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Libyan pro-Gaddafi fighters 'beaten with chains' at prison where Doctors ...
National Post (blog)
By Jay Deshmukh MISRATA, Libya – Former pro-Gaddafi fighter Milad Mohammed Yusuf lifts his shirt to reveal scars from what he says are cigarette burns and chain beatings, claims his jailer denies happened at his prison. Yusuf, a prison inmate in the ...
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National Post (blog)
Libyan militia leader sues former UK spy chief
Chicago Tribune
LONDON (Reuters) - A Libyan militia leader has begun legal action against a former senior British intelligence chief whom he accuses of playing a key role in illegally returning him to Libya to be jailed and tortured under Muammar Gaddafi, ...
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Libya rejects MSF torture allegations: minister
Reuters
By Yara Bayoumy | ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The Libyan government rejected Monday allegations it had tortured detainees who had fought for Muammar Gaddafi'sforces, saying that if there had been cases of torture it had not known about them.
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Libya militias prepare to retake Bani Walid from Gaddafi loyalists
The Guardian
The militias, drawn from units across Libya, are ready to launch a new offensive unless local leaders allow them back in – and round up war crimes suspects. "There are 300 pro-Gaddafi guys in that town," says Suleiman Hatir, a fighter from the eastern ...
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The Guardian
Charges shed light on alleged plot to smuggle Saadi Gaddafi to Mexico
National Post
By Stewart Bell, David Agren and Natalie Alcoba Shortly after NATO launched air strikes against forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the private security team working for his son started planning how it was going to get Saadi Gaddafi out of Libya.
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National Post
Libya prisoners make new torture allegations
BBC News
New evidence has emerged that supporters of the former Libyan leader, Col Gaddafi, have been tortured while in detention. The BBC has been told by inmates at a jail in Misrata that they were beaten, whipped and given electric shocks.
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BBC News
Libya's "hostages of war"
Chicago Tribune
Fitna is why Muammar Gaddafi occupied the town of Tawergha, held its residents hostage and used it as a base to besiege and shell the coastal city of Misrata in last year's civil war, refugee Kareem al-Barra said. Related Rival Libya militias fight ...
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Militia chaos in Bani Walid raises danger of civil war in post-Gaddafi Libya
Telegraph.co.uk
Libya has become used to uprisings - but this time it was “freedom fighters” who were forced out of the town of Bani Walid, a former Gaddafistronghold, by a population they claimed to have liberated. LibyanNational Guard at the checkpoint El Stada ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
New museums in Libya reflect war experience
Washington Post
MISURATA, Libya — Eight months after revolutionaries took control of Misurata, a strategic and bloody battlefield in Libya's uprising against former leader MoammarGaddafi, people are going about their lives once more. Shops and schools have reopened, ...
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Gaddafi's bloodied shirt and wedding ring to go up for auction with $2m price tag
Daily Mail
By Simon Tomlinson The wedding ring and shirt worn by former Libyanleader Colonel Gaddafi when he was killed by rebels last October have reportedly been put up for sale for $2million. The disgraced dictator was wearing the silver ring and bloodied ...
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Daily Mail
After Gaddafi, Libya's systematic torture continues unabated
MaltaToday
Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata, ...
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Mugabe slams AU stance on Libya
Independent Online
At the airport, he accused unnamed African countries of being “fronts” for Western powers whose “criminal” Nato bombardment of Libya helped lead to the killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a former Mugabe ally, state radio said.
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Independent Online
How Mexico foiled Indiana Jones-style plots to extract Saadi Gaddafi from Libya
The Australian
< Prev of 2 Next > PROSECUTORS say they have broken up not one, but two Indiana Jones-style plots to "extract" the son of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi from Libya and bring him to Mexico as his father's regime crumbled. The plan to sneak out Saadi ...
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Libya's NTC to meet tomorrow to adopt electoral law
Hindustan Times
Libya's ruling National Transitional Council will meet on Sunday to adopt the nation's new electoral law which aims to bar supporters of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi from contesting polls. for Saturday in the eastern city of Benghazi, ...
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Libya minister to protect investment in Zamtel
Reuters
Libya made major investments in Africa during Muammar Gaddafi's rule, some of them managed by the $65 billion Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) through a $5 billion fund known as Libyan African Investment Portfolio. LAP, a telecom company operating in ...
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Past linked to Gaddafi haunts Sirte
gulfnews.com
Sirte, Libya: Sirte was a city protected, even pampered, by the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. But now, the fallen leader's forgotten hometown is simmering with anger at being sidelined in a 'new' Libya. It was in Sirte, 360km east of Tripoli, ...
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gulfnews.com
e.tv slapped with R35000 fine for Gaddafi footage
Times LIVE
The body of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (L) inside a storage freezer in Misrata. File picture Television channel e.tv has been fined R35,000 for airing violent footage of the killing of Libyan leader MuammarGaddafi.
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Times LIVE
Libya undecided on future of African investments
The Guardian
Libya's new government is still taking stock of extensive investments made in Africa by the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi before deciding on what it should do next. Mohammed Abdul Aziz, Libya's deputy foreign minister, admitted on Thursday that the...
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Libya faces Catch-22 situation
TODAYonline
Libya's interim ruling body, the National Transitional Council (NTC), was pitched last week into its biggest crisis since Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown nearly six months ago. In the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the anti-Gaddafi rebellion, ...
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Libya: Diplomat Dies in Militia Custody
Human Rights Watch
The Libyan government should send a message that it will not tolerate torture and vigilante justice. The rule of law, and punishment for crimes, apply to all Libyans, including those who fought against Muammar Gaddafi. (Tripoli) – A Libyan diplomat who ...
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Disquiet over Libyan 'win' Syria's loss
The Australian
TEN months ago, the UN Security Council, with no dissent, authorised the use of "all necessary measures" to protect civilians at imminent risk of massacre in MuammarGaddafi's Libya. Those lives were saved and, if the Security Council had acted equally...
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Mexico rules Gaddafi a 'victim' of trafficking plot
Herald Sun
The son of ex-Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was a "victim" of human traffickers and will face no charges related to an audacious bid to smuggle him into Mexico, prosecutors confirmed. A Canadian woman and three alleged accomplices were formally...
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Mexico files charges in alleged Saadi Gaddafi smuggling plot involving ...
National Post (blog)
By Stewart Bell, David Agren and Natalie Alcoba Mexican authorities filed charges on Wednesday against five suspects they allege had plotted to smuggle family members of the late Libyan dictator Colonel MuammarGaddafi to Mexico on false passports.
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National Post (blog)
When shuls are treated worse than terror houses
Jerusalem Post
By REUTERS Has the city of Englewood, New Jersey, denied the synagogue where I serve as rabbi recognition as an official house of worship due to my three-year campaign against the city for allowing Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's terror house to ...
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Indiana Jones-style plots to 'extract' Gaddafi's son
New Zealand Herald
Photo / AP Prosecutors said today they broke up not one, but two Indiana Jones-style plots to "extract" the son of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi from Libya and bring him to Mexico as his father's regime crumbled. The plan to sneak out al-Saadi Gaddafi ...
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'Assad, you'll die like Gaddafi': Rebels want off with Syria head
RT
They have vowed President Bashar Al Assad and his family will be killed like Libyanleader Colonel Gaddafi, saying he's lost the chance of a peaceful exit. Fierce battles between government forces and rebel fighters are raging on the outskirts of the ...
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Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of Libya"s former leader ... - In2EastAfrica
By In2EastAfrica
Published On: Wed, Feb 1st, 2012. World News |. Gaddafi daughter applies to ICC over jailed brother. ALGIERS (Reuters) – The daughter of Libya's former leader MuammarGaddafi asked on Tuesday to make representations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to help her brother Saif al-Islam, who is in a Libyan jail awaiting trial on rape and murder charges. Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of Libya"s former leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures during a pro-government rally at the heavily ...
In2EastAfrica - East African...
African Leaders Who Sold Out Muammar Gaddafi and Africa ...
By libyanfreepress
Pro-Gaddafi forces strike back, 'Libya out of control' · Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim is still in the hands of the rats: plaese act for him and for Dr. Abuzaid Omar Dorda – (3 Videos) ·Libyan Resistance News – until late January 24, 2012 – (Eng-Ita) ...
Libyan Free Press
Libya's 'forgotten hostages' continue to live in fear - News - Mail ...
Gaddafi's strategy last year stirred suspicion and hatred between the ethnically Arab people of Misrata and the black Libyans in Tawergha, refugees say. It worked so well that even after the dictator's death, it interferes with Libya's new rulers ...
Mail & Guardian News Feed
Mexico: Al Saadi Gaddafi Rescue Plots Details Surface
By The Huffington Post News Editors
MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors said Wednesday they broke up not one, but two Indiana Jones-style plots to "extract" the son of late dictator Moammar Gadhafi from Libya and bring him to Mexico as his father's regime crumbled. The plan to sneak out al-Saadi Gadhafi involved piles of stolen passports, white-knuckle flights with ... dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three relatives had plotted to sneak into Mexico... Around the Web: BBC News - Mexico 'stops entry' of Libya's Saadi Gaddafi ...
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Medecins Sans Frontieres quits Libya over prisoner torture
Although claims of torture and abuse have been levied on many occasions since the downfall of Gaddafi, particularly in relation to black Libyans and prisoners, new accusations show the practice is rampant. Arab News reported that Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) has pulled its staff out of Libyan prisons in Misrata after medical staff were asked to treat patients mid-way through torture sessions. MSF General Director Christopher Stokes issued a statement saying "Patients were ...
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UK Backed Al Qaeda Torturing Libyan Citizens - WideShut ...
By Keelan Balderson
About 75% of Libya has remained unexplored “due to sanctions and stringent fiscal terms imposed by Libya on foreign oil companies” [5]. With Gaddafi out of the picture this opens great potential for corrupt western oil companies. As Defense ...
WideShut: Alternative News exposing...
Rival groups clash in Libyan capital - MWC News
By mwcnews@gmail.com (Agencies)
A gun battle between rival groups has raged near office buildings and five-star hotels in central Tripoli, in the latest sign of unrest in Libya following the overthrow and killing of Muammar Gaddafi. Witnesses said gunfire could be heard on ...
MWC News
What next for Saif Gaddafi, Libya and the ICC? | International Affairs ...
By David Britain
ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo arrives at a news conference in The Hague, June 2011. Warrants were issued for the arrest of Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al- Islam and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanussi on charges ...
International Affairs at LSE
Freed from Gaddafi, Libyan Sufis face violent Islamists - Yahoo! News
News: TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Freed from Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship,Libya's Sufi Muslims find themselves under renewed pressure from violent ...
news.yahoo.com/freed-gaddafi-libyan-sufis-face-violent-islam...
Libya: Gaddafi Loyalists 'Retake' Bani Walid - Link News
Bani Walid /ˈbæniː wɑˈliːd/ (Arabic: بني وليد‎ Banī Walīd) is a town inLibya, in the Misrata ...
news.linktv.org/videos/libya-gaddafi-loyalists-retake-bani-walid
News -- Gaddafi loyalists seize Libyan town
Gaddafi loyalists seize Libyan town. by Agency Reporter. Libya's ramshackle government lost control of a former stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday ...
odili.net/news/source/2012/jan/25/806.html
Libya: Gaddafi Loyalists Seize Bani Walid - YouTube
Libyan News Update Oct 14 - 1.00am GMT, NATO Cr...by 1VSMRK1126 views · Thumbnail 5 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvx6Xj6yqE
Gaddafi meets Grohe | LIBYA NEWS
This entry was posted in News and tagged Gaddafi, Grohe, Meets. Bookmark the permalink. ← Lybia, a citizens show they repelled the regime's March 7th attack ...
libya.newsinformers.net/gaddafi-meets-grohe/
Libya S.O.S.: Libya news [backup libyasos] 09. January - 19 ...
Libya news [backup libyasos] 09. January - 19. January 2012. Libya S.O.S. resistance news: 19. January 2012. ****MY LIFE WITH GADDAFI FAMILY. How like ...
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Libya: pro-Gaddafi forces take Bani Walid | Africa – News and Analysis
Loyalists of Libya's ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi have seized control of the town of Bani Walid, raising the former government's green flag, an official and a ...
africajournalismtheworld.com/.../libya-pro-gaddafi-forces-take...
Gaddafi's Son Creates a New Conflict, ICC vs Libya | Humanitarian ...
Saif in Libya Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for him, Court judges have not yet decided whether the trial of Saif ...
humanitariannews.org/.../gaddafis-son-creates-new-conflict-icc...
Supporters of Gaddafi attacked the city in Libya
Hundreds of supporters of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi took the city on Monday evening, Bani Walid and hung out there, the old green flag - AP ...
www.allvoices.com/.../11366186-supporters-of-gaddafi-attack...
Gaddafi`s secret stockpile of chemical weapons discovered in south ...
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi did have an undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons, international inspectors have confirmed. The Organisation for ...
www.sify.com/.../gaddafi-s-secret-stockpile-of-chemical-weap...
Mahamedia News Service - Gaddafi loyalists seize control of Libyan ...
BENGHAZI[Maha Media]: Muammar Gaddafi loyalists seized control of a Libyanmountain city in the most serious challenge to the central government since the ...
www.mahamediaonline.com/newsDetails.jsp?Id=69208
  
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