Posted on 03/02/2011 1:59:18 PM PST by SE Mom
Latest from the BBC:
2131: Halwasa Guy tweets: "Never been prouder to be Libyan and I will never let any foreigner steal this revolution. We started it and we'll finish it. #libya #feb17"
2130: Al-Jazeera producer Evan Hill tweets: "Screengrab from the FlipCam footage I took, a second or two after we were bombed by Gaddafi's air force at Brega. http://ow.ly/i/8J6r #libya"
2127: The Corriere della Sera reports that some of Italy's biggest companies - including Unicredit and Finmeccanica - are in a tight spot because some of their Libyan board members have disappeared since the unrest
2106: The CNN's Ben Wedeman tweets: "#Libya much different from #Tunisia, #Egypt revolutions. This is becoming a war."2100: Libya_Awake_United tweets: "Be aware! there will be no civil war in #Libya, but there will be a fight against #Gaddafi's&his supporters till we got our FREEDOM !"
- From Twitter:
@bencnnIn Ajdabiya, saw frantic effort to prepare weapons, defenses if Qaddafi forces push further east. #Libya 2 minutes ago via web
Back from Al-Brega. Long, bloody battle to retake town. #Libya airforce targeting gatheringa of people. 100s coming from east to join fight. 3 minutes ago via web
JPost'2 Iranian warships to return to Red Sea via Suez Canal': Vessels that were described by Israel as a "provocatio... http://bit.ly/hlv8fT about 1 hour ago via twitterfeed
@NickKristofLatest reports are that between 10 and 70 people were killed in Abyei, on border between N and S Sudan. Still very tense
@AlarabiyaTwo US amphibious assault ships reach the Mediterranean as Washington intensifies military pressure on Libyan leader Gaddafi #Libya about 1 hour ago via web
@iyad_elbaghdadiAnd here it is: Arabs may indeed impose #Libya no-fly zone: http://j.mp/gHWZ5L 24 minutes ago via TweetDeck
@iyad_elbaghdadiReports now that revolutionaries in Azawiya have attacked and overrun a #Gaddafi checkpoint at Juddaim. Took weapons & ammo. #Libya 25 minutes ago via TweetDeck
Libyan4life Although #Gaddafi is pretending to be cool, calm, and collected, he is SCARED. Believe you me. #Libya #Feb17 about 1 hour ago via web
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/02/us-markets-oil-idUSTRE71192R20110302
(Reuters) - Oil rose to settle at its highest level ($102) since August 2008 on Wednesday after an airstrike near Libya’s oil infrastructure raised more fears the OPEC nation’s oil sector could become a target in embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi’s efforts to hold power.
News of the strike in Brega, about kilometers (1.2 miles) from a Libyan oil terminal, added to two weeks of fears the unrest could spill over into other large oil producers in the region.
Oil markets remained focused on the turmoil in the Middle East, which could signal another threat to global oil supplies after the Libyan revolt cut exports.
“It looks like an attack fairly close to what is one of Libya’s largest storage and export terminals,” said Andy Lebow, trader at MF Global in New York.
Libyan warplanes bomb oil refinery, port town as fighting rages between pro-Gadhafi forces, opponents http://bit.ly/dL9EFf
31 minutes ago via breakingnews.com
more seriousness and the old presses the new.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/
CARNEY AND ZIENTS (AND OBAMA) BRIEF — WATCH LIVE: President Obama is “aware of the impact the spike in oil prices can have on gasoline prices,” White House press secretary Jay Carney tells reporters.
“We remain confident that the global system has the capacity to deal with disruptions in the oil supply,” he adds. “In terms of who is in charge of this issue, clearly our NEC director, Gene Sperling, focuses on this very closely.” (1:45 p.m.)
Oddly, I’m not comforted by that information ;)
I guess Sperling is in charge. How comforting.
hmm they all sound a lot like mrs. o
Which one is from the pimpled face kid in Vegas????
Libyans don’t have the trained manpower nor the means militarily to get the job done in Tripoli...Already some are saying they were wrong to say International help not needed...second guessing after this last bombing of Gaddifi’s forces.
I do think Britain will have to pick up the pace and get people up close and personal now woth the protesters to take over Tripoli...
Understand even Canada sending military vessel to help.
Agree; Obama is cheering for even higher gas prices as long as he doesn't get blamed for. he will call for move money for clean energy - wind, solar, unicorn farts.
We told the Saudi's to pound sand when Egypt and Jordan were coming apart.
Why would they increase oil by 2mil/bbl per day to make up for a Libyan production loss?
I can't imagine that they would. Certainly I would not in their shoes.
This is all about shutting down this country.If they were serious about our oil supply, they would have been drilling by now.
Thanks mom for the updates. This is going to go on for a long time by all indications.
It’s baffling because he will get blamed for it- the GOP needs to focus on educating the citizens and drop the damned talking points.
I’m still trying to figure out why some on the left want US to get our military involved on the ground in Libya. I heard one of them last night on BOR- she sounded like a regular hawk. She mostly made it into a humanitarian thing but at the end BOR asked if we should get involved in combat against Gaddafi and she said no....not yet.
WTH?!?!
Twitter: (MAY be graphic)
@acarvin This might be the most amazing footage to reportedly come out of Libya. Feels like a desert war film at times. http://on.fb.me/g63iWx
about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck
Retweeted by BreakingNews and 100+ others
U.S. assault ships clear Suez, enter Mediterranean ( Heading for Libya )
Here’s a head-shaker:
jaketapper13 minutes agoSecretary Clinton: Al Jazeera is ‘Real News’, US Losing ‘Information War’ http://abcn.ws/gcdkre ...from @KiritRadia_ABC
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