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SNC-Lavalin executives tied to Gaddafi family lose jobs
National Post
SNC-Lavalin has been fighting allegations over its link to the Gaddafis since last fall, when the National Post revealed the company had financed a fact-finding trip to Libya that included aGaddafi family bodyguard and resulted in a one-sided report ...
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National Post
Libya fighters-turned-jailors face heat over prisons
Reuters
The prisons are being used as sites to wreak revenge against those who fought for former leader Muammar Gaddafi and also as bargaining chips in the struggle for who ultimately will hold power in Libya, they say. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon first ...
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Insight: Arms and men out of Libya fortify Mali rebellion
Reuters
As the anniversary of the February 17 uprising against Gaddafi approaches, Mali and other states to the south are paying a price for the revolution by Western-backed insurgents in Libya. The flood of weapons and fighters out ofLibya has now added to ...
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Most French favor UN military action in Syria: poll
Reuters
| PARIS (Reuters) - A narrow majority of French people would back a UN-authorized military intervention in Syria, a poll showed on Friday, a higher percentage than those who had supported the NATO mission that helped oustLibya's Muammar Gaddafi.
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Libya unable to control militia violence, looting
Sydney Morning Herald
Libya. Photo: AP The government of the interim Prime Minister, Abdel Rahim el-Keeb, is virtually paralysed by rivalries that have forced it to divide power along lines of regions and personalities, by unreachable expectations that Muammar Gaddafi's ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
09.02.12 - ICC/GADDAFI - AISHA GADDAFI REQUESTS FULL INVESTIGATION ON HER ...
Hirondelle
The Hague, February 9, 2012 (FH) - In a letter sent on February 8 to the chairman of the United Nations' commission of inquiry on Libya, AishaGaddafi's lawyer requested a "comprehensive, independent and international" investigation on the death of her ...
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Libya extends Zueitina oil concession for 25 years
Reuters Africa
The company, a subsidiary of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), was established in 1986 to operate Libyan oil assets that Occidental Petroleum had to abandon following US sanctions against late leader MuammarGaddafi's regime.
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Germany's Wintershall ramps up Libyan oil output: CEO
Reuters Africa
The company, the oil and gas unit of German chemicals group BASF, used to produce some 100000 barrels per day (bpd) before Libyan leader MuammarGaddafi was removed from power last year. With more than $2 billion invested in the country and 150 wells ...
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Russian photographers scoop World Press Photo awards
RT
Yury Kozyrev and his photograph of protesters in Libya fighting against dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his regime won first prize in the Spot News category. The photo was taken on March 11, 2011, in Ras Lanuf, Libya. Kozyrev had already claimed two WPP ...
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RT
Libya extends Zueitina oil concession for 25 years
Reuters Africa
The company, a subsidiary of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), was established in 1986 to operate Libyan oil assets that Occidental Petroleum had to abandon following US sanctions against late leader MuammarGaddafi's regime.
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'Foreign military presence in Syria raises ghost of Libya'
RT
The NATO mission attracted further condemnation when video footage showed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi being taken alive by the National Liberation Army in Sirte, moments before being summarily executed by his captors. Armed members of the Free Syrian ...
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RT
Uncertainty hampers business in Libya
Financial Times
International businesses flooded Libya in recent years to take advantage of the oil-rich country's commercial opportunities. A Nato-backed war to overthrow Col Muammer Gaddafi plunged the north African nation of 6m into chaos and sent foreigners ...
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Top photo award for Arab Spring portrait
Times LIVE
Yuri Kozyrev of Russia, a Noor Images photographer working for Time, has won the first prize Spot News Singles with this picture of rebels in Ras Lanuf, Libya. For weeks, rebels held out againstLibyan leader Muammar Gaddafi with the hope that the ...
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Times LIVE
Bomb blasts bring death to Syria's Aleppo |
Reuters
... into an armed insurgency, Assad can count on a powerful military and a certain degree of popular support to survive for several months before he might join the list of deposed Arab leaders like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.
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Analysis: China wrestles with role in Syria and beyond
Chicago Tribune
Yet in March, China, along with Russia, abstained from a vote on a Security Council resolution authorizing a NATO air campaign over Libya, where Muammar Gaddafi was battling insurgents who eventually toppled him. China however has deep concerns about ...
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Women in the World 2011 Video Highlights
Daily Beast
Former president Bill Clinton, came out strongly for the controversial military measure to help the Libyan rebels in their struggle to topple Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. "We have the planes to make an appropriate contribution to this," the 42nd ...
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UK Not Ready For New War - OpEd
Eurasia Review
In 2011 Britain and France became part of NATO-led operations targetingGaddafi regime in Libya. According to official reports, Britain spent about €254mln on the military campaign in Libya. However, a publication in The Guardian at the end of last ...
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Nasheed is neither Assad nor Gaddafi
Asian Tribune
He is neither Assad of Syria nor Gaddafi of Libya to cling on to power at the cost of the lives of his own people. He wasted no time in resigning his job and handing over power to the vice president. Although the silent majority appreciated the reforms ...
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Syria uprising: live
Telegraph.co.uk
... armed insurgency, Assad can count on the powerful military and a certain degree of popular support to survive, for many months or more, before he risks joining the list of deposed Arab leaders like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Pressure grows to arm Syria rebels
Financial Times
In Europe, Britain and France – two of the main movers behind the Nato action that helped oust Colonel Muammer Gaddafi in Libya last year – have shown little appetite for a repeat. A senior European diplomat said: “Whenever this discussion comes up at ...
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Black Libyans Targeted for Extermination by Militia
POPDECAY
LIBYA – The indigenous populations of Libya are once again under attack by homicidal bands of racist rebels, newly empowered in NATO's post-Gadhafi Libya, according to new reports. Despite the presence of Western agents in Libya who are said to seek ...
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POPDECAY
What Do We Learn From the Ping-Zuma Stalemate?
AllAfrica.com
Fourthly, the influence of the 'big five' - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria and South Africa - on the continent may be eroding. With Colonel MuammarGaddafi gone, the on-going revolution in Egypt and the fear of one in Algeria, South Africa and Nigeria ...
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France's New Anti-capitalist Party echoes NATO propaganda against Syria
World Socialist Web Site
The NPA would doubtless be delighted with the overthrow of Assad by NATO, as was the case with Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi on August 22—when the NPA declared “Gaddafi overthrown, the people's turn to decide.” This was a reactionary lie.
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The ICC Debate - A Pan-African Perspective
AllAfrica.com
In the case of Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his sons were even indicted before the ICC could establish whether they had committed crimes 'against humanity.' Other Africans from the Democratic Republic of the Congo are also facing charges in The ...
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Adrian Hamilton: Arms, not diplomacy, will decide the fate of Syria
The Independent
Libyan intervention – which Russia and China went along with – does not provide a reassuring example, however. Arab League participation was entirely down to loathing of Gaddafi. Imposition of a no-fly zone quickly led to a one-sided bombing of the ...
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French Elections: Sarkozy's Last Stand?
International Business Times
Although Sarkozy's chances at re-election are looking thinner than slim, he can point to some successes, most notably the triumphant NATO mission in Libya, which overthrew the former dictator of that country, Moammar Gaddafi.
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International Business Times
Defending the defenceless
Illawarra Mercury (blog)
He hails the countless lives saved by the UN Security Council's unanimous decision last year to authorise the use of "all necessary measures" to protect civilians at imminent risk of massacre in Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. "Those lives were saved," said ...
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Libya's ancient Leptis Magna now a ghost town
Aljazeera.com
North Africa's most well-preserved Roman ruin used to be a bustling tourist attraction, but since the revolution Libya's Leptis Magna is now a ghost town. Prior to the revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, the seaport, which historically served as a ...
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INDUSTRY MOVES: People in the news
Hydrocarbon Processing
The company did not specify a reason for the departures, but media reports said the pair had close ties with Libya's former Gaddafi regime. Charles Chebl was appointed executive vice president of SNC-Lavalin's infrastructure and construction business ...
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PRÉ-vue [discourse's-analysis] TRI-vium - Strengthen AU to resist foreign...
New Era
To substantiate his point, former President Mbeki pointed to the 2001 activation of the concept of the “responsibility to protect” relating to the enforcement of a so-called no-fly zone in Libyawhich was advanced on a false knowledge that Col. Gaddafi ...
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New Era
BBC News - Should Libya rebuild Gaddafi hometown of Sirte?
Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte enjoyed huge privileges while he was in charge but was destroyed during the battle to oust him. Now, residents say it is ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16961376
Libya court postpones trial of Gaddafi loyalists | Top News | Reuters
The decision (to postpone) was made in the wake of listening to the pleadings of the defence panel that argued that this military court is not a competent entity ...
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE81501120120206
JURIST - Paper Chase: Libya trial against Gaddafi allies postponed
[JURIST] The trial against 41 Libyans accused of assisting Muammar Gaddafi[ BBC obituary; JURIST news archive] in suppressing the revolt during theLibya ...
jurist.org/.../libya-trial-against-gaddafi-allies-postponed.php
Libya torture allegations: Muammar Gaddafi-era diplomat Omar ...
A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France for MuammarGaddafi died from torture within a day of being detained by a militia from Zintan, Human ...
news.nationalpost.com/.../gaddafi-era-libyan-diplomat-torture...
Libya: a stop-start beginning to 1st trial of Gaddafi loyalists ...
Libya: a stop-start beginning to 1st trial of Gaddafi loyalists A military court in the former rebel stronghold of Benghazi today began the first trial of accused former ...
www.globalpost.com/.../libya-stop-start-beginning-1st-trial-ga...
Aisha Gaddafi says she has evidence about brother Saif al-Islam's ...
Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi has asked to make representations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to help her ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Aisha-Gaddafi-says-she-has-evidence-...
Libya court postpones trial of Gaddafi loyalists
Libya court postpones trial of Gaddafi loyalists ... of helping MuammarGaddafi crush the popular revolt that ended in his death last year, Libyan news agency.
uk.reuters.com/.../uk-libya-trial-idUKTRE8140ME20120205
Should Libya rebuild Gaddafi hometown of Sirte?
By Jonathan Head BBC News, Sirte The final battle for Muammar Gaddafi'shome-town last October was ... So what should happen to Sirte in the newLibya?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16961376
Libya court postpones trial of Gaddafi loyalists - Yahoo!
Read 'Libya court postpones trial of Gaddafi loyalists' on Yahoo!. By Mohammed Al Tommy BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya started and then swiftly ...
uk.news.yahoo.com/libya-court-postpones-trial-gaddafi-loyali...
Gaddafi wishes me a happy 22nd | LIBYA NEWS
Gaddafi wishes me a happy 22nd gaddafi. Image by Good_Egg. Best birthday cake EVER. Thank you, Leader of the Revolution. This entry was posted in News ...
libya.newsinformers.net/gaddafi-wishes-me-a-happy-22nd/
Libya court postpones trial of Gaddafi loyalists
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya started and then swiftly postponed court... of helping Muammar Gaddafi crush the popular revolt that ended in his death last. ... that ended in his death last year, Libyan news agency LANA said on Sunday.
in.reuters.com/article/.../libya-trial-idINDEE81506120120206
Gaddafi-era envoy 'killed' by Libyan militia - Africa - Al Jazeera English
Omar Brebesh, Libya's ex-ambassador to France, was detained and tortured by Zintan armed group, Human Rights Watch says.
www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/.../2012249959312137.html
Gaddafi is gone but omnipresent in Libya — Latitude News
Degaddafinated, the Libyan Twitter slang for being free from Gaddafi, is not like decaffeinated. Only traces of caffeine remain in coffee that's labeled ...
www.latitudenews.com/.../gaddafi-is-gone-but-omnipresent-in...
Gaddafi supporters tortured in Libya | Breaking & Daily News, Sport ...
Charity mission claims that former Gaddafi supporters are being tortured.
tvnz.co.nz/.../gaddafi-supporters-tortured-in-libya-video-4706...
Libya Postpones Trial Against 41 Gaddafi Loyalists
The news agency said that the decision to affect the postponement of the trial at a ... trial one of the former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's sons, Seif al-Islam ...
www.tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=5&i=7846
  
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