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
Here is an 3 page news article on Gaddafi’s attach on Berga. There are also some photos and at least 5 linked articles related to Libya.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/02/us-libya-protests-idUSTRE71G0A620110302
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362098/Libya-crisis-Gaddafi-unleashes-warplanes-bomb-cities.html
Thank You for the update. Will read more later this AM
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362098/Libya-crisis-Colonel-Gaddafi-claims-West-wants-oil.html#ixzz1FWn0AQ7A
Thanking Everyone for the updates. All of you folks are the best and the information is appreciated.
Picture #2: An armored golf cart? Does it need recaharging every 50 feet? Doesn’t look like a gas powered model.
Picture #3: Is the AA gun an aftermarket option that can be ordered on line? The truck looks to be about the same size as a Ford Ranger. Do they make a three axle model?
Good morning all :)
(Honest to God, these people never met a decisive move they approved of) 1458: Mr Juppe warned Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi that France and Britain would press for the imposition of a no-fly zone if attacks against Libya’s citizens continued, but only if the move was endorsed by a UN Security Council decision
1451: France has rejected an offer by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to mediate in Libya. “Any mediation that allows Colonel Gaddafi to succeed himself is obviously not welcome,” said Foreign Minister Alain Juppe in response to Chavez’s proposal. It follows reports that Mr Gaddafi had accepted an offer from Mr Chavez to mediate the crisis in Libya.
1443: Almost 200,000 migrants have crossed from Libya into Tunisia, Egypt and Niger since the violence in the country broke out, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). But tens of thousands of foreign nationals are still stranded in the country. Groups of Filipinos, Vietnamese, Sri Lankans, Nepalese as well as Sub-Saharan Africans are stranded in large numbers in Sirte, Tripoli, Wazem and Misrata as well as elsewhere, the IOM said.
1435: In Saudi Arabia, the unrest in the region has sent shock waves through the country’s stock market, with stocks down by about 20% even though the price of oil is rising. But the Saudi government is not concerned, according to Saudi Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja, who spoke to Laura Lynch of Public Radio International.
1423: The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of the risk of disease epidemics among thousands of refugees gathered in southern Tunisia after fleeing violence in Libya. “There are all the ingredients for an epidemic explosion,” said Eric Laroche, WHO assistant director general, after a visit to the zone where refugees are camped.
Thanks for the ping.
Obama expressed several notes of caution, stressing that the United States must act only "in consultation . . . with the international community."
A consultancy firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has admitted it had made serious mistakes in entering into a multimillion dollar contract with the Libyan regime to portray Muammar Gaddafi to the west in a positive light.
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Austrian anti-terrorism police have grilled Mustafa Zarti, one of Muammar Gaddafi's close confidantes, the interior minister said on Thursday.
Zarti was interrogated for several hours and then released, Maria Fekter told a public television channel. The vice-chairman of the Libyan Investment Authority looked after Gaddafi's assets in Austria and left Tripoli to take refuge in Vienna on February 21.
The Austrian central bank had earlier said that Libyan assets in Austrian banks that could be affected by EU sanctions amount to 1.2 billion euros.
US lawmakers seek hand-over of Lockerbie bomber
The same bunch that scuttled hearings and issued a report that was a whitewash.
Good to see this. This is good news. Thank You!
LSE Head Quits Over Institution's Links With Qaddafi Regime
That's the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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