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LIBYA News, Aug 26, 2011


Libya crisis: a decade to rebuild Libya, says NTC
BBC News
Rebuilding Libya's infrastructure will take at least 10 years, according to the head of the Libyan Stabilisation Team at the country's National Transitional Council (NTC).Libya's infrastructure was in a poor state even before the revolution due to ...
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BBC News
The BBC's John Simpson reports on the 'last crimes' of the Gaddafi regime
BBC News
The urgent process of restoring essential services and supplies, Libya's future effectively, is largely on hold until Col Gaddafi is killed or captured, our correspondent says. UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said it was difficult to confirm ...
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BBC News
Oil May Fall Next Week as Libya Rebels Move to Resume Output, Survey Shows
Bloomberg
By Margot Habiby - Fri Aug 26 04:18:31 GMT 2011 Oil may fall next week as Libyan rebels consolidate their hold on the country after deposing leader Muammar Qaddafi and begin taking steps to restore crude exports, a Bloomberg News survey showed. ...
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China Seeks Role in Post-Gadhafi Libya
Voice of America
August 25, 2011 China Seeks Role in Post-Gadhafi Libya William Ide | Washington, DC While China has yet to officially recognize the Transitional National Council [TNC] as Libya's legitimate government, it has made it clear it wants the United Nations ...
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Diplomats Meet in Turkey to Discuss Libya's Future
Voice of America
August 25, 2011 Diplomats Meet in Turkey to Discuss Libya's Future Dorian Jones | Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul, Turkey, is hosting a high-level diplomatic meeting of some 30 countries on what support can be given to Libya following the ousting of leader ...
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US to Release $1.5 Billion to Libyan Opposition
Voice of America
August 25, 2011 US to Release $1.5 Billion to Libyan Opposition Margaret Besheer | Washington The United States soon will release $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets to the country's opposition-run Transitional National Council, or TNC. ...
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First ship evacuates foreigners from war-torn Libyan capital
The Daily Star
Construction foreman Ramil Nyala, 45, complained that he was leaving Libya empty-handed, without the precious remittances that are key to the Filipino economy. “I was being paid $600-800 a month, it's high. But they refused to pay me. ...
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Smitten Gadhafi? Rebels find Condoleezza Rice photo book
CNN (blog)
Rice was with the Bush administration when the United States restored relations with Libya in 2005, after Gadhafi decided to abandon his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, renounce terrorism and compensate victims of a 1986 disco bombing in Berlin ...
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Kadafi remains elusive, defiant as fighting continues in Tripoli
Los Angeles Times
Rebels clashed ferociously with pro-Kadafi forces in the impoverished neighborhood of Abu Salim, a southwestern district of the city that is viewed a stronghold of support forLibya's longtime ruler. Rebels armed with assault rifles and large-caliber ...
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Los Angeles Times
US: Libyan Uranium, Chemical Weapons Secure
Voice of America
August 25, 2011 US: Libyan Uranium, Chemical Weapons Secure David Gollust | Washington The US State Department said Thursday it believes that Libyan stockpiles of mustard agent and uranium are secure, despite continuing turmoil there. ...
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Libya: 'Gaddafi's inside,' they cried as deadly shells rained down
Daily Mail
The shoot-out was a brutal illustration of the near hysteria that is gripping the Libyancapital as T-shirt clad rebels seek the 'trophy' kill or capture they know is necessary to bring a swift end to the urban war. 'They are together inside (Gaddafi ...
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Daily Mail
Freed US writer describes Libyan jail ordeal
BBC News
Matthew VanDyke, an American journalist who had been missing since March, has escaped from Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, where he had been being held in solitary confinement. The 32-year-old told the BBC World Have Your Say's Ros...
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BBC News
NATO makes the grade in Libya
Politico
As Libyan rebels stream into Tripoli, Qadhafi's days look numbered. Only weeks ago, however, foreign policy experts feared that the NATO military action had led to an intractable stalemate. Qadhafi seemed secure in Tripoli; NATO looked ineffective, ...
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Politico
Libya: the battle for control of Sirte
Telegraph.co.uk
No-one was killed or injured as they landed harmlessly amid desert scrub, but they formed part of a deadly barrage with artillery and rockets that forced Libya's eastern rebels on to the back foot yesterday(THU) as they tried to press on with their ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
New Libya More Arab, Less African?
Voice of America
August 25, 2011 New Libya More Arab, Less African? Joe DeCapua The Arab League Thursday recognized Libya's rebel Transitional National Council (TNC) as the country's legitimate government. It said it's time Libya once again had a permanent seat on the ...
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Xinhua reporters' journey through war-ravaged Libya
Xinhua
That was what a group of Xinhua reporters had just seen on their trip from the Tunisia-Libya border to the Libyan capital, a 400-km odyssey across the desert of western Libya after a 300-km detour through Tunisia. Due to the UN's no-fly zone over Libya ...
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Libya: Hillary Clinton urges rebels to reject extremism
Telegraph.co.uk
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged the "new Libya" to be firm against "violent extremism", saying the triumphant rebels had obligations to the international community. "We will look to them to ensure that Libya fulfills its treaty ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Gaddafi regime defector recognized as new chief Libyan diplomat in Canada
Xinhua
25 (Xinhua) -- Canada has recognized the Libyan Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya and accredited on Thursday one of its diplomats as Libya's new representative in Ottawa. In a statement, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird ...
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warning over human rights abuse in Libya
The Australian
From: AP Pro-Gaddafi guards have raped child detainees, and Libyan rebels are abusing children and holding migrant workers as prisoners, Amnesty International charged today, calling on both sides to respect prisoners. Source: AdelaideNow Libyan rebels ...
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Libya: Lockerbie bomber 'flees Tripoli with Col Gaddafi'
Telegraph.co.uk
The Scottish justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, said officials were trying to contact rebel leaders in Libya to ensure Mr Megrahi would continue with the monitoring that was a requirement under the terms of his early release from prison on ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Watch out for looted Libyan artefacts, UN warns auction houses
The Independent
By Paul Peachey The UN's cultural agency yesterday warned the international art market to be on the alert for Libyan antiquities looted during unrest with the fall of the Gaddafi regime. Libya has five World Heritage Sites including ruins of Roman ...
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Libyan envoy to Zimbabwe expelled for burning flag
The Zimbabwean
The Libyan ambassador in Harare has been told to leave the country within five days by Zimbabwean Foreign minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi after defecting to the rebel-Libyan government, diplomatic sources said. The Foreign ministry said it had declared ...
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The Zimbabwean
Libya: Col Gaddafi could use gold stocks to sow chaos among tribes
Telegraph.co.uk
Col Gaddafi could use stocks of gold to buy protection and sow chaos among north African tribes, the former governor of the Libyan central bank has claimed. By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Gaddafi has declared gold reserves of nearly 144 ...
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Freeing Libya and the world is not the USA's job
University Daily Kansan
The latest fiasco people are cheering for is the US involvement in overthrowing Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Everyone deserves to live free of government oppression, and there is no doubt that Gadhafi, like many heads of state, is a monster, ...
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AP sources: White House wants NATO to hunt for WMD
WMBF
The State Department wants to wait for fighting to abate before moving throughout Libya to locate and secure fugitive leader Moammar Gadhafi's massive weapons stores, according to two US officials. It's also stressing working through the nascent Libyan ...
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Nice David Cameron doesn't seem to know that people can be nasty
Telegraph.co.uk
The Prime Minister shouldn't give up his vision for Libya and Britain, but he needs a touch of realism. David Cameron has steel, but is he too nice for his own good? Photo: EPA By Bruce Anderson It is odd, but undeniable: a lot of people still ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Libya: Tripoli's secret tunnels revealed for first time
Telegraph.co.uk
In 1986 his Bab al-Azizia compound was the scene of a bombing raid by the United States in response for Libya's alleged involvement in a terrorist attack on a nightclub in West Berlin. After that attack it is thought Gaddafi ordered the building of a ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Libya: British A-team that laid the ground for battle of Tripoli
Telegraph.co.uk
They were to advise the Libyan National Transitional Council on how to improve their military organisational structures, communications and logistics. Although the Foreign Office insisted they were not there to train troops, they were able to advise ...
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How the Libyan rebels bought a miniature drone on the Internet
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
By Laura Rozen By Laura Rozen | The Envoy – 7 hrs ago Although Libyan rebels have been celebrating their advance this week into the capital of Tripoli, just a few weeks ago, they had a problem. Outgunned and poorly trained, Libya's ragtag opposition ...
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Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
35 Filipinos repatriated from Libya
Sun.Star
SOME 35 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) boarded the chartered boat by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that will take them out of strife-torn Libya, Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said on early Friday. In a text message, ...
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KELLY SLOAN: Post-Qaddafi Libya highlights challenges for next president
Grand Junction Free Press
The Libyan tyrant, responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, the killing of US servicemen in Germany, and for opening his country up to terrorist groups of all stripes for training, has been an on-again, off-again threat to the West for several decades. ...
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Abducted Italian journalists freed in Libya News
By Staff
Tripoli, Aug 25 (IANS/AKI) Four Italian journalists who were kidnapped in Libya were freed Thursday during a raid on the Tripoli apartment where they were being held by soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. All four were in good health, ...
News One
Detention of journalists in Libya is big news here, but what about ...
By Kate
and other news from Today in Palestine: Land, property theft & destruction Israeli bulldozers raze Palestinian land in Hebron HEBRON (WAFA) 24 Aug -- Israeli bulldozers Wednesday razed 20 dunums of agricultural land planted with crops ...
Mondoweiss
'Before NATO intrusion, Libya was African Switzerland' — RT
By RT
NATO's presence in Libya little resembles a humanitarian mission with houses, hospitals and schools being hit. But Libya prospered prior to NATO's intrusion, Yvonne Di Vito, an activist from Libyanfriends.com told RT.
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Riding the Wave in Libya: A War Correspondent's Experience – News ...
By David Braun
FOX News' veteran reporter and war correspondent, Steve Harrigan, is currently reporting from Tripoli,Libya as the rebels gain control and Qaddafi's regime collapses. Harrigan has endured the elements while in Libya — sleeping on the ...
News Watch
Libya Clashes: Rebels Lay Siege To Gaddafi Forces In Tripoli (LIVE ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
sarasidnerCNN, @ sarasidnerCNN : Breaking newsLibya's National Transitional Council announces it has moved to Tripoli from Benghazi. A significant move to form a New Libya. More On The Release Of Frozen Libya Funds ...
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The Alex Jones Show: Apple News, Libya's Final Hour & Earthquakes ...
Liberty News | Ron Paul, Alex Jones, Gerald Celente and more. Skip to content. Home · ← The Alex Jones Show: Apple NewsLibya's Final Hour & Earthquakes by Design 2/3. The Alex Jones Show: Apple NewsLibya's Final Hour & Earthquakes ...
"Live Free or Die" Report
LIBYA: Push to unfreeze Libyan assets | news.beiruter.com - A ...
By chief
Photo: Mahmoud Jibril, left, deputy chairman of the Libyan Transitional National Council executive board, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at a news conference in Milan on Thursday. Credit: Jacopo Raule/Getty Images ...
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News you may have missed #576 (Libya edition) « intelNews.org
By Ian Allen
News you may have missed #576 (Libya edition). August 26, 2011 by Ian Allen Leave a Comment.Libya. ►►Rebels seize Libyan intelligence service HQ. Rebel forces of the National Transitional Council have occupied the Tripoli ...
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Aid for Libya begins to flow as US, SA end spat - News - Mail ...
The UN has released $1.5-billion of seized Libyan assets to be used for emergency aid after the United States and South Africa ended a dispute.
Mail & Guardian News Feed
Oil Companies Scramble for Libyan Oil -- News from Antiwar.com
By John Glaser
Oil companies from the United States, Europe, and Asia are scrambling for a share in Libyan oil as the rebels' Transitional National Council gradually works to take the place of the Gadhafi regime. Many of the companies are eager to ...
News From Antiwar.com
NATO's Libya War: A Nuremberg Level Crime
By admin
Categories: News, War, Politics, Police State. Stephen Lendman. The US/UK/French-led war onLibya will be remembered as one of history's greatest crimes. It violates the letter and spirit of international law and America's Constitution. ...
News
Presence of Syrian fighters in Libya belied | U.S. News Las Vegas
By admin2
A media source brushed off allegations about the presence of Syrian volunteers fighting alongside theLibyan government, saying such news aim at ” encroaching upon Syria's position towards the developments sister Libya is passing ...
U.S. News Las Vegas
A longer view on Libya — Maine Opinion — Bangor Daily News
By UnBylined
Rushing past the obvious is an occupational hazard for journalists and policymakers. Much of the official and media verbiage triggered by the rebels' capture of Moammar Gadhafi's Tripoli headquarters has missed essential contemporary ...
Bangor Daily News
Scotland trying to trace Lockerbie bomber in Libya - Arab News
LONDON: Scottish officials are trying to get in touch with Libyan rebel leaders as part of efforts to resume contact with the Lockerbie bomber lost in the “dust of battle,” Scotland's justice secretary said on Thursday. ...
arabnews - frontpage
Libya: Go, Gaddafi, Go! | :::…The Tide News Online:::…
By admin
The seeming invincibility of Libya's strongman, and dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has dramatically fizzled out following his sudden disappearance from his fortress in Tripoli, Libyan capital, occasioned by persistent bombardments ...
:::...The Tide News Online:::...
Obama receives updates on Libya, Hurricane Irene - US news
President Barack Obama is keeping tabs on preparations for Hurricane Irene as his family's Martha's Vineyard vacation nears...
Mail.com: US
Turkey to Libya: Don't Destroy New Country | New Middle East News
By admin
While applauding the success of the opposition in its months-long armed struggle against the Libyanregime, Turkey has told the country's new leaders that in order to maintain stability, they must allow current state institutions to ...
New Middle East News
24 August Evening Libya News Roundup | Small Wars Journal
Libya News Update: Libyan Rebels Continue Holding Tripoli - VOA. Rebels Set Gadhafi Bounty as Tripoli Fighting Goes On - WSJ ...
smallwarsjournal.com/.../24-august-evening-libya-news-round...
Libya News, HP TouchPad: Hot Trends - TheStreet
Popular searches on the Internet Monday include 'Libya news' and 'HP TouchPad'.
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