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LIBYA News, Aug 28, 2011


Libya regains Arab League seat
Aljazeera.net
The regional bloc restores Libya's membership, turning over the country's seat to the rebels' political leadership. The Arab League has readmitted Libya to the regional bloc, turning over the country's seat to the National Transitional Council (NTC) ...
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Aljazeera.net

Libya's capital struggling with shortages of fuel, food
Boston Globe
By Paul Schemm and Hadeel Al-Shalchi AP / August 28, 2011 TRIPOLI, Libya - Rebel fighters pushed nearly leaderless regime gunmen to the outskirts of Tripoli yesterday, as severe shortages of fuel, water, and electricity paralyzed the battle-scarred ...
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New Libyan Government Would Block Extradition of Lockerbie Bomber, Officials Say
Fox News
21, 2009: In this image made from television, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, right, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, is greeted by Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi in Tripoli, Libya. TRIPOLI – Libya's new government will refuse to hand over ...
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Libya: Horror of 150 bodies found on a farm thought to have been massacred by ...
Daily Mail
By Damien Gayle and Barbara Jones The bodies of up to 150 Libyan civilians were found yesterday near Tripoli after allegedly being massacred by pro-Gaddafi forces. Journalists said they counted as many as 53 executed bodies in a burnt-out farm ...
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Daily Mail

Libya: Calls For War Crimes Investigation
Sky News
There are growing calls for an investigation into claims of war crimes in Libya after several gruesome discoveries. To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. ...
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Sky News

Mutassim Gaddafi's girlfriend tells of the final days of Libyan regime
Telegraph.co.uk
Relaxing in one of his Tripoli homes just over a week ago, during a break from commanding at the front, the fifth son of Libya's ruler was in a defiant mood. Soon, he boasted to the blonde foreigner sitting with him, he would lead his father's regime ...
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Telegraph.co.uk

As Gaddafi topples, big British companies queue to get back into Libya
The Guardian
An oil refinery in Zawiyah, Libya. Many western oil firms have large-scale investments in Libya. Photograph: Giulio Petrocco/AP Major British companies are hatching plans to relaunch their businesses in Libya – just days after news of the apparent ...
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The Guardian

Leading article: Libya was never going to be easy
The Independent
Our doubts about the council, however, do not outweigh the arguments for international support forLibya's new leaders. This newspaper supported Nato's military intervention, and Britain's part in it, when it began in March, but it was a choice between ...
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Gaddafi's African 'mercenaries' leaving Libya
BBC News
By Martin Plaut Africa analyst, BBC World Service The United Nations has called on all sides in the Libyan conflict to prevent acts of revenge. It follows reports both of killings by pro-Gaddafi forces and of attacks on African troops who fought on the ...
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BBC News

Libyan Rebels Pursue Qaddafi Loyalists Believed to Be Hiding in Beni Walid
Bloomberg
By Chris Stephen and Nicole Gaouette - Sun Aug 28 04:12:30 GMT 2011 Libyan rebel units closed in on the town of Beni Walid, a Qaddafi loyalist holdout 100 miles south west of Misrata, as the rebel's National Transition Council claimed full control of ...
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Libya rebels bask in victory and look to the future
Los Angeles Times
Rebel fighters are piled into a pickup truck as it leaves Bin Jawwad, Libya. (Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times / August 28, 2011) By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times The two cousins still couldn't believe it. Just six months ago, they were working-class ...
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Los Angeles Times

What to do with Libya?
Covington News
It is with great regret that I have to inform you that Muammar Gaddafi has fallen from power in Libya. Not that I knew him or thought that he was good for Libya or the world in general. Rather my regrets are for the manner of his passing from the world ...
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Zuma urges all groups to join peaceful process in Libya
Xinhua
27 (Xinhua) -- All groups claiming authority over Libya must come together and negotiate a peaceful process that will lead to the formation of an inclusive transitional government and democracy inLibya, South African President Jacob Zuma said on ...
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Libya rebels scramble to get Tripoli back on its feet
The Daily Star
By Dominique Sogue, Charles Onians TRIPOLI: Rebels were working on Sunday to get the Libyancapital up and running again as calm prevailed for a second day, despite sporadic gunfire overnight and the gruesome find of piles of charred bodies. ...
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U.S. Filmmaker Held Alone 6 Months in Libya
Fox News
AP American writer and filmmaker Matthew VanDyke , from Baltimore, released from Abu Salim prison after spending 6 months imprisoned, is seen in front of the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. TRIPOLI, Libya -- American writer ...
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A Moment in Time - Post-Gaddafi Libya and us
Malta Independent Online
by Charles Flores The truth is Malta has enjoyed a privileged status with neighbouring Libya since 1971, that is only two years after the 1st September Revolution spearheaded by Muammar Gaddafi. It is also true that a huge number of Maltese citizens, ...
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Canadian-led report names suspect in death of UK police officer
Vancouver Sun
By Amy Chung, Postmedia News August 27, 2011 Artificial flowers lie at the base of the memorial stone dedicated to police officer Yvonne Fletcher, who was murdered outside the Libyan Embassy in 1984, at St James's Square in London August 27, 2011. ...
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Malta preparing to serve as main Libya humanitarian aid hub
Malta Independent Online
by Annaliza Borg After serving as an evacuation hub in the days and weeks following the start of the uprising in Libya, Malta is again preparing to serve as humanitarian aid hub this time for the transportation of life-saving supplies. ...
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Walnut man returns after aiding rebels in his native Libya
Pasadena Star-News
By Brenda Gazzar, Staff Writer Mahmud Gibani, 50, of Walnut, with his daughter Fadwa Gibani, 9, watch the news about the revolt in Libya, at there home in Walnut, Thursday, August 24, 2011. Mahmud Gibani spent several months in Libya in an effort to ...
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All-Out NATO Assault on Libya Exposes Obama Lies, Senate Cowardice
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)
27 (EIRNS)—The current all-out military regime-change operation against Libya exposes not only the lies of the Obama Administration, but also the cowardice of the US Senate, led by Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry, ...
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UK & World News: Bodies of 150 rebels found torched in warehouse as Colonel ...
Scottish Daily Record
A MASS grave holding up to 150 rebel corpses was discovered in a burned-out warehouse in Libyayesterday. The grisly scene was found by families living nearby, who had been banned from going near the building on a military base near Tripoli. ...
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EA businesses cautious as Libyan rebels overrun Tripoli
East African
By JULIUS BARIGABA (email the author) With the expected installation of a new government in Tripoli, executives of companies around East Africa that are affiliated toLibya were last week waiting with bated breath for the shooting to end. ...
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East African

Gaddafi convoy spotted near Algeria
Hindustan Times
Six armoured vehicles, thought to be carrying Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his sons, have crossed the Libya-Algeria border, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported on Saturday. border, without any pursuit from the rebels. ...
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Libya a 'different kettle of fish'
Independent Online
Picture: Leon Lestrade Former president Thabo Mbeki has criticised the international community's intervention in Libya, saying Western powers had intervened to advance “their own selfish interests”. Mbeki was speaking on Friday to a packed hall of ...
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Independent Online

The family's mansions turn out to be not so grand
Boston Globe
By Anthony Shadid and Kareem Fahim TRIPOLI, Libya - His name of choice was the Brother Leader, though his nearly 42 years of rule were rarely brotherly, and his leadership left one of the world's most richly endowed countries in shambles. ...
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Worldview: Don't forget Tunisia, where democracy has a better chance to work ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Trudy Rubin While the media are saturated with stories from Libya, we rarely hear what's happening in next-door Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began. That's too bad, because Tunisia is a far more important barometer of democracy's prospects in the ...
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Lessons from Saddam hunt applicable in Libya - Army News | News ...
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It took a U.S.-led invasion force of 200000-plus troops nine months to scour Iraq's nearly 170000 square miles before capturing Saddam Hussein after one of the largest manhunts ever.
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neo-neocon » Blog Archive » David Warren on the news from Libya
By neo-neocon
David Warren on the news from Libya. David Warren makes some spot-on observations on why the reporting from Libya has been so unreliable: The issue is not crude bias. It is, so far as I am able to understand, the compounded effect of two ...
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Libya: Pro-Gaddafi Forces Killed Detainees, Says Rights Group
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Gaddafi 'Offers Talks On Power Transfer'. From the BBC: Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi is ready to begin talks to transfer power, according to his spokesman. He told a news agency discussions would be led by Col Gaddafi's son, Saadi. ...
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Ron Paul Issues Statement on Libya | Set You Free News
By Dennis
LAKE JACKSON, Texas– Today, 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul issued a statement on the situation in Libya. See comments below. “The current situation in Libya may be a short term victory for Empire, but it is a loss for our ...
Set You Free News
Algeria Qatar Row Over Libya Goes ... - Morocco Board News Service
By Hassan Masiky
Morocco Board News-- The demise of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has further alienated the Military backed regime of Algeria's President Bouteflika. Aside from the very public media war fought between Algiers and the National ...
Morocco Board News Service
556 Western Sahara Separatists Mercenaries Arrested in Libya ...
By NIGER1.COM
Washington / Morocco Board News– Hundreds of Western Sahara Separatists Mercenaries were arrested in Libya following the recent battles against the gaddafi regime. The Polisario mercenaries were among groups of sub-Saharan African ...
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Libya's new masters face enormous hurdles - WAVE 3 News ...
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Libya's Rebel Leaders Will Face Enormous Hurdles
By The Huffington Post News Editors
TRIPOLI, Libya -- For 42 years, during the long rule of Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan government barely even existed: state institutions had little power, the military was kept purposefully weak, tribal divisions were magnified. Gadhafi was the Brother Leader, the Guide of the Revolution, the King of Kings of Africa. ... Pan-African News Wire: Libya News Update: CIA-backed Rebels Trapped, Surrounded in Tripoli ...
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Libya's new masters face enormous hurdles | The Associated Press ...
By The Associated Press
For 42 years, during the long rule of Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan government barely even existed: state institutions had little power, the military was kept purposefully weak, tribal divisions were magnified. Gadhafi was the Brother Leader, the ...
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Libya's rebel oil firm Agoco says all refineries shut (Reuters) | Stock ...
By Editor - Business News
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – All five of Libya's refineries are offline due to a lack of crude oil production and damage to facilities, the.
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In Libya, Gas Prices Rise As Rebels Seek Control
Libyan rebels fought Saturday for control of a major supply road to the capital, seizing a border crossing with Tunisia and strengthening their hold on the oil-rich country as they hunt for Moammar Gadhafi.
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