The New Dark Age

6 October 2011 — williambowles.info

Libya: NATO bombs hit hospital in Sirte:
NATO warplanes bombed the medical center in Sirte, located 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital Tripoli, on Thursday. The number of possible casualties remains unknown.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/203108.html

Libya: wounded patients evacuated from Sirte hospital:
“The three wounded patients needed to be taken out. In the current conditions, the hospital in Sirte cannot provide the specialized care they need,” said Cordula Wolfisberg, an ICRC doctor who entered the hospital.
http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/news-release/2011/libya-news-2011-10-06.htm

NATO: No immediate end to Libya bombing:
French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said the airstrikes will not cease until all remaining pockets of resistance are suppressed and the new government asks for them to end.
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1727636

Libya: Anti-Gaddafi Fighters Loot, Burn Homes In Sirte:
After capturing this hamlet, a center for Moammar Gadhafi’s tribe, revolutionary fighters have gone on a vengeance spree, looting and burning homes and making off with gold, furniture and even automobiles.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/libya-gaddafi-fighters-looting_n_997154.html

Libyans Resist NATO’s Killing Machine:
For over six and a half months, Libyans tied down the world’s mightiest military force despite overwhelming odds against them and enormous loss of life and human suffering.
http://warisacrime.org/content/libyans-resist-natos-killing-machine

Russia accuses NATO of increasing casualties in Libya:
“The international community and our Western partners in the first place followed the path of supporting one side in the civil war. Perhaps, this side expressed the interests of the Libyan people, but at the cost of civilian casualties,”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-10/06/c_131176721.htm

Gaddafi warns developing world leaders of similar fate:
“To those who recognize this council, be ready for the creation of transitional councils imposed by the power of fleets to replace you one by one from now on,” he said.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/gaddafi-warns-developing-world-leaders-of-similar-fate

NATO Not Yet Willing to Declare End to Libya Operations
New York Times
By STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLE BRUSSELS — NATO is not ready to
halt its combat operations in Libya even though the war is winding down,
the American defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, said on Thursday, pointing
to prolonged fighting around the …
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/world/africa/nato-not-yet-willing-to-declare-end-to-libya-operations.html

Red Cross brings aid to Gadhafi hometown in Libya
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI AP SIRTE, Libya — The international Red Cross
delivered baby milk, diapers and other humanitarian aid to civilians in
Moammar Gadhafi’s besieged hometown on Thursday, seeking to ease shortages
amid rapidly deteriorating conditions …
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/red-cross-brings-aid-1195022.html

Benghazi back to school with new Libya anthem, spirit
AFP
BENGHAZI, Libya — The clapping of hands, the stamping of feet and the
spontaneous giggling are back as hundreds of Libyan children returned to
their schools in Benghazi, the epicentre of rebellion against Moamer
Kadhafi. Several schools in the eastern …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ifLn2fe_MPVmGrnaWOVSygcQqSmg?docId=CNG.cb46d5079c0b113325b594fba12b5dba.c1

A man’s drive to rebuild Libyan Judaism
NorthJersey.com
An exiled Libyan Jew fulfilled his lifelong dream this week by starting the
ambitious project of restoring Tripoli’s main synagogue, crying as he broke
down a concrete wall blocking the entrance and surveyed the damage. One day
later, his hopes were …
http://www.northjersey.com/news/131201679_A_man_s_drive_to_rebuild_Libyan_Judaism.html

Anti-Gadhafi forces capture area in Bani Walid
CNN
(CNN) — A message purportedly from deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi on
Thursday slammed the legitimacy of Libya’s ruling National Transitional
Council and urged Libyans to take to the streets to protest. “I tell them
not to be scared from anyone,” said …
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/world/africa/libya-war/

Libya’s revolution
The Economist
Rifts in Libya’s anti-Qaddafi movement are plain. Mahmoud Jibril, who is in
effect prime minister as head of the executive committee of the National
Transitional Council (NTC), is a magnet for criticism. Many on the street
complain that he was too …
http://www.economist.com/node/21531472

How Libya helped al-Assad in his rare and temporarily victory at the Security …
Al-Arabiya
The heart of the matter for the Chinese and the Russians is to make a stand
against the Western powers attempt to repeat the same methods used in Libya
that eventually led to a regime change and lose their political and
economic interests in Libya. …
http://english.alarabiya.net/views/2011/10/06/170534.html

Libya revolutionaries burn, loot village homes
Los Angeles Times
Libyan revolutionary fighters fire a missile during an attack for the city
of Surt. (Bela Szandelszky, AP / October 6, 2011) By Ruth Sherlock, Los
Angeles Times Forces loyal to Libya’s transitional leaders looted and
burned civilian homes Wednesday in …
http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/nationworld/world/~3/7Q1BtBkz_No/la-fg-libya-fighting-20111006,0,1095829.story

Iran watching Libyan oil carefully
UPI.com
TEHRAN, Oct. 6 (UPI) — With Libyan oil expected back on the market after
the war, members of OPEC should consider making appropriate adjustments, an
Iranian official said. Some members of the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries made …
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2011/10/06/Iran-watching-Libyan-oil-carefully/UPI-65211317905789/

Libya Field Partly Owned By Occidental Starts Producing – Official
Fox Business
By Benoit Faucon LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A Libyan oil field partly owned by
Occidental Petroleum (OXY) restarted production Wednesday as planned, a
local official said Thursday, making it the first US company to get some
crude back up in the country since …
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/10/06/libya-field-partly-owned-by-occidental-starts-producing-official/

Sean Penn Is Now In Libya! | PerezHilton.com
By Perez Hilton
Sean Penn is still hard at work promoting change in other countries! After
touring Cairo, Egypt´s Tahrir Square this past Friday, the
actor-turned-activist is in Tripoli today, commending the…
http://perezhilton.com/2011-10-06-sean-penn-in-libya

Does Qatar Share the West’s Agenda in Libya? – Global Spin – TIME …
By Tony Karon
When Qatar took a lead in the military campaign to oust Libya’s Colonel
Gaddafi, Western officials gushed with praise for the tiny Gulf State
punching way above its weight.
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/10/05/does-qatar-share-the-wests-agenda-in-libya/

Panetta: No clear plan on end to Libya mission | The Associated …
By The Associated Press
There is no clear set of conditions in Libya that will trigger an end to
the combat mission, but the operation will not be over if serious fighting
and threats to the population continue, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said
Thursday.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/10/panetta-no-clear-plan-end-libya-mission