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Airstrikes slow Gadhafi's forces
USA Today
By Clare Morgana Gillis, Special for USA TODAY AJDABIYA, Libya — The road to this city that has been a battle between rebels and government forces is strewn with burned wreckage of military vehicles and numerous unexploded munitions. ...
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USA Today
LIBYA: America Increases Targeted Bombings
The Business Insider
After watching the rebels get beaten back in Ajdabiya and pummeled in Misrata and Zintan, the US has increased targeted airstrikes today. This goes against claims that military activity was winding down. Jets took off from the USS Kearsage through the ...
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The Business Insider
Libyan rebels foresee democratic regime
Herald Sun
REPRESENTATIVES of the Libyan opposition's Interim National Council said in Paris that a post-Gaddafi regime would be "secular and democratic". They also predicted that the embattled Libyan leader, who has continued to press against rebel-held towns ...
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US adds 'rebel' oil firm Agoco to Libya sanctions list
Platts
The United States on Tuesday added 14 companies owned by Libya's National Oil Corporation to its sanctions list, including the Benghazi-headquartered Arabian Gulf Oil Company which has broken away from NOC and allied itself with the rebels fighting the ...
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Libyan civil war: An opening for al Qaeda and jihad?
CNN
Added to which there has been a broad welcome among Libyan rebels of all stripes for US and coalition airstrikes to protect the city of Benghazi. According to Benotman, dozens of former LIFG fighters have now joined rebel efforts to topple Gadhafi, ...
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CNN
US pilot a new rebel hero
New York Post
Khadafy's forces, including snipers and artillery, killed several civilians in Misrata, Libya's third-largest city, including four children whose car was hit by a blast, witnesses said. An overworked doctor in the city said the rebels are outgunned. ...
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New York Post
Obama tries to patch rift on Libya role as strikes go on
Denver Post
A rebel spokesman, reached by satellite phone in Misurata, said he had not seen any evidence of airstrikes there against the Khadafy forces, which continued to shell the city and threaten residents with sniper fire. Libyan state television broadcast ...
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US Jet Goes Down in Libya Operation
Voice of America
The rebels have since been pushing back, and were engaged in heavy ground fighting with pro-Gadhafi forces Tuesday near the town of Ajdabiya. The United Nations revealed Tuesday that, farther east, in Tobruk, the special envoy for Libya had met with ...
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Libya rebels name interim gov't head
Xinhua
TRIPOLI, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Libya's rebel national council, based in the eastern port city of Benghazi, has named Mahmoud Jabril to head an interim government and pick ministers, Al- Jazeera TV reported Wednesday. Jabril is a US educated professor ...
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John McCain's Libya amnesia
Salon
The Arizona senator was out front in recent weeks as one of the biggest proponents of a war with Libya, and is now calling for a wider mission, including arming the rebels. Speaking on CBS' "The Early Show" today, McCain twice cited the fact that ...
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Salon
Libya Deputy FM: Western forces interested in helping rebels
Xinhua
BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhuanet) --Libya's Deputy Foreign Minister, believes western forces are more interested in helping rebels advance than actually protecting civilians. He added, that coalition forces, have made it clear that they intend to ...
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Partition: Dividing Libya in two may be rebels' best hope
The Independent
There are cities in the west of Libya where rebels have acted against Colonel Gaddafi, and there is no clear way of ensuring those rebels' safety. There is also no sense that either side would accept a more permanent split. ...
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US, Allies Target Qaddafi's Ground Forces, Debate Command
BusinessWeek
Admiral Locklear said the anti-Qaddafi alliance will “pursue all actions necessary to make him comply with UN Security Council Resolution 1973,” suggesting that Libyan tanks and rocket launchers, which are being used against rebels in population ...
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US Says Libyan Campaign to Ease as No-Fly Zone Is Secured
Bloomberg
April futures expire today. The more-active May oil contract advanced $1.33, or 1.3 percent, to $104.42. Libyan rebels in Benghazi said they have created a new national oil company to replace the corporation controlled by Qaddafi. ...
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Allied Action In Libya, Tuesday Developments
NPR (blog)
Libyan rebels retreat as mortars from Moammar Gadhafi's forces are fired on them outside Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The US military says a American fighter jet developed mechanical problems over Libya today; the crew ejected ...
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Libyan fighters: rebels without an officer
Middle East Online
By Sara Hussein - OUTSIDE AJDABIYA, Libya Kamal Mohamed stands with rebel fighters atop a sand dune, trying to spot Libyan government forces in the distance. His toes curl over his flip-flops into the sand, he has no weapons. Nowhere to be seen are the ...
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Middle East Online
Obama Seeks to Unify Allies as Qaddafi Vows Resistance
New York Times
Muammar el-Qaddafi, however, showed no sign of ending their sieges of rebel-held cities as the international effort to contain them entered its fifth day. Video interviews with more than two dozen people under 30, from Libya to the West Bank, ...
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New York Times
Journalists in Libya recount terrifying ordeal
San Francisco Chronicle
When they did, rebels and journalists fled in a headlong retreat. If Ajdabiya fell, Khadafy's forces would be on the doorstep of Benghazi, the opposition capital, and perched on a highway to the Egyptian border, from where we had entered Libya without ...
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Report: Libya Releases 3 Captured Journalists
NPR
by AP Agence France Presse said the Libyan government released on Wednesday three journalists captured last week near a key eastern city that has been a daily battleground between Moammar Gadhafi's forces and Libyan rebels. The AFP reported the three ...
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Libyan Forces Pull Back From Western City
WESH Orlando
The rebels fired back with Katyusha rockets but have found themselves outgunned by the Libyan government's force. Plumes of smoke rose over the skyline of the city, which is 95 miles (150 kilometers) south of the de-facto rebel capital of Benghazi. ...
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Libya Condemns 'Civilian Deaths' In Strikes
Sky News
Mr Ibrahim said that rather than protecting civilians as set out in the UN mandate authorising the military action in Libya, Western governments were actually providing "air cover" for the rebels. To view this content you need JavaScript enabled in ...
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Sky News
How Oil Wealth Undercuts Democracy in Libya
New York Times (blog)
By CASEY B. MULLIGAN Even as the United States and its allies press their military campaign against forces loyal to the longtime dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi, economic indicators suggest that helping Libyan rebels will neither reduce oppression nor ...
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Obama says 'we have already saved lives' in Libya
USA Today
Obama also said that US missile attacks designed to knock out Gadhafi's air defenses "have already save lives," because otherwise the dictator's forces may have slaughtered rebels in Benghazi and other Libyan cities. A United Nations resolution ...
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USA Today
Libya clashes - diplomatic & military
ABC Online
PETER CAVE: Yes, it crash-landed during operations last night but they didn't reveal that today until they knew that the two aircrew were safe. What happened was it flamed out over rebel-held territory. It crashed in a field in the eastern parts ...
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Al Qathafi Forces Press Ahead with Assaults on Misurata, Ajdabiha and Zintan
Tripoli Post
Fighting has continued between Libyan regime forces and rebels opposing the Al Qathafi government, at the rebel-held town of Misrata, where, it is reported, supplies are running low. Like Misurata, Ajdabiyah has also been been effectively cut off, ...
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UN envoy holds first meeting with Libya's rebels
Monsters and Critics.com
New York - The United Nations envoy to Libya met Tuesday for the first time with leaders of rebel forces fighting Moamer Gaddafi's armies to listen to their 'views and positions,' a UN spokesman said. Abdul Ilah Khatib met the rebels in Libya's eastern ...
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Libya fighting rages as Gaddafi 'looks for way out' | Free ...
By fmt
A standoff persisted in eastern Libya, where Gaddafi forces in and around Ajdabiya, south of the insurgents' capital of Benghazi, easily repulsed attempts by the disorganised and ill-armed rebels to advance. ... began patrolling Libyan skies on Monday, British Typhoon fighters and Canadian jets launched their first missions from Italian bases, and a Greek source said France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle should join in from waters off Crete, probably by today. ...
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Libya Forces Intensify Shelling Of Rebels In East; Gaddafi Speaks
By The Huffington Post News Editors
AJDABIYA, Libya รข€” International airstrikes forced Moammar Gadhafi's forces to withdraw tanks that were besieging a rebel-held western city Wednesday, residents said, while people fleeing a strategic city in the east said the situation was deteriorating ... The Associated Press reports that two AFP journalists and one Getty photographer have been released today by Libyan authorities. Video footage shows the three men entering a hotel where other journalists are staying. ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/
SOCIALIST UNITY » LIBYA: AN AFRICAN VIEW
By admin
... says that it is the wearer of the shoe that knows where it pinches most. Tuaregs and other Africans in Libya today are targeted as 'mercenaries' fighting for Gaddafi. Africans guest workers should not be butchered by Libyan rebels. ...
SOCIALIST UNITY - http://www.socialistunity.com/
Gaddafi's forces intensify shelling of rebels in east
By Lankan Ranger
“The weapons they have are heavy weapons and what we have are light weapons,” said Fawzi Hamid, a 33-year-old who joined the Libyan military when he was younger but is now on the rebels' side. “The Gaddafi forces are more powerful than ...
Pakistan Defence Forum - http://www.defence.pk/forums/
LIBYA: America Increases Targeted Bombings
By Gus Lubin
libya jets [Scroll to the bottom for the latest updates.] After watching the rebels get beaten back in Ajdabiya and pummeled in Misrata and Zintan, the U.S. has increased targeted airstrikes today. This goes against claims that military ...
Money Game - http://www.businessinsider.com/moneygame
Fighting till the end in Libya — RT
By RT
Latest coalition air-strikes hit two Libyan naval bases and two airports, including a civilian airport in the city of Sert. As the operation unfolds, rebels have reinforced their efforts to recover the territory they have lost to Gaddafi's forces. .... Muammar Gaddafi Today: 07:19 4 comments ...
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Bombing Libya; 1986-2011
respond to the rapidly spreading rebellion. Eventually the Libyan government was able to organize itself and took the offensive against the rebellion. The rebels , mostly untrained youth and loosely organized militias were driven from their ... world believe the western claims of attacking Libya out of concern for preventing civilian loss of life. The USA and its European allies are taking a very dangerous gamble in attacking Libya today. With the Arab countries facing the ...
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Libyan Rebels Form "Interim Government"
By Inter Press Service
He is best known on the international stage for meeting Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, which led to France diplomatically recognising the rebels' transitional council as the sole representative of the Libyan people. ...
Ethiopian Review - http://www.ethiopianreview.com/news/201004/
Lybia–what is the mission?
By Bruce McQuain
Carter F. Ham, who is leading the U.S. effort in Libya, said today that the mission is "not to support opposition forces," but later added that the coalition will not support rebels if they take offensive action against Gadhafi's regime ...
Questions and Observations - http://www.qando.net/
Libya Forces Intensify Shelling Of Rebels In East - NEWSFLARE
By admin
AJDABIYA, Libya — International airstrikes forced Moammar Gadhafi's forces to withdraw tanks that were besieging a rebel-held western city Wednesday, residents said, while people fleeing a strategic city in the east said the situation ...
NEWSFLARE - http://newsflare.us/
Misrata, Zintan, Ajdabiya, Bengazhi - Widespread Fighting In Libya ...
By friarfool
Muammar Gaddafi bombed and shot at rebels across northern Libya on Tuesday, killing at least a dozen civilians. While the U.S. said it would widen a United Nations-imposed no-fly zone, the overall situation in Libya continued to show ...
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Rebels form Libyan 'interim government' | reportergary.com
By Gary
Al Jazeera reports that Libyan rebels have formed what they call an “interim” government. But there's no indication that the rebels are making progress. The news network reports that the Libyan forces have been out gunning the rebels. ...
reportergary.com - http://reportergary.com/
Libyan forces withdraw from western city, intensify shelling of ...
The rebels fired back with Katyusha rockets but have found themselves outgunned by the Libyan government's force. Plumes of smoke rose over the skyline of ...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../ABJElCFB_story.html
Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy vows to retake key city from rebels
BY Leo Standora Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy on Wednesday predicted his forces would fight a "decisive battle" Thursday to recapture rebel-held Misurata ...
www.nydailynews.com/.../2011-03-17_khadafy_vows_to_reta...
Benghazi, Libya's rebel capital, braces for a fight
Arab TV network Al Arabiya reported today that Libya's armed forces are promising a cease-fire on Sunday to give rebels a chance to “surrender,” without ...
www.csmonitor.com/.../Benghazi-Libya-s-rebel-capital-braces-...
Rebels claim key Libyan city after assault from Qaddafi forces ...
While Qaddafi's forces attacked Ajdabiya, a key crossroads in the battle for control in eastern Libya, a rebel leader said today the city remains 'in the ...
www.csmonitor.com/.../Rebels-claim-key-Libyan-city-after-ass...
Morale of rebels high in eastern Libya : The Big Story: India Today
"The morale of the rebels is high and government forces are fighting in hostile territory so they retreated," says Issam Khalil, a Libyan expat who returned ...
indiatoday.intoday.in/.../morale-of-rebels-high-in-eastern-liby...
Today in Libya – the rebel's last stand | Stop. Look. Listen.
Today in Libya – the rebel's last stand. Posted on March 14, 2011 by Art Stone. Right on schedule, today will be the day the fanatics meet their virgins in ...
streamingradioguide.com/.../today-in-libya-the-rebels-last-stan...
TODAY Show - Report: Libya rebels sink 2 Gadhafi warships
State TV says town 'cleansed' al-Qaida mercenaries; efforts for no-fly zone stall.
today.newsvine.com/_.../6274751-report-libya-rebels-sink-2-g...
Libyan jets bomb rebel positions - The Irish Times - Mon, Mar 14, 2011
Muammar Gadafy's jets bombed Libyan rebels today in a counter-offensive that has pushed them back 160 kilometres in a week, far outpacing diplomatic efforts ...
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/.../breaking2.html
Moammar Gadhafi, rebels each claim control in Libya - USATODAY.com
Moammar Gadhafi's military jets attacked the rebel-held town of Ajdabiya as both sides claim control in key cities.
www.usatoday.com/news/.../2011-03-14-libya-fighting_N.htm
Libya's rebels are inexperienced but zealous - TODAY News - TODAY.com
Ibrahim Salem clutches a half-century-old pistol — a tiny weapon with a single bullet left. If not for his helmet, the young man in jeans would look every ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42039524/ns/today-today_news/
Renewed Libyan Rebels Push South From Benghazi - NYTimes.com
With Confidence and Skittishness, Libyan Rebels Renew Charge .... “We'll head through Ajdabiya today,” said Murajah Othman, who drove toward that city in a ...
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/world/africa/21benghazi.html
Qaddafi's Warplane, Firepower Advantages Put Libyan Rebels on ...
Muammar Qaddafi 's forces carried out air strikes against rebels in the town ... The Security Council discussed Libya today. France's ambassador to the UN, ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../qaddafi-s-warplane-firepower-advant...

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