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Breaking News & LIVE Thread # 3 Libya, Middle East & North Africa
Various
| 2 March 2011
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
TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaddafi; libya; libya3; middleeast; oil
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To: All
To: All
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: SE Mom
Hillary clinton is really not the SOS it is Michelle Obama she is just a plastic doll sent to represent. Al Jazeera being real news is like Obama being a real president. But honestly me thinks she means the US might be losing the information war in Libya. Really, it is like the accomplice media will truly show what is honestly happening in Libya. Remeber Wag the Dog. Libya is Obama’s Wag the Pork Belly - He just will piss off the Muslims that much more.
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posted on
03/02/2011 3:11:55 PM PST
by
hondact200
(Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
And :
Live Blog - Libya March 3
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y Al Jazeera Staff in
An airstrike narrowly misses opposition forces - and Al Jazeera reporters - outside Brega [Picture: @evanchill]
All times are local in Libya GMT+2)
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The United Nations refugee agency says over 180,000 people have reached land border crossings, with over 77,300 crossing into Egypt (most of them Egyptians) and a similar number in Tunisia. About 30,000 are still waiting at the Libya-Tunisia border, waiting to cross over.
Camps have been set up for refugees, but are facing overwhelming numbers. Moreover, Melissa Fleming, the UN refugee agency's spokesperson, says many people are too "terrified" to move out of Tripoli, for fear that they will be targetted by Gaddafi's forces and killed.
She also said that some Somali and Eritrean workers from Benghazi said they felt "hunted", after being mistaken for mercenaries by opposition forces.
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Sybella Wilkes, another spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), says there are "acres of people, as far as you can see", waiting to cross into Tunisia.
"They are outdoors in the freezing cold, under the rain, many of them have spent three or four nights outside already," she said, appealing for "tens if not hundreds of planes" to help evacuate those fleeing the violence.
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Libya isn't the only country where it's difficult to access media that are reporting on events in the country. In Equatorial Guinea, a state radio presenter was abruptly forced off the air after he made reference to events in Libya.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Federico Abaga Ondo, the secretary of state for information and press, "stormed into the studios of government-controlled national broadcaster RTVGE and ordered producers to kill the microphone" of Juan Pedro Mendene, the presenter. Mendene has now been handed an indefinite suspension.
Equatorial Guinea has imposed a total news blackout on events in North Africa and the Middle East.
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Speaking of the opposition in Benghazi, they say they are not just calling for a no-fly zone, but for UN forces to conduct airstrikes on forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
The city is tense, as volunteers continue to sign up for ad-hoc military training ahead of an expected counteroffensive.
Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid filed this report from the opposition stronghold.
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Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy ambassador to the UN, says the international body may consider setting up the much-debated no-fly zone over the country if the interim National Council formed by the opposition in Benghazi submits a formal written request for one.
What is needed at this time is that such decision be made officially and that we, in New York, are notified of it so that we make a formal request to the United Nations."
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Welcome to our Libya liveblog for March 3. If you're just joining us, you can catch up with yesterday's blog, by clicking here
To: SE Mom
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posted on
03/02/2011 3:20:18 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
To: SE Mom
Secretary Clinton: Al Jazeera is Real News, US Losing Information War
Get other info and channels at WWiTV Online Channels.
Enjoy!
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posted on
03/02/2011 3:20:53 PM PST
by
brityank
(The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
To: ColdOne
Agreed..but question...even if we drill all over the US, what will stop the commodity traders and speculators from jacking up the prices even if we have a larger supply? Would not part of the solution be to sell American oil directly to Americans and bypass the manipulated commodities market? Why don’t I hear many people in the know speaking on this?
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posted on
03/02/2011 3:53:57 PM PST
by
fabian
(" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
To: fabian
Agreed..ut question...even if we drill all over the US, what will stop the commodity traders and speculators from jacking up the prices even if we have a larger supply? Would not part of the solution be to sell American oil directly to Americans and bypass the manipulated commodities market? Why dont I hear many people in the know speaking on this? You're right. It's a global oil market. Just increasing drilling isn't going to dramatically lower the price for a long time. But every little bit helps. But the key is we should do it for national security reasons in case supplies are cut off.
To: fabian
I would think that is how we should do this. Drill our own oil sell it to us. Of course by pass commodities market. I am just assuming that is how it would be done.
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posted on
03/02/2011 4:19:03 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
To: brityank
I’ve been listening to WWitv for almost two years now. Intersting selections. I agree with Hillary...about time someone called it as it is. Ever since Bo took office I often read the telegram amd other British news sites...also Israels....just to get some balance on world news...also RT the Russian network....but I have heard any website from Russia is risky...many known to have all sorts of bugs and such which can load onto your computer because Russia does little to make the Internet sites in their country safe.
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posted on
03/02/2011 4:38:03 PM PST
by
caww
To: plain talk
key is we should do it for national security reasons in case supplies are cut off. Absolutely and many have been calling for this for years now as Arab countries etc. have to strong of leverage over our nation because of our dependence on that oil. Interesting is as soon as the Us indicates they are going to drill or open up drilling we always see a drop in the ail rates. It's been a tit-for tat thing for years. However with the worlds nations shifting as they are today...and not like ever before...our nation needs to focus more on securing our nation and it's people considering what' coming now....of course that won't happen under this Pres.
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posted on
03/02/2011 4:43:18 PM PST
by
caww
To: caww
Use a Linux machine to go there.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Haven’t a clue what that is Ernest....I suspect a certain type computer or program?
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posted on
03/02/2011 4:56:11 PM PST
by
caww
To: caww
Linux is an Operating system...runs on X86 or x86_64 processors....like windows does.
You can download an iso image ...that you can then burn to a DVD or CD and run it from the DVD Reader.
There a lot of choices but Ubuntu is a good choice.
To: SE Mom; Marine_Uncle; BunnySlippers; SandRat; ColdOne
Yahoo...H/t to Drudge:
Rebels corner fleeing Gadhafi forces after battle
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By PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press Paul Schemm, Associated Press 47 mins ago
BREGA, Libya Rebel forces routed troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in a fierce battle over an oil port Wednesday, scrambling over the dunes of a Mediterranean beach through shelling and an airstrike to corner their attackers. While they thwarted the regime's first counteroffensive in eastern Libya, opposition leaders still pleaded for outside airstrikes to help them oust the longtime leader.
The attack on Brega, a strategic oil facility 460 miles (740 kilometers) east of Gadhafi's stronghold in Tripoli, illustrated the deep difficulties the Libyan leader's armed forces an array of militiamen, mercenaries and military units have had in rolling back the uprising that has swept over the entire eastern half of Libya since Feb. 15.
In the capital of Tripoli, Gadhafi warned against U.S. or other Western intervention, vowing to turn Libya into "another Vietnam," and saying any foreign troops coming into his country "will be entering hell and they will drown in blood."
At least 10 anti-Gadhafi fighters were killed and 18 wounded in the battle for Brega, Libya's second- largest petroleum facility, which the opposition has held since last week. Citizen militias flowed in from a nearby city and from the opposition stronghold of Benghazi hours away to reinforce the defense, finally repelling the regime loyalists.
The attack began just after dawn, when several hundred pro-Gadhafi forces in 50 trucks and SUVs mounted with machine guns descended on the port, driving out a small opposition contingent and seizing control of the oil facilities, port and airstrip. But by afternoon, they had lost it all and had retreated to a university campus 5 miles (7 kilometers) away.
To: All
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
03/02/2011 6:09:44 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: BunnySlippers
You are welcome...we seem to have some news now.
They are starting to slug it out.
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