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SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 21st 2011
9/21/11
9.21.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/f1RRt
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Tue am: At Bani Walid, RAF aircraft destroyed a command and control facility which had been identified by NATO surveillance operations.
Tue am: At Hun the RAF aircraft demolished another such headquarters, again using Paveway guided bombs. #Libya
Tue am: At Sirte, a former school had been commandeered by Qadhafi’s men as a base. Paveway bombs destroyed the military targets at the site
Tue pm: RAF Tornados tasked by NATO mounted precision strike on military vehicle depot near Hun. Their Paveways destroyed the installation.
Since 19/3/11 RN, RAF & Army Air Corps strikes have damaged/destroyed more than 970 former regime targets that threated the Libyan people.
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Leader Mustapha Jalil Atleast 25000 people DIED in #feb17 uprising against #Libya ’s strongman Muammar Gaddafi and 50 000 were wounded
#Liberation of #Hun and other cities in the South #libya youtube.com/watch?v=pGhpjR…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGhpjRvwUbM&fea...
#No #Kidding: The biggest fear at the Front lines is of "Friendly Fire "
goo.gl/Zba4y #Libya #Sirte #BaniWalid
Last Checkpoint b4 #Sirte Front Lines Smiling Guard waved us thru; “Welcome to Sirte I Hope You Dont Die Here”
goo.gl/Zba4y #Libya
Mansour #Daw, #Gaddafi’s security chief who recently fled #Libya 4 #Mali played a Large role in massacres committed during #Feb17 revolution
#Sirte #NTC Fighters reached to 15 km east of the #Ghardabiya Reservoir 6 Martyrs yesterday goo.gl/WNpH2 #Libya
#FOUND in Freezer Port of #TRIPOLI They found Body Journalist AbbasBadr alDin who disappeared with Musa alSadr
Libya goo.gl/wV8Ed
#Gynaecologist desperately needed in #Zliten #Orthopeadics #surgeon also needed.Plz contact @Zlitniya #Libya
#Photo of the TANK in Sheeps Clothes goo.gl/kDwje which the #NTC fighters found along the highway of #Sirte #Libya
#ZLITEN Womens march in support of NTC
youtube.com/watch?v=uyEYCn… #Libya
Reuters: #South #African government says it Recognises #Libya ’s NTC Satement #Zuma in #New #York : goo.gl/HyWHR
Extremely fierce battle at close quarters in the streets of #Sirte 19.09.2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj3ACnshufc #Libya
evanchill Evan Hill
Abdel Hakim Belhadj tells AJE that he believes Gaddafi will kill himself rather than be captured. ow.ly/6A3Nf #Libya
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
VIDEO: #Malta receives 17 critically wounded #Libya civilians for treatment via #Qatar air force C-130 from #Tripoli bit.ly/pAy4H1
iyad_elbaghdadi
About Sabha: Military spokesman confirmed all areas are liberated. Attacks by snipers & “sleeper cells” can’t be ruled out. #Libya
msnbc
Panetta: 12 more US troops sent to Libya
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the Pentagon has sent another dozen troops to Tripoli to help the State Department lay plans for reopening the U.S. Embassy.
More:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44598209#.Tnjx3eyoqSo
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
LPC #Misrata: Ibrahim Halbos, Cmdr of “Black Katiba” (Asshahed Mohamed Halbos Katiba) gravely injured in #Sirte 2 days ago. #Libya
FYI: Halbos, now hospitalized with severe injuries, is among the most influential commanders of Misrata forces active in #Sirte offensive.
LPC #Misrata: Halbos’ fighting group now working to restructure.Halbos himself had replaced his brother who was killed in siege of Misrata
bencnn benwedeman
I am in #Sabha. Drove from northern end to southern, now at the airport, camped outside a villa bombed by NATO. No power, no running water.
#Sabha now: Scattered pockets of resistance, mostly in the Manshiya district. Fires in various parts of town. Occasional gunfire. #Libya
Saw two bodies of alleged members of Qadadfa tribe, Qadhafi’s tribe, killed in gunbattle in Manshiya, district, #Sabha, #Libya
Photo: bodies of two Qadadfa tribe members killed in Sabha clashes with NTC fighters Tuesday. #Libya yfrog.com/nwheiej
Sirtawi
Sky news report from #Sirte. youtube.com/watch?v=_ovD0R…
jirdan
The order friends in who will benefit from Libya:Qatar, UAE, Tunisia, Turkey, Jordan, Iran, France, UK, ants, goats, gorillas, bugs, Africa.
septimius_sever septimius severus
Speechless … weapons and ammunition compound in a village near #Sirt … #Libya … pic.twitter.com/4lPBbHzl
The great speechifier does what he does best, give a great speech to salute Libyan People! govne.ws/item/President… via @ObamaNews … #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
" #Libya – The Other Side of the Coin" english.pravda.ru/history/20-09-… What #Russia thinks of Libya. Please note the term “National Terrorist Council”
#Zintan Military Council: #Sabha has been fully liberated. #Libya
Libyan
Lots of volunteer youth groups in #Tripoli, #Zwara, #Misrata cleaning up the streets, repainting. #Libya
Just one more time:)
septimius_sever septimius severus
Just how lucky are we to witness history in the making. #Libya’s flag at @UN HQ..we will never forget our martyrs twitpic.com/6nuj7k
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Tripoli’s youth cleaning up the small lake next to Tripoli’s ancient red castle (overlooking martyr’s square) facebook.com/media
Haytham Abubaker
The #Gaddafi propaganda machine is very much alive and well on twitter. Constantly getting harassment from non-Libyan supporters. #Libya
Sabha has been liberated. Welcome to Free Libya #Libya #Feb17
derek_brower Derek Brower
If anti- #Gaddafi forces are in Sabha, it could get interesting. That’s where UK govt sources are convinced the colonel is holed up.
Tripolitanian:
Now that #Sebha has been liberated, its time to build a high wall between #Libya and sub-Saharan #Africa.
Karybdis
With #Sabha now being NTC controlled, expect the rest of Wadi #Hayat, #Ghoddua to switch very quickly. Probably drive through liberation.
Sanna
It’s almost a month since Tripoli has been liberated. Hurts so much to see a few leftover G idiots still killing in #Sabha #BaniWalid #Sirte
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photographers coming back from #Sirte said big number of tank being move there from #Misrata NTC fighters said big push very soon #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte Resident says Hasnt had electricity since Aug20 Regime forces are using houses, schools and hospitals to store ammunition #Libya
DavidPoort David Poort
Asked if troops are disciplined enough not to shoot Gaddafi on sight, top NTC commander Belhadj joked: “I hope they do” bit.ly/nA31o2
feb17libya Feb17Libya
CNN Video:
Mercenary fights to repay Gadhafi favor bit.ly/pl8xOg #libya
or:
feb17.info/media/cnn-video-mercenary-fi...
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
tanks and heavy artillery rolling towards #sirte, second day of civilians fleeing…what happens next?
Former jihadist at the heart of Libya’s revolution #cnn edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/02...
commander from zawiya said lost 6 men in #baniwalid on friday, promises to go back with 150 men on sunday.
BBC Exclusive: Wavering loyalties in Libya as fight for Sirte continues(As Sultan, East Sirte)
BBC Exclusive: Report from the town of As Sultan
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpdU0z2ybjA
Ala F
Mabrouk elhoureya #sabha .AJA confirming that #sabha has been liberated by the FF, a big victory for revolution its the capital of the south
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
you can see the sheepskin draped tank that Gaddafi forces tried to hide… #wtf #onlyinlibya #libya youtu.be/WvCbW9OQvqg
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCbW9OQvqg&fea...
AbdulFatah Younis’ nephew reveals that the United Arab Emirates was the first country in the world to call NTC & offer support after #feb17
Worth reminding that AbdulFatah Younis was one of the 1st to defect & his commando brigade was instrumental to the liberation of #Benghazi
AbdulFatah Younis’ memoirs and diaries included many details on what happened during the first few days after the revolution
AbdulFatah Younis’ nephew: “When they catch those responsible for my uncle’s death, they must be treated well & given a fair trial”
AbdulFatah Younis’ son confirms to Libya Awalan that his father met one Gaddafi regime figure just before his death
AbdulFatah Younis met As-Sayyidi, a Gaddafi regime figure that wanted to negotiate an exit/exile for Gaddafi.
Correction: Gaddafi regime figure is “Abdelrahman As-Sayyid”
AbdulFatah Younis met As-Sayid and the latter offered Younis 200,000,000$ to leave the country and stop helping NTC
AbdulFatah Younis told As-Sayid that he joined the revolution and will not go back on his decision
Abdulfatah Younis then told As-sayid that he should defect and do what was best for his country. The latter refused.
I can’t translate the whole AbdulFatah Younis family interview on Libya Awalan but I really hope someone is recording this
FREAKIEST THING EVER! look at the RANDOM visualization on audio player that came up when I played @ibnthabit!!!! #Libya pic.twitter.com/c8FcN9HY
CNN inside Sabha
– People let the NTC fighters in. We hear only celebratory gunfire #libya #feb17 fb.me/1eBZfzGgs
Sabha the largest city in the desert with a population of 400,000 is celebrating freedom today
While Sabha is liberated,Gaddafi rambled about nothing and Ibrahim is still making up baseless stories.
Aljazeera
New Libyan government ‘within 10 days’
Mahmoud Jibril says the ministers could be divided between the east and west of the country.
A new Libyan government will be announced within seven to 10 days, the transitional leadership’s interim prime minister has said in New York.
“Government to be announced within a week, 10 days maximum,” Mahmoud Jibril told reporters on Tuesday, adding the ministers could be divided between the east and west of the country.
“I’m not bothered by (the) time … to bring about national consensus,” he said.
He was speaking at a press conference hosted by G8 foreign ministers after the new Libyan leaders were welcomed to the United Nations, enshrining their new-found status after ousting long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
On Sunday Jibril had had to delay the unveiling of a new Libyan government, saying it was held up by last-minute haggling.
Jibril, a former Gaddafi regime official, said then that many of the portfolios for the new cabinet had been agreed, but there were still discussions going on over others.
“Most of the work has been done. It is a question of the number of ministries and the location of the ministries.”
He said they could all be in the capital, Tripoli, but it was possible they could be divided between between the east and west of Libya.
The transitional council was based in Benghazi in the east of the country. Tripoli is in the west.
“For a country which was absent from any democratic process for 42 years from any institutions, from any democratic culture, what’s taking place is natural,” said Jibril.
“I think we better have good consultation, we had better talk before we act.
“I think this government, when formed, will help tremendously to bring about stability and order in Tripoli and the rest of the country.
G8 help
Meanwhile, Libya has been added to the list of Arab countries that have seen political revolutions or deep change that will benefit from a G8 arrangement set up by France, which holds the G8 presidency this year.
The so-called Deauville Partnership will inject about $80 billion and international expertise into the new democracies, though as a relatively wealthy country Libya will not be getting the financial aid.
The cash will be concentrated on Tunisia and Egypt, with some help going to Morocco and Jordan to help the countries with economic development, education and training, rule of law and political reforms.
“We have got to help the countries that are now free,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told a press conference after the meeting.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr said “an extraordinary and exceptional moment needs extraordinary and exceptional ways to deal with it.”
wheelertweets James Wheeler
4 US military personnel arrived in #Libya last week to help assess damage to the embassy in Tripoli. Another 12 deployed in last few days.
Virginia
Al-Jazeera chief’s surprise resignation raises fears for channel’s independence gu.com/p/323dn/tw
Aljazeera
Inside a Gaddafi compound in Tripoli
Muammar Gaddafi, the toppled Libyan leader, left behind numerous houses and compounds in Tripoli, Libya’s capital, after being ousted from the city by a popular
uprising.
In this Al Jazeera exclusive, Sue Turton explores the insides of a hidden compound once owned by Gaddafi in Tripoli.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuAYeZE-b2U&fea...
MSNBC
After the cheering, Libyans wary but optimistic
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WMvf859zT8&fea...
Tarek
#Libyans are like #Italians, both can’t work or even fighting without bringing coffee machines to front line. flic.kr/p/ap68XV #Libya
Do you think this #Somalian woman represent #Libyan women in National Geographic Front page? I don’t flic.kr/p/akwPXP #Libya
Flagraising of #Libya flag at #UN flic.kr/p/aoT9QA
Mohammed al-Alagi, Minister of Justice and Human Rights of #Libya addresses to session of the #HRC. #UN flic.kr/p/aoB2Jw
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. A month after NTC fighters reached Martyrs’ Square, the flag sellers are still doing good business. pic.twitter.com/dLwSREvW
Libya. Trying to establish what’s really happening in #Sabah. Has it fallen or not?
#Libya. Colleague #caparkinson filmed this piece at #Leptis Magna. Treasures survive Libya conflict bbc.in/naXGC0
bencnn benwedeman
NATO flying over #Sabha this morning. City relatively quiet but for fighters testing their weapons. #Libya
Photo: sign at #Sabha airport: “from Sabha came the first spark.” And perhaps the last? #Libya yfrog.com/hs169wfj
Photo: VIP accommodations at #Sabha airport. Redesigned by NATO. #Libya yfrog.com/18n3ablj
Driving through #Sabha. Stores closed, few people in street. No electrify, running water, communications #libya
Photo: qadhafi poster in #Sabha…before… #Libya yfrog.com/hwvq8uxj
Photo: qadhafi poster in #sabha under renovation by new management. #Libya yfrog.com/klj6ejzej
Bani Walid
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Just witnessed 2 men die from an RPG accident. Many untrained, leaderless rebels eager to fight are proving to be dangerous #libya
The check points have turned into chaotic shooting ranges, filled w v young men who just want to be the first and fight without order #libya
Hana
OMG! Just heard one of my uncles fled #Sirte to #Misurata. Can’t wait to hear what he’s got to say!! #SirteCrisis #Feb17 #Libya
My uncle’s still in #Tawergha now. My folks on their way to accompany them. Probably ‘escort’ required by security there. #SirteCrisis
Feb17
The African Union (AU) said it was recognising Libya’s de fact ruling council, removing another diplomatic support for the ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The AU, which frequently has been criticised for its ponderous reaction to events on its doorstep, said in a statement it was ready to support Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) in its efforts to build an inclusive government.
Reuters
Libya will likely have a new government within the next 10 days, Libya’s interim prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, said on Tuesday.
“I’m not bothered by (the) time … to bring about national consensus,” he said at a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. “I expect a government to be formed in the next week to 10 days.”
IOL ZA
Documents found in Libya show SA sent sniper rifles
South Africa once again finds itself front and centre in an arms deal controversy after Human Rights Watch discovered a document in Tripoli that appears to confirm that sniper rifles were exported to Libya in apparent contravention of our arms trading regime.
The “delivery note” is addressed to one General Gaser Ben Gasher of the “purchase department” – assumed to be that of the Libyan armed forces – and provides the first proof that Midrand-based weapons maker Truvelo Manufacturers sold sniper rifles to Libya in 2009.
South African authorities have repeatedly denied that any weapons were exported to that country in 2009.
A “packing list” describes the delivery – just one of 28 boxes destined for Tripoli – as
containing 5 Truvelo Sniper Rifles, 5 magazines, 5 carrying cases, 5 carrying bags and associated cleaning kits, an operator’s manual and a “telescope booklet”. Delivery of this batch took place at Tripoli International Airport on December 3, 2009, according to the document.
Read more here:
www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/documents-...
Reuters via feb17
One of the last three main bastions of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya has been largely taken over by forces of the provisional government a month after he was toppled, an official said on Wednesday.
Sabha — deep in the North African state’s Sahara desert — has been holding out along with Bani Walid and Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte since the fall of the capital Tripoli on Aug. 23.
“We control most of Sabha apart from the al-Manshiya district. This is still resisting, but it will fall,” National Transitional Council military spokesman Ahmed Bani told Reuters.
Reuters
Libya c.bank has enough funds for six months – finance official
DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Libya’s central bank has enough money to cover state spending for up to six months and has no urgent need to resort to bridge loans, a finance official said on Wednesday.
Wafik Shater, a finance official in the National Transitional Council’s (NTC’s) stabilisation team, said the central bank had “several billion Libyan dinars”. One billion Libyan dinars is worth about $820 million.
More here:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
feb17libya Feb17Libya
2 Filipino Maids Flee Gadhafi’s Relative bit.ly/qOSpxc #libya
NTC military spokesman Ahmed Bani said on Wed. “We control most of Sabha apart from the al-Manshiya district" feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
Video: NTC taking time ‘to do the right thing’ for new government bit.ly/qz3DTM #libya
AFP
Anti-Kadhafi forces admit losses in Sirte offensive
Anti-Kadhafi authorities on Wednesday admitted heavy losses in an assault on the deposed Libyan despot’s hometown Sirte, but said they have captured a string of oasis towns.
Full story:
feb17.info/news/anti-kadhafi-forces-adm...
Patrick_Baz patrickbaz
Turkish Airlines still implementing the old ITA on its flight to #Libya and doesn’t allow passenger to travel to Tripoli without a visa.
kareemJerusalem Kareem Khadder
Some of the medical staff injured while evacuating injured opposition fighters around Sabha yfrog.com/klfrcxqj
Ben CNN in front if emergency entrance at #Sabha central hospital… yfrog.com/kk95hlwj
Tweeting Tripoli
LOOOOL I particularly liked these :)
yfrog.com/kg9munbj
yfrog.com/gy9xhnsj
yfrog.com/nwh8dyoj
Gaddafi: “Don’t rejoice, don’t believe that a (Gaddafi) regime was overthrown…” LOL Gaddafi admits he doesn’t want us to be happy!!!
Eurasia Review
After Jihad – OpED
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.
Full story
www.eurasiareview.com/21092011-after-ji...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
VIDEO: #Libyan independence flag being presented at #UN ‘friends of #Libya’ meeting. goo.gl/91hG5 #feb17 #epicmoment
AFP: Officials at the National Transitional Council say that the Libyan fighters are in complete control of Qaddafi bastion Sabha.
Please join this group ‘Voice of Libyan Women’ in support. goo.gl/4dDdh #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Libya
Libya ‘will try’ Yvonne Fletcher murder suspect shabablibya.org/news/libya-will-try-yvo... #Libya
U.N. General Assembly welcomes new Libyan leadership; Palestinian issue looms shabablibya.org/news/u-n-general-assemb... #Libya
Libyan Flag in UN رفع علم ليبيا في الأمم المتحدة (video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6zdbBEkn7c&fea... #Libya
Libya’s NTC claims control of Sabha is.gd/Ycw1qZ #Libya
Anti Gaddafi forces enter Sabha Sept 21 2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj47VXtn_pI&fea... #Libya
UK jets hit Libyan targets after Gaddafi taunt
Britain said on Wednesday its jets had attacked troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in three different areas, a day after the deposed, fugitive Libyan leader taunted NATO by saying its bombing runs would not last.
More:
shabablibya.org/news/uk-jets-hit-libyan...
aquaamr
#Libya is going secular already?? Flyer in #Tripoli hotels where media resides. too early I think. twitpic.com/6o8h7l
KamahlAJE Kamahl Santamaria
On-air today from 1400GMT (90 minutes from now) with live coverage from the United Nations General Assembly.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
“This historical moment of raising the #Libyan flag @ the UN represents the will of the freedom fighters & the first martyrs, who, as they..
“were dying, urged their friends & colleagues to continue & not to surrender,” Mustafa Abdel-Jalil said at the UN on Tuesday
Reuters spin: “..leaders at UN conference congratulated #Libyans—and themselves—for #Gaddafi’s removal by NATO-backed rebels..”
Reuters #Libya spin: "..Interim PM Jibril failed to win approval for his proposed new cabinet Sunday..political infighting reveals fractures
“united in civil war by hatred..but remains split among pro-Western liberals, underground Islamist guerrillas, and defectors”
This language has been repeated by Reuters in multiple articles carried by major media around the world the past couple days.
4 US military personnel arrived in #Libya last week to help assess damage to the embassy in Tripoli. Another 12 deployed in last few days.
“But that’s it. We have not and do not intend to put any combat forces on the ground.” -US Defense Secretary Panetta, Sep 20
AFPS
Panetta Begins Next-step Discussions with NATO Partners
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2011 – As Operation Unified Protector winds down in Libya, the Defense Department and its NATO partners have had early discussions about future roles in that embattled nation, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said today.
Panetta briefed reporters here along with Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“Our view is that this mission went well and that the role that NATO performed there was the right one,” Panetta said.
Rebel forces that rose up against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi “have made significant progress,” the secretary added, although some elements of the regime continue to fight.
In the meantime, Panetta said, four military personnel arrived in Libya last week to help the State Department assess damage to the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.
“Within the last few days, we’ve deployed another 12,” the secretary said, to try to reopen the embassy “within the next few weeks. But that’s it. We have not and do not intend to put any combat forces on the ground.”
As to NATO’s future role there, “that’s something we’re going to be discussing with NATO as we see events unfold in Libya,” Panetta said, adding that he’s begun discussions with his NATO partners, “trying to decide … what should be the next steps.”
Mullen met with the NATO chiefs of defense over the weekend. “A number of them
went out of their way to thank the United States for the support to enable them to be able to succeed to this point,” he said.
“The decision was made, obviously, to put us in a support role,” Mullen said. “That was, clearly, critical.”
NATO, he added, is “a critical alliance, has been, is and will be for the future.”
In New York today, at the first meeting of the “Friends of Libya,” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO is committed to continuing its mission in Libya for as long as threats against civilians endure.
The meeting coincided with that of the U.N. 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.
“The days of the former regime are clearly numbered,” Rasmussen said. “The recent positive developments in Libya are irreversible.”
He also welcomed the adoption of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2009, which establishes a U.N. mission in Libya, according to NATO. Resolutions 1970 and 1973, which mandated international action to protect civilians in Libya, remain in place as threats against the civilian population persist.
“Our operation has been a success,” Rasmussen said.
“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.
VOA
Libya’s Provisional Authority Claims Another Gadhafi Stronghold
Provisional authority officials in Libya say their forces have taken control of most of the southern desert city of Sabha – one of the last strongholds of former leader Moammar Gadhafi.
National Transitional Council officials said Wednesday that anti-Gadhafi fighters are still encountering some resistance, but have largely taken over the city.
More:
goo.gl/xdaLQ
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
1 de los comandantes más legendarios d las milicias d Misrata, Halbush, herido grave en #Sirte su hermano ya murió n esta revolución #Libia
el CNT libio dice q sus tropas han capturado la casi totalidad de Sabha 1 d los 3 últimos bastiones de Gadafi #Libia
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Tripoli life: news.sky.com/home/article/1…
#Libya: Yet more delays as new Libyan government will not be announced for another 7 to 10 days
#Libya: NATO says on Tuesday destroyed command facility at Bani Walid and another in Hun
#Libya:NATO: also hit a former school in Sirte, used by pro-Gaddafi forces as a base for armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery.
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Does Libyan Islamic Movement for Change (ex LIFG) have political ambitions? ‘Why not?’ Belhaj tells me bit.ly/oO3VpN
AJELive AJELive
NTC on Wednesday admitted heavy losses and hospitals full of wounded from their assault on Sirte aje.me/nP83Os #libya
aleithead Alastair Leithead
The advance on #Sirte in #Libya stalled from the east – rockets hitting positions gained on Sun. Still 50km from here to the centre
malonebarry Barry Malone
Bani Walid chaos. Our team saw bored NTC militiamen kill each other by mistake today and one man shoot his own head off with an RPG.. #Libya
grafixel guess what
If Gaddafi doesnt show up alive soon, i suggest to declare him dead.
LivingZimbabwe Living Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe to recognise Libya rebels – New Zimbabwe.com goo.gl/fb/kB3zi #Zimbabwe #Zim
“The Touareg can never come back,” says one Ghadamsi. “Not after this.”
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
New Libyan leaders ‘vow justice for PC Fletcher’ is.gd/0RkQ7d #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Libya’s eagles #libya fb.me/OysX1Nt6
Sabha is totally under the control of the revolutionaries," said Mohammed Wardugu, the Benghazi spokesman of the “Desert Shield Brigade”
Sabha, a city of 100,000 inhabitants
At least 3 NTC fighters, all in their 30s were killed and 17 wounded Tuesday around Sirte as they encountered unexpectedly fierce resistance
NTC forces said Wednesday they seized most of Waddan and were only facing
pockets of resistance in other Al-Jufra towns.
Seventy percent of the Al-Jufra has been liberated. Waddan is freed, our forces entered the town following NATO bombing of Al-Hisha dam.
BFBS News
RAF air strikes weaken Gaddafi’s forces
The Ministry of Defence has released details of a series of precision strikes by RAF jets against pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya yesterday (Tuesday).
Tornado GR4s carried out the attacks in three different locations across western and central Libya.
At Bani Walid, they destroyed a command and control facility before heading 200 miles south east to the area of Hun to demolish a similar facility using Paveway guided bombs.
Tornado GR4s also destroyed armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery being stored at a school in Sirte commandeered by Gaddafi’s men.
The last target was a military vehicle depot near Hun which was destroyed in the afternoon with a series of direct hits using Paveway bombs.
Sirte:
45 NTC fighters have been killed and more than 200 wounded since they moved on Sirte from the west and south on September 15
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
17 Sep 2011 – First Free elections in Libya since #Feb17 held in Zwara to elect head of transitional city council youtube.com/watch?v=BUBToA…!
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUBToAAwl4U&fea...
African Arguments
Sub Saharan mercenaries or African freedom fighters in Libya and the return of Dr Khalil Ibrahim
When the international press pack of ‘world affairs’ (war) correspondents descended on Libya in February, they began to repeat uncritically and unquestioning the Libyan insurgents’ claim that it was only the bloody thuggery of so called ‘black sub Saharan African mercenaries’ that prevented the collapse of the Gaddafi regime. There are now appearing some dissenting voices highlighting the apparent collective victimisation of what are still called ‘black sub Saharan Africans’ by the Libyan insurgents on the cusp of their victory.
Dr Khalil Ibrahim Returns
We now learn that Dr Khalil Ibrahim, in exile and protected in Tripoli since May 2010 after his former protector and Zaghawa kinsman Chad’s President Idriss Deby refused to allow him to return, has managed to escape from Tripoli, and is reportedly back in Darfur evading a force of Chadian and Sudanese troops in the Libyan, Chadian and Sudanese desert border lands.
Read more:
goo.gl/X1Okh
Abdallah el-Badri, the secretary-general of #OPEC, predicts that #Libya will return to its output of 1.6 million bpd within 15 to 16 months.
hominoid555 Russell
Libya Mission humanitarian aid worth one million dollars coming from Kuwait
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Sorry guys _ was tweeting from outside #BaniWalid. Still here…
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
‘Friends of Libya’ meeting at the UN – New York – Photo Album facebook.com/media/set/?set… #Libya #USA #Newyork #UN
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Touched down at Mitiga airport an hour ago… amazing atmosphere here in Tripoli. God bless #libya #feb17 I’ll upload some pictures later
CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
#Misrata mil. council claims NTC victory in #Hun, saying city in their hands and “independence flags fluttering in the sky”. #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: NATO agrees to extend Libya operations for three months
HaraldDoornbos Harald Doornbos
Hier Kamal (zittend) nabij Sirt front. Jonge ogen. Vader plv consul op consulaat #Libie #denhaag. Respect, gozer! twitpic.com/6o61xm
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AlArabia: Grad rockets attack on ‘rebels’ site near Bani Walid.
malonebarry Barry Malone
NTC fighter east of Sirte tells Reuters team there pro-Gaddafi men are fighting so fiercely in Khamseen they “have become suicidal” #Libya
adrianhong Adrian Hong
@TurkishAirlines much-hyped first Tripoli-Istanbul flight delayed then cancelled. #Libya
Flight delayed, & #Zintan thawar at #Tripoli Int. are giving out candy, snacks & drinks. This is a special place. #Libya
@derek_brower Derek Brower
Am being told journalists now needing visas to get into #Libya. Is this true? Can one be bought at border?
Cristina Rainha
@derek_brower other ppl saying u can but includes an under-the-table “tax”
septimius_sever septimius severus
if you are wondering why Sirt & BeniWalid is taking so long, watch this… brainwashed G supporter! youtube.com/watch?v=eX79hM… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX79hMJI4Wc&fea...
#Alarabiya: Clashes break out between the #Tunisia army and an armed group near the border with #Algeria and #Libya
So true:
“Rumors are delivered by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”
Zawya.com
Fuel and water flow again in Libyan capital: officials
Water and fuel supplies have been completely restored in the Libyan capital Tripoli after its fall to forces opposed to Moamer Kadhafi, Libya’s United Arab Emirates ambassador said on Wednesday.
Ambassador Aref Ali Nayed, who is also head of the Libya Stabilisation Team, said basic utilities had been fully restored after weeks of severe shortages and outages.
“The liberation of Tripoli and the immediate aftermath has been a lot more peaceful and resulted in a lot less damage than anticipated,” he told reporters in Dubai.
Read more:
www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidANA20110921T...
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I can’t explain how good it feels to see people happy everywhere.. to see flags.. to see checkpoints manned by neighbors, friends #libya
I am now sitting in #fashloom… listening to stories about 6 months of constant fear. 4×4 vehicles kidnapping locals & shooting randomly
Unfortunately I also heard the story of 2 family friends that were betrayed and killed by Muhammad Gaddafi’s guards a few weeks ago #libya
There are some brilliant cartoons and paintings mocking gaddafi and his 42 year rule on EVERY SINGLE wall here. All over #Tripoli #libya
Al Arabiya
NATO extends Libya air strike mission for another 90 days, says diplomat
NATO has agreed to a 90 day extension of its air strike mission in Libya, an alliance diplomat said after a meeting of ambassadors of the 28 NATO states in Brussels.
“Operation Unified Protector was just extended for 90 days,” the diplomat said on condition of anonymity after the meeting.
A further prolonged operation will mark a second extension to the NATO air and sea campaign, which begun on Mar. 31 in an effort to crack down on now-fallen Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and his armed loyalists.
Now, as the country’s new rulers have taken charge of most parts of the country, including the capital and a few of the remaining Qaddafi bastions of support, a NATO presence will assumingly support their mission to dislodge Qaddafi loyalists that are still holding out in several towns.
On Tuesday, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen had said at a “Friends of Libya” meeting at the U.N. headquarters that “the days of the Qaddafi regime in Libya are clearly numbered.”
“The recent positive developments in the country are irreversible,” he added, referring to the National Transitional Council’s recent progression in the country which caused Qaddafi and his family members to flee from Tripoli last month.
Rasmussen also told the high-level meeting that NATO was committed to continuing its mission in Libya for as long as threats against civilians existed, but made it clear that the alliance was determined to end the operation as soon as conditions allowed, RTT news reported.
Response by Misrata Local Council to malicious allegations against our brave fighters who rose in support of our people in Sirte
It was with sorrow and regret that we heard through Libya Al-Hurra and Libya Ahrar, on September 19, 2011, the false claims of Mr El-Ramesh who is trying to present himself as a member of the Local Council of (Sirte), who told lies about the Misrata freedom fighters who are at the front-lines in Sirte. He is intentially killing the truth and presenting lies and rubbish, by falsely accusing innocent people, who have been killed in liberating Sirte and other Libyan cities, with his blaten lies about looting and and stealing. What he is saying is anti the freedom fighters and destroying their reputation. We strongly reject what he is saying out of jealousy. There is no evidence for it at all. This is not why the tens of martyrs each day and the hundreds of wounded, and those supporting them, are in Sirte (ie. to steal) in Sirte, of to loot. and what he is accusing them.
The Local council of Misrata totally rejects what he said; he is just causing divisions between Libyans. We call on the National Council to to take necessary action in this matter
Via FB
Original:
www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=16346...
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
10 yrs ago #UK sponsored a resolution to make today – 21 Sept – the International Day of Peace. #peaceday @PeaceOneDay bit.ly/16L3eJ
jirdan
Get ready western world for the soon to be all powerful Libya lobby. Particularly Italy and France.
US ambassador returns to Libya to lead newly reopened embassy in post-Gadhafi era
The U.S. ambassador to Libya has returned to Tripoli to lead a newly reopened American Embassy in a post-Moammar Gadhafi era.
Ambassador Gene Cretz arrived in Tripoli Wednesday, a day before plans to raise the U.S. flag over the embassy building in the Libyan capital.
goo.gl/M6lWR
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
Must read:
Q&A: Top NTC commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj
Sitting in a lavish apartment in the wing of a 5-star Tripoli hotel once inhabited by Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif, Abdel Hakim Belhadj looked a bit out of place in his drab, beige and brown military fatigues.
These again, incongruities of this sort are becoming common for the 45-year-old revolutionary who emerged from the darkest of Gaddafi’s torture chambers to become the leader of Tripoli’s Military Council, and, by some accounts, the most powerful man in the new Libya.
Read more here:
feb17.info/editorials/qa-top-ntc-comman...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Colonel located? Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported on 20.09.11 that: "Al-Qadhafi Is Residing in Al-Manshiyah Street, #Sabha
#African-#Arab relations have much more to offer than #Gaddafi-style by #NesrineMalik gu.com/p/323kf/tw via @guardian
belkacemi libertad
Le CNT prétend capturer Kadhafi en Libye dans son bastion is.gd/uudMf9 #Libye
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Le CNT affirme contrôler la quasi-totalité de Sebha j.mp/pEfQXL CARTE
Alielehmer Ali El-Ehmer
Wow Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported on 20.09.11 located ? "Al-Qadhafi Is Residing in Al-Manshiyah Street, #Sabha " #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Yes, Burj Alfateh is now Burj Tarabolus :)
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yfrog.com/klgalmrj
Tweeting Tripoli
Yes, Burj Alfateh is now Burj Tarabolus :) yfrog.com/kf56otjzj yfrog.com/klgalmrj
Al Arabiya
Qaddafi Says the People Chose the Government
On Tuesday, Libya’s deposed leader, Muammar Qaddafi, released an audio message in which he stated that the political system of the country was based on the people’s choice and that it could not be changed.
The audio message was carried on Syrian-based Ar-rai television, and is one of a series of audio messages in which Qaddafi calls out to those loyal to him, demanding they fight against rebels.
“There is no legitimacy apart from the people’s authorities, no legitimacy except from the people’s conferences whose membership expands to every single Libyan, men or women, therefore the National Transitional Council is void and illegitimate and will not find any ground to stand on. Libyans have said that they will die without the people’s authority and they are presently dying with the absence of the people’s authority,” he said.
Qaddafi’s family members and his inner circle have fled the country, leaving the regime in collapse. However, Qaddafi maintains power and support in three towns.
“Do not be happy and do not believe that there has been a regime that was toppled, or that there is now a regime that has been forced on the Libyan people by strikes from the air and sea, this is a farce whose legitimacy is connected to the air with NATO’s bombs that will not last forever,” he warned.
Meanwhile, fighters loyal to the NTC have brought in reinforcements, adding tanks and cannons to assist in taking over Sirte, a desert town and the birthplace of the ex-Libyan leader.
According to anti-Qaddafi forces, a tank belonging to the fugitive leader’s forces has been captured.
“These are the tanks of the tyrant, the ones he used to kill the children of Misrata. God is great, we are the revolutionaries of Misrata and we are coming. His son is here and we will catch him, God is great,” said an unnamed fighter near the tank.
Sirte is one of the cities still under control by forces loyal to Qaddafi.
UK Yahoo News
Family shot by rebels because of Gaddafi surname
A woman and her family were shot by Libyan rebel fighters in a deadly attack because their last name was Gaddafi, it has been reported.
Mother-of-three Afaf Gaddafi was attempting to flee the war-torn country with her children and other family members over fears that their surname would land them in trouble.
Mistaken for Gaddafi loyalists, rebel fighters opened fire at them near an airport – killing the couple’s two daughters Yam, 20 months, and Aden, three weeks, as well as Afaf’s mother and sister.
More:
uk.news.yahoo.com/family-shot-by-rebels...
bencnn benwedeman
Parts of #Sabha rose up a month ago, and kept loyalists away by force. The anti-Qadhafi elements strong, well organised. #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Mercedes Benz creates Libyan Revolutionary SLR – #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/dngzbp0L
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Security contractors starting to show up in #Tripoli trying to drum up business & hiring fighters away from the front. Not cool. #Libya
#Libya proposes ex-Eni executive (Abdul-Rahman Ben Yezza) for #Oil minister – Reuters goo.gl/fb/2NwsV
AndersFoghR AndersFogh Rasmussen
NATO Council decided to extend current mandate of #OperationUnifiedProtector for now – though under constant review. #NATO #Libya #Tripoli
NATO
NATO Secretary General statement on NAC decision to extend Libya mission
Press Release (2011) 119
Issued on 21 Sep. 2011
The North Atlantic Council has decided today to extend the current mandate of Operation Unified Protector, while keeping the situation under regular review. Together with our partners, NATO has been remarkably successful in fulfilling the mandate of the United Nations. But while threats to civilians persist, we will continue to protect them under the mandate confirmed unanimously in United Nations Security Council Resolution 2009, and at the request of the National Transition Council.
We are determined to continue our mission for as long as necessary, but ready to terminate the operation as soon as possible. While the technical rollover is for up to 90 days, the review will allow us to end our tasks at any time. We will do this in coordination with the United Nations, taking into account United Nations Security Council Resolution 2009, and in line with the will of the Libyan authorities.
This decision sends a clear message to the Libyan people. We will be there for as long as necessary, but not a day longer, while you take your future in your hands to ensure a safe transition to the new Libya.
Niz_FGM Niz
Meeting in NYC with Abdul Jalil & Dr.Jibril. Space limited, register by emailing your name & Number to – Ali Alawaj – libyanson1@yahoo.com
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
#Libye : le #CNT revendique la prise de #Sebha j.mp/of2Lv0 la prise de cette ville pourrait empêcher #Kadhafi de se rendre au Niger
AJELive AJELive
“The Arab people have risen up and claimed the right to be free.” #France’s #Sarkozy at UN aje.me/fwtYjF
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
VIDEO euronews : Les forces libyennes capturent des suspects à Tripoli j.mp/mVHGjD
FRANCE24 FRANCE 24
DIRECT PROCHE-ORIENT : Suivez le discours de Nicolas #Sarkozy à l’AG des Nations-Unies sur FRANCE 24 f24.my/n8z47A
CNN
Mideast peace the keynote of Obama address to U.N. General Assembly
Also, Obama addressed a meeting of the Libya Contact Group, telling the gathered leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, that the NATO-led military
campaign in Libya that helped oust Moammar Gadhafi from power was an example of modern global cooperative action.
“This is how the international community should work in the 21st century — more nations bearing the responsibility and the costs of meeting global challenges,” Obama said. “In fact, this is the very purpose of this United Nations. So every nation represented here today can take pride in the innocent lives we saved and in helping Libyans reclaim their country. It was the right thing to do.”
Read more and watch video:
www.cnn.com/2011/09/21/world/americas/u...
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
L’Union européenne accusée de ne pas aider les réfugiés à la frontière libyenne j.mp/r9Kqub #Libye
Khiria
Someone needs to adopt @Jonny_Hallam into their Libyan family.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Les forces du CNT ont “libéré” la ville de #Waddan située dans l’oasis de Djofra dont ils contrôlent environ 70%
j.mp/pnB4bw #Libye
France will treat the wounded Libyans in French hospitals via @LibyeLibre
MwattinLeebi Mwattin Leebi
It felt so good to wipe my feet on a Gaddoor mat or Gaddafi s picture used as a door mat in front of Raddison Hotel in #Tripoli.
FFs using an unexploded rocket as barrier at checkpoint! Bet that will stop them! #Tripoli #Libya
MUST READ:
Libya’s NTC Draft constitution in english
www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/libya/Libya-Dr... #libya #feb17
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
L’oasis de Djofra (300 km sud de Syrte) regroupe Waddan, Houn, Sokna, Zila et abriterait un important stock d’armes des pro-Kadhafi #Libye
La direction des opérations militaires des pro-Kadhafi est située à Houn, selon le nouveau régime #Libye
western Media:
wheelertweets James Wheeler
They’re emphasizing & distorting negatives. Using op ed language n ‘news’ articles. Stoking any fear, esp n the West
fatoohpdx
Great to see life is coming back to our beloved place….Agreed to moving it away from the shores of downtown…
Total Plans To Resume Output At 41,000 B/D Libya Field-Executive | Fox Business
www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/09/21/... via @foxbusiness
Surface to air missiles looted in Libya: what risk they may represent? www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/...
haynesdeborah Deborah Haynes
Britain to withdraw 4 Typhoon jets and 3 Apache helicopters from #Libya. Announcement from Liam Fox imminent. Marks beginning of the end…
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
If anyone knows a family or person who intends to return to #Libya to live from the #UK , please let @dhdfisher know.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #Gaddafi forces still putting up reistance in #Sirte … Not clear when anti #Gaddafi forces will make push into city
#Libya, families tell us they have no food, medical supplies, fuel and electricity and couldn’t use main roads to flee, #Sirte, #Gaddafi
#Libya, Families continue to leave #Sirte from the western entrance but many are originally from #Misrata, #Gaddafi
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters positioned some 7 Km from #Sirte city center but can’t advance cos of snipers & the presence of civilians
Alwafi Embaya sentenced to 10 yrs 4 opposing #Gaddafi but executed after 6 yrs in BuSleem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf0xOLxYBs&feature=player_embedded# #BaniWalid Justice more 2come
Tweeting Tripoli
Misrata FF in Tripoli. The writing on the back of the truck says: “Misrata Burned Him (Gaddafi)”.
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Danya
JUST in FYI for everyone on twitter about #LIBYA and UAE…the ex Ambassador to the UAE is back in the UAE, and a couple of weeks ago he tried to go back to the consulate to try and get his job back…thankfully he didn’t but our ambassador was no where to be found as he is working fe his second position Chief of Operations for the Stabilization team in Tripoli (which is werid because he hasnt really lived in Tripoli and is not from Tripoli) …to make matters worse..our Ex ambassador had a couple of people arrested and even tried to have a women (a friend of mine arrested ) ..events are taking place and no one from the Libyan community is being involved or told, only a ‘’select few’’ ..when people came and tried contacting the consulate to help and be involved they were ignored …. and just so everyone does not get confused our ambassador is Aref El Nayed, not Rafiq Al Nayed – who is head of Libyan Advisement authority.
www.nasdaq.com/aspx/company-news-story....=201109091640dowjonesdjonline00 0540
( Name: Ex amb: Omar al Ghanni)
Tweeting Tripoli
My nephew just came to say goodbye, he’s going to the frontlines with his friends. He’s a Computer sciences student at Tripoli University.
Blood & Oil is out! bit.ly/BloodAndOil ▸Top Stories
bencnn benwedeman
#Sabha fairly quiet today. Few clashes, more people on the street than yesterday. #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
People are cleaning the streets and burnt out vehicles from the battle of Tripoli are still being cleared out #libya #feb17
Rayan
Dear @Skype and @BlackBerry Change the Libyan Flag please !!
Nasr
So, a new proposal surfaced: why not have Mr Mustafa abdel- #Jaleel be PM & #Jibril be the FM, except that will b a demotion 4 JIBRIL #NTC
Armchair Arab
I hope grass roots libyan organisations will start to become emboldened and take a greater role in the political formation of the country.
Atlantic Wire
Libya’s Latest Tourist Attraction: Qaddafi’s Old Homes
As a degree of normalcy returns to Libya, with airports reopening, oil production resuming, and ports springing back to life, Libya’s new leaders are hoping to give the tourism industry a jolt by highlighting the country’s Roman ruins and stretches of undeveloped beaches. Lonely Planet’s Libya guide still warns against traveling to the country, but one tourist attraction is already becoming popular, at least for Libyans: Qaddafi’s homes. In a fascinating New York Times Magazine piece today on Libya after Qaddafi’s fall, Robert F. Worth recalls that when he first arrived at Qaddafi’s ransacked Bab al Aziziya compound in Tripoli, Libyan families were “strolling through and gazing wonderingly at the ruins.”
Read more here:
www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/09/...
RAF MOD UK
RAF destroys command and control facilities in Libya…
RAF Tornados yesterday destroyed command and control facilities of pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya before launching successful strikes on armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery.
The attacks, on Tuesday 20 September 2011, were carried out at three different locations across western and central Libya by a Royal Air Force armed reconnaissance patrol as part of NATO’s efforts to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
During the afternoon, another formation of RAF Tornados was tasked by NATO to mount a precision strike on a military vehicle depot which had been identified near Hun. This proved another successful mission; their Paveways destroying the installation with a number of direct hits.
Full art. and pics here:
www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/raf-destroy...
Video: Heavy Street fighting in Sirte
Extremely fierce street fighting in Sirte brought to you by Misrata Freedom Channel (Misrate Media Group)
feb17.info/media/video-heavy-street-fig...
Sky News
Libya to announce new government-NI-GEN-Libya
Libyan NTC fighters say they’ve overrun one of Muammar Gaddafi’s last strongholds, after their interim rulers unveiled a timeline for a new government.
With the new Libyan flag flying at the United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, Libya’s number two official said the new government would be named within 10 days.
Meanwhile, interim government leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil thanked all countries who had helped the ‘success of the Libyan revolution,’ which he said cost at least 25,000 lives.
More here:
www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.a...
EURONEWS
Fresh flag marks a fresh start for Libya at UN HQ
Libya’s new flag has been warmly applauded at a high-level summit at UN headquarters in New York.
The rapturous reception was another sign that the country’s post-Gaddafi rulers have been fully embraced by the international community.
Libya’s interim government leader has pledged a spirit of tolerance and reconciliation.
Mustafa Mohammed Abdul Jalil told a UN summit in support of Libya that it would be a
“vital state, a vibrant state that upholds the principles of peace and security in the region; a state that respects human rights and establishes a nation in which Libyans can govern themselves and seek official positions through elections”.
Due to be named in the next ten days, Libya’s new government will be represented by the tri-colour flag used from 1951 until Colonel Gaddafi introduced a green one, 26 years later.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Building that caught my eye where a friend’s FF group is based in #Misrata. These guys r organized. Sep 8. #libya twitpic.com/6ocmsf
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
There was a short battle near Bab Al Aziziya last night. FF raided a pro-Gaddafi building apparently and it caught fire
BBC News – #Libya uprising: #Gaddafi ‘losing control of #Sabha’ bbc.in/nrlh5D #Sabha #Sirte #BaniWalid #Jufra
hardingbbc just left libya, minus my appendix. will blog about it shortly but it’s been an interesting few days .
HSBC To Resume #Libya Operations Shortly – via @FoxBusiness foxbusiness.com/industries/201…
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
VOFL RADIO: Last telephone conversation of #Gaddafi was monitored by a comms centre less than 25km from #BaniWalid.
justinmarozzi
Reprisals and kidnap in the #Libya desert, #BBC From Our Own Correspondent text bbc.in/nvYHn8
My Sunday Times article about being kidnapped by the #Touareg in #Libya bit.ly/oNNfNI
#Touareg #kidnap crisis in southern #Libya worsens. Taher, still kidnapped, says 2 more kidnapped yesterday, 3 today.
Very bad news that #Touareg are still kidnapping in #Ghadames #Libya, destabilising the south and damaging their own interests
Just spoken to brother of Taher – still hostage in the desert – who hasn’t had news now in several days. Very worrying indeed
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Unanimous response – #BaniWalid is the place most tweeps think will be last to fall in #Libya.
UPI
WFP getting more food distributed in Libya
The U.N. World Food Program said it was getting more food aid to displaced Libyans as fighting subsides in the North African country.
The WFP said it was able to get more food aid into southern Libya to help those displaced by conflict. The WFP said it was able to get 30 tons of food supplies into Shoarif in southern Libya for the first time since the international conflict began in March.
Read more:
www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resour...
CBS
Turkish Airlines to resume Tripoli flights
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish Airlines says it has decided to restart flights to the Libyan capital that were suspended during the country’s civil war.
The airline says a flight was scheduled for Tripoli Wednesday but no clearance was given by NATO, forcing the company to cancel that flight. The next flight is scheduled for Saturday.
Source:
moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/news/...
New Europe
Van Rompuy in UN: ‘We were, we are and we will be with Libya’
President Herman Van Rompuy described 20 September, the date of the UN High Level Meeting on Libya in New York, as the “day of joy” as he also welcomed Libyan President Mustafa Abdul-Jalil.
In his speech, Van Rompuy named three areas that he believed would contribute to Libya’s future and “overcoming the past”.
He firstly emphasised that democracy needed to be established and, to achieve this, reconciliation was key: “The state will carry authority as long as it will be the result of an inclusive process, where men and women of all walks, and from the different parts of the country will feel freely reunited. It is time for justice, rule of law and human rights and for reconciliation,” he said, adding that civil society and free media should be allowed to play their full part.
President Van Rompuy also declared that, as security needs to be stabilised, military operations should be carried on for as long as is necessary, then Libya should have a new police. Reflecting on the country’s economy, he said that young Libyans should be given the opportunity to find good, honest jobs. “Investors need to be reassured; oil and gas production should be resumed,” he added.
Zimbanwean
Zim to recognise Libyan NTC?
The African Union has now recognized the National Transitional Council as the de facto government of Libya, much to the embarrassment of the Zimbabwean government, which made a diplomatic gaffe by rushing to expel Libyan diplomats who had transferred their allegiance from deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi to the new regime.
The AU recognised the NTC yesterday after receiving guarantees, among them assurances on the safety of black migrant
workers as well as a pledge to “give priority to national unity and to bring together all Libyan stakeholders, without any exception,” to rebuild the country.
Some of the most powerful nations in Africa, including Nigeria and South Africa, have already recognised the NTC. Zimbabwe is expected to come into line soon, but relations with Libya are likely to remain frosty following Harare’s outrageous behaviour towards the diplomats at a time when it was quite clear that Gaddafi had been ousted.
At the time, President Robert Mugabe dismissed the Libyan uprising as a “false revolution engineered Western powers keen to control the country’s oil”.
All africa.com
Zambia/Libya: Nchanga Stadium Game for Libya
WITH two weeks before Zambia’s crucial qualifier for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tie against Libya on October 8, Chingola’s Nchanga Stadium, the venue for the encounter, has been declared ready to host this Group C final match.
And Chipolopolo first choice goalkeeper, Kennedy Mweene has said Zambia is focused on winning Group C and avenge the 0-1 loss suffered to Libya in the first leg played in Tripoli last year.
More here:
allafrica.com/stories/201109210768.html
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Bldg on west side of #Misrata #Libya, Sep 7. An injured friend said last nite he stayed here protecting the city. twitpic.com/6octvj
Sep 8. Injured Misrata FFs urged me for months to see their city. Now I feel their pain even more t.co/IzqVTcOD
kareemJerusalem Kareem Khadder
Libyan opposition fighter placing opposition flag over #sabha univeristy t.co/Nfb0fBeS
Libyan Opposition fighters ripping a #ghaddafi poster in #Sabha #Libya t.co/MFYvogcC
Libyan opposition fighters ripping a #ghaddafi poster in #sabha #Libya t.co/JiI7rLMX
4Adam:
Lawlessness in Tripoli. Armed groups wreak havoc in the city youtube.com/watch?v=AeJB-i… #Libya #Tripoli #NTC
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJB-ikWYng
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
@
@4Adam No. It’s not lawlessnes and it’s not armed gangs. Please stop with the FUD. They raided a pro-Gaddafi building yesterday night.
AliveIn Alive.In
#Libya Cleaning Up After The Revolution l.alive.in/up (Sep 21) #feb17
Boston.com
Libyan royal offers to help homeland
ROME—The great-nephew of the Libyan king ousted by Moammar Gadhafi said Wednesday his countrymen should be allowed to decide if they want the return of the monarchy, offering his family as a “servant of the Libyan people.”
Leaders of the rebels who ended Gadhafi’s 42-year-long dictatorship have said they don’t envision an institutional role for Prince Mohammed el Hasan el Rida el Senussi or his family, but that isn’t discouraging the prince.
Full art.:
www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articl...
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
video from four days covering sirte globalpost.com/video/5675830/…
or:
www.globalpost.com/video/5675830/locati...
bencnn benwedeman
Real fireworks over #Sabha this evening…but drowned out by orgy of celebratory gunfire. #Libya
Just took a stroll through Qadhafi’s palace in #Sabha. Big pool, jacuzzi in the massive bathroom of the master bedroom. #Libya
Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I still haven’t heard any celebratory gunfire and I hope there isn’t any… people are warning against it here. Posters everywhere #libya
The best painting I’ve seen since I got here is a HUGE Libyan flag with Omar Al Mokhtar instead of the crescent. In benashour area #Libya
For those asking: Food, water, petrol.. everything is available here. Petrol queue was 2 mins long in Benashur. #libya #feb17
There are plenty of burnt out buildings especially in the vicinity of Bab Al Aziziya. Some belong to Gaddafi, others to his soldiers #libya
There was a short battle near Bab Al Aziziya last night. FF raided a pro-Gaddafi building apparently and it caught fire. #libya #feb17
it was the house of a pro-g officer that killed many ff during the revolution
The attack on the Al-Alem building was to catch a prominent Gaddafi supporter that killed many FF in the early days of #feb17 #libya
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
US ambassador returns to #Libya
apne.ws/oyCoA3
Tarek
I think as soon as #Gaddafi is caught #NATO operations in #Libya will stop
haythamabubaker Haytham Abubaker
In Benghazi, the area is called Al-Layti. Best Cappuccino I’ve ever had.
been here two weeks and find myself in the same cafe every night.
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Reports of fighting too outside Sirte – contacts 10 km South and also much further at a big military compound 120 km South. #Libya
Revolutionaries on the road to #Sirte. pic.twitter.com/g2A2FJQZ
These fighters on the junction at the entrance to #Sirte. #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/9oHBky53
Fissa
If we have the desire for equality and fairness in Libya, the assurance of justice will always be a prerequisite for a good Libyan society
Sudan: Army Report Fresh Clashes With Darfur Rebels Near Libyan Border
Khartoum — Sudanese army clashed today with the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in the remote area of North Darfur near the triangle border with Chad and Libya.
Sudanese army deployed troops along the border with Libya while the Sudan’s supported fighters of the opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) took the control of the country and Gaddafi supporters fled to neighbouring countries.
Full story:
allafrica.com/stories/201109210737.html
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
observed 5-6 NATO bombs on #sirte this afternoon, heavier stream of civilians leaving
misrata commanders admit, once enough civilians leave, whenever that is, will go back hard into #sirte
_DavidThomson David Thomson
130 mm “to Gaddafi” #Libya twitpic.com/6odvlv
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya’s loss is Europe’s gain amid #Oil scarcity – Financial Times goo.gl/fb/3MOXQ
libyanfsl
Today my mother starts journey to Libya after 29 years in exile, a steadfast Libyan exemplifying everything #Feb17 stands for! My hero!
Free Libya
My family in Hadba, Tripoli would still be under siege and terrorised if it was not for Misrata, Zawiya, Zintan FFs who gave up their lives
OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
Dear #Aqsa #Quds #Palestine, You are the light of our eyes, the blood in our veins. We will never forget or forsake you. Yours, #Libya
Free Libya
I remember when cousins in BenAshur liberated their area, they were very happy but were very anxious for the FFs from outside to arrive.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: #Misrata street scene. Most injured FFs in Tunisia are from Misrata. This is what they’ll come home to. twitpic.com/6oe4xb
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Internet is free, phone calls are free, everything works here… I love #Tripoli and #FreeLibya lol. Tomorrow: I get to man a checkpoint
NATO Video
NATO extends Libya mission
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen makes a statement to Reuters Television regarding the extension of NATO’s Libya mission, Operation Unified Protector.
www.natochannel.tv/?uri=channels/454282/1490582
LibyaFromFrance
#AJA : Les révolutionnaires libéré la ville de #Jufra et ont coupé la route Sabha-Sirte. #Libye
Free Libya
It’s true that Tripoli was liberated from the inside but if it was not for FFs from outside they would have not held on to it for 1 day.
7our Baki 7our
Armed group (with anti-aircraft) destroyed by Tunisian army. Probably coming from Libya & heading to Algeria. Islamists or Pro-Gaddafis?
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I know some people love to complain but I haven’t seen a single smashed or looted shop since I got here & city seems very safe #Tripoli
my family in benashur told me: if Zawiya FF took 3 hours longer to arrive we would have been dead
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Just arrived home in time to watch AJA Bila Huduud (without borders), Ahmad Mansour (Mb) interviewing Abd alKareem Belhaj….
Belhaj mentions the positive role of Abd alJalil and Dogheili. Furtheron alQaradawi (Mb) and some other sheikhs (whom I don’t know)..
Belhaj says that he wants a Civil State, and not a Islamic State or Emirate
Belhaj: We are not sure if Saif al Islam is in Bani Walid or in another place now.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Rare must watch video from the initial uprising in Tripoli (Feb 20) – youtube.com/watch?v=v5LnE6… – #Libya #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5LnE6aMd6Q&fea...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC lays out timeline to form new government shabablibya.org/news/ntc-lays-… #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
FACTBOX-Latest developments in the Libyan conflict shabablibya.org/?p=http://shab… #Libya
Guardian
Libya university asks LSE to return Gaddafi cash
Tripoli University is to ask the London School of Economics to return the £1.5m pledged by the deposed dictator’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who obtained his PhD there.
University officials have told the Guardian that the money was stolen from the Libyan people and should be either reimbursed or used to fund scholarships for Libyans studying in the UK.
Read full story:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/21/li...
LibyaUprisingAr LibyaUprisingArchive
Friend:Talked to my cousin in #Libya- she said G 5th Column in #Tripoli are spreading rumors about the division btwn FF.
It is not as big as been reported. Asked her about the #Misrata FF not letting some ppl back in. #libya #Tripoli
(About #Misrata) She said those were the ppl that supported GF and let them use their homes to fight from. #Libya #feb17
hey are afraid if they let them back into #Misrata some revenge or sleeper cells might be created. (end)
Semie
Quite a few tweeps who now have names identify themselves as members of Shabab Libya. Men and women.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC Forces seize Gaddafi stronghold of Sabha is.gd/Y6oRVH #Libya
flyingbirdies أكرم
phone calls arent’ free on mobile phones. you mean landlines right?
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
yes and I found like 60 dinar free credit on my libyana so that’s good too
#Bani #Walid A man Shot his Own Head Off and Killed Another Fighter while handling a rocketpropelled grenade in full view of #Reuters #Libya
LibyaFromFrance
Q : Vous parlez comme un politicien, envisagez vous d’entrer sur la scéne politique ? Belhaj: ... Parlera de ce sujet le moment venu.
LibyaSupreme
tomorrow marx 5 month anniv in #Libya for 1st time in my life. been doing anything & everything 2 help my country. thank u Allah 4 #feb17
Michael
FF claim #Sabha. Know frnt past Univ. x-rd & drive most othr. Don’t know how much of area xplrd N or S bunkers. twitpic.com/6oed68
#FLASH #Sirte this Wednesday Afternoon #NATO STRUCK 10 Times within 5 to 10 min of eachother Hitting Close 2 Downtown Area #Libya
NTC forces have now full control of Al-Jufra. AJA #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Exclusive Interview with Libyan Judge Muhammad Bashir -Asharq Awsat bit.ly/qx4BHE #libya
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
News that one very trusted #Gaddafi female guards named Mabrookah Asshareef was captured by FF, many heavy weapons found in her house #libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya revolution filters slowly to desert towns (AP) yhoo.it/nJzyt9 (slowly but surely is all I can think of)
Hannah
may allah help our heroes in Sirt and Bin Walid and Sabha. please everyone pray 4 them they really need our prayers.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya Doctor Volunteer Project A #BLOG 2 help and inform people about a volunteer project in Libya esp. #Tripoli via @LibyaVisitDoc
it might be a good idea to put an English translation of your posts on your blog as well
At the off chance u didnt hear it yet :) The #NTC announced that the whole of #Jufra ( south Libya) area has been liberated #Libya
#FIGHT near #Algeria border between #Tunisia army helicopters & Unidentified convoy of armed SUV, 7 cars destroyed #Libya via @razibus62
AJA:
Al-Manshiya Dist in Sabha and Al-Fatih Dist are still under GF
No FF’s but typical G tactics:
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
4 armed men arriving in car painted “Zintan Thuwar” looted my house yesterday. #Tripoli
TripolI military council was informed 2day-VERY helpful, will send protection 4 future. Said it’s gangs pretending being FF
First flight Istanbul-#Tripoli-Istanbul, scheduled for today, di not take place. bukhra inshallah
After waiting for four hours at #Tripoli int´l airport, passengers (&journalists)outbound for Istanbul were told plane would not come.
#UAE donates police cars to help the return of “law & order” in #Libya pic.twitter.com/FaO2lkMi
More G lies:
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters:
Arrai TV says NATO warships and planes have struck a hospital in Sirte injuring a doctor & patients
septimius_sever septimius severus
More abandoned weapons in #Sirt..I can only think about one thing though! THE post-conflict disarmament
pic.twitter.com/wOG0FrWs
LIBTRIP
#Tripoli International Airport will NOT fully operate until security is put in place. All major int’l airlines wouldn’t take a risk. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#OPEC Says Producers Will Cut Back Once #Libya Output Recovers
nyti.ms/qU4Bzi
MiddleEast
Robert F. Worth’s @NYTmag report from post #Gaddafi #Libya :
nyti.ms/nVoRJv
#NTC lays out timeline to form new government Despite not yet having complete control over the entire country
bit.ly/riZL7s #libya
U.S. Ambassador Jene #Cretz Returns to #Libya
Gaddafis nurse is a “voluptuous blonde.” was a #JenCretz #quote
q.gs/Pe38
In #New #York, #NTC’s prime minister Mahmoud #Jibril said he expected new government 2b formed "within a week 10 days maximum #Libya
AbdelSalamSikayer spokesman 4 a local council #Sabha; NTC Fighters control 2neighborhoods & r fighting 2rtake pockets resistance #Libya
#FLASH #NTC forces have FULL control of #Houn aGaddafi Military Command post in N desert that commands the supply route to #Sirte #Libya
What Role Will Islamists Play In #Libya? –
NPR
goo.gl/fb/QtlXN
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: A man takes a photograph of the Departures board in #Tripoli Airport. Shame #Turkishairlines cancelled it :(
pic.twitter.com/fY8ku3Ga
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya New Leaders Face Opposition
goo.gl/Twz5j
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I’m going to post a few pictures from Tripoli if my connection allows me to :) #libya #feb17
Ok, I’ve got some pictures for you! The quality isn’t great but I don’t want to spend 14 years uploading on this ADSL :) #libya #tripoli
I posted 18 photos on Facebook in the album “A taste of free Tripoli… 21st September 2011” fb.me/153ro0WHs
Ok, enjoy the pictures everyone.. I’m going to go and fix the stupid satellite receiver.. it hates Libya alahrar/Aljazeera for some reason
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 22nd 2011
9/22/11
9.22.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/a18pw
NATO said on Thursday it was confident it could conclude its mission in Libya well within a new 90-day operations period agreed this week.
“I am highly confident that we can complete this mission well within the limits as provided by NATO,” Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, the commander of NATO’s Libya operation, told a media briefing.
Bouchard said NATO’s mission would continue as long as a threat remained to civilians in the country. NATO states agreed on Wednesday to extend the alliance’s current mandate, which was due to expire on Sept. 27, by another 90 days. It was the second extension of the Libya mission, which NATO took full command of on March 31.
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Wed am: NATO-tasked RAF aircraft struck 2 command & control facilities in Sirte using 1000lb and 500lb laser and GPS guided Paveway bombs.
Royal Navy vessels, inc. HMS Liverpool, remain on patrol off #Libya, ensuring safety of shipping & providing surveillance capability.
Ben_Mussa Ben-Mussa
Arranging for food, water, tents, medicines convoy for #BenWalid, should be on the road tomorrow, #Libya #Feb17 #humanity #WFP #UN
MatogSaleh
Electricity and Cellular network will be returned to Sabha in #Libya withing 2days.
Zlitniya Zlitniya
Ahmed Bani met w Col Abdul Ghani Bin Zahiya (leader of #Zliten military council),&both had meeting w Zliten local council #Libya
Ahmed Bani visited family of Tariq Hamadi (1st #Zliten martyr to die on Zliten soil) to pay his condolences #Libya
Part of women’s demo in #Zliten in support of #NTC #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
We will never forget our martyrs. Lets ensure their blood was not shed in vain… #Libya www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14705519
Photo album of #Feb17 #Zliten martyrs #libya https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.197755720295333.48616.148739678530271&
Nice:Tripoli Uni School of engineering.students clean buildng.Found secret office 4Khaled Khweldi (Khweldi Hmedi’s son)
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
feb17libya Feb17Libya
New leader says Libya will be peaceful bit.ly/pUTuon #libya
Zlitniya Zlitniya
United Libya: #Zliten sends 5 lorries of aid to #Sabha .Contain food,water,baby milk and nappies. #Libya #unity youtube.com/watch?v=XhHvtD…
Love manifests itself:when t ppl love their country they work for its benefit.Youth of #Zliten paint th bridge:) #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLU_w0SJOng&fea...
frankentele Sean Carberry
In Misrata for the first time. This city took an absolute beating. Yet, seems every shop that wasn’t shelled or shot is open. #Libya
Libya’s Post-Qaddafi Party. Elections are coming up fast. Will #Libya fragment, or pull together? www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/...
septimius_sever septimius severus
Tripoli: where the celebration was tinctured with deep unease! nyti.ms/oZSY9u .. #Libya
Please read:
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
Name: Ali Haduth Al-Obeidi. Phenomenal, heart wrenching, heroic story of one of Libya’s greatest heroes. MUST READ feb17martyrs.com/ali-atiyah-had…
Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli, SougGuma, volunteers clean streets, today.
yfrog.com/kgzu0skj
yfrog.com/hs6jsiuj
yfrog.com/gz3xziaj
yfrog.com/khp0nbjj
MUST READ:
AOL Defense
French Pilots Over Libya Decline US Intel; Clearance Just Too Slow
London: French air forces flying strike missions in Libya against Gaddafi’s loyalists are not using detailed imagery and intelligence provided by US airborne surveillance aircraft, according to statements made today by French pilots involved in those sorties.
Since the first day of NATO air strikes in Libya, French combat air crews have been struggling to positively identify ‘what or whom’ they were targeting, a serving French pilot told an audience of defense industry and military aviators attending a London conference. ‘The pilot in the kill box was entirely on his own’.
When asked why French air forces were not taking advantage of advanced manned and unmanned targeting imagery, pilots responded that it took too much time to coordinate with NATO commanders at the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) in northern Italy. Instead, pilots deferred to using their own reconnaissance pods. Pilots reported rejecting Predator drone images for targeting purposes, saying its imagery took too long to get cleared through the CAOC.
Full art.:
defense.aol.com/2011/09/21/french-pilot...
Zlitniya Zlitniya
#Libya gas crisis:Just another example of #Gaddaficrimes .Gas pipes r a basic right.Especially in a country as (oil&gas) rich as Libya.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Mass protest in #Benghazi calling for aid to injured FFs. Event page, arabic: goo.gl/ArVCA #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes RT
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
At Bani Walid front line today I learned:1 revolutionary died, 5 injured. 2 from mishandling their own weaponry. They still surround town.
Last night revolutionaries from Benighazi entered Bani Walid, destroyed 3 Gadafi loyalists vehicles and retreated back. #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC forces have now full control of Al-Jufra. AJA #Libya
IamLibya
Video my cousin recorded where they discovered a storage room filled with ammo in #Tripoli bit.ly/qmrQ9M Thuwar will hand it to LC
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHQOWqTm7jY&fea...!
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Zuma is implying Libya was not a democracy under Gaddafi, when he said “his country would support the Libyan people in reaching democracy”
yfrog.com/h8h79fcj #Gaddafi had all these guns and nobody to fight for him. #Libya
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
My cousin (right) with his friend Mohamed Al-Khfaifi (left) who was martyred in Brega on April 16
pic.twitter.com/QIKudJhk
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: I’m posting some of my #Misrata pics bcuz my Misrata friends want ppl to c what #Gaddafi did to their city twitpic.com/6of440
#Libya: #Misrata after the siege. No, it isn’t as bad as you’ve heard. It’s worse. twitpic.com/6ofm23
WMCLibya WMCLibya
@WMCLibya organisin gathering 2 raise awareness 2 medical needs of freedom fighters @ 6pm Libyan Embassy #London is.gd/7MvIyz #Libya
ProudLibyan
While some criticize and take cheap shots, some are fighting for us and some are working hard to set foundations for a good country. #Libya
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Libya’s main university prepares new term for a new dawn استخدمت جامعة طرابلس لتعزيز نظام القذافي ولكن الآن… fb.me/11cU5vhCU
Anaya
A great moment for the defense and construction of free #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=HR1uvC… via @OnlyOneLibya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR1uvCELqoc
AdiKhair Adi G. Khair
Positive change can not be institutionalised by the same institutions that once tried to supress it #ReformJO #ArabSpring
News of #Qatar providing #Belhaj with a 100 ton shipment of weapons, vehicles & telecom equipment INDEPENDENT of NTC executive office #Libya
Yefrenia
they always said Yefren had style…starting to believe in it…not the most original but I’m so proud “Yefren Times” facebook.com/media/set/?set…
FromJoanne Joanne
A guide to #Gaddafi Regime Massive Surveillance Network with help of #French firm #Amesys goo.gl/fD203 #Libya
#Royal #Jordanian will restart service to Benghazi onThursday #Libya Contact libya@ablaviation.com in #Tripoli
feb17libya Feb17Libya
New leader says Libya will be peaceful
bit.ly/pUTuon #libya
DA claims proof SA sold rifles to Gaddafi
bit.ly/mRWhZT #libya
International Leaders Pledge to Back New Libya
bit.ly/rbPZbN #libya
bencnn benwedeman
Food for thought: Many people in Sabha think Qadhafi is in Bani Walid given the level of resistance there. #Libya
NTC field commander Al-Amin Shtawi tells CNN revolutionaries have taken Sahara town of Ubari, 200 km west of #Sabha
Photo: #Sabha’s Ottoman-era citadel.
Sorry here is photo #Sabha’s Ottoman-era citadel. #Libya yfrog.com/h823hnpj
NTC commanders say many loyalists fleeing to #Algeria from south #Libya. Say Algerian authorities turning a blind eye while counting cash.
Just to clarify #Sabha fell to the NTC 2 days ago. #CNN only media here. Don’t ask me why. Ghat still under Qadhafi control.
Today Qadhafi’s Qadadfa tribe in #Sabha supposed to surrender weaponry and wanted people to NTC per a negotiated agreement. #Libya
Shops opening up again in #Sabha. Fruit, meat, etc, More people in the street. Garbage being collected
Photo taken moments ago 4 all the doubters out there. Al-‘Atiq mosque, Sabha’s Manshiya district this morning. #Libya yfrog.com/gzvj7ykj
Still some scattered clashes in #Sabha today. Just heard big gunbattle behind main administration building of Sabha University. #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Today #us embassy officially opens in #tripoli #libya. #NATO confident its mission ends in 3 months. #libyan(s) sing: Ma3leshi shafshoufa!
2day flag will raise over #us embassy in #tripoli. Amb is here. #NATO says mission done in 3 months. #libya(ns) sing: ma3leshi shafshoufa!
Lots of #libya(ns) disappointed about political debate in country. “Let’s liberate land then argue over politics,” many tell me. #tripoli
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NATO says hit 2 command and control centres in Sirte on Wednesday
#Libya: Sabha may have fallen but Sirte and Bani Walid still resisting
#Libya: if Sabha has fallen; surely that cuts off pro-Gaddafi supply route from South to Bani Walid and Sirte
#Libya: NTC also says it has control over most of Jufra
#Libya: Relief amongst NTC fighters as they hear NATO has extended military mission in Libya by another 90 days
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. On my way home today. #Gaddafi still on the run. Story far from over.
itv_news ITV News
NATO “confident” it could conclude its mission in Libya well within a new 90-day operations period agreed this week.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Documentary proof of sniper rifle exports to Libya
bit.ly/pCTzjx #libya
$23bn windfall for new Libya
bit.ly/qUb8tP #libya
Harper pledges support for Libya
bit.ly/pv7QqM #libya
TIMELINE-Libya’s civil war nears end
bit.ly/oSyKuf #libya
LIVE Libyan Unrest: September 22, 2011
bit.ly/qw3Axd #libya
Austrian energy group OMV said its main production assets in southwest #Libya appear to be relatively undamaged
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept...
OMV also said it expects to see Libyan output at about 50 percent in the course of 2012
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya #Feb17
NTC still faces strong military resistance despite int’l recognition
bit.ly/pkcOel #libya
Libyan forces advancing on #Sirte from the east have put off any offensive for a week due to lack of ammunition
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
Gen. Charles Bouchard, General commanding NATO’s mission in #Libya said #Gaddafi and his forces continue to be a threat
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept...
Libya university asks LSE to return Gaddafi cash
bit.ly/pFoZYk #libya
#NATO said on Thursday it was confident it could conclude its mission in #Libya well within 90-days
feb17.info/news/live-liby… #Feb17
U.S. Ambassador Gene Cretz has returned to #Tripoli where the U.S. plans to raise its flag over its mission on Thursday
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept...
Gadhafi Must Still Be Captured
bit.ly/o2bJHq #libya
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Italy cameraman (AFP) Andrea Bernardi receiving treatment in #Malta after being injured in #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
“In Tripoli every official is afraid to sign anything for fear of being accused of abusing his interim power” goo.gl/fb/9svhH #Libya
Literature After the Revolt: Arab Writers ‘Should Not Be Invisible Anymore’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE –
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septimius_sever septimius severus
$23bn windfall for new #Libya ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8… “the cash was money that had been budgeted for by the Gaddafi regime but never spent”
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NYT: OPEC Says Producers Will Cut Back Once #Libya Output Recovers goo.gl/qo8Zy #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
VOA: NATO Extends #Libya Mission; US Prepares to Reopen Embassy goo.gl/yacHK #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
VIDEO: @LibyaSupreme ‘Salute #Libya’ goo.gl/lqBCG support #Libyan artists and join the fan page for updates!
goo.gl/4qBT4
US State Dept: #Libya: #Obama – #Libya Shows What World Can Do “When We Stand Together”
goo.gl/oj6S7 #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
The #Libyan people will decide who will rule them.
goo.gl/a5KP8 #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Libya
#NTC declares victory in #Sabha-#Libya’s largest desert city.
goo.gl/TdxwK #gaddaficrimes #feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
Finally the two big ugly green flags in front of Gov state-TV are now gone forever… yfrog.com/mf382fj
yfrog.com/hsjp1ruj
Matiga airport, yesterday; tiny “Libyan Unity” ambassadors from Benghazi arrived to Tripoli :)
yfrog.com/mnw8uej
yfrog.com/g0vb2zj
LOL… The General Telecommunication Authority (WWW.GTA.LY) Arabic page has no idea what’s going on in Libya :)
yfrog.com/kfcqisdj
the English page had been altered, but not the Arabic one… Just being lazy I guess!
HAHAHA that was a quick response? GO FEB17 REV GO ;) yfrog.com/h8tvswarj
lol they changed it. Word on the Internet travels in lightning fast speed, that’s 4 sure. yfrog.com/g02xmcij
ProudLibyan
I will rule u or I will kill u, the constitution of the Arab world leaders! #Libya #Egypt #Syria #Tunisia #Yemen #Algeria
Sirtawi
Aid convoy in coordination with #Sirte local council left Tripoli an hour ago towards W front line. #SirteCrisis #FreeSirte #Libya
Zlitniya
An unlikely refuge for Muammar Qaddafi: Come and be an Israeli! | The Economist economist.com/node/21528675 via @theeconomist
Hamza
Head of the NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil juggles a football :) #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/2Z2hPplq
Nusaybah
#NTC spokesman in #Misrata: Around 50 Revolutionaries have died so far in #Sirte during clashes with #Gadafi loyalists. #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
More abandoned weapons in #Sirt..I can only think about one thing though! THE post-conflict disarmament
pic.twitter.com/wOG0FrWs
OppContact: Sabha, Jufra are “almost completely” in control of TNC forces. Efforts underway to locate remaining #Gaddafi loyalists #Libya
OppContact: unknown number #Gaddafi loyalists at large. Some suspected to be in limited number of locations in vicinity of #Sabha #Libya
OppContact: Journalists continued to arrive at #Sabha Wednesday night #Libya
Moez
Many martyrs from soog eljumaa, #tripoli neighbourhood in #BaniWalid yesterday which is why takbeer more prominent today #Libya #feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya rulers say they seize Gaddafi desert outposts is.gd/2ZhMQt #Libya
MSNBC
Libyan-American recalls horror of ‘grave cell’ inside Gadhafi prison
After blindfolding Abdulmoneim Tabuni, a prison guard put a gun to his head and told him to “say a prayer.”
It was the most harrowing moment of the Libyan-American research scientist’s six-month imprisonment in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, as fighting raged across the North African country to oust embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Tabuni, a 55-year-old father of five, suffered other horrors at the hands of Gadhafi’s henchmen: He was beaten twice, forced to share a cramped cell with others who took out their anger on him and had to endure the almost daily crackle of gunfire filtering in from outside — all while being held a short distance from his home.
Full art.:
today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44595857/ns/toda...
Guardian
Libyan rebels discover Gaddafi’s chemical weapons
Libyan rebel forces claim to have discovered banned chemical weapons stockpiles in southern desert areas captured from Gaddafi loyalists in the last few days.
Libya was supposed to have destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical weapons in early 2004 as part of a British-engineered rapprochement with the west. It also abandoned a rudimentary nuclear programme.
But the international watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, had stated it believed that Libya had kept 9.5 tonnes of mustard gas at a secret location: it is that which appears to have now been captured and secured.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/22/li...
Armchair Arab
If you hear ANY allegations made against any individual/group/city in Libya ALWAYS ASK FOR EVIDENCE.
Sarah
My uncle from a Benghazi Katiba is in Sirte since ~ a week.
Haven’t been able to get in touch with him so far..
France 24
Libye: pause dans les combats sur le front est de Syrte faute de munitions
Les forces du nouveau régime en Libye ont cessé de combattre les hommes restés fidèles à l’ex-leader Mouammar Kadhafi sur le front est de la ville de Syrte, en raison du manque de munitions, a indiqué un commandant sur le terrain jeudi à l’AFP.
Le commandant Moustafa ben Dardef de la brigade qui a avancé de cinq km au-delà de la localité conquise de Soultana, à l’est du bastion de Syrte (370 km à l’est de Tripoli) a affirmé que ses hommes arrêtaient le combat pendant une semaine.
Read more:
www.france24.com/fr/20110922-libye-paus...
Ahram.org
Advance on Gaddafi hometown delayed for want of ammunition
The advance on Sirte has been put off for a week as a shortage of ammunition is being faced, and new supplies are to be collected from Benghazi.
“Fighting has been stopped for a week. We are facing a shortage of ammunition," said Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan Brigade, whose troops are deployed on the front line 25 kilometres (15 miles) east of Sirte.
Read more:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/22...
AJC
NATO says Gadhafi fighters continue to be threat
The general commanding NATO’s mission in Libya said Thursday that isolated groups of forces loyal to ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi continue to be a threat to local people but are unable to coordinate their actions.
Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard said in a conference call with reporters that many Gadhafi forces are surrounded with no way out. On Wednesday, NATO’s
decision-making body, the North Atlantic Council, granted approval to extend the mission for another 90 days. Without an extension, permission for the operation would have expired Sept. 27.
“We are now at a point where I can only urge regime forces to surrender, to bring an end to these activities,” Bouchard said.
Full story:
www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/nato-says...
FreedomGroup, News in English
Tripoli doctors and ambulances who’ve volunteered to support Misrata freedom fighters
Video:
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1697...
How can parents do this?
fr.news
Franck Ribéry : un drôle de petit prénom
Dans une interview accordée au site allemand TZ Online, Franck Ribéry a révélé le petit nom : « Seïf, Seïf el Islam ». C’est mignon. Mais, détail surprenant ce prénom est aussi celui d’un des fils de Mouammar Khadafi, (et signifie le glaive de l’Islam). Coïncidence ? Seif el Islam Kadhafi était d’ailleurs pressenti comme l’un des successeurs de son père. Peut-être que Ribéry en espère tout autant pour son fils : en faire son successeur dans la toplist des meilleurs footballeurs de France.
Here is the story:
fr.news.yahoo.com/franck-rib%C3%A9ry-dr...
McClatchy Newspapers
For Libyans, photos of the dead recall their sad history
BENGHAZI, Libya — In the main square of this coastal city, portraits of the dead cover every wall.
The photos show old men and young men. Some were killed in battle just this week. Others perished a decade ago or longer, in Moammar Gadhafi’s notorious Abu Salim
prison. At least one woman is among the faces.
This makeshift memorial is where Benghazi families can, for the first time, share their private heartbreak over the victims of Gadhafi’s 42-year rule in the newly renamed Freedom Square. Similar displays are springing up in other cities, grim illustrations to the Libyan story of suffering and, finally, rebellion.
More:
www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/21/124820/f...
Hana
My uncle finally arrived at our house in Misurata coming from #Sirte. Says Al-Sadada Bridge crowded with hundreds of families. #SirteCrisis
NaelTheLibyan Nael Mogherbi
An Amazing Sign i saw in #Benghazi – #Libya #Feb17 #Tunisia #Egypt #Freedom twitpic.com/6o99iv
Abssi
Does #Reuters still a credible source of info? Still using #MussaIbrahim as main source in #Libya
OPEC Monitors Economy, #Libya to Decide If Oil Supply Cut Needed – Bloomberg via @BloombergNow
bloom.bg/oFnx7J
Gaddafi Wheat Cargo Helped Feed #Libya Rebels – Bloomberg via @BloombergNow bloom.bg/r2kxJS
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
All districts of the southern Saharan city of Sabha have been liberated #Libya #Sabha
Libya holds back advance on last Kadhafi strongholds
WEST OF SIRTE, Libya — Forces loyal to Libya’s new rulers said they were holding back on Thursday from advancing on Moamer Kadhafi’s last strongholds despite their capture of two key southern oases.
NATO said that its aircraft had again pounded Kadhafi’s remaining armour, a day after the alliance announced it was extending its Libya campaign for another 90 days.
Commanders said that new regime forces were in control of all three main towns in the Al-Jufra oasis on Thursday, 24 hours after they announced the capture of Libya’s largest desert city, Sabha, in the deep south.
More:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
AlanFisher Alan Fisher
Libyan fighters say they’re waiting for civilians to escape from Sirte, #Gaddafi’s hometown before they start their final advance #Libya
libyanandproud
Why do CNN journalists always use “source tells CNN”?
AJA:
Yesterday Tens of martyrs and injured in Hun from shelling by G forces based in Sukna. Hun was liberated 2 days ago. #feb17 #Libya
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Not sure why Reuters keeps “flashing” unverified claims from Gaddafi spokesman Musa Ibrahim, a proven liar.
Corse Matin
Le reporter bastiais blessé en Libye de retour en France
Quatre jours après avoir été blessé dans les violents combats opposant forces du nouveau régime libyen et fidèles de Kadhafi, le reporter bastiais est enfin arrivé en France.
Olivier Sarbil a été évacué par avion sanitaire depuis Tripoli à destination de Paris, où il est arrivé hier. Il a aussitôt été admis à l’hôpital des armées Percy, à Clamart.
Source and more:
www.corsematin.com/article/bastia/le-re...
libyanandproud
Ok seriously journalists, why on earth are we still being called Rebels? #Feb17 #Libya
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #Betelmal: Pro #Gaddafi families who are fleeing #Sirte are heading south; those against him are coming to #Misrata
#Libya, #Betelmal: we haven’t been able to use heavy firepower in #Sirte because of the civilians trapped inside
#Libya, #Betelmal: 30 percent of gaddafa tribe in #Sirte are fighting Along with Mauritanian mercenaries, #Gaddafi, #Libya
#Libya, Ibrahim Betelmal, military council of #Misrata: #Gaddafi supported by some 2000 members of gaddadfa tribe in #Sirte, #Libya
#Libya, #Betelmal: “civilians who refuse to lay down their arms in #Sirte have three choices: be captured, killed or flee to the south”
#Libya, #Betelmal: snipers in #Sirte are making it difficult for us to advance; they are positioned in high rise buildings, #Gaddafi
#Libya, #Betelmal: #NATO hit the insurance building in sirte which snipers were using, #Libya, #Gaddafi
#Libya, #Betelmal: 7000 men from #Misrata are taking part in the offensive against #Sirte but are still on the outskirts, #Libya, #Gaddafi
moi a table
#Libya tweeps – Let your Brothers & Sisters in #Yemen know that a “stalemate” is not permanent. Please RT and get #SupportYemen trending #yf
Mushu
“Looking for trauma doctors & nurses,please respond ASAP to volunteer@volunteerlibya.org.We need a team of 10 doctors & at least 5 nurses.”
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: thousands of barrels of what appear to be radioactive material in a warehouse outside #Sabha #Libya yfrog.com/nvmi9iwj
Photo: close up of barrel containing what appears to be radioactive material outside #Sabha #Libya yfrog.com/nxq4kzsj
Photo: bag of yellow powder closed with tape marked “radioactiv” in warehouse outside #Sabha #Libya yfrog.com/mgde9gdj
BREAKING: U.S Embassy reopen in the Libyan Capital #Tripoli few minutes ago , rising #USA Flag. #Libya #Gaddafi
Tarek
Only constructive criticism can lead to a democratic society, otherwise, it can take many years of internal struggle to be one. #Libya
BBC
Hazards of war reporting from the Libyan front line
It was too late to buy lamb, so camel pasta it had to be and it was not bad.
I guess the little villa on the Mediterranean would count as luxury in normal times, but Libyans are still waiting to find out what normal is going to be.
It is luxury for us – hot water, electricity, even some air-conditioning. Luxury in an oil-workers compound.
An oasis and nightly retreat from the ever-advancing front lines closing in on Sirte, where Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was born and where what is left of his army is still holding out.
Read more here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15007787
#Libya: Mustafa AbdulJalil showing off some balance skills in the office! twitpic.com/6ooumg
Abendblatt
Kriegsopfer aus Libyen zur Behandlung in Bremen
Libysche Ärzte organisieren in Deutschland medizinische Hilfe für schwer verletzte Bürgerkriegsopfer. Das erste Opfer ist eingetroffe.
Source and pic:
www.abendblatt.de/region/article2035998...
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Military spokesman: " Bani Walid radio station is still broadcasting Gadafi’s messages and spreading its poison " #Libya
Military spokesman: " On Eastern entrance of Bani Walid our fighters consolidated a ranch that was prepared for Gadafi himself." #Libya
Military Spokesman " Northern entrance of Bani Walid Gadafi loyalists bombing our revolutionaries intensely." #Libya
Military Spokesman: " Unconfirmed reports Gadafi fled town of Sabha with arrival of our revolutionary fighters."
Military Spokesman "We urge residents of Sabha to sacrifice themselves if they know
information regarding Gadafi and inform authorities"
Military Spokesman: We have liberated 90% of South including Sabha, Gufra, Sukn Zala Wadan except for some pockets of snipers" #Libya
libyanandproud
#Hun : Hun military council is collecting all weapons and ammo from residents. Final deadline is the end of the day.
AJA:
An estimated 60,000 land mines were randomly planted near Brega by #Gadhafi forces so far 21,000 were removed.#Libya
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
smooth departure from #Benghazi airport. City coming together. Did not hear sound of gunfire
advance from east #Sirte: fighters in grad range.snipers seem to pose a pb too.waiting orders to advance from E,W &S at the same time.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Residents flee Gadaffi hometown – Reuters Video shabablibya.org/news/residents… #Libya
The main column from the East is stationed in Hrawa waiting for the green light
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Beautiful afternoon in Tripoli listening to Tracy Chapman’s ‘talkin bout a revolution’ on the radio
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
We have the name finally:
Freedom fighters arrested main #Gaddafi female bodyguard: Mabruka Sherif.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
NTC investigation unconfirmed report that Muammar Qaddafi has fled from Sabha: NTC spokesman #Alarabiya
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Gaddafi’s worst enemy. #Libya yfrog.com/mgt1ucjj
New signage already up at #Tripoli International Airport. #Libya yfrog.com/mmes5kqj
libyanandproud
#sirte is going to be liberated soon, our lucky charm @ZeinakhodrAljaz is back! Come on zeina, just like zawiya! #Feb17
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s former prime minister arrested in Tunisia: Al Arabiya
BRK: Qaddafi prime minister al-Bughdady al-Mahmoudy has been arrested in Tunisia, Al Arabiya sources
FreedomGroup, News in English
Vehicles carrying families fleeing from Sirte, pass through a freedom fighter checkpoint, 60km from Misrata.
www.facebook.com/FreedomGroupEng/posts/...
AJA: Public beaches near Brega are full of land mines.
AJA: Leaders of #FF from across #Libya are meeting in #Misrata expected to form a United front.
FreedomGroup, News in English
One of the air-ambulances used to transport the wounded from Sirte to Misrata.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=332981&l...
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Al Arabiya reports former Libyan PM arrested in Tunisia
Johnny
Appears there is another green book burning party today in sabha #libya
Libya_Awake_United
Taken in 1967 in this pic Mustafa Abduljalil when was young playing for a football team what number he is? #NTC #Libya
pic.twitter.com/hhpY7bvx
m_madi Mohamed Madi
I’ve seen how different news teams cover #Libya battles, and it’s always a very difficult balance between risk and reward
“They (fighters) do it because it is their future, their country, their revolution. We will be there searching for an image u have not seen”
Khalifa
Will Tunisia hand over Al-Bughdady Al-Mahmoudy to the #NTC or will they release him like they did Al-Khwaildi Al-Hamaidi?
NickClarkAlJaz Nick Clark
#Libya : NATO said on Thursday it was confident it could conclude its mission in Libya well within new 90-day op period – Reuters
Niz_FGM Niz
Mafqood.org , our missing persons project, will now be launching a newspaper advertising campaign to raise awareness for the project.
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
Touareg kidnappers deny Gaddafi links but are his former enforcers in #Ghadames and therefore no longer welcome in town
Kidnapees are Ghadamsi population, mixed Arab-Berber, and generally anti-G. Touareg anti-those with rebel connections
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: Libyan mother says her final farewell to her martyred son
bit.ly/qqJKjI #libya
Nusaybah
Best revenge the #Algerians can give Libyans is by over throwing Bouteflika – consequently the #Libyans will benefit from this revolt too.
Best revenge the Iranians can give Syrians is by over throwing Ahmedinijad- consequently the Syrians will benefit from this revolt too.
The place where they tortured and imprisoned Me (Tripoli – Libya)
At March 2011 during the libyan revolution i have jailed by ghadafi’s forces .
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACg9LcvjI7c
kareemJerusalem
Photo; SA-14’s missiles in #Sabha desert between an ammunition dump. 168 SA-14’s missiles found
yfrog.com/nx3m6vj
Reuters
Former Libyan PM arrested in Tunisia-Al Arabiya TV
Tunisian government sources contacted by Reuters on Thursday said reports that the former prime minister had been detained in Tunisia were not true.
Source:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Reuters
Sirte shows rocky path ahead for Libya’s new rulers
Many residents of Sirte suspicious of Libya’s new rulers
Town prospered under Gaddafi’s rule
Attackers tread carefully to avoid civilian casualties
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
CNN
On the front lines with Libyan rebels
Brooklyn, New York (VICE.COM) — The first time I went to Libya, in 2010, I was
arrested just two days into my trip. Filming a documentary for VICE, I was detained for shooting where the authorities thought I shouldn’t, beginning endless rounds of questions, emphatic yelling and head-shaking incredulity at my claims of innocence — and, of course, the requisite implications that I was a spy. When I was finally released, I swore I would never return to the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. But that promise was quickly broken, and I found myself back in the country almost exactly a year later, in the midst of a chaotic and violent revolution.
Please read more:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/21...
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Just arrived in #Tunisia to hear that the former Libyan PM has been arrested here
Is the man arrested or not?????
misratapost Hussin Mihedi
Misratapost Thu 22/09/2011 Qaddafi prime minister al-Bughdady al-Mahmoudy has been arrested in Tunisia التونسيه…
fb.me/1ehTXdRTc
Missing in #Libya – مفقود في ليبيا – View and Submit Missing People. www.mafqood.org
Tunisian Internal Security Office confirms the arrest of al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi #Libya
ianbirrell ianbirrell
I will be on the PM show on Radio 4 discussing David Cameron, Libya and liberal interventionism tonight
BBC
Libya: NTC says key oasis towns taken
Libya’s interim leadership says it has captured several key areas in the south but its forces have paused advances on two pro-Gaddafi strongholds.
Commanders said all three main towns in the al-Jufra oasis had been captured.
Officials say they aim to cut off escape routes south from Bani Walid and Col Gaddafi’s hometown, Sirte, which are still offering stiff resistance.
Meanwhile, the UK’s Financial Times says Libya’s new leaders have found $23bn (£15bn) in the central bank.
Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15018921
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Breaking: Tunisia arrests Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, Libya’s PM under Gaddafi – #Tunisia #Libya #Gaddafi
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya military site yields possible radioactive material shabablibya.org/news/libya-mil… #Libya
justin Marozzi
Back in uk returning Tripoli Oct
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#BaniWalid front is super dead today. Rev fighters beginning to abandon it, very few cars w rebels to be seen #libya
Some mortars thrown at the N gate of #BaniWalid, but over all feeble attempts from both sides to fight #libya
frankentele Sean Carberry
Visited checkpoint 30k from Sirte. Some scattered shelling but generally quiet as rebels wait for families to flee the city. #libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Reuters: Tunisian Interior Minister says former Libyan Prime Minister has been arrested in Tunisia #Libya #Tunisia
Wikipedia recognizes the NTC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya #Libya
And more:
kareemJerusalem Kareem Khadder
Ammunition dump in middle of Sabha desert. Includes SA-14 missiles, grad rockets, anti tank missiles
yfrog.com/mfsxksj
Algeria apparently recognizes the NTC. Via Alarabia TV.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
another day of shelling in #Sirte front line now in a bridge NTC fighters using tanks rockets and mortars Gaddafi forces Grads
we went flying in a Mig 8 converted into a medical helicopter pilot former general in the Libyan Air Force #Sirte #Libya
field hospital moved back from petrol station to a mosque Grads falling very near some target the highway big plumes nearby #Sirte #Libya
las autoridades tunecinas informan q han detenido al ex primer ministro de Gadafi Al Mahmudi Al Bagdadí #Libia
NTC fighters using now a complex that Gaddafi family used as private beach near #Sirte as field hospital and airport for helicopters #Libya
Sofyan Amry
B. Mahmoudi-G’s ex-PM who ordered dead children be taken from morgues and put at #NATO crash sites,was just arrested in Tunis #Feb17 #Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Ahrar TV: Hun, Wadan , Zela and Sukna in Jufra region all liberated by FFs… Allahu Akbar! #feb17 #Libya
Gaddafi’s Prime Minister Baghdadi AlMahmoudi arrested in Tunisia… Allahu Akbar !!!!
AlArabiya: Algeria recognise NTC #feb17 #Libya As if anyone in Libya cares what Bou ”Tafrika” does or says
libyanandproud
Tunisia sentences former #Gaddafi PM Baghdadi Mahmudi to six months in Jail for illegal entry. #Feb17 #Libya via @AlArabiya @afp
Via Feb17
Tunisian authorities have arrested Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who served as Libyan prime minister until Muammar Gaddafi was deposed last month, an official in the Tunisian Interior Ministry told Reuters on Thursday.
“Al-Mahmoudi was arrested yesterday evening,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
OMV
Austrian energy group OMV expects to see Libyan output at about 50 percent in the course of 2012, it told an investor presentation on Thursday.
“Our working assumption is very straightforward: it’s about 50 percent of pre-crisis level during the course of next year and that can come through a variety of profiles, of course,” exploration and production head Jaap Huijskes said.
Libya accounted for 10 percent of OMV output before the uprising to topple Muammar Gaddafi halted production.
OMV also said its main production assets in southwest Libya appear to be relatively undamaged but it will take time to get the logistics in place to have them running normally again.
China
China has won the support of the new Libyan government, state media reported on Thursday, which had been in doubt after Beijing’s frosty reaction to NATO-lead air strikes and attempts by Chinese firms to sell weapons to Muammar Gaddafi.
National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil told Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting that Libya’s people appreciated China’s support, the official Xinhua news agency said.
“Jalil said the Libyan people respect the Chinese people and appreciate China’s support in the Security Council and its assistance,” Xinhua said in an English-language report.
AFP
Troops advancing on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte from the east have put off any offensive for a week due to lack of ammunition, a brigade commander said.
“Fighting has been stopped for a week. We are facing a shrotage of ammunition,” Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan Brigade, told AFP. His troops are deployed 25 km east of Sirte.
Bin Dardef said he was heading to Libya’s main eastern city of Benghazi with a group of his men to try to organise new supplies.
AP
The general commanding NATO’s mission in Libya says the Gadhafi regime continues to be a threat.Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard said Thursday in a conference call with reporters that forces loyal to Gadhafi “are still dangerous, orders continue to be given and violence against the population continues.”“Apple-style-span” “font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;”
Bouchard said that the NATO mission “is not over by any means.” Moammar Gadhafi remains at large. His supporters remain well- armed and fighting is still raging on three fronts.
US Embassy
The United States is preparing to reopen its embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, while NATO says it is extending its operations in the country for another three months.
U.S. Ambassador Gene Cretz has returned to Tripoli where the U.S. plans to raise its flag over its mission on Thursday.
Cretz was based in Tripoli until December 2010. He left the country after WikiLeaks released his assessments of former leader Moammar Gadhafi’s personal life in which he described the former leader as “mercurial,” “notoriously erratic” and a “hypochondriac.”
CNN
A military site containing what appears to be radioactive material has been uncovered by revolutionary forces near the southern Libyan city of Sabha. The site, not far from Sabha in the Sahara desert, has two warehouses containing thousands of blue barrels marked with tape saying “radioactive,” and plastic bags of yellow powder sealed with the same tape.
Reuters
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi who control the city of Sirte have been executing residents suspected of sympathising with Libya’s new rulers, forces backing the country’s interim government and fleeing residents said.”The situation isn’t great,” said one resident who did not give his name as he left the city, where he said Gaddafi’s forces were moving “like gangs” through the streets. “There have been executions,” he said, naming two men who he said had been executed on Thursday. He also said he had witnessed executions in front of the house of a local family, whose name he gave as Safruny. An NTC commander on the outskirts of Sirte, separately showed Reuters a handwritten list of families whose members were said to have been executed in Sirte. The list, which he said he compiled with information from people inside the city, included the Safruny family.
BBC
Commanders said all three main towns in the al-Jufra oasis had been captured.
Aljazeera
The number of landmines planted by Gaddafi troops in the district between Ajdabiya and Sirte towns, is estimated at 60 thousand anti-personnel and anti-armour landmines. The engineering corps of the Libyan NTC national army has cleared 21 thousand of them up to the present. The district around al-Brega is the largest land-mined zone in Libya, where many army and civilian victims were hit by landmines
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Got a feeling Bu shafshufa will be caught soon #feb17 #4everlibya
BBC
Ex-Libya PM al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi ‘jailed in Tunisia’
Libya’s former Prime Minister, al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, has been arrested in Tunisia and sentenced to six months in prison, officials say.
Mr Mahmoudi was arrested on Wednesday near the border with Algeria. He was jailed for entering Tunisia illegally.
He served as prime minister until Col Muammar Gaddafi was ousted last month.
He had been trying to cross the border, but gave himself up without resistance, according to a report on a TV station run by Libya’s National Transitional Council (TNC).
It also claimed that he was carrying fake documents.
Full report:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15...
Tarek
The #European Union is also offering #Libya access to EIB loans, should a new government seek assistance
#Libya proposes ex-Eni (Abdul-Rahman Ben Yezza) executive for oil minister reut.rs/qGx8Ow via @reuters
Real and genuine people from #Sebha speak out against #Gaddafi www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUSAAvrvdg&fea... via @CNN #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#WOW Excellent #NEWS #FLASH : #Gaddafi Regime Ex Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-#Mahmoudi ARRESTED overnight in #Tameghza #Tunesia #Libya
#FLASH #Ex Prime Minister #AlBaghdadi #alMahmoudi was ARRESTED + 2 Others overnight in #Tameghza, near Tunisia’s border with Algeria #Libya
#Libya still Has 3 Front Lines; #Sirte, the desert town of #Bani Walid and the southern area of #Sabha #Libya
Sky News
Tunisia: Ex-Libya PM Jailed For Illegal Entry
The former prime minister of ousted Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s government has been jailed for six months in Tunisia for entering the country illegally.
Full storty:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
#Sabha – As CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports, rebel forces receive a peaceful welcome in two south Libyan towns
youtube.com/watch?v=n0tYwM… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0tYwMVij7c
Reuters
Gaddafi forces “executing people” in Sirte: residents
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi who control the city of Sirte have been executing residents suspected of sympathizing with Libya’s new rulers, forces backing the country’s interim government and fleeing residents said.
“There have been executions,” he said, naming two men who he said had been executed on Thursday. He also said he had witnessed executions in front of the
house of a local family, whose name he gave as Safruny.
More here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-l...
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-Libya rulers say they seize Gaddafi desert outposts
Chemical weapons depot uncovered – NTC spokesman
Army tries to organise assault on Bani Walid
Civilians pouring out of besieged city of Sirte (Updates with new details from front lines)
More:
in.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/libya...
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: former Libyan PM arrested in Tunisia – confirmed by official from Tunisian Interior Ministry
#Libya: Algeria says it’s ready to “work closely” with Libya’s NTC
#Libya: latest: news.sky.com/home/world-new…
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Wefaq #Libya: Algerian foreign minisiter declares recognition of National Transitional Council. #Feb17 #LOL
Tarek
In the capital #Tripoli on Thursday 22/09/2011, the #US raised its flag over the #US embassy for the first time since the fall of #Gaddafi.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
A military site containing what may be radioactive material has been found by revolutionary forces near Sabha feb17.info/news/live-liby… #Libya
The 2 warehouses contained 1000s of blue barrels & plastic bags of yellow powder with “radioactive” written on tape. feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept...
Yellowcake is processed uranium ore that can be used to produce enriched uranium for nuclear purposes feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
An NTC commander on outskirts of Sirte, showed Reuters a handwritten list of people were executed in Sirte. feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
Revolutionary commanders said all three main towns in the al-Jufra oasis had been captured. feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
Video: Libya military site yields possible radioactive material bit.ly/qMNfQE #libya
or:
feb17.info/media/video-libya-military-s...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
we went flying in a Mig 8 converted into a medical helicopter pilot former general in the Libyan Air Force #Sirte #Libya
NTC fighters from Misrata believe that one of the military chiefs in #Sirte is Jamal al Karrani 1 general who is also from Misrata #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
I wonder how many people have heard of Jeremy Brittenden ? #Libya
Jeremy Brittenden led the team that advised, PRO BONO, #Libya NTC on its successful bid to have 2.05 billion dinar bit.ly/p1zkWi
Children of the Revolution: #Libya – An FP Slide Show | Foreign Policy: bit.ly/mR5ZZj via @AddThis
#Zawiya –
The scars of war
- @Demotix News demotix.com/news/840914/za… .. #Libya
djopec
Libya’s offshore field Al Jurf will restart Fri morning, be at full 41,000 b/d capacity in 10 days and export 3 weeks later, says operator
libyanproud libyanandproud
Pic of Jalil playing football is more popular than pic of Jalil with obama at UN! LOL viva Libyans !
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Relatives of Libya’s UN representative Shalgam were found murdered in Ubari. Shalgam has been a target since his defection. #Libya #Egypt
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Call it a ‘wild’ guess but I think #gaddafi is out of #libya. What do you think? #tripoli
In bab el aziziya, in Hanaa #gaddafi room, I found email address of #khamis #gaddafi. My emails bounce back;his inbox full. #libya #tripoli
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Our #CNN report: Gadhafi- Nowhere to be found but heard loud and clear tiny.cc/lvp69 #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
cientos d familias huyendo hoy d #Sirte n medio dl intercambio d artillería muchos d ls proyectiles impactan n la carretera #Libia
Balkan mercenaries in Libya risk lives for gain. www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en...
ArabMedia:
Algerian FM Mourad Medelci has announced that Algiers recognizes #Libya’s NTC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people #17Feb
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Just had a tour around Bab Al Aziziya… it’s one big party :) children, women, FF, old people – and people selling stuff… #libya #feb17
I saw some of the prisons, gas masks, injections, soldiers uniforms, shoes… everything that was abandoned as Gaddafi’s people fled #libya
I also saw empty ammo boxes, empty pistol boxes, small flasks that had oil for rifle lubrication…HUGE areas where mercenaries slept #libya
I’ll upload all the pictures when I get back home :) Time for checkpoint duty #tripoli #feb17
Bab Al Aziziya is one huge colossal maze. Walls, tunnels, towers, bunkers, ammo dumps… It’s impossible to see everything #libya #tripoli
I saw some of the tunnels & underground car parks (which held tanks, APCs & 4×4 trucks) that caved in due to NATO strikes #libya #tripoli
I’ve also seen people busy at work pulling off cables and dismantling APCs & destroyed tanks… Scrap metal I guess
My uncle was one of the people that stormed Bab-Aziziya on the 23rd or so, he recounts how they used to clear an area just to find (cont)
more gaddafi soldiers used to come up behind it. They used to come from tunnels, towers & random places in the compound #libya
My uncle: “You know how the cockroaches pour out when you open a sewer? This was Bab Al Aziziya. They (Gs)were crawling everywhere” #tripoli
Haytham
It’s raining in #Benghazi, two days in a row. Makes the weather far more pleasant.
Is it just me or is @Reuters woefully inept at covering the revolution in #Libya?
4Adam Adam
#NoToCelebratoryGunfire – Leaflets in Tripoli twitpic.com/6osejr
libyanproud
Hey #Algeria, hand over Mohamed, Hannibal, and Aysha Gaddafi and we will recognize u as a neighbor. #Libya
Business Recorder
Libya holds back from assault on last Qadhafi redoubts
WEST OF SIRTE: Forces loyal to Libya’s new rulers said they were holding back on Thursday from advancing on Moamer Qadhafi’s last redoubts despite their capture of two key southern oases.
The commander of NATO’s Libya air campaign, Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard, said he was confident the mission could be completed “well within” three months a day after the alliance extended it for another 90 days.
Read more:
www.brecorder.com/world/africa/28896-li...
Telegraph
David Cameron: world should be quicker to take military action to stop slaughter
David Cameron will today urge the world to be quicker to take military action to stop states from slaughtering their own people.
The Prime Minister will use his first speech to the United Nations to demand that the organisation become less of a talking shop and intervene when people under brutal regimes require its help.
In a clear statement of intent following Nato’s successful campaign against Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, Mr Cameron will tell international leaders that the world must be prepared to act again.
“You can sign every human rights declaration in the world but if you stand by and watch people being slaughtered in their own country, when you could act then what are those signatures really worth?” Mr Cameron will ask the General Assembly.
“The UN has to show that we can be – not just united in condemnation, but – united in action acting in a way that lives up to the UNs founding principles and meets the
needs of people everywhere."
Please read more here and watch video:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Coincidence? NTC claim Chem Weapons found in #Jufra (unverified) dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
Al-Ra’y TV claims #NATO using Napalm. (proved false)
Tweeting Tripoli
Is the 6 months sentence for Albaghdadi, the rapist, a joke? Come on Tunisia, just hand him in to the NTC!
Ever wondered who did they model the nose-stash-glasses mask on? yfrog.com/kfc2adbj
yfrog.com/kh8w2ptj
Almanara
Abu Saleem victims graves
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1CPD6pSBFc&fea...
bencnn benwedeman
Negotiations between the NTC and Qadhafi’s Qadadfa tribe have broken down in #Sabha. Mid-Friday deadline to surrender weapons. #Libya
If the Qadadfa don’t surrender their weapons, NTC field commanders say they will resort to “the military option.” #Sabha
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Please like Feb17martyrs and send Pics of Martyrs with info to feblibya17ymail.com
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Gaddafi PM Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, was detained by Tunisian authorities after crossing into Tunisia illegally with no visa yesterday #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
#Libya discover new and sad reality war amputees hospital in #Misrata counted almost 200 until now not a single specialist in the country
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Algeria has officially recognized the Libyan National Transitional Council – #Libya #Feb17 feb17.info/news/live-liby…
Algeria needs to now hand over the fugitives Aisha Gaddafi, Mohamed Gaddafi, and Safia Gaddafi, to the National Transitional Council- #Libya
#AJA live from #Sabha
google.fr/m/url?client=s… #Libya
#Libye:
Reprise très prochaine de la production de pétrole – qurl.ch/o8u7o7
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Check out this street corner in #Misrata. Standing there 2 wks ago, I was gripped by the scene. Still am. twitpic.com/6otnpa
libyanproud libyanandproud
Clearly Ahmadinejad trying to replace #Gaddafi for “never invite again” status at UN.
AJA:
Electricity has returned to #sebha.
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi’s cousin and bodyguard says Gaddafi killed many if his own cousins (Arabic video)… youtube.com/watch?v=hc1NoG…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc1NoGwLflM&fea...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Yesterday, their ‘finance coordinator’ Wafik Shater said they found an extra 28 billion dinars..
a British official said it was “the equivalent of discovering several billion dollars under the mattress”
In this new era of transparency, Wafik Shater told FT the exact amount found was a “closely guarded secret”
UK official said it “put them in gravy..takes pressure off them to get overseas assets unfrozen.”
Moez
apparently found in Libyan Central Bank essentially ‘under the couch’ – FT piece on it yesterday
Niz_FGM Niz
Breaking: From our very own Hatem – Madar Mobile Lines now working in Sabha and most of Sabha now has electricity after 45+ days of blackout
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
1 NTC fighter who lost his leg in #Misrata “it’s a price that I am ready to pay” shops establish special discount for wheelchairs #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH : Algeria government announced it is READY 2work in close cooperation with the new #Libyan authorities #NTC goo.gl/qZJ22
CNN’s Ben Wedeman uncovers a site in #Sabha containing what is possibly #radioactive material #Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Guma_el_gamaty On #AJA NOW
Globe and Mail
In Tripoli, the ugly truth about Gadhafi emerges
She is a tiny woman, wrapped in a voluminous white shroud-like veil. Her face is puckered with age and a line of tiny blue dots is tattooed on her chin. At 86 years old, she is discovering a new world.
Her name is Aisha Amir and these days her son, Abdul Salam, is taking her to see what her one-time idol, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi, has wrought in Libya.
The first stop was the Abu Salim prison, a sprawling complex of fetid cellblocks where thousands of political prisoners languished, died and suffered torture for years. As she tottered through the abandoned corridors, peeking into the barred cages, she cursed Col. Gadhafi.
Full story:
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afri...
arek
#LIbya & the Arab Spring shows the #UN needs a new way of working’, #UK PM #Cameron says. Watch LIVE: bbc.in/njGloY @BBCBreaking
#UK PM #Cameron reaffirms that #Libyans are the ones who liberated #Libya, #UN
StateDept:
Photo: Ambassador Cretz participates in a flag raising ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, #Libya.
goo.gl/04u3B
DONATE ARABIC BOOKS TO LIBYAN LIBRARIES: There is going to be a festival in Tamzeen in the Western Mountains in (cont) tl.gd/d86m1s
DANGER: Falling tyrant #Libya #Syria #Yemen
twitpic.com/6ouh79
Times of Malta
Two Libyans discharged from hospital, leave Malta
Two Libyans who were in a group which was brought to Malta for medical treatment on Tuesday have now been discharged from hospital and have left the country, the Health Ministry said this evening.
All 10 patients admitted to Mater Dei Hospital are still in critical condition. Another four are still being treated for serious injuries at Saint James (Capua) Hospital while another two were treated at the same hospital have been discharged and are now out of the country.
Source:
goo.gl/JzUyi
Aljazeera
Libya’s NTC captures three southern towns
Commanders with the National Transitional Council (NTC) said their forces now controlled all three main towns in the Al-Jufra oasis, 24 hours after they announced
the capture of Libya’s largest desert city, Sabha, in the deep south.
“Al-Jufra – Hun, Waddan and Sokna – is liberated,” a military spokesman in Libya’s third-largest city Misrata said in a statement early on Thursday.
The defeat of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in the Saharan oases left his remaining forces in his hometown of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast and the desert city of Bani Walid to its west effectively cut off from any line of escape to the south.
Several key Gaddafi supporters have fled to Niger from Sabha, an NTC spokesman said on Thursday.
NTC leaders said they were holding back from advancing on Gaddafi’s last redoubts despite their capture of two key southern oases.
Read more:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
Gaddafi’s ex-premier jailed after fleeing Libya shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-ex-premie... #Libya (video & article)
Baki 7our
#Algeria recognizes NTC as legitimate representative of Libyan people…in catimini. No word of it on public media. Not on TV or APS.
LibyaLiberty: Those were former #Gaddafi regime members fleeing Tripoli. RT@Reuters Particles recorded moving faster than light:
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Editor’s Choice Picture of the Day- Ricardo Villanueva in sirte- … thestar.blogs.com/photodesk/2011…
bencnn benwedeman
The lights are back on in #Sabha. For the first time in weeks. #LIbya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
How does the Temporary Financing Mechanism tie in with all this? Created by the ‘Contact Group’
TFM’s initial funding by Qatar, Kuwait & Bahrain in July. Then the US passed it sum unfrozen assets
TFM decisions approved by ‘Steering Board’ (3 Libyans, plus 1 seat for Qatar and 1 seat for France)
Since the embassy protests, they’ve taken some of our injured friends & crowded them into a hotel
Keep asking Q’s & pushing transparency. The FF’s r open & progressive. The politicos, not so much.
As for the injured, the situation is intolerable. People controlling the purse strings don’t get it
Sarah
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” #Unity #Libya
#Sabha : Le résaux téléphonique Al Madar re fonctionne & et l’électricité est de retour.
Hayat
I know you’re probably the most pissed out of all of us about the accusations of #Libyans being rascists crap-best ignore it.
Times of Malta
Journalist tells of Libyan ‘massacre’
In Sirte people have no food, electricity or information
With a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, a Libyan rebel fighter dragged Italian video reporter Andrea Bernardi out of a car wreck, with one hand under his blood-drenched head and the other pulling his dislocated leg.
“I was shouting in pain and telling him to stop but he just kept using the only words he knew in English: ‘No problem, no problem’.”
Mr Bernardi, 28, had spent weeks running all over Libya following the frontline and reporting for news agency AFP. But it wasn’t a bullet that put him out of action… it was a high-velocity car accident.
Read more:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
FCO UK
First Libyan casualty for treatment arrives in the UK
Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt wishes young schoolboy injured by grenade well for his recovery.
Speaking today Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt said:
“I am delighted that Abdul Malik Ahmed, the young schoolboy who was wounded by a grenade left in his school, today arrived in the UK for treatment. The courage he has shown in the face of horrific injuries symbolises both the great sacrifices made by the Libyan people but also the hope and optimism with which they are facing the future. I wish him well for his recovery. I am proud that he will be aided by NHS specialists who are among the best in the world.
Last week in Tripoli the Prime Minister committed to help the extraordinary efforts being made in Libyan hospitals to aid those wounded in the struggle for freedom. Abdul Malik is the first of around fifty Libyan civilians who will be offered advanced treatment and rehabilitation using the UK’s specialist techniques and hospitals, paid
for by the Libyan Government.
The UK will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Libyan people as they recover from Qadhafi’s tyranny and do all that we can to help them”.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
2 injured #Libya nationals have been discharged from hospital in #Malta after recovery from treatment in hospital, returned to #Tripoli
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
#Feb17 gets better everyday I swear … Praise be to Allah #Libya
BentBenghazi G
@bencnn Congrats on hitting #Gangsta status in #Sebha Looks like Ben is tellin the Thuwar stories LOL #libya
pic.twitter.com/tOJpyD76
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Breaking: Janzur FFs capture Mustafa Gadr Bu the Gaddafi TV presenter …. : ) #libya #Feb17
The secret behind the success of the #Feb17 revolution in #Libya in 2 words … Allahu Akbar
LibyanPilot
There are now 2 Afriqiyah A320s which operate Misrata – Benghazi for the purpose of bringing in injured FFs, running for few days now
LIBYAN
Do I smell something is burning in @libyatv #Misrata
4libya
#Algeria recognizes #Libya NTC gov today. How about giving #Libya back it’s wanted criminals which you gave safe haven?
Please read:
HRW
Libya: Halt Exhumations of Mass Graves
Forensic Experts Needed to Identify Remains, Secure Evidence
(Tripoli) – Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) should place an immediate moratorium on the exhumation of mass graves until forensic experts are available to support the exhumations, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said the NTC should also arrange security at known or suspected mass grave sites to prevent unauthorized exhumations.
“We understand that Libyans want to find the missing and give victims a dignified burial, but digging up graves without forensic experts present can destroy evidence and make it more difficult to identify the bodies,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. “The focus for now should be on locating and securing the burial sites, and making plans for their proper exhumation.”
Since the collapse of the Gaddafi government in western Libya in late August 2011, mass graves containing the bodies of people killed during the conflict have been reported on a weekly basis in Tripoli and other areas, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Based on available evidence, some of these people apparently died in government custody, including by execution. Human Rights Watch has documented apparent executions by Gaddafi forces in Tripoli, al-
Qawalishand Bani Walid, and the suffocation deaths of 19 detainees in al-Khoms, some of which involved mass graves.
The grave sites documented to date vary in size, with some holding several dozen bodies. They also differ in the date of their creation, and some may contain remains from separate incidents. At one cemetery in Tripoli, a tractor driver told Human Rights Watch he had buried several hundred bodies gathered from various parts of the city during and after the fighting and brought to the site around August 20. Their identities and causes of death are unknown.
In addition to grave sites holding people killed during the six-month conflict, other sites relating to pre-conflict incidents are also at risk. These may include the graves of an estimated 1,200 prisoners killed in the Abu Salim prison massacre in 1996, whose remains were never returned to their families.
Exhumations began on many of the grave sites from the recent conflict as soon as they were located. Local authorities and groups typically conducted these exhumations without central coordination and at times without professional forensic assistance. The ICRC helped arrange the handling of 125 bodies from 12 different sites, but the organization is not involved in collecting evidence for possible use in legal proceedings. Where unplanned and unassisted exhumations have occurred, the opportunity to identify bodies and the circumstances of deaths may already be lost, Human Rights Watch said.
The NTC authorities have discussed plans to establish a commission on the missing. Human Rights Watch supports this plan and urges them to ensure that the commission is inclusive, consisting of representatives from key ministries such as justice, internal security, and health, in addition to forensic experts and lawyers. This breadth of expertise will be necessary for coordinating exhumations and identification of the remains of those killed during the conflict. Human Rights Watch urged the authorities to set up such a commission swiftly and empower it to begin its work with the establishment of all necessary laws and policies.
Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations and governments supporting the NTC to assist the commission by providing funds, technical equipment, and forensic experts where needed. The provision of foreign forensic experts should be done under the umbrella of the commission and should focus on both the collection of criminal evidence and the humanitarian identification of remains, so that the bodies can be returned to the families of the dead, Human Rights Watch said.
“In past post-conflict situations such as in Kosovo and Iraq, there was insufficient coordination with local authorities, and too many protocols used by different forensic teams,” said Bouckaert. “International assistance will be most effective if it bolsters national capacity.”
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafis secret stash of chemical weapons were found in #Ruwagha in Al-Jufra area where G kept abt 9.5 tonnes of mustard gas #Libya
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Argelia reconoce al Consejo de transición en Libia … Tardó pero terminó haciéndolo #Libia
Hayat
#AJA documents found proof of my long-standing theory about #NTC been working for #Gaddafi as spies-there you go. #StayCalm #HellBreaksLoose
Benghazi Youth
That is old news man, the documents which show Gaddafi had high ranking NTC officials as informants right?
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
300 people fled #sirte as of 2pm today, some said it was the first time the road was clear of Gaddafi loyalists
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRET #NTC commander Saleh showed Reuters handwritten list of families whose members R said 2have been executed Some Cut in pieces #Libya
#BaniWalid Mil. Commander "We set up a unified operations room 2Unite all Brigades and put newcomers in brigades 2 end chaos at Frontlines
#Libya Hope Revolution Leads 2Better Quality of Life goo.gl/nLmGM Like
PavedRoads Medicalcare RunningWater Flush Toilets #Nojoke
See here some #CRIMES com. of Ex Regime PM #AlBaghdadi Tel call talking about killing #NTC #Jibril www.libyauprisingarchive.com/gaddafi-re... #libya #ICCCandidate
#SIRET #NTC commander Saleh showed Reuters handwritten list of families whose members R said 2have been executed Some Cut in pieces #Libya
Sirtawi
Eye witness who left #Sirte said NATO dropped fliers over Wagadugo Hall in Sirte warning G forces they’ll be bombing the area. #SirteCrisis
PIC: NATO bombed Al-Bayan school in #Sirte 21-09-2011 pic.twitter.com/wM58Enpl
Another PIC of Al-Bayan school in #sirte hit yesterday by NATO. It is said G men stored ammo there. pic.twitter.com/F8ntcO0r
Exclusive: Short footage of fighting inside #Sirte taken from high building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTCektuuc
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTCektuuc
#Tarhuna, where the shutters remain green! thestar.com/news/world/art… via @JeremyRelph … #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gar younis University renamed bacj to Benghazi University (photo) facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Libya #Benghazi
Gaddafi renamed Tripoli university to Fatah University and Benghazi to Gar Younis, now they are both back to original names
EU eases Libya asset freezes to boost new government is.gd/dxDtIF #Libya
Missy Ryan
Since I am sadly now out of loop on #Libya: tell me يا أصدقاء … do we know where Moussa is?
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I recognise this portryal of life on #Sirte Front from @aleithead bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…. Often the pictures fail to convey real dangers.
Sirtawi
Eye witness who left #Sirte said NATO dropped fliers over Wagadugo Hall in Sirte warning G forces they’ll be bombing the area. #SirteCrisis
Poor Libyans look to revolution for roads and plumbing, not just democracy – The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas... via @washingtonpost
UNESCO to resume cooperation with Libya. www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_x...
4Adam Adam
Cameron in the UN: “the intl community has found its voice in #Libya and we must not now lose our nerve.” On #Syria “it is time to act”
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
NATO has decided to extend it mission over the skies of #Libya for 3 more months.
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Let me always break fear like a Tunisian, stand proud like an Egyptian, persist like a Yemeni, speak out like a Syrian & fight like a Libyan
Sarah
#PrayForSirte
Nadia
#Libya only has cash to last three to six months – The National shar.es/HMQae
Yefrenia
Not one Libyan I know who doesn’t have a cousin, uncle or family member who wasn’t a freedom fighter; Libyans were in this together.. #Feb17
Total says plans to resume output at #Libya field – MarketWatch www.marketwatch.com/story/total-says-pl... via @MarketWatch
Nadia
Libyan royal offers to help homeland as NTC seizes Qaddafi desert outposts english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… #Libya
West to Play Pivotal Role in #Libya Rebuilding www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Wes... via @VOA_News
Brunnan
See #Algeria’s finally recognised the NTC…………..‘bout (e)flikin’ time…….sorry . #Libya
Baki
La position de l’Algérie sur la Libye ces derniers mois, pathétique. La position des médias publics, dénuée de bon sens.
Please read:
Telegraph
Iran ‘steals surface-to-air missiles from Libya’
The weapons were seized by units attached to the Guards’ elite Quds Force, which travelled to Libya from their base in southern Sudan.
Acting on orders received from Revolutionary Guards commanders in Iran, they took advantage of the chaos that engulfed Libya following the collapse of the regime of former dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to seize “significant quantities” of advanced weaponry, according to military intelligence officers in Libya.
They say the weapons stolen by Iran include sophisticated Russian-made SA-24 missiles that were sold to Libya in 2004. The missile can shoot down aircraft flying at
11,000 feet, and is regarded as the Russian equivalent of the American “stinger” missiles that were used by the US-backed mujahideen to defeat Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. It is similar to the weapon used by al-Qaeda in the failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet taking off from Kenya’s Mombasa airport in 2002.
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/midd...
Noit
I don’t believe the Telegraph article, it just doesn’t make any sense.
Why would Iran steal “significant quantities” surface-to-air missiles and send personnel, a specialist team: the Guards’ elite Quds Force from south Sudan to steal them in Libya and then transport those weapons all the way back to Iran?
Iran can very easily buy those weapons themselves from several countries without all the problems of locating, finding, stealing and then transporting them and without the risk to their spec. forces.
That would be a lot easier and cheaper too. Spec. forces are not cheap to train.
How could that be done with NATO surveillance present over Libya?
Without anybody noticing anything?
How were they transported?
They couldn’t transport them by ship either….
Strange story, reminded me of the “weapons of mass destruction” Iraq story , that one didn’t add up either. We later found out that that was totally based on misinformation….
Just think how Iran would have known where those weapons were hidden, how could they have known where to find them in the first place? Remember the story tells us that they were stolen, so no money changed hands.
Who are those sources that gave that info to the Telegraph?
I think it’s nothing but a made up story, by whomever stands to profit from the spreading of these lies.
Telegraph doesn’t give real sources or ANY other info, just the announcement.
Story doesn’t ring true, just unbelievable.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
what’s next in libya- security consultants, or Blackwater light buswk.co/qlQuTo via @BW
bencnn benwedeman
Al-Madar, one of Libya’s two mobile phone networks, started working this evening in #Sabha for the first time in weeks. #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
1 week in London and i miss Libya. need to go back.
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 23rd 2011
9/23/11
9.23.11
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” ~ Voltaire.
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Ia1tx
Please watch the video:
Gaddafi killed many cousins
Video goo.gl/PdcPT (refused his sexual advances)
translation:
he said Gaddafi had killed many many of his cousins who refused his sexual advances and attempts. Not sure what he meant by that. Sexual advances towards the female relatives and spouses of this particular victim of his? Or homosexual advances towards the men themselves.
The officer who was also a Gaddafi, was brought to Bab Alazyzia his index finger was chopped off because Gaddafi told his thugs that he wanted to shoot him. He was then tied to an SUV and dragged around Bab Alazyzia compound. He then was tied to tree trunk and burned alive.
He said who ever did not allow Gaddafi to do what he wanted, was accused of treason and executed in a horrible way. He said many of Gaddafi’s high ranks were somehow tainted deliberately in their honor to remain loyal by being inferior and heart broken. As crazy as it seems, but I heard similar horror storied since long time ago. The Gaddafi’s are very sick in the brain.
(Translation: goo.gl/FsIAi #Libya via @2011feb17)
Malek
My grandfather passed away last nt, Haj Mohamed #Abuhajar, was possibly d richest most well known businessmen in all of #Libya pre-Gaddafi!
Mohamed #Abuhajar lived Dec 25 1925- Sept 15 2011. May he RIP inshAllah.
Mohamed #Abuhajar ’s wealth was 99% confiscated by Gaddafi in 1977.So glad he lived2see #Libya liberated&Free of this tyrant. Hallah
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI #US Ambassador hopes #American Companies 2 get back to #Libya on a fairly big scale goo.gl/SP85P
US Ambassador: The stench of corruption affected everything that the Gaddafi regime did with respect to commercial entities,” #Libya
♥ To ♥Tunisia ♥ Who jailed former Gaddafi Regime premier Baghdadi alMahmudi for illegal entry He entered Tunisia last night ! #Libya
#TRIPOLI #Security Matters in Cafe #Oya in #RadissonBlu AlMahary where visitors without proper ID must check their AK-47 @ hotel door #Libya
As War Winds Down in #Libya Security firms looking for post-Iraq market flock to #Tripoli goo.gl/4Wr6O #Libya
Aljazeera
NTC fighters say they have taken control of most of the southern town of Sabha.
The NTC has also said they will have a government ready by the end of September.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
People look sad in London and don’t talk; when on Libyan front they smile and
celebrate life even though they are being killed.
i’m lucky my work has asked me to go. changed my life to see the things i’ve seen.
FromJoanne Joanne
Allsorts will flood Libya now You cant prevent it Lets hope NTC members pickup courage and take decisions goo.gl/4Wr6O
Gaddafi had a man Alaaka who acted as FoodSupervisor +Taster G trusted only his driver and his Female bodyguards #Libya goo.gl/JMVhb
Al #Khoms amateur Footage of Prisoners in container being beaten www.reuters.com/video/2011/09/06/gaddaf... mass grave of 17 men found #Libya
Al #Khoms the story of 29 Prisoners in 2 containers 18 died goo.gl/NHojX video in previous tweet #Libya #NoWordsLeft #Gaddaficrimes
#Unesco to help rebuild #Libya’s educational system and help ~NTC encourage a Free #Media goo.gl/HrozX
Omar
joke of the Day!! RT @4Adam : “African Union Ready To Help Libya Build Democracy” via #voanews #Libya #AU
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
what’s next in libya- security consultants, or Blackwater light buswk.co/qlQuTo via @BW
Tarek
#Gaddafi crimes against #Libya" Execution of Othman Zarti in Souk Al Juma in 1984" اعدام عثمان عمر زرتي youtube.com/watch?v=NLuXj4… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLuXj4BWXr8&fea...
I favorited a @YouTube video youtu.be/SBUU_HYWUYI?a February 17 Day (Tripoli Expo) | يوم ثورة 17 فبراير في معرض
I’ve just made and posted this video “#Gaddafi’s Family Album” Let me know if you like it www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL7SJ72O7XM&fea... #Libya
Reuters
#OMV eyes slow, difficult return to #Libya | Reuters reut.rs/oHHYX9
Gaddafi’s Family Album
Here is a rare look at the family of Gaddafi’s family among many strange things have been found throughout the ransacking of the Gaddafi compound in Tripoli, I collected and posted them, I am sure there are plenty to discover
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL7SJ72O7XM&fea...
Telegraph
First footage of Hana Gaddafi found
The first film footage of the adopted daughter of Col Gaddafi of Libya, who he claimed had been killed in an American bombing raid in 1986, is published today by The Daily Telegraph
The footage, part of a remarkable series of clips of the Gaddafi family at play while on a camping holiday outside Tripoli in the late 1980s, shows Hana Gaddafi kicking a football and being cuddled by her father.
It was filmed around three years after the raid on the Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli which Col Gaddafi claimed had killed the young Hana. On the video, other members of the family can be clearly heard calling her by her name.
The girl in the footage also resembles photographs of an adult woman named Hana Gaddafi whose educational certificates were found in a bedroom in the compound after the fall of the Gaddafi regime.
Read more and watch video:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Tarek
A free #Libya " this is war" www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgY08lAGh8&fea...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgY08lAGh8&fea...
#Libya #NOC staff demonstrating inside the the building youtube.com/watch?v=6yBrsa…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yBrsaIj7Dk&fea...
#Gaddafi was paranoid that he would be assassinated or bombed, he slept separately way from the others’ tent telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… #Libya
Factsheet: #Libya has #Africa’s largest proven oil reserves and produced 1.6 million barrels daily before the revolt erupted in mid-February
#Gaddafi’s regime wasted #Libyans’ money over the years in countless ways
#Libya is land of opportunity arabianbusiness.com/war-torn-libya… via @ArabianBusiness
MAHROUQA, #Libya | Poor #Libyans hope revolution will improve services | The Herald – Rock Hill, SC: bit.ly/pG7zjx
After #Gaddafi: #Libya’s oil industry bit.ly/pU93GK
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: Bloody Battle Continues in Gadhafi’s Hometown bit.ly/qO49P2 #libya
Transcript
The one-time rebel forces are now recognized as the official government and control Tripoli. But they continue to meet fierce resistance in the battle for Sirte, the hometown of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.
That’s where James Foley of the international Web site GlobalPost has been. He filed this report.
feb17.info/media/video-bloody-battle-co...
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya’s Sovereign Fund Seeks Probe on.wsj.com/qanDOj via @WSJ
Good. Let’s keep it that way shall we! RT @Reuters #Libya, IMF in informal talks, no aid requested yet reut.rs/r8sDVS
CTVMercedes Mercedes Stephenson
Cameron points out it was a Canadian General who led the NATO operation for Libya.
#Libya: Another “AK47” that has defected from #Gaddafi! flic.kr/p/apsLJM via @Amani_Alalem
#Libya’n oil needs two years to recover – UPI.com upi.com/Business_News/… via @upi_top
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Gaddafi State TV news bulletin in 1984 of martyrs Ithman Zerti & AlSadeq AlShwehdi hanged by G supporters is.gd/g4X6JE #LIbya
A MUST WATCH * RT “@shanesmith30: On the front lines with Libyan rebels #cnn edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/21...
septimius_sever septimius severus
Risking your life for freedom is one thing. But risking it for the concept of freedom is something else entirely vice.com/vice-news/the-… #Libya
kareemJerusalem Kareem Khadder
What experts say looks like yellowcake powder found outside #Sabha warehouse #Libya yfrog.com/nxqpglzj
satopol
in misrata #libya: pics, words, everything i’ve seen before just doesn’t register the magnitude of destruction on #tripoli street
I took a look at security consultants in #Libya
buswk.co/qlQuTo
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Today, inside Gaddafi’s house in Bab Al Aziziya, I saw parts of the American bombs that fell on it back in the 80s. He kept them. #libya
I also saw what seems to be parts of an American jet aircraft. Did #Gaddafi shoot down one in 80s? There was a wing & an engine #libya
they found doors that were booby trapped & explosives. as soon as they touched them they blew up
Best wall painting I’ve seen so far #Tripoli #Libya fb.me/11LRDN1Hs
I want to upload more #Tripoli pictures but standard quality (the only thing my internet will alow) won’t do them justice… Hmmm
Today I gt to hold a piece of history. Two AK-103s that arrived by sea a few weeks before the battle of #Tripoli. Instrumental to liberation
(The AKs are part of a huge batch of weapons that were smuggled by sea & sent from Misrata & other Libyan cities to Tripoli) #libya
I spoke to some very brave Gurji FF – they used to dig holes near the main road & wait for Gaddafi vehicles to pass, then ambush them
Another collection of photos from #Tripoli coming up… I won’t upload everything ;) but consider it a teaser #libya #feb17
I posted 25 photos on Facebook in the album “A taste of free Tripoli v2 – 22nd September 2011” fb.me/1j3WVSKkx
I can’t wait for a Gaddafi goon to tell me I visited a film set in Qatar. They got my house, belongings and family perfectly right!! #libya
They even kidnapped my family members and took them to Qatar or are these people clones? OH MY GOD!!! :P
I was so happy to hear the FF from all parts of Libya met in #Misrata today and agreed on some extremely important points incl. Libyan army
People in my area celebrated #Sabha’s liberation but I’m pretty sure that everyone here is looking at Sirte and BaniWalid #libya #feb17
They agreed to form one army finally and all FF that don’t comply will be disarmed.
iyad_elbaghdadi
Revolution: The moment the people stop seeing foreign powers & “conspiracies” as their main enemy, and direct their anger at the tyrants.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Battle for #Gaddafi hometown continues, youtube.com/watch?v=2z4mlW…, #Libya, #Sirte, #Gaddafi
Clashes FFs of Misurata in Sirte 2 youtube.com/watch?v=4RJ-Xx…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RJ-XxgtscQ&fea...
aleithead
Audioboo: The Battle for Sirte, Libya boo.fm/b478178 #bbc #leithead
Secret talks with Gaddafi’s men come to haunt China – September 23, 2011: bit.ly/ofyY9T
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#RAF Tornado makes emergency landing at #Malta Int. Hydraulic problem in landing gear. Flames seen, extinguished. Runway blocked. Flights
Flights temporarily diverted to #Sicily until #RAF Tornado is cleared from runway at #Malta Int
BBC
Anti-Gaddafi graffiti on the walls of Libya
During the four decades that Col Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya, his official portraits were everywhere. Now that he has been overthrown, artists are revelling in their new-found freedom and turning this tradition on its head. Caricatures of the vilified leader have been painted on walls throughout the country.
Benghazi, the epicentre of the uprising that swept Libya, has become the hub for this new form of street art. Among the city’s artists is 22-year-old Ibrahim Humaid, an engineering student, who started painting caricatures of Col Gaddafi while he was manning
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-14883637
Sirtawi
Exclusive: Short footage of fighting inside #Sirte taken from high building. youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTCe…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTCektuuc
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
One of the Libya’s World Heritage sites.. filmed at #Leptis Magna. Treasures survive #Libya conflict bbc.in/naXGC0”
BBC News – #Libya conflict: Anti-Gaddafi fighters take Sabha bbc.in/pQswk8
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
May Allah grant the FFs of Libya victory over the walls of Jerusalem like he granted us victory over the walls of Bab Alazizia
#Libye : Du matériel estampillé “radioactif” découvert – tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/mond… via @LeNouvelObs
S K
only an idiot like #gaddafi would put explosives next to radioactive stuff #fail #libya #feb17
#LIBYA @bencnn: many SAM’s found next to radioactive material. Worry they could blow up and distribute radiation through area
Information technologies foster freedom or reinforce repression: bit.ly/pZ7QaO #SocialMedia #revolution
Moez
Friend of mine got shot and broke his leg, his friends were martyred. Spent lot of past few days looking after him
KhadijaTeri
Blogspot:
The Missing Months
We didn’t have internet for about six months (March 3rd to August 22nd) in Tripoli, so of course I wasn’t able to post on my blog during that time. I did however continue to write… and write, and write and write. It was daily therapy to sit down and type out the day’s events.
I thought about putting it all together and publishing it as a book. But as the war comes to an end and a free Libya opens up to a new beginning I’ve decided to put the past behind me and post these missing months on my blog. I need to get on with my life. The future is just too alluring for me to be dwelling on the past – but the past definitely needs to be recorded.
Please take some time and read:
khadijateri.blogspot.com/2011/09/missin...
Moez
Let us not forget the thousands of IDPs around #Libya that are still suffering – long road ahead of us before stabilisation
We need to help and assist our ff’s asap, they are our heroes!
Some very sound advice, please read:
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Force all of this into the open. Vigorous public debate and a free press have been stifled too long… And since you asked… For the injured freedom fighters, my advice is to form a team devoted to their health & welfare. Ultimately, this might evolve into government ministries for healthcare and ‘veterans affairs.’ The issues to tackle are wide-ranging, everything from prosthetics and long-term rehab to counseling and
wheelchair ramps. These are practical, real-world issues confronting the surviving heroes of this revolution — and a grateful nation should do all it can to meet their needs. Paying hospital bills is not enough — yet even that is giving some of the people involved a “headache”, and they’ve talked about turning over all the responsibility for healthcare to bureaucrats at an insurance company. The thought makes me livid. Managing the payment mechanism is important (and should be done far better than it has been). But so is making sure injured freedom fighters don’t lie in urine-soaked hospital beds all day long. Making sure that discharged patients can get to their physical therapy appointments. Making sure that when multiple doctors are treating them, they actually coordinate the care. Making sure that medical reports and x-rays for difficult cases are sent to appropriate international experts for consultation. Following through on medical visas for treatment abroad. Talking to amputees about options and plans for prosthetics, so that even if they don’t get artificial limbs anytime soon, they feel involved in the decision-making, and their hopes and wishes are treated with respect… I could go on, but I think you get the idea. These are urgent matters, and they should supersede politics. But since August 21st, despite more money sloshing around, the situation has worsened, as many of the un-injured Libyans who were helping in any capacity left Tunisia for Tripoli, and those who remain seem preoccupied by events there. Understandable, but problematic nonetheless… We should form a team devoted exclusively to serving the needs of the injured freedom fighters. I would like to lead the Tunis portion of this effort, and I would like to involve people whose ethics and experience I trust the most: injured freedom fighters themselves (quite a few of them are eager and able to help). To get past the frustration stage and really make a difference, we need funding and/or authority (either one would lead to the other).
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
spoke to my dad, 80% of #baniwalid is liberated, there r 5 out of the 52 areas under G control.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I have to say, there are some brilliant posters all over #Libya. Don’t shoot celebratory bullets, don’t loot, etc etc. Just hope ppl follow
You see those SCUDs our FF found in Sirte? I think these snipers should eat one of them
Three things from Gaddafi’s era that we still can’t completely change: number plates, passports and our money..
Nasr
Car reg. plates R being changed in #Benghazi already. Saw them on FB
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Today, as I walked up the stairs in Gaddafi’s Bab Al Azizya house, an old lady started praying at the top of her voice. We all nodded #libya
Old lady: “God damn you Gaddafi. May you suffer, and wish death so bad but never get it. For everything you did to us”
A steady stream of children and women stood at exact same spot where Gaddafi gave his “I AM HERE!!” speech. Asking: where is he now?
My own grandmother refused to go anywhere near BabAziziya. She hates the place and everything to do with it
Two opinions I heard in BabAziziya today: “Bulldoze this whole damn place.” and “Make it a museum, for future leaders to see”
We already have too many so called “universities” while our main one is ignored & badly funded. make babaziziya a park i say
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
its becoming a tradition: every Friday pple protest in the #MEast & gvts don’t listen or respond w bullets.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: The Rebels of Libya: Part 1 – VICE bit.ly/nBcpeO #libya
In one Libyan town, freedom isn’t easy bit.ly/pImyek #libya
LIVE Libyan Unrest: September 23, 2011 bit.ly/oGXhdZ #libya
Aljazeera
The UN atomic agency said on Thursday that Gaddafi’s government had stored raw uranium near Sabha, after CNN reported that NTC forces had found a military site containing what appeared to be radioactive material.
In Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokeswoman Gill Tudor said, “We can confirm that there is yellow cake stored in drums at a site near Sabha … which Libya previously declared to the IAEA.”
Reuters via feb17
Libyan energy firm Sirte Oil has resumed gas output in the Hateiba and Assoumoud gas fields in eastern Libya and supplies are now flowing to coastal power plants, its chairman has said, reducing the need for expensive diesel imports.
Violent clashes between Libya’s interim leaders and those still loyal to deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi have raged along Libya’s eastern coastline since the revolt began in February, leading to a virtual halt in oil and gas production.
Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, which the oil company is named after, is still contested.
“We have started producing and sending gas to the power plants of Benghazi and Zuetina. We even sent some power to Egypt the other day,” Sirte Oil Chairman Fathi Issa told Reuters by telephone.
Interim Government
An interim government in Libya will be announced within the next few days and include 22 ministerial portfolios, a spokesman for the North African country’s transitional rulers said on Friday.
“We’ve agreed on a number of portfolios and who would hold the most important ones. There will be 22 portfolios and one vice premier,” said Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTC). “It would be a compact government, a crisis government.”
Discussions in Libya to set up a more inclusive interim government have been unproductive before. It remains unclear whether the NTC, still based in the eastern city of Benghazi, can unify a country split along tribal and regional lines.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Temporary Monetary Fund Press Release 09/18/11: Tunisian Hospital Payment for Libyan Wounded w/Arabic: goo.gl/OguSp
Latest Developments in #Libya September 21, 2011 goo.gl/q448o #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Libyan oil flows, foreign workers wait is.gd/7S8kxb #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Since I was a kid, knew dictators used Israel as a tool to rule their people.
adrianhong Adrian Hong
I really believe #Libya can be a model. Overwhelmingly the people are hopeful, disciplined, & tolerant of others. #KnockOnWood
Meet #Gaddafi’s electronic army or more like 5 person army + Pinocchio: pic.twitter.com/b6uiqiTz”
Gaddafi’s nephew (Sherif Sahel Gaddafi) is captured few days ago… www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDxn4KVmHUU&sns=em
Rima
I love Libya but the nationalistic fervor of some individuals is frightening. When your love turns into exclusivity, you’ve crossed a line.
Some of Gaddafi’s goons who were tweeting BS and electronically terrorizing Libyans (GEA)… #nameandshame yfrog.com/nvkqybj
Tweeting Tripoli
Exclusive video of Gaddafi’s Chinooks over Tripoli on February 28th, 2011. kids chanting indep anthem in background: youtube.com/watch?v=5kWNzh…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWNzhte2-A
Malek
Here is the female guard interview. Unbelievable but so true. #Libya #Gaddaficrimes youtube.com/watch?v=HDt9FC…
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
FromJoanne Joanne
RAW, #Libya NTC fighters attack residential property in #Tripoli 21.09 goo.gl/6BCme #Libya was that Khanag house ?
Reuters
Libya interim government to be announced within days: NTC
An interim government in Libya will be announced within the next few days and include 22 ministerial portfolios, a spokesman for the North African country’s transitional rulers said on Friday.
More:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/23/us-l...
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Fascinating report from #RUSI in today’s #Times about role of special forces in removing #Gaddafi
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
@Twitter removed 1 of the accts impersonating me.. now waiting for 2nd one to get taken out
Back in #Tripoli, #Libya. Hot shower for the first time in 3 weeks #bliss
Hana
Thank God! My eldest uncle managed to leave #Sirte today. Others we know made it safely as well. Still loads to go. Praying 4 their safety.
My uncle M who arrived yesterday from #Sirte to Misrata said his wife and kids had to live in basement with 180 others away from fighting.
Uncle M said sone ppl used car engines to keep fridges etc running. Some tore down wooden door/window frames to light fire to cook.
G forces have taken over Gajam hotel in #Sirte to launch assaults after they robbed the place and several evacuated houses.
Uncle M had fled Brega in #Feb17 his journey to #Sirte took abt 20hrs rather than the normal 4/5 hrs. #gaddaficrimes #Libya
Tents have been recently placed at Al-Sadada bridge E of #Misrata to shelter those who’re fleeing #SirteCrisis … Numbers are increasing.
I spoke with uncle M for almost an hour the other night, as he told me abt how #FFs are armed and ready inside #Sirte. #SirteCrisis
Many locals assume those who are kidnapped/detained in #Sirte have been executed. But that’s still not for sure.
Jamal Al-Karrami’s doings in #Sirte is just horrendous. He’s senior head of Sirte city center and was behind crimes in #2 & #1. #FreeSirte
StateDept StateDept
U.S. Embassy Tripoli re-opens in #Libya: go.usa.gov/8kM
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Al Jazeera Mubasher showing live friday prayers from Sabha mosque. #Libya #Sabha
#AJE TonyBirtley:
Sabha endured siege w no power. Residents cut off from outside world. Only few w Sat phones know was going on #Libya
Tony Birtley in #Sabha #Libya confirms that freedom fighters have control of most of the town. Negotiations are under way to get the few remaining Gaddafi strongholds to surrender their weapons. Gaddafi forces who fled the town are thought to have perhaps fled south to either the Algerian or Nigerian borders.
Sabha is a strategic town as most of the ammunition that fuelled Gaddafi’s war came from the military base there.
Sabha did not experience the same fighting as other parts of Libya. It has endured a siege with shortages and no electricity. Residents were cut off from the outside world. Only the few who had satellite phones knew what was going in the rest of Libya. Elders in the town had been given the possibility of making Fezzan a separate country, with Sabha as it’s capital.
There are reports that yellow cake was found very close to the town. If Gaddafi had it, he would have been unable to use it.
Sentletse:
Didn’t the NTC say that Gaddafi is in Sahba? Rebels are in control of Sahba now. Where is the Colonel? #Libya
grafixel
ran away again?
Mariam
Enjoy this little video of a billboard paint job vimeo.com/29455420 #tripoli #Libya
#Libya needs the woman, not to prove to the world anything, but for a proper and legit society. We need that depth. #respectTHEwoman
wise man said, if you u want 2 TALK about getting things done get a man 2 do it, if u want 2 get it done get a woman 2 do it.
Ray
100% egree for the women. There also need a youth wing in the #NTC. Prepare your future…!
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
back in #tripoli: after 3 weeks of #baniwalid bedlam tripoli feels like a totally different world, cleaner, sunnier, calmer
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
another lie of our ex friend Gaddafi Hana the daughter who never died tgr.ph/pxbfzc
Amazing how #Mnisrata has changed since may now even Tripoli Street is open with small restaurants and people living there #Libya
la agencia internacional de energía atómica confirma la presencia de depósitos de uranio enriquecido en #Sabha #Libia
Sky News
Libya Grenade Blast Boy Treated In Britain
The first of around 50 Libyan patients injured during the uprising in the country has arrived in Britain for medical treatment.
He had been taken in with his friend Wadir after they suffered devastating injuries when a grenade they were playing with blew up.
They had discovered a stash of ammunition after it was abandoned in their school by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, as they fled National Transitional Council fighters.
Wadir died but Abdul survived. He has now been given a chance to get better.
Sky News viewers contacted us offering to help Abdul, and it is their donations which have paid for him to be flown to Britain.
The Libyan government is paying for his treatment here, as well as for treatment for the other patients who will come over.
Abdul arrived in the UK after a six-hour road journey to Tunisia from Tripoli and then a four-hour flight to London.
After he was assessed by specialist plastic surgeons at St Mary’s Hospital, they carried out an initial operation.
More and Video:
news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16075525
IMPORTANT:
TFMLibya TFM Libya
For Tunisia Hospital Bill payments for #Libyan victims of war call +216 71 965038, +216 71 965040, +216 71 965044, +216 71 965049 please RT
Reuters
Secrets of a “super-fixer” in Libya
Flanked by two colleagues, a 60-something Englishman quietly worked the lobby of Benghazi’s Tibesti Hotel last week, targeting people likely to be the power brokers in a new Libya.
Holmes — a fluent French speaker to judge by his conversations in the hotel lobby — is a former director of Britain’s Special Forces and holder of the Military Cross, one of the country’s highest awards for gallantry, according to a brief biography published by the alumni association of The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
More here:
uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/23/us-li...
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING: #Libya nationals storm into Libyan embassy in #Malta demanding the immediate removal of 8 diplomats
Defence professionals
Min. of Defence UK
RAF destroys command and control facilities in Libya
RAF Tornados yesterday destroyed command and control facilities of pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya before launching successful strikes on armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery.
The attacks, on Tuesday 20 September 2011, were carried out at three different locations across western and central Libya by a Royal Air Force armed reconnaissance patrol as part of NATO’s efforts to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
During the afternoon, another formation of RAF Tornados was tasked by NATO to
mount a precision strike on a military vehicle depot which had been identified near Hun. This proved another successful mission; their Paveways destroying the installation with a number of direct hits.
Major General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Communications Officer, said: "British forces were again in action yesterday over Libya, as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR.
“Early on Tuesday morning, a Royal Air Force armed reconnaissance patrol carried out successful attacks on Gaddafi’s troops in three different locations across western and central Libya.
“At Bani Walid, they destroyed a command and control facility which had been identified by NATO surveillance operations, then proceeded south east to the area of Hun, over 200 miles 322km away, and demolished a second such headquarters, again using Paveway guided bombs.
“The Tornado GR4s next headed some 160 miles 258km north to prosecute a third target, this time in Sirte: a former school which had been commandeered by Gaddafi’s men as a base for armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery. Paveway bombs destroyed the military targets at the site.”
Since the start of military operations on 19 March, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Army Air Corps strikes have damaged or destroyed more than 970 former regime targets that presented a threat to the Libyan people.
Sirtawi
Gl. Erhouma Al-Hameel, who had been recruiting Sirte youths to fight Anti-Gs since uprising, was killed 2 days ago in Talal area in #Sirte
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Italy govt closes migrant boats access to #Lampedusa after riots destroyed camp. Boats diverted to #Sicily
AFP:
Switzerland lifts sanctions against NOC , Zueitina, and Afriqiyah Airways.
Bloomberg
Meet Libya’s New—Well, Newish—Ambassador
Ali Aujali spent years defending Qaddafi. Now he’s with the rebels
This week, a truck will pull up to the Libyan Embassy in Washington’s Watergate office building and haul away 200,000 copies of Muammar Qaddafi’s The Green Book, the deposed dictator’s rambling political manifesto that was required reading in Libya for nearly four decades. Qaddafi shipped the volumes to the U.S. a year ago with orders for his then-ambassador, Ali Aujali, to hand them out everywhere he went. Aujali didn’t bother to do that, and the thousands of unopened boxes crowded the embassy’s closets.
Read more:
www.businessweek.com/magazine/meet-liby...
PEeditorial:
Libya EXCLUSIVE UK firm lobbying Gov for #oil, security deal goo.gl/OmrxL (FREE) @derek_brower
#Libya restarts gas output to feed power plants
Reuters:
bit.ly/q16Hek
English Ahram
NTC fighter killed, family car destroyed fleeing Sirte
A Libyan commander says an NTC fighter was killed and a packed family car destroyed while helping residents flee Moamer Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte
A fighter from Libya’s interim government helping residents flee Moamer Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte was killed on Friday and a packed family car destroyed when pro-Gaddafi forces opened fire on their convoy, a commander said.
“We were escorting families out and the convoy came under fire” from anti-aircraft guns, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, Osama Muttawa Swehly told AFP
Asked why the NTC was delaying, Swehly said "we’re trying to get the families out. We are averaging between 400 to 500 cars a day. “We are basically trying to starve (the Gaddafi forces out.”
Please read more here:
english.ahram.org.eg/News/22235.aspx
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports on the reopening of the American Embassy in #Tripoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv_Ima27tDA&feature=share #Libya #Feb17
CNN
CNN’s Ben Wedeman uncovers a site containing what is possibly radioactive material in Libya.
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/09/22/nr-wedeman-libya-radioactive-material.cnn?iref=allsearch
Tripoli Post
NTC Fighters Biding Time Before Final Assaults on Remaining Al Qathafi Bastions
Despite capturing one of fugitive leader Muammar Al Qathafi’s one of his remaining bastions, Sabha and the key oasis of Al-Jufra – Hun, Waddan and Sokna, the continuous pounding by NATO warplanes of the former dictator’s strongholds the interim government’s forces appeared to be holding back from advancing on Bani Walid and Sirte.
After announcing the capture of Libya’s largest desert city, deep south of the country, Sabha, and two Saharan oases, the National Transitional Council’s commanders say that the pro-Al Qathafi forces are left with fiercely defending the desert city of Bani Walid to the southwest of Libya and the former leader’s hometown of Sirte on the central Mediterranean coast that are both effectively cut off from any line of escape to the country’s remote southern borders.
The oasis and Sabha were liberated after some heavy fighting with an NTC official reportedly explaining that the former rebel fighters seized Waddan on Tuesday, then captured the base between Waddan and Hun at dawn on Wednesday and took Hun during the day.," an NTC official told AFP in Libya’s main eastern city Benghazi on Wednesday evening.
Kamal al-Hzifeh, the co-ordinator between the military command in Al-Jufra and the NTC told AFP that in the fighting two of the NTC fighters were killed and that the pro-Al Qathafi fighters had 11 killed and 25 wounded. H added that they also captured 14 men from the opposition forces.
According to Hzifeh, Al Qathafi’s forces had shelled Hun to cover their retreat before NATO planes intervened at about 17:00 (local time).
Meanwhile, Nato said that in its operational update on Thursday its warplanes had hit four anti-aircraft guns as well a vehicle storage depot around Hun, and a command and control node and five surface-to-air missile systems in and around Sirte.
Commanders on the front line west of Sirte said they had been told to expect further NATO air strikes on Thursday and had orders not to advance.
East of Sirte, after heavy fighting in recent days, commanders on the front line said that they had put off any offensive against the city for at least a week for want of ammunition. “Fighting has been stopped for a week. We are facing a shortage of ammunition,” Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan Brigade, whose troops are some 25km east of Sirte is quoted saying.
The troops advancing on Sirte from Misurata to the west have also been asked to hold their fire, so they could coordinate better, Dardef, who was heading to Libya’s main eastern city of Benghazi with a group of his men to try to organise new supplies, said.
Another new regime commander, Ahmed Zlitni, said the advancing troops were also keen to avoid the use of heavy weapons against Sirte for fear of civilian casualties. He told AFP:"We are still giving time for Sirte civilians to leave the city.”
Residents fleeing from Sirte have been saying that life inside the city had become “unbearable.” There’s a severe shortage of food, and Al Qathafi’s forces have cut off electricity power and mains water. The head of one of the families leaving the city said: "All we’ve been eating is macaroni. “Everybody is hiding in their homes. Nobody is going out.”
Meanwhile, Libya’s new rulers keep on saying that time is on their side. They insist that the holdouts in Bani Walid and Sirte are die-hard supporters, including many who escaped the Tripoli blitz and believe they have no choice but to resist or face war crimes charges themselves.
Patrick_Baz patrickbaz
Border police imposing visas on foreigners or letter from libyan embassy to enter #Libya
The Chad pages:
Les Toubous comptent jouer pleinement leur rôle au sein de la nouvelle Libye
En prenant le contrôle des localités du Sud de la Libye, les Toubous, une communauté ethnique en Libye, entendent démontrer qu’ils sont partie prenante dans la révolte contre le régime du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi.
Dans une région le Fezzan au carrefour des routes vers le Niger, le Tchad et l’Algérie, ce noeud de communication vital, organisé autour de la capitale régionale Sebha, est une pièce maîtresse du dispositif de Kadhafi, où sa tribu —les Guedadfa— joue un rôle politique et économique clé.
Les Toubous ont aidé le CNT libyen en attaquant les troupes du colonel Kadhafi
notamment dans la ville de Morzuk, dans la région désertique du Fezzan, principale ligne logistique reliant Tripoli aux frontières du sud-ouest. Alors que cette tribu, présente dans le Tibesti tchadien et la partie sud de la Libye principalement autour des oasis d’al-Qatroun au sud-ouest, et de Koufra au sud-est, a longtemps été favorable au colonel Kadhafi.
Son soutien au CNT a été décisif et a permis d’ouvrir un front au sud du pays. Les Toubous ratissent le sud de la Libye où subsistent de nombreux loyalistes et interceptent ceux qui tenteraient de fuir vers le Tchad ou le Niger.
Le groupe Toubou se fait appeler “Bataillon du bouclier du désert” et est dirigé par Barka Wardougou, selon l’un de ses représentants à Benghazi (est).
Des leaders Toubous séjournent actuellement à Benghazi afin d’obtenir un soutien du Conseil national de transition (CNT), l’organe politique de la rébellion. Les Toubous comptent un représentant au sein du CNT.
“Toutes les régions de Libye avaient bougé jusqu’à présent, sauf le Sud. En prenant Morzuk, nous voulons envoyer un message clair à Kadhafi, montrer à nos compatriotes que nous prenons part à la révolte”, explique un responsable du groupe, sous couvert d’anonymat.
Souvent méprisés des tribus arabes, les Toubous ont été instrumentalisés par Kadhafi dans les conflits au Niger et Tchad voisins.
Selon le clientélisme qui lui a si longtemps réussi, le Guide libyen leur garantissait un intéressement sur le commerce transfrontalier en échange de la stabilité de la région.
“Nous n’y avons rien gagné. Aujourd’hui nous sommes pauvres, marginalisés dans notre propre pays. C’est pourquoi nous voulons agir pour chasser Kadhafi”, affirme le même responsable.
“Nous voulons notre part de la victoire, pour ensuite défendre les droits de notre minorité et œuvrer au développement” de la région.
Ex-officier de l’armée libyenne, un moment leader d’un mouvement rebelle nigérien (les FARS) inféodé à Kadhafi, Barka Wardougou est une figure chez les Toubous. Il a également passé plusieurs années dans les geôles du régime.
“Il n’est pas question pour nous d’autonomie ou d’indépendance. Nous entendons simplement jouer notre rôle au sein de la nouvelle Libye”, ajoute le même responsable.
Et de mettre en garde : Kadhafi jouera peut-être la carte de la déstabilisation du Sud, avec ses dollars, ses réseaux, notamment chez les Touaregs, et la menace toute proche d’Al-Qaïda.
“Si on nous en donne les moyens, nous pouvons neutraliser ces réseaux et contrôler le désert”, affirme le leader Toubou. “Il en va aussi de l’intérêt de l’Europe”, avec le contrôle de la route des migrants sub-sahariens, et la lutte contre Al-Qaïda, dont l’influence dans le Sahara s’arrête précisément aujourd’hui aux territoires Toubous.
LY_NeverForget Farah
#Libya ‘s martyrs died together. When they died it didn’t matter where they were from.What mattered was that they died to defend our freedom
Malek
Qaddafi in hijab in #Tripoli streets twitpic.com/6p99m1 #Libya
Reuters
ANALYSIS-In Libya’s new politics, localism may trump tribes
Tribes loom large in society, but not politics
Gaddafi manipulated tribes, magnifying rifts
Tribes growing weaker as Libyans flock to towns
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #NTC gives #Gaddafi loyalists in #Sirte until Saturday to surrender or face assault , #Libya
#Libya, Hundreds of anti #Gaddafi fighters arrive at western entrance of #Sirte preparing for push into the coastal city#Gaddafi, #Libya
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi troops clashed with loyalists at western entrance of #Sirte early Friday after they came under heavy sniper fire
#Libya, #Gaddafi loyalists firing rockets in areas around #Sirte where #NTC fighters are positioned, #Libya
#Libya. Anti #Gaddafi fighters find arms depot at farmland near #Sirte … They managed to get a lot of ammunition, #Libya
#Libya, Hundreds of anti #Gaddafi troops taking up positions in the west and south of #Sirte, #LIbya
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
Shakeer is confirmed to be in Damascus Syria!! He changed his look a bit, he will join AlRai TV #Libya #feb17 Another coward
Are you serious??/
yes, he escaped from Niger to Syria
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
1 of the #Libya #Mirages jets that was flown to #Malta in February by 2 defecting pilots is on display this weekend at #Malta Int Air Show
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
On my way back from #libya to #dubai. Exhausted but with a head full of sweet memories.
IMPORTANT
Sirtawi
IMP: Updated list of #Sirte criminals especially those involved within the past month. (Arabic) #SirteCrisis #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/e1STRyrJ
AJA:
FFs gain control of #Sirte’s eastern entrance. #FreeSirte
Tarek
We say “Thank you #UAE” for delivering police cars to #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=RVrW_h…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrW_hq4JUw&fea...
liveTripoli
I didn’t shoot the video, but did see them from far. Really cool looking to. Saw them working too!
Saw at least 20 cars 2 days ago. Also seen them around #Tripoli.
AJELive AJELive
#UN spokesman confirms that Abbas handed #194 #Palestine statehood bid to Ban during meeting. Abbas to speak in 40 mins
aje.me/r5j3G5
C4NForeign Sarah Corp
Arafat square and Rooftops around it in ramallah packed with people waiting to watch abbas speech to UN.lots waving flags.
MORE: Abbas formally asks UN to recognize Palestine state in West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem – @AP
BBCKimGhattas Kim Ghattas
Palestinian pdt Abbas greeted by rousing applause at UN General Assembly. Many Arab delegates stood up. Almost full house for his speech
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
If the Palestine state bid fails Mahmoud Abbas should dissolve the Palestinian National Authority & let Israel deal with the mess it created
IMPORTANT
TFM Press Release September 23, 2011
The Temporary Financial Mechanism (TFM) Tunisian Medical Payment Programme has opened a call centre to handle queries about hospital payment bills in Tunisia. The TFM now covers hospital treatment bills for all Libyan war wounded and those being treated for chronic illnesses across all hospitals in Tunisia.
The Diseases covered are:
FULL PRESS RELEASE:
shabablibya.org/news/tmf-press-release-...
I like this one, lol
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
EU
The European Union said Friday it was lifting sanctions on Libya’s National Oil Corp. following the fall of Col. Moammar Gadhafi last month, ending a key hurdle to the meaningful return of the country’s oil exports to European consumers.In its official journal, the EU said it was striking NOC, along with state-controlled oil-field and port operator Zueitina Oil Co., from a list of entities European companies were barred to have transactions with.
IAEA
In Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokeswoman Gill Tudor said, “We can confirm that there is yellow cake stored in drums at a site near Sabha … which Libya previously declared to the IAEA.”
Aljazeera
Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi was arrested overnight in the southern town of Tameghza, near Tunisia’s border with Algeria, according to ministry spokesman Hichem Meddeb.Meddeb said Thursday two others were detained along with al-Mahmoudi after Tunisian officials found none had visas
S. Al.
Hopefully on #Gaddafi & his golf cart. RT @SkyNewsBreak NASA predicts satellite heading for Earth will crash-land tomorrow
Libyan4life
International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that there is yellow cake stored in drums at a site near #Sabha. #Libya #Feb17
USIP U.S. Inst. of Peace
About to get started here with the new Libyan Minister for Infrastructure and Recon. Watch the webcast on usip.org
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#Jumayl in W #Libya had been putting up #Feb17 flag in day, green #Gaddafi flag @ night – last night they put up #Feb17 acc 2 Senussi Mahrez
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Private companies to ship medicine to #Libya. goo.gl/oG7W3 #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya #NTC fighters outside #sirte test firing their weapons ahead of push into city expected Saturday
septimius_sever septimius severus
Journalism at its best, NYTimes’s @robertfworth dispatch from #Tripoli “Ruins of Gaddafi Never-never land” nyti.ms/nHZsFI #Libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#Zwara FFs still not disarmed because worried about aggression from #Jumayl where until yesterday they put up #Gaddafi green flag @nite
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Big #Amazigh conference scheduled for Mon 26 Sept in #Tripoli. Spread the word!
ArabThinking
UN agency confirms that new Libyan government har found Libya has “raw uranium”. Wow.
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The moment when a Misrata man received the body of his brother, who was martyred in the battle to liberate Sirte
fb.me/19KbxzBkH
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFEA3z_jTfI
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Libya nationals in #Malta demand #NTC removes 10 embassy staff, 8 of whom are diplomats. They claim they are #Gaddafi loyalists
misrati_free
Just back from the port. Shipment mostly of aid contributed by Ahli football club to Misurata and Sirte. Tough day of Etihad fans (me) :)
zonemilitaire
Libye : Le CNT prétend avoir découvert les restes de l’arsenal chimique du colonel Kadhafi t.co/IX71TIro
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Praying for Palestinian Statehood – #Palestine #Libya #UN
The UN cultural agency is helping to rebuild Libya’s educational system following the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime
hominoid555 Russell
كونا : Libya hails Kuwaiti aid convoy – الشؤون الإجتماعية – 23/09/2011: kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPu… via @AddThis
FP
Mugabe attacks NATO over Libya intervention
Over the past week, Muammar al-Qaddafi’s African friends have cut the former Libyan ruler loose, and grudgingly recognized his NATO-backed rebel movement, the National Transitional Council, as Libya’s legitimate rulers.
But Africa’s latest fallen leader is not without his defenders — particularly among a generation of aging rulers who came of age in the same era of national liberation.
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s long-ruling leader, today launched a bitter attack against the NATO-backed war against Qaddafi, denouncing the Western military alliance and the “blatant, illegal, brutal, and callous NATO’s murderous bombings.”
Full art.:
turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/...
Proudlibyandoc
#Abbass, we, in the absence of absolute justice, have accepted to build our state on only 22% of our original land.
The world saw the resilience of #Libya n ppl in the pursuit of freedom n justice, let #Obama #Israel know, Palestinians r no less resilient
feb17libya Feb17Libya
“The time has come for the Palestinian Spring” – Mohamed Abbas
Standing ovation for Mahmoud Abbas as he raises the application for statehood – #Palestine #Libya #UN
libyanfsl M. Ali Abdallah
Libya’s FF take over control of Sirte’s Eastern entrance (Check-point) #Feb17 #Libya
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
As of last night 80% of Bani Walid is free of Gaddafi forces, 5 areas still under their control. #Libya #Feb17
LibyaNewMedia
US & European representatives should melt from shame while listening to Abbas, but they won’t. #UN #Palestine
Reuters
FACTBOX-Countries that recognise Libya’s NTC
Sept 23 (Reuters) – More than 60 countries have recognised
Libya’s National Transitional Council. Here is a list of those
countries
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/23/liby...
FromJoanne Joanne
FLASH #NTC MohamedNasser : The #NTC members will hold an URGENT meeting on Sunday to discuss the formation of an interim government #Libya
Aljazeera
French oil giant Total announced Friday it will restart production from an offshore oil platform off Libya within days, making it the first major to return to work since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
“We are going to restart production on Al Jurf this weekend,” a spokesperson said, referring to a field Total operates in a joint venture with the Libyan state oil company and the German firm Wintershall.
The Al Jurf platform lies around 100km (62 miles) from western Libya’s coast in the Mediterranean, and before a revolution erupted against Gaddafi’s rule it produced around 40,000 barrels per day.
Its operators shut it down in March as fighting raged across the country and the international community slapped sanctions on the regime’s exports.
The European Union has now lifted its sanctions to allow Libya’s new former rebel government to restart the country’s most important export industry and begin the job of rebuilding the country.
Total said it would take “a few weeks” before Al Jurf is back to full production. It is operated by Mabruk Oil, a joint venture 50 percent owned by the National Oil Corporation, 37.5 percent by Total and 12.5 by Winstershall.
Before the war Libya produced around 1.6 million barrels of crude per day.
One local firm, Arabian Gulf Oil from the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi restarted production ten days ago, and other firms plan to do so. AFP
6 fighters from Misrata were wounded in #Sirte today. Most of them are in good
condition #Libya v @Assomood_ly
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in #Libya take control of Sirt’s Eastern gate
NTC Fighters on the east frontline have control of the Sirt gate.
FromJoanne
FLASH NTC #MohammedNaser: Formation of interim government could take up to 1week Will include a premier a vice premier + 22 ministers ~libya
#Flash #Libya Interim government will prepare for election within 8 months of a National Congress a body that will have 200 members
#Belhaj: National Congress will form a committee 2write a constitution 4 #Libya after that Libyan people will vote on it in a referendum
Libyus
“It is incredible 2 b a witness to an entire people & culture shed its shackles and muzzles! GOD BLESS LIBYA!” #Libya: Everyone Has a Story
Ali Zinati Ferjani was arrested on farm in #Sabha yesterday. Had “large amount of cash with him.” #Libya v #SabhaMediaCentre
Link to the
“VISION OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS DURING THE TRANSITION PHASE”
by LibyaNFSL (@Libyanfsl) : www.libyanfsl.com #Libya
Have a look:)
NaelTheLibyan
How to park your car Libyan way – youtube.com/watch?v=olKIPP… #Libya #Epic #Lazy
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=olKIPPFbwDc&fea...
KIDNAPPINGS:
Ghadames council members kidnapped this afternoon on road between #Ghadames & #Nalut, after attending meeting in Nalut #Libya v LibyaAlYoum
Third in spate of recent kidnappings. First reported case: BBC reporter & friend from #Ghadames on Sept9 #Libya www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14948319
Kidnapped were Chairman of #Ghadames Local Council, Abdullah Bahamy & Chief of Military Council, Colonel Abdul Kader Attia #Libya
FreedomGroup, News in English:
Merlin UK provided Advanced First Aid and Emergency Response training for staff (men & women) from the Nalut Red Crescent, as well as medical staff from hospitals in Nalut, Kabow and Jadu.
completion of Merlin course.اختتام الدورة التدريبية
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsfXxpsv9_c
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photographer coming back from #Sirte Gaddafi troops fire against convoy of civilians trying to scape from the city hundreds leaving
FreedomGroup, News in English
6 fighters from Misrata were wounded in Sirte today. Most of them are in good contition.
1. Ahmed Bashir Misrati
2. Abu Bakr ibn Anas wafa
3. Ahmed Ibrahim Aft
4. Adel Ibrahim Al-Satur
5. Tariq Abubakar Glewan
6. Waseem Ramadan Abu Aqilah
FromJoanne Joanne
#Fathi #BenIssa #Libyan Newspaper Editor received Death Threats by phone from Islamists for criticisng #Belhadj
#FLASH Captuered: General Belgasem al-Abaaj says #Gaddafi called him 10 days ago Said he was moving secretly between #Sabha and #Ghat #Libya
General Abaaj now in #NTC custody said that #Gaddafi "is helped by Nigerian and Chadian mercenaries who know the desert routes #Libya
#NTC Wardugu: We arrested 18Gaddafi soldiers 300 #Chad Mercenaries 2day caught 60 ppl; from #Sudan #Somalia #Eritrea near #Zouila #Libya
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Freedom fighters have gained control of Sirte’s eastern gate.
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
Just spoken to brother of Taher, still no news of him after 7 days, no demands from kidnappers, reportedly including Arabs from Zintan
#Libya My friend reports kidnapping occurred approx 50km north of #Dirj as group from #Ghadames en route to #Nalut 18 people now hostage
#Touareg kidnap situation in southern #Libya worsens again, 10 more taken today including military chief & mayor of #Ghadames
Muscat Daily
Gadhafi was recently in south Libya: NTC
A captured general loyal to Moammar Gadhafi has said the fugitive Libyan leader was secretly moving around in the southern desert, a commander of the new regime told AFP on Friday.
Read more:
www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Gcc/Gadhafi...
News Republic
Kadhafi troops fire on fleeing family convoy
A fighter for Libya’s interim government helping desperate residents flee Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown was killed on Friday and a packed family car was destroyed when pro-Kadhafi forces fired on their convoy, a local commander said.
One month to the day since Kadhafi’s compound fell to rebels in Tripoli, the campaign to take Sirte and the fugitive ex-Libyan leader’s other remaining bastion of Bani Walid was on hold for another day.
Asked why National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters were delaying a final assault on Sirte, commander Osama Muttawa Swehly said "we’re trying to get the families out.
“We are averaging between 400 to 500 cars a day. We are basically trying to starve (the Kadhafi forces) out.”
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Mgr Martinelli :
A wind of optimism is blowing in Tripoli
people want reconciliation and a new start.
www.speroforum.com/a/60667/Libya---Mgr-... #libya #feb17
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
#gaddafi is still at large, no movement on #baniwalid and #sirte fronts. nothing has changed significanly since the fall of tripoli. sad.
LibyaNewMedia
I’d love to see Israel & Palestine uniting & Muslims, Christians, Jews & others live together and shock all Armagaeddon-scenario radicals!
sueturtonaje Sue Turton
After weeks of stalemate Libyan fighters take East gate of #Sirte. Momentum now with them. Let’s see if they can hold their ground #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
When it’s ciggy time, its ciggy time, no big shot army speaker guy at Martyr’s Square can make me miss my ciggy time!! yfrog.com/h3lulwsj
Yefrenia
why do my busy days always coincide with imp events in the world? I missed liberation of Tripoli,Jalil’s arrival in Tripoli & now UN speech
FIFA has changed the flag of #Libya on FIFA website but not the backround colour, yet:
www.fifa.com/associations/association=lby/index.html
septimius_sever septimius severus
EU unfreezes #Libya assets, remove prohibition of Libya aircraft use of EU airspace & partially lift the ARMS EMBARGO shar.es/HNhYa
FromJoanne Joanne
#Ghoga thanks #Tunisia for arresting ex PM #Mahmoudi Video : goo.gl/FDZY + A humanitarian Crisis is unfolding in south of #Libya
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
View latest photos from #NewYork of #UK @ForeignOffice Ministers at the #UN General Assembly:
bit.ly/n0rJ7F
Huffington Post
Libyan: Revolutionaries Plan New Assault On Bani Walid
TRIPOLI, Libya — Revolutionary fighters in Libya are planning a new assault on a loyalist stronghold southeast of Tripoli where forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have put up fierce resistance for two weeks, a commander said Friday.
Attempts to take the desert city of Bani Walid have failed, as loyalist forces massed inside direct punishing mortar, rocket and machine gun fire at fighters crowded around the northern gate. A brigade of fighters will try instead to attack the city from the
southeastern side, said field commander Abdel-Salam Genouna.
Read more here:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/libya...
FromJoanne Joanne
#France ’s Oil Company #Total says they will restart Libyan #oil production this weekend #Libya
Aljazeera Blog:
Fighters of Libya’s National Transitional Council have penetrated the eastern gate of Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, after entering it without any resistance from the former leader’s forces, a commander told the AFP news agency on Friday.
“Our fighters are in control of the eastern gate of Sirte,” Commander Ahmed Zlitni from the operations centre told AFP.
“They are two kilometres (1.2 miles) ahead of the gate and holding positions there. Technically we can say that we entered Sirte from the east,” Zlitni said, adding that the fighters “did not face any resistance” when they crossed the gate.
Fighter Muatiz Saad, deployed near the town of Sultana, 30 kilometres (19 miles) east of Sirte, also told AFP that a large number of his comrades had entered Sirte from the eastern gate.
“I was at the frontline and I came to know that our troops have entered Sirte from the eastern gate,” he told AFP at one of their bases near the town of Harawa, around 40 kilometres east of Sirte.
Earlier this week the fighters of the National Transitional Council, Libya’s new ruling body, faced stiff resistance around six kilometres ahead of the town of Sultana from loyalists of Gaddafi.
For the past four days they had been unable to push ahead and from early Thursday there was also a drop in fighting after they faced shortages of ammunition. AFP
Sarah سارة المشيرقي
If you know anyone who is fluent in Python, familiar with Google App Engine, and can help me on amazing #Libya project, DM @Sarurah
MSNBC
Libyan-American recalls horror of ‘grave cell’ inside Gadhafi prison
After blindfolding Abdulmoneim Tabuni, a prison guard put a gun to his head and told him to “say a prayer.”
It was the most harrowing moment of the Libyan-American research scientist’s six-month imprisonment in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, as fighting raged across the North African country to oust embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Tabuni, a 55-year-old father of five, suffered other horrors at the hands of Gadhafi’s henchmen: He was beaten twice, forced to share a cramped cell with others who took out their anger on him and had to endure the almost daily crackle of gunfire filtering in from outside — all while being held a short distance from his home.
Full art.:
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Aljazeera Blog:
French oil giant Total announced Friday it will restart production from an offshore oil platform off Libya within days, making it the first major to return to work since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
“We are going to restart production on Al Jurf this weekend,” a spokesperson said, referring to a field Total operates in a joint venture with the Libyan state oil company and the German firm Wintershall.
The Al Jurf platform lies around 100km (62 miles) from western Libya’s coast in the Mediterranean, and before a revolution erupted against Gaddafi’s rule it produced around 40,000 barrels per day.
Its operators shut it down in March as fighting raged across the country and the international community slapped sanctions on the regime’s exports.
The European Union has now lifted its sanctions to allow Libya’s new former rebel government to restart the country’s most important export industry and begin the job of rebuilding the country.
Total said it would take “a few weeks” before Al Jurf is back to full production. It is operated by Mabruk Oil, a joint venture 50 percent owned by the National Oil Corporation, 37.5 percent by Total and 12.5 by Winstershall.
Before the war Libya produced around 1.6 million barrels of crude per day.
One local firm, Arabian Gulf Oil from the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi restarted production ten days ago, and other firms plan to do so.AFP
CNN
Gaddafi palace in sabha city 23 9 11قصر القذافي المجرم
Ben Wedeman (A tour of Qadhafi’s digs in #Sabha. Shot in Sabha, #Libya, not Doha. )
قصر القذافي المجرم في مدينة سبها الليبية this is how the bedouin leader used to live it up with libyan people money
via youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmBo97Cx6X0
frankentele Sean Carberry
If there is any justice, it will fall on the next person to fire a gun in the air in #Libya: Falling Satellite bbc.in/q6HgvW
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Zlitni says: Fighters R 2KM ahead of East gate of SIRTE and holding positions there We Entered #Sirte from the East #Libya
Aljazeera
A captured general loyal to Muammar Gaddafi has said the fugitive Libyan leader was secretly moving around in the southern desert, a commander of the new regime told the AFP news agency on Friday.
“General Belgasem al-Abaaj, who we captured on Monday, said that Gaddafi had contacted him by phone about 10 days ago, and that he was moving secretly between (the oasis town of) Sabha and Ghat” on the Algerian border, said Mohammed Barka Wardugu.
Abaaj had said that Gaddafi “is helped by Nigerian and Chadian mercenaries who know the desert routes,” added Wardugu, spokesperson for the Desert Shield Brigade attached to the National Transitional Council (NTC).
The general was Gaddafi’s intelligence chief in the southern Khufra region, where he was wanted by the NTC for many crimes, Wardugu said.
“I think Gaddafi is hiding in the Sahara region between Libya and Algeria,” he said, adding that dozens of dozens of mercenaries and soldiers loyal to Gaddafi had been arrested in the south.
“We have arrested 18 Gaddafi soldiers, 300 Chadian mercenaries and today we caught 60 people of different nationalities (Sudanese, Somalis and Eritreans) in the vicinity of Zouila” southeast of Sabha, Wardugu said.
He said the region was calm following the capture of Sabha on Wednesday.
Regarding the existence of concentrated uranium or yellow cake in the Sabha area, Wardugu said its existence had been known “for a long time.”
“For many years, we knew that there were biological or radioactive materials stored in a military centre in the northeast of Sabha airport.
“We had talked to the Gaddafi regime about the danger to civilians. But they never did anything for the people of the south.”
The UN atomic agency confirmed the existence of yellow cake in Libya after US news channel CNN reported that new regime forces had found potentially radioactive material.AFP
Joanne
#International #Atomic #Energy #Agency confirmed #Gaddafi Regime stored uranium near #Sabha its being stored in drums at the site #Libya
Of the 60.000 landmines planted by #Gaddafi troops in area between #Ajdabiya and #Sirte about 21.000 been cleared but many ppl killed #Libya
Imagine the faces (and joy) of the officials at #Libya’s Central Bank when they discovered the equivalent of $23 billion in their vaults :)
Al Jazeera
Iconic war hotels
The al-Nasr in Tripoli, like other famous war hotels, has been linked to public perceptions of the conflict
In early February this year I was one of a small group of journalists invited to stay at the five-star Hotel al-Nasr in Libya’s capital, Tripoli. We were perhaps the last to do so before the rebel uprising put the emergency brakes on the country’s fledgling tourist industry.
It had all looked so promising. After many years in the tourism doldrums, and following the lifting of Western sanctions in 2004, visitors had begun to return to Libya. They were attracted by world-class Roman ruins such as Leptis Magna, oasis cities like as Ghadames, and Sahara Desert adventures.
In Tripoli the Turkish-owned Rixos Group was keen that its new acquisition, the al-Nasr, should benefit from the tourism revival and organised our press trip with the help of a local tour operator in the hope of some media coverage for the hotel.
Despite its opulence, the al-Nasr in February was virtually empty, and we three journalists had it almost to ourselves. We rattled around its deserted corridors and cavernous conference rooms, and ogled the sumptuous suites where, we were informed, princes and presidents had slept.
Just one week after we returned from Tripoli, the uprisings that had first engulfed neighbouring Tunisia, then Egypt, erupted in Libya. The al-Nasr fell under Gaddafi’s
control, and the hotel soon emerged as the temporary home of the world’s media.
The press were treated to regular appearances by Gaddafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, and on special occasions by the Colonel himself who, it was rumoured, had direct access to the hotel’s underground conference rooms via tunnels from his nearby compound at Bab al-Aziziya.
Full story:
english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/...
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
last glimpse of #baniwalid before heading out: brigades regouping, heavy art’ry moving forw, no clear command structure but morale high
Tunis is laid back and full of handsome architecture and people, excellent fish+wine, sea+sky, mood = relaxed, en route home
hrw Human Rights Watch
Halt Exhumations of Mass Graves In #Libya – Forensic Experts Needed to Identify Remains, Secure Evidence
huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/lib…
septimius_sever septimius severus
#France’s Total restarts Libyan oil production – AFP goo.gl/fb/1l5KK #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
One of the first orders of business in post-Gadhafi #Libya is to clean out the rotten wood starting with “LIA”
blogs.wsj.com/corruption-cur…
septimius_sever septimius severus
Special Report: How to win business in #Libya: on.msnbc.com/pwFdj4 via @msnbc
Aisha
How to Illustrate the Most Surreal Country on Earth #LIBYA nyti.ms/pBo19I I want Gaddafi 2 Die not just once .But every min,every hr
Safe access needed to Sirte and Bani Walid | ReliefWeb reliefweb.int/node/448618 via @addthis #Libya #Feb17
212Group 212Group
Tripoli national conference is on Saturday 24/9/2011 from 9:30 13:00 all we encourage all media to contact us to organise this event live
Anyone interested contact us on twitter Or 212group.org Facebook.com/212group our info and emails info@212Group.org
all journalists TV contact us to register and get your press pass for the Tripoli National conference upcoming events
This is the media invention needed to cover the Tripoli National Conference event on Saturday yfrog.com/nva1ixej
FreeBenghazi
Martyred today: In BaniWalid,
AliSalah SalemAbeid (from BaniWalid).
AbdelHamid AliArfida (from Misrata).
Total, 20wounded
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
families fleeing #sirte slowed to half number from yesterday, loyalist forces blocking more routes out and firing on those leaving
NZ News
Race hatred clouds Libya’s democratic ambitions
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – For the rebels who toppled Muammar Gaddafi, the new Libyan era has ushered in unbounded political freedom and deep personal joy. For Dijmon, a 25-year-old Nigerian laborer in the newly captured capital, it brought fear.
The rebels’ elation at victory has in some places turned into rage at people like Dijmon, whose dark skins identified them with Gaddafi’s foreign soldiers of fortune even if they had nothing to do with the former leader.
“There was shooting all around the car wash where I worked,” he recalled of the day he fled his home in Tripoli. “Then the boys from the neighborhood came and attacked me with hammers.”
The treatment of African migrants and dark-skinned Libyans is an early test of the new rulers’ vows to build a democratic state, which their European and U.S. backers feel would justify their intervention against Gaddafi on humanitarian grounds.
Race and skin color were already dividing lines for Libyans, and as in other north African Arab states, many people have a dismissive attitude toward black Africans.
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards stole surface-to-air missiles from #Libya smuggled them into #Sudan goo.gl/DSZ5p
#Gaddafi Regime stored uranium near #Sabha its being stored in drums at the site #Libya Photo yfrog.com/z/nw671rxj #Libya #yellowcake
The Enemy Of My Enemy: Libyan Islamists and Western Forces – TIME ti.me/nmeweu #Libya
Abdullah
Electricity is back to the whole of AL Jufra areas.
Libyans Adjust Military Strategy on.wsj.com/pps8hl via @yarotrof from #BaniWalid #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: photo (25/2/2011) from #Benghazi, a crate of Molotov cocktails, ironically سعادة “HAPPINESS” written in arabic pic.twitter.com/xbYFKhJ8
CNN: Pro Gaddafi mercenary speaks out Sept 21 2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfsRO9IwRw&fea... #Libya #CNN
Sumayyah
3amu Ali Sussi was released after 7 years in AbuSalim, & died this morning on his way to Sirte frontline. AllahYar7ama
goo.gl/VhTU9
icrc_english ICRC in English
#Libya: #ICRC calls for safe access to Sirte and Bani Walid, more under:bit.ly/nvaIcq
septimius_sever septimius severus
Photos: #Libya Gaddafi graffiti wcnc.com/news/slideshow…
#EU Lifts Sanctions On Libyan National Oil Corp. | Fox Business foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/0… …. #Libya
#Libya fighters say they blocked an escape route for Gaddafi supporters – MiamiHerald.com bit.ly/rj2hN0 via @HannahAllam
Battles in #Libya raise specter of insurgency – The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/battles-in... via @washingtonpost
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 24th 2011
9/24/11
9.24.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/ZjxDE
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#Ghadames Councillors abducted after car flying new flag, to make them think it was freedom fighters, stopped them v presssolidarity #Libya
Shakir on #Syria’n Arrai. Recounts2 fellow criminal, AlJuburi, fall of #Tripoli, blah blah #Libya لعنة الله عليهم
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQXfIIzeF4
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Names of Wounded (September 23)
::: Sirte Front :::
1. Abu Bakr ibn Anas Wafa (Misrata)
2. Ahmed Ibrahim Aft (Misrata)
3. Adel Ibrahim Al-Satur (Misrata)
4. Tariq Abubakar Glewan (Misrata)
5. Abdullah Ibrahim al-Shami Misrata)
6. Salah Fathallah Omar (Misrata)
7. Yusuf Mohamed Hmaida (Misrata)
8. Ashraf Ali Al-Bakaraf (Misrata)
9. Khaled Suleiman Abed (Misrata)
10. Osama Milad Bashir (Misrata)
11. Ahmed Bashir Misrati (Tripoli)
12. Waseem Ramadan Abu Aqilah (Tobruk)
::: Bani Walid Front :::
13. Breek Mohammed Breek (Sellouk)
14. Mohammed Nur al-Din El-Deeb (Misrata)
15. Fathi Zaki al-Sanusi (Misrata)
::: Assdada (Car accident during reconnaissance mission) :::
16. Ismail Atayyib Al-Kabi
17. Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Hussein
18. Fathi Abdullah Al-Awib
19. Muhammad Tariq Fanas
20. Abdel Salam Ibrahim Abu Jabirah
Emo
#Aisha #Gaddafi is not supposed to make political statements. #NTC #Libya should not build relations with #Algeria gov.
Mitkanti Osama
This is just to confirm that the news of civil armed conflicts in the western region of #libya is 100% true after moredetail today!
It is also confirmed that there are conflicts within #azzawiya itself, namely between Awlaad Saqar and Awlaad 3jeena !
Fighter from #azzawiya have aligned themselves with Misratah and are abusing their authority and are committing thriving crimes from homes!
Yesterday, the fighting was stopped after the good ppl from #zintan came down and negotiated a ceasefire between the warring parties!
According to eye witnesses several thousand ppl from wershiffana were in the process of heading to #azzawiya and “dealing” with them!
It is understood that ppl from #sorman, #ajmail, and al3jailat have all had enough of the tyranny commuted by #azzawia fighters!
The fighting lasted from Wednesday night until Thursday noon time!
#wershiffana are also fed up with the fact that certain political factions are trying to
unjustly frame them as supporters of Gaddafi
According to my brother, #wershiffana have sent a delegation to Benghazi to explain #azzawiya transgressions and have informed 1/2
2/2 …in tripoli air base but no interest was shown by these parties to put a stop to the behaviour of fighters from #azzawiya !
As a result, ppl decided to obtain arms and in fighting in the area is not an uncommon occurance!
The area is very tense and up to yesterday, #wershiffana were still holding prisoners from the raiding fighters of #azzawiya
It should be noted that within #azzawiya itself there is friction and tension due to the attitude of those fighters!
Ppl in general in #wershiffana are no longer awaiting a resolution from the #NTC or its commanders due to latter’s disinterest!
1/2 According to ppl in the area, it is said that it is likely that #wershiffana, #sorman, al3jailat, and #ajmail might act to “teach”
2/2 fighters from #azzawiya a lesson for their behaviour!
I pray nothing will happen but ppl have had enough!
I am so proud of ppl from #zintan in halting the situation from getting worse yesterday!
I salute #zintan for acting in the interests of peace and the COUNTRY!
by the way, when I asked my brother that they should inform m3’tiga, he said they have but no one was interested!
all I can say is that ppl need to wake up and stop all this bullshit ! Idiotic!
my brother said as a result of what happened yesterday about 8000 ppl nearly moved on zawiya cent had it not been 4 da peace makers
it really is sad and it breaks my heart! Don’t these ppl understand that the country doesn’t need this shit!
If anyone from #azzawiya is reading this, I implore you to talk to the fighters there to stop raiding neighboring towns.ppl had enough!!
Zintan did a good job yesterday to cool it down! They really stopped it by talking sense to both parties!
I just hope #azzawiya fighters will stop this raiding business and that everyone will grow brains!
It is imperative that what I write should never be interpreted as an implicit support of strife! I write for the sake of awareness!
It should be clear also that Gaddafi and cohorts are criminals and murderers! But that doesn’t give anyone else the right of revenge!
It should be absolutely clear also that Wershiffana has never been a supporter of gaddafi as a tribe & will not stand being labeled as such
If other ppl want to cover for their own ppl having been G supporters for years then hang it on someone else!
cswift2 Cara Swift
So that’s where he is. Dr Yusuf #Shakir was live from the Damascus studio on Al-Ra’y TV. Did anyone see it? #Libya
Yefrenia
I found out today someone my parents know was kidnapped by Gaddafi’s men during Tripoli’s liberation…they still don’t know where he is…
Compare headline to article:
Telegraph
Urgent efforts underway to recover stolen Libyan weapons from al-Qaeda
Urgent efforts are underway to recover looted stockpiles of weapons in Libya amid fears they have fallen into the hands of al-Qaeda, President Barack Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser has said.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, John Brennan, said he was worried about the number of machine guns and surface-to-air missiles that have gone missing during the Libyan revolution.
He said it was important to prevent them falling into the hands of al-Qaeda’s North African branch, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) which has “close relations” with the branches in Yemen and Pakistan.
More:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-q...
LibyaNewMedia
Algeria & Niger host & protect prominent Gaddafi regime figures that continue to fight against the new Libya. This is a serious problem.
Algeria says it fears instability & says it’s prepeared to work with the NTC for security, yet it protects the Gaddafi family. #Libya
Algeria has nothing to gain by hosting the Gaddafi’s. They can only lose from prolonged instability. Why are they taking stupid decisions?
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Phosphorous weapons being used by #gaddafi forces in #baniwalid.
Tweeting Tripoli
Now a days I hear many voices for Jibril (the head of the interim government) to resign at this critical moment of our revolution, when it is gaining noticeable momentum and all seems fine so far. I am not supporting Jibril as a person, by the way, as I really don’t know the guy; I also don’t know Jalil (Head of NTC) for that matter. But should Jibril be replaced by another person, how can we be sure the new guy will gain major public support and liking? As I know, the intermi goverment is appointed at this stage and not elected. Isnt the purpose of the interim gov is to takes us to the stage of constitution and general election after 240 days? Or am I missing a point here?
Aisha who said 2 months ago, “Anyone who doesn’t like her father doesn’t deserve to live” has just distributed killing orders via Alrai TV.
This is an act of aggression from Algeria’s part for allowing her. NTC and the world should react. This criminal should b brought 2 justice.
One of the priorities now (+ providing health care for our injured) is to catch the bastards. Aisha just sprayed poison.
Azro
if Algeria wants to make up for #libya they should hand out the devil’s 3 criminal kids to Libyan authority NOW
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
Aisha Gaddafi spoke tonight on “Arrai” TV… Asks Libyans to be “proud of their leader” (her father…not Abdel Jalil)
liveTripoli
The revolutions the world has seen are the small replica of what will happen on it’s scale. What we saw in the #UN resembles nothing new.
abuhatem
“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”
kosovo_01
Republic of Kosovo has recognised NTC and NTC should recognise indipendence of KOSOVO…sofiaecho.com/2011/08/28/114…
Ahmed Nouri Elhasuni
by Children of Libya Aid Foundation on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 12:39pm
CLAF visited the 14 year old Libyan child Ahmed Nouri Elhasuni at Clinic International Hannibal in Tunis, Tunisia on September 19, 2011.
At the beginning of September, 2011, Ahmed was playing with his brother Anas (11 years old) in front of his house in Benghazi. He found small metal cylindrical object similar to a cigarette ( shorter in length) and one of its ends was red. Ahmed picked up this cylinder in his right hand and started to walk toward his brother to show it to him. The cylinder exploded in Ahmed’s hand and injured both brothers. Large number of shrapnel fragments hit both Anas and Ahmed. Ahmed lost some fingers from both hands. Ahmed’s mother was inside the house when she heard the explosion. She ran out to check on her children. Both boys were taken to Al Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi. Anas is currently in Benghazi where he is continuing his recovery. Ahmed came to Tunis on Sunday, September 18, 2011 to continue his medical treatment.
Photo’s of Ahmed here:
www.facebook.com/notes/children-of-liby...
Yefrenia
there are many Libyans still unaccounted for & missing in the hands of Gaddafi…it’s not over till that man is caught dead or alive… #Libya
AmazighLibya
Very distressing how remnants of war & the #Gaddafi regime will continue to injure and kill our children for many years to come.
MwattinLeebi Mwattin Leebi
Reports gunfire in Beevy area in Tajoura, East #Tripoli.
AP The Associated Press
Gadhafi’s daughter says her father is well and fighting alongside supporters apne.ws/oF2Ydm -CC
Aljazeera Aljazeera’s Sue Torton reporting from the East Gate of Sirte #Libya 23/9/2011
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS4Vdb4Uum0
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Boody Battle Continues in Gadhafi’s Hometown
Audio and transcript:
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec1...
Sarah
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/aRIYcHLAOOQ?a البركة قرب كتيبة الفضيل – Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi.
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/q-bENr5KMNY?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 2 – البركة قرب كتيبة ال
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/eqmXZbPpttQ?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 3 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/NM5dUBRmc5k?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 4 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/Ew2YeX82xQg?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 5 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/B1lyq4BW1mo?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 6 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/RIicCe8G4YI?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 7 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/xHZ_inGlmNo?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 8 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
Aisha
Did David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy ‘get lucky’ in #Libya? channel4.com/news/cameron-a… #c4news rt @channel4news
Danya
Life rarely turns out the way we plan, we must always expect the unexpected, find strength, adapt and handle everything with grace.
Must watch:
Gheblawi
Our angel Malak al-Shammi is happy and singing in #NewYork with Libyan community
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivZImzBPXb4&feature=share
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
Accused of Fighting for #Qaddafi, a Libyan Town’s Residents Face Reprisal nytimes.com/2011/09/24/wor… #Libya #Tripoli #Feb17
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
Many confirm that Mutassim Gaddafi is still in #Sirte in an area between #3 and Al-Jeeza. #SirteCrisis #Libya
Mutassim Gaddafi was seen last Fri attending a funeral in #Sirte near where Safrouni family lived. #SirteCrisis #Feb17
In retaliation for recent oppression in #Sirte, armed local #FFs fired at Mutassim Gaddafi’s entourage as he left the funeral. #SirteCrisis
Incredible number of new members from ppl who fled #Sirte are now joining us on FB with news and pics. It’s like they’ve been buried alive!
Tweeting Tripoli
Shakeer… Now and then, spot the difference?
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Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Yosif Shakeir told me he had an AK47 and was staying in Tripoli to fight. can’t believe he lied to me.
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Aisha #Gaddafi Spoke this via #Syria TV
youtube.com/watch?v=5XD7tj…
or:
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#Sirte A lot of families have fled the city no further than the outskirts in order to stay as close as possible to their homes #Libya
Gadhafi’s daughter says father is well, fighting
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s firebrand daughter said in an audio recording broadcast Friday that her father is in high spirits and fighting alongside his supporters against the revolutionary forces who swept his regime from power.
In her first public remarks since the fall of Tripoli a month ago, Aisha Gadhafi accused the country’s new leaders of being traitors, noting that some of them were members of Gadhafi’s regime before defecting in the civil war.
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#Sirte RedCross has setup tents on #Sdata Bridge where people are resting bf moving on They receive water juice bread cheese #Libya #ICRC
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya current situation explained on #Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya 2 entities claiming to be the de jure governing authority in #Libya
Yefrenia
priority for jobs in Libya should go to Libyans…foreigners want to help with reconstruction? then train Libyans…& let Libyans build Libya…
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Some good ideas from Deputy Interior Minister #Sagezli for #Libya: a GI bill financing education or jobs training for FFs without skills
frankentele Sean Carberry
“We need a leader to give us instructions” – revolutionary fighter outside Bani Walid. #Libya huff.to/o7iveG
nprnews:
In Libya, Some Just Learning Of Gadhafi’s Downfall |
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Sarah LFFR
Un habitant de #Sirte : “Dans la ville, dès que vous quittez la place centrale, il y a des tirs. Cela vise à effrayer la population” 1/2
2/2 “Les kadhafistes ne veulent pas que les gens quittent la ville. Ils veulent se servir d’eux comme de boucliers humains”. #Sirte #Libye
Yefrenia
Libyans fought hard on the ground they lost a lot of blood & sweat on the ground while NATOs in the sky Libyans build Libya from the ground
(Reuters) –
Le #CNT a annoncé qu’il dévoilerait dans les jours à venir la composition d’un gouvernement “de crise”. #Libye
The Freedom Group Daily is out!
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Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
People coming out of #Sirte are not aware that Tripoli has fallen (source: Mustafa resident who just escaped)
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today…
Aljazeera
Supporters of the former Libyan general Abdel Fattah Younes marched through the city of Benghazi. They are not satisfied with the NTC’s investigation into his death.
His supporters have demanded swift justice. Otherwise, they said, action would be
taken into their own hands.
Sirte
Aljazeera
After weeks of stalemate, rebel fighters loyal to Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) have pushed back Gaddafi’s forces and gained control of Sirte’s eastern gate.
AFP via Feb 17
Muammar Gaddafi’s daughter has said in an audio recording that her father is in high spirits and fighting alongside his supporters against the revolutionary forces who swept his regime from power.
In her first public remarks since the fall of Tripoli a month ago, Aisha Gaddafi accused the country’s new leaders of being traitors, noting that some of them were members of Gaddafi’s regime before defecting in the civil war.
“Those who have betrayed the pledge they offered to Gaddafi, how come they won’t betray you?” she said in a warning to Libyans.
The prerecorded four-minute message was broadcast Friday on the Syrian-based Al-Rai TV, which has become Gaddafi’s main mouthpiece. The elder Gaddafi, his chief spokesman and his son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, have also released statements through the channel since the takeover of Tripoli.
Reuters
Columns of military vehicles of Libya’s provisional government advanced on the Muammar Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte on Saturday as NATO planes roared overhead, Reuters journalists said.
Explosions were heard inside the town, which along with the desert town Bani Walid is a last remaining bastion of support for the deposed leader.
The Reuters journalists saw forces of the ruling National Transitional Council advance from both the west and the south of Sirte.
At the western gate, gunners fired artillery towards the town. Both sides exchanged volleys of rockets and NATO jets flew overhead. Large plumes of black rose from
inside the town.
The government forces have previously retreated from Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown, and Bani Walid after poorly organised assaults met fierce resistance from Gaddafi loyalists.
AFP
Fighting has claimed the lives of 30 interim government fighters in the campaign to capture the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid southeast of the Libyan capital, Dr Mabruk Kernaf said on Saturday.
The National Transitional Council’s (NTC) northern front commander said another 50 had been wounded.
This was the first overall toll given on NTC casualties since the start of fighting.
Meanwhile, an AFP reporter reported rockets being fired by troops loyal to former Liban leader Muammar Gaddafi at an NTC position some five kilometres (three miles) outside the desert city, 180km south-east of Tripoli NTC fighters launched a widespread assault on the city on Sept 10, but withdrew the same night after encountering fierce resistance.
Reuters
Libyan provisional government forces entered the Muammar Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte on Saturday and came under heavy sniper fire as NATO planes roared overhead, Reuters journalists said.
Huge plumes of black smoke rose over the town as National Transitional Council (NTC) forces massed in Zafran Square about 1 km (half a mile) from its centre. Gunfire could be heard from the town centre as NTC fighters moved tanks and mortars into the square.
NATO would not comment on its operations in Sirte on Saturday. It said its planes hit a number of targets on Friday, including an ammunition depot and an anti-aircraft gun.
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: view of #Sabha from atop the citadel this morning. Straight from iPhone to twitter. #Libya yfrog.com/kegdcfpj
On the road from #Sabha to #Tripoli: many NTC fighters on the way home. One says: “I need a shower and a proper meal.” Me too. #Libya
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Coptic Liberal: The World Is Better Off Without Qadhafi the Psychopath
Al-Qadhafi Is a Disturbed, Delusional Man Who Suffers From an Inferiority Complex
In an article in the Egyptian daily Al-Dustour, Magdi Khalil, an Egyptian-American Coptic liberal whose articles appear frequently in the Arab media, described Libyan ruler Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi and his bizarre personality. According to Khalil, without Western assistance to the Libyan rebels, the Qadhafi regime would have survived the uprising.
Following are excerpts from the article:1
Al-Qadhafi Is a Disturbed, Delusional Man Who Suffers From an Inferiority Complex
“Qadhafi was the most veteran Arab leader on earth when his regime fell… He is a psychopath, a narcissist, extraordinarily deranged, and suffers from an inferiority complex. His head is full of delusions that he calls thoughts. He is the first leader in history who built a monument to a book the constitution he formulated in 1976, known as The Green Book which he forced on the people – intellectuals, politicians, students, and the distinguished. He was the first ruler who gave his daughter the country’s highest military rank – that of field marshal – though she only cared about clothes, makeup, leisure, parties, and perversion like her father.
“Qadhafi boasts having given the longest speech ever at the U.N. General Assembly, so long that the translator fainted from excess of words and the Japanese delegation fell into a deep slumber. He also distinguished himself by tearing up the U.N. charter while on the podium, and surrounding himself with some 4,000 shapely female bodyguards and pretty nurses, out of a longing for the era of Harun Al-Rashid.2 These bodyguards and nurses resided in a tent he erected in the heart of Paris,
Rome, and Amsterdam. He was also known for his ridiculous outfits, which attest to his madness, his bizarre nature, and his fickle personality.
“He is the first ruler in modern times to have called on the heads of other religious communities to adopt Islam, as he did when the Coptic Patriarch Shenouda visited him. He also seduced beautiful women and bribed them to convert to Islam, as though the invitation to join Islam were reserved only for beautiful Western women.
“He is also the world’s richest man, with a fortune that exceeds $131 billion, as the WikiLeaks cables indicate. And finally, he is the only ruler in history who invented a calendar, naming one of the months after his son, and another after his friend…
“Even his titles require psychological analysis. He named himself commander of the ‘Mighty Conqueror Revolution,’ ‘Head of the African Union,’ the ‘African King of Kings,’ the ‘Imam of the Muslims,’ ‘Emir of the Believers,’ ‘Secretary-General of Arab Nationalism,’ the ‘First of the Arab Rulers,’ ‘Commander of the Revolution,’ the ‘Spiritual Father of the Mighty Popular Socialist Arab Republic of Libya,’ ‘Herald of the Third World Theory,’ a political theory proposed by Qadhafi to Third World countries as an alternative to capitalism and communism, and the ‘Wise Thinker.’ But he calls his own people rats, deluded, lice, germs, stray dogs, and lowlifes, Allah’s curse upon them, because they took 36 million sips of hallucinogenic drugs before launching a revolution against him, as his sick imagination suggested.”
There Is No Crime that Qadhafi Has Not Committed
“As for Qadhafi’s crimes – there is no crime according to international law that he has not committed, and there has been no terrorist organization over the last four decades that Qadhafi did not support – aside, perhaps, from Al-Qaeda. He is the leader of a gang that carries out any illegal activity and a psychopath of the most rare and dangerous order, who specializes in causing damage to his opponents. He has an aggressive mentality that desires only ruin and destruction.
“Despite all this, Qadhafi is not ashamed to accuse Arabs of treason simply because some of them refuse to accept his massacres of his own people. And this is the same person who stood by Saddam Hussein against the Iraqis and supported him in his invasion of Kuwait; he is the one who invaded Chad and killed the Shi’ite Imam Musa Al-Sadr; he is the one who ordered the assassination of the Saudi king and supported the Polisario Front, a rebel national liberation movement fighting for the Western Sahara’s independence from Morocco; he is the one who spoke out against the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions; and he is the one who supported various terrorist movements in Arab countries and interfered in the matters of Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Palestine.”
“Decades After the Departure Of Western Colonialism, the Citizens Of Libya Were Forced To Request Assistance From [It]”
“Decades after the departure of Western colonialism, the citizens of Libya were forced to request assistance from the old Western colonialism in order to rid
themselves of domestic colonialism, whose extremism surpasses imagination.
“Western conquest did not subject the people to invasions like Saddam Hussein did. It cannot be compared to the conquest of villages with tanks and artillery, like that of Hafez Al-Assad in Hama. The colonial conquest did not attack the people with all forms of light weaponry like Qadhafi, who killed 1,200 unarmed prisoners in one day in the Abu Salim prison in 1996, and over 20,000 citizens in other incidents. The colonial conquest did not use heavy weapons and artillery against unarmed civilians, as Bashar Al-Assad has done in Syria, and did not destroy entire regions, as ’Omar Al-Bashir has done in Darfur. It did not destroy everything in the country like the Taliban, and did not harass peoples and waste their fortune on supporting global terrorism, as Khamenei and Ahmadinejad have done in Iran…”
Without NATO Intervention, the Al-Qadhafi Regime Would Not Have Fallen
“The Arab peoples lacked the ability to rid themselves of their lowly leaders without foreign support. And in came the West, the ‘infidel,’ and ousted these lowlifes. The West transferred Bashir’s case to the International Criminal Court, and is also expected to oust Khamenei and Ahmadinejad in Iran. Without the intervention of NATO, which conducted some 7,500 concentrated sorties on military targets full of weapons and ammunition, and which provided the rebels with sensitive information – the Qadhafi regime would not have fallen…
“In conclusion: The world is better off without Qadhafi.”
Endnotes:
1 Al-Dustour (Egypt), August 26, 2011.
2 During the rule of Harun Al-Rashid, the fifth Abbasid Caliph, more than 2,000 female singers and servants resided in his palace.
bencnn benwedeman
Video: return to #Tripoli delayed by burning pick up full of fuel and ammo. Culprit: a cigarette. #Libya
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The Freedom Group Daily is out!
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مساء الخير ليبيا الحرة / Good afternoon free Libya
Sati is deaf and mute. He is one of Misrata’s many heroes, praised for his courage and quick thinking on the… fb.me/14dLwNWMG
NPR
In Libya, Some Just Learning Of Gadhafi’s Downfall
In Libya, civilians are fleeing from Sirte, the last major town that is still in the hands of forces loyal to ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
Many say they were cut off from the rest of the country, without electricity and with dwindling food supplies. Some say they knew nothing of the rebel advances in the past month, including the capture of the capital, Tripoli.
They didn’t know that they would be emerging into a new country.
The first place they arrive is a rebel checkpoint and field hospital on the coastal road from Sirte to Misrata — hot, dusty cars packed with men, women and children, carrying whatever possessions they could cram into the trunk.
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FreedomGroup, News in English
There is a fire at the oil plant near the Naval Academy in Tripoli
Photo:
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2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Jalil live on AJA now….
Jalil: we are still fighting Gaddafi, and Libyans have to stand by the NTC in this critical stage.
Jalil: there is no separation between the interim gov and the NTC before freeing all Libya. People have to understand that.
Jalil: participation in fighting Gaddafi in front-lines does not necessary mean you should be part of the government.
AISHA GADDAFI’S MESSAGE: SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
Aisha Gaddafi’s Message Delivered on Al-Rai TV
Video:
libya360.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/aisha...
Kindly translated for Libya 360° by I.A. Libya.
“Here is my own translation of the very touching and emotional speech which sister Aisha Gaddafi gave 4 hours ago on El-Rai Televsion. I would say the translation is about 90-95% accurate.” – I.A. Libya
“To the great people of Libya,
I salute you.
I will not tell you that victory is approaching, but that we live victorious every day for the last 8 months and we are lining up a victory which has never been witnessed in history.
40 countries, with their attacks using planes, missiles and technologies by air and sea and utilizing their agents on the ground. And the Libyan people are still resilient and fighting. I commend these heroes and I congratulate all of the Libyan people, along with your Great Leader, whom I bring relief to you and inform you is currently well. He is well Thank God, and is also faithful to God and remains in high spirits. He bears a weapon and is fighting on the battlefield with his sons, side by side with the Libyan fighters. This is Muammar Gaddafi, putting himself forward to become a fighter and a martyr with his sons.
Compare this sight with that of Qatar with the Prince who presents and puts forward a crown prince who cried like a girl because they were granted the World Cup 12 years from now (referring to this in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiVlW19NaSs)
This gives you (the Libyans) the right to be proud of your leader!
Shame and disgrace to the Arab leaders who were swayed and participated in the slaughter of The Libyan People. And it is unfortunate that Arab nations witnessed this slaughter for 8 months and have not flinched nor stood up and risen against it.
But I call on the lions of Tripoli, the lions of Tarhouna, the eagles of Wershifanna, and the lions of Assabia and Mashaseeya and Arshaydat and Ajaylat and Awayell to the Lions of the Ancient city of Sabha to the lions of Sirte, Abusleem and El-Hadhba (All tribes within Libya) and all of the heroes of Tripoli, the resilient. And to all Libyan fighters from the West to the South.
I call on you and I call on you, I call on you, I call on you! (Quoted in a way that a female muslim heroine once was depicted saying it in ancient Islamic battles) Link up! Persevere! Be Patient! Protest! God the holy the merciful said, “If there are 100 perseverient/patient, they will defeat 200 and if there are 1000, they will defeat 2000 and God is with the perseverient/patient.” – Quote from the Quran.
To the silent, I will say to them. What do you have to say about the humiliation that is the new regime, what sort of regime is this? These are familiar faces, which you know very well:
Starting with ABUSHENNA (Mustafa Abdul Jalil) that gave his loyalty and obedience to my Father and betrayed him. Mahmoud Jibril who gave his loyalty and obedience to my brother Saif El-Islam and betrayed him. Shalgam was loyal for 40 years and Betrayed. Trekki the idiot was loyal and obedient for 40 years and betrayed. Ghogha was the captain of the lawyers and loyal and betrayed. Bilhadj who gave an oath and a guarantee and broke it. Others, among others exist. All of these people betrayed and broke their oaths which they gave before, who says they will not break oaths and promises to you ?
And to the NATO rebels, if you have any common sense or logic to use …. NATO, who when they wanted to invade Afghanistan and in Iraq, they landed boots on the ground, because they could not find any traitors who were willing to take up arms against their fellow countrymen. Sadly, they found such people within Libya who would take up arms against the chests of their fellow Libyan brothers. This is why I will say there is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God. Believe in God (Allah), Believe in
God (Allah). God (Allah) is all I need. He is the best guardian.
Finally, I would like to quote my brother, who when I asked him to be careful and look after himself on the frontline with his brothers …. I will never forget his words:
“I WILL MAKE A TRAIL WITH OUR BODIES SO THAT THE PEOPLE OF LIBYA CAN WALK ON THEM TO VICTORY.”
To the heroes of Libya, do not disappoint our martyrs. Avenge them, avenge them, avenge them!
“Victory cometh, only an hour’s patience.”
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
gnral offensive against #Sirte in this moment plenty of casualties NTC one fighter without a leg another dead chaotic situation #Libya
lot of shelling one fighter “they are fighting from the houses with RPGs with AK-47 with everything” #Sirte #Libya
one NTC fighter “we entered from 3 diferent locations we are now near the TV building in the center of the city” #Sirte #Libya
just returning from inside #Sirte hard battle house to house we were trapped in a building more than 10 RPGs exploded around #Libya
NTC fighters using heavy machineguns advancing slowly from the seaside we were in front of the beach big plumes all over #Sirte
1 NTC fighter wounded in both arms lightly after being treated went back to fight #Sirte #Libya
ambulances don’t stop dozens of wounded and at least 3 death but fighting still going on #Sirte #Libya
se lucha casa por casa en #Sirte acabo de regresar del interior escenas caóticas explosiones y ráfagas de ametralladoras por doquier #Libia
ls combatientes dl CNT pretenden q esta sea l ofensiva final pr desconocen la ciudad y resistencia d ls gadafistas s durísima #Sirte
frankentele Sean Carberry
Anyone know the cause of the massive plume of smoke rising from the waterfront area of the Abu Sitta neighborhood in Tripoli? #Libya
It was an accidental fire at a naval facility in Tripoli. Chain reaction of explosions as fire spread. #Libya
BBC: Mike Thomson has spoken to Mustafa, a resident who fled to Misrata this week, about the reality of life in #Sirte. news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_95...
News coming in that #FFs have entered #2 area in #Sirte and have started removing barriers set up by G forces. #SirteCrisis v @libyatv
Sirtawi
A lady in #Sirte was reported dead after medics failed to save her life during a caesarian operation. There’s no Oxygen. #SirteCrisis
Freedom Fighters are now positioned under Gharbiyat Bridge to facilitate the stream of fleeing families. #SirteCrisis #Libya
bilal
I’m from Libya we eat bullets for break fast bombs for lunch and tyrants for dinner . #JustGoAskGaddafi
FreeBenghazi
Accused of fighting for Qaddafi, Tawarga residents, a town in #Libya, face reprisals
Artillery attack from Tawarga killed over 1000 ppl in Misrata. Tawarga men fought for Gaddafi & committed rape #Libya
NTC said Misrata has “officially softened stance.” Tawarga residents w/out blood on hands, allowed to return #Libya www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/africa...
Misrata fighers rounded up 85 Tawarga men in Tripoli. Mayor of sth town told 1000 Tawargans to leave by sunset #LIbya
4Adam Adam
Misrata, proud of its role in Libya revolt, looks to the future latimes.com/news/nationwor… #Libya
Aljazeera
Libya’s rebel forces advance on Sirte
After weeks of stalemate, rebel fighters loyal to Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) have pushed back Gaddafi’s forces and gained control of Sirte’s eastern gate.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=phf7dnqBMuk
Ali Amer Tweel ☪✌
Ibrahim Bukra, presedent of the Tripoli National Conference.
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LibyaNewMedia
NTC seems pretty helpless in Bani Waleed. Big losses with no progress. #Libya
Bani Waleed is looking bad. #Libya
Libya_Awake_United
FFs fighters of #Misrata in #BaniWalid gone out of amiunition waiting to resupply today
Reuters via feb17
Libyan provisional government forces have found weapons believed to be banned internationally near Sabha and Wadan, the head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said on Saturday.”There are weapons believed to be internationally forbidden, and they are under our control,” Abdel Jalil told a news conference in Benghazi, monitored in Cairo. “We will seek help from local experts and the international community to get rid of these weapons in a suitable way,” he added.
AFP
Tripoli
a series of blasts that rocked Tripoli and sent up a huge black plume of smoke on Saturday was “accidental,” a fighter for Libya’s National Transitional Council said. “This was just an accident. The weapons store exploded by itself. This was not caused by anyone,” the NTC fighter, Abdel Basset Hussein, told AFP outside the naval base housing the munitions. The series of explosions had erupted earlier in the afternoon, causing jitters among residents in the eastern districts of city where the naval base is located.
malonebarry Barry Malone
Our reporters are now inside Sirte with NTC fighters, about 1km from the centre of town #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
No live pictures from Sirte on Al Jazeera.
bencnn benwedeman
On the road from #Sabha to #Tripoli: many NTC fighters on the way home. One says: “I need a shower and a proper meal.” Me too. #Libya
RCS_SurgeryNews RCof Surgeons
UK #surgeons save leg of boy wounded in #Libya conflict
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Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
copy says: Medic Fatih Danini at makeshift field hospital in a mosque west of the city reported 2 dead and more than 20 wounded
libyanandproud
there were no explosions in tripoli, it was a fire caused by an elec. short circuit near a boat oil storage at naval academy
FreeBenghazi
Heavy presence of Gaddafi forces at the Mabrouk oil field, 40 km south of #Sirte. #Libya goo.gl/IQomc
malonebarry Barry Malone
NTC forces coming from east chanting, "To Sirte the strong Benghazians are coming”, “Muammar’s army is a wreck”, our reporters say #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Breaking: Huge plume of smoke in Tripoli. No news as what it was, or exact location yet. pic.twitter.com/zzAPQtVN
Still contacting people from that area to get info. I have not heard any explosions. But the smoke is enormous. pic.twitter.com/l87zi8sm
Breaking: huge fire in Tripoli Navy base. Reasons not known yet.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters firing #Grad rockets into sirte as they start their push
into #Gaddafi hometown, #Sirte, #Libya
#Libya,Fierce gun battles in the center of #Sirte,# Gaddafi loyalists firing rockets …. #NTC fighters using heavy weapons
#Libya, Center of#Sirte a battleground, hundreds of anti #Gaddfafi fighters taking part in offensive
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Anti-Gaddafi forces enter former leader’s hometown of Sirte
Aljazeera
Libya
Fighting has claimed the lives of 30 interim government fighters in the campaign to capture the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid southeast of the Libyan capital, Dr Mabruk Kernaf said on Saturday.
The National Transitional Council’s (NTC) northern front commander said another 50 had been wounded.
NTC fighters launched a widespread assault on the city on September 10, but withdrew the same night after encountering fierce resistance.
There has been intermittent fighting since then, but NTC forces are holding back on attempting a new assault. – AFP
NATO
24 Sep. 2011
Sirte Communications Points
In the last twenty-four hours, NATO aircraft, as part of Operation Unified Protector struck a series of targets Qadhafi forces used in order to threaten the civilian population of Sirte. Among the targets were: an ammunition storage facility, an anti
aircraft gun, a command and control node, and two armed vehicles.
NATO has employed careful planning and precision munitions as we have done throughout the campaign.
In recent days some open-source and intelligence and dozens of eyewitness accounts in Sirte have described worsening conditions precipitated by Qadhafi forces. The brutal nature of their acts, signify a defunct regime in its final days.
Among the reports emerging from Sirte are executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city. Hundreds of families are being prevented from their desired evacuation by the absence of safety and fuel. Other resources required for survival including water, medicine, and food are in short supply or denied to civilians. Mercenaries roam the streets and civilians lack access to outside information. These conditions have persisted for days while Qadhafi forces maintain control likely resulting in a severe situation.
NATO Operation Unified Protector commenced in order to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Libyan transitional govt to be announced next week: Abdel Jalil #AlArabiya
flyingbirdies أكرم
I don’t know from where this huge plume of black smoke but it’s from Shat Road area I think #Tripoli #Libya
twitpic.com/6pu375
Niz_FGM Niz
Fire is coming from AbuSitta Naval barracks in #Tripoli… traffic heavy around the area.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Weapons, believed to be internationally banned, found by libyan Rebels: Abdel Jalil #Libya #AlArabiya
libyanproud libyanandproud
#Sirte: Freedom Fighters have liberated and now control the Sirte TV/Radio station #Feb17 #Libya
AP The Associated Press
AP PHOTO: Smoke rises after bombing of Tripoli military warehouse that had belonged to Gadhafi’s army: apne.ws/oadwWH -BW
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Some journos & I were detained by #Tripoli rev forces for doing my job. Was called an American spy and treated roughly by rev forces #Libya
Acted v suspicious when I was reporting the #Tripoli ammo dump fire. #libya
Treatment of these rev forces was v similar to the way Gadhafi forces acted when they detained me in March. #libya
It’s going to take a long time for rev forces to get used to what a “free #libya” means and how a free press actually works
For many #Libya rev forces (not all) they only know authority the #Gadhafi way and that’s how they will assert it now they’re in power
Debka File
Qaddafi enlists new 12,000-strong army of Tuareg tribal fighters
Qaddafi and his sons have raised a new army of 12,000 soldiers – all fighters of loyal Tuareg tribes of the Sahara, debkafile’s military sources report.
Hundreds of kilometers to the north, Libyan rebel troops clashed with Qaddafi loyalists in his home town of Sirte after reportedly entering the town from the west. Although rebel ranks are seriously divided, they derived encouragement from NATO’s decision to extend its naval and air campaign in Libya by another 90 days to help them dislodge
Qaddafi’s troops from the cities they are still holding.
Saturday, Sept. 24, his daughter Aisha said in an audio recording that her father was in high spirits and fighting alongside his supporters. Last week, our sources report, a Tuareg tribal council convened in Niger extended full protection to Qaddafi, his sons, his military chiefs and the still-loyal members of the ousted regime. Members of the rebel National Transitional Council were proclaimed enemies of the tribes.
Read more:
www.debka.com/article/21335
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
A powerful blast was heard over the skies of Misrata. It is not clear what is the source of the blast.
#Misrata #Freedomfighters have captured the head of #AbuSaleem Prison.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Have a watch of Aljazera Mubashar RE all the Libyan channels conference
SUMMARY OF TRIPOLI MEETING:
212Group 212Group
Any journalists or media member try to reach any of the @212Group member to guide u throw this event at today’s Tripoli National Conference
they were invited by tripoli national conference
At today’s event some of the members will be speaking such as ( #NTC #tnc -tripoli local council – and guests )
A big disagreement between people who r attending right now in tripoli national conference
A big fight it’s ON
People trying to break out the fight
Same person was complaining early about the naming of this conference
He asking people to leave the room if they agreed with him ,,, he was the only one that left the room nobody followed him
He also said that members of tnc that they wanna steal the rev and rule us without libyan having a say in this
Now it’s a break
It looks like no one agrees with the guy who was complaining they branded him as being taboor 5
Food time
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Hungry crowds
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The highlight of the conference was the fight that broke down
the naming of this conference he said it should be مؤتمر خبرات طرابلس
A guy told me that this propaganda was all a set up and he know who is behind this fight
it’s a the #Rixos a nice building still unused
will he asked if people agree they should all walk out of the conference now!! He stood up and left the room only to come back
he came back after few sec ,,
Talking to people and seeing Their reaction they all feel that his complain is not needed and dose not help in any way
The guy who was behind this was عادل المشرقي
Dose anyone know him I have info about him
He is part of the #NTC of #Tripoli that did not get recognition from the people ( abdallah banon ) if ur know him as well
We made an inclusive interview with adel almasherge will post the video later ( this is the guy behind the complain today )
This is adel almsherge
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Inside
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2nd session has started
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This could help explaining what they r talking about
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This conference is to gather people from #Tripoli with experience to help with the situation
What they do in the conference is take details of guest and what fields and experience they have so they would later call them 1/2
By calling them they can discuss Thier field how they can help
No media or press are allowed during the 2nd session on @212Group have exclusive rights to the event
Follow us and RT to be able to know what’s going on and reporting on this event
Some of the same complains today
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علي قدور يتكلم yfrog.us/6fetsz
الشيخ علي قدور علي الجهة اليمين yfrog.com/nwqe6zj
President of the conference will accept all complains " that’s what freedom is all about to hear people thoughts )
Shiekh ali gadoor asking from everyone to not forget other people who r still busy and cities not liberated yet
Mr abdalah banon just cut the members conference speech short to talk to the crowds,,,,,, its rude
Abdalh banon and adel almsherge are on the same boat ,, for ur information
They trying to be positive but the way they r doin it is very wrong
U just cannot enforce ur self of people by cutting throw members speech
Crowds voted abdalh banon speech to be cut woooow
جدول الاعمال المقترح yfrog.com/h7vlhzwj
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Oil workers saved key parts of #Libya’s lifeblood | Seattle Times Newspaper: bit.ly/nDXpMQ
Wooow…. #Tripoli: latest pic of explosions’ aftermath twitpic.com/6pvj09 #Libya
It certinaly looks like an oil tanker burning in this picture of smoke rising from #Tripoli explosion site twitpic.com/6pvjqu #Libya
To all those that think that Gaddafi cant/wont recruit more Tuareg, WATCH this www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfsRO9IwRw&fea... #Libya
Gererd Verron
Sirt: National Control Center being liberated
I was so happy to see today the liberation of the National Electrical Control Center.
This building is a most symbolic one for Libya and its liberation as it controls the electrical connection between Tunisia Libya and Egypt. I pride myself of having directed its design and construction.
Look carefully, behind the NCC building: you will distinguish ( apparently not destroyed) the two dish antennas of the Arabsat center which I also built a few years ago.
Those are great news as the liberation of these two centers is most critical for the control of international communications and electrical dispatching in Libya. They are symbolic steps towards the complete liberation of the whole country.
Tonight, the coastal road from Benghazi to Tripoli will be open! Another great step! Mabruk and Mashallah.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: FFs enter the area of Tazghan Southern Libya without any resistance
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I heard so many amazing stories from people all over Tripoli about Aug20 (Op mermaid dawn)… what a scary but euphoric day that was #libya
I’ve been here for a few days yep :) Tripoli is beautiful.. I love the it.. and everyone looks happy!
everyone here is happy and people are less angry in general it seems. people actlly give way when driving LOL!!
AliTweel Ali Amer Tweel ☪✌
Tripoli National Conference
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malonebarry Barry Malone
Our reporters see NTC fighters capture Sirte’s eastern gate and drape it with new Libyan flag – 50kms from city but another boost #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Tripoli: An oil tank is burning near the port at Busitta district. No one was injured. Seems like it was an accident. #libya #tripoli #feb17
The cause acc to 1) Trip council & 2) AJA = Weps stored in a hot/un-airconditioned warehouse housing oil/fuel items
_DavidThomson David Thomson
Une importante explosion a aussi eu lieu à #Zawiyah cet après-midi #Libya
une explosion accidentelle d’un stock de munitions selon les thuwar de #zawiyah (photo à suivre)
Explosion vers 13h00 aujourd’hui à #Zawiyah #Libya
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Aljazeera
Libya fighters push into Gaddafi bastion
Fighters aligned with Libya’s National Transitional Council have launched a fierce two-pronged assault on Sirte with the support of heavy artillery, tanks and NATO warplanes.
Al Jazeera correspondents said NTC fighters on Saturday had pushed into the center of the city, overrunning positions that forces loyal to deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi had held for months.
More and video:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
libyans_revolt omar
#FF’s entered the #Targan area southern Libya without any resistance – @alaantv #libya #feb17
FreeBenghazi
Hannan(25) “Take time 4 men like Dad 2 accept women judges. There’ll b change. Not 4 me but my kids/grandkids” #Libya
guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep…
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: i am sorry, but unless the ammunation store is a floating one this looks very much like a boat !!
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malonebarry Barry Malone
“We are coming for you, wild-haired one,” NTC fighters advancing on Sirte from east chanted.. reut.rs/owwfta #Libya
FraCicardi Francesca Cicardi
Rebels entered #Sirte from West,control District2,cleaning area…blocking exit from South,securing ammu depo acc. to #Misrata Mil Council
NYT
Fighters Renew Attack on Surt, Qaddafi’s Hometown
Fighters trying to root out loyalists of the fugitive Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi renewed their attack on his hometown, Surt, on Saturday as his daughter Aisha became the latest family member to broadcast a recorded taunt of the provisional authorities struggling to replace his government.
Here in the capital, meanwhile, an unexplained fire in the hangar of a naval base sent giant clouds of smoke over the harbor on Saturday afternoon.
Read more:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/world/africa...
rcolebourn
Shakir said he hadn’t ‘run away’ from #Libya accused some Gaddadi cousins of treason. Said he asked for protection.
Niz_FGM Niz
Video of Abu Site Naval Barracks Fire….. youtube.com/watch?v=1j5VIA…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5VIAT5-3I
HAVE A LOOK:
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Wife of #gaddafi Safia sent my friend a personal email. She wants 2 give her 40 million USD. #libya
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Noit:
Must be a spammer
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Now we know it. #Gaddafi fled to #Nigeria and is active as a spammer. #libya #tripoli
Guys chill out. Msg below wasn’t meant 2 be serious.It’s just funny that #Nigerian spammers using #gaddafi family situation as bite. #libya
LibyaUnited1944 those Nigerians sure r inventive…not long ago I saw same email from ‘Saif’ #WhatICouldDoWith$40M
Tweeting Tripoli
LOL… Of course it was a freaking scam email. I got hundreds of them for the last 10 years. Besides, Safia had 70 billions $ or more!
Libyan4life
Shakir looking good with his dyed hair and eyebrows. Took 10 years off the dude. #Libya
FreeBenghazi
Cultural norms, at least outside Tripoli, stop women going out unaccompanied, talking2 men other than close relatives
guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep…
Tweeting Tripoli
Some G officers (including notorious Ali Lahwel) fleeing BaniWalid where caught in Ghyrian wearing “Burqa”. Via FF from frontline.
Proudlibyandoc
People already calling ntc head Abdul jalil sidi. I.e. Master. This is absolutely ridiculous. #falseidols
Libyan forces launch new assault on Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte. WP www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas... #Libya
Gihan
In press conf; #MustafaAbdulJalil says #Libyans must united to form a new gove. #NTC failed to seat a new cabinet last week amid disagreements over which cities should be represented and other issues
Free Libya
Hmmm a fatalistic part of me is thinking all these explosions are are some part of a synchronised taboor khamis operation…inshallah khair
Tripolitanian Libyan
Crimes committed in #Tawargha must be investigated. #Libya
Michael
Rptd FF action in area SE of #Sirte at Mabrouk Oil Term from which Ras Lanuf was attacked some days ago. Try flank
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Free Libya
Nothing reminds me of Libya like breaking up raw spaghetti to put in my imbakbeka sauce…..#EpicLibyanFood #Libya
Michael
FF kick off #Sirte #Libya strike frm E gate & W Wadi. Hvy fght NW & E of Congress Hall area. Mvng in hvy this time twitpic.com/6pxxqh
ahmadalgamaty ahmadalgamaty
explosion happened 3 hours in the port of #tripoli sea resulted in the explosion of an ammunition store #libya #mc17feb
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Mustafa Abdul Jalil,the chairman of the NTC of #Libya speaks in #Benghazi about the situation facing the country
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjtzV7pXL1M&feature=player_embedded #Feb17
Mushu
Loved sidi Abdel Jaleel’s speech today. Masha Allah
Some women like to bath in milk. Aisha liked to bath in blood.
LibyaLiberty
Hope we can turn around,use them on G’s ’arse’nal,if u know what I mean. RT@FreeLeebeya CBS – Securing #Gaddafi ’s arsenal of weapons
Suzanne
Lets not forget NO journos have been allowed to film with G forces; FF much more open
LibyaLiberty
#DearGaddafiFamily,I bought a pair of size 6 jeans,to ‘fit into’ someday,so I know how hard reality is to accept.But this is getting silly.
libyanandproud
one day we hope to show you the true face of #Libya, and how true libyans are welcoming and generous with guests
LibyaLiberty
The #NATO airshow drew freedom enthusiasts too. RT@WORLDLOVERPEACE Malta Airshow draws aircraft enthusiasts
Mushu
Dear Algeria, you are housing Aisha #Gaddafi because of “humanitarian reasons”, right? Did you hear 1/2 #Gaddaficrimes #Libya #Feb17
her latest TV call where she was inciting bloodshed (again)? Doesn’t that make you rethink your decision? 2/2 #
LibyaUnited1944
I WONT sit by whilst our #FF r being slagged off! Yes theres a very small insignificant No of bad apples but by no means r there MANY #Libya
CNN
Firefight in Sirte, fighting fire in Tripoli
Anti-Gadhafi forces Saturday claimed a new military advance into the deposed Libyan dictator’s hometown Sirte, while a fuel storage warehouse fire at the port of the country’s capital city Tripoli in the west sent plumes of smoke into the air.
National Transitional Council forces took a neighborhood previously held by remnants still loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, according to a spokesman. Twenty-four hours of NATO aerial bombardments preceded the advance.
Read more here:
www.cnn.com/2011/09/24/world/africa/lib...
libertad
Freedom Fighters sont désormais placés sous Gharbiyat pont pour faciliter le flux de fuite des familles. #libye SirteCrisis
rcolebourn:
1st impress of #Tripoli after 2 wks away: city seems calm. More restaurants open. No fuel queues. Even Timberland store open
perfectsliders perfectsliders
#Libya #Gaddafi: #Gaddafi in desert between #Sabha and #Ghat protected by mercenaries, says captured general libyaday1.blogspot.com/2011/09/gaddaf…
Jonny_Hallam
When FF are stopping us filming i just explain we have to film everything not just what they like
On 4 occasions i’ve had FF/ NTC put hand in front of BBC camera. just people who are acting up.
#Sebha:
Libyana Mobile coverage has returned to Sebha
“Bani Walid is filled with the garbage of Libya and we don’t even have heavy weapons to fight them with.” via@WORLDLOVERPEACE
#Libya Gaddafi- Forces seen in Mabruk oil facility 29°49’28"N 17°17’10"E between Jufra-Oasis & Ras Lanuf
(AFP) The head of the NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil said ‘they have full control over internationally “banned weapons” from Gaddafi’s’.
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
“The Rebels of Libya” PART 2| VICE vice.com/vice-news/the-… via @VICE
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
1 dead & dozens suffering from inhaling toxic fumes at the explosion in Navy Military Port in Tripoli according to medics on scene #Libya
Aisha
Libyan fighters upset by lack of guidance leave Bani Walid ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/… via @CTVNews #Libya #Feb17
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Also a month after leaving #Libya ,still thinking of some amazing and courageous Libyan friends I am lucky to have met.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
" Some revolutionary units entered Sirte, fighting intense around palace where Gadafi’s son Mutassem Gadafi is expected to be"#Libya
In last 24hrs: NATO aircraft struck Qadhafi forces, ammunition storage, an anti aircraft gun, a command node, & two armed vehicles in Sirte
" Revolutionaries enter 2nd residential area in Sirte housing senior Gadafi military memebrs, removing all checkpoints" – 30 injured
Happy, proud, & heart broken my mother goes home to a war ravaged #Misurata
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
NATO STATEMENT ON SIRTE VIA SKY NEWS
FULL NATO STATEMENT ON SITUATION IN SIRTE:
In the last twenty-four hours, NATO aircraft, as part of Operation Unified Protector struck a series of targets Qadhafi forces used in order to threaten the civilian population of Sirte. Among the targets were: an ammunition storage facility, an anti aircraft gun, a command and control node, and two armed vehicles.
NATO has employed careful planning and precision munitions as we have done throughout the campaign.
In recent days some open-source and intelligence and dozens of eyewitness accounts in Sirte have described worsening conditions precipitated by Qadhafi forces. The brutal nature of their acts, signify a defunct regime in its final days.
Among the reports emerging from Sirte are executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city. Hundreds of families are being prevented from their desired evacuation by the absence of safety and fuel. Other resources required for survival including water, medicine, and food are in short supply or denied to civilians. Mercenaries roam the streets and civilians lack access to outside information. These conditions have persisted for days while Qadhafi forces maintain control likely resulting in a severe situation.
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
May Allah grant the FFs a glorious victory in Sirte and Beni Walid #feb17 #libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Has anyone noticed that Mahmoud Jabril is not wearing his glasses i think he got contact lenses
septimius_sever septimius severus
how @hardingbbc left a piece of him in #Libya!! bbc.in/qJVx6Q
IMPORTANT:
FreedomGroup, News in English
Misrata Hospital is making an urgent appeal for those in or near the city of Misrata, to quickly head to the hospital and make a blood donation to help save lives. All blood groups are required, most importantly O+ and A+.
Postcards4Libya Postcards For Libya
by LibyaNewMedia
Our cute friend Suleiman is in Germany for treatment, unfortunately doctors believe he will not walk again… fb.me/OQRlJRht
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Listening to Mahmoud Jibril talk about role of women and civil state in future #Libya. Impressed.
MUST READ
Mc Clatchy
A hospital’s turmoil shows Libya’s struggle with regime change
BENGHAZI. Libya — After a hectic morning patching up battered revolutionary fighters from Libya’s front lines, more than 100 employees of Hawari General Hospital here massed outside the administration’s offices on a recent afternoon and staged an uprising of their own.
“In our hospital, it was like having Gadhafi sitting right there, still surrounded by his regime, as if we’d achieved nothing,” said Dr. Sabry al Jaroushy, an anesthesiologist and organizer of the protest. “For seven months we waited, saying, ’It’s not the right time.’ But it is the right time.”
But even more shameful, they say, is the pattern of corruption they’ve uncovered from Gadhafi-era administrators’ files: ghost employees, patient overbilling, bribes from pharmaceutical companies and payroll irregularities.
Similar stories are emerging from across the country as rank-and-file employees rise up to dislodge managers whom they view as too close to the former regime.
Please read more here:
www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/23/125090/a...
Aljazeera
NTC holds presser in Benghazi
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council of Libya speaks in Benghazi about the situation facing the country.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjtzV7pXL1M&fea...
Reuters
Tripoli armed group says arms spreading to regions
Weapons seized from sites in Tripoli have been taken to other parts of Libya by fighters who filled the capital to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, a representative of one of the city’s armed groups said on Saturday.
Read full report:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/24/us-l...
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Jalil said on Saturday #NTC Fighters found a #NEW stash of suspected internationally banned Weapons near #Sabha and #Waddan #Libya
SMILE:
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
off to #Sirte in the morning…
Joanne
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@JohnDelaGuardia if yr tweets were a little more interestign I would have liked to follow u Do U think u could step it up a bit ? :)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Internet is back on in #Sabha #Libya
Hana S.
Just been told my uncle who’s been my constant contact in #Sirte since #Feb17 has left the city today. His whereabouts are still unknown.
4Adam Adam
What the hell is Shalgem doing at the UN? 2 yrs ago he was applauding when Gaddafi torn copy of the UN charter in front of the same people.
FCO UK
David Clay
Political Officer, Benghazi
David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy in Benghazi
Posted 23 September 2011 by David Clay
Guest blog by Stephen Hickey, the new head of the British office in Benghazi.
President Sarkozy’s helicopter blew yellow dirt over my crisp white shirt and rubble into my eyes as it descended into Benghazi’s port. The dirt stuck to my face. I couldn’t
see anything. I ducked for cover behind an armour plated 4 by 4 but the damage was done. I would greet our Prime Minister David Cameron from his helicopter (the first time I’d ever greeted any Prime Minister) looking like a I had just emerged from a long desert trek, having not washed for a month.
This was the first joint visit by British and French leaders to Benghazi or anywhere in North Africa. Libyan security was on top alert. Young men from the police and the 17th February Martyrs Brigade gripped their AK47s in the blazing sun, keen to make a good impression. Planning for the visit had been top secret, with only a handful of people in the know. The upside of such secrecy is that it makes it very hard for anyone to try to disrupt something they don’t know about. The big downside is that it makes it very difficult for local people to find out when and where to go to welcome visiting politicians. The Libyans had told us not to worry. But half an hour before the VIPs’ arrival, the streets of Benghazi were eerily quiet. This was not quite the big reception that everyone had in mind. The Libyans said everything would be fine – in an hour’s time. To allow time for the crowds to gather, Chairman of the Libyan National Council Mustafa Abdul Jalil led the Prime Minister and President Sarkozy on a tour of Benghazi’s Revolution Museum. A life size paper mache model of Qadhafi in a cage greeted them as they arrived. Inside we saw moving photos of murdered revolutionaries and cartoons of Qadhafi as satan. A young mother presented President Sarkozy with a baby she had named Sarkozy. For a brief moment I felt a bit of a disappointment for failing to procure a baby called Cameron.
Half an hour later, we arrived at the Benghazi courthouse, the hub of the Libyan revolution, to be met by thronging crowds. Someone put on a tape recording of the Marseillaises followed by God Save the Queen on a hand held speaker system and we stood in thoughtful silence. Young girls held up signs saying “Thank you David Camiron”. As the leaders approached the stage in front of the courthouse, the crowd started chanting “We love you Cameron” and “One two three, merci to Sarkozy!”. It felt more like a pop concert than a normal political event. Had President Sarkozy decided to leap from the stage onto the crowd, it wouldn’t have felt wrong. To my amazement and the visible horror of their bodyguards, President Sarkozy and the Prime Minister stepped down into the sea of people to talk to Benghazians. The crowd swelled and I felt I was about to be crushed in the scrum. The Prime Minister was quickly pulled out but Sarkozy was nowhere to be seen. Had he been crushed by the youth of Benghazi? Sarkozy re-emerged minutes later looking a little ruffled but smiling. An aide from No.10 seemed to have been half crushed and was now walking with a limp.
Aside from all this excitement, the Prime Minister and President Sarkozy held substantive talks with Libya’s leaders about the country’s future and how Britain and France could continue to help. Their brief appearance in Benghazi was a wonderful moment to connect and pay tribute to the extraordinary Libyans who risked their lives to start the revolution on 17 February (when the chances of success looked slim) and
who through their courage and determination have been an inspiration to me personally and to the rest of the world.
FreedomGroup, News in English
Ambulance helicopters are brining in the wounded and martyred from the Sirte front-lines. We ask Allah to heal our wounded and forgive our martyrs their sins.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
we need qualified people first and foremost be it men or women, gender doesn’t matter it’s a transitional government only
FreeBenghazi
Martyred today in #Sirte
Ashraf Abdel Salam AlRiqiyi (from Tripoli) الله يرحمه #Libya
39 fighters wounded after heavy fighting in #Sirte today. #Misrata in urgent need of all blood types (esp A+ & O+) #LIbya v @Assomood_ly
Cooking gas donated by #Misrata, delivered to #Sirte residents who are experiencing shortages #Libya www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1728506961...
Nael
My Father is Live on Al Jazeera from Benghazi in (Mawara Al Khabar – ماوراء الخبر) Talking about the new Gov. #Libya #Feb17
SerajElalem
Explosion in #Tripoli’s naval base, warehouse fulls of tires and equipment, no ammo. No casualties, officials say the cause is elec. short
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
who else thinks this photo looks strange? i’m no expert but the detonation is on image sort of. guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep…
EventListing Event Listings
by Libya17Feb
Protest for the injured Libyan Freedom Fighters (Tomorrow @ In front of Rixos Hotel, Tripoli, Libya) full.st/B5q1m via @Libya17Feb
4Adam Adam
Words of wisdom to #FF during Gaddafi’s siege of Nafusa towns Arabic facebook.com/photo.php?v=20… #Libya
or:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2009161833...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: With Hilal Grada, a torture victim whose ID can now be disclosed. In Tunis visiting his dad, a Qalaa hero twitpic.com/6q0dx1
Nusaiba☺
Omdays the lil girl on @libyatv famous for the chant “ma3leeshii shafshoofa” is now leading chants in #tripoli martyr square
Live coverage from #tripoli on @libyatv … Seems like its in martyrs square (?)
OnlyLibyaa
I posted 2 photos on Facebook in the album “محمود جبريل VS امعمر القذافي” fb.me/1kGJy6EP6
hominoid555 Russell
Misrata 7 Martyrs and 145 injured.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
1 NTC fighter “we are using ship containers (like the did in #Misrata) to cut roads and to hold the area we control now” #Sirte #Libya
Adam
Most of the smoke at the naval base in Tripoli came fr fire burning in a pile of used tires, not ammunition according to eyewitness.
Aljazeera
Aljazeera Report: Battle for Sirte 24/9/2011
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjLsAJGS7M
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
more than 150 civilians were trapped yesterday in a mosque in the front line mostly women and children Grads falling around #Sirte #Libya
among them Samia Tahart american citizen married to 1 guy from Tawargah with 3 kids 1 only 11 months very risky situation #Sirte #Libya
most of them from Tawargah don’t know where to go "they should be evacuated this is very dangerous " 1 NTC fighter #Sirte
los combatientes del CNT libio están usando tanques, lanzacohetes y ametralladoras pesadas en #Sirte + tanques y cañones n el camino #Lib
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
just came in 35 wounded in the field hospital near #sirt and 110 wounded arrived to #musrata Hospital + 7 dead .
MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya NTC fighters say ID cards left behind by fleeing Gaddafi troops in Sirte are mostly Libyan and a few Nigerien
#US: satellite debris hit Earth. “but unfortunately it missed #Gaddafi” tinyurl.com/3t56qxm #libya #feb17
Tarik
#Libya #Russia TV Channel 1 showing a film called Carlos smth. about #Gaddafi and #KGB- prob. to commemorate #Putin ’s triumph
FreedomGroup
Cooking gas canisters arrive in Sirte, Friday 23/09/2011. The gas was sent by the city of Misrata who knew their brothers in Sirte are suffering from severe shortages of food, fuel and cooking gas. Misrata fighters as liberators, not as invaders.
FreeBenghazi
7 fighters martyred in #Sirte today, over 100wounded. Helicopter ambulance continues flying them in. Urgent need 4 blood #Misrata
the appeal for blood donors is to those in or near Misrata.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte #NTC Fighters moved tanks and mortars to #Zafran Square about 1 km from center which is ruled and infested by Gaddafi snipers #Libya
BBC
My unexpected trip to a Libyan hospital
was woken by two Filipina women in starched nurses’ uniforms at the foot of my bed. One was holding a razor.
A little later the lights blinked on again.
A Ukrainian nurse was now gripping a large syringe.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
She shrugged. “This is not your concern.”
Let me rewind a little.
Plese read:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15036100
Jerusalem_Post Jerusalem Post News
Post-Gaddafi Libyan PM addresses UN General Assembly: De facto Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril gives first speech …
bit.ly/ogqrpV
The Seattle Times: #Oil workers saved key parts of #Libya’s lifeblood seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwo... #energy #economy #markets #commodities #PostWar
NYT
Accused of Fighting for Qaddafi, a Libyan Town’s Residents Face Reprisals
On the edge of this city where Libya’s war goes on, several men from the town of Tawerga sat on the patio of a mosque, having fled their homes and traded one war zone for another. Rockets fell nearby, but that was just one of their problems. Men with guns, their former neighbors from the city of Misurata, stood above them, accusing them of grave betrayals.
More here:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/africa...
FreeBenghazi
28 of fighters wounded in today’s fighting been discharged (26 from #Misrata, 2 from #Sirte, 2 from Wadin) الحمد لله #Libya v @Assomood_ly
Sky News
Gaddafi Hunt Intensifies Amid Fight For Sirte
A search for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is intensifying across Libya as revolutionary forces appear to be gaining the upper hand in the battle for his hometown of Sirte.
Art. and video:
news.sky.com/home/article/16076397
#Tripoli :
Martyr SQ : The #FreedomFighters are now 4Km inside #Sirte . #Libya
Sarah
Bring me baaaaaack to Libya !!!!!!
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 25th 2011
9/25/11
9.25.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/d82Ta
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
main problem in the battle of #Sirte NTC fighters don’t know the city I kept asking them yesterday where we were or heading none knew #Libya
“this battle is the first time I come to #Sirte before to enter the city you needed some permission” said 1 NTC fighter #Libya
last night Misrata hospital full of people I found a group in the street cleaning the back of a van full of blood marks #Sirte #Libya
NATO
24 Sep. 2011
NATO strikes shield civilians in Sirte
In the last twenty-four hours, NATO aircraft, as part of Operation Unified Protector struck a series of targets Qadhafi forces used in order to threaten the civilian population of Sirte. Among the targets were: an ammunition storage facility, an anti aircraft gun, a command and control node, and two armed vehicles.
NATO has employed careful planning and precision munitions as we have done throughout the campaign.
In recent days some open-source and intelligence and dozens of eyewitness accounts in Sirte have described worsening conditions precipitated by Qadhafi forces. The
brutal nature of their acts, signify a defunct regime in its final days.
Among the reports emerging from Sirte are executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city. Hundreds of families are being prevented from their desired evacuation by the absence of safety and fuel. Other resources required for survival including water, medicine, and food are in short supply or denied to civilians. Mercenaries roam the streets and civilians lack access to outside information. These conditions have persisted for days while Qadhafi forces maintain control likely resulting in a severe situation.
NATO Operation Unified Protector commenced in order to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
Tweeting Tripoli
This is how Soug Guma FF challenged Gaddafi’s goons. They drew independence flags using paint-filled balloon.
yfrog.com/kjodltuj
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Two large & controlled explosions took place in Misrata yesterday to get rid of collected bomb remnants. #Libya #Misrata
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Important signal of how is going on the battle in #Sirte 1 week ago Radio Sirte was still broadcasting NTC fighter said “not today”
Alielehmer
#Libya #feb17 #UNHCR #AishaQaddafi been a refugee not allowed to get involved in any political activities based on UNHCR charts #addthis
septimius_sever septimius severus
In 1911, Italy campaign in #Libya was the 1st in history that featured air attacks by airplanes elmundo.es/multimedia/ind… (War started 29/9/1911)
Assomood_ly Assomood
by septimius_sever
Assomood : Tailwind airlines has a charter between Istanbul & Misurata 1 way ticket cost 250us$
Assomood : Turkish Airlines has daily flight to Tripoli Mitiga Airport until 29th of Sep. 2011
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
There was very heavy fighting in Sirte today with high casualties on both sides. Some progress for revolutionaries. #Libya #Sirte
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
NYT published today an article about the people trapped in the mosque but missed the USA citizen #Sirte #Libya
nyti.ms/nE4tUL
dicen q también están usando contenedores pra cortar las avenidas una táctica q ya usaron en Misrata y q ls dio la victoria #Sirte #Libia
In #Misrata ICU:
Sulaiman BinRamadan AlAkremi(#Tripoli),
Hussam Fathi Lebaz(Misrata),
Jihad Mhd Arhomah(Misrata)
#Libya v @Assomood_ly
#Tripoli’s, like, fantastic p.ost.im/p/e2BqXw via @tabascokid … #Libya (another amazing collection of photos)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya TV said Aisha #Gaddafi should not be allowed to make political statements. She was granted entry in #Algeria for humanitarian reasons
Jibril on Saturday asked #UN #Security #Council to release all remaining #Libya assets out of an estimated $150 billion
SIRTE NTC Fighters found the ground @ Captured Eastern Gate littered with dropped #Libya n Identity cards and many from #Niger mercenaries
malonebarry Barry Malone
Apparently NTC who’ve entered Sirte from west and were about 1km from centre today say they’re going to try to hold ground overnight #Libya
Zahra
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar …
Gihan
Reuters #Libya PM #MahmoudJibril told #UN his country has been reborn after toppling #Gaddafi &appealed 4 release of remaining frozen assets
At #UN meeting, #MahmoudJibril recalled how #Gaddafi had stood at the same podium 2yrs ago & tossed a copy of #UN charter over his shoulder as he accused big powers of betraying its principles.
The National
Thousands of fighters have lost limbs in Libya conflict
Misurata, LIBYA // On a rare break from non-stop operations at his hospital, Ashraf Khalil, an orthopaedic surgeon, caught a glimpse of the dark side of Libya’s future.
Driving near the beach, Dr Khalil watched off-duty fighters enjoying a swim in the sea – and was appalled by the number who had lost one or more limbs in the battle to oust Col Muammar Qaddafi and his regime. “So many of our men have been terribly deformed by this war,” he said.
The death toll is estimated to be anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousands, but one fact is indisputable: maimed and injured Libyans will number in the thousands. “We have no facilities for prosthetic limbs or even enough wheelchairs,” said Dr Khalil, 30.
Read full art.:
www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middl...
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Mass grave was found in #baniwalid, 25 bodies. Some were identified as those that were kidnapped from their homes recently.
Mariam
Who would have thought 2 years after protesting #Gaddafi’s visit to the #UN, we would be celebrating his fall
Moez
#Misrata say they’re in need of certain medications/equipment and they’re working on putting together a list – sounds hectic #Libya
Naheed
There was a time when I thought I’d make an excellent diplomat. I see now how wrong I was.
Tweeting Tripoli
This is how Libyans now see Gaddafi, a wanted criminal. Drawing of a student on the wall of school in my neighborhood. yfrog.com/h3q8rugj
misrati_free
Casualties today in Sirte, 9 martyrs and 170 injured. Allahu Akbar
Telegraph
Gaddafi sent $2 million to republican dissidents before he was deposed
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader, resumed his funding of Irish republican terror groups shortly before he was forced into hiding by Nato bombing raids, it has been claimed
A Libyan government courier flew into London earlier this year with $2 million (£1.3 million) in cash during a stopover while on route to the Irish Republic, a documentary to be screened on Monday will say.
The cash was said to be on its way to a businessman, believed to be a supporter of one of the dissident republican terror groups responsible for attacks against police in Northern Ireland.
According to Exposure, a new ITV documentary series, Gaddafi, who sent ship loads of weapons to the IRA in the 1970s, wants to exploit the growing unrest in Northern Ireland as a means of attacking Britain for supporting the overthrowing of his regime.
A source at the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, told the programme’s producers that in June – at a time when Gaddafi’s forces were suffering regular Nato bombing raids, and half of his country was in the hands of rebels – a Libyan courier flew into London in June carrying a heavy suitcase, inside which were banknotes wrapped in plastic.
Please read full story:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Moez
This is the famous restaurant where #gadaffi claimed “my people loff me, they loff me all – heh heh” #tripoli #libya twitpic.com/6pw002
it’s opposite State TV on the Coastal road
inglesi Piers Scholfield
preparing for The World Today in a few hours – @Colleen_Graffy and @iron_emu will be with us. Discussing #Sirte, #Libya, #IMF, #Syria.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
heavy assault down sept 1 street #sirte… revolutionaries gained 2 kilometers bloody ground, will hold it for tomorrow?
Ali El-Ehmer
Emails show British Government knew Hana Gaddafi was still alive – Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… via @Telegraph
Libya PM calls on world to help in rebuilding – WLNS.COM |: bit.ly/qct0Zq via @AddThis #Libya
Ali El-Ehmer
New Libyan, Egyptian Leaders Make UN Debut voanews.com/english/news/N… via @VOA_News
osama solieman
#Libya, these are your revolutionaries
yfrog.com/kenxaahj
Jibril asks #UN to free 150 billion in #Libyan funds www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco... (via @agi.it)
Via Feb17
MUST READ:
Celebratory fire in Libya: A tragic story when celebration turns deadly
Below is the story of a freedom fighter whose family experienced
the awful effects of celebratory fire. It is important to raise awareness on this matter as hundreds have died from this unnecessary and wasteful act. We must take a stand to end celebratory fire in Libya.
My friend called me the other day. He is one of the rebels fighting in the front lines. He was excessively crying and I kept calming him down and asked him to talk.
He said: My fourteen-year-old little brother was sitting with the family in the garden. They were hearing celebratory gunfire nearby; a family in the neighborhood was extremely happy for the arrival of their son to Libya after twelve years of living abroad due to his opposition to the Gaddafi regime.
My family though didn’t pay much attention to the arrival of the neighbors’ son as we thank God our enemy has been overpowered and that there is no existence of the so-called fifth column.
All of a sudden my brother fell in between my mother and father with blood gushing out of his head and half his scull broken into pieces.
My mother screamed and my father was shocked, not understanding what happened. They rushed my brother to the hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival.
My brother died while sitting with my mother and father. My mother and father do not speak, like a dried leafless tree, their son died in their arms, and in a sudden moment, died. His blood spilt on the carpet that before moments shared a joyful time together.
For what cause did he die for?
If my brother died a martyr in the front battle lines, fighting injustice and the unjust, I would have been pleased, my mother would probably ululated for him and my father pleased as well. He would be their intercessor on judgment day.
But he died between the arms of who brought him to this life, his mother. He died without any fault, died because someone else was celebrating the return of his son.
He died because that man did not appreciate the value of the weapon that he holds, and the bullets he shot in the air.
Dear lord, do they rejoice in the return of their son and my mother grieves for the loss of hers?
I’m not asking for revenge and even if I do to whom? To the people who shoot tens of bullets in the air celebrating? Most of them battled with me side by side and protected me.
I couldn’t answer him, tragedy was bigger than words I could express and such pain is notinhabited by the words. I hope that justice will be brought to all reckless people carrying arms in cities and neighborhoods, cities are not fields of archery.
I do not say to my friend but, pray and seek forgiveness, and do not forget there is a balance of justice, and whoever killed your brother will be punished by law, for by God this is more than a manslaughter than an accidental killing. It is known to whoever shoots bullets from a weapon is a murderer, and knows it’s a city and known to infect humans, however fired borne by the burdens of life. A burden of killing a Muslim in the arms of his mother and father.
And who bears the grief of a crying mother, and an elderly father shocked by the death of his son in front of him.
It is a great sin to who fires a weapon, and your lord is just to the slaves.
It’s a disaster it’s a disaster it’s a disaster.
There is no god but Allah…
Arabic:
اتصل بي اليوم احد أخوتي وهو من الثوار الذين قاتلوا على اكثر من جبهة , كان يبكي مقهور , اكثر من بكاءه حزنا . أخذت أطيب خاطره وأهدأه , سألته أن يحكي لي ما حدث , ولماذا هذا القهر و الحزن .
قال :- كان أخي الصغير ذو الأربعة عشر عاما , يجلس مع أمي وأبي في حديقة صغيرة في منزلنا , كانوا يسمعون بالقرب منهم أصوات إطلاق نار , يعلمون أن في الجوار عائلة عاد ابنها إلى ليبيا بعد تغرب دام اكثر من اثنا عشر سنة بسبب معارضته لنظام الطاغية , كانوا فرحين بعودته بفضل الله ثم بفضل ثورة الفرسان ثورة 17 فبراير ,
لم يهتم أبي ولا أمي , فالحمد لله كان عدونا قد دحر ولا يوجد لا طابور خامس ولا سادس في منطقتنا , ولكن ….
فجأة سقط أخي بين أمي وأبي . والدم ينزف من رأسه . ونصف رأسه الأيمن مهشم تماما , صرخت أمي وذهل أبي , لا يعرفون ماذا جرى . أسرعوا به إلى المستشفى , ولكنه الأجل المحتوم .
مات أخي بين أحضان أمي وأبي , وأمي الآن لا تتكلم وأبي صامت كشجرة جفت وتساقطت أوراقها , فابنهما الصغير مات بين يديهما , فجأة وفي لحظة عائلية , سقط , سقت دماءه البساط الذي كانا قبل لحظات يضحكان سويا عليه ,
من اجل ماذا مات ؟
لو كان أخي مات في الجبهة شهيدا , يقاتل الظلم والظالم , لكنت سعيدا , لربما زغردت أمي وفرح أبي , فسيكون أخي شفيعهما يوم القيامة ,
ولكنه مات وهو في ذات الحضن الذي أنجبه , مات بدون ادني ذنب , مات لأن شخصا فرح بعودة ابنه .
مات لأن إنسان لم يقدر قيمة السلاح الذي يحمله , والرصاصة التي يطلقها ,
يا الهي , هل يفرحون هم بعودة ابنهم وتبكي أمي لفراق ولدها ؟
لا اطلب ثأرا , ولا اطلب دم أخي , وحتى إن أردت أن افعل , فمن من ؟ الذين أطلقوا الرصاص بالعشرات , بعضهم قاتل إلى جانبي وحمى ظهري ,
لم استطع أن أرد عليه , فالفاجعة كانت اكبر من الكلمات , ومثل هذا الألم لا تسكنه الكلمات ,
أتمنى أن يجرم كل من يحمل السلاح داخل المدن والأحياء , ويجرم كل من يطلق رصاصة في غير موضعها , فالمدن ليست ميدانا للرماية ,
ولا أقول لصاحبي إلا , اكثر من الدعاء والاستغفار , ولا تنسى أن هناك ميزان عدل , ومن قتل أخيك سيلاقي جزاءه العادل , فهو والله اقرب إلى قتل العمد منه إلى القتل الخطأ , فمن أطلق الرصاص يعلم انه قاتل , ويعلم أنها مدينة ويعلم أنها قد تصيب أنسانا , ومع ذلك أطلقها . فليتحمل وزرها , فليتحمل ورز قتل مسلم امن في حضن أمه وأبيه ,
وليتحمل بكاء أم فجعت بابنها أمام أعينها , وبأب شيخ أصيب قتل ابنه فجأة بين ناظريه ,
انه والله لأثم كبير وحمل ثقيل يحمله كل من أطلق رصاصة . وما ربك بظلام للعبيد
إنها والله لكارثة , إنها والله لكارثة , إنها والله لكارثة
ولا حول ولا قوة إلا باللهكاتب مسلم عربي سعودي
Many thanks to MS for the translation of this story.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sabha NTC fighters found many arms depots around the city Including #Radioactive #Chemicals Used to charge the Batteries of Missiles #Libya
#Bengazi MediaCenter reports 3 FF found DEAD in Car> #Tajoura #Tripoli Killer traced via PhoneCall Admits being paid by #Saif Gaddafi #Libya
( fyi:Car was Chevrolet)
Abdul
#mizdah #libya is witnessing heavy battle Exchange of fire between a few #NTC fighters & remaining pro #Qaddafi. most #mizda FFs r in #sabha
FromJoanne Joanne
In case U havent heard this yet ; What life is like inside #Sirte news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today… #Libya #DireCircumstances
More excellent photos of #Leon #Neal www.leonneal.com/blog/2011/09/24/tripol... Only “entertainment” when I arrived in #Tripoli was a small funfair @theCorniche
In #Tripoli My cleaning girl Intesar was from #Tawerga it was She who chose 2 work 4 me goo.gl/YvKvh
Now they r lost ppl #Libya
Intesar my #Tawerga cleaning girl was ProGaddafi until last day Aug20 when #Tripoli fell when she said Did Gaddafi really lie 2 us ? #Libya
Its a mystery to me and my friends but she had never been out of #Libya and was poor and she tended to watch statetv #brainwashed
Tripolitanian
#NTC has done a lot in #Libya, speaking for #Tripoli, they’ve managed to restore electricity, normalize fuel prices, turn on the water.
Giha\n
فيديو الزنتان مقطع مؤثر جداً لام فقدت اثنان من ابنائها Video: #Libyan mother crying her 2 martyrs sons
youtu.be/-KxvK0y7WBI
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxvK0y7WBI&fea...
Sarah
Little boy in Martyr SQ #Tripoli :
Who loves Libya stops (celebratory) gunfires !
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Our #CNN REPORT: Firefight in Sirte, fighting fire in Tripoli tiny.cc/3m1ot #Libya #Feb17
Well, what do you know?
Someone on Facebook just posted that the grave of saif al arab, gadafi son who supposedly died a few months ago was inspected and its empty
A checkpoint in Tajoura made out of shipping containers. Spent the afternoon on beach near Garabali. Wonderful day.
twitpic.com/6pzxdx
I was in Garabali all afternoon.
weather ws fantastic. Private beach, no guys in sight. Girls free to wear their bikinis. Good food. Great friends. Perfect!
1st Libyan Amazigh national conference to be held on 26 Sep. yfrog.com/nvkc8mj
MSNBC
Libyans fight for control of Gadhafi stronghold Sirte
With NATO jets roaring overhead, revolutionary forces fought their way into Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown Saturday in the first significant push into the stubborn stronghold in about a week.
Libya’s new leaders also tried to move on the political front, promising to announce in the coming week a new interim government that it hopes will help unite the country. However, disagreements remain about what the Cabinet should look like.
Full art.:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44651086/ns/world_...
4Adam Adam
Now I can hear AA gun fire on phone in Tripoli! My brother says I hope there is no international airplanes over the city.
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Just steps away from Tripoli’s Martyrs Sq today a group of women turned to me + in low voices, said: ‘Allah, Muammar, Libya wa bas!’
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Being a photographer is really stressful… going around trying to find the right angle, spot stuff and manage battery life.. #ugh #headache
I have 890 #Tripoli photos to go through..everything from Mitiga, to Bab Al Aziziya, Fashloom, Tajura, Soug Jumaa, checkpoints, Martyr’s sqr
I’m going to post 2 random photos I took … one’s from Corinthia and the other is from Fashloom #libya #feb17 #tripoli
A sign of the times… Corinthia Bab Africa hotel entrance.. #tripoli #libya #feb17 fb.me/19IUIHO2L
Fashloom: With the revolution (mostly) over… it’s back to football for some #libya #tripoli #feb17
fb.me/19Mtbbifi
That was fast… Internet (Wimax) and electricity is back in #Sabha and #Awbari in the south of #Libya days after NTC liberated the towns.
FromJoanne Joanne
another dead body walked away its a #Gaddafi Speciality.
Saif alArab Gaddafi s Grave is Empty #Libya #Tripoli
UN agency confirms raw uranium in #Libya
goo.gl/xb4Ul
#Sabha shot by @Bencnn from top of Citadel yfrog.com/z/kegdcfpj #Libya
#SIRTE What a Shot ! Pardon the pun goo.gl/YPS1I NTC fighters fire #Howitzers at Gaddafi forces near #Sirte #Libya
Hana S.
I took this short video back in Dec 2008. My last visit to #Sirte before coming to the UK. Miss it loads!
youtu.be/WPhqN2bKSF0
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhqN2bKSF0&fea...
SecularLibya
What a loser this Mutassim. He first lost Brega, then Ras Lanuf, and now Sirte! Good, he should flee to Bani Walid!
Please read:
Reda Hmeid
Islam and Libya. Should Libyans and non-Libyans be fearful?
libya-ya-biladi.blogspot.com/2011/09/for-yo….
Protests in #Benghazi against Ghoga and Power Hungry Libyans (Presstv, Sept 21, 2011) – YouTube bit.ly/nM5W2A #Libya
Protests in Benghazi against Ghoga and Power Hungry Libyans (Presstv, Sept 21, 2011)
In this video a libyan says: “There’s a joke here in Libya: we don’t have enough ladders in the market, cause everyone wants one to take power in the country”
In the report by Jihan Hafiz we hear something that I find rather contradictory: first she says that the people in Benghazi don’t want any former Jamahiriya people in the NTC, but on the other hand they would still cheer for Mustafa Abdel ‘NATO’ Jalil and
Mahmoud ‘Virginia’ Jibril who were very close to Gaddafi.
Protests in #Benghazi against Ghoga and Power Hungry Libyans (Presstv, Sept 21, 2011) -
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9tjQKjD4Q
also read a story from september 10 on demonstrations that took place in Benghazi back then at
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Libyas-inter...
Libyan Duda
There are widows of our #Feb17Martyrs that can’t buy food or pay the rent! #NTC #Libya #feb17 #Jibril
#Misurata fighters welcomed by #AlKhums revolutionaries, while they were heading to #Tripoli . #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PS7OI-1j7I
Libyan Duda
NTC Jibril on Libya : unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$
Massin
A cousin who died in battle of liberation back in August – Saied Madi Check out these
photos:
goo.gl/photos/effnFnp…
or:
picasaweb.google.com/104904751983187976...
Niz_FGM Niz
Frontline Medical team in Sabha, who’s lead organiser is FGM’s Hatem, tell us that the majority of pro G soldiers they treat are not Libyan
So the media is lying again when they told us that the majority were Libyan?
Doesn’t surprise me anymore.
You HAVE to watch this:
Gaddafi Vs American Kids
Uploaded by freeeeelibyan on Jun 11, 2011
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8VY9t8kGs0
Emo
#Algeria gov can no longer fool us. Their support to #Gaddafi regime is so disgraceful.
Sarah
Osama Alhameel, kidnapped 2 days ago from BW, was found dead today. He was
negotiating with NTC and freeing civillians.”
Michael
E frnt FF launch & base 50km gate/Sultan. Hold 2-dary fnrt just past 25km gate to probe city. W blk city streets.
twitpic.com/6q3g5z
Shabab Libya
#gaddafi has started sending death squads in the past 2 days in #baniwalid against the people who deal with ntc and FF.
AJELive
Photo: Anti-Gaddafi fighters fire 130 Howitzers at pro-Gaddafi forces near east of Sirte Reuters – Follow…
tumblr.com/xzb4vlmlcm
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Firefight in #Sirte, fighting fire in #Tripoli goo.gl/fN3xk #Libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
THIS IS A MUST READ:
#Algeria gov pretends 2be upset with #AishaGaddafi bcause of her audio appernce on #TV invitng Libyans 2kill each other goo.gl/bXx3Y
or:
www.tsa-algerie.com/ar/diplomacy/articl...
Nice, if they are really that upset they can send her back to NTC!
Telegraph.co.uk:
TonyBlair’s #Byzantine world of advisers and lucrative deals www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-... #UK #Mideast #Libya #Qaddafi #money
Ahmed
It has calmed down now in #Tripoli #Znata family can’t hear anything
FromJoanne Joanne
Goodness I see the 1st firetruck ever in #Tripoli: Video of heavy smoke over Tripoli after blasts in harbour
youtube.com/watch?v=356hyH… #Libya
USA Today
Doctor’s song of freedom inspires Libyans
TRIPOLI, Libya – It’s the theme tune to the revolution.
We Will Stay Here, a ballad by Adel Al Mshiti, a 38-year-old doctor, has dominated the Libyan airwaves for the past six months. It’s played at every demonstration, in every
taxi and every shop in Libya’s recently liberated capital.
“We will stay here,” go the song’s lyrics, “until the pain goes away.”
“We will live here, the melody will sweeten,” urging Libyans to stay in the country and endure the oppressive conditions under dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
It was the first song to come out of Libya when the revolution started. When camera
crews rolled into Benghazi in the earliest days of the uprising, it was what the crowds were singing as they celebrated liberating their city.
Please read full story:
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-...
Listen to this beautiful ballad:
Libya War Song: We Will Stay……. سوف نبقى هنا.mp4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wS0fYA11n8
Hana S.
Remember my uncle whose wedding anniversary is Sept 12? That’s the one who is said 2 have left #Sirte 2day. Still couldn’t reach him tho.
Our major crisis is, and has always been, thick headed Gaddafi loyalists… #GaddafiCrimes #Libya #FreeSirte #Feb17
Many still think that #Sirte is the number 1 city that’s benifited from the regime. Plz visit the city soon to see if that’s completely true
Emad
Rare video showing the 2 brave pilots who landed in #Malta in Feb22 choosing 2 defect from Gaddafi regime in Feb22
www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1603179007...
Libya Libya
No one can do everything but everyone can do something #Libya
inglesi Piers Scholfield
excellent piece in the NYRB – #Libya’s losers – ow.ly/6DX1z
Hamza Malek
youtube.com/watch?v=iJhHHS… SO CUTE AND HILARIOUS!!!!!!! Little girls screaming into the sewers for #Gaddafi. #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJhHHSd4H9E
Taken from @Niz_FGM’s fbook: “You can kill a Revolutionary, but you cant kill a Revolution.” #Libya pic.twitter.com/6nDxa9jU
SecularLibya
YAY- Just got an answer from @LouisFarrakhan asking him to return stolen #Libya money: “I refuse to entertain such question. #AskFarrakhan”
LIBYAN
So we all know by now this Saif’s xxxx-buddy – Nabila Ramdani- but WTF is wrong with the @BBC?youtube.com/watch?v=ZphdXV… via @youtube
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZphdXV_pTfQ&fea...
To all those that think that #Gaddafi cant/wont recruit more Tuareg, WATCH this youtu.be/rJfsRO9IwRw #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfsRO9IwRw&fea...
FreeBenghazi
A very difficult day yesterday for the people of Misrata. Over 170 fighters were wounded in Sirte, vast majority of them from #Misrata #Libya
Please read:
inglesi Piers Scholfield
UK’s Foreign Office granted a visa for Gaddafi’s daughter Hana (the “dead” one) to come to Britain last year
telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…
_DavidThomson David Thomson
M.Abdeljalil “chaque tribu, chaque région, chaque ville veut sa part” dans le futur gvt. Selon A.Belhadj pas de gvt avant un mois #Libya
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt
ceoDanya
I think u should read this economist.com/node/21528299 …. #Economist #LIBYA
AlanFisher Alan Fisher
#Libyan interim government forces mount new attacks in #Gaddafi’s stronghold, Sirte, getting a1/2 km from centre of town.
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
At Ras Jdeir border you now need a visa to get into #Libya (from #Tunisia).. I saw people turned back without visa… “Law and Order” r back !
Libyan forces thrust deep into Gaddafi home town
Libyan interim government forces backed by NATO warplanes have mounted their deepest thrust into Muammar Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, getting as close as half a kilometre from the centre of the deposed leader’s coastal stronghold.
Gunfire could be heard coming from the town centre and black smoke rose as National Transitional Council (NTC) forces massed in Zafran Square on Saturday and moved up tanks and mortars. Pick-up trucks mounted with machineguns and loaded with fighters raced in.
Mread more:
feb17.info/news/libyan-forces-thrust-de...
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Via #Baniwalid Facebook page: the Tripoli council estimates 40,000 people are displaced outside the city, 1/2 its population.
Moez
Clashes this morning in #Ghadames – at least 17 dead, many injured. #FF from w.mnts on their way there now
#Gaddafi forces mainly Touaregs and mercenaries that entered from #Algeria + sleeper cells within #Ghadames
Nusaybah K (KC)
URGENT PLEA: A Libyan just posted this humanitarian plea on my facebook wall : Sirt needs humanitarian help at (cont) tl.gd/d9o0d5
AJA: #Gaddafi forces attacking #Ghadames, 5 people and injuring 25 – residents calling on #NTC to intervene quickly. #Libya #Feb17
Hafeed
Libya should be run as council with a central goverment, no to division in to states which endangers future partition #Libya #feb17
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Turkey will help #Libya repair its war-ravaged electricity network hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turks-…
Thousands of fighters have lost limbs in #Libya conflict shar.es/HNP8V
#Misrata, proud of its role in #Libya revolt, looks to the future latimes.com/news/nationwor…
MUST READ – NTC’s new organisation to pay for wounded FF and other humanitarian needs – www.tfmlibya.org/english follow them @TFMLibya
#Tunisia Hospital Bill payments for #Libyan victims of war call +216 71 9650 38 / 40 / 44 / 49 . Website : tfmlibya.org
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Tripoli at sunset picture , just woow RT “@tabascokid: Third and final part of the Libya assignment – leonneal.com/blog/?p=5016 #photo #libya”
Nasr
At least 30 FFs killed in fierce fighting in #BaniWalid ( #Werfallaville )
#Libya rap group FB-17 in #Misrata. Major talent, very cool guys..courtesy of @JH_Cantlie pic.twitter.com/8cTMK0Fg
Sept 25 #Libya situation map. Minor updates thanks to NATO. G forces at #Fuqaha . Ma’tan as Sarah near Kufra contested pic.twitter.com/pOWNb977
septimius_sever septimius severus
Very interesting story in today’s Sunday Times, @ColvinMarie is with #FF brigade chasing Gaddafi through #Libya’s vast desert. (1)
Already cleared #Sukna & #Hun , @ColvinMarie says the Brigade is heading further
south deep into #Libya’s desert. (2)
When the convoy that @ColvinMarie was travelling with was ambushed she was handed a Beretta pistol just in case!! #Libya (3)
The brigade that @ColvinMarie was travelling with received info Gaddafi was in his farmhouse near #Hun (4) #Libya pic.twitter.com/xIHtAI8E
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
Just had call from #Ghadames council confirming #Touareg attack on town today, says 7 rebels killed, 25 injured, situation “under control”
In #Libya. number of fighters, rather like the number of “mercenaries” will be a very fluid statistic derekbrower.tumblr.com/post/10636659162... via @derek_brower
#Tripoli’s boyscouts doing their fair bit of cleaning up flic.kr/p/apwt7q via @SL0wZEr #Libya
adrianhong Adrian Hong
#Libya @TFMLibya is proving so far to be responsive & effective. Met chair/staff last week, never seen a govt group move so fast.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
“No vengeance, no violence” Everywhere in #Tripoli fb.me/DjXn1QzP
Finding a @Libyana SIM card over here is such a god**** pain
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
#Ghadames #Libya has been resupplied with weapons from #Tripoli, many #Touareg captured after today’s attack at 0500
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
BREAKING: AJA: Mass grave found near Abu Slim prison where 1200 bodies are thought to be buried (from #AbuSlim massacre) #libya #feb17
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: Mass grave found near prison in Tripoli with remains of 1,200 bodies – Al Jazeera
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Celebrations in Mezran, Tripoli yesterday #libya #tripoli #feb17 fb.me/11F4fMIpG
Nael
My Father, Yesterday on Al Jazeera زاهي المغيربي في برنامج ما وراء الخبر
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U51jIDcGha4&fea...
Tweeting Tripoli
Remember Mussa Ibrahim once said in a presser “NTC can’t take Brega unless they used nuclear powers”. lol
Jalil has to speak out rebating the Algerian hostility towards Libya by allowing Aisha to speak. Wake up #NTC
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Algerian territory was used by Gaddafi forces to launch attack on border town Gadamis. #Libya #Algeria
Moez
32 helicopters are unused in Mitiga airport – 2 of them air ambulances. Military council working on utilising them #Libya
malonebarry Barry Malone
Libyan NTC says repulsed pro-Gaddafi attack in south I Reuters tinyurl.com/62lv6zj #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Al Jazeera gives numbers as 10 dead, 15 wounded in attack on Gadamis. Many different numbers flying around.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters pull back from #Sirte city center to outskirts they are calling it a tactical withdrawal, #Libya
#Libya, #NATO jets patrolling the skies, #Sirte
#Libay, #Sirte, Sporadic shelling … Anti #Gaddafi fighters fire rockets into #Sirte
#Libya, Some families continue to escape from #Sirte but not in large numbers, #Libya, #Gaddafi
AP The Associated Press
Libyan officials say pro-Gadhafi fighters have crossed the border from Algeria and killed 6 in city of Ghadames: apne.ws/o9town -RAS
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
FFs in #Tripoli captured a group of Pro G with 40 milion LD planing to spend it to creat another transitional con to creat chaos
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
just outside #Sirte… sporadic explosions while NATO planes are flying overhead. Will be live at 13G…
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News at all the frontlines in #Libya is not convincing.need to go and see whats happening for real.
JeremyRelph Jeremy Relph
NTC Health Minister visited recovering #FF at clinic in Sfax, Friday. Some #FF will be sent for rehab in Jordan, others to Europe.
How #Britain courted, armed and trained a #Libyan monster. #UK plc pulled out all the stops to please #KhamisGaddafi tgr.ph/nnUg6g
Free Libya ♔☾✰
The first martyrs of the #libyan revolution. (Khaled Al-Nagi Khenfer & Saad Hamad Al-Yamani.) #libya yfrog.com/hsk75hgfj
hnaily
Our reporter in #ghadames said libyaalhura.net/?p=9500 ghadames is ok now but they need support from libyan rebels PLZ RT!!
Gihan
VID #Tawergha, where an entire community of blck #Libyans disappeared without a clear reason after toppling of Gaddafi bit.ly/oICrPT
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyYwAkLqius&fea...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
The Arabian Gulf, a Libyan oil company, sends the first shipment of Libyan oil to Italy from Tubraq Port #Alarabiya
Libya
I don’t feel like any justice has been served while Mussa Kussa is still shacked up at the four seasons…..
Libya_United
The ( romantic) idea of the revolution must end .. and people should stick their heads out of the sand and stop being dummies. #Libya
Al Arabiya
Today’s News in Pictures: September 25th, 2011
www.facebook.com/notes/al-arabiya-engli...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi forces kill five NTC fighters in oasis attack: witnesses #alarabiya #Qaddafi #Libya
Reuters Reuters Top News
NATO bombing missions pound Gaddafi’s hometown reut.rs/qtj2Gp
A Live In #Libya: A Sacrifice For Freedom (ARABIC) | Mohamed Boujanah www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtU43HaLvY&fea... via @AliveIn #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtU43HaLvY&fea...
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: Mass grave found in Tripoli contains bodies from 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre – NTC officials
Aljazeera
Libyan NTC fighters pull back from Sirte – Africa – Al Jazeera English
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
libyanfsl M. Ali Abdallah
NTC spokesperson: “We have found a mass grave with approxmiately 1200 bodies near AbuSleem prison, victims of ’96 mass killings” #Libya
Must read:
Malta Times
Court to hear how Gaddafi and sons raped women
Psychologist stops in Malta for visa
A Benghazi-based psychologist will be asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants against Muammar Gaddafi and his sons after collecting evidence of widespread rape.
Seham Sergewa arrived in Malta yesterday on her way to the ICC at The Hague, where she will give testimony and present a dossier detailing countless stories of rape perpetrated by the former dictator and his sons.
On June 27 the ICC issued international arrest warrants for Col Gaddafi, his eldest
son Saif al-Islam and the former head of military intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi, wanted for crimes against humanity. Speaking to The Sunday Times yesterday, Dr Sergewa said she would be asking chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to press charges and issue arrest warrants against all Col Gaddafi’s sons and former Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, who was last week jailed for six months in Tunisia for trying to enter the country illegally.
“Gaddafi’s sons led militias that conducted systematic rape during the conflict,” Dr Sergewa said, reiterating that evidence suggests that thousands of women were raped
‘Happy ICC is ready to look into case’
She spoke of her fear that the rape dossier may have been used at one point as a political tool when negotiations were ongoing to convince Col Gaddafi to give up.
She is expected to present the rape dossier at the ICC within the next fortnight.
Full art.:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
via Feb17
More than 100 employees of Hawari General Hospital in Benghazi massed outside the administration’s offices on a recent afternoon and staged an uprising of their own against administrators who supported the Gaddafi regime. Doctors, nurses, lab technicians, clerks and custodial staff all chanted, “Leave!” until the targeted officials, holdovers from the regime of fugitive former leader Moammar Gadhafi, were escorted from the premises by security guards. The administrators’ offices were padlocked, and the protesters declared victory.
Aljazeera
NTC fighters in Libya make a tactical retreat from Sirte – after some of the fiercest fighting yet seen in the Gaddafi stronghold. Heavy battles are also taking place in Bani Walid – another Gaddafi stronghold. Doctors there say at least 30 NTC fighters have been killed in the last 24 hours.
Reuters
Libya’s de facto Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told the United Nations on Saturday his
country has been reborn after toppling Muammar Gaddafi and appealed for the release of remaining frozen Libyan assets. “A new Libya is coming to life,” he said in the first appearance by Libya’s new leadership at the United Nations.
Aljazeera
A mass grave has been found near Abu Salim prison in the Libyan capital Tripoli containing the remains of 1,200 bodies, Al Jazeera television reportd on Sunday. The government of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi used Abu Salim prison, in the south of Tripoli, to detain its opponents, including many who rose up against his rule during the civil war.
Reuters
Militias loyal to Libya’s deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi attacked the southern town of Ghadames, on the border with Algeria, on Saturday but were pushed back, a spokesman for Libya’s interim government said on Sunday.
“These militias have attacked our people in Ghadames … All the information we have got is that these groups are related to the son of Gaddafi, Khamis,” Ahmed Bani, a military spokesman for the National Transitional Council, told a news conference in Tripoli.
NATO
NATO bombing raids hammered the Libyan city of Sirte on Sunday to clear the way for fighters with the Libyan interim government who are trying to capture Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
Feb17
Celebratory fire in Libya has been an issue since the beginning of the revolution. Many with weapons discharge bullets as a sign of power and defeat. But in reality it is a complete reckless disregard for the human life around them.
NTC
Libya’s interim authorities said on Sunday they had found a mass grave in the capital containing the bodies of more than 1,270 people killed by Muammar Gaddafi’s security forces in a 1996 massacre at Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison. “We are dealing with more than 1,270 martyrs and must distinguish each one from the other for identification by comparing their DNA with family members,” said Dr Osman Abdul Jalil, a medical official. “It may take years to reach the truth.”
NaelTheLibyan
A short film illustrating the 17 Feb revolution of Libya (30 Mins)
youtube.com/watch?v=ozO2K-… #Libya #Feb17
Freedom Group
Fighters are less than 1km from the centre of Sirte. A decisive battle is expected in the coming hours as they have amassed in the areas they liberated yesterday
Times of malta
Libyan jet’s roundels changed in poignant ceremony
ALibyan Air Force Mirage F1 fighter jet had its all-green roundel replaced by the new
Libyan colours this morning amid applause at Malta International Airport, where the jet
is on static display as part of the Malta Airshow.
The poignant ceremony was carried out by Libyan Air Force Brigadier General Mohammed Rajab amid applause, victory signs and chants of Allah Hu Akbar. The Libyan ambassador was also present.
The Mirage was one of a pair which were flown to Malta in February when their pilots refused Gaddafi government orders to bomb civilians near Benghazi. The pilots returned to Libya last week and received a heroes’ welcome.
The jets cannot be returned to Libya yet, because of UN sanctions.
Brig Rajab came to Malta on an Air Libya BAe 146 which at the height of the Libyan uprising was used in 32 covert flights, landing on roads in the middle of the desert to supply arms and ammunition to the rebels and then fly out with injured fighters.
Full art.:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Please spread the word : Reporting missing people in Libya, Plz call 15555 from Madar phone service
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
by septimius_sever
#Ghadames #Libya calling on #NATO to monitor 40 sq km around town to protect civilians from #Gaddafi forces attacks
septimius_sever septimius severus
Am I the only who gets infuriated when I see celebrations in #Tripoli or #Benghazi whilst people are still dying in #BeniWalid & #Sirt ?
I can understand a couple of nights of music & fireworks but to carry as if whole country is liberated seems disrespectful !
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Mass grave contains remains of more than 1,700 people: Libyan medical official
robcrilly Rob Crilly
“I felt a bit of a disappointment for failing to procure baby called Cameron.” Brit dip on Sarko/Cam visit to #libya bit.ly/qfHDW2
This is the footage from the first protests in Libya this year, that started Feb 15 not Feb 17by Abuslym family
Libyan Citizens take to the streets of Benghazi 2/15/2011
After Fathi Terbil, the spokesperson for the families of the martyrs of Abu Sleem was arrested, the families took to the streets to demand his release.
Shortly thereafter, other citizens came to join the demonstration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIw_2mSVUsY
Mushu
" #Libya Forever: For you is your way of life and for me mine" libya-ya-biladi.blogspot.com/2011/09/for-yo… #LibyaPostGaddafi #Feb17 #Islam
scotlandiya
Demand spawn of G are sent back 2Libya2b put in prison and break relations with that evil gov #Algeria. How many times betrayal? #Libya
Sarah LFFR
#Tripoli Fosse commune contenant ~1700 corps retrouvé. Portes-paroles pensent qu’ils s’agiraient des victimes du massacre d’AbuSlim en 1996.
Danya
Praying the families of heroes of the 1996 Abu Salim Massacre will be able to bury their loved ones and find peace and closure soon. #Libya
The North Africa Daily is out! bit.ly/dRzwj9
ALJ is saying our FF withdrew and #Misurata media reporting few hours from victory? what is gong on??
Noit
NATO is over Sirte right now:)
Fighters are less than 1km from the centre of Sirte. A decisive battle is expected in the coming hours as they have amassed in the areas they liberated yesterday
libyanfsl M. Ali Abdallah
Libya’s FreedomFighters are few kilometers away from Sirte City Center, expected to be fully liberated tonight! Insha ALLAH!! #Libya
#TRIPOLI Dr. IbrahimAbuSahima says #AbuSalim Mass grave 1270 inmates bodies was found 2 weeks ago after Tip Off former Gaddafi men #Libya
Souffian Tripoli
Humanitarian aid being transported by Libyans to the south of Libya. To help families that live there. #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
NTC fighters back to the outskirts of #Sirte heavy bombing from NATO planes big plumes in city center #Libya
taking to Ibrahim Betilmal chief military council #Misrata “we still need another week to finish in #Sirte 70 % of civilians out” #Libya
Ibrahim Betilmal #Mnisrata military council “yesterday 9 dead and 161 wounded” #sirte #Libya
Ibrahim Betilmal #Misrata military council “we have 6.000 fighters more than 110 pieces of artillery (14.5) and 13 tanks in #Sirte” #Libya
Ibrahim Betilmal #Misrata Military Council main problem in #Sirte “fighters don’t know the city and also plenty of snipers” #Libya
yasmineelrafie
Background on #Abuslim massacre by Foreign Policy bit.ly/oWPRE8. I am grateful for any additional links. Swedish reporter. #Abusalim
septimius_sever septimius severus
Video Interview in 1981 with Gaddaf: Denies Backing Terrorism youtube.com/watch?v=J1Ic3j… (if u liked the “beeble” interview, watch this) #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Ic3jmP7NE&fea...
felixkuehn Felix Kuehn
a country of city states – #Misrata doesnt accept some Libyan banknotes and NTC press credentials #Libya
NTC fighters enter Libya’s Sirte as NATO pounds city
“We are fighting with Kalashnikovs and small arms around the city centre,” Mar’ee Saleh of the Ali Hassan Jabar Brigade told AFP.
Fighters stationed west of Sirte told another AFP correspondent they had been told by the NATO coalition to stay put on Sunday and hold back a planned new assault on the city.
Resident said he twice saw one of Kadhafi’s sons, Mutassim — once in a command centre in a hospital basement, over the past three weeks.
Full story:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
Urgent: 1st page of #NTC’s investigation regarding the assassination of Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi pic.twitter.com/kSHSARwV
Urgent: 2nd page of #NTC’s investigation regarding the assassination of Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi pic.twitter.com/1zcao5IM
Urgent: 3rd page of #NTC’s investigation regarding the assassination of Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi pic.twitter.com/W64TkNJi
Urgent: 4th page of #NTC’s investigation regarding the assassination of Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi pic.twitter.com/cTk4JrbG
Urgent: #NTC mistier of defense directive not to call Abdelfatah Younis for investigation in #Benghazi #Libya #Tripoli pic.twitter.com/yBT7s9Wh
#NTC investigation: The minister of Justice refused to attend the meeting with Younis on July 21st #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi #Benghazi
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
Urgent: A witness testimony of what happened to Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi #Benghazi #NTC #FEb17 pic.twitter.com/Tb1yatU3
Al Arabiya
Filipina maids speak out on fleeing Qaddafi family barefoot as rebels took over Tripoli
Two Filipina maids who were trapped working for a nephew of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi plotted their escape in whispers from a toilet, and eventually fled barefoot, one of them said Sunday.
The two maids, Diana Jill Rivera and Mary Ann Ducos, returned to the Philippines on Saturday after an ordeal in which they said they had been underpaid by their employer and their repeated appeals to quit were denied.
“We really wanted to leave but he did not want to let us go. He wanted us to finish our two-year contact,” Ducos, 29, told AFP by telephone a day after returning to Manila.
Full story
:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
los milicianos del CNT libio se repliegan y dejan que la OTAN bombardee #Sirte enormes explosiones durante la mañana #Libia
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #Sirte, youtube.com/user/AlJazeera…, #Gaddafi, #Libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
معارك بغدامس والثوار يدخلون سرت Clashes ub Ghadams, Freedom fighters fighting in Sirte bit.ly/p05lnq #Libya #feb17
الكشف عن مقبرة جماعية لضحايا بوسليم والتي تضم رفات 1200 شخص بالقرب من السجن الذي شهد مذبحة قبل 15 عاما http://bit.ly/qy2AQ1 #Gaddaficrimes
Reuters:
1,270 bodies found in a mass grave in #Tripoli. those people killed by #Gaddafi’s security in a 1996 massacre at #AbuSalim prison
AFP:
Germany said have it reopened its embassy in #Tripoli on Sunday, after it closed amid heavy fighting btwn Gadhafi forces & FFs #Libya
#Libyan freedom fighters trying to root out #Gaddafi loyalists renewed their attack on #Sirte
nyti.ms/nQh3ud #Libya #feb17
Aljazeera:
NTC fighters regroup in the outskirts of Sirte
Fighters regrouping after forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi mount strong resistance in former leader’s home city.
They have pulled back about four kilometres after pushing towards the edge of the city centre on Saturday.
One of the NTC fighters’ aims was to try and secure a safe corridor for civilians
trapped in a neighbourhood known as residential area 01.
But they failed to dislodge Gaddafi fighters who are said to be using civilians as human shields.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypH7ktiKNuI&fea...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
FF fighters in #Libya find about 40 females from #Misrata in a farm in #Sabha.How low can they get?
NTC Fighter in Sabha #Libya has denied the reports of finding40 females from Misrata in the City.
Above is confusing reporting……….or lost in translation?
NiZiLanDa
Breaking ! The Info I gave yesterday is confirmed : Algeria Told Aisha to shut it up – Algerian FM Medelci
goo.gl/2GDBJ #Libya
TH_Smith Henry Smith
“Gaddafi bought al-Rai for $25m and arranged for an associate, Ahmed al-Shater, to become chairman of its board”
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
FF managed to free 150 families from #Sirte to a safe place #libya #feb17
NTC Fighter in Sabha #Libya has denied the reports of finding40 females from Misrata in the City.
Hana S.
Just read names of victims from the same family killed in a raid in #Sirte. They’re my distant relatives. There’s no way I can make sure…
My uncle who left #Sirte yesterday has safely reached #Tripoli. I called his wife… she was the last person I talked to in Sirte on Aug 20.
Connections seem to be down in #Misurata today… anyone having the same problem?
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Our #CNN REPORT: Grave may hold 1,270 bodies, believed victims of Libyan prison massacre tiny.cc/zhthf #Libya
Moez
I had shivers when I heard that mass grave had been found – worried that civilians would start digging and destroy forensic evidence #Libya
Glad to see that Dr Othman Abduljaleel – head of Libya forensics is there. Great guy that is very capabale of doing the job #libya #feb17
Team of world experts from USA came 2 weeks ago and met forensics team here – extremely impressed with setup and equipment #libya #feb17
Yaman
Photo: Palestine flag graffiti in Tripoli, Libya. The Arabic reads: Palestine in our hearts. tumblr.com/xyg4w25qem
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Spoke to a young man in Tripoli today.He said that he had seen a video confirming #Gadaffi wet himself constantly and had special nappies.HA
Payment for Tunisian Hospitals Extended.
• The Temporary Financial Mechanism (TFM) Tunisian Medical Payment
Programme has opened a call centre to handle queries about hospital payment
bills in Tunisia.
The TFM now covers hospital treatment bills for all Libyan war wounded and those being treated for chronic illnesses across all hospitals in Tunisia.
The Diseases covered are:
• Heart Conditions
• Cancer
• Strokes
• Pediatricsurgery
• Kidney failure
• A&E Accident and Emergency
Libyans seeking help with hospital bills can now call our call centre on these numbers:
+21671965038
+21671965040
+21671965044
+21671965049
TFM staff will be available to answer queries 5 days a week Monday to Friday From
between 9am–5pm local Tunisian time.
The TFM stepped into settle the bills of the hospitals treating Libyan wounded to ensure everyone is covered for their treatment.
To-date the TFM has paid the outstanding bills of 20 hospitals to a total of $ 2,178,000 dollars. We are also continuing to process $ 1.5 million dollars of hospital invoices over the next 2 days.
Those hospitals requiring payment of hospital bills of Libyan wounded are being contacted and are already in the process of settling bills, our teams are now across the entire country collecting and collating bills which the TFM shall settle.
Further details:
Web: www.tfmlibya.org
Email: info@tfmlibya.org
www.tfmlibya.org/english #Libya #Feb17
libyanandproud
#Tripoli: Mass grave discovered today contained 1700+ bodies of which 1200+ could be those of the AbuSlim massacre. #Feb17 #Libya
Anaya
La fosse commune trouvée près de #Tripoli avec plus de 1780 cadavres pourrait bien être celle des prisonniers d’Abu Slim exécutés en 1996.
LibyaLiberty
#2thingsIKnow: 1.Fat free cheese tastes awful 2.Gaddafi supporters have a limited vocabulary reflecting a limited worldview.
AbdullahTarhoni:
It is confirmed now that the news of finding of 40 kidnapped girls in Sebha is NOT correct
LibyaNewMedia
Revolutionaries at Sirte say they’ll need at least 1 more week. Problems: not knowing city & many snipers. Yesterday 9 dead, 161 wounded.
Reuters:
The hilltop desert badlands of #BaniWalid could be where #Gaddafi’s supporters make their final stand.
bit.ly/qYi1au #Libya
The amazing thing about having good character is that it makes you beautiful on the inside & outside.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s NTC extends work of its executive board until all the country is cleared of Qaddafi forces
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Aref Nayed, “a man of God & technology, trying to steady #Libya”, has been coordinator of NTC’s stabilization team.
nytimes.com/2011/09/17/wor…
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Bin waleed is full of Gadaffi loyalists who fled Misrata,Zletin,Tipoli and other western cities.People of Bin waleed are escaping.
Qaddafi and his sons have raised a new army of 12,000 soldiers – all fighters of loyal Tuareg tribes of the Sahara
n24.cm/p71exY
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
There was no rape by #Libyan ffs + I stayed alone among them many nights perfectly secure. They acted like Muslims and gentlemen.
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
May Allah be with the people of Sirte. There clearly is resistance w/in the city & its being silenced by forces loyal to Gaddafi. #Libya
MUTASSIM AND SAIF:
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Ibrahim Betilmal #Misrata Military Council: "we are sure Muatassim (Gaddafi) is leading the fighting in #Sirte " #Libya
Bani: Libyan forces intercepted a telephone call between Mutassim, organising the fighting inside #Sirte & Saif in #BaniWalid. #Libya
faithcnn Faith Muthoni Karimi
#Mugabe says he will NOT recognize #Libya’s NTC until it negotiates with #Gadhafi #zimbabwe
#Libya #NTC: #Sirte (NTC) fighters have surrounded the city and NATO warplanes are reported to be blasting… egyptday1.blogspot.com/2011/09/sirte-…
The arrival of a plane to #Ghadames airport carrying a delegation came to negotiate for a cease-fire #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Saif is in BinWaleed.Moatassim in Sirt.So where is Daddy G?
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Revolutionary fighters from Sirte,Sept. 22, w/ covered faces so as not to reveal their identity, guarding west entrance pic.twitter.com/OrSAZuVf
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Bin Waleed has been occupied by Gadaffi loyalists from all around #Libya.The people there are helpless and are probably anti-gadaffi
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Aref Nayed, “a man of God & technology, trying to steady #Libya”, has been coordinator of NTC’s stabilization team.
nytimes.com/2011/09/17/wor…
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Our #CNN REPORT: Libya transitional council believes mass grave found tiny.cc/zhthf #Libya
Reuters
WRAPUP 4-Libya finds mass grave from 1996 massacre
Interim gov’t forces hold back on edge of Sirte
Gaddafi forces stopping residents from leaving city:reports
Pro-Gaddafi militias attack oasis town on Algerian border
Government says it finds mass grave from prison killings (Changes dateline pvs SIRTE, adds details)
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
libyansrevolt Moez
Arabic speakers – extremely interesting piece on Mahmoud Jibril libyaalmostakbal.net/news/clicked/1… – will leave comments to you #libya #feb17 #Jibril
Crux is that Mahmoud Jibril is a big investor in Agoracom – a US ivestment firm bit.ly/pU5DYw #libya #feb17
Mahmoud Jibril owns 6% of Omagine as noted in official document – again comments left open to the floor bit.ly/q23cte #libya #Jibril
baniwalid1 Libya
NTC just announced that it will delay tfe formation of a gov’t until all of Libya us liberated.
Good news as now NTC can focus on liberating libya instead of all the political games going on
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
el jefe dl consejo militar d Misrata dice q “estan seguros” d q Muatasim, l hijo d Gadafi, esta dirigiendo la defensa d #Sirte #Libia
HRW
Libya: June 1996 Killings at Abu Salim Prison
June 27, 2006
In the summer of 1996, stories began to filter out of Libya about a mass killing in Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison. The details remained scarce, and the government initially denied that an incident had taken place. Libyan groups outside the country said up to 1,200 prisoners had died.
In 2001 and 2002, Libyan authorities began to inform some families with a relative in Abu Salim that their family-member had died, although they did not provide the body or details on the cause of death. In April 2004 Libyan leader Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi publicly acknowledged that killings had taken place in Abu Salim, and said that prisoners’ families have the right to know what took place.
In May 2005 Human Rights Watch visited Abu Salim prison, run by the Internal Security Agency. Head of the agency Col. Tohamy Khaled said the government had opened an investigation into the 1996 incident, but did not provide information on the
manner or timing of the investigation. Human Rights Watch subsequently asked the Libyan government for details on the investigation, but the government failed to reply.
Prisoners in Abu Salim prison interviewed by Human Rights Watch in May were unwilling to speak about the incident, apparently out of fear. The interviews focused on their individual cases, and all of them said that conditions in the prison had recently
improved.
In June 2004 and again in June 2006, however, Human Rights Watch interviewed a former Abu Salim prisoner who claims to have witnessed the killings. Now living in the United States, where he has applied for asylum, Hussein al-Shafa’i said he spent 1988-2000 in Abu Salim on political charges, but was never brought to trial, and he worked in the prison kitchen in June 1996. Human Rights Watch could not verify his claims, but many details are consistent with a report from an émigré Libyan group, based on another witness account.
According to al-Shafa’i, the incident began around 4:40 p.m. on June 28, when prisoners in Block 4 seized a guard named Omar who was bringing their food. Hundreds of prisoners from blocks 3, 5 and 6 escaped their cells. They were angry over restricted family visits and poor living conditions, which had deteriorated after some prisoners escaped the previous year. Al-Shafa’i told Human Rights Watch:
Five or seven minutes after it started, the guards on the roofs shot at the prisoners-shot at the prisoners who were in the open areas. There were 16 or 17 injured by bullets. The first to die was Mahmoud al-Mesiri. The prisoners took two guards hostage.
Half an hour later, al-Shafa’i said, two top security officials, Abdullah Sanussi, who is married to the sister of al-Qadhafi’s wife, and Nasr al-Mabrouk arrived in a dark green Audi with a contingent of security personnel. Sanussi ordered the shooting to stop and told the prisoners to appoint four representatives for negotiations. The prisoners chose Muhammad al-Juweili, Muhammad Ghlayou, Miftah al-Dawadi, and Muhammad Bosadra.
According to al-Shafa’i, who said he observed and overheard the negotiations from the kitchen, the prisoners asked Sanussi for clean clothes, outside recreation, better medical care, family visits, and the right to have their cases heard before a court, because many of the prisoners were in prison without trial. Sanussi said he would address the physical conditions, but the prisoners had to return to their cells and release the two hostages. The prisoners agreed and released one guard named Atiya, but the guard Omar had died.
Security personnel took the bodies of those killed and sent the wounded for medical care. About 120 other sick prisoners boarded three buses, ostensibly to go to the hospital. According to al-Shafa’i, he saw the buses take the prisoners to the back of the prison.
Around 5:00 a.m. on June 29, security forces moved some of the prisoners between the civilian and military sections of the prison. By 9:00 a.m. they had forced hundreds of prisoners from blocks 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 into different courtyards. They moved the low security prisoners in block 2 to the military section and kept the prisoners in blocks 7 and 8, with individual cells, inside. Al-Shafa’i, who was behind the administration building with other kitchen workers at the time, told Human Rights Watch what happened next:
At 11:00 a grenade was thrown into one of the courtyards. I did not see who threw it but I am sure it was a grenade. I heard an explosion and right after a constant shooting started from heavy weapons and kalashnikovs from the top of the roofs. The shooting continued from 11:00 until 1:35.
He continued:
I could not see the dead prisoners who were shot, but I could see those who were shooting. They were a special unit and wearing khaki military hats. Six were using Kalashnikovs…
I saw them-at least six men-on the roofs of the cellblocks. They were wearing beige khaki uniforms with green bandanas, a turban-like thing.
Around 2:00 p.m. the forces used pistols to “finish off those who were not dead,” he said.
Abu Salim prison held between 1,600 and 1,700 prisoners at the time, and the security forces killed “around 1,200 people,” al-Shafa’i said. He calculated this figure by counting the number of meals he prepared prior to and after the incident.
Cleanup began around 11:00 a.m. the next day, June 30, when security forces removed the bodies with wheelbarrows. They threw the bodies into trenches-2 to 3 meters deep, one meter wide and about 100 meters long-that had been dug for a new wall. “I was asked by the prison guards to wash the watches that were taken from the bodies of the dead prisoners and were covered in blood,” al-Shafai’i said. In 1999 security officials poured cement over the trench, he claimed, although he believed that they later had the bodies removed.
The only other description of the incident comes from a report by the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, an opposition political group based outside Libya. Drawing on the account of an anonymous former prisoner who witnessed the incident (not al-Shafa’i), the report largely corroborates al-Shafa’i’s account.
The National Front report says that 120 sick and wounded prisoners boarded buses on June 28 to receive medical care but that many of them were executed, although it provides no details. The next day around 11:00, the report says, “hand grenades were thrown into the crowds of prisoners followed by continuous firing from different weapons like AK-47s, general purpose machine guns, crowd control machine guns. The raining of bullets continued for an entire hour.”
The report does not mention trenches but says that refrigerator trucks from the Meat Transportation Company and the Marine Fisheries Company took bodies away. On June 30, a forklift loaded the last bodies into a container for trains. In total, 1,170 prisoners died, the report says, but it provides no names.
The Libyan government has denied that any crimes took place. In May 2005, Internal Security Agency head Khaled told Human Rights Watch that prisoners had captured some guards during a meal and taken weapons from the prison cache. Prisoners and guards died as security personnel tried to restore order, he said, and the government had opened an investigation on order of the Secretary of Justice.
“When the committee concludes its work, because it has already started, we’ll give a detailed report answering all questions,” Khaled said.
According to Khaled, more than 400 prisoners escaped Abu Salim in four separate break-outs prior to and after the incident: in July 1995, December 1995, June 1996 and July 2001. Among the escapees were men who then fought with Islamist militant groups in Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq, he said.
A Libyan group based in Switzerland, Libyan Human Rights Solidarity, says that since 2001 the authorities have notified 112 families that a relative held in Abu Salim is dead, without providing the body or details on the cause of death. In addition, 238 families claim they have lost contact with a relative who was a prisoner in Abu Salim.
The organization expressed concern about one of the four prisoner negotiators from June 28, Muhammad Bosadra. According to the group, the authorities transferred Bosadra from Abu Salim to an unknown facility in summer 2005, and no one has heard from him since.
Human Rights Watch spoke with the brother of one former Abu Salim prisoner whom the authorities had informed of his brother’s death. According to Farag al-Awani, now living in Switzerland, security agents arrested his brother Ibrahim al-Awani, 25 at the time, from the family home in al-Bayda in July 1995. The family never heard from Ibrahim again.
In 2002, members of Libya’s Internal Security Agency told the family that Ibrahim had died in a Tripoli hospital due to sickness. A death certificate they provided, viewed by Human Rights Watch, said Ibrahim had died on July 3, 2001, but it gave no cause of death. Despite repeated requests, the authorities never returned the body, as required under Libyan law. It is unclear if Ibrahim al-Awani died in the June 1996 incident or at another time.
“We just want to know what happened and to have the body back,” Farag al-Awani said.
FromJoanne Joanne
#KhamisGaddafi Unit attacked #Ghadames crossing border from Algeria on Saturday killed (risen to ) 15 Injured 63
goo.gl/WGyIa #Libya
#Benghazi #Libya new leadership started a three-day meeting Sunday to discuss the formation of an Interim Government
goo.gl/CF8bC
Blog Post “Highlander” a #Libya n living in #Tripoli about The Utter #STRESS of living for 42 yrs with Gaddafi Regime lonehighlander.blogspot.com
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Check romantic side of Saif el Islam, son of #Gaddafi. A pic with one of his alleged girlfriends. #libya #tripoli twitpic.com/6qlfq0
Reuters
Earth yields bones, grief at Libyan massacre site
Small heaps of weathered bones — some pulled from the earth by relatives of those killed and anti-Gaddafi gunmen who flocked to the site — dotted a dusty, wind-whipped field outside the prison.
“I am happy this revolution succeeded, and that our country will be better,” said 45-year old Sami al-Saadi, who believed two of his brothers perished in the massacre. “But when I stand here, I remember my brothers who were killed.”
Abdel Wahhab al-Qa’id, whom officials introduced as a survivor of the events at Abu Salim, told reporters he avoided being shot only because he was wounded before the mass execution.
He said the killers were directed by Gaddafi’s intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi and Abdallah Mansour, a senior intelligence official who also controlled Libya’s broadcast outlets.
“When they took me out on a stretcher, Abdallah Mansour was calling out, ‘The bullets will be coming’,” he said
Full art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/25/us-l...
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Libyan rebels penetrate Gaddafi’s home town globalpost.com/dispatches/glo…
only action on western side of #sirte was repeated NATO strikes
Tweeting Tripoli
#Yemen will discover soon that #Saleh actually can’t read or write. That’s why he was avoiding signing. #problemsolved
CNN
CNN : Sebha is free-سبها في يد الثوار
Ben Wedeman
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4lox03skWw
FromJoanne Joanne
Sirte NTC fighters Put up checkpoints+Snipers in outskirts and pulled back from center 2 allow #NATO 2do its Magic + FF R regrouping #Libya
All about the Not so squeaky clean Tony #Blair’s 6 secret visits to #Gaddafi #Libya goo.gl/cg1tZ
UK Foreign Office granted a VISA 2 #Hana #Gaddafi last year even though #Gaddafi claimed she was killed in US bombing raid in 1986 #Libya
#Libya #NTC may delay forming gov’t again af.reuters.com/article/libyaN…
In Case U missed it Interesting: #Exclusive UK Firm Lobbies #WilliamHague over #Libya Security Deal goo.gl/BAZ0b #NTC #HeritageOil
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafi enlists new 12000Strong Army #Tuareg fighters #Niger #Algeria DO READ THIS
goo.gl/Q9qiI
Ties in with
goo.gl/WGyIa
Red Arrow
Never… never trust Debka, it’s a pro Zionist & anti muslin site, they love spreading rumors 2 generate chaos.#Libia #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#NATO bombing missions pound Qaddafi’s hometown #Libya goo.gl/NCWZ8
It doesn’t matter who we have managed to impress if Allaah is displeased with us.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
lool: Reuters:
Gaddafi’s spkmn said deposed Gaddafi & his family had not helped thmslvs 2 oil wealth & they were among the poorest citizens
Reuters:
MoussaIbrahim said no one had been able to show that #Gaddafi or his family had assets or accounts (Really!!! poor man)!! #Libya
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Reports emerging from #Sirte: executions, hostage-taking, & the calculated targeting of individuals, families, & communities w/in the city
May Allah be with the people of Sirte. There clearly is resistance w/in the city & its being silenced by forces loyal to Gaddafi
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Bin Waleed has been occupied by Gadaffi loyalists from all around #Libya.The people there are helpless and are probably anti-gadaffi
bbcme BBC ME English
Tripoli prison mass grave found: A mass grave containing 1,270 bodies is found at the notorious Abu Salim prison…
bbc.in/nOAkkl
Hana S.
3 of my aunts managed to escape #Sirte. Their houses were bombed and one of them burned down!! :(
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
hmmm … apparently #gaddafi was once chummy with #yushchenko
Yes, he was:
Gaddafi supported Yushchenko during the Orange Revolution – Harfouch
Here is part of the story ( translated):
During the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine (end 2004 – early 2005), Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has supported the former at the time of the Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who in early 2005, became President of Ukraine
According Harfouch, Gadhafi several times sent to Ukraine, “his son to buy land, aircraft, and another, and, naturally, he was carrying a large amount of cash.” Son’s name is not given Jamahiriya leader.
“As far as I know, in recent years Gaddafi sought an opportunity to put in a bank the cash.He negotiated with leaders of various countries, possibly with “orange” leaders of Ukraine ", – said Harfouch, reportsRIA Novosti.
Read the full art.here ( Russian):
focus.ua/politics/198432
FromJoanne Joanne
#MassGraves a Nightmare in more then 1way exhuming remains without proper forensic techniques will make it impossible 2identify them #Libya
Reuters
Libya’s Gaddafi is poor and honest-spokesman
Muammar Gaddafi’s chief spokesman said on Sunday the deposed Libyan leader and his family had not helped themselves to Libya’s oil wealth and that they were “among the poorest citizens”.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/25/liby...
tonybirtley tony birtley
aubari, 250km from sabha now in NTC hands. fighters took control over weekend. no resistance but some villages enroute still fly green flag
surprising that gadaffi forces have melted away virtually without a flight in south west libya. rebels now about 400 km from Algerian border
a visit to sabha hospital gives you an idea of 42 years of gadaffi rule. poor equipment, insufficient trained staff, terrible facilities
doctors say people are dying unecessarily at Sabha hospital because lack of medicine and staff. They are wondering why help is not coming
Hana S.
Many of those who’ve left #Sirte are in shock at what’s been going on in the rest of the country. Cruel reality… #SirteCrisis #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE African Mercenaries paid by #Gaddafi R taking Revenge 4 yesterday by shooting @ houses with anti aircaft weapons goo.gl/h8E9H
LibyaLiberty
#DearGaddafiLoyalists who consumed the family care packages of money & food to already murdered inmates:You’ll wish u never touched a dime.
#Alhamdulillah for this moment, ya Allah,where the evil of #Gaddafi slinks thru back alleys, on the run from his former prisoners.
4Adam Adam
Le Figaro: The university prof said he saw Muatassim Gaddafi twice ‘came to our neighborhood after heavy fighting in the city’ #Libya #Sirte
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NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/f1RRt
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Tue am: At Bani Walid, RAF aircraft destroyed a command and control facility which had been identified by NATO surveillance operations.
Tue am: At Hun the RAF aircraft demolished another such headquarters, again using Paveway guided bombs. #Libya
Tue am: At Sirte, a former school had been commandeered by Qadhafi’s men as a base. Paveway bombs destroyed the military targets at the site
Tue pm: RAF Tornados tasked by NATO mounted precision strike on military vehicle depot near Hun. Their Paveways destroyed the installation.
Since 19/3/11 RN, RAF & Army Air Corps strikes have damaged/destroyed more than 970 former regime targets that threated the Libyan people.
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Leader Mustapha Jalil Atleast 25000 people DIED in #feb17 uprising against #Libya ’s strongman Muammar Gaddafi and 50 000 were wounded
#Liberation of #Hun and other cities in the South #libya youtube.com/watch?v=pGhpjR…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGhpjRvwUbM&fea...
#No #Kidding: The biggest fear at the Front lines is of "Friendly Fire "
goo.gl/Zba4y #Libya #Sirte #BaniWalid
Last Checkpoint b4 #Sirte Front Lines Smiling Guard waved us thru; “Welcome to Sirte I Hope You Dont Die Here”
goo.gl/Zba4y #Libya
Mansour #Daw, #Gaddafi’s security chief who recently fled #Libya 4 #Mali played a Large role in massacres committed during #Feb17 revolution
#Sirte #NTC Fighters reached to 15 km east of the #Ghardabiya Reservoir 6 Martyrs yesterday goo.gl/WNpH2 #Libya
#FOUND in Freezer Port of #TRIPOLI They found Body Journalist AbbasBadr alDin who disappeared with Musa alSadr
Libya goo.gl/wV8Ed
#Gynaecologist desperately needed in #Zliten #Orthopeadics #surgeon also needed.Plz contact @Zlitniya #Libya
#Photo of the TANK in Sheeps Clothes goo.gl/kDwje which the #NTC fighters found along the highway of #Sirte #Libya
#ZLITEN Womens march in support of NTC
youtube.com/watch?v=uyEYCn… #Libya
Reuters: #South #African government says it Recognises #Libya ’s NTC Satement #Zuma in #New #York : goo.gl/HyWHR
Extremely fierce battle at close quarters in the streets of #Sirte 19.09.2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj3ACnshufc #Libya
evanchill Evan Hill
Abdel Hakim Belhadj tells AJE that he believes Gaddafi will kill himself rather than be captured. ow.ly/6A3Nf #Libya
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
VIDEO: #Malta receives 17 critically wounded #Libya civilians for treatment via #Qatar air force C-130 from #Tripoli bit.ly/pAy4H1
iyad_elbaghdadi
About Sabha: Military spokesman confirmed all areas are liberated. Attacks by snipers & “sleeper cells” can’t be ruled out. #Libya
msnbc
Panetta: 12 more US troops sent to Libya
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the Pentagon has sent another dozen troops to Tripoli to help the State Department lay plans for reopening the U.S. Embassy.
More:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44598209#.Tnjx3eyoqSo
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
LPC #Misrata: Ibrahim Halbos, Cmdr of “Black Katiba” (Asshahed Mohamed Halbos Katiba) gravely injured in #Sirte 2 days ago. #Libya
FYI: Halbos, now hospitalized with severe injuries, is among the most influential commanders of Misrata forces active in #Sirte offensive.
LPC #Misrata: Halbos’ fighting group now working to restructure.Halbos himself had replaced his brother who was killed in siege of Misrata
bencnn benwedeman
I am in #Sabha. Drove from northern end to southern, now at the airport, camped outside a villa bombed by NATO. No power, no running water.
#Sabha now: Scattered pockets of resistance, mostly in the Manshiya district. Fires in various parts of town. Occasional gunfire. #Libya
Saw two bodies of alleged members of Qadadfa tribe, Qadhafi’s tribe, killed in gunbattle in Manshiya, district, #Sabha, #Libya
Photo: bodies of two Qadadfa tribe members killed in Sabha clashes with NTC fighters Tuesday. #Libya yfrog.com/nwheiej
Sirtawi
Sky news report from #Sirte. youtube.com/watch?v=_ovD0R…
jirdan
The order friends in who will benefit from Libya:Qatar, UAE, Tunisia, Turkey, Jordan, Iran, France, UK, ants, goats, gorillas, bugs, Africa.
septimius_sever septimius severus
Speechless … weapons and ammunition compound in a village near #Sirt … #Libya … pic.twitter.com/4lPBbHzl
The great speechifier does what he does best, give a great speech to salute Libyan People! govne.ws/item/President… via @ObamaNews … #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
" #Libya – The Other Side of the Coin" english.pravda.ru/history/20-09-… What #Russia thinks of Libya. Please note the term “National Terrorist Council”
#Zintan Military Council: #Sabha has been fully liberated. #Libya
Libyan
Lots of volunteer youth groups in #Tripoli, #Zwara, #Misrata cleaning up the streets, repainting. #Libya
Just one more time:)
septimius_sever septimius severus
Just how lucky are we to witness history in the making. #Libya’s flag at @UN HQ..we will never forget our martyrs twitpic.com/6nuj7k
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Tripoli’s youth cleaning up the small lake next to Tripoli’s ancient red castle (overlooking martyr’s square) facebook.com/media
Haytham Abubaker
The #Gaddafi propaganda machine is very much alive and well on twitter. Constantly getting harassment from non-Libyan supporters. #Libya
Sabha has been liberated. Welcome to Free Libya #Libya #Feb17
derek_brower Derek Brower
If anti- #Gaddafi forces are in Sabha, it could get interesting. That’s where UK govt sources are convinced the colonel is holed up.
Tripolitanian:
Now that #Sebha has been liberated, its time to build a high wall between #Libya and sub-Saharan #Africa.
Karybdis
With #Sabha now being NTC controlled, expect the rest of Wadi #Hayat, #Ghoddua to switch very quickly. Probably drive through liberation.
Sanna
It’s almost a month since Tripoli has been liberated. Hurts so much to see a few leftover G idiots still killing in #Sabha #BaniWalid #Sirte
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photographers coming back from #Sirte said big number of tank being move there from #Misrata NTC fighters said big push very soon #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte Resident says Hasnt had electricity since Aug20 Regime forces are using houses, schools and hospitals to store ammunition #Libya
DavidPoort David Poort
Asked if troops are disciplined enough not to shoot Gaddafi on sight, top NTC commander Belhadj joked: “I hope they do” bit.ly/nA31o2
feb17libya Feb17Libya
CNN Video:
Mercenary fights to repay Gadhafi favor bit.ly/pl8xOg #libya
or:
feb17.info/media/cnn-video-mercenary-fi...
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
tanks and heavy artillery rolling towards #sirte, second day of civilians fleeing…what happens next?
Former jihadist at the heart of Libya’s revolution #cnn edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/02...
commander from zawiya said lost 6 men in #baniwalid on friday, promises to go back with 150 men on sunday.
BBC Exclusive: Wavering loyalties in Libya as fight for Sirte continues(As Sultan, East Sirte)
BBC Exclusive: Report from the town of As Sultan
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpdU0z2ybjA
Ala F
Mabrouk elhoureya #sabha .AJA confirming that #sabha has been liberated by the FF, a big victory for revolution its the capital of the south
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
you can see the sheepskin draped tank that Gaddafi forces tried to hide… #wtf #onlyinlibya #libya youtu.be/WvCbW9OQvqg
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCbW9OQvqg&fea...
AbdulFatah Younis’ nephew reveals that the United Arab Emirates was the first country in the world to call NTC & offer support after #feb17
Worth reminding that AbdulFatah Younis was one of the 1st to defect & his commando brigade was instrumental to the liberation of #Benghazi
AbdulFatah Younis’ memoirs and diaries included many details on what happened during the first few days after the revolution
AbdulFatah Younis’ nephew: “When they catch those responsible for my uncle’s death, they must be treated well & given a fair trial”
AbdulFatah Younis’ son confirms to Libya Awalan that his father met one Gaddafi regime figure just before his death
AbdulFatah Younis met As-Sayyidi, a Gaddafi regime figure that wanted to negotiate an exit/exile for Gaddafi.
Correction: Gaddafi regime figure is “Abdelrahman As-Sayyid”
AbdulFatah Younis met As-Sayid and the latter offered Younis 200,000,000$ to leave the country and stop helping NTC
AbdulFatah Younis told As-Sayid that he joined the revolution and will not go back on his decision
Abdulfatah Younis then told As-sayid that he should defect and do what was best for his country. The latter refused.
I can’t translate the whole AbdulFatah Younis family interview on Libya Awalan but I really hope someone is recording this
FREAKIEST THING EVER! look at the RANDOM visualization on audio player that came up when I played @ibnthabit!!!! #Libya pic.twitter.com/c8FcN9HY
CNN inside Sabha
– People let the NTC fighters in. We hear only celebratory gunfire #libya #feb17 fb.me/1eBZfzGgs
Sabha the largest city in the desert with a population of 400,000 is celebrating freedom today
While Sabha is liberated,Gaddafi rambled about nothing and Ibrahim is still making up baseless stories.
Aljazeera
New Libyan government ‘within 10 days’
Mahmoud Jibril says the ministers could be divided between the east and west of the country.
A new Libyan government will be announced within seven to 10 days, the transitional leadership’s interim prime minister has said in New York.
“Government to be announced within a week, 10 days maximum,” Mahmoud Jibril told reporters on Tuesday, adding the ministers could be divided between the east and west of the country.
“I’m not bothered by (the) time … to bring about national consensus,” he said.
He was speaking at a press conference hosted by G8 foreign ministers after the new Libyan leaders were welcomed to the United Nations, enshrining their new-found status after ousting long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
On Sunday Jibril had had to delay the unveiling of a new Libyan government, saying it was held up by last-minute haggling.
Jibril, a former Gaddafi regime official, said then that many of the portfolios for the new cabinet had been agreed, but there were still discussions going on over others.
“Most of the work has been done. It is a question of the number of ministries and the location of the ministries.”
He said they could all be in the capital, Tripoli, but it was possible they could be divided between between the east and west of Libya.
The transitional council was based in Benghazi in the east of the country. Tripoli is in the west.
“For a country which was absent from any democratic process for 42 years from any institutions, from any democratic culture, what’s taking place is natural,” said Jibril.
“I think we better have good consultation, we had better talk before we act.
“I think this government, when formed, will help tremendously to bring about stability and order in Tripoli and the rest of the country.
G8 help
Meanwhile, Libya has been added to the list of Arab countries that have seen political revolutions or deep change that will benefit from a G8 arrangement set up by France, which holds the G8 presidency this year.
The so-called Deauville Partnership will inject about $80 billion and international expertise into the new democracies, though as a relatively wealthy country Libya will not be getting the financial aid.
The cash will be concentrated on Tunisia and Egypt, with some help going to Morocco and Jordan to help the countries with economic development, education and training, rule of law and political reforms.
“We have got to help the countries that are now free,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told a press conference after the meeting.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr said “an extraordinary and exceptional moment needs extraordinary and exceptional ways to deal with it.”
wheelertweets James Wheeler
4 US military personnel arrived in #Libya last week to help assess damage to the embassy in Tripoli. Another 12 deployed in last few days.
Virginia
Al-Jazeera chief’s surprise resignation raises fears for channel’s independence gu.com/p/323dn/tw
Aljazeera
Inside a Gaddafi compound in Tripoli
Muammar Gaddafi, the toppled Libyan leader, left behind numerous houses and compounds in Tripoli, Libya’s capital, after being ousted from the city by a popular
uprising.
In this Al Jazeera exclusive, Sue Turton explores the insides of a hidden compound once owned by Gaddafi in Tripoli.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuAYeZE-b2U&fea...
MSNBC
After the cheering, Libyans wary but optimistic
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WMvf859zT8&fea...
Tarek
#Libyans are like #Italians, both can’t work or even fighting without bringing coffee machines to front line. flic.kr/p/ap68XV #Libya
Do you think this #Somalian woman represent #Libyan women in National Geographic Front page? I don’t flic.kr/p/akwPXP #Libya
Flagraising of #Libya flag at #UN flic.kr/p/aoT9QA
Mohammed al-Alagi, Minister of Justice and Human Rights of #Libya addresses to session of the #HRC. #UN flic.kr/p/aoB2Jw
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. A month after NTC fighters reached Martyrs’ Square, the flag sellers are still doing good business. pic.twitter.com/dLwSREvW
Libya. Trying to establish what’s really happening in #Sabah. Has it fallen or not?
#Libya. Colleague #caparkinson filmed this piece at #Leptis Magna. Treasures survive Libya conflict bbc.in/naXGC0
bencnn benwedeman
NATO flying over #Sabha this morning. City relatively quiet but for fighters testing their weapons. #Libya
Photo: sign at #Sabha airport: “from Sabha came the first spark.” And perhaps the last? #Libya yfrog.com/hs169wfj
Photo: VIP accommodations at #Sabha airport. Redesigned by NATO. #Libya yfrog.com/18n3ablj
Driving through #Sabha. Stores closed, few people in street. No electrify, running water, communications #libya
Photo: qadhafi poster in #Sabha…before… #Libya yfrog.com/hwvq8uxj
Photo: qadhafi poster in #sabha under renovation by new management. #Libya yfrog.com/klj6ejzej
Bani Walid
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Just witnessed 2 men die from an RPG accident. Many untrained, leaderless rebels eager to fight are proving to be dangerous #libya
The check points have turned into chaotic shooting ranges, filled w v young men who just want to be the first and fight without order #libya
Hana
OMG! Just heard one of my uncles fled #Sirte to #Misurata. Can’t wait to hear what he’s got to say!! #SirteCrisis #Feb17 #Libya
My uncle’s still in #Tawergha now. My folks on their way to accompany them. Probably ‘escort’ required by security there. #SirteCrisis
Feb17
The African Union (AU) said it was recognising Libya’s de fact ruling council, removing another diplomatic support for the ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The AU, which frequently has been criticised for its ponderous reaction to events on its doorstep, said in a statement it was ready to support Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) in its efforts to build an inclusive government.
Reuters
Libya will likely have a new government within the next 10 days, Libya’s interim prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, said on Tuesday.
“I’m not bothered by (the) time … to bring about national consensus,” he said at a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. “I expect a government to be formed in the next week to 10 days.”
IOL ZA
Documents found in Libya show SA sent sniper rifles
South Africa once again finds itself front and centre in an arms deal controversy after Human Rights Watch discovered a document in Tripoli that appears to confirm that sniper rifles were exported to Libya in apparent contravention of our arms trading regime.
The “delivery note” is addressed to one General Gaser Ben Gasher of the “purchase department” – assumed to be that of the Libyan armed forces – and provides the first proof that Midrand-based weapons maker Truvelo Manufacturers sold sniper rifles to Libya in 2009.
South African authorities have repeatedly denied that any weapons were exported to that country in 2009.
A “packing list” describes the delivery – just one of 28 boxes destined for Tripoli – as
containing 5 Truvelo Sniper Rifles, 5 magazines, 5 carrying cases, 5 carrying bags and associated cleaning kits, an operator’s manual and a “telescope booklet”. Delivery of this batch took place at Tripoli International Airport on December 3, 2009, according to the document.
Read more here:
www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/documents-...
Reuters via feb17
One of the last three main bastions of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya has been largely taken over by forces of the provisional government a month after he was toppled, an official said on Wednesday.
Sabha — deep in the North African state’s Sahara desert — has been holding out along with Bani Walid and Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte since the fall of the capital Tripoli on Aug. 23.
“We control most of Sabha apart from the al-Manshiya district. This is still resisting, but it will fall,” National Transitional Council military spokesman Ahmed Bani told Reuters.
Reuters
Libya c.bank has enough funds for six months – finance official
DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Libya’s central bank has enough money to cover state spending for up to six months and has no urgent need to resort to bridge loans, a finance official said on Wednesday.
Wafik Shater, a finance official in the National Transitional Council’s (NTC’s) stabilisation team, said the central bank had “several billion Libyan dinars”. One billion Libyan dinars is worth about $820 million.
More here:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
feb17libya Feb17Libya
2 Filipino Maids Flee Gadhafi’s Relative bit.ly/qOSpxc #libya
NTC military spokesman Ahmed Bani said on Wed. “We control most of Sabha apart from the al-Manshiya district" feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
Video: NTC taking time ‘to do the right thing’ for new government bit.ly/qz3DTM #libya
AFP
Anti-Kadhafi forces admit losses in Sirte offensive
Anti-Kadhafi authorities on Wednesday admitted heavy losses in an assault on the deposed Libyan despot’s hometown Sirte, but said they have captured a string of oasis towns.
Full story:
feb17.info/news/anti-kadhafi-forces-adm...
Patrick_Baz patrickbaz
Turkish Airlines still implementing the old ITA on its flight to #Libya and doesn’t allow passenger to travel to Tripoli without a visa.
kareemJerusalem Kareem Khadder
Some of the medical staff injured while evacuating injured opposition fighters around Sabha yfrog.com/klfrcxqj
Ben CNN in front if emergency entrance at #Sabha central hospital… yfrog.com/kk95hlwj
Tweeting Tripoli
LOOOOL I particularly liked these :)
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yfrog.com/gy9xhnsj
yfrog.com/nwh8dyoj
Gaddafi: “Don’t rejoice, don’t believe that a (Gaddafi) regime was overthrown…” LOL Gaddafi admits he doesn’t want us to be happy!!!
Eurasia Review
After Jihad – OpED
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.
Full story
www.eurasiareview.com/21092011-after-ji...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
VIDEO: #Libyan independence flag being presented at #UN ‘friends of #Libya’ meeting. goo.gl/91hG5 #feb17 #epicmoment
AFP: Officials at the National Transitional Council say that the Libyan fighters are in complete control of Qaddafi bastion Sabha.
Please join this group ‘Voice of Libyan Women’ in support. goo.gl/4dDdh #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Libya
Libya ‘will try’ Yvonne Fletcher murder suspect shabablibya.org/news/libya-will-try-yvo... #Libya
U.N. General Assembly welcomes new Libyan leadership; Palestinian issue looms shabablibya.org/news/u-n-general-assemb... #Libya
Libyan Flag in UN رفع علم ليبيا في الأمم المتحدة (video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6zdbBEkn7c&fea... #Libya
Libya’s NTC claims control of Sabha is.gd/Ycw1qZ #Libya
Anti Gaddafi forces enter Sabha Sept 21 2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj47VXtn_pI&fea... #Libya
UK jets hit Libyan targets after Gaddafi taunt
Britain said on Wednesday its jets had attacked troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in three different areas, a day after the deposed, fugitive Libyan leader taunted NATO by saying its bombing runs would not last.
More:
shabablibya.org/news/uk-jets-hit-libyan...
aquaamr
#Libya is going secular already?? Flyer in #Tripoli hotels where media resides. too early I think. twitpic.com/6o8h7l
KamahlAJE Kamahl Santamaria
On-air today from 1400GMT (90 minutes from now) with live coverage from the United Nations General Assembly.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
“This historical moment of raising the #Libyan flag @ the UN represents the will of the freedom fighters & the first martyrs, who, as they..
“were dying, urged their friends & colleagues to continue & not to surrender,” Mustafa Abdel-Jalil said at the UN on Tuesday
Reuters spin: “..leaders at UN conference congratulated #Libyans—and themselves—for #Gaddafi’s removal by NATO-backed rebels..”
Reuters #Libya spin: "..Interim PM Jibril failed to win approval for his proposed new cabinet Sunday..political infighting reveals fractures
“united in civil war by hatred..but remains split among pro-Western liberals, underground Islamist guerrillas, and defectors”
This language has been repeated by Reuters in multiple articles carried by major media around the world the past couple days.
4 US military personnel arrived in #Libya last week to help assess damage to the embassy in Tripoli. Another 12 deployed in last few days.
“But that’s it. We have not and do not intend to put any combat forces on the ground.” -US Defense Secretary Panetta, Sep 20
AFPS
Panetta Begins Next-step Discussions with NATO Partners
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2011 – As Operation Unified Protector winds down in Libya, the Defense Department and its NATO partners have had early discussions about future roles in that embattled nation, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said today.
Panetta briefed reporters here along with Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“Our view is that this mission went well and that the role that NATO performed there was the right one,” Panetta said.
Rebel forces that rose up against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi “have made significant progress,” the secretary added, although some elements of the regime continue to fight.
In the meantime, Panetta said, four military personnel arrived in Libya last week to help the State Department assess damage to the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.
“Within the last few days, we’ve deployed another 12,” the secretary said, to try to reopen the embassy “within the next few weeks. But that’s it. We have not and do not intend to put any combat forces on the ground.”
As to NATO’s future role there, “that’s something we’re going to be discussing with NATO as we see events unfold in Libya,” Panetta said, adding that he’s begun discussions with his NATO partners, “trying to decide … what should be the next steps.”
Mullen met with the NATO chiefs of defense over the weekend. “A number of them
went out of their way to thank the United States for the support to enable them to be able to succeed to this point,” he said.
“The decision was made, obviously, to put us in a support role,” Mullen said. “That was, clearly, critical.”
NATO, he added, is “a critical alliance, has been, is and will be for the future.”
In New York today, at the first meeting of the “Friends of Libya,” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO is committed to continuing its mission in Libya for as long as threats against civilians endure.
The meeting coincided with that of the U.N. 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.
“The days of the former regime are clearly numbered,” Rasmussen said. “The recent positive developments in Libya are irreversible.”
He also welcomed the adoption of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2009, which establishes a U.N. mission in Libya, according to NATO. Resolutions 1970 and 1973, which mandated international action to protect civilians in Libya, remain in place as threats against the civilian population persist.
“Our operation has been a success,” Rasmussen said.
“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.
VOA
Libya’s Provisional Authority Claims Another Gadhafi Stronghold
Provisional authority officials in Libya say their forces have taken control of most of the southern desert city of Sabha – one of the last strongholds of former leader Moammar Gadhafi.
National Transitional Council officials said Wednesday that anti-Gadhafi fighters are still encountering some resistance, but have largely taken over the city.
More:
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javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
1 de los comandantes más legendarios d las milicias d Misrata, Halbush, herido grave en #Sirte su hermano ya murió n esta revolución #Libia
el CNT libio dice q sus tropas han capturado la casi totalidad de Sabha 1 d los 3 últimos bastiones de Gadafi #Libia
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: Tripoli life: news.sky.com/home/article/1…
#Libya: Yet more delays as new Libyan government will not be announced for another 7 to 10 days
#Libya: NATO says on Tuesday destroyed command facility at Bani Walid and another in Hun
#Libya:NATO: also hit a former school in Sirte, used by pro-Gaddafi forces as a base for armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery.
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Does Libyan Islamic Movement for Change (ex LIFG) have political ambitions? ‘Why not?’ Belhaj tells me bit.ly/oO3VpN
AJELive AJELive
NTC on Wednesday admitted heavy losses and hospitals full of wounded from their assault on Sirte aje.me/nP83Os #libya
aleithead Alastair Leithead
The advance on #Sirte in #Libya stalled from the east – rockets hitting positions gained on Sun. Still 50km from here to the centre
malonebarry Barry Malone
Bani Walid chaos. Our team saw bored NTC militiamen kill each other by mistake today and one man shoot his own head off with an RPG.. #Libya
grafixel guess what
If Gaddafi doesnt show up alive soon, i suggest to declare him dead.
LivingZimbabwe Living Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe to recognise Libya rebels – New Zimbabwe.com goo.gl/fb/kB3zi #Zimbabwe #Zim
“The Touareg can never come back,” says one Ghadamsi. “Not after this.”
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
New Libyan leaders ‘vow justice for PC Fletcher’ is.gd/0RkQ7d #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Libya’s eagles #libya fb.me/OysX1Nt6
Sabha is totally under the control of the revolutionaries," said Mohammed Wardugu, the Benghazi spokesman of the “Desert Shield Brigade”
Sabha, a city of 100,000 inhabitants
At least 3 NTC fighters, all in their 30s were killed and 17 wounded Tuesday around Sirte as they encountered unexpectedly fierce resistance
NTC forces said Wednesday they seized most of Waddan and were only facing
pockets of resistance in other Al-Jufra towns.
Seventy percent of the Al-Jufra has been liberated. Waddan is freed, our forces entered the town following NATO bombing of Al-Hisha dam.
BFBS News
RAF air strikes weaken Gaddafi’s forces
The Ministry of Defence has released details of a series of precision strikes by RAF jets against pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya yesterday (Tuesday).
Tornado GR4s carried out the attacks in three different locations across western and central Libya.
At Bani Walid, they destroyed a command and control facility before heading 200 miles south east to the area of Hun to demolish a similar facility using Paveway guided bombs.
Tornado GR4s also destroyed armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery being stored at a school in Sirte commandeered by Gaddafi’s men.
The last target was a military vehicle depot near Hun which was destroyed in the afternoon with a series of direct hits using Paveway bombs.
Sirte:
45 NTC fighters have been killed and more than 200 wounded since they moved on Sirte from the west and south on September 15
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
17 Sep 2011 – First Free elections in Libya since #Feb17 held in Zwara to elect head of transitional city council youtube.com/watch?v=BUBToA…!
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUBToAAwl4U&fea...
African Arguments
Sub Saharan mercenaries or African freedom fighters in Libya and the return of Dr Khalil Ibrahim
When the international press pack of ‘world affairs’ (war) correspondents descended on Libya in February, they began to repeat uncritically and unquestioning the Libyan insurgents’ claim that it was only the bloody thuggery of so called ‘black sub Saharan African mercenaries’ that prevented the collapse of the Gaddafi regime. There are now appearing some dissenting voices highlighting the apparent collective victimisation of what are still called ‘black sub Saharan Africans’ by the Libyan insurgents on the cusp of their victory.
Dr Khalil Ibrahim Returns
We now learn that Dr Khalil Ibrahim, in exile and protected in Tripoli since May 2010 after his former protector and Zaghawa kinsman Chad’s President Idriss Deby refused to allow him to return, has managed to escape from Tripoli, and is reportedly back in Darfur evading a force of Chadian and Sudanese troops in the Libyan, Chadian and Sudanese desert border lands.
Read more:
goo.gl/X1Okh
Abdallah el-Badri, the secretary-general of #OPEC, predicts that #Libya will return to its output of 1.6 million bpd within 15 to 16 months.
hominoid555 Russell
Libya Mission humanitarian aid worth one million dollars coming from Kuwait
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Sorry guys _ was tweeting from outside #BaniWalid. Still here…
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
‘Friends of Libya’ meeting at the UN – New York – Photo Album facebook.com/media/set/?set… #Libya #USA #Newyork #UN
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Touched down at Mitiga airport an hour ago… amazing atmosphere here in Tripoli. God bless #libya #feb17 I’ll upload some pictures later
CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
#Misrata mil. council claims NTC victory in #Hun, saying city in their hands and “independence flags fluttering in the sky”. #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: NATO agrees to extend Libya operations for three months
HaraldDoornbos Harald Doornbos
Hier Kamal (zittend) nabij Sirt front. Jonge ogen. Vader plv consul op consulaat #Libie #denhaag. Respect, gozer! twitpic.com/6o61xm
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AlArabia: Grad rockets attack on ‘rebels’ site near Bani Walid.
malonebarry Barry Malone
NTC fighter east of Sirte tells Reuters team there pro-Gaddafi men are fighting so fiercely in Khamseen they “have become suicidal” #Libya
adrianhong Adrian Hong
@TurkishAirlines much-hyped first Tripoli-Istanbul flight delayed then cancelled. #Libya
Flight delayed, & #Zintan thawar at #Tripoli Int. are giving out candy, snacks & drinks. This is a special place. #Libya
@derek_brower Derek Brower
Am being told journalists now needing visas to get into #Libya. Is this true? Can one be bought at border?
Cristina Rainha
@derek_brower other ppl saying u can but includes an under-the-table “tax”
septimius_sever septimius severus
if you are wondering why Sirt & BeniWalid is taking so long, watch this… brainwashed G supporter! youtube.com/watch?v=eX79hM… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX79hMJI4Wc&fea...
#Alarabiya: Clashes break out between the #Tunisia army and an armed group near the border with #Algeria and #Libya
So true:
“Rumors are delivered by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”
Zawya.com
Fuel and water flow again in Libyan capital: officials
Water and fuel supplies have been completely restored in the Libyan capital Tripoli after its fall to forces opposed to Moamer Kadhafi, Libya’s United Arab Emirates ambassador said on Wednesday.
Ambassador Aref Ali Nayed, who is also head of the Libya Stabilisation Team, said basic utilities had been fully restored after weeks of severe shortages and outages.
“The liberation of Tripoli and the immediate aftermath has been a lot more peaceful and resulted in a lot less damage than anticipated,” he told reporters in Dubai.
Read more:
www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidANA20110921T...
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I can’t explain how good it feels to see people happy everywhere.. to see flags.. to see checkpoints manned by neighbors, friends #libya
I am now sitting in #fashloom… listening to stories about 6 months of constant fear. 4×4 vehicles kidnapping locals & shooting randomly
Unfortunately I also heard the story of 2 family friends that were betrayed and killed by Muhammad Gaddafi’s guards a few weeks ago #libya
There are some brilliant cartoons and paintings mocking gaddafi and his 42 year rule on EVERY SINGLE wall here. All over #Tripoli #libya
Al Arabiya
NATO extends Libya air strike mission for another 90 days, says diplomat
NATO has agreed to a 90 day extension of its air strike mission in Libya, an alliance diplomat said after a meeting of ambassadors of the 28 NATO states in Brussels.
“Operation Unified Protector was just extended for 90 days,” the diplomat said on condition of anonymity after the meeting.
A further prolonged operation will mark a second extension to the NATO air and sea campaign, which begun on Mar. 31 in an effort to crack down on now-fallen Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and his armed loyalists.
Now, as the country’s new rulers have taken charge of most parts of the country, including the capital and a few of the remaining Qaddafi bastions of support, a NATO presence will assumingly support their mission to dislodge Qaddafi loyalists that are still holding out in several towns.
On Tuesday, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen had said at a “Friends of Libya” meeting at the U.N. headquarters that “the days of the Qaddafi regime in Libya are clearly numbered.”
“The recent positive developments in the country are irreversible,” he added, referring to the National Transitional Council’s recent progression in the country which caused Qaddafi and his family members to flee from Tripoli last month.
Rasmussen also told the high-level meeting that NATO was committed to continuing its mission in Libya for as long as threats against civilians existed, but made it clear that the alliance was determined to end the operation as soon as conditions allowed, RTT news reported.
Response by Misrata Local Council to malicious allegations against our brave fighters who rose in support of our people in Sirte
It was with sorrow and regret that we heard through Libya Al-Hurra and Libya Ahrar, on September 19, 2011, the false claims of Mr El-Ramesh who is trying to present himself as a member of the Local Council of (Sirte), who told lies about the Misrata freedom fighters who are at the front-lines in Sirte. He is intentially killing the truth and presenting lies and rubbish, by falsely accusing innocent people, who have been killed in liberating Sirte and other Libyan cities, with his blaten lies about looting and and stealing. What he is saying is anti the freedom fighters and destroying their reputation. We strongly reject what he is saying out of jealousy. There is no evidence for it at all. This is not why the tens of martyrs each day and the hundreds of wounded, and those supporting them, are in Sirte (ie. to steal) in Sirte, of to loot. and what he is accusing them.
The Local council of Misrata totally rejects what he said; he is just causing divisions between Libyans. We call on the National Council to to take necessary action in this matter
Via FB
Original:
www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=16346...
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
10 yrs ago #UK sponsored a resolution to make today – 21 Sept – the International Day of Peace. #peaceday @PeaceOneDay bit.ly/16L3eJ
jirdan
Get ready western world for the soon to be all powerful Libya lobby. Particularly Italy and France.
US ambassador returns to Libya to lead newly reopened embassy in post-Gadhafi era
The U.S. ambassador to Libya has returned to Tripoli to lead a newly reopened American Embassy in a post-Moammar Gadhafi era.
Ambassador Gene Cretz arrived in Tripoli Wednesday, a day before plans to raise the U.S. flag over the embassy building in the Libyan capital.
goo.gl/M6lWR
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
Must read:
Q&A: Top NTC commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj
Sitting in a lavish apartment in the wing of a 5-star Tripoli hotel once inhabited by Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif, Abdel Hakim Belhadj looked a bit out of place in his drab, beige and brown military fatigues.
These again, incongruities of this sort are becoming common for the 45-year-old revolutionary who emerged from the darkest of Gaddafi’s torture chambers to become the leader of Tripoli’s Military Council, and, by some accounts, the most powerful man in the new Libya.
Read more here:
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Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Colonel located? Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported on 20.09.11 that: "Al-Qadhafi Is Residing in Al-Manshiyah Street, #Sabha
#African-#Arab relations have much more to offer than #Gaddafi-style by #NesrineMalik gu.com/p/323kf/tw via @guardian
belkacemi libertad
Le CNT prétend capturer Kadhafi en Libye dans son bastion is.gd/uudMf9 #Libye
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Le CNT affirme contrôler la quasi-totalité de Sebha j.mp/pEfQXL CARTE
Alielehmer Ali El-Ehmer
Wow Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported on 20.09.11 located ? "Al-Qadhafi Is Residing in Al-Manshiyah Street, #Sabha " #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Yes, Burj Alfateh is now Burj Tarabolus :)
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yfrog.com/klgalmrj
Tweeting Tripoli
Yes, Burj Alfateh is now Burj Tarabolus :) yfrog.com/kf56otjzj yfrog.com/klgalmrj
Al Arabiya
Qaddafi Says the People Chose the Government
On Tuesday, Libya’s deposed leader, Muammar Qaddafi, released an audio message in which he stated that the political system of the country was based on the people’s choice and that it could not be changed.
The audio message was carried on Syrian-based Ar-rai television, and is one of a series of audio messages in which Qaddafi calls out to those loyal to him, demanding they fight against rebels.
“There is no legitimacy apart from the people’s authorities, no legitimacy except from the people’s conferences whose membership expands to every single Libyan, men or women, therefore the National Transitional Council is void and illegitimate and will not find any ground to stand on. Libyans have said that they will die without the people’s authority and they are presently dying with the absence of the people’s authority,” he said.
Qaddafi’s family members and his inner circle have fled the country, leaving the regime in collapse. However, Qaddafi maintains power and support in three towns.
“Do not be happy and do not believe that there has been a regime that was toppled, or that there is now a regime that has been forced on the Libyan people by strikes from the air and sea, this is a farce whose legitimacy is connected to the air with NATO’s bombs that will not last forever,” he warned.
Meanwhile, fighters loyal to the NTC have brought in reinforcements, adding tanks and cannons to assist in taking over Sirte, a desert town and the birthplace of the ex-Libyan leader.
According to anti-Qaddafi forces, a tank belonging to the fugitive leader’s forces has been captured.
“These are the tanks of the tyrant, the ones he used to kill the children of Misrata. God is great, we are the revolutionaries of Misrata and we are coming. His son is here and we will catch him, God is great,” said an unnamed fighter near the tank.
Sirte is one of the cities still under control by forces loyal to Qaddafi.
UK Yahoo News
Family shot by rebels because of Gaddafi surname
A woman and her family were shot by Libyan rebel fighters in a deadly attack because their last name was Gaddafi, it has been reported.
Mother-of-three Afaf Gaddafi was attempting to flee the war-torn country with her children and other family members over fears that their surname would land them in trouble.
Mistaken for Gaddafi loyalists, rebel fighters opened fire at them near an airport – killing the couple’s two daughters Yam, 20 months, and Aden, three weeks, as well as Afaf’s mother and sister.
More:
uk.news.yahoo.com/family-shot-by-rebels...
bencnn benwedeman
Parts of #Sabha rose up a month ago, and kept loyalists away by force. The anti-Qadhafi elements strong, well organised. #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Mercedes Benz creates Libyan Revolutionary SLR – #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/dngzbp0L
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Security contractors starting to show up in #Tripoli trying to drum up business & hiring fighters away from the front. Not cool. #Libya
#Libya proposes ex-Eni executive (Abdul-Rahman Ben Yezza) for #Oil minister – Reuters goo.gl/fb/2NwsV
AndersFoghR AndersFogh Rasmussen
NATO Council decided to extend current mandate of #OperationUnifiedProtector for now – though under constant review. #NATO #Libya #Tripoli
NATO
NATO Secretary General statement on NAC decision to extend Libya mission
Press Release (2011) 119
Issued on 21 Sep. 2011
The North Atlantic Council has decided today to extend the current mandate of Operation Unified Protector, while keeping the situation under regular review. Together with our partners, NATO has been remarkably successful in fulfilling the mandate of the United Nations. But while threats to civilians persist, we will continue to protect them under the mandate confirmed unanimously in United Nations Security Council Resolution 2009, and at the request of the National Transition Council.
We are determined to continue our mission for as long as necessary, but ready to terminate the operation as soon as possible. While the technical rollover is for up to 90 days, the review will allow us to end our tasks at any time. We will do this in coordination with the United Nations, taking into account United Nations Security Council Resolution 2009, and in line with the will of the Libyan authorities.
This decision sends a clear message to the Libyan people. We will be there for as long as necessary, but not a day longer, while you take your future in your hands to ensure a safe transition to the new Libya.
Niz_FGM Niz
Meeting in NYC with Abdul Jalil & Dr.Jibril. Space limited, register by emailing your name & Number to – Ali Alawaj – libyanson1@yahoo.com
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
#Libye : le #CNT revendique la prise de #Sebha j.mp/of2Lv0 la prise de cette ville pourrait empêcher #Kadhafi de se rendre au Niger
AJELive AJELive
“The Arab people have risen up and claimed the right to be free.” #France’s #Sarkozy at UN aje.me/fwtYjF
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
VIDEO euronews : Les forces libyennes capturent des suspects à Tripoli j.mp/mVHGjD
FRANCE24 FRANCE 24
DIRECT PROCHE-ORIENT : Suivez le discours de Nicolas #Sarkozy à l’AG des Nations-Unies sur FRANCE 24 f24.my/n8z47A
CNN
Mideast peace the keynote of Obama address to U.N. General Assembly
Also, Obama addressed a meeting of the Libya Contact Group, telling the gathered leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, that the NATO-led military
campaign in Libya that helped oust Moammar Gadhafi from power was an example of modern global cooperative action.
“This is how the international community should work in the 21st century — more nations bearing the responsibility and the costs of meeting global challenges,” Obama said. “In fact, this is the very purpose of this United Nations. So every nation represented here today can take pride in the innocent lives we saved and in helping Libyans reclaim their country. It was the right thing to do.”
Read more and watch video:
www.cnn.com/2011/09/21/world/americas/u...
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
L’Union européenne accusée de ne pas aider les réfugiés à la frontière libyenne j.mp/r9Kqub #Libye
Khiria
Someone needs to adopt @Jonny_Hallam into their Libyan family.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Les forces du CNT ont “libéré” la ville de #Waddan située dans l’oasis de Djofra dont ils contrôlent environ 70%
j.mp/pnB4bw #Libye
France will treat the wounded Libyans in French hospitals via @LibyeLibre
MwattinLeebi Mwattin Leebi
It felt so good to wipe my feet on a Gaddoor mat or Gaddafi s picture used as a door mat in front of Raddison Hotel in #Tripoli.
FFs using an unexploded rocket as barrier at checkpoint! Bet that will stop them! #Tripoli #Libya
MUST READ:
Libya’s NTC Draft constitution in english
www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/libya/Libya-Dr... #libya #feb17
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
L’oasis de Djofra (300 km sud de Syrte) regroupe Waddan, Houn, Sokna, Zila et abriterait un important stock d’armes des pro-Kadhafi #Libye
La direction des opérations militaires des pro-Kadhafi est située à Houn, selon le nouveau régime #Libye
western Media:
wheelertweets James Wheeler
They’re emphasizing & distorting negatives. Using op ed language n ‘news’ articles. Stoking any fear, esp n the West
fatoohpdx
Great to see life is coming back to our beloved place….Agreed to moving it away from the shores of downtown…
Total Plans To Resume Output At 41,000 B/D Libya Field-Executive | Fox Business
www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/09/21/... via @foxbusiness
Surface to air missiles looted in Libya: what risk they may represent? www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/...
haynesdeborah Deborah Haynes
Britain to withdraw 4 Typhoon jets and 3 Apache helicopters from #Libya. Announcement from Liam Fox imminent. Marks beginning of the end…
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
If anyone knows a family or person who intends to return to #Libya to live from the #UK , please let @dhdfisher know.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #Gaddafi forces still putting up reistance in #Sirte … Not clear when anti #Gaddafi forces will make push into city
#Libya, families tell us they have no food, medical supplies, fuel and electricity and couldn’t use main roads to flee, #Sirte, #Gaddafi
#Libya, Families continue to leave #Sirte from the western entrance but many are originally from #Misrata, #Gaddafi
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters positioned some 7 Km from #Sirte city center but can’t advance cos of snipers & the presence of civilians
Alwafi Embaya sentenced to 10 yrs 4 opposing #Gaddafi but executed after 6 yrs in BuSleem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf0xOLxYBs&feature=player_embedded# #BaniWalid Justice more 2come
Tweeting Tripoli
Misrata FF in Tripoli. The writing on the back of the truck says: “Misrata Burned Him (Gaddafi)”.
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Danya
JUST in FYI for everyone on twitter about #LIBYA and UAE…the ex Ambassador to the UAE is back in the UAE, and a couple of weeks ago he tried to go back to the consulate to try and get his job back…thankfully he didn’t but our ambassador was no where to be found as he is working fe his second position Chief of Operations for the Stabilization team in Tripoli (which is werid because he hasnt really lived in Tripoli and is not from Tripoli) …to make matters worse..our Ex ambassador had a couple of people arrested and even tried to have a women (a friend of mine arrested ) ..events are taking place and no one from the Libyan community is being involved or told, only a ‘’select few’’ ..when people came and tried contacting the consulate to help and be involved they were ignored …. and just so everyone does not get confused our ambassador is Aref El Nayed, not Rafiq Al Nayed – who is head of Libyan Advisement authority.
www.nasdaq.com/aspx/company-news-story....=201109091640dowjonesdjonline00 0540
( Name: Ex amb: Omar al Ghanni)
Tweeting Tripoli
My nephew just came to say goodbye, he’s going to the frontlines with his friends. He’s a Computer sciences student at Tripoli University.
Blood & Oil is out! bit.ly/BloodAndOil ▸Top Stories
bencnn benwedeman
#Sabha fairly quiet today. Few clashes, more people on the street than yesterday. #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
People are cleaning the streets and burnt out vehicles from the battle of Tripoli are still being cleared out #libya #feb17
Rayan
Dear @Skype and @BlackBerry Change the Libyan Flag please !!
Nasr
So, a new proposal surfaced: why not have Mr Mustafa abdel- #Jaleel be PM & #Jibril be the FM, except that will b a demotion 4 JIBRIL #NTC
Armchair Arab
I hope grass roots libyan organisations will start to become emboldened and take a greater role in the political formation of the country.
Atlantic Wire
Libya’s Latest Tourist Attraction: Qaddafi’s Old Homes
As a degree of normalcy returns to Libya, with airports reopening, oil production resuming, and ports springing back to life, Libya’s new leaders are hoping to give the tourism industry a jolt by highlighting the country’s Roman ruins and stretches of undeveloped beaches. Lonely Planet’s Libya guide still warns against traveling to the country, but one tourist attraction is already becoming popular, at least for Libyans: Qaddafi’s homes. In a fascinating New York Times Magazine piece today on Libya after Qaddafi’s fall, Robert F. Worth recalls that when he first arrived at Qaddafi’s ransacked Bab al Aziziya compound in Tripoli, Libyan families were “strolling through and gazing wonderingly at the ruins.”
Read more here:
www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/09/...
RAF MOD UK
RAF destroys command and control facilities in Libya…
RAF Tornados yesterday destroyed command and control facilities of pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya before launching successful strikes on armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery.
The attacks, on Tuesday 20 September 2011, were carried out at three different locations across western and central Libya by a Royal Air Force armed reconnaissance patrol as part of NATO’s efforts to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
During the afternoon, another formation of RAF Tornados was tasked by NATO to mount a precision strike on a military vehicle depot which had been identified near Hun. This proved another successful mission; their Paveways destroying the installation with a number of direct hits.
Full art. and pics here:
www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/raf-destroy...
Video: Heavy Street fighting in Sirte
Extremely fierce street fighting in Sirte brought to you by Misrata Freedom Channel (Misrate Media Group)
feb17.info/media/video-heavy-street-fig...
Sky News
Libya to announce new government-NI-GEN-Libya
Libyan NTC fighters say they’ve overrun one of Muammar Gaddafi’s last strongholds, after their interim rulers unveiled a timeline for a new government.
With the new Libyan flag flying at the United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, Libya’s number two official said the new government would be named within 10 days.
Meanwhile, interim government leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil thanked all countries who had helped the ‘success of the Libyan revolution,’ which he said cost at least 25,000 lives.
More here:
www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.a...
EURONEWS
Fresh flag marks a fresh start for Libya at UN HQ
Libya’s new flag has been warmly applauded at a high-level summit at UN headquarters in New York.
The rapturous reception was another sign that the country’s post-Gaddafi rulers have been fully embraced by the international community.
Libya’s interim government leader has pledged a spirit of tolerance and reconciliation.
Mustafa Mohammed Abdul Jalil told a UN summit in support of Libya that it would be a
“vital state, a vibrant state that upholds the principles of peace and security in the region; a state that respects human rights and establishes a nation in which Libyans can govern themselves and seek official positions through elections”.
Due to be named in the next ten days, Libya’s new government will be represented by the tri-colour flag used from 1951 until Colonel Gaddafi introduced a green one, 26 years later.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Building that caught my eye where a friend’s FF group is based in #Misrata. These guys r organized. Sep 8. #libya twitpic.com/6ocmsf
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
There was a short battle near Bab Al Aziziya last night. FF raided a pro-Gaddafi building apparently and it caught fire
BBC News – #Libya uprising: #Gaddafi ‘losing control of #Sabha’ bbc.in/nrlh5D #Sabha #Sirte #BaniWalid #Jufra
hardingbbc just left libya, minus my appendix. will blog about it shortly but it’s been an interesting few days .
HSBC To Resume #Libya Operations Shortly – via @FoxBusiness foxbusiness.com/industries/201…
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
VOFL RADIO: Last telephone conversation of #Gaddafi was monitored by a comms centre less than 25km from #BaniWalid.
justinmarozzi
Reprisals and kidnap in the #Libya desert, #BBC From Our Own Correspondent text bbc.in/nvYHn8
My Sunday Times article about being kidnapped by the #Touareg in #Libya bit.ly/oNNfNI
#Touareg #kidnap crisis in southern #Libya worsens. Taher, still kidnapped, says 2 more kidnapped yesterday, 3 today.
Very bad news that #Touareg are still kidnapping in #Ghadames #Libya, destabilising the south and damaging their own interests
Just spoken to brother of Taher – still hostage in the desert – who hasn’t had news now in several days. Very worrying indeed
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Unanimous response – #BaniWalid is the place most tweeps think will be last to fall in #Libya.
UPI
WFP getting more food distributed in Libya
The U.N. World Food Program said it was getting more food aid to displaced Libyans as fighting subsides in the North African country.
The WFP said it was able to get more food aid into southern Libya to help those displaced by conflict. The WFP said it was able to get 30 tons of food supplies into Shoarif in southern Libya for the first time since the international conflict began in March.
Read more:
www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resour...
CBS
Turkish Airlines to resume Tripoli flights
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish Airlines says it has decided to restart flights to the Libyan capital that were suspended during the country’s civil war.
The airline says a flight was scheduled for Tripoli Wednesday but no clearance was given by NATO, forcing the company to cancel that flight. The next flight is scheduled for Saturday.
Source:
moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/news/...
New Europe
Van Rompuy in UN: ‘We were, we are and we will be with Libya’
President Herman Van Rompuy described 20 September, the date of the UN High Level Meeting on Libya in New York, as the “day of joy” as he also welcomed Libyan President Mustafa Abdul-Jalil.
In his speech, Van Rompuy named three areas that he believed would contribute to Libya’s future and “overcoming the past”.
He firstly emphasised that democracy needed to be established and, to achieve this, reconciliation was key: “The state will carry authority as long as it will be the result of an inclusive process, where men and women of all walks, and from the different parts of the country will feel freely reunited. It is time for justice, rule of law and human rights and for reconciliation,” he said, adding that civil society and free media should be allowed to play their full part.
President Van Rompuy also declared that, as security needs to be stabilised, military operations should be carried on for as long as is necessary, then Libya should have a new police. Reflecting on the country’s economy, he said that young Libyans should be given the opportunity to find good, honest jobs. “Investors need to be reassured; oil and gas production should be resumed,” he added.
Zimbanwean
Zim to recognise Libyan NTC?
The African Union has now recognized the National Transitional Council as the de facto government of Libya, much to the embarrassment of the Zimbabwean government, which made a diplomatic gaffe by rushing to expel Libyan diplomats who had transferred their allegiance from deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi to the new regime.
The AU recognised the NTC yesterday after receiving guarantees, among them assurances on the safety of black migrant
workers as well as a pledge to “give priority to national unity and to bring together all Libyan stakeholders, without any exception,” to rebuild the country.
Some of the most powerful nations in Africa, including Nigeria and South Africa, have already recognised the NTC. Zimbabwe is expected to come into line soon, but relations with Libya are likely to remain frosty following Harare’s outrageous behaviour towards the diplomats at a time when it was quite clear that Gaddafi had been ousted.
At the time, President Robert Mugabe dismissed the Libyan uprising as a “false revolution engineered Western powers keen to control the country’s oil”.
All africa.com
Zambia/Libya: Nchanga Stadium Game for Libya
WITH two weeks before Zambia’s crucial qualifier for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tie against Libya on October 8, Chingola’s Nchanga Stadium, the venue for the encounter, has been declared ready to host this Group C final match.
And Chipolopolo first choice goalkeeper, Kennedy Mweene has said Zambia is focused on winning Group C and avenge the 0-1 loss suffered to Libya in the first leg played in Tripoli last year.
More here:
allafrica.com/stories/201109210768.html
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Bldg on west side of #Misrata #Libya, Sep 7. An injured friend said last nite he stayed here protecting the city. twitpic.com/6octvj
Sep 8. Injured Misrata FFs urged me for months to see their city. Now I feel their pain even more t.co/IzqVTcOD
kareemJerusalem Kareem Khadder
Libyan opposition fighter placing opposition flag over #sabha univeristy t.co/Nfb0fBeS
Libyan Opposition fighters ripping a #ghaddafi poster in #Sabha #Libya t.co/MFYvogcC
Libyan opposition fighters ripping a #ghaddafi poster in #sabha #Libya t.co/JiI7rLMX
4Adam:
Lawlessness in Tripoli. Armed groups wreak havoc in the city youtube.com/watch?v=AeJB-i… #Libya #Tripoli #NTC
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJB-ikWYng
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
@
@4Adam No. It’s not lawlessnes and it’s not armed gangs. Please stop with the FUD. They raided a pro-Gaddafi building yesterday night.
AliveIn Alive.In
#Libya Cleaning Up After The Revolution l.alive.in/up (Sep 21) #feb17
Boston.com
Libyan royal offers to help homeland
ROME—The great-nephew of the Libyan king ousted by Moammar Gadhafi said Wednesday his countrymen should be allowed to decide if they want the return of the monarchy, offering his family as a “servant of the Libyan people.”
Leaders of the rebels who ended Gadhafi’s 42-year-long dictatorship have said they don’t envision an institutional role for Prince Mohammed el Hasan el Rida el Senussi or his family, but that isn’t discouraging the prince.
Full art.:
www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articl...
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
video from four days covering sirte globalpost.com/video/5675830/…
or:
www.globalpost.com/video/5675830/locati...
bencnn benwedeman
Real fireworks over #Sabha this evening…but drowned out by orgy of celebratory gunfire. #Libya
Just took a stroll through Qadhafi’s palace in #Sabha. Big pool, jacuzzi in the massive bathroom of the master bedroom. #Libya
Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I still haven’t heard any celebratory gunfire and I hope there isn’t any… people are warning against it here. Posters everywhere #libya
The best painting I’ve seen since I got here is a HUGE Libyan flag with Omar Al Mokhtar instead of the crescent. In benashour area #Libya
For those asking: Food, water, petrol.. everything is available here. Petrol queue was 2 mins long in Benashur. #libya #feb17
There are plenty of burnt out buildings especially in the vicinity of Bab Al Aziziya. Some belong to Gaddafi, others to his soldiers #libya
There was a short battle near Bab Al Aziziya last night. FF raided a pro-Gaddafi building apparently and it caught fire. #libya #feb17
it was the house of a pro-g officer that killed many ff during the revolution
The attack on the Al-Alem building was to catch a prominent Gaddafi supporter that killed many FF in the early days of #feb17 #libya
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
US ambassador returns to #Libya
apne.ws/oyCoA3
Tarek
I think as soon as #Gaddafi is caught #NATO operations in #Libya will stop
haythamabubaker Haytham Abubaker
In Benghazi, the area is called Al-Layti. Best Cappuccino I’ve ever had.
been here two weeks and find myself in the same cafe every night.
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Reports of fighting too outside Sirte – contacts 10 km South and also much further at a big military compound 120 km South. #Libya
Revolutionaries on the road to #Sirte. pic.twitter.com/g2A2FJQZ
These fighters on the junction at the entrance to #Sirte. #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/9oHBky53
Fissa
If we have the desire for equality and fairness in Libya, the assurance of justice will always be a prerequisite for a good Libyan society
Sudan: Army Report Fresh Clashes With Darfur Rebels Near Libyan Border
Khartoum — Sudanese army clashed today with the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in the remote area of North Darfur near the triangle border with Chad and Libya.
Sudanese army deployed troops along the border with Libya while the Sudan’s supported fighters of the opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) took the control of the country and Gaddafi supporters fled to neighbouring countries.
Full story:
allafrica.com/stories/201109210737.html
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
observed 5-6 NATO bombs on #sirte this afternoon, heavier stream of civilians leaving
misrata commanders admit, once enough civilians leave, whenever that is, will go back hard into #sirte
_DavidThomson David Thomson
130 mm “to Gaddafi” #Libya twitpic.com/6odvlv
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya’s loss is Europe’s gain amid #Oil scarcity – Financial Times goo.gl/fb/3MOXQ
libyanfsl
Today my mother starts journey to Libya after 29 years in exile, a steadfast Libyan exemplifying everything #Feb17 stands for! My hero!
Free Libya
My family in Hadba, Tripoli would still be under siege and terrorised if it was not for Misrata, Zawiya, Zintan FFs who gave up their lives
OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
Dear #Aqsa #Quds #Palestine, You are the light of our eyes, the blood in our veins. We will never forget or forsake you. Yours, #Libya
Free Libya
I remember when cousins in BenAshur liberated their area, they were very happy but were very anxious for the FFs from outside to arrive.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: #Misrata street scene. Most injured FFs in Tunisia are from Misrata. This is what they’ll come home to. twitpic.com/6oe4xb
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Internet is free, phone calls are free, everything works here… I love #Tripoli and #FreeLibya lol. Tomorrow: I get to man a checkpoint
NATO Video
NATO extends Libya mission
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen makes a statement to Reuters Television regarding the extension of NATO’s Libya mission, Operation Unified Protector.
www.natochannel.tv/?uri=channels/454282/1490582
LibyaFromFrance
#AJA : Les révolutionnaires libéré la ville de #Jufra et ont coupé la route Sabha-Sirte. #Libye
Free Libya
It’s true that Tripoli was liberated from the inside but if it was not for FFs from outside they would have not held on to it for 1 day.
7our Baki 7our
Armed group (with anti-aircraft) destroyed by Tunisian army. Probably coming from Libya & heading to Algeria. Islamists or Pro-Gaddafis?
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I know some people love to complain but I haven’t seen a single smashed or looted shop since I got here & city seems very safe #Tripoli
my family in benashur told me: if Zawiya FF took 3 hours longer to arrive we would have been dead
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Just arrived home in time to watch AJA Bila Huduud (without borders), Ahmad Mansour (Mb) interviewing Abd alKareem Belhaj….
Belhaj mentions the positive role of Abd alJalil and Dogheili. Furtheron alQaradawi (Mb) and some other sheikhs (whom I don’t know)..
Belhaj says that he wants a Civil State, and not a Islamic State or Emirate
Belhaj: We are not sure if Saif al Islam is in Bani Walid or in another place now.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Rare must watch video from the initial uprising in Tripoli (Feb 20) – youtube.com/watch?v=v5LnE6… – #Libya #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5LnE6aMd6Q&fea...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC lays out timeline to form new government shabablibya.org/news/ntc-lays-… #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
FACTBOX-Latest developments in the Libyan conflict shabablibya.org/?p=http://shab… #Libya
Guardian
Libya university asks LSE to return Gaddafi cash
Tripoli University is to ask the London School of Economics to return the £1.5m pledged by the deposed dictator’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who obtained his PhD there.
University officials have told the Guardian that the money was stolen from the Libyan people and should be either reimbursed or used to fund scholarships for Libyans studying in the UK.
Read full story:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/21/li...
LibyaUprisingAr LibyaUprisingArchive
Friend:Talked to my cousin in #Libya- she said G 5th Column in #Tripoli are spreading rumors about the division btwn FF.
It is not as big as been reported. Asked her about the #Misrata FF not letting some ppl back in. #libya #Tripoli
(About #Misrata) She said those were the ppl that supported GF and let them use their homes to fight from. #Libya #feb17
hey are afraid if they let them back into #Misrata some revenge or sleeper cells might be created. (end)
Semie
Quite a few tweeps who now have names identify themselves as members of Shabab Libya. Men and women.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC Forces seize Gaddafi stronghold of Sabha is.gd/Y6oRVH #Libya
flyingbirdies أكرم
phone calls arent’ free on mobile phones. you mean landlines right?
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
yes and I found like 60 dinar free credit on my libyana so that’s good too
#Bani #Walid A man Shot his Own Head Off and Killed Another Fighter while handling a rocketpropelled grenade in full view of #Reuters #Libya
LibyaFromFrance
Q : Vous parlez comme un politicien, envisagez vous d’entrer sur la scéne politique ? Belhaj: ... Parlera de ce sujet le moment venu.
LibyaSupreme
tomorrow marx 5 month anniv in #Libya for 1st time in my life. been doing anything & everything 2 help my country. thank u Allah 4 #feb17
Michael
FF claim #Sabha. Know frnt past Univ. x-rd & drive most othr. Don’t know how much of area xplrd N or S bunkers. twitpic.com/6oed68
#FLASH #Sirte this Wednesday Afternoon #NATO STRUCK 10 Times within 5 to 10 min of eachother Hitting Close 2 Downtown Area #Libya
NTC forces have now full control of Al-Jufra. AJA #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Exclusive Interview with Libyan Judge Muhammad Bashir -Asharq Awsat bit.ly/qx4BHE #libya
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
News that one very trusted #Gaddafi female guards named Mabrookah Asshareef was captured by FF, many heavy weapons found in her house #libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya revolution filters slowly to desert towns (AP) yhoo.it/nJzyt9 (slowly but surely is all I can think of)
Hannah
may allah help our heroes in Sirt and Bin Walid and Sabha. please everyone pray 4 them they really need our prayers.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya Doctor Volunteer Project A #BLOG 2 help and inform people about a volunteer project in Libya esp. #Tripoli via @LibyaVisitDoc
it might be a good idea to put an English translation of your posts on your blog as well
At the off chance u didnt hear it yet :) The #NTC announced that the whole of #Jufra ( south Libya) area has been liberated #Libya
#FIGHT near #Algeria border between #Tunisia army helicopters & Unidentified convoy of armed SUV, 7 cars destroyed #Libya via @razibus62
AJA:
Al-Manshiya Dist in Sabha and Al-Fatih Dist are still under GF
No FF’s but typical G tactics:
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
4 armed men arriving in car painted “Zintan Thuwar” looted my house yesterday. #Tripoli
TripolI military council was informed 2day-VERY helpful, will send protection 4 future. Said it’s gangs pretending being FF
First flight Istanbul-#Tripoli-Istanbul, scheduled for today, di not take place. bukhra inshallah
After waiting for four hours at #Tripoli int´l airport, passengers (&journalists)outbound for Istanbul were told plane would not come.
#UAE donates police cars to help the return of “law & order” in #Libya pic.twitter.com/FaO2lkMi
More G lies:
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters:
Arrai TV says NATO warships and planes have struck a hospital in Sirte injuring a doctor & patients
septimius_sever septimius severus
More abandoned weapons in #Sirt..I can only think about one thing though! THE post-conflict disarmament
pic.twitter.com/wOG0FrWs
LIBTRIP
#Tripoli International Airport will NOT fully operate until security is put in place. All major int’l airlines wouldn’t take a risk. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#OPEC Says Producers Will Cut Back Once #Libya Output Recovers
nyti.ms/qU4Bzi
MiddleEast
Robert F. Worth’s @NYTmag report from post #Gaddafi #Libya :
nyti.ms/nVoRJv
#NTC lays out timeline to form new government Despite not yet having complete control over the entire country
bit.ly/riZL7s #libya
U.S. Ambassador Jene #Cretz Returns to #Libya
Gaddafis nurse is a “voluptuous blonde.” was a #JenCretz #quote
q.gs/Pe38
In #New #York, #NTC’s prime minister Mahmoud #Jibril said he expected new government 2b formed "within a week 10 days maximum #Libya
AbdelSalamSikayer spokesman 4 a local council #Sabha; NTC Fighters control 2neighborhoods & r fighting 2rtake pockets resistance #Libya
#FLASH #NTC forces have FULL control of #Houn aGaddafi Military Command post in N desert that commands the supply route to #Sirte #Libya
What Role Will Islamists Play In #Libya? –
NPR
goo.gl/fb/QtlXN
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: A man takes a photograph of the Departures board in #Tripoli Airport. Shame #Turkishairlines cancelled it :(
pic.twitter.com/fY8ku3Ga
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya New Leaders Face Opposition
goo.gl/Twz5j
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I’m going to post a few pictures from Tripoli if my connection allows me to :) #libya #feb17
Ok, I’ve got some pictures for you! The quality isn’t great but I don’t want to spend 14 years uploading on this ADSL :) #libya #tripoli
I posted 18 photos on Facebook in the album “A taste of free Tripoli… 21st September 2011” fb.me/153ro0WHs
Ok, enjoy the pictures everyone.. I’m going to go and fix the stupid satellite receiver.. it hates Libya alahrar/Aljazeera for some reason
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 22nd 2011
9/22/11
9.22.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/a18pw
NATO said on Thursday it was confident it could conclude its mission in Libya well within a new 90-day operations period agreed this week.
“I am highly confident that we can complete this mission well within the limits as provided by NATO,” Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, the commander of NATO’s Libya operation, told a media briefing.
Bouchard said NATO’s mission would continue as long as a threat remained to civilians in the country. NATO states agreed on Wednesday to extend the alliance’s current mandate, which was due to expire on Sept. 27, by another 90 days. It was the second extension of the Libya mission, which NATO took full command of on March 31.
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Wed am: NATO-tasked RAF aircraft struck 2 command & control facilities in Sirte using 1000lb and 500lb laser and GPS guided Paveway bombs.
Royal Navy vessels, inc. HMS Liverpool, remain on patrol off #Libya, ensuring safety of shipping & providing surveillance capability.
Ben_Mussa Ben-Mussa
Arranging for food, water, tents, medicines convoy for #BenWalid, should be on the road tomorrow, #Libya #Feb17 #humanity #WFP #UN
MatogSaleh
Electricity and Cellular network will be returned to Sabha in #Libya withing 2days.
Zlitniya Zlitniya
Ahmed Bani met w Col Abdul Ghani Bin Zahiya (leader of #Zliten military council),&both had meeting w Zliten local council #Libya
Ahmed Bani visited family of Tariq Hamadi (1st #Zliten martyr to die on Zliten soil) to pay his condolences #Libya
Part of women’s demo in #Zliten in support of #NTC #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
We will never forget our martyrs. Lets ensure their blood was not shed in vain… #Libya www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14705519
Photo album of #Feb17 #Zliten martyrs #libya https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.197755720295333.48616.148739678530271&
Nice:Tripoli Uni School of engineering.students clean buildng.Found secret office 4Khaled Khweldi (Khweldi Hmedi’s son)
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
feb17libya Feb17Libya
New leader says Libya will be peaceful bit.ly/pUTuon #libya
Zlitniya Zlitniya
United Libya: #Zliten sends 5 lorries of aid to #Sabha .Contain food,water,baby milk and nappies. #Libya #unity youtube.com/watch?v=XhHvtD…
Love manifests itself:when t ppl love their country they work for its benefit.Youth of #Zliten paint th bridge:) #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLU_w0SJOng&fea...
frankentele Sean Carberry
In Misrata for the first time. This city took an absolute beating. Yet, seems every shop that wasn’t shelled or shot is open. #Libya
Libya’s Post-Qaddafi Party. Elections are coming up fast. Will #Libya fragment, or pull together? www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/09/...
septimius_sever septimius severus
Tripoli: where the celebration was tinctured with deep unease! nyti.ms/oZSY9u .. #Libya
Please read:
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
Name: Ali Haduth Al-Obeidi. Phenomenal, heart wrenching, heroic story of one of Libya’s greatest heroes. MUST READ feb17martyrs.com/ali-atiyah-had…
Tweeting Tripoli
Tripoli, SougGuma, volunteers clean streets, today.
yfrog.com/kgzu0skj
yfrog.com/hs6jsiuj
yfrog.com/gz3xziaj
yfrog.com/khp0nbjj
MUST READ:
AOL Defense
French Pilots Over Libya Decline US Intel; Clearance Just Too Slow
London: French air forces flying strike missions in Libya against Gaddafi’s loyalists are not using detailed imagery and intelligence provided by US airborne surveillance aircraft, according to statements made today by French pilots involved in those sorties.
Since the first day of NATO air strikes in Libya, French combat air crews have been struggling to positively identify ‘what or whom’ they were targeting, a serving French pilot told an audience of defense industry and military aviators attending a London conference. ‘The pilot in the kill box was entirely on his own’.
When asked why French air forces were not taking advantage of advanced manned and unmanned targeting imagery, pilots responded that it took too much time to coordinate with NATO commanders at the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) in northern Italy. Instead, pilots deferred to using their own reconnaissance pods. Pilots reported rejecting Predator drone images for targeting purposes, saying its imagery took too long to get cleared through the CAOC.
Full art.:
defense.aol.com/2011/09/21/french-pilot...
Zlitniya Zlitniya
#Libya gas crisis:Just another example of #Gaddaficrimes .Gas pipes r a basic right.Especially in a country as (oil&gas) rich as Libya.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Mass protest in #Benghazi calling for aid to injured FFs. Event page, arabic: goo.gl/ArVCA #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes RT
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
At Bani Walid front line today I learned:1 revolutionary died, 5 injured. 2 from mishandling their own weaponry. They still surround town.
Last night revolutionaries from Benighazi entered Bani Walid, destroyed 3 Gadafi loyalists vehicles and retreated back. #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC forces have now full control of Al-Jufra. AJA #Libya
IamLibya
Video my cousin recorded where they discovered a storage room filled with ammo in #Tripoli bit.ly/qmrQ9M Thuwar will hand it to LC
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHQOWqTm7jY&fea...!
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Zuma is implying Libya was not a democracy under Gaddafi, when he said “his country would support the Libyan people in reaching democracy”
yfrog.com/h8h79fcj #Gaddafi had all these guns and nobody to fight for him. #Libya
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
My cousin (right) with his friend Mohamed Al-Khfaifi (left) who was martyred in Brega on April 16
pic.twitter.com/QIKudJhk
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: I’m posting some of my #Misrata pics bcuz my Misrata friends want ppl to c what #Gaddafi did to their city twitpic.com/6of440
#Libya: #Misrata after the siege. No, it isn’t as bad as you’ve heard. It’s worse. twitpic.com/6ofm23
WMCLibya WMCLibya
@WMCLibya organisin gathering 2 raise awareness 2 medical needs of freedom fighters @ 6pm Libyan Embassy #London is.gd/7MvIyz #Libya
ProudLibyan
While some criticize and take cheap shots, some are fighting for us and some are working hard to set foundations for a good country. #Libya
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Libya’s main university prepares new term for a new dawn استخدمت جامعة طرابلس لتعزيز نظام القذافي ولكن الآن… fb.me/11cU5vhCU
Anaya
A great moment for the defense and construction of free #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=HR1uvC… via @OnlyOneLibya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR1uvCELqoc
AdiKhair Adi G. Khair
Positive change can not be institutionalised by the same institutions that once tried to supress it #ReformJO #ArabSpring
News of #Qatar providing #Belhaj with a 100 ton shipment of weapons, vehicles & telecom equipment INDEPENDENT of NTC executive office #Libya
Yefrenia
they always said Yefren had style…starting to believe in it…not the most original but I’m so proud “Yefren Times” facebook.com/media/set/?set…
FromJoanne Joanne
A guide to #Gaddafi Regime Massive Surveillance Network with help of #French firm #Amesys goo.gl/fD203 #Libya
#Royal #Jordanian will restart service to Benghazi onThursday #Libya Contact libya@ablaviation.com in #Tripoli
feb17libya Feb17Libya
New leader says Libya will be peaceful
bit.ly/pUTuon #libya
DA claims proof SA sold rifles to Gaddafi
bit.ly/mRWhZT #libya
International Leaders Pledge to Back New Libya
bit.ly/rbPZbN #libya
bencnn benwedeman
Food for thought: Many people in Sabha think Qadhafi is in Bani Walid given the level of resistance there. #Libya
NTC field commander Al-Amin Shtawi tells CNN revolutionaries have taken Sahara town of Ubari, 200 km west of #Sabha
Photo: #Sabha’s Ottoman-era citadel.
Sorry here is photo #Sabha’s Ottoman-era citadel. #Libya yfrog.com/h823hnpj
NTC commanders say many loyalists fleeing to #Algeria from south #Libya. Say Algerian authorities turning a blind eye while counting cash.
Just to clarify #Sabha fell to the NTC 2 days ago. #CNN only media here. Don’t ask me why. Ghat still under Qadhafi control.
Today Qadhafi’s Qadadfa tribe in #Sabha supposed to surrender weaponry and wanted people to NTC per a negotiated agreement. #Libya
Shops opening up again in #Sabha. Fruit, meat, etc, More people in the street. Garbage being collected
Photo taken moments ago 4 all the doubters out there. Al-‘Atiq mosque, Sabha’s Manshiya district this morning. #Libya yfrog.com/gzvj7ykj
Still some scattered clashes in #Sabha today. Just heard big gunbattle behind main administration building of Sabha University. #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Today #us embassy officially opens in #tripoli #libya. #NATO confident its mission ends in 3 months. #libyan(s) sing: Ma3leshi shafshoufa!
2day flag will raise over #us embassy in #tripoli. Amb is here. #NATO says mission done in 3 months. #libya(ns) sing: ma3leshi shafshoufa!
Lots of #libya(ns) disappointed about political debate in country. “Let’s liberate land then argue over politics,” many tell me. #tripoli
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NATO says hit 2 command and control centres in Sirte on Wednesday
#Libya: Sabha may have fallen but Sirte and Bani Walid still resisting
#Libya: if Sabha has fallen; surely that cuts off pro-Gaddafi supply route from South to Bani Walid and Sirte
#Libya: NTC also says it has control over most of Jufra
#Libya: Relief amongst NTC fighters as they hear NATO has extended military mission in Libya by another 90 days
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. On my way home today. #Gaddafi still on the run. Story far from over.
itv_news ITV News
NATO “confident” it could conclude its mission in Libya well within a new 90-day operations period agreed this week.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Documentary proof of sniper rifle exports to Libya
bit.ly/pCTzjx #libya
$23bn windfall for new Libya
bit.ly/qUb8tP #libya
Harper pledges support for Libya
bit.ly/pv7QqM #libya
TIMELINE-Libya’s civil war nears end
bit.ly/oSyKuf #libya
LIVE Libyan Unrest: September 22, 2011
bit.ly/qw3Axd #libya
Austrian energy group OMV said its main production assets in southwest #Libya appear to be relatively undamaged
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept...
OMV also said it expects to see Libyan output at about 50 percent in the course of 2012
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya #Feb17
NTC still faces strong military resistance despite int’l recognition
bit.ly/pkcOel #libya
Libyan forces advancing on #Sirte from the east have put off any offensive for a week due to lack of ammunition
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
Gen. Charles Bouchard, General commanding NATO’s mission in #Libya said #Gaddafi and his forces continue to be a threat
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept...
Libya university asks LSE to return Gaddafi cash
bit.ly/pFoZYk #libya
#NATO said on Thursday it was confident it could conclude its mission in #Libya well within 90-days
feb17.info/news/live-liby… #Feb17
U.S. Ambassador Gene Cretz has returned to #Tripoli where the U.S. plans to raise its flag over its mission on Thursday
feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept...
Gadhafi Must Still Be Captured
bit.ly/o2bJHq #libya
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Italy cameraman (AFP) Andrea Bernardi receiving treatment in #Malta after being injured in #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
“In Tripoli every official is afraid to sign anything for fear of being accused of abusing his interim power” goo.gl/fb/9svhH #Libya
Literature After the Revolt: Arab Writers ‘Should Not Be Invisible Anymore’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE –
spon.de/adsyz
septimius_sever septimius severus
$23bn windfall for new #Libya ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8… “the cash was money that had been budgeted for by the Gaddafi regime but never spent”
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NYT: OPEC Says Producers Will Cut Back Once #Libya Output Recovers goo.gl/qo8Zy #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
VOA: NATO Extends #Libya Mission; US Prepares to Reopen Embassy goo.gl/yacHK #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
VIDEO: @LibyaSupreme ‘Salute #Libya’ goo.gl/lqBCG support #Libyan artists and join the fan page for updates!
goo.gl/4qBT4
US State Dept: #Libya: #Obama – #Libya Shows What World Can Do “When We Stand Together”
goo.gl/oj6S7 #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
The #Libyan people will decide who will rule them.
goo.gl/a5KP8 #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Libya
#NTC declares victory in #Sabha-#Libya’s largest desert city.
goo.gl/TdxwK #gaddaficrimes #feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
Finally the two big ugly green flags in front of Gov state-TV are now gone forever… yfrog.com/mf382fj
yfrog.com/hsjp1ruj
Matiga airport, yesterday; tiny “Libyan Unity” ambassadors from Benghazi arrived to Tripoli :)
yfrog.com/mnw8uej
yfrog.com/g0vb2zj
LOL… The General Telecommunication Authority (WWW.GTA.LY) Arabic page has no idea what’s going on in Libya :)
yfrog.com/kfcqisdj
the English page had been altered, but not the Arabic one… Just being lazy I guess!
HAHAHA that was a quick response? GO FEB17 REV GO ;) yfrog.com/h8tvswarj
lol they changed it. Word on the Internet travels in lightning fast speed, that’s 4 sure. yfrog.com/g02xmcij
ProudLibyan
I will rule u or I will kill u, the constitution of the Arab world leaders! #Libya #Egypt #Syria #Tunisia #Yemen #Algeria
Sirtawi
Aid convoy in coordination with #Sirte local council left Tripoli an hour ago towards W front line. #SirteCrisis #FreeSirte #Libya
Zlitniya
An unlikely refuge for Muammar Qaddafi: Come and be an Israeli! | The Economist economist.com/node/21528675 via @theeconomist
Hamza
Head of the NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil juggles a football :) #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/2Z2hPplq
Nusaybah
#NTC spokesman in #Misrata: Around 50 Revolutionaries have died so far in #Sirte during clashes with #Gadafi loyalists. #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
More abandoned weapons in #Sirt..I can only think about one thing though! THE post-conflict disarmament
pic.twitter.com/wOG0FrWs
OppContact: Sabha, Jufra are “almost completely” in control of TNC forces. Efforts underway to locate remaining #Gaddafi loyalists #Libya
OppContact: unknown number #Gaddafi loyalists at large. Some suspected to be in limited number of locations in vicinity of #Sabha #Libya
OppContact: Journalists continued to arrive at #Sabha Wednesday night #Libya
Moez
Many martyrs from soog eljumaa, #tripoli neighbourhood in #BaniWalid yesterday which is why takbeer more prominent today #Libya #feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya rulers say they seize Gaddafi desert outposts is.gd/2ZhMQt #Libya
MSNBC
Libyan-American recalls horror of ‘grave cell’ inside Gadhafi prison
After blindfolding Abdulmoneim Tabuni, a prison guard put a gun to his head and told him to “say a prayer.”
It was the most harrowing moment of the Libyan-American research scientist’s six-month imprisonment in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, as fighting raged across the North African country to oust embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Tabuni, a 55-year-old father of five, suffered other horrors at the hands of Gadhafi’s henchmen: He was beaten twice, forced to share a cramped cell with others who took out their anger on him and had to endure the almost daily crackle of gunfire filtering in from outside — all while being held a short distance from his home.
Full art.:
today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44595857/ns/toda...
Guardian
Libyan rebels discover Gaddafi’s chemical weapons
Libyan rebel forces claim to have discovered banned chemical weapons stockpiles in southern desert areas captured from Gaddafi loyalists in the last few days.
Libya was supposed to have destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical weapons in early 2004 as part of a British-engineered rapprochement with the west. It also abandoned a rudimentary nuclear programme.
But the international watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, had stated it believed that Libya had kept 9.5 tonnes of mustard gas at a secret location: it is that which appears to have now been captured and secured.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/22/li...
Armchair Arab
If you hear ANY allegations made against any individual/group/city in Libya ALWAYS ASK FOR EVIDENCE.
Sarah
My uncle from a Benghazi Katiba is in Sirte since ~ a week.
Haven’t been able to get in touch with him so far..
France 24
Libye: pause dans les combats sur le front est de Syrte faute de munitions
Les forces du nouveau régime en Libye ont cessé de combattre les hommes restés fidèles à l’ex-leader Mouammar Kadhafi sur le front est de la ville de Syrte, en raison du manque de munitions, a indiqué un commandant sur le terrain jeudi à l’AFP.
Le commandant Moustafa ben Dardef de la brigade qui a avancé de cinq km au-delà de la localité conquise de Soultana, à l’est du bastion de Syrte (370 km à l’est de Tripoli) a affirmé que ses hommes arrêtaient le combat pendant une semaine.
Read more:
www.france24.com/fr/20110922-libye-paus...
Ahram.org
Advance on Gaddafi hometown delayed for want of ammunition
The advance on Sirte has been put off for a week as a shortage of ammunition is being faced, and new supplies are to be collected from Benghazi.
“Fighting has been stopped for a week. We are facing a shortage of ammunition," said Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan Brigade, whose troops are deployed on the front line 25 kilometres (15 miles) east of Sirte.
Read more:
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/22...
AJC
NATO says Gadhafi fighters continue to be threat
The general commanding NATO’s mission in Libya said Thursday that isolated groups of forces loyal to ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi continue to be a threat to local people but are unable to coordinate their actions.
Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard said in a conference call with reporters that many Gadhafi forces are surrounded with no way out. On Wednesday, NATO’s
decision-making body, the North Atlantic Council, granted approval to extend the mission for another 90 days. Without an extension, permission for the operation would have expired Sept. 27.
“We are now at a point where I can only urge regime forces to surrender, to bring an end to these activities,” Bouchard said.
Full story:
www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/nato-says...
FreedomGroup, News in English
Tripoli doctors and ambulances who’ve volunteered to support Misrata freedom fighters
Video:
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1697...
How can parents do this?
fr.news
Franck Ribéry : un drôle de petit prénom
Dans une interview accordée au site allemand TZ Online, Franck Ribéry a révélé le petit nom : « Seïf, Seïf el Islam ». C’est mignon. Mais, détail surprenant ce prénom est aussi celui d’un des fils de Mouammar Khadafi, (et signifie le glaive de l’Islam). Coïncidence ? Seif el Islam Kadhafi était d’ailleurs pressenti comme l’un des successeurs de son père. Peut-être que Ribéry en espère tout autant pour son fils : en faire son successeur dans la toplist des meilleurs footballeurs de France.
Here is the story:
fr.news.yahoo.com/franck-rib%C3%A9ry-dr...
McClatchy Newspapers
For Libyans, photos of the dead recall their sad history
BENGHAZI, Libya — In the main square of this coastal city, portraits of the dead cover every wall.
The photos show old men and young men. Some were killed in battle just this week. Others perished a decade ago or longer, in Moammar Gadhafi’s notorious Abu Salim
prison. At least one woman is among the faces.
This makeshift memorial is where Benghazi families can, for the first time, share their private heartbreak over the victims of Gadhafi’s 42-year rule in the newly renamed Freedom Square. Similar displays are springing up in other cities, grim illustrations to the Libyan story of suffering and, finally, rebellion.
More:
www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/21/124820/f...
Hana
My uncle finally arrived at our house in Misurata coming from #Sirte. Says Al-Sadada Bridge crowded with hundreds of families. #SirteCrisis
NaelTheLibyan Nael Mogherbi
An Amazing Sign i saw in #Benghazi – #Libya #Feb17 #Tunisia #Egypt #Freedom twitpic.com/6o99iv
Abssi
Does #Reuters still a credible source of info? Still using #MussaIbrahim as main source in #Libya
OPEC Monitors Economy, #Libya to Decide If Oil Supply Cut Needed – Bloomberg via @BloombergNow
bloom.bg/oFnx7J
Gaddafi Wheat Cargo Helped Feed #Libya Rebels – Bloomberg via @BloombergNow bloom.bg/r2kxJS
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
All districts of the southern Saharan city of Sabha have been liberated #Libya #Sabha
Libya holds back advance on last Kadhafi strongholds
WEST OF SIRTE, Libya — Forces loyal to Libya’s new rulers said they were holding back on Thursday from advancing on Moamer Kadhafi’s last strongholds despite their capture of two key southern oases.
NATO said that its aircraft had again pounded Kadhafi’s remaining armour, a day after the alliance announced it was extending its Libya campaign for another 90 days.
Commanders said that new regime forces were in control of all three main towns in the Al-Jufra oasis on Thursday, 24 hours after they announced the capture of Libya’s largest desert city, Sabha, in the deep south.
More:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
AlanFisher Alan Fisher
Libyan fighters say they’re waiting for civilians to escape from Sirte, #Gaddafi’s hometown before they start their final advance #Libya
libyanandproud
Why do CNN journalists always use “source tells CNN”?
AJA:
Yesterday Tens of martyrs and injured in Hun from shelling by G forces based in Sukna. Hun was liberated 2 days ago. #feb17 #Libya
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Not sure why Reuters keeps “flashing” unverified claims from Gaddafi spokesman Musa Ibrahim, a proven liar.
Corse Matin
Le reporter bastiais blessé en Libye de retour en France
Quatre jours après avoir été blessé dans les violents combats opposant forces du nouveau régime libyen et fidèles de Kadhafi, le reporter bastiais est enfin arrivé en France.
Olivier Sarbil a été évacué par avion sanitaire depuis Tripoli à destination de Paris, où il est arrivé hier. Il a aussitôt été admis à l’hôpital des armées Percy, à Clamart.
Source and more:
www.corsematin.com/article/bastia/le-re...
libyanandproud
Ok seriously journalists, why on earth are we still being called Rebels? #Feb17 #Libya
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #Betelmal: Pro #Gaddafi families who are fleeing #Sirte are heading south; those against him are coming to #Misrata
#Libya, #Betelmal: we haven’t been able to use heavy firepower in #Sirte because of the civilians trapped inside
#Libya, #Betelmal: 30 percent of gaddafa tribe in #Sirte are fighting Along with Mauritanian mercenaries, #Gaddafi, #Libya
#Libya, Ibrahim Betelmal, military council of #Misrata: #Gaddafi supported by some 2000 members of gaddadfa tribe in #Sirte, #Libya
#Libya, #Betelmal: “civilians who refuse to lay down their arms in #Sirte have three choices: be captured, killed or flee to the south”
#Libya, #Betelmal: snipers in #Sirte are making it difficult for us to advance; they are positioned in high rise buildings, #Gaddafi
#Libya, #Betelmal: #NATO hit the insurance building in sirte which snipers were using, #Libya, #Gaddafi
#Libya, #Betelmal: 7000 men from #Misrata are taking part in the offensive against #Sirte but are still on the outskirts, #Libya, #Gaddafi
moi a table
#Libya tweeps – Let your Brothers & Sisters in #Yemen know that a “stalemate” is not permanent. Please RT and get #SupportYemen trending #yf
Mushu
“Looking for trauma doctors & nurses,please respond ASAP to volunteer@volunteerlibya.org.We need a team of 10 doctors & at least 5 nurses.”
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: thousands of barrels of what appear to be radioactive material in a warehouse outside #Sabha #Libya yfrog.com/nvmi9iwj
Photo: close up of barrel containing what appears to be radioactive material outside #Sabha #Libya yfrog.com/nxq4kzsj
Photo: bag of yellow powder closed with tape marked “radioactiv” in warehouse outside #Sabha #Libya yfrog.com/mgde9gdj
BREAKING: U.S Embassy reopen in the Libyan Capital #Tripoli few minutes ago , rising #USA Flag. #Libya #Gaddafi
Tarek
Only constructive criticism can lead to a democratic society, otherwise, it can take many years of internal struggle to be one. #Libya
BBC
Hazards of war reporting from the Libyan front line
It was too late to buy lamb, so camel pasta it had to be and it was not bad.
I guess the little villa on the Mediterranean would count as luxury in normal times, but Libyans are still waiting to find out what normal is going to be.
It is luxury for us – hot water, electricity, even some air-conditioning. Luxury in an oil-workers compound.
An oasis and nightly retreat from the ever-advancing front lines closing in on Sirte, where Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was born and where what is left of his army is still holding out.
Read more here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15007787
#Libya: Mustafa AbdulJalil showing off some balance skills in the office! twitpic.com/6ooumg
Abendblatt
Kriegsopfer aus Libyen zur Behandlung in Bremen
Libysche Ärzte organisieren in Deutschland medizinische Hilfe für schwer verletzte Bürgerkriegsopfer. Das erste Opfer ist eingetroffe.
Source and pic:
www.abendblatt.de/region/article2035998...
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Military spokesman: " Bani Walid radio station is still broadcasting Gadafi’s messages and spreading its poison " #Libya
Military spokesman: " On Eastern entrance of Bani Walid our fighters consolidated a ranch that was prepared for Gadafi himself." #Libya
Military Spokesman " Northern entrance of Bani Walid Gadafi loyalists bombing our revolutionaries intensely." #Libya
Military Spokesman: " Unconfirmed reports Gadafi fled town of Sabha with arrival of our revolutionary fighters."
Military Spokesman "We urge residents of Sabha to sacrifice themselves if they know
information regarding Gadafi and inform authorities"
Military Spokesman: We have liberated 90% of South including Sabha, Gufra, Sukn Zala Wadan except for some pockets of snipers" #Libya
libyanandproud
#Hun : Hun military council is collecting all weapons and ammo from residents. Final deadline is the end of the day.
AJA:
An estimated 60,000 land mines were randomly planted near Brega by #Gadhafi forces so far 21,000 were removed.#Libya
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
smooth departure from #Benghazi airport. City coming together. Did not hear sound of gunfire
advance from east #Sirte: fighters in grad range.snipers seem to pose a pb too.waiting orders to advance from E,W &S at the same time.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Residents flee Gadaffi hometown – Reuters Video shabablibya.org/news/residents… #Libya
The main column from the East is stationed in Hrawa waiting for the green light
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Beautiful afternoon in Tripoli listening to Tracy Chapman’s ‘talkin bout a revolution’ on the radio
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
We have the name finally:
Freedom fighters arrested main #Gaddafi female bodyguard: Mabruka Sherif.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
NTC investigation unconfirmed report that Muammar Qaddafi has fled from Sabha: NTC spokesman #Alarabiya
adrianhong Adrian Hong
Gaddafi’s worst enemy. #Libya yfrog.com/mgt1ucjj
New signage already up at #Tripoli International Airport. #Libya yfrog.com/mmes5kqj
libyanandproud
#sirte is going to be liberated soon, our lucky charm @ZeinakhodrAljaz is back! Come on zeina, just like zawiya! #Feb17
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s former prime minister arrested in Tunisia: Al Arabiya
BRK: Qaddafi prime minister al-Bughdady al-Mahmoudy has been arrested in Tunisia, Al Arabiya sources
FreedomGroup, News in English
Vehicles carrying families fleeing from Sirte, pass through a freedom fighter checkpoint, 60km from Misrata.
www.facebook.com/FreedomGroupEng/posts/...
AJA: Public beaches near Brega are full of land mines.
AJA: Leaders of #FF from across #Libya are meeting in #Misrata expected to form a United front.
FreedomGroup, News in English
One of the air-ambulances used to transport the wounded from Sirte to Misrata.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=332981&l...
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Al Arabiya reports former Libyan PM arrested in Tunisia
Johnny
Appears there is another green book burning party today in sabha #libya
Libya_Awake_United
Taken in 1967 in this pic Mustafa Abduljalil when was young playing for a football team what number he is? #NTC #Libya
pic.twitter.com/hhpY7bvx
m_madi Mohamed Madi
I’ve seen how different news teams cover #Libya battles, and it’s always a very difficult balance between risk and reward
“They (fighters) do it because it is their future, their country, their revolution. We will be there searching for an image u have not seen”
Khalifa
Will Tunisia hand over Al-Bughdady Al-Mahmoudy to the #NTC or will they release him like they did Al-Khwaildi Al-Hamaidi?
NickClarkAlJaz Nick Clark
#Libya : NATO said on Thursday it was confident it could conclude its mission in Libya well within new 90-day op period – Reuters
Niz_FGM Niz
Mafqood.org , our missing persons project, will now be launching a newspaper advertising campaign to raise awareness for the project.
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
Touareg kidnappers deny Gaddafi links but are his former enforcers in #Ghadames and therefore no longer welcome in town
Kidnapees are Ghadamsi population, mixed Arab-Berber, and generally anti-G. Touareg anti-those with rebel connections
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: Libyan mother says her final farewell to her martyred son
bit.ly/qqJKjI #libya
Nusaybah
Best revenge the #Algerians can give Libyans is by over throwing Bouteflika – consequently the #Libyans will benefit from this revolt too.
Best revenge the Iranians can give Syrians is by over throwing Ahmedinijad- consequently the Syrians will benefit from this revolt too.
The place where they tortured and imprisoned Me (Tripoli – Libya)
At March 2011 during the libyan revolution i have jailed by ghadafi’s forces .
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACg9LcvjI7c
kareemJerusalem
Photo; SA-14’s missiles in #Sabha desert between an ammunition dump. 168 SA-14’s missiles found
yfrog.com/nx3m6vj
Reuters
Former Libyan PM arrested in Tunisia-Al Arabiya TV
Tunisian government sources contacted by Reuters on Thursday said reports that the former prime minister had been detained in Tunisia were not true.
Source:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Reuters
Sirte shows rocky path ahead for Libya’s new rulers
Many residents of Sirte suspicious of Libya’s new rulers
Town prospered under Gaddafi’s rule
Attackers tread carefully to avoid civilian casualties
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
CNN
On the front lines with Libyan rebels
Brooklyn, New York (VICE.COM) — The first time I went to Libya, in 2010, I was
arrested just two days into my trip. Filming a documentary for VICE, I was detained for shooting where the authorities thought I shouldn’t, beginning endless rounds of questions, emphatic yelling and head-shaking incredulity at my claims of innocence — and, of course, the requisite implications that I was a spy. When I was finally released, I swore I would never return to the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. But that promise was quickly broken, and I found myself back in the country almost exactly a year later, in the midst of a chaotic and violent revolution.
Please read more:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/21...
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Just arrived in #Tunisia to hear that the former Libyan PM has been arrested here
Is the man arrested or not?????
misratapost Hussin Mihedi
Misratapost Thu 22/09/2011 Qaddafi prime minister al-Bughdady al-Mahmoudy has been arrested in Tunisia التونسيه…
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Missing in #Libya – مفقود في ليبيا – View and Submit Missing People. www.mafqood.org
Tunisian Internal Security Office confirms the arrest of al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi #Libya
ianbirrell ianbirrell
I will be on the PM show on Radio 4 discussing David Cameron, Libya and liberal interventionism tonight
BBC
Libya: NTC says key oasis towns taken
Libya’s interim leadership says it has captured several key areas in the south but its forces have paused advances on two pro-Gaddafi strongholds.
Commanders said all three main towns in the al-Jufra oasis had been captured.
Officials say they aim to cut off escape routes south from Bani Walid and Col Gaddafi’s hometown, Sirte, which are still offering stiff resistance.
Meanwhile, the UK’s Financial Times says Libya’s new leaders have found $23bn (£15bn) in the central bank.
Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15018921
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Breaking: Tunisia arrests Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, Libya’s PM under Gaddafi – #Tunisia #Libya #Gaddafi
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya military site yields possible radioactive material shabablibya.org/news/libya-mil… #Libya
justin Marozzi
Back in uk returning Tripoli Oct
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#BaniWalid front is super dead today. Rev fighters beginning to abandon it, very few cars w rebels to be seen #libya
Some mortars thrown at the N gate of #BaniWalid, but over all feeble attempts from both sides to fight #libya
frankentele Sean Carberry
Visited checkpoint 30k from Sirte. Some scattered shelling but generally quiet as rebels wait for families to flee the city. #libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Reuters: Tunisian Interior Minister says former Libyan Prime Minister has been arrested in Tunisia #Libya #Tunisia
Wikipedia recognizes the NTC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya #Libya
And more:
kareemJerusalem Kareem Khadder
Ammunition dump in middle of Sabha desert. Includes SA-14 missiles, grad rockets, anti tank missiles
yfrog.com/mfsxksj
Algeria apparently recognizes the NTC. Via Alarabia TV.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
another day of shelling in #Sirte front line now in a bridge NTC fighters using tanks rockets and mortars Gaddafi forces Grads
we went flying in a Mig 8 converted into a medical helicopter pilot former general in the Libyan Air Force #Sirte #Libya
field hospital moved back from petrol station to a mosque Grads falling very near some target the highway big plumes nearby #Sirte #Libya
las autoridades tunecinas informan q han detenido al ex primer ministro de Gadafi Al Mahmudi Al Bagdadí #Libia
NTC fighters using now a complex that Gaddafi family used as private beach near #Sirte as field hospital and airport for helicopters #Libya
Sofyan Amry
B. Mahmoudi-G’s ex-PM who ordered dead children be taken from morgues and put at #NATO crash sites,was just arrested in Tunis #Feb17 #Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Ahrar TV: Hun, Wadan , Zela and Sukna in Jufra region all liberated by FFs… Allahu Akbar! #feb17 #Libya
Gaddafi’s Prime Minister Baghdadi AlMahmoudi arrested in Tunisia… Allahu Akbar !!!!
AlArabiya: Algeria recognise NTC #feb17 #Libya As if anyone in Libya cares what Bou ”Tafrika” does or says
libyanandproud
Tunisia sentences former #Gaddafi PM Baghdadi Mahmudi to six months in Jail for illegal entry. #Feb17 #Libya via @AlArabiya @afp
Via Feb17
Tunisian authorities have arrested Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who served as Libyan prime minister until Muammar Gaddafi was deposed last month, an official in the Tunisian Interior Ministry told Reuters on Thursday.
“Al-Mahmoudi was arrested yesterday evening,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
OMV
Austrian energy group OMV expects to see Libyan output at about 50 percent in the course of 2012, it told an investor presentation on Thursday.
“Our working assumption is very straightforward: it’s about 50 percent of pre-crisis level during the course of next year and that can come through a variety of profiles, of course,” exploration and production head Jaap Huijskes said.
Libya accounted for 10 percent of OMV output before the uprising to topple Muammar Gaddafi halted production.
OMV also said its main production assets in southwest Libya appear to be relatively undamaged but it will take time to get the logistics in place to have them running normally again.
China
China has won the support of the new Libyan government, state media reported on Thursday, which had been in doubt after Beijing’s frosty reaction to NATO-lead air strikes and attempts by Chinese firms to sell weapons to Muammar Gaddafi.
National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil told Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting that Libya’s people appreciated China’s support, the official Xinhua news agency said.
“Jalil said the Libyan people respect the Chinese people and appreciate China’s support in the Security Council and its assistance,” Xinhua said in an English-language report.
AFP
Troops advancing on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte from the east have put off any offensive for a week due to lack of ammunition, a brigade commander said.
“Fighting has been stopped for a week. We are facing a shrotage of ammunition,” Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan Brigade, told AFP. His troops are deployed 25 km east of Sirte.
Bin Dardef said he was heading to Libya’s main eastern city of Benghazi with a group of his men to try to organise new supplies.
AP
The general commanding NATO’s mission in Libya says the Gadhafi regime continues to be a threat.Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard said Thursday in a conference call with reporters that forces loyal to Gadhafi “are still dangerous, orders continue to be given and violence against the population continues.”“Apple-style-span” “font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;”
Bouchard said that the NATO mission “is not over by any means.” Moammar Gadhafi remains at large. His supporters remain well- armed and fighting is still raging on three fronts.
US Embassy
The United States is preparing to reopen its embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, while NATO says it is extending its operations in the country for another three months.
U.S. Ambassador Gene Cretz has returned to Tripoli where the U.S. plans to raise its flag over its mission on Thursday.
Cretz was based in Tripoli until December 2010. He left the country after WikiLeaks released his assessments of former leader Moammar Gadhafi’s personal life in which he described the former leader as “mercurial,” “notoriously erratic” and a “hypochondriac.”
CNN
A military site containing what appears to be radioactive material has been uncovered by revolutionary forces near the southern Libyan city of Sabha. The site, not far from Sabha in the Sahara desert, has two warehouses containing thousands of blue barrels marked with tape saying “radioactive,” and plastic bags of yellow powder sealed with the same tape.
Reuters
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi who control the city of Sirte have been executing residents suspected of sympathising with Libya’s new rulers, forces backing the country’s interim government and fleeing residents said.”The situation isn’t great,” said one resident who did not give his name as he left the city, where he said Gaddafi’s forces were moving “like gangs” through the streets. “There have been executions,” he said, naming two men who he said had been executed on Thursday. He also said he had witnessed executions in front of the house of a local family, whose name he gave as Safruny. An NTC commander on the outskirts of Sirte, separately showed Reuters a handwritten list of families whose members were said to have been executed in Sirte. The list, which he said he compiled with information from people inside the city, included the Safruny family.
BBC
Commanders said all three main towns in the al-Jufra oasis had been captured.
Aljazeera
The number of landmines planted by Gaddafi troops in the district between Ajdabiya and Sirte towns, is estimated at 60 thousand anti-personnel and anti-armour landmines. The engineering corps of the Libyan NTC national army has cleared 21 thousand of them up to the present. The district around al-Brega is the largest land-mined zone in Libya, where many army and civilian victims were hit by landmines
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Got a feeling Bu shafshufa will be caught soon #feb17 #4everlibya
BBC
Ex-Libya PM al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi ‘jailed in Tunisia’
Libya’s former Prime Minister, al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, has been arrested in Tunisia and sentenced to six months in prison, officials say.
Mr Mahmoudi was arrested on Wednesday near the border with Algeria. He was jailed for entering Tunisia illegally.
He served as prime minister until Col Muammar Gaddafi was ousted last month.
He had been trying to cross the border, but gave himself up without resistance, according to a report on a TV station run by Libya’s National Transitional Council (TNC).
It also claimed that he was carrying fake documents.
Full report:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15...
Tarek
The #European Union is also offering #Libya access to EIB loans, should a new government seek assistance
#Libya proposes ex-Eni (Abdul-Rahman Ben Yezza) executive for oil minister reut.rs/qGx8Ow via @reuters
Real and genuine people from #Sebha speak out against #Gaddafi www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUSAAvrvdg&fea... via @CNN #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#WOW Excellent #NEWS #FLASH : #Gaddafi Regime Ex Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-#Mahmoudi ARRESTED overnight in #Tameghza #Tunesia #Libya
#FLASH #Ex Prime Minister #AlBaghdadi #alMahmoudi was ARRESTED + 2 Others overnight in #Tameghza, near Tunisia’s border with Algeria #Libya
#Libya still Has 3 Front Lines; #Sirte, the desert town of #Bani Walid and the southern area of #Sabha #Libya
Sky News
Tunisia: Ex-Libya PM Jailed For Illegal Entry
The former prime minister of ousted Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s government has been jailed for six months in Tunisia for entering the country illegally.
Full storty:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
#Sabha – As CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports, rebel forces receive a peaceful welcome in two south Libyan towns
youtube.com/watch?v=n0tYwM… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0tYwMVij7c
Reuters
Gaddafi forces “executing people” in Sirte: residents
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi who control the city of Sirte have been executing residents suspected of sympathizing with Libya’s new rulers, forces backing the country’s interim government and fleeing residents said.
“There have been executions,” he said, naming two men who he said had been executed on Thursday. He also said he had witnessed executions in front of the
house of a local family, whose name he gave as Safruny.
More here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-l...
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-Libya rulers say they seize Gaddafi desert outposts
Chemical weapons depot uncovered – NTC spokesman
Army tries to organise assault on Bani Walid
Civilians pouring out of besieged city of Sirte (Updates with new details from front lines)
More:
in.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/libya...
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: former Libyan PM arrested in Tunisia – confirmed by official from Tunisian Interior Ministry
#Libya: Algeria says it’s ready to “work closely” with Libya’s NTC
#Libya: latest: news.sky.com/home/world-new…
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Wefaq #Libya: Algerian foreign minisiter declares recognition of National Transitional Council. #Feb17 #LOL
Tarek
In the capital #Tripoli on Thursday 22/09/2011, the #US raised its flag over the #US embassy for the first time since the fall of #Gaddafi.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
A military site containing what may be radioactive material has been found by revolutionary forces near Sabha feb17.info/news/live-liby… #Libya
The 2 warehouses contained 1000s of blue barrels & plastic bags of yellow powder with “radioactive” written on tape. feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept...
Yellowcake is processed uranium ore that can be used to produce enriched uranium for nuclear purposes feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
An NTC commander on outskirts of Sirte, showed Reuters a handwritten list of people were executed in Sirte. feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
Revolutionary commanders said all three main towns in the al-Jufra oasis had been captured. feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-sept... #Libya
Video: Libya military site yields possible radioactive material bit.ly/qMNfQE #libya
or:
feb17.info/media/video-libya-military-s...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
we went flying in a Mig 8 converted into a medical helicopter pilot former general in the Libyan Air Force #Sirte #Libya
NTC fighters from Misrata believe that one of the military chiefs in #Sirte is Jamal al Karrani 1 general who is also from Misrata #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
I wonder how many people have heard of Jeremy Brittenden ? #Libya
Jeremy Brittenden led the team that advised, PRO BONO, #Libya NTC on its successful bid to have 2.05 billion dinar bit.ly/p1zkWi
Children of the Revolution: #Libya – An FP Slide Show | Foreign Policy: bit.ly/mR5ZZj via @AddThis
#Zawiya –
The scars of war
- @Demotix News demotix.com/news/840914/za… .. #Libya
djopec
Libya’s offshore field Al Jurf will restart Fri morning, be at full 41,000 b/d capacity in 10 days and export 3 weeks later, says operator
libyanproud libyanandproud
Pic of Jalil playing football is more popular than pic of Jalil with obama at UN! LOL viva Libyans !
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Relatives of Libya’s UN representative Shalgam were found murdered in Ubari. Shalgam has been a target since his defection. #Libya #Egypt
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Call it a ‘wild’ guess but I think #gaddafi is out of #libya. What do you think? #tripoli
In bab el aziziya, in Hanaa #gaddafi room, I found email address of #khamis #gaddafi. My emails bounce back;his inbox full. #libya #tripoli
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Our #CNN report: Gadhafi- Nowhere to be found but heard loud and clear tiny.cc/lvp69 #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
cientos d familias huyendo hoy d #Sirte n medio dl intercambio d artillería muchos d ls proyectiles impactan n la carretera #Libia
Balkan mercenaries in Libya risk lives for gain. www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en...
ArabMedia:
Algerian FM Mourad Medelci has announced that Algiers recognizes #Libya’s NTC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people #17Feb
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Just had a tour around Bab Al Aziziya… it’s one big party :) children, women, FF, old people – and people selling stuff… #libya #feb17
I saw some of the prisons, gas masks, injections, soldiers uniforms, shoes… everything that was abandoned as Gaddafi’s people fled #libya
I also saw empty ammo boxes, empty pistol boxes, small flasks that had oil for rifle lubrication…HUGE areas where mercenaries slept #libya
I’ll upload all the pictures when I get back home :) Time for checkpoint duty #tripoli #feb17
Bab Al Aziziya is one huge colossal maze. Walls, tunnels, towers, bunkers, ammo dumps… It’s impossible to see everything #libya #tripoli
I saw some of the tunnels & underground car parks (which held tanks, APCs & 4×4 trucks) that caved in due to NATO strikes #libya #tripoli
I’ve also seen people busy at work pulling off cables and dismantling APCs & destroyed tanks… Scrap metal I guess
My uncle was one of the people that stormed Bab-Aziziya on the 23rd or so, he recounts how they used to clear an area just to find (cont)
more gaddafi soldiers used to come up behind it. They used to come from tunnels, towers & random places in the compound #libya
My uncle: “You know how the cockroaches pour out when you open a sewer? This was Bab Al Aziziya. They (Gs)were crawling everywhere” #tripoli
Haytham
It’s raining in #Benghazi, two days in a row. Makes the weather far more pleasant.
Is it just me or is @Reuters woefully inept at covering the revolution in #Libya?
4Adam Adam
#NoToCelebratoryGunfire – Leaflets in Tripoli twitpic.com/6osejr
libyanproud
Hey #Algeria, hand over Mohamed, Hannibal, and Aysha Gaddafi and we will recognize u as a neighbor. #Libya
Business Recorder
Libya holds back from assault on last Qadhafi redoubts
WEST OF SIRTE: Forces loyal to Libya’s new rulers said they were holding back on Thursday from advancing on Moamer Qadhafi’s last redoubts despite their capture of two key southern oases.
The commander of NATO’s Libya air campaign, Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard, said he was confident the mission could be completed “well within” three months a day after the alliance extended it for another 90 days.
Read more:
www.brecorder.com/world/africa/28896-li...
Telegraph
David Cameron: world should be quicker to take military action to stop slaughter
David Cameron will today urge the world to be quicker to take military action to stop states from slaughtering their own people.
The Prime Minister will use his first speech to the United Nations to demand that the organisation become less of a talking shop and intervene when people under brutal regimes require its help.
In a clear statement of intent following Nato’s successful campaign against Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, Mr Cameron will tell international leaders that the world must be prepared to act again.
“You can sign every human rights declaration in the world but if you stand by and watch people being slaughtered in their own country, when you could act then what are those signatures really worth?” Mr Cameron will ask the General Assembly.
“The UN has to show that we can be – not just united in condemnation, but – united in action acting in a way that lives up to the UNs founding principles and meets the
needs of people everywhere."
Please read more here and watch video:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Coincidence? NTC claim Chem Weapons found in #Jufra (unverified) dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
Al-Ra’y TV claims #NATO using Napalm. (proved false)
Tweeting Tripoli
Is the 6 months sentence for Albaghdadi, the rapist, a joke? Come on Tunisia, just hand him in to the NTC!
Ever wondered who did they model the nose-stash-glasses mask on? yfrog.com/kfc2adbj
yfrog.com/kh8w2ptj
Almanara
Abu Saleem victims graves
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1CPD6pSBFc&fea...
bencnn benwedeman
Negotiations between the NTC and Qadhafi’s Qadadfa tribe have broken down in #Sabha. Mid-Friday deadline to surrender weapons. #Libya
If the Qadadfa don’t surrender their weapons, NTC field commanders say they will resort to “the military option.” #Sabha
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Please like Feb17martyrs and send Pics of Martyrs with info to feblibya17ymail.com
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Gaddafi PM Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, was detained by Tunisian authorities after crossing into Tunisia illegally with no visa yesterday #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
#Libya discover new and sad reality war amputees hospital in #Misrata counted almost 200 until now not a single specialist in the country
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Algeria has officially recognized the Libyan National Transitional Council – #Libya #Feb17 feb17.info/news/live-liby…
Algeria needs to now hand over the fugitives Aisha Gaddafi, Mohamed Gaddafi, and Safia Gaddafi, to the National Transitional Council- #Libya
#AJA live from #Sabha
google.fr/m/url?client=s… #Libya
#Libye:
Reprise très prochaine de la production de pétrole – qurl.ch/o8u7o7
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Check out this street corner in #Misrata. Standing there 2 wks ago, I was gripped by the scene. Still am. twitpic.com/6otnpa
libyanproud libyanandproud
Clearly Ahmadinejad trying to replace #Gaddafi for “never invite again” status at UN.
AJA:
Electricity has returned to #sebha.
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi’s cousin and bodyguard says Gaddafi killed many if his own cousins (Arabic video)… youtube.com/watch?v=hc1NoG…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc1NoGwLflM&fea...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Yesterday, their ‘finance coordinator’ Wafik Shater said they found an extra 28 billion dinars..
a British official said it was “the equivalent of discovering several billion dollars under the mattress”
In this new era of transparency, Wafik Shater told FT the exact amount found was a “closely guarded secret”
UK official said it “put them in gravy..takes pressure off them to get overseas assets unfrozen.”
Moez
apparently found in Libyan Central Bank essentially ‘under the couch’ – FT piece on it yesterday
Niz_FGM Niz
Breaking: From our very own Hatem – Madar Mobile Lines now working in Sabha and most of Sabha now has electricity after 45+ days of blackout
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
1 NTC fighter who lost his leg in #Misrata “it’s a price that I am ready to pay” shops establish special discount for wheelchairs #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH : Algeria government announced it is READY 2work in close cooperation with the new #Libyan authorities #NTC goo.gl/qZJ22
CNN’s Ben Wedeman uncovers a site in #Sabha containing what is possibly #radioactive material #Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Guma_el_gamaty On #AJA NOW
Globe and Mail
In Tripoli, the ugly truth about Gadhafi emerges
She is a tiny woman, wrapped in a voluminous white shroud-like veil. Her face is puckered with age and a line of tiny blue dots is tattooed on her chin. At 86 years old, she is discovering a new world.
Her name is Aisha Amir and these days her son, Abdul Salam, is taking her to see what her one-time idol, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi, has wrought in Libya.
The first stop was the Abu Salim prison, a sprawling complex of fetid cellblocks where thousands of political prisoners languished, died and suffered torture for years. As she tottered through the abandoned corridors, peeking into the barred cages, she cursed Col. Gadhafi.
Full story:
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afri...
arek
#LIbya & the Arab Spring shows the #UN needs a new way of working’, #UK PM #Cameron says. Watch LIVE: bbc.in/njGloY @BBCBreaking
#UK PM #Cameron reaffirms that #Libyans are the ones who liberated #Libya, #UN
StateDept:
Photo: Ambassador Cretz participates in a flag raising ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, #Libya.
goo.gl/04u3B
DONATE ARABIC BOOKS TO LIBYAN LIBRARIES: There is going to be a festival in Tamzeen in the Western Mountains in (cont) tl.gd/d86m1s
DANGER: Falling tyrant #Libya #Syria #Yemen
twitpic.com/6ouh79
Times of Malta
Two Libyans discharged from hospital, leave Malta
Two Libyans who were in a group which was brought to Malta for medical treatment on Tuesday have now been discharged from hospital and have left the country, the Health Ministry said this evening.
All 10 patients admitted to Mater Dei Hospital are still in critical condition. Another four are still being treated for serious injuries at Saint James (Capua) Hospital while another two were treated at the same hospital have been discharged and are now out of the country.
Source:
goo.gl/JzUyi
Aljazeera
Libya’s NTC captures three southern towns
Commanders with the National Transitional Council (NTC) said their forces now controlled all three main towns in the Al-Jufra oasis, 24 hours after they announced
the capture of Libya’s largest desert city, Sabha, in the deep south.
“Al-Jufra – Hun, Waddan and Sokna – is liberated,” a military spokesman in Libya’s third-largest city Misrata said in a statement early on Thursday.
The defeat of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in the Saharan oases left his remaining forces in his hometown of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast and the desert city of Bani Walid to its west effectively cut off from any line of escape to the south.
Several key Gaddafi supporters have fled to Niger from Sabha, an NTC spokesman said on Thursday.
NTC leaders said they were holding back from advancing on Gaddafi’s last redoubts despite their capture of two key southern oases.
Read more:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
Gaddafi’s ex-premier jailed after fleeing Libya shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-ex-premie... #Libya (video & article)
Baki 7our
#Algeria recognizes NTC as legitimate representative of Libyan people…in catimini. No word of it on public media. Not on TV or APS.
LibyaLiberty: Those were former #Gaddafi regime members fleeing Tripoli. RT@Reuters Particles recorded moving faster than light:
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Editor’s Choice Picture of the Day- Ricardo Villanueva in sirte- … thestar.blogs.com/photodesk/2011…
bencnn benwedeman
The lights are back on in #Sabha. For the first time in weeks. #LIbya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
How does the Temporary Financing Mechanism tie in with all this? Created by the ‘Contact Group’
TFM’s initial funding by Qatar, Kuwait & Bahrain in July. Then the US passed it sum unfrozen assets
TFM decisions approved by ‘Steering Board’ (3 Libyans, plus 1 seat for Qatar and 1 seat for France)
Since the embassy protests, they’ve taken some of our injured friends & crowded them into a hotel
Keep asking Q’s & pushing transparency. The FF’s r open & progressive. The politicos, not so much.
As for the injured, the situation is intolerable. People controlling the purse strings don’t get it
Sarah
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” #Unity #Libya
#Sabha : Le résaux téléphonique Al Madar re fonctionne & et l’électricité est de retour.
Hayat
I know you’re probably the most pissed out of all of us about the accusations of #Libyans being rascists crap-best ignore it.
Times of Malta
Journalist tells of Libyan ‘massacre’
In Sirte people have no food, electricity or information
With a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, a Libyan rebel fighter dragged Italian video reporter Andrea Bernardi out of a car wreck, with one hand under his blood-drenched head and the other pulling his dislocated leg.
“I was shouting in pain and telling him to stop but he just kept using the only words he knew in English: ‘No problem, no problem’.”
Mr Bernardi, 28, had spent weeks running all over Libya following the frontline and reporting for news agency AFP. But it wasn’t a bullet that put him out of action… it was a high-velocity car accident.
Read more:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
FCO UK
First Libyan casualty for treatment arrives in the UK
Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt wishes young schoolboy injured by grenade well for his recovery.
Speaking today Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt said:
“I am delighted that Abdul Malik Ahmed, the young schoolboy who was wounded by a grenade left in his school, today arrived in the UK for treatment. The courage he has shown in the face of horrific injuries symbolises both the great sacrifices made by the Libyan people but also the hope and optimism with which they are facing the future. I wish him well for his recovery. I am proud that he will be aided by NHS specialists who are among the best in the world.
Last week in Tripoli the Prime Minister committed to help the extraordinary efforts being made in Libyan hospitals to aid those wounded in the struggle for freedom. Abdul Malik is the first of around fifty Libyan civilians who will be offered advanced treatment and rehabilitation using the UK’s specialist techniques and hospitals, paid
for by the Libyan Government.
The UK will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Libyan people as they recover from Qadhafi’s tyranny and do all that we can to help them”.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
2 injured #Libya nationals have been discharged from hospital in #Malta after recovery from treatment in hospital, returned to #Tripoli
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
#Feb17 gets better everyday I swear … Praise be to Allah #Libya
BentBenghazi G
@bencnn Congrats on hitting #Gangsta status in #Sebha Looks like Ben is tellin the Thuwar stories LOL #libya
pic.twitter.com/tOJpyD76
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Breaking: Janzur FFs capture Mustafa Gadr Bu the Gaddafi TV presenter …. : ) #libya #Feb17
The secret behind the success of the #Feb17 revolution in #Libya in 2 words … Allahu Akbar
LibyanPilot
There are now 2 Afriqiyah A320s which operate Misrata – Benghazi for the purpose of bringing in injured FFs, running for few days now
LIBYAN
Do I smell something is burning in @libyatv #Misrata
4libya
#Algeria recognizes #Libya NTC gov today. How about giving #Libya back it’s wanted criminals which you gave safe haven?
Please read:
HRW
Libya: Halt Exhumations of Mass Graves
Forensic Experts Needed to Identify Remains, Secure Evidence
(Tripoli) – Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) should place an immediate moratorium on the exhumation of mass graves until forensic experts are available to support the exhumations, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said the NTC should also arrange security at known or suspected mass grave sites to prevent unauthorized exhumations.
“We understand that Libyans want to find the missing and give victims a dignified burial, but digging up graves without forensic experts present can destroy evidence and make it more difficult to identify the bodies,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. “The focus for now should be on locating and securing the burial sites, and making plans for their proper exhumation.”
Since the collapse of the Gaddafi government in western Libya in late August 2011, mass graves containing the bodies of people killed during the conflict have been reported on a weekly basis in Tripoli and other areas, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Based on available evidence, some of these people apparently died in government custody, including by execution. Human Rights Watch has documented apparent executions by Gaddafi forces in Tripoli, al-
Qawalishand Bani Walid, and the suffocation deaths of 19 detainees in al-Khoms, some of which involved mass graves.
The grave sites documented to date vary in size, with some holding several dozen bodies. They also differ in the date of their creation, and some may contain remains from separate incidents. At one cemetery in Tripoli, a tractor driver told Human Rights Watch he had buried several hundred bodies gathered from various parts of the city during and after the fighting and brought to the site around August 20. Their identities and causes of death are unknown.
In addition to grave sites holding people killed during the six-month conflict, other sites relating to pre-conflict incidents are also at risk. These may include the graves of an estimated 1,200 prisoners killed in the Abu Salim prison massacre in 1996, whose remains were never returned to their families.
Exhumations began on many of the grave sites from the recent conflict as soon as they were located. Local authorities and groups typically conducted these exhumations without central coordination and at times without professional forensic assistance. The ICRC helped arrange the handling of 125 bodies from 12 different sites, but the organization is not involved in collecting evidence for possible use in legal proceedings. Where unplanned and unassisted exhumations have occurred, the opportunity to identify bodies and the circumstances of deaths may already be lost, Human Rights Watch said.
The NTC authorities have discussed plans to establish a commission on the missing. Human Rights Watch supports this plan and urges them to ensure that the commission is inclusive, consisting of representatives from key ministries such as justice, internal security, and health, in addition to forensic experts and lawyers. This breadth of expertise will be necessary for coordinating exhumations and identification of the remains of those killed during the conflict. Human Rights Watch urged the authorities to set up such a commission swiftly and empower it to begin its work with the establishment of all necessary laws and policies.
Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations and governments supporting the NTC to assist the commission by providing funds, technical equipment, and forensic experts where needed. The provision of foreign forensic experts should be done under the umbrella of the commission and should focus on both the collection of criminal evidence and the humanitarian identification of remains, so that the bodies can be returned to the families of the dead, Human Rights Watch said.
“In past post-conflict situations such as in Kosovo and Iraq, there was insufficient coordination with local authorities, and too many protocols used by different forensic teams,” said Bouckaert. “International assistance will be most effective if it bolsters national capacity.”
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafis secret stash of chemical weapons were found in #Ruwagha in Al-Jufra area where G kept abt 9.5 tonnes of mustard gas #Libya
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Argelia reconoce al Consejo de transición en Libia … Tardó pero terminó haciéndolo #Libia
Hayat
#AJA documents found proof of my long-standing theory about #NTC been working for #Gaddafi as spies-there you go. #StayCalm #HellBreaksLoose
Benghazi Youth
That is old news man, the documents which show Gaddafi had high ranking NTC officials as informants right?
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
300 people fled #sirte as of 2pm today, some said it was the first time the road was clear of Gaddafi loyalists
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRET #NTC commander Saleh showed Reuters handwritten list of families whose members R said 2have been executed Some Cut in pieces #Libya
#BaniWalid Mil. Commander "We set up a unified operations room 2Unite all Brigades and put newcomers in brigades 2 end chaos at Frontlines
#Libya Hope Revolution Leads 2Better Quality of Life goo.gl/nLmGM Like
PavedRoads Medicalcare RunningWater Flush Toilets #Nojoke
See here some #CRIMES com. of Ex Regime PM #AlBaghdadi Tel call talking about killing #NTC #Jibril www.libyauprisingarchive.com/gaddafi-re... #libya #ICCCandidate
#SIRET #NTC commander Saleh showed Reuters handwritten list of families whose members R said 2have been executed Some Cut in pieces #Libya
Sirtawi
Eye witness who left #Sirte said NATO dropped fliers over Wagadugo Hall in Sirte warning G forces they’ll be bombing the area. #SirteCrisis
PIC: NATO bombed Al-Bayan school in #Sirte 21-09-2011 pic.twitter.com/wM58Enpl
Another PIC of Al-Bayan school in #sirte hit yesterday by NATO. It is said G men stored ammo there. pic.twitter.com/F8ntcO0r
Exclusive: Short footage of fighting inside #Sirte taken from high building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTCektuuc
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTCektuuc
#Tarhuna, where the shutters remain green! thestar.com/news/world/art… via @JeremyRelph … #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gar younis University renamed bacj to Benghazi University (photo) facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Libya #Benghazi
Gaddafi renamed Tripoli university to Fatah University and Benghazi to Gar Younis, now they are both back to original names
EU eases Libya asset freezes to boost new government is.gd/dxDtIF #Libya
Missy Ryan
Since I am sadly now out of loop on #Libya: tell me يا أصدقاء … do we know where Moussa is?
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I recognise this portryal of life on #Sirte Front from @aleithead bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…. Often the pictures fail to convey real dangers.
Sirtawi
Eye witness who left #Sirte said NATO dropped fliers over Wagadugo Hall in Sirte warning G forces they’ll be bombing the area. #SirteCrisis
Poor Libyans look to revolution for roads and plumbing, not just democracy – The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas... via @washingtonpost
UNESCO to resume cooperation with Libya. www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_x...
4Adam Adam
Cameron in the UN: “the intl community has found its voice in #Libya and we must not now lose our nerve.” On #Syria “it is time to act”
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
NATO has decided to extend it mission over the skies of #Libya for 3 more months.
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Let me always break fear like a Tunisian, stand proud like an Egyptian, persist like a Yemeni, speak out like a Syrian & fight like a Libyan
Sarah
#PrayForSirte
Nadia
#Libya only has cash to last three to six months – The National shar.es/HMQae
Yefrenia
Not one Libyan I know who doesn’t have a cousin, uncle or family member who wasn’t a freedom fighter; Libyans were in this together.. #Feb17
Total says plans to resume output at #Libya field – MarketWatch www.marketwatch.com/story/total-says-pl... via @MarketWatch
Nadia
Libyan royal offers to help homeland as NTC seizes Qaddafi desert outposts english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… #Libya
West to Play Pivotal Role in #Libya Rebuilding www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Wes... via @VOA_News
Brunnan
See #Algeria’s finally recognised the NTC…………..‘bout (e)flikin’ time…….sorry . #Libya
Baki
La position de l’Algérie sur la Libye ces derniers mois, pathétique. La position des médias publics, dénuée de bon sens.
Please read:
Telegraph
Iran ‘steals surface-to-air missiles from Libya’
The weapons were seized by units attached to the Guards’ elite Quds Force, which travelled to Libya from their base in southern Sudan.
Acting on orders received from Revolutionary Guards commanders in Iran, they took advantage of the chaos that engulfed Libya following the collapse of the regime of former dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to seize “significant quantities” of advanced weaponry, according to military intelligence officers in Libya.
They say the weapons stolen by Iran include sophisticated Russian-made SA-24 missiles that were sold to Libya in 2004. The missile can shoot down aircraft flying at
11,000 feet, and is regarded as the Russian equivalent of the American “stinger” missiles that were used by the US-backed mujahideen to defeat Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. It is similar to the weapon used by al-Qaeda in the failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet taking off from Kenya’s Mombasa airport in 2002.
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/midd...
Noit
I don’t believe the Telegraph article, it just doesn’t make any sense.
Why would Iran steal “significant quantities” surface-to-air missiles and send personnel, a specialist team: the Guards’ elite Quds Force from south Sudan to steal them in Libya and then transport those weapons all the way back to Iran?
Iran can very easily buy those weapons themselves from several countries without all the problems of locating, finding, stealing and then transporting them and without the risk to their spec. forces.
That would be a lot easier and cheaper too. Spec. forces are not cheap to train.
How could that be done with NATO surveillance present over Libya?
Without anybody noticing anything?
How were they transported?
They couldn’t transport them by ship either….
Strange story, reminded me of the “weapons of mass destruction” Iraq story , that one didn’t add up either. We later found out that that was totally based on misinformation….
Just think how Iran would have known where those weapons were hidden, how could they have known where to find them in the first place? Remember the story tells us that they were stolen, so no money changed hands.
Who are those sources that gave that info to the Telegraph?
I think it’s nothing but a made up story, by whomever stands to profit from the spreading of these lies.
Telegraph doesn’t give real sources or ANY other info, just the announcement.
Story doesn’t ring true, just unbelievable.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
what’s next in libya- security consultants, or Blackwater light buswk.co/qlQuTo via @BW
bencnn benwedeman
Al-Madar, one of Libya’s two mobile phone networks, started working this evening in #Sabha for the first time in weeks. #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
1 week in London and i miss Libya. need to go back.
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 23rd 2011
9/23/11
9.23.11
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” ~ Voltaire.
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Ia1tx
Please watch the video:
Gaddafi killed many cousins
Video goo.gl/PdcPT (refused his sexual advances)
translation:
he said Gaddafi had killed many many of his cousins who refused his sexual advances and attempts. Not sure what he meant by that. Sexual advances towards the female relatives and spouses of this particular victim of his? Or homosexual advances towards the men themselves.
The officer who was also a Gaddafi, was brought to Bab Alazyzia his index finger was chopped off because Gaddafi told his thugs that he wanted to shoot him. He was then tied to an SUV and dragged around Bab Alazyzia compound. He then was tied to tree trunk and burned alive.
He said who ever did not allow Gaddafi to do what he wanted, was accused of treason and executed in a horrible way. He said many of Gaddafi’s high ranks were somehow tainted deliberately in their honor to remain loyal by being inferior and heart broken. As crazy as it seems, but I heard similar horror storied since long time ago. The Gaddafi’s are very sick in the brain.
(Translation: goo.gl/FsIAi #Libya via @2011feb17)
Malek
My grandfather passed away last nt, Haj Mohamed #Abuhajar, was possibly d richest most well known businessmen in all of #Libya pre-Gaddafi!
Mohamed #Abuhajar lived Dec 25 1925- Sept 15 2011. May he RIP inshAllah.
Mohamed #Abuhajar ’s wealth was 99% confiscated by Gaddafi in 1977.So glad he lived2see #Libya liberated&Free of this tyrant. Hallah
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI #US Ambassador hopes #American Companies 2 get back to #Libya on a fairly big scale goo.gl/SP85P
US Ambassador: The stench of corruption affected everything that the Gaddafi regime did with respect to commercial entities,” #Libya
♥ To ♥Tunisia ♥ Who jailed former Gaddafi Regime premier Baghdadi alMahmudi for illegal entry He entered Tunisia last night ! #Libya
#TRIPOLI #Security Matters in Cafe #Oya in #RadissonBlu AlMahary where visitors without proper ID must check their AK-47 @ hotel door #Libya
As War Winds Down in #Libya Security firms looking for post-Iraq market flock to #Tripoli goo.gl/4Wr6O #Libya
Aljazeera
NTC fighters say they have taken control of most of the southern town of Sabha.
The NTC has also said they will have a government ready by the end of September.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
People look sad in London and don’t talk; when on Libyan front they smile and
celebrate life even though they are being killed.
i’m lucky my work has asked me to go. changed my life to see the things i’ve seen.
FromJoanne Joanne
Allsorts will flood Libya now You cant prevent it Lets hope NTC members pickup courage and take decisions goo.gl/4Wr6O
Gaddafi had a man Alaaka who acted as FoodSupervisor +Taster G trusted only his driver and his Female bodyguards #Libya goo.gl/JMVhb
Al #Khoms amateur Footage of Prisoners in container being beaten www.reuters.com/video/2011/09/06/gaddaf... mass grave of 17 men found #Libya
Al #Khoms the story of 29 Prisoners in 2 containers 18 died goo.gl/NHojX video in previous tweet #Libya #NoWordsLeft #Gaddaficrimes
#Unesco to help rebuild #Libya’s educational system and help ~NTC encourage a Free #Media goo.gl/HrozX
Omar
joke of the Day!! RT @4Adam : “African Union Ready To Help Libya Build Democracy” via #voanews #Libya #AU
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
what’s next in libya- security consultants, or Blackwater light buswk.co/qlQuTo via @BW
Tarek
#Gaddafi crimes against #Libya" Execution of Othman Zarti in Souk Al Juma in 1984" اعدام عثمان عمر زرتي youtube.com/watch?v=NLuXj4… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLuXj4BWXr8&fea...
I favorited a @YouTube video youtu.be/SBUU_HYWUYI?a February 17 Day (Tripoli Expo) | يوم ثورة 17 فبراير في معرض
I’ve just made and posted this video “#Gaddafi’s Family Album” Let me know if you like it www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL7SJ72O7XM&fea... #Libya
Reuters
#OMV eyes slow, difficult return to #Libya | Reuters reut.rs/oHHYX9
Gaddafi’s Family Album
Here is a rare look at the family of Gaddafi’s family among many strange things have been found throughout the ransacking of the Gaddafi compound in Tripoli, I collected and posted them, I am sure there are plenty to discover
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL7SJ72O7XM&fea...
Telegraph
First footage of Hana Gaddafi found
The first film footage of the adopted daughter of Col Gaddafi of Libya, who he claimed had been killed in an American bombing raid in 1986, is published today by The Daily Telegraph
The footage, part of a remarkable series of clips of the Gaddafi family at play while on a camping holiday outside Tripoli in the late 1980s, shows Hana Gaddafi kicking a football and being cuddled by her father.
It was filmed around three years after the raid on the Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli which Col Gaddafi claimed had killed the young Hana. On the video, other members of the family can be clearly heard calling her by her name.
The girl in the footage also resembles photographs of an adult woman named Hana Gaddafi whose educational certificates were found in a bedroom in the compound after the fall of the Gaddafi regime.
Read more and watch video:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Tarek
A free #Libya " this is war" www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgY08lAGh8&fea...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgY08lAGh8&fea...
#Libya #NOC staff demonstrating inside the the building youtube.com/watch?v=6yBrsa…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yBrsaIj7Dk&fea...
#Gaddafi was paranoid that he would be assassinated or bombed, he slept separately way from the others’ tent telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… #Libya
Factsheet: #Libya has #Africa’s largest proven oil reserves and produced 1.6 million barrels daily before the revolt erupted in mid-February
#Gaddafi’s regime wasted #Libyans’ money over the years in countless ways
#Libya is land of opportunity arabianbusiness.com/war-torn-libya… via @ArabianBusiness
MAHROUQA, #Libya | Poor #Libyans hope revolution will improve services | The Herald – Rock Hill, SC: bit.ly/pG7zjx
After #Gaddafi: #Libya’s oil industry bit.ly/pU93GK
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: Bloody Battle Continues in Gadhafi’s Hometown bit.ly/qO49P2 #libya
Transcript
The one-time rebel forces are now recognized as the official government and control Tripoli. But they continue to meet fierce resistance in the battle for Sirte, the hometown of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.
That’s where James Foley of the international Web site GlobalPost has been. He filed this report.
feb17.info/media/video-bloody-battle-co...
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya’s Sovereign Fund Seeks Probe on.wsj.com/qanDOj via @WSJ
Good. Let’s keep it that way shall we! RT @Reuters #Libya, IMF in informal talks, no aid requested yet reut.rs/r8sDVS
CTVMercedes Mercedes Stephenson
Cameron points out it was a Canadian General who led the NATO operation for Libya.
#Libya: Another “AK47” that has defected from #Gaddafi! flic.kr/p/apsLJM via @Amani_Alalem
#Libya’n oil needs two years to recover – UPI.com upi.com/Business_News/… via @upi_top
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Gaddafi State TV news bulletin in 1984 of martyrs Ithman Zerti & AlSadeq AlShwehdi hanged by G supporters is.gd/g4X6JE #LIbya
A MUST WATCH * RT “@shanesmith30: On the front lines with Libyan rebels #cnn edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/09/21...
septimius_sever septimius severus
Risking your life for freedom is one thing. But risking it for the concept of freedom is something else entirely vice.com/vice-news/the-… #Libya
kareemJerusalem Kareem Khadder
What experts say looks like yellowcake powder found outside #Sabha warehouse #Libya yfrog.com/nxqpglzj
satopol
in misrata #libya: pics, words, everything i’ve seen before just doesn’t register the magnitude of destruction on #tripoli street
I took a look at security consultants in #Libya
buswk.co/qlQuTo
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Today, inside Gaddafi’s house in Bab Al Aziziya, I saw parts of the American bombs that fell on it back in the 80s. He kept them. #libya
I also saw what seems to be parts of an American jet aircraft. Did #Gaddafi shoot down one in 80s? There was a wing & an engine #libya
they found doors that were booby trapped & explosives. as soon as they touched them they blew up
Best wall painting I’ve seen so far #Tripoli #Libya fb.me/11LRDN1Hs
I want to upload more #Tripoli pictures but standard quality (the only thing my internet will alow) won’t do them justice… Hmmm
Today I gt to hold a piece of history. Two AK-103s that arrived by sea a few weeks before the battle of #Tripoli. Instrumental to liberation
(The AKs are part of a huge batch of weapons that were smuggled by sea & sent from Misrata & other Libyan cities to Tripoli) #libya
I spoke to some very brave Gurji FF – they used to dig holes near the main road & wait for Gaddafi vehicles to pass, then ambush them
Another collection of photos from #Tripoli coming up… I won’t upload everything ;) but consider it a teaser #libya #feb17
I posted 25 photos on Facebook in the album “A taste of free Tripoli v2 – 22nd September 2011” fb.me/1j3WVSKkx
I can’t wait for a Gaddafi goon to tell me I visited a film set in Qatar. They got my house, belongings and family perfectly right!! #libya
They even kidnapped my family members and took them to Qatar or are these people clones? OH MY GOD!!! :P
I was so happy to hear the FF from all parts of Libya met in #Misrata today and agreed on some extremely important points incl. Libyan army
People in my area celebrated #Sabha’s liberation but I’m pretty sure that everyone here is looking at Sirte and BaniWalid #libya #feb17
They agreed to form one army finally and all FF that don’t comply will be disarmed.
iyad_elbaghdadi
Revolution: The moment the people stop seeing foreign powers & “conspiracies” as their main enemy, and direct their anger at the tyrants.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Battle for #Gaddafi hometown continues, youtube.com/watch?v=2z4mlW…, #Libya, #Sirte, #Gaddafi
Clashes FFs of Misurata in Sirte 2 youtube.com/watch?v=4RJ-Xx…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RJ-XxgtscQ&fea...
aleithead
Audioboo: The Battle for Sirte, Libya boo.fm/b478178 #bbc #leithead
Secret talks with Gaddafi’s men come to haunt China – September 23, 2011: bit.ly/ofyY9T
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#RAF Tornado makes emergency landing at #Malta Int. Hydraulic problem in landing gear. Flames seen, extinguished. Runway blocked. Flights
Flights temporarily diverted to #Sicily until #RAF Tornado is cleared from runway at #Malta Int
BBC
Anti-Gaddafi graffiti on the walls of Libya
During the four decades that Col Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya, his official portraits were everywhere. Now that he has been overthrown, artists are revelling in their new-found freedom and turning this tradition on its head. Caricatures of the vilified leader have been painted on walls throughout the country.
Benghazi, the epicentre of the uprising that swept Libya, has become the hub for this new form of street art. Among the city’s artists is 22-year-old Ibrahim Humaid, an engineering student, who started painting caricatures of Col Gaddafi while he was manning
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-14883637
Sirtawi
Exclusive: Short footage of fighting inside #Sirte taken from high building. youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTCe…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTCektuuc
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
One of the Libya’s World Heritage sites.. filmed at #Leptis Magna. Treasures survive #Libya conflict bbc.in/naXGC0”
BBC News – #Libya conflict: Anti-Gaddafi fighters take Sabha bbc.in/pQswk8
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
May Allah grant the FFs of Libya victory over the walls of Jerusalem like he granted us victory over the walls of Bab Alazizia
#Libye : Du matériel estampillé “radioactif” découvert – tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/mond… via @LeNouvelObs
S K
only an idiot like #gaddafi would put explosives next to radioactive stuff #fail #libya #feb17
#LIBYA @bencnn: many SAM’s found next to radioactive material. Worry they could blow up and distribute radiation through area
Information technologies foster freedom or reinforce repression: bit.ly/pZ7QaO #SocialMedia #revolution
Moez
Friend of mine got shot and broke his leg, his friends were martyred. Spent lot of past few days looking after him
KhadijaTeri
Blogspot:
The Missing Months
We didn’t have internet for about six months (March 3rd to August 22nd) in Tripoli, so of course I wasn’t able to post on my blog during that time. I did however continue to write… and write, and write and write. It was daily therapy to sit down and type out the day’s events.
I thought about putting it all together and publishing it as a book. But as the war comes to an end and a free Libya opens up to a new beginning I’ve decided to put the past behind me and post these missing months on my blog. I need to get on with my life. The future is just too alluring for me to be dwelling on the past – but the past definitely needs to be recorded.
Please take some time and read:
khadijateri.blogspot.com/2011/09/missin...
Moez
Let us not forget the thousands of IDPs around #Libya that are still suffering – long road ahead of us before stabilisation
We need to help and assist our ff’s asap, they are our heroes!
Some very sound advice, please read:
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Force all of this into the open. Vigorous public debate and a free press have been stifled too long… And since you asked… For the injured freedom fighters, my advice is to form a team devoted to their health & welfare. Ultimately, this might evolve into government ministries for healthcare and ‘veterans affairs.’ The issues to tackle are wide-ranging, everything from prosthetics and long-term rehab to counseling and
wheelchair ramps. These are practical, real-world issues confronting the surviving heroes of this revolution — and a grateful nation should do all it can to meet their needs. Paying hospital bills is not enough — yet even that is giving some of the people involved a “headache”, and they’ve talked about turning over all the responsibility for healthcare to bureaucrats at an insurance company. The thought makes me livid. Managing the payment mechanism is important (and should be done far better than it has been). But so is making sure injured freedom fighters don’t lie in urine-soaked hospital beds all day long. Making sure that discharged patients can get to their physical therapy appointments. Making sure that when multiple doctors are treating them, they actually coordinate the care. Making sure that medical reports and x-rays for difficult cases are sent to appropriate international experts for consultation. Following through on medical visas for treatment abroad. Talking to amputees about options and plans for prosthetics, so that even if they don’t get artificial limbs anytime soon, they feel involved in the decision-making, and their hopes and wishes are treated with respect… I could go on, but I think you get the idea. These are urgent matters, and they should supersede politics. But since August 21st, despite more money sloshing around, the situation has worsened, as many of the un-injured Libyans who were helping in any capacity left Tunisia for Tripoli, and those who remain seem preoccupied by events there. Understandable, but problematic nonetheless… We should form a team devoted exclusively to serving the needs of the injured freedom fighters. I would like to lead the Tunis portion of this effort, and I would like to involve people whose ethics and experience I trust the most: injured freedom fighters themselves (quite a few of them are eager and able to help). To get past the frustration stage and really make a difference, we need funding and/or authority (either one would lead to the other).
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
spoke to my dad, 80% of #baniwalid is liberated, there r 5 out of the 52 areas under G control.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I have to say, there are some brilliant posters all over #Libya. Don’t shoot celebratory bullets, don’t loot, etc etc. Just hope ppl follow
You see those SCUDs our FF found in Sirte? I think these snipers should eat one of them
Three things from Gaddafi’s era that we still can’t completely change: number plates, passports and our money..
Nasr
Car reg. plates R being changed in #Benghazi already. Saw them on FB
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Today, as I walked up the stairs in Gaddafi’s Bab Al Azizya house, an old lady started praying at the top of her voice. We all nodded #libya
Old lady: “God damn you Gaddafi. May you suffer, and wish death so bad but never get it. For everything you did to us”
A steady stream of children and women stood at exact same spot where Gaddafi gave his “I AM HERE!!” speech. Asking: where is he now?
My own grandmother refused to go anywhere near BabAziziya. She hates the place and everything to do with it
Two opinions I heard in BabAziziya today: “Bulldoze this whole damn place.” and “Make it a museum, for future leaders to see”
We already have too many so called “universities” while our main one is ignored & badly funded. make babaziziya a park i say
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
its becoming a tradition: every Friday pple protest in the #MEast & gvts don’t listen or respond w bullets.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Video: The Rebels of Libya: Part 1 – VICE bit.ly/nBcpeO #libya
In one Libyan town, freedom isn’t easy bit.ly/pImyek #libya
LIVE Libyan Unrest: September 23, 2011 bit.ly/oGXhdZ #libya
Aljazeera
The UN atomic agency said on Thursday that Gaddafi’s government had stored raw uranium near Sabha, after CNN reported that NTC forces had found a military site containing what appeared to be radioactive material.
In Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokeswoman Gill Tudor said, “We can confirm that there is yellow cake stored in drums at a site near Sabha … which Libya previously declared to the IAEA.”
Reuters via feb17
Libyan energy firm Sirte Oil has resumed gas output in the Hateiba and Assoumoud gas fields in eastern Libya and supplies are now flowing to coastal power plants, its chairman has said, reducing the need for expensive diesel imports.
Violent clashes between Libya’s interim leaders and those still loyal to deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi have raged along Libya’s eastern coastline since the revolt began in February, leading to a virtual halt in oil and gas production.
Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, which the oil company is named after, is still contested.
“We have started producing and sending gas to the power plants of Benghazi and Zuetina. We even sent some power to Egypt the other day,” Sirte Oil Chairman Fathi Issa told Reuters by telephone.
Interim Government
An interim government in Libya will be announced within the next few days and include 22 ministerial portfolios, a spokesman for the North African country’s transitional rulers said on Friday.
“We’ve agreed on a number of portfolios and who would hold the most important ones. There will be 22 portfolios and one vice premier,” said Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTC). “It would be a compact government, a crisis government.”
Discussions in Libya to set up a more inclusive interim government have been unproductive before. It remains unclear whether the NTC, still based in the eastern city of Benghazi, can unify a country split along tribal and regional lines.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Temporary Monetary Fund Press Release 09/18/11: Tunisian Hospital Payment for Libyan Wounded w/Arabic: goo.gl/OguSp
Latest Developments in #Libya September 21, 2011 goo.gl/q448o #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Libyan oil flows, foreign workers wait is.gd/7S8kxb #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Since I was a kid, knew dictators used Israel as a tool to rule their people.
adrianhong Adrian Hong
I really believe #Libya can be a model. Overwhelmingly the people are hopeful, disciplined, & tolerant of others. #KnockOnWood
Meet #Gaddafi’s electronic army or more like 5 person army + Pinocchio: pic.twitter.com/b6uiqiTz”
Gaddafi’s nephew (Sherif Sahel Gaddafi) is captured few days ago… www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDxn4KVmHUU&sns=em
Rima
I love Libya but the nationalistic fervor of some individuals is frightening. When your love turns into exclusivity, you’ve crossed a line.
Some of Gaddafi’s goons who were tweeting BS and electronically terrorizing Libyans (GEA)… #nameandshame yfrog.com/nvkqybj
Tweeting Tripoli
Exclusive video of Gaddafi’s Chinooks over Tripoli on February 28th, 2011. kids chanting indep anthem in background: youtube.com/watch?v=5kWNzh…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWNzhte2-A
Malek
Here is the female guard interview. Unbelievable but so true. #Libya #Gaddaficrimes youtube.com/watch?v=HDt9FC…
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
FromJoanne Joanne
RAW, #Libya NTC fighters attack residential property in #Tripoli 21.09 goo.gl/6BCme #Libya was that Khanag house ?
Reuters
Libya interim government to be announced within days: NTC
An interim government in Libya will be announced within the next few days and include 22 ministerial portfolios, a spokesman for the North African country’s transitional rulers said on Friday.
More:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/23/us-l...
PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. Fascinating report from #RUSI in today’s #Times about role of special forces in removing #Gaddafi
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
@Twitter removed 1 of the accts impersonating me.. now waiting for 2nd one to get taken out
Back in #Tripoli, #Libya. Hot shower for the first time in 3 weeks #bliss
Hana
Thank God! My eldest uncle managed to leave #Sirte today. Others we know made it safely as well. Still loads to go. Praying 4 their safety.
My uncle M who arrived yesterday from #Sirte to Misrata said his wife and kids had to live in basement with 180 others away from fighting.
Uncle M said sone ppl used car engines to keep fridges etc running. Some tore down wooden door/window frames to light fire to cook.
G forces have taken over Gajam hotel in #Sirte to launch assaults after they robbed the place and several evacuated houses.
Uncle M had fled Brega in #Feb17 his journey to #Sirte took abt 20hrs rather than the normal 4/5 hrs. #gaddaficrimes #Libya
Tents have been recently placed at Al-Sadada bridge E of #Misrata to shelter those who’re fleeing #SirteCrisis … Numbers are increasing.
I spoke with uncle M for almost an hour the other night, as he told me abt how #FFs are armed and ready inside #Sirte. #SirteCrisis
Many locals assume those who are kidnapped/detained in #Sirte have been executed. But that’s still not for sure.
Jamal Al-Karrami’s doings in #Sirte is just horrendous. He’s senior head of Sirte city center and was behind crimes in #2 & #1. #FreeSirte
StateDept StateDept
U.S. Embassy Tripoli re-opens in #Libya: go.usa.gov/8kM
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Al Jazeera Mubasher showing live friday prayers from Sabha mosque. #Libya #Sabha
#AJE TonyBirtley:
Sabha endured siege w no power. Residents cut off from outside world. Only few w Sat phones know was going on #Libya
Tony Birtley in #Sabha #Libya confirms that freedom fighters have control of most of the town. Negotiations are under way to get the few remaining Gaddafi strongholds to surrender their weapons. Gaddafi forces who fled the town are thought to have perhaps fled south to either the Algerian or Nigerian borders.
Sabha is a strategic town as most of the ammunition that fuelled Gaddafi’s war came from the military base there.
Sabha did not experience the same fighting as other parts of Libya. It has endured a siege with shortages and no electricity. Residents were cut off from the outside world. Only the few who had satellite phones knew what was going in the rest of Libya. Elders in the town had been given the possibility of making Fezzan a separate country, with Sabha as it’s capital.
There are reports that yellow cake was found very close to the town. If Gaddafi had it, he would have been unable to use it.
Sentletse:
Didn’t the NTC say that Gaddafi is in Sahba? Rebels are in control of Sahba now. Where is the Colonel? #Libya
grafixel
ran away again?
Mariam
Enjoy this little video of a billboard paint job vimeo.com/29455420 #tripoli #Libya
#Libya needs the woman, not to prove to the world anything, but for a proper and legit society. We need that depth. #respectTHEwoman
wise man said, if you u want 2 TALK about getting things done get a man 2 do it, if u want 2 get it done get a woman 2 do it.
Ray
100% egree for the women. There also need a youth wing in the #NTC. Prepare your future…!
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
back in #tripoli: after 3 weeks of #baniwalid bedlam tripoli feels like a totally different world, cleaner, sunnier, calmer
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
another lie of our ex friend Gaddafi Hana the daughter who never died tgr.ph/pxbfzc
Amazing how #Mnisrata has changed since may now even Tripoli Street is open with small restaurants and people living there #Libya
la agencia internacional de energía atómica confirma la presencia de depósitos de uranio enriquecido en #Sabha #Libia
Sky News
Libya Grenade Blast Boy Treated In Britain
The first of around 50 Libyan patients injured during the uprising in the country has arrived in Britain for medical treatment.
He had been taken in with his friend Wadir after they suffered devastating injuries when a grenade they were playing with blew up.
They had discovered a stash of ammunition after it was abandoned in their school by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, as they fled National Transitional Council fighters.
Wadir died but Abdul survived. He has now been given a chance to get better.
Sky News viewers contacted us offering to help Abdul, and it is their donations which have paid for him to be flown to Britain.
The Libyan government is paying for his treatment here, as well as for treatment for the other patients who will come over.
Abdul arrived in the UK after a six-hour road journey to Tunisia from Tripoli and then a four-hour flight to London.
After he was assessed by specialist plastic surgeons at St Mary’s Hospital, they carried out an initial operation.
More and Video:
news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16075525
IMPORTANT:
TFMLibya TFM Libya
For Tunisia Hospital Bill payments for #Libyan victims of war call +216 71 965038, +216 71 965040, +216 71 965044, +216 71 965049 please RT
Reuters
Secrets of a “super-fixer” in Libya
Flanked by two colleagues, a 60-something Englishman quietly worked the lobby of Benghazi’s Tibesti Hotel last week, targeting people likely to be the power brokers in a new Libya.
Holmes — a fluent French speaker to judge by his conversations in the hotel lobby — is a former director of Britain’s Special Forces and holder of the Military Cross, one of the country’s highest awards for gallantry, according to a brief biography published by the alumni association of The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
More here:
uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/23/us-li...
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING: #Libya nationals storm into Libyan embassy in #Malta demanding the immediate removal of 8 diplomats
Defence professionals
Min. of Defence UK
RAF destroys command and control facilities in Libya
RAF Tornados yesterday destroyed command and control facilities of pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya before launching successful strikes on armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery.
The attacks, on Tuesday 20 September 2011, were carried out at three different locations across western and central Libya by a Royal Air Force armed reconnaissance patrol as part of NATO’s efforts to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
During the afternoon, another formation of RAF Tornados was tasked by NATO to
mount a precision strike on a military vehicle depot which had been identified near Hun. This proved another successful mission; their Paveways destroying the installation with a number of direct hits.
Major General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Communications Officer, said: "British forces were again in action yesterday over Libya, as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR.
“Early on Tuesday morning, a Royal Air Force armed reconnaissance patrol carried out successful attacks on Gaddafi’s troops in three different locations across western and central Libya.
“At Bani Walid, they destroyed a command and control facility which had been identified by NATO surveillance operations, then proceeded south east to the area of Hun, over 200 miles 322km away, and demolished a second such headquarters, again using Paveway guided bombs.
“The Tornado GR4s next headed some 160 miles 258km north to prosecute a third target, this time in Sirte: a former school which had been commandeered by Gaddafi’s men as a base for armoured vehicles and anti-aircraft artillery. Paveway bombs destroyed the military targets at the site.”
Since the start of military operations on 19 March, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Army Air Corps strikes have damaged or destroyed more than 970 former regime targets that presented a threat to the Libyan people.
Sirtawi
Gl. Erhouma Al-Hameel, who had been recruiting Sirte youths to fight Anti-Gs since uprising, was killed 2 days ago in Talal area in #Sirte
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Italy govt closes migrant boats access to #Lampedusa after riots destroyed camp. Boats diverted to #Sicily
AFP:
Switzerland lifts sanctions against NOC , Zueitina, and Afriqiyah Airways.
Bloomberg
Meet Libya’s New—Well, Newish—Ambassador
Ali Aujali spent years defending Qaddafi. Now he’s with the rebels
This week, a truck will pull up to the Libyan Embassy in Washington’s Watergate office building and haul away 200,000 copies of Muammar Qaddafi’s The Green Book, the deposed dictator’s rambling political manifesto that was required reading in Libya for nearly four decades. Qaddafi shipped the volumes to the U.S. a year ago with orders for his then-ambassador, Ali Aujali, to hand them out everywhere he went. Aujali didn’t bother to do that, and the thousands of unopened boxes crowded the embassy’s closets.
Read more:
www.businessweek.com/magazine/meet-liby...
PEeditorial:
Libya EXCLUSIVE UK firm lobbying Gov for #oil, security deal goo.gl/OmrxL (FREE) @derek_brower
#Libya restarts gas output to feed power plants
Reuters:
bit.ly/q16Hek
English Ahram
NTC fighter killed, family car destroyed fleeing Sirte
A Libyan commander says an NTC fighter was killed and a packed family car destroyed while helping residents flee Moamer Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte
A fighter from Libya’s interim government helping residents flee Moamer Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte was killed on Friday and a packed family car destroyed when pro-Gaddafi forces opened fire on their convoy, a commander said.
“We were escorting families out and the convoy came under fire” from anti-aircraft guns, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, Osama Muttawa Swehly told AFP
Asked why the NTC was delaying, Swehly said "we’re trying to get the families out. We are averaging between 400 to 500 cars a day. “We are basically trying to starve (the Gaddafi forces out.”
Please read more here:
english.ahram.org.eg/News/22235.aspx
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports on the reopening of the American Embassy in #Tripoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv_Ima27tDA&feature=share #Libya #Feb17
CNN
CNN’s Ben Wedeman uncovers a site containing what is possibly radioactive material in Libya.
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/09/22/nr-wedeman-libya-radioactive-material.cnn?iref=allsearch
Tripoli Post
NTC Fighters Biding Time Before Final Assaults on Remaining Al Qathafi Bastions
Despite capturing one of fugitive leader Muammar Al Qathafi’s one of his remaining bastions, Sabha and the key oasis of Al-Jufra – Hun, Waddan and Sokna, the continuous pounding by NATO warplanes of the former dictator’s strongholds the interim government’s forces appeared to be holding back from advancing on Bani Walid and Sirte.
After announcing the capture of Libya’s largest desert city, deep south of the country, Sabha, and two Saharan oases, the National Transitional Council’s commanders say that the pro-Al Qathafi forces are left with fiercely defending the desert city of Bani Walid to the southwest of Libya and the former leader’s hometown of Sirte on the central Mediterranean coast that are both effectively cut off from any line of escape to the country’s remote southern borders.
The oasis and Sabha were liberated after some heavy fighting with an NTC official reportedly explaining that the former rebel fighters seized Waddan on Tuesday, then captured the base between Waddan and Hun at dawn on Wednesday and took Hun during the day.," an NTC official told AFP in Libya’s main eastern city Benghazi on Wednesday evening.
Kamal al-Hzifeh, the co-ordinator between the military command in Al-Jufra and the NTC told AFP that in the fighting two of the NTC fighters were killed and that the pro-Al Qathafi fighters had 11 killed and 25 wounded. H added that they also captured 14 men from the opposition forces.
According to Hzifeh, Al Qathafi’s forces had shelled Hun to cover their retreat before NATO planes intervened at about 17:00 (local time).
Meanwhile, Nato said that in its operational update on Thursday its warplanes had hit four anti-aircraft guns as well a vehicle storage depot around Hun, and a command and control node and five surface-to-air missile systems in and around Sirte.
Commanders on the front line west of Sirte said they had been told to expect further NATO air strikes on Thursday and had orders not to advance.
East of Sirte, after heavy fighting in recent days, commanders on the front line said that they had put off any offensive against the city for at least a week for want of ammunition. “Fighting has been stopped for a week. We are facing a shortage of ammunition,” Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan Brigade, whose troops are some 25km east of Sirte is quoted saying.
The troops advancing on Sirte from Misurata to the west have also been asked to hold their fire, so they could coordinate better, Dardef, who was heading to Libya’s main eastern city of Benghazi with a group of his men to try to organise new supplies, said.
Another new regime commander, Ahmed Zlitni, said the advancing troops were also keen to avoid the use of heavy weapons against Sirte for fear of civilian casualties. He told AFP:"We are still giving time for Sirte civilians to leave the city.”
Residents fleeing from Sirte have been saying that life inside the city had become “unbearable.” There’s a severe shortage of food, and Al Qathafi’s forces have cut off electricity power and mains water. The head of one of the families leaving the city said: "All we’ve been eating is macaroni. “Everybody is hiding in their homes. Nobody is going out.”
Meanwhile, Libya’s new rulers keep on saying that time is on their side. They insist that the holdouts in Bani Walid and Sirte are die-hard supporters, including many who escaped the Tripoli blitz and believe they have no choice but to resist or face war crimes charges themselves.
Patrick_Baz patrickbaz
Border police imposing visas on foreigners or letter from libyan embassy to enter #Libya
The Chad pages:
Les Toubous comptent jouer pleinement leur rôle au sein de la nouvelle Libye
En prenant le contrôle des localités du Sud de la Libye, les Toubous, une communauté ethnique en Libye, entendent démontrer qu’ils sont partie prenante dans la révolte contre le régime du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi.
Dans une région le Fezzan au carrefour des routes vers le Niger, le Tchad et l’Algérie, ce noeud de communication vital, organisé autour de la capitale régionale Sebha, est une pièce maîtresse du dispositif de Kadhafi, où sa tribu —les Guedadfa— joue un rôle politique et économique clé.
Les Toubous ont aidé le CNT libyen en attaquant les troupes du colonel Kadhafi
notamment dans la ville de Morzuk, dans la région désertique du Fezzan, principale ligne logistique reliant Tripoli aux frontières du sud-ouest. Alors que cette tribu, présente dans le Tibesti tchadien et la partie sud de la Libye principalement autour des oasis d’al-Qatroun au sud-ouest, et de Koufra au sud-est, a longtemps été favorable au colonel Kadhafi.
Son soutien au CNT a été décisif et a permis d’ouvrir un front au sud du pays. Les Toubous ratissent le sud de la Libye où subsistent de nombreux loyalistes et interceptent ceux qui tenteraient de fuir vers le Tchad ou le Niger.
Le groupe Toubou se fait appeler “Bataillon du bouclier du désert” et est dirigé par Barka Wardougou, selon l’un de ses représentants à Benghazi (est).
Des leaders Toubous séjournent actuellement à Benghazi afin d’obtenir un soutien du Conseil national de transition (CNT), l’organe politique de la rébellion. Les Toubous comptent un représentant au sein du CNT.
“Toutes les régions de Libye avaient bougé jusqu’à présent, sauf le Sud. En prenant Morzuk, nous voulons envoyer un message clair à Kadhafi, montrer à nos compatriotes que nous prenons part à la révolte”, explique un responsable du groupe, sous couvert d’anonymat.
Souvent méprisés des tribus arabes, les Toubous ont été instrumentalisés par Kadhafi dans les conflits au Niger et Tchad voisins.
Selon le clientélisme qui lui a si longtemps réussi, le Guide libyen leur garantissait un intéressement sur le commerce transfrontalier en échange de la stabilité de la région.
“Nous n’y avons rien gagné. Aujourd’hui nous sommes pauvres, marginalisés dans notre propre pays. C’est pourquoi nous voulons agir pour chasser Kadhafi”, affirme le même responsable.
“Nous voulons notre part de la victoire, pour ensuite défendre les droits de notre minorité et œuvrer au développement” de la région.
Ex-officier de l’armée libyenne, un moment leader d’un mouvement rebelle nigérien (les FARS) inféodé à Kadhafi, Barka Wardougou est une figure chez les Toubous. Il a également passé plusieurs années dans les geôles du régime.
“Il n’est pas question pour nous d’autonomie ou d’indépendance. Nous entendons simplement jouer notre rôle au sein de la nouvelle Libye”, ajoute le même responsable.
Et de mettre en garde : Kadhafi jouera peut-être la carte de la déstabilisation du Sud, avec ses dollars, ses réseaux, notamment chez les Touaregs, et la menace toute proche d’Al-Qaïda.
“Si on nous en donne les moyens, nous pouvons neutraliser ces réseaux et contrôler le désert”, affirme le leader Toubou. “Il en va aussi de l’intérêt de l’Europe”, avec le contrôle de la route des migrants sub-sahariens, et la lutte contre Al-Qaïda, dont l’influence dans le Sahara s’arrête précisément aujourd’hui aux territoires Toubous.
LY_NeverForget Farah
#Libya ‘s martyrs died together. When they died it didn’t matter where they were from.What mattered was that they died to defend our freedom
Malek
Qaddafi in hijab in #Tripoli streets twitpic.com/6p99m1 #Libya
Reuters
ANALYSIS-In Libya’s new politics, localism may trump tribes
Tribes loom large in society, but not politics
Gaddafi manipulated tribes, magnifying rifts
Tribes growing weaker as Libyans flock to towns
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #NTC gives #Gaddafi loyalists in #Sirte until Saturday to surrender or face assault , #Libya
#Libya, Hundreds of anti #Gaddafi fighters arrive at western entrance of #Sirte preparing for push into the coastal city#Gaddafi, #Libya
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi troops clashed with loyalists at western entrance of #Sirte early Friday after they came under heavy sniper fire
#Libya, #Gaddafi loyalists firing rockets in areas around #Sirte where #NTC fighters are positioned, #Libya
#Libya. Anti #Gaddafi fighters find arms depot at farmland near #Sirte … They managed to get a lot of ammunition, #Libya
#Libya, Hundreds of anti #Gaddafi troops taking up positions in the west and south of #Sirte, #LIbya
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
Shakeer is confirmed to be in Damascus Syria!! He changed his look a bit, he will join AlRai TV #Libya #feb17 Another coward
Are you serious??/
yes, he escaped from Niger to Syria
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
1 of the #Libya #Mirages jets that was flown to #Malta in February by 2 defecting pilots is on display this weekend at #Malta Int Air Show
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
On my way back from #libya to #dubai. Exhausted but with a head full of sweet memories.
IMPORTANT
Sirtawi
IMP: Updated list of #Sirte criminals especially those involved within the past month. (Arabic) #SirteCrisis #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/e1STRyrJ
AJA:
FFs gain control of #Sirte’s eastern entrance. #FreeSirte
Tarek
We say “Thank you #UAE” for delivering police cars to #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=RVrW_h…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrW_hq4JUw&fea...
liveTripoli
I didn’t shoot the video, but did see them from far. Really cool looking to. Saw them working too!
Saw at least 20 cars 2 days ago. Also seen them around #Tripoli.
AJELive AJELive
#UN spokesman confirms that Abbas handed #194 #Palestine statehood bid to Ban during meeting. Abbas to speak in 40 mins
aje.me/r5j3G5
C4NForeign Sarah Corp
Arafat square and Rooftops around it in ramallah packed with people waiting to watch abbas speech to UN.lots waving flags.
MORE: Abbas formally asks UN to recognize Palestine state in West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem – @AP
BBCKimGhattas Kim Ghattas
Palestinian pdt Abbas greeted by rousing applause at UN General Assembly. Many Arab delegates stood up. Almost full house for his speech
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
If the Palestine state bid fails Mahmoud Abbas should dissolve the Palestinian National Authority & let Israel deal with the mess it created
IMPORTANT
TFM Press Release September 23, 2011
The Temporary Financial Mechanism (TFM) Tunisian Medical Payment Programme has opened a call centre to handle queries about hospital payment bills in Tunisia. The TFM now covers hospital treatment bills for all Libyan war wounded and those being treated for chronic illnesses across all hospitals in Tunisia.
The Diseases covered are:
FULL PRESS RELEASE:
shabablibya.org/news/tmf-press-release-...
I like this one, lol
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
EU
The European Union said Friday it was lifting sanctions on Libya’s National Oil Corp. following the fall of Col. Moammar Gadhafi last month, ending a key hurdle to the meaningful return of the country’s oil exports to European consumers.In its official journal, the EU said it was striking NOC, along with state-controlled oil-field and port operator Zueitina Oil Co., from a list of entities European companies were barred to have transactions with.
IAEA
In Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokeswoman Gill Tudor said, “We can confirm that there is yellow cake stored in drums at a site near Sabha … which Libya previously declared to the IAEA.”
Aljazeera
Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi was arrested overnight in the southern town of Tameghza, near Tunisia’s border with Algeria, according to ministry spokesman Hichem Meddeb.Meddeb said Thursday two others were detained along with al-Mahmoudi after Tunisian officials found none had visas
S. Al.
Hopefully on #Gaddafi & his golf cart. RT @SkyNewsBreak NASA predicts satellite heading for Earth will crash-land tomorrow
Libyan4life
International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that there is yellow cake stored in drums at a site near #Sabha. #Libya #Feb17
USIP U.S. Inst. of Peace
About to get started here with the new Libyan Minister for Infrastructure and Recon. Watch the webcast on usip.org
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#Jumayl in W #Libya had been putting up #Feb17 flag in day, green #Gaddafi flag @ night – last night they put up #Feb17 acc 2 Senussi Mahrez
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Private companies to ship medicine to #Libya. goo.gl/oG7W3 #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya #NTC fighters outside #sirte test firing their weapons ahead of push into city expected Saturday
septimius_sever septimius severus
Journalism at its best, NYTimes’s @robertfworth dispatch from #Tripoli “Ruins of Gaddafi Never-never land” nyti.ms/nHZsFI #Libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#Zwara FFs still not disarmed because worried about aggression from #Jumayl where until yesterday they put up #Gaddafi green flag @nite
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Big #Amazigh conference scheduled for Mon 26 Sept in #Tripoli. Spread the word!
ArabThinking
UN agency confirms that new Libyan government har found Libya has “raw uranium”. Wow.
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The moment when a Misrata man received the body of his brother, who was martyred in the battle to liberate Sirte
fb.me/19KbxzBkH
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFEA3z_jTfI
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Libya nationals in #Malta demand #NTC removes 10 embassy staff, 8 of whom are diplomats. They claim they are #Gaddafi loyalists
misrati_free
Just back from the port. Shipment mostly of aid contributed by Ahli football club to Misurata and Sirte. Tough day of Etihad fans (me) :)
zonemilitaire
Libye : Le CNT prétend avoir découvert les restes de l’arsenal chimique du colonel Kadhafi t.co/IX71TIro
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Praying for Palestinian Statehood – #Palestine #Libya #UN
The UN cultural agency is helping to rebuild Libya’s educational system following the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime
hominoid555 Russell
كونا : Libya hails Kuwaiti aid convoy – الشؤون الإجتماعية – 23/09/2011: kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPu… via @AddThis
FP
Mugabe attacks NATO over Libya intervention
Over the past week, Muammar al-Qaddafi’s African friends have cut the former Libyan ruler loose, and grudgingly recognized his NATO-backed rebel movement, the National Transitional Council, as Libya’s legitimate rulers.
But Africa’s latest fallen leader is not without his defenders — particularly among a generation of aging rulers who came of age in the same era of national liberation.
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s long-ruling leader, today launched a bitter attack against the NATO-backed war against Qaddafi, denouncing the Western military alliance and the “blatant, illegal, brutal, and callous NATO’s murderous bombings.”
Full art.:
turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/...
Proudlibyandoc
#Abbass, we, in the absence of absolute justice, have accepted to build our state on only 22% of our original land.
The world saw the resilience of #Libya n ppl in the pursuit of freedom n justice, let #Obama #Israel know, Palestinians r no less resilient
feb17libya Feb17Libya
“The time has come for the Palestinian Spring” – Mohamed Abbas
Standing ovation for Mahmoud Abbas as he raises the application for statehood – #Palestine #Libya #UN
libyanfsl M. Ali Abdallah
Libya’s FF take over control of Sirte’s Eastern entrance (Check-point) #Feb17 #Libya
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
As of last night 80% of Bani Walid is free of Gaddafi forces, 5 areas still under their control. #Libya #Feb17
LibyaNewMedia
US & European representatives should melt from shame while listening to Abbas, but they won’t. #UN #Palestine
Reuters
FACTBOX-Countries that recognise Libya’s NTC
Sept 23 (Reuters) – More than 60 countries have recognised
Libya’s National Transitional Council. Here is a list of those
countries
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/23/liby...
FromJoanne Joanne
FLASH #NTC MohamedNasser : The #NTC members will hold an URGENT meeting on Sunday to discuss the formation of an interim government #Libya
Aljazeera
French oil giant Total announced Friday it will restart production from an offshore oil platform off Libya within days, making it the first major to return to work since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
“We are going to restart production on Al Jurf this weekend,” a spokesperson said, referring to a field Total operates in a joint venture with the Libyan state oil company and the German firm Wintershall.
The Al Jurf platform lies around 100km (62 miles) from western Libya’s coast in the Mediterranean, and before a revolution erupted against Gaddafi’s rule it produced around 40,000 barrels per day.
Its operators shut it down in March as fighting raged across the country and the international community slapped sanctions on the regime’s exports.
The European Union has now lifted its sanctions to allow Libya’s new former rebel government to restart the country’s most important export industry and begin the job of rebuilding the country.
Total said it would take “a few weeks” before Al Jurf is back to full production. It is operated by Mabruk Oil, a joint venture 50 percent owned by the National Oil Corporation, 37.5 percent by Total and 12.5 by Winstershall.
Before the war Libya produced around 1.6 million barrels of crude per day.
One local firm, Arabian Gulf Oil from the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi restarted production ten days ago, and other firms plan to do so. AFP
6 fighters from Misrata were wounded in #Sirte today. Most of them are in good
condition #Libya v @Assomood_ly
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in #Libya take control of Sirt’s Eastern gate
NTC Fighters on the east frontline have control of the Sirt gate.
FromJoanne
FLASH NTC #MohammedNaser: Formation of interim government could take up to 1week Will include a premier a vice premier + 22 ministers ~libya
#Flash #Libya Interim government will prepare for election within 8 months of a National Congress a body that will have 200 members
#Belhaj: National Congress will form a committee 2write a constitution 4 #Libya after that Libyan people will vote on it in a referendum
Libyus
“It is incredible 2 b a witness to an entire people & culture shed its shackles and muzzles! GOD BLESS LIBYA!” #Libya: Everyone Has a Story
Ali Zinati Ferjani was arrested on farm in #Sabha yesterday. Had “large amount of cash with him.” #Libya v #SabhaMediaCentre
Link to the
“VISION OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS DURING THE TRANSITION PHASE”
by LibyaNFSL (@Libyanfsl) : www.libyanfsl.com #Libya
Have a look:)
NaelTheLibyan
How to park your car Libyan way – youtube.com/watch?v=olKIPP… #Libya #Epic #Lazy
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=olKIPPFbwDc&fea...
KIDNAPPINGS:
Ghadames council members kidnapped this afternoon on road between #Ghadames & #Nalut, after attending meeting in Nalut #Libya v LibyaAlYoum
Third in spate of recent kidnappings. First reported case: BBC reporter & friend from #Ghadames on Sept9 #Libya www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14948319
Kidnapped were Chairman of #Ghadames Local Council, Abdullah Bahamy & Chief of Military Council, Colonel Abdul Kader Attia #Libya
FreedomGroup, News in English:
Merlin UK provided Advanced First Aid and Emergency Response training for staff (men & women) from the Nalut Red Crescent, as well as medical staff from hospitals in Nalut, Kabow and Jadu.
completion of Merlin course.اختتام الدورة التدريبية
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsfXxpsv9_c
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photographer coming back from #Sirte Gaddafi troops fire against convoy of civilians trying to scape from the city hundreds leaving
FreedomGroup, News in English
6 fighters from Misrata were wounded in Sirte today. Most of them are in good contition.
1. Ahmed Bashir Misrati
2. Abu Bakr ibn Anas wafa
3. Ahmed Ibrahim Aft
4. Adel Ibrahim Al-Satur
5. Tariq Abubakar Glewan
6. Waseem Ramadan Abu Aqilah
FromJoanne Joanne
#Fathi #BenIssa #Libyan Newspaper Editor received Death Threats by phone from Islamists for criticisng #Belhadj
#FLASH Captuered: General Belgasem al-Abaaj says #Gaddafi called him 10 days ago Said he was moving secretly between #Sabha and #Ghat #Libya
General Abaaj now in #NTC custody said that #Gaddafi "is helped by Nigerian and Chadian mercenaries who know the desert routes #Libya
#NTC Wardugu: We arrested 18Gaddafi soldiers 300 #Chad Mercenaries 2day caught 60 ppl; from #Sudan #Somalia #Eritrea near #Zouila #Libya
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Freedom fighters have gained control of Sirte’s eastern gate.
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
Just spoken to brother of Taher, still no news of him after 7 days, no demands from kidnappers, reportedly including Arabs from Zintan
#Libya My friend reports kidnapping occurred approx 50km north of #Dirj as group from #Ghadames en route to #Nalut 18 people now hostage
#Touareg kidnap situation in southern #Libya worsens again, 10 more taken today including military chief & mayor of #Ghadames
Muscat Daily
Gadhafi was recently in south Libya: NTC
A captured general loyal to Moammar Gadhafi has said the fugitive Libyan leader was secretly moving around in the southern desert, a commander of the new regime told AFP on Friday.
Read more:
www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Gcc/Gadhafi...
News Republic
Kadhafi troops fire on fleeing family convoy
A fighter for Libya’s interim government helping desperate residents flee Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown was killed on Friday and a packed family car was destroyed when pro-Kadhafi forces fired on their convoy, a local commander said.
One month to the day since Kadhafi’s compound fell to rebels in Tripoli, the campaign to take Sirte and the fugitive ex-Libyan leader’s other remaining bastion of Bani Walid was on hold for another day.
Asked why National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters were delaying a final assault on Sirte, commander Osama Muttawa Swehly said "we’re trying to get the families out.
“We are averaging between 400 to 500 cars a day. We are basically trying to starve (the Kadhafi forces) out.”
Please read more here:
www.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.as...
Mgr Martinelli :
A wind of optimism is blowing in Tripoli
people want reconciliation and a new start.
www.speroforum.com/a/60667/Libya---Mgr-... #libya #feb17
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
#gaddafi is still at large, no movement on #baniwalid and #sirte fronts. nothing has changed significanly since the fall of tripoli. sad.
LibyaNewMedia
I’d love to see Israel & Palestine uniting & Muslims, Christians, Jews & others live together and shock all Armagaeddon-scenario radicals!
sueturtonaje Sue Turton
After weeks of stalemate Libyan fighters take East gate of #Sirte. Momentum now with them. Let’s see if they can hold their ground #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
When it’s ciggy time, its ciggy time, no big shot army speaker guy at Martyr’s Square can make me miss my ciggy time!! yfrog.com/h3lulwsj
Yefrenia
why do my busy days always coincide with imp events in the world? I missed liberation of Tripoli,Jalil’s arrival in Tripoli & now UN speech
FIFA has changed the flag of #Libya on FIFA website but not the backround colour, yet:
www.fifa.com/associations/association=lby/index.html
septimius_sever septimius severus
EU unfreezes #Libya assets, remove prohibition of Libya aircraft use of EU airspace & partially lift the ARMS EMBARGO shar.es/HNhYa
FromJoanne Joanne
#Ghoga thanks #Tunisia for arresting ex PM #Mahmoudi Video : goo.gl/FDZY + A humanitarian Crisis is unfolding in south of #Libya
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
View latest photos from #NewYork of #UK @ForeignOffice Ministers at the #UN General Assembly:
bit.ly/n0rJ7F
Huffington Post
Libyan: Revolutionaries Plan New Assault On Bani Walid
TRIPOLI, Libya — Revolutionary fighters in Libya are planning a new assault on a loyalist stronghold southeast of Tripoli where forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have put up fierce resistance for two weeks, a commander said Friday.
Attempts to take the desert city of Bani Walid have failed, as loyalist forces massed inside direct punishing mortar, rocket and machine gun fire at fighters crowded around the northern gate. A brigade of fighters will try instead to attack the city from the
southeastern side, said field commander Abdel-Salam Genouna.
Read more here:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/libya...
FromJoanne Joanne
#France ’s Oil Company #Total says they will restart Libyan #oil production this weekend #Libya
Aljazeera Blog:
Fighters of Libya’s National Transitional Council have penetrated the eastern gate of Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, after entering it without any resistance from the former leader’s forces, a commander told the AFP news agency on Friday.
“Our fighters are in control of the eastern gate of Sirte,” Commander Ahmed Zlitni from the operations centre told AFP.
“They are two kilometres (1.2 miles) ahead of the gate and holding positions there. Technically we can say that we entered Sirte from the east,” Zlitni said, adding that the fighters “did not face any resistance” when they crossed the gate.
Fighter Muatiz Saad, deployed near the town of Sultana, 30 kilometres (19 miles) east of Sirte, also told AFP that a large number of his comrades had entered Sirte from the eastern gate.
“I was at the frontline and I came to know that our troops have entered Sirte from the eastern gate,” he told AFP at one of their bases near the town of Harawa, around 40 kilometres east of Sirte.
Earlier this week the fighters of the National Transitional Council, Libya’s new ruling body, faced stiff resistance around six kilometres ahead of the town of Sultana from loyalists of Gaddafi.
For the past four days they had been unable to push ahead and from early Thursday there was also a drop in fighting after they faced shortages of ammunition. AFP
Sarah سارة المشيرقي
If you know anyone who is fluent in Python, familiar with Google App Engine, and can help me on amazing #Libya project, DM @Sarurah
MSNBC
Libyan-American recalls horror of ‘grave cell’ inside Gadhafi prison
After blindfolding Abdulmoneim Tabuni, a prison guard put a gun to his head and told him to “say a prayer.”
It was the most harrowing moment of the Libyan-American research scientist’s six-month imprisonment in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, as fighting raged across the North African country to oust embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Tabuni, a 55-year-old father of five, suffered other horrors at the hands of Gadhafi’s henchmen: He was beaten twice, forced to share a cramped cell with others who took out their anger on him and had to endure the almost daily crackle of gunfire filtering in from outside — all while being held a short distance from his home.
Full art.:
goo.gl/YWj79
Aljazeera Blog:
French oil giant Total announced Friday it will restart production from an offshore oil platform off Libya within days, making it the first major to return to work since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
“We are going to restart production on Al Jurf this weekend,” a spokesperson said, referring to a field Total operates in a joint venture with the Libyan state oil company and the German firm Wintershall.
The Al Jurf platform lies around 100km (62 miles) from western Libya’s coast in the Mediterranean, and before a revolution erupted against Gaddafi’s rule it produced around 40,000 barrels per day.
Its operators shut it down in March as fighting raged across the country and the international community slapped sanctions on the regime’s exports.
The European Union has now lifted its sanctions to allow Libya’s new former rebel government to restart the country’s most important export industry and begin the job of rebuilding the country.
Total said it would take “a few weeks” before Al Jurf is back to full production. It is operated by Mabruk Oil, a joint venture 50 percent owned by the National Oil Corporation, 37.5 percent by Total and 12.5 by Winstershall.
Before the war Libya produced around 1.6 million barrels of crude per day.
One local firm, Arabian Gulf Oil from the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi restarted production ten days ago, and other firms plan to do so.AFP
CNN
Gaddafi palace in sabha city 23 9 11قصر القذافي المجرم
Ben Wedeman (A tour of Qadhafi’s digs in #Sabha. Shot in Sabha, #Libya, not Doha. )
قصر القذافي المجرم في مدينة سبها الليبية this is how the bedouin leader used to live it up with libyan people money
via youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmBo97Cx6X0
frankentele Sean Carberry
If there is any justice, it will fall on the next person to fire a gun in the air in #Libya: Falling Satellite bbc.in/q6HgvW
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Zlitni says: Fighters R 2KM ahead of East gate of SIRTE and holding positions there We Entered #Sirte from the East #Libya
Aljazeera
A captured general loyal to Muammar Gaddafi has said the fugitive Libyan leader was secretly moving around in the southern desert, a commander of the new regime told the AFP news agency on Friday.
“General Belgasem al-Abaaj, who we captured on Monday, said that Gaddafi had contacted him by phone about 10 days ago, and that he was moving secretly between (the oasis town of) Sabha and Ghat” on the Algerian border, said Mohammed Barka Wardugu.
Abaaj had said that Gaddafi “is helped by Nigerian and Chadian mercenaries who know the desert routes,” added Wardugu, spokesperson for the Desert Shield Brigade attached to the National Transitional Council (NTC).
The general was Gaddafi’s intelligence chief in the southern Khufra region, where he was wanted by the NTC for many crimes, Wardugu said.
“I think Gaddafi is hiding in the Sahara region between Libya and Algeria,” he said, adding that dozens of dozens of mercenaries and soldiers loyal to Gaddafi had been arrested in the south.
“We have arrested 18 Gaddafi soldiers, 300 Chadian mercenaries and today we caught 60 people of different nationalities (Sudanese, Somalis and Eritreans) in the vicinity of Zouila” southeast of Sabha, Wardugu said.
He said the region was calm following the capture of Sabha on Wednesday.
Regarding the existence of concentrated uranium or yellow cake in the Sabha area, Wardugu said its existence had been known “for a long time.”
“For many years, we knew that there were biological or radioactive materials stored in a military centre in the northeast of Sabha airport.
“We had talked to the Gaddafi regime about the danger to civilians. But they never did anything for the people of the south.”
The UN atomic agency confirmed the existence of yellow cake in Libya after US news channel CNN reported that new regime forces had found potentially radioactive material.AFP
Joanne
#International #Atomic #Energy #Agency confirmed #Gaddafi Regime stored uranium near #Sabha its being stored in drums at the site #Libya
Of the 60.000 landmines planted by #Gaddafi troops in area between #Ajdabiya and #Sirte about 21.000 been cleared but many ppl killed #Libya
Imagine the faces (and joy) of the officials at #Libya’s Central Bank when they discovered the equivalent of $23 billion in their vaults :)
Al Jazeera
Iconic war hotels
The al-Nasr in Tripoli, like other famous war hotels, has been linked to public perceptions of the conflict
In early February this year I was one of a small group of journalists invited to stay at the five-star Hotel al-Nasr in Libya’s capital, Tripoli. We were perhaps the last to do so before the rebel uprising put the emergency brakes on the country’s fledgling tourist industry.
It had all looked so promising. After many years in the tourism doldrums, and following the lifting of Western sanctions in 2004, visitors had begun to return to Libya. They were attracted by world-class Roman ruins such as Leptis Magna, oasis cities like as Ghadames, and Sahara Desert adventures.
In Tripoli the Turkish-owned Rixos Group was keen that its new acquisition, the al-Nasr, should benefit from the tourism revival and organised our press trip with the help of a local tour operator in the hope of some media coverage for the hotel.
Despite its opulence, the al-Nasr in February was virtually empty, and we three journalists had it almost to ourselves. We rattled around its deserted corridors and cavernous conference rooms, and ogled the sumptuous suites where, we were informed, princes and presidents had slept.
Just one week after we returned from Tripoli, the uprisings that had first engulfed neighbouring Tunisia, then Egypt, erupted in Libya. The al-Nasr fell under Gaddafi’s
control, and the hotel soon emerged as the temporary home of the world’s media.
The press were treated to regular appearances by Gaddafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, and on special occasions by the Colonel himself who, it was rumoured, had direct access to the hotel’s underground conference rooms via tunnels from his nearby compound at Bab al-Aziziya.
Full story:
english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/...
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
last glimpse of #baniwalid before heading out: brigades regouping, heavy art’ry moving forw, no clear command structure but morale high
Tunis is laid back and full of handsome architecture and people, excellent fish+wine, sea+sky, mood = relaxed, en route home
hrw Human Rights Watch
Halt Exhumations of Mass Graves In #Libya – Forensic Experts Needed to Identify Remains, Secure Evidence
huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/lib…
septimius_sever septimius severus
#France’s Total restarts Libyan oil production – AFP goo.gl/fb/1l5KK #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
One of the first orders of business in post-Gadhafi #Libya is to clean out the rotten wood starting with “LIA”
blogs.wsj.com/corruption-cur…
septimius_sever septimius severus
Special Report: How to win business in #Libya: on.msnbc.com/pwFdj4 via @msnbc
Aisha
How to Illustrate the Most Surreal Country on Earth #LIBYA nyti.ms/pBo19I I want Gaddafi 2 Die not just once .But every min,every hr
Safe access needed to Sirte and Bani Walid | ReliefWeb reliefweb.int/node/448618 via @addthis #Libya #Feb17
212Group 212Group
Tripoli national conference is on Saturday 24/9/2011 from 9:30 13:00 all we encourage all media to contact us to organise this event live
Anyone interested contact us on twitter Or 212group.org Facebook.com/212group our info and emails info@212Group.org
all journalists TV contact us to register and get your press pass for the Tripoli National conference upcoming events
This is the media invention needed to cover the Tripoli National Conference event on Saturday yfrog.com/nva1ixej
FreeBenghazi
Martyred today: In BaniWalid,
AliSalah SalemAbeid (from BaniWalid).
AbdelHamid AliArfida (from Misrata).
Total, 20wounded
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
families fleeing #sirte slowed to half number from yesterday, loyalist forces blocking more routes out and firing on those leaving
NZ News
Race hatred clouds Libya’s democratic ambitions
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – For the rebels who toppled Muammar Gaddafi, the new Libyan era has ushered in unbounded political freedom and deep personal joy. For Dijmon, a 25-year-old Nigerian laborer in the newly captured capital, it brought fear.
The rebels’ elation at victory has in some places turned into rage at people like Dijmon, whose dark skins identified them with Gaddafi’s foreign soldiers of fortune even if they had nothing to do with the former leader.
“There was shooting all around the car wash where I worked,” he recalled of the day he fled his home in Tripoli. “Then the boys from the neighborhood came and attacked me with hammers.”
The treatment of African migrants and dark-skinned Libyans is an early test of the new rulers’ vows to build a democratic state, which their European and U.S. backers feel would justify their intervention against Gaddafi on humanitarian grounds.
Race and skin color were already dividing lines for Libyans, and as in other north African Arab states, many people have a dismissive attitude toward black Africans.
Read more:
nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/10330540/ra...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards stole surface-to-air missiles from #Libya smuggled them into #Sudan goo.gl/DSZ5p
#Gaddafi Regime stored uranium near #Sabha its being stored in drums at the site #Libya Photo yfrog.com/z/nw671rxj #Libya #yellowcake
The Enemy Of My Enemy: Libyan Islamists and Western Forces – TIME ti.me/nmeweu #Libya
Abdullah
Electricity is back to the whole of AL Jufra areas.
Libyans Adjust Military Strategy on.wsj.com/pps8hl via @yarotrof from #BaniWalid #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: photo (25/2/2011) from #Benghazi, a crate of Molotov cocktails, ironically سعادة “HAPPINESS” written in arabic pic.twitter.com/xbYFKhJ8
CNN: Pro Gaddafi mercenary speaks out Sept 21 2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfsRO9IwRw&fea... #Libya #CNN
Sumayyah
3amu Ali Sussi was released after 7 years in AbuSalim, & died this morning on his way to Sirte frontline. AllahYar7ama
goo.gl/VhTU9
icrc_english ICRC in English
#Libya: #ICRC calls for safe access to Sirte and Bani Walid, more under:bit.ly/nvaIcq
septimius_sever septimius severus
Photos: #Libya Gaddafi graffiti wcnc.com/news/slideshow…
#EU Lifts Sanctions On Libyan National Oil Corp. | Fox Business foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/0… …. #Libya
#Libya fighters say they blocked an escape route for Gaddafi supporters – MiamiHerald.com bit.ly/rj2hN0 via @HannahAllam
Battles in #Libya raise specter of insurgency – The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/battles-in... via @washingtonpost
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 24th 2011
9/24/11
9.24.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/ZjxDE
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#Ghadames Councillors abducted after car flying new flag, to make them think it was freedom fighters, stopped them v presssolidarity #Libya
Shakir on #Syria’n Arrai. Recounts2 fellow criminal, AlJuburi, fall of #Tripoli, blah blah #Libya لعنة الله عليهم
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQXfIIzeF4
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Names of Wounded (September 23)
::: Sirte Front :::
1. Abu Bakr ibn Anas Wafa (Misrata)
2. Ahmed Ibrahim Aft (Misrata)
3. Adel Ibrahim Al-Satur (Misrata)
4. Tariq Abubakar Glewan (Misrata)
5. Abdullah Ibrahim al-Shami Misrata)
6. Salah Fathallah Omar (Misrata)
7. Yusuf Mohamed Hmaida (Misrata)
8. Ashraf Ali Al-Bakaraf (Misrata)
9. Khaled Suleiman Abed (Misrata)
10. Osama Milad Bashir (Misrata)
11. Ahmed Bashir Misrati (Tripoli)
12. Waseem Ramadan Abu Aqilah (Tobruk)
::: Bani Walid Front :::
13. Breek Mohammed Breek (Sellouk)
14. Mohammed Nur al-Din El-Deeb (Misrata)
15. Fathi Zaki al-Sanusi (Misrata)
::: Assdada (Car accident during reconnaissance mission) :::
16. Ismail Atayyib Al-Kabi
17. Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Hussein
18. Fathi Abdullah Al-Awib
19. Muhammad Tariq Fanas
20. Abdel Salam Ibrahim Abu Jabirah
Emo
#Aisha #Gaddafi is not supposed to make political statements. #NTC #Libya should not build relations with #Algeria gov.
Mitkanti Osama
This is just to confirm that the news of civil armed conflicts in the western region of #libya is 100% true after moredetail today!
It is also confirmed that there are conflicts within #azzawiya itself, namely between Awlaad Saqar and Awlaad 3jeena !
Fighter from #azzawiya have aligned themselves with Misratah and are abusing their authority and are committing thriving crimes from homes!
Yesterday, the fighting was stopped after the good ppl from #zintan came down and negotiated a ceasefire between the warring parties!
According to eye witnesses several thousand ppl from wershiffana were in the process of heading to #azzawiya and “dealing” with them!
It is understood that ppl from #sorman, #ajmail, and al3jailat have all had enough of the tyranny commuted by #azzawia fighters!
The fighting lasted from Wednesday night until Thursday noon time!
#wershiffana are also fed up with the fact that certain political factions are trying to
unjustly frame them as supporters of Gaddafi
According to my brother, #wershiffana have sent a delegation to Benghazi to explain #azzawiya transgressions and have informed 1/2
2/2 …in tripoli air base but no interest was shown by these parties to put a stop to the behaviour of fighters from #azzawiya !
As a result, ppl decided to obtain arms and in fighting in the area is not an uncommon occurance!
The area is very tense and up to yesterday, #wershiffana were still holding prisoners from the raiding fighters of #azzawiya
It should be noted that within #azzawiya itself there is friction and tension due to the attitude of those fighters!
Ppl in general in #wershiffana are no longer awaiting a resolution from the #NTC or its commanders due to latter’s disinterest!
1/2 According to ppl in the area, it is said that it is likely that #wershiffana, #sorman, al3jailat, and #ajmail might act to “teach”
2/2 fighters from #azzawiya a lesson for their behaviour!
I pray nothing will happen but ppl have had enough!
I am so proud of ppl from #zintan in halting the situation from getting worse yesterday!
I salute #zintan for acting in the interests of peace and the COUNTRY!
by the way, when I asked my brother that they should inform m3’tiga, he said they have but no one was interested!
all I can say is that ppl need to wake up and stop all this bullshit ! Idiotic!
my brother said as a result of what happened yesterday about 8000 ppl nearly moved on zawiya cent had it not been 4 da peace makers
it really is sad and it breaks my heart! Don’t these ppl understand that the country doesn’t need this shit!
If anyone from #azzawiya is reading this, I implore you to talk to the fighters there to stop raiding neighboring towns.ppl had enough!!
Zintan did a good job yesterday to cool it down! They really stopped it by talking sense to both parties!
I just hope #azzawiya fighters will stop this raiding business and that everyone will grow brains!
It is imperative that what I write should never be interpreted as an implicit support of strife! I write for the sake of awareness!
It should be clear also that Gaddafi and cohorts are criminals and murderers! But that doesn’t give anyone else the right of revenge!
It should be absolutely clear also that Wershiffana has never been a supporter of gaddafi as a tribe & will not stand being labeled as such
If other ppl want to cover for their own ppl having been G supporters for years then hang it on someone else!
cswift2 Cara Swift
So that’s where he is. Dr Yusuf #Shakir was live from the Damascus studio on Al-Ra’y TV. Did anyone see it? #Libya
Yefrenia
I found out today someone my parents know was kidnapped by Gaddafi’s men during Tripoli’s liberation…they still don’t know where he is…
Compare headline to article:
Telegraph
Urgent efforts underway to recover stolen Libyan weapons from al-Qaeda
Urgent efforts are underway to recover looted stockpiles of weapons in Libya amid fears they have fallen into the hands of al-Qaeda, President Barack Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser has said.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, John Brennan, said he was worried about the number of machine guns and surface-to-air missiles that have gone missing during the Libyan revolution.
He said it was important to prevent them falling into the hands of al-Qaeda’s North African branch, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) which has “close relations” with the branches in Yemen and Pakistan.
More:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-q...
LibyaNewMedia
Algeria & Niger host & protect prominent Gaddafi regime figures that continue to fight against the new Libya. This is a serious problem.
Algeria says it fears instability & says it’s prepeared to work with the NTC for security, yet it protects the Gaddafi family. #Libya
Algeria has nothing to gain by hosting the Gaddafi’s. They can only lose from prolonged instability. Why are they taking stupid decisions?
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Phosphorous weapons being used by #gaddafi forces in #baniwalid.
Tweeting Tripoli
Now a days I hear many voices for Jibril (the head of the interim government) to resign at this critical moment of our revolution, when it is gaining noticeable momentum and all seems fine so far. I am not supporting Jibril as a person, by the way, as I really don’t know the guy; I also don’t know Jalil (Head of NTC) for that matter. But should Jibril be replaced by another person, how can we be sure the new guy will gain major public support and liking? As I know, the intermi goverment is appointed at this stage and not elected. Isnt the purpose of the interim gov is to takes us to the stage of constitution and general election after 240 days? Or am I missing a point here?
Aisha who said 2 months ago, “Anyone who doesn’t like her father doesn’t deserve to live” has just distributed killing orders via Alrai TV.
This is an act of aggression from Algeria’s part for allowing her. NTC and the world should react. This criminal should b brought 2 justice.
One of the priorities now (+ providing health care for our injured) is to catch the bastards. Aisha just sprayed poison.
Azro
if Algeria wants to make up for #libya they should hand out the devil’s 3 criminal kids to Libyan authority NOW
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
Aisha Gaddafi spoke tonight on “Arrai” TV… Asks Libyans to be “proud of their leader” (her father…not Abdel Jalil)
liveTripoli
The revolutions the world has seen are the small replica of what will happen on it’s scale. What we saw in the #UN resembles nothing new.
abuhatem
“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”
kosovo_01
Republic of Kosovo has recognised NTC and NTC should recognise indipendence of KOSOVO…sofiaecho.com/2011/08/28/114…
Ahmed Nouri Elhasuni
by Children of Libya Aid Foundation on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 12:39pm
CLAF visited the 14 year old Libyan child Ahmed Nouri Elhasuni at Clinic International Hannibal in Tunis, Tunisia on September 19, 2011.
At the beginning of September, 2011, Ahmed was playing with his brother Anas (11 years old) in front of his house in Benghazi. He found small metal cylindrical object similar to a cigarette ( shorter in length) and one of its ends was red. Ahmed picked up this cylinder in his right hand and started to walk toward his brother to show it to him. The cylinder exploded in Ahmed’s hand and injured both brothers. Large number of shrapnel fragments hit both Anas and Ahmed. Ahmed lost some fingers from both hands. Ahmed’s mother was inside the house when she heard the explosion. She ran out to check on her children. Both boys were taken to Al Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi. Anas is currently in Benghazi where he is continuing his recovery. Ahmed came to Tunis on Sunday, September 18, 2011 to continue his medical treatment.
Photo’s of Ahmed here:
www.facebook.com/notes/children-of-liby...
Yefrenia
there are many Libyans still unaccounted for & missing in the hands of Gaddafi…it’s not over till that man is caught dead or alive… #Libya
AmazighLibya
Very distressing how remnants of war & the #Gaddafi regime will continue to injure and kill our children for many years to come.
MwattinLeebi Mwattin Leebi
Reports gunfire in Beevy area in Tajoura, East #Tripoli.
AP The Associated Press
Gadhafi’s daughter says her father is well and fighting alongside supporters apne.ws/oF2Ydm -CC
Aljazeera Aljazeera’s Sue Torton reporting from the East Gate of Sirte #Libya 23/9/2011
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS4Vdb4Uum0
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Boody Battle Continues in Gadhafi’s Hometown
Audio and transcript:
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec1...
Sarah
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/aRIYcHLAOOQ?a البركة قرب كتيبة الفضيل – Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi.
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/q-bENr5KMNY?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 2 – البركة قرب كتيبة ال
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/eqmXZbPpttQ?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 3 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/NM5dUBRmc5k?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 4 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/Ew2YeX82xQg?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 5 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/B1lyq4BW1mo?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 6 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/RIicCe8G4YI?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 7 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/xHZ_inGlmNo?a Early 17Feb in El Berka Benghazi. – 8 – البركة قرب كتيبة الف
Aisha
Did David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy ‘get lucky’ in #Libya? channel4.com/news/cameron-a… #c4news rt @channel4news
Danya
Life rarely turns out the way we plan, we must always expect the unexpected, find strength, adapt and handle everything with grace.
Must watch:
Gheblawi
Our angel Malak al-Shammi is happy and singing in #NewYork with Libyan community
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivZImzBPXb4&feature=share
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
Accused of Fighting for #Qaddafi, a Libyan Town’s Residents Face Reprisal nytimes.com/2011/09/24/wor… #Libya #Tripoli #Feb17
Sirte_Feb17 Sirtawi
Many confirm that Mutassim Gaddafi is still in #Sirte in an area between #3 and Al-Jeeza. #SirteCrisis #Libya
Mutassim Gaddafi was seen last Fri attending a funeral in #Sirte near where Safrouni family lived. #SirteCrisis #Feb17
In retaliation for recent oppression in #Sirte, armed local #FFs fired at Mutassim Gaddafi’s entourage as he left the funeral. #SirteCrisis
Incredible number of new members from ppl who fled #Sirte are now joining us on FB with news and pics. It’s like they’ve been buried alive!
Tweeting Tripoli
Shakeer… Now and then, spot the difference?
yfrog.com/ny1hrsij
yfrog.com/mnu8gggj
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Yosif Shakeir told me he had an AK47 and was staying in Tripoli to fight. can’t believe he lied to me.
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Aisha #Gaddafi Spoke this via #Syria TV
youtube.com/watch?v=5XD7tj…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XD7tjxFU2M&fea...
#Sirte A lot of families have fled the city no further than the outskirts in order to stay as close as possible to their homes #Libya
Gadhafi’s daughter says father is well, fighting
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s firebrand daughter said in an audio recording broadcast Friday that her father is in high spirits and fighting alongside his supporters against the revolutionary forces who swept his regime from power.
In her first public remarks since the fall of Tripoli a month ago, Aisha Gadhafi accused the country’s new leaders of being traitors, noting that some of them were members of Gadhafi’s regime before defecting in the civil war.
Read more:
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBY...
#Sirte RedCross has setup tents on #Sdata Bridge where people are resting bf moving on They receive water juice bread cheese #Libya #ICRC
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya current situation explained on #Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya 2 entities claiming to be the de jure governing authority in #Libya
Yefrenia
priority for jobs in Libya should go to Libyans…foreigners want to help with reconstruction? then train Libyans…& let Libyans build Libya…
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Some good ideas from Deputy Interior Minister #Sagezli for #Libya: a GI bill financing education or jobs training for FFs without skills
frankentele Sean Carberry
“We need a leader to give us instructions” – revolutionary fighter outside Bani Walid. #Libya huff.to/o7iveG
nprnews:
In Libya, Some Just Learning Of Gadhafi’s Downfall |
n.pr/qZ5P7M #libya
Sarah LFFR
Un habitant de #Sirte : “Dans la ville, dès que vous quittez la place centrale, il y a des tirs. Cela vise à effrayer la population” 1/2
2/2 “Les kadhafistes ne veulent pas que les gens quittent la ville. Ils veulent se servir d’eux comme de boucliers humains”. #Sirte #Libye
Yefrenia
Libyans fought hard on the ground they lost a lot of blood & sweat on the ground while NATOs in the sky Libyans build Libya from the ground
(Reuters) –
Le #CNT a annoncé qu’il dévoilerait dans les jours à venir la composition d’un gouvernement “de crise”. #Libye
The Freedom Group Daily is out!
bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
People coming out of #Sirte are not aware that Tripoli has fallen (source: Mustafa resident who just escaped)
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today…
Aljazeera
Supporters of the former Libyan general Abdel Fattah Younes marched through the city of Benghazi. They are not satisfied with the NTC’s investigation into his death.
His supporters have demanded swift justice. Otherwise, they said, action would be
taken into their own hands.
Sirte
Aljazeera
After weeks of stalemate, rebel fighters loyal to Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) have pushed back Gaddafi’s forces and gained control of Sirte’s eastern gate.
AFP via Feb 17
Muammar Gaddafi’s daughter has said in an audio recording that her father is in high spirits and fighting alongside his supporters against the revolutionary forces who swept his regime from power.
In her first public remarks since the fall of Tripoli a month ago, Aisha Gaddafi accused the country’s new leaders of being traitors, noting that some of them were members of Gaddafi’s regime before defecting in the civil war.
“Those who have betrayed the pledge they offered to Gaddafi, how come they won’t betray you?” she said in a warning to Libyans.
The prerecorded four-minute message was broadcast Friday on the Syrian-based Al-Rai TV, which has become Gaddafi’s main mouthpiece. The elder Gaddafi, his chief spokesman and his son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, have also released statements through the channel since the takeover of Tripoli.
Reuters
Columns of military vehicles of Libya’s provisional government advanced on the Muammar Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte on Saturday as NATO planes roared overhead, Reuters journalists said.
Explosions were heard inside the town, which along with the desert town Bani Walid is a last remaining bastion of support for the deposed leader.
The Reuters journalists saw forces of the ruling National Transitional Council advance from both the west and the south of Sirte.
At the western gate, gunners fired artillery towards the town. Both sides exchanged volleys of rockets and NATO jets flew overhead. Large plumes of black rose from
inside the town.
The government forces have previously retreated from Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown, and Bani Walid after poorly organised assaults met fierce resistance from Gaddafi loyalists.
AFP
Fighting has claimed the lives of 30 interim government fighters in the campaign to capture the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid southeast of the Libyan capital, Dr Mabruk Kernaf said on Saturday.
The National Transitional Council’s (NTC) northern front commander said another 50 had been wounded.
This was the first overall toll given on NTC casualties since the start of fighting.
Meanwhile, an AFP reporter reported rockets being fired by troops loyal to former Liban leader Muammar Gaddafi at an NTC position some five kilometres (three miles) outside the desert city, 180km south-east of Tripoli NTC fighters launched a widespread assault on the city on Sept 10, but withdrew the same night after encountering fierce resistance.
Reuters
Libyan provisional government forces entered the Muammar Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte on Saturday and came under heavy sniper fire as NATO planes roared overhead, Reuters journalists said.
Huge plumes of black smoke rose over the town as National Transitional Council (NTC) forces massed in Zafran Square about 1 km (half a mile) from its centre. Gunfire could be heard from the town centre as NTC fighters moved tanks and mortars into the square.
NATO would not comment on its operations in Sirte on Saturday. It said its planes hit a number of targets on Friday, including an ammunition depot and an anti-aircraft gun.
bencnn benwedeman
Photo: view of #Sabha from atop the citadel this morning. Straight from iPhone to twitter. #Libya yfrog.com/kegdcfpj
On the road from #Sabha to #Tripoli: many NTC fighters on the way home. One says: “I need a shower and a proper meal.” Me too. #Libya
MUST READ:
Memri.org
Coptic Liberal: The World Is Better Off Without Qadhafi the Psychopath
Al-Qadhafi Is a Disturbed, Delusional Man Who Suffers From an Inferiority Complex
In an article in the Egyptian daily Al-Dustour, Magdi Khalil, an Egyptian-American Coptic liberal whose articles appear frequently in the Arab media, described Libyan ruler Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi and his bizarre personality. According to Khalil, without Western assistance to the Libyan rebels, the Qadhafi regime would have survived the uprising.
Following are excerpts from the article:1
Al-Qadhafi Is a Disturbed, Delusional Man Who Suffers From an Inferiority Complex
“Qadhafi was the most veteran Arab leader on earth when his regime fell… He is a psychopath, a narcissist, extraordinarily deranged, and suffers from an inferiority complex. His head is full of delusions that he calls thoughts. He is the first leader in history who built a monument to a book the constitution he formulated in 1976, known as The Green Book which he forced on the people – intellectuals, politicians, students, and the distinguished. He was the first ruler who gave his daughter the country’s highest military rank – that of field marshal – though she only cared about clothes, makeup, leisure, parties, and perversion like her father.
“Qadhafi boasts having given the longest speech ever at the U.N. General Assembly, so long that the translator fainted from excess of words and the Japanese delegation fell into a deep slumber. He also distinguished himself by tearing up the U.N. charter while on the podium, and surrounding himself with some 4,000 shapely female bodyguards and pretty nurses, out of a longing for the era of Harun Al-Rashid.2 These bodyguards and nurses resided in a tent he erected in the heart of Paris,
Rome, and Amsterdam. He was also known for his ridiculous outfits, which attest to his madness, his bizarre nature, and his fickle personality.
“He is the first ruler in modern times to have called on the heads of other religious communities to adopt Islam, as he did when the Coptic Patriarch Shenouda visited him. He also seduced beautiful women and bribed them to convert to Islam, as though the invitation to join Islam were reserved only for beautiful Western women.
“He is also the world’s richest man, with a fortune that exceeds $131 billion, as the WikiLeaks cables indicate. And finally, he is the only ruler in history who invented a calendar, naming one of the months after his son, and another after his friend…
“Even his titles require psychological analysis. He named himself commander of the ‘Mighty Conqueror Revolution,’ ‘Head of the African Union,’ the ‘African King of Kings,’ the ‘Imam of the Muslims,’ ‘Emir of the Believers,’ ‘Secretary-General of Arab Nationalism,’ the ‘First of the Arab Rulers,’ ‘Commander of the Revolution,’ the ‘Spiritual Father of the Mighty Popular Socialist Arab Republic of Libya,’ ‘Herald of the Third World Theory,’ a political theory proposed by Qadhafi to Third World countries as an alternative to capitalism and communism, and the ‘Wise Thinker.’ But he calls his own people rats, deluded, lice, germs, stray dogs, and lowlifes, Allah’s curse upon them, because they took 36 million sips of hallucinogenic drugs before launching a revolution against him, as his sick imagination suggested.”
There Is No Crime that Qadhafi Has Not Committed
“As for Qadhafi’s crimes – there is no crime according to international law that he has not committed, and there has been no terrorist organization over the last four decades that Qadhafi did not support – aside, perhaps, from Al-Qaeda. He is the leader of a gang that carries out any illegal activity and a psychopath of the most rare and dangerous order, who specializes in causing damage to his opponents. He has an aggressive mentality that desires only ruin and destruction.
“Despite all this, Qadhafi is not ashamed to accuse Arabs of treason simply because some of them refuse to accept his massacres of his own people. And this is the same person who stood by Saddam Hussein against the Iraqis and supported him in his invasion of Kuwait; he is the one who invaded Chad and killed the Shi’ite Imam Musa Al-Sadr; he is the one who ordered the assassination of the Saudi king and supported the Polisario Front, a rebel national liberation movement fighting for the Western Sahara’s independence from Morocco; he is the one who spoke out against the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions; and he is the one who supported various terrorist movements in Arab countries and interfered in the matters of Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Palestine.”
“Decades After the Departure Of Western Colonialism, the Citizens Of Libya Were Forced To Request Assistance From [It]”
“Decades after the departure of Western colonialism, the citizens of Libya were forced to request assistance from the old Western colonialism in order to rid
themselves of domestic colonialism, whose extremism surpasses imagination.
“Western conquest did not subject the people to invasions like Saddam Hussein did. It cannot be compared to the conquest of villages with tanks and artillery, like that of Hafez Al-Assad in Hama. The colonial conquest did not attack the people with all forms of light weaponry like Qadhafi, who killed 1,200 unarmed prisoners in one day in the Abu Salim prison in 1996, and over 20,000 citizens in other incidents. The colonial conquest did not use heavy weapons and artillery against unarmed civilians, as Bashar Al-Assad has done in Syria, and did not destroy entire regions, as ’Omar Al-Bashir has done in Darfur. It did not destroy everything in the country like the Taliban, and did not harass peoples and waste their fortune on supporting global terrorism, as Khamenei and Ahmadinejad have done in Iran…”
Without NATO Intervention, the Al-Qadhafi Regime Would Not Have Fallen
“The Arab peoples lacked the ability to rid themselves of their lowly leaders without foreign support. And in came the West, the ‘infidel,’ and ousted these lowlifes. The West transferred Bashir’s case to the International Criminal Court, and is also expected to oust Khamenei and Ahmadinejad in Iran. Without the intervention of NATO, which conducted some 7,500 concentrated sorties on military targets full of weapons and ammunition, and which provided the rebels with sensitive information – the Qadhafi regime would not have fallen…
“In conclusion: The world is better off without Qadhafi.”
Endnotes:
1 Al-Dustour (Egypt), August 26, 2011.
2 During the rule of Harun Al-Rashid, the fifth Abbasid Caliph, more than 2,000 female singers and servants resided in his palace.
bencnn benwedeman
Video: return to #Tripoli delayed by burning pick up full of fuel and ammo. Culprit: a cigarette. #Libya
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The Freedom Group Daily is out!
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مساء الخير ليبيا الحرة / Good afternoon free Libya
Sati is deaf and mute. He is one of Misrata’s many heroes, praised for his courage and quick thinking on the… fb.me/14dLwNWMG
NPR
In Libya, Some Just Learning Of Gadhafi’s Downfall
In Libya, civilians are fleeing from Sirte, the last major town that is still in the hands of forces loyal to ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
Many say they were cut off from the rest of the country, without electricity and with dwindling food supplies. Some say they knew nothing of the rebel advances in the past month, including the capture of the capital, Tripoli.
They didn’t know that they would be emerging into a new country.
The first place they arrive is a rebel checkpoint and field hospital on the coastal road from Sirte to Misrata — hot, dusty cars packed with men, women and children, carrying whatever possessions they could cram into the trunk.
Read more:
www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140738547/in-lib...
FreedomGroup, News in English
There is a fire at the oil plant near the Naval Academy in Tripoli
Photo:
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2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Jalil live on AJA now….
Jalil: we are still fighting Gaddafi, and Libyans have to stand by the NTC in this critical stage.
Jalil: there is no separation between the interim gov and the NTC before freeing all Libya. People have to understand that.
Jalil: participation in fighting Gaddafi in front-lines does not necessary mean you should be part of the government.
AISHA GADDAFI’S MESSAGE: SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
Aisha Gaddafi’s Message Delivered on Al-Rai TV
Video:
libya360.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/aisha...
Kindly translated for Libya 360° by I.A. Libya.
“Here is my own translation of the very touching and emotional speech which sister Aisha Gaddafi gave 4 hours ago on El-Rai Televsion. I would say the translation is about 90-95% accurate.” – I.A. Libya
“To the great people of Libya,
I salute you.
I will not tell you that victory is approaching, but that we live victorious every day for the last 8 months and we are lining up a victory which has never been witnessed in history.
40 countries, with their attacks using planes, missiles and technologies by air and sea and utilizing their agents on the ground. And the Libyan people are still resilient and fighting. I commend these heroes and I congratulate all of the Libyan people, along with your Great Leader, whom I bring relief to you and inform you is currently well. He is well Thank God, and is also faithful to God and remains in high spirits. He bears a weapon and is fighting on the battlefield with his sons, side by side with the Libyan fighters. This is Muammar Gaddafi, putting himself forward to become a fighter and a martyr with his sons.
Compare this sight with that of Qatar with the Prince who presents and puts forward a crown prince who cried like a girl because they were granted the World Cup 12 years from now (referring to this in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiVlW19NaSs)
This gives you (the Libyans) the right to be proud of your leader!
Shame and disgrace to the Arab leaders who were swayed and participated in the slaughter of The Libyan People. And it is unfortunate that Arab nations witnessed this slaughter for 8 months and have not flinched nor stood up and risen against it.
But I call on the lions of Tripoli, the lions of Tarhouna, the eagles of Wershifanna, and the lions of Assabia and Mashaseeya and Arshaydat and Ajaylat and Awayell to the Lions of the Ancient city of Sabha to the lions of Sirte, Abusleem and El-Hadhba (All tribes within Libya) and all of the heroes of Tripoli, the resilient. And to all Libyan fighters from the West to the South.
I call on you and I call on you, I call on you, I call on you! (Quoted in a way that a female muslim heroine once was depicted saying it in ancient Islamic battles) Link up! Persevere! Be Patient! Protest! God the holy the merciful said, “If there are 100 perseverient/patient, they will defeat 200 and if there are 1000, they will defeat 2000 and God is with the perseverient/patient.” – Quote from the Quran.
To the silent, I will say to them. What do you have to say about the humiliation that is the new regime, what sort of regime is this? These are familiar faces, which you know very well:
Starting with ABUSHENNA (Mustafa Abdul Jalil) that gave his loyalty and obedience to my Father and betrayed him. Mahmoud Jibril who gave his loyalty and obedience to my brother Saif El-Islam and betrayed him. Shalgam was loyal for 40 years and Betrayed. Trekki the idiot was loyal and obedient for 40 years and betrayed. Ghogha was the captain of the lawyers and loyal and betrayed. Bilhadj who gave an oath and a guarantee and broke it. Others, among others exist. All of these people betrayed and broke their oaths which they gave before, who says they will not break oaths and promises to you ?
And to the NATO rebels, if you have any common sense or logic to use …. NATO, who when they wanted to invade Afghanistan and in Iraq, they landed boots on the ground, because they could not find any traitors who were willing to take up arms against their fellow countrymen. Sadly, they found such people within Libya who would take up arms against the chests of their fellow Libyan brothers. This is why I will say there is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God. Believe in God (Allah), Believe in
God (Allah). God (Allah) is all I need. He is the best guardian.
Finally, I would like to quote my brother, who when I asked him to be careful and look after himself on the frontline with his brothers …. I will never forget his words:
“I WILL MAKE A TRAIL WITH OUR BODIES SO THAT THE PEOPLE OF LIBYA CAN WALK ON THEM TO VICTORY.”
To the heroes of Libya, do not disappoint our martyrs. Avenge them, avenge them, avenge them!
“Victory cometh, only an hour’s patience.”
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
gnral offensive against #Sirte in this moment plenty of casualties NTC one fighter without a leg another dead chaotic situation #Libya
lot of shelling one fighter “they are fighting from the houses with RPGs with AK-47 with everything” #Sirte #Libya
one NTC fighter “we entered from 3 diferent locations we are now near the TV building in the center of the city” #Sirte #Libya
just returning from inside #Sirte hard battle house to house we were trapped in a building more than 10 RPGs exploded around #Libya
NTC fighters using heavy machineguns advancing slowly from the seaside we were in front of the beach big plumes all over #Sirte
1 NTC fighter wounded in both arms lightly after being treated went back to fight #Sirte #Libya
ambulances don’t stop dozens of wounded and at least 3 death but fighting still going on #Sirte #Libya
se lucha casa por casa en #Sirte acabo de regresar del interior escenas caóticas explosiones y ráfagas de ametralladoras por doquier #Libia
ls combatientes dl CNT pretenden q esta sea l ofensiva final pr desconocen la ciudad y resistencia d ls gadafistas s durísima #Sirte
frankentele Sean Carberry
Anyone know the cause of the massive plume of smoke rising from the waterfront area of the Abu Sitta neighborhood in Tripoli? #Libya
It was an accidental fire at a naval facility in Tripoli. Chain reaction of explosions as fire spread. #Libya
BBC: Mike Thomson has spoken to Mustafa, a resident who fled to Misrata this week, about the reality of life in #Sirte. news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_95...
News coming in that #FFs have entered #2 area in #Sirte and have started removing barriers set up by G forces. #SirteCrisis v @libyatv
Sirtawi
A lady in #Sirte was reported dead after medics failed to save her life during a caesarian operation. There’s no Oxygen. #SirteCrisis
Freedom Fighters are now positioned under Gharbiyat Bridge to facilitate the stream of fleeing families. #SirteCrisis #Libya
bilal
I’m from Libya we eat bullets for break fast bombs for lunch and tyrants for dinner . #JustGoAskGaddafi
FreeBenghazi
Accused of fighting for Qaddafi, Tawarga residents, a town in #Libya, face reprisals
Artillery attack from Tawarga killed over 1000 ppl in Misrata. Tawarga men fought for Gaddafi & committed rape #Libya
NTC said Misrata has “officially softened stance.” Tawarga residents w/out blood on hands, allowed to return #Libya www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/africa...
Misrata fighers rounded up 85 Tawarga men in Tripoli. Mayor of sth town told 1000 Tawargans to leave by sunset #LIbya
4Adam Adam
Misrata, proud of its role in Libya revolt, looks to the future latimes.com/news/nationwor… #Libya
Aljazeera
Libya’s rebel forces advance on Sirte
After weeks of stalemate, rebel fighters loyal to Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) have pushed back Gaddafi’s forces and gained control of Sirte’s eastern gate.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=phf7dnqBMuk
Ali Amer Tweel ☪✌
Ibrahim Bukra, presedent of the Tripoli National Conference.
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LibyaNewMedia
NTC seems pretty helpless in Bani Waleed. Big losses with no progress. #Libya
Bani Waleed is looking bad. #Libya
Libya_Awake_United
FFs fighters of #Misrata in #BaniWalid gone out of amiunition waiting to resupply today
Reuters via feb17
Libyan provisional government forces have found weapons believed to be banned internationally near Sabha and Wadan, the head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said on Saturday.”There are weapons believed to be internationally forbidden, and they are under our control,” Abdel Jalil told a news conference in Benghazi, monitored in Cairo. “We will seek help from local experts and the international community to get rid of these weapons in a suitable way,” he added.
AFP
Tripoli
a series of blasts that rocked Tripoli and sent up a huge black plume of smoke on Saturday was “accidental,” a fighter for Libya’s National Transitional Council said. “This was just an accident. The weapons store exploded by itself. This was not caused by anyone,” the NTC fighter, Abdel Basset Hussein, told AFP outside the naval base housing the munitions. The series of explosions had erupted earlier in the afternoon, causing jitters among residents in the eastern districts of city where the naval base is located.
malonebarry Barry Malone
Our reporters are now inside Sirte with NTC fighters, about 1km from the centre of town #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
No live pictures from Sirte on Al Jazeera.
bencnn benwedeman
On the road from #Sabha to #Tripoli: many NTC fighters on the way home. One says: “I need a shower and a proper meal.” Me too. #Libya
RCS_SurgeryNews RCof Surgeons
UK #surgeons save leg of boy wounded in #Libya conflict
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Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
copy says: Medic Fatih Danini at makeshift field hospital in a mosque west of the city reported 2 dead and more than 20 wounded
libyanandproud
there were no explosions in tripoli, it was a fire caused by an elec. short circuit near a boat oil storage at naval academy
FreeBenghazi
Heavy presence of Gaddafi forces at the Mabrouk oil field, 40 km south of #Sirte. #Libya goo.gl/IQomc
malonebarry Barry Malone
NTC forces coming from east chanting, "To Sirte the strong Benghazians are coming”, “Muammar’s army is a wreck”, our reporters say #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Breaking: Huge plume of smoke in Tripoli. No news as what it was, or exact location yet. pic.twitter.com/zzAPQtVN
Still contacting people from that area to get info. I have not heard any explosions. But the smoke is enormous. pic.twitter.com/l87zi8sm
Breaking: huge fire in Tripoli Navy base. Reasons not known yet.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters firing #Grad rockets into sirte as they start their push
into #Gaddafi hometown, #Sirte, #Libya
#Libya,Fierce gun battles in the center of #Sirte,# Gaddafi loyalists firing rockets …. #NTC fighters using heavy weapons
#Libya, Center of#Sirte a battleground, hundreds of anti #Gaddfafi fighters taking part in offensive
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Anti-Gaddafi forces enter former leader’s hometown of Sirte
Aljazeera
Libya
Fighting has claimed the lives of 30 interim government fighters in the campaign to capture the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid southeast of the Libyan capital, Dr Mabruk Kernaf said on Saturday.
The National Transitional Council’s (NTC) northern front commander said another 50 had been wounded.
NTC fighters launched a widespread assault on the city on September 10, but withdrew the same night after encountering fierce resistance.
There has been intermittent fighting since then, but NTC forces are holding back on attempting a new assault. – AFP
NATO
24 Sep. 2011
Sirte Communications Points
In the last twenty-four hours, NATO aircraft, as part of Operation Unified Protector struck a series of targets Qadhafi forces used in order to threaten the civilian population of Sirte. Among the targets were: an ammunition storage facility, an anti
aircraft gun, a command and control node, and two armed vehicles.
NATO has employed careful planning and precision munitions as we have done throughout the campaign.
In recent days some open-source and intelligence and dozens of eyewitness accounts in Sirte have described worsening conditions precipitated by Qadhafi forces. The brutal nature of their acts, signify a defunct regime in its final days.
Among the reports emerging from Sirte are executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city. Hundreds of families are being prevented from their desired evacuation by the absence of safety and fuel. Other resources required for survival including water, medicine, and food are in short supply or denied to civilians. Mercenaries roam the streets and civilians lack access to outside information. These conditions have persisted for days while Qadhafi forces maintain control likely resulting in a severe situation.
NATO Operation Unified Protector commenced in order to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Libyan transitional govt to be announced next week: Abdel Jalil #AlArabiya
flyingbirdies أكرم
I don’t know from where this huge plume of black smoke but it’s from Shat Road area I think #Tripoli #Libya
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Niz_FGM Niz
Fire is coming from AbuSitta Naval barracks in #Tripoli… traffic heavy around the area.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Weapons, believed to be internationally banned, found by libyan Rebels: Abdel Jalil #Libya #AlArabiya
libyanproud libyanandproud
#Sirte: Freedom Fighters have liberated and now control the Sirte TV/Radio station #Feb17 #Libya
AP The Associated Press
AP PHOTO: Smoke rises after bombing of Tripoli military warehouse that had belonged to Gadhafi’s army: apne.ws/oadwWH -BW
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Some journos & I were detained by #Tripoli rev forces for doing my job. Was called an American spy and treated roughly by rev forces #Libya
Acted v suspicious when I was reporting the #Tripoli ammo dump fire. #libya
Treatment of these rev forces was v similar to the way Gadhafi forces acted when they detained me in March. #libya
It’s going to take a long time for rev forces to get used to what a “free #libya” means and how a free press actually works
For many #Libya rev forces (not all) they only know authority the #Gadhafi way and that’s how they will assert it now they’re in power
Debka File
Qaddafi enlists new 12,000-strong army of Tuareg tribal fighters
Qaddafi and his sons have raised a new army of 12,000 soldiers – all fighters of loyal Tuareg tribes of the Sahara, debkafile’s military sources report.
Hundreds of kilometers to the north, Libyan rebel troops clashed with Qaddafi loyalists in his home town of Sirte after reportedly entering the town from the west. Although rebel ranks are seriously divided, they derived encouragement from NATO’s decision to extend its naval and air campaign in Libya by another 90 days to help them dislodge
Qaddafi’s troops from the cities they are still holding.
Saturday, Sept. 24, his daughter Aisha said in an audio recording that her father was in high spirits and fighting alongside his supporters. Last week, our sources report, a Tuareg tribal council convened in Niger extended full protection to Qaddafi, his sons, his military chiefs and the still-loyal members of the ousted regime. Members of the rebel National Transitional Council were proclaimed enemies of the tribes.
Read more:
www.debka.com/article/21335
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
A powerful blast was heard over the skies of Misrata. It is not clear what is the source of the blast.
#Misrata #Freedomfighters have captured the head of #AbuSaleem Prison.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Have a watch of Aljazera Mubashar RE all the Libyan channels conference
SUMMARY OF TRIPOLI MEETING:
212Group 212Group
Any journalists or media member try to reach any of the @212Group member to guide u throw this event at today’s Tripoli National Conference
they were invited by tripoli national conference
At today’s event some of the members will be speaking such as ( #NTC #tnc -tripoli local council – and guests )
A big disagreement between people who r attending right now in tripoli national conference
A big fight it’s ON
People trying to break out the fight
Same person was complaining early about the naming of this conference
He asking people to leave the room if they agreed with him ,,, he was the only one that left the room nobody followed him
He also said that members of tnc that they wanna steal the rev and rule us without libyan having a say in this
Now it’s a break
It looks like no one agrees with the guy who was complaining they branded him as being taboor 5
Food time
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Hungry crowds
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The highlight of the conference was the fight that broke down
the naming of this conference he said it should be مؤتمر خبرات طرابلس
A guy told me that this propaganda was all a set up and he know who is behind this fight
it’s a the #Rixos a nice building still unused
will he asked if people agree they should all walk out of the conference now!! He stood up and left the room only to come back
he came back after few sec ,,
Talking to people and seeing Their reaction they all feel that his complain is not needed and dose not help in any way
The guy who was behind this was عادل المشرقي
Dose anyone know him I have info about him
He is part of the #NTC of #Tripoli that did not get recognition from the people ( abdallah banon ) if ur know him as well
We made an inclusive interview with adel almasherge will post the video later ( this is the guy behind the complain today )
This is adel almsherge
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Inside
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2nd session has started
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This could help explaining what they r talking about
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This conference is to gather people from #Tripoli with experience to help with the situation
What they do in the conference is take details of guest and what fields and experience they have so they would later call them 1/2
By calling them they can discuss Thier field how they can help
No media or press are allowed during the 2nd session on @212Group have exclusive rights to the event
Follow us and RT to be able to know what’s going on and reporting on this event
Some of the same complains today
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علي قدور يتكلم yfrog.us/6fetsz
الشيخ علي قدور علي الجهة اليمين yfrog.com/nwqe6zj
President of the conference will accept all complains " that’s what freedom is all about to hear people thoughts )
Shiekh ali gadoor asking from everyone to not forget other people who r still busy and cities not liberated yet
Mr abdalah banon just cut the members conference speech short to talk to the crowds,,,,,, its rude
Abdalh banon and adel almsherge are on the same boat ,, for ur information
They trying to be positive but the way they r doin it is very wrong
U just cannot enforce ur self of people by cutting throw members speech
Crowds voted abdalh banon speech to be cut woooow
جدول الاعمال المقترح yfrog.com/h7vlhzwj
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Oil workers saved key parts of #Libya’s lifeblood | Seattle Times Newspaper: bit.ly/nDXpMQ
Wooow…. #Tripoli: latest pic of explosions’ aftermath twitpic.com/6pvj09 #Libya
It certinaly looks like an oil tanker burning in this picture of smoke rising from #Tripoli explosion site twitpic.com/6pvjqu #Libya
To all those that think that Gaddafi cant/wont recruit more Tuareg, WATCH this www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfsRO9IwRw&fea... #Libya
Gererd Verron
Sirt: National Control Center being liberated
I was so happy to see today the liberation of the National Electrical Control Center.
This building is a most symbolic one for Libya and its liberation as it controls the electrical connection between Tunisia Libya and Egypt. I pride myself of having directed its design and construction.
Look carefully, behind the NCC building: you will distinguish ( apparently not destroyed) the two dish antennas of the Arabsat center which I also built a few years ago.
Those are great news as the liberation of these two centers is most critical for the control of international communications and electrical dispatching in Libya. They are symbolic steps towards the complete liberation of the whole country.
Tonight, the coastal road from Benghazi to Tripoli will be open! Another great step! Mabruk and Mashallah.
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: FFs enter the area of Tazghan Southern Libya without any resistance
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I heard so many amazing stories from people all over Tripoli about Aug20 (Op mermaid dawn)… what a scary but euphoric day that was #libya
I’ve been here for a few days yep :) Tripoli is beautiful.. I love the it.. and everyone looks happy!
everyone here is happy and people are less angry in general it seems. people actlly give way when driving LOL!!
AliTweel Ali Amer Tweel ☪✌
Tripoli National Conference
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malonebarry Barry Malone
Our reporters see NTC fighters capture Sirte’s eastern gate and drape it with new Libyan flag – 50kms from city but another boost #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Tripoli: An oil tank is burning near the port at Busitta district. No one was injured. Seems like it was an accident. #libya #tripoli #feb17
The cause acc to 1) Trip council & 2) AJA = Weps stored in a hot/un-airconditioned warehouse housing oil/fuel items
_DavidThomson David Thomson
Une importante explosion a aussi eu lieu à #Zawiyah cet après-midi #Libya
une explosion accidentelle d’un stock de munitions selon les thuwar de #zawiyah (photo à suivre)
Explosion vers 13h00 aujourd’hui à #Zawiyah #Libya
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Aljazeera
Libya fighters push into Gaddafi bastion
Fighters aligned with Libya’s National Transitional Council have launched a fierce two-pronged assault on Sirte with the support of heavy artillery, tanks and NATO warplanes.
Al Jazeera correspondents said NTC fighters on Saturday had pushed into the center of the city, overrunning positions that forces loyal to deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi had held for months.
More and video:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
libyans_revolt omar
#FF’s entered the #Targan area southern Libya without any resistance – @alaantv #libya #feb17
FreeBenghazi
Hannan(25) “Take time 4 men like Dad 2 accept women judges. There’ll b change. Not 4 me but my kids/grandkids” #Libya
guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep…
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: i am sorry, but unless the ammunation store is a floating one this looks very much like a boat !!
pic.twitter.com/9j5kCFNd
malonebarry Barry Malone
“We are coming for you, wild-haired one,” NTC fighters advancing on Sirte from east chanted.. reut.rs/owwfta #Libya
FraCicardi Francesca Cicardi
Rebels entered #Sirte from West,control District2,cleaning area…blocking exit from South,securing ammu depo acc. to #Misrata Mil Council
NYT
Fighters Renew Attack on Surt, Qaddafi’s Hometown
Fighters trying to root out loyalists of the fugitive Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi renewed their attack on his hometown, Surt, on Saturday as his daughter Aisha became the latest family member to broadcast a recorded taunt of the provisional authorities struggling to replace his government.
Here in the capital, meanwhile, an unexplained fire in the hangar of a naval base sent giant clouds of smoke over the harbor on Saturday afternoon.
Read more:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/world/africa...
rcolebourn
Shakir said he hadn’t ‘run away’ from #Libya accused some Gaddadi cousins of treason. Said he asked for protection.
Niz_FGM Niz
Video of Abu Site Naval Barracks Fire….. youtube.com/watch?v=1j5VIA…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5VIAT5-3I
HAVE A LOOK:
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Wife of #gaddafi Safia sent my friend a personal email. She wants 2 give her 40 million USD. #libya
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Noit:
Must be a spammer
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Now we know it. #Gaddafi fled to #Nigeria and is active as a spammer. #libya #tripoli
Guys chill out. Msg below wasn’t meant 2 be serious.It’s just funny that #Nigerian spammers using #gaddafi family situation as bite. #libya
LibyaUnited1944 those Nigerians sure r inventive…not long ago I saw same email from ‘Saif’ #WhatICouldDoWith$40M
Tweeting Tripoli
LOL… Of course it was a freaking scam email. I got hundreds of them for the last 10 years. Besides, Safia had 70 billions $ or more!
Libyan4life
Shakir looking good with his dyed hair and eyebrows. Took 10 years off the dude. #Libya
FreeBenghazi
Cultural norms, at least outside Tripoli, stop women going out unaccompanied, talking2 men other than close relatives
guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep…
Tweeting Tripoli
Some G officers (including notorious Ali Lahwel) fleeing BaniWalid where caught in Ghyrian wearing “Burqa”. Via FF from frontline.
Proudlibyandoc
People already calling ntc head Abdul jalil sidi. I.e. Master. This is absolutely ridiculous. #falseidols
Libyan forces launch new assault on Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte. WP www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas... #Libya
Gihan
In press conf; #MustafaAbdulJalil says #Libyans must united to form a new gove. #NTC failed to seat a new cabinet last week amid disagreements over which cities should be represented and other issues
Free Libya
Hmmm a fatalistic part of me is thinking all these explosions are are some part of a synchronised taboor khamis operation…inshallah khair
Tripolitanian Libyan
Crimes committed in #Tawargha must be investigated. #Libya
Michael
Rptd FF action in area SE of #Sirte at Mabrouk Oil Term from which Ras Lanuf was attacked some days ago. Try flank
twitpic.com/6py0oe
Free Libya
Nothing reminds me of Libya like breaking up raw spaghetti to put in my imbakbeka sauce…..#EpicLibyanFood #Libya
Michael
FF kick off #Sirte #Libya strike frm E gate & W Wadi. Hvy fght NW & E of Congress Hall area. Mvng in hvy this time twitpic.com/6pxxqh
ahmadalgamaty ahmadalgamaty
explosion happened 3 hours in the port of #tripoli sea resulted in the explosion of an ammunition store #libya #mc17feb
pic.twitter.com/1ZA1o8fO
Mustafa Abdul Jalil,the chairman of the NTC of #Libya speaks in #Benghazi about the situation facing the country
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjtzV7pXL1M&feature=player_embedded #Feb17
Mushu
Loved sidi Abdel Jaleel’s speech today. Masha Allah
Some women like to bath in milk. Aisha liked to bath in blood.
LibyaLiberty
Hope we can turn around,use them on G’s ’arse’nal,if u know what I mean. RT@FreeLeebeya CBS – Securing #Gaddafi ’s arsenal of weapons
Suzanne
Lets not forget NO journos have been allowed to film with G forces; FF much more open
LibyaLiberty
#DearGaddafiFamily,I bought a pair of size 6 jeans,to ‘fit into’ someday,so I know how hard reality is to accept.But this is getting silly.
libyanandproud
one day we hope to show you the true face of #Libya, and how true libyans are welcoming and generous with guests
LibyaLiberty
The #NATO airshow drew freedom enthusiasts too. RT@WORLDLOVERPEACE Malta Airshow draws aircraft enthusiasts
Mushu
Dear Algeria, you are housing Aisha #Gaddafi because of “humanitarian reasons”, right? Did you hear 1/2 #Gaddaficrimes #Libya #Feb17
her latest TV call where she was inciting bloodshed (again)? Doesn’t that make you rethink your decision? 2/2 #
LibyaUnited1944
I WONT sit by whilst our #FF r being slagged off! Yes theres a very small insignificant No of bad apples but by no means r there MANY #Libya
CNN
Firefight in Sirte, fighting fire in Tripoli
Anti-Gadhafi forces Saturday claimed a new military advance into the deposed Libyan dictator’s hometown Sirte, while a fuel storage warehouse fire at the port of the country’s capital city Tripoli in the west sent plumes of smoke into the air.
National Transitional Council forces took a neighborhood previously held by remnants still loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, according to a spokesman. Twenty-four hours of NATO aerial bombardments preceded the advance.
Read more here:
www.cnn.com/2011/09/24/world/africa/lib...
libertad
Freedom Fighters sont désormais placés sous Gharbiyat pont pour faciliter le flux de fuite des familles. #libye SirteCrisis
rcolebourn:
1st impress of #Tripoli after 2 wks away: city seems calm. More restaurants open. No fuel queues. Even Timberland store open
perfectsliders perfectsliders
#Libya #Gaddafi: #Gaddafi in desert between #Sabha and #Ghat protected by mercenaries, says captured general libyaday1.blogspot.com/2011/09/gaddaf…
Jonny_Hallam
When FF are stopping us filming i just explain we have to film everything not just what they like
On 4 occasions i’ve had FF/ NTC put hand in front of BBC camera. just people who are acting up.
#Sebha:
Libyana Mobile coverage has returned to Sebha
“Bani Walid is filled with the garbage of Libya and we don’t even have heavy weapons to fight them with.” via@WORLDLOVERPEACE
#Libya Gaddafi- Forces seen in Mabruk oil facility 29°49’28"N 17°17’10"E between Jufra-Oasis & Ras Lanuf
(AFP) The head of the NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil said ‘they have full control over internationally “banned weapons” from Gaddafi’s’.
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
“The Rebels of Libya” PART 2| VICE vice.com/vice-news/the-… via @VICE
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
1 dead & dozens suffering from inhaling toxic fumes at the explosion in Navy Military Port in Tripoli according to medics on scene #Libya
Aisha
Libyan fighters upset by lack of guidance leave Bani Walid ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/… via @CTVNews #Libya #Feb17
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Also a month after leaving #Libya ,still thinking of some amazing and courageous Libyan friends I am lucky to have met.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
" Some revolutionary units entered Sirte, fighting intense around palace where Gadafi’s son Mutassem Gadafi is expected to be"#Libya
In last 24hrs: NATO aircraft struck Qadhafi forces, ammunition storage, an anti aircraft gun, a command node, & two armed vehicles in Sirte
" Revolutionaries enter 2nd residential area in Sirte housing senior Gadafi military memebrs, removing all checkpoints" – 30 injured
Happy, proud, & heart broken my mother goes home to a war ravaged #Misurata
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
NATO STATEMENT ON SIRTE VIA SKY NEWS
FULL NATO STATEMENT ON SITUATION IN SIRTE:
In the last twenty-four hours, NATO aircraft, as part of Operation Unified Protector struck a series of targets Qadhafi forces used in order to threaten the civilian population of Sirte. Among the targets were: an ammunition storage facility, an anti aircraft gun, a command and control node, and two armed vehicles.
NATO has employed careful planning and precision munitions as we have done throughout the campaign.
In recent days some open-source and intelligence and dozens of eyewitness accounts in Sirte have described worsening conditions precipitated by Qadhafi forces. The brutal nature of their acts, signify a defunct regime in its final days.
Among the reports emerging from Sirte are executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city. Hundreds of families are being prevented from their desired evacuation by the absence of safety and fuel. Other resources required for survival including water, medicine, and food are in short supply or denied to civilians. Mercenaries roam the streets and civilians lack access to outside information. These conditions have persisted for days while Qadhafi forces maintain control likely resulting in a severe situation.
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
May Allah grant the FFs a glorious victory in Sirte and Beni Walid #feb17 #libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Has anyone noticed that Mahmoud Jabril is not wearing his glasses i think he got contact lenses
septimius_sever septimius severus
how @hardingbbc left a piece of him in #Libya!! bbc.in/qJVx6Q
IMPORTANT:
FreedomGroup, News in English
Misrata Hospital is making an urgent appeal for those in or near the city of Misrata, to quickly head to the hospital and make a blood donation to help save lives. All blood groups are required, most importantly O+ and A+.
Postcards4Libya Postcards For Libya
by LibyaNewMedia
Our cute friend Suleiman is in Germany for treatment, unfortunately doctors believe he will not walk again… fb.me/OQRlJRht
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Listening to Mahmoud Jibril talk about role of women and civil state in future #Libya. Impressed.
MUST READ
Mc Clatchy
A hospital’s turmoil shows Libya’s struggle with regime change
BENGHAZI. Libya — After a hectic morning patching up battered revolutionary fighters from Libya’s front lines, more than 100 employees of Hawari General Hospital here massed outside the administration’s offices on a recent afternoon and staged an uprising of their own.
“In our hospital, it was like having Gadhafi sitting right there, still surrounded by his regime, as if we’d achieved nothing,” said Dr. Sabry al Jaroushy, an anesthesiologist and organizer of the protest. “For seven months we waited, saying, ’It’s not the right time.’ But it is the right time.”
But even more shameful, they say, is the pattern of corruption they’ve uncovered from Gadhafi-era administrators’ files: ghost employees, patient overbilling, bribes from pharmaceutical companies and payroll irregularities.
Similar stories are emerging from across the country as rank-and-file employees rise up to dislodge managers whom they view as too close to the former regime.
Please read more here:
www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/23/125090/a...
Aljazeera
NTC holds presser in Benghazi
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council of Libya speaks in Benghazi about the situation facing the country.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjtzV7pXL1M&fea...
Reuters
Tripoli armed group says arms spreading to regions
Weapons seized from sites in Tripoli have been taken to other parts of Libya by fighters who filled the capital to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, a representative of one of the city’s armed groups said on Saturday.
Read full report:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/24/us-l...
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #Jalil said on Saturday #NTC Fighters found a #NEW stash of suspected internationally banned Weapons near #Sabha and #Waddan #Libya
SMILE:
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
off to #Sirte in the morning…
Joanne
@
@JohnDelaGuardia if yr tweets were a little more interestign I would have liked to follow u Do U think u could step it up a bit ? :)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Internet is back on in #Sabha #Libya
Hana S.
Just been told my uncle who’s been my constant contact in #Sirte since #Feb17 has left the city today. His whereabouts are still unknown.
4Adam Adam
What the hell is Shalgem doing at the UN? 2 yrs ago he was applauding when Gaddafi torn copy of the UN charter in front of the same people.
FCO UK
David Clay
Political Officer, Benghazi
David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy in Benghazi
Posted 23 September 2011 by David Clay
Guest blog by Stephen Hickey, the new head of the British office in Benghazi.
President Sarkozy’s helicopter blew yellow dirt over my crisp white shirt and rubble into my eyes as it descended into Benghazi’s port. The dirt stuck to my face. I couldn’t
see anything. I ducked for cover behind an armour plated 4 by 4 but the damage was done. I would greet our Prime Minister David Cameron from his helicopter (the first time I’d ever greeted any Prime Minister) looking like a I had just emerged from a long desert trek, having not washed for a month.
This was the first joint visit by British and French leaders to Benghazi or anywhere in North Africa. Libyan security was on top alert. Young men from the police and the 17th February Martyrs Brigade gripped their AK47s in the blazing sun, keen to make a good impression. Planning for the visit had been top secret, with only a handful of people in the know. The upside of such secrecy is that it makes it very hard for anyone to try to disrupt something they don’t know about. The big downside is that it makes it very difficult for local people to find out when and where to go to welcome visiting politicians. The Libyans had told us not to worry. But half an hour before the VIPs’ arrival, the streets of Benghazi were eerily quiet. This was not quite the big reception that everyone had in mind. The Libyans said everything would be fine – in an hour’s time. To allow time for the crowds to gather, Chairman of the Libyan National Council Mustafa Abdul Jalil led the Prime Minister and President Sarkozy on a tour of Benghazi’s Revolution Museum. A life size paper mache model of Qadhafi in a cage greeted them as they arrived. Inside we saw moving photos of murdered revolutionaries and cartoons of Qadhafi as satan. A young mother presented President Sarkozy with a baby she had named Sarkozy. For a brief moment I felt a bit of a disappointment for failing to procure a baby called Cameron.
Half an hour later, we arrived at the Benghazi courthouse, the hub of the Libyan revolution, to be met by thronging crowds. Someone put on a tape recording of the Marseillaises followed by God Save the Queen on a hand held speaker system and we stood in thoughtful silence. Young girls held up signs saying “Thank you David Camiron”. As the leaders approached the stage in front of the courthouse, the crowd started chanting “We love you Cameron” and “One two three, merci to Sarkozy!”. It felt more like a pop concert than a normal political event. Had President Sarkozy decided to leap from the stage onto the crowd, it wouldn’t have felt wrong. To my amazement and the visible horror of their bodyguards, President Sarkozy and the Prime Minister stepped down into the sea of people to talk to Benghazians. The crowd swelled and I felt I was about to be crushed in the scrum. The Prime Minister was quickly pulled out but Sarkozy was nowhere to be seen. Had he been crushed by the youth of Benghazi? Sarkozy re-emerged minutes later looking a little ruffled but smiling. An aide from No.10 seemed to have been half crushed and was now walking with a limp.
Aside from all this excitement, the Prime Minister and President Sarkozy held substantive talks with Libya’s leaders about the country’s future and how Britain and France could continue to help. Their brief appearance in Benghazi was a wonderful moment to connect and pay tribute to the extraordinary Libyans who risked their lives to start the revolution on 17 February (when the chances of success looked slim) and
who through their courage and determination have been an inspiration to me personally and to the rest of the world.
FreedomGroup, News in English
Ambulance helicopters are brining in the wounded and martyred from the Sirte front-lines. We ask Allah to heal our wounded and forgive our martyrs their sins.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
we need qualified people first and foremost be it men or women, gender doesn’t matter it’s a transitional government only
FreeBenghazi
Martyred today in #Sirte
Ashraf Abdel Salam AlRiqiyi (from Tripoli) الله يرحمه #Libya
39 fighters wounded after heavy fighting in #Sirte today. #Misrata in urgent need of all blood types (esp A+ & O+) #LIbya v @Assomood_ly
Cooking gas donated by #Misrata, delivered to #Sirte residents who are experiencing shortages #Libya www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1728506961...
Nael
My Father is Live on Al Jazeera from Benghazi in (Mawara Al Khabar – ماوراء الخبر) Talking about the new Gov. #Libya #Feb17
SerajElalem
Explosion in #Tripoli’s naval base, warehouse fulls of tires and equipment, no ammo. No casualties, officials say the cause is elec. short
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
who else thinks this photo looks strange? i’m no expert but the detonation is on image sort of. guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep…
EventListing Event Listings
by Libya17Feb
Protest for the injured Libyan Freedom Fighters (Tomorrow @ In front of Rixos Hotel, Tripoli, Libya) full.st/B5q1m via @Libya17Feb
4Adam Adam
Words of wisdom to #FF during Gaddafi’s siege of Nafusa towns Arabic facebook.com/photo.php?v=20… #Libya
or:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2009161833...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: With Hilal Grada, a torture victim whose ID can now be disclosed. In Tunis visiting his dad, a Qalaa hero twitpic.com/6q0dx1
Nusaiba☺
Omdays the lil girl on @libyatv famous for the chant “ma3leeshii shafshoofa” is now leading chants in #tripoli martyr square
Live coverage from #tripoli on @libyatv … Seems like its in martyrs square (?)
OnlyLibyaa
I posted 2 photos on Facebook in the album “محمود جبريل VS امعمر القذافي” fb.me/1kGJy6EP6
hominoid555 Russell
Misrata 7 Martyrs and 145 injured.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
1 NTC fighter “we are using ship containers (like the did in #Misrata) to cut roads and to hold the area we control now” #Sirte #Libya
Adam
Most of the smoke at the naval base in Tripoli came fr fire burning in a pile of used tires, not ammunition according to eyewitness.
Aljazeera
Aljazeera Report: Battle for Sirte 24/9/2011
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjLsAJGS7M
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
more than 150 civilians were trapped yesterday in a mosque in the front line mostly women and children Grads falling around #Sirte #Libya
among them Samia Tahart american citizen married to 1 guy from Tawargah with 3 kids 1 only 11 months very risky situation #Sirte #Libya
most of them from Tawargah don’t know where to go "they should be evacuated this is very dangerous " 1 NTC fighter #Sirte
los combatientes del CNT libio están usando tanques, lanzacohetes y ametralladoras pesadas en #Sirte + tanques y cañones n el camino #Lib
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
just came in 35 wounded in the field hospital near #sirt and 110 wounded arrived to #musrata Hospital + 7 dead .
MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya NTC fighters say ID cards left behind by fleeing Gaddafi troops in Sirte are mostly Libyan and a few Nigerien
#US: satellite debris hit Earth. “but unfortunately it missed #Gaddafi” tinyurl.com/3t56qxm #libya #feb17
Tarik
#Libya #Russia TV Channel 1 showing a film called Carlos smth. about #Gaddafi and #KGB- prob. to commemorate #Putin ’s triumph
FreedomGroup
Cooking gas canisters arrive in Sirte, Friday 23/09/2011. The gas was sent by the city of Misrata who knew their brothers in Sirte are suffering from severe shortages of food, fuel and cooking gas. Misrata fighters as liberators, not as invaders.
FreeBenghazi
7 fighters martyred in #Sirte today, over 100wounded. Helicopter ambulance continues flying them in. Urgent need 4 blood #Misrata
the appeal for blood donors is to those in or near Misrata.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte #NTC Fighters moved tanks and mortars to #Zafran Square about 1 km from center which is ruled and infested by Gaddafi snipers #Libya
BBC
My unexpected trip to a Libyan hospital
was woken by two Filipina women in starched nurses’ uniforms at the foot of my bed. One was holding a razor.
A little later the lights blinked on again.
A Ukrainian nurse was now gripping a large syringe.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
She shrugged. “This is not your concern.”
Let me rewind a little.
Plese read:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15036100
Jerusalem_Post Jerusalem Post News
Post-Gaddafi Libyan PM addresses UN General Assembly: De facto Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril gives first speech …
bit.ly/ogqrpV
The Seattle Times: #Oil workers saved key parts of #Libya’s lifeblood seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwo... #energy #economy #markets #commodities #PostWar
NYT
Accused of Fighting for Qaddafi, a Libyan Town’s Residents Face Reprisals
On the edge of this city where Libya’s war goes on, several men from the town of Tawerga sat on the patio of a mosque, having fled their homes and traded one war zone for another. Rockets fell nearby, but that was just one of their problems. Men with guns, their former neighbors from the city of Misurata, stood above them, accusing them of grave betrayals.
More here:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/africa...
FreeBenghazi
28 of fighters wounded in today’s fighting been discharged (26 from #Misrata, 2 from #Sirte, 2 from Wadin) الحمد لله #Libya v @Assomood_ly
Sky News
Gaddafi Hunt Intensifies Amid Fight For Sirte
A search for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is intensifying across Libya as revolutionary forces appear to be gaining the upper hand in the battle for his hometown of Sirte.
Art. and video:
news.sky.com/home/article/16076397
#Tripoli :
Martyr SQ : The #FreedomFighters are now 4Km inside #Sirte . #Libya
Sarah
Bring me baaaaaack to Libya !!!!!!
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 25th 2011
9/25/11
9.25.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/d82Ta
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
main problem in the battle of #Sirte NTC fighters don’t know the city I kept asking them yesterday where we were or heading none knew #Libya
“this battle is the first time I come to #Sirte before to enter the city you needed some permission” said 1 NTC fighter #Libya
last night Misrata hospital full of people I found a group in the street cleaning the back of a van full of blood marks #Sirte #Libya
NATO
24 Sep. 2011
NATO strikes shield civilians in Sirte
In the last twenty-four hours, NATO aircraft, as part of Operation Unified Protector struck a series of targets Qadhafi forces used in order to threaten the civilian population of Sirte. Among the targets were: an ammunition storage facility, an anti aircraft gun, a command and control node, and two armed vehicles.
NATO has employed careful planning and precision munitions as we have done throughout the campaign.
In recent days some open-source and intelligence and dozens of eyewitness accounts in Sirte have described worsening conditions precipitated by Qadhafi forces. The
brutal nature of their acts, signify a defunct regime in its final days.
Among the reports emerging from Sirte are executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city. Hundreds of families are being prevented from their desired evacuation by the absence of safety and fuel. Other resources required for survival including water, medicine, and food are in short supply or denied to civilians. Mercenaries roam the streets and civilians lack access to outside information. These conditions have persisted for days while Qadhafi forces maintain control likely resulting in a severe situation.
NATO Operation Unified Protector commenced in order to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
Tweeting Tripoli
This is how Soug Guma FF challenged Gaddafi’s goons. They drew independence flags using paint-filled balloon.
yfrog.com/kjodltuj
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Two large & controlled explosions took place in Misrata yesterday to get rid of collected bomb remnants. #Libya #Misrata
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Important signal of how is going on the battle in #Sirte 1 week ago Radio Sirte was still broadcasting NTC fighter said “not today”
Alielehmer
#Libya #feb17 #UNHCR #AishaQaddafi been a refugee not allowed to get involved in any political activities based on UNHCR charts #addthis
septimius_sever septimius severus
In 1911, Italy campaign in #Libya was the 1st in history that featured air attacks by airplanes elmundo.es/multimedia/ind… (War started 29/9/1911)
Assomood_ly Assomood
by septimius_sever
Assomood : Tailwind airlines has a charter between Istanbul & Misurata 1 way ticket cost 250us$
Assomood : Turkish Airlines has daily flight to Tripoli Mitiga Airport until 29th of Sep. 2011
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
There was very heavy fighting in Sirte today with high casualties on both sides. Some progress for revolutionaries. #Libya #Sirte
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
NYT published today an article about the people trapped in the mosque but missed the USA citizen #Sirte #Libya
nyti.ms/nE4tUL
dicen q también están usando contenedores pra cortar las avenidas una táctica q ya usaron en Misrata y q ls dio la victoria #Sirte #Libia
In #Misrata ICU:
Sulaiman BinRamadan AlAkremi(#Tripoli),
Hussam Fathi Lebaz(Misrata),
Jihad Mhd Arhomah(Misrata)
#Libya v @Assomood_ly
#Tripoli’s, like, fantastic p.ost.im/p/e2BqXw via @tabascokid … #Libya (another amazing collection of photos)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya TV said Aisha #Gaddafi should not be allowed to make political statements. She was granted entry in #Algeria for humanitarian reasons
Jibril on Saturday asked #UN #Security #Council to release all remaining #Libya assets out of an estimated $150 billion
SIRTE NTC Fighters found the ground @ Captured Eastern Gate littered with dropped #Libya n Identity cards and many from #Niger mercenaries
malonebarry Barry Malone
Apparently NTC who’ve entered Sirte from west and were about 1km from centre today say they’re going to try to hold ground overnight #Libya
Zahra
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar …
Gihan
Reuters #Libya PM #MahmoudJibril told #UN his country has been reborn after toppling #Gaddafi &appealed 4 release of remaining frozen assets
At #UN meeting, #MahmoudJibril recalled how #Gaddafi had stood at the same podium 2yrs ago & tossed a copy of #UN charter over his shoulder as he accused big powers of betraying its principles.
The National
Thousands of fighters have lost limbs in Libya conflict
Misurata, LIBYA // On a rare break from non-stop operations at his hospital, Ashraf Khalil, an orthopaedic surgeon, caught a glimpse of the dark side of Libya’s future.
Driving near the beach, Dr Khalil watched off-duty fighters enjoying a swim in the sea – and was appalled by the number who had lost one or more limbs in the battle to oust Col Muammar Qaddafi and his regime. “So many of our men have been terribly deformed by this war,” he said.
The death toll is estimated to be anywhere from a few thousand to tens of thousands, but one fact is indisputable: maimed and injured Libyans will number in the thousands. “We have no facilities for prosthetic limbs or even enough wheelchairs,” said Dr Khalil, 30.
Read full art.:
www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middl...
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Mass grave was found in #baniwalid, 25 bodies. Some were identified as those that were kidnapped from their homes recently.
Mariam
Who would have thought 2 years after protesting #Gaddafi’s visit to the #UN, we would be celebrating his fall
Moez
#Misrata say they’re in need of certain medications/equipment and they’re working on putting together a list – sounds hectic #Libya
Naheed
There was a time when I thought I’d make an excellent diplomat. I see now how wrong I was.
Tweeting Tripoli
This is how Libyans now see Gaddafi, a wanted criminal. Drawing of a student on the wall of school in my neighborhood. yfrog.com/h3q8rugj
misrati_free
Casualties today in Sirte, 9 martyrs and 170 injured. Allahu Akbar
Telegraph
Gaddafi sent $2 million to republican dissidents before he was deposed
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader, resumed his funding of Irish republican terror groups shortly before he was forced into hiding by Nato bombing raids, it has been claimed
A Libyan government courier flew into London earlier this year with $2 million (£1.3 million) in cash during a stopover while on route to the Irish Republic, a documentary to be screened on Monday will say.
The cash was said to be on its way to a businessman, believed to be a supporter of one of the dissident republican terror groups responsible for attacks against police in Northern Ireland.
According to Exposure, a new ITV documentary series, Gaddafi, who sent ship loads of weapons to the IRA in the 1970s, wants to exploit the growing unrest in Northern Ireland as a means of attacking Britain for supporting the overthrowing of his regime.
A source at the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, told the programme’s producers that in June – at a time when Gaddafi’s forces were suffering regular Nato bombing raids, and half of his country was in the hands of rebels – a Libyan courier flew into London in June carrying a heavy suitcase, inside which were banknotes wrapped in plastic.
Please read full story:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Moez
This is the famous restaurant where #gadaffi claimed “my people loff me, they loff me all – heh heh” #tripoli #libya twitpic.com/6pw002
it’s opposite State TV on the Coastal road
inglesi Piers Scholfield
preparing for The World Today in a few hours – @Colleen_Graffy and @iron_emu will be with us. Discussing #Sirte, #Libya, #IMF, #Syria.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
heavy assault down sept 1 street #sirte… revolutionaries gained 2 kilometers bloody ground, will hold it for tomorrow?
Ali El-Ehmer
Emails show British Government knew Hana Gaddafi was still alive – Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews… via @Telegraph
Libya PM calls on world to help in rebuilding – WLNS.COM |: bit.ly/qct0Zq via @AddThis #Libya
Ali El-Ehmer
New Libyan, Egyptian Leaders Make UN Debut voanews.com/english/news/N… via @VOA_News
osama solieman
#Libya, these are your revolutionaries
yfrog.com/kenxaahj
Jibril asks #UN to free 150 billion in #Libyan funds www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco... (via @agi.it)
Via Feb17
MUST READ:
Celebratory fire in Libya: A tragic story when celebration turns deadly
Below is the story of a freedom fighter whose family experienced
the awful effects of celebratory fire. It is important to raise awareness on this matter as hundreds have died from this unnecessary and wasteful act. We must take a stand to end celebratory fire in Libya.
My friend called me the other day. He is one of the rebels fighting in the front lines. He was excessively crying and I kept calming him down and asked him to talk.
He said: My fourteen-year-old little brother was sitting with the family in the garden. They were hearing celebratory gunfire nearby; a family in the neighborhood was extremely happy for the arrival of their son to Libya after twelve years of living abroad due to his opposition to the Gaddafi regime.
My family though didn’t pay much attention to the arrival of the neighbors’ son as we thank God our enemy has been overpowered and that there is no existence of the so-called fifth column.
All of a sudden my brother fell in between my mother and father with blood gushing out of his head and half his scull broken into pieces.
My mother screamed and my father was shocked, not understanding what happened. They rushed my brother to the hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival.
My brother died while sitting with my mother and father. My mother and father do not speak, like a dried leafless tree, their son died in their arms, and in a sudden moment, died. His blood spilt on the carpet that before moments shared a joyful time together.
For what cause did he die for?
If my brother died a martyr in the front battle lines, fighting injustice and the unjust, I would have been pleased, my mother would probably ululated for him and my father pleased as well. He would be their intercessor on judgment day.
But he died between the arms of who brought him to this life, his mother. He died without any fault, died because someone else was celebrating the return of his son.
He died because that man did not appreciate the value of the weapon that he holds, and the bullets he shot in the air.
Dear lord, do they rejoice in the return of their son and my mother grieves for the loss of hers?
I’m not asking for revenge and even if I do to whom? To the people who shoot tens of bullets in the air celebrating? Most of them battled with me side by side and protected me.
I couldn’t answer him, tragedy was bigger than words I could express and such pain is notinhabited by the words. I hope that justice will be brought to all reckless people carrying arms in cities and neighborhoods, cities are not fields of archery.
I do not say to my friend but, pray and seek forgiveness, and do not forget there is a balance of justice, and whoever killed your brother will be punished by law, for by God this is more than a manslaughter than an accidental killing. It is known to whoever shoots bullets from a weapon is a murderer, and knows it’s a city and known to infect humans, however fired borne by the burdens of life. A burden of killing a Muslim in the arms of his mother and father.
And who bears the grief of a crying mother, and an elderly father shocked by the death of his son in front of him.
It is a great sin to who fires a weapon, and your lord is just to the slaves.
It’s a disaster it’s a disaster it’s a disaster.
There is no god but Allah…
Arabic:
اتصل بي اليوم احد أخوتي وهو من الثوار الذين قاتلوا على اكثر من جبهة , كان يبكي مقهور , اكثر من بكاءه حزنا . أخذت أطيب خاطره وأهدأه , سألته أن يحكي لي ما حدث , ولماذا هذا القهر و الحزن .
قال :- كان أخي الصغير ذو الأربعة عشر عاما , يجلس مع أمي وأبي في حديقة صغيرة في منزلنا , كانوا يسمعون بالقرب منهم أصوات إطلاق نار , يعلمون أن في الجوار عائلة عاد ابنها إلى ليبيا بعد تغرب دام اكثر من اثنا عشر سنة بسبب معارضته لنظام الطاغية , كانوا فرحين بعودته بفضل الله ثم بفضل ثورة الفرسان ثورة 17 فبراير ,
لم يهتم أبي ولا أمي , فالحمد لله كان عدونا قد دحر ولا يوجد لا طابور خامس ولا سادس في منطقتنا , ولكن ….
فجأة سقط أخي بين أمي وأبي . والدم ينزف من رأسه . ونصف رأسه الأيمن مهشم تماما , صرخت أمي وذهل أبي , لا يعرفون ماذا جرى . أسرعوا به إلى المستشفى , ولكنه الأجل المحتوم .
مات أخي بين أحضان أمي وأبي , وأمي الآن لا تتكلم وأبي صامت كشجرة جفت وتساقطت أوراقها , فابنهما الصغير مات بين يديهما , فجأة وفي لحظة عائلية , سقط , سقت دماءه البساط الذي كانا قبل لحظات يضحكان سويا عليه ,
من اجل ماذا مات ؟
لو كان أخي مات في الجبهة شهيدا , يقاتل الظلم والظالم , لكنت سعيدا , لربما زغردت أمي وفرح أبي , فسيكون أخي شفيعهما يوم القيامة ,
ولكنه مات وهو في ذات الحضن الذي أنجبه , مات بدون ادني ذنب , مات لأن شخصا فرح بعودة ابنه .
مات لأن إنسان لم يقدر قيمة السلاح الذي يحمله , والرصاصة التي يطلقها ,
يا الهي , هل يفرحون هم بعودة ابنهم وتبكي أمي لفراق ولدها ؟
لا اطلب ثأرا , ولا اطلب دم أخي , وحتى إن أردت أن افعل , فمن من ؟ الذين أطلقوا الرصاص بالعشرات , بعضهم قاتل إلى جانبي وحمى ظهري ,
لم استطع أن أرد عليه , فالفاجعة كانت اكبر من الكلمات , ومثل هذا الألم لا تسكنه الكلمات ,
أتمنى أن يجرم كل من يحمل السلاح داخل المدن والأحياء , ويجرم كل من يطلق رصاصة في غير موضعها , فالمدن ليست ميدانا للرماية ,
ولا أقول لصاحبي إلا , اكثر من الدعاء والاستغفار , ولا تنسى أن هناك ميزان عدل , ومن قتل أخيك سيلاقي جزاءه العادل , فهو والله اقرب إلى قتل العمد منه إلى القتل الخطأ , فمن أطلق الرصاص يعلم انه قاتل , ويعلم أنها مدينة ويعلم أنها قد تصيب أنسانا , ومع ذلك أطلقها . فليتحمل وزرها , فليتحمل ورز قتل مسلم امن في حضن أمه وأبيه ,
وليتحمل بكاء أم فجعت بابنها أمام أعينها , وبأب شيخ أصيب قتل ابنه فجأة بين ناظريه ,
انه والله لأثم كبير وحمل ثقيل يحمله كل من أطلق رصاصة . وما ربك بظلام للعبيد
إنها والله لكارثة , إنها والله لكارثة , إنها والله لكارثة
ولا حول ولا قوة إلا باللهكاتب مسلم عربي سعودي
Many thanks to MS for the translation of this story.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sabha NTC fighters found many arms depots around the city Including #Radioactive #Chemicals Used to charge the Batteries of Missiles #Libya
#Bengazi MediaCenter reports 3 FF found DEAD in Car> #Tajoura #Tripoli Killer traced via PhoneCall Admits being paid by #Saif Gaddafi #Libya
( fyi:Car was Chevrolet)
Abdul
#mizdah #libya is witnessing heavy battle Exchange of fire between a few #NTC fighters & remaining pro #Qaddafi. most #mizda FFs r in #sabha
FromJoanne Joanne
In case U havent heard this yet ; What life is like inside #Sirte news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today… #Libya #DireCircumstances
More excellent photos of #Leon #Neal www.leonneal.com/blog/2011/09/24/tripol... Only “entertainment” when I arrived in #Tripoli was a small funfair @theCorniche
In #Tripoli My cleaning girl Intesar was from #Tawerga it was She who chose 2 work 4 me goo.gl/YvKvh
Now they r lost ppl #Libya
Intesar my #Tawerga cleaning girl was ProGaddafi until last day Aug20 when #Tripoli fell when she said Did Gaddafi really lie 2 us ? #Libya
Its a mystery to me and my friends but she had never been out of #Libya and was poor and she tended to watch statetv #brainwashed
Tripolitanian
#NTC has done a lot in #Libya, speaking for #Tripoli, they’ve managed to restore electricity, normalize fuel prices, turn on the water.
Giha\n
فيديو الزنتان مقطع مؤثر جداً لام فقدت اثنان من ابنائها Video: #Libyan mother crying her 2 martyrs sons
youtu.be/-KxvK0y7WBI
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxvK0y7WBI&fea...
Sarah
Little boy in Martyr SQ #Tripoli :
Who loves Libya stops (celebratory) gunfires !
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Our #CNN REPORT: Firefight in Sirte, fighting fire in Tripoli tiny.cc/3m1ot #Libya #Feb17
Well, what do you know?
Someone on Facebook just posted that the grave of saif al arab, gadafi son who supposedly died a few months ago was inspected and its empty
A checkpoint in Tajoura made out of shipping containers. Spent the afternoon on beach near Garabali. Wonderful day.
twitpic.com/6pzxdx
I was in Garabali all afternoon.
weather ws fantastic. Private beach, no guys in sight. Girls free to wear their bikinis. Good food. Great friends. Perfect!
1st Libyan Amazigh national conference to be held on 26 Sep. yfrog.com/nvkc8mj
MSNBC
Libyans fight for control of Gadhafi stronghold Sirte
With NATO jets roaring overhead, revolutionary forces fought their way into Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown Saturday in the first significant push into the stubborn stronghold in about a week.
Libya’s new leaders also tried to move on the political front, promising to announce in the coming week a new interim government that it hopes will help unite the country. However, disagreements remain about what the Cabinet should look like.
Full art.:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44651086/ns/world_...
4Adam Adam
Now I can hear AA gun fire on phone in Tripoli! My brother says I hope there is no international airplanes over the city.
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Just steps away from Tripoli’s Martyrs Sq today a group of women turned to me + in low voices, said: ‘Allah, Muammar, Libya wa bas!’
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Being a photographer is really stressful… going around trying to find the right angle, spot stuff and manage battery life.. #ugh #headache
I have 890 #Tripoli photos to go through..everything from Mitiga, to Bab Al Aziziya, Fashloom, Tajura, Soug Jumaa, checkpoints, Martyr’s sqr
I’m going to post 2 random photos I took … one’s from Corinthia and the other is from Fashloom #libya #feb17 #tripoli
A sign of the times… Corinthia Bab Africa hotel entrance.. #tripoli #libya #feb17 fb.me/19IUIHO2L
Fashloom: With the revolution (mostly) over… it’s back to football for some #libya #tripoli #feb17
fb.me/19Mtbbifi
That was fast… Internet (Wimax) and electricity is back in #Sabha and #Awbari in the south of #Libya days after NTC liberated the towns.
FromJoanne Joanne
another dead body walked away its a #Gaddafi Speciality.
Saif alArab Gaddafi s Grave is Empty #Libya #Tripoli
UN agency confirms raw uranium in #Libya
goo.gl/xb4Ul
#Sabha shot by @Bencnn from top of Citadel yfrog.com/z/kegdcfpj #Libya
#SIRTE What a Shot ! Pardon the pun goo.gl/YPS1I NTC fighters fire #Howitzers at Gaddafi forces near #Sirte #Libya
Hana S.
I took this short video back in Dec 2008. My last visit to #Sirte before coming to the UK. Miss it loads!
youtu.be/WPhqN2bKSF0
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPhqN2bKSF0&fea...
SecularLibya
What a loser this Mutassim. He first lost Brega, then Ras Lanuf, and now Sirte! Good, he should flee to Bani Walid!
Please read:
Reda Hmeid
Islam and Libya. Should Libyans and non-Libyans be fearful?
libya-ya-biladi.blogspot.com/2011/09/for-yo….
Protests in #Benghazi against Ghoga and Power Hungry Libyans (Presstv, Sept 21, 2011) – YouTube bit.ly/nM5W2A #Libya
Protests in Benghazi against Ghoga and Power Hungry Libyans (Presstv, Sept 21, 2011)
In this video a libyan says: “There’s a joke here in Libya: we don’t have enough ladders in the market, cause everyone wants one to take power in the country”
In the report by Jihan Hafiz we hear something that I find rather contradictory: first she says that the people in Benghazi don’t want any former Jamahiriya people in the NTC, but on the other hand they would still cheer for Mustafa Abdel ‘NATO’ Jalil and
Mahmoud ‘Virginia’ Jibril who were very close to Gaddafi.
Protests in #Benghazi against Ghoga and Power Hungry Libyans (Presstv, Sept 21, 2011) -
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9tjQKjD4Q
also read a story from september 10 on demonstrations that took place in Benghazi back then at
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Libyas-inter...
Libyan Duda
There are widows of our #Feb17Martyrs that can’t buy food or pay the rent! #NTC #Libya #feb17 #Jibril
#Misurata fighters welcomed by #AlKhums revolutionaries, while they were heading to #Tripoli . #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PS7OI-1j7I
Libyan Duda
NTC Jibril on Libya : unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$ unfreeze $$$
Massin
A cousin who died in battle of liberation back in August – Saied Madi Check out these
photos:
goo.gl/photos/effnFnp…
or:
picasaweb.google.com/104904751983187976...
Niz_FGM Niz
Frontline Medical team in Sabha, who’s lead organiser is FGM’s Hatem, tell us that the majority of pro G soldiers they treat are not Libyan
So the media is lying again when they told us that the majority were Libyan?
Doesn’t surprise me anymore.
You HAVE to watch this:
Gaddafi Vs American Kids
Uploaded by freeeeelibyan on Jun 11, 2011
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8VY9t8kGs0
Emo
#Algeria gov can no longer fool us. Their support to #Gaddafi regime is so disgraceful.
Sarah
Osama Alhameel, kidnapped 2 days ago from BW, was found dead today. He was
negotiating with NTC and freeing civillians.”
Michael
E frnt FF launch & base 50km gate/Sultan. Hold 2-dary fnrt just past 25km gate to probe city. W blk city streets.
twitpic.com/6q3g5z
Shabab Libya
#gaddafi has started sending death squads in the past 2 days in #baniwalid against the people who deal with ntc and FF.
AJELive
Photo: Anti-Gaddafi fighters fire 130 Howitzers at pro-Gaddafi forces near east of Sirte Reuters – Follow…
tumblr.com/xzb4vlmlcm
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Firefight in #Sirte, fighting fire in #Tripoli goo.gl/fN3xk #Libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
THIS IS A MUST READ:
#Algeria gov pretends 2be upset with #AishaGaddafi bcause of her audio appernce on #TV invitng Libyans 2kill each other goo.gl/bXx3Y
or:
www.tsa-algerie.com/ar/diplomacy/articl...
Nice, if they are really that upset they can send her back to NTC!
Telegraph.co.uk:
TonyBlair’s #Byzantine world of advisers and lucrative deals www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-... #UK #Mideast #Libya #Qaddafi #money
Ahmed
It has calmed down now in #Tripoli #Znata family can’t hear anything
FromJoanne Joanne
Goodness I see the 1st firetruck ever in #Tripoli: Video of heavy smoke over Tripoli after blasts in harbour
youtube.com/watch?v=356hyH… #Libya
USA Today
Doctor’s song of freedom inspires Libyans
TRIPOLI, Libya – It’s the theme tune to the revolution.
We Will Stay Here, a ballad by Adel Al Mshiti, a 38-year-old doctor, has dominated the Libyan airwaves for the past six months. It’s played at every demonstration, in every
taxi and every shop in Libya’s recently liberated capital.
“We will stay here,” go the song’s lyrics, “until the pain goes away.”
“We will live here, the melody will sweeten,” urging Libyans to stay in the country and endure the oppressive conditions under dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
It was the first song to come out of Libya when the revolution started. When camera
crews rolled into Benghazi in the earliest days of the uprising, it was what the crowds were singing as they celebrated liberating their city.
Please read full story:
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-...
Listen to this beautiful ballad:
Libya War Song: We Will Stay……. سوف نبقى هنا.mp4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wS0fYA11n8
Hana S.
Remember my uncle whose wedding anniversary is Sept 12? That’s the one who is said 2 have left #Sirte 2day. Still couldn’t reach him tho.
Our major crisis is, and has always been, thick headed Gaddafi loyalists… #GaddafiCrimes #Libya #FreeSirte #Feb17
Many still think that #Sirte is the number 1 city that’s benifited from the regime. Plz visit the city soon to see if that’s completely true
Emad
Rare video showing the 2 brave pilots who landed in #Malta in Feb22 choosing 2 defect from Gaddafi regime in Feb22
www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1603179007...
Libya Libya
No one can do everything but everyone can do something #Libya
inglesi Piers Scholfield
excellent piece in the NYRB – #Libya’s losers – ow.ly/6DX1z
Hamza Malek
youtube.com/watch?v=iJhHHS… SO CUTE AND HILARIOUS!!!!!!! Little girls screaming into the sewers for #Gaddafi. #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJhHHSd4H9E
Taken from @Niz_FGM’s fbook: “You can kill a Revolutionary, but you cant kill a Revolution.” #Libya pic.twitter.com/6nDxa9jU
SecularLibya
YAY- Just got an answer from @LouisFarrakhan asking him to return stolen #Libya money: “I refuse to entertain such question. #AskFarrakhan”
LIBYAN
So we all know by now this Saif’s xxxx-buddy – Nabila Ramdani- but WTF is wrong with the @BBC?youtube.com/watch?v=ZphdXV… via @youtube
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZphdXV_pTfQ&fea...
To all those that think that #Gaddafi cant/wont recruit more Tuareg, WATCH this youtu.be/rJfsRO9IwRw #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfsRO9IwRw&fea...
FreeBenghazi
A very difficult day yesterday for the people of Misrata. Over 170 fighters were wounded in Sirte, vast majority of them from #Misrata #Libya
Please read:
inglesi Piers Scholfield
UK’s Foreign Office granted a visa for Gaddafi’s daughter Hana (the “dead” one) to come to Britain last year
telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…
_DavidThomson David Thomson
M.Abdeljalil “chaque tribu, chaque région, chaque ville veut sa part” dans le futur gvt. Selon A.Belhadj pas de gvt avant un mois #Libya
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt
ceoDanya
I think u should read this economist.com/node/21528299 …. #Economist #LIBYA
AlanFisher Alan Fisher
#Libyan interim government forces mount new attacks in #Gaddafi’s stronghold, Sirte, getting a1/2 km from centre of town.
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
At Ras Jdeir border you now need a visa to get into #Libya (from #Tunisia).. I saw people turned back without visa… “Law and Order” r back !
Libyan forces thrust deep into Gaddafi home town
Libyan interim government forces backed by NATO warplanes have mounted their deepest thrust into Muammar Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, getting as close as half a kilometre from the centre of the deposed leader’s coastal stronghold.
Gunfire could be heard coming from the town centre and black smoke rose as National Transitional Council (NTC) forces massed in Zafran Square on Saturday and moved up tanks and mortars. Pick-up trucks mounted with machineguns and loaded with fighters raced in.
Mread more:
feb17.info/news/libyan-forces-thrust-de...
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Via #Baniwalid Facebook page: the Tripoli council estimates 40,000 people are displaced outside the city, 1/2 its population.
Moez
Clashes this morning in #Ghadames – at least 17 dead, many injured. #FF from w.mnts on their way there now
#Gaddafi forces mainly Touaregs and mercenaries that entered from #Algeria + sleeper cells within #Ghadames
Nusaybah K (KC)
URGENT PLEA: A Libyan just posted this humanitarian plea on my facebook wall : Sirt needs humanitarian help at (cont) tl.gd/d9o0d5
AJA: #Gaddafi forces attacking #Ghadames, 5 people and injuring 25 – residents calling on #NTC to intervene quickly. #Libya #Feb17
Hafeed
Libya should be run as council with a central goverment, no to division in to states which endangers future partition #Libya #feb17
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Turkey will help #Libya repair its war-ravaged electricity network hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turks-…
Thousands of fighters have lost limbs in #Libya conflict shar.es/HNP8V
#Misrata, proud of its role in #Libya revolt, looks to the future latimes.com/news/nationwor…
MUST READ – NTC’s new organisation to pay for wounded FF and other humanitarian needs – www.tfmlibya.org/english follow them @TFMLibya
#Tunisia Hospital Bill payments for #Libyan victims of war call +216 71 9650 38 / 40 / 44 / 49 . Website : tfmlibya.org
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Tripoli at sunset picture , just woow RT “@tabascokid: Third and final part of the Libya assignment – leonneal.com/blog/?p=5016 #photo #libya”
Nasr
At least 30 FFs killed in fierce fighting in #BaniWalid ( #Werfallaville )
#Libya rap group FB-17 in #Misrata. Major talent, very cool guys..courtesy of @JH_Cantlie pic.twitter.com/8cTMK0Fg
Sept 25 #Libya situation map. Minor updates thanks to NATO. G forces at #Fuqaha . Ma’tan as Sarah near Kufra contested pic.twitter.com/pOWNb977
septimius_sever septimius severus
Very interesting story in today’s Sunday Times, @ColvinMarie is with #FF brigade chasing Gaddafi through #Libya’s vast desert. (1)
Already cleared #Sukna & #Hun , @ColvinMarie says the Brigade is heading further
south deep into #Libya’s desert. (2)
When the convoy that @ColvinMarie was travelling with was ambushed she was handed a Beretta pistol just in case!! #Libya (3)
The brigade that @ColvinMarie was travelling with received info Gaddafi was in his farmhouse near #Hun (4) #Libya pic.twitter.com/xIHtAI8E
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
Just had call from #Ghadames council confirming #Touareg attack on town today, says 7 rebels killed, 25 injured, situation “under control”
In #Libya. number of fighters, rather like the number of “mercenaries” will be a very fluid statistic derekbrower.tumblr.com/post/10636659162... via @derek_brower
#Tripoli’s boyscouts doing their fair bit of cleaning up flic.kr/p/apwt7q via @SL0wZEr #Libya
adrianhong Adrian Hong
#Libya @TFMLibya is proving so far to be responsive & effective. Met chair/staff last week, never seen a govt group move so fast.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
“No vengeance, no violence” Everywhere in #Tripoli fb.me/DjXn1QzP
Finding a @Libyana SIM card over here is such a god**** pain
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
#Ghadames #Libya has been resupplied with weapons from #Tripoli, many #Touareg captured after today’s attack at 0500
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
BREAKING: AJA: Mass grave found near Abu Slim prison where 1200 bodies are thought to be buried (from #AbuSlim massacre) #libya #feb17
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: Mass grave found near prison in Tripoli with remains of 1,200 bodies – Al Jazeera
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Celebrations in Mezran, Tripoli yesterday #libya #tripoli #feb17 fb.me/11F4fMIpG
Nael
My Father, Yesterday on Al Jazeera زاهي المغيربي في برنامج ما وراء الخبر
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U51jIDcGha4&fea...
Tweeting Tripoli
Remember Mussa Ibrahim once said in a presser “NTC can’t take Brega unless they used nuclear powers”. lol
Jalil has to speak out rebating the Algerian hostility towards Libya by allowing Aisha to speak. Wake up #NTC
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Algerian territory was used by Gaddafi forces to launch attack on border town Gadamis. #Libya #Algeria
Moez
32 helicopters are unused in Mitiga airport – 2 of them air ambulances. Military council working on utilising them #Libya
malonebarry Barry Malone
Libyan NTC says repulsed pro-Gaddafi attack in south I Reuters tinyurl.com/62lv6zj #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Al Jazeera gives numbers as 10 dead, 15 wounded in attack on Gadamis. Many different numbers flying around.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters pull back from #Sirte city center to outskirts they are calling it a tactical withdrawal, #Libya
#Libya, #NATO jets patrolling the skies, #Sirte
#Libay, #Sirte, Sporadic shelling … Anti #Gaddafi fighters fire rockets into #Sirte
#Libya, Some families continue to escape from #Sirte but not in large numbers, #Libya, #Gaddafi
AP The Associated Press
Libyan officials say pro-Gadhafi fighters have crossed the border from Algeria and killed 6 in city of Ghadames: apne.ws/o9town -RAS
Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
FFs in #Tripoli captured a group of Pro G with 40 milion LD planing to spend it to creat another transitional con to creat chaos
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
just outside #Sirte… sporadic explosions while NATO planes are flying overhead. Will be live at 13G…
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News at all the frontlines in #Libya is not convincing.need to go and see whats happening for real.
JeremyRelph Jeremy Relph
NTC Health Minister visited recovering #FF at clinic in Sfax, Friday. Some #FF will be sent for rehab in Jordan, others to Europe.
How #Britain courted, armed and trained a #Libyan monster. #UK plc pulled out all the stops to please #KhamisGaddafi tgr.ph/nnUg6g
Free Libya ♔☾✰
The first martyrs of the #libyan revolution. (Khaled Al-Nagi Khenfer & Saad Hamad Al-Yamani.) #libya yfrog.com/hsk75hgfj
hnaily
Our reporter in #ghadames said libyaalhura.net/?p=9500 ghadames is ok now but they need support from libyan rebels PLZ RT!!
Gihan
VID #Tawergha, where an entire community of blck #Libyans disappeared without a clear reason after toppling of Gaddafi bit.ly/oICrPT
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyYwAkLqius&fea...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
The Arabian Gulf, a Libyan oil company, sends the first shipment of Libyan oil to Italy from Tubraq Port #Alarabiya
Libya
I don’t feel like any justice has been served while Mussa Kussa is still shacked up at the four seasons…..
Libya_United
The ( romantic) idea of the revolution must end .. and people should stick their heads out of the sand and stop being dummies. #Libya
Al Arabiya
Today’s News in Pictures: September 25th, 2011
www.facebook.com/notes/al-arabiya-engli...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi forces kill five NTC fighters in oasis attack: witnesses #alarabiya #Qaddafi #Libya
Reuters Reuters Top News
NATO bombing missions pound Gaddafi’s hometown reut.rs/qtj2Gp
A Live In #Libya: A Sacrifice For Freedom (ARABIC) | Mohamed Boujanah www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtU43HaLvY&fea... via @AliveIn #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtU43HaLvY&fea...
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: Mass grave found in Tripoli contains bodies from 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre – NTC officials
Aljazeera
Libyan NTC fighters pull back from Sirte – Africa – Al Jazeera English
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
libyanfsl M. Ali Abdallah
NTC spokesperson: “We have found a mass grave with approxmiately 1200 bodies near AbuSleem prison, victims of ’96 mass killings” #Libya
Must read:
Malta Times
Court to hear how Gaddafi and sons raped women
Psychologist stops in Malta for visa
A Benghazi-based psychologist will be asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants against Muammar Gaddafi and his sons after collecting evidence of widespread rape.
Seham Sergewa arrived in Malta yesterday on her way to the ICC at The Hague, where she will give testimony and present a dossier detailing countless stories of rape perpetrated by the former dictator and his sons.
On June 27 the ICC issued international arrest warrants for Col Gaddafi, his eldest
son Saif al-Islam and the former head of military intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi, wanted for crimes against humanity. Speaking to The Sunday Times yesterday, Dr Sergewa said she would be asking chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to press charges and issue arrest warrants against all Col Gaddafi’s sons and former Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, who was last week jailed for six months in Tunisia for trying to enter the country illegally.
“Gaddafi’s sons led militias that conducted systematic rape during the conflict,” Dr Sergewa said, reiterating that evidence suggests that thousands of women were raped
‘Happy ICC is ready to look into case’
She spoke of her fear that the rape dossier may have been used at one point as a political tool when negotiations were ongoing to convince Col Gaddafi to give up.
She is expected to present the rape dossier at the ICC within the next fortnight.
Full art.:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
via Feb17
More than 100 employees of Hawari General Hospital in Benghazi massed outside the administration’s offices on a recent afternoon and staged an uprising of their own against administrators who supported the Gaddafi regime. Doctors, nurses, lab technicians, clerks and custodial staff all chanted, “Leave!” until the targeted officials, holdovers from the regime of fugitive former leader Moammar Gadhafi, were escorted from the premises by security guards. The administrators’ offices were padlocked, and the protesters declared victory.
Aljazeera
NTC fighters in Libya make a tactical retreat from Sirte – after some of the fiercest fighting yet seen in the Gaddafi stronghold. Heavy battles are also taking place in Bani Walid – another Gaddafi stronghold. Doctors there say at least 30 NTC fighters have been killed in the last 24 hours.
Reuters
Libya’s de facto Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told the United Nations on Saturday his
country has been reborn after toppling Muammar Gaddafi and appealed for the release of remaining frozen Libyan assets. “A new Libya is coming to life,” he said in the first appearance by Libya’s new leadership at the United Nations.
Aljazeera
A mass grave has been found near Abu Salim prison in the Libyan capital Tripoli containing the remains of 1,200 bodies, Al Jazeera television reportd on Sunday. The government of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi used Abu Salim prison, in the south of Tripoli, to detain its opponents, including many who rose up against his rule during the civil war.
Reuters
Militias loyal to Libya’s deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi attacked the southern town of Ghadames, on the border with Algeria, on Saturday but were pushed back, a spokesman for Libya’s interim government said on Sunday.
“These militias have attacked our people in Ghadames … All the information we have got is that these groups are related to the son of Gaddafi, Khamis,” Ahmed Bani, a military spokesman for the National Transitional Council, told a news conference in Tripoli.
NATO
NATO bombing raids hammered the Libyan city of Sirte on Sunday to clear the way for fighters with the Libyan interim government who are trying to capture Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
Feb17
Celebratory fire in Libya has been an issue since the beginning of the revolution. Many with weapons discharge bullets as a sign of power and defeat. But in reality it is a complete reckless disregard for the human life around them.
NTC
Libya’s interim authorities said on Sunday they had found a mass grave in the capital containing the bodies of more than 1,270 people killed by Muammar Gaddafi’s security forces in a 1996 massacre at Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison. “We are dealing with more than 1,270 martyrs and must distinguish each one from the other for identification by comparing their DNA with family members,” said Dr Osman Abdul Jalil, a medical official. “It may take years to reach the truth.”
NaelTheLibyan
A short film illustrating the 17 Feb revolution of Libya (30 Mins)
youtube.com/watch?v=ozO2K-… #Libya #Feb17
Freedom Group
Fighters are less than 1km from the centre of Sirte. A decisive battle is expected in the coming hours as they have amassed in the areas they liberated yesterday
Times of malta
Libyan jet’s roundels changed in poignant ceremony
ALibyan Air Force Mirage F1 fighter jet had its all-green roundel replaced by the new
Libyan colours this morning amid applause at Malta International Airport, where the jet
is on static display as part of the Malta Airshow.
The poignant ceremony was carried out by Libyan Air Force Brigadier General Mohammed Rajab amid applause, victory signs and chants of Allah Hu Akbar. The Libyan ambassador was also present.
The Mirage was one of a pair which were flown to Malta in February when their pilots refused Gaddafi government orders to bomb civilians near Benghazi. The pilots returned to Libya last week and received a heroes’ welcome.
The jets cannot be returned to Libya yet, because of UN sanctions.
Brig Rajab came to Malta on an Air Libya BAe 146 which at the height of the Libyan uprising was used in 32 covert flights, landing on roads in the middle of the desert to supply arms and ammunition to the rebels and then fly out with injured fighters.
Full art.:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Please spread the word : Reporting missing people in Libya, Plz call 15555 from Madar phone service
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
by septimius_sever
#Ghadames #Libya calling on #NATO to monitor 40 sq km around town to protect civilians from #Gaddafi forces attacks
septimius_sever septimius severus
Am I the only who gets infuriated when I see celebrations in #Tripoli or #Benghazi whilst people are still dying in #BeniWalid & #Sirt ?
I can understand a couple of nights of music & fireworks but to carry as if whole country is liberated seems disrespectful !
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Mass grave contains remains of more than 1,700 people: Libyan medical official
robcrilly Rob Crilly
“I felt a bit of a disappointment for failing to procure baby called Cameron.” Brit dip on Sarko/Cam visit to #libya bit.ly/qfHDW2
This is the footage from the first protests in Libya this year, that started Feb 15 not Feb 17by Abuslym family
Libyan Citizens take to the streets of Benghazi 2/15/2011
After Fathi Terbil, the spokesperson for the families of the martyrs of Abu Sleem was arrested, the families took to the streets to demand his release.
Shortly thereafter, other citizens came to join the demonstration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIw_2mSVUsY
Mushu
" #Libya Forever: For you is your way of life and for me mine" libya-ya-biladi.blogspot.com/2011/09/for-yo… #LibyaPostGaddafi #Feb17 #Islam
scotlandiya
Demand spawn of G are sent back 2Libya2b put in prison and break relations with that evil gov #Algeria. How many times betrayal? #Libya
Sarah LFFR
#Tripoli Fosse commune contenant ~1700 corps retrouvé. Portes-paroles pensent qu’ils s’agiraient des victimes du massacre d’AbuSlim en 1996.
Danya
Praying the families of heroes of the 1996 Abu Salim Massacre will be able to bury their loved ones and find peace and closure soon. #Libya
The North Africa Daily is out! bit.ly/dRzwj9
ALJ is saying our FF withdrew and #Misurata media reporting few hours from victory? what is gong on??
Noit
NATO is over Sirte right now:)
Fighters are less than 1km from the centre of Sirte. A decisive battle is expected in the coming hours as they have amassed in the areas they liberated yesterday
libyanfsl M. Ali Abdallah
Libya’s FreedomFighters are few kilometers away from Sirte City Center, expected to be fully liberated tonight! Insha ALLAH!! #Libya
#TRIPOLI Dr. IbrahimAbuSahima says #AbuSalim Mass grave 1270 inmates bodies was found 2 weeks ago after Tip Off former Gaddafi men #Libya
Souffian Tripoli
Humanitarian aid being transported by Libyans to the south of Libya. To help families that live there. #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
NTC fighters back to the outskirts of #Sirte heavy bombing from NATO planes big plumes in city center #Libya
taking to Ibrahim Betilmal chief military council #Misrata “we still need another week to finish in #Sirte 70 % of civilians out” #Libya
Ibrahim Betilmal #Mnisrata military council “yesterday 9 dead and 161 wounded” #sirte #Libya
Ibrahim Betilmal #Misrata military council “we have 6.000 fighters more than 110 pieces of artillery (14.5) and 13 tanks in #Sirte” #Libya
Ibrahim Betilmal #Misrata Military Council main problem in #Sirte “fighters don’t know the city and also plenty of snipers” #Libya
yasmineelrafie
Background on #Abuslim massacre by Foreign Policy bit.ly/oWPRE8. I am grateful for any additional links. Swedish reporter. #Abusalim
septimius_sever septimius severus
Video Interview in 1981 with Gaddaf: Denies Backing Terrorism youtube.com/watch?v=J1Ic3j… (if u liked the “beeble” interview, watch this) #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Ic3jmP7NE&fea...
felixkuehn Felix Kuehn
a country of city states – #Misrata doesnt accept some Libyan banknotes and NTC press credentials #Libya
NTC fighters enter Libya’s Sirte as NATO pounds city
“We are fighting with Kalashnikovs and small arms around the city centre,” Mar’ee Saleh of the Ali Hassan Jabar Brigade told AFP.
Fighters stationed west of Sirte told another AFP correspondent they had been told by the NATO coalition to stay put on Sunday and hold back a planned new assault on the city.
Resident said he twice saw one of Kadhafi’s sons, Mutassim — once in a command centre in a hospital basement, over the past three weeks.
Full story:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
Urgent: 1st page of #NTC’s investigation regarding the assassination of Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi pic.twitter.com/kSHSARwV
Urgent: 2nd page of #NTC’s investigation regarding the assassination of Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi pic.twitter.com/1zcao5IM
Urgent: 3rd page of #NTC’s investigation regarding the assassination of Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi pic.twitter.com/W64TkNJi
Urgent: 4th page of #NTC’s investigation regarding the assassination of Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi pic.twitter.com/cTk4JrbG
Urgent: #NTC mistier of defense directive not to call Abdelfatah Younis for investigation in #Benghazi #Libya #Tripoli pic.twitter.com/yBT7s9Wh
#NTC investigation: The minister of Justice refused to attend the meeting with Younis on July 21st #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi #Benghazi
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
Urgent: A witness testimony of what happened to Abdelfatah Younis #Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi #Benghazi #NTC #FEb17 pic.twitter.com/Tb1yatU3
Al Arabiya
Filipina maids speak out on fleeing Qaddafi family barefoot as rebels took over Tripoli
Two Filipina maids who were trapped working for a nephew of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi plotted their escape in whispers from a toilet, and eventually fled barefoot, one of them said Sunday.
The two maids, Diana Jill Rivera and Mary Ann Ducos, returned to the Philippines on Saturday after an ordeal in which they said they had been underpaid by their employer and their repeated appeals to quit were denied.
“We really wanted to leave but he did not want to let us go. He wanted us to finish our two-year contact,” Ducos, 29, told AFP by telephone a day after returning to Manila.
Full story
:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
los milicianos del CNT libio se repliegan y dejan que la OTAN bombardee #Sirte enormes explosiones durante la mañana #Libia
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #Sirte, youtube.com/user/AlJazeera…, #Gaddafi, #Libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
معارك بغدامس والثوار يدخلون سرت Clashes ub Ghadams, Freedom fighters fighting in Sirte bit.ly/p05lnq #Libya #feb17
الكشف عن مقبرة جماعية لضحايا بوسليم والتي تضم رفات 1200 شخص بالقرب من السجن الذي شهد مذبحة قبل 15 عاما http://bit.ly/qy2AQ1 #Gaddaficrimes
Reuters:
1,270 bodies found in a mass grave in #Tripoli. those people killed by #Gaddafi’s security in a 1996 massacre at #AbuSalim prison
AFP:
Germany said have it reopened its embassy in #Tripoli on Sunday, after it closed amid heavy fighting btwn Gadhafi forces & FFs #Libya
#Libyan freedom fighters trying to root out #Gaddafi loyalists renewed their attack on #Sirte
nyti.ms/nQh3ud #Libya #feb17
Aljazeera:
NTC fighters regroup in the outskirts of Sirte
Fighters regrouping after forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi mount strong resistance in former leader’s home city.
They have pulled back about four kilometres after pushing towards the edge of the city centre on Saturday.
One of the NTC fighters’ aims was to try and secure a safe corridor for civilians
trapped in a neighbourhood known as residential area 01.
But they failed to dislodge Gaddafi fighters who are said to be using civilians as human shields.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypH7ktiKNuI&fea...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
FF fighters in #Libya find about 40 females from #Misrata in a farm in #Sabha.How low can they get?
NTC Fighter in Sabha #Libya has denied the reports of finding40 females from Misrata in the City.
Above is confusing reporting……….or lost in translation?
NiZiLanDa
Breaking ! The Info I gave yesterday is confirmed : Algeria Told Aisha to shut it up – Algerian FM Medelci
goo.gl/2GDBJ #Libya
TH_Smith Henry Smith
“Gaddafi bought al-Rai for $25m and arranged for an associate, Ahmed al-Shater, to become chairman of its board”
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
FF managed to free 150 families from #Sirte to a safe place #libya #feb17
NTC Fighter in Sabha #Libya has denied the reports of finding40 females from Misrata in the City.
Hana S.
Just read names of victims from the same family killed in a raid in #Sirte. They’re my distant relatives. There’s no way I can make sure…
My uncle who left #Sirte yesterday has safely reached #Tripoli. I called his wife… she was the last person I talked to in Sirte on Aug 20.
Connections seem to be down in #Misurata today… anyone having the same problem?
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Our #CNN REPORT: Grave may hold 1,270 bodies, believed victims of Libyan prison massacre tiny.cc/zhthf #Libya
Moez
I had shivers when I heard that mass grave had been found – worried that civilians would start digging and destroy forensic evidence #Libya
Glad to see that Dr Othman Abduljaleel – head of Libya forensics is there. Great guy that is very capabale of doing the job #libya #feb17
Team of world experts from USA came 2 weeks ago and met forensics team here – extremely impressed with setup and equipment #libya #feb17
Yaman
Photo: Palestine flag graffiti in Tripoli, Libya. The Arabic reads: Palestine in our hearts. tumblr.com/xyg4w25qem
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Spoke to a young man in Tripoli today.He said that he had seen a video confirming #Gadaffi wet himself constantly and had special nappies.HA
Payment for Tunisian Hospitals Extended.
• The Temporary Financial Mechanism (TFM) Tunisian Medical Payment
Programme has opened a call centre to handle queries about hospital payment
bills in Tunisia.
The TFM now covers hospital treatment bills for all Libyan war wounded and those being treated for chronic illnesses across all hospitals in Tunisia.
The Diseases covered are:
• Heart Conditions
• Cancer
• Strokes
• Pediatricsurgery
• Kidney failure
• A&E Accident and Emergency
Libyans seeking help with hospital bills can now call our call centre on these numbers:
+21671965038
+21671965040
+21671965044
+21671965049
TFM staff will be available to answer queries 5 days a week Monday to Friday From
between 9am–5pm local Tunisian time.
The TFM stepped into settle the bills of the hospitals treating Libyan wounded to ensure everyone is covered for their treatment.
To-date the TFM has paid the outstanding bills of 20 hospitals to a total of $ 2,178,000 dollars. We are also continuing to process $ 1.5 million dollars of hospital invoices over the next 2 days.
Those hospitals requiring payment of hospital bills of Libyan wounded are being contacted and are already in the process of settling bills, our teams are now across the entire country collecting and collating bills which the TFM shall settle.
Further details:
Web: www.tfmlibya.org
Email: info@tfmlibya.org
www.tfmlibya.org/english #Libya #Feb17
libyanandproud
#Tripoli: Mass grave discovered today contained 1700+ bodies of which 1200+ could be those of the AbuSlim massacre. #Feb17 #Libya
Anaya
La fosse commune trouvée près de #Tripoli avec plus de 1780 cadavres pourrait bien être celle des prisonniers d’Abu Slim exécutés en 1996.
LibyaLiberty
#2thingsIKnow: 1.Fat free cheese tastes awful 2.Gaddafi supporters have a limited vocabulary reflecting a limited worldview.
AbdullahTarhoni:
It is confirmed now that the news of finding of 40 kidnapped girls in Sebha is NOT correct
LibyaNewMedia
Revolutionaries at Sirte say they’ll need at least 1 more week. Problems: not knowing city & many snipers. Yesterday 9 dead, 161 wounded.
Reuters:
The hilltop desert badlands of #BaniWalid could be where #Gaddafi’s supporters make their final stand.
bit.ly/qYi1au #Libya
The amazing thing about having good character is that it makes you beautiful on the inside & outside.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s NTC extends work of its executive board until all the country is cleared of Qaddafi forces
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Aref Nayed, “a man of God & technology, trying to steady #Libya”, has been coordinator of NTC’s stabilization team.
nytimes.com/2011/09/17/wor…
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Bin waleed is full of Gadaffi loyalists who fled Misrata,Zletin,Tipoli and other western cities.People of Bin waleed are escaping.
Qaddafi and his sons have raised a new army of 12,000 soldiers – all fighters of loyal Tuareg tribes of the Sahara
n24.cm/p71exY
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
There was no rape by #Libyan ffs + I stayed alone among them many nights perfectly secure. They acted like Muslims and gentlemen.
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
May Allah be with the people of Sirte. There clearly is resistance w/in the city & its being silenced by forces loyal to Gaddafi. #Libya
MUTASSIM AND SAIF:
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Ibrahim Betilmal #Misrata Military Council: "we are sure Muatassim (Gaddafi) is leading the fighting in #Sirte " #Libya
Bani: Libyan forces intercepted a telephone call between Mutassim, organising the fighting inside #Sirte & Saif in #BaniWalid. #Libya
faithcnn Faith Muthoni Karimi
#Mugabe says he will NOT recognize #Libya’s NTC until it negotiates with #Gadhafi #zimbabwe
#Libya #NTC: #Sirte (NTC) fighters have surrounded the city and NATO warplanes are reported to be blasting… egyptday1.blogspot.com/2011/09/sirte-…
The arrival of a plane to #Ghadames airport carrying a delegation came to negotiate for a cease-fire #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Saif is in BinWaleed.Moatassim in Sirt.So where is Daddy G?
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Revolutionary fighters from Sirte,Sept. 22, w/ covered faces so as not to reveal their identity, guarding west entrance pic.twitter.com/OrSAZuVf
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Bin Waleed has been occupied by Gadaffi loyalists from all around #Libya.The people there are helpless and are probably anti-gadaffi
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Aref Nayed, “a man of God & technology, trying to steady #Libya”, has been coordinator of NTC’s stabilization team.
nytimes.com/2011/09/17/wor…
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Our #CNN REPORT: Libya transitional council believes mass grave found tiny.cc/zhthf #Libya
Reuters
WRAPUP 4-Libya finds mass grave from 1996 massacre
Interim gov’t forces hold back on edge of Sirte
Gaddafi forces stopping residents from leaving city:reports
Pro-Gaddafi militias attack oasis town on Algerian border
Government says it finds mass grave from prison killings (Changes dateline pvs SIRTE, adds details)
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
libyansrevolt Moez
Arabic speakers – extremely interesting piece on Mahmoud Jibril libyaalmostakbal.net/news/clicked/1… – will leave comments to you #libya #feb17 #Jibril
Crux is that Mahmoud Jibril is a big investor in Agoracom – a US ivestment firm bit.ly/pU5DYw #libya #feb17
Mahmoud Jibril owns 6% of Omagine as noted in official document – again comments left open to the floor bit.ly/q23cte #libya #Jibril
baniwalid1 Libya
NTC just announced that it will delay tfe formation of a gov’t until all of Libya us liberated.
Good news as now NTC can focus on liberating libya instead of all the political games going on
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
el jefe dl consejo militar d Misrata dice q “estan seguros” d q Muatasim, l hijo d Gadafi, esta dirigiendo la defensa d #Sirte #Libia
HRW
Libya: June 1996 Killings at Abu Salim Prison
June 27, 2006
In the summer of 1996, stories began to filter out of Libya about a mass killing in Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison. The details remained scarce, and the government initially denied that an incident had taken place. Libyan groups outside the country said up to 1,200 prisoners had died.
In 2001 and 2002, Libyan authorities began to inform some families with a relative in Abu Salim that their family-member had died, although they did not provide the body or details on the cause of death. In April 2004 Libyan leader Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi publicly acknowledged that killings had taken place in Abu Salim, and said that prisoners’ families have the right to know what took place.
In May 2005 Human Rights Watch visited Abu Salim prison, run by the Internal Security Agency. Head of the agency Col. Tohamy Khaled said the government had opened an investigation into the 1996 incident, but did not provide information on the
manner or timing of the investigation. Human Rights Watch subsequently asked the Libyan government for details on the investigation, but the government failed to reply.
Prisoners in Abu Salim prison interviewed by Human Rights Watch in May were unwilling to speak about the incident, apparently out of fear. The interviews focused on their individual cases, and all of them said that conditions in the prison had recently
improved.
In June 2004 and again in June 2006, however, Human Rights Watch interviewed a former Abu Salim prisoner who claims to have witnessed the killings. Now living in the United States, where he has applied for asylum, Hussein al-Shafa’i said he spent 1988-2000 in Abu Salim on political charges, but was never brought to trial, and he worked in the prison kitchen in June 1996. Human Rights Watch could not verify his claims, but many details are consistent with a report from an émigré Libyan group, based on another witness account.
According to al-Shafa’i, the incident began around 4:40 p.m. on June 28, when prisoners in Block 4 seized a guard named Omar who was bringing their food. Hundreds of prisoners from blocks 3, 5 and 6 escaped their cells. They were angry over restricted family visits and poor living conditions, which had deteriorated after some prisoners escaped the previous year. Al-Shafa’i told Human Rights Watch:
Five or seven minutes after it started, the guards on the roofs shot at the prisoners-shot at the prisoners who were in the open areas. There were 16 or 17 injured by bullets. The first to die was Mahmoud al-Mesiri. The prisoners took two guards hostage.
Half an hour later, al-Shafa’i said, two top security officials, Abdullah Sanussi, who is married to the sister of al-Qadhafi’s wife, and Nasr al-Mabrouk arrived in a dark green Audi with a contingent of security personnel. Sanussi ordered the shooting to stop and told the prisoners to appoint four representatives for negotiations. The prisoners chose Muhammad al-Juweili, Muhammad Ghlayou, Miftah al-Dawadi, and Muhammad Bosadra.
According to al-Shafa’i, who said he observed and overheard the negotiations from the kitchen, the prisoners asked Sanussi for clean clothes, outside recreation, better medical care, family visits, and the right to have their cases heard before a court, because many of the prisoners were in prison without trial. Sanussi said he would address the physical conditions, but the prisoners had to return to their cells and release the two hostages. The prisoners agreed and released one guard named Atiya, but the guard Omar had died.
Security personnel took the bodies of those killed and sent the wounded for medical care. About 120 other sick prisoners boarded three buses, ostensibly to go to the hospital. According to al-Shafa’i, he saw the buses take the prisoners to the back of the prison.
Around 5:00 a.m. on June 29, security forces moved some of the prisoners between the civilian and military sections of the prison. By 9:00 a.m. they had forced hundreds of prisoners from blocks 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 into different courtyards. They moved the low security prisoners in block 2 to the military section and kept the prisoners in blocks 7 and 8, with individual cells, inside. Al-Shafa’i, who was behind the administration building with other kitchen workers at the time, told Human Rights Watch what happened next:
At 11:00 a grenade was thrown into one of the courtyards. I did not see who threw it but I am sure it was a grenade. I heard an explosion and right after a constant shooting started from heavy weapons and kalashnikovs from the top of the roofs. The shooting continued from 11:00 until 1:35.
He continued:
I could not see the dead prisoners who were shot, but I could see those who were shooting. They were a special unit and wearing khaki military hats. Six were using Kalashnikovs…
I saw them-at least six men-on the roofs of the cellblocks. They were wearing beige khaki uniforms with green bandanas, a turban-like thing.
Around 2:00 p.m. the forces used pistols to “finish off those who were not dead,” he said.
Abu Salim prison held between 1,600 and 1,700 prisoners at the time, and the security forces killed “around 1,200 people,” al-Shafa’i said. He calculated this figure by counting the number of meals he prepared prior to and after the incident.
Cleanup began around 11:00 a.m. the next day, June 30, when security forces removed the bodies with wheelbarrows. They threw the bodies into trenches-2 to 3 meters deep, one meter wide and about 100 meters long-that had been dug for a new wall. “I was asked by the prison guards to wash the watches that were taken from the bodies of the dead prisoners and were covered in blood,” al-Shafai’i said. In 1999 security officials poured cement over the trench, he claimed, although he believed that they later had the bodies removed.
The only other description of the incident comes from a report by the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, an opposition political group based outside Libya. Drawing on the account of an anonymous former prisoner who witnessed the incident (not al-Shafa’i), the report largely corroborates al-Shafa’i’s account.
The National Front report says that 120 sick and wounded prisoners boarded buses on June 28 to receive medical care but that many of them were executed, although it provides no details. The next day around 11:00, the report says, “hand grenades were thrown into the crowds of prisoners followed by continuous firing from different weapons like AK-47s, general purpose machine guns, crowd control machine guns. The raining of bullets continued for an entire hour.”
The report does not mention trenches but says that refrigerator trucks from the Meat Transportation Company and the Marine Fisheries Company took bodies away. On June 30, a forklift loaded the last bodies into a container for trains. In total, 1,170 prisoners died, the report says, but it provides no names.
The Libyan government has denied that any crimes took place. In May 2005, Internal Security Agency head Khaled told Human Rights Watch that prisoners had captured some guards during a meal and taken weapons from the prison cache. Prisoners and guards died as security personnel tried to restore order, he said, and the government had opened an investigation on order of the Secretary of Justice.
“When the committee concludes its work, because it has already started, we’ll give a detailed report answering all questions,” Khaled said.
According to Khaled, more than 400 prisoners escaped Abu Salim in four separate break-outs prior to and after the incident: in July 1995, December 1995, June 1996 and July 2001. Among the escapees were men who then fought with Islamist militant groups in Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq, he said.
A Libyan group based in Switzerland, Libyan Human Rights Solidarity, says that since 2001 the authorities have notified 112 families that a relative held in Abu Salim is dead, without providing the body or details on the cause of death. In addition, 238 families claim they have lost contact with a relative who was a prisoner in Abu Salim.
The organization expressed concern about one of the four prisoner negotiators from June 28, Muhammad Bosadra. According to the group, the authorities transferred Bosadra from Abu Salim to an unknown facility in summer 2005, and no one has heard from him since.
Human Rights Watch spoke with the brother of one former Abu Salim prisoner whom the authorities had informed of his brother’s death. According to Farag al-Awani, now living in Switzerland, security agents arrested his brother Ibrahim al-Awani, 25 at the time, from the family home in al-Bayda in July 1995. The family never heard from Ibrahim again.
In 2002, members of Libya’s Internal Security Agency told the family that Ibrahim had died in a Tripoli hospital due to sickness. A death certificate they provided, viewed by Human Rights Watch, said Ibrahim had died on July 3, 2001, but it gave no cause of death. Despite repeated requests, the authorities never returned the body, as required under Libyan law. It is unclear if Ibrahim al-Awani died in the June 1996 incident or at another time.
“We just want to know what happened and to have the body back,” Farag al-Awani said.
FromJoanne Joanne
#KhamisGaddafi Unit attacked #Ghadames crossing border from Algeria on Saturday killed (risen to ) 15 Injured 63
goo.gl/WGyIa #Libya
#Benghazi #Libya new leadership started a three-day meeting Sunday to discuss the formation of an Interim Government
goo.gl/CF8bC
Blog Post “Highlander” a #Libya n living in #Tripoli about The Utter #STRESS of living for 42 yrs with Gaddafi Regime lonehighlander.blogspot.com
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Check romantic side of Saif el Islam, son of #Gaddafi. A pic with one of his alleged girlfriends. #libya #tripoli twitpic.com/6qlfq0
Reuters
Earth yields bones, grief at Libyan massacre site
Small heaps of weathered bones — some pulled from the earth by relatives of those killed and anti-Gaddafi gunmen who flocked to the site — dotted a dusty, wind-whipped field outside the prison.
“I am happy this revolution succeeded, and that our country will be better,” said 45-year old Sami al-Saadi, who believed two of his brothers perished in the massacre. “But when I stand here, I remember my brothers who were killed.”
Abdel Wahhab al-Qa’id, whom officials introduced as a survivor of the events at Abu Salim, told reporters he avoided being shot only because he was wounded before the mass execution.
He said the killers were directed by Gaddafi’s intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi and Abdallah Mansour, a senior intelligence official who also controlled Libya’s broadcast outlets.
“When they took me out on a stretcher, Abdallah Mansour was calling out, ‘The bullets will be coming’,” he said
Full art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/25/us-l...
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Libyan rebels penetrate Gaddafi’s home town globalpost.com/dispatches/glo…
only action on western side of #sirte was repeated NATO strikes
Tweeting Tripoli
#Yemen will discover soon that #Saleh actually can’t read or write. That’s why he was avoiding signing. #problemsolved
CNN
CNN : Sebha is free-سبها في يد الثوار
Ben Wedeman
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4lox03skWw
FromJoanne Joanne
Sirte NTC fighters Put up checkpoints+Snipers in outskirts and pulled back from center 2 allow #NATO 2do its Magic + FF R regrouping #Libya
All about the Not so squeaky clean Tony #Blair’s 6 secret visits to #Gaddafi #Libya goo.gl/cg1tZ
UK Foreign Office granted a VISA 2 #Hana #Gaddafi last year even though #Gaddafi claimed she was killed in US bombing raid in 1986 #Libya
#Libya #NTC may delay forming gov’t again af.reuters.com/article/libyaN…
In Case U missed it Interesting: #Exclusive UK Firm Lobbies #WilliamHague over #Libya Security Deal goo.gl/BAZ0b #NTC #HeritageOil
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafi enlists new 12000Strong Army #Tuareg fighters #Niger #Algeria DO READ THIS
goo.gl/Q9qiI
Ties in with
goo.gl/WGyIa
Red Arrow
Never… never trust Debka, it’s a pro Zionist & anti muslin site, they love spreading rumors 2 generate chaos.#Libia #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#NATO bombing missions pound Qaddafi’s hometown #Libya goo.gl/NCWZ8
It doesn’t matter who we have managed to impress if Allaah is displeased with us.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
lool: Reuters:
Gaddafi’s spkmn said deposed Gaddafi & his family had not helped thmslvs 2 oil wealth & they were among the poorest citizens
Reuters:
MoussaIbrahim said no one had been able to show that #Gaddafi or his family had assets or accounts (Really!!! poor man)!! #Libya
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Reports emerging from #Sirte: executions, hostage-taking, & the calculated targeting of individuals, families, & communities w/in the city
May Allah be with the people of Sirte. There clearly is resistance w/in the city & its being silenced by forces loyal to Gaddafi
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Bin Waleed has been occupied by Gadaffi loyalists from all around #Libya.The people there are helpless and are probably anti-gadaffi
bbcme BBC ME English
Tripoli prison mass grave found: A mass grave containing 1,270 bodies is found at the notorious Abu Salim prison…
bbc.in/nOAkkl
Hana S.
3 of my aunts managed to escape #Sirte. Their houses were bombed and one of them burned down!! :(
MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
hmmm … apparently #gaddafi was once chummy with #yushchenko
Yes, he was:
Gaddafi supported Yushchenko during the Orange Revolution – Harfouch
Here is part of the story ( translated):
During the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine (end 2004 – early 2005), Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has supported the former at the time of the Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who in early 2005, became President of Ukraine
According Harfouch, Gadhafi several times sent to Ukraine, “his son to buy land, aircraft, and another, and, naturally, he was carrying a large amount of cash.” Son’s name is not given Jamahiriya leader.
“As far as I know, in recent years Gaddafi sought an opportunity to put in a bank the cash.He negotiated with leaders of various countries, possibly with “orange” leaders of Ukraine ", – said Harfouch, reportsRIA Novosti.
Read the full art.here ( Russian):
focus.ua/politics/198432
FromJoanne Joanne
#MassGraves a Nightmare in more then 1way exhuming remains without proper forensic techniques will make it impossible 2identify them #Libya
Reuters
Libya’s Gaddafi is poor and honest-spokesman
Muammar Gaddafi’s chief spokesman said on Sunday the deposed Libyan leader and his family had not helped themselves to Libya’s oil wealth and that they were “among the poorest citizens”.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/25/liby...
tonybirtley tony birtley
aubari, 250km from sabha now in NTC hands. fighters took control over weekend. no resistance but some villages enroute still fly green flag
surprising that gadaffi forces have melted away virtually without a flight in south west libya. rebels now about 400 km from Algerian border
a visit to sabha hospital gives you an idea of 42 years of gadaffi rule. poor equipment, insufficient trained staff, terrible facilities
doctors say people are dying unecessarily at Sabha hospital because lack of medicine and staff. They are wondering why help is not coming
Hana S.
Many of those who’ve left #Sirte are in shock at what’s been going on in the rest of the country. Cruel reality… #SirteCrisis #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE African Mercenaries paid by #Gaddafi R taking Revenge 4 yesterday by shooting @ houses with anti aircaft weapons goo.gl/h8E9H
LibyaLiberty
#DearGaddafiLoyalists who consumed the family care packages of money & food to already murdered inmates:You’ll wish u never touched a dime.
#Alhamdulillah for this moment, ya Allah,where the evil of #Gaddafi slinks thru back alleys, on the run from his former prisoners.
4Adam Adam
Le Figaro: The university prof said he saw Muatassim Gaddafi twice ‘came to our neighborhood after heavy fighting in the city’ #Libya #Sirte