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Fleeing Egyptians Tell of Qaddafi’s ‘Bloodbath’ Across Libya
Post Date: 2011-02-24 11:26:03 by Brian S
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Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- “It’s a massacre in there,” said Mohamed Yehia after he crossed into Egypt at the northwestern town of Salloum, speaking of the deadly crackdown by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. “He is crazy. The world must know what he’s doing to his people.” Yehia, 23, is one of thousands of Egyptians working in Libya who gathered their belongings and left the oil-rich country yesterday after Qaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, this week accused foreigners, including Tunisians and Egyptians, of inciting the ongoing revolt. Popular uprisings are spreading across the Arab world after mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt ousted their two long-serving ...
Gadhafi blames violence on young people, drugs, al Qaeda
Post Date: 2011-02-24 11:11:45 by go65
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday blamed the violence in his country on young people, who he said are taking some sort of pills and being exploited by Osama bin Laden. Speaking by phone on state TV as reports came in of pro-Gadhafi forces killing unarmed civilians in the town of Zawiya, Gadhafi said, "Our children have been manipulated by al Qaeda." Click for Full Text!
Bush embraces Libyan terrorist Gadhafi, and all is forgiven. (Did someone say, "Oil")
Post Date: 2011-02-23 18:43:38 by Brian S
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Washington blames Osama bin Laden for the deaths of some 3000 people in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Much earlier, after a mob set the U.S. embassy in Tripoli ablaze in 1979, Washington declared Libya a "state sponsor of terrorism," and closed its diplomatic mission in the North African country's capital. The U.S. also held Libya's longtime dictator, Muammar Gadhafi, responsible for the explosion of a passenger airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. The blast that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 killed 270 people, most of whom were Americans. (Israel's Ha'aretz notes: "Libya recently agreed to pay $2.7 billion to the families of the ...
Gadhafi Hold Whittled Away as Libya Revolt Spreads
Post Date: 2011-02-23 18:36:17 by Brian S
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The scope of Moammar Gadhafi's control was whittled away Wednesday as major Libyan cities and towns closer to the capital fell to the rebellion against his rule. In the east, now all but broken away, the opposition vowed to "liberate" Tripoli, where the Libyan leader is holed up with a force of militiamen roaming the streets and tanks guarding the outskirts. In a further sign of Gadhafi's faltering hold, two air force pilots — one from the leader's own tribe — parachuted out of their warplane and let it crash into the eastern Libyan desert rather than follow orders to bomb an opposition-held city. International momentum was building for action to punish ...
Finally something on The First Teleprompter about Libya, still nothing there though about Barry's buddy Moammar
Post Date: 2011-02-23 18:30:30 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama Condemns Violence in Libya But Doesn't Mention Moammar GadhafiViolence in Libya Escalates as Nations Move to Evacuate Their Citizens BY JEFFREY KOFMAN, ANDY FIES in Tunisia, ALEX MARQUARDT in Egypt, HUMA KHAN and EMILY FRIEDMAN President Obama said the bloodshed in Libya was "outrageous and unacceptable," but he declined to directly censure Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi who has been blamed for much of the violent crackdown. "The suffering and bloodshed is outrageous and it is unacceptable, so are threats and orders to shoot peaceful protesters," Obama said in his first televised remarks on the situation in Libya. "These actions violate ...
WH Spokesboy: Obama can't fit Libya crisis into his schedule
Post Date: 2011-02-23 14:22:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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WH: Obama's Non-Response On Libya Due To "Scheduling Issue" "This is a scheduling issue. The president will meet with Secretary of State Clinton this afternoon. We will have something to say out of that meeting. If possible, the President will speak this afternoon or tomorrow," White House press secretary Jay Carney says about President Obama's lack of response to the crisis in Libya.
Reverend Wright's buddy Khadafy ordered Lockerbie bombing, says Libyan minister
Post Date: 2011-02-23 13:44:03 by Happy Quanzaa
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STOCKHOLM — Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy personally ordered the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, the former Libyan justice minister said in an interview Wednesday with Swedish newspaper Expressen. Expressen on Wednesday quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as telling their correspondent in Libya that "I have proof that Khadafy gave the order about Lockerbie." He didn't describe the proof. He told Expressen Khadafy gave the order to Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground on Dec. 21, 1988. "To ...
Libya Evacuations Begin as Former Qaddafi Aide Says Regime May End in Days
Post Date: 2011-02-23 11:14:14 by Brian S
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Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Governments rushed to evacuate thousands of expatriates from Libya as army units defected and a former aide to Muammar Qaddafi warned that the spreading revolt may topple the regime within days. The U.S. has chartered a ferry that will take American citizens from the Libyan capital, Tripoli, to Malta today and Turkey said it has mounted the biggest evacuation in its history to remove some 5,000 nationals by sea and air. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said getting British citizens out of the Libya is the top Foreign Office priority, as his government deployed a Royal Navy frigate near Libya to help. The evacuations follow Qaddafi’s warning in a televised ...
Obamanomics: Federal Reserve Is Causing Turmoil Abroad
Post Date: 2011-02-23 09:40:10 by Happy Quanzaa
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The Federal Reserve Is Causing Turmoil AbroadFew protesters in the Middle East connect rising food prices to U.S. monetary policy. But central bankers do. In accounts of the political unrest sweeping through the Middle East, one factor, inflation, deserves more attention. Nothing can be more demoralizing to people at the low end of the income scale—where great masses in that region reside—than increases in the cost of basic necessities like food and fuel. It brings them out into the streets to protest government policies, especially in places where mass protests are the only means available to shake the existing power structure. The consumer-price index in Egypt rose to more ...
Iran warships sail via Suez Canal amid Israeli concern
Post Date: 2011-02-22 19:35:05 by We The People
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Two Iranian warships have sailed through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea, canal officials say. Iranian officials have said the warships are heading to Syria for training, a mission Israel has described as a "provocation". The ships exited the canal at 1330 GMT, a canal authority source told Reuters. It is believed to be the first time since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution that Iranian warships have passed through the waterway. The Iranian vessels entered the canal at 0545 local time (0345 GMT) and passed into the Mediterranean at 1530 (1330 GMT)," the source at the canal authority told Reuters. "Their return is expected to be on 3 March," the source ...
W.H.: Nothing on Obama's teleprompter about Libya
Post Date: 2011-02-22 14:06:32 by Happy Quanzaa
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W.H.: Obama won't speak on Libya Jay Carney said that he didn't anticipate Obama speaking about Libya White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters on Air Force One that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak about Libya at 2:30 p.m. He referred questions on Libya to "earlier statements," the pool reports. Carney added that he didn't anticipate Obama speaking about Libya. More notes from the pool report: President Obama authorized the use of force over the weekend against the Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden if a threat to hostages was imminent, Carney said. Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan told Obama of the four hostages' deaths at 4:42 ...
4 Americans on hijacked yacht dead off Somalia [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-02-22 12:46:56 by Hondo68
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U.S. Special forces board seized vessel after gunshots erupt; 4 hostages slain by captors; 4 pirates dead and 15 in custody Play CBS Video Video Four American hostages dead on yacht CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports they were apparently killed by Somali pirates. An undated picture of Scott Underwood Adam and Jean Savage Adam of Marina del Rey, Calif., left, owners of the yacht S/V Quest; and a 2005 photo of passengers Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, both of Seattle. The four Americans were taken hostage when the Quest was hijacked by pirates off the coast of Oman. All four were reported killed Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (svquest.com; AP Photo/Joe Grande) Jean ...
Starving N. Korea begs for food, but U.S. has concerns about resuming aid
Post Date: 2011-02-22 10:47:38 by A K A Stone
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TOKYO - North Korea recently took the unusual step of begging for food handouts from the foreign governments it usually threatens. Plagued by floods, an outbreak of a livestock disease and a brutal winter, the government ordered its embassies and diplomatic offices around the world to seek help. The request has put the United States and other Western countries in the uncomfortable position of having to decide whether to ignore the pleas of a starving country or pump food into a corrupt distribution system that often gives food to those who need it least. The United States, which suspended its food aid to North Korea two years ago amid concerns about transparency, "has no plans for ...
Analysis: Discontent, but no revolt in China — yet
Post Date: 2011-02-21 21:12:45 by A K A Stone
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BEIJING – For those who rule out the possibility of a Middle East-style democracy revolution in China, consider the town of Xiangshui. There, tens of thousands of farmers fled their homes this month in a middle-of-the-night panic on rumors that a nearby chemical plant with a bad safety record would explode. The chaos ensued despite appeals from officials that the rumors were unfounded. It left four people dead when a motorized three-wheel vehicle jammed with 20 people veered into a river. China may have successfully squelched a mysterious call for protests Sunday, but people's trust that the government will look after their interests runs shallow. "The current regime ...
Cleric orders Gaddafi killed
Post Date: 2011-02-21 19:16:12 by A K A Stone
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Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa that any Libyan soldier who can shoot dead embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi should do so 'to rid Libya of him.' 'Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Gaddafi should do so,' Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who is usually based in Qatar, told Al-Jazeera television. He also told Libyan soldiers 'not to obey orders to strike at your own people,' and urged Libyan ambassadors around the world to dissociate themselves from Gaddafi's regime. Famous in the Middle East for his at times controversial fatwas, or religious edicts, the octogenarian Qaradawi has celebrity status in the ...
Gaddafi to deliver speech "shortly", official says
Post Date: 2011-02-21 18:07:52 by A K A Stone
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(Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will deliver a speech "shortly," a Libyan Foreign Ministry official told Al Arabiya television early Tuesday, confirming reports the leader would speak. "I don't know the content of his speech, but I know he will give a speech," the official said.
Video leaked of Gaddafi associates leaving Libya in a hurry
Post Date: 2011-02-21 17:58:02 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:Youtube poster says Khadaffi in mercedes at 1:03
Libyan airspace closed over Tripoli: Austrian army
Post Date: 2011-02-21 17:44:27 by A K A Stone
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TRIPOLI (Agencies) Residents of Tripoli said on Monday there had been "a massacre" in the Tajura and Fashlum districts of the Libyan capital, with indiscriminate shooting and air strikes and women among the dead. "What happened today in Tajura was a massacre," one resident of the district said. "Armed men were firing indiscriminately. There are even women among the dead," adding that mosque loudspeakers were putting out appeals for help. Another witness in Fashlum said that helicopters had landed what he called armed African mercenaries in the neighbourhood, and that the gunmen then opened fire on anyone in the street, causing a large number of deaths. Both ...
REPORT: Gaddafi is in Libya but not in Tripoli
Post Date: 2011-02-21 16:57:56 by A K A Stone
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Unconfirmed sources close to the Libyan government officials claim that Gaddafi is in Libya but not in Tripoli where protests ensued in another day of protests and violence. His where-abouts are unknown. Government militia and security forces clashed with protestors in Tripoli as Gaddafi is struggling to retain power. Gaddafi has deployed warplanes to fire on demonstrators in another attempt to crackdown demonstrations. In another areas of Libya, army is defending protestors from government militia. More mercenaries were brought flown in to Libya today from Uganda, Cameron and other African countries. Libya's deputy envoy to the UN has called on Col Gaddafi to step down, and accused ...
Gaddafi Has Fled to Venezuela
Post Date: 2011-02-21 16:54:40 by jwpegler
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has fled Libya and may be heading for Venezuela, William Hague said today. The Foreign Secretary said he had seen 'information' that suggests Gaddafi is on his way to the South American country - as Libya was up in flames amid increasingly bloody battles between protesters and security forces. Libyan fighter jets and helicopters reportedly fired on protesters in the capital Tripoli, with indiscriminate bombing runs leaving 'many, many dead'. One protester told Al Jazeera:'What we are witnessing today is unimaginable. Warplanes and helicopters are indiscriminately bombing one area after another. There are many, many dead. 'Our people ...
Reports of two more helicopters landed in Malta
Post Date: 2011-02-21 15:39:41 by A K A Stone
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Unconfirmed reports from sources close to the Army say that another two helocopters have landed in Malta carrying people fleeing Libya. No information is available and this news could not be confirmed. The AFM 'C' Company is on stand by and personnel are on high alert.
The Gates of Hell Have Opened in Tripoli
Post Date: 2011-02-21 15:15:15 by go65
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I am watching Aljazeera Arabic, which is calling people in Tripoli on the telephone and asking them what is going on in the capital. The replies are poignant in their raw emotion, bordering on hysteria. The residents are alleging that the Qaddafi regime has scrambled fighter jets to strafe civilian crowds, has deployed heavy artillery against them, and has occupied the streets with armored vehicles and strategically-placed snipers. One man is shouting that “the gates of Hell have opened” in the capital and that “this is Halabja!” (where Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ordered helicopter gunships to hit a Kurdish city with sarin gas, killing 5000 in 1988). Two defecting ...
Libya - Reports of soldiers burnt alive for defecting
Post Date: 2011-02-21 15:12:24 by A K A Stone
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Unconfirmed reports are being circulated on the net that Libyan soldiers have been burnt alive in their barracks for refusing to fight back and shoot the protesters. A video currently doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook shows dead bodies who were burnt and covered with green flags. The authenticity of such video couldn't be confirmed by news agencies but insults in Arabic being directed to Gaddafi could be heard in the background. View Clip: www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=164752430243044
Libya's UN ambassadors call for Gadhafi to quit
Post Date: 2011-02-21 15:00:07 by A K A Stone
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CAIRO, Egypt — Libya's ambassadors at the United Nations are calling for leader Moammar Gadhafi to step down as the country's ruler.
Deputy Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi said Monday that if Gadhafi does not relinquish power, ``the Libyan people will get rid of him.''
Dabbashi urged the international community to impose a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent mercenaries, weapons and other supplies from reaching Gadhafi and his security forces.
Dabbashi also said he was not resigning.
The diplomat says the Libyan delegation is also urging the International Criminal Court to investigate possible crimes against humanity committed against the Libyan people during the current ...
UK Hague: some information Gaddafi on way to Venezuela
Post Date: 2011-02-21 12:00:30 by A K A Stone
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(Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday he had seen some information to suggest Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi had fled the country and was on his way to Venezuela. "You asked me earlier about whether Colonel Gaddafi is in Venezuela," he told reporters on the sidelines of a European Union foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels. "I have no information that says he is, but I have seen some information that suggests he is on his way there at the moment." Diplomats said Hague was not referring to rumors circulating in the media about Gaddafi's whereabouts, but to separate sources for the information. World L
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