Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 10:07:00 AM CET
30% of Libya in Hands of Youth Movement
If we begin at the eastern border of Libya with Egypt this morning and move west, we find the country is now divided in two, with the east largely in the hands of dissidents and the West still under the thumb of Qaddafi’s security forces. The border with Egypt is in the hands of the Youth Movement, and the Egyptian government at the Bedouin village of Sallum (pop. 14,000) is allowing the border to remain open, permitting supplies and medicine to flow into the eastern cities. This Egyptian policy is tacit support for the revolt.
Then Tobruk is in dissident hands, with what soldiers there are having joined the revolt and now directing traffic and keeping order for the new, civic leadership. Tobruk, a city of 300,000 (about 5% of Libya’s population), is the last major stop in the east on the way to the Egyptian border.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 9:49:00 AM CET
Libya Protest Photos - 22 February 2011
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 8:23:00 AM CET
Live Blog - Libya Feb 23
(All times are local in Libya GMT+2)
Libya's interior minister who resigned to support anti-govt protesters has been kidnapped
9:09am Australia's ABC Radio phoned a man named Abdul in Tripoli this morning. He described "Black Africans" in army clothes driving around in jeeps; jets and helicopters circling the city (but not dropping bombs); and regime backers distributing guns to anyone who said they supported Gaddafi:
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 8:01:00 AM CET
Ghaddafi's private pilot: "I want to leave!"
The private pilot of Moammar Ghaddafi, a Norwegian citizen, says he wants to leave Libya as soon as possible, but may have to wait for the Libyan leader.
57-year-old Odd Birger Johansen for the last year has been the pilot of the private jet of Colonel Ghaddafi. He is now in Tripoli, together with his wife and daughter that had chosen this unhappy moment to visit him for a holiday in Libya.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 7:55:00 AM CET
BBC arabic channel for libyan youth movement guys
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 7:49:00 AM CET
Leaked footage of mercenaries storming Benghazi house prior to freedom
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 7:46:00 AM CET
Amazing footage of protesters destroying Green Book sculpt in Misratah
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