Today: LIBYA Today, Apr 19, 2011

Apr 19, 2011

LIBYA Today, Apr 19, 2011

Britain Sends Military Team to Libya as NATO Hits Qaddafi Forces
Bloomberg
As the nearly monthlong violence in Misrata intensified, rebels still struggled to take and hold cities in Libya's central coastal areas, the focus of most of the fighting since the uprising began in February. Many Qaddafi forces have changed tactics ...
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Four reasons why NATO's actions in Libya aren't a modern 'crusade'
Christian Science Monitor
In the run-up to military operations over Libya, and since, NATO and the West have been criticized for acting immorally, if not illegally, with an eye to seizing control of Libya's oil riches. Muammar Qaddafi recently wrote to President Obama blaming ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Britain To Send Military Advisers To Libya Rebels
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Britain has said it is due to send military officers to help Libyan rebels improve their organization in the fight against Muammar Qaddafi's forces. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the team would not be involved in training or arming the ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Why NATO Is Losing Credibility Over The Situation In Libya
The Business Insider
Hunter says NATO's enforcement of the no-fly zone has prevented a sweep of pro-Qaddafi forces across Libya, but "using the current methods, it would be most unlikely to succeed" in ousting Qaddafi. The decision by the United States to withdraw the ...
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The Business Insider
Corrections
New York Times
Muammar el-Qaddafi should he leave Libya misstated the possible role of the International Criminal Court in the Hague in any indictment of Colonel Qaddafi in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988. The court could not indict him. ...
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UN Says Qaddafi Regime Promises Aid Access To Misrata
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
The United Nations' humanitarian aid chief says Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi's regime has pledged to provide access for the UN to the besieged city of Misrata -- the only city still partly held by rebels in Qaddafi-controlled western Libya. ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Qaddafi's Deal on UN Aid for Misrata Doesn't Include Cease-Fire
BusinessWeek
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that the agreement also allows greater access for aid workers and supplies to Qaddafi's capital, Tripoli, and areas of western Libya under government control. Ban, speaking in Budapest, ...
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Libya: A Sub-Saharan Viewpoint
IBTimes
By Graeme Mackay | April 19, 2011 5:07 PM GMT Makwaia wa Kuhenga writing for Tanzania's leading English language newspaper, The Citizen, on Sunday 17 April 2011, tells us he witnessed the Libyan troops of Colonel Qaddafi being mowed down, ...
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WFP Says Opened Humanitarian Corridor In Western Libya
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
The New York-based Human Rights Watch group has said at least 267 people have been killed in Misurata during the past seven weeks of fighting between rebels and pro-Qaddafi forces over Libya's third-largest city. Meanwhile, Libya's state television ...
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Al-Jazeera journalist pans China's Libya coverage
CPJ Press Freedom Online (blog)
"I just don't see what the point is of [Chinese] media spending so much money to prepare their journalists to go to a dangerous place like Libya when all these reporters do is simultaneous interpretation in China of Qaddafi's own television station. ...
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Can Anyone Define the Obama Doctrine In the Middle East?
Fox News
He opposes dictators, such as Qaddafi, but remains silent about the oppressive regime in Saudi Arabia. Obama justifies intervention in Libya on humanitarian grounds, but he is unwilling to use force to protect civilians from massacres in Syria or Yemen ...
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'NATO weapons turn Mideast toxic'
Press TV
Press TV: Turning to the alleged use of depleted uranium that is apparently being used in Libya by the Western forces - reports say they are being used in positions that basically belong to the revolutionaries and not Qaddafi loyalists. ...
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Press TV
The Colonial 'Axis of Evil' prepares for the invasion of Libya
Press TV
[I]t is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with Qaddafi in power," wrote Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, and David Cameron in a joint article published simultaneously in the New York Times and several European newspapers on April 15. ...
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Press TV
From Waco to Libya: 18 Years of Humanitarian Mass Murder
Lew Rockwell
Steven Walt shares his compelling doubts: Although everyone recognizes that Qaddafi is a brutal ruler, his forces did not conduct deliberate, large-scale massacres in any of the cities he has recaptured, and his violent threats to wreak vengeance on ...
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Saif 'Admits' Qaddafis are Brutal Foreign Occupiers - of Libya
MidEastPosts
The Qaddafi kids are spoiled, sadistic billionaire brats who have been acting out in fancy places in Europe while large numbers of Libyan working people were left unemployed or poverty-stricken, despite their country's oil riches. ...
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MidEastPosts
Medical supplies running out, few doctors in Misrata
Al-Arabiya
(Al Arabiya photo) By SONIA FARID The tragedy that has befallen the Libyan city of Misrata is apparent in many ways, yet the deplorable situation of the city's only hospital offers insight into the brutal practices of the militias of Muammar Qaddafi ...
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Al-Arabiya
Going Once, Going Twice, Sold!
Town Hall
Admittedly, relations with Libya have warmed in recent years since it was removed from the US list of official state sponsors of terrorism in 2005. Still, the old wounds run deep, and Qaddafi is, if nothing else, a shrewd operator. ...
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Town Hall
Robert Gates Was Correct: They Should Have Their Heads Examined for Starting ...
OpEdNews
We are now attempting to do the same in Libya. However, it is clear the Libyan people are supporting Muammar Qaddafi and not the rebels. The only support the alleged "rebels" have are NATO air and missile attacks; the people have not rallied to their ...
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Next Steps to Protect
Huffington Post (blog)
In a joint editorial published in the Times, they declared: "The United Nations and its members should help the Libyan people as they rebuild where Qaddafi has destroyed -- to repair homes and hospitals, to restore basic utilities, and to assist ...
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Can Nonviolence Work in Iran?
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The lesson from more ruthless environments, like Muammar al-Qaddafi's Libya, is that anti-government forces would never have made any strides without taking up arms. Other skeptics invoke questionable sociocultural reasons why the Gandhian ethos will ...
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
El Hadji Diouf says he admires Ghadafi
Arab News
By AP ALGIERS, Algeria: Two-time African player of the year El Hadji Diouf says he admires Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and feels for the embattled autocrat and his family. In an interview with Algerian newspaper Le Buteur, the Senegalese striker says ...
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WIKILEAKS CABLES SHOW JAMMEH'S INDEPENDENCE AND LOVE OF PEACE
TODAY Newspaper
Another major highlight of the revelations that seemed to underscore President Jammeh's commitment to world peace was his claim that it was his influence with Libyan leader, Muammar Qaddafi that resulted in Libya turning over the Lockerbie bomber for ...
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Media Look to Obama in Deficit Debate
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
Muammar Qaddafi cluster-bombing civilians were able to drive coverage of these two troubled places any higher than the previous week. Fresh off of a week of nerve-testing federal budget negotiations, the mainstream news media's attention last week ...
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3 Libyan security officials defect to Tunisia
CBS News
(Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images) TRIPOLI, Libya — Tunisia's official news agency says that three Libyan security officials in Muammar Qaddafi's regime have defected, arriving at a Tunisian port in a boat with some 20 other Libyans. ...
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CBS News
Inflation Nation (2)
FXstreet.com
The perks are meant to prevent the kind of unrest that halted oil output and imperiled Muammar Qaddafi's rule in Libya, holder of Africa's largest crude reserves. The increase gives the Saudis less leeway in playing their traditional role of using ...
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Diesel Pushes Higher, Crude Continues Modest Decline
Truckinginfo
More > Events in Libya prompted crude oil prices to clime to a near-30-month high Wednesday as concern mounted that attacks on Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's troops, as well as protest in Syria, would disrupt oil supplies.... More > Clean Energy Fuels ...
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Is Iran Still Center of Middle East's 'Great Game'?
ISN
"The New York Times" crystallized the trend by reporting on 2 April that the administration of US President Barack Obama regarded events in Libya, where Western powers have sided with rebels trying to unseat Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, as a "sideshow" and ...
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ISN
AfDB cuts Africa growth forecast on N. Africa turmoil
Arab News
It would definitely be better for the economy if Qaddafi stepped down,” Ncube said. Western powers, led by the US, France and Britain, are spearheading air strikes in Libya but Qaddafi has given no signs of giving i2n to pressure to step down.
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Borde-nough: A deficit in leadership
The Brandeis Hoot
The US is fighting on the “right” side, against Libya's dictator Muammar Qaddafi. And the commitment, they say, is limited and cheap, involving mainly air attacks and costing (so far, anyway) only $1 billion, compared to the estimated total Federal ...
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Hundred-dollar oil helps Chavez's re-election chances
Arab News
“Ask one of them what they think of the bombardment of Libya, the invasion of Afghanistan. They are the spokesmen of the empire.” A former coup-leader like Qaddafi, Chavez won power at the ballot box in 1998 and has a strong record in elections, ...
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Arab News
Worried about Tunisian migrants, France stops trains from Italy
The National
Paris and Rome clashed at the start of the Libyan conflict when some Italian politicians suggested French enthusiasm for military action was driven by hopes of securing future contacts with the anti-Qaddafi rebels if they seized power. ...
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