Americans finally depart Libya as rebels prepare to fight for Tripoli
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The United Nations Human Rights Council will convene a special session today to investigate reports of mass killings during Libyan protests, as anti-government forces continue to battle Moammar Gadhafi's mercenaries. The council will consider whether ...
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Stop Gadhafi now: Obama must step up and lead the way to end Libya's bloodshed
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The erratic tyrant has reportedly hired thousands of foreign mercenaries and militiamen, who are already on their way to the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The international community cannot sit idle as he mobilizes for a massacre. ...
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Americans finally depart Libya as rebels prepare to fight for ...
By Ed Morrissey
Overnight, the city erupted in violence, resulting in chaos and serious doubt as to whether dictator Moammar Gaddafi remained in control at all. His cousin became the latest high-ranking official to defect from the regime: ... At the rate that Gaddafi and his mercenaries are reportedly killing Libyans, such pay raises might not even cost Gaddafi any more overall money. It's unlikely that the extra cash would satisfy the demands of Libyans to send Gaddafi packing — or ...
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Libya Protests: Thousands Gather To Show Solidarity Against Gaddafi
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Libyan U.N. Mission Defects. The entire Libyan delegation to the U.N. stepped down during an emergency session in Geneva. Reuters reports: A Libyan U.N. envoy to the U.N. renounced links to the government of Muammar Gaddafi on Friday, telling the U.N. Human Rights Council that his ..... Since the Americans don't care, how about sending French forces in to fight the mercenaries in Tripoli, or at the very least, supply arms to the protesters that they can defend themselves . ...
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Anti-Gadhafi forces plan new push in Libya | AAJ News
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Libyans braced for mass protests Friday as the rebel movement called for a new push to oust Moammar Gadhafi after a day of fierce fighting in which rebels made new gains and advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli while pro-government forces ... A Libyan news website, Qureyna, put the death toll at 23 and said many of the wounded could not reach hospitals because of shooting by “security forces and mercenaries.” Zawiya, a key city close to an oil port and refineries, ...
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Mansour El-Kikhia: Gadhafi will stop at nothing to remain in power ...
By jkernis
Murder and mayhem is not something new for Mr. Gadhafi. He is has become quite adept at it and killing Libyan to remain in power is another day's work. Indeed few rulers in modern history have hired mercenaries in the numbers that Mr. Gadhafi has ... Colonel Gadhafi is fighting for the survival of his regime and he is doing it in the best way he knows how. He survived being placed on the Bush administration's Axis of Evil by providing Mr. Bush with a Lockerbie settlement, ...
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Anti-Gadhafi forces plan new push in Libya | Richmond Times-Dispatch
BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya's rebel movement launched a new push against Moammar Gadhafi today, calling for mass demonstrations as it seeks to solidify its gains and loosen the longtime leader's grip on the capital. Foreign mercenaries and ...
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BENGHAZI (AP) – Foreign mercenaries and Libyan militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tried to roll back the uprising against his rule that has advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli, attacking two nearby cities in battles that killed at ... In the latest blow to the Libyan leader, a cousin who is one of his closest aides, Ahmed Gadhaf al-Dam, announced that he has defected to Egypt in protest against the regime's bloody crackdown, denouncing what he called " grave ...
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Libyan Rebels Close In On Gaddafi | P.M. NEWS Nigeria
Although foreign mercenaries and Libyan militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tried to roll back the uprising against his rule last night, they could not roll back the advancing rebels, who made new gains, capturing more cities in the country, ... A day earlier, an envoy from Gadhafi had come to the city from Tripoli and warned the protesters: “Either leave or you will see a massacre,” the witness said. On Tuesday night, Gadhafi himself called on his supporters to hunt down ...
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Libyan Revolt Rolls Toward Tripoli As Gaddafi Compares Himself To ...
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As more government and security officials defected and rebel civilian forces set up a provisional government in Benghazi, Gaddafi phoned in his latest speech into state TV and compared himself to the Queen of England. ... The bloodiest fighting centered on Zawiya, a gateway city to the capital, just 30 miles west of Tripoli. Early Thursday, Colonel Qaddafi's forces arrived and unleashed an assault using automatic weapons and an anti-aircraft gun on a mosque occupied by ...
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BENGHAZI, Libya -- Libyans braced for mass protests Friday as the rebel movement called for a new push to oust Moammar Gadhafi after a day of fierce fighting in which rebels made new gains and advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli while ... A Libyan news website, Qureyna, put the death toll at 23 and said many of the wounded could not reach hospitals because of shooting by "security forces and mercenaries." Zawiya, a key city close to an oil port and refineries, ...
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Libya Protests: Benghazi Learns To Govern Itself
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Instead, they are waiting for the rest of Gaddafi's forces to defect. "We are hoping for a coup d'etat from the people around him," acknowledged Abu Ahmed, a senior activist involved in organizing the new government. ... Even amid the euphoria over the city's liberation, rumors are still rife about impending aerial bombardments, naval assaults or the reappearance of Gaddafi's dreaded African mercenaries, who residents claim have done much of his fighting. ...
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Gadhafi forces strike back at Libya uprising « Artesia News
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BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Foreign mercenaries and Libyan militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tried to roll back the uprising against his rule that has advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli, attacking two nearby cities in battles that ... A day earlier, an envoy from Gadhafi had come to the city from Tripoli and warned the protesters: “Either leave or you will see a massacre,” the witness said. On Tuesday night, Gadhafi himself called on his supporter to hunt down ...
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Is This the Endgame for Gaddafi's Murderous Regime in Libya ...
By Andy Worthington
Over the last few days, Gaddafi's embattled regime has suffered blow after blow, even as the dictator has responded with brute force, gunning down protestors, and bringing in mercenaries to do the killing that the military, it seems, ... Other military units also defected, and it was also reported that a batallion of Gaddafi's special forces had attacked Gaddafi's revolutionary guard in Benghazi. This was perhaps the most significant news in terms of a military defection ...
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BENGHAZI, Libya - Foreign mercenaries and Libyan militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tried to roll back the uprising against his rule that has advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli, attacking two nearby cities in battles that killed at ... In the latest blow to the Libyan leader, a cousin who is one of his closest aides, Ahmed Gadhaf al-Dam, announced that he has defected to Egypt in protest against the regime's bloody crackdown, denouncing what he called " grave ...
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BENGHAZI, Libya Foreign mercenaries and Libyan militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tried to roll back the uprising against his rule that has advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli, attacking two nearby cities in battles that killed at ... A day earlier, an envoy from Gadhafi had come to the city from Tripoli and warned the protesters: "Either leave or you will see a massacre," the witness said. On Tuesday night, Gadhafi himself called on his supporters to hunt down ...
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Much to the delight of Gadhafi, his disdain of a powerful professional military has finally been vindicated. Wary of a potential coup, he had for long pampered and better armed his paramilitaries and mercenaries. He will only be convincingly ... But nothing is certain even there. After all, it is Gadhafi's most dependable comrade-in-arms of four decades who defected first in Benghazi. All in all, the message to the EPRDF from Libya is crystal clear: don't fight change. ...
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Qaddafi Strikes Back as Rebels Close In on Libyan Capital ...
On Wednesday, an envoy from Colonel Qaddafi came with a warning: "Either leave or you will see a massacre," one resident told The Associated Press. About 5 a.m. they fulfilled their threat. "Those who attacked us are not the mercenaries ...
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Gun battles rage in Libya as Gaddafi fights on « The Great One's Blog
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In Misrata, which opponents of Gaddafi said they had taken on Wednesday, residents said loyalists and foreign mercenaries launched a counter-attack on Thursday but had been contained. “The protesters have overcome the security forces ...
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Anti-Gadhafi forces plan new push in Libya | Alpha
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Libyans braced for mass protests Friday as the rebel movement called for a new push to oust Moammar Gadhafi after a day of fierce fighting in which rebels made new gains and advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli while pro-government forces ... A Libyan news website, Qureyna, put the death toll at 23 and said many of the wounded could not reach hospitals because of shooting by "security forces and mercenaries." Zawiya, a key city close to an oil port and refineries, ...
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Libya - 23-24 February - European Tribune - Community, Politics ...
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The silence and inaction with which the EU received the demonstrations that overthrew Ben Ali and Mubarak in Tunisia and Egypt, have now been followed by a lukewarm reaction to the massacre perpetrated by Gaddafi. ..... A Serbian newspaper claims it has received information from the military that indicates Serbian mercenaries are fighting to protect Muammar Gaddafi. The source in the Serbian military claims the so called " dogs of war" were the first to arrive in Tripoli ...
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Act. Now. - By Hussein Ibish | Foreign Policy
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It might also inhibit the regime's ability to ferry in foreign mercenaries, on whom it appears to be relying in the face of growing military defections. And, of course, it would undermine the regime's ability to control the country at large .... Stop the mechanisms of mass killing by Gaddafi, provide humanitarian aid to the Free Libya areas, and wait it out. Preferably let our NATO allies ( Turkey? Italy?) patrol the skies, while we provide more passive tactical/ logistical ...
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Libya's second city learns to govern itself | The Associated Press ...
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Instead, they are waiting for the rest of Gadhafi's forces to defect. "We are hoping for a coup d'etat from the people around him," acknowledged Abu Ahmed, a senior activist involved in organizing the new government. ... Even amid the euphoria over the city's liberation, rumors are still rife about impending aerial bombardments, naval assaults or the reappearance of Gadhafi's dreaded African mercenaries, who residents claim have done much of his fighting. ...
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Gaddafi Blames Uprising On Osama Bin Laden; Says Al Qaeda Drugging ...
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Benghazi's police chief, Ali Mahmud Huwaydi, also defected and as al Jazeera reports he 'now wants to join the protesters.' As the opposition continues to strengthen, it is starting to mount a united front against Gaddafi. The BBC reports that tribal leaders and politicians met in the eastern city of al-Bayda on Thursday to 'in one of the first signs of organisation for a bigger fight against the government.' The BBC report continued: Pictures broadcast by al Jazeera ...
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Rolling News Update Live from Libya - Neighbouring Country | Malta ...
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Libya News 2011 Reliable sources in Tripoli have confirmed that over 500 persons have died in late night clashes between government sponsored troops and protesters against the Gaddafi government in the capital and surrounding towns. ... 18:30hrs – Gaddafi addresses the nation in a rambling 1 hour speech inciting violence and hatred against his fellow Libyans. Also calls and goads the West traitors adding that he will “fight to the last drop of his blood”. ...
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Gaddafi is killing us with his African mercenaries! « myweku.com
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Libya protests: Gaddafi's rambling TV address 'I'll die here as a ...
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Gadhafi Vows Fight to Death as East Falls, Oil Ports Shut ...
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Close aide to Gadhafi defects to Egypt - Protester News and Comment
Source: WaPo Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is largely relying on paramilitary forces, some of them bolstered by foreign Mercenaries, to crush a popular ...
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Moammar Gadhafi's Private Mercenary Army 'Knows One Thing: To Kill'
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Libya revolt spreads to Tripoli - Africa - Al Jazeera English
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will fight a popular revolt to "the last man ... tribal leaders spoke out against Gaddafi, and army units defected to the .... ' Massacre'. News of the rising death toll came as residents of Benghazi, ... was under way in the city and troops firing shots were mostly mercenaries. ...
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allAfrica.com: Kenya: 'Dogs of War' Fighting for Gaddafi
"Those mercenaries are being used against Libyans, because Gaddafi has no more ... Kenyan mercenaries was lent further credence by a Libyan military defector ... AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news ... They do not have hte moral courage to stand up as one and condemn this massacre. ...
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Libya's Alleged Foreign Mercenaries: More Gaddafi Victims? - TIME
ADD TIME NEWS .... 18, soldiers began to defect, joining the revolution. ... The notion that Gaddafi is employing foreign mercenaries to fight his own people is an ... of ongoing massacres in Tripoli spill across the spotty phone lines. ...
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N. Africa, Mideast protests – Gadhafi: I'm still here – This Just ...
Here is video of Gadhafi's comments to Libyan state-run TV: ... that African mercenaries are shooting at unarmed civilians in Tajouraa, .... LIBYA, 2:15 p.m. ET, 9:15 p.m. local: Two Libyan Air Force pilots defected to Malta on Monday after being .... You will not vanish without a fight! You are going to live on! ...
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Who's on Gadhafi's Side? Some Say Libyan Leader Is Hiring Mercenaries
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Gadhafi forces strike back at Libya uprising - Yahoo! News
Foreign mercenaries and Libyan militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tried to roll back ... the protesters: "Either leave or you will see a massacre," the witness said. ... Ahmed Gadhaf al-Dam, announced that he has defected to Egypt in protest .... said his camp was "trying to fight the propaganda that the regime is ...
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Gaddafi's son in civil war warning - ABC News (Australian ...
"We will take up arms ... we will fight to the last bullet. ... "You can't imagine what this means when you bring African mercenaries to slaughter your own people. ... Moamar Gaddafi and the military presence on the streets of Tripoli. ... 'Silly speeches' won't stop Libyan massacre (audio); Carbon price gets ...
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Libya: protests gather pace as Gaddafi's son vows to fight to the ...
Troops loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya will "fight until the last man ... members of an elite army unit known as "The Thunderbolt" defected to the ... "Tanks and helicopter gunships full of foreign mercenaries are fighting gangs of .... Libya protests: 140 'massacred' as Gaddafi sends in snipers to crush ...
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Gadhafi Vows To Fight On, Die A Martyr In Rambling Speech
Pro-Gaddafi militiamen – a mix of Libyans and foreign mercenaries – have clamped ... CAIRO — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi vows to fight on and die a " martyr," .... Gadhafi hold whittled away as Libya revolt spreads - Yahoo! News ...
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Colonel Gaddafi Under Siege! - Communist University | Google Groups
Muammar el-Qaddafi on Tuesday, as opposition forces in eastern Libya moved to ... thick with special forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi fighting alongside mercenaries. .... saying he feared there could be a large-scale massacre in Tripoli and ... also resigned, and Libyan diplomats continued to defect from government ...
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Message from Libyan Protestors: "Keep the World's Eyes on Libya ...
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THE LATEST KENYAN NEWS: Kenyan 'Dogs of War' fighting for Gaddafi
“Those mercenaries are being used against Libyans, because Gaddafi has ... The story of Kenyan mercenaries was lent further credence by a Libyan military defector ..... Raila on Wagalla Massacre · Kenya Secret History Wagalla Massacre ...
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Gaddafi's confidant is Abdullah Senussi, a brutal right-hand man ...
... the foreign mercenaries fighting in the service of the regime. ...More Libyans hold him responsible for the notorious 1996 massacre of about 1200 inmates at the Abu Salim prison. ... FOX News: World News — A defiant Muammar al -Qaddafi vowed to fight to ... Gaddafi associate defects to rebels as country splits ...
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Death Toll Over 1000, Gaddafi & Protesters Vow "Fight To End ...
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Gadhafi fights back, but still loses ground
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EU prepares for worst after Gaddafi 'genocide' threats | EurActiv
A Libyan diplomat who defected from the regime said that the speech of the ... The diplomat added that Gaddafi was using foreign mercenaries to fight protesters. ... The Gaddafi statement was just code for his collaborators to start the ... sanctions on Libya," Merkel was quoted as saying by DPA news agency. ...
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