Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 8:47:00 PM CET
Rebel blow to Gaddafi as Cameron firms up London conference
Colonel Gaddafi has been dealt a blow, after rebels regained control of the city of Ajdabiya following international air strikes on the Libyan leader's forces.
The fall of the eastern gateway urban centre came after a week of coalition action against Gaddafi's military, which included British and French war planes striking near the city on Saturday.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 8:46:00 PM CET
Operation Odyssey Dawn explained (Day 7)
With Libyan known SAM sites and air defence installation rendered harmless, Odyssey Dawn missions see the coalition planes focusing mainly on targets of opportunity, as the regime’s armored forces and mechanized troops outside Ajdabiyah, a city located to the south of the rebel stronghold of Benghazi were British and French planes were involved in repeated attacks on the Gaddafi forces on the ground in the early hours of Mar. 25. Some information on this strikes that are worth explaines since they give an idea of the type of missions flown by the UK forces in theather with the available assets, were provided by the UK MoD briefing by Major General John Lorimer, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Strategic Communications Officer.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 6:32:00 PM CET
Geld muss frei sein!
Statt zu jedem Thema einen Studiogast einzuladen, verkleiden wir unseren Moderator Christoph Süß und lassen ihn sich selbst interviewen. Redaktionsintern heißt das quer-Schläger. Diese Woche erklärt er, wieso das Vermögen von Diktatoren nicht eingefroren werden sollte.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 5:50:00 PM CET
Overthrow Gadhafi in 90 Days: Just Add Mercs, Cash
The world’s worried about mercenaries in Libya helping Moammar Gadhafi snuff out the Libyan revolution. But what if — what if — the rebels tapped the expanding world of private security to turn them from a ragtag, Red Dawn-esque group of irregulars into a proper military?
No, we haven’t had any sightings of Blackwater founder Erik Prince in Benghazi. But at least some Libyan opposition members don’t think it’s so crazy to hire their own auxiliaries. NBC’s Richard Engel reported on the Rachel Maddow Show on Wednesday that he’d interviewed rebels who’d be grateful for the Blackwaters of the world to offer their services. Erik, call your travel agent!
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 2:46:00 PM CET
Libyan Woman Struggles to Tell Media of Her Rape
Libyan woman burst into the hotel housing the foreign press in Tripoli Saturday morning and fought off security forces as she told journalists that she had been raped and beaten by members of the Qaddafi militia. After nearly an hour, she was dragged away from the hotel screaming.
“They say that we are all Libyans and we are one people,” said the woman, who gave her name as Eman al-Obeidy [sic]. “But look at what the Qaddafi men did to me.” She displayed a broad bruise on her face, a large scar on her upper thigh, several narrow and deep scratch marks lower on her leg, and marks that seemed to came from binding around her hands and feet.
nytimes.com reuters.com sky.com guardian.co.uk cnn.com/video Libyan woman tells of abuse change.org/petitions/protect-eman-al-obaidi-from-gaddafi-regime Journalists please leave Rixos Hotel in Tripoli dailymail.co.uk
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 11:38:00 AM CET
Arabische Revolution könnte deutsche Steuerzahler belasten
Auch für den deutschen Steuerzahler bergen die Konflikte im arabischen Raum nach Informationen des SPIEGEL Gefahren. Wie aus einer vertraulichen Aufstellung des Bundesfinanzministeriums ("VS - nur für den Dienstgebrauch") hervorgeht, beläuft sich das Entschädigungsrisiko für Exportkredit- und Investitionsgarantien des Bundes im arabischen Raum auf 20 Milliarden Euro. Das ist die Summe, mit der der Bund geradestehen müsste, wenn Exporte oder Direktinvestitionen wegen der politischen Turbulenzen verlorengingen.
Wie aus der Aufstellung hervorgeht, sind die Garantien von 2009 bis Ende 2010 um knapp vier Milliarden gestiegen. In Libyen beträgt das Entschädigungsrisiko des Bundes rund 1,5 Milliarden (Stand Ende 2010), am höchsten ist es in Ägypten mit 3,9 Milliarden Euro.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 11:37:00 AM CET
Schwerer Fehler von historischer Dimension - Kritik an deutscher Libyen-Politik
Sie sprechen von "historischem Zynismus", von einem Fehler mit "unvermeidlichen Spätfolgen": Ungewöhnlich scharf kritisieren Unionsvertreter im SPIEGEL das Verhalten der Bundesregierung in der Libyen-Krise.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Anger in Syria
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 10:40:00 AM CET
Three Revolutions, One Photographer
Photographer Reflects on 'Epic' Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World
Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the war in Iraq. Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya - was his most dangerous.
video.pbs.org life.com/gallery digitaljournalist.org blog.gettyimages.com
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 10:08:00 AM CET
Libya rebels 'recapture key town' - Ajdabiya
Libyan rebels backed by allied air raids say they have seized control of the frontline oil town of Ajdabiya from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
The BBC's Ben Brown in Ajdabiya says there are scenes of jubilation among the insurgents.
Gaddafi loyalists seized the town last week as they advanced east to quell an uprising now in its fifth week.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 9:41:00 AM CET
Das Bombengeschäft - Mehrere neue Systeme, darunter der "Eurofighter", werden erstmals im Kampf eingesetzt - und so im Einsatz vorgeführt.
Die Meldung klang, als wäre ein westliches Kampfflugzeug endlich einem echten Gegner im libyschen Luftraum begegnet: Eine französische "Rafale"-Maschine habe ein libysches Jagdflugzeug abgeschossen, meldete der US-Nachrichtensender ABC. Später entpuppte sich der vermeintliche Jäger allerdings als Soko "Galeb" - ein altes Trainingsflugzeug, das in den sechziger Jahren in Jugoslawien entwickelt wurde und auch als leichter Bomber eingesetzt werden kann.
Die "Galeb" besitzt keinerlei Waffen für den Luftkampf und wäre einer "Rafale" schutzlos ausgeliefert. Doch selbst ein Luftsieg über einen derart unterlegenen Gegner war der "Rafale" nicht vergönnt: Frankreichs Generalstab musste später einräumen, dass die "Galeb" erst nach der Landung durch eine Luft-Boden-Rakete zerstört wurde.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 9:33:00 AM CET
Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries Guess how many Arab countries? EIGHT!
Microsoft appears to have turned off the always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries, including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Hotmail users who have set their location to any of these countries receive the following error message when they attempt to turn on the always-use-HTTPS feature in order to read their mail securely:
"Your Windows Live ID can't use HTTPS automatically because this feature is not available for your account type."
Journalists and others whose lives may be in danger due oppressive net monitoring in those countries may wish to use HTTPS everywhere and are also encouraged to migrate to non-Microsoft email providers, like Yahoo and Google." https-everywhere [eff.org]
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