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Oil Settles Near $97 on Rumors Gaddafi Shot
Post Date: 2011-02-24 16:31:25 by Happy Quanzaa
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Oil dropped sharply following Saudi Arabia's assures it could fill any Libyan supply shortfalls and unconfirmed rumors Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had been shot. A senior U.S. official told NBC News the U.S. government had no reason to believe that the Libyan leader is dead. However, the rumor swept through oil markets and sent prices tumbling more than $2 a barrel in late Thursday trade. Oil markets had earlier eased on news top OPEC exporter Saudi Arabia was in talks with European refiners affected by the disruption. Traders have been on edge on concerns the unrest sweeping across Northern Africa could spread to other oil-producing countries. In London, Brent crude [LCOCV1 110.70 ...
Russia Planning New Arms Sales To Iran Despite Sanctions
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:58:06 by Brian S
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MOSCOW (NewsCore) - Russia will explore ways it can bolster its military cooperation with Iran despite UN restrictions over its nuclear program, a top Russian arms export official said Thursday. Mikhail Dmitriyev, the head of the Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service, told the Kommersant daily that the fourth round of sanctions that the UN slapped on Iran in June hurt Russia's defense industry. "But there are lines that we can pursue," Dmitriyev said. "We will continue negotiating with Iran within the framework of these possibilities." The latest UN sanctions resolution banned the sale to Iran of eight new types of heavy weapons, including the S-300 ...
Two Iranian Warships That Passed Through The Suez Canal Reportedly Docked In Syria.
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:51:51 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Two Iranian warships that passed through the Suez Canal reportedly docked in Syria. The ships, a frigate and a supply ship, arrived at Syria's main port at Latakia on Wednesday night after becoming the first Iranian naval ships to pass through the canal since the 1979 revolution. The ships "carry the message of peace and friendship to world countries," Iran's Navy chief, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, said Thursday on Iranian state television, according to reports. "The Zionist regime had been exaggerating this issue because it wants to create tension among the brotherly relations between countries in the region," Sayyari said. The ...
Upheaval Jolts Israel and Raises New Worry
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:42:52 by Brian S
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CASABLANCA, Morocco — The old certainties of the Middle East have been upended, and Israel finds many of its most reliable partners buffeted or blown away by popular agitation from below. Egypt was long one of Israel’s most important allies, and ties were quietly close to Tunisia. With demonstrations for change also in Jordan, Bahrain and Morocco, Israel finds itself floundering. “Many of our assumptions are broken,” said Mark Heller, an analyst with the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. “We are groping here, but with the limited tools we have to understand these phenomena, it is not very promising.” Israelis worry that Arab democracy ...
Putin Warns West On North Africa Democracy-Building
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:37:52 by Brian S
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cautioned the West Thursday that attempts to meddle in the rebellions of the Arab world may sweep extremists to power. "You have to give people the chance to choose their own fates and their own futures," Putin said at a press conference with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. "Give them the opportunity to determine their own fate through natural means and not with any kind of outside interference," he said. Putin warned that previous attempts to "impose democracy" had fostered Iran's Islamic revolution and triggered election victories for radicals that the West is now fighting to ...
90% of Libya in Rebel Hands
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:29:35 by go65
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The LAT reports that the rebellion against Muammar Qaddafi’s 41-year dictatorship in Libya headed toward an end-game on Wednesday, as Misurata, the country’s third-largest city (pop. 600,000), fell to the opposition. Significantly, Misurata is in the west of the country, where support for Qaddafi had been stronger. It is only 100 miles east of the capital, Tripoli. Most of the country stretching from the outskirts of Tripoli east toward Egypt is now in the hands of popular committees allied with local security forces that have defected from the dictator. Even to Tripoli’s west, the rebellion had spread to some small towns. Qaddafi is increasingly left only with a sullen and ...
Gaddafi: Barakeh Obama is friend
Post Date: 2011-02-24 12:47:13 by Happy Quanzaa
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Libyan leader praises US president: 'He is of Muslim descent, his policy should be supported, as he now leans towards peace' Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi considers the US president a blessing to the Muslim world. In a speech published in London-based al-Hayat newspaper on Saturday, Gaddafi praised Barack Obama, called him a "friend" and said there is no longer any dispute between his country and the US. Speaking in the Libyan city of Sirt at an event marking the 24th anniversary of an American attack on Libya, he said, "At the time, we were the target of the American cannon, the American navy challenged us in the gulf of Sirt and attacked us all along Libya's ...
THE FAILED KENYAN'S TELEPROMPTER FINALLY RESPONDS TO LIBYA MASSACRE
Post Date: 2011-02-24 11:57:55 by no gnu taxes
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Why did it take Barrack Obama NINE DAYS to finally speak out on Gadhafi’s atrocities in Libya? His press secretary told us yesterday that it was partially due to a ”scheduling issue.” Really? The job of “being president” is very busy you know. So much so, that Obama barely had time to squeeze in coaching his daughter’s basketball team over the weekend while Libyan protesters were being murdered in the streets. Sure, the president finally got around to deploring the killing of innocent civilians and reading most of the obligatory comments from his teleprompter, but the leader of the free world did manage to omit one “small point”: WHY DOES BARRACK ...
4,500 Chinese Escape Libya By Sea; Americans Stuck
Post Date: 2011-02-24 11:33:34 by Brian S
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IRAKLIO, Crete (AP) — Two ferries carrying 4,500 Chinese workers from strife-torn Libya arrived at the Mediterranean island of Crete on Thursday, despite rough seas that left hundreds of Americans stranded on a docked ferry in Tripoli. Passengers smiled and waved from the decks of the Greek-flagged Hellenic Spirit, which sailed from Libya's eastern port of Benghazi, although some others needed medical attention. Up to 15,000 Chinese are expected to arrive by ferry on Crete and fly home on chartered flights in one of China's largest foreign evacuations in recent times. China has more than 30,000 citizens in Libya working on construction and oil projects. As tens of thousands ...
'Get Us Out': Hundreds Of U.S. Citizens STILL Stranded In Libya As Pressure Grows On Obama To Act (can anyone say 'hostage situation'?)
Post Date: 2011-02-24 11:32:03 by Brian S
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Boat packed with U.S. citizens may not leave until FridayPassengers describe scenes of chaos and violence at Tripoli's airport Libyans refuse to let U.S. chartered planes land President Obama was under intense pressure today to evacuate thousands of Americans still stranded in Libya.Hundreds of U.S. citizens, crammed aboard a ferry for a second day, may not be able to leave the troubled country until Friday at the earliest, officials confirmed today.And with Libyan authorities still refusing to let American chartered aircraft land in Libya, there are growing calls for the U.S. military to join the evacuation effort. The President has been under intense criticism for his silence on ...
Libya: With the Failure Obama The ‘Unacceptable’ Is….Acceptable
Post Date: 2011-02-24 11:30:05 by no gnu taxes
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President Barack Obama has a new favorite word when it comes to the violence in the Middle East, particularly when it relates to Gaddafi’s crackdown in Libya: “unacceptable.” He has used it numerous times. But with Obama the unacceptable is acceptable, at least when it comes to our adversaries. Picture of Obama requesting Larry Sinclair type relations with Gaddafi Unacceptable should spring you to action if its going to mean something. If I tell my child that something is unacceptable and they keep doing it, my failure to act means that I am in fact willing to accept it. My kid assumes that I really didn’t mean it. Even if I act too late, and put off responding to ...
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 ...
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