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LIBYA News, Dec 09, 2011


Al Saadi Gaddafi Denies Mexico Plot
Huffington Post
Defense lawyer Nick Kaufman, who has been involved in several international criminal cases, told The Associated Press in an email that al-Saadi fled Libyabecause he feared for his life and is grateful to the government of Niger for giving him refuge. ...
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Gaddafi son planned luxury life at Mexican resort with new identity
Sydney Morning Herald
MEXICO CITY: With the help of an international smuggling ring, the playboy son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was plotting to sneak into Mexico under a false name and live in a posh Pacific coast resort frequented by celebrities, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
A comparison between Gaddafi and Ian Khama
Mmegi Online
Born on June 7, 1942 at Sirte, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi died on October 20, 2011 at his birthplace. Botswana's President Ian Khama is still alive and spending sleepless nights working on consolidating his dictatorship. To Khama, what happened to Gaddafi ...
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Mugabe mocks Gaddafi
NewsDay
President Robert Mugabe yesterday avoided tackling the controversial WikiLeaks issue, but dwelt on the Arab Spring that toppled some presidents including his bosom buddie, the slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whom he mocked. ...
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Libya struggling to gain control of thousands of illegal guns in homes
Public Radio International PRI
Moammar Gaddafi was overthrown as leader of Libya this fall. Now the country's new rulers are trying to get guns off the street. In the aftermath of the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, Libya is trying to get guns and heavy weaponry off the streets. ...
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Syria: Homs massacre warning - live updates
The Guardian
He complained that the new restrictions were a "nasty" hangover from the Gaddafi era. Writing on a Facebook group for foreign correspondents set up by Bouckaert, the Guardian's Libya stringer Christopher Stephen wrote: I spoke to the BBC and it is also ...
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The Guardian
The Long Road to Tripoli - part one
Al Jazeera
When Libyans rose up against the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi, those exiled abroad faced questions about their identity and role. We follow a group of Libyanexiles as they sacrifice everything to return home for the final assault on Tripoli.
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No 10 role for Navy ship shell
The Press Association
A shell case from a round used by a Royal Navy destroyer against pro-Gaddafiforces in Libya will now take pride of place in No 10 - as the Prime Minister's umbrella stand. The casing was presented to David Cameron by the crew of HMS Liverpool after he ...
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HMS Ocean returns to Naval base
BBC News
HMS Ocean returns to Royal Naval Base Devonport in Plymouth after a seven-and-a-half-month tour that saw the crew launch airborne assaults which helped end Colonel Gaddafi's regime in Libya. The crew recently became an internet sensation after making a ...
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BBC News
Lockerbie and PC Fletcher inquiries to reopen in Libya, says minister
The Guardian
Two men were tried and Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the Lockerbie bombing after they were surrendered by Colonel Gaddafi'sregime. But the Fletcher investigation had been repeatedly thwarted and blocked. Burt said the Libyan foreign minister ...
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The Guardian
Mugabe terrified by the thought of NATO attacks
Zimbabwe Metro
BULAWAYO — President Robert Mugabe says he fears being targeted by Western countries the same way Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was ousted by NATO-backed fighters. Mugabe told an annual party conference in Bulawayo yesterday that Zimbabwe's rich ...
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Mexico says it foiled plot to smuggle son of former Libyan leader Gaddafi into ...
Openglobe
Mexican officials announced on Wednesday that the country's intelligence agents foiled a plan to smuggle Saadi Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader MuammerGaddafi, into the Mexican resort of Punta Mita. Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire said that the ...
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Sunni Realignments
American Spectator
We find a similar active approach on the part of Turkey and Qatar regarding Libya, albeit differing to a certain degree. The two countries backed the anti-Gaddafi forces during the civil war. Turkey played an important part in enforcing an arms embargo ...
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American Spectator
UK NATO campaign in Libya (longer than expected) cost 333 million dollars
MercoPress
The mission formally ended on Oct. 31, seven months after NATO took control of military operations under a United Nations resolution to protect civilians from Muammar Gaddafi. The Libyan dictator 42-year rule ended in August and he was captured and ...
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MercoPress
Mariah Carey Tweets Approval
Anglophenia
By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Friday, When the crew of the HMS Ocean found out that their seven-month tour of duty – including a stint in Libya during the revolt against Colonel Gaddafi – would be ending in time for Christmas, they chose to celebrate ...
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Reuters photos of 2011
Toronto Sun
REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi waves from his car inside the compound of Bab Al Azizia in Tripoli, after a meeting with a delegation of five African leaders seeking to mediate in Libya's conflict April 10, 2011. ...
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Media Matters: Where is the opinion of the African media on African issues?
Myjoyonline.com
This pattern of military intervention, or invasion, repeated itself on a large scale inLibya where Nato bombed the dictatorial regime of the late Gaddafi until his regime collapsed and he was captured and slaughtered. Again, the AU was ignored and ...
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What Will Post-Arab Spring Intellectuals Write About?
Huffington Post (blog)
Not only did he promote the works, but hosted such plays in Tripoli, although every one of their punch lines perfectly applied to Gaddafi's Libya. He was particularly fond of a TV work that took place in another fairytale land called "Wadi al-Misk" ...
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People power matters
gulfnews.com
Gaddafi deliberately worked on dubious plans throughout his 42-year rule — to expel all national symbols and intellectuals from Libya — a country which generates billions of dollars from its rich oil resources.Gaddafi and his ousted counterparts ...
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gulfnews.com
Libya leader says militia to withdraw from Tripoli
Reuters Africa
Tripoli's city council said on Tuesday it was giving militias until December 20 to leave town as part of a new strategy to rid the city of the groups of armed men who toppled Muammar Gaddafi three months ago and have stayed there since. ...
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EU offers help as Sahel countries step up security
Reuters Africa
Niger said it had deployed elite forces in the desert and Mali said it was also shoring up security in its northern town of Kidal, in a region where Tuareg who fought for Gaddafi in Libya are believed to be massing. Four Europeans and a South African ...
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Hillary Clinton: Censoring internet would be disastrous
Times of India
Activists have used Facebook, Twitter and other internet technology to organize protests against the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, and Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi. Assad has used deadly violence ...
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Libya leader says militia to withdraw from Tripoli
Reuters Africa
20 to leave town as part of a new strategy to rid the city of the groups of armed men who toppled Muammar Gaddafi three months ago and have stayed there since. The two-week-old provisional government has made improving security a priority. ...
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Al-Qaida offshoot hopes to turn Africa's Sahel region into a 'new Somalia'
The Guardian
Fowler said the terrorist threat to Europe's southern flank had risen after advanced weapons were plundered during the collapse of theGaddafi regime in Libya. "They (AQIM) are now equipped with enormous amounts of Libyan weapons and I mean ...
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The Guardian
Searching for scapegoats
Sofia Echo
As for Libya, aside from Gaddafi's instability, the country was "always vulnerable", believes Sadek, sandwiched as it was between Egypt and Tunisia. Mubarak might have been the West's "good dictator" but Sadek says the disease, whether it affects ...
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Sofia Echo
Syrians are on their own
New York Post (blog)
So Libya got saved but no such luck for Syria. "In many respects the “crimes against humanity” being committed by the Assad regime in Syria are no different from those perpetrated by Gaddafi's loyalists in Benghazi last spring. ...
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Africa: Fanon's Enduring Relevance
AllAfrica.com
... Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) for military assistance that led to the UN Security Council resolution 1973 that authorised the NATO no-fly zone overLibya and the eventual violent death of Gaddafi along with several thousands Libyans? ...
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2011 defining moments
Washington Post
Vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi explode after an airstrike by coalition forces, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah. The protests to oust Gaddafi turned into an armed conflict after security forces clashed ...
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Spain's Former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on the Arab Awakening and How...
CNBC.com (blog)
In Libya, Bengazi rebels initiated a military campaign that, after six month of fighting, put an end to 40 years of Gaddafi's dictatorship. And weekly demonstrations forced the King of Morocco to open up the political system and change his country's ...
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No dignity for Arab thinkers in their own countries
Al-Arabiya
There is also Fathi Terbil, the Libyan human rights activist who challenged Gaddafi's regime until it collapsed, and who had revealed details of the massacre that claimed the lives of 1200 detainees in the Abu Salim prison. Trailing behind the twelve ...
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Al-Arabiya
Al Saadi Gaddafi Denies Mexico Plot
By The Huffington Post News Editors
CAIRO -- The son of slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi "vigorously denies" having plotted to illegally sneak into Mexico to escape his home country after the fall of his father's regime, his lawyer said Friday. Al-Saadi Gadhafi fled to the neighboring country of Niger in September and the government there has given ...Gadhafi's Son Denies Plot to Sneak Into Mexico - ABC News · Canadian woman denies role in Mexico Gadhafi plot - World - CBC ... Gadhafi's son denies plot to sneak ...
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Pan-African News Wire: Libya News Update: Aisha Gaddafi Urges ...
Libya News Update: Aisha Gaddafi Urges Libyans to Overthrow US-Led Puppet Regime. Libyan women hold pictures of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in ...
panafricannews.blogspot.com/.../libya-news-update-aisha-gad...
BBC News - Libyan fighter: 'I spoke to Gaddafi before he died'
In the short time between Colonel Gaddafi's capture and his death in September, rebel fighter Mohammed Sheba had the chance to speak to the deposed ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15889840
Libyan in(ter)vention: False facts fatal for Gaddafi — RT
Sanctions against Syria and looming prospects of an intervention into the country are drawing ...
rt.com/news/lybia-gaddafi-war-evidence-833/
Gaddafi's daughter urges the overthrow of Libya's government ...
The daughter Muammar Gaddafi has urged the Libyan people to rise up and overthrow the transitional government which toppled her father's regime.
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Gaddafis-daughter-urges-the-overthro...
Mexico 'stops entry' of Libya's Saadi Gaddafi
The Mexican authorities say they have stopped a plot by a criminal gang organisation to smuggle one of the sons of Libya's ex-leader Col MuammarGaddafi ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16075043
Foreign Office asked Oxford to admit Gaddafi son as student | World ...
Foreign Office lobbied Oxford university to accept Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al -Islam to ... The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web ... BAE told the inquiry that at the time Libya was "seemingly coming into the fold" and the ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../01/foreign-office-oxford-gaddafi-son
ICC seeks information from Libya on Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam
THE HAGUE: International Criminal Court judges want to know from Libyanauthorities where Muammar Gaddafi's son and one-time heir apparent is being held and ...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/.../11013577.cms
Libya – News from Saif Al Islam Gaddafi (December 6, 2011 ...
Libya – News from Saif Al Islam Gaddafi (December 6, 2011). Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Laaska news Dec. 7, 2011. Photo:File. According to Ilibya TV, the ...
laaska.wordpress.com/.../libya-news-from-saif-al-islam-gaddaf...
Libya's Post-Gaddafi Graffiti Revolution (VIDEO)
Following Colonel Gaddafi's fall from power, Libya experienced a revolution not only in politics but in imagery as well. Gaddafi and his regime' depiction ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../libyas-post-gaddafi-graff_n_113...
Aisha Gaddafi, Daughter Of Former Libya Leader, Calls For ...
Aisha Gaddafi, Daughter Of Former Libya Leader, Calls For Overthrow Of New Rulers ... Libya News · Libya ... Aisha Gaddafi staring as Libya's Grinch LOL! ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../aisha-gaddafi_n_1119220.html
Libya displays Roman treasures looted by Gaddafi ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi stole ancient Roman artifacts when they fled Tripoli, bundled them into sacks and ...
news.yahoo.com/libya-displays-roman-treasures-looted-gadda...
Gaddafi loyalists fight back in Sirte | LIBYA NEWS
Fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, who now control just one small area of Sirte, are making their final stand in the toppled Libyan leader's hometown. ...
libya.newsinformers.net/gaddafi-loyalists-fight-back-in-sirte/
Libya displays Roman treasures looted by Gaddafi troops | Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi stole ancient Roman ...their fight," against the new Libyan leadership, Algabe told a news conference. ...
www.reuters.com/.../uk-libya-artefacts-idUSLNE7AR02A2011...
Gaddafi and me: professor explains why LSE took cash from Libyan ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/article6259894.ece ... description of how Saif Gaddafi changed into a "frightened" man as the Libyan revolution ...
www.independent.co.uk/.../gaddafi-and-me-professor-explains...
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