Libya
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Libya Newslinks 24 August 2011
24 August 2011 — williambowles.info Pro-Gadhafi forces try to halt rebels’ momentum CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Libyan rebels weathered resistance from pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces in several volatile pockets across Tripoli on Wednesday, and a few dozen journalists kept hostage for days by the strongman’s armed … http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/24/libya.war/ Continue reading
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NATO, Sleeper Cells Drove Rebels’ Tripoli Push By Hadeel Al-Shalchi and Rami Al-Shaheibi
They called it Operation Mermaid Dawn, a stealth plan coordinated by sleeper cells, Libyan rebels, and NATO to snatch the capital from the Moammar Gadhafi’s regime’s hands. Continue reading
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Tripoli Port Notes By Franklin Lamb
This observer’s tentative appraisal of Tuesdays events along the North Tripoli Port area as of late afternoon 8/23/11 is that the ‘65,000 well trained and well-armed troops’ hyped Sunday by the Gaddafi government don’t in fact exist and that the pockets of government troops here in Tripoli and across Libya that do, will continue to… Continue reading
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NATO’s Rebel Forces By Luis Rumbaut
In recent decades we have lived under the overlapping and curiously-named doctrines of neoconservatism and neoliberalism. We see now the resurgence of a third related practice: neocolonialism. War at will is the new standard for NATO. Continue reading
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The Libyan Soldier: The True Heroes of NATO’s War By Glen Ford
NATO has proven it has the capacity to kill thousands of Libyan soldiers from the skies, but it cannot ‘convey honor and legitimacy’ to the rebels under its killer wings. ‘They are little more than extras for imperial theater, a mob that traveled to battle under the protective umbrella of American full spectrum dominance of… Continue reading
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Obama’s Responsibility to Protect is a License to Kill By Glen Ford
Believing the Libya assault to have been a shining success, the United States will feel confident in launching new aggressions under the insidious rubric of R2P – Responsibility to Protect. The 2004 invasion and of Haiti was the precedent, ‘when the United Nations Secretary General lent his seal of approval to the occupation and endorsed… Continue reading
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NYT Points Out ‘Racist Overtones’ in Libyan Disinformation It Helped Spread By Peter Hart
So stories about African mercenaries are a racist mantra? If that’s the case, then point a finger at media outlets like the New York Times. While the warnings about mass rapes and mercenaries fueled the supporters of the NATO bombing, few reporters have detailed–mostly notably Patrick Cockburn in the Independent–that there was never solid evidence… Continue reading
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Replay: Why is Qatar so Active in Libya?
TRNN REPLAY Adam Hanieh: Qatar and the Gulf Cooperation Council want to control the outcome of the popular Arab uprisings Continue reading
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Libya: Campaigners warn ‘hallmarks of a new Afghanistan are all there’ By Louise Nousratpour
Left campaigners in Britain demanded a halt to all British and Nato involvement in Libya today, warning that their intervention had all the hallmarks of the West’s disastrous invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue reading
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‘Libya rebels to divide in victory vacuum’ — RT
Libyan rebels are united by hatred towards the current leader. Once Colonel Gaddafi is out of the game, they will turn on each other and NATO, predicts Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Continue reading
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'Libya rebels to divide in victory vacuum' — RT
Libyan rebels are united by hatred towards the current leader. Once Colonel Gaddafi is out of the game, they will turn on each other and NATO, predicts Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Continue reading
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Libya: Is NATO Intervention Illegitimate?
Phyllis Bennis: NATO intervention goes far beyond UN resolution and sets a dangerous precedent Continue reading
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‘Death or victory!’ – Gaddafi addresses the nation — RT
Colonel Gaddafi has addressed his nation to say the battle with ‘aggressors’ will last ‘until the end’. Meanwhile, the rebels’ assault on the Tripoli compound brought no visible results and shelling goes on in Libyan towns. Continue reading
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‘Death or victory!’ – Gaddafi addresses the nation — RT
Colonel Gaddafi has addressed his nation to say the battle with ‘aggressors’ will last ‘until the end’. Meanwhile, the rebels’ assault on the Tripoli compound brought no visible results and shelling goes on in Libyan towns. Continue reading
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French want Total control of Libyan oil — RT
French oil companies are likely to be among those hoping for lucrative oil contracts with a new government in Libya. But the cost of the intervention and the unknown agenda of the rebels could mean more losses than gains. Continue reading
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French want Total control of Libyan oil — RT
French oil companies are likely to be among those hoping for lucrative oil contracts with a new government in Libya. But the cost of the intervention and the unknown agenda of the rebels could mean more losses than gains. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 24, 2011
24 August 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Partnership In War Against Libya Serves As Model: Panetta NATO Pressures Compliant Canada To Stay Involved In Libyan War Canadian Drones, Mercenaries Aid Anti-Gaddafi Attacks NATO, EU To Give Stolen Libyan Financial Assets To Clients Germany Gives Libyan Rebels Advance On Seized Government Cash Video And Text: Second… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 23 August 2011
23 August 2011 — williambowles.info Where’s Kadafi? Rumors of his whereabouts preoccupy Libya Los Angeles Times By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times He has exasperated the world for decades and, now, amid gun battles and artillery smoke, Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi’s whereabouts are a mystery. The fight for the Libyan capital,Tripoli, seems far from over… Continue reading
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Rebels storm Gadaffi base
Fierce fighting erupted across Tripoli today hours after Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s son Saif al-Islam popped up to rally supporters and rubbish rebel claims he had been captured. Continue reading
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