Topic: POLITIK - on February 23, 2011 at 6:39:00 PM CET
More Libyan cities fall to the opposition
Muammar Gaddafi will neither leave Libya nor step down and a bloody fight to the end is likely with protesters intent on driving him out, the Libyan leader's former head of protocol said on Tuesday. Nuri al-Mismari -- who has been at Gaddafi's side for almost 40 years although he left Libya in late 2010 to undergo heart surgery in France -- resigned on Monday from his post as chief of state protocol.
"He will continue. There is nobody stronger than the people, but he will not leave Libya, he will not step down," al-Mismari told Reuters in an interview in a Paris hotel.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 23, 2011 at 6:12:00 PM CET
6.55pm: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, tells the Associated Press that if reports of aerial attacks against civilians turn out to be true, the international community may need to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.
Live-blog-libya-feb-22 8:20 am There have been multiple reports out of Libya that security forces there are using "high caliber" or "anti-aircraft" weapons against civilian protesters. We've seen video of Libyans holding spent rounds, both large and small, comparing the two for cameras. To get a sense of what high caliber really means, look at this photo:
The round second from right is standard 5.56mm - of the type used by NATO forces, as the photo illustrates. The round on the far left is .50 caliber and has reportedly been used against protesters. Sources in Tripoli who have spoken with doctors in the capital also said some believe explosive rounds are being used.
One blogger noted: "I had a discussion with my brother, who’s currently training in the police academy, about weapons that law enforcement/the military uses. Do you want to know what police departments who even have these bullets use them for? Immobilizing vehicles and shooting through walls ... These bullets are designed to shred things much tougher than the human body."
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 5:36:00 PM CET
Live Show [Procaster] Wed Feb 23 2011
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 5:12:00 PM CET
Mass Burial - Tripoli, Libya FEB 22
The video and images below show the aftermath of Gadaffi's death squads. Many residents of Tripoli fear to even collect the corpses in the street, as Libyan Forces are reportedly firing at random.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 23, 2011 at 10:47:00 AM CET
Warfalla Cheif Libya's most largest tribe said he backed the protesters & wud send his people 2 Tripoli to assist in the final battle
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 23, 2011 at 10:43:00 AM CET
BBC first journalist enters eastern Libya yesterday
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 23, 2011 at 10:29:00 AM CET
Al Jazeera’s interview with Libyan Ambassador in the US
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Topic: War and Peace News - on February 23, 2011 at 10:11:00 AM CET
ثورة شباب ليبيا الأحرار - معا نحو المعالي
LibyanYouthMovement (ShababLibya)
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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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