Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 12:26:00 PM CEST
MI6 and CIA agents 'directing air strikes' as Gaddafi switches tactics
The New York Times has reported that British MI6 agents are directing air strikes in Libya alongside CIA operatives.
It comes as Gaddafi's forces adopt a new tactic to avoid being targeted by NATO fighter jets by using a "gaggle" of "battle wagons" - minivans, saloons and SUVs fitted with weapons.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 12:22:00 PM CEST
William Hague says former Libyan foreign minister Musa Kusa will not be offered diplomatic immunity in the UK.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Captured by Qaddafi's Forces
The four New York Times' journalists who were captured by Gaddafi's forces in Libya talk about their experience
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 9:30:00 AM CEST
Obama schickt CIA an die Libyen-Front
Trotz der internationalen Luftangriffe werden Libyens Rebellen immer wieder von Gaddafis Soldaten zurückgeworfen - die entscheidende Hilfe könnten nun Geheimdienste liefern: Sowohl die amerikanische CIA als auch britische Agenten operieren bereits vor Ort. Schickt der Westen bald auch Waffen?
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 8:27:00 AM CEST
Libyens Außenminister flieht nach London
Der libysche Außenminister Mussa Kussa hat dem Machthaber Al-Gaddafi die Gefolgschaft gekündigt und ist nach Großbritannien geflohen. Kussa sei am Abend in Großbritannien angekommen, teilte die britische Regierung mit. Er sei geflohen, weil er gegen Angriffe auf die Zivilbevölkerung gewesen sei. Zuvor hatte es geheißen, Kussa habe sich auf der tunesischen Ferieninsel Dscherba zu einem Geheimtreffen mit französischen Regierungsbeamten eingefunden.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 8:21:00 AM CEST
Moussa Koussa, the Lockerbie spymaster who defected
Moussa Koussa, the Libyan foreign minister, last night defected from Col Muammar Gaddafi's government after flying to Britain, telling officials he was "no longer willing" to serve the regime.
Mr Koussa flew from Tunisia, where he had been on a diplomatic mission, and landed at Farnborough airport before being shuttled to London for immediate talks with high-ranking Foreign Office officials.
Mr Koussa was one of the leading figures in Col Gaddafi's government and one of the architects of Libya's recent rehabilitation in the eyes of the international community.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 8:20:00 AM CEST
NATO Secretary General tells Dutch TV alliance will also attack rebels that threaten civilian population. 'We're not taking sides'.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 10:28:00 PM CEST
Journalists detained in Bahrain, Egypt
A CNN crew was detained today in Manama while interviewing a prominent Bahraini human rights defender, according to a Twitter posting by the network and a CPJ interview. The detentions come amid a recent series of repressive actions by the Bahraini government, which included today's arrest of a well-known blogger. Anti-press actions were also reported in Egypt, Syria, and Libya, CPJ research shows.
CNN tweeted this evening from Bahrain that a crew had been detained at the home of Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. Rajab told CPJ that the crew included CNN journalists Scott Bronstein and Taryn Fixel, along with an unidentified cameraman. He said a fourth journalist, an unidentified documentary filmmaker, was also detained.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 10:25:00 PM CEST
Obama authorizes secret support for Libya rebels
President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 10:23:00 PM CEST
BBC's Orla Guerin on the frontlines in Libya
Rebels in Libya are retreating from their former strongholds along the eastern coast as they come under fire from Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
The rebels have now lost the key oil port of Ras Lanuf and the nearby town of Bin Jawad, and are also in full retreat from Brega.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 10:19:00 PM CEST
The International Institute For Strategic Studies published 'Allied assets deployed to Libya'
Operation Odyssey Dawn/Ellamy/Harmattan/Mobile - Allied assets deployed to Libya
As military operations conducted to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 continue, keeping track of what assets are being used where and by whom becomes increasingly difficult.
In order to ensure informed debate on this particular conflict, the Defence and Military Analysis Programme of the IISS has compiled the following list of those air and naval assets known or believed to have been either used or made available for use in operations to date.
As with all military operations, reliable intelligence is difficult to secure. Given the current fluidity of the conflict, the information is also transitory. As such, the list below is accurate to the best of the IISS’ ability as of 30 March 2011.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 10:13:00 PM CEST
Marines Deploy to Libya
More than 2,000 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, 2nd Marine Expeditionary force, deployed along with Amphibious Squadron 6 for Libya Tuesday.
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