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LIBYA News, Dec 16, 2011


Gaddafi's killing may be a war crime: International Criminal Court
New York Daily News
But he said he declined because Gaddafi's son would have needed to have a lawyer present and he had not asked to see the prosecutor. Moreno Ocampo said the Libyan authorities told him it was "very important" to prosecute Seif al-Islam themselves for ...
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New York Daily News
NATO urged to probe civilians killed in Libya war
Reuters
"Gaddafi was responsible for these deaths," Dabbashi told Reuters on Thursday. Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch (HRW), a rights advocacy group, is inLibya and has been investigating several dozen civilian casualties allegedly caused by NATO. ...
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RPT-Payment proves tricky in post-conflict Libya
Reuters
Initial excitement from companies that rushed to return to Libya to bag a slice of an estimated $200 billion reconstruction programme has been tempered by concerns over payment for deals signed under former leader Muammar Gaddafi. ...
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Saadi Gaddafi's $1.6M Toronto condo: dictator's son owns penthouse near waterfront
National Post
Gaddafi had centralized Libya's economy, and pocketed much of its wealth. Gaddafi's children, in particular, were known for their lavish lifestyles. “And you see things like this which are just disgusting, where they're spending millions,” Ms. Abuzgaya ...
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National Post
Vladimir Putin points to US drones, special forces in killing of Gaddafi
GlobalPost
Vladimir Putin, firing back after a critical John McCain tweet, has accused the US of involvement in the death of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Supporters of Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin rally near the Kremlin wall in central Moscow on Dec ...
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Libya to allow police to probe Lockerbie - minister
Reuters UK
Burt, the Foreign Office minister responsible for North Africa and the Middle East, said no date had been set yet for a police visit, noting that Libyan authorities had a lot of other issues to deal with in a turbulent post-Gaddafi transition. ...
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How the Arab Spring unfolded
gulfnews.com
October 20 — Libya: Gaddafi is killed. Three days later, the NTC declares Libyato be officially "liberated" and announces plans to hold elections within eight months October 23 — Tunisia: First free elections since Arab Spring began. ...
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Libyan leader: crackdowns on Syrians "not acceptable to humanity"
Monsters and Critics.com
Abdul Jalil also spoke of the 'high price' his own country paid to overthrow formerLibyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, who was caught and killed by rebels in October. Abdul Jalil called on the international community to unfreeze Gaddafi's assets so the ...
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Gaddafi's death 'may have been war crime'
The Independent
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has said there are "serious suspicions" that the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a war crime. Luis Moreno Ocampo has sent a letter to the head of Libya's National Transitional Council ...
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Sky's Crawford to write Libya story
The Bookseller
The book will be an account of the uprising which saw the overthrow and death of Colonel Gaddafi, ruler of Libya for more than 40 years. The title refers to the man who found Gaddafi's gold-braided military hat when rebels stormed the dictator's Bab ...
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The Bookseller
Wars of Decline: Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya
The Guatemala Times
The intervention in Libya exceeded its UN mandate as NATO wilfully misrepresented the nature and intent of its actions to tip the balance of power against Gaddafi. It is difficult to see Libya avoiding the sort of lengthy civil strife that has resulted ...
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No, Saif Gaddafi was not a democratic reformer
The Guardian
As a long-time Libya scholar, I do not share Barber's assertions. Barber argues that "even during the insurgency ... Saif Gaddafi still sought to find a peaceful way out", and he cites as evidence Saif's role in trying to engage Turkey and South Africa ...
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The top search terms of 2011
Washington Post
Pictured here, a rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Gaddafi. When an 8.8-magnitude earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster devastated Japan in March, Washington Post ...
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Thank you for the music
The Australian
Poverty brings out the worst in people: we were in Libya earlier in the year when Muammar Gaddafi was shooting fellow Africans in the streets, to pay for it later in a horrible way. We were staying at the Hotel Africa at the time and watched the ...
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Memo to Vladimir Putin: People are GLAD that Gaddafi is dead
National Post (blog)
Mr. Putin accused the United States of masterminding the murder of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi saying his death had been meticulously planned and executed by Washington. “Who did this?” he asked rhetorically when discussing Col.Gaddafi's death. ...
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Syria unrest: Russia pulled two ways
BBC News
Remember what happened with Libya. Once it became clear that Col Muammar Gaddafi's days in power were numbered and other non-Western actors like Turkey and major Arab countries were losing patience, Russia too echoed the call that he should go. ...
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BBC News
Hail the Asantehene, now “King of Kings” of Africa! (Part II)
GhanaWeb
Did these chiefs and sultans ever know of the atrocities that Gaddafi was committing against his own people before allowing him to “buy” them to be installed over them as the “King of Kings”? You see, by their very unconscionable act, the chiefs and ...
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‘I feared I was going to die’ says Libyan recovering in Limerick
Limerick Leader
By Anne Sheridan A LIBYAN freedom fighter who was shot twice during the civil war to overthrow Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is preparing to spend up to a year in Limerick for surgery and rehabilitation, with his costs paid for by the Libyan State. ...
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Limerick Leader
Africa: ICC Reform - People Must Speak With One Voice
AllAfrica.com
The late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was also targeted by the ICC. There was also pressure that his son Saif al-Islam who was captured by Libya's interim government be transferred to the ICC. Africa awaits the ICC's response to ColGaddafi's daughter ...
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MORE ON THE STORY
RT
... even americans themselves! so gone gaddafi, they are after assad now. Who in this world is after resources of other nations? russia or usa? who destroyed afghanistan, iraq, libya?russia? now nuts like "@jimbo" should first get out of their CNN and ...
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Info bill has no chance against bush telegraph
Daily Dispatch Online
Even the brutal death of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was recorded for posterity on a cellphone video. And despite its lack of organised structures, local strongholds or Western- backed no-fly zones, the message of the bloody opposition to Syria's ...
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All Jade wants for Christmas is to be home (Video)
Grimsby Telegraph
"We were posted outside Libya fighting pro-Gaddafi forces and after that we went east to Gulf of Aden before returning home. "We managed to get home for Christmas, which is amazing and a total relief. "A couple of my bosses thought that we should boost ...
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Libya to reach full oil output by third quarter of 2012
FuelFix (blog)
“There is some mine-cleaning in Brega and other places,” Ben Yezza said, referring to the oil hub in eastern Libya that witnessed fierce battles between Qaddafi's forces and the opposition. “There is some damage and of course we are repairing it at the ...
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FuelFix (blog)
Year of joy, sorrow, triumph and tragedy
New Zealand Herald
And Libya and the mad Gaddafi. Gaddafi was caught in a sewer and shot on a truck and was also suddenly very dead. Norway had a spine-chilling maniac with a burning-eyed stare cut a swathe of death through a youth camp on a pretty summer island. ...
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Carlos the Jackal jailed for life
Mirror.co.uk
In an emotional finale, he read a text in memory of long-time Libyanleader Gaddafi, a sort of ideological brother who funded anti-Western attacks in his own heyday. Gaddafi was killed in October after rebels backed by Nato air strikes pushed him from ...
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Mirror.co.uk
America, Israel, Iran: war in focus
Mmegi Online
The third, and strongest of all, regards a nuclear capability (either actual or virtual) as a deterrent against conventional attack; it is reinforced by the experience of theGaddafi regime in Libya, eliminated after it gave up its WMD programme. ...
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Mugabe Chosen As Presidential Candidate
Coastweek
The president said the Libyan invasion and the subsequent brutal killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his family was the only way these countries would have a say on the North African country's oil resources. “Well before the war in Libya, ...
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Coastweek
UniCredit Investors Back Share Sale to Raise EU7.5 Billion
BusinessWeek
Assets owned by Libya's central bank and sovereign wealth fund were frozen by the European Union, UK and US as part of their effort to cut off deceased Libyanleader Muammar Qaddafi's access to funding during the nation's civil war. ...
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Will Hamas Now Abandon Syria and Assad?
International Business Times
Moreover, Hamas groups on Gaza and West Bank have not (to any significant degree) staged protests against Assad, the way they did for former Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi. However, staying in Syria would tacitly suggest that Hamas supports Assad, ...
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International Business Times
Photo-Illustration by Hieronymus for TIME
TIME
The long-term future of Libya remains very much up for grabs, but Obama's mission--preventing a massacre in Benghazi and getting rid of Gaddafi--was accomplished efficiently. In Afghanistan the President went against the wishes of his superstar general ...
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Quotes of the year
SkySports
"I do not honestly know what is really happening in Libya at the moment but it must be very hard for Gaddafi and his family." El-Hadji Diouf comes round after his lobotomy. "I'll offer him a glass of white wine as I know he likes red. ...
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SkySports
BagNews “Trends in Political Photographs” – 2011
BagNews Notes
Hani Mohammed / AP A protestor, his face painted with the colors of Palestine, Yemen, and pre-Gadhafi Libya flags attends a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. ...
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BagNews Notes
Gaddafi's death may be war crime - ICC prosecutor
gulfnews.com
An image captured off a cellular phone camera shows the arrest ofLibya's strongman Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte. The authenticity of the image could not be verified. United Nations: The death of formerLibyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was captured and ...
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gulfnews.com
The woman behind the man
Sydney Morning Herald
In 2008 the late unlamented Gaddafi fancied her (''an eerie obsession,'' as she put it), calling her his ''African princess''. He was furious she wouldn't meet him in his infamous tent, insisting instead on his residence. Warned of his craziness, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Interview: John Street
Politics.co.uk
Colonel Gaddafi seemed on the brink of defeat today after an extraordinary night inLibya saw rebel forces take control of much of the capital. Britain has confirmed that negotiations with the Taliban are ongoing, as Barack Obama signalled the first...
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World News - Gadhafi killing may be war crime, ICC prosecutor says
By msnbc.com saff and news services
The slaying of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was captured and killed by rebels in October, may have been a war crime, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said late Thursday. ... Fred Abrahams of Human RightsWatch (HRW), a rights advocacy group, is in Libya and has been investigating several dozen civilian casualties allegedly caused by NATO. ..... As a new user, you may notice a few temporary content restrictions. Click here for more info. ...
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Libya - ICC Prosecutor: Gaddafi Killing May Be War Crime ...
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Published on: Today 07:54 AM. News Source: AP ... Libya - The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Thursday there are “serious suspicions” that the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was a war crime. Luis Moreno Ocampo told reporters ... Witness accounts and video taken of the deposed dictator after his capture by rebel fighters show that he was beaten and abused by his captors, and there were strong indications he was killed in custody. Advertisement: ...
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Gaddafi's death 'a war crime': ICC searching for scapegoats — RT
By RT
Some two months after the torturous death of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, the ICC finally “suspects” it was a war crime. A group of ... Go to main page News Gaddafi's death 'a war crime': ICC searching for scapegoats. Follow RT on ... Libyais turning a new page in its history following the killing of its former leader Muammar Gaddafi. But the footage of Gaddafi's dead and broken body was so graphic; some are wondering why it was broadcast for the public to seeLibyanconflict ...
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Gaddafi's killing may be a war crime: International Criminal Court
The uprising against Gaddafi's 42-year rule erupted in February, ... This video frame grab image taken from Libyan TV purports to show former Libyan leader ...
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Libyan army, militia clash, leaving 1 dead
Former Libyan rebels controlling airport open fire on fledging army's leader, underlying challenge of the new government. ... CBS News.com World ... try to stamp their authority on the disparate militias that overthrew Muammar Qaddafi. ...of State, Andrew Shapiro, who was on hand to watch along with the U.S. ambassador. ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../libyan-army-militia-clash-leaving-1-dea...
Saadi Gaddafi's $1.6M Toronto condo: dictator's son owns penthouse ...
Gaddafi had centralized Libya's economy, and pocketed much of its wealth. ...“And you see things like this which are just disgusting, where they're ...
news.nationalpost.com/.../saadi-gaddafis-1-6m-toronto-condo-...
BBC News - Mexico 'stops entry' of Libya's Saadi Gaddafi
A bid to smuggle one of the sons of Libyan ex-leader Col Muammar Gaddafi ...including Mexico, Denmark and Canada, Mr Poire told a news conference in Mexico City. .... While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16075043
BBC News - Graffiti art takes off in post-Gaddafi Libya
Graffiti was never seen in Libya under Colonel Gaddafi but since his removal from power, the ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16076806
Libyan rulers ready to forgive Gaddafi forces - RTÉ News
Libya's new rulers are ready to forgive the forces of Muammar Gaddafi, National Transition ... Get the latest news updates on Twitter by following @rtenews ...
www.rte.ie/news/2011/1210/libya.html
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