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Wrangling hampers Libyan drive to try Gaddafi son
Reuters
By Hadeel Al Shalchi and Marie-Louise Gumuchian | TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Putting the son of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi on trial on their own soil is a matter of national pride for Libya's leaders, but the lack of a properly functioning state is making ...
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Courthouse bomb in Libya's Benghazi injures one
Chicago Tribune
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at a courthouse in theLibyan city of Benghazi on Friday, wounding one person and damaging surrounding buildings in a fresh challenge to the post-Gaddafi government's struggle to restore stability.
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Libyan leader denies government sacking
Chicago Tribune
TRIPOLI, April 27 (Reuters) - The head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) on Friday denied a report that the interim government had been sacked two months before the country's first free polls. "The council has made no decision about ...
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Libya's ruling council fires cabinet
Sky News Australia
It's the latest blow to Libya, struggling to reorganise after the overthrow of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The move throws into question the country's ability to hold the election in June, where Libyans are supposed to elect a 200-member ...
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Courthouse bomb in Libya's Benghazi wounds four
euronews
Residents of Benghazi, the cradle of Libya's revolution, have voiced frustration at being all but forgotten by the new leadership in Tripoli since Muammar Gaddafi was ousted in August. In late January, protesters stormed the local headquarters of the ...
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REFILE-Libya warns Agoco protest may affect oilfield work
Reuters
Their demands, also made at previous protests in the eastern city, included the sacking of Gaddafi-era officials. Employees were being allowed in to collect their belongings but not to work, protesters said. Oil accounts for the bulk of Libya's economy ...
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Libya: NTC Fires Elkeeb Interim Government, Report
Tripoli Post
The Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) has reportedly approved a no confidence motion against prime minister Aburrahim el-Keeb, who assumed his post in November, and fired the first Libyan interim government since Gaddafi's 42-years of ...
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Former UK home secretary faces legal action over rendition
World Socialist Web Site
By Robert Stevens Information published by the Sunday Times has revealed how the Labour government of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown facilitated the deportation and torture of opponents of the Libyan regime of MuammarGaddafi.
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While Syria burns
Washington Post
Last year President Obama ordered US intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” Moammar Gaddafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing “would have been a betrayal of who we are,” ...
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OPINION: The Welcome Home
Tripoli Post
Libya's new politicians, many of whom have lived abroad during Gaddafi'srule, are finding themselves in a position where their personal backgrounds are scrutinized. One has to question whether the reason for all the skepticism and criticism stems ...
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27.04.2012Bani Walid and the New LibyaA Deceptive Calm
Qantara.de
Since then, calm has ruled in the provincial city and one time bastion of Gaddafi supporters. Yet, it is unclear whether the fragile peace will hold. Impressions from a city between rebellion and accommodation by Alfred Hackensberger Libya has a ...
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Qantara.de
East Africa Grapples with Gaddafi Investment Legacy
OilPrice.com
By John Daly | Thu, 26 April 2012 22:57 | 0 Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libyafor 41 years before an armed “Arab Spring” uprising last year drove him from power, leading to his death in October 2011. In 1998 Gaddafi shifted his attention away from ...
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FOROYAA Online - African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (the African...
Foroyaa online
The Complaint has been seized by the African Commission and registered as Communication 411/12- Mr. Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi (represented by Mishana Hosseinioun) v Libya. The Complainant alleges that serious human rights violations are being perpetrated ...
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Top 7 Infamous Warlords And Dictators Of Africa
News One
Muammar Gaddafi (Libya) – Muammar Gaddafi, also known as the “brother leader,” ruled his country for more than 30 years and was infamous for his erratic nature and renowned status in the Arab world. Although many Westerners have a view ofGaddafi as a ...
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News One
NGOs Promote Wars for Profit
The People's Voice
AJC is a pro-Israeli front group UN Watch wanted Libya expelled from HRC. On March 1, 2011, the General Assembly supported its campaign based on lies. HRC's January 4, 2011 UPR was ignored. It praised Gaddafi's Jamahiriya governance.
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The People's Voice
Italy: Eni profit rises helped by Libyan production restart
Adnkronos International English
Italy was Libya's biggest trading partner before it supported UN-mandated military action by Nato forces to protect civilians from attack by Gaddafi's armed forces and to enforce a no-fly zone.
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Adnkronos International English
Ras Lanuf Refinery will Suspend Production for at Least a Month Due to ...
Tripoli Post
Libyan economic experts and oil officials voiced their opposition to the way the whole venture was handled by Gaddafi officials. The Ras Lanuf 'fiasco' as some like to call it has been viewed as an example of corrupt practices by the former regime ...
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Mali: Migration, Militias, Coups And Climate Change
ThinkProgress
Furthermore, as Libya's recently-deposed ruler MuammarGaddafi had given refuge to Tuareg militants, many of them have fled back to Mali, adding fuel to the separatist fire. A fourth insecurity is the extended drought in Mali and the broader Western ...
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The Arab springtime of nations?
Times of Malta
A similar scenario could unfold in Syria, if and when President Bashar al-Assad falls from power, while both post-Gaddafi Libya and post-Saleh Yemen point to the difficulties that these countries face in constructing a coherent democratic regime.
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F-22s: Waiting in the Wings. Again.
TIME (blog)
“The F-22 squadron was made ready to deploy for Libya ops at least twice,” a senior military official told Battleland last year. But they were never ordered into action against the late MuammarGaddafi. The F-22s are air-dominance fighters, ...
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TIME (blog)
Libya's NTC banned parties based on religion, tribe or ethnicity
Ya Libnan
... a political party formed in March by Libya's Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists. The new party was expected to make a strong showing in the election, the first since last year's overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed popular uprising.
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Charles Taylor Escapes Judgment For Murders At Home
Technorati
When he returned from training in Libya in 1989, he manipulated the Western news media so that he met little resistance from the late Samuel Doe's army. These days his ties to Muammar Gaddafi would have made him persona non grata, but back in the day a ...
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UK lead urged on recovery of crime assets
Financial Times
Last month, the High Court ruled that a £10m house in Hampstead belonging to the family of former Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi should be handed to Tripoli, because it was thought to have been purchased with the proceeds of crime.
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Explained: All you want to know about Charles Taylor and his conviction
Daily News & Analysis
Breaking out of a US jail to learn the ways of the guerilla inLibya, Taylor received endorsement from Gaddafi, Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso throughout the First Liberian Civil War (1989-96) which the NPFL initiated. By the early 1990's Taylor ...
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Daily News & Analysis
Charles Taylor had a long road from Liberia to the US to war criminal
Public Radio International PRI
Taylor made his way to Libya where he spent time training under MuammarGaddafi. In 1989, Taylor led a rebel militia into Liberia to overthrow the government. A chaotic on-again, off-again civil war followed. It lasted 13 years.
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A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC
Antiwar.com
The destruction and overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan regime was the highpoint of the recent NATO agenda of regime change in MENA (the Middle East-Northern Africa). And NATO remains Washington's plan B for the future, if the usual network of think ...
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Russia accuses Syrian rebels of using "tactics of terror"
Reuters
Moscow says NATO misused a UN resolution authorizing military intervention to protect civilians in Libya to help rebels overthrow MuammarGaddafi last year and has vowed not to let it happen in Syria. Lukashevich did not discuss the possibility of a ...
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Leakages may dent Total's oil production...
BusinessDay
Eni, the largest oil producer in Africa, began to restore output in Libya in September after shutting down operations during last year's civil war that ended with the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. It pumped 280000 barrels of oil equivalent a day in the ...
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My verbal sparring with Charles Taylor
Mmegi Online
He had the backing of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and some of Liberia's near neighbours. He had money, guns, and ammunition and, at first, considerable popular support. But it took him more than eight years to make it to the presidency - by which ...
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East Africa Grapples with Gaddafi Investment Legacy
By admin@namecake.com (John Daly)
Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya for 41 years before an armed “Arab Spring” uprising last year drove him from power, leading to his death in October 2011. In 1998 Gaddafi shifted his attention away from unequivocal support of Arab nationalist ...
OilPrice.com Daily News Update
NGOs Promote Wars for Profit | In Pursuit of Happiness
By Thnk
On February 21, 2011, the government controlled French International NewsNetwork (France 24) broadcast a Libya special. It falsely claimed Gaddafi'splanes bombed civilian areas. At a later French parliament session, Sarkozy's Tripoli ...
In Pursuit of Happiness
BBC News - Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam 'may be tried in Libya'
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi could be tried in Libya, rather than by the International Criminal Court, officials close to the case tell the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17739076
Libya insists on Gaddafi son trial as ICC visits - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor met Libyan officials in Tripoli on Wednesday where they reiterated ...
news.yahoo.com/libya-insists-gaddafi-son-trial-icc-visits-2203...
Libya says building case against Gaddafi son: ICC prosecutor | Top ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya says it is building its case against MuammarGaddafi's detained son, gathering witnesses and documents, according to the ...
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE83K03M20120421
MI5 betrayed Libya dissidents to Gaddafi spies in London sting ...
Memos uncovered in a Libyan intelligence chief's office reveal a joint operation to intimidate enemies of Gaddafi - and give them to the dictator.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../MI5-betrayed-Libya-dissidents-Gadda...
Libya has evidence of executions by Gaddafi son: ICC - Jurist
Saif al-Islam, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive] was indicted [JURIST report; case material] in June by the ...
jurist.org/.../libya-has-evidence-of-executions-by-gadhafi-son-...
Libya says building case against Gaddafi son - Israel News, Ynetnews
Libya says it is building its case against Muammar Gaddafi's detained son, gathering witnesses and documents, according to the Hague-based war crimes ...
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4218913,00.html
Eyewitness News: Gaddafi son in good health - Libya PM
Libya's prime minister met war crimes prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday and reassured him that Muammar Gaddafi's detained son is in good health ...
www.ewn.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=86822
THE DAILY STAR :: News :: Middle East :: Algeria to muzzle Gaddafi ...
News, Business, Opinion, Sports, Culture, Technology, Entertainment ...Algeria to muzzle Gaddafi exiles:Libyan leader. April 16, 2012 09:02 PM. By Abdelaziz ...
www.dailystar.com.lb/.../170395-algeria-to-muzzle-gaddafi-ex...
Street Art and Graffiti Thrive in Post-Gaddafi Libya - News ...
When a country is in the grips of totalitarian rule and the people cower beneath an iron fist, it is almost certain that there is no graffiti and...
www.12ozprophet.com/.../street_art-and-graffiti-thrive-in-post...
Prosecutor in Libya over Gaddafi's son | World | BigPond News
The chief prosecutor of the ICC has flown into Libya to investigate the trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
bigpondnews.com/.../Prosecutor_in_Libya_over_Gaddafis_so...
'I represented Libya, not Gaddafi' - ABC News (Australian ...
Libyan ambassador to Washington Ali Aujali became one of the first to defect and support the opposition forces when rebellion flared last year.
www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-16/i-represented.../3952680
MI5 'gave Libyan spies details of dissidents in Britain' | World news ...
He told the Murnaghan programme on Sky News: "I didn't know anything about this ... Libyan papers show UK worked with Gaddafi in rendition operation ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../22/mi5-libyan-spies-dissidents-britain
Libya Saif al-Islam Gaddafi trial | Africa – News and Analysis
BBC. The International Criminal Court could soon drop its demand that Saif al- Islam Gaddafi be transfered to the Hague for trial, officials have told the BBC.
africajournalismtheworld.com/.../libya-saif-al-islam-gaddafi-tri...
ICC prosecutor goes to Libya on Gaddafi´s son case CCTV News ...
ICC prosecutor goes to Libya on Gaddafi's son case ... 2012-04-07; U.S. targets Libyan man with links to Gaddafi's son 2012-02-15 ... Picture innews more ...
english.cntv.cn/program/africalive/20120420/108719.shtml
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