Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 1:17:00 PM CEST
Libya: Government Use of Landmines Confirmed
Muammar Gaddafi's forces have laid both antipersonnel and antivehicle mines during the current conflict with armed opposition groups, Human Rights Watch confirmed today.
"Libya should immediately stop using antipersonnel mines, which most of the world banned years ago," said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. "Gaddafi's forces should ensure that mines of every type that already have been laid are cleared as soon as possible to avoid civilian casualties."
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 12:55:00 PM CEST
James Bays also describes the tactics being used by Gaddafi's forces.
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Bays also describes the tactics being used by Gaddafi's forces. They send mobile mortar teams several kilometres off the main road, flank the disorganised rebel columns, and begin shelling them from a distance. Almost without fail, the mortar fire - possibly combined with long-range Grad rocket attacks - has forced rebels to retreat.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
NATO Misrata under siege and has been so for days. Please stop the bloodshed of Libyans by Gaddafi forces.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
Remember, we ONLY had to pick up weapons because Gaddafi turned the full might of his army against us.
Libya's Pickup-Truck Army
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
TEPCO chairman apologizes
The chairman of the Tokyo Electric Power Company has apologized for trouble and anxiety caused by radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Tsunehisa Katsumata on Wednesday was speaking to reporters in Tokyo for the first time since problems at the plant surfaced. The firm's president, Masataka Shimizu, was hospitalized for hypertension and dizziness on Tuesday night.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 11:18:00 AM CEST
Libya al hora tv is on arabsat , and a new channel called A7FAD EL MOKHTAR!!! ON 11585 (V) 275 3/4
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 8:54:00 AM CEST
Libya rape claim woman now facing criminal charges - Eman Al Obeidi
A Libyan spokesman has said that the woman who had burst into a hotel full of foreign journalists to say that she was abducted and raped by militia members working for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is now facing possible criminal charges herself.
"I heard that the attorney-general brought her in for questioning because she is now not just the accuser, she is the accused. There is a case against her," Sky News quoted Moussa Ibrahim, as saying.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 8:48:00 AM CEST
diy - Do it yourself
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 8:39:00 AM CEST
Libya: al-Qaeda among Libya rebels, Nato chief fears
Admiral James Stavridis, Nato's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, said that American intelligence had picked up "flickers" of terrorist activity among the rebel groups. Senior British government figures described the comment as "very alarming".
The admission came as the American, Qatari and British Governments indicated that they were considering arming rebel groups, who yesterday suffered a series of setbacks in their advance along the Libyan coast towards Tripoli.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 29, 2011 at 10:51:00 PM CEST
US launches new missile barrage at Libya
As the United States and other nations build ties with rebels and political opponents trying to oust Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, intelligence suggests al-Qaida and other terrorists have a small presence within the opposition group, a top military commander said Tuesday.
Adm. James Stavridis, the NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, told Congress that officials have seen "flickers" of possible al-Qaida and Hezbollah involvement among the rebel forces, but no evidence of significant numbers within the political opposition group's leadership.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 29, 2011 at 9:58:00 PM CEST
Qatar has offered to send ships to evacuate all of the ~6,000 Egyptians stuck in Misrata, to prevent a humanitarian crisis
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 29, 2011 at 7:36:00 PM CEST
Powerful blasts rock Libyan capital Tripoli
A series of powerful explosions rocked Tripoli on Tuesday and state television said several targets in the Libyan capital had come under attack from "crusader aggressors".
Reuters reporters heard at least three explosions from their location in central Tripoli at around 1540 GMT.
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