Results 41 to 60 of 453
report from a doctor who was in Tripoli:
etc
http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2410
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
http://www.haaretz.com/news/internat...nrest-1.345603
If this happens what are the scenarios for what's next?? Using mustard gas on the civilians is so fucked up on many levels.
We have on this earth what makes life worth living:
On this earth, the Lady of Earth
Mother of all beginnings and ends
She was called Palestine.
Her name later became Palestine
My Lady, because you are my Lady, I deserve life
Probably some angry notes from UN.. Thats about it..
From AJ
11:00am Sky News reports that the UK government allegedly paid Libyan officials to facilitate the evacuation of British citizens.
4:27am Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has backed Muammar Gaddafi on Twitter.
Chavez tweeted:
Gaddafi is facing a civil war.
Long live Libya. Long live the independence of Libya.
Is Chavez crazy?
What I somehow find even more surreal as that these kind of historic statements of solidarity are done via Twitter nowadays...From AJ
11:00am Sky News reports that the UK government allegedly paid Libyan officials to facilitate the evacuation of British citizens.
4:27am Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has backed Muammar Gaddafi on Twitter.
Chavez tweeted:
Gaddafi is facing a civil war.
Long live Libya. Long live the independence of Libya.
Is Chavez crazy?
Imagine if Wilhelm II would be twittering about the 'scandalous assasination of Franz-Joseph' ...
"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree..."
- John Milton -
"The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh"
- Amadeo Bordiga
Could have happened if Babbit's research had been more successful.
[FONT="Georgia"]That doesn't really sound like a message of support though... He must know that Gaddafi doesn't have long. I think he's just expressing his concerns about possible imperialist intervention.[/FONT]From AJ
11:00am Sky News reports that the UK government allegedly paid Libyan officials to facilitate the evacuation of British citizens.
4:27am Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has backed Muammar Gaddafi on Twitter.
Chavez tweeted:
Gaddafi is facing a civil war.
Long live Libya. Long live the independence of Libya.
Is Chavez crazy?
11:20 Arnaud Vaulerin, special correspondent of Liberation in Ras Jedir (Tunisian border) commented of not checked rumours affirming that “people of the west of the country plan to go to Tripoli to take part” in this what they describe as “the great battle of Friday”.
And at the same time:
12h55. “At the border the administration of Kadhafi is always in place”, reports Arnaud Vaulerin, special correspondent of Liberation in Ras Jedir at the Tunisian border, where many Libyans continue to flee at an intensive pace.
link
It is the movement of people and things that distracts and even consoles, if there is still consolation to be had for one so unhappy. If the leaves of the trees did not move, how sad the trees would be and we too.
Edgar Degas
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
14:10 Seïf Al-Islam, one of the Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi's sons, affirmed Friday in an interview with a Turkish television that his family would remain no matter the cost in Libya, and informed they would not allow “terrorists” to control part of the country. Questioned by a journalist of CNN-Türk on a possible “plan B” of escape under consideration by his family in the event of victory of the insurrectionists, Seïf Al-Islam answered: “Our plan is, living in Libya and dying there. Plan B is, living in Libya and dying there”, according to the translation in Turkish of his remarks. The Kadhafi son admitted the loss of control of East Libya, but ensured that the Libyan authorities would take control again soon. “There are more than two million; inhabitants in this zone, the number of terrorists is of 200 or 300 at best. The people call us (...) We cannot allow terrorists to control a part of Libya and its population”, he declared.
Liberation reports.
It is the movement of people and things that distracts and even consoles, if there is still consolation to be had for one so unhappy. If the leaves of the trees did not move, how sad the trees would be and we too.
Edgar Degas
- 1817: A 16-strong committee in Benghazi is organising affairs in Libya's second city, which fell to anti-Gaddafi protesters several days ago, says the BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson. The committee is making sure shops have provisions and banks keep residents supplied with money.
hahahaha hoo man, while tripoli is a mess under kadafi, benghazi seem to become more and more free and organised. i love it.
WHY kléber, WHY!!!!!!!
I hope that people in the anti-regime cities outside Tripoli are making plans to assault the capital and finish him off. Because you know that if he has any means at all to continue attacking he will use them.
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
Gadaffi adressed the crowds in Green Square in person today.
The video is being denounced as a staged fake because of the light sky for the time of day and the fact that he wears a strange hat.
As I understand this, from people a little bit more familiar with filming, is a possibility but the bueish sheen over the video may mean that they used a dark filter over the camera.
Gadaffi stated, to summarise, that the revolution should be protected against foreign induced and influenced protests from counter revolutionary and reactionary forces....and called for action against these protesters who want to burn Libya.
This adress was a lot more coherent and a lot more "inspiring"
Analysts state that there were a lot of people from the far south, like Tuareg and from the Gadaffi tribe. These people are genuine Gadaffi supporters. He still has a lot of them and the revolution/protests in the east will fail if the rest of the country will not join the protests.
Protests in Tripoli today were harshly beaten down by security forces today. Groups of protesters who wanted to travel towards Tripoli (2000) armed wityh rifles was sent packing by Gadaffi supporters in Tajoura....several eye witnesses stating they spoke French.
The Kahmis brigade is the best armed army force in Libya and remains loyal to Gadaffi. Its currently engaging protesters armed militia.
Mention of biological and chemical weapons is made...in several oppositio reports. He may use them. And his threats are indicating he perhaps will.
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
9:35pm The reports that protesters, armed with weapons from abandoned security installations in Beghazi, vow to march on to Gaddafi's palace in Tripoli. Writer Adrian Blomfield says that many in Benghazi are afraid of "the retribution Mr Gaddafi will unleash on them for their rebellion if they fail to complete their mission and force him from power".
9:14pm Reports coming in: The UAE will send two plane loads of humanitarian aid to Libya, where protesters are battling the regime. Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan was quoted as saying* "two planes carrying humanitarian aid will leave Saturday from the UAE to Libya* via Turkey in order to meet the urgent needs of the Libyan people in the circumstances they are facing."
Qatar sent a relief plane to Libya on Friday that Qatar Airways said will* land in Libya's second city Benghazi, which is in the hands of the protesters.
8:35pm Al Jazeera's correspondent in eastern Libya, who cannot be named for her security, reports that while that region of the country has been mostly won by anti-Gaddafi protesters, people are anxious about what Gaddafi might do next.People do say that they have broken the fear factor, that they have made huge territorial gains ...yet there's no real celebration or euphoria that the job has been done.
People do say that they have broken the fear factor, that they have made huge territorial gains ...yet there's no real celebration or euphoria that the job has been done.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
yea time to march on tripoli, too much blood have been spilled for that lunatic.
WHY kléber, WHY!!!!!!!
Just hearing one of our journalists (TeleSUR) by phone telling the situation from Benghazi in control of the people. He says everyone is armed, and even some soldiers joined them. The food is distributed for free. They have military checkpoints. They took control of an army depot by crashing a car in the entrance which caused an explosion, causing the soldiers to flee and the people went in and armed themselves (they obtained rocket launchers as well).
They say communications within the country work (cellphones), so they are coordinating with others on the west to rise. The very few journalists are treated like kings, everyone if offering shelter, food or whatever to them. They showed him horrible pictures of bodies mutilated by big caliber ammo.
Internet access is non existent to the population, but he finally found a link which he is using right now.
TeleSur also reported at least 20000 people crossing the border into Tunisia and Egypt fleeing from the war.
Also: USA just broke relations with Libya (duh).
UN secretary is addressing the assembly, pretty much condemning Gaddaffi.
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...is-palace.htmlLibya: protesters vow to march on Gaddafi's palace
Civilian protesters armed with weapons looted from abandoned security installations in Libya's second city of Benghazi on Friday vowed to march on Col Muammar Gaddafi's palace in Tripoli.
Libyans carry the bodies of three more victims of the violence in Benghaz Photo: GETTY
By Adrian Blomfield, Benghazi 6:35PM GMT 25 Feb 2011
A mood of fresh jubilation swept Benghazi, the epicentre of the uprising against Mr Gaddafi's 41 year rule, as its inhabitants marked a week since the start of their revolt.
As newly written revolutionary songs blared from a loudspeaker, thousands gathered in the square outside Benghazi's court buildings, mustering once more on the spot where Libya's protests began.
It was here that eastern Libya, where Mr Gaddafi's rule has been most brutal, found its voice.
Inspired by revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, people once too terrified even to whisper criticism of their "brother leader" gathered here first to denounce the arrest of a prominent human rights lawyer and then to call for the overthrow of the regime itself.
For their courage, the people of Benghazi paid a terrible price, mowed down in their hundreds by Mr Gaddafi's security forces and hired mercenaries.
As they celebrated, friends and relatives who had not seen each other since the insurrection began clung to each other, tears streaming down their face, as they remembered the dead and struggled to come to terms with the scale of their engagement.
But in other parts of Benghazi, the sound of gunfire echoed through the streets as mourners carried the bodies of people still dying of their wounds in the city's overcrowded hospitals.
Lawyers and young activists at the forefront of the uprising formed committees to administer the city but they struggled to contain the people's anger and appeals for weapons to be returned met with only partial success.
Having tasted liberation for the first time, many in Benghazi are terrified of the retribution Mr Gaddafi will unleash on them for their rebellion if they fail to complete their mission and force him from power.
On Benghazi's rooftops and outside police stations gutted and ransacked by the protesters, men armed with anti-aircraft missile launchers nervously scanned the skies.
Although many in Mr Gaddafi's air force have defected to the protesters, ejecting from their fighter jets instead of carrying out orders to bomb eastern cities, there has been evidence that the brother leader is starting to fight back.
There were reports that a number of senior military officers in western Libya, where opposition to the regimes less intense, have once again sworn loyalty to Mr Gaddafi just days after they changed allegiance to join the people.
Army officers who have turned their back on Libya's leader in Benghazi say the prospects of successful assault on Tripoli – more than 600 miles to the west – are negligible.
But civilians who took up arms to liberate Benghazi say they are determined to take the battle to the capital.
"I have many friends in Benghazi and we want to go to Tripoli," said Essam al-Mansouri, who was at the forefront of an attack on the last stronghold of pro-Gaddafi forces in the capital. "We have many guns from the army. If Gaddafi doesn't leave, we will have to go to his palace."
Mr Mansouri comes from a family torn apart by the repression of Mr Gaddafi's regime. Their suffering, by no means unique, explains the depth of the hatred felt towards Mr Gaddafi in eastern Libya.
His father, Atia, spent the first 13 years of his son's life in jail, much of it in Tripoli's notorious Abu Slim prison after being accused of involvement in a military conspiracy to overthrow Mr Gaddafi.
An elite fighter pilot, Atia al Mansouri was arrested when his wife was four months pregnant with their first child, Essam as the Libyan leader began a purge of potential rivals in the armed forces. Although he escaped the fate of 24 of his co-accused, who were executed by their own men, he was tortured for 15 months.
In Jordan for an operation when the uprising began, Atia al Mansouri recalled how he swelled with pride when his son rang him to say he had killed four mercenaries during the battle for Benghazi.
Never forgiving Libya's leader for depriving him of his father for so long, Essam al Mansouri, who is 35, joined peaceful protests outside the city's police headquarters only to come under fire and see a number of his comrades killed.
The next day, he was one of the first to return to the protests with a rifle and was at the forefront of the three-day battle outside Benghazi's main military barracks, to where pro-regime forces and mercenaries had retreated and regrouped.
Heavily outgunned, the protesters' saw the tide turning their way on Feb 20 after one of their number filled his car with TNT and rammed through the main gates of the barracks on a suicide mission. That night, the forces within fled.
The battle over, father and son were reunited yesterday, embracing tearfully.
For Essam al Mansouri, his actions were a chance to take revenge for what Mr Gaddafi had done to his family.
"This man, I think, is Satan," he said. "Gaddafi put my father in prison. I didn't have any brothers or sisters because of Gaddafi."
His father said: "I'm so proud of my son. He killed four mercenaries and protected the streets. Now he's working in the central committee organising the city. I've been waiting for this day, for this festival day, for a long time."
As Egyptian warships evacuated hundreds of mainly Chinese civilians from Benghazi yesterday, the city's new administration was involved in a desperate attempt to keep basic supplies running.
It was also decoding the fate of 16 African nationals suspected of acting as Mr Gaddafi's mercenaries.
The Libyan leader is believed to have recruited scores of fighters from rebel movements he has sponsored in Chad and Darfur, but a number of African nationals working legitimately in Libya have been beaten and seized by angry mobs after being mistaken for mercenaries.
Five Africans were released on the orders of committee members yesterday – a fact welcomed by western human rights activists who have now arrived in the city.
"It is very clear that this revolution is about honour and dignity," said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director for Human Rights Watch. "There has been no evidence of revenge attacks, no looting and the leadership is very clear it does not want any revenge attacks."
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
11:16pm Prayer and Protest in Benghazi. An inspiring photo gallery from photographer David Degner.
11:06pm The Guardian newspaper reports that UK officials have told Gaddafi loyalists to defect or face war crimes. The article says that a draft resolution which circulating within the Security Council seeks to achieve the following: arms embargo on the government, travel bans and asset freezes of senior officials.The writers Patrick Wintour and Julian Borger say that the idea of a no-fly zone was removed from the Frano-British draft resolution and it was not discussed at a NATO meeting in Brussels. Meanwhile, more than 200 Arab organisations and around 30 Arab intellectuals appealed for a no-fly zone over Libya. Egyptian writer and commentator Hani Shukrallah reportedly told the Guardian:Stopping Gaddafi and his family shopping in Harrods or on the Champs Elysées is not going to prevent him unleashing further bloodshed. It's time to stop fiddling about and get serious.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
