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LIBYA News, Sep 01, 2011


RAF flies £140m unfrozen cash assets to Libya
BBC News
The RAF has flown £140m of Libyan banknotes (280m Libyan dinars) to Libya after an assets freeze aimed at Col Muammar Gaddafi was lifted. The cash, printed in the UK, is the first tranche of £950m that will be handed to Libya's Central Bank. ...
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BBC News
Iraq lesson looms large at Libya world summit
CBS News
Libyan children show their collection of spent bullet casings gathered from Martyrs' Square, formerly known as Green Square, in the capital city of Tripoli Aug. 27, 2011. (Getty Images) PARIS - The bloody lessons of Iraq will loom large as 60 world ...
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Libya: Western diplomats step up a gear
BBC News
World leaders are gathering in Paris to map out a future for Libya, a country with a unique set of problems, writes the BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus. The fighting in Libya is not over yet. Colonel Gaddafi himself is still at large. ...
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BBC News
Libya rebels claim Gadhafi foreign minister caught
The Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A Libyan rebel official says his fighters have captured Moammar Gadhafi's foreign minister. Ahmed Said, an adviser to the interior minister in the rebels' interim government, confirmed the capture on Thursday, but did not refer ...
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The Associated Press
Libya: row over extradition of WPc Yvonne Fletcher suspect
Telegraph.co.uk
Libya's new government have refused to offer assurances it would extradite Matouk Mohammed Matouk, the only formal suspect in the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher known to be alive, threatening an intensified diplomatic row with Britain. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
US to sound out Libya rebels on transition needs
AFP
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left for international talks in Paris aimed at sounding out Libyan rebels on what US officials call their "enormous" needs in establishing a new government. What is at stake, US officials say, ...
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AFP
US hopes Paris meet will help establish new govt. in Libya
The Hindu
The US hopes that Paris meeting on Libya will pave the way for a "new phase" in the war-torn country after the ouster of Muammar Qadhafi, as the international community stepped up efforts to help the rebels establish a government at Tripoli. ...
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The Hindu
US, Europe rule out key postwar role in Libya
Los Angeles Times
Rebels grieve for comrades at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, where prayers were held during Libya's first Eid al-Fitr holiday in the post-Kadafi era. (Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images / August 31, 2011) By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times Despite signs of ...
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Los Angeles Times
Islamists' evolving role in Libya
USA Today
By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY Radical Islamists are among the leaders of rebels who have toppled Tripoli and are hunting down Moammar Gadhafi but their influence can be blunted by the West before they gain power and pose a threat to Libyan democracy and to ...
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USA Today
Libya: David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy host victory summit as scramble for ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Russia has finally moved to recognise Libya's victorious rebels as Moscow seeks to muscle in on postwar reconstruction and to protect its economic interests in the oil-rich North African country. By Bruno Waterfield As David Cameron joins Nicolas ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
EU Expected to Lift Libya Oil Sanctions
Voice of America
August 31, 2011 EU Expected to Lift Libya Oil Sanctions VOA News European Union diplomats say sanctions against several Libyan ports, oil companies and more than a dozen other entities could be lifted as soon as Friday. The EU's 27 members reached a ...
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Tripoli's Zoo Animals Abandoned During Libya's Conflict (VIDEO)
Global Animal
(ZOO ANIMAL NEWS) LIBYA — The Tripoli Zoo was abandoned during fighting inLibya's capital last week. Left to fend for themselves during the chaos, the zoo animals weren't given food or water for seven days. Although the fighting has ended, ...
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Global Animal
Libyan-Canadians in no rush to return to embattled homeland
Vancouver Sun
By Amy Chung, Postmedia News August 31, 2011 Refugees who fled unrest in Libya play at a refugee camp near the southern Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Dehiba. OTTAWA — Dozens of Libyan-Canadians have made the trip back to the homeland during ...
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Rebels to make case for aid to Clinton and others
Seattle Post Intelligencer
MATTHEW LEE, AP A Libyan rebel stands guard as worshippers gather in the former Green Square, renamed Martyr's Square, for the morning Eid prayer marking the end of Ramadan and to celebrate their victory over Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli, Libya, ...
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International Cohesion Is Key for Libya, Frattini Writes in WSJ
Bloomberg
By Chiara Vasarri - Thu Sep 01 07:34:01 GMT 2011 The international community must remain united in its support for Libya and avoid patronizing the country's new leadership, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini wrote in the Wall Street Journal. ...
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EU Won't Trust Libya's Rebels Unconditionally - Bulgarian Commissioner
Novinite.com
Photo by BGNES The EU will continue collaborating with Libya's Transitional National Government, but the bloc's support for the rebels will no be unconditional, Bulgarian EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva has pointed out. "If Libya chooses the path ...
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Novinite.com
EU intervention in Libya
Malta Business Weekly
The situation in Libya started being volatile in February, when protests against the Gaddafi regime started in Benghazi and quickly spread throughout the country and to Libyan communities around the world. The violence that ensued brought about a ...
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Proving the naysayers wrong on Libya
CBS News
Rebel fighters gesture and shoot in the air as they celebrate overrunning Muammar Qaddafi's compound Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya, early Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) With Muammar Qaddafi still at large, continued fighting in ...
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What Libya can learn from Iraq
Philadelphia Inquirer
Before presenting the list, let me detail why the Iraqi and Libyan cases are so alike, despite very different circumstances. True, Libya is smaller than Iraq, and it has been spared Iraq's problematic neighbors and its sectarian divide (Libya's ...
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Australia offers Libyan students lifeline
News24
Was R67.95 Now R64.55 Sydney - Australia pledged Aus$1.5m (US$1.6m) on Thursday to help some 650 Libyan students left destitute by the turmoil in their home country to continue studying there. Acting Foreign Minister Craig Emerson said the loan to the ...
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Lebanon to take part in Pairs conference on Libya
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: Lebanon will take part in Thursday's “Friends of Libya” conference in Paris to discuss the rebuilding of the war-battered African country. Around 60 nations are expected to be represented at the conference, which will be co-chaired by French ...
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Zimbabwe Deputy Prime Minister Says Libyan Envoy Deserved Expulsion
Voice of America
31 August 2011 Zimbabwe Deputy Prime Minister Says Libyan Envoy Deserved Expulsion Deputy Minister of Justice Obert Gutu said Harare over-reacted as the National Transitional Council is now the de facto government and former leader Moammar Gadhafi is ...
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How outside tech firms helped Gadhafi crack down in Libya
TechFlash
To maintain his control over Libyan citizens, Moammar Gadhafi used tech tools supplied by outside companies to monitor online calls made through Skype, to sensor YouTube videos and do prevent Libyans from hiding their online activities. ...
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Germany to probe how rifles wound up in Libya
Reuters
BERLIN Aug 31 (Reuters) - Germany and Libya's new authorities will investigate reports that high-powered German assault rifles wound up in Muammar Gaddafi's arsenals where the weapons were seized by rebels and used against his forces, officials said on ...
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WV Doctor Returns Home From Libyan Prison
West Virginia MetroNews
After more than six month in a Libyan prison, a Charleston doctor has returned home to his friends and family in West Virginia. Dr. Rida Mazagri, a neurosurgeon with Charleston Area Medical Center, got a rousing ovation from about 100 supporters when ...
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Senior Bush diplomat 'advised Gaddafi regime to the end'
Telegraph.co.uk
An American businessman, who served as a senior US diplomat under George W. Bush, advised the Gaddafi regime as it struggled to cling to power in Libya, it has been claimed. By Jon Swaine, New York Documents reportedly found in the ransacked ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Cheney: Lead-From-Behind Strategy in Libya Won't Work in Future Conflicts
Fox News
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday it would be a "mistake" to apply the "leading-from-behind" strategy in Libya to future conflicts, though he described the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi as a "major plus." Cheney, in an interview with Fox ...
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Cardiff surgeon Nizar Mhani's role in Libyan uprising
BBC News
A surgeon from south Wales has spoken of his role at the forefront of the Libyanuprising. Nizar Mhani, 30, left Cardiff for the Libyan capital Tripoli in February to "play his part" in overturning Col Gaddafi's 42-year grip on the country. ...
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BBC News
Schumer Floats Trading Libyan Aid For Lockerbie Bomber
Talk Radio News Service
Y.) called on the US State Department on Wednesday to withhold aid to Libya's opposition political group unless it gives up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Libyan terrorist convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan-Am flight 103, which killed 189 Americans when ...
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On the Radar: Atlantic storms, Libya and Petraeus' promotion
CNN (blog)
Libyan rebels said time is running out for Moammar Gadhafi, whose trove of family photos has been uncovered. A deadline looms for his loyalists to disarm, and a minister in the National Transitional Council said, "I think this thug, this killer knows ...
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US scholar okays Tanzania stand on Libya crisis
The Citizen Daily
A scholar from California University, Dr James Mitchell, has supported Tanzania's stand not to recognise Libyan rebels fighting to topple Col Muammar Gaddafi. On Sunday, the minister for Foreign Affairs and International Relations, Mr Bernard Membe, ...
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Libya: 11-year-old killed by celebratory gunfire in Tripoli
Telegraph.co.uk
A major in the Gaddafi army who went over to the rebels at the start of the uprising told The Daily Telegraph yesterday that there were already 15 million Kalashnikovs, Bereta machine guns and other light arms in Libya when he was running inventories ...
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NATO Still Bombing Libya -- News from Antiwar.com
By Jason Ditz
Remember how over a week ago NATO officials were beaming with pride in their “victory” in Libya? They apparently don't, as reports from the nation indicate that they are not only maintaining a “no-fly zone” but are still bombing the country. ...
News From Antiwar.com
Libya, the UK and military kit… it's just business | World News Blog
By Alex Thomson
British firm General Dynamics signed one of the biggest deals of all with Colonel Gaddafi and as Alex Thomson blogs it is just one of several links between the UK and the ousted regime.
World News Blog
Creating Frankenstein on Europe's southern borders — RT
By RT
Friends of Libya, a contact group comprising 60 countries, is meeting in Paris to discuss the future of the country post-Gaddafi. Yet it is not so long ago that the colonel himself was getting praise and support from the West.
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A Gadhafi son vows no surrender to Libyan rebels — Maine News ...
By UnBylined
TRIPOLI, Libya — Two men claiming to be Moammar Gadhafi's sons made conflicting appeals from hiding Wednesday night, with one of them calling for talks with rebel leaders and the other urging the regime's loyalists to fight to the death.
Bangor Daily News
US: No plans to tie Libya aid to Lockerbie case - Politics news
The Obama administration said Wednesday it will continue to press Libyan rebels to review the case of the convicted Lockerbie bomber,...
Mail.com: US
Libya and African leaders
By alexsamade
The Libyan aspect of the Arab Spring, a series of pro-democracy and freedom protests that have ended decades-old, entrenched regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, with Syria and Yemen still on the boil, has turned into a diplomatic mess for ...
Vanguard News
Russia recognizes Libya's National Transitional ... - Setyoufree News
By Mario A.
Earlier this week the National Transitional Council protested against foreign interference and said that humanitarian aid was the only thing Libya wanted from abroad. Meanwhile, Libyan .... GET NEWSUPDATES VIA EMAIL. Enter your email ...
Set You Free News
Malacañang says repatriation of Filipinos in Libya continues | U.S. ...
By admin
... Libya and Syria to help officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in providing assistance to overseas Filipinos workers and Filipino citizens who want to be repatriated. During a regular newsbriefing in Malacañang on Wednesday, ...
U.S. News Las Vegas
China to attend Libya meeting in Paris - Home » Other Sections ...
China will send a vice minister to an international conference in Paris aimed at boosting aid to theLibyan rebels. ... READ OTHER NEWS. SHARE ... China to attend Libya meeting in Paris (philstar.com) Updated September 01, 2011 12:03 PM ...
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China says it will attend Libya meeting in Paris | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
China said it would send a vice minister to a conference in Paris aimed at mapping out Libya's future and stressed again Thursday that the United Nations should play a leading role in rebuilding the country.
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Libya's Spectacular Revolution Has Been Disgraced by Racism ...
“This is a bad time to be a black man in Libya,” reported Alex Thomsonon Channel 4 News on Sunday. Elsewhere, Kim Sengupta reported for the Independent on the 30 bodies lying decomposing in Tripoli. The majority of them, allegedly ...
American Renaissance News
India can help in Libya's democratic transition, says US News
By Staff
'We don't have the menu of what the Libyans might need,' State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland told reporters ahead of Friends of Libya meeting in Paris Wednesday to be attended by representatives from more than 30 countries and ...
News One
Russia recognizes Libyan rebels | News for you
By atompublish
MOSCOW – Russia has recognized the Libyan rebel movement as the country's acting leadership. A short statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday said diplomatic relations between Moscow and ...
News for you
Nato bombs several targets in Libya | AAJ News
By Monitoring Desk
aaj-latest-news. aaj-news-logo. AAJ News Pakistan Ki Awaz ... AAJ News Text Ads ... that Gaddafi may be hiding in Bani Walid or in the outskirts of the capital. But he stressed that since Libya is in a state of war information changes rapidly. ...
AAJ News
NATO/Western LIES, Massacre Of Africans, AU's Deployment Of ...
By Republic Report New York
A respected commentator on Libya and international affairs and politics, Mazi Kingsley Nnabuagha, remarked: “I have been watching E-News [A South African 24hours News Channel], and there is this particular version of the Lybian rebels act ...
Republic Report
Russia recognizes National Transitional Council as Libya's ...
Russia recognizes National Transitional Council as Libya's authorities - RIA via @Reuters.
Breaking news
Capital News » Italy eyes end to NATO mission in Libya
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
ROME, Aug 31- Italy on Wednesday said the fall of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte would signal the end of his 42-year regime, hinting that NATO's mission was also drawing to a close. “If as I hope Sirte falls as a ...
Capital News
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