The New Dark Age

26 February, 2011 — creative-i.info

Long Bread Lines and Open Revolt in Libya’s Capital
New York Times
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK TRIPOLI, Libya — A bold effort by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to prove that he was firmly in control of Libya appeared to backfire Saturday as foreign journalists he invited to the capital discovered blocks of the city in open …
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/world/africa/27libya.html?src=twrhp

How Egypt Can Help Libya
Huffington Post (blog)
The Libyan people deserve help in their fight against Gaddafi’s butchers, but direct US or European military intervention would have several drawbacks. Western troops, not speaking Arabic, would make deadly mistakes.…
www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-stallman/how-egypt-can-help-libya_b_828626.html

Libya faces more sanctions as United Nations meets; Moammar Khadafy’s …
New York Daily News
BY Christina Boyle A man carrying bread from a bakery walks past felled
palm trees used as roadblocks in the Tajoura district of eastern Tripoli,
Libya. The United Nations prepared to meet in New York Saturday to debate
imposing international sanctions …
www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/02/26/2011-02-26_libya_faces_more_sanctions_as_united_nations_meets_moammar_khadafys_supporters_h.html

Canadian embassy shut down in Libya, evacuations ongoing
Montreal Gazette
By Bradley Bouzane, Postmedia News February 26, 2011 11:36 AM Passengers
fleeing unrest in Libya arrive from the Libyan capital city of Tripoli to
Sarajevo International Airport February 25, 2011. The Canadian embassy in
Tripoli has ceased operations …
www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/Canada+shuts+embassy+Libya+diplomatic+staff+evacuated/4353214/story.html

Chinooks and Hercules on standby in plans to rescue oil workers from Libya
The Guardian
Photograph: Getty Images Extracting the estimated 170 UK oil workers
stranded in the remote desert oilfields of Libya has provided David Cameron
with one the greatest headaches of his premiership. Trapped in remote
compounds on the huge stone-and-sand …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/26/libya-british-oil-workers-military

2800 Chinese evacuated from Libya to Crete
The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of evacuees from strife-torn Libya
reached ports across the Mediterranean on Saturday, with thousands more
still scrambling to flee the North African nation by sea, air or land. More
than 2800 Chinese workers landed in …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hGRh3QgCjgCEpRvsFOUvEJFVNxgw?docId=1f4c1de2ae3e463cb1a66aca0895c6b1

Foreign workers flee Libya
Bangkok Post
Thousands of foreign workers fled Libya by air, land and sea on Saturday in
a vast exodus from the oil-rich North African state as terrified residents
of Tripoli braced for a bloody showdown. A British warship and a
Chinese-chartered ferry docked in …
www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/223639/foreign-workers-flee-libya

UN rights body mulls further isolating Libya
BusinessWeek
By FRANK JORDANS and JOHN HEILPRIN The UN’s top human rights body on Friday
began an emergency session on Libya to decide whether to condemn and
ostracize the North African country for its crackdown on anti-government
protesters. …
www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9LJNA2O0.htm

Can sanctions create change in Libya?
CBS News
By Russ Mitchell The United States is stepping up its pressure on Libyan
leader Muammar Qaddafi as the regime’s violent response to the
anti-government protests continue. President Obama has issued an executive
order that slaps full economic sanctions …
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/26/earlyshow/main20036743.shtml

Hitchens rips Obama on Libya: Is our president Swiss? “ Hot Air
By Allahpundit
By the time of Obama’s empty speech, even the notoriously lenient Arab
League had suspended Libya’s participation, and several of Qaddafi’s senior
diplomatic envoys had bravely defected. One of them, based in New York, had
warned of the …
hotair.com/archives/2011/02/25/hitchens-rips-obama-on-libya-is-our-president-swiss/

Live Blog – Libya Feb 26 | Al Jazeera Blogs
By Al Jazeera Staff
An anti-government security man waves to migrant Tunisian nationals and
expatriates from other countries before they leave Libya on board a
Tunisian ship leaving for Tunisia, from the Libyan harbour in Benghazi.
Photo from Reuters. …
blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/live-blog-libya-feb-26
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In Libya, Scott Nelson on Photographing the Rebellion – NYTimes.com
By By SCOTT NELSON and JAMES ESTRIN
The photographer Scott Nelson has been moved by the welcome he has received
by the Libyans he has encountered.
lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/on-the-ground-in-libya/

Libya Protests: Tripoli Residents Say Civilians Being Armed; UN …
By The Huffington Post News Editors
TRIPOLI, Libya – The embattled regime of Moammar Gadhafi is arming civilian
supporters to set up checkpoints and roving patrols around the Libyan
capital to control movement and quash dissent, residents said Saturday.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/26/libya-protests-tripoli-re_n_828586.html

Let’s Assure Free Passage From Libya – NYTimes.com
By By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Libyan naval ships are caught in a bind: they don’t want to bombard
civilians, and they don’t dare flee. Let’s help them.
kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/lets-assure-free-passage-from-libya/

2011 Libyan uprising – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2011 Libyan uprising began as a series of protests and confrontations
occurring in the North African state of Libya against the government and
its …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_uprising