Sirte Under Heavy Fire – Sept. 16
Anti-Gaddafi fighters have reportedly entered the former dictator’s home town of Sirte about 280 miles east of Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FllL76ymqo&fea...
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
Today’s rally is in remembrance of Omar AlMukhtar. #Tripoli #Libya
LibyaFeb17_com LibyaFeb17.com
Video: Dodging Snipers in Bani Walid – #libya #feb17 – libyafeb17.com/2011/09/video-…
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
Rebuilding Omar al-Mukhtar’s mausoleum in #Benghazi. It was destroyed by #Gaddafi regime in 2000 youtu.be/_fHb-G8DfS0 #Libya #Feb17
Libya #Sirte Fightings now take place at Gaddafis Palace & Congress Hall 3km south the city" Here: bit.ly/CngHallSirte
Why #Niger is so ambivalent about #Gaddafi loyalists’ arrival – CSMonitor.com www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-M... #Libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
US Def Dept: “UN will have a large role in post-conflict #Libya”. Starting to sound a lot like Russia &China. Worrisome goo.gl/h49lE
FreeBenghazi
#CNN #PhilBlack: Still pockets of resistance in central #Sirte, but Gaddafiforces are out-numbered & out-armed #Libya
Aljazeera
Libya fighting rages in Bani Walid and Sirte
In an assault on Muammar Gaddafi’s Mediterranean hometown, fighters loyal to the Libyan National Transitional Council are trying to fight their way into the city centre of Sirte from three fronts.
And fighters surged into into Bani Walid, another remaining Gaddafi bastion, in a campaign to break the back of regime holdouts.
NTC leaders described the offensive as a co-ordinated push to take Sirte – a city of about 100,000 people – from the south, east and west.
Read more and watch video:
aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/09/20119...
4Adam Adam
Gaddafi spokesman denounces Cameron and Sarkozy Libya visit youtube.com/watch?v=j5TWsd… #Libya
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli’s Martyrs Square, before and after liberation…
yfrog.com/h4bvexxj
yfrog.com/nybo1tj
BBC’s Humphrey Hawksley reports – NTC forces attack Sirte and Bani Walid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAATqE4XTF0 #libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
NY Times says Sallabi is the most influential politician in #Libya & Belhaj most powerful military leader. Sorry guys, wrong on both counts.
Are these distortions to make the story fit the headline? (“Islamists’ Growing Sway Raises Questions”) goo.gl/1C9di
ThisIsHumanity
Yes. Sources? Hlp from #Gaddafi’s Western PR firms? They know that tomorrow’s public will agree 2 demonize today’s heroes.
Khalifa Leebee
aahhh the New York Times again missing the point.
John
yup – they’re just getting everyone all riled up – deep breath, NYT. deeeeep breath.
James Wheeler
#Libya: US Def Dept concerned “extremist groups might try to hijack the revolution”. NO one will steal this revolution! goo.gl/h49lE
BREAKING: NATO warplanes swept overhead, but there is no Fresh airstrikes to help the Anti-Gaddadi advance inside the city of #Sirte. #Libya
David Cameron was welcomed by jubilant crowds – Channel 4 News www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYo9LJco_-g&fea... #Libya #UK #France
Hosam
#Erdogan went on about Omar Mukhtar. Many things I didn’t know about the guy. We need to re-study history
FreeLibyan
Say/do wtever,but personally I wont forget #Erdogan stance n March & April,when he hindered #NATO effort & tried 2 rescue hs friend #Gaddafi
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
#Erdogan praying next to Boofa during Friday prayers in #Tripoli youtu.be/a6L_nGQBfmk #Libya #Turkey
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
by BirgerHost
#BaniWalid: #Freedomfighters have arrested 16 #Gaddafi forces most of them are mercenaries. #Libya #Feb17
Benghazi Youth
Revolutionaries in #Hun (South #Libya) youtu.be/3yP1Qv-fBzA take over Gov building & raise independence flag.
#AbdAljalil n #Zawra #Gaddafi visited t Amazighian city 2 n 42y.1he ann his mad v of demo& 2 w he handed Libyans 2 huge bit.ly/nxLnYK
tearsforfreedom
We all know Libya has succeeded politically when Skype recognises the NTC as legitimate single governing body. #skype #flag
Mushu
Making du’a for our families and #Freedomfighters in #Sirt #Sabha and #BaniWalid should be our priority now. #Libya #Feb17 #prayforlibya
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Jordan News Agency (Petra) |Jordanian trucks allowed to enter Libya: bit.ly/p1GP57 via @AddThis
tripolitano
Was in martyr square today. Amazing atmosphere
yfrog.com/kiaf6ucj
yfrog.com/nz3evvjj
yfrog.com/nzeakdj
somaya
#skype has changed the green rag flag to the revolutionary one! #excitingnews
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi loyalists hold off new Libyan attacks is.gd/k9vxLa #Libya
Libya FFs come under sniper fire in Bani Walid http://shabablibya.org/?p=http://shabablibya.org/ #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#NATO forces have bombed the Insurance Building in #Sirte city centre, which was home to large number of #Gaddafi snipers #Libya #Feb17
Libya TV: 2 captured #Gaddafi filth confirm that Mutassim Qaddafi is in #Sirte #Libya. #Feb17
BreakingNews Breaking News
General Assembly approves giving Libya’s UN seat to the ex-rebel National Transitional Council – @AP
NeilMacFarquhar Neil MacFarquhar
#Angola request to delay vote on recognizing #Libya #NTC at the #UN is defeated in the General Assembly. No. 107. Yes 22. Abstain 12
NeilMacFarquhar Neil MacFarquhar
#UN General Assembly votes to accept #NTC to represent Libya. Yes 114 No 17. Abstain. 15
libyanproud libyanandproud
Breaking : #UN General Assembly votes to accept #NTC to represent #Libya. Yes 114 No 17. Abstain. 15 . #Feb17 #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
The UN General Assembly gave Libya’s UN seat to the National Transitional Council which toppled Qaddafi #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Sirtawi
Updated map showing Markaziya school and Wagadugo Hall in #Sirte. #Libya #FreeSirte pic.twitter.com/iQxrriOZ
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
What’s with Libya Alahrar? They never learn. They just announce Mussa Ibrahim is killed in Sirte. No photo no video.
Took Gaddafi 40 years to go to the UN. Jalil, 6 months. Niiiiice!
Can anyone explain the relationship between Snipers and Insurance company’s buildings? In Misrata, Zawya, Tripoli, and now Sirte?
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
UN vote to accept NTC as the representative for the Libyan seat at the General Assembly. #Libya
Sirte : Heavy fighting near the secretariat complex and the liberation the airport completely
Bani Walid: Liberation of the northern areas of the city and the fighting now in the middle of the city
Barak Shatti: Fully Liberated and the national army on the way to the Sabha
4Adam Adam
Sept.16 – Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tripoli youtube.com/watch?v=7AXF_3… #Libya
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
Congratulations to National Transitional Council as #UN General Assembly accepts them as official representatives of #Libya,114 votes to 17.
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
as per our producer there: Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Angola, and Gabon among others” voted NO! #libya
4Adam Adam
AJA reporter – ‘#NTC forces face a great resistance from Gaddafi loyalists in BeniWaild’. #Libya
NTC commander on the battle for Bani Walid Libya revolution goo.gl/5dnL0
Libya Fighting Rages in Bani Walid and Sirte bit.ly/nEZXyd #p2
BBC News – Libya conflict: NTC forces attack Sirte and Bani Walid bbc.in/p1x4TN
Reuters News Media ▸ NTC forces storm Bani Walid and Sirte goo.gl/fb/5wUG8
Los rebeldes lanzan una ofensiva contra Bani Walid y Sirte www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/r... vía @el_pais
Tarek
So if the rebels withdraw from Bani Walid and Sirte, will the Gaddafi loyalists run after them and hunt them down, or will they stay put?
Ava
ffs have entered the north eastern part of bani walid town center though facing tough resistance #libya #baniwalid #feb17
Libya’s Anti-Gadhafi Forces Storm Bani Walid www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Lib... via @VOA_News
malonebarry Barry Malone
NTC fighters are now pouring OUT of Bani Walid under heavy rocket fire from pro-Gaddafi forces, say Reuters witnesses there #Libya
Sarkozy_News Nicolas Sarkozy
Sarkozy News, le Journal nouvelle édition bit.ly/q6lGPs ▸ Aujourd’hui à la UNE
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli Erdogan: U R the ones who showed the whole world that no administration can stand in way of the might & will of the people #Libya
#Tripoli Erdogan: "From here I call out 2 #Sirte Embrace yr brothers in Tripoli Spilling blood does not suit us let us come together #Libya
Dodging Snipers in #Bani #Walid Dodging Snipers in Libyan Town Wadi Bey around 3 km up to BW is under #NTC control #Libya
#Bani Walid Fierce Batlle today #NTC Fighters are shooting in direction of Sea where Gaddafi troops are holed up in a row of villas #Libya
#Half Of #SIRTE in Smoke BuidlingsBurning Heavyfighting FF were inCenter 2day but pulledback 4Nightfall abt3km from Center #Libya
4Adam Adam
Tripoli University – Preparation for school year without Gaddafi. Ar youtube.com/watch?v=lOtGPG… #Libya #Tripoli
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
While ending North African tour in Libya, Erdogan says Syrian oppressors won’t survive goo.gl/QErK1
hominoid555 Russell
Freedom fighters from inside Sirte have joined forces with their brothers, the Lions of Misrata, epic moment !
AJA -70% of Sirte has bn liberated according to ‘Sirte media grp’. ‘Most of G forces r in AbuHadi’, ‘NATO destroyed 2 buildings used by Gs’
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
NTC Surges into Qaddafi’s Final Bastions alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #Qaddafi #Alarabiya #Sirte
Nasr
RAF targeted tanks & armoured vehicles shelling civilians in #Sebha, deep in the desert south of #Libya
BBC : Abdel al-Mutaly, a resident of Sirte, said he had only learned today that Tripoli had fallen to the anti-Gaddafi forces last month. “There is no food, no money, no petrol, not information in Sirte”, he told the AFP news agency. “How could I have known that had taken Tripoli?”
Palm Maple
FF Allowed Alarabiya near #Sirte Airport assuming it was secure. Alarabiya team had 2 withdraw as it came under bombardment while on air
At UN on #Libya, As Khatib Resigns, #NTC Wins . goo.gl/QNGxB via innercitypress.com #Feb17 #Libya
Sirtawi
NATO strikes on both #Sirte’s local station and Operations HQ near Wagadugo Hall. #SirteCrisis #Feb17
BREAKING: Military reinforcements just arrived to the free Libyan Army in Sirte
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#BBC Journo Mohammad Ballout shot in arm by sniper near #BaniWalid #Libya.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Please Read & RT: Islamists hit at #Libya’s liberal leadership ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7… #Feb17 #MB
or:
www.twitlonger.com/show/d4fheb
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
A helicopter flies over Benghazi flying the independence flag as the celebration begins. A flag placed over the mausoleum #Libya #benghazi
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Thousands of #Misrata rebels are here attacking #sirt. These men are fearless. They run into battle like there is no 2morow. #libya
Its 0700 pm local #libya time. Rebels of #Misrata pull out of #sirt 4 tactical reasons. I went in with them 5 kms inside #sirt. Now out.
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
“As for me I will live longer than my hangman.” – Omar Mukhtar. 80 yrs later & he has. #1931 #1911 #2011 #Libya #feb17 #Benghazi
Al Jazeera: the rebels withdraw to the northern entrance of the city of Bani Walid because of heavy shelling by the battalions.
Tweeting Tripoli
We couldn’t get out 2 support Tunis & Egypt when under Gaddafi’s rule, now we should arrange huge support rally for #Syria #libyans4syrians
Joanne
Columns of #Libya #NTC fighters and vehicles Withdrew chaotically from #BaniWalid @dusk after hrs of fierce fighting ended Inconclusively
#BaniWalid #NTC FF told Reuters; We have received orders to RETREAT We have been hit by many rockets. We will come back later #Libya
#BaniWalid Frantic Atmosphere Shouting matches among FF as they poured out of city amid Heavy Bursts of RocketFire from G Forces #Libya
#SIRTE 3 #NTC fighters have just been killed half an hour ago Dozens are injured in fierce fighting in the center of Sirte #Libya
#BANIWALID Most difficult part is the Central market where G Troops are Firing from and very heavy fighting @Castle in center
Obama administration is sending several additional weapons experts to #Libya to help train local units to locate and destroy Missing weapons
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Omar Mukhtar’s struggle of nearly 20 years came to an end on September 11, 1931, when he was wounded in battle near Slonta, Cyrenaica
They treated the native leader hero as a prize catch. His resilience had an impact on his jailers, who later remarked upon his steadfastness
His interrogators stated that Omar Al Mokhtar recited verses of peace from the Qur’an
In three days, Omar Al Mukhtar was tried, convicted, and, on September 14, 1931,
sentenced to be hanged publicly
When the Italian general made him a final offer to make him their puppet & be allowed to live like the other leaders of his ppl he answered:
“I shall not cease to fight against thee and thy people until either you leave my country or I leave my life
And I swear by Him who knows what is in men’s hearts that if my ands were not bound this very moment I would fight you with my bare hands, old and broken as I am.’’
To pacify his resistance army, the Italians offered him high ranking positions and wealth.
In return, they demanded that he surrendered and followed their Colonial decree. He responded in a famous quote saying,
“I’m not a sweet bite of a meal anyone can swallow.No matter how long they try to change my belief&opinion, Allah is going to let them down”
They then offered him to leave his town to live closer to the ruling party complete with a monthly salary, but he again refused by saying:
“No, I will not leave my country until I meet my lord. Death is closer to me than anything, I’m waiting for it by the minute.”
The court sentence was to hang Omar Almokhtar in public in the village of Sulug.The sentence was carried out the next day – Sept 16,1931.
It was done in front of thousands of Libyans who were gathered by the Italians from various concentration camps to witness the hanging.
Historians reported that the last words uttered by Omar Almokhtar before his death were the Quranic verse:
oh peaceful Soul return to your lord, satisfied and obedient – Quran
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Salem #Alharary, a 39 yr old FF from Gurgi, #Tripoli was martyred today in #Sebha. RIP goo.gl/fUzjj goo.gl/3s2AZ
BBC reporter: ‘Regular flow of ambulances’ to and from Bani Walid in Libya: BBC reporter: ’Regular flo… bbc.in/oXHf9C #RT by BK
dutchnewsfeed Dutch News
Rebellen trekken zich terug uit Bani Walid: (Novum) – BANI WALID – De Libische rebellen hebben zich teruggetrokk… bit.ly/pV6wO0
Bani Walid around 12 ambulances have left the town carrying NTC casualties it is unclear how many have been killed or injured.
New article, Libya’s Anti-Gadhafi Forces Storm Bani Walid, Sirte – is.gd/URpaZL
hominoid555 Russell
Bani Walid There’s been a lot of rebel activity on the road to Bani Walid today, vehicles taking ammunition
Libye: les pro-CNT dans les bastions kadhafistes de Bani Walid et de Syrte – A lire ici: www.bdpgabon.org/?p=32485
#BBCArabic presenter was hit by a sniper inside Bani Walid has been taken to #Tripoli for Surgey, Insha allah he makes a swift recovery
Sirtawi
Sirte #FF Battalion now stationed in Zaffran area at W entrance of city, under the command of Khalifa El-Bareg. Allahu Akbar!
BreakingNews Breaking News
In Sirte, loyalists are responding to Libyan fighters’ advance with sniper attacks and rocket barrages – @AP apne.ws/o9G7e4
88simon88 simon
Russian OIL compagnies R Back in Libya. 50% of an oil field Will B shared with ENI… mtm-news.com/article/3669/g…
thedailybeast The Daily Beast
Libyan Rebels Claim Sirte: Say they’ve captured Gaddafi’s last enclave. thebea.st/qohSWt #cheatsheet
FromJoanne Joanne
#SMALLFLASH #BBC outside #BaniWalid Soldiers at a checkpoint Report that the DRIVER ofGaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has been captured #Libya
#Misrata Military Council says #NTC Fighters control the old Airport on the western edge of #Sirte #Libya
#FLASH #SIRTE bus full of #NTC revolutionary fighters hit a roadside planted by G Troops bomb in #Sirte Late Thursday Killing 11 #Libya
#FLASH British military spokesman says: #Nato jets fired about 2 dozen #Brimstone Missiles @ Armoured Vehicles nr #SABHA on Thursday #Libya
#SIRTE Resident "@First we were AFRAID because we didn’t know who they (FF) were but now that we have seen then We r Very Happy #Libya
Sirtawi
Gaddafi loyalists in #Sirte using tear gas bombs on #FFs after which they launch offensive. #FreeSirte #Feb17
#FFs in #Sirte withdraw from BuHadi towards Al-Thaher and Al-Thalatheen.
Sirte #FF Battalion now stationed in Zaffran area at W entrance of city, under the command of Khalifa El-Bareg. Allahu Akbar! #FreeSirte
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
#Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 ALGERIA I BELIEVE #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli Uni Law students kicked out Dr Basha who were strong Pro-Gaddafi supporter, from a lecture hall: youtube.com/watch?v=2B_Gsl…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_GslFikag&fea...
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
I spoke 2day to one pro #gaddafi woman over the phone. I asked her why do you like #gaddafi? She said: I dont know but he is my soul.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Niger will not send Saadi Qaddafi to Libya, for now: official #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
All started when the feed factory got shelled by #Gadhafi forces from #BaniWalid. #libya
At the front, fighters have a hard time entering the valley, Wadi Zeitoun, which leads to the city center. #BaniWalid #libya
#Gadhafi forces shelled the area we were in with mortars, machine guns, and so much sniper fire whistled past our heads #libya
Libyan4life
Wait wait wait… how did this escape me, SHALGHAM is going to be our UN rep?!!? #Libya #Feb17 #OldGaddafiGoon
88simon88 simon
As the NTC got the Libya UN seat today, they will B able to vote for the PALESTINIAN Query to B recognized as a State.
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Today crowds in Martyrs Square were shouting “Syria, Syria, Syria” to Erdogan.
Reuters:
Noose tightens around Gaddafi strongholds | Video reut.rs/nfLnom #Libya
Reuters:
The merchants of Tripoli | Video reut.rs/pKyMos #Libya
Nancy
LIbyan forces pull back after fierce resistance from Gadhafi loyalists in Bani Walid theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afr… via @globeandmail
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Drs at the field hospital say 6 dead and 54 injured from the rev forces’ side today #libya #baniwalid
The geography of #BaniWalid and the strength of the #Gadhafi forces inside is creating huge problems with the rev forces #libya
Fighters faced some v v tough resistance and became aggressive and tense at the end of the day, retreating for the night #libya #baniwalid
Swedish ambassador will be appointed for Libya alturl.com/j2wgr
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
#Tripoli protests today: “Neither Brigades, Nor Battalions. We want ONE Military behind us!” #Libya via Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Battle for #Bani #Walid. Photos:goo.gl/8SXUC #libya #feb17
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Let’s move away from the excuse of “transitioning” to justify accepting ex-Gaddafi henchmen. We have an Official UN seat. It is permanent.
FromJoanne Joanne
Nato still protects civilians Sirte BaniWalid Sabha Kufra + lots of small little hamlets r still terrorized by G troops #Libya
Khiria
I am against Shalgam representing #Libya at the #UN. He did so already for years during the #Gaddafi era and therefore should now retire.
I’d appreciate if people who have not tried to resign from the #Gaddafi regime before #Feb17 just stayed home. #Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Video of FFs protesting in the city of Hun which is currently surrounded by G forces is.gd/KGFOji #Feb17 #Libya
Nusaybah (KC)
I can never understand a man who accepts a ‘job’ by order of his government that includes systemic rape during times of war. #Sick >:-(
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Warning don’t show to kids. Could bring nightmares: Typical Gaddafi Goon pic.twitter.com/Uxz4NnUd
Fadwa
Mustafa Abduljaleel and Erdogan just arrived to Omar Al-Mukhtar’s mausoleum in #Benghazi. #Libya
Sirtawi
NATO bombed insurance building in the heart of #Sirte half an hour ago. #FreeSirte #Feb17
malonebarry Barry Malone
Moussa “I’m not dead” Ibrahim on TV again #Libya
AFPTV_en AFPTV_en
Tripoli zoo struggles to rebuild after war bit.ly/pSu4s1 #AFP #video
brunehel Hélène Brunel
At Benghazi, french reporters teased the Elysée’s special advisor Henry Guaino who went with pdt Sarkozy & who enjoyed holidays in #Libya…
septimius_sever septimius severus
Regaining confiscated property next fight for many in #Libya – World Wires – MiamiHerald.com hrld.us/pQpTrQ via @miamiherald
#Qaddafi spokesman: war is not over, we have prepared ourselves for a long war with arms and equipment #Libya
MID_EAST MID_EAST
UN Security Council eases sanctions on Libya, including on its national oil company, central bank – Reuters /-BreakingNews
Sarah LFFR
“We salute the courage of the Libyan people who rose up against oppression. They’re responsible for building their future.” G. Araud #Libya
Sirtawi
#FFs in #Sirte managed to capture around 40 Gaddafi men. #FreeSirte #Feb17 #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Smoke rose above the city from heavy street fighting, much of it is along the main First of September Street in #Sirte #Libya
#In #Bani #Walid RadioStation Airs Steady stream of Lies calling #NTC fighters traitors of #Libya and Islam “They drink do drugs and dance”
#WARNING #UnitedStates said Friday it warned #oOIL Companies operating in North #Africa of an #alQaida TERRORIST PLOT goo.gl/XaWgm
State Department budgeted $3 million 2hire 2international weapons disposal teams 2locate +destroy MANPADs land mines a.o. munitions \Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
New Song from @IbnThabit “Mabruk” or Congratulations – Music video shot in #Libya – with Ibn Thabit himself!! youtube.com/watch?v=2eRWMk…!
Joanne
#SAHARA #Convoy of armored cars #ntc Fighters on their way to #Sabha on Sept15 youtube.com/watch?v=-wz44h… #Libya
#TRIPOLI Todays #Friday Noon Prayer with #NTC #Jalil and #Turkey #Erdogan attending youtube.com/watch?v=a6L_nG… #Libya
MUST READ:
Nasr
Did U read this? bradsherman.house.gov/2011/05/12/Let…
Joanne
Hmm I Wonder what dear DR #Jibril did with this mail
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Spent a long day on the road outside #Bani Walid. Situation still confused.
Ruwayda
Women played a crucial role in overthrowing Gaddafi and yet the NTC has only one female in post: bit.ly/niYfI3 #Fem2 #Libya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
i interviewed 3 female NTC members
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Reburial of Zawiya martyrs removed from their original graves in Martyr Sq by inhumane G forces early in #Feb17 is.gd/21au9N #Libya
Ben_mhmd Mahmud
Omar Mukhtar’s sons visit #FredomFighters on the front lines! goo.gl/ALwpY June05th #Libya #Feb17 *Amazigh_Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Epic reception of NTC & Mustafa Abdel Jalil when they visited Zuwara recently is.gd/ReYsaC #Feb17 #Libya
A Free Libyan
Support #Algeria as they embark on their journey for freedom. #Libya is with you. Praying it’s a successful day #Feb17 #Sep17
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Life is bizarre. Erdogan was once a key stumbling block in face of #Feb17 & now he is putting cornerstone in Omar AlMukhtar’s mausoleum دنيا
hominoid555 Russell
Wounded BBC journalist in Libya Mohamed Oaks. youtube.com/watch?v=w1JAiV…
Sirtawi
#FFs on eastern front line have advanced towards #Sirte with tanks and heavy artillery causing a huge retreat from Gaddafi forces.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
camping in the open around #Sirte the road is full of burned cars 2 helicopters evacuating wounded heavy heavy resistance #Libya
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution 2009 on Libya, authorizing UN mandate, easing sanctions, supporting transition.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: Gaddafi’s son flees the long siege of Bani Walid (only his bodyguard was captured! )Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… via @Telegraph
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC #Misrata Fighters trying to liberate #Sirte 15/9 2011 youtube.com/watch?v=hxaCJ0… #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
NTC Fighetrs report that #Saif had left early in a convoy of 30 #SUVs across the desert, after a diversionary attack on a checkpoint#Libya
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
BBC News – Fighting for the symbolic city of #Sirte bbc.in/r1VBmO
FromJoanne Joanne
#BANIWALID Captured Bodyguard says #SAIFalIslam was in BW until yesterday morning staying @ local civil leader’s House but fled #Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
I love the way Erdogan is acting like he supported #Feb17 out of conviction & now being feted. Geopolitical economic interests prevail : )
Tweeting Tripoli
Bozaid Dorda was not a happy bunny when he got caught, that’s for sure. youtube.com/watch?v=sM1GiV…
he gave the orders to his goons to shoot at Tripoli protesters on Feb 20th?
Tweeting Tripoli
From today’s rally in support of NTC…
yfrog.com/kflrhsrj
yfrog.com/mmttdpj
yfrog.com/ke9dhmhj
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Mustafa Abdeljalil and Erdogan in Martyrs Square #Benghazi laying cornerstone of Omar Al Mukhtar’s Mausoleum now. Live on libya.tv
This is a historical moment as true Libyan history is restored- rebuilding mausoleum in #Benghazi that was once demolished by #Gaddafi.
Zainab
Libya Al Ahrar. Mustafa Abd Aljleel and Ardogan at Omar AlMukhtar’s shrine in #Benghazi
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan fighters inflicted heavy casualties on rebels on Bani Walid front, killed and captured many: Qaddafi spokesman #alarabiya #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Gaddafi spokesman says heavy casualties on rebel forces in Bani Walid
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Benghazi packed tonight for marking of 80th anniversary of Omar Mukhtar’s execution by Italians. His story was an inspiration for revolution
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Sirte: #Misrata #Freedomfighters in Western part of the city reached the beach earlier. #Libya #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #UN SECURITY COUNCIL REDUCED #SANCTIONS ON #LIBYA Incl on #oil companies and the central #bank
I read a report #Drones are still being used If I remember well it was in #Sabha #Libya
Rena Netjes
So the Awlad Suleyman, Magarha and Gadadfa recognise the NTC, acc to NTC spokesman from Tripoli on AJA
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Unveiling of the new Omar Al-Mokhtar’s tomb now live from Benghazi. yfrog.com/g0350nj
Sarah LFFR
I like how #AJA is not paying attention to #Erdogan ’s visit. #Benghazi
jfoleyjourno:
misrata brigades determined to take #sirte on their own, and probably will, not sure if its good or bad. #Libya
Eastern front is opening up in #Sirte. v @Sirte_Feb17 #Libya
#FFs in the battle East of #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/GpbmqpfE
Anaya
Life is bizarre.Erdogan Gaddafi Human Rights Award 2010.Life is bizarre.Russia restarted oil business in Libya,ETC…
Brian_Whit Brian Whitaker
Al-Quds editor Abdel-Bari Atwan denies NTC’s claim that he was paid by Gaddafi, says he will sue bit.ly/nKHqZq #libya
hrw Human Rights Watch
#Libya: Burkina Faso and Niger will not give safe haven to former Libyan leader Muammar #Gaddafi bit.ly/pW6Lhk
IpMac121 revolution update
#Libya Rebels take the #Al-Manshia area of the southwestern city of #Sabha @YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=kTS948… #tripoli #gaddafi #nato #nwo
FromJoanne Joanne
The bravery and determination of the #Libyan people has sent a strong message to repressive regimes everywhere: bit.ly/nPbxWp
omar
The bravery & determination of the #Libyan Ppl has sent a strong message to repressive regimes everywhere- UK rep to UN ukun.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=…
Fighters loosen loyalist grip on #Gaddafi’s hometown. af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5... #Libya #Feb17
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Benghazi: The Uprising- documentary bit.ly/oUj2eD #libya
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Chaos around #Bani Walid today. More of the same tomorrow ?
In Mermory of Omar Mokhtar hanged by Italian army #Libya 80 years ago 16th Sep 31 youtu.be/SvioLFBtUz8
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvioLFBtUz8&fea...
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 17th 2011
9/17/11
9.17.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/nfSxJ
NATO Key Hits for September 16, 2011
In the vicinity of Sirte: 5 Command and Controle Nodes, 3 Radar Systems, 4 Armed Vehicles, 8 Air Missile Systems.
In the vicinity of Hun: 4 Anti Aircraft Guns.
dovenews Libyan™
#Iran supports the revolution in #Tunisia, #Egypt & #Libya, no mentioning of #Syria!
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Just spoke 2 a friend n #Tripoli who stressed how expensive everything is. 4 example a sandwich that used 2 cost 1/2 a dinar is now 3 dinars
If home is where the heart is, I think I left it draped across Tripoli and Tunis. But thanks for the sentiment.
Libyan4life
In Libya, Turk PM woos with one eye on history. af.reuters.com/article/libyaN… #Libya #Feb17
dovenews Libyan™
UN mission in Libya 2 assist the gov wth the post-conflict transition, though a draft doesnt call 4 the dploymnt of UN peacekeeprs or police
2011feb17
One of Gaddafi’s houses in #Sirte: youtube.com/watch?v=Ik2IjQ… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik2IjQ9MAi0&sns=em
haqiqiya
Gathering in remembrance of #Omar el-#Mukhtar today in front of the #Libya #Embassy in #London:
on.fb.me/pKNp8q #feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#NEWS; UN SecCouncil resolution approved lift ban on flights by #Libyan Aircraft + Modifies the arms embargo on Gaddafi’s regime #Libya
philipp_aut Philipp
SthAfrica, Angola, Kenya, Lesotho, DR Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia voted against NTC seat at UN. Saudis abstained.
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
What I find truly amazing & humbling is all the non Libyans who supported #Feb17 …. There is but one family under the sky : )
In the same way Italian occupation revealed the FF in Omar AlMukhtar’s generation … #Feb17 revealed the FF in us … Allahu Akbar #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi loyalists say inflict heavy casualties on foes; U.N. Council eases Libya sanctions goo.gl/w2SEb
LibyanPilot
erdogan says opened embassy in tripoli, consulate in Benghazi and a future one in Misrata. Wow no more centralised state :D
Erdogan ends his speech in arabic congratulating sons of omar mokhtar, youth of libya and the women of libya, crowd chanting his name
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#BaniWalid: Many reports that internationally wanted war criminal Seif #Gaddafi remains in town. #Libya #Feb17
#Niger won’t hand over Saadi #Gaddafi news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/16/nig… @UN SHOULD NOW SUSPEND ALL AID OF ANY TYPE TO NIGER #Libya #Feb17
US ambassador Susan Rice says: “We all stand witness to the birth of a new Libya.” KatzOnEarth Jonathan M. Katz
Latest on the new UN seat for Libya’s transitional government: apne.ws/pXOWeF
A military spokesman for Libya’s transitional govt tells AP: “That means we are the right people who have the right to lead this country.”
Opposition from Venezuela: Seating council after “criminal air raids” to install “puppet government” sets “abominable precedent.”
Southern African Development Community regional bloc also opposed, saying NTC is not yet a govt, but it failed to win support.
omar
#Gaddafileaks: If history repeats itself, I really want to have a nice haircut
FCO UK
Foreign Secretary statement following UN Security Council’s resolution vote on Libya
16 September 2011
Foreign Secretary William Hague: “Today’s votes show the international community’s recognition of and confidence in the new Libyan authorities.”
Speaking today Foreign Secretary William Hague said:
“I strongly welcome the UN Security Council’s unanimous adoption of Resolution 2009 and the UN General Assembly’s vote to allow the National Transitional Council to take Libya’s seat at the UN. Both these votes make clear the international community’s determination to support the new Libyan authorities, and the Libyan people, as they make progress in re-establishing stability and embrace a free future – progress which the Prime Minister and I saw for ourselves earlier this week on the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi.
This historic resolution mandates a UN mission to support them in those efforts, including preparing for elections and protecting human rights. The provisions for unfreezing assets, leading to the progressive release of around £12 billion from the UK, will help Libya in building a more prosperous and stable future. As the NTC has called for, the resolution maintains the no fly zone and action to protect civilians, which will remain in place as long as they are considered necessary. Today’s votes show the international community’s recognition of and confidence in the new Libyan authorities. We will continue to work with them closely as they build a better future for Libya.”
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libyan employees ‘saved #oil , #gas sector,’ oil minister says goo.gl/fb/lSQ0m #libya #gaddafi Troops Left #ForGetMeNots 40,000 mines
Jonny_Hallam
The dangers for journalists working on the Libyan front line bbc.co.uk/ariel/14955151" #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Morning all, I’m leaving Libya today after an epic two weeks. I was here on a personal holiday, not work, but I still saw a great deal.
Thoughts are with injured colleague Mohammed Ballout, shot in the chest yesterday in Bani Walid #Libya
I went to see Mohammed yesterday in hospital, he was in high spirits and smiling, remarkable given the circumstances.
There is a huge bullet in the middle of his chest. The same round killed one man and severely wounded another before hitting Mohammed
I don’t know the type of bullet I’m afraid.
I went to Friday prayers yesterday in Martyr’s Square, Tripoli yesterday. Erdogan prayed next to Abdeljalil, photos coming up.
After Friday prayers, visited the Sbay’a area, south of Gasr bin Ghashir. No independence flags in sight, instead I saw pro-Gaddafi graffiti
Car I was travelling in had independence flag stickers on the front (most Libyan cars
do now). Heard someone call out “rats!”
Editing yesterday’s pictures from Erdogan visit, just found something very very interesting.
In the British press, there is a whole genre of story devoted to ministers being snapped walking around with sensitive documents.
Looks like I just came across the Libyan version of that genre.
Photo: Erdogan and Jibril on Flickr. tumblr.com/xxw4qj7zkr
Photo: Abduljaleel praying on Flickr. tumblr.com/xxw4qj8oil
Photo: Abduljaleel and Erdogan on Flickr. tumblr.com/xxw4qj8vgo
Photo: Turkish police on Flickr. There were enough Turkish police and security personnel in Martyr’s Square… tumblr.com/xxw4qj9aoi
Just tweeted some pictures from yesterday’s visit. Blog post coming up about the document Jibril was holding.
Jibril was holding a list of the NTC’s candidates for cabinet positions in the Libyan interim government.
He was holding it in full view of the international press, next to Erdogan on the podium. I’m very surprised noone else took a picture too.
Jibril himself is the candidate for Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, according to this document. Shalgam is also on the list
I can’t make out all the writing on the list, uploading the pic now, Arab readers can see and translate the parts I can’t make out.
Photo: Jibril’s document on Flickr. See tweets for more information tumblr.com/xxw4qjew7l
Photo: Jibril’s document (close-up) on Flickr. See tweets for more info tumblr.com/xxw4qjhpok
Photos tweeted, you can read a lot of the names, would be grateful if someone could translate because I will be off internet now
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA 2 NTC spokesmen (mas’ulaan): New interim government to be announced on sunday.
So the Awlad Suleyman, Magarha and Gadadfa recognise the NTC, acc to NTC spokesman from Tripoli on AJA
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
@RenaNetjes Now tribes are recognizing NTC??!! Members of these tribes have been active in NTC for months…
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
@libyanfsl it wasn’t yet 100% probably…and i am aware, i met some very anti-Gaddafi gadadfa’s in Benghazi..
bencnn benwedeman
Driving with huge NTC column thru villages in Al-Shati region of Sabha. Most residents, but not all, cheering. So far no shooting.
Libya In Me
I didn’t watch Cameron, Sarkozy, and Erdogan in Libya. It’s all a show, for personal gains. Nothing more. And Erdogan? PUH-lease
mausoleum in #Benghazi pic.twitter.com/EY3GsVMS
Sirtawi
National Front for the Salvation of Libya: A large number of wounded #FFs have arrived at #Tripoli and #Tarhuna’s hospitals today. #Feb17
Al-Tadamun: Heavy clashes btwn #FFs & Gmen in Hrawa (E of #Sirte). Many casualties among #FFs who had to be flewn 2 #Benghazi by helicopter.
Ali Tweel
Guys, I just can’t stop listening, Trables Nhebbek “Tripoli I love you” by FB17 youtube.com/watch?v=GiodRQ… My Number 1 song until now!
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiodRQpe8iw
My Favorite too!!!!!!!
Gives you chills……..
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
My neighborhood (Seyahiya) in #Tripoli held a day for the children احتفالية الأطفال بالمدينة السياحية on.fb.me/nV5t44 #Libya #Feb17
Aisha
Walter Fauntroy :wikipedia gaddafi supporter trapped in the rixos no stories were confirmed #libya bit.ly/pK5gyw”
der_bluthund Anonymous Watcher
Writing a piece on islamophobia and not too sure where to go on it…
Nusaybah
You can start by talking about how media and politics use Islamophobia for scaremongering for political manipulation/scoring.
der_bluthund Anonymous Watcher
Oh I will be talking about media manipulation – both Main Stream Media and the Alternative Media – they’re equally guilty…
monsaudu monsaudu
I think there is no real threat from Islam. the threat comes from uneducated people, who happen to be Muslims.
Ann Marlowe
23,500 NATO air raids on #Libya – about 3 for every FF – ridiculous way to wage war Not -The Lesson of Libya on.wsj.com/pUOVxy via @WSJ
Paul
Think they/you need to get facts straight. Number of flights do not equal ‘air raids’ Strike sorties have been about 6500
annmarlowe
Well as far as I know fuel and pilots aren’t free on sorties that don’t drop bombs. This has been enormously expensive
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Enormously expensive? The whole Libya operation has cost UN/NATO less than 4billion which is what a day in Iraq?
Paul
Still doesn’t explain why the massive exaggeration in ur tweet & U say “pilots aren’t free” they are paid anyway
SMILE:
meshelmay Michelle May
Momma mia i’m in love. #regularlibyancitizen #misrata youtube.com/watch?v=25mMPG… thanks
:Carol watched the video too
LOL! There is hot, and there is #EpicLibyanhot @meshelmay Momma mia i’m in love. #regularlibyancitizen #misrata youtube.com/watch?v=25mMPG… thanks
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=25mMPG8ytMs&...
Michelle May
carolv27 my god. Who is that man and how do I meet him? Wtf am I doing here???? #$%&
malonebarry Barry Malone
Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim just told me Gaddafi is directing “every aspect” of the war against the provisional government #Libya
Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim just called us, claiming NATO airstrikes hit residential buildings in Sirte last night, killing 354
The residential building in Sirte that Ibrahim claimed was hit by NATO rockets is the Tamin Building (named after the insurance firm) #Libya
When I pressed Moussa Ibrahim on where he was speaking to me from, he said he was “near Sirte” #Libya
He is talking to the people, he is lecturing, he is discussing, he is looking after all matters of the resistance- Ibrahim on Gaddafi #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Gaddafi’s spokesman says NATO airstrikes hit residential buildings in Sirte
Adam
All know that Erdogan is an opportunist. He thought Gaddafi would win. When he felt he was behind switched sides and jumped in.
Libya17Feb Tripoli Youth
facebook.com/media/set/?set… – List of the Missing ,,, اسماء المفقودين التي تم التبيلغ عنه #Libya
Sarah LFFR
#FreedomFighters are too strong & epic that some people think they are “NATO fighters” #LibyanHeroes
OnlyLibyaa Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook fb.me/uJiKfE3q
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Bruised anti-Gaddafi fighters regroup and gather reinforcements outside Bani Walid, preparing for next assault
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Benghazi packed tonight for marking of 80th anniversary of Omar Mukhtar’s execution by Italians. His story was an inspiration for revolution
Libya In Me
Mosaab Alzintany. One of 1st to protest in Tripoli on Feb 20. Fought in Zintan, Zawiya, & martyred in Bab Al-Aziziyah feb17martyrs.com/mosaab-alzinta…
BBC journalist injured in Libya
BBC Arabic correspondent, Mohammad Ballout, has been injured while covering events in Bani Walid in Libya today.
The BBC says the latest information it has is that Ballout’s injuries are not life-threatening and medical teams are looking after him.
He was preparing for a live broadcast when he, and other journalists, were targeted by a sniper.
Last weekend Ballout and his crew were the first journalistic team to reach advance rebel positions on the front line at Bani Walid, where Gaddafi loyalists are holding out against forces of the National Transitional Council.
A BBC spokesperson said: ’Today’s incident is another reminder of our journalists’ bravery and commitment to inform audiences about events as they happen, even from the most dangerous zones and situations.’
Why didn’t BBC report this?
#BBC cameraman Mohammed SHOT by large CalibreRifle in #BaniWalid bullet went through 2others st 1Died 1critical #libya
aquaamr Dr. Amr Aboulfath
Colleague reporter #BBC arabic been shot while doing a live report #Bani Walid. He continued broadcasting while injured. Now in hospital.
libyansrevolt Moez
The bullet inside BBC Arabic’s cameraman is at least 6cm long and stopped just above his heart. Apparently from a ‘dragunov’ rifle #Libya
Sirtawi
PIC: Moussa Ibrahim’s brother, Muhammad, captured yesterday in #Sirte and brought to #Misurata. #Feb17 #Libya pic.twitter.com/3juroIbi
KhadijaMAli
interview I did with the Tripoli Youth Movement on Sept. 12. youtube.com/watch?v=AWIkGM… via @youtube #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
“A formation of tanks & armoured vehicles was spotted shelling civilian areas in the regime held town of #Sebha” telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… #Libya
Former #Polisario Official Exposes Before #UNHRC Human Rights Abuses in #Tindouf #Algeria Camps allafrica.com/stories/201109161123.html
VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ AND RT TO EVERYONE: “THE ROLE OF #ALGERIA IN #LIBYA” www.hudson-ny.org/2430/algeria-libya #Feb17 @UN @NATO
MUST READ
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Rebels punch into Sirte as Libyan Civilians flee; traitors blamed for Bani Walid retreat goo.gl/qRW1j
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Pro-Qaddafi forces have enough arms and ready to fight for months: Qaddafi spokesman #Alarabiya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Guardian: Libyan women: it’s our revolution too goo.gl/cZ1Ft #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
NYT: U.N. Takes Steps to Assist #Libya’s Transitional Leaders goo.gl/VBDuF #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
#Libya counts more martyrs than bodies. goo.gl/x3uX1
#China’s Foreign Ministry pledges equality, mutual benefit as #Libya rebuilds. goo.gl/0dTSt #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
#Libya has historic day at the #UN. goo.gl/OrQ7l The red, black and green flag of the revolution would soon fly over the #UN. #feb17
#UN eases #Libyan sanctions to help the country’s interim government stabilize and rebuild #Libya goo.gl/a5w8s #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Aljazeera Arabic is running a very interesting pre-#feb17 documentary on how Gaddafi used to mistreat asylum seekers & immigrants #libya
SumayyahG
Abu Salim Prison Massacre victims are true heroes | #Benghazi: The Uprising- documentary feb17.info/media/benghazi… #Libya #Feb17
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. En route to #Bani Walid. Communications could be difficult.
#Libya. Quiet on the road to #Bani Walid this afternoon.
SMILE:
Johnyrocket69 Johnny Six
Gaddafi gives rebels 30 days to surrender or he will call them more names #libya
LIBTRIP:
Gaddafi is ill, he needs Dr. Phil. #Libya flic.kr/p/anqZyC
clayclai Clay Claiborne
To pro-Q crowd “Imagine that, Mummar Qaddafi, Cynthia McKinney, the CIA, M16, the KKK and you. All one big happy family!” #Feb17 #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
All Mr Salabi did was to help Jibril get more popular. Saw these banners in Znata st, Tripoli.
yfrog.com/h395542820j
yfrog.com/hwpxltkj
When its Sheesha time, its Sheesha time. No war will make me miss my Sheesha time :)
pic.twitter.com/ztSRGavt
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
One of rebels I am with was b4 rvltn an engineer. Ayoub lost in #Misrata war one brother, 2 cousins, & 2 uncles… also some friends. #libya
Battle for #sirt goes on. My report last night from close to #sirt center: akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-reports/Fie... #libya
I am on frontline close 2 #sirt. #gaddafi soldiers fire Grad missiles in our direction. Two landed 400 meters away from makeshift hospital.
Hospital, outside #sirt, shook from #grad missile. We went on ground. 2 dead rebels; 10 injured 2day. Also ambulance driver killed. #libya
I saw with my eyes where Grad landed
Rebels catch head of #Saadi brigade in #Sirt.He’s a #gaddafi/ confirms #Muttasim inside. #Muttasim goes under nb 001 over walkie talkie.
I saw CNN producer wounded in his foot near #sirt. Shrepnel from RPG that landed close. He is ok but has a bandage around leg. #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
CCTV footage found from Bab Al-Azizya main gates shows a woman being kidnaped several years ago. No one knows why?:
youtube.com/watch?v=6zB1zm…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zB1zm15ZJg&sns=em
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Spoke too soon. Not such a quiet afternoon near #bani Walid. Anti Gaddafi fighters reinforcing.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
they just told me one french journalist has been wounded hit by a rocket in #Sirte #Libya
a very sad story his wife is also a reporter and was waiting for him outside #Sirte #Libya
I hope it’s a mistake they said the french journalist is dead #Sirte
Musa_Ibrahim’s half brother recuperating in #Misrata hospital. He was captured in #Sirte pic.twitter.com/ycwlzh3O
elpasolibre elpasolibre
Fierce fighting around #Gaddafi’s hometown of #Sirte & #BaniWalid have drawn speculation that the fugitive leader might be there #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
A number of revolutionaries at al-Biraq have been killed by Gaddafi snipers. Many of Gaddafi’s forces in the south are Touareg from Mali.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
PHOTOS: Yesterday night in #Benghazi: #Libya #feb17 facebook.com/media/set/?set…
AFP: The Nigerien government it will not send Saadi Gaddafi, back to Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
SEND PICTURES OF MARTYRS WITH INFO TO : feblibya17@hotmail.co.uk Which in turn will be posted to this FB : facebook.com/feb17martyrs
BREAKING: FFs of #Sirte NOW liberate the #Radio #Station of #Sirte from #Gaddafi Loyalists.
Breaking Libya News: BREAKING: #Sirte: Fierce battles taking place NOW in Abu Hadi
malonebarry Barry Malone
Bit of flesh to tweets on my chat with Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim reut.rs/o292VU #Libya
hominoid555 Russell
BBC outside Sirte youtube.com/watch?v=jp8_38… eastern side
Sirte on 17_9_2011 Station radio bombed by NATO , libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LhOpKCRQ8&fea...
grafixel guess what
seems more bunkers than camels … MT @Desertandy: G Army post in Sirte Nord twitpic.com/6mb502 #Libya
Bilalhb bilal h.b.
Gaddafi said we are crusaders his minister said we are Mossad and #Algeria gov say we are AlQaeda wow Libyans are multi-religion Rebels WOW!
NATOpress NATO Press
New Chairman of the #NATO Military Committee elected – goo.gl/9ZWGI
NATOpress NATO Press
#NATO’s Military Committee meets in Seville – goo.gl/DlWuR
IbnOmar2005 Ibn Omar
Picture of #AbdulJalil when he played football for Al-Akhdar. #Libya yfrog.com/h7xhsdqj
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
The needs of our injured must be #Feb17 ’s priority. Injured Zuwara FF highlights their neglect is.gd/H6nG7x #Libya
More than 6,000 FFs from Misrata alone taking part in Sirte liberation with more than 1200 military vehicles #Feb17 #Libya
Alshahed: Heavy clashes as FFs surround Military barracks in Sirte in Abu AlHady area where Mutasem Gaddafi is suspected to be #Feb17 #Libya
Many Schools have started today in Libya with new curricula with Gaddafi regime propaganda removed #Feb17 #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
Now in village of mahroug al-ras as of today under Ntc control. 1 fighter killed. Civilians unharmed. 16 prisoners taken #libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Mathaba.net Subjected to Denial of Service Attack : )
#Freedomfighters surrounding #Milt Camp in #Sirte, possibly where Mutassim #Gaddafi is. Heavy fighting going on. #Libya #Feb17
Khamenei worried: after #Libya intervention, #US, #NATO & the West could be seen by Arabs not as devil anymore. www.sacbee.com/2011/09/17/3917294/irans...
#Morocco backs #NTC as #Libya’s representative to the #UN moroccoworldnews.com/2011/09/morocc… #Feb17
Polisario is NOT a legitimate indegenous independence movement.
I trust AlJezeera far more than ANY American media and far more than I do the BBC
#India grudgingly recognizes #NTC of #Libya, will now begin begging for business there. #Feb17
India is a BRIC country; Brazil, Russia, India, China. Started out as economic group, now trying to B political union
India too fears the Arab Spring much as does Algeria and much of the tyrant states of Africa. Uprising is contagious.
The MB, despite its PR campaign, will turn whatever country they gain control in into another Iran or Pakistan.
Half hour ago #Freedomfighters began attack on a camp in #AbuHadi where
Muttassim #Gaddafi is said to be located. #Libya #Feb17
URGENT! Desperate need for blood type “O -” in #Tripoli hospitals, please donate at #Tajoura Heart Hospital (coastal road) #Libya #Feb17
#Algeria will recognize #Libya when “inclusive” government formed. Inclusive is pro #Gaddafi & criminal #Tuareg…both friends of #Polisario
Interesting Read: A Man of God and Technology, Trying to Steady #Libya www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/world/africa... #Feb17
Despite everything else, the top three threats to a FREE & DEMOCRATIC #Libya are the Muslim Brotherhood, the Tuareg & the #Polisario. #Feb17
Following the top three threats to a FREE & DEMOCRATIC #Libya would be the #BRIC nations, mainly #Russia & #China along w/ #Turkey. #Feb17
Nigers Tawrega on a video I posted just last night said they would continue fight for Gaddafi to the last “man”
Sirtawi
Breaking: Gaddafi men attack #3 residential area in #Sirte. Heavy resistance from local residents there. #FreeSirte
Gaddafi forces situated near Al-Quds Mosque in #Sirte bombing #1 residential area, still no word of any casualties. #Feb17 #FreeSirte
#FFs surrounding Milt Camp in #Sirte thought to be where Mutassim G is. Heavy fighting going on. #FreeSirte #Feb17 #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
A number of revolutionaries at al-Biraq have been killed by Gaddafi snipers. Many of Gaddafi’s forces in the south are Touareg from Mali.
faithcnn Faith Muthoni Karimi
The sudden lack of #Gadhafi ’s funding seems to be having an effect in some Sub-Saharan African nations
LibyanBentBladi Asma Magariaf
Music to our Libyan ears
kosovo_01 kosovo_01
Serbian mercenaries received $5,000 USD monthly: The army commander of Misrata, Abdelaziz Madini….emg.rs/en/news/world/…
6 fighters wounded in fighting in Hawara village (near Sirte), some serious, now in Benghazi v PressSolidarity #Libya pic.twitter.com/sNiaMzc1
Misrata MilitaryCouncil: Clashes in AbuHadi, sth of AlGardabya base. 2 fighters were wounded & 3 martyred الله يرحمهم #Sirte #Libya
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: Initial report from field hospital at #Sirte front-line: 8 fighters were martyred & 31 wounded الله يرحمهم #Libya
Good report on fighting in #Sirt from AlanTV youtu.be/AxeIoPr5ad0 “Some wounded refuse to leave the front line” :) #Libya
#Telegraph Video: #Libya: Interim government forces clash with #Gaddafi loyalist youtu.be/EOTOwZxC3Tg #Sirt #Sirte
Violent attack of pro #Gaddafi forces in #BaniWalid www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/... One of the injured later died amid shouts “Allah Akbar” #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya: Sirte Fighting english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #Qaddafi #NTC #Sirte
Benghazi Youth
Revolutionaries fighting #Gaddafi loyalists in Birak near #Sebha on Thursday youtu.be/1zBjqRMbHqE “I’m homesick for Sebha!” #Libya #CNN
Most #Gaddafi held towns & villages near #Sebha have been liberated. FF are regrouping to take the final fight to Sebha #Libya #AlanTV
AP:
Libyan fighters struggle to regroup after Bani Walid retreat goo.gl/Zqq2X #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Schools Reopen in Libya english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #NTC # Qaddafi
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s #NTC fighters from Misrata capture commander of the #Saadi brigade in #Sirte #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
just back from inside #Sirte chaotic fighting around Abu Hadi roundabout in the west area explosions, snipers and shooting all around #Libya
before near Qar Abu Hadi in the south of #Sirte, also strong resistance from Gaddafi forces 1 killed his head parcially blow apart
i had to go out from inside #Sirte it was really creazy fighters tell me just cry Ala Uakbar! I prefered to run away to be honest #libya
fighters said they are 5 km from Ouagadougu Hall the biggest conference center in Africa and one of the Gaddafi era symbols in #Sirte #Libya
the Halbush Brigade was near by and I also met somebody from the Badr Brigade but not one specific we just do autostop
if you want to come the Halbush Brigade is near Abu Hadi ask for an Scud base Badr brigade in Ahmed Ibrahim home
2 more bodies in a petrol station just outside #Sirte now is a field hospital I thing this is going to be a very bloody battle #Libya
i will stop tweeting now there is no electricity here #Sirte #Libya
Reuters
Pro-Gaddafi forces thwart eastern advance on Sirte
Libyan fighters closing in on Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace from the east captured a nearby town on Saturday only to have their advance stopped by resistance from loyalist forces.
Fighters backing Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) seized Herawa, a small town 60 km from the ousted leader’s coastal hometown of Sirte.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/17/us-l...
malonebarry Barry Malone
Gaddafi forces in Bani Walid have shelled NTC positions, provoking the NTC to rush back towards town in last 20 mins #Libya
NTC fighters attacking Sirte saying some civilians there are taking up arms alongside the pro-Gaddafi fighters #Libya
Aljazeera
Libya
Anti-Gaddafi fighters take cover from incoming Grad missiles from pro-Gaddafi forces in Hirawa, 60km east of Sirte Reuters
Photo:
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-sep-...
Turkey:
Turkey is parachuting in 22 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the Libyan city of Bani Walid, one of the last holdouts of Gaddafi’s supporters, the prime minister’s office said.
Two military cargo planes left Ankara on Saturday to bring food to around 10,000 people in Bani Walid in need of urgent help, the office said in a statement on its website.
As there is no airport in the city, the aid packages would be dropped down by parachute, it added.
Nato:
NATO said on Saturday it would assess allegations that its airstrikes had killed hundreds of civilians in the under-siege Libyan city of Sirte, but noted that similar accusations in the past have rarely proven to be true.
“Most often, they are revealed to be unfounded or inconclusive,” spokesman Roland Lavoie said. “As is the case with all NATO strikes, a thorough damage assessment is conducted afterwards; this will allow us to ascertain whether these allegations are founded or not.”
Lavoie confirmed that several military targets – five command and control facilities, three radar systems, four armed vehicles and eight air missile systems – had been struck following “strong evidence … that the population of Sirte was being threatened.”
English Libya TV
Children start school year without Gaddafi
Boys and girls chanted anti-Muammar Gaddafi slogans while teachers hung an effigy of the fugitive leader today as Libyan children started their first school year without the “brother leader” dictating everything from the curriculum to what books they should read.
It was a festive atmosphere as children wearing ribbons and decked out in the revolutionary colors of red, green and black greeted each other, many for the first time since Tripoli fell to anti-Gaddafi forces late last month.
“We will have a very good future without Gaddafi,” said Bahoula Salam Ergei, a 37-year-old teacher at the Al-Fayha School in Tripoli. “We have to explain to the children what’s new with the revolution and help them forget the violence.”
As she spoke several boys ran around the courtyard unfurling the revolutionary flag that has replaced Gaddafi’s green banner.
The school opening comes as the National Transitional Council, the closest thing to a government in the North African nation, struggles to restore a sense of normalcy despite continued fighting in three southern and central areas that remain loyal to the fugitive autocrat.
School officials stressed many challenges lie ahead. The second-floor library at the Al-Fayha school is still filled with Gaddafi’s “Green Book,” a political manifesto that explains his “Third Universal Theory for a new democratic society.”
The NTC is expected to provide new books and computers for Libya’s schools, but it will take time, said headmistress Moofidha Nashnoush as she rushed through the halls hanging up revolutionary flags and hugging her colleagues.
“In the first day of school, there is a huge difference from before,” Nashnoush said. “You can feel the freedom, the victory, you can breathe the freedom.”
Teachers at the elementary school, which has about 800 students, said they lacked new books to replace those filled with Gaddafi’s teachings. They planned to focus in the beginning on helping the children overcome memories of violence that forced them to stay home as fighting raged in the streets between revolutionaries and Gaddafi loyalists.
Today, dozens of boys and girls filed into the school’s courtyard where Neshnoush led them in songs and chants about the new Libya.
School counselor Amal Suleiman el-Aroud was surrounded as she carried a poster of Gaddafi to a concrete platform, yelling “Who is this man?” The children responded, “He is the war criminal, the one who killed our fathers and uncles.”
She then tore the poster up and set one of the pieces on fire.
Teachers later strung up a Gaddafi puppet on the flag pole as the children cheered
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught, reporting from Wishtata about 50km from the centre of Bani Walid, said there is no fighting planned for today on that front.
“Today is for consolidation and lessons learned from yesterday,” our correspondent said, after speaking with a senior NTC commander.
She also said yesterday’s fighting “ultimately achieved little more than getting people killed and demonstrating the strength of pro-Gaddafi forces”.
Reportedly, Gaddafi has at least three brigades dug in deeply at Bani Walid, laying traps for the NTC fighters. As a result, our correspondent said, “the NTC fighter command insists on taking things slowly, asking for more time to co-ordinate, to re-deploy and to organise”.
Bani Walid
“They swept the position after targeting us with Grad rockets,” said National Transitional Council fighter Omar Ali Ramadan, who added that he and others had managed to take cover at an abandoned house.
“At least seven rockets hit our position,” he said, as Gaddafi loyalists continued their counter-offensive in Bani Walid, 180km southeast of Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have fired rockets and scored casualties in their fierce counter-attack in the fugitive ex-Libyan leader’s stronghold of Bani Walid.
Ambulances rushed dead and wounded fighters as explosions and gunfire thundered in the air, after the attack on a position of NTC fighters several kilometres from the city centre.
A military spokesman for Libya’s transitional government says revolutionaries have no certain information about Gaddafi’s location.
The spokesman Col Ahmed Omar Bani says he thinks anybody who knew where Gaddafi was would turn him in for the nearly $2m bounty set by the revolutionaries.
Gaddafi has been on the run since Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces on August 21.
Fierce fighting around Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte and another stronghold of Bani Walid have drawn speculation that the fugitive leader might be there.
Bani told reporters Saturday that “up to now we don’t have any certain information or intelligence about his whereabouts”.
FraCicardi Francesca Cicardi
Today school reopen in #Libya,7 months after the revolution:teachers told me in #Tripoli they’ll teach it,the war,the brave rebels & martyrs
#Libya schools don’t have new books/programs,but #Gadafi will be erased,his Green Book out,subjects he banned will be teach again now…
English teacher that didn’t speak English told me in #Tripoli languages will be important now,specially those of the allies…French!
frankentele Sean Carberry
One NTC official told me this morning that Anti-Gadhafi forces in Bani Walid extremely unorganized and of borderline competence.
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Since yesterday long queues for petrol in #Tripoli again
Friends in #tripoli tell me that shootings at night become less and less. They feel even more secure than under G.
TheZee Zainab
The Libyan Flag in front of the UN building. #Libya #Feb17 We did it. yfrog.com/h3s1ahpcj
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Violent clashes between Misrata fighters and the thugs of the tyrant, in the Seventh district in Sirte city, and… fb.me/MxYeQT3g
Clashes in the Abu Hadi area, south of the Al-Gardabya military base. Two fighters were wounded and three were… fb.me/GgP6FrKa
malonebarry Barry Malone
Reuters latest summary of events in #Libya so far today reut.rs/oIMnkP
NATO says “aware” of Ibrahim’s 354 deaths in Sirte airstrikes claim. “Most often, (claims) revealed to be unfounded or inconclusive”
smithjournalist Graeme Smith
We’ve put seven more papers from Col. Gadhafi’s intelligence files on the website, with partial translations. bit.ly/oxUDKm
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Video of Erdogan’s speech in Misrata last night! Unbelievable feeling of unity & pride on ALL levels bit.ly/qUSEdZ
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Morale a bit shaky this morning at the Northern front of #BaniWalid after yesterday’s tough attack #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Sirte: Heavy fighting today in #Ouagadougou complex. #Gaddafi filth used RPGs & GRADs to shell area around #BeniHamal Mosque #Libya #Feb17
#Sabha #Freedomfighters control local radio station & new flags flying in liberated suburbs of #AlGardah, #Mansheya & #Jadeed. #Libya #Feb17
Sirte: #Gaddafi forces are using civilin as as human shields inside the city. #Libya #Feb17
BreakingNews Breaking News
Gadhafi spokesman says NATO air strikes on Sirte, Libya, hit homes and hotel, killing 354 people – Reuters bit.ly/ruVwLC
BreakingNews Breaking News
Military spokesman: Libyan revolutionaries have no certain information about Gadhafi location – AP
#Sabha Council:
Sabha fighters control local radio station & new flags flying in liberated suburbs of AlGardah, Mansheya & Jadeed #Libya
English Libya TV
Gaddafi forces thwart eastern advance on Sirte
Libyan fighters closing in on Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace from the east captured a nearby town today only to have their advance stopped by resistance from Gaddafi forces.
Fighters backing Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) seized Herawa, a small town 60 km from the ousted leader’s coastal hometown of Sirte.
They danced in the streets singing “Gaddafi, we will burn you” and ripped down posters of the fugitive former dictator, stamping on his face in the dirt.
The anti-Gaddafi fighters, who had hurtled into Herawa on scores of machine gun-mounted pickup trucks and tanks, said they had taken power easily in the morning.
“We advanced into Herawa after about five days of heavy fighting and NATO bombing,” fighter Nouri al-Fanoussi said.
“We managed to save the town very smoothly this morning without any resistance.”
But difficulties came as troops started setting up base in a mosque on the edge of the town. Pro-Gaddafi forces in Sirte fired rockets at the domed white building and heavy shelling scattered the fighters.
“Answer me! Answer me!” one pro-NTC fighter sobbed as he cradled the body of his friend, killed by shrapnel wounds to his head.
Ambulances sped between the front line and field hospital where doctors said another pro-NTC soldier had died and around 10 were being treated for gunshot and shrapnel wounds.
The fighters scrapped a plan to advance further into Sirte, to reinforce other interim government forces who had entered the city from the opposite direction. Pro-Gaddafi fighters continued to shower the outskirts of Herawa with rockets and shell fire.
Herawa’s civilian population, in the low thousands, was nowhere to be seen as NATO jets roared overhead. It is the last major town to the east of Sirte and pro-NTC fighters have spent weeks inching towards it.
Sirte is one of the last pro-Gaddafi bastions in Libya along with the desert town of Bani
Walid and the remote southern outpost of Sabha.
Anti-Gaddafi forces entered Sirte from the west yesterday but also encountered fierce fighting as snipers took aim from rooftops and loyalist forces fired rockets at their advancing convoys.
Benghazi Youth
families which left #BaniWalid – Still fighting there. Mortars/GRAD falling on homes
#BaniWalid: Families escaping, some youth remain. 1 cousin stayed in BW, 1 left earlier to Misrata to help as field medic and/or fighter
supposedly the tribes & Gmen holding BW, also the ones directing GRAD on every tribe that may have a FF
Havnt heard from cousin in #BaniWalid, nor the one in #Misrata. Last news came in BW saying Gmen going house2house looking for ‘rats’ #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I bet Ahmad Bani speaks better English than his own translator…
Ahmed Bani: There are some people that bet on us losing this war for the liberation of Libya and we proved them wrong
Ahmed bani: Here I am in a safe, free, liberated Tripoli and I tell the disillusioned people that Bani Walid, Sirte & Sabha isn’t far
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Algeria abstained from the vote, it didn’t vote against! (Aljazeera had a video that shows UN voting screen)
I posted 37 photos on Facebook in the album “The beauty of Libya – Leptis Magna” fb.me/Yaho5heJ
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Ahrar TV: General Ahmed AlAtabi: Sebha Military council: Sebha is under FF control.#feb17#Libya
Ahrar TV: Gen Ahmed AlAtabi: G forces based 27km south of city. Remaining G forces in city negotiating surrender #feb17 #Libya
Ahrar TV: Gen Ahmed AlAtabi: Remaining G forces in city negotiating surrender. Surrender will only be accepted w/ NTC approval
Gaddafi sent group of forces from Sirte to BaniWalid to control desert (southeast of BW) and they arrived.
He weakened his defences in Sirte:)
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
The martyr of Misrata & Field Commander Mohamed AlHalbus (in Arabic) is.gd/Zdu5ww #Feb17 #libya
FF from Sirte speaking to Alarabiya reporter at Sirte front ( arabic) www.justin.tv/almanara1702/b/295311128 #libya #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
The BaniWalid border with Mizda is wide open. Saffia could have come to BW to check on her saify boy and back to Algeria without a fuss.
I have relatives who managed to escape yesterday, they say they have not met any one on the way out, not G goons, not FF.
I thought BW was surrounded!!!!
MissRedFraggle Red Fraggle
So did the freedom fighters!!!
Tweeting Tripoli
I guess more man power needed there. Didn’t they turn away volunteers by saying they had enough?
Dr Zentani the chief forensic pathologist in TMC of #Tripoli says #celebullets have killed at least 20 people #Libya". STOP IT
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Here is exclusive video I obtained of arrest of the head of #saadi Katiba by rebels in #sirt today. bit.ly/piyYF1 #libya
or:
akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-reports/akh...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
I saw the journalist very badly wounded but alive #Sirte #LIbya
one CNT comander: “we have lost a lot of people today in #Sirte may be 20” #Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Sirte: Heavy fighting between FFs and Gaddafi forces
BREAKING: Sirte: Gaddafi snipers deployed in residential neighborhoods
BREAKING: Sirte: Gaddafi forces are using civilinas as human shields inside the city
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA Col Bani: ‘rebels’ are in the center of Bani Walid, mountain area of Bani Walid causes a problem, we were attacked by mercenaries’.
AJA corresp on the eastern front of Sirte, interviewing Fawzi Boukatef, leader of the Saraya brigades – the Islamists brigades.
thisisKhaledM Khaled M
Among the bodies found in #BabalAziziya freezer were a woman and a child. Identities yet to be released/confirmed. #Libya
map of S/W #Libya #Sabah & locations of forces twitpic.com/6mc2d7
malonebarry Barry Malone
Most senior NTC official outside Bani Walid tells us they think Saif al-Islam — and someone “even more important” are there.. #Libya
Confirmed:
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#Gadhafi forces have brought reinforcements from #Sirte to #BaniWalid, accdg to Abdullah Kenshil, rev spox in BW
NTC tells us pro-Gaddafi fighters leaving Sirte for Bani Walid to protect the big fish that they believe are there #Libya
Heavy fighting in Gaddafi strongholds in Libya www.euronews.net/2011/09/17/heavy-fight... + video wounded FFs :(
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
There were no orders for rev forces to enter, but they entered anyway to push back #Gadhafi loyalists
Morale was low among some rev forces today, and many went home after chaos at front line last night. #BaniWalid.
Some field commandes this fight could take up to a month… others say it is possible that Gadhafi himself is inside… who knows.. #libya
hominoid555 Russell
A Libyan revolutionary fighters’ convoy came under attack Saturday on the outskirts of Sirte injuring a CNN journalist
Two vehicles near the CNN team were hit by at least two RPGs. edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/17...
Norway:
Kamper i Gaddafi-byer
P4 (Lillehammer): I Libya har det i natt vært harde kamper ved to av de siste byene, kontrollert av Gaddafi-lojale styrker.
Opprørerne skal ha klart å ta seg inn i byen Sirte, som er Gaddafis hjemby.
NATO hevder nå det kun er få steder hvor opprørssoldatene ikke har kontrollen.
Fredag vedtok et enstemmig FN-sikkerhetsråd å lette på de økonomiske sanksjonene mot landet
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
#NTC fighters have entered #Harawa. Still not fully under their control. Coming under attack #roadtosirte
Council Misurata: preliminary information from the field hospital Sirte Front: 8 martyrs and 31 wounded FFs from Misurata
Jadu supervise the rebels to send emergency aid to the Sabha humanitarian convoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBDfJU6iMk&fea... (Arabique)
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
Just met a man whose truck was destroyed during fighting so he now sells goats meat to make a living #libya #roadtosirte
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Bani Walid: revolutionaries face barrage of mortars and rockets as they advance towards the town after regrouping
The two pilots that defected in March that Rejected Gaddafi orders to strike the city Al Zentan return to Tripoli tomorrow from Malta
The two pilots return along with delegates from the Ministry of Defence of the Malta.
The number of martyrs Misurata 27 martyrs during the last three days in the battle to liberate the Sirte number of wounded more than 200
India recognises Libyan rebels. www.thehindu.com/news/international/art...
hominoid555 Russell
Sirte A 106, launcher, ammo car and Grad launcher was destroyed by G Battalions using people as human shields.
FreeBenghazi
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: High casualties due2 heavy shelling of GRADs & mortars by Gaddafiforces from inside apartments #Sirte
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: Fighters out of concern for residents, don’t respond in kind. Use only light weapons inside city.
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: 24 martyred & 54 wounded in #Sirte. Number may increase as it’s based on info from only some front-lines #
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING: #Defecting #Libya pilots to return to #Tripoli from #Malta tomorrow and reunite with their families
#Libya air force pilots who refused to bomb civilians in #Feb17 uprising and defected to #Malta are the first heros of the revolution
Defected #Libya pilots had exposed #Gaddafi brutality to the world and gave a meaning to #Feb17 revolution. A hero’s welcome to these men
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Long day that started with a capuccino in the middle of nowhere CNT fighters organized a whole city: generator, refrigerator and coffe
I found some Scuds rockets near a village not far from Qasr Abu Hadi south #Sirte one hidden among the trees others destroyed by Nato #Libya
big number of CNT fighters retreated from #Sirte stay outside
another night camping this time in a barber shop 30 km from #Sirte
I was at Ahmed Ibrahim’s house close Gaddafi assistant amazing! all kind of luxuries full of sculptures huge TVs etc etc #Sirte @Libya
Sirtawi
Gaddafi makes new audio statement to ppl of #Sirte today telling them not to surrender and fight back. Sheesh! Ain’t he a hard headed *!!
#FFs surrounding Milt Camp in #Sirte thought to be where Mutassim G is. Heavy fighting going on.
#Sirte’s rep at NTC Hasan Drouy now on @libyatv
English Libya TV
NTC Colonel: No certain info on Gaddafi
A military spokesman for Libya’s transitional government says revolutionaries have no certain information about Muammar Gaddafi’s location.
The spokesman Col. Ahmed Omar Bani says he thinks anybody who knew where Gaddafi was would turn him in for the nearly $2 million bounty set by the revolutionaries.
Gaddafi has been on the run since Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces last month. Fierce fighting around Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte and another stronghold of Bani Walid have drawn speculation that the fugitive leader might be there.
Bani told reporters Saturday that “up to now we don’t have any certain information or intelligence about his whereabouts.”
AJEnglish Reports
Fighters backing the NTC have reportedly seized #Hirawa peacefully this Morning or #Harawah
LATEST #NTC RECOGNITION MAP Welcome to #TAIWAN+ #INDIA + #VIETNAM img13.imageshack.us/img13/9799/17septre... via @88simon88 #Libya
#Libya resumes #oil production after a standstill DR Ali Tarhouni Oil Minister came to #Brega 2 assess the damage goo.gl/Kex67 Video
Discovered in #Gaddafi ’s compound in tripoli: a fridge with 18 bodies identified as NFSL members who were killed … tmi.me/g6N6N
18 Bodies found in freezer within TRIPOLI MED CTR, some were identified as bodies of NFSL members martyred in May/June 1984
his family members thisisKhaledM are said to be among the 18 NFSL members bodies found in Freezer
#BODIES Found In #FREEZER BabalAZIYAH #FF: @thisisKhaledM They INCLUDE his Uncles Khaled & Yahya Martyred in 1984 #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Satday #NTC fighters blamed traitors Snipers + Oil poured by Gaddafi men in #BaniWalid down steep streets leading 2 TownCenter 4their defeat
#SIRTE Heavy Fights around G Pride and Joy the Ouagadougou conference center Huge Marble-lined Hall where Gaddafi hosted #AU summits #Libya
via feb17
Reuters
Forces loyal to Libya’s new ruling National Transitional Council prepared on Saturday for an assault against diehard loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte.
Fighters gathered 5 kilometers away from Sirte prayed and packed their pick-up trucks with weapons ahead of another day of fighting in Gaddafi’s home town.
AP
Libyan revolutionary fighters are struggling to regroup outside the loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid after being driven back by fierce resistance from followers of Moammar Gadhafi.
There were no signs Saturday of anti-Gadhafi forces mobilizing for another assault on the mountain enclave, about 90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli. The fighters withdrew Friday after facing sniper fire and shelling from loyalists units holding strategic positions above the valley entrance to the town.
Meanwhile, more families fled Bani Walid.
The fighting coincided with another revolutionary offensive into Gadhafi’s hometown Sirte on the Mediterranean coast, where there were stiff counterattacks by backers of the old regime.
English Libya TV
NTC forces continue campaign in Beni Walid
Fighting resumed in the besieged Libyan town of Bani Walid today after diehard loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi dug in there shelled a key checkpoint controlled by transitional government forces on its northern outskirts.
A Reuters correspondent outside Bani Walid watched a column of National Transitional Council(NTC) pickup trucks mounted with anti-aircraft machineguns and fresh ammunition rushing back into the interior desert town as dusk fell.
The day before, NTC fighters seeking to capture one of the fallen, fugitive Libyan dictator’s last bastions had beat an embarrassing retreat from Bani Walid under withering heavy weapons fire from his loyalists.
“There is heavy fighting. We are fighting back with mortars. The Gaddafi militiamen provoked us (by shelling the checkpoint). And we went into the city to fight them,” said NTC fighter Younis Mohamed.
India
India on Satruday decided to extend support to former Libyan rebels Transitional National Council (TNC) led by Mustafa Abdel Jalil.
India has been in contact with the TNC in Benghazi and Cairo but was skeptical about the situation in Libya. With the Qadhafi regime withering away and most countries with economic interests in Libya preferring to cast their lot with the new masters in Tripoli, India also declared its willingness to extend assistance to Libya in its political transition, rebuilding and reconstruction.
CNN
Forces against ousted Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi entered his hometown of Sirte by convoys on Saturday, a day after they pulled back following fierce resistance.
Moussa Ibrahim
Moussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi’s spokesman, claimed that NATO had carried out extensive air strikes on Sirte, killing 354 people overnight. He said Gaddafi was personally leading “all aspects of the struggle”. In a call to the Reuters news agency on Saturday, Ibrahim said: “In the last 17 days, more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes.” The claims could not be verified independently.
Turkey
Turkey is parachuting in 22 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the Libyan city of Bani Walid, one of the last holdouts of Gaddafi’s supporters, the prime minister’s office said. Two military cargo planes left Ankara on Saturday to bring food to around 10,000 people in Bani Walid in need of urgent help, the office said in a statement on its website. As there is no airport in the city, the aid packages would be dropped down by parachute, it added
NATO
NATO said on Saturday it would assess allegations that its airstrikes had killed hundreds of civilians in the under-siege Libyan city of Sirte, but noted that similar accusations in the past have rarely proven to be true.
“Most often, they are revealed to be unfounded or inconclusive,” spokesman Roland Lavoie said. “As is the case with all NATO strikes, a thorough damage assessment is conducted afterwards; this will allow us to ascertain whether these allegations are founded or not.”
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Just got news a #french cameraman injured 2day in #sirt. Dont know how bad he is. Some will go searching in hospitals 2 check on him. #libya
AFP
The AFP news agency is reporting that Gaddafi forces have launched a strong counter-offensive in Bani Walid.
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught, reporting from Wishtata about 50km from the centre of Bani Walid, said there is no fighting planned for today on that front. Gaddafi has at least three brigades dug in deeply at Bani Walid, laying traps for the NTC fighters. As a result, our correspondent said, “the NTC fighter command insists on taking things slowly, asking for more time to co-ordinate, to re-deploy and to organise”.
Niger
The government of Niger has called for international assistance to track what it said was a huge number of weapons and people that have flooded into the country from Libya in the weeks since the government of Muammar Gaddafi collapsed.It also announced that it would not return Gaddafi figures who have fled here if they might face the death penalty at home. Niger Justice Minister Marou Amadou told a news conference here on Friday that more than 210,000 people have crossed into his country from Libya, a figure that could not be confirmed. The International Organisation for Migration offered a far lower number, saying that as many as 300 people are crossing into Niger each day.
FromJoanne Joanne
Satday #NTC fighters blamed traitors Snipers + Oil poured by Gaddafi men in #BaniWalid down steep streets leading 2 TownCenter 4their defeat
#Military Council statement on #Sirte situation youtube.com/watch?v=XPviQA… #Libya #Misrata #NTC
FromJoanne Joanne
#french cameraman #Olivier arrived #Misrata hospital. Heavily wounded but stable condition not life threatening #libya RT @jenanmoussa
#BREAKING #NTC Fighters Found Location Depots of #CHEMICAL #WEAPONS mainly MUSTARD GAS in #Ruwagha #Fezzan via #TagenspielAMSonntag #Libya
#Bani Walid Starry starry Night #Reuters Reports Fighting has broken out in Bani Walid again #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
A number of families fled #sirt today. One man told me, “everyone in #sirt is armed; #sirt is like hell.” #libya
hominoid555 Russell
Libyan forces plot moves after Bani Walid setback. boston.com/news/world/mid… Bani Walid, a mountain enclave not easy to take #hamburgerhill
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
Dr Abdallah Trabilsi who fled #Sirte a little before Ramadan confirms the beating and torturing of prisoners in Sirte by Gaddafi loyalists.
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
fighting broke out again in bani walid, distant explosions booming in the desert under a pretty star studded sky.
Puzzle of “ missing” residents solved?
Tweeting Tripoi
The mystery of Tawergha’s residents: My in-laws who live across the road from the Oil Institute Camp (OIC) in Siahiya, Tripoli told me this observation.
When Misrata FF were wining and gaining momentum and were defeating Gaddafi’s goons which was around 3 months ago, my in-laws noticed large groups of what appeared to be Tawerghan families have been brought by Gov busses to the OIC to live there. They said they were not 100% sure but the families have been dark skinned Libyans who spoke in the northern accent like Misrata and not in the well recognized southern (Sabha).
They were always taken by busses to the fake million man pro-Gaddafi rallies in Tripoli, Zliten, Ajelat etc. They said just before the liberation of Tripoli (on the 19th of August, they all got out of the OIC but this time in different small civilian cars. No one knows their destination.
This might explain why Tawergha was found empty when Misrata FF reached it on the way to Sirte.
My in-laws first thought they were brought in to be used ad human shields. At that time rumors that NATO were to bomb OIC.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
My mother’s pre-1969 passport. She kept it with her all this time. Wonder what color our new passport should be? Same? yfrog.com/h3ar3stj
hominoid555 Russell
New Libyan rulers say Qaddafi strongholds will fall in “days” nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet…
Benghazi Youth
Mutassim has been moving across #BaniWalid and #Sirte for last 4 weeks, organizing, supplying. As reported by people from BW. #Libya
Speaking of BW & Misr, I have an even worse story for you guys…
Misrati family friend: her cousin is married to man from BW, he left Misrata during siege & sheltered family in BW
later, Misrata fighters burned their house down in Misrata, b/c they said he is doctor and should not have left b4
this family was living in Misrata, not pro-g, they just fled like the many other civilians at the time
So now they are stuck in BW and have no home to return to neway. Have you heard any such events?
I can tell you right now they will never fully surround BW, not even if they bring all FF. It’s a big desert rock. Unpractical
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
chaos among grumpy anti-G troops at bani walid, fighters blaming each other, commanders, and “traitors” for yday’s battle fail
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AJE: #Libya fighters regroup amid counter-offensive goo.gl/7pz2c Video: goo.gl/ttrwA #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
The DIY arsenal of #Libyan Freedom Fighters. goo.gl/VW35q #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
@twitter: Please check out accounts of @al_Massira & @al_Jamahiriya for illegal use of twitter, planning international terrorist acts.
4 #Gaddafi SCUDs found in #QasrAbuHadi S. of #Sirte. 3 had been destroyed by #NATO, 1 hidden in the trees. #Libya #Feb17
#Freedomfighters fighting in #Sirte taking sniper, assault rifle & rocket fire from #Gaddafi filth hiding on rooftops. #Libya #Feb17
4Adam Adam
Eyewitness. NTC fighters liberated alGaera, Erddri and Braak (60 km north Sabha) and now are hunting down armed Gaddafi supporters. #Libya
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
G loyalists film Insurance building in #Sirte after NATO strikes. The man calmly speaks of dead civilians. #FAIL youtube.com/watch?v=1KracD…
grafixel guess what
#Libya: battle for #Sirte stepped up as Gaddafi loyalists’ radio chatter reveals fears over Nato and rebel onslaught – is.gd/xmMmTd
“We have to take instructions from our imams on the matter of where we can use the heavy weapons.” holy sh**
Libya Signals It May Revise Foreign Oil, Gas Deals If Dubious
-Oil Official #good www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/09/... via @foxbusiness
hominoid555 Russell
Libya: Tony Blair and Col Gaddafi’s secret meetings. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… Looks like they are going to kiss
English Libya TV
Revolutionary forces plot moves after Bani Walid setback
Revolutionary fighters are struggling to regroup outside the loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid after being driven back by fierce resistance from followers of Muammar Gaddafi.
There were no signs today of anti-Gaddafi forces mobilizing for another assault on the mountain enclave, about 140 kilometers southeast of Tripoli. The fighters withdrew yesterday after facing sniper fire and shelling from loyalists units holding strategic positions above the valley entrance to the town.
Meanwhile, more families fled Bani Walid.
The fighting coincided with another revolutionary offensive into Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte on the Mediterranean coast, where there were stiff counterattacks by backers of the old regime.
ALERT!!!
dovenews Libyan™
ALERT! #Darfur Justice & Equality Movement Fighters are in the power station in #Samnu, #Sabha maps.google.com/maps?q=samnu+s… @NATO PLZ RT
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
First day of school in the free Libyan areas :) no more Gaddafi pictures, no more green book studies, no more “jamahiri thinking” #libya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
‘The 43-member NTC has one woman in post – the minister for women.’ says the art, but NTC and min board are two different
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Just got into Djerba hotel, had to rush uploading #Jibrilslist in order to get the taxi to Tunisia.
Thanks to everyone who had a go at deciphering which names were on the list, I have the hi-res copy and will upload a clearer picture
Just going through the @ replies about #jibrilslist , this list looks good pastebin.com/ZwxDadrj
Photo: #Jibrilslist (hi-contrast) on Flickr. This is a hi-contrast version of the list of candidates for the… tumblr.com/xxw4qrkuyw
Just put a better resolution, higher contrast version of #Jibrilslist on my blog, follow the flickr link for an even better version
The columns on the left of this image are the names of the various ministries (Prime Ministry, Foreign Ministry etc.)
Hassan Zuglam’s name is in the line for Finance Minister tumblr.com/xxw4qrkuyw
Mahmud Jibril and Aburrahman Shalgam (Gaddafi’s former UN ambassador) are in the boxes for Foreign Ministry tumblr.com/xxw4qrkuyw
Column 3, line 10 looks like “Information Ministry”, and the name in line 10 is Dr Ahmed Ali something i.e. not Shammam
Ahmed Ali Atayga is the name in line 10, column 1, which is the line for Information Ministry
Usaama Juwayli and Salem Juhaa are the names in the column for Defence Ministry tumblr.com/xxw4qrkuyw
the columns have no headers so can’t be sure.
Row number 4, column 1, the surname appears to be “Al-Ghwell” and the position Deputy Prime Minister and something else I can’t make out.
Libya leak? – I never leave home without my camera, even when on holiday. Yesterday that practice paid off…. tumblr.com/xxw4qubbjj
New blog post on nafusa.tumblr.com on #Jibrilslist
FromJoanne Joanne
#Bani #Walid Gaddafi forces attacked Fired @ FF Checkpoint outside BW FF went after them There =Heavy fighting inside city right now #Libya
@misrati_free
one of our Malta friends is at that check point and I hope he is ok.. He is originally from bani Walid escaped years ago to EU.
CNN: 5 voices:
#Libya After #Gaddafi, then what? edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/17... featuring @khadijateri khadijateri.blogspot.com
FromJoanne Joanne
#HUH ? > Lying Mousa Ibrahim told #Reuters Gaddafi is PERSONALLY Directing his Troops in #SIRTE goo.gl/pECLK #Libya #Bani #Walid
Noit:
Double speak:
There is bound to be “a” Gaddafi there.
He didn’t say which Gadaffi he was talking about…….
English Libya TV
US ramps up weapons search in Libya
Officials say the U.S. is taking an increasingly active role to secure thousands of rocket launchers, mines and small arms from Muammar Gaddafi’s once vast arsenal in Libya.
The fear is that the loose weapons could either fuel an insurgency or fall into the hands of al-Qaeda or other extremists operating across North Africa.
U.S. officials say the Obama administration is sending several additional weapons experts to Libya to help train local units to locate and destroy weapons. The U.S. has two such contractors there already.
The focus is on the estimated 20,000 shoulder-launched missiles called MANPADs which Gaddafi assembled during his four-decade rule. The weapon can be used to shoot down helicopters or civil jetliners.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential plans
White House: US believes Gaddafi still in Libya
The White House says the U.S. has no indication that Muammar Gaddafi has left Libya, though his exact whereabouts are uncertain.
The White House comments come as Libyan revolutionary forces escalate offensives in two key Gaddafi strongholds.
White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes saidtoday that while Gaddafi has not been captured, the U.S. is confident his regime has collapsed.
President Barack Obama will meet with the chairman of the Transitional National Council in New York next week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings.
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
6 bodies where found justnow berried all 2gather in khallat alferjan in graveyeard of alsedra south of #Tripoli now taken to verify in hosp
French freelance journalist wounded in Libya: AFP < French news | Expatica France www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/fr... via @Expatica
Council of the City Jadu FF had two bullets in the front Sabha 14.5,, please pray for him
Libyan4life
This is the 1st time kids in #Libya get to go to school and not be force fed #Gaddafi’s version of history, social studies &English is back!
No more memorizing verses of the Green Book. No more military exercises, No more inaccurate facts. Its such a glorious thing!
It will be a MASSIVE MASSIVE job to completely overhaul the education system in #Libya but it will be a labor of love.
Read this blog, it will make you smile:
A Big Fat Libyan Wedding
khadijateri.blogspot.com
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 18th 2011
9/18/11
9.18.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Z2q38
Tawasul news agency FFs storming Bani Walid again allahu akbar
Still air ambulances flying you to bring the wounded to hospital in Misurata from the front of Sirte need blood
Captured the gang that had been bombing the city of Misrata with Scud missiles five of them one with the rank of colonel plus video evidence
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Libyan families streaming back into the country over the Tunisian border, confident that it’s safe enough to return
#Libya: roads and checkpoints into Tripoli from the Tunisian border clogged with cars as families come home to their home towns
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
So also the ‘rebel union’ of Misrata doesn’t wish to see Mahmoud Jebril as PM, but favour Abd alRahman Swehli instead…
Is it because the Misrati’s feel under represented, like ppl in Benghazi told me?
Sirtawi
5 G thugs responsible for launching Scud missiles from #Sirte were caught . They had vids showing their operations. #gaddaficrimes
OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
UNCONFIRMED reports Nagi Barakat NTC health minister will be replaced, IF SO , that is good news, I hope the new person is competent. #Libya
Air ambulances continue to fly wounded fighters from #Sirte to #Misrata. URGENT need for type O negative BLOOD v @freedomgrouptv #Libya
Via FB:
Khaled M.
A freezer was found in Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli. It was full of 18 bodies, mostly thought to be NFSL members martyred in 1984. Two of whom are my uncles Khaled & Yahya (me & my brother’s namesakes). Today my uncle and the daughter of Khaled are going there w/ intentions of confirming the identities. Cant imagine how that feels. The pain of rehashing old wounds, but also the joy of knowing they can finally be given a proper burial. The examples of Gaddafi’s sadistic nature never surprise me
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Col #Bani – NTC military spokesman – promises "a very different picture in Bani Walid & #Sirte in a few days
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING #NAMES of #NTC Candidates 4 Cabinet Positions in Libya interim government.Follow :) Detective @m_madi goo.gl/PzUgy #Libya
Jibril himself candidate for Prime Minister & Foreign Minister, according to this document. #Shalgam is also on the list #Libya
Ankara, Turkey
Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey:
ikalin1
after egypt and tunisia, we went to libya. things are under control in tripoli but fighting is still going on in sirta and bani walid.
in tripoli, misurata and ben ghazi, pm erdogan was greeted by thousands, chanting “turkey” “erdogan” “libya” “freedom” “justice”.
A scene from misurata with me in suits:) yfrog.com/o0x6luj
we saw a lot of destruction in misurata; burnt houses, trucks, tanks.. like an open-air museum. but the people of misurata are strong,joyful
they greeted pm erdogan with the “misurata song”. they were joyous to see pm erdogan and mustafa abd al-jalil together. chanting “unity”
in ben ghazi, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of umar al-mukhtar, the great libyan fighter and shahid. and a surprise..
umar mukhtar’s son was also there, waiting to greet pm erdogan. they embraced each other and i think many cried… it was very moving…
in libya, we breathed the revolution, saw it in people’s eyes, and felt the new sense of freedom and pride of the libyan people.
a new arab world, a new middle east is bound to emerge. it will be based on justice and freedom, and this will be a good thing for the world
those who see arabs thr orientalist eyes both in the east and the west still doubt the arab spring. but it is happening, growing, deepening
as fighting continues in sirta and bani walid in libya, turkey will be dropping aid material, food,etc. to the people there.
libya has competitive advantages over egypt and tunisia: smaller population but well-educated, vast natural resources, infrastructure.
with political unity and tribal relations established, libya will quickly recover from the war and emerge as a prosperous nation. Inshallah!
Remembering umar al-muhktar, it is worth watching m. Aqqad’s “lion of the desert”, a timeless tribute to mukhtar played by Anthony queen.
Said Samil
@ikalin1 this film was sponsored by Gaddafi by the way. only reason to remember him once, if we have to
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
A French freelance journalist was severely wounded in Sirte this afternoon. Appeared to be shrapnel. Now at Misrata hospita
CCTV photographer who was injured in the battle for #Sirte. #Libya #Feb17 Our prayers are with you! yfrog.com/g0cwmxj
EGGCOLLECTOR Sllort Ifaddag
URGENT AWARENESS! #Gaddafi propagandist and old eggcatch: >@Truthinafrica< takes tweets and alters them!! Pls RT @spam @support @safety
dovenews Libyan™
Reports that #Muatassim #Gaddafi is in #Qasr #Abu #Hadi #Surt maps.google.com/maps?q=qasr+ab… #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Just attended a meeting with other founding members of #LibyanYouthForum (LYF). Will keep all of you updated on progress as it is available.
Stay tuned for website, facebook page, and twitter account of the #LYF. We are feeling very optomistic about the future of #Libya with the..
important input of the country’s Youth. So refreshing to see support of the new govt. in having the youth’s voice heard.
simondenyer Simon Denyer
It’s been an incredible experience reporting on the struggle of the Libyan people for freedom and democracy. I wish them well.
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Wishing our colleague @ianinegypt a speedy recovery! CNN journalist injured in attack near #Sirte #Libya #cnn edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/afr…
One of Saif’s friends said he heard Saif saying: “My father ruled for 40 yrs, I will rule for 40 yrs, then my son will rule for 40 yrs”.
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Libya ponders when to investigate deep-rooted corruption – The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/middle-e… via @washingtonpost #Libya #Feb17
Tripolitanian Libyan
Please ask your nearest mosque in #Tripoli or #Misrata to announce need for blood donation, many already are, but need more.. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#STORY of how @m_madi got “hold off” the #Jibrilslist #NTC candidates 4 cabinet positions in #Libya interim government nafusa.tumblr.com
#Jibril was HEAD #Libya Nat Economic Development under GadGafi + member of Board of trustees of Investment Authority goo.gl/iSSyL
ExGaddafi Officials REMAIN @ #Libya SovereignWealthFund goo.gl/iSSyL #MahmoudJibril #MohamedLayas #RafikNayed WalStreetJournal
Shalgam Gaddafi former UNAmbassador name on list as FM AhmedAliAtiqa NOT MahmudShammam in line4 Information Minister nafusa.tumblr.com
Wefaq #Libya: 17 martyrs and over 50 injured from #Misrata in today’s battle to liberate #Sirte.
#Gaddafi forces are being reinforced with 200 vehicles from the south to the #BaniWalid front lines. Via multiple sources in #Tripoli
People of #Shati celebrating the libration with the FFs www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGVq9-nWxp8&fea... #Sebha #Libya #Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Libya weapons control may take ‘some time’ according to #UN goo.gl/rCS3k #gaddaficrimes #feb17
CNN’s Phil Black has the latest on opposition fighters battling for control of the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UqOEaMNUsA #Libya #Sirte
The arrest of the commander of al Saadi’s battalion www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03LQwVPYgY #Libya
Reuters
Mass grave in Libya
Sept. 17 – Representatives of Libya’s National Transitional Council say another mass grave has been found near Tripoli. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vehIfgoWdOA
ProudLibyan
Gaddafi is finished, let us not behave like he would, when he considered anyone with a different opinion an enemy. We are all Libyans.
Once we get our consitution we will have a law to guide us. All Libyans whatever their background/thoughts can have chance 2 serve.
Like the Islamists (not the ultra extremists) want 2 have a chance 2 participate,so can the secular Libyans, all should work 2 serve Libya
Iman
I need to finish writing the manual How to Overthrow Stupid Dictators for Dummies and send some copies to Algers
Moez
Friend of mine was brought in from #BaniWalid with broken leg from shrapnel. Operation stabilised fracture but camaraderie of fighters..
was amazing. They sang the national anthem, insisted on pushing trolley to ward, dressed him, cleaned him, brought food #tripoli
BBCWorld BBC Global News
Libyan Tuareg face reprisals bbc.in/rb1tuV
race2jannah
according 2 pro G supporters (mainly Serbs & disgruntled UK) Libya is already invaded by NATO troops & US/UK/Fr to colonize
Jirdan just read “ the list” and he ain’t happy:
Jirdan
Apparently Saadi hires only chinese escorts when he’s in London. And what’s funny is that’s the least weird thing about him.
OMG i’m on Jibrils list.
I’m not going to lie guys. Just heard from a high level NTC official that Mousa Kousa has been given a ministerial position.
list of apparantly the Interim Govt. Who’s in it. Etc
Mousa Kousa in the new Gov’t. What the hell! Everybody dust off your klashna. It’s time for another uprising.
Go away Koussa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Having tea with you in the four seasons in Doha was enough. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Guys no frickin joke. Koussa is in the Gov’t. And guess what position………….
as frickin JUSTICE MINISTER. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok just realised my contact was playing a joke because they said Shokri Ghanem has been named head of Libyan bank. Sorry about that.
One massive joke. Koussa as justice minister, Ghanem as head of bank and apparently Jalloud is Interior. We want Baba Muammar back.
Ideally what i want it to be is Prime Minister:Ali Salabi. Deputy:Ali Salabi. Interior:Ali Salabi. Exterior:Ali Salabi. Spy chief:Ali Salabi
how long before people start going Baba Salabi?
Alright best case scenario for tomorrow:Prime Minister Ali Salabi. Worst case scenario:Prime Minister Ali Salabi. Either way we’ve lost.
So all those that are hating on Ali Salabi. Start getting used to his lisp because Baba Salabi is here to stay.
So apparently there’s rumours going round(started by me) that the transitional Gov’t is basically just Ali Salabi on his own.
I WANT BABA MUAMMAR.
BRING BACK THE MAFIA.
For all those that think a revolution happened in Libya. It didn’t your hallucinating.
Baba Muammar is here and he’s here to stay.
Your just living in a very long dream. When you wake up your blood will go back from being red to green.
The uprising is a figament of your imagination. Safiya is still zayting. Aisha is still secretly santa claus. Saadi is still a massive gay
I AM MOUSA IBRAHIM. BOW BEFORE MY RUNAWAY HAIR HAHAHAHAHAHAH
The only way Moussa Ibrahim can hide is if he wore a wig.
Now we have to wait for the official list………
Regarding the leaked NTC list of proposed ministers, we could hear confirmation of interim gov members tomorrow – news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/special/...
#Waddan hldng force trying to secure city w/ fightg rptd frm sme G fleeing #Sirte, (Jufra Comm Tower rd. in pic). twitpic.com/6mih3x
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Sunday September 18th there will be a blood drive at the Center for Organ Transplants, #Tripoli Central Hospital. (Zawiya Street). #Libya RT
SMILE:
Yefrenia
You know Libya has changed when you see a Libyan man tidying & cleaning up out of his own free will, voluntarily! twitpic.com/6mh413
10 pm Saturday Sept. 17
Misrata MilitaryCouncil: As of 10pm local time, 17 martyrs reported and 68 wounded as a result of today’s fighting #Libya"
#Misrata fighters captured a gang of 5, led by a colonel, who were responsible for firing SCUDs at Misrata.
FreeBenghazi
Incriminating videos found on group, showing them firing SCUDs (after they’d written “Massacre of #Misrata” on them) #Sirte #Libya
Armchair Arab
FF should tie these guys to scud missile & fire it, since they love firing scuds so much they should get a chance to ride one.
Misrata fighters caught 25 mercenaries. Most of them from Tawarga #Libya; as well as Mauritania, Chad, Sudan & Niger #Sirte v @Assomood_ly
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Scuds left abandoned by Gaddafi forces near #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/nxy96kdj
Aljazeera
Two Libyan fighter jet pilots who had defected to Malta in February will reportedly return to their home country.
The men say they were ordered to bomb protesters in Benghazi, but diverted their planes to Malta at the last minute.
Months later, they are expected to receive a hero’s welcome upon their return.
Via feb17
Documents show former British prime minister Tony Blair made two private trips to see Muammer Gaddafi in the run-up to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, The Sunday Telegraph revealed.
Blair, who left office in June 2007, used a Libyan regime jet to visit Gaddafi in June 2008 and April 2009, the newspaper said, citing documents discovered in Tripoli since Gaddafi was ousted from power.
Blair played a major role in trying to bring Gaddafi in from the cold in exchange for giving up his nuclear weapons programme and first visited him in March 2004 in what was dubbed the “deal in the desert”.
A spokesman for Blair acknowledged that the visits took place and that the Libyans had raised the issue of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi but the former premier simply told them that it was a matter for the Scottish authorities.
Euronews
In Libya, interim government forces have encountered strong resistance in the towns still loyal to the ousted leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
Gaddafi’s spokesman has told a news agency that 354 people were killed in a NATO air strike on Sirte last night. Whether this is true or not is impossible to tell.
In Bani Walid, another Gaddafi stronghold, there were chaotic scenes as injured fighters were rushed to a field hospital. They say they were ambushed by pro-Gaddafi forces 20 kilometres outside the town.
Reuters
Powerful explosions and sustained machinegun fire rattled the Libyan desert stronghold of Bani Walid on Sunday as fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi shelled positions held by interim government forces around the town.
Forces backed by Libya’s new rulers said fighting had continued overnight on the outskirts of Bani Walid, one of the ousted leader’s last bastions, as their opponents put up strong resistance.
“We fought all night. We have surrounded the city from all sides with the range of 40 km (25 miles),” anti-Gaddafi field commander Absalim Gnuna told Reuters at the northern gate of Bani Walid.
“Most areas north of the central valley are clear. It is a big fight,” he said, as his fighters squatted behind walls and vehicles to shield themselves from heavy shell fire.
AP
Moammar Gadhafi’s fighters have fired several mortars and tried to ambush revolutionary forces at the northern gate of the loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid.
Sunday’s attack came after the two sides clashed through the night inside the town as Libya’s new rulers face fierce resistance to their efforts to crush the dug-in fighters loyal to the fugitive leader.
The mortars targeted a building where revolutionary forces were taking cover as well as the town’s northern entrance, kicking up sand and filling the sky with black smoke. Anti-Gadhafi fighters returned fire with machine guns and rockets.
Former rebels from nearby Tajoura have arrived to reinforce the overstretched revolutionary forces on the Bani Walid front.
Italy
Italy unfroze 2.5 billion euros ($3.4 billion) of Libyan assets last week, Banca UBAE SpA General Manager Biagio Matranga told Il Corriere della Sera in an interview.
The Rome-based trade finance bank, owned by Libya’s central bank, has 3 billion euros of assets, Matranga said.
NTC
36 interim cabinet members are expected to be announced at about 16:00 GMT, as the NTC continues to debate the make up of the new government. “What we know for sure is that it will be represented 36 people from different parts of Libya,” Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reporting from Tripoli said.
“By that they would like to ensure a representation that takes into account all different ethnic groups and all different cities.”They do understand that the stakes ahead and the challenges facing this pro-Gaddafi Libya are going to be incredibly high, and for this they want people who no affiliations with the Gaddafi time.”
Zwara
Yesterday, the citizens of the city of Zwara got the chance to vote for the members of their local transitional council. A privilege not exercised in other cities.
Live Trading News
Libya to Review Oil and Gas Deals
Libya could revise Crude Oil and Nat Gas deals signed under the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi if their pricing terms are abnormally low, and if there are suspicions of corruption, an official with the Arabian Gulf Oil Co. said Saturday.
Libya’s National Transition Council has resumed Crude Oil production and is calling on foreign companies to return.
Read more:
www.livetradingnews.com/libya-to-review...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
NTC fighters preparing for another push in #Sirte big concentration of cars 30 km west of the city #Libya
AJELive AJELive
Two Libyan fighter jet pilots who had defected to Malta in February will reportedly return to their home country aje.me/njizXG
Former British PM Tony #Blair made two private trips to see #Gaddafi in the run-up to release of the Lockerbie bomber. aje.me/oI9ImF
Many #Libyan children started their first school year without #Gaddafi dictating the curriculum aje.me/oZjPxx
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Someone has created a fake twitter account using the letter I (eye) to replace the L in my last name.
Pro-#Gadhafi propagandists have stolen my twitpic, description etc to spread lies I am not tweeting. Please be careful.
I’m going to verify this account
Shoot. I can’t verify my account. Ugh
This is the fake account created with info of AP’s reporter Hadeel now in Libya: @hadeeialsh …this is the correct one: @hadeelalsh
Thx to all who reported @hadeeialsh as spam/impersonator. Pro-#gadhafi trying to tweet propaganda as me.
I reported @hadeeialsh as impersonator here: support.twitter.com/entries/18366 You can do same. Thanks!
You can tell THIS is the real account because my name is hadeeL aLshalchi. No “i” in my twitter handle
OK back to work _ the REAL hadeeL was at attacked by mortars at the northern gate of #BaniWalid couple of hrs ago #libya
you haven’t really hit the big time till someone pretends to be you. Congrats, and condolences
please remove fake account @hadeeialsh sending Gaddafi propaganda under name of AP reporter @hadeelalsh, who covers Libya.
It’s a fake pro-#Gadhafi impersonator. pls report the account
the real Hadeel is doing the reporting w no opinions
The north gate of #BaniWalid has been under attack all day with mortars and sniper fire whisteling past our heads, and fighters retreating.
The rev fighters are thin on the ground and don’t seem to be pushing, just shooting anti-aircraft back. #libya #baniwalid
Had to make a run for it when mortars hit about 20km from building where we took cover. #libya #baniwalid
Lots of smoke rising from horizon from #BaniWalid at the moment #libya
if they have a plan it’s a very strange one…
Srry _ earlier meant motars hit 20 METERS not KM from building where we took cover. #libya
There are actually more than one account impersonating me. Pls report all combinations of my handle with an i replacing the L.
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Anti-Gaddafi fighters clashing with loyalist troops in Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Former #British premier #Blair paid ‘secret’ visits to #Qaddafi: report goo.gl/CljMF #AlArabiya
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Niger will not send Saadi #Gaddafi back to Libya youtube.com/watch?v=HBhUqd… #Libya #Feb17 #Niger
LA Times
Libya battle for Kadafi hometown of Surt sees heavy fighting
The bloody battles for Surt and other loyalist strongholds have raised fears of a possible long-term insurgency in Libya. Moammar Kadafi, in hiding, has called on his followers to continue the fight.
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya—
Heavy fighting was reported Saturday in the battle for Moammar Kadafi’s hometown, while a military spokesman for Libya’s new government conceded that it has no idea where the former leader is hiding.
Fighters allied with the new government pushed farther into Surt, along Libya’s central Mediterranean coast, but again met stiff resistance from well-armed loyalists ensconced in the pro-Kadafi bastion.
The military command in nearby Misurata said that at least 24 of its fighters had been killed in Surt and at least 54 wounded, with many injured by loyalist mortar rounds or Grad missiles. There was no word on the casualties among civilians and pro-Kadafi forces.
Read more:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AlJazeera Arabic: another interview (in bila hudud) with military leader of Tripoli, and fmr LIFG member, Abd alKareem Belhaj.
bencnn benwedeman
NTC field commanders say many loyalists, including senior deposed regime figures, have fled from Bani Walid and Sirte to Sabha. #Libya
AJA: So Zalla is liberated, whose inhabitants were told that revolutionaries are going to christanise them, and rape their women and worse
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo #Libya capuccino before the battle and in the middle of nowhere near #Sirte yfrog.com/mnbdedj
photo #Libya fixing weapons before the battle #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/nz1nahj
another photo of Scuds near #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/hs4zcmlj
interesting article about a british journalist who was kidnapped by touareg in Ghadames, south-west #Libya in The Sunday Times
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Rebels tell me: “today we will use heavy weapons against #sirt. Around 10 rebels died yesterday; around 70 injured.” #libya
#NATO did not bomb yesterday in #sirt when I was there. #Gaddafi regime say a hospital was bombed by #NATO. Cant confirm. #libya
NATO release says lists two key hits in #Sirte ystrdy saying they were 2 command & control nodes.
LibyanPilot OmarAmer AlBarghathi
Libyan pilots who defected to Malta early on return to #Libya: ’’Don’t call us heroes, call us Libyans’’
Niz_FGM Niz
Long queues at fast food restaurants, Cafes full of people watching football, traffic jams on all streets… welcome back #Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I’m loving how our new TV stations allow all sorts of opinions and even criticize NTC (then get someone from NTC to comment) #libya #feb17
However, with all these weapons on the streets, I really hope that we continue to argue/discuss in a civilized not weaponized way #libya
It has to be said, though…so far, #Libya is on the right track as long as people are prepared to put country’s benefit above personal gain
Unfortunately, 42 years of Gaddafi taught us Libyans to be pretty short-sighted. We don’t try to work for the future much
I hope that people all over Libya learn to have some patience & work together (as they have done since #feb17) till #Libya is stable & safe
The biggest hurdle for the NTC to overcome now is the whole centralized government crap that Gaddafi created over 42 years
I hope that Jibril and Jalil can overcome & learn from all criticism & create one decent transitional government that encompasses all
Tripoli’s university students begin their first year without Gaddafi – Al Aan news (in Arabic) akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-reports/Tri... #libya #feb17
Amazing effort today by all teachers, students & staff in Libyan schools. Such a short notice, but life has to resume. #newschoolyear #libya
Nusaybah
Blood donation needed at #Misrata hospitals – spread the word! #Libya RT
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Twitter’s comments are such a good source of insight sometimes, if only the #NTC cared to have a decent online presence. #feb17 #libya
trust me, Libyans don’t do fatwas, jihad or tribal crap but tempers do tend to flare between individuals sometimes
Excellent timing: For the 1st time in 42 years, #Libyans in #Zwara get to vote on their temporary local council leader www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.17038...
Benghazi: A city in foul disrepair, euphoric that other world powers intervened – MiamiHerald.com hrld.us/ppKpm0 via @miamiherald
elderofziyon
Al Quds al Arabi editor, and BBC darling, was on Gaddafi’s payroll
Abdel Bari Atwan, editor in chief of pan-Arab daily Al Quds al Arabi who often appears on the BBC and CNN, has been a big supporter of terror attacks on Israel. From Wikipedia:
He has also been a big critic of the Libyan uprising:
On 17th April 2011, speaking on BBC News Channel’s Dateline London, Atwan claimed that “We know that Eastern area of Libya is almost a hotbed of extremist Al-Qaeda people. I know that personally”.
It appears that his opinions on Libya were a bit…tainted.
Arabic media has been reporting that the new Libyan government has released documents showing that Atwan, as well as Jordanian Al-Dostour reporter Khairy Mansour, were being paid by Gaddafi a sum of $3000 every month.
Atwan vehemently denies it and is threatening to sue everyone who makes these accusations.
See document:
elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/09/al-qu...
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
On Friday, I met two heroes. I met the two Libyan pilots that refused to bomb Libyan protesters and defected to Malta
The pilots made the decision to defect on the ground. Once they took off, they had to fly under the radar all the way to Malta
Their commander told them to drop all their bombs and once done, drop the fuel pods too. “They might kill one more person” #libya #pilots
The two pilots are veterans. They served in the Chad war and saw the huge massacre & betrayal by Gaddafi of our Libyan troops #libya
The pilots left their families behind. One of them has 10 children. He told me: “Libya was more important. I had to make a sacrifice” #libya
Thankfully, both pilots’ families were evacuated immediately from the base and hidden in other parts of Libya by the pilots’ friends #libya
The two pilots are now on their way back to Libya, and hopefully they will get the recognition, and heroes’ welcome they deserve. #libya
There was way too much confusion and Gaddafi killed and executed many many Libyan pilots that refused to drop bombs.
The two heroic pilots that refused to bomb Libyan protesters heading back home to Libya : www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011... #libya #feb17
Abdullah
they r heroes with no doubt as they helped expose Gad brutality. They r already back in Tripoli.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
What #Libya can learn from Eastern Europe. goo.gl/a5fXV #gaddaficrimes #feb17
#Libyan city is battered, smelly and delighted to be rid of #Gaddafi- #Benghazi rose on #feb17 and sparked change goo.gl/DcqZ4
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
Update #Harawa: #NTC fighters still inside but coming under attack by GF. several wounded this am
bencnn
brothers reunited, alAsfar, alShati, #libya.1 had been fighting for 6 months. Their father died 2 weeks ago yfrog.com/nufqpstj
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NATO say on Saturday RAF Tornado destroyed an armoured personnel carrier and armed pick-up trucks in Sirte
#Libya: NATO say on Saturday RAF Tornado destroyed an armoured personnel carrier and armed pick-up trucks in Sirte
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan pilots rejoining Libya’s air force is.gd/EaFLyA #Libya
Fighting reignites in Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte is.gd/2nFzwT #Libya
Fierce fighting continues in Sirte. Both The Eastern and Western fronts had entered Sirte a couple of days ago but retreated
Both fronts have launched a renewed attack on Sirte
Turkey PM hails ‘sacrifice’ of Libyan people is.gd/tCoysg #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan interim govt fighters fired rockets from the southern entrance to Sirte and exchanged heavy fire with Muammar Gaddafi loyalists
#gaddafi’s use of female soldiers has increased. In #Sirte its the females that fire the RPG at any #FF in sight. #Libya
BBC
Swansea man ‘fighting for Libya’
Audio:
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_95...
AP The Associated Press
#Gadhafi forces launch new attack on Libya fighters near loyalist stronghold Bani Walid: apne.ws/qtaSA2 -JM
bencnn benwedeman
NTC field commanders say many loyalists, including senior deposed regime figures, have fled from Bani Walid and Sirte to Sabha. #Libya
All Africa
Mass Grave Yields 34 Bodies
Thirty-four bodies exhumed from a mass grave near the town of al-Qawalish in western Libya seem to be those of men detained by pro-Gaddafi forces in early June 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.
The evidence strongly suggests the detainees were executed at that time, before the pro-Gaddafi forces fled from the area, in the Nafusa mountains. The bodies of another three who seem to have been executed by the same perpetrators have also been discovered nearby. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch the victims hadbeen detained from or near their homes or at a major checkpoint in the area, and included at least nine men aged over 60, including an 89-year-old man. The majority were from the
nearby town of al-Qal’a.
“The mass grave at al-Qawalish contains further evidence strongly suggesting that Gaddafi loyalists carried out mass executions of detainees as they struggled to suppress the uprising,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. “These victims included some very old men, some executed together with their sons.”
Read more:
allafrica.com/stories/201109180113.html
AJA
Zillah town which is to the east of Hun has been liberated
Reuters summary of events in #Libya so far today reut.rs/mZcEkO
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
ARABIC Countries which recognised or refused to recognise the Libyan National Transitional Council at the UN: on.fb.me/pMHqYp #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Artillery and rocket outgoing fire: BBC’s @aleithead reports from Eastern Front of #Sirte on 17.09.11 bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #Libya
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya High excitement among anti #Gaddafi forces outside #Bani Walid. 4 Gaddafi prisoners just captured.
Ansa IT
Libia: Frattini, Gheddafi e’ all’estero
ROMA, 18 SET – “Secondo me Gheddafi non è più in Libia”. Ne è convinto il ministro degli Esteri Franco Frattini che, in un’intervista al ‘Messaggero’ aggiunge: “mi dispiacerebbe per la sua fuga, anche perché con gli strumenti tecnologici della Nato avremmo potuto individuarlo e catturarlo sin dall’inizio. Ma abbiamo voluto attenerci rigorosamente alla risoluzione Onu e ora non possiamo lamentarci di questo”.
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
2 pilots who defected to #Malta returned to #Tripoli today.they were ordered to bomb #Benghazi. (cont)
2/3 – 1 of them said from #Tripoli “my brain stopped when i received a mil order to attack civilians.”.(cont)
3/3 " i was inspired to challenge the order no matter the consequences. i wasnt thinking abt my family.i was thinking abt my country" #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
less fighting today in #Sirte than yesterday only two wounded in fild hospital at 2:30 pm NTC fighters trying to encircle the city #Libya
some explosions and the sound of planes suposed to be NATO NTC fighters admit they are surprised by resistance #Sirte #Libya
many cars with civilians leaving the city this morning #Sirte #Libya
el padre del periodista francés herido ayer gravemente dice que su estado es “estable” #Sirte #Libia
six rockets just exploted near the field hospital instaled in a petrol station at the entrance of #Sirte #Libya
one NTC fighter “I think it will take at least 5 days to make them surrender” #Sirte
FMCNL FMC the Netherlands
Small Libyan jet Challenger CL-300 tail nr 5A-UAA currently airborne, (former) Gadhafi jet United Aviation #Libya #OUP #NATO
Sirtawi
We got word that many ppl managed to escape #Sirte and r now being detained at Al-Sadada bridge awaiting Milt permission 2 pass.
4libya
If #Gaddafi is mentally unstable r all those who support him also the same, can’t they tell Gaddafi is over?! #Sirte Bani walid #Libya
I think all Gaddafi knows very well it’s over but wants is to inflict the most pain and suffering on #Libya since it isn’t his anymore.
Tweeting Tripoli
WOOOOT WOOOOT first election ever in #Libya since the 1960s in #Zuwara city to elect local Council: youtube.com/watch?v=BUBToA… #feb17
Gaddafi’s infamous 5 points speech where he messed up democracy was in #Zuwara. Now it erases that with it’s record breaking 1st election.
#Zuwara ’s example should be followed all over Libya… yfrog.com/hs2medjj yfrog.com/nzlaruuj yfrog.com/mmf8acj yfrog.com/o0qvyzwj
#Zuwara , Gaddafi wanted to change it’s name to “The 5 Pints” but Libyans didn’t allow it to happen. Zuwara always stayed Zuwara.
Ordogan on Red Castle? What for? The 1000s who died because he supported Gaddafi for 2 or 3 months in the beginning? yfrog.com/mg516fdj
And now the food drops on BaniWalid, is not a good idea at all. We all know Gaddafi goons will take them, and starve the good ppl there!!
In Tripoli Gaddafi goons kept petrol, medicine, food, water etc stored in their bunkers. Why do we give them food now? That’s just silly.
bencnn benwedeman
Intel chief Abdallah Sanousi and Qadhafi son Muatassim Billah Qadhafi believed to be in Sabha, Qadhafi himself south of Sabha.
libyatv Libya TV
Children start school year without Gaddafi | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/09/17/chi… #Libya #feb17
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
October 2, 2011, 10:00AM – 5:00PM at Tripoli University section B\جامعة طرابلس قاطع ب BAZAAR\ بازار libya-breaknews.myfullseat.com/events/1317799…
According to Mahmoud Shamam “Libya Al Ahrar is not a #Libyan channel” So what is it then? #Libya #feb17
According to Mahmoud Shamam “I dont own Libya AlAhrar and i dont run it.” #Libya #feb17
Nasr
#Libyan FFs R in the process of defeating GFs in Buhadi valley, some 35km south of
#Sirte. They now control the “50km gate” #Misrata #Libya
#Libya n FFs have taken control of #Gaddafi’s luxury home in ATAT عتعت south of #Sirte
On the western front of #Sirte FFs R pushing ever closer to the center.. They say residents including old women & girls R firing at them.
Sirte: Gaddafi’s luxury house in the Buhadi Valley Sirte.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik2IjQ9MAi0&fea...
libyatv Libya TV
Gaddafi forces thwart eastern advance on Sirte | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/09/17/rev… #Libya #feb17
hominoid555 Russell
Embattled Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly urged his gradually diminishing troops to “do or die” in their fight.
khalidkhan787 Khalid Khan
Libya: suspected Chad mercenary arrested from Bani Walid Sept 18 twitpic.com/6msxqi
Two Libyan pilots who refused to bomb civilians arrive at Mitiga airport in Tripoli twitpic.com/6msx88 http://twitpic.com/6msx93
Al-Jazeera correspondent
FFs control the main southern gate of the Sirte and were able to enter Tawasul news
English Libya TV
Civilians join Gaddafi fighters to defend hometown
Libyan fighters battled street by street for control of Muammar’s Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte for the third day today, taking sniper, assault rifle and rocket fire from his loyalists perched on the city’s rooftops.
Orange flashes of gunfire mixed with dust and black smoke over the sand-coloured buildings of the seaside city as scores of machine gun and rocket launcher-mounted pick-ups trucks snaked through its streets.
Ambulances rushed away from the battle bearing wounded fighters west as the pro-Gaddafi men defended their ground.
Ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters said it was unclear how many Gaddafi loyalists were in the city but several suggested that some of Sirte’s civilian residents had started joining the fight on the ousted leader’s side.
“There have been heavy clashes since this morning,” NTC fighter, Mahmoud Terbelu, said as he stood in the middle of a large roundabout littered with bullet casings.
“There has been some resistance from civilians, volunteers. They’re above the buildings with Kalashnikovs, anti-aircraft guns, rockets and other weapons,” he said.
A green and beige building stood at the roundabout scarred by rocket fire in the last two days of fighting.
Dozens of pick-up trucks circled the town, fighters standing with rifles ready or drinking juice in the midday heat.
NTC soldiers said they had been battling for the city on three fronts — from the west, the south and the east entrances — but had been advancing slowly.
“There’s been fighting by the sea and in the city,” said one fighter who did not give his name. “We are gathering and then advancing. We are retaking it step by step.”
ZIP AND CRACK OF BATTLE
Down the road from the roundabout, fighters gathered and traded fire with an unseen gunman, taking cover behind breeze block walls and behind pickups.
A gated compound of seaside villas stood on the opposite side of the road, which revolutionaries said were guesthouses where diplomats and other visitors to the city
had stayed.
The Mediterranean glistened behind them.
A black pick-up truck rolled down the road from the direction of the city, a fighter in army fatigues slumped over the anti-aircraft machine-gun mounted on the back.
Blood poured down his arms and from his torso onto ammunition cartridges.
Men shouted “God is greatest” as he was loaded into the back of a field ambulance.
His comrade, wearing sunglasses and a black and white scarf, washed the blood from his hands using a water bottle.
Most of the NTC fighters come from the port city of Misrata and bear a special grudge against Gaddafi after a months-long siege devastated large parts of that city.
They spray-painted “Free Libya” and the names of their brigades over the once ubiquitous posters that displayed Gaddafi slogans and welcomed foreign diplomats to the city.
Many fighters said sniper fire still posed a challenge to the advance as well as the presence of civilians.
Gaddafi spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, told Reuters today that NATO airstrikes on Sirte had killed 357 civilians overnight — an allegation NATO said may be unfounded.
“We don’t want to use them,” one NTC fighters told Reuters, gesturing towards two tanks.
As dusk set in, the NTC fighters began to pull back to their bases on the outskirts of the city, satisfied with the progress they had made today, and vowing to be back tomorrow.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
six rockets just exploted near the field hospital instaled in a petrol station at the entrance of #Sirte #Libya
ntn 24
Another mass grave found near Tripoli – NTC
Janzora, Libya (NTN24 Wires) – Representatives of Libya’s National Transitional Council say another mass grave has been found near Tripoli.
Bulldozers arrived in a town south of Tripoli on Saturday (September 17) as representatives of Libya’s interim government said they believed a mass grave with at least 20 bodies were found at the site.
Crowds gathered at a cemetery in Janzor, 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of Tripoli, where bodies and body parts wrapped in plastic and covered in sand were placed in the back of trucks.
However, unlike the other bodies officially buried at the cemetery these bodies had no headstones, were wrapped in plastic or clothing rather than traditional linens and some graves contained only body parts.
Full art.:
www.ntn24.com/news/news/another-mass-gr...
BREAKING: FFs enter the city Samnow North of Sabha
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. One more Gaddafi fighter captured near Bani Walid. Breaking the tedium of a Sunday afternoon in the desert
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya readies new cabinet as rebels aim for Sirte and Bani Walid again goo.gl/rf57c
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. #BaniWalid front appears to be active again. Trying to find out more.
Aljazeera
Niger Gaddafi loyalists vow support
Tens of thousands of Tuaregs pastoralists living in the Nigerien city of Agadez continue to support Muammar al Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader.
This northen city bordering Libya is where Saadi, the son of Gaddafi, and several former generals have escaped to.
It is believed that the Tuareg homeland remains a recruiting ground for Gaddafi fighters.
Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege reports from Agadez.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW7e_Pkc20A&fea...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Fierce fighting in #BaniWalid & #BoHadi area near #Sirte Airport. #Libya #Feb17
Large number of civilians escaped #Sirte, now waiting at #AlSadada bridge to be screened by #Freedomfighters. #Libya #Feb17
#Freedomfighters now control #Zallah & the road to the towns of #Waddan & #Maradah #Libya. #Feb17
There is NO abuse of Tawerga in Libya. They fought for & fight for Gaddafi but don’t want to answer or pay for it
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Wounded anti #gaddafi fighter arrives at makeshift field hospital, i.e an abandoned pump, in outskirts of #sirt. twitpic.com/6mue64
This is the #CNN producer who got wounded yesterday in his leg around #sirt. #Libya twitpic.com/6mulep
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING NEWS : Approx. 75 FFs Martyred today in the southern Town of Zila by a Sudanese mercenary group supporting Qaddafi , this group is originally from Darfur and known for its involvement and fighting along side Qaddafi loyalists
BREAKING: Fierce fighting in Bani Walid and the area of Bo-Hadi near Sirte Airport
Heavy fighting and NATO aircrafts are hovering on top of city of Bani Walid
hominoid555 Russell
75 men dead for one small village :(
thedailybeast The Daily Beast
Rebels Try Gaddafi Towns Again: After loyalists put up strong resistance. thebea.st/r1E4mG #cheatsheet
Report Misata Hospital: (1:24min) 10 of 65 wounded have serious injuries. Many still waiting for operations #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-SSRsOnh9o
septimius_sever septimius severus
Farewell to the vessel #AlEntisar (one of #Misrata’s life lines from March/2011) on her final trip at end of the month thanks @IGOAID #Libya
Sirtawi
Muhamad Ramash, spox for #Sirte revolutionary media committee, talks abt conditions in city during uprising (Arabic) youtube.com/watch?v=IdROXp…
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING: #NTC leaders #Jalil and #Jibril in #Malta this afternoon as sign of thanks to #Maltese people for protecting defecting pilots
Bassem
Most likely, I would bet my money that #Gaddafi is having plastic surgery to change his facial features to be unrecognisable right now…
Hanna Gaddafi, daughter of Muammar, unclear if adopted or biological, had great Tripoli hospital office, latest Nespresso machine, CNN says
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: Janzour district, bodies and human remains being buried twitpic.com/6ml39b twitpic.com/6ml3a8 twitpic.com/6ml3dt"
Doctors’ report #Misrata Hospital: 65wounded & 17martyred at Sirte. Sent to various clinics across Misrata #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-SSRsOnh9o
Freedom Fighter in #Misrata teases #Gaddafi soldiers www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTifa9VfrA&fea... fearless in the face of death -MashaAllah 3laikum ya Thowar #Libya
Turkish aid flight to Libya fired upon – Hurriyet Daily News www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turki...
Alielehmer Ali El-Ehmer
Jalil and Jibril in Malta this evening #libya timesofmalta.com/articles/view/… via @timesofmalta
#Netherlands to reopen its embassy in #Libya soon inewsone.com/2011/09/17/net…
CNN
Gaddafi’s mystery daughter.
CNN security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/17/gad… #Libya #gaddaficrimes
Hanna, whether it was the “first” or “second,” was not adopted. She was the biological daughter of the dictator – by a woman other than his wife.
“The texture, you know, the face. They’re – it’s like Gadhafi,” Dr. Isam Bin Massoud said. “It’s her blood. It’s his blood. That’s what we know, that’s what we think. The real truth – we don’t know really.”
More:
security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/17/gadha...
#Misrata Medical Lab: Shortage of bloodtype Onegative which is rare. Also type AB. Received 120bags from Tripoli #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=z4vz9c…
Breaking: Another town north of #Sabha (Samnu) has been liberated by FF! It was peacfully liberated after negotiations w/ townspeople #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Polisario Separatists Fall Into Their Own Trap at the #Westminster Parliament allafrica.com/stories/201109… #Algeria
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Conquest of Europe www.meforum.org/687/the-muslim-brotherh...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
coming back from the entrance of #Sirte NTC fighters pulled out of most of city last night now they are shelling from the road #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: residents greet NTC force in town of Tarout, Shati area, southern #Libya. Taken today without a shot fired. yfrog.com/hwqt4poj
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
By the way, 1 of the brave Libyan pilots lost contact with his family near Sabha/Murbuq 2 months ago. Praying for their safety #libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Because we were hungry, anti #gaddafi fighters gave us some #US army rations. Good stuff… and Halal. #libya #sir twitpic.com/6mvbrl
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Libyans now hate the word Jamahyria they erased it from their License Plates… #feb17 #Libya #Tripoli pic.twitter.com/HzNDOvpM
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Prayers & support for the protesters facing the most brutal violence in Sanaa, #Yemen today – #Libya #Feb17 #Sanaa
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya NATO jets heard over #BaniWalid. More fighting. Smoke rising in town but little change.
BBCKimGhattas Kim Ghattas
Also, all eyes on Libya’s TNC as they take their seat at General Assembly representing Libya. #UNGA
Hero’s Welcome for defected Pilot Ali AlRabti as he is kissed by his son after returning from Malta. Welcome home!
pic.twitter.com/u4wDyMrh
Feb17
Libyan pilots rejoining Libya’s air force
The two Libyan pilots who defected to Malta on February 21, just days after the revolution started, will be rejoining the new Libyan air force in their country.
The pilots are returning home to their families this morning, after spending the past seven months in Malta.
They said they took the decision not to execute their order to bombard a small village and headed towards Malta, where they eventually asked for and were given assistance.
They said this morning they never regretted choosing Malta because of the help they received over here.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/libyan-pilots-rejoining...
Sky
Two Libyan fighter pilots who defected to #Malta instead of bombing their own citizens have returned to #Tripoli news.sky.com/home/article/16072276 #Feb17
Reuters
Defecting Gaddafi pilots return home to hero’s welcome
Crowds greet Libyan fighter pilots who return home after defecting in February after refusing to bomb their countrymen. Lindsey Parietti reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0hMwK8rIYM&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Flash; Intelligence sources believe #Abdallah Sanousi, Mu’tasim billah #Gaddafiare in #Sabha and Muammar himself south of Sabha #Libya
libyanproud libyanandproud
We libyans have become numb to massacres and bloodshed. F*** You #gaddafi, I just watched videos from #yemen and am still tweeting. #libya
Colonel Hussein, commander of Saadi Gaddafi’s battalion, arrested by Misrata fighters in #Sirte yesterday #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03LQwVPYgY
Danya
As a libyan I support them in their struggle for freedom @4libya: #prayforyemen #prayforsyria both now under … tmi.me/g99hf
Nasr
Confirmed: Mahmoud #Jibril al- #Werfalli appoints Aref Ali alNayedh al- #Werfalli as head of " #Libya’s Stablization Council" = MUKHABARAT
Tripolitanian Libyan
RIP the 2 pilots who went #Algeria instead, #Algeria sent them back to #Libya where #Gaddafi executed them. #Libya
Via Ali El-Ehmer
TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT LIST PROPOSAL:
Today Dr. Mahmoud Jibril submitted his proposal list of the candidates transition to the transitional government, sources familiar with Libya today that the House debate within the Council about the names of the proposed combination and adjourned without reaching agreement about the list which included some of her luggage on the two choices left to the Council that the last word. And out of the list of candidates, Dr. Ali al-Issawi and Mr. Mohamed and Mr. Ahmed Allaqi Darrat of former office and empty the list of candidates to the Ministry of Religious Endowments, the source emphasized that the Council objected to the retention of Dr. Mahmoud Jibril, the Foreign Ministry along with his chairmanship of the Ministry. Referred to the controversy that erupted over the formation of the transitional government, which provides for the Constitutional Declaration as the starting first of the transitional political process that begins the announcement of liberalization and end with the election of Parliament. The following is a list of candidates for the transitional government reached as to the transition:
1. Jibril Mahmoud prime minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2. Altarhuni the Deputy Prime Minister for Finance and Economic
3. Tareq Mohammad Yousuf, Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development
4. Ghuwayl Khalid Mohammed, deputy prime minister for services and production
5. Aljowaily Osama selection of the first Secretary of Defense
6. Dean of Interior Sheikh Mohammed
7. Cantaloupe Mahmoud, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Government Spokesman
8. Zqlam Hassan, Minister of Finance
9. Mahmoud Abdul Aziz, Minister of International Cooperation
10. Vintage Ahmed, Minister of Investment and sovereign funds
11. Shamieh Abdullah, Minister of Economy and create a business environment
12. Khaled Kawan Minister of Commerce
13. Fawzi Ammar, medium and micro enterprises 14. Abdulrahman bin Lizzie oil
15. Belkacem Tiger and the Minister of Environment
16. Abdulkadir Alrabotta Minister of Water Resources
17. Abdul Rahman, Minister of alloy families of martyrs and those affected
18. Mr. survivor of Women’s Affairs and Children 19. Solomon Dusan Youth and Sports
20. Useful Alzkose Social Affairs
21. Solomon coastal education
22. Idriss ire of Higher Education and Scientific Research
23. Faraj Al-Sayeh, Minister of Labour
24. Noureddine Salafi Civil Service
25. Fattah Justice …..
26. Ismail Sayala Health
27. Zidane and the Minister of Municipalities
28. Abrah
WilliamJHague William Hague
Heading to New York for @UN General Assembly – annual gathering of world leaders. Expect a major focus on #Libya & the #MiddleEas
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
My story from makeshift field hospital close 2 #sirt yesterday. Tears &blood everywhere. Ambulance driver dead: youtube.com/watch?v=dYmeEA… #Libya
4Adam Adam
Abdul Hafeez Alzletunai, Gaddafi Minister of Finance captured in Zawiya. He says “I’m ready to join the revolution & building of new #Libya”
jirdan_
in his dreams. WTH is wrong with these people. I’m not forgiving to the point of ridiculous.
BREAKING: FFs free Libyan Army Liberate the village and area of Al-Sultan east of Sirte and Gaddafi thugs shelled a field hospital for the FFs on the outskirts of Sirte
Sky news correspondent: ALL members of the NTC have traveled to Tripoli for talks on the interim Government announcement
BREAKING NEWS : Approx. 75 FFs Martyred today in the southern Town of Zila by a Sudanese mercenary group supporting Qaddafi , this group is originally from Darfur and known for its involvement and fighting along side Qaddafi loyalists
Reuters: Powerful explosions&sustained machinegun fire rattled #BaniWalid on Sun as #Gaddafi fighters shelled Freedom forces around the town
NTC forces bent on seizing #Gaddafi’s remaining strongholds fell back after another chaotic attack on #BaniWalid, but renewed their battle for the deposed leader’s birthplace of #Sirte.
Tweeting Tripoli
This is what Gaddafi was storing next to civilians houses… 32°50’29.66"N 13°14’48.14"E (Pic 2). pic.twitter.com/fnNHp0WU
This is what Gaddafi was storing next to civilians houses… 32°50’29.66"N 13°14’48.14"E (Pic 2). pic.twitter.com/fnNHp0WU
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: view from the cnn car, Sahara desert, #Libya at 423 pm local time yfrog.com/o0j5dkxj
Libyano Libya
Video from #Sebha, uploaded after 1 month. Thuwar in Almanshiya tiny.cc/bekc9 #Libya, #feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=drC8wG74h24&fea...
Another video from #Sebha, this is also a month ago. Thuwar breaking into intelligence building. tiny.cc/8apdm #Libya, #feb17, #17feb
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLlV8jCykNA
NASDAQ
WSJ: Ex-Gadhafi Officials Remain At Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund
—The new Libyan government is said to be examining the Libya Investment Authority and its dealings with foreign banks
—But the man in charge fears his scrutiny could be hindered by the continuing presence of Gadhafi-era fund managers
—One rebel leader said the government should create an independent audit commission with the power to bring fraud charges
Read more here:
www.nasdaq.com/aspx/company-news-story....
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NTC spokesman says government number of members will now be reduced to 24 (from 36)
#Libya: NTC says Mahmoud Jabril will remain as Prime Minister but will no longer be the Foreign Minister
#Libya: A very quiet Tripoli as all NTC members travel to Benghazi for government talks and announcement
#Libya: NTC spokesman says announcement on government members now due tomorrow
#Libya: Tripoli: good to see children playing football in playgrounds and fairground up and running again
bencnn benwedeman
This is “drive-by liberation”: NTC fighters drive through villages in Sabha region, cheered by most residents, then drive on to next. #Libya
LibyaNewMedia
Teenage girls are firing RPG’s in Sirte. FFs say they won’t differentiate anymore between men & women. Whoever fires, will get fire back.
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Libyan gen Faez Gebril: Gaddafi has been putting military installations at the mountains and valleys of Bani Walid for 15 years, he has been
preparing for this moment for a long time..we believe he has a lot of fuel and water storages and underground hiding places in the desert.
General Gebril left the Libyan army years ago, has been involved in a murder attempt on Gaddafi. He fled to the US and lives now in Cairo.
He believes the Gaddafi fighters are buying some time only, for themselves, and for Gaddafi..they know what their destiny looks like so they
..will fight till the very end. Gaddafi will not escape to Niger, Mali or Chad cuz these countries won’t be able to resist the intl pressure
according to Faez Gebril…‘and the CIA and other intelligence services are very active there, he might take another route…’
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
se retrasa el anuncio dl nuevo gobierno d #Libia una posible señal d las diferencias q existen entre los sublevados tras la caída de Gadafi
Feb17martyrs FEB17MARTYRS
by LIBYA_BREAKNEWS
Please send pictures of Martyrs and info to the following email address: feblibya17@ymail.com In turn they will be placed on FB page 1/2
PLZ LIKE and SHARE this FB page: www.facebook.com/feb17martyrs
Tweeting Tripoli
Gunfire broke in the neighborhood. Doesn’t sound #celebullets to me. Called my local NTC and they are sending some people to check!!!!
My neighborhood used to have many armed Gaddafi supporters. Not sure what it is yet!!!!
Ok so it turns out 2 b #celebullets. Locals were burying Martyrs & their friends were saluting them. Relieved it wasn’t loose goons, but :(
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Spoke to wife of #french journalist, wounded ystrdy in #Sirt. “He’s still in hospital, but conscious.1st quest he asked,”where’s my camera?"
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Initial interm Gov’t proposal rejected by TNC, revised list of 20 ministers under discussion now #Feb17 #Libya
most of TNC members thought the initial # was too big
the revised version under discussion still, will announce very soon
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Colonel Hussein says Muttasim beat him, called him a dog and threw him out of the battalion.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03LQwVPYgY
Wefaq Libya:
14 injured in Sirte so far today
Kidnapped in the Libyan Desert – Sunday Times
It was instantly terrifying. One moment we were driving quietly down the final stretch of the airport road into the southern Libyan oasis town of Ghadames, then suddenly, out of the darkness, armed men rushed into the road and surrounded our car. A band of Touareg — immediately recognisable from the cotton tagilmus veils wrapped around their heads — ordered us to stop.
“Stop the car! They’re going to shoot!” I shouted, as the car slowed. I was convinced we were not going to stop in time and they were going to fire straight through the windscreen. We would be dead in seconds.
Read full story:
www.justinmarozzi.com/kidnapped-in-the-...
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NTC says expiration of this government could be in weeks, months or years depending on time it takes to liberate full Libyan lands
Al-Tadamun:
Southern Road between #Sirte & #Jufra now under #FFs control.
FromJoanne Joanne
#BaniWalid fighting during the night NTC Fighters from #Tajoura arrived 2 help but NTC Fighters have retreated from BW this morning #Libya
#SIRTE Residents are leaving Say Gaddafi troops R terrorising ppl and telling tales that NTCfighters R criminals who should b killed #Libya
#Gaddafi Himself Febr21 Ordered #Mirage Pilots 2 Attack and Kill Civilians in #Benghazi with Missiles designed 4 tanks and Buildings #Libya
#BREAKING #Benghazi Jibril Says announcement New transit. government POSTPONED INDEFINITELY in order to finalise consultations #Libya
Jibril & Jalil, struggling 2form Interim Gov that no1seems 2agree on Jetoff 4another trip This time Malta #Libya #priorities
#JIBRIL says some new minister positions still need to be decided for new interim Government #Libya
Nasr
With all that is going in #Libya did they really had to thank #Malta now. Is it really urgent?
Joanne
maybe they are escaping :)
FromJoanne Joanne
#AbigPROBLEM: Officer from #Bani #Walid was heckled by troops from #Tripoli after he tried to stop randomly shooting in the air #Libya
#Sirte Many citizens left this morning telling horror stories about Gaddafi men terrorizing city There is no water+ elctricity #Libya
#NTC Fighters are reported to be in Control of Zella (az-Zallah) an oasis in the northeastern Fezzan region of southwest #Libya
#Jibril is accused of failing to consult enough with long-standing grassroots opposition groups like Muslim Brotherhood via #AJE #NTC #Libya
G Men film Insurance building in #Sirte after @NATO strikes Man calmly speaks of dead civilians #FAIL www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KracDg6yac&fea... #SirteFebr17
#SIRTE NTCFighter: situation is very dangerous there are so many snipers and all the types of weapons you can imagine #Libya
ali libyan
since when MB were long-standing grassroots group? some ppl just say things for the sake of saying it.
son of zwara
M. Brother Hood never had any opposition roll in Libya, thr leaders wr regime interments, now wants 2claim Heroism, elections
Benghazi Youth
MuslimBrotherhood is not long standing in Libya. Nor are they grass roots, that is 100% sure, only among extremist expats maybe.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libyan conflict thrusts #Niger into unwelcome spotlight
#NIGER Army stumbled in2 a fierce GUNfight with alQaeda Armed 2teeth Weapons plundered from #Libya arsenals on Thursday goo.gl/OjgY1
#NTC #Misrata Fighters slept in #Misrata last night then moveback & attack in convoy of 900 Vehicles They move in and out of #Sirte #Libya
#FieldHospital setup in petrol station Drs in Tears Mourning young #Misrata Fighters Martyrs goo.gl/P3gKV Fighting 4 #SIRTE #LIbya
Hassan says his broINlaw was shot dead by #Gaddafi troops during demo in #Feb Was buried in garden of own house goo.gl/sIqgi #Libya
In case u still dont understand what life was like in #Gaddafis #Libya Inside #Gaddafi’s Surveillance System goo.gl/t0X5B
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
It is hard to equalize what is going on now in un-librated cities to what was happening before Libration of big towns like Gheryan & Tripoli
If #Gaddafi families left #BaniWalid and #Sirte … Will it be easy to librate those cities ? #Libya #Feb17
Audioboo: NATO/USAF PSYOPS Call for Duty 19 September 2011 #natousafpsyopsouplibya audioboo.fm/boos/474856-nato-usaf-psyop... via @FMCNL #Libya #Feb17
Libya: anti-Gaddafi fighters battle to enter Sirte www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeMd-D9avwU&fea... #Libya #Feb17 #Sirte
Libya FFs in Stalemate at Loyalist Stronghold #BaniWAlid on.wsj.com/o7hh1G via @WSJ #Libya #Feb17
#Gaddafi forces fight in #BaniWalid skynews.com.au/world/article.…
Libya revolution filters slowly to desert towns www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/18/ap/m... #Libya #Feb17
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya . Black smoke and explosions in #Bani Walid. But no sign of major advances by NTC fighters
malonebarry Barry Malone
Post-war Tripoli port back in business, airport ready | Reuters reut.rs/phDA3C #Libya
Ali Tweel
Misurata city, Tripoli street. Before and After. pic.twitter.com/BtWo0mhk
As NTC forces attack Sirte, concern for detainees held there by Gaddafi loyalists. #Libya
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Interesting insight from Ian Pannell on the plight of black African migrants caught in Tripoli. bbc.in/pb16iA #Libya
aquaamr
Just got back from #Sirte front line and the rebels there seams way more organised and focused than #Bani Walid.. Mainly from #Misrata.
Adam
“everyone in #libya is watching #yemen instead of bani walid”— @HannahAllam
Iyad El-Baghdadi
When this is over, the #ArabSpring will be compared not to Iranian revolution, but to the French revolution.
The Arab Spring youth are showing us convictions, not just mere slogans: bit.ly/nry8Vj #Yemen #Syria #Libya
hominoid555 Russell
Libya: Anti-Gaddafi fighters continue advance to Sirte bbc.in/q0Nnld
aquaamr
Driving the area btwn #Misrata n #Sirte feels like wild west, all abandoned villages with wreckage on both sides of road.. Mainly #NATO hits
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NTC chairman #Jalil thanks #Malta for standing by #Libya people during revolution, supplying aid, granting asylum, aiding injured civilians
There are many FFs inside, as fighting continues against forces loyal to Gaddafi :( Bani Walid)
Sky News: Gaddafi forces fight in Bani Walid bit.ly/qnKxFr #Libya
#Libya Forces Call in Artillery on #Sirte Battle – Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-1… via @BloombergNews
hominoid555 Russell
Misurata the FFs suffered a surprise attack in the city of Sirte .., wounding the driver of the ambulance and led to his death.
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
One of Misrata’s heroic FF Ibrahim Halboos was injured critically today in Sirte, may Allah SWT grant him a quick recovery… AMEEN!
Al Jazeera: revolutionaries liberate the city of Zela near the city of Jafra in southern Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
se retrasa el anuncio dl nuevo gobierno d #Libia una posible señal d las diferencias q existen entre los sublevados tras la caída de Gadafi
Sarkozy apoyo la entrega a Gadafi d 1 vehículo “furtivo” ultrasofisticado d 4 millones d euros par protegerle ¡q cosas tiene la vida! #LIbia
situation today in #Sirte NTC fighters recognized “tactical withdrawal” from western suburbs now most of them outside #Libya
Ibn
HAHA i love how he’s drinking from his juice box. So comfy. #Libya pic.twitter.com/7k0a7pce
When this revolution is over, I’m really gonna miss seeing people fighting for freedom in style. #Libya pic.twitter.com/NgRtg5wZ
Benghazi Youth
They should make it a theme for fashion shows =P
#Tripoli schools open, replacing repeated oaths of allegiance to #Gaddafi with lessons in democracy. #Libya pic.twitter.com/fueUM0Ht
m_madi Mohamed Madi
About to leave Djerba for the UK in a few hours. Will miss #Libya dearly
hominoid555 Russell
Libyans in Tunisia returned to their homes with a border guard, saying that the number cont
of people returning has recently increased by 40 to 50 percent.
Exposure for an ambulance, rocket-propelled grenades in front of Sirte www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwIDXPcgvKw&fea...
Detailed Map with updates in Ban Walid, Sirte, & Sabha. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208861097874298762277.0004aaa9e62c57fa54de2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=32.772698,12.704487&spn=0.055137,0.106859&z=14&vpsrc=6 Excellent work via @k_thos – #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
they used tanks and rockets to shells city 2 heavy cannons ready in the outskirts just 1 killed and may be 12 wounded today #Sirte
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Im in favour of jibril and the NTC delaying the formation of a transitional government till sirte,Sabha & BW can join us in #FreeLibya
Noor
Watching the mass graves in #Janzour on #LibyaAlAhrar … Absolutely heartbreaking :’(
CNN
Hanna Gaddafi mystery! Who is she and what happened her?
Libyans are full of conspiracy theories about exactly what happened to the toppled strongman’s adopted daughter.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwwSFf8SyaM
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Anti Gaddafi fighters celebrating the capture of five Gaddafi loyalists on the #Bani Walid front pic.twitter.com/zm2LjVik
hominoid555 Russell
Tripoli Souq Al Juma The youths are out cleaning the streets youtube.com/watch?v=ynT5It…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynT5ItcUp-Y&fea...
BREAKING: Mahmoud Jibril announced the postponement of the announcement of the new interim government until the liberation of all Libya..!!
4Adam Adam
Nafusa towns sent today another large military convoy to the south to liberate #Sabha expected to join NTC fighters in Shati tonight. #Libya
LibyanPilot
I feel I have to tweet this due to some people speaking without knowledge with some sort of agenda. Next couple of tweets: #Libya
Q: why aren’t eastern FF attacking Sirte? A: The eastern front entered Sirte few days ago joint with West,they liberated and entered v south
Q: Why aren’t East doing anything? A: 100s & 100s of Eastern ff went to nafusa & misrata in March still not returned
A: katibat shuhada, (martyrs brigade) from Benghazi is taking a lead role in the battle for beni walid.
Misrata brigades contain countless people from benghazi and derna
my friend shot in the leg in beniwalid, or another 22 year old lost both legs in Sirte
Just because the eastern brigades don’t have the city’s name on them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
East Libya is the largest region in Libya yet has a population of 2M which is almost the same as Tripoli, we have a v small population
Eastern Libyans spent 6 months rallying behind the west
Russell
I remember the FFs that went to Misrata From Benghazi by boat ! they have played their part !
Alamat Online
Dr. Abdul Rahamn Sweheli is against Dr. Mahmud Jibril being the Prime Minister of Libya
“There is a growing feeling among some people in Libya, that there is a new dictatorship in the way to do in Libya, with new faces, and that these attempts come from the Executive Office of the Transitional Council, and that there are attempts to
control the media channels to be of one color, and I think that it is an internal first place, and the neighbors and the forces that helped us in the protection of civilians and overthrowing Gaddafi, I think that interest to not go back old faces to the leadership of Libya. " ( = translation)
Read here ( Arabic):
www.alamatonline.net/l3.php?id=11284
FreeBenghazi
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: Gaddafiforces are shelling #Sirte residential districts 1 and 2 with rocket launchers. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli’s Sea Port Totally Secure #Insurance Companies need lower Fees goo.gl/7Ma8z #Libya
#TRIPOLI #TIP Airport Diplomats say CivilAirlines & flights carrying official delegations are allowed 2fly after asking NATO consent #Libya
Please RT, new Libyan TV Channel Arabic from Tripoli, Libya: Libya TV: l-tv.tv #Libya #Tripoli
88simon88 simon
NTC RECOGNITION MAP. img832.imageshack.us/img832/9158/18… HISTORICAL. thx to the UN vote, now more than 50% of the countries RECOGNIZE THE NTC !
Libee Hur
I want the best for our country #Libya
Four men from #Zawiya have been martyred during the operation of freeing #BaniWalid. Inna li Allah wa inna Ilayhi raaji3oun. (v. FB)
Zlitniya
would love to meet Mustafa Abduljalil’s wife #BehindEveryGreatManIsAGreatWom an
Gynaecologist desperately needed in #Zliten .Orthopeadics surgeon also needed.Plz get in touch if u can help
Women demo in #Zliten 2support #NTC &in solidarity w Sirte Sebha & Baniwalid twitpic.com/6n0cpa
twitpic.com/6n0btc
twitpic.com/6n0cpa
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
it hate it..too much all the time randomly and carelessly #Nocelebratoryfire
Libya tunes in to first TV station without Qaddafi’s shadow
In 1999, after publishing articles in state-funded Libyan magazines critical of the Qaddafi regime, Omar Elkeddi made the decision to apply for asylum in the Netherlands.
Leaving his friends and family behind at the age of 40, he feared for his life and thought it unlikely he would ever return to Libya.
“Imagine how difficult it was to start from nothing at that age,” he said. “My life was under threat. Either I left or I would have had to cooperate with them. It was the most
difficult decision of my life.”
Full story:
feb17.info/news/libya-tunes-in-to-first...
FromJoanne Joanne
TFM will PAY #Tunisian Hospital BILLS 4 #Libya wounded. Contact: 216 71829410 M:216 20340459 E:cabinet.aaa@planet.tn plz RT
RAW, Libya Exhumation of a mass grave in the city of Janzour www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI11P0SXlYg&fea... via @youtube
Affnan
Dear Libyan freedom fighters, When you guys are done being awesome & freeing your country can you head over to Palestine & help us clean up.
Muhee Eldeen AlAroosy Tortured by Gaddafi thugs.Seriously #inhumane #Libya v @libyafreedom youtu.be/f95q1r3gW5w
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f95q1r3gW5w&fea...
frankentele Sean Carberry
Sounds like a zoo in Bani Walid: Libyan forces retreat again as Gaddafi bastions hold | Reuters reut.rs/mZcEkO via @reuters
Zlitniya
Following previous bombing of food warehouse in #Zliten ,t cities bakeries r nw receiving flour supplies.Hopefully bread queues wil shorten!
High ranking military official in #Zliten died under torture.He was helping FF.1punishment- shot in both eyes #Libya #Feb17
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
youtu.be/JH6I9FZJWdc Here is a conversation between Ahmad #Bani #NTC rep & a #Misrata brigade commander. It explains current events.. #Libya
Salem #Madhoun > #Belhaj youtu.be/yVGrwpQLkUE #Tripoli #Libya Seriously. This guy is leadership material. What is your input Tripolitanians?
Mesh3adi مش عادي
I hope all Libyans tune their brains to rebuild #Libya based on justice, fairness, equity and Islamic freedom
bint_tarhouna Free Libya
Relatives in Tripoli who went to BabAlazizya say a very common sight is people talking to the sewers calling for Gaddafi to come out! lol
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
LPC #Misrata: NATO gave ‘strong’ support today in #Sirte. Hits included 2 tanks, 3 Grad launchers, MBRLs, and an APC #Libya
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 19th 2011
9/19/11
9.19.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/A83vG
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Sun eve: RAF aircraft identified hostile vehicles nr Waddan. Multiple rocket launcher & armed pick-up truck destroyed using Paveway bombs.
Sun eve: Armed reconnaissance patrol over Bani Walid located former regime main battle tank – disabled by direct hit from Brimstone missile.
Sirtawi
We got three names of Pro-G criminals, terrorizing ppl in #Sirte: Ahmed El-Burki, Hamdi El-Burki, and Hamza Ma’arif. #gaddaficrimes #Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Erdogan’s Visit to Libya (photo album) facebook.com/media/set/?set… #Libya
Another mass grave found near Tripoli – NTC is.gd/atCALt #Libya
Libyan fighter pilots who fled to Malta receive heroes’ welcome in Tripoli is.gd/bHCzjJ #Libya
Libya revolution filters slowly to desert towns is.gd/6i827m #Libya
Has Africa lost Libya? is.gd/Ajn9xL #Libya
Post-war Tripoli port back in business, airport ready is.gd/xDMG16
Tony Blair ‘visited Libya to lobby for JP Morgan’ http://shabablibya.org/?p=http://shabablibya.org/ #Libya
Confusion hampering charge on Gaddafi desert bastion is.gd/79d593 #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: Libyan Freedom Fighter teases and makes fun of Pro-Gaddafi snipers in Misurata bit.ly/qkmjUB #libya
flyingbirdies أكرم
“The exuberant greetings are one of the great joys of travelling in Libya” Justin Marozzi BBC News
LIBYAN CULTURE
The real Libya:
libyanculture.tumblr.com
Zlitniya Zlitniya
Pro #Feb17 art in #Zliten #Libya
twitpic.com/6n1eom
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Zlitniya
‘Tied rope round my neck,attached 2car&drove.Plane came&they fled.Later returned&decided I deserved slow death’ #Zliten youtu.be/-fs3NBfRdyM
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fs3NBfRdyM&fea...
‘Was kidnapped 27Jul frm my farm,bag placed over head,hit over head&needed 20-30stitches’ #Zliten #Gaddaficrimes #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHO8J9YJzV0&fea...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHO8J9YJzV0&fea...
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Qatar to train Libyan journalists and help build free press – The National thenational.ae/news/worldwide… …Jan Keulen…!
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
LPC #Misrata: Today 2 fighters were killed in action in #Sirte, much fewer than the 17 KIA yesterday #Libya
LPC #MIsrata: Fighting in #Sirte today concentrated on the Airbase and nearby Miltary camps. #Libya
tearsforfreedom:
Women’s rights in Islam told by a Libyan woman (my mum)
a BBC report –
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJtS8qzfsKU&fea...
librev2011
Breaking – confirmed #AlKhums #FF are now inside #BaniWalid and took control over some main buildings at the city center #Libya
ilibico
Belhaj: Libyans should look forward 2 a civil country where there’ll be equality, prosperity,a country of institutions where all participate
SajaR26 S.R
Sebha freedom fighters in the liberated area of Almenshia
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbySw8HXPRA
Report on visiting the Kidney Hospital in #Tripoli shortages of medical supplies and staff!! #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEOaFOfiYZ8&NR=1
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEOaFOfiYZ8&NR=1
Can you believe it? Man, oh man, the comedy show was on Arrai tv.
Reuters :
Gaddafi spokesman says 17 “mercenaries”, including French and British “technical experts” captured in Bani Walid:Arrai TV"
Nusaybah
May Allah protect the men and women of my country and expose the liars, opportunists and those trying to spread sedition amongst us. #Libya
Ben
Saleh is a monster. So is #Gaddafi, #Assad and all the rest. VIVA FREEDOM, VIVA #ArabSpring!!!
NATO strikes #Sirte sea port today.
FromJoanne Joanne
UNHAS continues to offer #AIR Passenger Transport services connecting #Djerba #Malta #Tripoli and #Benghazi goo.gl/oHiyf #Libya
Kidnapped by #Touareg in #Libya bit.ly/oNNfNI Reprisals against #Tuareg who supported #Gaddafi goo.gl/LXrQV BBC
#Libyans fail to agree on new government reut.rs/nlWDZz #NTC reduced Portfolios from 36 in the original proposal to around 24 #Libya
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
In midst of ALL the negativity & criticism I actually feel that #Feb17 rev is going amazingly well…Much better than I ever expected #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
Turkish airlines have confirmed starting istanbul- #tripoli flights on sep21st bit.ly/oeWrdU … #Libya
BentBenghazi G
Any1 who supported #Gaddafi or his sons in the past 42 years should be tried for crimes against humanity. #Libya #feb17 #Gaddaficrimes
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Aan t Brega front w ook pizza’s en cake gebracht, was met zo’n konvooi mee, sommigen zaten al dgn alleen op enkel brood..
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Qatar to train Libyan journalists and help build free press – The National thenational.ae/news/worldwide… …Jan Keulen…!
Armchair Arab
don’t quite know how a non-democracy like Qatar can teach us about free press.
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
I thought exactly the same! Then I saw Jan Keulen being the director, whom i know well…actually i think you Libyans can run things by yourself, i was amazed by the in general very good political awareness among Libyans, despite 42 yrs Gaddafi
Rena Netjes
Libya shouldn’t take Belgium as an example…concerning forming a new government…;-)
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Alarabia: AlQumati: ‘Liberation of Bani Walid and Sirte could happen any moment.’
Sirtawi
BREAKING: 3 houses bombed in Swawa in #Sirte, 2 girls died and another is critically injured. Bombs were launched from Abu Hadi
Sumayyah
I hate this whole “what city did what” mindset. All the freedom fighters are Libyan, and they’re all fighting for one thing…a Free Libya.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyans fail to agree new government is.gd/gjYyyN #Libya
Zlitniya
#Zliten tradesmen buy food,nappies&baby milk from #Tunisia ship 2 #Khums then deliver 2Zliten 2sell @ cost price #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=s7ehqN…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ehqNzsY6c&fea...
Gadafi-Summer-Style ( btw this is a real pic, not photoshop )
instagr.am/p/NfF-7
6 fighters were martyred at the #Sirte front-lines, 40 were wounded v @Assomood_ly
Johnyrocket69
Apparently ibrahim has charged his phone and is making crank calls again to syria #libya
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Spent an amazing few hours at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab_al-Az… today. Endless maze of tunnels, equipment, files down there. yfrog.com/kkcn2lzwj
Totally creepy. #Tripoli yfrog.com/mffpayj
Hundreds of these Beretta rifles were found brand new in military compounds and taken for use by new #NTC police. yfrog.com/me3z3gjj
Went to Gharyan in Western Mountains tonight. Whole town was out to welcome home exiled opposition fighters. #Libya yfrog.com/hsrroqdj
The beautiful children of #Libya will grow up in a world without #Gaddafi. yfrog.com/nw12003252j
aMuslimahsDiary
“A man without a beard is like a lion without his mane”
Ahmed
Don’t know if this has made news but there is a very high chance that Motassim Gaddafi is in #Sirte. Was heard through radio interference
Reuters
Gaddafi spokesman: 17, including French and British, captured
A spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday that 17 “mercenaries,” including what he called French and British “technical experts” have been captured in the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid in Libya.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/18/us-l...
MSNBC
Libya Islamist takes inclusive stance
Tripoli’s military commander, an Islamist whose rise to prominence is being watched closely by the West, said on Sunday he wanted to build a democratic “civil state” in Libya in remarks that laid out an inclusive political vision after 42 years of despotism under Muammar Gaddafi.
Read more:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42507776#.TnYDbeyoqSo
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Listen and hear Arabic فصل الدين عن الدولة للشعراوى youtube.com/watch?v=6A69_b… #Libya #Feb17
SajaR26 S.
I hate stupid people that always think they’re right & never want to hear what anyone else has to say #Frustrated !!
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
Twice today I walked in on my boy singing “Eybya hura…Gadafi emshy bawa” The End is near… #Libya
Aljazeera
Libyans fail to form new cabinet
Libya’s interim leaders have failed to agree on a new cabinet even as battles raged with pro-Muammar Gaddafi forces.
The cabinet — or executive committee — was dissolved last month after procedural errors in the handling of the unexplained shooting dead of the newly ruling National Transitional Council’s (NTC) military chief.
A new executive committee, to include officials responsible for defence and interior affairs, was supposed to be appointed by Mahmoud Jibril, the interim prime minister, on Sunday. But the talks broke down when his proposals did not receive full backing from all current members.
“We had an advisory meeting with the NTC in order to form a new cabinet. We have agreed on a number of portfolios. We still have more portfolios to be discussed,” Jibril told reporters at a news conference on Sunday.
Read more and watch video:
goo.gl/T4Dxg
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Beautiful. #Libya #Gharyan yfrog.com/kes37ydj
After watching way Libyans, even in conservative WMtns treat their daughters, fears of Islamist Libya are unfounded. yfrog.com/nys2hwj
Moez
Great how many Libyan tweeps with generic Libya revolutionary account names are
using their own names now #Libya #feb17
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
All this negativity lately is hurting our revolution & what we fought for. #Libya #feb17
Our struggle is not even over yet & people are creating fitna & division. FFs are still on the front lines loosing their lives.
IsaMadesclaire Isabelle Madesclaire
Lire la trad en français de la trad en anglais du discours d’Abdelhakim Belhaj membre CNT chargé de la sécurité Tripoli tl.gd/d5ruep
blabeen
Video of SCUD truck & 2 missiles captured in Seirt by #Misrata FF. #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=xX_uxg…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX_uxgyG00U
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Sorry for rapid-fire tweets. So much to share, but wifi only at night! One last: everyone’s new doormats. #Libya yfrog.com/nxcmpxij
CLAF Interview with Sanae Assefi
The President of CLAF, Dr. Jamal M. Buzayan, visited the sixteen year old Libyan child, Sanae Abdulmajeed Assefi in Tunis, Tunisia on Sunday, September 11, 2011. On August 9, 2011 Sanae and her family were with six other families riding in four civilian cars leaving the Libyan city of Zawiya. Gaddafi forces opened fire on them. Sanae’s aunt was struck by a bullet, between her eyes, fired by Gaddafi snipers; the shot immediately killed her. Sanae and her father left the car and Sanae was hit by an anti-aircraft bullet (14.5 mm) fired by Gaddafi’s brigades. The Libyan freedom fighters were able to reach her, rescue her, and take her to the Zintan hospital where doctors treated her and amputated her left leg below the knee. After seventeen days she left Zintan and arrived in Tunis to continue her medical treatment. Sanae patiently continues her journey dealing with pain, suffering, and treatment. Her injury testifies to the cruelty and inhumanity of Gaddafi and his followers. Her behavior, patience, and determination testify to the excellence of the Libyan children. The help of our donors and supporters testifies to the compassion and integrity of mankind. Sanae embodies the hope for a better future in Libya and she is a source of pride for Libya and all mankind.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oau1TWi371A&fea...
SMILE:
clayclai Clay Claiborne
“Grant me the serenity to email the things I can’t tweet, the abreviations to tweet the things I can & the wisdom to know the difference.”
robinenergy Robin Mills
El Badri confirms that #OPEC recognises the #Libya NTC (since UN recognises them) despite holdout from Venezuela etc
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Graphic Video:
From BabAziziya Archive …
Execution of Wafi Embia in BaniWalid in 1999
youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf0xO… youtube.com/watch?v=-List9…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-List9Nj_ww&fea...
#PrayforSirte #PrayforSebha #PrayforBaniWalid #PrayforLibya
SajaR26 S.
Many of the criminals that were let out from prison by Gaddafi in the early days of the revolution are still walking the streets of Tripoli.
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
#Libyans have learned alot in the past 7 months how to speak and deal with media, something there were never exposed to during #Gaddafi era
Miss B
ALL the Aid that got into eastern Libya from outside in Feb/March, came via Egypt.
WilliamJHague William Hague
What do you think are the important issues at the UN General Assembly this week? Let me know your views & I will reply to some where I can
Armchair Arab
t’s my view, I think Libyan revolution earned more recognition than Egyptian/Tunisian revolutions.
Armchair Arab
well we can build up the Libyan airline, and get those A350s sooner!
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
I asked some pple here. they never heard of Saadi Brigade. it might have existed and they dont know about it.
Lisa
#FLASH #OPEC Recognizes #LIBYA #NTC”
Vanguard
‘Gaddafi son Seif seen in fight for Bani Walid’
BANI WALID (AFP) – Fierce fighting raged Monday in Bani Walid as new regime fighters attacked the town where Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam is holed up, possibly with his father, said the new authorities.
“The revolutionaries came to Bani Walid this morning and engaged in a hard battle,” Abdullah Kenshil, a senior official in the National Transitional Council (NTC), told AFP.
Kenshil said the battle for control of Bani Walid, one of the few remaining bastions of fighters loyal to Gaddafi southeast of Tripoli, was a “done deal and will be completed in the next two days.”
Read more:
www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/gaddafi-son...
Le Monde
Libye : violents combats contre des kadhafistes à Bani Walid
Les forces du nouveau régime libyen sont entrées à nouveau, lundi 19 septembre, à Bani Walid et maintenaient leur étau sur Syrte, deux bastions loyalistes. Moussa Ibrahim, porte-parole du régime de Kadhafi, a affirmé que les troupes loyales avaient remporté ces derniers jours plusieurs victoires “qualitatives” contre les "collaborateurs
de l’OTAN". “Nous sommes parvenus à les repousser en dehors de Bani Walid et de Syrte”, a-t-il assuré dimanche par téléphone à la télévision Arraï, basée en Syrie.
Read more:
www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2011/09/...
AdiKhair Adi G. Khair
I tried one of the Bala’s restaurants last night. Best #Fish ever. #Benghazi
If they only stop celebrating with mashine guns in #Benghazi I would probably feel safer. My colleague is typing on the floor #GunShots
Times of Oman
Turkish military cargo plane fired on over Libya: news agency
Turkey: Turkish military cargo plane dropping humanitarian aid over the Libyan town of Bani Walid came under fire from the ground, the Turkish news agency Anatolia reported Monday.
The incident happened on Saturday when one of two Turkish C-130 transport planes parachuting aid to residents was fired on, the agency said, citing a journalist on the plane.
BBC
Libyan migrants claim abuse from NTC fighters
A BBC investigation has found allegations of abuse against African migrant workers in Libya by fighters allied to the new interim government.
Hundreds of men have been imprisoned, accused of being mercenaries for Col Gaddafi. There are also claims that homes have been looted and women and girls raped.
Ian Pannell reports.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14966512
CNN
CNN journalist injured in attack near Sirte
A Libyan revolutionary fighters’ convoy came under attack Saturday on the outskirts of Sirte, the birthplace of Moammar Gadhafi, injuring a CNN journalist who was traveling with them.
Ian Lee was treated for shrapnel in his ankle in a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack. He was in good spirits and was able to speak with his family by phone.
Lee was with a CNN team traveling with anti-Gadhafi fighters and other journalists toward Sirte, where fierce fighting unfolded again Saturday. The revolutionaries have been met there with stiff resistance from loyalists.
Read more and watch video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/17...
FreedomGroup
Six were martyred in Sunday’s battle in Sirte.
1. Abdel Wahab Mohamed al-Sharif (Misurata)
2. Abdul Aziz Salim Albaaour (Misurata)
3. Bashir Mohammed Arhomat (Misurata)
4. Ahmed Mlitan (Misurata)
5. Abdul Aziz Saleh Al-Amari (Misurata)
6. Ahmed Al-Tahar (Misurata)
اللهم تقبل شهدائنا في ربوع ليبيا الحبيبه
Allah accept our martyrs throughout beloved Libya.
Via FB
Ibrahim Al-Halbouss, commander of Misrata’s eastern front, was seriously injured on Sunday.
He is the brother of the martyred commander, Mohammed Al-Halbouss. Ibrahim become a quadriplegic after four bullets entred his spinal cord.
Sheikh Mustafa Abdul Jalil had presented Ibrahim Al-Halbouss the Medal of Courage during his recent visit to Misrata.
May Allah grant him a speedy recovery.
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
CNN
Anti-Gadhafi forces suffer losses in Sirte, rejoice freedom elsewhere
Revolutionary forces in Libya suffered a sizable blow after more than 20 fighters were killed in the northern city of Sirte Sunday, the country’s transitional government said Monday.
Another 31 fighters were injured, said Abdel Rahman Busin, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council.
Sirte is the hometown of ousted Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi and is among a handful of pro-Gadhafi strongholds left in the country.
Story and video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/19...
Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Turkey air force C-130 shot at by #Gaddafi loyalists in #Bani_Walid on Saturday evening as it dropped humanitarian aid on the city
#Malta to receive 25 more #Libya civilians for hospital treatment
Freedom Group
Today, Misrata fighters at the Sirte front gained 150 cars, 14.5, as well as trucks filled with ammunition.
Twenty were injured today on Sunday in the battle for Sirte
1. Mohamed Ali Al-Jitalawi (Misurata) – (surgery)
2. Mohamed Abu Zaribah (Misurata) – (Surgery)
3. Omar Abu Bakr Badesh (Misurata) – (Discharged)
4. Ahmed Mohamed Shaklawwon (Misurata) – (Discharged)
5. Abdullah Mohammed Chaouch (Misurata) – (Discharged)
6. Sufian Saleh El-Siwi (Misurata) – (Discharged)
7. Youssef Hussein Al-Juhaimi (Misurata) – (Discharged)
8. Ismail Jibril (Misurata) – (Discharged)
9. Ali Salem Badi (Misurata) – (Discharged)
10. Sufian Abdullah Al-Ferjany (Misurata) – (Discharged)
11. Al-Siddiq Galou (Misurata) – (Discharged)
12. Mohamed Mohamed Abjah (Misurata) – (Discharged)
13. Bashir Saleh Bin Taher (Misurata) – (Discharged)
14. Abdul Rahman Ali Abshir (Misurata) – (Discharged)
15. Jamal Muhammad Al-Rais (Misurata)
16. Ali Mohammed Akkub (Misurata)
17. Khalid Abdullah Kulwani (Misurata)
18. Khaled Mabrouk Harish (Misurata)
19. Muhammad Faisal Arahuma (Misurata)
20. Commander Ibrahim Al-Halbouss (Misrata)
Thirty wounded were evacuated to hospitals in Egypt and Jordan.
AJA
FF east are now 40Km from Sirte
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
North gate of #BaniWalid saw more shelling and shooting today #Libya
No rev commanders anywhere, front been abandoned to rag tag armed, inexperienced rebels with dangerous zeal and confidence #Libya #Baniwalid
Another close call at the north gate today; Gadhafi force aimed straight at a structure journos were waiting near #libya #baniwalid
Rebels go into #BaniWalid, fight then retreat lwithout setting bases, thus losing positions #libya
It’s really dangerous not just from the Gadhafi resistance/force, but cuz of inexperience and zeal of the young rebels #libya
In other news, the flies in this desert are really, really annoying #libya
Chaka
be careful. Keep your vest on and your head down.
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
thx :) am trying
Times Live ZA
Black life is cheap in Libya
They are killing black people in Libya. They are killing them in the street, they are killing them in hospitals, they are killing them in transit camps, they are killing them in their houses.
They are not killing any old African. They are killing black Africans, the dark, sub-Saharan Africans. Skin tone, the darkness of one’s skin, has become for many blacks in Libya the difference between prison and freedom, death and life.
The rebels who gunned for the toppling of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi have for the past six months been killing anyone who looks dark. Given that there are between a million and two million black Africans in Libya, a slow and under-reported massacre is unfolding in that country.
No one is saying anything. When African leaders such as President Jacob Zuma speak, they speak for Gaddafi but not for the people who are now being routinely murdered at the hands of the rebels – the people who are today in power across large swathes of Libya.
African newspapers and television channels report on the conflict as if they are European, Chinese or American. We never write about the fact that over the past few months anyone with a dark skin has been stopped in the streets of Libya and searched. It is almost like the days of apartheid. These people are then either arrested, tortured or murdered.
No one cares about their fate. They are black after all, and black life is cheapest among Africans. That is why we are not up in arms.
The killings in Libya have cover. Gaddafi, at the beginning of the conflict, used his considerable wealth to hire mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa to terrorise locals and push back the rebel advance. The mercenaries were from everywhere. There were Nigerians, there were veterans from the wars in Ivory Coast and word is that there were even South Africans among them.
These were some of the hired guns of Gaddafi’s regime.
These mercenaries would be the ones staging shows of force as Gaddafi shook his fist at the free world. They drove around in Jeeps, shot into the air and pretended that all was fine in the world.
It was not. Now Gaddafi has fallen. Many of the mercenaries have returned home, their hundreds of thousands of dollars stashed away. What is left in Libya are the ordinary black people, the ones who have been cleaning for the Libyans all along, building the roads and doing the menial jobs that the rich Libyans would not do.
They are the ones who are dying now. On August 31 an Amnesty International team reported that black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans “are at high risk of abuse by anti-Gaddafi forces”.
“An Amnesty delegation visiting the Central Tripoli Hospital last Monday witnessed three thuwwar revolutionaries (as opposition fighters are commonly known) dragging a black patient from the western town of Tawargha from his bed and detaining him. The men were in civilian clothing.
“The thuwwar said the man would be taken to Misratah for questioning, arguing that interrogators in Tripoli ‘let killers free’. Two other black Libyans receiving treatment in the hospital for gunshot wounds were warned by the anti-Gaddafi forces that ‘their turn was coming’.”
Amnesty International is being extremely diplomatic with its language. Human rights activists are reporting that black people have been disappearing all over Libya over the past nine months as the rebels started taking out Gaddafi forces. As rebels arrived in towns, they merely sought out blacks and either killed them on the spot or arrested them. Many have died of starvation in those “prisons”.
Wherever alleged Gaddafi forces are found to have been executed, most of those murdered have been black. Video footage of ordinary black men who have been working in Libya being executed is available on the internet. Their sin is that some black mercenaries worked for Gaddafi, and their sin now is that they are black.
The US and Nato, after helping the rebels bomb Libya, have been quiet on this issue. They have blood on their hands. Would they be so quiet if whites were being murdered in such large numbers in Libya?
And where are the Africans? The AU is petulant, refusing to speak or intervene, while their brothers and sisters are being murdered.
What a courageous bunch.
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
Repairing electricity Infrastructure in Zuaitina #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=dcjqPD…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjqPDZGzMM&fea...
#Russian Scud missiles found in #Sirte #Libya on 18/9/11, evidence of #Gaddafi wants to kill his people youtube.com/watch?v=dVRTNK…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRTNKjxFxM&fea...
Souk Al Juma Tripoli
عادل المشيطي في سوق الجمعه www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NqUz_KoUQ&fea... #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NqUz_KoUQ&fea...
#Gaddafi Favorite TV shows “Public Execution of opposition” and ElWafi Embaiyah was one of them youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf0xO… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf0xOLxYBs&fea...
acarvin Andy Carvin
Six months ago today, Mo Nabbous was killed while documenting Gaddafi’s ceasefire violations. A few hours later, NATO bombing began. #libya
GADHAFIS ELECTRIC FIAT 500 NEEDS A PUSH ….LOL
cool pic of the liberation of an electric fiat 500 by castagna from the evil ruler of lybia , needs a repaint then ready for rebel support ! (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) the car is actually a special delivery for the gadhafi family , a fiat 500 rebodied by castagna and with an elctric engine ! but now free !
www.flickr.com/photos/juergenspicsseeth...
Freedom_7uriyah ღ.¸¸Esra¸¸.ღ
EVERY city has something to be proud of &FFs from all over #Libya fought in every city.
#Libyan Laughter at the Embassy in #London.
A happy Libyan lass at the London Embassy. 22nd August 2011.
www.flickr.com/photos/eoghan_mac/606951...
#Sabrata, one of #Libya’s most remarkable tourist attractions is still safe and secure. Thank God flic.kr/p/anqZ15
Tears & Emotions in Martyrs’s Square in #Tripoli #Libya flic.kr/p/aj5di2
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
#Libyans have learned alot in the past 7 months how to speak and deal with media, something there were never exposed to during #Gaddafi era
Transporting the injured fighters for treatment to #Egypt, #Tunisia and #Jordan— كابتن طائرة نقل الجرحى يتحدث -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnm4CN5yDD0&fea... #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnm4CN5yDD0&fea...
Via Al-Aan TV: FF advanced 20 KM on the eastern Sirte front.
China calls for early establishment of Libyan interim government bitly.com/mZjlMo
Nigerian minister of external affairs says 5 days ago “no Nigerian has died or is being harassed in Libya.” bitly.com/pmEThx
Via Shabab
Libyan NTC forces repelled at Bani Walid
Anti-Gaddafi forces are struggling to gain ground as they battle for control of the ousted Libyan leader’s remaining strongholds.
Fighters for the nation’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) have fallen back after another chaotic attack on the desert town of Bani Walid.
But they renewed their battle for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte.
NTC forces have met stiff resistance in Col Gaddafi’s last bastions, which they must
capture before the interim government can declare Libya ‘liberated’ and begin work on a constitution before elections.
Since Tripoli fell to anti-Gaddafi forces on August 23, rumours have swirled about whether the deposed leader is in Bani Walid, Sirte, the southern desert town of Sabha or elsewhere.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/libyan-ntc-forces-...
Mike
Sounds like FF forces need to get seriously organised if they are to liberate Sirte, Bani Walid and Sabha
I wonder if people in Sirte, Bani Walid and Sabha would surrender if they knew that Tripoli and most of Libya was under FF control.
NATO NATO
#Video Western leaders visit Tripoli youtu.be/yHyMPIQEswI #NATO #Libya
Emirates 24
NTC fighters in Libya’s Sirte slow down for civilians
Forces of the new Libyan regime advanced Sunday in Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown Sirte, clearing roads for fleeing civilians as they sought one of the ousted strongman’s sons, a field commander said.
“The first problem is that there are children and civilians inside and we don’t want to use Grad rockets or heavy artillery,” Walid al-Feturi, commander of Al-Qabra brigade told AFP.
“But on the other side they are shooting at us with heavy machine guns and artillery,” he said.
Explosions shook the Mediterranean city with a population of 130,000 as fighters
backed by tanks advanced at a measured pace through the desert scrub.
Read more:
www.emirates247.com/news/world/ntc-figh...
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
1/2 -met a #NTC fighter who has family living in #Sirte.He says his cousins were GF & were killed in #NATO strike over mil. installation.
2/2- now 1 part of family pro #NTC and another pro nobody.#Sirte
Ennahar Online
An Algerian Human Rights Organisation condemns French interference
Algiers- An organization for the defence of Human Rights in Algeria on Sunday condemned the “immoral interference” of France in Libya, in a statement quoted by the Algerian news agency APS.
“The French interference in Libya against Colonel Qaddafi and his regime is reprehensible and immoral” especially under “the pretext of democracy against dictatorship and that of freedom against arbitrary,” said the National Commission Advisory for the promotion and protection of human rights in Algeria (CNCPPDH).
Read more:
www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/...
thegeedee
there are a lot of complaints about a lot of Zintan rebbels,they have done a lot of damage,looting included,shame
Benghazi Youth
Shame @ looting, heard the same about Misrata FF. but really this is a problem with indep. brigades, no accountability
EndTyranny101
#Zuwara #Libya: Democracy in action, ballots counted to elect president of local council yfrog.com/g05yhhxj yfrog.com/o0xkxvj
Reuters
One pro-NTC fighter pulled aside four young men for questioning after he said he had found an anti-aircraft bullet in their car.
“There is no weapon inside, but if they have this, there has to be a story,” he said, holding up the bullet.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
Sirtawi
New names of G criminals in #Sirte: Abdullah Daouu Al-Gmati, Al-Giddafi & his bro Ramadan Bahri, Mustafa Haroun. #FreeSirte #gaddaficrimes
G forces have flipped a lorry at #2 traffic lights at W entrance of #Sirte using it as a barrier against Freedom Fighters. #SirteCrisis
Libya’s NTC denies abuse of black Africans | Reuters reut.rs/q2T6hj
UN rights probe wary about black Africans in #Libya – Africa |Daily Nation: bitly.com/qkBckQ
Chaos undermines #Libya’n forces’ advance into Bani Walid bbc.in/nJm6XW
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Heroic Libyan pilots return to their homeland. (Photo Album) facebook.com/media/set/?set… #Libya #Malta
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Hmm, not quite trained by a free press RT @SultanAlQassemi Qatar to train Libyan journalists & help build free press bit.ly/nHXosE
NTC military spokesman: In Sirte 20 revolutionaries died yesterday and 31 were injured." #Libya
Bani Walid Spk: " Gadafi fighters have kidnapped 18 civilians and executed 12 of them. 7 from same the Al Khazmi family. " #Libya
Bani Walid NTC Spokesman:“Gadafi fighters fired anti-aircraft guns at 1 of two Turkish C-130 transport planes parachuting aid to civilians”
Bani Walid NTC Spokesman: " We have distributed food & aid to residents yesterday with the help of the Libyan Red Crescent"
Bani Walid Sp: “Gadafi loyalists firing from mosques & civilian homes. Many of their fighters are Africans & different parts of #Libya”
Our #CNN #Libya WIRE: Anti-Gadhafi forces suffer losses in Sirte, rejoice freedom elsewhere
tiny.cc/g0yhi #Feb17
ForcesNews British Forces News
RAF Tornado GR4s have made a series of precision strikes in a NATO raid on pro-Gaddafi forces around Sirte bfbs.com/news/worldwide…
LibyanPilot OmarAmer AlBarghathi
Turkish airlines started 4 times weekly last week istanbul – benghazi. It will now change it to a daily service from Wednesday #Benghazi
Misurata FF’s finding Scud missiles in #Sirte -
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX_uxgyG00U&feature=share
#Sabha Liberation of southern #Libya looks easy & rapidly edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/…
twitpic.com/6n0xfq/full
Sirtawi
G forces have flipped a lorry at #2 traffic lights at W entrance of #Sirte using it as a barrier against Freedom Fighters. #SirteCrisis
Gadaffi evading capture in a Mercedes 4×4 bristling with anti-tracking systems… and it was given to him by Nicolas Sarkozy #Bravo
Sirte Today revolutionary forces shelled the city with Grad rockets and the sound of gunfights echoed through the streets.
Video: Youth in Libya Look Beyond Gaddafi
Two young students in Benghazi, Libya, share their hopes about the revolution they helped create, and what is next in their country
Video:
feb17.info/media/video-youth-in-libya-l...
Post-war Tripoli port back in business
Tripoli’s port is back to near-normal business less than a month after the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi, authorities said on Sunday, with the Libyan capital’s international airport also ready to operate flights.
As cranes lifted containers and sacks of goods onto the docks, and trucks manoeuvred into position to be loaded, port interim manager Abddel Hakim al-Ghazawi told Reuters the installation was safe and called on insurance companies to reduce fees related to use of the facility.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/post-war-tripoli-port-b...
aquaamr
At front line Rebels fight on the run. They pierce in #Sirte then dart out. Don’t understand why not hold position over night.
#NTC #Libya using Helis in coop with #NATO to medivac casualties of both sides on #Sirte front. twitpic.com/6nddpc
AdiKhair
A Jordanian source announced today the establishment of the largest field hospital in the world in the #Benghazi Medical Center. #Libya
Radio Netherlands
Kadhafi son Seif seen in battle for oasis town
“The revolutionaries came to Bani Walid this morning and engaged in a hard battle,” Abdullah Kenshil, a senior official in the National Transitional Council (NTC), told AFP.
Kenshil said the battle against Kadhafi’s mercenaries for control of Bani Walid, one of the ousted leader’s few remaining bastions southeast of Tripoli, was a “done deal and will be completed in the next two days.”
The NTC official said that Seif al-Islam, the most prominent of Kadhafi’s sons, had been seen in Bani Walid, and that it is likely that his father is also in the oasis town.
“Seif al-Islam was seen in Bani Walid; this is 100 percent certain. As for his father, he was there too; we are 70 percent sure,” Kenshil told AFP, adding they were only being defended by mercenaries.
“Those fighting in Bani Walid are not necessarily Kadhafi’s brigades, whose members joined the NTC forces,” said Kenshil, adding they were “mercenaries from Chad, Niger and Togo, according to the bodies we have recovered.”
“Shoot, shoot,” crackled the radio.
“We don’t need them. You have experience in Chad. Just shoot.”
NTC fighters said that the same pro-Kadhafi commander promised to come to Mutassim’s rescue saying: “Master, master… we will protect you as ordered by your father.”
Read more:
www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/kadhafi-son...
Guardian
BLOG
Residents escaping said hundreds were still trapped in Sirte, where there have been warnings of a humanitarian crisis. They spoke as pro-NTC fighters fired test shots to alert pro-Gaddafi forces holed up inside the city of their presence.
Resident and community leader Ibrahim Ramadan, standing by a car packed with his
family as he fled on the fifth day of fighting, said:
“There’s no electricity, no phone coverage. Nothing. There’s just some water really, but nothing else apart from that.”
He estimated that around one third of Sirte’s roughly 70,000 residents had left.
“People are fed up. There are explosions going off everywhere and you don’t know where the bullets will come from next.Look at this!” he said, pointing at a bullet hole in his car’s windshield. “Bullets are coming down from above. People are just firing randomly.”
Forces loyal to deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi claim to have captured 17 mercenaries, including two Britons and several French nationals, in the town of Bani Walid. The claims- made by Moussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi’s spokesman- could not be confirmed. But if true they would mark a further setback in Nato’s fraught attempts to claim control of the Gaddafi stronghold.
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, now recognises the Libyan National Transitional Council. The announcement, made today in Dubai by Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri, comes after the United Nations approved a Libyan request to accredit envoys of the transitional government as Tripoli’s sole OPEC representatives.
Muammar Gaddafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, has claimed that “mercenaries” assisting the NTC forces have been captured retreating from Bani Walid.
They include two Britons and 12 French, he said, but here has been no confirmation of the claim.
Source and more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-li...
KUNA NET
France unworried by Council delay in forming Libyan government
France said on Monday that it was not unduly worried by the delay of the National
Transitional Council (NTC) in forming a new Libyan government, but urged this be done “as quickly as possible.” A statement from the Foreign Ministry noted that “all democratic processes involve discussions and debate” and it was “natural” that this should take some time in Libya.
“That happens even in the most ancient democracies,” Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Roman Nadal said in a briefing.
“It is, therefore, a difficult exercise in a country that has known almost 42 years of dictatorship,” the French official added.
“We continue in our exchanges with the leaders of the National Transitional Council to urge them to appoint, as quickly as possible, a representative and operational government,” Nadal indicated.
He said that France has stressed the need for Libyans to unite and reconcile to build their democratic future together.
Source:
www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/...
Libya: helping victims of conflict in Tripoli
George Comninos, ICRC’s head of delegation in Tripoli, explains the ICRC’s role during and after the battle for the capital. In the weeks ahead, the ICRC will strengthen its contacts with all authorities to make sure that international humanitarian law is respected everywhere. Its main focus will be the protection of those still at risk, in particular detainees.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_SRW98zWE&fea...
Libya Mohamed Ibrahim, Moussa Ibrahim’s brother, has been captured in Sirte with 15 others
Noit
I thought he was already in the hospital, heard that last week…..
POSITIVE LIBYA TWEETS:
People have first time conversations about #Libya with Libyans without mentioning #Gaddafi. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Libyans & other people around the world know many towns in #Libya that were unknown before #Feb17. #PositiveLibyaTweets
My mom will stop having the nightmare she’s been having for the last seven years (that #SaifGaddafi will rule #Libya) #PositiveLibyaTweets
Despite our differences, Libyan people were celebrating by waving US/UK/French flags #PositiveLibyaTweets
The Libyan people will get better roads/education/hospitals/opportunities inshallah after #feb17
All the squandered and stolen Libyan money can finally be used to re-build Libyan infrastructure #PositiveLibyaTweets
Most saif gaddafi might rule in the future is a kebab stand #PositiveLibyaTweets
All the political opportunists who have appeared in Libya have exposed themselves as such and will fail. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Thank you to Tunisia for letting Libyans protest in your beautiful country #PositiveLibyaTweets
PositiveLibyaTweets The country and it’s people will rise like the Phoenix out of the ashes of war and 42yrs oppression.
. Inshallah every town, city, village soon 100% #deGaddafinated
Did you guys think we cld have even been here a year ago? #democracy #PositiveLibyaTweets
While were planning our future on the ground, Gaddafi is hiding in some hole underneath us. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Libyans from all over the world came together to overthrow gadaffi & goons. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Libya must be the only place in the world where people were begging to be bombed.
#PositiveLibyaTweets
PositiveLibyaTweets #Libyans are friends for life and after #feb17 I’ll be able to visit them w/o police following on every step
Libyans started to think positively, which is one of many gr8 feb17 achievements. #PositiveLibyaTweets
No more embarrassment 4 #UN & World receiving #Gaddafi, finding an excuse not allowing 2 put up “The Tent” #PositiveLibyaTweets
The Libyan people are neither extremists or liberals they are just Libyans and that’s it #PositiveLibyaTweets
The Libyan people are neither extremists or liberals they are just Libyans and that’s it #PositiveLibyaTweets"
The Libyans I met would take the shirt off their back to help you. Incredibly kind #PositiveLibyaTweets
kudos to who ever started #PositiveLibyaTweets :)
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Al Badri, SG OPEP : Probable réduction de la production de pétrole de ses membres à mesure que la #Libye reviendra à ses niveaux d’avant
BREAKING: FFs have NOW entered #Sabha,, Allah Akbar!!!
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
You need to read this:
RFI fr. Afrique
Libye : où se cache Kadhafi ?
La France a fourni un véhicule ultra-sécurisé à Kadhafi, affirme Mediapart
Il s’agit d’un bijou de technologies de la marque Mercedes, aménagé par la société française Amesys, une filiale de Bull. Le véhicule tout terrain, blindé, est équipé d’un dispositif électronique de brouillage, qui permet de neutraliser toutes les fréquences radios dans un rayon de cent mètres, et donc de se protéger des engins explosifs télécommandés.
Le système permet de capter au total 2 000 menaces extérieures, et d’identifier les communications ennemies. Deux semaines de formation sont nécessaires aux utilisateurs de ce véhicule ultrasécurisé. Le coût est évidemment à la hauteur de la protection assurée : quatre millions d’euros.
Selon Mediapart, La vente a été appuyée en 2007 par le ministre de l’Intérieur de l’époque Nicolas Sarkozy. La livraison aurait été validée par l’Elysée en 2008. Et c’est finalement l’intermédiaire franco-libanais Ziad Takkieddine, inculpé entre autres dans une affaire liée aux attentats de Karachi au Pakistan qui aurait fourni l’engin à Tripoli
Ce véhicule d’exception n’était qu’une partie du programme haute-sécurité lancé par Mouammar Kadhafi. Le régime libyen avait signé un contrat de 26 millions d’euros, avec la même société Bull qui comprenait aussi la livraison d’équipements de cryptage des communications et d’espionnage d’internet.
TRANSLATION:
France provided a vehicle for ultra-secure Gaddafi said Mediapart
This is a jewel of technology of the Mercedes, built by the French company Amesys, a subsidiary of Bull. The all-terrain vehicle, armored, equipped with an electronic interference, which neutralises all radio frequencies within one hundred meters, and thus protect against explosive devices remotely.
The system captures a total of 2000 external threats, and identify enemy communications.Two weeks of training are needed to users of this ultra-secure vehicle. The cost is obviously equal to the protection provided four million.
According to Mediapart, the sale was supported in 2007 by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy at the time. The delivery was validated by the Elysée in 2008. And it is finally through Franco-Lebanese Ziad Takkieddine, charged among other things in a case linked to attacks in Karachi, Pakistan that would have provided the gear in Tripoli
This exceptional vehicle was only part of the program initiated by high security Muammar Gaddafi. The Libyan regime had signed a 26 million euros, with the same company Bull, which also included the delivery of encrypted communications equipment and intelligence of the Internet.
Read more in French:
www.rfi.fr/afrique/20110919-libye-cache...
Aahal News correspondent now: the rebels control the airport at Sabha and the ancient castle.
Massive military build-to rebels on its way to the Sirte www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcK15VMZ_A&fea...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcK15VMZ_A&fea...
FF entred sabha in control of the airport and Faris brigade, Sabha will be FREE today insha allah
Life in Tripoli
By NATO
Nice photo’s:)
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.26093...
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NATO airstrikes on Sirte as Libyan families flee the town
#Libya: civilians trapped inside Sirte say they have no electricity or supplies
Looks Like exciting stuff is going on in #Sebha !! :)
BREAKING: #Sebha airport has been Liberated!! Takbeer!!!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Back to School in Free Libya (photo album) facebook.com/media/set/?set… #Libya
Sarah LFFR
#AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #Sabha
Armchair Arab
Our brave FF have demonstrated a mythical heroism and bravery that will go down in history Inshallah!
liveTripoli
WE can influence the world, we can join the world, we can be part of this world.
Major General Suleiman Mahmoud said he was heading to Sirte to supervise operations and possible negotiations for its surrender.
Tweeting Tripoli
Sad news: Gaddafi thugs have executed 5 of Dr Daeki’s relatives inside BW just because their cousin (Ali) was seen on AJA negotiating.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya’s fractious new rulers enjoy honeymoon shabablibya.org/news/libyas-fr… #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
I wonder if the Amazighi language will come handy when studying ancient Libyan ruins in Akakos mountains and other places!
BREAKING: Heavy fighting inside Sebha NOW
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: latest video and reports news.sky.com/home/world-new…
NYT
Making Tyrants Do Time
Critics argue that the threat of prosecution leads dictators like Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya and Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan to entrench themselves in power rather than negotiate a transition to democracy. In El Salvador, where domestic courts have refused to extradite officers accused of murdering Jesuit priests 22 years ago, critics claim that such a prosecution would undermine stability and sovereignty.
But we do not know whether extraditions would destabilize El Salvador, or whether Sudan and Libya would have been better off than they are today if the I.C.C. had not indicted Mr. Bashir or Colonel Qaddafi.
Read full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/maki...
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UK Home Secretary: We must first be clear: the ideology of extremism and #terrorism is the problem; #Islam emphatically is not. #UNGA
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Reuters: Gaddafi spokesman says they have captured a Qatari “mercenary” reut.rs/o8wDo8 16 others also captured by Gaddafi forces
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UK Home Secretary: To defeat #terrorism, we must not only defeat terrorist organisations, we must also defeat terrorist ideology.
#UK Home Secretary: #ArabSpring has dealt a further blow to #AlQaida’s ideology & credibility. We must seize the historic opportunity. #UNGA
Tweeting Tripoli
Last week Dr Ali Daeki’s parents house was shelled as a punishment for taking part in the negotiation. His niece was injured.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Fight Is on to Regain the thousands of Businesses and Properties which Gaddafi confiscated in 70 and 80’s goo.gl/SOGde #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
We’re sorry Mr Kaim, but your master Gaddafi (gov you defended until Aug 20) did not build comfortable prisons. yfrog.com/nu29672042j
FB event calling for Rallies across Libya in support of Yemen & Syria FFs on Sat 23 Sep
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
baniwalid: brigades blame commanders, outsiders blame traitors, locals blame outsiders, one fighter blamed sandstorm for lack of progress
baniwalid: not much fighting, north checkpoint deserted in a.m., then anti-G forces came under sniper fire+minor shelling, now biz as usual
the famous bani walid lunch bus appears at 1.30 pm SHARP everyday on the frontline carrying tonnes of couscous. squat in the shade and eat
CONFIRMED: #FF have entered #Sabha from north. seems like southern #Libya is total liberated
befroggled Miss B
There are 1000’s of non-Libyans like me, who have lived the pain & joys of the past 7 months like it was our own
ReutersIndia Reuters India
FLASH: Forces of Libya’s interim government have captured part of Gaddafi-stronghold Sabha – NTC military spokesman
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Forces of Libya’s interim government have captured part of Qaddafi-stronghold Sabha
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
#CNT : Jibril à son poste, 34 ministres, probablemt 2 femmes. Encore des “divergences” sur la composition du gvt j.mp/pRd3LG #Libye
Nusaybah Khalil (KC)
Fierce battles taking place inside #Sabha – and there are loads of mercenaries around which makes things difficult.
AGI IT
NTC MINISTER, “20, 000 MARTYRS” IN THE REVOLUTION SO FAR
NTC Justice Minister Mohammed Al Alagi claims that so far 20,000 people have died in the Libyan revolution.
This is the NTC’s estimate of the ever-changing figure comprising the victims of the anti-Gaddafi movement. The NTC told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that, aside from the “martyrs”, just as many people have been injured. Mr Alagi guaranteed that “anyone who has committed a crime will face a fair trial in line with international law”. . .
Global post
Libya: Rebels scale back assaults (VIDEO)
Libya’s rebel fighters scaled back their attacks on the cities of Sirte and Bani Walid on Monday after taking heavy casualties during the weekend.
Medical staff took advantage of a relatively calm morning, moving the main field hospital from Hesha to the town of Bwerat, reducing the distance from the front line from 60 miles to 30 miles.
Arriving by car from Sirte late Sunday evening, chairman of the military council Ramadan Zalmore said his men concentrated on totally securing the outer city areas
but stepped back their offensive inside Sirte.
“You must keep in mind that fighting within any city is difficult,” he said. “There are many families trapped inside. They Gaddafi troops are firing from inside houses but we cannot attack them with the same weapons because of the families.”
Read more and watch video:
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/region...
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE: Spokesman Ghulaek #NTC #Misrata says Last Night 2 Helicopters Airlifted 20 Martyrs 31 Injured by Gaddafi men who fired RPG’s #Libya
#NTC Kenshil 2day: “SSIF al lslam was Seen in #BaniWalid this is 100 % certain as for his father he was there too; we are 70% sure,” #Libya
#NTC Kenshil: Those Fighting in #BaniWalid for Gaddafi’s brigades R “mercenaries from #Chad #Niger #Togo” according to dead bodies #Libya
#NTC Abdullah #Kenshil said Negotiations with Bani Walid are underway for the evacuation of about 50,000 civilians from the town #Libya
#NTC fighters in #Sirte believe #Mutassim #Gaddafi is Hiding in the Southern Outskirts of #SIRTE #Libya
#SIRTE #Radio Chatter of lieutenant by codename of AbuBakr Intercepted “Master Master… we will protect u as ordered by your father” #Libya
#Jibril on new interim government; Much was achieved 2deal out several portfolios Adding he expected consultations on rest 2b “over quickly”
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NTC spokesman says declaration on new government committee will be made on Thursday
LibyanoLibya Libyano Libya
#Sebha, areas freed; 1- airport, it is not ready for planes to land, #gedadfa destroyed it. 2- Castle near the airport 3- #Faris brigade
#Libya’s Islamists bide their time, build their strength theglobeandmail.com/news/world/lib… #Feb17
#Sebha is #DeGaddafinated ! via @sabha
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
From: National Transitional Council – Executive Office #libya #feb17 Date: 18th September 2011 Dear Misrata local… fb.me/TQcvrcJ5
FromJoanne Joanne
Gathafi war maestros orchestrate fierce battles in #BaniWalid goo.gl/161SF #Libya
#BREAKING YAY Col Bani; #NTC Fighters SEIZED airport and strategic Fort in #Sabha #PositiveLibyaTweets #Libya s FLAGS are flying Proudly !
Gaddafi spox
A spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday that 17 “mercenaries”, including what he called French and British “technical experts” had been captured in the
Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid in Libya.
“A group was captured in Bani Walid consisting of 17 mercenaries. They are technical experts and they include consultative officers,” Moussa Ibrahim told Syrian-based Arrai TV.
“Most of them are French, one of them is from an Asian country that has not been identified, two English people and one Qatari,” he added.
He said the 17 would be shown on television at a later time, but did not give more details.
It was not immediately possible to verify Ibrahim’s claims. The French foreign ministry said it had no information regarding the report.
NATO, French and British officials had on Saturday denied a report by Arrai TV that some NATO troops had been captured by Gaddafi loyalists.
Western special forces are known to have been in Libya and to have liaised with anti-Gaddafi officials during the conflict. Private security firms have also been helping anti-Gaddafi forces, according to Western media reports.
Via feb 17
Reuters
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries now recognises Libya’s National Transitional Council as its OPEC representative, the oil group’s Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri said on Monday.
The United Nations approved a Libyan request to accredit envoys of the country’s interim government as Tripoli’s sole representatives at the world body on Friday, effectively recognizing the NTC and paving the way for OPEC allow the NTC to represent the North African oil exporter.
“OPEC will recognise the NTC… and they will sit in the same chair,” Badri told the Gulf Intelligence energy forum in Dubai on Monday.
Libyan interim government forces were still battling the final bastions of loyalists of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi over the weekend a month after taking the capital Tripoli.
Turkey
A Turkish military cargo plane dropping humanitarian aid over the Libyan town of Bani Walid came under fire from the ground, the Turkish news agency Anatolia reported.
The incident happened when one of two Turkish C-130 transport planes parachuting aid to residents was fired on, the agency said, citing a journalist on the plane.
NTC
Promises by Libya’s National Transitional Council to announce a new government yesterday have been indefinitely postponed. Just one day after the United Nations recognized the NTC as Libya’s interim government, interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced that his proposals on the new cabinet did not receive full backing from council members.
France
France denied on Monday that it had mercenaries in Libya, after Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists said they had captured 17 foreigners — some British and French — in the fight for a town still held by the ousted leader’s followers.The claim by Gaddafi’s spokesman Moussa Ibrahim that foreign security personnel had been captured in the battle for the pro-Gaddafi bastion Bani Walid could not be verified and no immediate proof was presented.
Via feb17
Reuters
Fighters with Libya’s interim government have seized the airport and fort in Sabha, a redoubt deep in the Sahara desert from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, a government spokesman said on Monday. Ahmed Bani, a military spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTC), told a news conference in Tripoli the council’s forces captured the areas two hours earlier. “Our flags are flying there,” he said.He also denied an assertion by Gaddafi’s spokesman that his forces had captured British and French nationals in the fight for the town of Bani Walid. “There are no British or French prisoners” in the town, Bani said.
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera correspondent Hashem Ahelbarra reports that anti-Gaddafi forces have captured Sabha airport and taken control of the southern city’s Manshiya district
feb17libya Feb17Libya
NTC Military Commander Ahmed Bani: "Our flags are flying there,” -
Sabha
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#Misrata rebels on frontline of #sirt, high morale, sing for freedom. #Libya twitpic.com/6ng2js
Reuters
Libyans flee Sirte as fighters ready big guns
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Hundreds of families fled Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte on Monday as fighters sent by Libya’s new rulers to capture the city rolled up with huge rocket launchers and artillery guns.
More:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
Loyalistes de #Kadhafi prétendent avoir capturé des Anglais et des Français à Bani Walid en #Libye. Aucune preuve. Paris dément..Reuters
liveTripoli
Welcome to freedom #Sabha !! Glad you could join us:)
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
#FF move out, #Sirte and #BaniWalid to go!
AmbassadorRice Ambassador Rice
A warm welcome to Ian Martin, the SG’s new top envoy to #Libya. Will coordinate #UN support for transition to democracy, prosperity.
FromJoanne Joanne
#HUN a Town about halfway between #Sabha and #Med coast in #Sahara desert reported 2 b free youtube.com/watch?v=3yP1Qv… #Libya
#NTC spokesman claims anti-Gadhafi forces having difficulty entering Bani Walid because of mountainous terrain
#NTC offers to cover all treatment expenses for injured Libyan FF facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #libya #feb17 #libya
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Going on Alarabiya in one hour to discuss transitional gov’t., hot potato that got handed to me!! But I will
#Libya #Feb17: Heavy fighting reported inside #Sabha NOW, FF captured part of Gaddafi-stronghold Sabha – NTC spokesman goo.gl/fb/DOzG2
When r the people in the west going 2 wake up & start supporting the people in #Syria #Yemen and #Libya instead of supporting the dictator?
LIVE on AJE:
Sebha liberated in part as report show only ppl fighting for G are NOT Libyan!
Libyan4life
Wonder if Journalists ever get tired of covering #Libya.
FromJoanne Joanne
Head of #NTC Mustafa Abdul-Jalil + Mahmoud Jibril flew2 #NewYork 2 represent Libya at General Assembly & Abdul Jalil 2 meet #Obama #Libya
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Dr. Ali Tarhuni issues letter to Misrata local council asking them to organize all the needed care for injured & NTC will cover expenses
Dr. Ali Tarhuni was influenced by the #PositiveLibyaTweets!!
LibyaNewMedia
Many mercenaries already left behind familiy & friends (if they ever had them in the first place). They have no other life than fighting.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte #EXODUS Reuters reported that hundreds of families fled 2day as #NTC forces edge closer with rocket launchers + artilleryguns #Libya
#LIES of Mousa Ibrahim (G troops captured French/UK ppl in BW) #NTC Col Bani says “There r NO UK or #French prisoners” in #Bani Walid #Libya
#HUN a Town about halfway between #Sabha and #Med coast in #Sahara desert reported 2 b free youtube.com/watch?v=3yP1Qv… #Libya
Today: pro #NTC men raised a flag on a government building in #Hun Hun is now free #Libya
#Sebha central hospital is liberated and now controlled by the FF of sebha. via @sabha17feb
The hospitals in Libya are coping with high difficulty. Any #medical support form outside #Libya is welcome. Even transport of the wounded.
@Niz_FGM Niz
After coming to Tripoli on 21stFeb,to take part in the uprising,Im finally leaving,closing this chapter of my life&my role in the revolution
The free Generation Movement lives on, the people of Libya live on and my role in the development of this special country lives on…..
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Humanitarian crisis in Bani Walid. Gadafi fighters stealing food from stores & houses, storing it for them, leaving residents suffering.
Gadafi fighters firing at anyone who tries to join revolutionaries of Feb17 They are
killing civilians in the masses. #baniwalid #libya
Military Spokesman “Sabha, airport and citadel have been liberated at 3pm revolutionaries should liberate Sabha in the coming days.”
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
#PositiveLibyaTweets Many Facebook events urging people to clean streets&areas around #Libya facebook.com/event.php?eid=… Omar Mukhtar st #Tripoli
Libyan flag at the UN building today… yfrog.com/nw15roj
Tweeting Tripoli
Remember the devil smoke cloud of Sep11? OMG, it’s back in BW!!! yfrog.com/nvk55chj
Daniel
lol looks more like a pokemon!
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
#Gaddafi is still not found and #NTC does not know where he is? Do you know? #Libya twitpic.com/6nh03u
bencnn benwedeman
Hearing fighters from Jado have taken an airbase, a military instillation and a govt bldg outskirts of Sabha #Libya
In Birak Al-Shati today met many people who still support Muammar Qadhafi. Don’t trust revolutionary fighters, fear their motives.
liveTripoli
Never thought I’d enjoy messages from the Government. This last one was about suppressing gunfire.
Others have been encouraging people back to work and life
Souffian Tripoli
#Doctors in #Libya asking their colleagues abroad for support in making their #hospitals available for sevearly wounded patients.
Danya
IMPORTANT:
Here is the list of proposed ministers for the NTC Executive Office which is still to be ratified so not yet approved --
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mahmoud Jibril
Deputy Prime Minister of Financial and Economic Affairs
Ali Al-Tarhouni
Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development
Tarek Mohammed Yusef
Deputy Prime Minister of Services and Production
Mohammed Khalid el-Ghuel
First choice for Minister of Defence
Osama Al-Jowaily
Minister of the Interior
Ameed Mohammed Al-Sheikh
Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Government Spokesman
Mahmoud Shammam
Minister of Finance
Hasan Zaqlam
Minister of International Co-operation
Mohammed Abdul Azziz
Minister of Investment and Sovereign Funds
Ahmed Ateeqa
Minister of Economy and Business
Abdullah Shamiya
Minister of Trade
Khalid Kawan
Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises
Fawzi Amar
Minister of Oil
Abdulrahman bin Yazzie
Minister of Environment
Belkasim Al-Namr
Minister of Water Resources
Abdulkadir Alrabatti
Minister for Families of Martyrs and Other Victims
Abdul Rahman Sabika
Minister of Women’s Affairs and Children
Najiya Al-Sayyid
Minister of Youth and Sports
Solomon Duzan
Minister of Social Affairs
Mufeeda Al-Zakowzy
Minister of Education
Suleiman Al-Sahli
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Idris Hafeedtha
Minister of Labour
Faraj Al-Sayeh
Minister of Civil Service
Noureddine Al-Salafi
Minister of Justice
Abdul Fatah
Minister of Health
Ismail Sayala
Minister of Municipalities
Ali Zaydan
Minister of Public Works
Ibrahim Al-Sagutri
Minister of Electricity
Awad Barasa
Minister of Communications and Information
Anwar Faytouri
Minister of Transport and Communications
Abdulraheem Al-Keeb
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities
Ikram Al-Pasha
Minister of food Security
Suleiman Bofriya
Minister of Industry and Mining
Eltihami Jaballah
Libyan4life
NOT impressed by the proposed list of ministers for NTC. With ALL do respect, its a bunch old men. Just have to remember its only interim.
2011feb17 :
don’t underestimate the ministry for cooking!!! Can you survive without food? NO.
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: news.sky.com/home/world-new…
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte #Half of residents already left
NTC fighters cant return fire as much as they want bc of residents presence they need2go
22 Septembre, Libya: Jedidah Prison holding 300 Malians, 40 ‘disappeared’
Maliweb
Libye : Prison de Jedidah : 300 Maliens dans les geôles du CNT, 40 portés disparus
L’information nous a été donnée par certains ressortissants maliens, rapatriés de Libye, il y a quelques jours : “Nous avons laissé derrière nous plusieurs Maliens, de toutes les ethnies, dans la prison de Jedidah, l’une des plus terribles en Libye. Pendant notre fuite, on nous a dit qu’il y avait des gens qui ont disparu”.
Contacté par nos soins, dans l’après-midi du vendredi 16 septembre, un diplomate basé dans un pays arabe et qui requiert l’anonymat, a confirmé les faits. Selon lui, ce sont environ 300 Maliens qui croupissent dans la prison de Jedidah, en Libye et on dénombre 40 personnes disparues. Le diplomate de souligner que “toutes ces informations ont été transmises aux ministères des Affaires Etrangères et à celui des Maliens de l’Extérieur”. Pour le moment, c’est silence radio du côté de Bamako. Comme à l’accoutumée. C’est à l’international que des voix s’élèvent pour dénoncer les exactions commises par le Conseil national de transition.
C’est ainsi que l’un des membres de l’association Défense-Etrangers en Libye, avec qui nous avons échangé au téléphone, affirme, lui aussi, qu’environ 600 personnes, surtout des maliens et nigériens, sont détenues et “torturées” par les nouvelles autorités libyennes. "Sur la base d’informations fiables, environ 300 étrangers, essentiellement des Touareg du Mali, croupissent actuellement dans les prisons
libyennes. Ils sont persécutés par les forces de sécurité du nouveau régime" du Conseil national de transition (CNT), selon un communiqué de l’association, publié sur un site Internet.
“Certains disent qu’ils ont été tués et enterrés dans une fosse commune. Il faut que les gouvernements de leurs pays d’origine réagissent enfin, et que le CNT donne sa version des faits”, poursuit-elle.
Selon l’association, les témoignages ont été recueillis auprès de contacts sur place qui se cachent et craignent pour leur vie, ou bien de détenus qui soudoient des geôliers pour pouvoir communiquer avec l’extérieur. Ils ont affirmé avoir saisi les autorités maliennes et sollicité une rencontre pour leur “expliquer la situation et demander les mesures prises pour réclamer la libération des étrangers emprisonnés en Libye”.
Il faut reconnaître que de tout temps, les Africains au Sud du Sahara, et les noirs en général, connaissent une vie très difficile en Libye. Au temps de Kadhafi, cette main-d’œuvre bon marché était l’objet de discrimination et d’exactions de toutes sortes.
Ils étaient dépossédés de leurs biens tous les jours, sans compter le grand nombre qui était jeté en prison sans jugement. Certains y perdaient la vie.
Avec la guerre contre le régime Kadhafiste, la situation des sud sahariens a été encore pire. Tout noir est confondu aux mercenaires de Kadhafi et est livré à une torture impitoyable s’il n’est pas tout de suite abattu. Ceux qui ont regagné le Niger, le Mali ou le Burkina Faso savent à quel prix ils ont pu sauver leur tête.
Aujourd’hui, dans les zones conquises par le CNT, nous confie le diplomate que nous avons contacté, aucune juridiction véritable n’existe pour le moment.
Le pays est donc livré aux nouveaux maîtres. Espérons que, dans un proche avenir, nos autorités compétentes sortiront nos compatriotes dans cette situation qui n’a que trop duré.
bencnn benwedeman
In Birak Al-Shati see very few pre-Qadhafi flags, still some green flags flying. #Libya
One man in Birak Al-Shati said “we know Qadhafi’s regime is finished, but Muammar will stay in our hearts.” #Libya
Armchair Arab
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@bencnn I’m sure much of this is to do with gaddafi smear campaign against NTC.
ayrshireblog:
What will pro-Gaddafi tweeters do for cash once Gaddafi can’t pay? I hear N Korea pays propagandists well
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Chaos undermines Libyan forces’ advance into Bani Walid bit.ly/p8trQT #libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE #NTC FF Move in city each day&Retreat @night bc Gaddafi men cut power Giving them advantage of knowing the way in their city #Libya
WARNING: trolls RT fake-news 2 discredit FFs & reporters: latest ex: AJEs Sue Turton = fake-acc @sueturtenaje #Libya #Feb17 #Fake
Ali Tweel
All for freedom, freedom for all..??
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte Gaddafi forces surrounded Misrata amilies living in Sirte Gadafi Men kidnapped and Killed 5 boys of the families #Libya
The Weekly Standard
After Jihad
In Sabratha, a former prisoner reflects
Sabratha, Libya—“Girls were going to school under the Taliban! I know, because I was living in Kabul in 1999.” Youssef, 45, is as insistent on this untruth as this cheerful, equable man gets. A barrel-chested Libyan who spent ten years in Afghanistan under unclear circumstances, followed by eleven years in Qaddafi’s notorious Abu Saleem prison, he was released on February 16 and hasn’t strayed far from his modest Sabratha home since. He seems happy and relaxed, and invites me to stay with his family, even after I make it clear that I hate the Taliban. He is part of another side of Sabratha, a seaside town of about 50,000 where I spent five days in August.
Read more here:
www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/after-jiha...
liveTripoli
I am liking the weather windy and cool here tonight in #Tripoli. With some occasional #Takbir #Libya
Just like any other shaboob (youth) I asked my friend who do u want 2 marry & he said: “1 from #Misrata, #Benghazi the Jabal and #Zawiya”
Maybe it needs to be made clear. It’s not about marrying 4 women, rather how significant these places are to him. So relax ladies. Ok?
IL Malayeen fil Maydan The Millions are in the square www.flickr.com/photos/live2tripoli/6163... #Tripoli #Libya #MartyrSquare
More photos soon, When ever inspiration is here. Its always good to have you :) Come along anytime you want.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
los negocios de Tony Blair con Gadafi tgr.ph/nCJAFY
very long day in the front in #Sirte we were inside the farm located before the famous Ouagadougou hall 1 km from there #Libya
launching mortars and rockets Gaddafi forces fighting back with snipers and some Grads Ouagadougou is now one of the keys of the city #Libya
zubair algadi, spokesman for Misrata Military Council: “We are sure that Moatassem Gaddafi is leading the defense of #Sirte” #Libya
fighters loyal to NTC follow day by day the same tactic they retreat at night and come back in the morning #Sirte #Libya
today big number of civilians leaving #Sirte NTC fighter: “we want the civilians out so we can fights against Gaddafi’s dogs” #Libya
I found Omran, my friend and ex fixer in Misrata during the battles there, now he is a commander in 1 group “Tigers of Misrata” #Libya
NTC commanders admit the battle of #Sirte will take days “we can demolish the city but it will be a bloodshed we don’t want that” #Libya
photo 1 NTC fighter in the front line of #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/nv5h2hnj
photo media covering #Sirte #libya yfrog.com/kkijiohj
IamLibya:
gentlemen at Starbucks saw my Libyan pin. Instead of referring 2 gaddafi, he asked which city I was from.
Our temp president Jalilo (left)… yfrog.com/j2d1vyjj
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
No more “Libyan Arab Jamahiriya”…the UN agrees: "The name of the Member State should read “Libya” both in the official and short version."
ProudLibyan
Beautiful, just beautiful. I always wished Libya will just be called Libya, no stupid tags to it.
FromJoanne Joanne
Mousa Ibrahim Gaddafi CLAIMS via ArraiTV that Gaddafi thugs captured 17Foreigners in #BaniWalid 1 Asian 2 English 1Qatari rest French #Libya
This is No #Joke Here is the Top-Secret car a 4MillionEuro 4×4 #Mercedes bought 2007 in which #Gaddafi escaped goo.gl/G9fd0 #Libya
#FLASH #Turkish Airlines announced that Mitiga #Tripoli Airport will re OPEN on Wednesday
#Flash #Turkish Airlines website announces: Flights to #Tripoli from #Istanbul As from Wednesday 4flights a week on Tues Wed Sat Sun #Libya
#Turkish Airlines report that #Tripoli #Airport to reopen on Wednesday #Libya #Malta goo.gl/zrRa7
CNN
Newly liberated in Libya
CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports on newly liberated Libyan towns in the south.
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
Telegraph
Tony Blair ‘visited Libya to lobby for JP Morgan’
Tony Blair used visits to Libya after he left office to lobby for business for the American investment bank JP Morgan, The Daily Telegraph has been told.
A senior executive with the Libyan Investment Authority, the $70 billion fund used to invest the country’s oil money abroad, said Mr Blair was one of three prominent western businessmen who regularly dealt with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the former leader.
Saif al-Islam and his close aides oversaw the activities of the fund, and often directed its officials on where they should make its investments, he said.
The executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, said officials were told the “ideas” they were ordered to pursue came from Mr Blair as well as one other British businessman and a former American diplomat.
“Tony Blair’s visits were purely lobby visits for banking deals with JP Morgan,” he said.
Read full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-...
bencnn benwedeman
Met 2 North Korean doctors working at hospital in Birak Al-Shati. They all wore pins of Kim Jong Il, and one called him “Pappa”. #Libya
North Korean doctors were on government contract, ordered by #Pyongyang to stay in #Libya after Egyptian, Pakistani doctors fled. #korea
Tom
Haraket Shabab al Asema-Tripoli’s Capitol Youth Movement- hard at work today gathering medial supplies to send to Misrata #Libya
USA today
Libyan fighters take airport near pro-Gadhafi city
Facing little resistance, revolutionary fighters captured the airport and other locations in a southern desert city that is considered one of the last remaining strongholds of Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, fighters said.
The capture of Sabha would be a major victory for Libya’s new rulers, who have struggled to rout forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi a month after sweeping into Tripoli and forcing the ousted leader into hiding.
Read more:
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-...
Sirtawi
95% of residents in Zafaran area (#2) and #1 have fled their houses towards Sawawa away from battlefield. Many houses destroyed
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Hopes for an inclusive political vision after 42 years of depotism. What are your thoughts-Everyone should have a voice goo.gl/JglPJ
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: The United Nations says it has chosen British diplomat and human rights activist Ian Martin to head its new mission in Libya.
About the list:
Am quoting NTC spokesman in Tripoli; the decision was originally to be made Sun, then delayed to Mon, now again till Thurs
Libyan4life
Reading lots of headlines of Libyans being unhappy with NTC or their prospective ministers. This is natural,5million ppl want representation
Souffian Tripoli
Just got a call from #Libya problem regarding #sirt and BW is that gaddafi forces are among civilians and shooting for Fam. Homes. 1Of2
2of2 FF don’t want to harm the civilians that are used a human shields by gaddafi sniper. That’s why it’s taking time to liberate BW &sirt
septimius_sever septimius severus
fro.gy/1eaau “Car in #benghazi courthouse with pics of #Feb17 events yfrog.com/ketzmkrj yfrog.com/nu4ovsj” #Libya
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
From Benghazi to Nafousa, Tripoli to Zawiya, Misrata to Zintan,our FFs died for eachother,& became true Libyan brothers
AFP:
#NTC Forces have advanced in #Sirte, clearing roads for fleeing civilians as they sought 1 of the ousted strongman’s sons
Link for UN changing our Country’s name back to #Libya en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_...
FromJoanne
Libyan #Literature” coming out from the dark years Here u will find Names of #Authors and titles of #Books 2read goo.gl/JjyhV #Libya
How 1man survived yrs mistreatment by #Gaddafi Beasts: “Prison Tales” #Imtidad #Blog bit.ly/ngKkw8 #Literature OmarAbulqasem alKikli
bencnn benwedeman
NATO planes flying over Sabha this night. Too far to hear if they are bombing. #Libya
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 20th 2011
9/20/11
9.20.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/4ScdN
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Photo Album: Children of the #Libyan revolution. Beautiful! goo.gl/KEQZr #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Libya
The flag of #Libya flies outside United Nations headquarters September 19, 2011 in New York. Beautiful sight! goo.gl/cBcVX #feb17
Read Moussa Ibrahim’s wifes blog…pretending to be an “Independent Western Jounalist”!!! bit.ly/oODh7L #Libya
or:
www.haderza.blogspot.com
Tripolitano
#mutasim #Gaddafi used 2 b in my class from yr 7 to 11. If I had known that he will grow up 2 become a butcher. I wld hv strangled da beast
LIBTRIP
I didn’t know that #Mohammed Ismail, is a Libyan with #British nationality, but I think that his wife is still in the #UK. #Libya
Ali Tweel
During the siege of #Tripoli, my #iPhone was a great tool 2 locate ammunition depositories & then email the coordinates 2 #TNC using #sat
Free Libya
#TheAwkwardMoment you are slagging the new NTC list when talking to your friend without realising her dad is on it. Oh dear #Libya
CNN
NTC claims humanitarian disaster in Gadhafi stronghold
Col. Ahmed Bani told reporters that Gadhafi forces are robbing food stores, leaving civilian residents to starve. He also charged that Gadhafi loyalists are shooting everyone trying to join the revolution, including men, women and children. “They are carrying out mass killings,” Bani said.
“This proves they are trying to destroy the town before it is liberated,” he added, calling the Gadhafi forces “criminals” and “killers.”
Asked by CNN why, if there is such a humanitarian disaster, NTC forces do not immediately enter the city, the colonel said the problem is “geography.” There are tactics the forces must follow to reduce casualties, he said.
Read more and watch video:
www.cnn.com/2011/09/19/world/africa/lib...
BBC
Aid teams are struggling to reach Sirte due to fighting
Humanitarian teams say they are struggling to gain access to the Libyan city of Sirte.
Forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi are fiercely defending his home town.
Ongoing fighting means no food, medical supplies or power are getting through and
the International Red Cross’ Souad Messaoudi, who is in Tripoli, told Radio 5 live’s Victoria Derbyshire that they are worried about the conditions in the town.
Audio:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14974840
septimius_sever septimius severus
Libyan doctors living abroad set up a volunteer project 2 provide free specialists clinics, any doctor can help: goo.gl/Rcc45 #Libya
Aljazeera
NTC fighters capture parts of Libya’s Sabha
Fighters make major advances in southern city of Sabha, as NTC says “human tragedy” is unfolding in beseiged Bani Walid.
Tens of thousands of civilians trapped in areas still held by the forces of Muammar Gaddafi are in increasing danger from heavy fighting and siege-like shortages of food, water and medical care, Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) has said.
“They have stolen all supplies from the residents of the town and they are shooting everyone who is showing support for the revolutionaries. They show no mercy, not even for woman and children,” Bani said.
Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Tripoli, said NTC fighters in Sabha, located 770km south of the capital, were “confident that in a matter of hours they would control the centre of the city”.
“In the punch into Sabha, the anti-Gaddafi forces targeted strategic areas, including the airport, which is some 10km from the city centre,” said Ahelbarra.
“Gaddafi loyalists have been using similar tactics as in Sirte and Bani Walid. They have taken up positions in urban areas and are using snipers in the very centre of the city to repel the forces.”
Al Jazeera’s David Poort, reporting from Tripoli, said that the NTC had said that its
army had not yet taken Bani Walid because of concern for civilians, difficult terrain and disagreements over battle tactics.
“There are certain tactics and procedures we need to follow to take this town. But Bani Walid is completely surrounded. We are also focussed on saving lives, especially civilians,” Bani said.
“Sources tell us that many people in Bani Walid do not know what is going on in the rest of Libya. It is surprising how well Gaddafi’s forces managed to cut communications with the outside world.”
More here:
goo.gl/phUi7
4Adam Adam
(Reuters) – NTC Fighters seized the airport and fort in Sabha, a redoubt deep in the Sahara desert from G forces, govt spox said
Armchair Arab
There really shouldn’t be any such thing as a ministry of information. It’s a backwards concept.
4Adam Adam
#Benghazi – Five sons was the price Zeinab paid for her family’s fight against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi kansascity.com/2011/09/19/315… #Libya
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
loyalist forces targeted field hospital 5:30pm, radio chatter was reported, girad rockets rained down, hospital was evacuated #sirte
confirmed #sirte resident that loyalist forces used garden in back of his house to launch girad rockets at rebels
Sirtawi
Ahmed Bani (Spox NTC Min of Def) says #FFs are about to have #Sirte under their full control, fighting is mainly in the city’s main street.
We’ve received a list of civilian casualties in #Sirte. It’s hard 4 sources to make sure due to difficulty in movement inside the city.
haynesdeborah Deborah Haynes
What happened to Moussa Ibrahim’s wife and son? I interviewed Julia Ramelow last month before Tripoli fell: (£) thetim.es/pRNSAw #libya
Tarek
we don’t know yet but we think she’s with him, he’s believed to be in #Bani waled.
LibyaNewMedia
Result of nearly 10 days of fighting after Gaddafi refusal to surrender: Slow progress at Sirte & Sabha. No progress in Bani Waleed. #Libya
Many civilians have fled from Sirte towards Misrata in past few days. Difficult conditions for all as Misrata already has so many problems
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
Saif Gaddafi reportedly spotted in Bani Walid according to NTC. bit.ly/pxWfnN via @guardian #Libya
MUSTARD GAS:
DER TAGESSPIEGEL
Libyens Senfgasbestände in Händen der Rebellen
Mit dem Umbruch in Libyen scheint sich nun eine große Sorge des Westens erledigt zu haben. Das vom Gaddafi-Regime vorrätig gehaltene Giftgas befindet sich nach Informationen des Tagesspiegels jetzt in der Hand der Rebellen. Die Aufständischen hätten die Bestände an Senfgas „unter ihrer Bewachung“, hieß es in internationalen Sicherheitskreisen. Noch Ende August hatten die Experten berichtet, Einheiten des gestürzten Machthabers Muammar al Gaddafi seien weiterhin im Besitz der chemischen Kampfstoffe.
Die Übernahme durch die Rebellen sei durch Satellitenaufnahmen belegt, war in den internationalen Sicherheitskreisen zu hören.
Read more here:
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/libyens-sen...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
A Man of God and Technology, Trying to Steady Libya is.gd/QZLl7L
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Just landed in Doha invited by Aljazeera hope to be a studio guest with them for coming 4 days. Also a chance to say big thank u to Qatar!
jessradio Jess Hill
Misrata Military Council reporting an exodus from Sirte towards Misrata, where the city has apparently agreed to accept & provide for them.
Abdallah
#Gaddafi loyalists shelled the living daylight out of Manshiyya INDISCRIMINATELY. Lots of martyrs. #Sabha bleeds torrentially
Who would have thought it, just a few months ago? :)))))
goo.gl/cBcVX #feb17
Haytham
We need to remember that what made us strong during the revolution was unity. Why are we still talking about #Benghazi #Tripoli #Misrata?
Egypt & Tunisia didn’t talk about which city they were from. They stood together & toppled their tyrants. We did the same #Libya
Now that #Gaddafi has been removed from power why allow ourselves to degenerate into the very tribalism that he accused us off? #Libya
Gaddafi brutalised the whole country but if we stand together we can rebuild it. We have enough resources for everyone #Libya #feb17
Now is not the time for politics or for one city to make demands for certain positions within the #NTC Transition requires unity. #Libya
The transitional government is to stand for 8 months. It’s mandate is to lay the foundations for the country that we want. #Libya
After those foundations have been laid then if we choose to we can argue politics. For the 1st time in 42 years Libyans stood together…
..and look what we achieved. Can the politics not wait for another 8 months? #Libya
In my opinion the transitional government should consist of those who are best suited to the job. I don’t care where they are from
Let us not devalue the blood of those who died to give us this chance to have the
country that we want #Libya
Just some thoughts having spoken to some people here.
Most Libyans that I have spoken to would just like the chance to work & a future for their children
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
NTC fighters ‘punch’ into Sabha aje.me/qGDR5t
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Flying Proudly: the Libyan Revolutionary Flag at the United Nations – #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/U4xgoyNF
BenghaziChron R.B
by LY_NeverForget
Feel like I can actually play a part in my country’s future, and on so many levels #PositiveLibyaTweets
Actually feel proud of saying I’m Libyan, instead of mentally preparing to the “Ah Gaddafi”+chuckle reaction
4Adam Adam
What happened to El-Khweldi Hamedi, Az Zawiya’s slaughterer. Tunisian court says he is a free man! Did he really get away with it?!!! #Libya
Abdallah
Speaking of which, Zintans are actively involved in the Liberation of #Sabha. The Tubus from the South as well
Aljazeera
Gaddafi forces resist NTC push for Sirte
Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters are regrouping for another push towards Sirte, the birthplace of toppled leader Muammar Gaddafi.
On Monday night battles raged around Sirte, as NTC fighters and Gaddafi forces traded gunfire and rockets.
An NTC commander on Tuesday told Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid that they had reached the eastern gate of Sirte on Monday evening, but had to pull back after intense clashes with Gaddafi loyalists.
“They NTC fighters say they are hoping to keep the momentum, over the past few days, they have advanced a good 40km towards Sirte but the closer they get, the tougher it gets,” she said.
Read more and watch video:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
liveTripoli
We Mustn’t forget our brothers and sisters in #Yemen and #Syria. Let’s go you two, If #Libans did it so will you!
bencnn benwedeman
Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quotes residents of the Manshiya district of Sabha as having Muammar Qadhafi there two days ago. #Libya
Favourite refrain among NTC fighters: “jayinak jayinak ya Bu Shafshoufa” – we’re coming for you, messy hair" Bu Shafshoufa=Muammar Qadhafi
Photo: old Italian fort from 1930s, Birak al-Shati, #Libya. Turned into police station, ransacked a few days ago. yfrog.com/nz1dgzaj
Injured NTC fighters says 2 killed, 4 wounded overnight in clashes around Sabha airport, which is south of the city. #Libya
Randon info: some scholars believe name “Fazzan”, the area where Sabha located derives from the Latin “phasianus”, pheasants.
Photo: the road to #Sabha. #Libya yfrog.com/nx4h9wzj
NTC field commanders dubious re claims Muammar Qadhafi in Sabha, confident Intel chief Abdallah Sanousi and Muatassim Q.r there. #Libya
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
the noose is thightening. #NTC fighters surround #Sirte from South, West and East. #Gaddafi loyalists resisting show level of organisation.
Sirtawi
INCREDIBLE!
Five cousins (teenagers) lived in the desert with cattle ever since #Feb17!!
youtube.com/watch?v=2zUEjH…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zUEjHlYdFg&fea...
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
NTC commanders admit the battle of #Sirte will take days “we can demolish the city but it will be a bloodshed we don’t want”
#Gaddafi Intelligence General Al-Abaaj Belgacem captured between #Sabha & #UmmAlaraneb
#Niger Opposition Demands Government Explain Recognition of #Libya’s #Freedomfighters voanews.com/english/news/a… #Feb17
Russian companies return to Libya: cautious optimism
The Russian Energy Ministry has started developing initiatives for the restoration of the cooperation with Libya in the oil and gas fields, the ministry’s Director of the International Cooperation Department Alexey Sukhov reports.
New initiatives will be prepared in the next few weeks and then submitted to the leadership of the country. Meanwhile, the process of Russian companies’ return to Libya has already begun. It is known that Gazprom and the Italian ENI have signed an agreement confirming that the Russian gas giant has bought half ENI’s share in the Libyan Elephant project. Libya possesses considerable prospected deposits of sources of energy, first of all oil and gas. Russian companies have work experience in that North African country, Alexey Sukhov points out.
More:
english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/19/56383809.html
FACTBOX –
NTC Forces target Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte
is.gd/u3XTLY #Libya
New Libya replaces Gaddafi’s tent at UN
shabablibya.org/news/new-libya-replaces... #Libya
Libyan NTC forces have captured the airport and other areas of the southern city of Sabha is.gd/gT6v7X #Libya
Anti-Gaddafi forces seize key Libya airport is.gd/TNX37q #Libya #Sebha
cnnjill Jill Dougherty
Gadhafi audio message: “It is either the people’s power or death.This is what the Libyans are saying and they are dying for people’s power.”
Tweeting Tripoli
BaniWalid Contact: Most families have now have fled BW from Mizda-Gharyan front-line. Traped families inside have no petrol.
libyanandproud
Ministry of Information in #libya has been abolished by the #NTC . #feb17 #libya
Suzanne
#Libya has challenged my political ideas; 1st time US/UK have positively contributed to justice &democracy. Amazing. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Tweeting Tripoli
IN MY OPINION, THE ONLY ONE GUARANTEE LIBYANS NEED IS STICKING WITH THE 4 YEARS TERM LIMIT FOR ANY GIVEN FUTURE GOVERNMENT.
#LIBYANCONSTITUTION… 4 YEARS PRESIDENCY/PM LIMIT IS AN IMPORTANT INSURANCE POLICY TO PREVENT GADDAFINIZATION OF FUTURE POLITICIANS…
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Documents proving that Gaddafi order the execution of Adam Alhawaz & others, source @AlaanTV youtu.be/ewO5SDUmLaM
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Libya doctor Naser Sarraj, 47 who was imprisoned at #Abu_Salim is now receiving medical treatment in #Malta hospital
Tweeting Tripoli
Lived the whole 7 mths in Tripoli and you won’t believe how helpless you feel when Armed G-Thugs were patrolling the streets.
‘Welcome to Sirte. I hope you don’t die here.’ – what a Libyan guard said to an @AFP team: bit.ly/pfWGJ7 (from @tabascokid)
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
NTC commander says deadlock over Qaddafi’s last bastions to end Tuesday goo.gl/PcJQ9
Tweeting Tripoli
Another vid from Hanibals the Canibals. Is that the tourtured poor maid in the vid?: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnyVgI9w50I&fea...
The attchd statement explains a lot. People in BW are not with G. They are being terrorized by him. www.freeulema.org/press_releases/BaniWa...
Aljazeera
Relief for family as they escape Bani Walid
The Libyan town of Bani Walid is still under the control of Gaddafi loyalists as fighters from National Transitional Council surround it on all sides.
One family escaped from the town after Gaddafi troops entered the town after the fall of Tripoli.
Al Jazeera’s Anita Mcnaught caught up with them in Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqYXKtwurD0
AP The Associated Press
Two Filipino maids flee #Gadhafi’s relative;
Philippine Embassy evacuates pair to #Tunisia.
apne.ws/otbG3D -MM
Noha Abd El Raouf
For God Sake make a Campaign/Rally/Protest to stop the celebratory gunfire in #Libya many people died already!
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Part of Jalil’s visit to Malta included an agreement to have #Malta host & treat 20 to 30 of Libya;s most critically injured fighters
These freedom fighters gave their lives, limbs, blood and everything for Libya. I hope that the #NTC can do more for them
We are doing our best here in Malta (and other cities abroad) to host and treat as many Libyan FF as possible. God bless
if anyone has plans to re-colonize Libya then they will be treated the same way Gaddafi & italians were
We have shown our bravery and determination. The only people fit to rule this country are Libyans and that’s that.
We are open to the world and we respect the people that helped us but I’ll be damned if anyone tries to take advantage of us
In Misrata alone: There are over 500 people that lost limbs during this war (many of them recently) and over 1500 injured FF.
Tunisian and Egyptian hospitals are already full of Libyan war casualties. So are Jordanian, Qatari & UAE hospitals.
It’s not easy to accommodate and properly treat every casualty but all of us abroad will do our absolute best.
We need the NTC to bring more attention to Libyan patients abroad. It’s the NTC’s job to care for and to help these people
We won’t settle for anything less than what we fought for. We didn’t lose over 50000 people to have someone dictate our future for us
We wanted a democracy & a country where everyone is free to have his opinion without fear and that’s exactly what we’re going to get. #libya
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=211362548927343 Show your support for the injured #FF. #libya #feb17
‘Every night on Misrata’s main square there are games, skits plays and music, all to entertain the children’
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Mis... #Libya
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#Gadhafi speaks again on TV via audio message.. Now that’s dedication #libya
Gaddafi audio message “Blah blah blah blah BLAH BLAH blah blah blah”
hazem
Well, the Syrian gov TV still claims that Tripoli did not fall and Qaddafi still in charge! #Libya #Syria #Assad
wheelertweets James Wheeler
A friend from Qalaa invited me today. He said the congress will call for recognition of the Tamazight language in the constitution
B4 anyone says ‘now is not the time, it’s premature’.. This is many years overdue. This is the kind of freedom #feb17 is all about
as long as people are voicing their views peacefully its always the right time
Reuters article has some provocative language. Right to the very end. "political infighting reveals fractures..
“..alliance united in civil war by hatred of #Gaddafi remains split among pro-Western liberals, underground..
“..Islamist guerrillas, and defectors from #Gaddafi’s government.”
Last sentence in that article: "NTC has its roots in #Libya’s east, but most of the militiamen who finally succeeded in..
“..driving #Gaddafi out of #Tripoli are from towns in the west.” Article’s focus was infighting, not #Sabha.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
ICRC: Humanitarian situation in Bani Walid & Sirte is deteriorating-we have not entered yet. Surgical & medical supplies ready in Misrata
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Libya will take centre stage at the United Nations this afternoon
grafixel guess what
don’t appreciate the title ‘After Siege, Misrata Shuts Door on Returns’ on.wsj.com/rskzS7 #Libya
AdiKhair Adi G. Khair
Had a couple of meetings w/ civil society reps. in #Benghazi. #Youth r empowered and seems that their role in new #Libya will be signifcant
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya’s National Transitional Council: ‘Our flags are waving in Sabha’ – video is.gd/HpXfpn #Libya #Sebha
New Gaddafi message: ‘What’s happening in Libya is a charade’ shabablibya.org/news/new-gaddafi-messag... #Libya
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
yesterday met again the 4 girlfriends – 3 anti & 1 pro – they were giggling & joking together eventhough each firm on her position.#Libya
2/3 – 3 anti because: 1 unemployed since graduating,1 relative was killed in Abu Selim,1 did not say why
3/3- 1 pro G cuz: she grew up with him, he did wrong but libyans need a strong man to stay in check,NATO bombings & her fiance staunch supp.
FreeBenghazi
Report on developments in #Sirte (Sept19) with English subtitles. #Libya v @freedomgrouptv youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ym3x…
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
4 those that sup G regardless of G not harming u personaly have u not seen what he did 2 Benghazi, Musrata, Jbel, Zwara, Zawia, etc? #Libya
Mike
What happened to Gaddafi’s modest lifestyle in a tent. $5.5 million Mercedes
LIBTRIP
#NTC estimates that reconstruction could cost #Libya about $200bn over the next decade as the country rebuilds its infrastructure.
Via Feb 17
Reuters
Libya “mercenary” claim turns spotlight on special ops
A boast by Gaddafi loyalists that they had captured 17 foreign mercenaries this week has been greeted with scepticism, but the claim has highlighted the importance of covert military operations in the overthrow of the Libyan leader.
Gaddafi’s spokesman Moussa Ibrahim has so far not made good on his promise to put the group on television and he has produced no other evidence to back his story, which was quickly denied in Western capitals.
“The lack of evidence is for the moment what I find most remarkable about the whole story. Where are the boots, where are the watches, not to mention the faces?” said Francis Heisbourg, chairman of the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/libya-mercenary-claim-t...
Mike
Hope that the TNC secures or destroys all useful military assets in Libya so they don’t fall into undesirable, including G loyalist’s hands.
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Most Gaddafi fighters in Bani Walid are not locals but came from Tripoli & other cities & towns. #Libya #Gaddafi
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Muammar Gaddafi has given another audio message to Syrian TV says ‘the bombs of NATO planes will not last’ #Libya
Gaddafi “political system in #Libya is a system based on the power of the people … and it is impossible that this system be removed,”
A documentary on the AbuSleem massacure on.fb.me/q9tLaR #LIBYA via @AJArabic @AJEnglish
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
There are so many different fronts & different revolutionary brigades that it’s hard to find total numbers on nr. of killed & wounded #Libya
Mussa Ibrahim’s leftist and environmentalist wife: thetim.es/nDJFIc
Channel 4
Unearthing Gaddafi’s chemical weapon claims
A special report from Jonathan Miller in Libya on Colonel Gaddafi’s alleged desperate plans to use chemical weapons against the rebels.
Channel 4 News met an undercover agent who claims an informant in the inner circle of the former “brother leader” warned him that if it ever came to this endpoint, Gaddafi would be at his most lethal.
He said: “He just looked at me and laughed and said you know the Brits and the Americans know exactly what Gaddafi has – he has this, this and that of chemical weapons and he will use them.”
This Libyan agent said he posed as a Gaddafi loyalist and spied for Nato as he told us of his secret war. He showed us intelligence reports he’d filed on troop and ammunition movements, targets and Gaddafi’s efforts to acquire chemical munitions.
Documents we obtained last week at an abandoned Gaddafi military base recorded
shipments, between April and July, of brand new chemical warfare suits and decontamination kits to key Gaddafi strongholds such as Sirte. Receipts showed they’d arrived.
What we now know from our intelligence contact in Tripoli is that the orders to send those chemical protection suits and kits to Sirte and al-Juffra came directly from Muammar Gaddafi himself.
Full story:
www.channel4.com/news/unearthing-gaddaf...
#Libya: Oral Statement by HRW bitly.com/p7Q4Ho
Dawn.com
Senior Qadhafi general captured in south: official
“General Belgacem Al-Abaaj, Qadhafi’s intelligence chief in the Al Khofra region, was captured” on Monday some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from southern Libyan town of Sebha, said Mohamed Wardugu, spokesman for the “Desert Shield Brigade” in Benghazi.
Wardugu had been sought by the forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC), was seized with members of his family who were traveling in five four-wheel drive vehicles, he added.
More here:
www.dawn.com/2011/09/20/senior-qadhafi-...
Hague at Friends of Libya meeting: Foreign Secretary William Hague is due to join world leaders at the first… on-msn.com/nZ1os3
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Some semblance of organization creeping into troops at Bani Walid bases/chk points today.
Now if they’d only stop using the entire desert as a shooting range #Libya #baniwalid
#Gadhafi says his regime is still alive in Libya and is calling his opponents’ takeover of all but a few pockets of the country a charade.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Recorded message for Qaddafi: NATO planes will not last #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Events in Libya a ‘masquerade’: Qaddafi in a recorded message #alarabiya #Qaddafi #Libya
malonebarry Barry Malone
All very quiet at Bani Walid so far this morning our team there tell us #Libya
Souffian Tripoli
Hallo Gaddafi are you there? Listen: “Peoples of Libya don’t Loves you, never did !! U Understand U ? OK? , U bad man. OK? "
cnnjill Jill Dougherty
Gadhafi audio message: “It is either the people’s power or death.This is what the Libyans are saying and they are dying for people’s power.”
frankentele Sean Carberry
Latest signs of progress in Tripoli: US cellphone now roaming here, and looks like
some ATMs are coming online. #Libya
MISRATA, Libya — Khalid Mustafa Sati fights in silence. www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/region...
The Cat
NTC-speaker: We are 100 percent sure, Saif Gaddafi & his father are in the city"/ Send in d dogs then!
Documents show SA sniper rifles went to Gaddafi. www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.... documents located by Human Rights Watch.
#Libya #Gaddafi Stealth Super Mercedes
gizmodo.com/5841686/france…
or:
gizmodo.com/5841686/france-sold-qaddafi...
daibaker dai baker
At the UN where the doors for media open at 7am but the accreditation staff don’t turn up till 7.30. #ilovetheun
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING: #Italy defence minister Ignazio La Russa says #Nato has asked coalition forces to extend mission for three more months
FromJoanne Joanne
#GREAT Libya has resumed its official name to #libya in the #UN and no more the Great Jamahiria libyan popular and socialist !!!!
#FLASH #CAPTURED: General Belgacem AlAbaaj Gaddafi intelligence chief in Al #Khofra area on Monday 100km from #Sebha #Kufra #Libya
#NTC Colonel Bani on #Sabha “Our forces are there in the airport and in the castle … Our flags are flying there,” #Libya #Fort
#SABHA fighting on west of city and center Now in #NTC Fighters control the airport the fort a hospital and a convention center #Libya
#FLASH #Turkish military cargo plane dropping humanitarian Aid overBani Walid came under FIRE from #Gaddafimen. via #AnatoliaMedia #Libya
#BaniWalid Col. Bani: GF Stole All supplies from Residents they are Shooting Females Men Kids who is showing support for revolution. #Libya
#Col Bani: Sources tell us Many ppl in #BaniWalid No Clue what goeson in rest of #Libya due2 Gaddafi’s forces cutting off communications
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
F fighters from #Misrata and #Weddan have joined forces, all areas between Sirte and Weddan are now cleared of Gaddafi forces. #libya
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Daily Mail
Tony Blair’s gushing letter to Colonel Gaddafi telling him how to invest his cash
Tony Blair sent a gushing personal letter to Colonel Gaddafi – after yet another visit to Libya – offering to help the dictator identify African projects to invest in, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Correspondence unearthed in war-torn Tripoli has revealed details of two secret trips by Mr Blair to see Gaddafi in the months before the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
The disclosure that Mr Blair was twice flown to Libya on a Gaddafi private jet – in June 2008 and April 2009 when the regime was threatening to cut all business ties with Britain if Abdelbaset al-Megrahi stayed in a Scottish jail – enraged relatives of the Lockerbie victims and further fuelled suspicions that the bomber was freed in return for lucrative oil contracts.
Now details of a third visit have emerged in a ‘Dear Muammar’ letter in which the former Labour leader thanks Gaddafi for his hospitality and tells him he knows of ‘good, worthwhile projects for investment’.
More:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-203936...
bencnn benwedeman
Last night met 3 fighters in Al-Shati w/bottle of whisky, rolling a joint in the car. Morale is high and so are (some) of the troops. #Libya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: ‘rebels’ control western, southern and eastern entrance of Sirte. Muta’sim Gaddafi is leading Gaddafi forces in Sirte acc to ‘rebels’.
ONtv: ‘rebels’ heading for center of Sirte, Col Ahmad Bani: ‘Sirte will take 3 or 4 days’.
ONtv corresp: ‘Gaddafi has probably decided that Bani Walid may not fall, reports of 15.000 Gaddafi fighters in Bani Walid.’
ONtv corresp Tareq abd alGaber: ‘Sabha for 80% liberated now’.
ONtv corresp Tarek abd alGaber: ‘The amount of weapons and other military equipment in Bani Walid goes beyond imagination.’
abdulhelal Abdul Helal
#NTC fighters, mainly frm #zintan r now heading 2 #shgaiga & #mizda 2 collect arms & cleanse remaining armed #gaddafi guys, esp. #mashashiya
a serial killer, killed about 10 & raped many libyan women, was arrested yesterday in binghashir SE #tripoli #libya He showed where bodies r
Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli sky today full of beautiful fluffy white things… Rumor has it, these things bring down water from the sky!! yfrog.com/mg7wcbyj
AJELive AJELive
TNC fighter tells AJ at east Sirte front #Libya a sandstorm is obscuring visibility. Significant adance unlikly today aje.me/mZxDy3
Tarek
#NTC fighters in another push for #Sirte youtube.com/watch?v=VYThm6… via @AJE #Libya
#Gadafi made the longest ever name for #Libya, I don’t have time to write it
Street fighting in outskirts of #Sirte— معركه ضاريه من احد ضواحى سرت — 19/09/2011
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CGrRg_xRA0&feature=share #Libya
Gada
#Libya,why don’t all the major liberated cities take Zawar’s lead and hold local elections to look after the interests of the ppl,Tripoli
#Libya,enough already NTC get your act together now,orphans need care, the injured’s wounds are decaying,Dr J you should no better than that
SmithInAfrica David Smith
Has Africa lost Libya? |
Knox Chitiyo gu.com/p/32xmc/tw via @guardian
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Just back from a visit to #Gaddafi compound – Bab al-Azizia. Extraordinary. Hundreds of visitors at “the theme park”
#Libya. New #Gaddafi message – there is no regime to be toppled, as he’s been out of power since 1977, having handed power to people.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya Gaddafi warns in audio message NATO protection cannot last indefinitely
WESSIM
#Libye dans Tous les journaux électroniques on a changé les Rebelles par les Force de #CNT
VOA
Challenges for NATO as Fighting Continues in Gadhafi Strongholds
“The remaining three pockets of resistance that are controlled by pro Gadhafi forces are going to be tough for the new interim government forces to take,” said Dr. Walid Phares, an expert on Middle East and author of "The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East.
Read more:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Cha...
Al Arabiya
Libya’s fractious new rulers enjoy honeymoon
Obstinate resistance by Muammar Qaddafi’s last strongholds is an embarrassment for Libya’s new rulers, and bickering that delayed the formation of a new interim government suggests potentially damaging internal political rifts are widening.
But for now Libya’s new political leaders have an indulgent audience, at least in Tripoli, the capital city that fell from Qaddafi’s grasp less than a month ago.
Here, the savor of life released from the yoke of an all-powerful ruler who named himself the Guide, Brother Leader and Africa’s King of Kings remains intensely sweet.
The fact that Libya’s new and crowded political field has produced a cacophony of argumentative voices is seen by political analysts and many ordinary Libyans as a refreshing change from the stultifying monotone of Qaddafi’s dictatorship.
Islamists and secularists have sparred in public over how to manage the transition from despotism to democracy, and leaders in towns and villages hard hit by the six-month conflict have demanded posts in the new administration, arguing that their communities need funds to rebuild.
But the alliance of convenience among anti-Qaddafi forces from a variety of political
backgrounds born in the eastern city of Benghazi in February and March is not about to unravel, Libyan and foreign political analysts say, and its support among the Western and Arab nations that helped it toppled Qaddafi remains strong.
Police state has gone
The increasingly raucous political debate emerging in the country is overlayed with a sense of relief that Qaddafi and his terrifying police state has gone, and his voice no longer dominates the airwaves of state radio and television.
In Martyrs’ Square, where traffic police in crisply pressed white uniforms took up patrols on Monday for the first time since Qaddafi’s fall, engineer Mustafa Shaab bin Ragheb spelt out his priorities.
“The delay in the new government isn’t important. It’s like a sick man,” he told Reuters as he rummaged at a roadside kiosk for rings bearing revolutionary slogans.
“He has to move slowly before he can walk at a normal speed. We need time to recover.”
Then he added, waving his arms: “Look, we finally got rid of that bloody monkey. We are better than before.”
“We will hang him and his sons, and then we can breathe freely. It’s too early for politics.”
Ramdan Bashiroun, a retired teacher, said it was normal that negotiations among Libya’s new rulers would take time.
“Qaddafi burned us for 40 years. He crushed all our possibilities,” Bashiroun said.
The patience of Tripolitanians has been greatly helped by the return of power, water, food markets, telecommunications, and a start to the back payment of wages due for the months of the conflict.
But patience has its limits, and officials of new interim National Transitional Council (NTC) know that further progress on the military front is vital.
Failure to take the Qaddafi-held towns of Bani Walid, Sirte and Sabha threatens the NTC’s credibility.
On Sunday, NTC forces fled in a chaotic retreat from Bani Walid, after failing once again to storm it. Fighters told Reuters that confused orders, no central command and dissent in the ranks were to blame.
The story was similar at Sirte, where NTC forces have made better progress but have still been repulsed by Qaddafi loyalists in four days of heavy fighting. Early progress is not guaranteed, despite help from NATO air power.
But Saad Djebbar, a London-based Algerian lawyer who acted for Libya in the Lockerbie bombing case, said the disarray was not surprising to Libyans and should not alarm foreign allies.
The coalition that toppled Qaddafi involved exiles, activists from the anti-Qaddafi underground, ordinary Libyans from many backgrounds who had suffered repression.
Everyone came together at short notice and in such conditions not everything was bound to go smoothly, he said.
“What do you expect? It needs an exceptional effort and these are exceptional circumstances,” he said.
Political deftness needed
“If anything, the more you have military problems the more it will keep them together. It doesn’t necessary mean a lack of leadership. They are very responsibly taking their time and building a consensus about taking their forces forward.”
Political analyst Ashour Shamis said there was a potentially tricky link between the political and military domains and NTC leaders would have to show political deftness, and tolerance, in navigating a path to a new constitution.
The NTC has drawn up a road map, setting out plans for a new constitution and elections over a 20-month period, which should start once a declaration of “liberation” is made.
It is not clear what liberation entails but it is likely to be conditional upon the capture of Qaddafi and the defeat of his loyalists in the three key towns they still hold.
Confidence in the NTC’s ability to steer a steady path took a knock on Sunday when it failed to agree on a new cabinet.
The cabinet was dissolved last month after procedural errors in the handling of the unexplained shooting dead of the then NTC military chief. A new executive committee, to include officials responsible for defense and interior affairs, was supposed to be appointed by interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril on Sunday.
But the talks broke down when his proposals did not receive full backing from all current members.
Ashour Shamis said the divisions were “a natural process. They have to accommodate so many people, so many talents and so many geographical considerations.”
“Libyans didn’t have experience of this process for 42 years and these kind of negotiations are genuinely difficult,” Djebbar said.
Secularist-Islamist tensions
“The one prescription for success so far we have seen continuously in the Arab Spring has been the process of coalition building.”
“The Arab Spring idea is that you’re looking for consensus, a result where no winner takes all, there is no monopoly of truth and no monopoly of power from anyone, in contrast to dictators who are omnipotent.”
There have been anxieties among Western officials about rifts between rival factions, including Islamists possibly backed by interests in the Gulf, in the ranks of the NTC.
Concerns in the West about Islamists were exacerbated this month when some of them criticized Libya’s interim rulers ─ a mainly secular group of technocrats, some of them former Qaddafi officials ─ for allegedly behaving in a high handed manner towards Islamists and those of other political persuasions.
But Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj told Reuters on Sunday the outbreak of public ill-feeling was more the result of a desire to air long-suppressed views than any ideological divide.
“What you see now is the eruption of someone who was under oppression,” he said.
“Libyans were denied the right to express their feelings … There was a wall in front of them. When this wall was removed they just started to express themselves.
Shamis agreed, describing the ideological component of the bickering as “minimal”.
“It’s emotional rather than logical,” he said.
BBC
Chaos undermines Libyan forces’ advance into Bani Walid
The overriding impression is one of disorganisation among the anti-Gaddafi forces as they try to liberate Bani Walid.
Typically, the NTC fighters race up and down the main road in manic fashion, tyres screeching on the tarmac, in a gratuitous display of urgency.
In a cloud of dust, one of their “technicals” – civilian pickup trucks with guns mounted on the back – comes out of the grain store at such speed that it spills its load of ammunition and supplies on to the main road.
There is no sense of a proper military command structure here.
Anas Hudairi, a thoughtful 23-year-old from Calgary in Canada who arrived here in mid-August, blames the chaos on the inexperienced volunteers who fail to follow orders.
“These people are idiots,” he says. "They just want to come and do their own thing. They’re creating big problems for the other fighters.
“We ask them to cover our backs and when we return from the front line, they’re not there. They have no battlefield experience, no sense of tactics or strategy. They’re not even accustomed to the noise of weapons”.
Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14972752
BBC
Libya conflict: Europe failing Libya’s refugees – Amnesty
European Union countries have “shamefully failed” to help thousands of refugees stranded near Libya’s borders, Amnesty International says.
It says they have failed to resettle some 5,000 mainly sub-Saharan Africans who face persecution in their nations.
Amnesty says the EU – some of whose member states have taken part in Nato’s operations in Libya – must “urgently address the resettlement issue”.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14977155
The Libyan Revolution Part I-Roots of Rebellion
Author(s): Bell, Anthony; Witter, David
Institute for the Study of War, 19 September 2011
www.understandingwar.org/report/libyan-...
LA Times
Libya delays forming a government; fighting continues in 2 cities
Wrangling among various groups continues for Cabinet and other posts. Meanwhile, rebel fighters clash with pro-Kadafi forces in Surt and Bani Walid.
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya—
Libya’s provisional rulers on Sunday put off “indefinitely” their much-anticipated naming of a new government tasked with guiding the nation forward after the ouster of longtime leader Moammar Kadafi.
Meanwhile, new clashes were reported in two remaining pro-Kadafi strongholds, the coastal city of Surt, Kadafi’s birthplace, and the desert town of Bani Walid, southeast of Tripoli.
Read more:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
WSJ
Libya Rebels Press Attack on Gadhafi’s Hometown
SIRTE, Libya—For much of the seven-month Libyan uprising, the besieged city of Misrata endured daily shelling and rocketing by Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces. Now, it is payback time here in Sirte, the strongman’s hometown and the biggest remaining loyalist holdout.
The hardened Misrata fighters, who launched their assault on Sirte last week, are tightening the noose around the coastal city that Col. Gadhafi aimed to turn into Africa’s capital, building it up as a showcase of his ambitions to be the continent’s leader.
Full story:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111...
NYT
Hundreds of Civilians Flee the Struggle Over a Qaddafi Stronghold.
SURT, Libya — During lulls between mortar and rocket barrages, hundreds of civilians fled this coastal city on Monday after five days of fierce clashes between fighters loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and former rebel fighters, which are settling into a stalemate and raising fears of another bloody siege in the still unresolved Libyan conflict.
Full story:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/world/africa...
ksnavarra
Vatican Apostolic Nuncio to #Tripoli Mgr Innocenzo Martinelli says ‘Holy See is ready to collaborate with #NTC’
kapitalisinfo:
L’Otan disposé à soutenir la transition démocratique en Tunisie fb.me/OyNV4ZxQ
Regaining confiscated property next fight for many in Libya – World Wires – MiamiHerald.com
hrld.us/quYwDT via @miamiherald
Watch video of @SultanAlQassemi GW talk on
“Tweeting the Arab Revolution” here, watch for @acarvin guest verse at end! goo.gl/vJPc9
THIS IS A MUST READ:
Libya: Deaf rebels fight for rights
Khalid Mustafa Sati fights in silence.
He can feel the vibration of the bombs that fall around him, but this member of Libya’s rebel forces cannot hear their explosions.
Sati can see the smoke and flames from his gun as he fires at Muammar Gaddafi’s soldiers, but he cannot hear the sound of the bullets. Nor does he have a voice to speak of the death and violence he has witnessed during this upraising.
Sati is one of Misrata’s many heroes, praised for his courage and quick thinking on the battle field. He now heads a unit of 86 men. What sets them apart is that they are deaf.
Please read the full story:
feb17.info/news/libya-deaf-rebels-fight...
Libya Conflict: Historical Leptis Magna left untouched during fighting لبدة التاريخية سلمت من القتال في ليبيا..
bbc.in/n7TTP3
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
Reuters
Obama sending #US ambassador to #Tripoli to reopen the embassy & pledged support 4 #NTC & called on #Gaddafi loyalists to surrender
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
ICRC: " Our teams have entered Sabha 3 times last week and delivered surgical and medical supplies to the hospital" #Libya
Interesting article if you’re interested in freedom of the press
Foreign Policy
What Wikileaks Tells Us About Al Jazeera
Is the rapidly expanding Middle East satellite television network and voice of the Arab Spring as independent as it claims?
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/...
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera’s Wadah Khanfar steps down | Network’s top executive since 2003, to step down after leading the network … aje.me/ru97oq
khanfarw:
I have served Al Jazeera with pride as a correspondent, bureau chief, managing director and director-general.
8 years is a long time to be leading a Network. Renewal and change is always good.
I think everyone will agree that Al Jazeera is stronger than ever. Our coverage has been exceptional and is now widely viewed.
After 8 years of service leading Al Jazeera, I have just announced that I am moving on.
African Union recognises #Libya’s National Transitional Council (#NTC) as government of the country – @Reuters bbc.in/mPh4l6
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte Now; G Troops firing Rockets and NTC Firing heavy artillery back Civilans Felling while MORE NTC Fighters arrive #Libya
SIRTE #NTC Fighetrs Intercepted a Radio call from #Mu’tasim #Gaddafi in Sirte urging his supporters to fight goo.gl/RGbEc #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8zu-kCFPY8&fea...
Hayat
i wish it could rain satellite phones or something to reach #BaniWalid brothers ;|
The death of Ahmed Gheriani
shot because of refusing 2 say Viva Gaddafi
Story and video:
shar.es/HPqEj #Libya
or:
www.foxcrawl.com/2011/04/06/video-the-d...
Hana S.
Sadly many families still suffering after fleeing #Sirte now stranded btwn the city & west of Libya awaiting permission 2 pass #SirteCrisis
Those who made it thru outside #Sirte tell of how haunted the city has become. Ppl stuck indoors don’t even know what neighbors are doing!
Witness who fled #Sirte recently says there were days when they only had water and a few dates to eat. #SirteCrisis #Feb17 #Libya
Those who were lucky managed to bring sheets and mattresses with them after fleeing #Sirte. Others barely escaped with clothes they had on.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Now: NTC fighters captured a TANK draped in SheepsSkin from pro-Gaddafi forces who may have been trying to flee in it from #SIRTE #Libya
CNN
NTC fighters are preparing for a massive attack on Bani Walid
bencnn benwedeman
Drove into the heart of #Sabha today. Much less resistance than expected. At least 4 NTC fighters dead, many wounded. #Libya
Obama announces #US ambassador to #Libya is on the way back to #Tripoli via @natlsecuritycnn
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
African Union recognizes the TNC as legitimate representative of Libyan people…. Did someone forget to set the alarm !!!
AJE –
via @reuters – #AU recognises #NTC as ligitimate gov of #Libya
secgen UN Secretary-General
Meeting H.E. Mr. Mustafa Mohammed Abdul Jaleel, President, National Transitional Council of Libya (NTC)
Found him… Can I now get my 2mills $ please?
yfrog.com/me61tsj
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: World Food Programme says difficult to get food to people who need it desperately in Bani Walid and Sirte
#Libya: Schools in Tripoli may have gone back this week, but places like Misrata have yet to follow suit
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Docens of NTC fighters wounden in #Sirte being evacuated to outside #Libya from #Misrata 150 to Jordan some days ago and 20 to Malta today
Suzanne
Breaking: African Union has recognised the NTC as #Libya’s govt. They have also finally recognised the world is round
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Fighter @checkpoint ouside #SIRTE: Gaddafi & his soldiers do not allow Residents 2move. They keep them like hostages in homes #Libya
#BaniWalid Right now Front is quiet #NTC fighters waiting 4 more residents to leave since FF dont want to spill more blood #Libya
#William #Hague told @SkyNews in #New #York that #Nato will continue as long as it takes #Libya
Sirte residents are kept hostage in their homes and held as human shields when needed #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: medics in #Sabha hospital struggling to save dying fighter. #Libya yfrog.com/nz6oraj
Photo: critically wounded fighter rushed into emergency ward in main #Sabha hospital. #libya yfrog.com/ke1brbaj
Photo: posters turned to doormats at entrance to emergency ward at main #Sabha hospital. #Libya yfrog.com/nvoo4vj
Photo: Most of wounded coming from Manshiya neighbourhood of #Sabha, clashes on going. #Libya yfrog.com/mggm5qj
Photo: wounded medic. almost 90 doctors came from around #Libya in support of the effort to take #Sabha. #Libya yfrog.com/hso38zsj
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. African Union recognises NTC
#Libya. A young visitor today at #Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound. pic.twitter.com/uDfPPKRW
BBC
Libya Conflict: Historical Leptis Magna left untouched during fighting
During the fighting in Libya there was concern over the fate of the country’s historical treasures.
Most seem to have survived in tact including the jewel in the crown, Leptis Magna, the ancient roman city on the Mediterranean.
The BBC went to visit and was shown around by tour guide Khalifa Ali Hweta, who has lived there his whole life.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14983921
libyanproud libyanandproud
Breaking: The people of libye still don’t forget or forgive the #AU! Zuma you can shove the Recognition ! #feb17 #libya
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Schools are working on a new curriculum for the ‘new Libya’ that they expect will be brought in at the beginning of next year.
#Libya: Children in schools are being taught about the revolution and are learning their new National Anthem
FromJoanne Joanne
#Arrai TV had "intended2 show Live footage of #Gaddafi reading speech but (thankfully:)) was unable to do so for “technical reasons” #Libya
MUST READ
Reuters
Chaotic Libya forces try to organize for assault
Battlefield bedlam has become part of daily life. Troops advance without orders. Nervous fighters shoot randomly. Where is the artillery? Who is in charge? No one knows.
On several occasions, infantry units have advanced into the treacherous hills of Bani Walid only to discover that artillery units had not yet been sent in.
In one incident, an entire unit was trapped inside for hours after dark amid heavy shelling by Gaddafi forces, unaware that an order had been issued for all troops to retreat.
Dozens of rag-tag groups of fighters have flocked to the Bani Walid front from all over the country.
Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/20/us-l...
cnnbrk CNN Breaking News
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon applauds #Libya rebels on success of revolution. on.cnn.com/qpfUwS
Rawya
Ominous: Mustafa Abdul Jalil says #Gaddafi still around, still has funds, still a threat not just to #Libya, but to all of intl community
#LIBYA #NTC said they lost over 25,000 libyan people @UNwebcast
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
US embassy in Tripoli will apparently reopen this week. #Libya #US
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: fighters consoling one another after comrade dies in battle. #Sabha #Libya yfrog.com/h7xi7xrj
FromJoanne Joanne
#NOW: I am watching my favourite #NTC member right now Mustafa #Jalil speak at the United Nations Graceful as usual #Libya
#Jalil speaking now at the U.N. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Rima
Jalil again reinforcing there will be no retaliation against Gaddafi officials, but trials, forgiveness & reconciliation
4Adam Adam
NTC Abdul Jalil @ UN ‘Libya will respect human right & practice democracy’ ‘althou #Libya is a rich country but we still help in rebuilding’
JustAmira
Hey Libya! I’m timing AbdulJalil’s speech at the UN now :) yfrog.com/g0uoljmj
Rima
I would give him a standing ovation if I could….instead I shall attempt to Zarghoot. So nice having a respectable man representing Libya.
Michelle
misty eyed. #libya
4Adam Adam
Children are back to schools in #Nafusa Mountains this week. 9.18.2011 Qalaa youtube.com/watch?v=fOrAry… #Libya
Obama:
Credit for the liberation of Libya belongs to the people. It was Libyan men, women and children’ #UNSpeech #UN #NTC
Obama gives #Tunisia props for assisting injured Libyans. #Libya
Obama: Town by Town… Block by Block… Libyans fought for freedom!!
Obama: “Make no Mistake. The credit for liberation of Libya goes to the Libyan ppl.”
Obama: It was Libyan men, women—and children—who took to the streets in peaceful protest,faced down the tanks & endured the snipers’ bullets
Obama:It was Libyan women and girls who hung flags and smuggled weapons to the front
Remarks of President Barack Obama at the United Nations Meeting on Libya bit.ly/puar2J #libya
AJA -
NTC fighters control most parts of Sabha. #Libya #Feb17
Hamza
For those in #Tripoli, ISM (my old high school) is having a bazaar this Friday from 4 to 10, proceeds go to help injured. Spread the word!
LIBYAN
Free #Libya flag flying high at the #UN
blabeen
The so called #African Union recognize the NTC as the gov of #Libya. Too late.
libertad
#libye Adieu la Jamahiriya vive la nouvelle Libye débarrassée des symboles kadhafistes #libya #Feb17
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
AFP team had a road accident coming back yesterday from #Sirte to Misrata cameraman with a broken hip others minor things #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
#Sabha residents say #Qadhafi loyalists have been slipping away for weeks. Few were still here when NTC rolled into town. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
UN HQ: During flag-raising Ceremony #Libya envoy #Ibrahim #Aldredi sang his country’s Anthem with his hand on his heart #EmotionalMoment
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. #Obama says Libyans deserve a government that is transparent and accountable….. this is your chance.
Sirtawi
Unconfirmed news that Gaddafi men have executed some of the prisoners in #Sirte. #SirteCrisis #Feb17 #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
U.N. chief applauds Libya revolution; new alleged Gadhafi message surfaces shabablibya.org/news/u-n-chief… #Libya (Video)
Obama urges Gaddafi forces to give up, vows Libya aid is.gd/5LIIXv #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Apparently the African Union recognized the NTC as #Libya’s sole legitimate representative today. Always at the forefront of world politics.
AmbassadorRice Ambassador Rice
USUN Pres. #Obama to the people of #Libya: “We will stand with you as you seize this moment of promise.”
USUN Pres. #Obama: “Here at the United Nations, the new flag of a free #Libya now flies among the community of nations.”
tommymiles Tommy Miles
IRIN #Niger: migrants escaping Libya bit.ly/pbgvN2 80k to #Tchad, cholera in Kanem | 75k to #Niger #Dirkou “overrun” says IOM
First fresh Libyan crude bemuses buyers is.gd/50PcJ0 #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
A typical Libyan street in Benghazi before the revolution #feb17 #libya fb.me/14GTgntYb
elinegordts eline gordts
Sarkozy on the #UN high level meeting on #Libya: “the international community has had the courage to react. Let’s draw lessons from that.”
Armchair Arab
In other news the AU has officially recognised VHS video cassettes and discarded betamax.
Pledging support, Obama sending envoy back to Libya. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44593591/ns/politi...
BBCWorld BBC Global News
At least 25,000 people died & 50,000 were wounded in Libyan uprising, NTC’s Mustafa Abdel Jalil tells UN summit – AFP
bbc.in/mPh4l6
MUST READ; REAL LIBYAN LIFE WITH CNN:
In Libya, beware the un-‘miya, miya’ moments
It punctuates almost every Libyan’s conversation: “Miya miya.” Literally it mean “100%, 100%” In other words, “Things are OK. Fine. Great. Cool.”
How’s the weather? Miya miya. How’s life? Miya miya.
Even in this revolution, when things are not OK, or great, or cool Libyans use the phrase.
This week, as we stood at a rebel checkpoint some nine or ten miles from the besieged town of Bani Walid, private cars with civilians fleeing the fighting slowed as the guards, in a motley collection of military gear, sneakers, hipster sunglasses and head bands waved them through. We stuck our heads in windows and asked the families what conditions were like in the city center.
“Miya miya,” they said. But their eyes told a different tale. With no electricity, little water, food running low and shells raining down on their houses how could it possibly be “miya miya,” we thought.
In August, our CNN producer, Raja Razek, had a “miya miya” moment right after the rebels entered Tripoli. On her way with correspondent Sarah Sidner and crew to what then was known as Green Square, now Martyrs’ Square, they drove down Ghirgharsh Street. Anti-Gadhafi forces were pulling back to the suburb of Janzour to regroup.
The crew asked a rebel how things were looking at the Square.
“It’s not completely miya miya,” he said.
The crew blanched. It was the first time they’d heard that expression.
They turned around and headed back. “Miya miya- NOT.” In Libya, that’s bad.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan Cache Weapons in Sirte alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #Qaddafi #NTC #UN
Libyan4life
This is what Im hearing as Zuma speaks: ‘’ Wah wah wah wa wah wahhhhhhhhhh wah wah wah wah Leebeeya wah wah, wah wah wah WAH!’’
Im pissed they let Zuma speak and not me. I think Im
A) more qualified and
B) have something of substance to say.
Zuma says we need to remove the no fly zone over #Libya
WHO ASKED JACOB ZUMA ABOUT HIS IDEAS ON #LIBYA?!!! WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE WERE DYING?!!!
liveTripoli
Praising #Libya “who would have thought.” Ya we had it in our blood. We did it like our grand fathers did. #PositiveLibyaTweet
liz
U know that the #US ALWAYS does the right thing(after it has exhausted all the wrong ways)exception #Israel unfortunately :(
liveTripoli
I think #Libya got lucky with the #UN. Actually it was individual nations and then a domino effect in assisting #Libyans.
Once we see a protocol set up with other nations similar to #Libya and it works. Then the #UN can receive credit.
Things happened in the #UN because of individual nations. Not because the UN met on its own to solve #Libya’s problem.
Things happened in the #UN because of individual nations. Not because the UN met on its own to solve #Libya’s problem.
Niz
Thank you everyone for your well wishes and kind words following my decision to leave Libya. Your support is incredible.
Hatem, from the Free Generation Movement, tells us he is in the hospital INSIDE Sabha and that it is now 95% liberated. Allahu Akbar
libyanproud libyanandproud
“#Zuma” in Libyan means “Ugly face”. What a coincidence :)).#libya #SouthAfrica"
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Why is Zuma talking about Libya? Gaddafi is down and out, you have no friends in Libya now
Matog
he is worried that they wont get any more money now Gadaffi has gone !
4Adam Adam
17 “French & British mercenaries” which G’s spox said had bn captured, were being questioned in Baniwalid will be shown publicly soon #Libya
Gada
Zuma has a nerve after letting down the Libyan ppl so many times in favour of his Gaddafi pay check,now he wants to tell his vision 4#Libya
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Outside Sirte. Gaddafi loyalists have been pushing back with grads and artillery. NTC forces waiting for more civilians to leave before push
UN:
Finland:
Let me express my highest respects for the people of #Libya
Man… everyone laying it on thick. Thanks we appreciate it.
malonebarry Barry Malone
by hominoid555
Just had another satellite phone chat with Gaddafi spox, Moussa Ibrahim. Said supposedly captured foreign “mercenaries” treated well #Libya
He said “mercenaries” being questioned in Bani Walid and would then be shown “to the world”. Claims have been greeted with skepticism #Libya
Moussa Ibrahim just told me Gaddafi was willing to fight for “years” (seems an update on “months” threatened before…) #
“This fight could take years. He’s (Gaddafi) prepared for that because this land is ours” — Ibrahim #Libya
“What country did NATO ever attack and it could finish it in a few months time? Look at Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia” – Ibrahim #Libya
Denying NTC gains in Sabha, Ibrahim – “Usually, when 10 to 15 cars belonging to them enter a city, they regard that as occupation”
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
by hominoid555
3 dead fighters and some wounded just arriving now in Misrata being evacuated by helicopter from #Sirte #Libya
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
My report from the outskirts of #Sirte news.sky.com/home/world-new… #Libya #Feb17
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Obama says US stands with Libyan people in their struggle to strive for the peace and prosperity that freedom can bring"
#Libya: Mustafa Abdel Jalil at United Nations thanks all nations for help in Libya but says road ahead is long
FromJoanne Joanne
Update on #LIFE in TRIPOLI services are struggling goo.gl/FTAwU #Libya trying to get people to return to work
#TRIPOLI #NTC promised 2import 1,000 street cleaners and garbage collectors from #Egypt but it will take another month before 1st arrives
To Be Totally Clear: JacobZuma Office stated: #African Union recognized #NTC as Libya’s de facto government #Libya (but NOT #South #Africa )
#Gaddafi Tuesday Latest #audio bulls… by Gaddafi via #Syria arraiTV youtube.com/watch?v=umIg_L… #Libya
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
met an electrician turned cameraman. Hes taken amazing footage.v. much impressed #Libya
Libyan4life:
I wish Mustafa AbdelJalil had spoken to the UN for two hours, just for old times sake.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta to receive more injured #Libya civilians for treatment tonite but hospital medics are making it diff for gov ‘we are overstretched’
Niz_FGM Niz
please support our friends & fellow supporters of a society that respects & empowers our women- Voice of Libyan Women- facebook.com/groups/1550918…
Beautiful pics here:
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
Next upload called: Different
See it, maybe then you’ll know why. #Tripoli
Here you go:
www.flickr.com/photos/live2tripoli/6166...
FromJoanne Joanne
So far all SANE countries in the world are recognizing #NTC in #Libya the rest is likely to face their own moment of truth sooner or later
Libyan4life
jirdan_tripoli shafshoofa_rat
Big clap for Tunisia. Seriously historic stand. Not one person could have predicted it.
Tunisia says they would be very happy to host the next #Libya Contact Group meeting.
Freedom_7uriyah ღ.¸¸Esra¸¸.ღ
LOVE LOVE LOVE #Tunisia <3
jirdan_
Big clap for Tunisia. Seriously historic stand. Not one person could have predicted it.
FromJoanne Joanne
ex #Gaddafi Judge alKhaddar reveals Shiite cleric #Musa #alSADR who disappeared in 78 was killed after getting in2 an argument with Gaddafi
jirdan_
They’re all talking about Women’s role. Seriously Women own Libya. The only people who can control the FF is their mum’s.
Australia just announced that their Prime Minister will be visit #Tripoli very soon.
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
The #Libyan people can be proud of what they have achieved and we can be proud of what we have done to help them: bit.ly/qQLEhr
LIBYAN
and the correct answer is? RT @khanfarw W.Khanfar وضاح خنفر Entertained by all the rumors of why I have resigned. #whatdoyouthink? :-)
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Libya Situation Report – September 19, 2011: Weekend Edition fb.me/195sJ0zQd
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. At last South Africa recognises the #NTC
FromJoanne Joanne
#Misrata 3 brothers and 2 cousins got separated from their family youtube.com/watch?v=2zUEjH… #Libya
Col. Bani ;Gaddafi forces Destroying #BaniWalid before it is liberated by the #NTC they robbed stores Leaving civilians to “starve” #Libya
MUST READ
Asharq Al-Awsat
Gaddafi ordered the deaths of senior officials – Senior Libyan judge
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat
– Libyan Judge Muhammad Bashir al-Khaddar was one of the most prominent judicial figures in Gaddafi’s Libya. Al-Khaddar also served as one of the most senior Libyan military judges in the Gaddafi regime. In an exclusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, al-Khaddar revealed many of the Gaddafi regime’s most closely-held secrets.
Al-Khaddar, who also served as a senior legal adviser to the Libyan Ministry of Defense over the past 25 years, revealed that Shiite cleric Musa al-Sadr, who disappeared from Libya in August 1978, was killed after getting into an argument with then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Al-Khaddar also claimed that Gaddafi ordered the death of a number of senior Libyan officials, including former Libyan Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Bashari. He also revealed the truth behind the infamous Abu Salim prison massacre of 1996.
The following is the full text of the interview:
Click here:
www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=...
News 24
AU ready to support Libyan people
The African Union has officially recognised Libya’s National Transitional Council as the country’s legitimate leadership, the group’s chairperson said in a statement on Tuesday.
The announcement was transmitted by the office of President Jacob Zuma, six days after he hosted a meeting of the AU’s special panel on Libya in Pretoria.
“The African Union stands ready to support the Libyan people… as they rebuild their country towards a united, democratic, peaceful and prosperous Libya,”
More:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/AU-ready-to-...
NATO
Progress in Libya irreversible, NATO Secretary General says in New York
NATO is committed to continuing its mission in Libya for as long as threats against civilians endure, but is determined to end the operation as soon as conditions allow, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on 20 September after he attended the first meeting of the “Friends of Libya” in New York.
“The days of the former regime are clearly numbered”, the Secretary General said. “The recent positive developments in Libya are irreversible”.
The Secretary General welcomed the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2009, which establishes a UN mission in Libya. Resolutions 1970 and 1973, which mandated international action to protect civilians in Libya, remain in place, as threats against the civilian population persist.
Mr Rasmussen stressed the effectiveness of Operation Unified Protector, which NATO Allies and partners launched in response to the United Nations mandate. “Our operation has been a success. Allies and partners alike have made a difference by mounting a complex operation in very little time, carrying out our mandate to the letter, and with the highest degree of military professionalism to avoid harm to the Libyan people and their infrastructure”, he said.
The Friends of Libya meeting took place on the sidelines of the meeting of the UN General Assembly. It brought together international heads of state and government and representatives of key international and regional organizations, including from the African Union, European Union and United Nations to discuss ways to aid Libya’s transition to a functioning democracy.
libyanproud libyanandproud
Will we see non muslim brotherhood libyans on AJA now that Khanfar resigned from Jazeera ? #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
WOW, that’s dedication. Amir Hamad of Qatar have done well loosing weight. Good for him. Thumbs up :) yfrog.com/kj5gjnpj
Armchair Arab
I wish Libya al ahraar would put arabic subtitles in their Tamazigh programming, as I think more Libyans would like to understand it.
AndersFoghR AndersFogh Rasmussen
#NATO is committed to continuing #Libya mission for as long as necessary, but no longer. #Tripoli #Ghaddafi
Positive trends seen in #Libya over last weeks are irreversible. #Tripoli #Ghaddafi
Looking forward to working with new Libyan authorities in #Tripoli. #Libya
Libyan4life:
Sometimes I just walk around my home saying ‘’OH MY GOD, Im in #Gaddafi’s Room’’ repeatedly
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
The US embassy in Libya will resume its diplomatic mission and will reopen its doors in Tripoli on Thursday. #Libya
Free Libya Now
Libya will need to be patient with the process of transition. Certain regime people might be used for stabilization purposes. #Libya
ChangeInLibya
said B4 “It should be the UA instead of AU= Useless AfricanS instead of the African Union”
A composed clip from the beginning of Feb17
Struggling for Free Libya and against dictatorship and suppression
Libya Feb17 The relationship between Gaddafi and Mussolini speeches
The Libyans want a Free Libya Free of dictatorship and suppression.
The road to Liberty, democracy and civil rights is a struggle Libyans are willing take to give to the generations a Free Libya.
youtube.com/watch?v=PNrubd…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNrubd-cxS0&fea...
dessiegrant Des Grant
#Sebha despite 12 dead today fighting has been quiet , snipers accounting for most deaths . FF now control most of city.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Qatar Air Force plane brings 17 #Libya civilians for treatment in #Malta
AdiKhair Adi G. Khair
A vibrant civil society in #Benghazi. Serious discussions are evolving already on political parties. Emerging #Democracy
A lot of Political Parties are already forming in #Benghazi. Some are more of associations and gatherings. MBs are on people’s redar.
Felt a strong sense of solidarity between the people in #Benghazi and the Syrians. I also saw a sign supporting Syrian city of Daraa. #Syria
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Seeing many tails between the legs by some world leaders who, until recently, denied the aspirations of the Libyan Revolution. #Libya
libyanproud libyanandproud
#Tripoli: FF captured all 5 khanag sons ! Allah Akbar !
AlertNet: Ammunition shortage hampers attack on Gaddafi bastion ow.ly/6zQxK
robcrilly Rob Crilly
supply lines still, 70 years after Monty and Rommel
belkacemi libertad
2 avions de AfriqiyaAirlines arrivé à l’aéroport Misrarh, prendre les combattants blessés vers les hôpitaux en dehors de la #Libye
AJA now confirming Sabha is completely and entirely liberated.
belkacemi libertad
Vidéo Impressionnant: #CNN BenWedeman sur les villes nouvellement libérés dans le sud de la #libye tinyurl.com/3ujf43h
“The biggest challenge for us is to get back to (oil) production levels before events. This is our target.” #Libya www.cnn.com/2011/09/19/world/africa/lib...
Libya forces seize suspects in alleged attack plot www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-r... #Libya #Feb17
Must read:
Hartford Courant
Libya forces seize suspects in alleged attack plot
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan interim government forces stormed a house in Tripoli on Tuesday and arrested four brothers suspected of planning bomb attacks in the capital on behalf of ousted former ruler Muammar Gaddafi, residents and witnesses said.
Full art.:
www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-r...
belkacemi libertad
: Kadhafi a ordonné la mort de hauts fonctionnaires – juge asharq-e.com/news.asp?secti… #Libye
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Spent evening in #Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square. No sign of an end to celebrations. Flags, popcorn, candyfloss, balloons – and gunfire.
belkacemi libertad
AJA confirme maintenant Sabha est totalement et entièrement libérées. #libye
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Wadah Khanfar, Aljazeera President resigns in surprise move today, replaced by Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim El Thani
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Khanfar: “Arab sources close to the Qatari government said the move had indeed been discreetly planned six months ago” guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep…
PEeditorial Petroleum Economist
In case you missed it. Exclusive from @derek_brower: NTC poised to name new #oil minister: bit.ly/qisBNJ #libya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: ‘Military leaders expect Sirte to fall within 24 hrs’
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
SEBHA, ville CLEF en grande partie sous le contrôle D ANTI-K. Confirmé pr CNN+AlJazeera depuis l’intérieur de la ville edition.cnn.com/2011/09/20/wor…
CNN
Government forces enter Libya’s Sabha, to cheers
Ben Wedeman
Sabha — a dusty city southwest of Tripoli — has long been considered a staunch pro-Moammar Gadhafi stronghold, but many of its residents greeted fighters from the new government warmly as they rolled into the city Tuesday.
A CNN crew accompanying the National Transitional Council fighters witnessed a “fair amount” of people cheering for the new ruling forces. Fighting was reported in one neighborhood, al-Manshiya. Dr. Mohamad Altaib of Sabha central hospital reported some rebel fighters died from Gadhafi loyalist sniper fire there.
Read more and watch video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/09/20/world/africa...
Free Libya
So true, on #Libya reconciliation “Today we are fighting, tomorrow we say hello to each other, and the day after we’ll drink tea together.”
WOW!!!!
septimius_sever septimius severus
On same day @khanfarw resigns? Conspiracy theorist will love it !Ha RT @Gheblawi: Birth of Jewish version of AlJazeera gu.com/p/322mt/tw
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
The Gaddafis: What’s with their weird hair styles? This one (Hanibal) have a uni-Shafshoofa. yfrog.com/keno8djj
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
New video of Fatah Yunis (RIP) during the early days of the revolution when forming the NTC: youtube.com/watch?v=Elz6QN…
Killer of Ahmed Ghyriani caught… Ahmed refused to say long live Gaddafi so he was shot dead by this monster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PSCSwH0N_M&sns=em
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Huge convoys carrying food, water & humanitarian aid are leaving Tripoli, Zliten & other Libyan cities today on their way to #Sabha #libya
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
That’s what you get for being a pro-Dictator (pls don’t laugh): youtube.com/watch?v=CToQ2b…
Government forces enter Libya’s Sabah, to cheers – CNN.com fb.me/1iNACaLTy
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SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 16th 2011
9/16/11
9.16.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/SQ8E6
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Wed am: RAF Tornado GR4s from RAF Marham fired Storm Shadows at targets in and around Sebha.
Targets near Sebha included: military vehicle depot & buildings NATO had confirmed were in use as a base for Qadhafi troops and mercenaries.
Thu am: Tornados from Gioia del Colle conducted mission to Sebha, following reports Qadhafi’s troops actively shelling civilian population.
Sebha mission saw the salvo firing technique for Brimstone missiles used for the first time in action, with some two dozen missiles fired.
7 or 8 target vehicles were observed on fire & precision nature of Brimstone’s warhead means other targets were likely destroyed or damaged.
Thu: Near Sirte, RAF aircraft used Paveway bombs & Brimstone missiles to destroy 1 tank, 4 multiple rocket launchers & 4 armed vehicles.
HMS Liverpool has conducted boarding inspections of merchant shipping & HMS Bangor has helped keep sea lanes free from residual mine threat.
SMILE:
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Gaddafi’s escape to Niger fb.me/1cj5nZwN6
Reuters
Libyan NTC forces storm Gaddafi’s home town
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
Wefaq #Libya: 9 martyrs from #Misrata and over 50 injuries in today’s battle for Sirte. #feb17"
Sirtawi
PIC: Ussama Muftah Safrouni 12-09-2011 #Sirte #RIP #gaddaficrimes pic.twitter.com/Grv6Rj6J
Usama Safrouni’s uncle managed to call his sister (Ussama’s mom) in #Sirte. She’s strong and patient. #FreeSirte #gaddaficrimes
Usama Safrouni’s mom witnessed his death. His last words were: “Forgive me. I’m a martyr! I’m a martyr!”
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
We’re in Niamey, Niger, expecting arrival of Libyan NTC delegation asking to take Saadi Gadhafi, who is holed up here, back to Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan Freedom Fighters raised in Manchester helped in the fight against Gaddafi – Picture in Tripoli facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Manchester
Gaddafi’s birthplace ‘captured by FF’ in battle for last Libya coast stronghold is.gd/JyQA7m #Libya
Air Malta looks forward to relaunching Libya flights is.gd/707hlP
Libya Awalan TV Channel reporter in Sirte reported the death of Mousa Ibrahim. His body is on its way to Musrata. #libya
Can’t picture #MousaIbrahim out firing a gun – or being dead! Too real! Any more information pls?
Abdullah
I doubt this story of Mussa Ibrahim death, he spoke few hours ago to Alray TV and seemed very calmly hiding in a safe place.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Breaking Libya 100’s of FF r now monitoring escape roots out of Baniwalid & also in positions now to block most escape roots south 2 Niger!!
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Ras Ajeder till Salloum. Then Egypt – Libya – Tunis will be in the hand of Revolutionaries. (arab media never speak about ‘rebels’)
LVview
Now that’s what I call hot gossip! Musa Mansour Ibrahim is biological son of Gaddafi!! as the DNA analysis will confirm!
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Support from free #Libya to #syria(n) revolution. “Zanga Zanga Dar Dar, we will defeat you #Bashar!” My story: bit.ly/p3y8P4 #tripoli
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
The FF have surrounded #baniwalid cutting off all exits
Sanna
Pray for FF in Bani Walid, Sirte and Sabha, that they succeed very soon and can go home to celebrate their freedom!
4Adam Adam
Niger, has about 32 Gaddafi supporters, + son Saadi, says France should not interfere in its relations with #Libya. #SAFEHEVEN #NIGER
LibyanAffairs Libyan Affairs
Strange report on Alaan TV about a Gaddafi secret place in Fateh university! #Libya Disgusting family!
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Photo: Col. Ahmed Bani on Flickr. Col. Ahmed Bani is the official military spokesperson for the NTC. tumblr.com/xxw4pkrmpp
Major petrol shortage in Tripoli now, source of problem still unclear
Just got back from Mutassim Gaddafi’s house in Bin Ashur, Tripoli. A huge complex, with 10 metre high walls and swimming pools
Mutassim Gaddafi’s house has indoor and outdoor pools, sauna complex, gym and underground hospital, didn’t have time to check it all out
On the floor in the grounds of Mutassim Gaddafi’s house I found a bank statement dated 25/9/2002. US dollars in bank = 2,713,535.93
Photo: Outhouse on Flickr. Fighters from the “Shuhadaa al-Asima” battalion from Nalut inspect an outhouse… tumblr.com/xxw4pll35o
Photo: Steam room on Flickr. Fighters from the “Shuhadaa al-Asima” battalion from Nalut pose in one of the… tumblr.com/xxw4plp6tg
Photo: Lake on Flickr. Via Flickr: A fighter from the “Shuhadaa al-Asima” battalion checks out an artificial… tumblr.com/xxw4plutdp
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Anti #Gaddafi Forces have entered Sirte. Latest details bbc.in/qpxTBR #Libya #Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Libya TV – it’s a new channel on Nilesat l-tv.tv nd is owned by the same people as Libya FM libya.fm
Niz_FGM Niz
Meeting with Shamam tomorrow. We intend to grill. forward us anything you will like to ask him about or quiz him on.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Anti-Qaddafi forces speed towards Bani Walid #Alarabiya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Unfortunately more mass graves are being discovered around Libya (and #Tripoli) – Prisoners that were killed as Gaddafi forces fled. #libya
The #Tripoli military council & NTC are in fact trying to bring in special machines from Europe that can search soil for mass graves
A few days ago, a dozen executed prisoners wre found bloated/decomposing at a ditch near Souk Al Thulata (#Tripoli) covered by garbage (cnt)
The bodies were only found when local residents complained about the smell. They seem to date back to 20th August or so.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
It is Erdogan’s turn to visit Tripoli, a day after Sarkozy’s and Cameron’s joint visit there goo.gl/RxXkc
septimius_sever septimius severus
By far the one picture that sums up #Feb17 … no name or face above #Libya إنا على الدهر جنودلا نبالي إن سلمت من هلك pic.twitter.com/dlkbrVya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Saleh, Khalifa, Assad, Butafliqa & all Arab Dictators your end will be like Gaddafi,Mubarak & Ben Ali
Video of capture of AbdAllah Senusi’s nephew from Sebha is.gd/WeqU0u #Feb17 #Libya
Mark
Chamis #Gaddafi Units of 32nd brigade are reported 2b barricaded inside a row of Villas along #Sirte Beachfront #Libya static.panoramio.com/photos/origina…
Niz_FGM Niz
There is consensus forming on Shamam concerns. All questions noted…will pose as many as i can. Keep them coming.. we want to be your voice
Joanne
Hello @DrMoussaIbrahim Can u Hear me through the night ? If so U are NOT Dead If I get no reply I assume u r dead At least dead today #Libya
UK to provide £600,000 for de-mining efforts and £60,000 to pay for a police communications system #Libya
#Europe is ready to recognise #Libya ’s interim government in the United Nations, #UN but will push it to become more inclusive
#UK will make 50 places available SpecialistHospitals 4critically ill #Libya ns visa requirements 2b waived 4patients +1 accompanying person
The #Gaddafi katibah forces in #Sirte is called Saadi katibah… You tell me if Saadi in Niger is innocent or not! #libya #feb17
bebird
I think Sarkowzy should be made an honorary Libyan for sending in the planes to save Benghazi when everyone else talked.
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Pockets of resistance remain with Gaddafi forces surrounded in the city centre Headquarters of an Insurance company #Libya
#SIRTE Khamis Gaddafi iand his Units of the 32nd brigade are reported 2b Barricaded inside a row of Villas along #Sirte Beachfront #Libya
If #Sirte is liberated it opens main EastWest coastal highway allowing #Benghazi-based #NTC to move by road to the capital #Tripoli #Libya
Rebels claim control of centre of #Sirte after 3pronged attack with Gaddafi son #KHAMIS said 2b barricaded in @seafront goo.gl/UoSSy
He he Yes Tweeps Its reported that #Khamis #Gaddafi has Risen from the Death Yet Again At least on paper : goo.gl/UoSSy #Libya
#Sirte #Nato planes still overhead 8 Strikes in Sirte in the last 24 hours #Libya
#FLASH #Turkey #Erdogan, is expected to Arrive in time for #Friday prayers in #Tripoli #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Musa Ibrahim brother, Moses Ibrahim captured & taken to #Misrata central hospital after suffering injuries. #Libya #Feb17
Many sleeper cells that fled #BaniWalid to #Tripoli disguised as women have been arrested. They were found w/ weapons & cash.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
We wrote this Feb 22 – “A Lesson from our True Leader: Omar Al Mukhtar, Libya’s Freedom Fighter” feb17.info/general/a-less… #Libya
RIP Omar Almukhtar (1862 – September 15, 1931) – #Libya #Feb17
BANI WALID:
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
25% of the population of Baniwalid is displaced into the the Tenenai and the Shmeikh regions.#libya #feb17
Families in Baniwalid are with the FF, and have been receiving gas, food and drink from the FF for the people leaving.
Caravans were sent in carrying food and other supplies into Baniwalid.
Pro Gaddafi forces have only been kept in the Soug region of Baniwalid (Market). The rest has been freed.
They tried telling the people it was the FF that were shelling them, as to instigate
problems.
Revolutionaries have their own radio station in Baniwalid, called Libya al7urra miin baniwalid (free libya, from baniwalid)
They have been broadcasting calls, revolutionary songs, quran and such. the frequency is 92.00 FM, please retweet! #baniwalid
Also the feb17 FF in baniwalid have set up safe places for families that have left to stay at, that have all supplies and healthcare needed
There are 3 locations of these safe areas for the families that have left #baniwalid
Many families have joined their relatives in Tripoli, and are very secure, and fed well.
the FF have 4 or 5 service groups. Healthcare with 40,doctors, 15 ambulances, and a field hospital 40 km from the city. n another 60 km away
They have also upgraded tarhouna hospital and have put staff from baniwalid there.
The health centre in Shtata (closed for 30 years) is now reopened and working with doctors from Baniwalid.
They have also returned madar and libyana service to #baniwalid despite the gaddafi brigades sabotage attempts. #libya
Also electricity lines have been fixed by the FF. #baniwalid #libya
There is also a group that takes care of the injured people, and martyrs. #baniwalid #libya
There is support from all over Free Libya helping out :) #libya #baniwalid
There is also a security group, in charge of prisoners of war (35 of them, only 5 of which are from #baniwalid. the rest are from all over).
Many sleeper cells that fled from #baniwalid to tripoli disguised as women have been arrested. They were found with weapons and cash. #libya
Big battle in Sirte has ensued today. Certain areas under FF control.
The kataeb in Baniwalid have been shelling the freed areas of the city.
Areas shelled at are Dahra, Sikba, and the airport area.
The FF are preparing their assault pending the families that are leaving the city. #baniwalid
The FF have surrounded #baniwalid cutting off all exits. #libya
BreakingNews Breaking News
‘Bani Walid will be free today,’ Libyan fighter says as rebel forces push into Gadhafi stronghold on.msnbc.com/qEEZgz
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Scores of NTC trucks, several tanks, advancing on Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte #Alarabiya
AlertNet AlertNet
Alert: Explosions and gunfire heard inside Libya’s Bani Walid, as anti-Gaddafi troops pour into town – Reuters reporter #libya
FRANCE24 FRANCE 24
LIBYA: Erdogan heads to Libya as NTC and pro-Gaddafi forces clash f24.my/r80vBu
Libya In Me
I’ve moved onto the addiction stage. Can’t get enough of this revolution song youtu.be/wIPXPynCggg
BreakingNews Breaking News
At least 11 killed as Libyan rebel fighters attack Sirte, Misrata Military Council says – Al-Jazeera aje.me/qNu2Eh
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Great EXCLUSIVE by @bencnn & team in #Libya : Anti- #Gadhafi forces surge into Sahara #cnn cnn.com/video/data/2.0…
DavidPoort David Poort
Tripoli’s Martyr Square in anticipation of friday prayers with Turkish PM Erdogan pic.twitter.com/h5wUHBub
FRANCE24 FRANCE 24
LIBYA: Sarkozy, Cameron cheered in Benghazi as NTC troops enter Sirte f24.my/nqfdFj
Scalded Gaddafi family nanny in Malta www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011... #Libya
BreakingNews Breaking News
Libyan fighters capture the airport in Sirte from Gadhafi forces – Reuters
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: we shared our campsite north of Sabha with this colourful chap. #Libya yfrog.com/nwktadj
Photo: fighters atop an old training aircraft at al-Juloud Airbase, Birak, southern #Libya yfrog.com/nu6egrj
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan NTC fighters say seize valley leading into center of Bani Walid from Qaddafi forces, advancing on central stronghold #Alarabiya
Scores of NTC trucks, several tanks, advancing on Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte #Alarabiya
Explosions and gunfire are heard inside Libya’s Bani Walid as anti-Qaddafi troops pour into the town
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Reuters Head of Syrian-based TV channel says he has footage of Gaddafi recorded in last 48 hrs & would broadcast it soon #Libya
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Why Misrata FF r taking part in liberating Sirte & Sabha but will not go near Baniwalid?!! Its a historical reason which Libyans understand!
‘We are going in’: Libya forces attack Gaddafi’s desert stronghold after two-week siege
Libyan fighters poured into a desert town held by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi on Friday as explosions and gunfire echoed around the town’s hills and valleys, a Reuters reporter said.
Bani Walid, 110 miles south of Tripoli, has been under siege for two weeks, with hundreds of die-hard Gadhafi loyalists concentrated at its center.
Earlier Friday, truckloads of anti-Gadhafi troops shouting “Let’s go! Bani Walid!” and columns of pickup trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns were seen speeding toward the town, kicking up clouds of dust in the desert.
“We are going in. We finally have the orders. God is greatest. God willing, Bani Walid will be free today,” fighter Mohamed Ahmed said, his rifle sticking out of his car window.
Anti-Gadhafi forces also stormed the ousted ruler’s birthplace of Sirte late on Thursday, coming under heavy fire from loyalists in the northern coastal city.
Al-Jazeera reported that Libyan forces were engaged in fierce fighting with Gadhafi’s troops Friday.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/we-are-going-in-li...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya’s Agoco to pump 200,000 bpd by end-Sept is.gd/7XZBMm #Libya
Libyan fighters have captured the airport in Sirte from forces loyal to Gaddafi, Al-Jazeera reported on Friday. Reuters
The airport lies some 10 km (6 miles) south of Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown and one of the last strongholds controlled by Gaddafi. Reuters
Hundreds of FF advanced on Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte on Friday, a Reuters witness said. #Libya
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is welcomed in Tripoli by NTC Head AbdulJaleel #Libya #Tripoli
Libyan fighters move on Gadhafi area is.gd/CmhNDY #Libya
Libyan ff advance on Sirte is.gd/tmprDA #Libya
“We are now inside Bani Walid but clashes are still ongoing.” AJA
AJA reporting live from inside Beni Walid #Libya
Link to AJA live from Beni Walid www.livestation.com/channels/43-al-jaze... #Libya #AJA
Madprof666
The conflict in #Libya is not a civil war, but a war of liberation against an insane dictator.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Sirte has many many armed loyalists but the civilian population are against
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Libya Alhurra carrying Friday sermon from Tripoli live – Erdogan and Abduljalil in first row. Meanwhile, @LibyaTV showing reruns… #libya
malonebarry Barry Malone
Reuters @mariagolvnina has witnessed NTC forces pouring into pro-Gaddafi Bani Walid as explosions and gunfire echo round the valley #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Sign being carried by Zawiya’s freedom fighters as they head south to Sabha #libya fb.me/wKnP9SUv
FreeBenghazi
Mohammed Ibrahim, brother of Gaddafi spokesman, Musa Ibrahim, captured. Wounded in both feet & receiving treatment in Misrata
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Aljazeera live from one of the residential areas of Bani Walid… FF in control here. #libya #feb17
BREAKING: BANI WALID: AJA: “We are now INSIDE Bani Walid but clashes are still ongoing.” – Commotion in the background #libya #feb17
Live scenes of fighting in Bani Walid right next to scenes of Erdogan arriving in Tripoli to participate in Friday prayers #libya #feb17
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Libya Alhurra carrying Friday sermon from Tripoli live – Erdogan and Abduljalil in first row. Meanwhile, @LibyaTV showing reruns… #libya
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
18 Bodies found in freezer within Tripoli Med Ctr, some were identified as bodies of NFSL members martyred in May/June 1984, never buried!
Fadwa
@libyatv @libyatvarabic WAKE UP!!!! AJA REPORTER IS INSIDE BANI WALID AND YOU’RE PLAYING MUSIC!!! ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS???!!!!!!!
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
by ChangeInLibya
Just met Makhlouf al Firjan spox for rev. mil council of #Sirte. says fighters control most of west, south and north of city. (1/2)
(2/2) – HE says civilians are living under dire conditions inside #Sirte due to 3 months of intense pressure by G loyalists-
libyanproud libyanandproud
Battles for the last three #Gaddafi strongholds are on their way : #BaniWalid, #Sirte, and #Sebha. #Feb17 #Libya
Zlitniya
I feel sorry for the free ppl of #Sirte #Sebha and #BaniWalid -their cities will be associated w #Gaddafi 4a LONG time #shame
BintTarablis Nusaybah (KC)
Today,Sept 16, marks the 80th anniversary of Libyan hero Omar Al-Mukhtar’s martyrdom- who fought in wars against Italy occupation of #Libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Libyan freedom fighters are fully control of #Sirte airport & more military reinforcements sent to forntline #Alarbiya #Libya #feb17
Reuters: Scores of NTC trucks and tanks advancing on Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte
BREAKING: In fierce push, Libya fighters stream into Bani Walid, one of remaining Gaddafi bastions #AP
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Niger Min of Justice on record saying won’t send Saadi G home where NTC wants him to face justice. Saadi G says was told can stay in Niger.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
This is a XLL flag, I would say! yfrog.com/keb0tqdj
You go out first… No, you go first!!! You’re the Prime Minster! yfrog.com/h4mh2loj
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Protest planned in Benghazi today that some say is largely against Ali Salabi, Islamist cleric who criticized ‘extremist secularists’ in NTC
Tweeting Tripoli
Also Saddi Brigade is named after a Warfalli hero named Alssadi Altubuli who fought the Italian invaders.
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Off to Friday prayers in Martyr’s Square
BaniWalid, Sirte and Sabha are now experiencing the same tragic events that we in Tripoli went through during the period before August 20th.
Wasn’t Salabi the one who met secretly with Gaddafi’s lot last May or June?
WEELULE WEELULE
From what I read and heard about Salabi, my conclusion he is either still working for G or has his own agenda, power seeker
A Free Libyan
Yeah, he did deal with G officials. What Salabi is doing is 100% for himself, not Libya. All he wants is power….
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: ‘Rebels’ entering Bani Walid and Sirte, clashes, deaths among Gaddafi fighters.
HaraldDoornbos Harald Doornbos
Bezocht appartement van Khadaffi op campus universiteit Tripoli, woonkamer, slaapkamer, jacuzzi en…prive gynaecologie kliniek. Luguber.
Vond verhuisdoos in Khadaffi love nest met namen van 2 NL bedrijven erop, ook factuur uit juni 1993, toen er nog sancties golden tegen Libie
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Ali Salabi and other Islamists (from Qatar) try to strenghten Islamists in Libya by several means. Weapons from Qatar go to Islamists..
..brigades and not the Libyan Liberation Army, acc to high ranking military sources.
And Ali Salabi uses AlJazeera to launch his ideas, attacks on liberal politicians, Mahmoud Jebril has to step down, acc to Ali Salabi.
Statement by Misrata Military Council about the entry to Sirte15-09-2011 #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSmqTmC8p0
Elysee Elysee
@NTC_of_Libya @Number10gov Les photos du déplacement de N. #Sarkozy et D. #Cameron en #Libye goo.gl/CnTSf twitpic.com/6llzpf
via ArabTimesOnline: New #Libya enters #Sirte – #UK, #France to hunt Gaddafi, Cameron pledges support to hunt Gaddafi www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tab...
English Libya TV
Libyan NTC fighters seize Sirte airport
Hundreds of fighters loyal to Libya’s new rulers advanced on Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte today, a Reuters witness said.
Scores of trucks mounted with machine guns and four tanks were seen on the road leading into the city
Today, Libyan fighters also captured the airport in Sirte from forces loyal to Gaddafi.
The airport lies some 10 km (6 miles) south of Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown and one of the last strongholds controlled by soldiers loyal to the deposed leader.
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Just received a text on the Al-Madar network – it says that regime henchmen like Abdallah Sanusi are using hire cars to perform sabotage 1/2
and gives numbers for people to call if they see anything suspicious, also promises financial reward for those who help catch henchmen
befroggled Miss B
Tonight 6pm UK/5pm GMT on Al Jazeera Documentary – The story of the Abu Salim massacre as told never before; on.fb.me/mTNE0p #Libya RT!
The documentary was filmed by a friend in June ‘11 in #Libya and features exclusive interviews with witnesses of the Abu Salim massacre.
I was meant to have work on the documentary but went on #AidTrip instead so my contribution was filming the recreation scenes.
The documentary was made by a small group of very committed people, so watch, let us know what you think & I’ll relay the feedback :)
kosovo_01
Serb mercenary Radunkovic hidden in Serbia Embassy in Tripoli/might be more G. merc in Serbia Embassy..english.blic.rs/Society/8007/D…
will see he is in the anti-nuclear bunker in sebha airport we will see it soon whether I was right in locating him
Palm Maple
According 2 late Gen Younus, Khamis brigade is called after Gaddafi uncle from mother side & not his son. Not sure of S
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
it seems u r right. Shaari told me the same thing
Tweeting Tripoli
Also Saddi Brigade is named after a Warfalli hero named Alssadi Altubuli who fought the Italian invaders.
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH Was a #MousaIbrahim MIXUP RT @EmadDlala Brother of Moussa Ibrahim is captured in #Sirte and he’s now in #Misrata. He’s injured #Libya
#FLASH 2 #DUTCH FIRMS #Simed Int. delivered Medical instruments + #Varekamp Industrieel transported them 2 Gaddafi Love Nest #Libya
#BANIWALID All Hell Broke Loose in #Bani #Walid this Morning #NTC Freedom Fighters Rushed inside town Now engaged in Ferocious battle #Libya
On Way to #SABHA #Benwedeman is with #NTC Fighters in S Libya the #Sahara FF Massing for final showdown goo.gl/efOTH
#Tripoli #University #PROVE : Gaddafi Love Nest Box Found with Medical Stuff from #Holland Ordered in 1993 twitpic.com/6lm2dv/full #Libya
#FLASH Erdogan was greeted by Jalil this morning #Turkey contractors had 214 Building Projects value of $15 billion before Febr17 #Libya
urtakingthemick
The final victory is getting closer,my best regards to all those who have worked so hard for this result.On twitter +front line.
#TURKEY Firms were building hospitals, shopping malls + 5star Hotels in #Libya b4 Feb17 #Erdogan in #Tripoli Got BILLIONS of $$$ 2 Discuss
Mesh3adi مش عادي
But behind the scene it was the #Turkish drug mobs doing enormous laundering in #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE #Statement by the #Misrata Military Council; 11 NTC fighters have been killed and 34 wounded yesterday Fighting for #Harrawa #Libya
#TRIPOLI #Erdogan will attend Midday #Friday Prayers at #Martyr #Square the Turkish energy minister says #TPAO will resume work asap #Libya
#FLASH #NTC to vet 3,000 mainly sub-Saharan migrants in #Sabha b4 evacuate abroad 2Ensure NONE were #Gaddafi #s Mercenaries #Libya
#FLASH: Abdeljalil Mayuf Agogo SpokesMan #Agoco is producing 150,000 bpd from 100 wells We will try 2get to 200,000 bpd by end Sept #Libya
#Sirte UPDATE; West north + southern parts in #NTC control Situation DIRE Civilians have no water or electricity and Barely any food #Libya
#SIRTE UPDATE: Eastern area of #Sirte is still Flying green flag These are towns and villages still supporting Gaddafi #Libya
#Harawa town nr #Sirte was supposed to surrender but it didnt happen yet this is Base of #Khamis brigade with many G Supporters #Libya
Sirte Fighter who came from city last night says #Sirte has been underSiiege by Gaddafi forces for at least three months #Libya
#Tripoli Martyr Square #Feb22; youtube.com/watch?v=vmozB7… where #Erdogan and #Jaleel today attended prayers in an almost Free #Libya
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
#FFs in #Sirte have full control of Gurdabiya airport while fighting continues S of Wadi Jaref w/retreated G forces. pic.twitter.com/yX8UDLCM
#FFs attempted to station in #Sirte Sports center but came under sniper gunfire from #3 residential complex buildings. #FreeSirte #Feb17
Screaming was heard from Hay Al-Naga (mostly loyalists) which indicates some might have died during clashes in that neighborhood. #Sirte
FRANCE24: #LIBYA:
Erdogan heads to Libya as NTC and pro-Gaddafi forces clash f24.my/r80vBu
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta navy P-61 returns to #Valletta from #Tripoli with 2 wounded #Libya civilians who will be given treatment in #Malta hospital
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: fortified hanger at al-jaloud airbase, Birak, #Libya, hit in NATO bombing. yfrog.com/mmqroukj
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Erdogan and AbdulJaleel sit in the front row for Friday prayers in Tripoli’s Martyrs Square #Libya
Picture – Erdogan and Abduljaleel sit in front row of Friday prayers www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2056881... #Libya #Tripoli
Libyan commander tells the AP that fighters are about a mile from the heart of Bani Walid, the Gaddafi stronghold. – AP #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Front row at Tripoli’s friday sermon. Erdogan and AbdulJalil #Turkey #NTC #Libya fb.me/SR3LFS7X
LibyaNewMedia
Guy on the right is foreign minister Davutoglu.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Following my last tweet Baniwalid is being liberated by its own FF also last 6 months FF from Wirfalla fought in misrata against G brigades
Tweeting Tripoli
Looking at pictures coming from Sirte & BW, I now realize this not only a popular revolution, it’s also a war to liberate my country.
libyanproud libyanandproud
Much respect to @AJArabic ! Reporters in every Front in #Libya ! #ShammamTV your a waste of Satellite space !
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
The building you see on AJA is the Administrative Building, BW center: 31°45’16.85"N 14° 1’22.56"E المبنى الإداري pic.twitter.com/ThehmOGs
What an irony, his name is “Safe” and yet hie is extremely unstable and dangerous!!! pic.twitter.com/uhpne0Kb
libyanproud libyanandproud
AJA : Journalist has been injured in #BaniWalid . #Feb17 #Libya anyone know which journo is there ?
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING: One of Gaddafi’s sons is in #Bani #Walead. Alj reporter
misrati_free
3 Injuries so far today to the Western Field hospital in #Sirte.
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
#FFs also tried to enter Al-Markaziya school (indicated in blue) where ammo suspected to be hidden in basement. #Sirte pic.twitter.com/uDOWhdoT
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Sirte: Libyan FF found SCUD launchers and SCUD missiles that were being prepared by Gaddafi forces to be fired at Misrata/Tripoli #libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
5 revolutionaries killed in Bani Waleed in fighting today. #Libya
befroggled Miss B
Fierce gun battle between freedom fighters and Gaddafi loyalists in Bani Walid live on Al Jazeera now. #Libya
CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
#Misrata mil. council tells me they found 6 scud missiles in #Jareff valley near #Sirte. #Libya
calperryAJ Cal Perry
GREAT live TV on @AJEnglish right now: Live signal of combat in #Libya. Gun trucks lighting up front lines … #BaniWalid
English Libya TV
Turkey’s PM Erdogan arrives in Tripoli
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Tripoli today, broadcaster CNN Turk reported, on a North African tour to assert Ankara’s regional influence.
His visit came a day after the French and British leaders won a hero’s welcome there for helping to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi and in the midst of a fierce battle over Gaddafi’s home town.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said today on a visit to Libya that those who inflict repression on the people of Syria will not survive, stepping up his rhetoric against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“You are the ones who showed the whole world that no administration can stand in the way of the might and will of the people,” he told a cheering Libyan crowd in a public square in Tripoli.
“Do not forget this: Those in Syria who inflict repression on the people will not be able to stand on their feet,” said Erdogan, who is in Libya as part of a tour of Arab countries.
AJELive AJELive
As the battle rages, watch the fight for the inland oasis town Bani Walid live on Al Jazeera aje.me/fwtYjF
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
In #Baniwaild more than 16 mercenaries were captured by FF #libya #feb17
FreeBenghazi
Misrata fighters found another 4 SCUD missiles in WadiJifra. 2 were set to launch. Earlier, 2 missiles were found directed at Misrata #Libya
Nusaybah (KC)
I’m am a British Libyan and I support the Syrian National Council. #SNC #SNCinAssadOUT #Syria #basharcrimes #Mar15
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Sirte: Freedom fighters entered Wadi jarf in Sirte an area that is thought to be Gaddafi’s hometown. They even found his old pictures #libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Al Jazeera reporter from the South Gate of #Sirte said FFs are in control of area & the FFs are sweeping the entire valley #Libya #feb17
“AP:
Loyalists in two key Gadhafi strongholds put up a fierce fight as Libyan fighters mount major offensives: apne.ws/oTFkd9 #libya
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
FF are competing which town would be liberated first: #Baniwaild or #Sirte ? #libya #feb17 love libyans lions
freedomgroupTV
Misrata fighters found another four SCUD missiles in WadiJifra. Two were set to launch. Earlier, two missiles were found directed at Misrata.
Ali Tweel
trables.com/archive/ #TrabelsiBlog
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
No street fighting in Bani Waleed if we have to rely on the scenes. Revolutionaries just outside the city though. #Libya
Emo
#Misrata FFs set a record in planning, courage & behavior. They deserve all respect from the NTC & world. #Libya
Al Jazeera: the FFs freed three districts in #BeniWalid, & #Gaddafi battalions stationed in the #Zeitoun neighborhood #Libya #feb17
frankentele Sean Carberry
Via @nprnews: Libya’s Oil Production To Resume Shortly | n.pr/r6mJST #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan Independence flag is waving in Wadi Jaref, Gaddafi’s birthplace in the town of Sirte #Libya AJA
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Mustafa Abdel Jalil talking about lessons offered by Turkish model during press conf w/ Erdogan. Many Libyan Islamists also look to Turkey
Niz_FGM Niz
Hatem of the Free Generation Movement, 1 of lead organisers of med unit going to Sabha, talks to Ben Wedeman of CNN. facebook.com/FGMovement
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Libyan fighters press into Gadhafi strongholds, met stiff resistance from snipers & loyalist gunners #Sirte #BaniWalid hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie…
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Amazing, amazing scenes from Bani Walid and Sirte… took me back to the Zawiya and Tripoli days… God bless our FF. What a feeling. #libya
Feb17Libya
Tripoli Festival 2011 will be held on September the 24th 2011. For more details follow
@TripoliFestival – #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
TelegraphNews:
Libyan revolutionaries enter Bani Walid in final push tgr.ph/nBfCsG” #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Heavy fighting in/around Bani Waleed & Sirte. Al Jazeera cameras outside Bani Waleed with heavy gunfire audible.
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
I like FF saying that Gaddafi must see us live now to know how much he lost
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
BRKING live footage from wadi Jarif near #Sirte FF found houses of #Gaddafi cousins full of ammo,AJA showing G album found in 1house #libya
Sarah LFFR
#AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar
malvernchela
What will he do? Fight to death, suicide, surrender, something else? RT@freedom4libya: Looks like #Saif is trapped in Bin Waled. #Libya
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
Urgent: Mahmoud Jibreel of #NTC is forming a broad cabinet that represent all #Libya – Mahmoud Shamam #
Urgent: Mahmoud Jebreel will be #Libya FM for short period of time till we find the right candidate -Shamam
Urgent: Defense and interior posts in the new cabinet will be given to those who played a vital role in the revolution –Shamam #Libya #Sirte
Urgent: Omer Muktar was executed today and that’s why we selected 16/09 to liberate BaniWalid and #Sirte #Libya #Gaddafi #NTC #Gaddafi
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
Wadi Jirf that FF liberated is Gaddafi’s tribe area
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
times have changed- watching TV live picture of press conference room at the #Rixos #Tripoli this time for #Turkey PM Erdogan presser #Libya
Proudlibyandoc
Would you like to know about the #Libya #revolution? don’t turn to #ShammamTV, go to #AJA #aljazeera.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Breaking Libya expect total liberation of Baniwalid & Sirte today last obstacle is snipers but FF have good experience of dealing with them!
AJELive AJELive
#Turkey’s Erdogan speaking next to NTC’s Abdel Jalil: “We will be hand-in-hand, shoulder-to-shoulder with #Libya” aje.me/fwtYjF
MUST READ:
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
US official: Program aimed at preventing chem, bio nuclear Libyan scientists from working for terror groups #Libya forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/…
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Erdogan: We will now intend to go to Misrata then onto Benghazi where we will hug our Libyan brothers #Libya
Erdogan: Turkish airlines have already commenced the renovation of Benghazi Benina International #Libya
Erdogan: Teams will arrive from turkey with aid for victims of Libya conflict #Libya #Turkey
Turkey PM Erdogan says in Tripoli: “#Libya must continue to belong to the people of Libya and never turn into an Iraq” aje.me/fwtYjF
Erdogan: We would like to help Libya in schools courthouses and police stations #Libya #Turkey
Erdogan: Libya belongs to the people of Libya and must remain this way #Libya #Turkey
Erdogan: people of Sirte must also support this struggle, I believe in their hearts they have support this #Libya #Sirte
English libya TV
Poland reopens embassy in Tripoli
Poland says it has reopened its embassy in Libya’s capital after it was closed earlier this year as authoritarian ruler Muammar Gaddafi sought to enforce his rule.
The embassy reopened yesterday at its previous site in Tripoli. For more than two months, it operated from a temporary location in Benghazi, under the control of Libya’s revolutionary forces.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement today that the presence of the permanent mission in Tripoli will help bilateral ties under new political conditions.
In May, Poland was among the first nations to recognize Libya’s National Transitional Council as the only Libyan partner for talks.
Gaddafi remains on the run since late August, and Tripoli is now under the control of the NTC.
Guma El Gamaty:
Breaking Libya expect total liberation of Baniwalid & Sirte today last obstacle is snipers
AJELive AJELive
Erdogan says that today “has been declared a day of martyrs throughout Libya” at live event w/ #Libya #NTC Abdel Jalil aje.me/fwtYjF
Dernawiya Hanan
Libya total liberation expected of Baniwalid & Sirte today! Via Guma AlGumaty
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
by liberatelibya
#Sirte: The fighting is concentrated on September 1 Street, residential zone 2 in the city center and around the airport.
Hanan
Omar Al Mukhtar, the Lion of the desert, was martyred Sept 16 1931. #Libya #Hero
dovenews
5 #FF were killed in #Bani #Walead battle. More reinforcement have reached #FF in #Bani #Walead
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC leader: “Looking forward to a democratic Islamic country that will make use of the experiments of the Turkish” #Libya AJE
panosharitos panos haritos
#Libya TV report: Fighting in Sirte leaves at least 12 dead, 59 injured
hathbenali HAITHAM BEN ALI
Al Arabiya correspondent: NTC flags are raised on the governmental headquarters in Sirte
Suzanne
RIP brave freedom fighters RT@LibyaNewMedia: 5 revolutionaries killed in Bani Waleed in fighting today. #Libya
Breaking News: NTC forces advance into Bani Walid and Sirte
The forces of Libya’s new leaders attacked two besieged towns today, storming into Bani Walid and pushing forward at Sirte, as they tried to finish off resistance from diehard supporters of Muammar Gaddafi.
At Bani Walid, a bastion of tribal loyalists in the desert 180 km southeast of Tripoli, a Reuters correspondent watched anti-Gaddafi fighters move forward under mortar, rocket and sniper fire, advancing from house to house and sheltering behind walls as shrapnel and bullets flew.
Though the forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC) said they took a key valley leading to the centre, the defence remained ferocious after a two-week siege of the town where senior figures in the old government may have taken refuge.
On the outskirts of Sirte, Gaddafi’s birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, another Reuters correspondent watched scores of trucks mounted with heavy machineguns, as well as four tanks, advancing on the sprawling seaside city.
Read more:
english.libya.tv/2011/09/16/revolutiona...
dovenews Libyan™
In this day the Italian occupation has hanged the Lion of the desert #Omar #Mukhtar September 16, 1931 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Mukh… #LionOfDesert
malonebarry Barry Malone
Turkey’s Erdogan appeals to Gaddafi fighters in Sirte, Sabha and Bani Walid to join the revolution: “Come and join your brothers”
borzou
Just shook hands w #Turkey foreign minister Ahmet Davatoglu at luncheon in Rixos w Erdogan, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Jibril #libya #feb17
jessradio Jess Hill
There’s some serious action going down in #Sirte. Misrata Military Council is emailing updates on the battle every half-hour or so. #Libya
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Our report in Sirte says that the city should be completely liberated within the next few hours
English Libya TV
TV chief: Gaddafi broadcasts are “sacred right”
The head of a Syrian-based television channel which has become Muammar Gaddafi’s last platform for the outside world said he had a duty to broadcast the ousted Libyan dictators comments and promised another video statement soon.
Former Iraqi MP Mishaan al-Jabouri said he remained in daily contact with either family or close associates of Gaddafi, who he said was in Libya and in good spirits, though he declined to say exactly where.
Jabouri said he was not a supporter of Gaddafi but his channel stood by opponents of Libya’s “occupation” and people had “a sacred right” to hear both sides of the story.
“Today, the media are all reporting NATO’s point of view,” Jabouri told Reuters, referring to the Western military alliance which helped revolutionary forces oust Gaddafi from Tripoli last month.
“The other side has no voice… It is our moral and professional duty to deliver this message, whether we agree with it or not,” he said by phone from Syria late on Thursday.
Gaddafi has defiantly spoken several times on Arrai TV since losing control of Tripoli on Aug. 23, calling on his supporters to continue their resistance to the new authorities.
“We have in our hands (in Libya) footage of a speech by Gaddafi,” Jabouri said, adding it had been recorded in the last 48 hours and would be broadcast as soon as what he called technical problems in Libya were overcome.
Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat said last week it had no right to switch off Arrai, although local distributor Noorsat had removed another of Jabouri’s channels, al-
Oruba, after being contacted by Eutelsat.
Jabouri said Arrai’s philosophy was to “stand beside any people defending themselves, who want to liberate their land, or who are subject to aggression… wherever they are, in Latin America or the Middle East”.
GADDAFI “THREATENED ARRAI”
A wealthy businessman, Jabouri was once close to Saddam Hussein’s son Uday but fled to Syria before the U.S. invasion toppled the Iraqi leader in 2003. He returned later and was elected to the Iraqi parliament but left for Syria again to escape corruption charges, which he says were fabricated.
Jabouri says he has funded his television business himself and received no money from Gaddafi apart from $400,000 four years ago and two payments totalling around $50,000 in April and May for broadcast equipment and training.
“I don’t support Muammar Gaddafi. He contacted the Syrian leadership six months ago and told them ‘I will blow up Arrai station if it doesn’t stop (covering) the Egyptian revolution’,” Jabouri said.
He also said his station had supported Libya’s uprising when protests first erupted in Benghazi.
Arrai’s Libya coverage is not the first time it has been a source of Western irritation. A leaked cable from the U.S. embassy in Damascus in October 2008, published on the WikiLeaks website, said Arrai was glorifying insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.
“Additionally, the station in its editorial capacity seeks to discredit Arab leaders, except Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,” it said. “Now may be the time to call on pan-Arab satellite providers … to discontinue broadcasting Arrai TV.”
Jabouri said he was not worried by efforts to shut down his station. “We have come under greater pressure than that. We have been threatened to be blown up by rockets,” he said.
Defending its coverage in Iraq, he said Arrai distinguished between support for attacks on U.S. military bases, which he said was legitimate resistance against an occupying force, and attacks on civilians including American contractors or Iraqi translators for U.S. forces, which he said was terrorism.
“Military forces who attack another country, or occupy another land — we call them occupiers and those who attack them we call resistance,” he said.
“We are with Gaddafi today because he is fighting attackers. I am not saying Gaddafi was a just leader … But we are talking about an aggression …killing women and children”.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyans Refuges Returns Home english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #Refuges #Qaddafi
Two more martyred in fighting to liberate #Sirte; Musbah Omar Suaib & second fighter, name unknown الله يرحمهم #Libya v @freedomgrouptv
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Photo #BBC: #NTC fighters take cover from sniper fire by pro-#Gaddafi loyalists in #BaniWalid #Libya #feb17 yfrog.com/h66jxxsj
KhadijaMAli Khadija Ali
AJM (live): battle for Bani Walled; Thuwar, you have revolutionized the media. #Libya #feb17
Arabic
Gaddafi photo album found as thuwar enter #Sirte
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka6ye9K1o78
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
80th anniversary of hanging our icon Omar AlMokhtar by fascist italy. He said “we never surrender we win or we die” I am so proud 2 b Libyan
LibyanLion17 A Free Libyan
Mosques in #BaniWalid chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ constantly. Freedom is in sight for the people of BW. Pray for them! #Libya #Feb17
feb17libya Feb17Libya
80 years later & his spirit still runs through our veins – R.I.P. Omar Mukhtar -(8/20/1861 – 9/16/1931) – #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/n11z3DtO
The North Africa Daily is out! bit.ly/dRzwj9
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Relieved @bbcarabic’s Mohammad Ballout ok after shot in arm near #BaniWalid. Was among group of reporters targeted by snipers in town #Libya
NTC fighter from #BaniWalid says it is a ‘ghost town’. Claims 500 families have fled north over past 2 days #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Obama to meet Libya’s NTC leader on Tuesday at the UN #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Received another update 11 minutes ago – Misrata Military Council still reporting fighting.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Omar Al Mokhtar’s memorial site in Benghazi is being rebuilt after Gaddafi destroyed it and moved Mokhtar’s body to the desert #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Picture of the execution of Omar Al-Mokhtar, 1931 Sept 16th. yfrog.com/h8p7uzgtj
Gaddafi’s fake mullah “Tantoosh” is in Sirte. Wanna bet they will catch him without the beard? yfrog.com/kgigpatj
Sirtawi
G forces tried to centralize in #Sirte’s #3 residential area with Grad rocket launchers but #FFs managed to push them back. #FreeSirte
Heavy fighting took place at Wumala gas station on the road leading to #Sirte airport. #FreeSirte #Feb17
hominoid555 Russell
FFs control the cache of weapons in the area of Abu Hadi in Sirte.
Sirte Violent clashes between the rebels and al-Gaddafi near the Ibn Sina hospital
Sirte Jadu FFs with their fellow FFs from several other areas arrived at the outskirts of Brac, and the beach there is now violent clashes
Clashes between the FFs and the remnants of battalions in the vicinity of what is known as compound secretariats in the heart of Sirte.
SKY NEWS
LIBYA: Anti-Gaddafi Troops Enter Sirte Under Heavy Fire – Sept. 16
Anti-Gaddafi fighters have reportedly entered the former dictator’s home town of Sirte about 280 miles east of Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FllL76ymqo&fea...
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
Today’s rally is in remembrance of Omar AlMukhtar. #Tripoli #Libya
LibyaFeb17_com LibyaFeb17.com
Video: Dodging Snipers in Bani Walid – #libya #feb17 – libyafeb17.com/2011/09/video-…
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
Rebuilding Omar al-Mukhtar’s mausoleum in #Benghazi. It was destroyed by #Gaddafi regime in 2000 youtu.be/_fHb-G8DfS0 #Libya #Feb17
Libya #Sirte Fightings now take place at Gaddafis Palace & Congress Hall 3km south the city" Here: bit.ly/CngHallSirte
Why #Niger is so ambivalent about #Gaddafi loyalists’ arrival – CSMonitor.com www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-M... #Libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
US Def Dept: “UN will have a large role in post-conflict #Libya”. Starting to sound a lot like Russia &China. Worrisome goo.gl/h49lE
FreeBenghazi
#CNN #PhilBlack: Still pockets of resistance in central #Sirte, but Gaddafiforces are out-numbered & out-armed #Libya
Aljazeera
Libya fighting rages in Bani Walid and Sirte
In an assault on Muammar Gaddafi’s Mediterranean hometown, fighters loyal to the Libyan National Transitional Council are trying to fight their way into the city centre of Sirte from three fronts.
And fighters surged into into Bani Walid, another remaining Gaddafi bastion, in a campaign to break the back of regime holdouts.
NTC leaders described the offensive as a co-ordinated push to take Sirte – a city of about 100,000 people – from the south, east and west.
Read more and watch video:
aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/09/20119...
4Adam Adam
Gaddafi spokesman denounces Cameron and Sarkozy Libya visit youtube.com/watch?v=j5TWsd… #Libya
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli’s Martyrs Square, before and after liberation…
yfrog.com/h4bvexxj
yfrog.com/nybo1tj
BBC’s Humphrey Hawksley reports – NTC forces attack Sirte and Bani Walid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAATqE4XTF0 #libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
NY Times says Sallabi is the most influential politician in #Libya & Belhaj most powerful military leader. Sorry guys, wrong on both counts.
Are these distortions to make the story fit the headline? (“Islamists’ Growing Sway Raises Questions”) goo.gl/1C9di
ThisIsHumanity
Yes. Sources? Hlp from #Gaddafi’s Western PR firms? They know that tomorrow’s public will agree 2 demonize today’s heroes.
Khalifa Leebee
aahhh the New York Times again missing the point.
John
yup – they’re just getting everyone all riled up – deep breath, NYT. deeeeep breath.
James Wheeler
#Libya: US Def Dept concerned “extremist groups might try to hijack the revolution”. NO one will steal this revolution! goo.gl/h49lE
BREAKING: NATO warplanes swept overhead, but there is no Fresh airstrikes to help the Anti-Gaddadi advance inside the city of #Sirte. #Libya
David Cameron was welcomed by jubilant crowds – Channel 4 News www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYo9LJco_-g&fea... #Libya #UK #France
Hosam
#Erdogan went on about Omar Mukhtar. Many things I didn’t know about the guy. We need to re-study history
FreeLibyan
Say/do wtever,but personally I wont forget #Erdogan stance n March & April,when he hindered #NATO effort & tried 2 rescue hs friend #Gaddafi
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
#Erdogan praying next to Boofa during Friday prayers in #Tripoli youtu.be/a6L_nGQBfmk #Libya #Turkey
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
by BirgerHost
#BaniWalid: #Freedomfighters have arrested 16 #Gaddafi forces most of them are mercenaries. #Libya #Feb17
Benghazi Youth
Revolutionaries in #Hun (South #Libya) youtu.be/3yP1Qv-fBzA take over Gov building & raise independence flag.
#AbdAljalil n #Zawra #Gaddafi visited t Amazighian city 2 n 42y.1he ann his mad v of demo& 2 w he handed Libyans 2 huge bit.ly/nxLnYK
tearsforfreedom
We all know Libya has succeeded politically when Skype recognises the NTC as legitimate single governing body. #skype #flag
Mushu
Making du’a for our families and #Freedomfighters in #Sirt #Sabha and #BaniWalid should be our priority now. #Libya #Feb17 #prayforlibya
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Jordan News Agency (Petra) |Jordanian trucks allowed to enter Libya: bit.ly/p1GP57 via @AddThis
tripolitano
Was in martyr square today. Amazing atmosphere
yfrog.com/kiaf6ucj
yfrog.com/nz3evvjj
yfrog.com/nzeakdj
somaya
#skype has changed the green rag flag to the revolutionary one! #excitingnews
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi loyalists hold off new Libyan attacks is.gd/k9vxLa #Libya
Libya FFs come under sniper fire in Bani Walid http://shabablibya.org/?p=http://shabablibya.org/ #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#NATO forces have bombed the Insurance Building in #Sirte city centre, which was home to large number of #Gaddafi snipers #Libya #Feb17
Libya TV: 2 captured #Gaddafi filth confirm that Mutassim Qaddafi is in #Sirte #Libya. #Feb17
BreakingNews Breaking News
General Assembly approves giving Libya’s UN seat to the ex-rebel National Transitional Council – @AP
NeilMacFarquhar Neil MacFarquhar
#Angola request to delay vote on recognizing #Libya #NTC at the #UN is defeated in the General Assembly. No. 107. Yes 22. Abstain 12
NeilMacFarquhar Neil MacFarquhar
#UN General Assembly votes to accept #NTC to represent Libya. Yes 114 No 17. Abstain. 15
libyanproud libyanandproud
Breaking : #UN General Assembly votes to accept #NTC to represent #Libya. Yes 114 No 17. Abstain. 15 . #Feb17 #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
The UN General Assembly gave Libya’s UN seat to the National Transitional Council which toppled Qaddafi #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Sirtawi
Updated map showing Markaziya school and Wagadugo Hall in #Sirte. #Libya #FreeSirte pic.twitter.com/iQxrriOZ
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
What’s with Libya Alahrar? They never learn. They just announce Mussa Ibrahim is killed in Sirte. No photo no video.
Took Gaddafi 40 years to go to the UN. Jalil, 6 months. Niiiiice!
Can anyone explain the relationship between Snipers and Insurance company’s buildings? In Misrata, Zawya, Tripoli, and now Sirte?
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
UN vote to accept NTC as the representative for the Libyan seat at the General Assembly. #Libya
Sirte : Heavy fighting near the secretariat complex and the liberation the airport completely
Bani Walid: Liberation of the northern areas of the city and the fighting now in the middle of the city
Barak Shatti: Fully Liberated and the national army on the way to the Sabha
4Adam Adam
Sept.16 – Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tripoli youtube.com/watch?v=7AXF_3… #Libya
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
Congratulations to National Transitional Council as #UN General Assembly accepts them as official representatives of #Libya,114 votes to 17.
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
as per our producer there: Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Angola, and Gabon among others” voted NO! #libya
4Adam Adam
AJA reporter – ‘#NTC forces face a great resistance from Gaddafi loyalists in BeniWaild’. #Libya
NTC commander on the battle for Bani Walid Libya revolution goo.gl/5dnL0
Libya Fighting Rages in Bani Walid and Sirte bit.ly/nEZXyd #p2
BBC News – Libya conflict: NTC forces attack Sirte and Bani Walid bbc.in/p1x4TN
Reuters News Media ▸ NTC forces storm Bani Walid and Sirte goo.gl/fb/5wUG8
Los rebeldes lanzan una ofensiva contra Bani Walid y Sirte www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/r... vía @el_pais
Tarek
So if the rebels withdraw from Bani Walid and Sirte, will the Gaddafi loyalists run after them and hunt them down, or will they stay put?
Ava
ffs have entered the north eastern part of bani walid town center though facing tough resistance #libya #baniwalid #feb17
Libya’s Anti-Gadhafi Forces Storm Bani Walid www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Lib... via @VOA_News
malonebarry Barry Malone
NTC fighters are now pouring OUT of Bani Walid under heavy rocket fire from pro-Gaddafi forces, say Reuters witnesses there #Libya
Sarkozy_News Nicolas Sarkozy
Sarkozy News, le Journal nouvelle édition bit.ly/q6lGPs ▸ Aujourd’hui à la UNE
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli Erdogan: U R the ones who showed the whole world that no administration can stand in way of the might & will of the people #Libya
#Tripoli Erdogan: "From here I call out 2 #Sirte Embrace yr brothers in Tripoli Spilling blood does not suit us let us come together #Libya
Dodging Snipers in #Bani #Walid Dodging Snipers in Libyan Town Wadi Bey around 3 km up to BW is under #NTC control #Libya
#Bani Walid Fierce Batlle today #NTC Fighters are shooting in direction of Sea where Gaddafi troops are holed up in a row of villas #Libya
#Half Of #SIRTE in Smoke BuidlingsBurning Heavyfighting FF were inCenter 2day but pulledback 4Nightfall abt3km from Center #Libya
4Adam Adam
Tripoli University – Preparation for school year without Gaddafi. Ar youtube.com/watch?v=lOtGPG… #Libya #Tripoli
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
While ending North African tour in Libya, Erdogan says Syrian oppressors won’t survive goo.gl/QErK1
hominoid555 Russell
Freedom fighters from inside Sirte have joined forces with their brothers, the Lions of Misrata, epic moment !
AJA -70% of Sirte has bn liberated according to ‘Sirte media grp’. ‘Most of G forces r in AbuHadi’, ‘NATO destroyed 2 buildings used by Gs’
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
NTC Surges into Qaddafi’s Final Bastions alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #Qaddafi #Alarabiya #Sirte
Nasr
RAF targeted tanks & armoured vehicles shelling civilians in #Sebha, deep in the desert south of #Libya
BBC : Abdel al-Mutaly, a resident of Sirte, said he had only learned today that Tripoli had fallen to the anti-Gaddafi forces last month. “There is no food, no money, no petrol, not information in Sirte”, he told the AFP news agency. “How could I have known that had taken Tripoli?”
Palm Maple
FF Allowed Alarabiya near #Sirte Airport assuming it was secure. Alarabiya team had 2 withdraw as it came under bombardment while on air
At UN on #Libya, As Khatib Resigns, #NTC Wins . goo.gl/QNGxB via innercitypress.com #Feb17 #Libya
Sirtawi
NATO strikes on both #Sirte’s local station and Operations HQ near Wagadugo Hall. #SirteCrisis #Feb17
BREAKING: Military reinforcements just arrived to the free Libyan Army in Sirte
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#BBC Journo Mohammad Ballout shot in arm by sniper near #BaniWalid #Libya.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Please Read & RT: Islamists hit at #Libya’s liberal leadership ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7… #Feb17 #MB
or:
www.twitlonger.com/show/d4fheb
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
A helicopter flies over Benghazi flying the independence flag as the celebration begins. A flag placed over the mausoleum #Libya #benghazi
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Thousands of #Misrata rebels are here attacking #sirt. These men are fearless. They run into battle like there is no 2morow. #libya
Its 0700 pm local #libya time. Rebels of #Misrata pull out of #sirt 4 tactical reasons. I went in with them 5 kms inside #sirt. Now out.
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
“As for me I will live longer than my hangman.” – Omar Mukhtar. 80 yrs later & he has. #1931 #1911 #2011 #Libya #feb17 #Benghazi
Al Jazeera: the rebels withdraw to the northern entrance of the city of Bani Walid because of heavy shelling by the battalions.
Tweeting Tripoli
We couldn’t get out 2 support Tunis & Egypt when under Gaddafi’s rule, now we should arrange huge support rally for #Syria #libyans4syrians
Joanne
Columns of #Libya #NTC fighters and vehicles Withdrew chaotically from #BaniWalid @dusk after hrs of fierce fighting ended Inconclusively
#BaniWalid #NTC FF told Reuters; We have received orders to RETREAT We have been hit by many rockets. We will come back later #Libya
#BaniWalid Frantic Atmosphere Shouting matches among FF as they poured out of city amid Heavy Bursts of RocketFire from G Forces #Libya
#SIRTE 3 #NTC fighters have just been killed half an hour ago Dozens are injured in fierce fighting in the center of Sirte #Libya
#BANIWALID Most difficult part is the Central market where G Troops are Firing from and very heavy fighting @Castle in center
Obama administration is sending several additional weapons experts to #Libya to help train local units to locate and destroy Missing weapons
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Omar Mukhtar’s struggle of nearly 20 years came to an end on September 11, 1931, when he was wounded in battle near Slonta, Cyrenaica
They treated the native leader hero as a prize catch. His resilience had an impact on his jailers, who later remarked upon his steadfastness
His interrogators stated that Omar Al Mokhtar recited verses of peace from the Qur’an
In three days, Omar Al Mukhtar was tried, convicted, and, on September 14, 1931,
sentenced to be hanged publicly
When the Italian general made him a final offer to make him their puppet & be allowed to live like the other leaders of his ppl he answered:
“I shall not cease to fight against thee and thy people until either you leave my country or I leave my life
And I swear by Him who knows what is in men’s hearts that if my ands were not bound this very moment I would fight you with my bare hands, old and broken as I am.’’
To pacify his resistance army, the Italians offered him high ranking positions and wealth.
In return, they demanded that he surrendered and followed their Colonial decree. He responded in a famous quote saying,
“I’m not a sweet bite of a meal anyone can swallow.No matter how long they try to change my belief&opinion, Allah is going to let them down”
They then offered him to leave his town to live closer to the ruling party complete with a monthly salary, but he again refused by saying:
“No, I will not leave my country until I meet my lord. Death is closer to me than anything, I’m waiting for it by the minute.”
The court sentence was to hang Omar Almokhtar in public in the village of Sulug.The sentence was carried out the next day – Sept 16,1931.
It was done in front of thousands of Libyans who were gathered by the Italians from various concentration camps to witness the hanging.
Historians reported that the last words uttered by Omar Almokhtar before his death were the Quranic verse:
oh peaceful Soul return to your lord, satisfied and obedient – Quran
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Salem #Alharary, a 39 yr old FF from Gurgi, #Tripoli was martyred today in #Sebha. RIP goo.gl/fUzjj goo.gl/3s2AZ
BBC reporter: ‘Regular flow of ambulances’ to and from Bani Walid in Libya: BBC reporter: ’Regular flo… bbc.in/oXHf9C #RT by BK
dutchnewsfeed Dutch News
Rebellen trekken zich terug uit Bani Walid: (Novum) – BANI WALID – De Libische rebellen hebben zich teruggetrokk… bit.ly/pV6wO0
Bani Walid around 12 ambulances have left the town carrying NTC casualties it is unclear how many have been killed or injured.
New article, Libya’s Anti-Gadhafi Forces Storm Bani Walid, Sirte – is.gd/URpaZL
hominoid555 Russell
Bani Walid There’s been a lot of rebel activity on the road to Bani Walid today, vehicles taking ammunition
Libye: les pro-CNT dans les bastions kadhafistes de Bani Walid et de Syrte – A lire ici: www.bdpgabon.org/?p=32485
#BBCArabic presenter was hit by a sniper inside Bani Walid has been taken to #Tripoli for Surgey, Insha allah he makes a swift recovery
Sirtawi
Sirte #FF Battalion now stationed in Zaffran area at W entrance of city, under the command of Khalifa El-Bareg. Allahu Akbar!
BreakingNews Breaking News
In Sirte, loyalists are responding to Libyan fighters’ advance with sniper attacks and rocket barrages – @AP apne.ws/o9G7e4
88simon88 simon
Russian OIL compagnies R Back in Libya. 50% of an oil field Will B shared with ENI… mtm-news.com/article/3669/g…
thedailybeast The Daily Beast
Libyan Rebels Claim Sirte: Say they’ve captured Gaddafi’s last enclave. thebea.st/qohSWt #cheatsheet
FromJoanne Joanne
#SMALLFLASH #BBC outside #BaniWalid Soldiers at a checkpoint Report that the DRIVER ofGaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has been captured #Libya
#Misrata Military Council says #NTC Fighters control the old Airport on the western edge of #Sirte #Libya
#FLASH #SIRTE bus full of #NTC revolutionary fighters hit a roadside planted by G Troops bomb in #Sirte Late Thursday Killing 11 #Libya
#FLASH British military spokesman says: #Nato jets fired about 2 dozen #Brimstone Missiles @ Armoured Vehicles nr #SABHA on Thursday #Libya
#SIRTE Resident "@First we were AFRAID because we didn’t know who they (FF) were but now that we have seen then We r Very Happy #Libya
Sirtawi
Gaddafi loyalists in #Sirte using tear gas bombs on #FFs after which they launch offensive. #FreeSirte #Feb17
#FFs in #Sirte withdraw from BuHadi towards Al-Thaher and Al-Thalatheen.
Sirte #FF Battalion now stationed in Zaffran area at W entrance of city, under the command of Khalifa El-Bareg. Allahu Akbar! #FreeSirte
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
#Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 ALGERIA I BELIEVE #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17 #Sep17
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli Uni Law students kicked out Dr Basha who were strong Pro-Gaddafi supporter, from a lecture hall: youtube.com/watch?v=2B_Gsl…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_GslFikag&fea...
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
I spoke 2day to one pro #gaddafi woman over the phone. I asked her why do you like #gaddafi? She said: I dont know but he is my soul.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Niger will not send Saadi Qaddafi to Libya, for now: official #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
All started when the feed factory got shelled by #Gadhafi forces from #BaniWalid. #libya
At the front, fighters have a hard time entering the valley, Wadi Zeitoun, which leads to the city center. #BaniWalid #libya
#Gadhafi forces shelled the area we were in with mortars, machine guns, and so much sniper fire whistled past our heads #libya
Libyan4life
Wait wait wait… how did this escape me, SHALGHAM is going to be our UN rep?!!? #Libya #Feb17 #OldGaddafiGoon
88simon88 simon
As the NTC got the Libya UN seat today, they will B able to vote for the PALESTINIAN Query to B recognized as a State.
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Today crowds in Martyrs Square were shouting “Syria, Syria, Syria” to Erdogan.
Reuters:
Noose tightens around Gaddafi strongholds | Video reut.rs/nfLnom #Libya
Reuters:
The merchants of Tripoli | Video reut.rs/pKyMos #Libya
Nancy
LIbyan forces pull back after fierce resistance from Gadhafi loyalists in Bani Walid theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afr… via @globeandmail
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Drs at the field hospital say 6 dead and 54 injured from the rev forces’ side today #libya #baniwalid
The geography of #BaniWalid and the strength of the #Gadhafi forces inside is creating huge problems with the rev forces #libya
Fighters faced some v v tough resistance and became aggressive and tense at the end of the day, retreating for the night #libya #baniwalid
Swedish ambassador will be appointed for Libya alturl.com/j2wgr
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
#Tripoli protests today: “Neither Brigades, Nor Battalions. We want ONE Military behind us!” #Libya via Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Battle for #Bani #Walid. Photos:goo.gl/8SXUC #libya #feb17
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Let’s move away from the excuse of “transitioning” to justify accepting ex-Gaddafi henchmen. We have an Official UN seat. It is permanent.
FromJoanne Joanne
Nato still protects civilians Sirte BaniWalid Sabha Kufra + lots of small little hamlets r still terrorized by G troops #Libya
Khiria
I am against Shalgam representing #Libya at the #UN. He did so already for years during the #Gaddafi era and therefore should now retire.
I’d appreciate if people who have not tried to resign from the #Gaddafi regime before #Feb17 just stayed home. #Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Video of FFs protesting in the city of Hun which is currently surrounded by G forces is.gd/KGFOji #Feb17 #Libya
Nusaybah (KC)
I can never understand a man who accepts a ‘job’ by order of his government that includes systemic rape during times of war. #Sick >:-(
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Warning don’t show to kids. Could bring nightmares: Typical Gaddafi Goon pic.twitter.com/Uxz4NnUd
Fadwa
Mustafa Abduljaleel and Erdogan just arrived to Omar Al-Mukhtar’s mausoleum in #Benghazi. #Libya
Sirtawi
NATO bombed insurance building in the heart of #Sirte half an hour ago. #FreeSirte #Feb17
malonebarry Barry Malone
Moussa “I’m not dead” Ibrahim on TV again #Libya
AFPTV_en AFPTV_en
Tripoli zoo struggles to rebuild after war bit.ly/pSu4s1 #AFP #video
brunehel Hélène Brunel
At Benghazi, french reporters teased the Elysée’s special advisor Henry Guaino who went with pdt Sarkozy & who enjoyed holidays in #Libya…
septimius_sever septimius severus
Regaining confiscated property next fight for many in #Libya – World Wires – MiamiHerald.com hrld.us/pQpTrQ via @miamiherald
#Qaddafi spokesman: war is not over, we have prepared ourselves for a long war with arms and equipment #Libya
MID_EAST MID_EAST
UN Security Council eases sanctions on Libya, including on its national oil company, central bank – Reuters /-BreakingNews
Sarah LFFR
“We salute the courage of the Libyan people who rose up against oppression. They’re responsible for building their future.” G. Araud #Libya
Sirtawi
#FFs in #Sirte managed to capture around 40 Gaddafi men. #FreeSirte #Feb17 #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Smoke rose above the city from heavy street fighting, much of it is along the main First of September Street in #Sirte #Libya
#In #Bani #Walid RadioStation Airs Steady stream of Lies calling #NTC fighters traitors of #Libya and Islam “They drink do drugs and dance”
#WARNING #UnitedStates said Friday it warned #oOIL Companies operating in North #Africa of an #alQaida TERRORIST PLOT goo.gl/XaWgm
State Department budgeted $3 million 2hire 2international weapons disposal teams 2locate +destroy MANPADs land mines a.o. munitions \Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
New Song from @IbnThabit “Mabruk” or Congratulations – Music video shot in #Libya – with Ibn Thabit himself!! youtube.com/watch?v=2eRWMk…!
Joanne
#SAHARA #Convoy of armored cars #ntc Fighters on their way to #Sabha on Sept15 youtube.com/watch?v=-wz44h… #Libya
#TRIPOLI Todays #Friday Noon Prayer with #NTC #Jalil and #Turkey #Erdogan attending youtube.com/watch?v=a6L_nG… #Libya
MUST READ:
Nasr
Did U read this? bradsherman.house.gov/2011/05/12/Let…
Joanne
Hmm I Wonder what dear DR #Jibril did with this mail
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Spent a long day on the road outside #Bani Walid. Situation still confused.
Ruwayda
Women played a crucial role in overthrowing Gaddafi and yet the NTC has only one female in post: bit.ly/niYfI3 #Fem2 #Libya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
i interviewed 3 female NTC members
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Reburial of Zawiya martyrs removed from their original graves in Martyr Sq by inhumane G forces early in #Feb17 is.gd/21au9N #Libya
Ben_mhmd Mahmud
Omar Mukhtar’s sons visit #FredomFighters on the front lines! goo.gl/ALwpY June05th #Libya #Feb17 *Amazigh_Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Epic reception of NTC & Mustafa Abdel Jalil when they visited Zuwara recently is.gd/ReYsaC #Feb17 #Libya
A Free Libyan
Support #Algeria as they embark on their journey for freedom. #Libya is with you. Praying it’s a successful day #Feb17 #Sep17
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Life is bizarre. Erdogan was once a key stumbling block in face of #Feb17 & now he is putting cornerstone in Omar AlMukhtar’s mausoleum دنيا
hominoid555 Russell
Wounded BBC journalist in Libya Mohamed Oaks. youtube.com/watch?v=w1JAiV…
Sirtawi
#FFs on eastern front line have advanced towards #Sirte with tanks and heavy artillery causing a huge retreat from Gaddafi forces.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
camping in the open around #Sirte the road is full of burned cars 2 helicopters evacuating wounded heavy heavy resistance #Libya
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution 2009 on Libya, authorizing UN mandate, easing sanctions, supporting transition.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: Gaddafi’s son flees the long siege of Bani Walid (only his bodyguard was captured! )Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… via @Telegraph
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC #Misrata Fighters trying to liberate #Sirte 15/9 2011 youtube.com/watch?v=hxaCJ0… #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
NTC Fighetrs report that #Saif had left early in a convoy of 30 #SUVs across the desert, after a diversionary attack on a checkpoint#Libya
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
BBC News – Fighting for the symbolic city of #Sirte bbc.in/r1VBmO
FromJoanne Joanne
#BANIWALID Captured Bodyguard says #SAIFalIslam was in BW until yesterday morning staying @ local civil leader’s House but fled #Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
I love the way Erdogan is acting like he supported #Feb17 out of conviction & now being feted. Geopolitical economic interests prevail : )
Tweeting Tripoli
Bozaid Dorda was not a happy bunny when he got caught, that’s for sure. youtube.com/watch?v=sM1GiV…
he gave the orders to his goons to shoot at Tripoli protesters on Feb 20th?
Tweeting Tripoli
From today’s rally in support of NTC…
yfrog.com/kflrhsrj
yfrog.com/mmttdpj
yfrog.com/ke9dhmhj
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Mustafa Abdeljalil and Erdogan in Martyrs Square #Benghazi laying cornerstone of Omar Al Mukhtar’s Mausoleum now. Live on libya.tv
This is a historical moment as true Libyan history is restored- rebuilding mausoleum in #Benghazi that was once demolished by #Gaddafi.
Zainab
Libya Al Ahrar. Mustafa Abd Aljleel and Ardogan at Omar AlMukhtar’s shrine in #Benghazi
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan fighters inflicted heavy casualties on rebels on Bani Walid front, killed and captured many: Qaddafi spokesman #alarabiya #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Gaddafi spokesman says heavy casualties on rebel forces in Bani Walid
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Benghazi packed tonight for marking of 80th anniversary of Omar Mukhtar’s execution by Italians. His story was an inspiration for revolution
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Sirte: #Misrata #Freedomfighters in Western part of the city reached the beach earlier. #Libya #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #UN SECURITY COUNCIL REDUCED #SANCTIONS ON #LIBYA Incl on #oil companies and the central #bank
I read a report #Drones are still being used If I remember well it was in #Sabha #Libya
Rena Netjes
So the Awlad Suleyman, Magarha and Gadadfa recognise the NTC, acc to NTC spokesman from Tripoli on AJA
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Unveiling of the new Omar Al-Mokhtar’s tomb now live from Benghazi. yfrog.com/g0350nj
Sarah LFFR
I like how #AJA is not paying attention to #Erdogan ’s visit. #Benghazi
jfoleyjourno:
misrata brigades determined to take #sirte on their own, and probably will, not sure if its good or bad. #Libya
Eastern front is opening up in #Sirte. v @Sirte_Feb17 #Libya
#FFs in the battle East of #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/GpbmqpfE
Anaya
Life is bizarre.Erdogan Gaddafi Human Rights Award 2010.Life is bizarre.Russia restarted oil business in Libya,ETC…
Brian_Whit Brian Whitaker
Al-Quds editor Abdel-Bari Atwan denies NTC’s claim that he was paid by Gaddafi, says he will sue bit.ly/nKHqZq #libya
hrw Human Rights Watch
#Libya: Burkina Faso and Niger will not give safe haven to former Libyan leader Muammar #Gaddafi bit.ly/pW6Lhk
IpMac121 revolution update
#Libya Rebels take the #Al-Manshia area of the southwestern city of #Sabha @YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=kTS948… #tripoli #gaddafi #nato #nwo
FromJoanne Joanne
The bravery and determination of the #Libyan people has sent a strong message to repressive regimes everywhere: bit.ly/nPbxWp
omar
The bravery & determination of the #Libyan Ppl has sent a strong message to repressive regimes everywhere- UK rep to UN ukun.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=…
Fighters loosen loyalist grip on #Gaddafi’s hometown. af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5... #Libya #Feb17
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Benghazi: The Uprising- documentary bit.ly/oUj2eD #libya
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Chaos around #Bani Walid today. More of the same tomorrow ?
In Mermory of Omar Mokhtar hanged by Italian army #Libya 80 years ago 16th Sep 31 youtu.be/SvioLFBtUz8
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvioLFBtUz8&fea...
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 17th 2011
9/17/11
9.17.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/nfSxJ
NATO Key Hits for September 16, 2011
In the vicinity of Sirte: 5 Command and Controle Nodes, 3 Radar Systems, 4 Armed Vehicles, 8 Air Missile Systems.
In the vicinity of Hun: 4 Anti Aircraft Guns.
dovenews Libyan™
#Iran supports the revolution in #Tunisia, #Egypt & #Libya, no mentioning of #Syria!
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Just spoke 2 a friend n #Tripoli who stressed how expensive everything is. 4 example a sandwich that used 2 cost 1/2 a dinar is now 3 dinars
If home is where the heart is, I think I left it draped across Tripoli and Tunis. But thanks for the sentiment.
Libyan4life
In Libya, Turk PM woos with one eye on history. af.reuters.com/article/libyaN… #Libya #Feb17
dovenews Libyan™
UN mission in Libya 2 assist the gov wth the post-conflict transition, though a draft doesnt call 4 the dploymnt of UN peacekeeprs or police
2011feb17
One of Gaddafi’s houses in #Sirte: youtube.com/watch?v=Ik2IjQ… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik2IjQ9MAi0&sns=em
haqiqiya
Gathering in remembrance of #Omar el-#Mukhtar today in front of the #Libya #Embassy in #London:
on.fb.me/pKNp8q #feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#NEWS; UN SecCouncil resolution approved lift ban on flights by #Libyan Aircraft + Modifies the arms embargo on Gaddafi’s regime #Libya
philipp_aut Philipp
SthAfrica, Angola, Kenya, Lesotho, DR Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia voted against NTC seat at UN. Saudis abstained.
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
What I find truly amazing & humbling is all the non Libyans who supported #Feb17 …. There is but one family under the sky : )
In the same way Italian occupation revealed the FF in Omar AlMukhtar’s generation … #Feb17 revealed the FF in us … Allahu Akbar #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi loyalists say inflict heavy casualties on foes; U.N. Council eases Libya sanctions goo.gl/w2SEb
LibyanPilot
erdogan says opened embassy in tripoli, consulate in Benghazi and a future one in Misrata. Wow no more centralised state :D
Erdogan ends his speech in arabic congratulating sons of omar mokhtar, youth of libya and the women of libya, crowd chanting his name
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#BaniWalid: Many reports that internationally wanted war criminal Seif #Gaddafi remains in town. #Libya #Feb17
#Niger won’t hand over Saadi #Gaddafi news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/16/nig… @UN SHOULD NOW SUSPEND ALL AID OF ANY TYPE TO NIGER #Libya #Feb17
US ambassador Susan Rice says: “We all stand witness to the birth of a new Libya.” KatzOnEarth Jonathan M. Katz
Latest on the new UN seat for Libya’s transitional government: apne.ws/pXOWeF
A military spokesman for Libya’s transitional govt tells AP: “That means we are the right people who have the right to lead this country.”
Opposition from Venezuela: Seating council after “criminal air raids” to install “puppet government” sets “abominable precedent.”
Southern African Development Community regional bloc also opposed, saying NTC is not yet a govt, but it failed to win support.
omar
#Gaddafileaks: If history repeats itself, I really want to have a nice haircut
FCO UK
Foreign Secretary statement following UN Security Council’s resolution vote on Libya
16 September 2011
Foreign Secretary William Hague: “Today’s votes show the international community’s recognition of and confidence in the new Libyan authorities.”
Speaking today Foreign Secretary William Hague said:
“I strongly welcome the UN Security Council’s unanimous adoption of Resolution 2009 and the UN General Assembly’s vote to allow the National Transitional Council to take Libya’s seat at the UN. Both these votes make clear the international community’s determination to support the new Libyan authorities, and the Libyan people, as they make progress in re-establishing stability and embrace a free future – progress which the Prime Minister and I saw for ourselves earlier this week on the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi.
This historic resolution mandates a UN mission to support them in those efforts, including preparing for elections and protecting human rights. The provisions for unfreezing assets, leading to the progressive release of around £12 billion from the UK, will help Libya in building a more prosperous and stable future. As the NTC has called for, the resolution maintains the no fly zone and action to protect civilians, which will remain in place as long as they are considered necessary. Today’s votes show the international community’s recognition of and confidence in the new Libyan authorities. We will continue to work with them closely as they build a better future for Libya.”
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libyan employees ‘saved #oil , #gas sector,’ oil minister says goo.gl/fb/lSQ0m #libya #gaddafi Troops Left #ForGetMeNots 40,000 mines
Jonny_Hallam
The dangers for journalists working on the Libyan front line bbc.co.uk/ariel/14955151" #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Morning all, I’m leaving Libya today after an epic two weeks. I was here on a personal holiday, not work, but I still saw a great deal.
Thoughts are with injured colleague Mohammed Ballout, shot in the chest yesterday in Bani Walid #Libya
I went to see Mohammed yesterday in hospital, he was in high spirits and smiling, remarkable given the circumstances.
There is a huge bullet in the middle of his chest. The same round killed one man and severely wounded another before hitting Mohammed
I don’t know the type of bullet I’m afraid.
I went to Friday prayers yesterday in Martyr’s Square, Tripoli yesterday. Erdogan prayed next to Abdeljalil, photos coming up.
After Friday prayers, visited the Sbay’a area, south of Gasr bin Ghashir. No independence flags in sight, instead I saw pro-Gaddafi graffiti
Car I was travelling in had independence flag stickers on the front (most Libyan cars
do now). Heard someone call out “rats!”
Editing yesterday’s pictures from Erdogan visit, just found something very very interesting.
In the British press, there is a whole genre of story devoted to ministers being snapped walking around with sensitive documents.
Looks like I just came across the Libyan version of that genre.
Photo: Erdogan and Jibril on Flickr. tumblr.com/xxw4qj7zkr
Photo: Abduljaleel praying on Flickr. tumblr.com/xxw4qj8oil
Photo: Abduljaleel and Erdogan on Flickr. tumblr.com/xxw4qj8vgo
Photo: Turkish police on Flickr. There were enough Turkish police and security personnel in Martyr’s Square… tumblr.com/xxw4qj9aoi
Just tweeted some pictures from yesterday’s visit. Blog post coming up about the document Jibril was holding.
Jibril was holding a list of the NTC’s candidates for cabinet positions in the Libyan interim government.
He was holding it in full view of the international press, next to Erdogan on the podium. I’m very surprised noone else took a picture too.
Jibril himself is the candidate for Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, according to this document. Shalgam is also on the list
I can’t make out all the writing on the list, uploading the pic now, Arab readers can see and translate the parts I can’t make out.
Photo: Jibril’s document on Flickr. See tweets for more information tumblr.com/xxw4qjew7l
Photo: Jibril’s document (close-up) on Flickr. See tweets for more info tumblr.com/xxw4qjhpok
Photos tweeted, you can read a lot of the names, would be grateful if someone could translate because I will be off internet now
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA 2 NTC spokesmen (mas’ulaan): New interim government to be announced on sunday.
So the Awlad Suleyman, Magarha and Gadadfa recognise the NTC, acc to NTC spokesman from Tripoli on AJA
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
@RenaNetjes Now tribes are recognizing NTC??!! Members of these tribes have been active in NTC for months…
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
@libyanfsl it wasn’t yet 100% probably…and i am aware, i met some very anti-Gaddafi gadadfa’s in Benghazi..
bencnn benwedeman
Driving with huge NTC column thru villages in Al-Shati region of Sabha. Most residents, but not all, cheering. So far no shooting.
Libya In Me
I didn’t watch Cameron, Sarkozy, and Erdogan in Libya. It’s all a show, for personal gains. Nothing more. And Erdogan? PUH-lease
mausoleum in #Benghazi pic.twitter.com/EY3GsVMS
Sirtawi
National Front for the Salvation of Libya: A large number of wounded #FFs have arrived at #Tripoli and #Tarhuna’s hospitals today. #Feb17
Al-Tadamun: Heavy clashes btwn #FFs & Gmen in Hrawa (E of #Sirte). Many casualties among #FFs who had to be flewn 2 #Benghazi by helicopter.
Ali Tweel
Guys, I just can’t stop listening, Trables Nhebbek “Tripoli I love you” by FB17 youtube.com/watch?v=GiodRQ… My Number 1 song until now!
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiodRQpe8iw
My Favorite too!!!!!!!
Gives you chills……..
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
My neighborhood (Seyahiya) in #Tripoli held a day for the children احتفالية الأطفال بالمدينة السياحية on.fb.me/nV5t44 #Libya #Feb17
Aisha
Walter Fauntroy :wikipedia gaddafi supporter trapped in the rixos no stories were confirmed #libya bit.ly/pK5gyw”
der_bluthund Anonymous Watcher
Writing a piece on islamophobia and not too sure where to go on it…
Nusaybah
You can start by talking about how media and politics use Islamophobia for scaremongering for political manipulation/scoring.
der_bluthund Anonymous Watcher
Oh I will be talking about media manipulation – both Main Stream Media and the Alternative Media – they’re equally guilty…
monsaudu monsaudu
I think there is no real threat from Islam. the threat comes from uneducated people, who happen to be Muslims.
Ann Marlowe
23,500 NATO air raids on #Libya – about 3 for every FF – ridiculous way to wage war Not -The Lesson of Libya on.wsj.com/pUOVxy via @WSJ
Paul
Think they/you need to get facts straight. Number of flights do not equal ‘air raids’ Strike sorties have been about 6500
annmarlowe
Well as far as I know fuel and pilots aren’t free on sorties that don’t drop bombs. This has been enormously expensive
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Enormously expensive? The whole Libya operation has cost UN/NATO less than 4billion which is what a day in Iraq?
Paul
Still doesn’t explain why the massive exaggeration in ur tweet & U say “pilots aren’t free” they are paid anyway
SMILE:
meshelmay Michelle May
Momma mia i’m in love. #regularlibyancitizen #misrata youtube.com/watch?v=25mMPG… thanks
:Carol watched the video too
LOL! There is hot, and there is #EpicLibyanhot @meshelmay Momma mia i’m in love. #regularlibyancitizen #misrata youtube.com/watch?v=25mMPG… thanks
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=25mMPG8ytMs&...
Michelle May
carolv27 my god. Who is that man and how do I meet him? Wtf am I doing here???? #$%&
malonebarry Barry Malone
Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim just told me Gaddafi is directing “every aspect” of the war against the provisional government #Libya
Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim just called us, claiming NATO airstrikes hit residential buildings in Sirte last night, killing 354
The residential building in Sirte that Ibrahim claimed was hit by NATO rockets is the Tamin Building (named after the insurance firm) #Libya
When I pressed Moussa Ibrahim on where he was speaking to me from, he said he was “near Sirte” #Libya
He is talking to the people, he is lecturing, he is discussing, he is looking after all matters of the resistance- Ibrahim on Gaddafi #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Gaddafi’s spokesman says NATO airstrikes hit residential buildings in Sirte
Adam
All know that Erdogan is an opportunist. He thought Gaddafi would win. When he felt he was behind switched sides and jumped in.
Libya17Feb Tripoli Youth
facebook.com/media/set/?set… – List of the Missing ,,, اسماء المفقودين التي تم التبيلغ عنه #Libya
Sarah LFFR
#FreedomFighters are too strong & epic that some people think they are “NATO fighters” #LibyanHeroes
OnlyLibyaa Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook fb.me/uJiKfE3q
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Bruised anti-Gaddafi fighters regroup and gather reinforcements outside Bani Walid, preparing for next assault
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Benghazi packed tonight for marking of 80th anniversary of Omar Mukhtar’s execution by Italians. His story was an inspiration for revolution
Libya In Me
Mosaab Alzintany. One of 1st to protest in Tripoli on Feb 20. Fought in Zintan, Zawiya, & martyred in Bab Al-Aziziyah feb17martyrs.com/mosaab-alzinta…
BBC journalist injured in Libya
BBC Arabic correspondent, Mohammad Ballout, has been injured while covering events in Bani Walid in Libya today.
The BBC says the latest information it has is that Ballout’s injuries are not life-threatening and medical teams are looking after him.
He was preparing for a live broadcast when he, and other journalists, were targeted by a sniper.
Last weekend Ballout and his crew were the first journalistic team to reach advance rebel positions on the front line at Bani Walid, where Gaddafi loyalists are holding out against forces of the National Transitional Council.
A BBC spokesperson said: ’Today’s incident is another reminder of our journalists’ bravery and commitment to inform audiences about events as they happen, even from the most dangerous zones and situations.’
Why didn’t BBC report this?
#BBC cameraman Mohammed SHOT by large CalibreRifle in #BaniWalid bullet went through 2others st 1Died 1critical #libya
aquaamr Dr. Amr Aboulfath
Colleague reporter #BBC arabic been shot while doing a live report #Bani Walid. He continued broadcasting while injured. Now in hospital.
libyansrevolt Moez
The bullet inside BBC Arabic’s cameraman is at least 6cm long and stopped just above his heart. Apparently from a ‘dragunov’ rifle #Libya
Sirtawi
PIC: Moussa Ibrahim’s brother, Muhammad, captured yesterday in #Sirte and brought to #Misurata. #Feb17 #Libya pic.twitter.com/3juroIbi
KhadijaMAli
interview I did with the Tripoli Youth Movement on Sept. 12. youtube.com/watch?v=AWIkGM… via @youtube #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
“A formation of tanks & armoured vehicles was spotted shelling civilian areas in the regime held town of #Sebha” telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… #Libya
Former #Polisario Official Exposes Before #UNHRC Human Rights Abuses in #Tindouf #Algeria Camps allafrica.com/stories/201109161123.html
VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ AND RT TO EVERYONE: “THE ROLE OF #ALGERIA IN #LIBYA” www.hudson-ny.org/2430/algeria-libya #Feb17 @UN @NATO
MUST READ
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Rebels punch into Sirte as Libyan Civilians flee; traitors blamed for Bani Walid retreat goo.gl/qRW1j
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Pro-Qaddafi forces have enough arms and ready to fight for months: Qaddafi spokesman #Alarabiya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Guardian: Libyan women: it’s our revolution too goo.gl/cZ1Ft #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
NYT: U.N. Takes Steps to Assist #Libya’s Transitional Leaders goo.gl/VBDuF #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
#Libya counts more martyrs than bodies. goo.gl/x3uX1
#China’s Foreign Ministry pledges equality, mutual benefit as #Libya rebuilds. goo.gl/0dTSt #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
#Libya has historic day at the #UN. goo.gl/OrQ7l The red, black and green flag of the revolution would soon fly over the #UN. #feb17
#UN eases #Libyan sanctions to help the country’s interim government stabilize and rebuild #Libya goo.gl/a5w8s #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Aljazeera Arabic is running a very interesting pre-#feb17 documentary on how Gaddafi used to mistreat asylum seekers & immigrants #libya
SumayyahG
Abu Salim Prison Massacre victims are true heroes | #Benghazi: The Uprising- documentary feb17.info/media/benghazi… #Libya #Feb17
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. En route to #Bani Walid. Communications could be difficult.
#Libya. Quiet on the road to #Bani Walid this afternoon.
SMILE:
Johnyrocket69 Johnny Six
Gaddafi gives rebels 30 days to surrender or he will call them more names #libya
LIBTRIP:
Gaddafi is ill, he needs Dr. Phil. #Libya flic.kr/p/anqZyC
clayclai Clay Claiborne
To pro-Q crowd “Imagine that, Mummar Qaddafi, Cynthia McKinney, the CIA, M16, the KKK and you. All one big happy family!” #Feb17 #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
All Mr Salabi did was to help Jibril get more popular. Saw these banners in Znata st, Tripoli.
yfrog.com/h395542820j
yfrog.com/hwpxltkj
When its Sheesha time, its Sheesha time. No war will make me miss my Sheesha time :)
pic.twitter.com/ztSRGavt
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
One of rebels I am with was b4 rvltn an engineer. Ayoub lost in #Misrata war one brother, 2 cousins, & 2 uncles… also some friends. #libya
Battle for #sirt goes on. My report last night from close to #sirt center: akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-reports/Fie... #libya
I am on frontline close 2 #sirt. #gaddafi soldiers fire Grad missiles in our direction. Two landed 400 meters away from makeshift hospital.
Hospital, outside #sirt, shook from #grad missile. We went on ground. 2 dead rebels; 10 injured 2day. Also ambulance driver killed. #libya
I saw with my eyes where Grad landed
Rebels catch head of #Saadi brigade in #Sirt.He’s a #gaddafi/ confirms #Muttasim inside. #Muttasim goes under nb 001 over walkie talkie.
I saw CNN producer wounded in his foot near #sirt. Shrepnel from RPG that landed close. He is ok but has a bandage around leg. #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
CCTV footage found from Bab Al-Azizya main gates shows a woman being kidnaped several years ago. No one knows why?:
youtube.com/watch?v=6zB1zm…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zB1zm15ZJg&sns=em
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Spoke too soon. Not such a quiet afternoon near #bani Walid. Anti Gaddafi fighters reinforcing.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
they just told me one french journalist has been wounded hit by a rocket in #Sirte #Libya
a very sad story his wife is also a reporter and was waiting for him outside #Sirte #Libya
I hope it’s a mistake they said the french journalist is dead #Sirte
Musa_Ibrahim’s half brother recuperating in #Misrata hospital. He was captured in #Sirte pic.twitter.com/ycwlzh3O
elpasolibre elpasolibre
Fierce fighting around #Gaddafi’s hometown of #Sirte & #BaniWalid have drawn speculation that the fugitive leader might be there #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
A number of revolutionaries at al-Biraq have been killed by Gaddafi snipers. Many of Gaddafi’s forces in the south are Touareg from Mali.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
PHOTOS: Yesterday night in #Benghazi: #Libya #feb17 facebook.com/media/set/?set…
AFP: The Nigerien government it will not send Saadi Gaddafi, back to Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
SEND PICTURES OF MARTYRS WITH INFO TO : feblibya17@hotmail.co.uk Which in turn will be posted to this FB : facebook.com/feb17martyrs
BREAKING: FFs of #Sirte NOW liberate the #Radio #Station of #Sirte from #Gaddafi Loyalists.
Breaking Libya News: BREAKING: #Sirte: Fierce battles taking place NOW in Abu Hadi
malonebarry Barry Malone
Bit of flesh to tweets on my chat with Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim reut.rs/o292VU #Libya
hominoid555 Russell
BBC outside Sirte youtube.com/watch?v=jp8_38… eastern side
Sirte on 17_9_2011 Station radio bombed by NATO , libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LhOpKCRQ8&fea...
grafixel guess what
seems more bunkers than camels … MT @Desertandy: G Army post in Sirte Nord twitpic.com/6mb502 #Libya
Bilalhb bilal h.b.
Gaddafi said we are crusaders his minister said we are Mossad and #Algeria gov say we are AlQaeda wow Libyans are multi-religion Rebels WOW!
NATOpress NATO Press
New Chairman of the #NATO Military Committee elected – goo.gl/9ZWGI
NATOpress NATO Press
#NATO’s Military Committee meets in Seville – goo.gl/DlWuR
IbnOmar2005 Ibn Omar
Picture of #AbdulJalil when he played football for Al-Akhdar. #Libya yfrog.com/h7xhsdqj
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
The needs of our injured must be #Feb17 ’s priority. Injured Zuwara FF highlights their neglect is.gd/H6nG7x #Libya
More than 6,000 FFs from Misrata alone taking part in Sirte liberation with more than 1200 military vehicles #Feb17 #Libya
Alshahed: Heavy clashes as FFs surround Military barracks in Sirte in Abu AlHady area where Mutasem Gaddafi is suspected to be #Feb17 #Libya
Many Schools have started today in Libya with new curricula with Gaddafi regime propaganda removed #Feb17 #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
Now in village of mahroug al-ras as of today under Ntc control. 1 fighter killed. Civilians unharmed. 16 prisoners taken #libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Mathaba.net Subjected to Denial of Service Attack : )
#Freedomfighters surrounding #Milt Camp in #Sirte, possibly where Mutassim #Gaddafi is. Heavy fighting going on. #Libya #Feb17
Khamenei worried: after #Libya intervention, #US, #NATO & the West could be seen by Arabs not as devil anymore. www.sacbee.com/2011/09/17/3917294/irans...
#Morocco backs #NTC as #Libya’s representative to the #UN moroccoworldnews.com/2011/09/morocc… #Feb17
Polisario is NOT a legitimate indegenous independence movement.
I trust AlJezeera far more than ANY American media and far more than I do the BBC
#India grudgingly recognizes #NTC of #Libya, will now begin begging for business there. #Feb17
India is a BRIC country; Brazil, Russia, India, China. Started out as economic group, now trying to B political union
India too fears the Arab Spring much as does Algeria and much of the tyrant states of Africa. Uprising is contagious.
The MB, despite its PR campaign, will turn whatever country they gain control in into another Iran or Pakistan.
Half hour ago #Freedomfighters began attack on a camp in #AbuHadi where
Muttassim #Gaddafi is said to be located. #Libya #Feb17
URGENT! Desperate need for blood type “O -” in #Tripoli hospitals, please donate at #Tajoura Heart Hospital (coastal road) #Libya #Feb17
#Algeria will recognize #Libya when “inclusive” government formed. Inclusive is pro #Gaddafi & criminal #Tuareg…both friends of #Polisario
Interesting Read: A Man of God and Technology, Trying to Steady #Libya www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/world/africa... #Feb17
Despite everything else, the top three threats to a FREE & DEMOCRATIC #Libya are the Muslim Brotherhood, the Tuareg & the #Polisario. #Feb17
Following the top three threats to a FREE & DEMOCRATIC #Libya would be the #BRIC nations, mainly #Russia & #China along w/ #Turkey. #Feb17
Nigers Tawrega on a video I posted just last night said they would continue fight for Gaddafi to the last “man”
Sirtawi
Breaking: Gaddafi men attack #3 residential area in #Sirte. Heavy resistance from local residents there. #FreeSirte
Gaddafi forces situated near Al-Quds Mosque in #Sirte bombing #1 residential area, still no word of any casualties. #Feb17 #FreeSirte
#FFs surrounding Milt Camp in #Sirte thought to be where Mutassim G is. Heavy fighting going on. #FreeSirte #Feb17 #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
A number of revolutionaries at al-Biraq have been killed by Gaddafi snipers. Many of Gaddafi’s forces in the south are Touareg from Mali.
faithcnn Faith Muthoni Karimi
The sudden lack of #Gadhafi ’s funding seems to be having an effect in some Sub-Saharan African nations
LibyanBentBladi Asma Magariaf
Music to our Libyan ears
kosovo_01 kosovo_01
Serbian mercenaries received $5,000 USD monthly: The army commander of Misrata, Abdelaziz Madini….emg.rs/en/news/world/…
6 fighters wounded in fighting in Hawara village (near Sirte), some serious, now in Benghazi v PressSolidarity #Libya pic.twitter.com/sNiaMzc1
Misrata MilitaryCouncil: Clashes in AbuHadi, sth of AlGardabya base. 2 fighters were wounded & 3 martyred الله يرحمهم #Sirte #Libya
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: Initial report from field hospital at #Sirte front-line: 8 fighters were martyred & 31 wounded الله يرحمهم #Libya
Good report on fighting in #Sirt from AlanTV youtu.be/AxeIoPr5ad0 “Some wounded refuse to leave the front line” :) #Libya
#Telegraph Video: #Libya: Interim government forces clash with #Gaddafi loyalist youtu.be/EOTOwZxC3Tg #Sirt #Sirte
Violent attack of pro #Gaddafi forces in #BaniWalid www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/... One of the injured later died amid shouts “Allah Akbar” #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya: Sirte Fighting english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #Qaddafi #NTC #Sirte
Benghazi Youth
Revolutionaries fighting #Gaddafi loyalists in Birak near #Sebha on Thursday youtu.be/1zBjqRMbHqE “I’m homesick for Sebha!” #Libya #CNN
Most #Gaddafi held towns & villages near #Sebha have been liberated. FF are regrouping to take the final fight to Sebha #Libya #AlanTV
AP:
Libyan fighters struggle to regroup after Bani Walid retreat goo.gl/Zqq2X #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Schools Reopen in Libya english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #NTC # Qaddafi
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s #NTC fighters from Misrata capture commander of the #Saadi brigade in #Sirte #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
just back from inside #Sirte chaotic fighting around Abu Hadi roundabout in the west area explosions, snipers and shooting all around #Libya
before near Qar Abu Hadi in the south of #Sirte, also strong resistance from Gaddafi forces 1 killed his head parcially blow apart
i had to go out from inside #Sirte it was really creazy fighters tell me just cry Ala Uakbar! I prefered to run away to be honest #libya
fighters said they are 5 km from Ouagadougu Hall the biggest conference center in Africa and one of the Gaddafi era symbols in #Sirte #Libya
the Halbush Brigade was near by and I also met somebody from the Badr Brigade but not one specific we just do autostop
if you want to come the Halbush Brigade is near Abu Hadi ask for an Scud base Badr brigade in Ahmed Ibrahim home
2 more bodies in a petrol station just outside #Sirte now is a field hospital I thing this is going to be a very bloody battle #Libya
i will stop tweeting now there is no electricity here #Sirte #Libya
Reuters
Pro-Gaddafi forces thwart eastern advance on Sirte
Libyan fighters closing in on Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace from the east captured a nearby town on Saturday only to have their advance stopped by resistance from loyalist forces.
Fighters backing Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) seized Herawa, a small town 60 km from the ousted leader’s coastal hometown of Sirte.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/17/us-l...
malonebarry Barry Malone
Gaddafi forces in Bani Walid have shelled NTC positions, provoking the NTC to rush back towards town in last 20 mins #Libya
NTC fighters attacking Sirte saying some civilians there are taking up arms alongside the pro-Gaddafi fighters #Libya
Aljazeera
Libya
Anti-Gaddafi fighters take cover from incoming Grad missiles from pro-Gaddafi forces in Hirawa, 60km east of Sirte Reuters
Photo:
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-sep-...
Turkey:
Turkey is parachuting in 22 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the Libyan city of Bani Walid, one of the last holdouts of Gaddafi’s supporters, the prime minister’s office said.
Two military cargo planes left Ankara on Saturday to bring food to around 10,000 people in Bani Walid in need of urgent help, the office said in a statement on its website.
As there is no airport in the city, the aid packages would be dropped down by parachute, it added.
Nato:
NATO said on Saturday it would assess allegations that its airstrikes had killed hundreds of civilians in the under-siege Libyan city of Sirte, but noted that similar accusations in the past have rarely proven to be true.
“Most often, they are revealed to be unfounded or inconclusive,” spokesman Roland Lavoie said. “As is the case with all NATO strikes, a thorough damage assessment is conducted afterwards; this will allow us to ascertain whether these allegations are founded or not.”
Lavoie confirmed that several military targets – five command and control facilities, three radar systems, four armed vehicles and eight air missile systems – had been struck following “strong evidence … that the population of Sirte was being threatened.”
English Libya TV
Children start school year without Gaddafi
Boys and girls chanted anti-Muammar Gaddafi slogans while teachers hung an effigy of the fugitive leader today as Libyan children started their first school year without the “brother leader” dictating everything from the curriculum to what books they should read.
It was a festive atmosphere as children wearing ribbons and decked out in the revolutionary colors of red, green and black greeted each other, many for the first time since Tripoli fell to anti-Gaddafi forces late last month.
“We will have a very good future without Gaddafi,” said Bahoula Salam Ergei, a 37-year-old teacher at the Al-Fayha School in Tripoli. “We have to explain to the children what’s new with the revolution and help them forget the violence.”
As she spoke several boys ran around the courtyard unfurling the revolutionary flag that has replaced Gaddafi’s green banner.
The school opening comes as the National Transitional Council, the closest thing to a government in the North African nation, struggles to restore a sense of normalcy despite continued fighting in three southern and central areas that remain loyal to the fugitive autocrat.
School officials stressed many challenges lie ahead. The second-floor library at the Al-Fayha school is still filled with Gaddafi’s “Green Book,” a political manifesto that explains his “Third Universal Theory for a new democratic society.”
The NTC is expected to provide new books and computers for Libya’s schools, but it will take time, said headmistress Moofidha Nashnoush as she rushed through the halls hanging up revolutionary flags and hugging her colleagues.
“In the first day of school, there is a huge difference from before,” Nashnoush said. “You can feel the freedom, the victory, you can breathe the freedom.”
Teachers at the elementary school, which has about 800 students, said they lacked new books to replace those filled with Gaddafi’s teachings. They planned to focus in the beginning on helping the children overcome memories of violence that forced them to stay home as fighting raged in the streets between revolutionaries and Gaddafi loyalists.
Today, dozens of boys and girls filed into the school’s courtyard where Neshnoush led them in songs and chants about the new Libya.
School counselor Amal Suleiman el-Aroud was surrounded as she carried a poster of Gaddafi to a concrete platform, yelling “Who is this man?” The children responded, “He is the war criminal, the one who killed our fathers and uncles.”
She then tore the poster up and set one of the pieces on fire.
Teachers later strung up a Gaddafi puppet on the flag pole as the children cheered
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught, reporting from Wishtata about 50km from the centre of Bani Walid, said there is no fighting planned for today on that front.
“Today is for consolidation and lessons learned from yesterday,” our correspondent said, after speaking with a senior NTC commander.
She also said yesterday’s fighting “ultimately achieved little more than getting people killed and demonstrating the strength of pro-Gaddafi forces”.
Reportedly, Gaddafi has at least three brigades dug in deeply at Bani Walid, laying traps for the NTC fighters. As a result, our correspondent said, “the NTC fighter command insists on taking things slowly, asking for more time to co-ordinate, to re-deploy and to organise”.
Bani Walid
“They swept the position after targeting us with Grad rockets,” said National Transitional Council fighter Omar Ali Ramadan, who added that he and others had managed to take cover at an abandoned house.
“At least seven rockets hit our position,” he said, as Gaddafi loyalists continued their counter-offensive in Bani Walid, 180km southeast of Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have fired rockets and scored casualties in their fierce counter-attack in the fugitive ex-Libyan leader’s stronghold of Bani Walid.
Ambulances rushed dead and wounded fighters as explosions and gunfire thundered in the air, after the attack on a position of NTC fighters several kilometres from the city centre.
A military spokesman for Libya’s transitional government says revolutionaries have no certain information about Gaddafi’s location.
The spokesman Col Ahmed Omar Bani says he thinks anybody who knew where Gaddafi was would turn him in for the nearly $2m bounty set by the revolutionaries.
Gaddafi has been on the run since Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces on August 21.
Fierce fighting around Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte and another stronghold of Bani Walid have drawn speculation that the fugitive leader might be there.
Bani told reporters Saturday that “up to now we don’t have any certain information or intelligence about his whereabouts”.
FraCicardi Francesca Cicardi
Today school reopen in #Libya,7 months after the revolution:teachers told me in #Tripoli they’ll teach it,the war,the brave rebels & martyrs
#Libya schools don’t have new books/programs,but #Gadafi will be erased,his Green Book out,subjects he banned will be teach again now…
English teacher that didn’t speak English told me in #Tripoli languages will be important now,specially those of the allies…French!
frankentele Sean Carberry
One NTC official told me this morning that Anti-Gadhafi forces in Bani Walid extremely unorganized and of borderline competence.
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Since yesterday long queues for petrol in #Tripoli again
Friends in #tripoli tell me that shootings at night become less and less. They feel even more secure than under G.
TheZee Zainab
The Libyan Flag in front of the UN building. #Libya #Feb17 We did it. yfrog.com/h3s1ahpcj
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Violent clashes between Misrata fighters and the thugs of the tyrant, in the Seventh district in Sirte city, and… fb.me/MxYeQT3g
Clashes in the Abu Hadi area, south of the Al-Gardabya military base. Two fighters were wounded and three were… fb.me/GgP6FrKa
malonebarry Barry Malone
Reuters latest summary of events in #Libya so far today reut.rs/oIMnkP
NATO says “aware” of Ibrahim’s 354 deaths in Sirte airstrikes claim. “Most often, (claims) revealed to be unfounded or inconclusive”
smithjournalist Graeme Smith
We’ve put seven more papers from Col. Gadhafi’s intelligence files on the website, with partial translations. bit.ly/oxUDKm
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Video of Erdogan’s speech in Misrata last night! Unbelievable feeling of unity & pride on ALL levels bit.ly/qUSEdZ
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Morale a bit shaky this morning at the Northern front of #BaniWalid after yesterday’s tough attack #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Sirte: Heavy fighting today in #Ouagadougou complex. #Gaddafi filth used RPGs & GRADs to shell area around #BeniHamal Mosque #Libya #Feb17
#Sabha #Freedomfighters control local radio station & new flags flying in liberated suburbs of #AlGardah, #Mansheya & #Jadeed. #Libya #Feb17
Sirte: #Gaddafi forces are using civilin as as human shields inside the city. #Libya #Feb17
BreakingNews Breaking News
Gadhafi spokesman says NATO air strikes on Sirte, Libya, hit homes and hotel, killing 354 people – Reuters bit.ly/ruVwLC
BreakingNews Breaking News
Military spokesman: Libyan revolutionaries have no certain information about Gadhafi location – AP
#Sabha Council:
Sabha fighters control local radio station & new flags flying in liberated suburbs of AlGardah, Mansheya & Jadeed #Libya
English Libya TV
Gaddafi forces thwart eastern advance on Sirte
Libyan fighters closing in on Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace from the east captured a nearby town today only to have their advance stopped by resistance from Gaddafi forces.
Fighters backing Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) seized Herawa, a small town 60 km from the ousted leader’s coastal hometown of Sirte.
They danced in the streets singing “Gaddafi, we will burn you” and ripped down posters of the fugitive former dictator, stamping on his face in the dirt.
The anti-Gaddafi fighters, who had hurtled into Herawa on scores of machine gun-mounted pickup trucks and tanks, said they had taken power easily in the morning.
“We advanced into Herawa after about five days of heavy fighting and NATO bombing,” fighter Nouri al-Fanoussi said.
“We managed to save the town very smoothly this morning without any resistance.”
But difficulties came as troops started setting up base in a mosque on the edge of the town. Pro-Gaddafi forces in Sirte fired rockets at the domed white building and heavy shelling scattered the fighters.
“Answer me! Answer me!” one pro-NTC fighter sobbed as he cradled the body of his friend, killed by shrapnel wounds to his head.
Ambulances sped between the front line and field hospital where doctors said another pro-NTC soldier had died and around 10 were being treated for gunshot and shrapnel wounds.
The fighters scrapped a plan to advance further into Sirte, to reinforce other interim government forces who had entered the city from the opposite direction. Pro-Gaddafi fighters continued to shower the outskirts of Herawa with rockets and shell fire.
Herawa’s civilian population, in the low thousands, was nowhere to be seen as NATO jets roared overhead. It is the last major town to the east of Sirte and pro-NTC fighters have spent weeks inching towards it.
Sirte is one of the last pro-Gaddafi bastions in Libya along with the desert town of Bani
Walid and the remote southern outpost of Sabha.
Anti-Gaddafi forces entered Sirte from the west yesterday but also encountered fierce fighting as snipers took aim from rooftops and loyalist forces fired rockets at their advancing convoys.
Benghazi Youth
families which left #BaniWalid – Still fighting there. Mortars/GRAD falling on homes
#BaniWalid: Families escaping, some youth remain. 1 cousin stayed in BW, 1 left earlier to Misrata to help as field medic and/or fighter
supposedly the tribes & Gmen holding BW, also the ones directing GRAD on every tribe that may have a FF
Havnt heard from cousin in #BaniWalid, nor the one in #Misrata. Last news came in BW saying Gmen going house2house looking for ‘rats’ #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I bet Ahmad Bani speaks better English than his own translator…
Ahmed Bani: There are some people that bet on us losing this war for the liberation of Libya and we proved them wrong
Ahmed bani: Here I am in a safe, free, liberated Tripoli and I tell the disillusioned people that Bani Walid, Sirte & Sabha isn’t far
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Algeria abstained from the vote, it didn’t vote against! (Aljazeera had a video that shows UN voting screen)
I posted 37 photos on Facebook in the album “The beauty of Libya – Leptis Magna” fb.me/Yaho5heJ
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Ahrar TV: General Ahmed AlAtabi: Sebha Military council: Sebha is under FF control.#feb17#Libya
Ahrar TV: Gen Ahmed AlAtabi: G forces based 27km south of city. Remaining G forces in city negotiating surrender #feb17 #Libya
Ahrar TV: Gen Ahmed AlAtabi: Remaining G forces in city negotiating surrender. Surrender will only be accepted w/ NTC approval
Gaddafi sent group of forces from Sirte to BaniWalid to control desert (southeast of BW) and they arrived.
He weakened his defences in Sirte:)
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
The martyr of Misrata & Field Commander Mohamed AlHalbus (in Arabic) is.gd/Zdu5ww #Feb17 #libya
FF from Sirte speaking to Alarabiya reporter at Sirte front ( arabic) www.justin.tv/almanara1702/b/295311128 #libya #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
The BaniWalid border with Mizda is wide open. Saffia could have come to BW to check on her saify boy and back to Algeria without a fuss.
I have relatives who managed to escape yesterday, they say they have not met any one on the way out, not G goons, not FF.
I thought BW was surrounded!!!!
MissRedFraggle Red Fraggle
So did the freedom fighters!!!
Tweeting Tripoli
I guess more man power needed there. Didn’t they turn away volunteers by saying they had enough?
Dr Zentani the chief forensic pathologist in TMC of #Tripoli says #celebullets have killed at least 20 people #Libya". STOP IT
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Here is exclusive video I obtained of arrest of the head of #saadi Katiba by rebels in #sirt today. bit.ly/piyYF1 #libya
or:
akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-reports/akh...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
I saw the journalist very badly wounded but alive #Sirte #LIbya
one CNT comander: “we have lost a lot of people today in #Sirte may be 20” #Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Sirte: Heavy fighting between FFs and Gaddafi forces
BREAKING: Sirte: Gaddafi snipers deployed in residential neighborhoods
BREAKING: Sirte: Gaddafi forces are using civilinas as human shields inside the city
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA Col Bani: ‘rebels’ are in the center of Bani Walid, mountain area of Bani Walid causes a problem, we were attacked by mercenaries’.
AJA corresp on the eastern front of Sirte, interviewing Fawzi Boukatef, leader of the Saraya brigades – the Islamists brigades.
thisisKhaledM Khaled M
Among the bodies found in #BabalAziziya freezer were a woman and a child. Identities yet to be released/confirmed. #Libya
map of S/W #Libya #Sabah & locations of forces twitpic.com/6mc2d7
malonebarry Barry Malone
Most senior NTC official outside Bani Walid tells us they think Saif al-Islam — and someone “even more important” are there.. #Libya
Confirmed:
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#Gadhafi forces have brought reinforcements from #Sirte to #BaniWalid, accdg to Abdullah Kenshil, rev spox in BW
NTC tells us pro-Gaddafi fighters leaving Sirte for Bani Walid to protect the big fish that they believe are there #Libya
Heavy fighting in Gaddafi strongholds in Libya www.euronews.net/2011/09/17/heavy-fight... + video wounded FFs :(
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
There were no orders for rev forces to enter, but they entered anyway to push back #Gadhafi loyalists
Morale was low among some rev forces today, and many went home after chaos at front line last night. #BaniWalid.
Some field commandes this fight could take up to a month… others say it is possible that Gadhafi himself is inside… who knows.. #libya
hominoid555 Russell
A Libyan revolutionary fighters’ convoy came under attack Saturday on the outskirts of Sirte injuring a CNN journalist
Two vehicles near the CNN team were hit by at least two RPGs. edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/17...
Norway:
Kamper i Gaddafi-byer
P4 (Lillehammer): I Libya har det i natt vært harde kamper ved to av de siste byene, kontrollert av Gaddafi-lojale styrker.
Opprørerne skal ha klart å ta seg inn i byen Sirte, som er Gaddafis hjemby.
NATO hevder nå det kun er få steder hvor opprørssoldatene ikke har kontrollen.
Fredag vedtok et enstemmig FN-sikkerhetsråd å lette på de økonomiske sanksjonene mot landet
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
#NTC fighters have entered #Harawa. Still not fully under their control. Coming under attack #roadtosirte
Council Misurata: preliminary information from the field hospital Sirte Front: 8 martyrs and 31 wounded FFs from Misurata
Jadu supervise the rebels to send emergency aid to the Sabha humanitarian convoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBDfJU6iMk&fea... (Arabique)
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
Just met a man whose truck was destroyed during fighting so he now sells goats meat to make a living #libya #roadtosirte
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Bani Walid: revolutionaries face barrage of mortars and rockets as they advance towards the town after regrouping
The two pilots that defected in March that Rejected Gaddafi orders to strike the city Al Zentan return to Tripoli tomorrow from Malta
The two pilots return along with delegates from the Ministry of Defence of the Malta.
The number of martyrs Misurata 27 martyrs during the last three days in the battle to liberate the Sirte number of wounded more than 200
India recognises Libyan rebels. www.thehindu.com/news/international/art...
hominoid555 Russell
Sirte A 106, launcher, ammo car and Grad launcher was destroyed by G Battalions using people as human shields.
FreeBenghazi
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: High casualties due2 heavy shelling of GRADs & mortars by Gaddafiforces from inside apartments #Sirte
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: Fighters out of concern for residents, don’t respond in kind. Use only light weapons inside city.
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: 24 martyred & 54 wounded in #Sirte. Number may increase as it’s based on info from only some front-lines #
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING: #Defecting #Libya pilots to return to #Tripoli from #Malta tomorrow and reunite with their families
#Libya air force pilots who refused to bomb civilians in #Feb17 uprising and defected to #Malta are the first heros of the revolution
Defected #Libya pilots had exposed #Gaddafi brutality to the world and gave a meaning to #Feb17 revolution. A hero’s welcome to these men
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Long day that started with a capuccino in the middle of nowhere CNT fighters organized a whole city: generator, refrigerator and coffe
I found some Scuds rockets near a village not far from Qasr Abu Hadi south #Sirte one hidden among the trees others destroyed by Nato #Libya
big number of CNT fighters retreated from #Sirte stay outside
another night camping this time in a barber shop 30 km from #Sirte
I was at Ahmed Ibrahim’s house close Gaddafi assistant amazing! all kind of luxuries full of sculptures huge TVs etc etc #Sirte @Libya
Sirtawi
Gaddafi makes new audio statement to ppl of #Sirte today telling them not to surrender and fight back. Sheesh! Ain’t he a hard headed *!!
#FFs surrounding Milt Camp in #Sirte thought to be where Mutassim G is. Heavy fighting going on.
#Sirte’s rep at NTC Hasan Drouy now on @libyatv
English Libya TV
NTC Colonel: No certain info on Gaddafi
A military spokesman for Libya’s transitional government says revolutionaries have no certain information about Muammar Gaddafi’s location.
The spokesman Col. Ahmed Omar Bani says he thinks anybody who knew where Gaddafi was would turn him in for the nearly $2 million bounty set by the revolutionaries.
Gaddafi has been on the run since Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces last month. Fierce fighting around Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte and another stronghold of Bani Walid have drawn speculation that the fugitive leader might be there.
Bani told reporters Saturday that “up to now we don’t have any certain information or intelligence about his whereabouts.”
AJEnglish Reports
Fighters backing the NTC have reportedly seized #Hirawa peacefully this Morning or #Harawah
LATEST #NTC RECOGNITION MAP Welcome to #TAIWAN+ #INDIA + #VIETNAM img13.imageshack.us/img13/9799/17septre... via @88simon88 #Libya
#Libya resumes #oil production after a standstill DR Ali Tarhouni Oil Minister came to #Brega 2 assess the damage goo.gl/Kex67 Video
Discovered in #Gaddafi ’s compound in tripoli: a fridge with 18 bodies identified as NFSL members who were killed … tmi.me/g6N6N
18 Bodies found in freezer within TRIPOLI MED CTR, some were identified as bodies of NFSL members martyred in May/June 1984
his family members thisisKhaledM are said to be among the 18 NFSL members bodies found in Freezer
#BODIES Found In #FREEZER BabalAZIYAH #FF: @thisisKhaledM They INCLUDE his Uncles Khaled & Yahya Martyred in 1984 #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Satday #NTC fighters blamed traitors Snipers + Oil poured by Gaddafi men in #BaniWalid down steep streets leading 2 TownCenter 4their defeat
#SIRTE Heavy Fights around G Pride and Joy the Ouagadougou conference center Huge Marble-lined Hall where Gaddafi hosted #AU summits #Libya
via feb17
Reuters
Forces loyal to Libya’s new ruling National Transitional Council prepared on Saturday for an assault against diehard loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte.
Fighters gathered 5 kilometers away from Sirte prayed and packed their pick-up trucks with weapons ahead of another day of fighting in Gaddafi’s home town.
AP
Libyan revolutionary fighters are struggling to regroup outside the loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid after being driven back by fierce resistance from followers of Moammar Gadhafi.
There were no signs Saturday of anti-Gadhafi forces mobilizing for another assault on the mountain enclave, about 90 miles (140 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli. The fighters withdrew Friday after facing sniper fire and shelling from loyalists units holding strategic positions above the valley entrance to the town.
Meanwhile, more families fled Bani Walid.
The fighting coincided with another revolutionary offensive into Gadhafi’s hometown Sirte on the Mediterranean coast, where there were stiff counterattacks by backers of the old regime.
English Libya TV
NTC forces continue campaign in Beni Walid
Fighting resumed in the besieged Libyan town of Bani Walid today after diehard loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi dug in there shelled a key checkpoint controlled by transitional government forces on its northern outskirts.
A Reuters correspondent outside Bani Walid watched a column of National Transitional Council(NTC) pickup trucks mounted with anti-aircraft machineguns and fresh ammunition rushing back into the interior desert town as dusk fell.
The day before, NTC fighters seeking to capture one of the fallen, fugitive Libyan dictator’s last bastions had beat an embarrassing retreat from Bani Walid under withering heavy weapons fire from his loyalists.
“There is heavy fighting. We are fighting back with mortars. The Gaddafi militiamen provoked us (by shelling the checkpoint). And we went into the city to fight them,” said NTC fighter Younis Mohamed.
India
India on Satruday decided to extend support to former Libyan rebels Transitional National Council (TNC) led by Mustafa Abdel Jalil.
India has been in contact with the TNC in Benghazi and Cairo but was skeptical about the situation in Libya. With the Qadhafi regime withering away and most countries with economic interests in Libya preferring to cast their lot with the new masters in Tripoli, India also declared its willingness to extend assistance to Libya in its political transition, rebuilding and reconstruction.
CNN
Forces against ousted Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi entered his hometown of Sirte by convoys on Saturday, a day after they pulled back following fierce resistance.
Moussa Ibrahim
Moussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi’s spokesman, claimed that NATO had carried out extensive air strikes on Sirte, killing 354 people overnight. He said Gaddafi was personally leading “all aspects of the struggle”. In a call to the Reuters news agency on Saturday, Ibrahim said: “In the last 17 days, more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes.” The claims could not be verified independently.
Turkey
Turkey is parachuting in 22 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the Libyan city of Bani Walid, one of the last holdouts of Gaddafi’s supporters, the prime minister’s office said. Two military cargo planes left Ankara on Saturday to bring food to around 10,000 people in Bani Walid in need of urgent help, the office said in a statement on its website. As there is no airport in the city, the aid packages would be dropped down by parachute, it added
NATO
NATO said on Saturday it would assess allegations that its airstrikes had killed hundreds of civilians in the under-siege Libyan city of Sirte, but noted that similar accusations in the past have rarely proven to be true.
“Most often, they are revealed to be unfounded or inconclusive,” spokesman Roland Lavoie said. “As is the case with all NATO strikes, a thorough damage assessment is conducted afterwards; this will allow us to ascertain whether these allegations are founded or not.”
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Just got news a #french cameraman injured 2day in #sirt. Dont know how bad he is. Some will go searching in hospitals 2 check on him. #libya
AFP
The AFP news agency is reporting that Gaddafi forces have launched a strong counter-offensive in Bani Walid.
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught, reporting from Wishtata about 50km from the centre of Bani Walid, said there is no fighting planned for today on that front. Gaddafi has at least three brigades dug in deeply at Bani Walid, laying traps for the NTC fighters. As a result, our correspondent said, “the NTC fighter command insists on taking things slowly, asking for more time to co-ordinate, to re-deploy and to organise”.
Niger
The government of Niger has called for international assistance to track what it said was a huge number of weapons and people that have flooded into the country from Libya in the weeks since the government of Muammar Gaddafi collapsed.It also announced that it would not return Gaddafi figures who have fled here if they might face the death penalty at home. Niger Justice Minister Marou Amadou told a news conference here on Friday that more than 210,000 people have crossed into his country from Libya, a figure that could not be confirmed. The International Organisation for Migration offered a far lower number, saying that as many as 300 people are crossing into Niger each day.
FromJoanne Joanne
Satday #NTC fighters blamed traitors Snipers + Oil poured by Gaddafi men in #BaniWalid down steep streets leading 2 TownCenter 4their defeat
#Military Council statement on #Sirte situation youtube.com/watch?v=XPviQA… #Libya #Misrata #NTC
FromJoanne Joanne
#french cameraman #Olivier arrived #Misrata hospital. Heavily wounded but stable condition not life threatening #libya RT @jenanmoussa
#BREAKING #NTC Fighters Found Location Depots of #CHEMICAL #WEAPONS mainly MUSTARD GAS in #Ruwagha #Fezzan via #TagenspielAMSonntag #Libya
#Bani Walid Starry starry Night #Reuters Reports Fighting has broken out in Bani Walid again #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
A number of families fled #sirt today. One man told me, “everyone in #sirt is armed; #sirt is like hell.” #libya
hominoid555 Russell
Libyan forces plot moves after Bani Walid setback. boston.com/news/world/mid… Bani Walid, a mountain enclave not easy to take #hamburgerhill
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
Dr Abdallah Trabilsi who fled #Sirte a little before Ramadan confirms the beating and torturing of prisoners in Sirte by Gaddafi loyalists.
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
fighting broke out again in bani walid, distant explosions booming in the desert under a pretty star studded sky.
Puzzle of “ missing” residents solved?
Tweeting Tripoi
The mystery of Tawergha’s residents: My in-laws who live across the road from the Oil Institute Camp (OIC) in Siahiya, Tripoli told me this observation.
When Misrata FF were wining and gaining momentum and were defeating Gaddafi’s goons which was around 3 months ago, my in-laws noticed large groups of what appeared to be Tawerghan families have been brought by Gov busses to the OIC to live there. They said they were not 100% sure but the families have been dark skinned Libyans who spoke in the northern accent like Misrata and not in the well recognized southern (Sabha).
They were always taken by busses to the fake million man pro-Gaddafi rallies in Tripoli, Zliten, Ajelat etc. They said just before the liberation of Tripoli (on the 19th of August, they all got out of the OIC but this time in different small civilian cars. No one knows their destination.
This might explain why Tawergha was found empty when Misrata FF reached it on the way to Sirte.
My in-laws first thought they were brought in to be used ad human shields. At that time rumors that NATO were to bomb OIC.
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
My mother’s pre-1969 passport. She kept it with her all this time. Wonder what color our new passport should be? Same? yfrog.com/h3ar3stj
hominoid555 Russell
New Libyan rulers say Qaddafi strongholds will fall in “days” nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDet…
Benghazi Youth
Mutassim has been moving across #BaniWalid and #Sirte for last 4 weeks, organizing, supplying. As reported by people from BW. #Libya
Speaking of BW & Misr, I have an even worse story for you guys…
Misrati family friend: her cousin is married to man from BW, he left Misrata during siege & sheltered family in BW
later, Misrata fighters burned their house down in Misrata, b/c they said he is doctor and should not have left b4
this family was living in Misrata, not pro-g, they just fled like the many other civilians at the time
So now they are stuck in BW and have no home to return to neway. Have you heard any such events?
I can tell you right now they will never fully surround BW, not even if they bring all FF. It’s a big desert rock. Unpractical
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
chaos among grumpy anti-G troops at bani walid, fighters blaming each other, commanders, and “traitors” for yday’s battle fail
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AJE: #Libya fighters regroup amid counter-offensive goo.gl/7pz2c Video: goo.gl/ttrwA #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
The DIY arsenal of #Libyan Freedom Fighters. goo.gl/VW35q #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
@twitter: Please check out accounts of @al_Massira & @al_Jamahiriya for illegal use of twitter, planning international terrorist acts.
4 #Gaddafi SCUDs found in #QasrAbuHadi S. of #Sirte. 3 had been destroyed by #NATO, 1 hidden in the trees. #Libya #Feb17
#Freedomfighters fighting in #Sirte taking sniper, assault rifle & rocket fire from #Gaddafi filth hiding on rooftops. #Libya #Feb17
4Adam Adam
Eyewitness. NTC fighters liberated alGaera, Erddri and Braak (60 km north Sabha) and now are hunting down armed Gaddafi supporters. #Libya
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
G loyalists film Insurance building in #Sirte after NATO strikes. The man calmly speaks of dead civilians. #FAIL youtube.com/watch?v=1KracD…
grafixel guess what
#Libya: battle for #Sirte stepped up as Gaddafi loyalists’ radio chatter reveals fears over Nato and rebel onslaught – is.gd/xmMmTd
“We have to take instructions from our imams on the matter of where we can use the heavy weapons.” holy sh**
Libya Signals It May Revise Foreign Oil, Gas Deals If Dubious
-Oil Official #good www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/09/... via @foxbusiness
hominoid555 Russell
Libya: Tony Blair and Col Gaddafi’s secret meetings. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… Looks like they are going to kiss
English Libya TV
Revolutionary forces plot moves after Bani Walid setback
Revolutionary fighters are struggling to regroup outside the loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid after being driven back by fierce resistance from followers of Muammar Gaddafi.
There were no signs today of anti-Gaddafi forces mobilizing for another assault on the mountain enclave, about 140 kilometers southeast of Tripoli. The fighters withdrew yesterday after facing sniper fire and shelling from loyalists units holding strategic positions above the valley entrance to the town.
Meanwhile, more families fled Bani Walid.
The fighting coincided with another revolutionary offensive into Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte on the Mediterranean coast, where there were stiff counterattacks by backers of the old regime.
ALERT!!!
dovenews Libyan™
ALERT! #Darfur Justice & Equality Movement Fighters are in the power station in #Samnu, #Sabha maps.google.com/maps?q=samnu+s… @NATO PLZ RT
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
First day of school in the free Libyan areas :) no more Gaddafi pictures, no more green book studies, no more “jamahiri thinking” #libya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
‘The 43-member NTC has one woman in post – the minister for women.’ says the art, but NTC and min board are two different
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Just got into Djerba hotel, had to rush uploading #Jibrilslist in order to get the taxi to Tunisia.
Thanks to everyone who had a go at deciphering which names were on the list, I have the hi-res copy and will upload a clearer picture
Just going through the @ replies about #jibrilslist , this list looks good pastebin.com/ZwxDadrj
Photo: #Jibrilslist (hi-contrast) on Flickr. This is a hi-contrast version of the list of candidates for the… tumblr.com/xxw4qrkuyw
Just put a better resolution, higher contrast version of #Jibrilslist on my blog, follow the flickr link for an even better version
The columns on the left of this image are the names of the various ministries (Prime Ministry, Foreign Ministry etc.)
Hassan Zuglam’s name is in the line for Finance Minister tumblr.com/xxw4qrkuyw
Mahmud Jibril and Aburrahman Shalgam (Gaddafi’s former UN ambassador) are in the boxes for Foreign Ministry tumblr.com/xxw4qrkuyw
Column 3, line 10 looks like “Information Ministry”, and the name in line 10 is Dr Ahmed Ali something i.e. not Shammam
Ahmed Ali Atayga is the name in line 10, column 1, which is the line for Information Ministry
Usaama Juwayli and Salem Juhaa are the names in the column for Defence Ministry tumblr.com/xxw4qrkuyw
the columns have no headers so can’t be sure.
Row number 4, column 1, the surname appears to be “Al-Ghwell” and the position Deputy Prime Minister and something else I can’t make out.
Libya leak? – I never leave home without my camera, even when on holiday. Yesterday that practice paid off…. tumblr.com/xxw4qubbjj
New blog post on nafusa.tumblr.com on #Jibrilslist
FromJoanne Joanne
#Bani #Walid Gaddafi forces attacked Fired @ FF Checkpoint outside BW FF went after them There =Heavy fighting inside city right now #Libya
@misrati_free
one of our Malta friends is at that check point and I hope he is ok.. He is originally from bani Walid escaped years ago to EU.
CNN: 5 voices:
#Libya After #Gaddafi, then what? edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/17... featuring @khadijateri khadijateri.blogspot.com
FromJoanne Joanne
#HUH ? > Lying Mousa Ibrahim told #Reuters Gaddafi is PERSONALLY Directing his Troops in #SIRTE goo.gl/pECLK #Libya #Bani #Walid
Noit:
Double speak:
There is bound to be “a” Gaddafi there.
He didn’t say which Gadaffi he was talking about…….
English Libya TV
US ramps up weapons search in Libya
Officials say the U.S. is taking an increasingly active role to secure thousands of rocket launchers, mines and small arms from Muammar Gaddafi’s once vast arsenal in Libya.
The fear is that the loose weapons could either fuel an insurgency or fall into the hands of al-Qaeda or other extremists operating across North Africa.
U.S. officials say the Obama administration is sending several additional weapons experts to Libya to help train local units to locate and destroy weapons. The U.S. has two such contractors there already.
The focus is on the estimated 20,000 shoulder-launched missiles called MANPADs which Gaddafi assembled during his four-decade rule. The weapon can be used to shoot down helicopters or civil jetliners.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential plans
White House: US believes Gaddafi still in Libya
The White House says the U.S. has no indication that Muammar Gaddafi has left Libya, though his exact whereabouts are uncertain.
The White House comments come as Libyan revolutionary forces escalate offensives in two key Gaddafi strongholds.
White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes saidtoday that while Gaddafi has not been captured, the U.S. is confident his regime has collapsed.
President Barack Obama will meet with the chairman of the Transitional National Council in New York next week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings.
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
6 bodies where found justnow berried all 2gather in khallat alferjan in graveyeard of alsedra south of #Tripoli now taken to verify in hosp
French freelance journalist wounded in Libya: AFP < French news | Expatica France www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/fr... via @Expatica
Council of the City Jadu FF had two bullets in the front Sabha 14.5,, please pray for him
Libyan4life
This is the 1st time kids in #Libya get to go to school and not be force fed #Gaddafi’s version of history, social studies &English is back!
No more memorizing verses of the Green Book. No more military exercises, No more inaccurate facts. Its such a glorious thing!
It will be a MASSIVE MASSIVE job to completely overhaul the education system in #Libya but it will be a labor of love.
Read this blog, it will make you smile:
A Big Fat Libyan Wedding
khadijateri.blogspot.com
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 18th 2011
9/18/11
9.18.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Z2q38
Tawasul news agency FFs storming Bani Walid again allahu akbar
Still air ambulances flying you to bring the wounded to hospital in Misurata from the front of Sirte need blood
Captured the gang that had been bombing the city of Misrata with Scud missiles five of them one with the rank of colonel plus video evidence
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Libyan families streaming back into the country over the Tunisian border, confident that it’s safe enough to return
#Libya: roads and checkpoints into Tripoli from the Tunisian border clogged with cars as families come home to their home towns
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
So also the ‘rebel union’ of Misrata doesn’t wish to see Mahmoud Jebril as PM, but favour Abd alRahman Swehli instead…
Is it because the Misrati’s feel under represented, like ppl in Benghazi told me?
Sirtawi
5 G thugs responsible for launching Scud missiles from #Sirte were caught . They had vids showing their operations. #gaddaficrimes
OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
UNCONFIRMED reports Nagi Barakat NTC health minister will be replaced, IF SO , that is good news, I hope the new person is competent. #Libya
Air ambulances continue to fly wounded fighters from #Sirte to #Misrata. URGENT need for type O negative BLOOD v @freedomgrouptv #Libya
Via FB:
Khaled M.
A freezer was found in Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli. It was full of 18 bodies, mostly thought to be NFSL members martyred in 1984. Two of whom are my uncles Khaled & Yahya (me & my brother’s namesakes). Today my uncle and the daughter of Khaled are going there w/ intentions of confirming the identities. Cant imagine how that feels. The pain of rehashing old wounds, but also the joy of knowing they can finally be given a proper burial. The examples of Gaddafi’s sadistic nature never surprise me
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Col #Bani – NTC military spokesman – promises "a very different picture in Bani Walid & #Sirte in a few days
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING #NAMES of #NTC Candidates 4 Cabinet Positions in Libya interim government.Follow :) Detective @m_madi goo.gl/PzUgy #Libya
Jibril himself candidate for Prime Minister & Foreign Minister, according to this document. #Shalgam is also on the list #Libya
Ankara, Turkey
Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey:
ikalin1
after egypt and tunisia, we went to libya. things are under control in tripoli but fighting is still going on in sirta and bani walid.
in tripoli, misurata and ben ghazi, pm erdogan was greeted by thousands, chanting “turkey” “erdogan” “libya” “freedom” “justice”.
A scene from misurata with me in suits:) yfrog.com/o0x6luj
we saw a lot of destruction in misurata; burnt houses, trucks, tanks.. like an open-air museum. but the people of misurata are strong,joyful
they greeted pm erdogan with the “misurata song”. they were joyous to see pm erdogan and mustafa abd al-jalil together. chanting “unity”
in ben ghazi, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of umar al-mukhtar, the great libyan fighter and shahid. and a surprise..
umar mukhtar’s son was also there, waiting to greet pm erdogan. they embraced each other and i think many cried… it was very moving…
in libya, we breathed the revolution, saw it in people’s eyes, and felt the new sense of freedom and pride of the libyan people.
a new arab world, a new middle east is bound to emerge. it will be based on justice and freedom, and this will be a good thing for the world
those who see arabs thr orientalist eyes both in the east and the west still doubt the arab spring. but it is happening, growing, deepening
as fighting continues in sirta and bani walid in libya, turkey will be dropping aid material, food,etc. to the people there.
libya has competitive advantages over egypt and tunisia: smaller population but well-educated, vast natural resources, infrastructure.
with political unity and tribal relations established, libya will quickly recover from the war and emerge as a prosperous nation. Inshallah!
Remembering umar al-muhktar, it is worth watching m. Aqqad’s “lion of the desert”, a timeless tribute to mukhtar played by Anthony queen.
Said Samil
@ikalin1 this film was sponsored by Gaddafi by the way. only reason to remember him once, if we have to
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
A French freelance journalist was severely wounded in Sirte this afternoon. Appeared to be shrapnel. Now at Misrata hospita
CCTV photographer who was injured in the battle for #Sirte. #Libya #Feb17 Our prayers are with you! yfrog.com/g0cwmxj
EGGCOLLECTOR Sllort Ifaddag
URGENT AWARENESS! #Gaddafi propagandist and old eggcatch: >@Truthinafrica< takes tweets and alters them!! Pls RT @spam @support @safety
dovenews Libyan™
Reports that #Muatassim #Gaddafi is in #Qasr #Abu #Hadi #Surt maps.google.com/maps?q=qasr+ab… #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Just attended a meeting with other founding members of #LibyanYouthForum (LYF). Will keep all of you updated on progress as it is available.
Stay tuned for website, facebook page, and twitter account of the #LYF. We are feeling very optomistic about the future of #Libya with the..
important input of the country’s Youth. So refreshing to see support of the new govt. in having the youth’s voice heard.
simondenyer Simon Denyer
It’s been an incredible experience reporting on the struggle of the Libyan people for freedom and democracy. I wish them well.
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Wishing our colleague @ianinegypt a speedy recovery! CNN journalist injured in attack near #Sirte #Libya #cnn edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/afr…
One of Saif’s friends said he heard Saif saying: “My father ruled for 40 yrs, I will rule for 40 yrs, then my son will rule for 40 yrs”.
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Libya ponders when to investigate deep-rooted corruption – The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/middle-e… via @washingtonpost #Libya #Feb17
Tripolitanian Libyan
Please ask your nearest mosque in #Tripoli or #Misrata to announce need for blood donation, many already are, but need more.. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#STORY of how @m_madi got “hold off” the #Jibrilslist #NTC candidates 4 cabinet positions in #Libya interim government nafusa.tumblr.com
#Jibril was HEAD #Libya Nat Economic Development under GadGafi + member of Board of trustees of Investment Authority goo.gl/iSSyL
ExGaddafi Officials REMAIN @ #Libya SovereignWealthFund goo.gl/iSSyL #MahmoudJibril #MohamedLayas #RafikNayed WalStreetJournal
Shalgam Gaddafi former UNAmbassador name on list as FM AhmedAliAtiqa NOT MahmudShammam in line4 Information Minister nafusa.tumblr.com
Wefaq #Libya: 17 martyrs and over 50 injured from #Misrata in today’s battle to liberate #Sirte.
#Gaddafi forces are being reinforced with 200 vehicles from the south to the #BaniWalid front lines. Via multiple sources in #Tripoli
People of #Shati celebrating the libration with the FFs www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGVq9-nWxp8&fea... #Sebha #Libya #Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Libya weapons control may take ‘some time’ according to #UN goo.gl/rCS3k #gaddaficrimes #feb17
CNN’s Phil Black has the latest on opposition fighters battling for control of the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UqOEaMNUsA #Libya #Sirte
The arrest of the commander of al Saadi’s battalion www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03LQwVPYgY #Libya
Reuters
Mass grave in Libya
Sept. 17 – Representatives of Libya’s National Transitional Council say another mass grave has been found near Tripoli. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vehIfgoWdOA
ProudLibyan
Gaddafi is finished, let us not behave like he would, when he considered anyone with a different opinion an enemy. We are all Libyans.
Once we get our consitution we will have a law to guide us. All Libyans whatever their background/thoughts can have chance 2 serve.
Like the Islamists (not the ultra extremists) want 2 have a chance 2 participate,so can the secular Libyans, all should work 2 serve Libya
Iman
I need to finish writing the manual How to Overthrow Stupid Dictators for Dummies and send some copies to Algers
Moez
Friend of mine was brought in from #BaniWalid with broken leg from shrapnel. Operation stabilised fracture but camaraderie of fighters..
was amazing. They sang the national anthem, insisted on pushing trolley to ward, dressed him, cleaned him, brought food #tripoli
BBCWorld BBC Global News
Libyan Tuareg face reprisals bbc.in/rb1tuV
race2jannah
according 2 pro G supporters (mainly Serbs & disgruntled UK) Libya is already invaded by NATO troops & US/UK/Fr to colonize
Jirdan just read “ the list” and he ain’t happy:
Jirdan
Apparently Saadi hires only chinese escorts when he’s in London. And what’s funny is that’s the least weird thing about him.
OMG i’m on Jibrils list.
I’m not going to lie guys. Just heard from a high level NTC official that Mousa Kousa has been given a ministerial position.
list of apparantly the Interim Govt. Who’s in it. Etc
Mousa Kousa in the new Gov’t. What the hell! Everybody dust off your klashna. It’s time for another uprising.
Go away Koussa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Having tea with you in the four seasons in Doha was enough. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Guys no frickin joke. Koussa is in the Gov’t. And guess what position………….
as frickin JUSTICE MINISTER. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok just realised my contact was playing a joke because they said Shokri Ghanem has been named head of Libyan bank. Sorry about that.
One massive joke. Koussa as justice minister, Ghanem as head of bank and apparently Jalloud is Interior. We want Baba Muammar back.
Ideally what i want it to be is Prime Minister:Ali Salabi. Deputy:Ali Salabi. Interior:Ali Salabi. Exterior:Ali Salabi. Spy chief:Ali Salabi
how long before people start going Baba Salabi?
Alright best case scenario for tomorrow:Prime Minister Ali Salabi. Worst case scenario:Prime Minister Ali Salabi. Either way we’ve lost.
So all those that are hating on Ali Salabi. Start getting used to his lisp because Baba Salabi is here to stay.
So apparently there’s rumours going round(started by me) that the transitional Gov’t is basically just Ali Salabi on his own.
I WANT BABA MUAMMAR.
BRING BACK THE MAFIA.
For all those that think a revolution happened in Libya. It didn’t your hallucinating.
Baba Muammar is here and he’s here to stay.
Your just living in a very long dream. When you wake up your blood will go back from being red to green.
The uprising is a figament of your imagination. Safiya is still zayting. Aisha is still secretly santa claus. Saadi is still a massive gay
I AM MOUSA IBRAHIM. BOW BEFORE MY RUNAWAY HAIR HAHAHAHAHAHAH
The only way Moussa Ibrahim can hide is if he wore a wig.
Now we have to wait for the official list………
Regarding the leaked NTC list of proposed ministers, we could hear confirmation of interim gov members tomorrow – news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/special/...
#Waddan hldng force trying to secure city w/ fightg rptd frm sme G fleeing #Sirte, (Jufra Comm Tower rd. in pic). twitpic.com/6mih3x
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Sunday September 18th there will be a blood drive at the Center for Organ Transplants, #Tripoli Central Hospital. (Zawiya Street). #Libya RT
SMILE:
Yefrenia
You know Libya has changed when you see a Libyan man tidying & cleaning up out of his own free will, voluntarily! twitpic.com/6mh413
10 pm Saturday Sept. 17
Misrata MilitaryCouncil: As of 10pm local time, 17 martyrs reported and 68 wounded as a result of today’s fighting #Libya"
#Misrata fighters captured a gang of 5, led by a colonel, who were responsible for firing SCUDs at Misrata.
FreeBenghazi
Incriminating videos found on group, showing them firing SCUDs (after they’d written “Massacre of #Misrata” on them) #Sirte #Libya
Armchair Arab
FF should tie these guys to scud missile & fire it, since they love firing scuds so much they should get a chance to ride one.
Misrata fighters caught 25 mercenaries. Most of them from Tawarga #Libya; as well as Mauritania, Chad, Sudan & Niger #Sirte v @Assomood_ly
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Scuds left abandoned by Gaddafi forces near #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/nxy96kdj
Aljazeera
Two Libyan fighter jet pilots who had defected to Malta in February will reportedly return to their home country.
The men say they were ordered to bomb protesters in Benghazi, but diverted their planes to Malta at the last minute.
Months later, they are expected to receive a hero’s welcome upon their return.
Via feb17
Documents show former British prime minister Tony Blair made two private trips to see Muammer Gaddafi in the run-up to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, The Sunday Telegraph revealed.
Blair, who left office in June 2007, used a Libyan regime jet to visit Gaddafi in June 2008 and April 2009, the newspaper said, citing documents discovered in Tripoli since Gaddafi was ousted from power.
Blair played a major role in trying to bring Gaddafi in from the cold in exchange for giving up his nuclear weapons programme and first visited him in March 2004 in what was dubbed the “deal in the desert”.
A spokesman for Blair acknowledged that the visits took place and that the Libyans had raised the issue of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi but the former premier simply told them that it was a matter for the Scottish authorities.
Euronews
In Libya, interim government forces have encountered strong resistance in the towns still loyal to the ousted leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
Gaddafi’s spokesman has told a news agency that 354 people were killed in a NATO air strike on Sirte last night. Whether this is true or not is impossible to tell.
In Bani Walid, another Gaddafi stronghold, there were chaotic scenes as injured fighters were rushed to a field hospital. They say they were ambushed by pro-Gaddafi forces 20 kilometres outside the town.
Reuters
Powerful explosions and sustained machinegun fire rattled the Libyan desert stronghold of Bani Walid on Sunday as fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi shelled positions held by interim government forces around the town.
Forces backed by Libya’s new rulers said fighting had continued overnight on the outskirts of Bani Walid, one of the ousted leader’s last bastions, as their opponents put up strong resistance.
“We fought all night. We have surrounded the city from all sides with the range of 40 km (25 miles),” anti-Gaddafi field commander Absalim Gnuna told Reuters at the northern gate of Bani Walid.
“Most areas north of the central valley are clear. It is a big fight,” he said, as his fighters squatted behind walls and vehicles to shield themselves from heavy shell fire.
AP
Moammar Gadhafi’s fighters have fired several mortars and tried to ambush revolutionary forces at the northern gate of the loyalist stronghold of Bani Walid.
Sunday’s attack came after the two sides clashed through the night inside the town as Libya’s new rulers face fierce resistance to their efforts to crush the dug-in fighters loyal to the fugitive leader.
The mortars targeted a building where revolutionary forces were taking cover as well as the town’s northern entrance, kicking up sand and filling the sky with black smoke. Anti-Gadhafi fighters returned fire with machine guns and rockets.
Former rebels from nearby Tajoura have arrived to reinforce the overstretched revolutionary forces on the Bani Walid front.
Italy
Italy unfroze 2.5 billion euros ($3.4 billion) of Libyan assets last week, Banca UBAE SpA General Manager Biagio Matranga told Il Corriere della Sera in an interview.
The Rome-based trade finance bank, owned by Libya’s central bank, has 3 billion euros of assets, Matranga said.
NTC
36 interim cabinet members are expected to be announced at about 16:00 GMT, as the NTC continues to debate the make up of the new government. “What we know for sure is that it will be represented 36 people from different parts of Libya,” Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reporting from Tripoli said.
“By that they would like to ensure a representation that takes into account all different ethnic groups and all different cities.”They do understand that the stakes ahead and the challenges facing this pro-Gaddafi Libya are going to be incredibly high, and for this they want people who no affiliations with the Gaddafi time.”
Zwara
Yesterday, the citizens of the city of Zwara got the chance to vote for the members of their local transitional council. A privilege not exercised in other cities.
Live Trading News
Libya to Review Oil and Gas Deals
Libya could revise Crude Oil and Nat Gas deals signed under the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi if their pricing terms are abnormally low, and if there are suspicions of corruption, an official with the Arabian Gulf Oil Co. said Saturday.
Libya’s National Transition Council has resumed Crude Oil production and is calling on foreign companies to return.
Read more:
www.livetradingnews.com/libya-to-review...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
NTC fighters preparing for another push in #Sirte big concentration of cars 30 km west of the city #Libya
AJELive AJELive
Two Libyan fighter jet pilots who had defected to Malta in February will reportedly return to their home country aje.me/njizXG
Former British PM Tony #Blair made two private trips to see #Gaddafi in the run-up to release of the Lockerbie bomber. aje.me/oI9ImF
Many #Libyan children started their first school year without #Gaddafi dictating the curriculum aje.me/oZjPxx
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Someone has created a fake twitter account using the letter I (eye) to replace the L in my last name.
Pro-#Gadhafi propagandists have stolen my twitpic, description etc to spread lies I am not tweeting. Please be careful.
I’m going to verify this account
Shoot. I can’t verify my account. Ugh
This is the fake account created with info of AP’s reporter Hadeel now in Libya: @hadeeialsh …this is the correct one: @hadeelalsh
Thx to all who reported @hadeeialsh as spam/impersonator. Pro-#gadhafi trying to tweet propaganda as me.
I reported @hadeeialsh as impersonator here: support.twitter.com/entries/18366 You can do same. Thanks!
You can tell THIS is the real account because my name is hadeeL aLshalchi. No “i” in my twitter handle
OK back to work _ the REAL hadeeL was at attacked by mortars at the northern gate of #BaniWalid couple of hrs ago #libya
you haven’t really hit the big time till someone pretends to be you. Congrats, and condolences
please remove fake account @hadeeialsh sending Gaddafi propaganda under name of AP reporter @hadeelalsh, who covers Libya.
It’s a fake pro-#Gadhafi impersonator. pls report the account
the real Hadeel is doing the reporting w no opinions
The north gate of #BaniWalid has been under attack all day with mortars and sniper fire whisteling past our heads, and fighters retreating.
The rev fighters are thin on the ground and don’t seem to be pushing, just shooting anti-aircraft back. #libya #baniwalid
Had to make a run for it when mortars hit about 20km from building where we took cover. #libya #baniwalid
Lots of smoke rising from horizon from #BaniWalid at the moment #libya
if they have a plan it’s a very strange one…
Srry _ earlier meant motars hit 20 METERS not KM from building where we took cover. #libya
There are actually more than one account impersonating me. Pls report all combinations of my handle with an i replacing the L.
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Anti-Gaddafi fighters clashing with loyalist troops in Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Former #British premier #Blair paid ‘secret’ visits to #Qaddafi: report goo.gl/CljMF #AlArabiya
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Niger will not send Saadi #Gaddafi back to Libya youtube.com/watch?v=HBhUqd… #Libya #Feb17 #Niger
LA Times
Libya battle for Kadafi hometown of Surt sees heavy fighting
The bloody battles for Surt and other loyalist strongholds have raised fears of a possible long-term insurgency in Libya. Moammar Kadafi, in hiding, has called on his followers to continue the fight.
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya—
Heavy fighting was reported Saturday in the battle for Moammar Kadafi’s hometown, while a military spokesman for Libya’s new government conceded that it has no idea where the former leader is hiding.
Fighters allied with the new government pushed farther into Surt, along Libya’s central Mediterranean coast, but again met stiff resistance from well-armed loyalists ensconced in the pro-Kadafi bastion.
The military command in nearby Misurata said that at least 24 of its fighters had been killed in Surt and at least 54 wounded, with many injured by loyalist mortar rounds or Grad missiles. There was no word on the casualties among civilians and pro-Kadafi forces.
Read more:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AlJazeera Arabic: another interview (in bila hudud) with military leader of Tripoli, and fmr LIFG member, Abd alKareem Belhaj.
bencnn benwedeman
NTC field commanders say many loyalists, including senior deposed regime figures, have fled from Bani Walid and Sirte to Sabha. #Libya
AJA: So Zalla is liberated, whose inhabitants were told that revolutionaries are going to christanise them, and rape their women and worse
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo #Libya capuccino before the battle and in the middle of nowhere near #Sirte yfrog.com/mnbdedj
photo #Libya fixing weapons before the battle #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/nz1nahj
another photo of Scuds near #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/hs4zcmlj
interesting article about a british journalist who was kidnapped by touareg in Ghadames, south-west #Libya in The Sunday Times
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Rebels tell me: “today we will use heavy weapons against #sirt. Around 10 rebels died yesterday; around 70 injured.” #libya
#NATO did not bomb yesterday in #sirt when I was there. #Gaddafi regime say a hospital was bombed by #NATO. Cant confirm. #libya
NATO release says lists two key hits in #Sirte ystrdy saying they were 2 command & control nodes.
LibyanPilot OmarAmer AlBarghathi
Libyan pilots who defected to Malta early on return to #Libya: ’’Don’t call us heroes, call us Libyans’’
Niz_FGM Niz
Long queues at fast food restaurants, Cafes full of people watching football, traffic jams on all streets… welcome back #Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I’m loving how our new TV stations allow all sorts of opinions and even criticize NTC (then get someone from NTC to comment) #libya #feb17
However, with all these weapons on the streets, I really hope that we continue to argue/discuss in a civilized not weaponized way #libya
It has to be said, though…so far, #Libya is on the right track as long as people are prepared to put country’s benefit above personal gain
Unfortunately, 42 years of Gaddafi taught us Libyans to be pretty short-sighted. We don’t try to work for the future much
I hope that people all over Libya learn to have some patience & work together (as they have done since #feb17) till #Libya is stable & safe
The biggest hurdle for the NTC to overcome now is the whole centralized government crap that Gaddafi created over 42 years
I hope that Jibril and Jalil can overcome & learn from all criticism & create one decent transitional government that encompasses all
Tripoli’s university students begin their first year without Gaddafi – Al Aan news (in Arabic) akhbar.alaan.tv/video/alaan-reports/Tri... #libya #feb17
Amazing effort today by all teachers, students & staff in Libyan schools. Such a short notice, but life has to resume. #newschoolyear #libya
Nusaybah
Blood donation needed at #Misrata hospitals – spread the word! #Libya RT
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Twitter’s comments are such a good source of insight sometimes, if only the #NTC cared to have a decent online presence. #feb17 #libya
trust me, Libyans don’t do fatwas, jihad or tribal crap but tempers do tend to flare between individuals sometimes
Excellent timing: For the 1st time in 42 years, #Libyans in #Zwara get to vote on their temporary local council leader www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.17038...
Benghazi: A city in foul disrepair, euphoric that other world powers intervened – MiamiHerald.com hrld.us/ppKpm0 via @miamiherald
elderofziyon
Al Quds al Arabi editor, and BBC darling, was on Gaddafi’s payroll
Abdel Bari Atwan, editor in chief of pan-Arab daily Al Quds al Arabi who often appears on the BBC and CNN, has been a big supporter of terror attacks on Israel. From Wikipedia:
He has also been a big critic of the Libyan uprising:
On 17th April 2011, speaking on BBC News Channel’s Dateline London, Atwan claimed that “We know that Eastern area of Libya is almost a hotbed of extremist Al-Qaeda people. I know that personally”.
It appears that his opinions on Libya were a bit…tainted.
Arabic media has been reporting that the new Libyan government has released documents showing that Atwan, as well as Jordanian Al-Dostour reporter Khairy Mansour, were being paid by Gaddafi a sum of $3000 every month.
Atwan vehemently denies it and is threatening to sue everyone who makes these accusations.
See document:
elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/09/al-qu...
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
On Friday, I met two heroes. I met the two Libyan pilots that refused to bomb Libyan protesters and defected to Malta
The pilots made the decision to defect on the ground. Once they took off, they had to fly under the radar all the way to Malta
Their commander told them to drop all their bombs and once done, drop the fuel pods too. “They might kill one more person” #libya #pilots
The two pilots are veterans. They served in the Chad war and saw the huge massacre & betrayal by Gaddafi of our Libyan troops #libya
The pilots left their families behind. One of them has 10 children. He told me: “Libya was more important. I had to make a sacrifice” #libya
Thankfully, both pilots’ families were evacuated immediately from the base and hidden in other parts of Libya by the pilots’ friends #libya
The two pilots are now on their way back to Libya, and hopefully they will get the recognition, and heroes’ welcome they deserve. #libya
There was way too much confusion and Gaddafi killed and executed many many Libyan pilots that refused to drop bombs.
The two heroic pilots that refused to bomb Libyan protesters heading back home to Libya : www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011... #libya #feb17
Abdullah
they r heroes with no doubt as they helped expose Gad brutality. They r already back in Tripoli.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
What #Libya can learn from Eastern Europe. goo.gl/a5fXV #gaddaficrimes #feb17
#Libyan city is battered, smelly and delighted to be rid of #Gaddafi- #Benghazi rose on #feb17 and sparked change goo.gl/DcqZ4
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
Update #Harawa: #NTC fighters still inside but coming under attack by GF. several wounded this am
bencnn
brothers reunited, alAsfar, alShati, #libya.1 had been fighting for 6 months. Their father died 2 weeks ago yfrog.com/nufqpstj
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NATO say on Saturday RAF Tornado destroyed an armoured personnel carrier and armed pick-up trucks in Sirte
#Libya: NATO say on Saturday RAF Tornado destroyed an armoured personnel carrier and armed pick-up trucks in Sirte
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan pilots rejoining Libya’s air force is.gd/EaFLyA #Libya
Fighting reignites in Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte is.gd/2nFzwT #Libya
Fierce fighting continues in Sirte. Both The Eastern and Western fronts had entered Sirte a couple of days ago but retreated
Both fronts have launched a renewed attack on Sirte
Turkey PM hails ‘sacrifice’ of Libyan people is.gd/tCoysg #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan interim govt fighters fired rockets from the southern entrance to Sirte and exchanged heavy fire with Muammar Gaddafi loyalists
#gaddafi’s use of female soldiers has increased. In #Sirte its the females that fire the RPG at any #FF in sight. #Libya
BBC
Swansea man ‘fighting for Libya’
Audio:
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_95...
AP The Associated Press
#Gadhafi forces launch new attack on Libya fighters near loyalist stronghold Bani Walid: apne.ws/qtaSA2 -JM
bencnn benwedeman
NTC field commanders say many loyalists, including senior deposed regime figures, have fled from Bani Walid and Sirte to Sabha. #Libya
All Africa
Mass Grave Yields 34 Bodies
Thirty-four bodies exhumed from a mass grave near the town of al-Qawalish in western Libya seem to be those of men detained by pro-Gaddafi forces in early June 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.
The evidence strongly suggests the detainees were executed at that time, before the pro-Gaddafi forces fled from the area, in the Nafusa mountains. The bodies of another three who seem to have been executed by the same perpetrators have also been discovered nearby. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch the victims hadbeen detained from or near their homes or at a major checkpoint in the area, and included at least nine men aged over 60, including an 89-year-old man. The majority were from the
nearby town of al-Qal’a.
“The mass grave at al-Qawalish contains further evidence strongly suggesting that Gaddafi loyalists carried out mass executions of detainees as they struggled to suppress the uprising,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. “These victims included some very old men, some executed together with their sons.”
Read more:
allafrica.com/stories/201109180113.html
AJA
Zillah town which is to the east of Hun has been liberated
Reuters summary of events in #Libya so far today reut.rs/mZcEkO
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
ARABIC Countries which recognised or refused to recognise the Libyan National Transitional Council at the UN: on.fb.me/pMHqYp #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Artillery and rocket outgoing fire: BBC’s @aleithead reports from Eastern Front of #Sirte on 17.09.11 bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #Libya
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya High excitement among anti #Gaddafi forces outside #Bani Walid. 4 Gaddafi prisoners just captured.
Ansa IT
Libia: Frattini, Gheddafi e’ all’estero
ROMA, 18 SET – “Secondo me Gheddafi non è più in Libia”. Ne è convinto il ministro degli Esteri Franco Frattini che, in un’intervista al ‘Messaggero’ aggiunge: “mi dispiacerebbe per la sua fuga, anche perché con gli strumenti tecnologici della Nato avremmo potuto individuarlo e catturarlo sin dall’inizio. Ma abbiamo voluto attenerci rigorosamente alla risoluzione Onu e ora non possiamo lamentarci di questo”.
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
2 pilots who defected to #Malta returned to #Tripoli today.they were ordered to bomb #Benghazi. (cont)
2/3 – 1 of them said from #Tripoli “my brain stopped when i received a mil order to attack civilians.”.(cont)
3/3 " i was inspired to challenge the order no matter the consequences. i wasnt thinking abt my family.i was thinking abt my country" #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
less fighting today in #Sirte than yesterday only two wounded in fild hospital at 2:30 pm NTC fighters trying to encircle the city #Libya
some explosions and the sound of planes suposed to be NATO NTC fighters admit they are surprised by resistance #Sirte #Libya
many cars with civilians leaving the city this morning #Sirte #Libya
el padre del periodista francés herido ayer gravemente dice que su estado es “estable” #Sirte #Libia
six rockets just exploted near the field hospital instaled in a petrol station at the entrance of #Sirte #Libya
one NTC fighter “I think it will take at least 5 days to make them surrender” #Sirte
FMCNL FMC the Netherlands
Small Libyan jet Challenger CL-300 tail nr 5A-UAA currently airborne, (former) Gadhafi jet United Aviation #Libya #OUP #NATO
Sirtawi
We got word that many ppl managed to escape #Sirte and r now being detained at Al-Sadada bridge awaiting Milt permission 2 pass.
4libya
If #Gaddafi is mentally unstable r all those who support him also the same, can’t they tell Gaddafi is over?! #Sirte Bani walid #Libya
I think all Gaddafi knows very well it’s over but wants is to inflict the most pain and suffering on #Libya since it isn’t his anymore.
Tweeting Tripoli
WOOOOT WOOOOT first election ever in #Libya since the 1960s in #Zuwara city to elect local Council: youtube.com/watch?v=BUBToA… #feb17
Gaddafi’s infamous 5 points speech where he messed up democracy was in #Zuwara. Now it erases that with it’s record breaking 1st election.
#Zuwara ’s example should be followed all over Libya… yfrog.com/hs2medjj yfrog.com/nzlaruuj yfrog.com/mmf8acj yfrog.com/o0qvyzwj
#Zuwara , Gaddafi wanted to change it’s name to “The 5 Pints” but Libyans didn’t allow it to happen. Zuwara always stayed Zuwara.
Ordogan on Red Castle? What for? The 1000s who died because he supported Gaddafi for 2 or 3 months in the beginning? yfrog.com/mg516fdj
And now the food drops on BaniWalid, is not a good idea at all. We all know Gaddafi goons will take them, and starve the good ppl there!!
In Tripoli Gaddafi goons kept petrol, medicine, food, water etc stored in their bunkers. Why do we give them food now? That’s just silly.
bencnn benwedeman
Intel chief Abdallah Sanousi and Qadhafi son Muatassim Billah Qadhafi believed to be in Sabha, Qadhafi himself south of Sabha.
libyatv Libya TV
Children start school year without Gaddafi | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/09/17/chi… #Libya #feb17
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
October 2, 2011, 10:00AM – 5:00PM at Tripoli University section B\جامعة طرابلس قاطع ب BAZAAR\ بازار libya-breaknews.myfullseat.com/events/1317799…
According to Mahmoud Shamam “Libya Al Ahrar is not a #Libyan channel” So what is it then? #Libya #feb17
According to Mahmoud Shamam “I dont own Libya AlAhrar and i dont run it.” #Libya #feb17
Nasr
#Libyan FFs R in the process of defeating GFs in Buhadi valley, some 35km south of
#Sirte. They now control the “50km gate” #Misrata #Libya
#Libya n FFs have taken control of #Gaddafi’s luxury home in ATAT عتعت south of #Sirte
On the western front of #Sirte FFs R pushing ever closer to the center.. They say residents including old women & girls R firing at them.
Sirte: Gaddafi’s luxury house in the Buhadi Valley Sirte.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik2IjQ9MAi0&fea...
libyatv Libya TV
Gaddafi forces thwart eastern advance on Sirte | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/09/17/rev… #Libya #feb17
hominoid555 Russell
Embattled Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly urged his gradually diminishing troops to “do or die” in their fight.
khalidkhan787 Khalid Khan
Libya: suspected Chad mercenary arrested from Bani Walid Sept 18 twitpic.com/6msxqi
Two Libyan pilots who refused to bomb civilians arrive at Mitiga airport in Tripoli twitpic.com/6msx88 http://twitpic.com/6msx93
Al-Jazeera correspondent
FFs control the main southern gate of the Sirte and were able to enter Tawasul news
English Libya TV
Civilians join Gaddafi fighters to defend hometown
Libyan fighters battled street by street for control of Muammar’s Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte for the third day today, taking sniper, assault rifle and rocket fire from his loyalists perched on the city’s rooftops.
Orange flashes of gunfire mixed with dust and black smoke over the sand-coloured buildings of the seaside city as scores of machine gun and rocket launcher-mounted pick-ups trucks snaked through its streets.
Ambulances rushed away from the battle bearing wounded fighters west as the pro-Gaddafi men defended their ground.
Ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters said it was unclear how many Gaddafi loyalists were in the city but several suggested that some of Sirte’s civilian residents had started joining the fight on the ousted leader’s side.
“There have been heavy clashes since this morning,” NTC fighter, Mahmoud Terbelu, said as he stood in the middle of a large roundabout littered with bullet casings.
“There has been some resistance from civilians, volunteers. They’re above the buildings with Kalashnikovs, anti-aircraft guns, rockets and other weapons,” he said.
A green and beige building stood at the roundabout scarred by rocket fire in the last two days of fighting.
Dozens of pick-up trucks circled the town, fighters standing with rifles ready or drinking juice in the midday heat.
NTC soldiers said they had been battling for the city on three fronts — from the west, the south and the east entrances — but had been advancing slowly.
“There’s been fighting by the sea and in the city,” said one fighter who did not give his name. “We are gathering and then advancing. We are retaking it step by step.”
ZIP AND CRACK OF BATTLE
Down the road from the roundabout, fighters gathered and traded fire with an unseen gunman, taking cover behind breeze block walls and behind pickups.
A gated compound of seaside villas stood on the opposite side of the road, which revolutionaries said were guesthouses where diplomats and other visitors to the city
had stayed.
The Mediterranean glistened behind them.
A black pick-up truck rolled down the road from the direction of the city, a fighter in army fatigues slumped over the anti-aircraft machine-gun mounted on the back.
Blood poured down his arms and from his torso onto ammunition cartridges.
Men shouted “God is greatest” as he was loaded into the back of a field ambulance.
His comrade, wearing sunglasses and a black and white scarf, washed the blood from his hands using a water bottle.
Most of the NTC fighters come from the port city of Misrata and bear a special grudge against Gaddafi after a months-long siege devastated large parts of that city.
They spray-painted “Free Libya” and the names of their brigades over the once ubiquitous posters that displayed Gaddafi slogans and welcomed foreign diplomats to the city.
Many fighters said sniper fire still posed a challenge to the advance as well as the presence of civilians.
Gaddafi spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, told Reuters today that NATO airstrikes on Sirte had killed 357 civilians overnight — an allegation NATO said may be unfounded.
“We don’t want to use them,” one NTC fighters told Reuters, gesturing towards two tanks.
As dusk set in, the NTC fighters began to pull back to their bases on the outskirts of the city, satisfied with the progress they had made today, and vowing to be back tomorrow.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
six rockets just exploted near the field hospital instaled in a petrol station at the entrance of #Sirte #Libya
ntn 24
Another mass grave found near Tripoli – NTC
Janzora, Libya (NTN24 Wires) – Representatives of Libya’s National Transitional Council say another mass grave has been found near Tripoli.
Bulldozers arrived in a town south of Tripoli on Saturday (September 17) as representatives of Libya’s interim government said they believed a mass grave with at least 20 bodies were found at the site.
Crowds gathered at a cemetery in Janzor, 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of Tripoli, where bodies and body parts wrapped in plastic and covered in sand were placed in the back of trucks.
However, unlike the other bodies officially buried at the cemetery these bodies had no headstones, were wrapped in plastic or clothing rather than traditional linens and some graves contained only body parts.
Full art.:
www.ntn24.com/news/news/another-mass-gr...
BREAKING: FFs enter the city Samnow North of Sabha
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. One more Gaddafi fighter captured near Bani Walid. Breaking the tedium of a Sunday afternoon in the desert
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya readies new cabinet as rebels aim for Sirte and Bani Walid again goo.gl/rf57c
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. #BaniWalid front appears to be active again. Trying to find out more.
Aljazeera
Niger Gaddafi loyalists vow support
Tens of thousands of Tuaregs pastoralists living in the Nigerien city of Agadez continue to support Muammar al Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader.
This northen city bordering Libya is where Saadi, the son of Gaddafi, and several former generals have escaped to.
It is believed that the Tuareg homeland remains a recruiting ground for Gaddafi fighters.
Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege reports from Agadez.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW7e_Pkc20A&fea...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Fierce fighting in #BaniWalid & #BoHadi area near #Sirte Airport. #Libya #Feb17
Large number of civilians escaped #Sirte, now waiting at #AlSadada bridge to be screened by #Freedomfighters. #Libya #Feb17
#Freedomfighters now control #Zallah & the road to the towns of #Waddan & #Maradah #Libya. #Feb17
There is NO abuse of Tawerga in Libya. They fought for & fight for Gaddafi but don’t want to answer or pay for it
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Wounded anti #gaddafi fighter arrives at makeshift field hospital, i.e an abandoned pump, in outskirts of #sirt. twitpic.com/6mue64
This is the #CNN producer who got wounded yesterday in his leg around #sirt. #Libya twitpic.com/6mulep
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING NEWS : Approx. 75 FFs Martyred today in the southern Town of Zila by a Sudanese mercenary group supporting Qaddafi , this group is originally from Darfur and known for its involvement and fighting along side Qaddafi loyalists
BREAKING: Fierce fighting in Bani Walid and the area of Bo-Hadi near Sirte Airport
Heavy fighting and NATO aircrafts are hovering on top of city of Bani Walid
hominoid555 Russell
75 men dead for one small village :(
thedailybeast The Daily Beast
Rebels Try Gaddafi Towns Again: After loyalists put up strong resistance. thebea.st/r1E4mG #cheatsheet
Report Misata Hospital: (1:24min) 10 of 65 wounded have serious injuries. Many still waiting for operations #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-SSRsOnh9o
septimius_sever septimius severus
Farewell to the vessel #AlEntisar (one of #Misrata’s life lines from March/2011) on her final trip at end of the month thanks @IGOAID #Libya
Sirtawi
Muhamad Ramash, spox for #Sirte revolutionary media committee, talks abt conditions in city during uprising (Arabic) youtube.com/watch?v=IdROXp…
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING: #NTC leaders #Jalil and #Jibril in #Malta this afternoon as sign of thanks to #Maltese people for protecting defecting pilots
Bassem
Most likely, I would bet my money that #Gaddafi is having plastic surgery to change his facial features to be unrecognisable right now…
Hanna Gaddafi, daughter of Muammar, unclear if adopted or biological, had great Tripoli hospital office, latest Nespresso machine, CNN says
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: Janzour district, bodies and human remains being buried twitpic.com/6ml39b twitpic.com/6ml3a8 twitpic.com/6ml3dt"
Doctors’ report #Misrata Hospital: 65wounded & 17martyred at Sirte. Sent to various clinics across Misrata #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-SSRsOnh9o
Freedom Fighter in #Misrata teases #Gaddafi soldiers www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTifa9VfrA&fea... fearless in the face of death -MashaAllah 3laikum ya Thowar #Libya
Turkish aid flight to Libya fired upon – Hurriyet Daily News www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turki...
Alielehmer Ali El-Ehmer
Jalil and Jibril in Malta this evening #libya timesofmalta.com/articles/view/… via @timesofmalta
#Netherlands to reopen its embassy in #Libya soon inewsone.com/2011/09/17/net…
CNN
Gaddafi’s mystery daughter.
CNN security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/17/gad… #Libya #gaddaficrimes
Hanna, whether it was the “first” or “second,” was not adopted. She was the biological daughter of the dictator – by a woman other than his wife.
“The texture, you know, the face. They’re – it’s like Gadhafi,” Dr. Isam Bin Massoud said. “It’s her blood. It’s his blood. That’s what we know, that’s what we think. The real truth – we don’t know really.”
More:
security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/17/gadha...
#Misrata Medical Lab: Shortage of bloodtype Onegative which is rare. Also type AB. Received 120bags from Tripoli #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=z4vz9c…
Breaking: Another town north of #Sabha (Samnu) has been liberated by FF! It was peacfully liberated after negotiations w/ townspeople #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Polisario Separatists Fall Into Their Own Trap at the #Westminster Parliament allafrica.com/stories/201109… #Algeria
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Conquest of Europe www.meforum.org/687/the-muslim-brotherh...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
coming back from the entrance of #Sirte NTC fighters pulled out of most of city last night now they are shelling from the road #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: residents greet NTC force in town of Tarout, Shati area, southern #Libya. Taken today without a shot fired. yfrog.com/hwqt4poj
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
By the way, 1 of the brave Libyan pilots lost contact with his family near Sabha/Murbuq 2 months ago. Praying for their safety #libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Because we were hungry, anti #gaddafi fighters gave us some #US army rations. Good stuff… and Halal. #libya #sir twitpic.com/6mvbrl
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Libyans now hate the word Jamahyria they erased it from their License Plates… #feb17 #Libya #Tripoli pic.twitter.com/HzNDOvpM
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Prayers & support for the protesters facing the most brutal violence in Sanaa, #Yemen today – #Libya #Feb17 #Sanaa
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya NATO jets heard over #BaniWalid. More fighting. Smoke rising in town but little change.
BBCKimGhattas Kim Ghattas
Also, all eyes on Libya’s TNC as they take their seat at General Assembly representing Libya. #UNGA
Hero’s Welcome for defected Pilot Ali AlRabti as he is kissed by his son after returning from Malta. Welcome home!
pic.twitter.com/u4wDyMrh
Feb17
Libyan pilots rejoining Libya’s air force
The two Libyan pilots who defected to Malta on February 21, just days after the revolution started, will be rejoining the new Libyan air force in their country.
The pilots are returning home to their families this morning, after spending the past seven months in Malta.
They said they took the decision not to execute their order to bombard a small village and headed towards Malta, where they eventually asked for and were given assistance.
They said this morning they never regretted choosing Malta because of the help they received over here.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/libyan-pilots-rejoining...
Sky
Two Libyan fighter pilots who defected to #Malta instead of bombing their own citizens have returned to #Tripoli news.sky.com/home/article/16072276 #Feb17
Reuters
Defecting Gaddafi pilots return home to hero’s welcome
Crowds greet Libyan fighter pilots who return home after defecting in February after refusing to bomb their countrymen. Lindsey Parietti reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0hMwK8rIYM&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Flash; Intelligence sources believe #Abdallah Sanousi, Mu’tasim billah #Gaddafiare in #Sabha and Muammar himself south of Sabha #Libya
libyanproud libyanandproud
We libyans have become numb to massacres and bloodshed. F*** You #gaddafi, I just watched videos from #yemen and am still tweeting. #libya
Colonel Hussein, commander of Saadi Gaddafi’s battalion, arrested by Misrata fighters in #Sirte yesterday #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03LQwVPYgY
Danya
As a libyan I support them in their struggle for freedom @4libya: #prayforyemen #prayforsyria both now under … tmi.me/g99hf
Nasr
Confirmed: Mahmoud #Jibril al- #Werfalli appoints Aref Ali alNayedh al- #Werfalli as head of " #Libya’s Stablization Council" = MUKHABARAT
Tripolitanian Libyan
RIP the 2 pilots who went #Algeria instead, #Algeria sent them back to #Libya where #Gaddafi executed them. #Libya
Via Ali El-Ehmer
TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT LIST PROPOSAL:
Today Dr. Mahmoud Jibril submitted his proposal list of the candidates transition to the transitional government, sources familiar with Libya today that the House debate within the Council about the names of the proposed combination and adjourned without reaching agreement about the list which included some of her luggage on the two choices left to the Council that the last word. And out of the list of candidates, Dr. Ali al-Issawi and Mr. Mohamed and Mr. Ahmed Allaqi Darrat of former office and empty the list of candidates to the Ministry of Religious Endowments, the source emphasized that the Council objected to the retention of Dr. Mahmoud Jibril, the Foreign Ministry along with his chairmanship of the Ministry. Referred to the controversy that erupted over the formation of the transitional government, which provides for the Constitutional Declaration as the starting first of the transitional political process that begins the announcement of liberalization and end with the election of Parliament. The following is a list of candidates for the transitional government reached as to the transition:
1. Jibril Mahmoud prime minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2. Altarhuni the Deputy Prime Minister for Finance and Economic
3. Tareq Mohammad Yousuf, Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development
4. Ghuwayl Khalid Mohammed, deputy prime minister for services and production
5. Aljowaily Osama selection of the first Secretary of Defense
6. Dean of Interior Sheikh Mohammed
7. Cantaloupe Mahmoud, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Government Spokesman
8. Zqlam Hassan, Minister of Finance
9. Mahmoud Abdul Aziz, Minister of International Cooperation
10. Vintage Ahmed, Minister of Investment and sovereign funds
11. Shamieh Abdullah, Minister of Economy and create a business environment
12. Khaled Kawan Minister of Commerce
13. Fawzi Ammar, medium and micro enterprises 14. Abdulrahman bin Lizzie oil
15. Belkacem Tiger and the Minister of Environment
16. Abdulkadir Alrabotta Minister of Water Resources
17. Abdul Rahman, Minister of alloy families of martyrs and those affected
18. Mr. survivor of Women’s Affairs and Children 19. Solomon Dusan Youth and Sports
20. Useful Alzkose Social Affairs
21. Solomon coastal education
22. Idriss ire of Higher Education and Scientific Research
23. Faraj Al-Sayeh, Minister of Labour
24. Noureddine Salafi Civil Service
25. Fattah Justice …..
26. Ismail Sayala Health
27. Zidane and the Minister of Municipalities
28. Abrah
WilliamJHague William Hague
Heading to New York for @UN General Assembly – annual gathering of world leaders. Expect a major focus on #Libya & the #MiddleEas
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
My story from makeshift field hospital close 2 #sirt yesterday. Tears &blood everywhere. Ambulance driver dead: youtube.com/watch?v=dYmeEA… #Libya
4Adam Adam
Abdul Hafeez Alzletunai, Gaddafi Minister of Finance captured in Zawiya. He says “I’m ready to join the revolution & building of new #Libya”
jirdan_
in his dreams. WTH is wrong with these people. I’m not forgiving to the point of ridiculous.
BREAKING: FFs free Libyan Army Liberate the village and area of Al-Sultan east of Sirte and Gaddafi thugs shelled a field hospital for the FFs on the outskirts of Sirte
Sky news correspondent: ALL members of the NTC have traveled to Tripoli for talks on the interim Government announcement
BREAKING NEWS : Approx. 75 FFs Martyred today in the southern Town of Zila by a Sudanese mercenary group supporting Qaddafi , this group is originally from Darfur and known for its involvement and fighting along side Qaddafi loyalists
Reuters: Powerful explosions&sustained machinegun fire rattled #BaniWalid on Sun as #Gaddafi fighters shelled Freedom forces around the town
NTC forces bent on seizing #Gaddafi’s remaining strongholds fell back after another chaotic attack on #BaniWalid, but renewed their battle for the deposed leader’s birthplace of #Sirte.
Tweeting Tripoli
This is what Gaddafi was storing next to civilians houses… 32°50’29.66"N 13°14’48.14"E (Pic 2). pic.twitter.com/fnNHp0WU
This is what Gaddafi was storing next to civilians houses… 32°50’29.66"N 13°14’48.14"E (Pic 2). pic.twitter.com/fnNHp0WU
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: view from the cnn car, Sahara desert, #Libya at 423 pm local time yfrog.com/o0j5dkxj
Libyano Libya
Video from #Sebha, uploaded after 1 month. Thuwar in Almanshiya tiny.cc/bekc9 #Libya, #feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=drC8wG74h24&fea...
Another video from #Sebha, this is also a month ago. Thuwar breaking into intelligence building. tiny.cc/8apdm #Libya, #feb17, #17feb
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLlV8jCykNA
NASDAQ
WSJ: Ex-Gadhafi Officials Remain At Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund
—The new Libyan government is said to be examining the Libya Investment Authority and its dealings with foreign banks
—But the man in charge fears his scrutiny could be hindered by the continuing presence of Gadhafi-era fund managers
—One rebel leader said the government should create an independent audit commission with the power to bring fraud charges
Read more here:
www.nasdaq.com/aspx/company-news-story....
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NTC spokesman says government number of members will now be reduced to 24 (from 36)
#Libya: NTC says Mahmoud Jabril will remain as Prime Minister but will no longer be the Foreign Minister
#Libya: A very quiet Tripoli as all NTC members travel to Benghazi for government talks and announcement
#Libya: NTC spokesman says announcement on government members now due tomorrow
#Libya: Tripoli: good to see children playing football in playgrounds and fairground up and running again
bencnn benwedeman
This is “drive-by liberation”: NTC fighters drive through villages in Sabha region, cheered by most residents, then drive on to next. #Libya
LibyaNewMedia
Teenage girls are firing RPG’s in Sirte. FFs say they won’t differentiate anymore between men & women. Whoever fires, will get fire back.
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Libyan gen Faez Gebril: Gaddafi has been putting military installations at the mountains and valleys of Bani Walid for 15 years, he has been
preparing for this moment for a long time..we believe he has a lot of fuel and water storages and underground hiding places in the desert.
General Gebril left the Libyan army years ago, has been involved in a murder attempt on Gaddafi. He fled to the US and lives now in Cairo.
He believes the Gaddafi fighters are buying some time only, for themselves, and for Gaddafi..they know what their destiny looks like so they
..will fight till the very end. Gaddafi will not escape to Niger, Mali or Chad cuz these countries won’t be able to resist the intl pressure
according to Faez Gebril…‘and the CIA and other intelligence services are very active there, he might take another route…’
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
se retrasa el anuncio dl nuevo gobierno d #Libia una posible señal d las diferencias q existen entre los sublevados tras la caída de Gadafi
Feb17martyrs FEB17MARTYRS
by LIBYA_BREAKNEWS
Please send pictures of Martyrs and info to the following email address: feblibya17@ymail.com In turn they will be placed on FB page 1/2
PLZ LIKE and SHARE this FB page: www.facebook.com/feb17martyrs
Tweeting Tripoli
Gunfire broke in the neighborhood. Doesn’t sound #celebullets to me. Called my local NTC and they are sending some people to check!!!!
My neighborhood used to have many armed Gaddafi supporters. Not sure what it is yet!!!!
Ok so it turns out 2 b #celebullets. Locals were burying Martyrs & their friends were saluting them. Relieved it wasn’t loose goons, but :(
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Spoke to wife of #french journalist, wounded ystrdy in #Sirt. “He’s still in hospital, but conscious.1st quest he asked,”where’s my camera?"
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Initial interm Gov’t proposal rejected by TNC, revised list of 20 ministers under discussion now #Feb17 #Libya
most of TNC members thought the initial # was too big
the revised version under discussion still, will announce very soon
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Colonel Hussein says Muttasim beat him, called him a dog and threw him out of the battalion.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03LQwVPYgY
Wefaq Libya:
14 injured in Sirte so far today
Kidnapped in the Libyan Desert – Sunday Times
It was instantly terrifying. One moment we were driving quietly down the final stretch of the airport road into the southern Libyan oasis town of Ghadames, then suddenly, out of the darkness, armed men rushed into the road and surrounded our car. A band of Touareg — immediately recognisable from the cotton tagilmus veils wrapped around their heads — ordered us to stop.
“Stop the car! They’re going to shoot!” I shouted, as the car slowed. I was convinced we were not going to stop in time and they were going to fire straight through the windscreen. We would be dead in seconds.
Read full story:
www.justinmarozzi.com/kidnapped-in-the-...
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NTC says expiration of this government could be in weeks, months or years depending on time it takes to liberate full Libyan lands
Al-Tadamun:
Southern Road between #Sirte & #Jufra now under #FFs control.
FromJoanne Joanne
#BaniWalid fighting during the night NTC Fighters from #Tajoura arrived 2 help but NTC Fighters have retreated from BW this morning #Libya
#SIRTE Residents are leaving Say Gaddafi troops R terrorising ppl and telling tales that NTCfighters R criminals who should b killed #Libya
#Gaddafi Himself Febr21 Ordered #Mirage Pilots 2 Attack and Kill Civilians in #Benghazi with Missiles designed 4 tanks and Buildings #Libya
#BREAKING #Benghazi Jibril Says announcement New transit. government POSTPONED INDEFINITELY in order to finalise consultations #Libya
Jibril & Jalil, struggling 2form Interim Gov that no1seems 2agree on Jetoff 4another trip This time Malta #Libya #priorities
#JIBRIL says some new minister positions still need to be decided for new interim Government #Libya
Nasr
With all that is going in #Libya did they really had to thank #Malta now. Is it really urgent?
Joanne
maybe they are escaping :)
FromJoanne Joanne
#AbigPROBLEM: Officer from #Bani #Walid was heckled by troops from #Tripoli after he tried to stop randomly shooting in the air #Libya
#Sirte Many citizens left this morning telling horror stories about Gaddafi men terrorizing city There is no water+ elctricity #Libya
#NTC Fighters are reported to be in Control of Zella (az-Zallah) an oasis in the northeastern Fezzan region of southwest #Libya
#Jibril is accused of failing to consult enough with long-standing grassroots opposition groups like Muslim Brotherhood via #AJE #NTC #Libya
G Men film Insurance building in #Sirte after @NATO strikes Man calmly speaks of dead civilians #FAIL www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KracDg6yac&fea... #SirteFebr17
#SIRTE NTCFighter: situation is very dangerous there are so many snipers and all the types of weapons you can imagine #Libya
ali libyan
since when MB were long-standing grassroots group? some ppl just say things for the sake of saying it.
son of zwara
M. Brother Hood never had any opposition roll in Libya, thr leaders wr regime interments, now wants 2claim Heroism, elections
Benghazi Youth
MuslimBrotherhood is not long standing in Libya. Nor are they grass roots, that is 100% sure, only among extremist expats maybe.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libyan conflict thrusts #Niger into unwelcome spotlight
#NIGER Army stumbled in2 a fierce GUNfight with alQaeda Armed 2teeth Weapons plundered from #Libya arsenals on Thursday goo.gl/OjgY1
#NTC #Misrata Fighters slept in #Misrata last night then moveback & attack in convoy of 900 Vehicles They move in and out of #Sirte #Libya
#FieldHospital setup in petrol station Drs in Tears Mourning young #Misrata Fighters Martyrs goo.gl/P3gKV Fighting 4 #SIRTE #LIbya
Hassan says his broINlaw was shot dead by #Gaddafi troops during demo in #Feb Was buried in garden of own house goo.gl/sIqgi #Libya
In case u still dont understand what life was like in #Gaddafis #Libya Inside #Gaddafi’s Surveillance System goo.gl/t0X5B
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
It is hard to equalize what is going on now in un-librated cities to what was happening before Libration of big towns like Gheryan & Tripoli
If #Gaddafi families left #BaniWalid and #Sirte … Will it be easy to librate those cities ? #Libya #Feb17
Audioboo: NATO/USAF PSYOPS Call for Duty 19 September 2011 #natousafpsyopsouplibya audioboo.fm/boos/474856-nato-usaf-psyop... via @FMCNL #Libya #Feb17
Libya: anti-Gaddafi fighters battle to enter Sirte www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeMd-D9avwU&fea... #Libya #Feb17 #Sirte
Libya FFs in Stalemate at Loyalist Stronghold #BaniWAlid on.wsj.com/o7hh1G via @WSJ #Libya #Feb17
#Gaddafi forces fight in #BaniWalid skynews.com.au/world/article.…
Libya revolution filters slowly to desert towns www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/18/ap/m... #Libya #Feb17
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya . Black smoke and explosions in #Bani Walid. But no sign of major advances by NTC fighters
malonebarry Barry Malone
Post-war Tripoli port back in business, airport ready | Reuters reut.rs/phDA3C #Libya
Ali Tweel
Misurata city, Tripoli street. Before and After. pic.twitter.com/BtWo0mhk
As NTC forces attack Sirte, concern for detainees held there by Gaddafi loyalists. #Libya
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Interesting insight from Ian Pannell on the plight of black African migrants caught in Tripoli. bbc.in/pb16iA #Libya
aquaamr
Just got back from #Sirte front line and the rebels there seams way more organised and focused than #Bani Walid.. Mainly from #Misrata.
Adam
“everyone in #libya is watching #yemen instead of bani walid”— @HannahAllam
Iyad El-Baghdadi
When this is over, the #ArabSpring will be compared not to Iranian revolution, but to the French revolution.
The Arab Spring youth are showing us convictions, not just mere slogans: bit.ly/nry8Vj #Yemen #Syria #Libya
hominoid555 Russell
Libya: Anti-Gaddafi fighters continue advance to Sirte bbc.in/q0Nnld
aquaamr
Driving the area btwn #Misrata n #Sirte feels like wild west, all abandoned villages with wreckage on both sides of road.. Mainly #NATO hits
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NTC chairman #Jalil thanks #Malta for standing by #Libya people during revolution, supplying aid, granting asylum, aiding injured civilians
There are many FFs inside, as fighting continues against forces loyal to Gaddafi :( Bani Walid)
Sky News: Gaddafi forces fight in Bani Walid bit.ly/qnKxFr #Libya
#Libya Forces Call in Artillery on #Sirte Battle – Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-1… via @BloombergNews
hominoid555 Russell
Misurata the FFs suffered a surprise attack in the city of Sirte .., wounding the driver of the ambulance and led to his death.
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
One of Misrata’s heroic FF Ibrahim Halboos was injured critically today in Sirte, may Allah SWT grant him a quick recovery… AMEEN!
Al Jazeera: revolutionaries liberate the city of Zela near the city of Jafra in southern Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
se retrasa el anuncio dl nuevo gobierno d #Libia una posible señal d las diferencias q existen entre los sublevados tras la caída de Gadafi
Sarkozy apoyo la entrega a Gadafi d 1 vehículo “furtivo” ultrasofisticado d 4 millones d euros par protegerle ¡q cosas tiene la vida! #LIbia
situation today in #Sirte NTC fighters recognized “tactical withdrawal” from western suburbs now most of them outside #Libya
Ibn
HAHA i love how he’s drinking from his juice box. So comfy. #Libya pic.twitter.com/7k0a7pce
When this revolution is over, I’m really gonna miss seeing people fighting for freedom in style. #Libya pic.twitter.com/NgRtg5wZ
Benghazi Youth
They should make it a theme for fashion shows =P
#Tripoli schools open, replacing repeated oaths of allegiance to #Gaddafi with lessons in democracy. #Libya pic.twitter.com/fueUM0Ht
m_madi Mohamed Madi
About to leave Djerba for the UK in a few hours. Will miss #Libya dearly
hominoid555 Russell
Libyans in Tunisia returned to their homes with a border guard, saying that the number cont
of people returning has recently increased by 40 to 50 percent.
Exposure for an ambulance, rocket-propelled grenades in front of Sirte www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwIDXPcgvKw&fea...
Detailed Map with updates in Ban Walid, Sirte, & Sabha. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=208861097874298762277.0004aaa9e62c57fa54de2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=32.772698,12.704487&spn=0.055137,0.106859&z=14&vpsrc=6 Excellent work via @k_thos – #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
they used tanks and rockets to shells city 2 heavy cannons ready in the outskirts just 1 killed and may be 12 wounded today #Sirte
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Im in favour of jibril and the NTC delaying the formation of a transitional government till sirte,Sabha & BW can join us in #FreeLibya
Noor
Watching the mass graves in #Janzour on #LibyaAlAhrar … Absolutely heartbreaking :’(
CNN
Hanna Gaddafi mystery! Who is she and what happened her?
Libyans are full of conspiracy theories about exactly what happened to the toppled strongman’s adopted daughter.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwwSFf8SyaM
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Anti Gaddafi fighters celebrating the capture of five Gaddafi loyalists on the #Bani Walid front pic.twitter.com/zm2LjVik
hominoid555 Russell
Tripoli Souq Al Juma The youths are out cleaning the streets youtube.com/watch?v=ynT5It…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynT5ItcUp-Y&fea...
BREAKING: Mahmoud Jibril announced the postponement of the announcement of the new interim government until the liberation of all Libya..!!
4Adam Adam
Nafusa towns sent today another large military convoy to the south to liberate #Sabha expected to join NTC fighters in Shati tonight. #Libya
LibyanPilot
I feel I have to tweet this due to some people speaking without knowledge with some sort of agenda. Next couple of tweets: #Libya
Q: why aren’t eastern FF attacking Sirte? A: The eastern front entered Sirte few days ago joint with West,they liberated and entered v south
Q: Why aren’t East doing anything? A: 100s & 100s of Eastern ff went to nafusa & misrata in March still not returned
A: katibat shuhada, (martyrs brigade) from Benghazi is taking a lead role in the battle for beni walid.
Misrata brigades contain countless people from benghazi and derna
my friend shot in the leg in beniwalid, or another 22 year old lost both legs in Sirte
Just because the eastern brigades don’t have the city’s name on them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
East Libya is the largest region in Libya yet has a population of 2M which is almost the same as Tripoli, we have a v small population
Eastern Libyans spent 6 months rallying behind the west
Russell
I remember the FFs that went to Misrata From Benghazi by boat ! they have played their part !
Alamat Online
Dr. Abdul Rahamn Sweheli is against Dr. Mahmud Jibril being the Prime Minister of Libya
“There is a growing feeling among some people in Libya, that there is a new dictatorship in the way to do in Libya, with new faces, and that these attempts come from the Executive Office of the Transitional Council, and that there are attempts to
control the media channels to be of one color, and I think that it is an internal first place, and the neighbors and the forces that helped us in the protection of civilians and overthrowing Gaddafi, I think that interest to not go back old faces to the leadership of Libya. " ( = translation)
Read here ( Arabic):
www.alamatonline.net/l3.php?id=11284
FreeBenghazi
#Misrata MilitaryCouncil: Gaddafiforces are shelling #Sirte residential districts 1 and 2 with rocket launchers. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli’s Sea Port Totally Secure #Insurance Companies need lower Fees goo.gl/7Ma8z #Libya
#TRIPOLI #TIP Airport Diplomats say CivilAirlines & flights carrying official delegations are allowed 2fly after asking NATO consent #Libya
Please RT, new Libyan TV Channel Arabic from Tripoli, Libya: Libya TV: l-tv.tv #Libya #Tripoli
88simon88 simon
NTC RECOGNITION MAP. img832.imageshack.us/img832/9158/18… HISTORICAL. thx to the UN vote, now more than 50% of the countries RECOGNIZE THE NTC !
Libee Hur
I want the best for our country #Libya
Four men from #Zawiya have been martyred during the operation of freeing #BaniWalid. Inna li Allah wa inna Ilayhi raaji3oun. (v. FB)
Zlitniya
would love to meet Mustafa Abduljalil’s wife #BehindEveryGreatManIsAGreatWom an
Gynaecologist desperately needed in #Zliten .Orthopeadics surgeon also needed.Plz get in touch if u can help
Women demo in #Zliten 2support #NTC &in solidarity w Sirte Sebha & Baniwalid twitpic.com/6n0cpa
twitpic.com/6n0btc
twitpic.com/6n0cpa
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
it hate it..too much all the time randomly and carelessly #Nocelebratoryfire
Libya tunes in to first TV station without Qaddafi’s shadow
In 1999, after publishing articles in state-funded Libyan magazines critical of the Qaddafi regime, Omar Elkeddi made the decision to apply for asylum in the Netherlands.
Leaving his friends and family behind at the age of 40, he feared for his life and thought it unlikely he would ever return to Libya.
“Imagine how difficult it was to start from nothing at that age,” he said. “My life was under threat. Either I left or I would have had to cooperate with them. It was the most
difficult decision of my life.”
Full story:
feb17.info/news/libya-tunes-in-to-first...
FromJoanne Joanne
TFM will PAY #Tunisian Hospital BILLS 4 #Libya wounded. Contact: 216 71829410 M:216 20340459 E:cabinet.aaa@planet.tn plz RT
RAW, Libya Exhumation of a mass grave in the city of Janzour www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI11P0SXlYg&fea... via @youtube
Affnan
Dear Libyan freedom fighters, When you guys are done being awesome & freeing your country can you head over to Palestine & help us clean up.
Muhee Eldeen AlAroosy Tortured by Gaddafi thugs.Seriously #inhumane #Libya v @libyafreedom youtu.be/f95q1r3gW5w
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f95q1r3gW5w&fea...
frankentele Sean Carberry
Sounds like a zoo in Bani Walid: Libyan forces retreat again as Gaddafi bastions hold | Reuters reut.rs/mZcEkO via @reuters
Zlitniya
Following previous bombing of food warehouse in #Zliten ,t cities bakeries r nw receiving flour supplies.Hopefully bread queues wil shorten!
High ranking military official in #Zliten died under torture.He was helping FF.1punishment- shot in both eyes #Libya #Feb17
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
youtu.be/JH6I9FZJWdc Here is a conversation between Ahmad #Bani #NTC rep & a #Misrata brigade commander. It explains current events.. #Libya
Salem #Madhoun > #Belhaj youtu.be/yVGrwpQLkUE #Tripoli #Libya Seriously. This guy is leadership material. What is your input Tripolitanians?
Mesh3adi مش عادي
I hope all Libyans tune their brains to rebuild #Libya based on justice, fairness, equity and Islamic freedom
bint_tarhouna Free Libya
Relatives in Tripoli who went to BabAlazizya say a very common sight is people talking to the sewers calling for Gaddafi to come out! lol
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
LPC #Misrata: NATO gave ‘strong’ support today in #Sirte. Hits included 2 tanks, 3 Grad launchers, MBRLs, and an APC #Libya
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 19th 2011
9/19/11
9.19.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/A83vG
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Sun eve: RAF aircraft identified hostile vehicles nr Waddan. Multiple rocket launcher & armed pick-up truck destroyed using Paveway bombs.
Sun eve: Armed reconnaissance patrol over Bani Walid located former regime main battle tank – disabled by direct hit from Brimstone missile.
Sirtawi
We got three names of Pro-G criminals, terrorizing ppl in #Sirte: Ahmed El-Burki, Hamdi El-Burki, and Hamza Ma’arif. #gaddaficrimes #Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Erdogan’s Visit to Libya (photo album) facebook.com/media/set/?set… #Libya
Another mass grave found near Tripoli – NTC is.gd/atCALt #Libya
Libyan fighter pilots who fled to Malta receive heroes’ welcome in Tripoli is.gd/bHCzjJ #Libya
Libya revolution filters slowly to desert towns is.gd/6i827m #Libya
Has Africa lost Libya? is.gd/Ajn9xL #Libya
Post-war Tripoli port back in business, airport ready is.gd/xDMG16
Tony Blair ‘visited Libya to lobby for JP Morgan’ http://shabablibya.org/?p=http://shabablibya.org/ #Libya
Confusion hampering charge on Gaddafi desert bastion is.gd/79d593 #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: Libyan Freedom Fighter teases and makes fun of Pro-Gaddafi snipers in Misurata bit.ly/qkmjUB #libya
flyingbirdies أكرم
“The exuberant greetings are one of the great joys of travelling in Libya” Justin Marozzi BBC News
LIBYAN CULTURE
The real Libya:
libyanculture.tumblr.com
Zlitniya Zlitniya
Pro #Feb17 art in #Zliten #Libya
twitpic.com/6n1eom
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Zlitniya
‘Tied rope round my neck,attached 2car&drove.Plane came&they fled.Later returned&decided I deserved slow death’ #Zliten youtu.be/-fs3NBfRdyM
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fs3NBfRdyM&fea...
‘Was kidnapped 27Jul frm my farm,bag placed over head,hit over head&needed 20-30stitches’ #Zliten #Gaddaficrimes #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHO8J9YJzV0&fea...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHO8J9YJzV0&fea...
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Qatar to train Libyan journalists and help build free press – The National thenational.ae/news/worldwide… …Jan Keulen…!
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
LPC #Misrata: Today 2 fighters were killed in action in #Sirte, much fewer than the 17 KIA yesterday #Libya
LPC #MIsrata: Fighting in #Sirte today concentrated on the Airbase and nearby Miltary camps. #Libya
tearsforfreedom:
Women’s rights in Islam told by a Libyan woman (my mum)
a BBC report –
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJtS8qzfsKU&fea...
librev2011
Breaking – confirmed #AlKhums #FF are now inside #BaniWalid and took control over some main buildings at the city center #Libya
ilibico
Belhaj: Libyans should look forward 2 a civil country where there’ll be equality, prosperity,a country of institutions where all participate
SajaR26 S.R
Sebha freedom fighters in the liberated area of Almenshia
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbySw8HXPRA
Report on visiting the Kidney Hospital in #Tripoli shortages of medical supplies and staff!! #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEOaFOfiYZ8&NR=1
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEOaFOfiYZ8&NR=1
Can you believe it? Man, oh man, the comedy show was on Arrai tv.
Reuters :
Gaddafi spokesman says 17 “mercenaries”, including French and British “technical experts” captured in Bani Walid:Arrai TV"
Nusaybah
May Allah protect the men and women of my country and expose the liars, opportunists and those trying to spread sedition amongst us. #Libya
Ben
Saleh is a monster. So is #Gaddafi, #Assad and all the rest. VIVA FREEDOM, VIVA #ArabSpring!!!
NATO strikes #Sirte sea port today.
FromJoanne Joanne
UNHAS continues to offer #AIR Passenger Transport services connecting #Djerba #Malta #Tripoli and #Benghazi goo.gl/oHiyf #Libya
Kidnapped by #Touareg in #Libya bit.ly/oNNfNI Reprisals against #Tuareg who supported #Gaddafi goo.gl/LXrQV BBC
#Libyans fail to agree on new government reut.rs/nlWDZz #NTC reduced Portfolios from 36 in the original proposal to around 24 #Libya
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
In midst of ALL the negativity & criticism I actually feel that #Feb17 rev is going amazingly well…Much better than I ever expected #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
Turkish airlines have confirmed starting istanbul- #tripoli flights on sep21st bit.ly/oeWrdU … #Libya
BentBenghazi G
Any1 who supported #Gaddafi or his sons in the past 42 years should be tried for crimes against humanity. #Libya #feb17 #Gaddaficrimes
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Aan t Brega front w ook pizza’s en cake gebracht, was met zo’n konvooi mee, sommigen zaten al dgn alleen op enkel brood..
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Qatar to train Libyan journalists and help build free press – The National thenational.ae/news/worldwide… …Jan Keulen…!
Armchair Arab
don’t quite know how a non-democracy like Qatar can teach us about free press.
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
I thought exactly the same! Then I saw Jan Keulen being the director, whom i know well…actually i think you Libyans can run things by yourself, i was amazed by the in general very good political awareness among Libyans, despite 42 yrs Gaddafi
Rena Netjes
Libya shouldn’t take Belgium as an example…concerning forming a new government…;-)
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Alarabia: AlQumati: ‘Liberation of Bani Walid and Sirte could happen any moment.’
Sirtawi
BREAKING: 3 houses bombed in Swawa in #Sirte, 2 girls died and another is critically injured. Bombs were launched from Abu Hadi
Sumayyah
I hate this whole “what city did what” mindset. All the freedom fighters are Libyan, and they’re all fighting for one thing…a Free Libya.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyans fail to agree new government is.gd/gjYyyN #Libya
Zlitniya
#Zliten tradesmen buy food,nappies&baby milk from #Tunisia ship 2 #Khums then deliver 2Zliten 2sell @ cost price #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=s7ehqN…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ehqNzsY6c&fea...
Gadafi-Summer-Style ( btw this is a real pic, not photoshop )
instagr.am/p/NfF-7
6 fighters were martyred at the #Sirte front-lines, 40 were wounded v @Assomood_ly
Johnyrocket69
Apparently ibrahim has charged his phone and is making crank calls again to syria #libya
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Spent an amazing few hours at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab_al-Az… today. Endless maze of tunnels, equipment, files down there. yfrog.com/kkcn2lzwj
Totally creepy. #Tripoli yfrog.com/mffpayj
Hundreds of these Beretta rifles were found brand new in military compounds and taken for use by new #NTC police. yfrog.com/me3z3gjj
Went to Gharyan in Western Mountains tonight. Whole town was out to welcome home exiled opposition fighters. #Libya yfrog.com/hsrroqdj
The beautiful children of #Libya will grow up in a world without #Gaddafi. yfrog.com/nw12003252j
aMuslimahsDiary
“A man without a beard is like a lion without his mane”
Ahmed
Don’t know if this has made news but there is a very high chance that Motassim Gaddafi is in #Sirte. Was heard through radio interference
Reuters
Gaddafi spokesman: 17, including French and British, captured
A spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday that 17 “mercenaries,” including what he called French and British “technical experts” have been captured in the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid in Libya.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/18/us-l...
MSNBC
Libya Islamist takes inclusive stance
Tripoli’s military commander, an Islamist whose rise to prominence is being watched closely by the West, said on Sunday he wanted to build a democratic “civil state” in Libya in remarks that laid out an inclusive political vision after 42 years of despotism under Muammar Gaddafi.
Read more:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42507776#.TnYDbeyoqSo
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Listen and hear Arabic فصل الدين عن الدولة للشعراوى youtube.com/watch?v=6A69_b… #Libya #Feb17
SajaR26 S.
I hate stupid people that always think they’re right & never want to hear what anyone else has to say #Frustrated !!
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
Twice today I walked in on my boy singing “Eybya hura…Gadafi emshy bawa” The End is near… #Libya
Aljazeera
Libyans fail to form new cabinet
Libya’s interim leaders have failed to agree on a new cabinet even as battles raged with pro-Muammar Gaddafi forces.
The cabinet — or executive committee — was dissolved last month after procedural errors in the handling of the unexplained shooting dead of the newly ruling National Transitional Council’s (NTC) military chief.
A new executive committee, to include officials responsible for defence and interior affairs, was supposed to be appointed by Mahmoud Jibril, the interim prime minister, on Sunday. But the talks broke down when his proposals did not receive full backing from all current members.
“We had an advisory meeting with the NTC in order to form a new cabinet. We have agreed on a number of portfolios. We still have more portfolios to be discussed,” Jibril told reporters at a news conference on Sunday.
Read more and watch video:
goo.gl/T4Dxg
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Beautiful. #Libya #Gharyan yfrog.com/kes37ydj
After watching way Libyans, even in conservative WMtns treat their daughters, fears of Islamist Libya are unfounded. yfrog.com/nys2hwj
Moez
Great how many Libyan tweeps with generic Libya revolutionary account names are
using their own names now #Libya #feb17
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
All this negativity lately is hurting our revolution & what we fought for. #Libya #feb17
Our struggle is not even over yet & people are creating fitna & division. FFs are still on the front lines loosing their lives.
IsaMadesclaire Isabelle Madesclaire
Lire la trad en français de la trad en anglais du discours d’Abdelhakim Belhaj membre CNT chargé de la sécurité Tripoli tl.gd/d5ruep
blabeen
Video of SCUD truck & 2 missiles captured in Seirt by #Misrata FF. #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=xX_uxg…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX_uxgyG00U
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Sorry for rapid-fire tweets. So much to share, but wifi only at night! One last: everyone’s new doormats. #Libya yfrog.com/nxcmpxij
CLAF Interview with Sanae Assefi
The President of CLAF, Dr. Jamal M. Buzayan, visited the sixteen year old Libyan child, Sanae Abdulmajeed Assefi in Tunis, Tunisia on Sunday, September 11, 2011. On August 9, 2011 Sanae and her family were with six other families riding in four civilian cars leaving the Libyan city of Zawiya. Gaddafi forces opened fire on them. Sanae’s aunt was struck by a bullet, between her eyes, fired by Gaddafi snipers; the shot immediately killed her. Sanae and her father left the car and Sanae was hit by an anti-aircraft bullet (14.5 mm) fired by Gaddafi’s brigades. The Libyan freedom fighters were able to reach her, rescue her, and take her to the Zintan hospital where doctors treated her and amputated her left leg below the knee. After seventeen days she left Zintan and arrived in Tunis to continue her medical treatment. Sanae patiently continues her journey dealing with pain, suffering, and treatment. Her injury testifies to the cruelty and inhumanity of Gaddafi and his followers. Her behavior, patience, and determination testify to the excellence of the Libyan children. The help of our donors and supporters testifies to the compassion and integrity of mankind. Sanae embodies the hope for a better future in Libya and she is a source of pride for Libya and all mankind.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oau1TWi371A&fea...
SMILE:
clayclai Clay Claiborne
“Grant me the serenity to email the things I can’t tweet, the abreviations to tweet the things I can & the wisdom to know the difference.”
robinenergy Robin Mills
El Badri confirms that #OPEC recognises the #Libya NTC (since UN recognises them) despite holdout from Venezuela etc
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Graphic Video:
From BabAziziya Archive …
Execution of Wafi Embia in BaniWalid in 1999
youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf0xO… youtube.com/watch?v=-List9…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-List9Nj_ww&fea...
#PrayforSirte #PrayforSebha #PrayforBaniWalid #PrayforLibya
SajaR26 S.
Many of the criminals that were let out from prison by Gaddafi in the early days of the revolution are still walking the streets of Tripoli.
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
#Libyans have learned alot in the past 7 months how to speak and deal with media, something there were never exposed to during #Gaddafi era
Miss B
ALL the Aid that got into eastern Libya from outside in Feb/March, came via Egypt.
WilliamJHague William Hague
What do you think are the important issues at the UN General Assembly this week? Let me know your views & I will reply to some where I can
Armchair Arab
t’s my view, I think Libyan revolution earned more recognition than Egyptian/Tunisian revolutions.
Armchair Arab
well we can build up the Libyan airline, and get those A350s sooner!
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
I asked some pple here. they never heard of Saadi Brigade. it might have existed and they dont know about it.
Lisa
#FLASH #OPEC Recognizes #LIBYA #NTC”
Vanguard
‘Gaddafi son Seif seen in fight for Bani Walid’
BANI WALID (AFP) – Fierce fighting raged Monday in Bani Walid as new regime fighters attacked the town where Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam is holed up, possibly with his father, said the new authorities.
“The revolutionaries came to Bani Walid this morning and engaged in a hard battle,” Abdullah Kenshil, a senior official in the National Transitional Council (NTC), told AFP.
Kenshil said the battle for control of Bani Walid, one of the few remaining bastions of fighters loyal to Gaddafi southeast of Tripoli, was a “done deal and will be completed in the next two days.”
Read more:
www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/gaddafi-son...
Le Monde
Libye : violents combats contre des kadhafistes à Bani Walid
Les forces du nouveau régime libyen sont entrées à nouveau, lundi 19 septembre, à Bani Walid et maintenaient leur étau sur Syrte, deux bastions loyalistes. Moussa Ibrahim, porte-parole du régime de Kadhafi, a affirmé que les troupes loyales avaient remporté ces derniers jours plusieurs victoires “qualitatives” contre les "collaborateurs
de l’OTAN". “Nous sommes parvenus à les repousser en dehors de Bani Walid et de Syrte”, a-t-il assuré dimanche par téléphone à la télévision Arraï, basée en Syrie.
Read more:
www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2011/09/...
AdiKhair Adi G. Khair
I tried one of the Bala’s restaurants last night. Best #Fish ever. #Benghazi
If they only stop celebrating with mashine guns in #Benghazi I would probably feel safer. My colleague is typing on the floor #GunShots
Times of Oman
Turkish military cargo plane fired on over Libya: news agency
Turkey: Turkish military cargo plane dropping humanitarian aid over the Libyan town of Bani Walid came under fire from the ground, the Turkish news agency Anatolia reported Monday.
The incident happened on Saturday when one of two Turkish C-130 transport planes parachuting aid to residents was fired on, the agency said, citing a journalist on the plane.
BBC
Libyan migrants claim abuse from NTC fighters
A BBC investigation has found allegations of abuse against African migrant workers in Libya by fighters allied to the new interim government.
Hundreds of men have been imprisoned, accused of being mercenaries for Col Gaddafi. There are also claims that homes have been looted and women and girls raped.
Ian Pannell reports.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14966512
CNN
CNN journalist injured in attack near Sirte
A Libyan revolutionary fighters’ convoy came under attack Saturday on the outskirts of Sirte, the birthplace of Moammar Gadhafi, injuring a CNN journalist who was traveling with them.
Ian Lee was treated for shrapnel in his ankle in a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack. He was in good spirits and was able to speak with his family by phone.
Lee was with a CNN team traveling with anti-Gadhafi fighters and other journalists toward Sirte, where fierce fighting unfolded again Saturday. The revolutionaries have been met there with stiff resistance from loyalists.
Read more and watch video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/17...
FreedomGroup
Six were martyred in Sunday’s battle in Sirte.
1. Abdel Wahab Mohamed al-Sharif (Misurata)
2. Abdul Aziz Salim Albaaour (Misurata)
3. Bashir Mohammed Arhomat (Misurata)
4. Ahmed Mlitan (Misurata)
5. Abdul Aziz Saleh Al-Amari (Misurata)
6. Ahmed Al-Tahar (Misurata)
اللهم تقبل شهدائنا في ربوع ليبيا الحبيبه
Allah accept our martyrs throughout beloved Libya.
Via FB
Ibrahim Al-Halbouss, commander of Misrata’s eastern front, was seriously injured on Sunday.
He is the brother of the martyred commander, Mohammed Al-Halbouss. Ibrahim become a quadriplegic after four bullets entred his spinal cord.
Sheikh Mustafa Abdul Jalil had presented Ibrahim Al-Halbouss the Medal of Courage during his recent visit to Misrata.
May Allah grant him a speedy recovery.
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
CNN
Anti-Gadhafi forces suffer losses in Sirte, rejoice freedom elsewhere
Revolutionary forces in Libya suffered a sizable blow after more than 20 fighters were killed in the northern city of Sirte Sunday, the country’s transitional government said Monday.
Another 31 fighters were injured, said Abdel Rahman Busin, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council.
Sirte is the hometown of ousted Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi and is among a handful of pro-Gadhafi strongholds left in the country.
Story and video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/19...
Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Turkey air force C-130 shot at by #Gaddafi loyalists in #Bani_Walid on Saturday evening as it dropped humanitarian aid on the city
#Malta to receive 25 more #Libya civilians for hospital treatment
Freedom Group
Today, Misrata fighters at the Sirte front gained 150 cars, 14.5, as well as trucks filled with ammunition.
Twenty were injured today on Sunday in the battle for Sirte
1. Mohamed Ali Al-Jitalawi (Misurata) – (surgery)
2. Mohamed Abu Zaribah (Misurata) – (Surgery)
3. Omar Abu Bakr Badesh (Misurata) – (Discharged)
4. Ahmed Mohamed Shaklawwon (Misurata) – (Discharged)
5. Abdullah Mohammed Chaouch (Misurata) – (Discharged)
6. Sufian Saleh El-Siwi (Misurata) – (Discharged)
7. Youssef Hussein Al-Juhaimi (Misurata) – (Discharged)
8. Ismail Jibril (Misurata) – (Discharged)
9. Ali Salem Badi (Misurata) – (Discharged)
10. Sufian Abdullah Al-Ferjany (Misurata) – (Discharged)
11. Al-Siddiq Galou (Misurata) – (Discharged)
12. Mohamed Mohamed Abjah (Misurata) – (Discharged)
13. Bashir Saleh Bin Taher (Misurata) – (Discharged)
14. Abdul Rahman Ali Abshir (Misurata) – (Discharged)
15. Jamal Muhammad Al-Rais (Misurata)
16. Ali Mohammed Akkub (Misurata)
17. Khalid Abdullah Kulwani (Misurata)
18. Khaled Mabrouk Harish (Misurata)
19. Muhammad Faisal Arahuma (Misurata)
20. Commander Ibrahim Al-Halbouss (Misrata)
Thirty wounded were evacuated to hospitals in Egypt and Jordan.
AJA
FF east are now 40Km from Sirte
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
North gate of #BaniWalid saw more shelling and shooting today #Libya
No rev commanders anywhere, front been abandoned to rag tag armed, inexperienced rebels with dangerous zeal and confidence #Libya #Baniwalid
Another close call at the north gate today; Gadhafi force aimed straight at a structure journos were waiting near #libya #baniwalid
Rebels go into #BaniWalid, fight then retreat lwithout setting bases, thus losing positions #libya
It’s really dangerous not just from the Gadhafi resistance/force, but cuz of inexperience and zeal of the young rebels #libya
In other news, the flies in this desert are really, really annoying #libya
Chaka
be careful. Keep your vest on and your head down.
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
thx :) am trying
Times Live ZA
Black life is cheap in Libya
They are killing black people in Libya. They are killing them in the street, they are killing them in hospitals, they are killing them in transit camps, they are killing them in their houses.
They are not killing any old African. They are killing black Africans, the dark, sub-Saharan Africans. Skin tone, the darkness of one’s skin, has become for many blacks in Libya the difference between prison and freedom, death and life.
The rebels who gunned for the toppling of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi have for the past six months been killing anyone who looks dark. Given that there are between a million and two million black Africans in Libya, a slow and under-reported massacre is unfolding in that country.
No one is saying anything. When African leaders such as President Jacob Zuma speak, they speak for Gaddafi but not for the people who are now being routinely murdered at the hands of the rebels – the people who are today in power across large swathes of Libya.
African newspapers and television channels report on the conflict as if they are European, Chinese or American. We never write about the fact that over the past few months anyone with a dark skin has been stopped in the streets of Libya and searched. It is almost like the days of apartheid. These people are then either arrested, tortured or murdered.
No one cares about their fate. They are black after all, and black life is cheapest among Africans. That is why we are not up in arms.
The killings in Libya have cover. Gaddafi, at the beginning of the conflict, used his considerable wealth to hire mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa to terrorise locals and push back the rebel advance. The mercenaries were from everywhere. There were Nigerians, there were veterans from the wars in Ivory Coast and word is that there were even South Africans among them.
These were some of the hired guns of Gaddafi’s regime.
These mercenaries would be the ones staging shows of force as Gaddafi shook his fist at the free world. They drove around in Jeeps, shot into the air and pretended that all was fine in the world.
It was not. Now Gaddafi has fallen. Many of the mercenaries have returned home, their hundreds of thousands of dollars stashed away. What is left in Libya are the ordinary black people, the ones who have been cleaning for the Libyans all along, building the roads and doing the menial jobs that the rich Libyans would not do.
They are the ones who are dying now. On August 31 an Amnesty International team reported that black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans “are at high risk of abuse by anti-Gaddafi forces”.
“An Amnesty delegation visiting the Central Tripoli Hospital last Monday witnessed three thuwwar revolutionaries (as opposition fighters are commonly known) dragging a black patient from the western town of Tawargha from his bed and detaining him. The men were in civilian clothing.
“The thuwwar said the man would be taken to Misratah for questioning, arguing that interrogators in Tripoli ‘let killers free’. Two other black Libyans receiving treatment in the hospital for gunshot wounds were warned by the anti-Gaddafi forces that ‘their turn was coming’.”
Amnesty International is being extremely diplomatic with its language. Human rights activists are reporting that black people have been disappearing all over Libya over the past nine months as the rebels started taking out Gaddafi forces. As rebels arrived in towns, they merely sought out blacks and either killed them on the spot or arrested them. Many have died of starvation in those “prisons”.
Wherever alleged Gaddafi forces are found to have been executed, most of those murdered have been black. Video footage of ordinary black men who have been working in Libya being executed is available on the internet. Their sin is that some black mercenaries worked for Gaddafi, and their sin now is that they are black.
The US and Nato, after helping the rebels bomb Libya, have been quiet on this issue. They have blood on their hands. Would they be so quiet if whites were being murdered in such large numbers in Libya?
And where are the Africans? The AU is petulant, refusing to speak or intervene, while their brothers and sisters are being murdered.
What a courageous bunch.
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
Repairing electricity Infrastructure in Zuaitina #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=dcjqPD…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjqPDZGzMM&fea...
#Russian Scud missiles found in #Sirte #Libya on 18/9/11, evidence of #Gaddafi wants to kill his people youtube.com/watch?v=dVRTNK…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRTNKjxFxM&fea...
Souk Al Juma Tripoli
عادل المشيطي في سوق الجمعه www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NqUz_KoUQ&fea... #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NqUz_KoUQ&fea...
#Gaddafi Favorite TV shows “Public Execution of opposition” and ElWafi Embaiyah was one of them youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf0xO… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf0xOLxYBs&fea...
acarvin Andy Carvin
Six months ago today, Mo Nabbous was killed while documenting Gaddafi’s ceasefire violations. A few hours later, NATO bombing began. #libya
GADHAFIS ELECTRIC FIAT 500 NEEDS A PUSH ….LOL
cool pic of the liberation of an electric fiat 500 by castagna from the evil ruler of lybia , needs a repaint then ready for rebel support ! (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) the car is actually a special delivery for the gadhafi family , a fiat 500 rebodied by castagna and with an elctric engine ! but now free !
www.flickr.com/photos/juergenspicsseeth...
Freedom_7uriyah ღ.¸¸Esra¸¸.ღ
EVERY city has something to be proud of &FFs from all over #Libya fought in every city.
#Libyan Laughter at the Embassy in #London.
A happy Libyan lass at the London Embassy. 22nd August 2011.
www.flickr.com/photos/eoghan_mac/606951...
#Sabrata, one of #Libya’s most remarkable tourist attractions is still safe and secure. Thank God flic.kr/p/anqZ15
Tears & Emotions in Martyrs’s Square in #Tripoli #Libya flic.kr/p/aj5di2
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
#Libyans have learned alot in the past 7 months how to speak and deal with media, something there were never exposed to during #Gaddafi era
Transporting the injured fighters for treatment to #Egypt, #Tunisia and #Jordan— كابتن طائرة نقل الجرحى يتحدث -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnm4CN5yDD0&fea... #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnm4CN5yDD0&fea...
Via Al-Aan TV: FF advanced 20 KM on the eastern Sirte front.
China calls for early establishment of Libyan interim government bitly.com/mZjlMo
Nigerian minister of external affairs says 5 days ago “no Nigerian has died or is being harassed in Libya.” bitly.com/pmEThx
Via Shabab
Libyan NTC forces repelled at Bani Walid
Anti-Gaddafi forces are struggling to gain ground as they battle for control of the ousted Libyan leader’s remaining strongholds.
Fighters for the nation’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) have fallen back after another chaotic attack on the desert town of Bani Walid.
But they renewed their battle for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte.
NTC forces have met stiff resistance in Col Gaddafi’s last bastions, which they must
capture before the interim government can declare Libya ‘liberated’ and begin work on a constitution before elections.
Since Tripoli fell to anti-Gaddafi forces on August 23, rumours have swirled about whether the deposed leader is in Bani Walid, Sirte, the southern desert town of Sabha or elsewhere.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/libyan-ntc-forces-...
Mike
Sounds like FF forces need to get seriously organised if they are to liberate Sirte, Bani Walid and Sabha
I wonder if people in Sirte, Bani Walid and Sabha would surrender if they knew that Tripoli and most of Libya was under FF control.
NATO NATO
#Video Western leaders visit Tripoli youtu.be/yHyMPIQEswI #NATO #Libya
Emirates 24
NTC fighters in Libya’s Sirte slow down for civilians
Forces of the new Libyan regime advanced Sunday in Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown Sirte, clearing roads for fleeing civilians as they sought one of the ousted strongman’s sons, a field commander said.
“The first problem is that there are children and civilians inside and we don’t want to use Grad rockets or heavy artillery,” Walid al-Feturi, commander of Al-Qabra brigade told AFP.
“But on the other side they are shooting at us with heavy machine guns and artillery,” he said.
Explosions shook the Mediterranean city with a population of 130,000 as fighters
backed by tanks advanced at a measured pace through the desert scrub.
Read more:
www.emirates247.com/news/world/ntc-figh...
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
1/2 -met a #NTC fighter who has family living in #Sirte.He says his cousins were GF & were killed in #NATO strike over mil. installation.
2/2- now 1 part of family pro #NTC and another pro nobody.#Sirte
Ennahar Online
An Algerian Human Rights Organisation condemns French interference
Algiers- An organization for the defence of Human Rights in Algeria on Sunday condemned the “immoral interference” of France in Libya, in a statement quoted by the Algerian news agency APS.
“The French interference in Libya against Colonel Qaddafi and his regime is reprehensible and immoral” especially under “the pretext of democracy against dictatorship and that of freedom against arbitrary,” said the National Commission Advisory for the promotion and protection of human rights in Algeria (CNCPPDH).
Read more:
www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/...
thegeedee
there are a lot of complaints about a lot of Zintan rebbels,they have done a lot of damage,looting included,shame
Benghazi Youth
Shame @ looting, heard the same about Misrata FF. but really this is a problem with indep. brigades, no accountability
EndTyranny101
#Zuwara #Libya: Democracy in action, ballots counted to elect president of local council yfrog.com/g05yhhxj yfrog.com/o0xkxvj
Reuters
One pro-NTC fighter pulled aside four young men for questioning after he said he had found an anti-aircraft bullet in their car.
“There is no weapon inside, but if they have this, there has to be a story,” he said, holding up the bullet.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
Sirtawi
New names of G criminals in #Sirte: Abdullah Daouu Al-Gmati, Al-Giddafi & his bro Ramadan Bahri, Mustafa Haroun. #FreeSirte #gaddaficrimes
G forces have flipped a lorry at #2 traffic lights at W entrance of #Sirte using it as a barrier against Freedom Fighters. #SirteCrisis
Libya’s NTC denies abuse of black Africans | Reuters reut.rs/q2T6hj
UN rights probe wary about black Africans in #Libya – Africa |Daily Nation: bitly.com/qkBckQ
Chaos undermines #Libya’n forces’ advance into Bani Walid bbc.in/nJm6XW
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Heroic Libyan pilots return to their homeland. (Photo Album) facebook.com/media/set/?set… #Libya #Malta
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Hmm, not quite trained by a free press RT @SultanAlQassemi Qatar to train Libyan journalists & help build free press bit.ly/nHXosE
NTC military spokesman: In Sirte 20 revolutionaries died yesterday and 31 were injured." #Libya
Bani Walid Spk: " Gadafi fighters have kidnapped 18 civilians and executed 12 of them. 7 from same the Al Khazmi family. " #Libya
Bani Walid NTC Spokesman:“Gadafi fighters fired anti-aircraft guns at 1 of two Turkish C-130 transport planes parachuting aid to civilians”
Bani Walid NTC Spokesman: " We have distributed food & aid to residents yesterday with the help of the Libyan Red Crescent"
Bani Walid Sp: “Gadafi loyalists firing from mosques & civilian homes. Many of their fighters are Africans & different parts of #Libya”
Our #CNN #Libya WIRE: Anti-Gadhafi forces suffer losses in Sirte, rejoice freedom elsewhere
tiny.cc/g0yhi #Feb17
ForcesNews British Forces News
RAF Tornado GR4s have made a series of precision strikes in a NATO raid on pro-Gaddafi forces around Sirte bfbs.com/news/worldwide…
LibyanPilot OmarAmer AlBarghathi
Turkish airlines started 4 times weekly last week istanbul – benghazi. It will now change it to a daily service from Wednesday #Benghazi
Misurata FF’s finding Scud missiles in #Sirte -
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX_uxgyG00U&feature=share
#Sabha Liberation of southern #Libya looks easy & rapidly edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/…
twitpic.com/6n0xfq/full
Sirtawi
G forces have flipped a lorry at #2 traffic lights at W entrance of #Sirte using it as a barrier against Freedom Fighters. #SirteCrisis
Gadaffi evading capture in a Mercedes 4×4 bristling with anti-tracking systems… and it was given to him by Nicolas Sarkozy #Bravo
Sirte Today revolutionary forces shelled the city with Grad rockets and the sound of gunfights echoed through the streets.
Video: Youth in Libya Look Beyond Gaddafi
Two young students in Benghazi, Libya, share their hopes about the revolution they helped create, and what is next in their country
Video:
feb17.info/media/video-youth-in-libya-l...
Post-war Tripoli port back in business
Tripoli’s port is back to near-normal business less than a month after the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi, authorities said on Sunday, with the Libyan capital’s international airport also ready to operate flights.
As cranes lifted containers and sacks of goods onto the docks, and trucks manoeuvred into position to be loaded, port interim manager Abddel Hakim al-Ghazawi told Reuters the installation was safe and called on insurance companies to reduce fees related to use of the facility.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/post-war-tripoli-port-b...
aquaamr
At front line Rebels fight on the run. They pierce in #Sirte then dart out. Don’t understand why not hold position over night.
#NTC #Libya using Helis in coop with #NATO to medivac casualties of both sides on #Sirte front. twitpic.com/6nddpc
AdiKhair
A Jordanian source announced today the establishment of the largest field hospital in the world in the #Benghazi Medical Center. #Libya
Radio Netherlands
Kadhafi son Seif seen in battle for oasis town
“The revolutionaries came to Bani Walid this morning and engaged in a hard battle,” Abdullah Kenshil, a senior official in the National Transitional Council (NTC), told AFP.
Kenshil said the battle against Kadhafi’s mercenaries for control of Bani Walid, one of the ousted leader’s few remaining bastions southeast of Tripoli, was a “done deal and will be completed in the next two days.”
The NTC official said that Seif al-Islam, the most prominent of Kadhafi’s sons, had been seen in Bani Walid, and that it is likely that his father is also in the oasis town.
“Seif al-Islam was seen in Bani Walid; this is 100 percent certain. As for his father, he was there too; we are 70 percent sure,” Kenshil told AFP, adding they were only being defended by mercenaries.
“Those fighting in Bani Walid are not necessarily Kadhafi’s brigades, whose members joined the NTC forces,” said Kenshil, adding they were “mercenaries from Chad, Niger and Togo, according to the bodies we have recovered.”
“Shoot, shoot,” crackled the radio.
“We don’t need them. You have experience in Chad. Just shoot.”
NTC fighters said that the same pro-Kadhafi commander promised to come to Mutassim’s rescue saying: “Master, master… we will protect you as ordered by your father.”
Read more:
www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/kadhafi-son...
Guardian
BLOG
Residents escaping said hundreds were still trapped in Sirte, where there have been warnings of a humanitarian crisis. They spoke as pro-NTC fighters fired test shots to alert pro-Gaddafi forces holed up inside the city of their presence.
Resident and community leader Ibrahim Ramadan, standing by a car packed with his
family as he fled on the fifth day of fighting, said:
“There’s no electricity, no phone coverage. Nothing. There’s just some water really, but nothing else apart from that.”
He estimated that around one third of Sirte’s roughly 70,000 residents had left.
“People are fed up. There are explosions going off everywhere and you don’t know where the bullets will come from next.Look at this!” he said, pointing at a bullet hole in his car’s windshield. “Bullets are coming down from above. People are just firing randomly.”
Forces loyal to deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi claim to have captured 17 mercenaries, including two Britons and several French nationals, in the town of Bani Walid. The claims- made by Moussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi’s spokesman- could not be confirmed. But if true they would mark a further setback in Nato’s fraught attempts to claim control of the Gaddafi stronghold.
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, now recognises the Libyan National Transitional Council. The announcement, made today in Dubai by Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri, comes after the United Nations approved a Libyan request to accredit envoys of the transitional government as Tripoli’s sole OPEC representatives.
Muammar Gaddafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, has claimed that “mercenaries” assisting the NTC forces have been captured retreating from Bani Walid.
They include two Britons and 12 French, he said, but here has been no confirmation of the claim.
Source and more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-li...
KUNA NET
France unworried by Council delay in forming Libyan government
France said on Monday that it was not unduly worried by the delay of the National
Transitional Council (NTC) in forming a new Libyan government, but urged this be done “as quickly as possible.” A statement from the Foreign Ministry noted that “all democratic processes involve discussions and debate” and it was “natural” that this should take some time in Libya.
“That happens even in the most ancient democracies,” Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Roman Nadal said in a briefing.
“It is, therefore, a difficult exercise in a country that has known almost 42 years of dictatorship,” the French official added.
“We continue in our exchanges with the leaders of the National Transitional Council to urge them to appoint, as quickly as possible, a representative and operational government,” Nadal indicated.
He said that France has stressed the need for Libyans to unite and reconcile to build their democratic future together.
Source:
www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/...
Libya: helping victims of conflict in Tripoli
George Comninos, ICRC’s head of delegation in Tripoli, explains the ICRC’s role during and after the battle for the capital. In the weeks ahead, the ICRC will strengthen its contacts with all authorities to make sure that international humanitarian law is respected everywhere. Its main focus will be the protection of those still at risk, in particular detainees.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn_SRW98zWE&fea...
Libya Mohamed Ibrahim, Moussa Ibrahim’s brother, has been captured in Sirte with 15 others
Noit
I thought he was already in the hospital, heard that last week…..
POSITIVE LIBYA TWEETS:
People have first time conversations about #Libya with Libyans without mentioning #Gaddafi. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Libyans & other people around the world know many towns in #Libya that were unknown before #Feb17. #PositiveLibyaTweets
My mom will stop having the nightmare she’s been having for the last seven years (that #SaifGaddafi will rule #Libya) #PositiveLibyaTweets
Despite our differences, Libyan people were celebrating by waving US/UK/French flags #PositiveLibyaTweets
The Libyan people will get better roads/education/hospitals/opportunities inshallah after #feb17
All the squandered and stolen Libyan money can finally be used to re-build Libyan infrastructure #PositiveLibyaTweets
Most saif gaddafi might rule in the future is a kebab stand #PositiveLibyaTweets
All the political opportunists who have appeared in Libya have exposed themselves as such and will fail. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Thank you to Tunisia for letting Libyans protest in your beautiful country #PositiveLibyaTweets
PositiveLibyaTweets The country and it’s people will rise like the Phoenix out of the ashes of war and 42yrs oppression.
. Inshallah every town, city, village soon 100% #deGaddafinated
Did you guys think we cld have even been here a year ago? #democracy #PositiveLibyaTweets
While were planning our future on the ground, Gaddafi is hiding in some hole underneath us. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Libyans from all over the world came together to overthrow gadaffi & goons. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Libya must be the only place in the world where people were begging to be bombed.
#PositiveLibyaTweets
PositiveLibyaTweets #Libyans are friends for life and after #feb17 I’ll be able to visit them w/o police following on every step
Libyans started to think positively, which is one of many gr8 feb17 achievements. #PositiveLibyaTweets
No more embarrassment 4 #UN & World receiving #Gaddafi, finding an excuse not allowing 2 put up “The Tent” #PositiveLibyaTweets
The Libyan people are neither extremists or liberals they are just Libyans and that’s it #PositiveLibyaTweets
The Libyan people are neither extremists or liberals they are just Libyans and that’s it #PositiveLibyaTweets"
The Libyans I met would take the shirt off their back to help you. Incredibly kind #PositiveLibyaTweets
kudos to who ever started #PositiveLibyaTweets :)
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Al Badri, SG OPEP : Probable réduction de la production de pétrole de ses membres à mesure que la #Libye reviendra à ses niveaux d’avant
BREAKING: FFs have NOW entered #Sabha,, Allah Akbar!!!
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
You need to read this:
RFI fr. Afrique
Libye : où se cache Kadhafi ?
La France a fourni un véhicule ultra-sécurisé à Kadhafi, affirme Mediapart
Il s’agit d’un bijou de technologies de la marque Mercedes, aménagé par la société française Amesys, une filiale de Bull. Le véhicule tout terrain, blindé, est équipé d’un dispositif électronique de brouillage, qui permet de neutraliser toutes les fréquences radios dans un rayon de cent mètres, et donc de se protéger des engins explosifs télécommandés.
Le système permet de capter au total 2 000 menaces extérieures, et d’identifier les communications ennemies. Deux semaines de formation sont nécessaires aux utilisateurs de ce véhicule ultrasécurisé. Le coût est évidemment à la hauteur de la protection assurée : quatre millions d’euros.
Selon Mediapart, La vente a été appuyée en 2007 par le ministre de l’Intérieur de l’époque Nicolas Sarkozy. La livraison aurait été validée par l’Elysée en 2008. Et c’est finalement l’intermédiaire franco-libanais Ziad Takkieddine, inculpé entre autres dans une affaire liée aux attentats de Karachi au Pakistan qui aurait fourni l’engin à Tripoli
Ce véhicule d’exception n’était qu’une partie du programme haute-sécurité lancé par Mouammar Kadhafi. Le régime libyen avait signé un contrat de 26 millions d’euros, avec la même société Bull qui comprenait aussi la livraison d’équipements de cryptage des communications et d’espionnage d’internet.
TRANSLATION:
France provided a vehicle for ultra-secure Gaddafi said Mediapart
This is a jewel of technology of the Mercedes, built by the French company Amesys, a subsidiary of Bull. The all-terrain vehicle, armored, equipped with an electronic interference, which neutralises all radio frequencies within one hundred meters, and thus protect against explosive devices remotely.
The system captures a total of 2000 external threats, and identify enemy communications.Two weeks of training are needed to users of this ultra-secure vehicle. The cost is obviously equal to the protection provided four million.
According to Mediapart, the sale was supported in 2007 by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy at the time. The delivery was validated by the Elysée in 2008. And it is finally through Franco-Lebanese Ziad Takkieddine, charged among other things in a case linked to attacks in Karachi, Pakistan that would have provided the gear in Tripoli
This exceptional vehicle was only part of the program initiated by high security Muammar Gaddafi. The Libyan regime had signed a 26 million euros, with the same company Bull, which also included the delivery of encrypted communications equipment and intelligence of the Internet.
Read more in French:
www.rfi.fr/afrique/20110919-libye-cache...
Aahal News correspondent now: the rebels control the airport at Sabha and the ancient castle.
Massive military build-to rebels on its way to the Sirte www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcK15VMZ_A&fea...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcK15VMZ_A&fea...
FF entred sabha in control of the airport and Faris brigade, Sabha will be FREE today insha allah
Life in Tripoli
By NATO
Nice photo’s:)
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.26093...
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NATO airstrikes on Sirte as Libyan families flee the town
#Libya: civilians trapped inside Sirte say they have no electricity or supplies
Looks Like exciting stuff is going on in #Sebha !! :)
BREAKING: #Sebha airport has been Liberated!! Takbeer!!!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Back to School in Free Libya (photo album) facebook.com/media/set/?set… #Libya
Sarah LFFR
#AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #Sabha
Armchair Arab
Our brave FF have demonstrated a mythical heroism and bravery that will go down in history Inshallah!
liveTripoli
WE can influence the world, we can join the world, we can be part of this world.
Major General Suleiman Mahmoud said he was heading to Sirte to supervise operations and possible negotiations for its surrender.
Tweeting Tripoli
Sad news: Gaddafi thugs have executed 5 of Dr Daeki’s relatives inside BW just because their cousin (Ali) was seen on AJA negotiating.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya’s fractious new rulers enjoy honeymoon shabablibya.org/news/libyas-fr… #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
I wonder if the Amazighi language will come handy when studying ancient Libyan ruins in Akakos mountains and other places!
BREAKING: Heavy fighting inside Sebha NOW
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: latest video and reports news.sky.com/home/world-new…
NYT
Making Tyrants Do Time
Critics argue that the threat of prosecution leads dictators like Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya and Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan to entrench themselves in power rather than negotiate a transition to democracy. In El Salvador, where domestic courts have refused to extradite officers accused of murdering Jesuit priests 22 years ago, critics claim that such a prosecution would undermine stability and sovereignty.
But we do not know whether extraditions would destabilize El Salvador, or whether Sudan and Libya would have been better off than they are today if the I.C.C. had not indicted Mr. Bashir or Colonel Qaddafi.
Read full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/maki...
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UK Home Secretary: We must first be clear: the ideology of extremism and #terrorism is the problem; #Islam emphatically is not. #UNGA
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Reuters: Gaddafi spokesman says they have captured a Qatari “mercenary” reut.rs/o8wDo8 16 others also captured by Gaddafi forces
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UK Home Secretary: To defeat #terrorism, we must not only defeat terrorist organisations, we must also defeat terrorist ideology.
#UK Home Secretary: #ArabSpring has dealt a further blow to #AlQaida’s ideology & credibility. We must seize the historic opportunity. #UNGA
Tweeting Tripoli
Last week Dr Ali Daeki’s parents house was shelled as a punishment for taking part in the negotiation. His niece was injured.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Fight Is on to Regain the thousands of Businesses and Properties which Gaddafi confiscated in 70 and 80’s goo.gl/SOGde #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
We’re sorry Mr Kaim, but your master Gaddafi (gov you defended until Aug 20) did not build comfortable prisons. yfrog.com/nu29672042j
FB event calling for Rallies across Libya in support of Yemen & Syria FFs on Sat 23 Sep
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
baniwalid: brigades blame commanders, outsiders blame traitors, locals blame outsiders, one fighter blamed sandstorm for lack of progress
baniwalid: not much fighting, north checkpoint deserted in a.m., then anti-G forces came under sniper fire+minor shelling, now biz as usual
the famous bani walid lunch bus appears at 1.30 pm SHARP everyday on the frontline carrying tonnes of couscous. squat in the shade and eat
CONFIRMED: #FF have entered #Sabha from north. seems like southern #Libya is total liberated
befroggled Miss B
There are 1000’s of non-Libyans like me, who have lived the pain & joys of the past 7 months like it was our own
ReutersIndia Reuters India
FLASH: Forces of Libya’s interim government have captured part of Gaddafi-stronghold Sabha – NTC military spokesman
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Forces of Libya’s interim government have captured part of Qaddafi-stronghold Sabha
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
#CNT : Jibril à son poste, 34 ministres, probablemt 2 femmes. Encore des “divergences” sur la composition du gvt j.mp/pRd3LG #Libye
Nusaybah Khalil (KC)
Fierce battles taking place inside #Sabha – and there are loads of mercenaries around which makes things difficult.
AGI IT
NTC MINISTER, “20, 000 MARTYRS” IN THE REVOLUTION SO FAR
NTC Justice Minister Mohammed Al Alagi claims that so far 20,000 people have died in the Libyan revolution.
This is the NTC’s estimate of the ever-changing figure comprising the victims of the anti-Gaddafi movement. The NTC told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that, aside from the “martyrs”, just as many people have been injured. Mr Alagi guaranteed that “anyone who has committed a crime will face a fair trial in line with international law”. . .
Global post
Libya: Rebels scale back assaults (VIDEO)
Libya’s rebel fighters scaled back their attacks on the cities of Sirte and Bani Walid on Monday after taking heavy casualties during the weekend.
Medical staff took advantage of a relatively calm morning, moving the main field hospital from Hesha to the town of Bwerat, reducing the distance from the front line from 60 miles to 30 miles.
Arriving by car from Sirte late Sunday evening, chairman of the military council Ramadan Zalmore said his men concentrated on totally securing the outer city areas
but stepped back their offensive inside Sirte.
“You must keep in mind that fighting within any city is difficult,” he said. “There are many families trapped inside. They Gaddafi troops are firing from inside houses but we cannot attack them with the same weapons because of the families.”
Read more and watch video:
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/region...
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE: Spokesman Ghulaek #NTC #Misrata says Last Night 2 Helicopters Airlifted 20 Martyrs 31 Injured by Gaddafi men who fired RPG’s #Libya
#NTC Kenshil 2day: “SSIF al lslam was Seen in #BaniWalid this is 100 % certain as for his father he was there too; we are 70% sure,” #Libya
#NTC Kenshil: Those Fighting in #BaniWalid for Gaddafi’s brigades R “mercenaries from #Chad #Niger #Togo” according to dead bodies #Libya
#NTC Abdullah #Kenshil said Negotiations with Bani Walid are underway for the evacuation of about 50,000 civilians from the town #Libya
#NTC fighters in #Sirte believe #Mutassim #Gaddafi is Hiding in the Southern Outskirts of #SIRTE #Libya
#SIRTE #Radio Chatter of lieutenant by codename of AbuBakr Intercepted “Master Master… we will protect u as ordered by your father” #Libya
#Jibril on new interim government; Much was achieved 2deal out several portfolios Adding he expected consultations on rest 2b “over quickly”
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NTC spokesman says declaration on new government committee will be made on Thursday
LibyanoLibya Libyano Libya
#Sebha, areas freed; 1- airport, it is not ready for planes to land, #gedadfa destroyed it. 2- Castle near the airport 3- #Faris brigade
#Libya’s Islamists bide their time, build their strength theglobeandmail.com/news/world/lib… #Feb17
#Sebha is #DeGaddafinated ! via @sabha
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
From: National Transitional Council – Executive Office #libya #feb17 Date: 18th September 2011 Dear Misrata local… fb.me/TQcvrcJ5
FromJoanne Joanne
Gathafi war maestros orchestrate fierce battles in #BaniWalid goo.gl/161SF #Libya
#BREAKING YAY Col Bani; #NTC Fighters SEIZED airport and strategic Fort in #Sabha #PositiveLibyaTweets #Libya s FLAGS are flying Proudly !
Gaddafi spox
A spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday that 17 “mercenaries”, including what he called French and British “technical experts” had been captured in the
Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid in Libya.
“A group was captured in Bani Walid consisting of 17 mercenaries. They are technical experts and they include consultative officers,” Moussa Ibrahim told Syrian-based Arrai TV.
“Most of them are French, one of them is from an Asian country that has not been identified, two English people and one Qatari,” he added.
He said the 17 would be shown on television at a later time, but did not give more details.
It was not immediately possible to verify Ibrahim’s claims. The French foreign ministry said it had no information regarding the report.
NATO, French and British officials had on Saturday denied a report by Arrai TV that some NATO troops had been captured by Gaddafi loyalists.
Western special forces are known to have been in Libya and to have liaised with anti-Gaddafi officials during the conflict. Private security firms have also been helping anti-Gaddafi forces, according to Western media reports.
Via feb 17
Reuters
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries now recognises Libya’s National Transitional Council as its OPEC representative, the oil group’s Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri said on Monday.
The United Nations approved a Libyan request to accredit envoys of the country’s interim government as Tripoli’s sole representatives at the world body on Friday, effectively recognizing the NTC and paving the way for OPEC allow the NTC to represent the North African oil exporter.
“OPEC will recognise the NTC… and they will sit in the same chair,” Badri told the Gulf Intelligence energy forum in Dubai on Monday.
Libyan interim government forces were still battling the final bastions of loyalists of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi over the weekend a month after taking the capital Tripoli.
Turkey
A Turkish military cargo plane dropping humanitarian aid over the Libyan town of Bani Walid came under fire from the ground, the Turkish news agency Anatolia reported.
The incident happened when one of two Turkish C-130 transport planes parachuting aid to residents was fired on, the agency said, citing a journalist on the plane.
NTC
Promises by Libya’s National Transitional Council to announce a new government yesterday have been indefinitely postponed. Just one day after the United Nations recognized the NTC as Libya’s interim government, interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced that his proposals on the new cabinet did not receive full backing from council members.
France
France denied on Monday that it had mercenaries in Libya, after Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists said they had captured 17 foreigners — some British and French — in the fight for a town still held by the ousted leader’s followers.The claim by Gaddafi’s spokesman Moussa Ibrahim that foreign security personnel had been captured in the battle for the pro-Gaddafi bastion Bani Walid could not be verified and no immediate proof was presented.
Via feb17
Reuters
Fighters with Libya’s interim government have seized the airport and fort in Sabha, a redoubt deep in the Sahara desert from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, a government spokesman said on Monday. Ahmed Bani, a military spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTC), told a news conference in Tripoli the council’s forces captured the areas two hours earlier. “Our flags are flying there,” he said.He also denied an assertion by Gaddafi’s spokesman that his forces had captured British and French nationals in the fight for the town of Bani Walid. “There are no British or French prisoners” in the town, Bani said.
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera correspondent Hashem Ahelbarra reports that anti-Gaddafi forces have captured Sabha airport and taken control of the southern city’s Manshiya district
feb17libya Feb17Libya
NTC Military Commander Ahmed Bani: "Our flags are flying there,” -
Sabha
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#Misrata rebels on frontline of #sirt, high morale, sing for freedom. #Libya twitpic.com/6ng2js
Reuters
Libyans flee Sirte as fighters ready big guns
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Hundreds of families fled Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte on Monday as fighters sent by Libya’s new rulers to capture the city rolled up with huge rocket launchers and artillery guns.
More:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
Loyalistes de #Kadhafi prétendent avoir capturé des Anglais et des Français à Bani Walid en #Libye. Aucune preuve. Paris dément..Reuters
liveTripoli
Welcome to freedom #Sabha !! Glad you could join us:)
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
#FF move out, #Sirte and #BaniWalid to go!
AmbassadorRice Ambassador Rice
A warm welcome to Ian Martin, the SG’s new top envoy to #Libya. Will coordinate #UN support for transition to democracy, prosperity.
FromJoanne Joanne
#HUN a Town about halfway between #Sabha and #Med coast in #Sahara desert reported 2 b free youtube.com/watch?v=3yP1Qv… #Libya
#NTC spokesman claims anti-Gadhafi forces having difficulty entering Bani Walid because of mountainous terrain
#NTC offers to cover all treatment expenses for injured Libyan FF facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #libya #feb17 #libya
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Going on Alarabiya in one hour to discuss transitional gov’t., hot potato that got handed to me!! But I will
#Libya #Feb17: Heavy fighting reported inside #Sabha NOW, FF captured part of Gaddafi-stronghold Sabha – NTC spokesman goo.gl/fb/DOzG2
When r the people in the west going 2 wake up & start supporting the people in #Syria #Yemen and #Libya instead of supporting the dictator?
LIVE on AJE:
Sebha liberated in part as report show only ppl fighting for G are NOT Libyan!
Libyan4life
Wonder if Journalists ever get tired of covering #Libya.
FromJoanne Joanne
Head of #NTC Mustafa Abdul-Jalil + Mahmoud Jibril flew2 #NewYork 2 represent Libya at General Assembly & Abdul Jalil 2 meet #Obama #Libya
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Dr. Ali Tarhuni issues letter to Misrata local council asking them to organize all the needed care for injured & NTC will cover expenses
Dr. Ali Tarhuni was influenced by the #PositiveLibyaTweets!!
LibyaNewMedia
Many mercenaries already left behind familiy & friends (if they ever had them in the first place). They have no other life than fighting.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte #EXODUS Reuters reported that hundreds of families fled 2day as #NTC forces edge closer with rocket launchers + artilleryguns #Libya
#LIES of Mousa Ibrahim (G troops captured French/UK ppl in BW) #NTC Col Bani says “There r NO UK or #French prisoners” in #Bani Walid #Libya
#HUN a Town about halfway between #Sabha and #Med coast in #Sahara desert reported 2 b free youtube.com/watch?v=3yP1Qv… #Libya
Today: pro #NTC men raised a flag on a government building in #Hun Hun is now free #Libya
#Sebha central hospital is liberated and now controlled by the FF of sebha. via @sabha17feb
The hospitals in Libya are coping with high difficulty. Any #medical support form outside #Libya is welcome. Even transport of the wounded.
@Niz_FGM Niz
After coming to Tripoli on 21stFeb,to take part in the uprising,Im finally leaving,closing this chapter of my life&my role in the revolution
The free Generation Movement lives on, the people of Libya live on and my role in the development of this special country lives on…..
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Humanitarian crisis in Bani Walid. Gadafi fighters stealing food from stores & houses, storing it for them, leaving residents suffering.
Gadafi fighters firing at anyone who tries to join revolutionaries of Feb17 They are
killing civilians in the masses. #baniwalid #libya
Military Spokesman “Sabha, airport and citadel have been liberated at 3pm revolutionaries should liberate Sabha in the coming days.”
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
#PositiveLibyaTweets Many Facebook events urging people to clean streets&areas around #Libya facebook.com/event.php?eid=… Omar Mukhtar st #Tripoli
Libyan flag at the UN building today… yfrog.com/nw15roj
Tweeting Tripoli
Remember the devil smoke cloud of Sep11? OMG, it’s back in BW!!! yfrog.com/nvk55chj
Daniel
lol looks more like a pokemon!
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
#Gaddafi is still not found and #NTC does not know where he is? Do you know? #Libya twitpic.com/6nh03u
bencnn benwedeman
Hearing fighters from Jado have taken an airbase, a military instillation and a govt bldg outskirts of Sabha #Libya
In Birak Al-Shati today met many people who still support Muammar Qadhafi. Don’t trust revolutionary fighters, fear their motives.
liveTripoli
Never thought I’d enjoy messages from the Government. This last one was about suppressing gunfire.
Others have been encouraging people back to work and life
Souffian Tripoli
#Doctors in #Libya asking their colleagues abroad for support in making their #hospitals available for sevearly wounded patients.
Danya
IMPORTANT:
Here is the list of proposed ministers for the NTC Executive Office which is still to be ratified so not yet approved --
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mahmoud Jibril
Deputy Prime Minister of Financial and Economic Affairs
Ali Al-Tarhouni
Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development
Tarek Mohammed Yusef
Deputy Prime Minister of Services and Production
Mohammed Khalid el-Ghuel
First choice for Minister of Defence
Osama Al-Jowaily
Minister of the Interior
Ameed Mohammed Al-Sheikh
Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Government Spokesman
Mahmoud Shammam
Minister of Finance
Hasan Zaqlam
Minister of International Co-operation
Mohammed Abdul Azziz
Minister of Investment and Sovereign Funds
Ahmed Ateeqa
Minister of Economy and Business
Abdullah Shamiya
Minister of Trade
Khalid Kawan
Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises
Fawzi Amar
Minister of Oil
Abdulrahman bin Yazzie
Minister of Environment
Belkasim Al-Namr
Minister of Water Resources
Abdulkadir Alrabatti
Minister for Families of Martyrs and Other Victims
Abdul Rahman Sabika
Minister of Women’s Affairs and Children
Najiya Al-Sayyid
Minister of Youth and Sports
Solomon Duzan
Minister of Social Affairs
Mufeeda Al-Zakowzy
Minister of Education
Suleiman Al-Sahli
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Idris Hafeedtha
Minister of Labour
Faraj Al-Sayeh
Minister of Civil Service
Noureddine Al-Salafi
Minister of Justice
Abdul Fatah
Minister of Health
Ismail Sayala
Minister of Municipalities
Ali Zaydan
Minister of Public Works
Ibrahim Al-Sagutri
Minister of Electricity
Awad Barasa
Minister of Communications and Information
Anwar Faytouri
Minister of Transport and Communications
Abdulraheem Al-Keeb
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities
Ikram Al-Pasha
Minister of food Security
Suleiman Bofriya
Minister of Industry and Mining
Eltihami Jaballah
Libyan4life
NOT impressed by the proposed list of ministers for NTC. With ALL do respect, its a bunch old men. Just have to remember its only interim.
2011feb17 :
don’t underestimate the ministry for cooking!!! Can you survive without food? NO.
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: news.sky.com/home/world-new…
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte #Half of residents already left
NTC fighters cant return fire as much as they want bc of residents presence they need2go
22 Septembre, Libya: Jedidah Prison holding 300 Malians, 40 ‘disappeared’
Maliweb
Libye : Prison de Jedidah : 300 Maliens dans les geôles du CNT, 40 portés disparus
L’information nous a été donnée par certains ressortissants maliens, rapatriés de Libye, il y a quelques jours : “Nous avons laissé derrière nous plusieurs Maliens, de toutes les ethnies, dans la prison de Jedidah, l’une des plus terribles en Libye. Pendant notre fuite, on nous a dit qu’il y avait des gens qui ont disparu”.
Contacté par nos soins, dans l’après-midi du vendredi 16 septembre, un diplomate basé dans un pays arabe et qui requiert l’anonymat, a confirmé les faits. Selon lui, ce sont environ 300 Maliens qui croupissent dans la prison de Jedidah, en Libye et on dénombre 40 personnes disparues. Le diplomate de souligner que “toutes ces informations ont été transmises aux ministères des Affaires Etrangères et à celui des Maliens de l’Extérieur”. Pour le moment, c’est silence radio du côté de Bamako. Comme à l’accoutumée. C’est à l’international que des voix s’élèvent pour dénoncer les exactions commises par le Conseil national de transition.
C’est ainsi que l’un des membres de l’association Défense-Etrangers en Libye, avec qui nous avons échangé au téléphone, affirme, lui aussi, qu’environ 600 personnes, surtout des maliens et nigériens, sont détenues et “torturées” par les nouvelles autorités libyennes. "Sur la base d’informations fiables, environ 300 étrangers, essentiellement des Touareg du Mali, croupissent actuellement dans les prisons
libyennes. Ils sont persécutés par les forces de sécurité du nouveau régime" du Conseil national de transition (CNT), selon un communiqué de l’association, publié sur un site Internet.
“Certains disent qu’ils ont été tués et enterrés dans une fosse commune. Il faut que les gouvernements de leurs pays d’origine réagissent enfin, et que le CNT donne sa version des faits”, poursuit-elle.
Selon l’association, les témoignages ont été recueillis auprès de contacts sur place qui se cachent et craignent pour leur vie, ou bien de détenus qui soudoient des geôliers pour pouvoir communiquer avec l’extérieur. Ils ont affirmé avoir saisi les autorités maliennes et sollicité une rencontre pour leur “expliquer la situation et demander les mesures prises pour réclamer la libération des étrangers emprisonnés en Libye”.
Il faut reconnaître que de tout temps, les Africains au Sud du Sahara, et les noirs en général, connaissent une vie très difficile en Libye. Au temps de Kadhafi, cette main-d’œuvre bon marché était l’objet de discrimination et d’exactions de toutes sortes.
Ils étaient dépossédés de leurs biens tous les jours, sans compter le grand nombre qui était jeté en prison sans jugement. Certains y perdaient la vie.
Avec la guerre contre le régime Kadhafiste, la situation des sud sahariens a été encore pire. Tout noir est confondu aux mercenaires de Kadhafi et est livré à une torture impitoyable s’il n’est pas tout de suite abattu. Ceux qui ont regagné le Niger, le Mali ou le Burkina Faso savent à quel prix ils ont pu sauver leur tête.
Aujourd’hui, dans les zones conquises par le CNT, nous confie le diplomate que nous avons contacté, aucune juridiction véritable n’existe pour le moment.
Le pays est donc livré aux nouveaux maîtres. Espérons que, dans un proche avenir, nos autorités compétentes sortiront nos compatriotes dans cette situation qui n’a que trop duré.
bencnn benwedeman
In Birak Al-Shati see very few pre-Qadhafi flags, still some green flags flying. #Libya
One man in Birak Al-Shati said “we know Qadhafi’s regime is finished, but Muammar will stay in our hearts.” #Libya
Armchair Arab
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@bencnn I’m sure much of this is to do with gaddafi smear campaign against NTC.
ayrshireblog:
What will pro-Gaddafi tweeters do for cash once Gaddafi can’t pay? I hear N Korea pays propagandists well
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Chaos undermines Libyan forces’ advance into Bani Walid bit.ly/p8trQT #libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE #NTC FF Move in city each day&Retreat @night bc Gaddafi men cut power Giving them advantage of knowing the way in their city #Libya
WARNING: trolls RT fake-news 2 discredit FFs & reporters: latest ex: AJEs Sue Turton = fake-acc @sueturtenaje #Libya #Feb17 #Fake
Ali Tweel
All for freedom, freedom for all..??
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte Gaddafi forces surrounded Misrata amilies living in Sirte Gadafi Men kidnapped and Killed 5 boys of the families #Libya
The Weekly Standard
After Jihad
In Sabratha, a former prisoner reflects
Sabratha, Libya—“Girls were going to school under the Taliban! I know, because I was living in Kabul in 1999.” Youssef, 45, is as insistent on this untruth as this cheerful, equable man gets. A barrel-chested Libyan who spent ten years in Afghanistan under unclear circumstances, followed by eleven years in Qaddafi’s notorious Abu Saleem prison, he was released on February 16 and hasn’t strayed far from his modest Sabratha home since. He seems happy and relaxed, and invites me to stay with his family, even after I make it clear that I hate the Taliban. He is part of another side of Sabratha, a seaside town of about 50,000 where I spent five days in August.
Read more here:
www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/after-jiha...
liveTripoli
I am liking the weather windy and cool here tonight in #Tripoli. With some occasional #Takbir #Libya
Just like any other shaboob (youth) I asked my friend who do u want 2 marry & he said: “1 from #Misrata, #Benghazi the Jabal and #Zawiya”
Maybe it needs to be made clear. It’s not about marrying 4 women, rather how significant these places are to him. So relax ladies. Ok?
IL Malayeen fil Maydan The Millions are in the square www.flickr.com/photos/live2tripoli/6163... #Tripoli #Libya #MartyrSquare
More photos soon, When ever inspiration is here. Its always good to have you :) Come along anytime you want.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
los negocios de Tony Blair con Gadafi tgr.ph/nCJAFY
very long day in the front in #Sirte we were inside the farm located before the famous Ouagadougou hall 1 km from there #Libya
launching mortars and rockets Gaddafi forces fighting back with snipers and some Grads Ouagadougou is now one of the keys of the city #Libya
zubair algadi, spokesman for Misrata Military Council: “We are sure that Moatassem Gaddafi is leading the defense of #Sirte” #Libya
fighters loyal to NTC follow day by day the same tactic they retreat at night and come back in the morning #Sirte #Libya
today big number of civilians leaving #Sirte NTC fighter: “we want the civilians out so we can fights against Gaddafi’s dogs” #Libya
I found Omran, my friend and ex fixer in Misrata during the battles there, now he is a commander in 1 group “Tigers of Misrata” #Libya
NTC commanders admit the battle of #Sirte will take days “we can demolish the city but it will be a bloodshed we don’t want that” #Libya
photo 1 NTC fighter in the front line of #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/nv5h2hnj
photo media covering #Sirte #libya yfrog.com/kkijiohj
IamLibya:
gentlemen at Starbucks saw my Libyan pin. Instead of referring 2 gaddafi, he asked which city I was from.
Our temp president Jalilo (left)… yfrog.com/j2d1vyjj
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
No more “Libyan Arab Jamahiriya”…the UN agrees: "The name of the Member State should read “Libya” both in the official and short version."
ProudLibyan
Beautiful, just beautiful. I always wished Libya will just be called Libya, no stupid tags to it.
FromJoanne Joanne
Mousa Ibrahim Gaddafi CLAIMS via ArraiTV that Gaddafi thugs captured 17Foreigners in #BaniWalid 1 Asian 2 English 1Qatari rest French #Libya
This is No #Joke Here is the Top-Secret car a 4MillionEuro 4×4 #Mercedes bought 2007 in which #Gaddafi escaped goo.gl/G9fd0 #Libya
#FLASH #Turkish Airlines announced that Mitiga #Tripoli Airport will re OPEN on Wednesday
#Flash #Turkish Airlines website announces: Flights to #Tripoli from #Istanbul As from Wednesday 4flights a week on Tues Wed Sat Sun #Libya
#Turkish Airlines report that #Tripoli #Airport to reopen on Wednesday #Libya #Malta goo.gl/zrRa7
CNN
Newly liberated in Libya
CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports on newly liberated Libyan towns in the south.
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
Telegraph
Tony Blair ‘visited Libya to lobby for JP Morgan’
Tony Blair used visits to Libya after he left office to lobby for business for the American investment bank JP Morgan, The Daily Telegraph has been told.
A senior executive with the Libyan Investment Authority, the $70 billion fund used to invest the country’s oil money abroad, said Mr Blair was one of three prominent western businessmen who regularly dealt with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the former leader.
Saif al-Islam and his close aides oversaw the activities of the fund, and often directed its officials on where they should make its investments, he said.
The executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, said officials were told the “ideas” they were ordered to pursue came from Mr Blair as well as one other British businessman and a former American diplomat.
“Tony Blair’s visits were purely lobby visits for banking deals with JP Morgan,” he said.
Read full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-...
bencnn benwedeman
Met 2 North Korean doctors working at hospital in Birak Al-Shati. They all wore pins of Kim Jong Il, and one called him “Pappa”. #Libya
North Korean doctors were on government contract, ordered by #Pyongyang to stay in #Libya after Egyptian, Pakistani doctors fled. #korea
Tom
Haraket Shabab al Asema-Tripoli’s Capitol Youth Movement- hard at work today gathering medial supplies to send to Misrata #Libya
USA today
Libyan fighters take airport near pro-Gadhafi city
Facing little resistance, revolutionary fighters captured the airport and other locations in a southern desert city that is considered one of the last remaining strongholds of Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, fighters said.
The capture of Sabha would be a major victory for Libya’s new rulers, who have struggled to rout forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi a month after sweeping into Tripoli and forcing the ousted leader into hiding.
Read more:
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-...
Sirtawi
95% of residents in Zafaran area (#2) and #1 have fled their houses towards Sawawa away from battlefield. Many houses destroyed
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Hopes for an inclusive political vision after 42 years of depotism. What are your thoughts-Everyone should have a voice goo.gl/JglPJ
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: The United Nations says it has chosen British diplomat and human rights activist Ian Martin to head its new mission in Libya.
About the list:
Am quoting NTC spokesman in Tripoli; the decision was originally to be made Sun, then delayed to Mon, now again till Thurs
Libyan4life
Reading lots of headlines of Libyans being unhappy with NTC or their prospective ministers. This is natural,5million ppl want representation
Souffian Tripoli
Just got a call from #Libya problem regarding #sirt and BW is that gaddafi forces are among civilians and shooting for Fam. Homes. 1Of2
2of2 FF don’t want to harm the civilians that are used a human shields by gaddafi sniper. That’s why it’s taking time to liberate BW &sirt
septimius_sever septimius severus
fro.gy/1eaau “Car in #benghazi courthouse with pics of #Feb17 events yfrog.com/ketzmkrj yfrog.com/nu4ovsj” #Libya
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
From Benghazi to Nafousa, Tripoli to Zawiya, Misrata to Zintan,our FFs died for eachother,& became true Libyan brothers
AFP:
#NTC Forces have advanced in #Sirte, clearing roads for fleeing civilians as they sought 1 of the ousted strongman’s sons
Link for UN changing our Country’s name back to #Libya en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_...
FromJoanne
Libyan #Literature” coming out from the dark years Here u will find Names of #Authors and titles of #Books 2read goo.gl/JjyhV #Libya
How 1man survived yrs mistreatment by #Gaddafi Beasts: “Prison Tales” #Imtidad #Blog bit.ly/ngKkw8 #Literature OmarAbulqasem alKikli
bencnn benwedeman
NATO planes flying over Sabha this night. Too far to hear if they are bombing. #Libya
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 20th 2011
9/20/11
9.20.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/4ScdN
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Photo Album: Children of the #Libyan revolution. Beautiful! goo.gl/KEQZr #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Libya
The flag of #Libya flies outside United Nations headquarters September 19, 2011 in New York. Beautiful sight! goo.gl/cBcVX #feb17
Read Moussa Ibrahim’s wifes blog…pretending to be an “Independent Western Jounalist”!!! bit.ly/oODh7L #Libya
or:
www.haderza.blogspot.com
Tripolitano
#mutasim #Gaddafi used 2 b in my class from yr 7 to 11. If I had known that he will grow up 2 become a butcher. I wld hv strangled da beast
LIBTRIP
I didn’t know that #Mohammed Ismail, is a Libyan with #British nationality, but I think that his wife is still in the #UK. #Libya
Ali Tweel
During the siege of #Tripoli, my #iPhone was a great tool 2 locate ammunition depositories & then email the coordinates 2 #TNC using #sat
Free Libya
#TheAwkwardMoment you are slagging the new NTC list when talking to your friend without realising her dad is on it. Oh dear #Libya
CNN
NTC claims humanitarian disaster in Gadhafi stronghold
Col. Ahmed Bani told reporters that Gadhafi forces are robbing food stores, leaving civilian residents to starve. He also charged that Gadhafi loyalists are shooting everyone trying to join the revolution, including men, women and children. “They are carrying out mass killings,” Bani said.
“This proves they are trying to destroy the town before it is liberated,” he added, calling the Gadhafi forces “criminals” and “killers.”
Asked by CNN why, if there is such a humanitarian disaster, NTC forces do not immediately enter the city, the colonel said the problem is “geography.” There are tactics the forces must follow to reduce casualties, he said.
Read more and watch video:
www.cnn.com/2011/09/19/world/africa/lib...
BBC
Aid teams are struggling to reach Sirte due to fighting
Humanitarian teams say they are struggling to gain access to the Libyan city of Sirte.
Forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi are fiercely defending his home town.
Ongoing fighting means no food, medical supplies or power are getting through and
the International Red Cross’ Souad Messaoudi, who is in Tripoli, told Radio 5 live’s Victoria Derbyshire that they are worried about the conditions in the town.
Audio:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14974840
septimius_sever septimius severus
Libyan doctors living abroad set up a volunteer project 2 provide free specialists clinics, any doctor can help: goo.gl/Rcc45 #Libya
Aljazeera
NTC fighters capture parts of Libya’s Sabha
Fighters make major advances in southern city of Sabha, as NTC says “human tragedy” is unfolding in beseiged Bani Walid.
Tens of thousands of civilians trapped in areas still held by the forces of Muammar Gaddafi are in increasing danger from heavy fighting and siege-like shortages of food, water and medical care, Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) has said.
“They have stolen all supplies from the residents of the town and they are shooting everyone who is showing support for the revolutionaries. They show no mercy, not even for woman and children,” Bani said.
Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Tripoli, said NTC fighters in Sabha, located 770km south of the capital, were “confident that in a matter of hours they would control the centre of the city”.
“In the punch into Sabha, the anti-Gaddafi forces targeted strategic areas, including the airport, which is some 10km from the city centre,” said Ahelbarra.
“Gaddafi loyalists have been using similar tactics as in Sirte and Bani Walid. They have taken up positions in urban areas and are using snipers in the very centre of the city to repel the forces.”
Al Jazeera’s David Poort, reporting from Tripoli, said that the NTC had said that its
army had not yet taken Bani Walid because of concern for civilians, difficult terrain and disagreements over battle tactics.
“There are certain tactics and procedures we need to follow to take this town. But Bani Walid is completely surrounded. We are also focussed on saving lives, especially civilians,” Bani said.
“Sources tell us that many people in Bani Walid do not know what is going on in the rest of Libya. It is surprising how well Gaddafi’s forces managed to cut communications with the outside world.”
More here:
goo.gl/phUi7
4Adam Adam
(Reuters) – NTC Fighters seized the airport and fort in Sabha, a redoubt deep in the Sahara desert from G forces, govt spox said
Armchair Arab
There really shouldn’t be any such thing as a ministry of information. It’s a backwards concept.
4Adam Adam
#Benghazi – Five sons was the price Zeinab paid for her family’s fight against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi kansascity.com/2011/09/19/315… #Libya
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
loyalist forces targeted field hospital 5:30pm, radio chatter was reported, girad rockets rained down, hospital was evacuated #sirte
confirmed #sirte resident that loyalist forces used garden in back of his house to launch girad rockets at rebels
Sirtawi
Ahmed Bani (Spox NTC Min of Def) says #FFs are about to have #Sirte under their full control, fighting is mainly in the city’s main street.
We’ve received a list of civilian casualties in #Sirte. It’s hard 4 sources to make sure due to difficulty in movement inside the city.
haynesdeborah Deborah Haynes
What happened to Moussa Ibrahim’s wife and son? I interviewed Julia Ramelow last month before Tripoli fell: (£) thetim.es/pRNSAw #libya
Tarek
we don’t know yet but we think she’s with him, he’s believed to be in #Bani waled.
LibyaNewMedia
Result of nearly 10 days of fighting after Gaddafi refusal to surrender: Slow progress at Sirte & Sabha. No progress in Bani Waleed. #Libya
Many civilians have fled from Sirte towards Misrata in past few days. Difficult conditions for all as Misrata already has so many problems
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
Saif Gaddafi reportedly spotted in Bani Walid according to NTC. bit.ly/pxWfnN via @guardian #Libya
MUSTARD GAS:
DER TAGESSPIEGEL
Libyens Senfgasbestände in Händen der Rebellen
Mit dem Umbruch in Libyen scheint sich nun eine große Sorge des Westens erledigt zu haben. Das vom Gaddafi-Regime vorrätig gehaltene Giftgas befindet sich nach Informationen des Tagesspiegels jetzt in der Hand der Rebellen. Die Aufständischen hätten die Bestände an Senfgas „unter ihrer Bewachung“, hieß es in internationalen Sicherheitskreisen. Noch Ende August hatten die Experten berichtet, Einheiten des gestürzten Machthabers Muammar al Gaddafi seien weiterhin im Besitz der chemischen Kampfstoffe.
Die Übernahme durch die Rebellen sei durch Satellitenaufnahmen belegt, war in den internationalen Sicherheitskreisen zu hören.
Read more here:
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/libyens-sen...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
A Man of God and Technology, Trying to Steady Libya is.gd/QZLl7L
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Just landed in Doha invited by Aljazeera hope to be a studio guest with them for coming 4 days. Also a chance to say big thank u to Qatar!
jessradio Jess Hill
Misrata Military Council reporting an exodus from Sirte towards Misrata, where the city has apparently agreed to accept & provide for them.
Abdallah
#Gaddafi loyalists shelled the living daylight out of Manshiyya INDISCRIMINATELY. Lots of martyrs. #Sabha bleeds torrentially
Who would have thought it, just a few months ago? :)))))
goo.gl/cBcVX #feb17
Haytham
We need to remember that what made us strong during the revolution was unity. Why are we still talking about #Benghazi #Tripoli #Misrata?
Egypt & Tunisia didn’t talk about which city they were from. They stood together & toppled their tyrants. We did the same #Libya
Now that #Gaddafi has been removed from power why allow ourselves to degenerate into the very tribalism that he accused us off? #Libya
Gaddafi brutalised the whole country but if we stand together we can rebuild it. We have enough resources for everyone #Libya #feb17
Now is not the time for politics or for one city to make demands for certain positions within the #NTC Transition requires unity. #Libya
The transitional government is to stand for 8 months. It’s mandate is to lay the foundations for the country that we want. #Libya
After those foundations have been laid then if we choose to we can argue politics. For the 1st time in 42 years Libyans stood together…
..and look what we achieved. Can the politics not wait for another 8 months? #Libya
In my opinion the transitional government should consist of those who are best suited to the job. I don’t care where they are from
Let us not devalue the blood of those who died to give us this chance to have the
country that we want #Libya
Just some thoughts having spoken to some people here.
Most Libyans that I have spoken to would just like the chance to work & a future for their children
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
NTC fighters ‘punch’ into Sabha aje.me/qGDR5t
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Flying Proudly: the Libyan Revolutionary Flag at the United Nations – #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/U4xgoyNF
BenghaziChron R.B
by LY_NeverForget
Feel like I can actually play a part in my country’s future, and on so many levels #PositiveLibyaTweets
Actually feel proud of saying I’m Libyan, instead of mentally preparing to the “Ah Gaddafi”+chuckle reaction
4Adam Adam
What happened to El-Khweldi Hamedi, Az Zawiya’s slaughterer. Tunisian court says he is a free man! Did he really get away with it?!!! #Libya
Abdallah
Speaking of which, Zintans are actively involved in the Liberation of #Sabha. The Tubus from the South as well
Aljazeera
Gaddafi forces resist NTC push for Sirte
Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters are regrouping for another push towards Sirte, the birthplace of toppled leader Muammar Gaddafi.
On Monday night battles raged around Sirte, as NTC fighters and Gaddafi forces traded gunfire and rockets.
An NTC commander on Tuesday told Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid that they had reached the eastern gate of Sirte on Monday evening, but had to pull back after intense clashes with Gaddafi loyalists.
“They NTC fighters say they are hoping to keep the momentum, over the past few days, they have advanced a good 40km towards Sirte but the closer they get, the tougher it gets,” she said.
Read more and watch video:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
liveTripoli
We Mustn’t forget our brothers and sisters in #Yemen and #Syria. Let’s go you two, If #Libans did it so will you!
bencnn benwedeman
Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quotes residents of the Manshiya district of Sabha as having Muammar Qadhafi there two days ago. #Libya
Favourite refrain among NTC fighters: “jayinak jayinak ya Bu Shafshoufa” – we’re coming for you, messy hair" Bu Shafshoufa=Muammar Qadhafi
Photo: old Italian fort from 1930s, Birak al-Shati, #Libya. Turned into police station, ransacked a few days ago. yfrog.com/nz1dgzaj
Injured NTC fighters says 2 killed, 4 wounded overnight in clashes around Sabha airport, which is south of the city. #Libya
Randon info: some scholars believe name “Fazzan”, the area where Sabha located derives from the Latin “phasianus”, pheasants.
Photo: the road to #Sabha. #Libya yfrog.com/nx4h9wzj
NTC field commanders dubious re claims Muammar Qadhafi in Sabha, confident Intel chief Abdallah Sanousi and Muatassim Q.r there. #Libya
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
the noose is thightening. #NTC fighters surround #Sirte from South, West and East. #Gaddafi loyalists resisting show level of organisation.
Sirtawi
INCREDIBLE!
Five cousins (teenagers) lived in the desert with cattle ever since #Feb17!!
youtube.com/watch?v=2zUEjH…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zUEjHlYdFg&fea...
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
NTC commanders admit the battle of #Sirte will take days “we can demolish the city but it will be a bloodshed we don’t want”
#Gaddafi Intelligence General Al-Abaaj Belgacem captured between #Sabha & #UmmAlaraneb
#Niger Opposition Demands Government Explain Recognition of #Libya’s #Freedomfighters voanews.com/english/news/a… #Feb17
Russian companies return to Libya: cautious optimism
The Russian Energy Ministry has started developing initiatives for the restoration of the cooperation with Libya in the oil and gas fields, the ministry’s Director of the International Cooperation Department Alexey Sukhov reports.
New initiatives will be prepared in the next few weeks and then submitted to the leadership of the country. Meanwhile, the process of Russian companies’ return to Libya has already begun. It is known that Gazprom and the Italian ENI have signed an agreement confirming that the Russian gas giant has bought half ENI’s share in the Libyan Elephant project. Libya possesses considerable prospected deposits of sources of energy, first of all oil and gas. Russian companies have work experience in that North African country, Alexey Sukhov points out.
More:
english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/19/56383809.html
FACTBOX –
NTC Forces target Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte
is.gd/u3XTLY #Libya
New Libya replaces Gaddafi’s tent at UN
shabablibya.org/news/new-libya-replaces... #Libya
Libyan NTC forces have captured the airport and other areas of the southern city of Sabha is.gd/gT6v7X #Libya
Anti-Gaddafi forces seize key Libya airport is.gd/TNX37q #Libya #Sebha
cnnjill Jill Dougherty
Gadhafi audio message: “It is either the people’s power or death.This is what the Libyans are saying and they are dying for people’s power.”
Tweeting Tripoli
BaniWalid Contact: Most families have now have fled BW from Mizda-Gharyan front-line. Traped families inside have no petrol.
libyanandproud
Ministry of Information in #libya has been abolished by the #NTC . #feb17 #libya
Suzanne
#Libya has challenged my political ideas; 1st time US/UK have positively contributed to justice &democracy. Amazing. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Tweeting Tripoli
IN MY OPINION, THE ONLY ONE GUARANTEE LIBYANS NEED IS STICKING WITH THE 4 YEARS TERM LIMIT FOR ANY GIVEN FUTURE GOVERNMENT.
#LIBYANCONSTITUTION… 4 YEARS PRESIDENCY/PM LIMIT IS AN IMPORTANT INSURANCE POLICY TO PREVENT GADDAFINIZATION OF FUTURE POLITICIANS…
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Documents proving that Gaddafi order the execution of Adam Alhawaz & others, source @AlaanTV youtu.be/ewO5SDUmLaM
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Libya doctor Naser Sarraj, 47 who was imprisoned at #Abu_Salim is now receiving medical treatment in #Malta hospital
Tweeting Tripoli
Lived the whole 7 mths in Tripoli and you won’t believe how helpless you feel when Armed G-Thugs were patrolling the streets.
‘Welcome to Sirte. I hope you don’t die here.’ – what a Libyan guard said to an @AFP team: bit.ly/pfWGJ7 (from @tabascokid)
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
NTC commander says deadlock over Qaddafi’s last bastions to end Tuesday goo.gl/PcJQ9
Tweeting Tripoli
Another vid from Hanibals the Canibals. Is that the tourtured poor maid in the vid?: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnyVgI9w50I&fea...
The attchd statement explains a lot. People in BW are not with G. They are being terrorized by him. www.freeulema.org/press_releases/BaniWa...
Aljazeera
Relief for family as they escape Bani Walid
The Libyan town of Bani Walid is still under the control of Gaddafi loyalists as fighters from National Transitional Council surround it on all sides.
One family escaped from the town after Gaddafi troops entered the town after the fall of Tripoli.
Al Jazeera’s Anita Mcnaught caught up with them in Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqYXKtwurD0
AP The Associated Press
Two Filipino maids flee #Gadhafi’s relative;
Philippine Embassy evacuates pair to #Tunisia.
apne.ws/otbG3D -MM
Noha Abd El Raouf
For God Sake make a Campaign/Rally/Protest to stop the celebratory gunfire in #Libya many people died already!
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Part of Jalil’s visit to Malta included an agreement to have #Malta host & treat 20 to 30 of Libya;s most critically injured fighters
These freedom fighters gave their lives, limbs, blood and everything for Libya. I hope that the #NTC can do more for them
We are doing our best here in Malta (and other cities abroad) to host and treat as many Libyan FF as possible. God bless
if anyone has plans to re-colonize Libya then they will be treated the same way Gaddafi & italians were
We have shown our bravery and determination. The only people fit to rule this country are Libyans and that’s that.
We are open to the world and we respect the people that helped us but I’ll be damned if anyone tries to take advantage of us
In Misrata alone: There are over 500 people that lost limbs during this war (many of them recently) and over 1500 injured FF.
Tunisian and Egyptian hospitals are already full of Libyan war casualties. So are Jordanian, Qatari & UAE hospitals.
It’s not easy to accommodate and properly treat every casualty but all of us abroad will do our absolute best.
We need the NTC to bring more attention to Libyan patients abroad. It’s the NTC’s job to care for and to help these people
We won’t settle for anything less than what we fought for. We didn’t lose over 50000 people to have someone dictate our future for us
We wanted a democracy & a country where everyone is free to have his opinion without fear and that’s exactly what we’re going to get. #libya
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=211362548927343 Show your support for the injured #FF. #libya #feb17
‘Every night on Misrata’s main square there are games, skits plays and music, all to entertain the children’
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Mis... #Libya
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#Gadhafi speaks again on TV via audio message.. Now that’s dedication #libya
Gaddafi audio message “Blah blah blah blah BLAH BLAH blah blah blah”
hazem
Well, the Syrian gov TV still claims that Tripoli did not fall and Qaddafi still in charge! #Libya #Syria #Assad
wheelertweets James Wheeler
A friend from Qalaa invited me today. He said the congress will call for recognition of the Tamazight language in the constitution
B4 anyone says ‘now is not the time, it’s premature’.. This is many years overdue. This is the kind of freedom #feb17 is all about
as long as people are voicing their views peacefully its always the right time
Reuters article has some provocative language. Right to the very end. "political infighting reveals fractures..
“..alliance united in civil war by hatred of #Gaddafi remains split among pro-Western liberals, underground..
“..Islamist guerrillas, and defectors from #Gaddafi’s government.”
Last sentence in that article: "NTC has its roots in #Libya’s east, but most of the militiamen who finally succeeded in..
“..driving #Gaddafi out of #Tripoli are from towns in the west.” Article’s focus was infighting, not #Sabha.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
ICRC: Humanitarian situation in Bani Walid & Sirte is deteriorating-we have not entered yet. Surgical & medical supplies ready in Misrata
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Libya will take centre stage at the United Nations this afternoon
grafixel guess what
don’t appreciate the title ‘After Siege, Misrata Shuts Door on Returns’ on.wsj.com/rskzS7 #Libya
AdiKhair Adi G. Khair
Had a couple of meetings w/ civil society reps. in #Benghazi. #Youth r empowered and seems that their role in new #Libya will be signifcant
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya’s National Transitional Council: ‘Our flags are waving in Sabha’ – video is.gd/HpXfpn #Libya #Sebha
New Gaddafi message: ‘What’s happening in Libya is a charade’ shabablibya.org/news/new-gaddafi-messag... #Libya
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
yesterday met again the 4 girlfriends – 3 anti & 1 pro – they were giggling & joking together eventhough each firm on her position.#Libya
2/3 – 3 anti because: 1 unemployed since graduating,1 relative was killed in Abu Selim,1 did not say why
3/3- 1 pro G cuz: she grew up with him, he did wrong but libyans need a strong man to stay in check,NATO bombings & her fiance staunch supp.
FreeBenghazi
Report on developments in #Sirte (Sept19) with English subtitles. #Libya v @freedomgrouptv youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ym3x…
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
4 those that sup G regardless of G not harming u personaly have u not seen what he did 2 Benghazi, Musrata, Jbel, Zwara, Zawia, etc? #Libya
Mike
What happened to Gaddafi’s modest lifestyle in a tent. $5.5 million Mercedes
LIBTRIP
#NTC estimates that reconstruction could cost #Libya about $200bn over the next decade as the country rebuilds its infrastructure.
Via Feb 17
Reuters
Libya “mercenary” claim turns spotlight on special ops
A boast by Gaddafi loyalists that they had captured 17 foreign mercenaries this week has been greeted with scepticism, but the claim has highlighted the importance of covert military operations in the overthrow of the Libyan leader.
Gaddafi’s spokesman Moussa Ibrahim has so far not made good on his promise to put the group on television and he has produced no other evidence to back his story, which was quickly denied in Western capitals.
“The lack of evidence is for the moment what I find most remarkable about the whole story. Where are the boots, where are the watches, not to mention the faces?” said Francis Heisbourg, chairman of the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/libya-mercenary-claim-t...
Mike
Hope that the TNC secures or destroys all useful military assets in Libya so they don’t fall into undesirable, including G loyalist’s hands.
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Most Gaddafi fighters in Bani Walid are not locals but came from Tripoli & other cities & towns. #Libya #Gaddafi
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Muammar Gaddafi has given another audio message to Syrian TV says ‘the bombs of NATO planes will not last’ #Libya
Gaddafi “political system in #Libya is a system based on the power of the people … and it is impossible that this system be removed,”
A documentary on the AbuSleem massacure on.fb.me/q9tLaR #LIBYA via @AJArabic @AJEnglish
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
There are so many different fronts & different revolutionary brigades that it’s hard to find total numbers on nr. of killed & wounded #Libya
Mussa Ibrahim’s leftist and environmentalist wife: thetim.es/nDJFIc
Channel 4
Unearthing Gaddafi’s chemical weapon claims
A special report from Jonathan Miller in Libya on Colonel Gaddafi’s alleged desperate plans to use chemical weapons against the rebels.
Channel 4 News met an undercover agent who claims an informant in the inner circle of the former “brother leader” warned him that if it ever came to this endpoint, Gaddafi would be at his most lethal.
He said: “He just looked at me and laughed and said you know the Brits and the Americans know exactly what Gaddafi has – he has this, this and that of chemical weapons and he will use them.”
This Libyan agent said he posed as a Gaddafi loyalist and spied for Nato as he told us of his secret war. He showed us intelligence reports he’d filed on troop and ammunition movements, targets and Gaddafi’s efforts to acquire chemical munitions.
Documents we obtained last week at an abandoned Gaddafi military base recorded
shipments, between April and July, of brand new chemical warfare suits and decontamination kits to key Gaddafi strongholds such as Sirte. Receipts showed they’d arrived.
What we now know from our intelligence contact in Tripoli is that the orders to send those chemical protection suits and kits to Sirte and al-Juffra came directly from Muammar Gaddafi himself.
Full story:
www.channel4.com/news/unearthing-gaddaf...
#Libya: Oral Statement by HRW bitly.com/p7Q4Ho
Dawn.com
Senior Qadhafi general captured in south: official
“General Belgacem Al-Abaaj, Qadhafi’s intelligence chief in the Al Khofra region, was captured” on Monday some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from southern Libyan town of Sebha, said Mohamed Wardugu, spokesman for the “Desert Shield Brigade” in Benghazi.
Wardugu had been sought by the forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC), was seized with members of his family who were traveling in five four-wheel drive vehicles, he added.
More here:
www.dawn.com/2011/09/20/senior-qadhafi-...
Hague at Friends of Libya meeting: Foreign Secretary William Hague is due to join world leaders at the first… on-msn.com/nZ1os3
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Some semblance of organization creeping into troops at Bani Walid bases/chk points today.
Now if they’d only stop using the entire desert as a shooting range #Libya #baniwalid
#Gadhafi says his regime is still alive in Libya and is calling his opponents’ takeover of all but a few pockets of the country a charade.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Recorded message for Qaddafi: NATO planes will not last #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Events in Libya a ‘masquerade’: Qaddafi in a recorded message #alarabiya #Qaddafi #Libya
malonebarry Barry Malone
All very quiet at Bani Walid so far this morning our team there tell us #Libya
Souffian Tripoli
Hallo Gaddafi are you there? Listen: “Peoples of Libya don’t Loves you, never did !! U Understand U ? OK? , U bad man. OK? "
cnnjill Jill Dougherty
Gadhafi audio message: “It is either the people’s power or death.This is what the Libyans are saying and they are dying for people’s power.”
frankentele Sean Carberry
Latest signs of progress in Tripoli: US cellphone now roaming here, and looks like
some ATMs are coming online. #Libya
MISRATA, Libya — Khalid Mustafa Sati fights in silence. www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/region...
The Cat
NTC-speaker: We are 100 percent sure, Saif Gaddafi & his father are in the city"/ Send in d dogs then!
Documents show SA sniper rifles went to Gaddafi. www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.... documents located by Human Rights Watch.
#Libya #Gaddafi Stealth Super Mercedes
gizmodo.com/5841686/france…
or:
gizmodo.com/5841686/france-sold-qaddafi...
daibaker dai baker
At the UN where the doors for media open at 7am but the accreditation staff don’t turn up till 7.30. #ilovetheun
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING: #Italy defence minister Ignazio La Russa says #Nato has asked coalition forces to extend mission for three more months
FromJoanne Joanne
#GREAT Libya has resumed its official name to #libya in the #UN and no more the Great Jamahiria libyan popular and socialist !!!!
#FLASH #CAPTURED: General Belgacem AlAbaaj Gaddafi intelligence chief in Al #Khofra area on Monday 100km from #Sebha #Kufra #Libya
#NTC Colonel Bani on #Sabha “Our forces are there in the airport and in the castle … Our flags are flying there,” #Libya #Fort
#SABHA fighting on west of city and center Now in #NTC Fighters control the airport the fort a hospital and a convention center #Libya
#FLASH #Turkish military cargo plane dropping humanitarian Aid overBani Walid came under FIRE from #Gaddafimen. via #AnatoliaMedia #Libya
#BaniWalid Col. Bani: GF Stole All supplies from Residents they are Shooting Females Men Kids who is showing support for revolution. #Libya
#Col Bani: Sources tell us Many ppl in #BaniWalid No Clue what goeson in rest of #Libya due2 Gaddafi’s forces cutting off communications
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
F fighters from #Misrata and #Weddan have joined forces, all areas between Sirte and Weddan are now cleared of Gaddafi forces. #libya
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Daily Mail
Tony Blair’s gushing letter to Colonel Gaddafi telling him how to invest his cash
Tony Blair sent a gushing personal letter to Colonel Gaddafi – after yet another visit to Libya – offering to help the dictator identify African projects to invest in, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Correspondence unearthed in war-torn Tripoli has revealed details of two secret trips by Mr Blair to see Gaddafi in the months before the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
The disclosure that Mr Blair was twice flown to Libya on a Gaddafi private jet – in June 2008 and April 2009 when the regime was threatening to cut all business ties with Britain if Abdelbaset al-Megrahi stayed in a Scottish jail – enraged relatives of the Lockerbie victims and further fuelled suspicions that the bomber was freed in return for lucrative oil contracts.
Now details of a third visit have emerged in a ‘Dear Muammar’ letter in which the former Labour leader thanks Gaddafi for his hospitality and tells him he knows of ‘good, worthwhile projects for investment’.
More:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-203936...
bencnn benwedeman
Last night met 3 fighters in Al-Shati w/bottle of whisky, rolling a joint in the car. Morale is high and so are (some) of the troops. #Libya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: ‘rebels’ control western, southern and eastern entrance of Sirte. Muta’sim Gaddafi is leading Gaddafi forces in Sirte acc to ‘rebels’.
ONtv: ‘rebels’ heading for center of Sirte, Col Ahmad Bani: ‘Sirte will take 3 or 4 days’.
ONtv corresp: ‘Gaddafi has probably decided that Bani Walid may not fall, reports of 15.000 Gaddafi fighters in Bani Walid.’
ONtv corresp Tareq abd alGaber: ‘Sabha for 80% liberated now’.
ONtv corresp Tarek abd alGaber: ‘The amount of weapons and other military equipment in Bani Walid goes beyond imagination.’
abdulhelal Abdul Helal
#NTC fighters, mainly frm #zintan r now heading 2 #shgaiga & #mizda 2 collect arms & cleanse remaining armed #gaddafi guys, esp. #mashashiya
a serial killer, killed about 10 & raped many libyan women, was arrested yesterday in binghashir SE #tripoli #libya He showed where bodies r
Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli sky today full of beautiful fluffy white things… Rumor has it, these things bring down water from the sky!! yfrog.com/mg7wcbyj
AJELive AJELive
TNC fighter tells AJ at east Sirte front #Libya a sandstorm is obscuring visibility. Significant adance unlikly today aje.me/mZxDy3
Tarek
#NTC fighters in another push for #Sirte youtube.com/watch?v=VYThm6… via @AJE #Libya
#Gadafi made the longest ever name for #Libya, I don’t have time to write it
Street fighting in outskirts of #Sirte— معركه ضاريه من احد ضواحى سرت — 19/09/2011
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CGrRg_xRA0&feature=share #Libya
Gada
#Libya,why don’t all the major liberated cities take Zawar’s lead and hold local elections to look after the interests of the ppl,Tripoli
#Libya,enough already NTC get your act together now,orphans need care, the injured’s wounds are decaying,Dr J you should no better than that
SmithInAfrica David Smith
Has Africa lost Libya? |
Knox Chitiyo gu.com/p/32xmc/tw via @guardian
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Just back from a visit to #Gaddafi compound – Bab al-Azizia. Extraordinary. Hundreds of visitors at “the theme park”
#Libya. New #Gaddafi message – there is no regime to be toppled, as he’s been out of power since 1977, having handed power to people.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya Gaddafi warns in audio message NATO protection cannot last indefinitely
WESSIM
#Libye dans Tous les journaux électroniques on a changé les Rebelles par les Force de #CNT
VOA
Challenges for NATO as Fighting Continues in Gadhafi Strongholds
“The remaining three pockets of resistance that are controlled by pro Gadhafi forces are going to be tough for the new interim government forces to take,” said Dr. Walid Phares, an expert on Middle East and author of "The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East.
Read more:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Cha...
Al Arabiya
Libya’s fractious new rulers enjoy honeymoon
Obstinate resistance by Muammar Qaddafi’s last strongholds is an embarrassment for Libya’s new rulers, and bickering that delayed the formation of a new interim government suggests potentially damaging internal political rifts are widening.
But for now Libya’s new political leaders have an indulgent audience, at least in Tripoli, the capital city that fell from Qaddafi’s grasp less than a month ago.
Here, the savor of life released from the yoke of an all-powerful ruler who named himself the Guide, Brother Leader and Africa’s King of Kings remains intensely sweet.
The fact that Libya’s new and crowded political field has produced a cacophony of argumentative voices is seen by political analysts and many ordinary Libyans as a refreshing change from the stultifying monotone of Qaddafi’s dictatorship.
Islamists and secularists have sparred in public over how to manage the transition from despotism to democracy, and leaders in towns and villages hard hit by the six-month conflict have demanded posts in the new administration, arguing that their communities need funds to rebuild.
But the alliance of convenience among anti-Qaddafi forces from a variety of political
backgrounds born in the eastern city of Benghazi in February and March is not about to unravel, Libyan and foreign political analysts say, and its support among the Western and Arab nations that helped it toppled Qaddafi remains strong.
Police state has gone
The increasingly raucous political debate emerging in the country is overlayed with a sense of relief that Qaddafi and his terrifying police state has gone, and his voice no longer dominates the airwaves of state radio and television.
In Martyrs’ Square, where traffic police in crisply pressed white uniforms took up patrols on Monday for the first time since Qaddafi’s fall, engineer Mustafa Shaab bin Ragheb spelt out his priorities.
“The delay in the new government isn’t important. It’s like a sick man,” he told Reuters as he rummaged at a roadside kiosk for rings bearing revolutionary slogans.
“He has to move slowly before he can walk at a normal speed. We need time to recover.”
Then he added, waving his arms: “Look, we finally got rid of that bloody monkey. We are better than before.”
“We will hang him and his sons, and then we can breathe freely. It’s too early for politics.”
Ramdan Bashiroun, a retired teacher, said it was normal that negotiations among Libya’s new rulers would take time.
“Qaddafi burned us for 40 years. He crushed all our possibilities,” Bashiroun said.
The patience of Tripolitanians has been greatly helped by the return of power, water, food markets, telecommunications, and a start to the back payment of wages due for the months of the conflict.
But patience has its limits, and officials of new interim National Transitional Council (NTC) know that further progress on the military front is vital.
Failure to take the Qaddafi-held towns of Bani Walid, Sirte and Sabha threatens the NTC’s credibility.
On Sunday, NTC forces fled in a chaotic retreat from Bani Walid, after failing once again to storm it. Fighters told Reuters that confused orders, no central command and dissent in the ranks were to blame.
The story was similar at Sirte, where NTC forces have made better progress but have still been repulsed by Qaddafi loyalists in four days of heavy fighting. Early progress is not guaranteed, despite help from NATO air power.
But Saad Djebbar, a London-based Algerian lawyer who acted for Libya in the Lockerbie bombing case, said the disarray was not surprising to Libyans and should not alarm foreign allies.
The coalition that toppled Qaddafi involved exiles, activists from the anti-Qaddafi underground, ordinary Libyans from many backgrounds who had suffered repression.
Everyone came together at short notice and in such conditions not everything was bound to go smoothly, he said.
“What do you expect? It needs an exceptional effort and these are exceptional circumstances,” he said.
Political deftness needed
“If anything, the more you have military problems the more it will keep them together. It doesn’t necessary mean a lack of leadership. They are very responsibly taking their time and building a consensus about taking their forces forward.”
Political analyst Ashour Shamis said there was a potentially tricky link between the political and military domains and NTC leaders would have to show political deftness, and tolerance, in navigating a path to a new constitution.
The NTC has drawn up a road map, setting out plans for a new constitution and elections over a 20-month period, which should start once a declaration of “liberation” is made.
It is not clear what liberation entails but it is likely to be conditional upon the capture of Qaddafi and the defeat of his loyalists in the three key towns they still hold.
Confidence in the NTC’s ability to steer a steady path took a knock on Sunday when it failed to agree on a new cabinet.
The cabinet was dissolved last month after procedural errors in the handling of the unexplained shooting dead of the then NTC military chief. A new executive committee, to include officials responsible for defense and interior affairs, was supposed to be appointed by interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril on Sunday.
But the talks broke down when his proposals did not receive full backing from all current members.
Ashour Shamis said the divisions were “a natural process. They have to accommodate so many people, so many talents and so many geographical considerations.”
“Libyans didn’t have experience of this process for 42 years and these kind of negotiations are genuinely difficult,” Djebbar said.
Secularist-Islamist tensions
“The one prescription for success so far we have seen continuously in the Arab Spring has been the process of coalition building.”
“The Arab Spring idea is that you’re looking for consensus, a result where no winner takes all, there is no monopoly of truth and no monopoly of power from anyone, in contrast to dictators who are omnipotent.”
There have been anxieties among Western officials about rifts between rival factions, including Islamists possibly backed by interests in the Gulf, in the ranks of the NTC.
Concerns in the West about Islamists were exacerbated this month when some of them criticized Libya’s interim rulers ─ a mainly secular group of technocrats, some of them former Qaddafi officials ─ for allegedly behaving in a high handed manner towards Islamists and those of other political persuasions.
But Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj told Reuters on Sunday the outbreak of public ill-feeling was more the result of a desire to air long-suppressed views than any ideological divide.
“What you see now is the eruption of someone who was under oppression,” he said.
“Libyans were denied the right to express their feelings … There was a wall in front of them. When this wall was removed they just started to express themselves.
Shamis agreed, describing the ideological component of the bickering as “minimal”.
“It’s emotional rather than logical,” he said.
BBC
Chaos undermines Libyan forces’ advance into Bani Walid
The overriding impression is one of disorganisation among the anti-Gaddafi forces as they try to liberate Bani Walid.
Typically, the NTC fighters race up and down the main road in manic fashion, tyres screeching on the tarmac, in a gratuitous display of urgency.
In a cloud of dust, one of their “technicals” – civilian pickup trucks with guns mounted on the back – comes out of the grain store at such speed that it spills its load of ammunition and supplies on to the main road.
There is no sense of a proper military command structure here.
Anas Hudairi, a thoughtful 23-year-old from Calgary in Canada who arrived here in mid-August, blames the chaos on the inexperienced volunteers who fail to follow orders.
“These people are idiots,” he says. "They just want to come and do their own thing. They’re creating big problems for the other fighters.
“We ask them to cover our backs and when we return from the front line, they’re not there. They have no battlefield experience, no sense of tactics or strategy. They’re not even accustomed to the noise of weapons”.
Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14972752
BBC
Libya conflict: Europe failing Libya’s refugees – Amnesty
European Union countries have “shamefully failed” to help thousands of refugees stranded near Libya’s borders, Amnesty International says.
It says they have failed to resettle some 5,000 mainly sub-Saharan Africans who face persecution in their nations.
Amnesty says the EU – some of whose member states have taken part in Nato’s operations in Libya – must “urgently address the resettlement issue”.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14977155
The Libyan Revolution Part I-Roots of Rebellion
Author(s): Bell, Anthony; Witter, David
Institute for the Study of War, 19 September 2011
www.understandingwar.org/report/libyan-...
LA Times
Libya delays forming a government; fighting continues in 2 cities
Wrangling among various groups continues for Cabinet and other posts. Meanwhile, rebel fighters clash with pro-Kadafi forces in Surt and Bani Walid.
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya—
Libya’s provisional rulers on Sunday put off “indefinitely” their much-anticipated naming of a new government tasked with guiding the nation forward after the ouster of longtime leader Moammar Kadafi.
Meanwhile, new clashes were reported in two remaining pro-Kadafi strongholds, the coastal city of Surt, Kadafi’s birthplace, and the desert town of Bani Walid, southeast of Tripoli.
Read more:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
WSJ
Libya Rebels Press Attack on Gadhafi’s Hometown
SIRTE, Libya—For much of the seven-month Libyan uprising, the besieged city of Misrata endured daily shelling and rocketing by Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces. Now, it is payback time here in Sirte, the strongman’s hometown and the biggest remaining loyalist holdout.
The hardened Misrata fighters, who launched their assault on Sirte last week, are tightening the noose around the coastal city that Col. Gadhafi aimed to turn into Africa’s capital, building it up as a showcase of his ambitions to be the continent’s leader.
Full story:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111...
NYT
Hundreds of Civilians Flee the Struggle Over a Qaddafi Stronghold.
SURT, Libya — During lulls between mortar and rocket barrages, hundreds of civilians fled this coastal city on Monday after five days of fierce clashes between fighters loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and former rebel fighters, which are settling into a stalemate and raising fears of another bloody siege in the still unresolved Libyan conflict.
Full story:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/world/africa...
ksnavarra
Vatican Apostolic Nuncio to #Tripoli Mgr Innocenzo Martinelli says ‘Holy See is ready to collaborate with #NTC’
kapitalisinfo:
L’Otan disposé à soutenir la transition démocratique en Tunisie fb.me/OyNV4ZxQ
Regaining confiscated property next fight for many in Libya – World Wires – MiamiHerald.com
hrld.us/quYwDT via @miamiherald
Watch video of @SultanAlQassemi GW talk on
“Tweeting the Arab Revolution” here, watch for @acarvin guest verse at end! goo.gl/vJPc9
THIS IS A MUST READ:
Libya: Deaf rebels fight for rights
Khalid Mustafa Sati fights in silence.
He can feel the vibration of the bombs that fall around him, but this member of Libya’s rebel forces cannot hear their explosions.
Sati can see the smoke and flames from his gun as he fires at Muammar Gaddafi’s soldiers, but he cannot hear the sound of the bullets. Nor does he have a voice to speak of the death and violence he has witnessed during this upraising.
Sati is one of Misrata’s many heroes, praised for his courage and quick thinking on the battle field. He now heads a unit of 86 men. What sets them apart is that they are deaf.
Please read the full story:
feb17.info/news/libya-deaf-rebels-fight...
Libya Conflict: Historical Leptis Magna left untouched during fighting لبدة التاريخية سلمت من القتال في ليبيا..
bbc.in/n7TTP3
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
Reuters
Obama sending #US ambassador to #Tripoli to reopen the embassy & pledged support 4 #NTC & called on #Gaddafi loyalists to surrender
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
ICRC: " Our teams have entered Sabha 3 times last week and delivered surgical and medical supplies to the hospital" #Libya
Interesting article if you’re interested in freedom of the press
Foreign Policy
What Wikileaks Tells Us About Al Jazeera
Is the rapidly expanding Middle East satellite television network and voice of the Arab Spring as independent as it claims?
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/...
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera’s Wadah Khanfar steps down | Network’s top executive since 2003, to step down after leading the network … aje.me/ru97oq
khanfarw:
I have served Al Jazeera with pride as a correspondent, bureau chief, managing director and director-general.
8 years is a long time to be leading a Network. Renewal and change is always good.
I think everyone will agree that Al Jazeera is stronger than ever. Our coverage has been exceptional and is now widely viewed.
After 8 years of service leading Al Jazeera, I have just announced that I am moving on.
African Union recognises #Libya’s National Transitional Council (#NTC) as government of the country – @Reuters bbc.in/mPh4l6
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte Now; G Troops firing Rockets and NTC Firing heavy artillery back Civilans Felling while MORE NTC Fighters arrive #Libya
SIRTE #NTC Fighetrs Intercepted a Radio call from #Mu’tasim #Gaddafi in Sirte urging his supporters to fight goo.gl/RGbEc #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8zu-kCFPY8&fea...
Hayat
i wish it could rain satellite phones or something to reach #BaniWalid brothers ;|
The death of Ahmed Gheriani
shot because of refusing 2 say Viva Gaddafi
Story and video:
shar.es/HPqEj #Libya
or:
www.foxcrawl.com/2011/04/06/video-the-d...
Hana S.
Sadly many families still suffering after fleeing #Sirte now stranded btwn the city & west of Libya awaiting permission 2 pass #SirteCrisis
Those who made it thru outside #Sirte tell of how haunted the city has become. Ppl stuck indoors don’t even know what neighbors are doing!
Witness who fled #Sirte recently says there were days when they only had water and a few dates to eat. #SirteCrisis #Feb17 #Libya
Those who were lucky managed to bring sheets and mattresses with them after fleeing #Sirte. Others barely escaped with clothes they had on.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Now: NTC fighters captured a TANK draped in SheepsSkin from pro-Gaddafi forces who may have been trying to flee in it from #SIRTE #Libya
CNN
NTC fighters are preparing for a massive attack on Bani Walid
bencnn benwedeman
Drove into the heart of #Sabha today. Much less resistance than expected. At least 4 NTC fighters dead, many wounded. #Libya
Obama announces #US ambassador to #Libya is on the way back to #Tripoli via @natlsecuritycnn
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
African Union recognizes the TNC as legitimate representative of Libyan people…. Did someone forget to set the alarm !!!
AJE –
via @reuters – #AU recognises #NTC as ligitimate gov of #Libya
secgen UN Secretary-General
Meeting H.E. Mr. Mustafa Mohammed Abdul Jaleel, President, National Transitional Council of Libya (NTC)
Found him… Can I now get my 2mills $ please?
yfrog.com/me61tsj
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: World Food Programme says difficult to get food to people who need it desperately in Bani Walid and Sirte
#Libya: Schools in Tripoli may have gone back this week, but places like Misrata have yet to follow suit
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Docens of NTC fighters wounden in #Sirte being evacuated to outside #Libya from #Misrata 150 to Jordan some days ago and 20 to Malta today
Suzanne
Breaking: African Union has recognised the NTC as #Libya’s govt. They have also finally recognised the world is round
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Fighter @checkpoint ouside #SIRTE: Gaddafi & his soldiers do not allow Residents 2move. They keep them like hostages in homes #Libya
#BaniWalid Right now Front is quiet #NTC fighters waiting 4 more residents to leave since FF dont want to spill more blood #Libya
#William #Hague told @SkyNews in #New #York that #Nato will continue as long as it takes #Libya
Sirte residents are kept hostage in their homes and held as human shields when needed #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: medics in #Sabha hospital struggling to save dying fighter. #Libya yfrog.com/nz6oraj
Photo: critically wounded fighter rushed into emergency ward in main #Sabha hospital. #libya yfrog.com/ke1brbaj
Photo: posters turned to doormats at entrance to emergency ward at main #Sabha hospital. #Libya yfrog.com/nvoo4vj
Photo: Most of wounded coming from Manshiya neighbourhood of #Sabha, clashes on going. #Libya yfrog.com/mggm5qj
Photo: wounded medic. almost 90 doctors came from around #Libya in support of the effort to take #Sabha. #Libya yfrog.com/hso38zsj
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. African Union recognises NTC
#Libya. A young visitor today at #Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound. pic.twitter.com/uDfPPKRW
BBC
Libya Conflict: Historical Leptis Magna left untouched during fighting
During the fighting in Libya there was concern over the fate of the country’s historical treasures.
Most seem to have survived in tact including the jewel in the crown, Leptis Magna, the ancient roman city on the Mediterranean.
The BBC went to visit and was shown around by tour guide Khalifa Ali Hweta, who has lived there his whole life.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14983921
libyanproud libyanandproud
Breaking: The people of libye still don’t forget or forgive the #AU! Zuma you can shove the Recognition ! #feb17 #libya
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Schools are working on a new curriculum for the ‘new Libya’ that they expect will be brought in at the beginning of next year.
#Libya: Children in schools are being taught about the revolution and are learning their new National Anthem
FromJoanne Joanne
#Arrai TV had "intended2 show Live footage of #Gaddafi reading speech but (thankfully:)) was unable to do so for “technical reasons” #Libya
MUST READ
Reuters
Chaotic Libya forces try to organize for assault
Battlefield bedlam has become part of daily life. Troops advance without orders. Nervous fighters shoot randomly. Where is the artillery? Who is in charge? No one knows.
On several occasions, infantry units have advanced into the treacherous hills of Bani Walid only to discover that artillery units had not yet been sent in.
In one incident, an entire unit was trapped inside for hours after dark amid heavy shelling by Gaddafi forces, unaware that an order had been issued for all troops to retreat.
Dozens of rag-tag groups of fighters have flocked to the Bani Walid front from all over the country.
Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/20/us-l...
cnnbrk CNN Breaking News
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon applauds #Libya rebels on success of revolution. on.cnn.com/qpfUwS
Rawya
Ominous: Mustafa Abdul Jalil says #Gaddafi still around, still has funds, still a threat not just to #Libya, but to all of intl community
#LIBYA #NTC said they lost over 25,000 libyan people @UNwebcast
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
US embassy in Tripoli will apparently reopen this week. #Libya #US
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: fighters consoling one another after comrade dies in battle. #Sabha #Libya yfrog.com/h7xi7xrj
FromJoanne Joanne
#NOW: I am watching my favourite #NTC member right now Mustafa #Jalil speak at the United Nations Graceful as usual #Libya
#Jalil speaking now at the U.N. #PositiveLibyaTweets
Rima
Jalil again reinforcing there will be no retaliation against Gaddafi officials, but trials, forgiveness & reconciliation
4Adam Adam
NTC Abdul Jalil @ UN ‘Libya will respect human right & practice democracy’ ‘althou #Libya is a rich country but we still help in rebuilding’
JustAmira
Hey Libya! I’m timing AbdulJalil’s speech at the UN now :) yfrog.com/g0uoljmj
Rima
I would give him a standing ovation if I could….instead I shall attempt to Zarghoot. So nice having a respectable man representing Libya.
Michelle
misty eyed. #libya
4Adam Adam
Children are back to schools in #Nafusa Mountains this week. 9.18.2011 Qalaa youtube.com/watch?v=fOrAry… #Libya
Obama:
Credit for the liberation of Libya belongs to the people. It was Libyan men, women and children’ #UNSpeech #UN #NTC
Obama gives #Tunisia props for assisting injured Libyans. #Libya
Obama: Town by Town… Block by Block… Libyans fought for freedom!!
Obama: “Make no Mistake. The credit for liberation of Libya goes to the Libyan ppl.”
Obama: It was Libyan men, women—and children—who took to the streets in peaceful protest,faced down the tanks & endured the snipers’ bullets
Obama:It was Libyan women and girls who hung flags and smuggled weapons to the front
Remarks of President Barack Obama at the United Nations Meeting on Libya bit.ly/puar2J #libya
AJA -
NTC fighters control most parts of Sabha. #Libya #Feb17
Hamza
For those in #Tripoli, ISM (my old high school) is having a bazaar this Friday from 4 to 10, proceeds go to help injured. Spread the word!
LIBYAN
Free #Libya flag flying high at the #UN
blabeen
The so called #African Union recognize the NTC as the gov of #Libya. Too late.
libertad
#libye Adieu la Jamahiriya vive la nouvelle Libye débarrassée des symboles kadhafistes #libya #Feb17
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
AFP team had a road accident coming back yesterday from #Sirte to Misrata cameraman with a broken hip others minor things #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
#Sabha residents say #Qadhafi loyalists have been slipping away for weeks. Few were still here when NTC rolled into town. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
UN HQ: During flag-raising Ceremony #Libya envoy #Ibrahim #Aldredi sang his country’s Anthem with his hand on his heart #EmotionalMoment
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. #Obama says Libyans deserve a government that is transparent and accountable….. this is your chance.
Sirtawi
Unconfirmed news that Gaddafi men have executed some of the prisoners in #Sirte. #SirteCrisis #Feb17 #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
U.N. chief applauds Libya revolution; new alleged Gadhafi message surfaces shabablibya.org/news/u-n-chief… #Libya (Video)
Obama urges Gaddafi forces to give up, vows Libya aid is.gd/5LIIXv #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Apparently the African Union recognized the NTC as #Libya’s sole legitimate representative today. Always at the forefront of world politics.
AmbassadorRice Ambassador Rice
USUN Pres. #Obama to the people of #Libya: “We will stand with you as you seize this moment of promise.”
USUN Pres. #Obama: “Here at the United Nations, the new flag of a free #Libya now flies among the community of nations.”
tommymiles Tommy Miles
IRIN #Niger: migrants escaping Libya bit.ly/pbgvN2 80k to #Tchad, cholera in Kanem | 75k to #Niger #Dirkou “overrun” says IOM
First fresh Libyan crude bemuses buyers is.gd/50PcJ0 #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
A typical Libyan street in Benghazi before the revolution #feb17 #libya fb.me/14GTgntYb
elinegordts eline gordts
Sarkozy on the #UN high level meeting on #Libya: “the international community has had the courage to react. Let’s draw lessons from that.”
Armchair Arab
In other news the AU has officially recognised VHS video cassettes and discarded betamax.
Pledging support, Obama sending envoy back to Libya. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44593591/ns/politi...
BBCWorld BBC Global News
At least 25,000 people died & 50,000 were wounded in Libyan uprising, NTC’s Mustafa Abdel Jalil tells UN summit – AFP
bbc.in/mPh4l6
MUST READ; REAL LIBYAN LIFE WITH CNN:
In Libya, beware the un-‘miya, miya’ moments
It punctuates almost every Libyan’s conversation: “Miya miya.” Literally it mean “100%, 100%” In other words, “Things are OK. Fine. Great. Cool.”
How’s the weather? Miya miya. How’s life? Miya miya.
Even in this revolution, when things are not OK, or great, or cool Libyans use the phrase.
This week, as we stood at a rebel checkpoint some nine or ten miles from the besieged town of Bani Walid, private cars with civilians fleeing the fighting slowed as the guards, in a motley collection of military gear, sneakers, hipster sunglasses and head bands waved them through. We stuck our heads in windows and asked the families what conditions were like in the city center.
“Miya miya,” they said. But their eyes told a different tale. With no electricity, little water, food running low and shells raining down on their houses how could it possibly be “miya miya,” we thought.
In August, our CNN producer, Raja Razek, had a “miya miya” moment right after the rebels entered Tripoli. On her way with correspondent Sarah Sidner and crew to what then was known as Green Square, now Martyrs’ Square, they drove down Ghirgharsh Street. Anti-Gadhafi forces were pulling back to the suburb of Janzour to regroup.
The crew asked a rebel how things were looking at the Square.
“It’s not completely miya miya,” he said.
The crew blanched. It was the first time they’d heard that expression.
They turned around and headed back. “Miya miya- NOT.” In Libya, that’s bad.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan Cache Weapons in Sirte alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #Qaddafi #NTC #UN
Libyan4life
This is what Im hearing as Zuma speaks: ‘’ Wah wah wah wa wah wahhhhhhhhhh wah wah wah wah Leebeeya wah wah, wah wah wah WAH!’’
Im pissed they let Zuma speak and not me. I think Im
A) more qualified and
B) have something of substance to say.
Zuma says we need to remove the no fly zone over #Libya
WHO ASKED JACOB ZUMA ABOUT HIS IDEAS ON #LIBYA?!!! WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE WERE DYING?!!!
liveTripoli
Praising #Libya “who would have thought.” Ya we had it in our blood. We did it like our grand fathers did. #PositiveLibyaTweet
liz
U know that the #US ALWAYS does the right thing(after it has exhausted all the wrong ways)exception #Israel unfortunately :(
liveTripoli
I think #Libya got lucky with the #UN. Actually it was individual nations and then a domino effect in assisting #Libyans.
Once we see a protocol set up with other nations similar to #Libya and it works. Then the #UN can receive credit.
Things happened in the #UN because of individual nations. Not because the UN met on its own to solve #Libya’s problem.
Things happened in the #UN because of individual nations. Not because the UN met on its own to solve #Libya’s problem.
Niz
Thank you everyone for your well wishes and kind words following my decision to leave Libya. Your support is incredible.
Hatem, from the Free Generation Movement, tells us he is in the hospital INSIDE Sabha and that it is now 95% liberated. Allahu Akbar
libyanproud libyanandproud
“#Zuma” in Libyan means “Ugly face”. What a coincidence :)).#libya #SouthAfrica"
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Why is Zuma talking about Libya? Gaddafi is down and out, you have no friends in Libya now
Matog
he is worried that they wont get any more money now Gadaffi has gone !
4Adam Adam
17 “French & British mercenaries” which G’s spox said had bn captured, were being questioned in Baniwalid will be shown publicly soon #Libya
Gada
Zuma has a nerve after letting down the Libyan ppl so many times in favour of his Gaddafi pay check,now he wants to tell his vision 4#Libya
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Outside Sirte. Gaddafi loyalists have been pushing back with grads and artillery. NTC forces waiting for more civilians to leave before push
UN:
Finland:
Let me express my highest respects for the people of #Libya
Man… everyone laying it on thick. Thanks we appreciate it.
malonebarry Barry Malone
by hominoid555
Just had another satellite phone chat with Gaddafi spox, Moussa Ibrahim. Said supposedly captured foreign “mercenaries” treated well #Libya
He said “mercenaries” being questioned in Bani Walid and would then be shown “to the world”. Claims have been greeted with skepticism #Libya
Moussa Ibrahim just told me Gaddafi was willing to fight for “years” (seems an update on “months” threatened before…) #
“This fight could take years. He’s (Gaddafi) prepared for that because this land is ours” — Ibrahim #Libya
“What country did NATO ever attack and it could finish it in a few months time? Look at Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia” – Ibrahim #Libya
Denying NTC gains in Sabha, Ibrahim – “Usually, when 10 to 15 cars belonging to them enter a city, they regard that as occupation”
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
by hominoid555
3 dead fighters and some wounded just arriving now in Misrata being evacuated by helicopter from #Sirte #Libya
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
My report from the outskirts of #Sirte news.sky.com/home/world-new… #Libya #Feb17
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Obama says US stands with Libyan people in their struggle to strive for the peace and prosperity that freedom can bring"
#Libya: Mustafa Abdel Jalil at United Nations thanks all nations for help in Libya but says road ahead is long
FromJoanne Joanne
Update on #LIFE in TRIPOLI services are struggling goo.gl/FTAwU #Libya trying to get people to return to work
#TRIPOLI #NTC promised 2import 1,000 street cleaners and garbage collectors from #Egypt but it will take another month before 1st arrives
To Be Totally Clear: JacobZuma Office stated: #African Union recognized #NTC as Libya’s de facto government #Libya (but NOT #South #Africa )
#Gaddafi Tuesday Latest #audio bulls… by Gaddafi via #Syria arraiTV youtube.com/watch?v=umIg_L… #Libya
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
met an electrician turned cameraman. Hes taken amazing footage.v. much impressed #Libya
Libyan4life:
I wish Mustafa AbdelJalil had spoken to the UN for two hours, just for old times sake.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta to receive more injured #Libya civilians for treatment tonite but hospital medics are making it diff for gov ‘we are overstretched’
Niz_FGM Niz
please support our friends & fellow supporters of a society that respects & empowers our women- Voice of Libyan Women- facebook.com/groups/1550918…
Beautiful pics here:
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
Next upload called: Different
See it, maybe then you’ll know why. #Tripoli
Here you go:
www.flickr.com/photos/live2tripoli/6166...
FromJoanne Joanne
So far all SANE countries in the world are recognizing #NTC in #Libya the rest is likely to face their own moment of truth sooner or later
Libyan4life
jirdan_tripoli shafshoofa_rat
Big clap for Tunisia. Seriously historic stand. Not one person could have predicted it.
Tunisia says they would be very happy to host the next #Libya Contact Group meeting.
Freedom_7uriyah ღ.¸¸Esra¸¸.ღ
LOVE LOVE LOVE #Tunisia <3
jirdan_
Big clap for Tunisia. Seriously historic stand. Not one person could have predicted it.
FromJoanne Joanne
ex #Gaddafi Judge alKhaddar reveals Shiite cleric #Musa #alSADR who disappeared in 78 was killed after getting in2 an argument with Gaddafi
jirdan_
They’re all talking about Women’s role. Seriously Women own Libya. The only people who can control the FF is their mum’s.
Australia just announced that their Prime Minister will be visit #Tripoli very soon.
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
The #Libyan people can be proud of what they have achieved and we can be proud of what we have done to help them: bit.ly/qQLEhr
LIBYAN
and the correct answer is? RT @khanfarw W.Khanfar وضاح خنفر Entertained by all the rumors of why I have resigned. #whatdoyouthink? :-)
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Libya Situation Report – September 19, 2011: Weekend Edition fb.me/195sJ0zQd
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. At last South Africa recognises the #NTC
FromJoanne Joanne
#Misrata 3 brothers and 2 cousins got separated from their family youtube.com/watch?v=2zUEjH… #Libya
Col. Bani ;Gaddafi forces Destroying #BaniWalid before it is liberated by the #NTC they robbed stores Leaving civilians to “starve” #Libya
MUST READ
Asharq Al-Awsat
Gaddafi ordered the deaths of senior officials – Senior Libyan judge
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat
– Libyan Judge Muhammad Bashir al-Khaddar was one of the most prominent judicial figures in Gaddafi’s Libya. Al-Khaddar also served as one of the most senior Libyan military judges in the Gaddafi regime. In an exclusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, al-Khaddar revealed many of the Gaddafi regime’s most closely-held secrets.
Al-Khaddar, who also served as a senior legal adviser to the Libyan Ministry of Defense over the past 25 years, revealed that Shiite cleric Musa al-Sadr, who disappeared from Libya in August 1978, was killed after getting into an argument with then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Al-Khaddar also claimed that Gaddafi ordered the death of a number of senior Libyan officials, including former Libyan Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Bashari. He also revealed the truth behind the infamous Abu Salim prison massacre of 1996.
The following is the full text of the interview:
Click here:
www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=...
News 24
AU ready to support Libyan people
The African Union has officially recognised Libya’s National Transitional Council as the country’s legitimate leadership, the group’s chairperson said in a statement on Tuesday.
The announcement was transmitted by the office of President Jacob Zuma, six days after he hosted a meeting of the AU’s special panel on Libya in Pretoria.
“The African Union stands ready to support the Libyan people… as they rebuild their country towards a united, democratic, peaceful and prosperous Libya,”
More:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/AU-ready-to-...
NATO
Progress in Libya irreversible, NATO Secretary General says in New York
NATO is committed to continuing its mission in Libya for as long as threats against civilians endure, but is determined to end the operation as soon as conditions allow, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on 20 September after he attended the first meeting of the “Friends of Libya” in New York.
“The days of the former regime are clearly numbered”, the Secretary General said. “The recent positive developments in Libya are irreversible”.
The Secretary General welcomed the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2009, which establishes a UN mission in Libya. Resolutions 1970 and 1973, which mandated international action to protect civilians in Libya, remain in place, as threats against the civilian population persist.
Mr Rasmussen stressed the effectiveness of Operation Unified Protector, which NATO Allies and partners launched in response to the United Nations mandate. “Our operation has been a success. Allies and partners alike have made a difference by mounting a complex operation in very little time, carrying out our mandate to the letter, and with the highest degree of military professionalism to avoid harm to the Libyan people and their infrastructure”, he said.
The Friends of Libya meeting took place on the sidelines of the meeting of the UN General Assembly. It brought together international heads of state and government and representatives of key international and regional organizations, including from the African Union, European Union and United Nations to discuss ways to aid Libya’s transition to a functioning democracy.
libyanproud libyanandproud
Will we see non muslim brotherhood libyans on AJA now that Khanfar resigned from Jazeera ? #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
WOW, that’s dedication. Amir Hamad of Qatar have done well loosing weight. Good for him. Thumbs up :) yfrog.com/kj5gjnpj
Armchair Arab
I wish Libya al ahraar would put arabic subtitles in their Tamazigh programming, as I think more Libyans would like to understand it.
AndersFoghR AndersFogh Rasmussen
#NATO is committed to continuing #Libya mission for as long as necessary, but no longer. #Tripoli #Ghaddafi
Positive trends seen in #Libya over last weeks are irreversible. #Tripoli #Ghaddafi
Looking forward to working with new Libyan authorities in #Tripoli. #Libya
Libyan4life:
Sometimes I just walk around my home saying ‘’OH MY GOD, Im in #Gaddafi’s Room’’ repeatedly
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
The US embassy in Libya will resume its diplomatic mission and will reopen its doors in Tripoli on Thursday. #Libya
Free Libya Now
Libya will need to be patient with the process of transition. Certain regime people might be used for stabilization purposes. #Libya
ChangeInLibya
said B4 “It should be the UA instead of AU= Useless AfricanS instead of the African Union”
A composed clip from the beginning of Feb17
Struggling for Free Libya and against dictatorship and suppression
Libya Feb17 The relationship between Gaddafi and Mussolini speeches
The Libyans want a Free Libya Free of dictatorship and suppression.
The road to Liberty, democracy and civil rights is a struggle Libyans are willing take to give to the generations a Free Libya.
youtube.com/watch?v=PNrubd…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNrubd-cxS0&fea...
dessiegrant Des Grant
#Sebha despite 12 dead today fighting has been quiet , snipers accounting for most deaths . FF now control most of city.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Qatar Air Force plane brings 17 #Libya civilians for treatment in #Malta
AdiKhair Adi G. Khair
A vibrant civil society in #Benghazi. Serious discussions are evolving already on political parties. Emerging #Democracy
A lot of Political Parties are already forming in #Benghazi. Some are more of associations and gatherings. MBs are on people’s redar.
Felt a strong sense of solidarity between the people in #Benghazi and the Syrians. I also saw a sign supporting Syrian city of Daraa. #Syria
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Seeing many tails between the legs by some world leaders who, until recently, denied the aspirations of the Libyan Revolution. #Libya
libyanproud libyanandproud
#Tripoli: FF captured all 5 khanag sons ! Allah Akbar !
AlertNet: Ammunition shortage hampers attack on Gaddafi bastion ow.ly/6zQxK
robcrilly Rob Crilly
supply lines still, 70 years after Monty and Rommel
belkacemi libertad
2 avions de AfriqiyaAirlines arrivé à l’aéroport Misrarh, prendre les combattants blessés vers les hôpitaux en dehors de la #Libye
AJA now confirming Sabha is completely and entirely liberated.
belkacemi libertad
Vidéo Impressionnant: #CNN BenWedeman sur les villes nouvellement libérés dans le sud de la #libye tinyurl.com/3ujf43h
“The biggest challenge for us is to get back to (oil) production levels before events. This is our target.” #Libya www.cnn.com/2011/09/19/world/africa/lib...
Libya forces seize suspects in alleged attack plot www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-r... #Libya #Feb17
Must read:
Hartford Courant
Libya forces seize suspects in alleged attack plot
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan interim government forces stormed a house in Tripoli on Tuesday and arrested four brothers suspected of planning bomb attacks in the capital on behalf of ousted former ruler Muammar Gaddafi, residents and witnesses said.
Full art.:
www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-r...
belkacemi libertad
: Kadhafi a ordonné la mort de hauts fonctionnaires – juge asharq-e.com/news.asp?secti… #Libye
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Spent evening in #Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square. No sign of an end to celebrations. Flags, popcorn, candyfloss, balloons – and gunfire.
belkacemi libertad
AJA confirme maintenant Sabha est totalement et entièrement libérées. #libye
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Wadah Khanfar, Aljazeera President resigns in surprise move today, replaced by Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim El Thani
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Khanfar: “Arab sources close to the Qatari government said the move had indeed been discreetly planned six months ago” guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep…
PEeditorial Petroleum Economist
In case you missed it. Exclusive from @derek_brower: NTC poised to name new #oil minister: bit.ly/qisBNJ #libya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: ‘Military leaders expect Sirte to fall within 24 hrs’
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
SEBHA, ville CLEF en grande partie sous le contrôle D ANTI-K. Confirmé pr CNN+AlJazeera depuis l’intérieur de la ville edition.cnn.com/2011/09/20/wor…
CNN
Government forces enter Libya’s Sabha, to cheers
Ben Wedeman
Sabha — a dusty city southwest of Tripoli — has long been considered a staunch pro-Moammar Gadhafi stronghold, but many of its residents greeted fighters from the new government warmly as they rolled into the city Tuesday.
A CNN crew accompanying the National Transitional Council fighters witnessed a “fair amount” of people cheering for the new ruling forces. Fighting was reported in one neighborhood, al-Manshiya. Dr. Mohamad Altaib of Sabha central hospital reported some rebel fighters died from Gadhafi loyalist sniper fire there.
Read more and watch video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/09/20/world/africa...
Free Libya
So true, on #Libya reconciliation “Today we are fighting, tomorrow we say hello to each other, and the day after we’ll drink tea together.”
WOW!!!!
septimius_sever septimius severus
On same day @khanfarw resigns? Conspiracy theorist will love it !Ha RT @Gheblawi: Birth of Jewish version of AlJazeera gu.com/p/322mt/tw
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
The Gaddafis: What’s with their weird hair styles? This one (Hanibal) have a uni-Shafshoofa. yfrog.com/keno8djj
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
New video of Fatah Yunis (RIP) during the early days of the revolution when forming the NTC: youtube.com/watch?v=Elz6QN…
Killer of Ahmed Ghyriani caught… Ahmed refused to say long live Gaddafi so he was shot dead by this monster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PSCSwH0N_M&sns=em
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Huge convoys carrying food, water & humanitarian aid are leaving Tripoli, Zliten & other Libyan cities today on their way to #Sabha #libya
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
That’s what you get for being a pro-Dictator (pls don’t laugh): youtube.com/watch?v=CToQ2b…
Government forces enter Libya’s Sabah, to cheers – CNN.com fb.me/1iNACaLTy