Topic: War and Peace News - on March 12, 2011 at 2:55:00 PM CET
Arab League chief calls for Libya no-fly zone
Arab League chief Amr Moussa called for a no-fly zone over Libya in an interview with a German magazine on Saturday, ahead of the group meeting in Cairo on Saturday to discuss the proposal.
"I am speaking of a humanitarian action," he said in comments to Der Spiegel released on Saturday. "It is about assisting the Libyan people with a no-fly zone in their struggle for freedom against an increasingly inhuman regime."
reuters.com Youssef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the Omani foreign minister, has called for "Arab intervention" in Libya in his opening remarks at the Arab League meeting
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 11, 2011 at 5:42:00 PM CET
Arab League: Participation of Qadhafi delegation in ministers' meeting unlikely
A delegation representing the Libyan government is unlikely to participate in Saturday's emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss the Libyan crisis, deputy secretary-general of the Arab League Ahmed Bin Helli said on Friday.
The United Arab Emirates called the meeting on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 11, 2011 at 5:14:00 PM CET
EU calls for urgent summit on #Libya with African Union and Arab league
Janos Martonyi, Hungarian foreign minister, tells reporters at the EU summit that he expects the Arab League - due to meet tomorrow - to support a no-fly zone over Libya.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 11, 2011 at 2:38:00 PM CET
Qaddafi Reaches Into Schools but Some Youths Elude His Grasp
The crackdown by the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi against the rebels trying to unseat him has extended even into Tripoli’s schools, where students talk about visits from military officers warning them to watch only state television, payments of 200 Libyan dinars a day to attend pro-Qaddafi rallies and their fears that confiding in the wrong friend may mean interrogation by the secret police.
“I can give you a certainty that there was killing,” whispered a 14-year-old girl at a Tripoli school, saying anxiously that she could not name the killers, “but I think you know.”
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 11, 2011 at 2:31:00 PM CET
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is addressing reporters. He says the opposition is "no longer using Facebook or social meda [sic], but tanks and missiles".
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is addressing reporters.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 11, 2011 at 11:38:00 AM CET
While foreign journalists are facing significant hurdles on getting information out of Ras Lanuf,
Libyan state television aired footage on Friday of people fleeing the city and of pro-Gaddafi searching houses for weapons.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 11, 2011 at 8:32:00 AM CET
2011 Libyan uprising @ wikipedia
The 2011 Libyan uprising began as a series of protests and confrontations occurring in the North African state of Libya against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule. The protests began on 15 February 2011 and escalated into a widespread uprising by the end of February, with fighting verging at the brink of civil war as of 6 March 2011 (2011 -03-06)[update]. Inspiration for the unrest is attributed to the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, connecting it with the wider 2010–11 Middle East and North Africa protests.[19]
By the end of February, Gaddafi had lost control of a significant part of the country, including the major cities of Misurata and Benghazi.[20][21] The Libyan opposition had formed a National Transitional Council and free press had begun to operate in Cyrenaica.[22] Social media had played an important role in organizing the opposition.[23]
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 10, 2011 at 6:45:00 PM CET
Saif al Islam Gaddafi says "the time has come for full-scale military action" against Libyan rebels. He goes on to say that Libyan forces loyal to his family "will never surrender, even if western powers intervene".
Libya is preparing full-scale military action to crush a rebellion and will not surrender even if Western powers intervene in the conflict, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, said on Thursday.
"It's time for liberation. It's time for action. We are moving now," he told Reuters in an English-language interview.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 10, 2011 at 6:30:00 PM CET
EU arms exports to Libya: who armed Gaddafi?
Which EU countries armed Libya under Gaddafi? The EU arms sales to Libya statistics, collected by the European Union, are not exactly public knowledge.
We only know about them because of some excellent work by Dan O'Huiggin, who found the complete breakdown of EU military exports in some distant corner of the Europa website and published a breakdown of 2009, the latest year available.
The data, only available as a PDF, is tricky to export but we bring you the latest five years here. It covers from 2005 (the first year after the end of the arms embargo in 2004) right up to 2009.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 10, 2011 at 5:54:00 PM CET
Al Arabiya & mbc broadcast deliberately jammed
The broadcast of Al Arabiya and mbc channels on the Nilesat are deliberately being exposed to jamming from unknown sources, which caused a cut in transmission, which continued for hours.
The mbc Group considers that such jamming campaign does not only target the broadcast of its channels, but targets the millions of viewers worldwide.
Al Arabiya news channel believes that the aim of the jamming is to prevent viewers from watching its continual and non-stop coverage of the news from the heated areas in different parts of the Arab world, especially after its successful and unbiased coverage of the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and finally Libya.
The following are the alternative frequencies of Al Arabiya and MBC channels on the Nilesat:
mbc channels
mbc1 12437 MHz Horizontal 27500 Mbps FEC: 3/4 mbc2 12437 MHz Horizontal 27500 Mbps FEC: 3/4 mbc4 12437 MHz Horizontal 27500 Mbps FEC: 3/4 mbc Action 12437 MHz Horizontal 27500 Mbps FEC: 3/4 mbc MAX 12437 MHz Horizontal 27500 Mbps FEC: 3/4
Al Arabiya News Channel:
New permanent frequency: 11727 MHz Horizontal 27500 Mbps FEC: 3/4
Permanent alternative frequency: 12341 MHz Vertical 27500 Mbps FEC: 3/4
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 10, 2011 at 5:39:00 PM CET
LibyaAl-HurraTV is broadcasting live on 11334 - H - S/R 27500 on NileSat!! EU& MidEast
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 10, 2011 at 4:18:00 PM CET
Gaddafi forces detain and beat BBC Arabic team
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi's security forces detained and beat up a BBC news team who were trying to reach the strife-torn western city of Zawiya.
Members of the three-man team were beaten with fists, knees and rifles, hooded and subjected to mock executions by Libyan troops and secret police.
The three were detained on Monday and held for 21 hours, but have now flown out of Libya.
bbc.co.uk guardian.co.uk bbc.co.uk Two foreign journalists arrested four days ago at Zawiya, still held - rsf.org
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