Libya
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Video: Eyewitnesses dismiss rebel advances on Tripoli as misinformation — RT
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumours of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it turns out the shots were fired in celebration at a victory for Gaddafi loyalists. Continue reading
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Video: Eyewitnesses dismiss rebel advances on Tripoli as misinformation — RT
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumours of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it turns out the shots were fired in celebration at a victory for Gaddafi loyalists. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 20-21 August 2011
21 August 2011 — williambowles.info 21 August 2011Libya rebels seek to avoid Tripoli battleReutersBy Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) – Libyan rebel forces ill-equipped to fight their way into a city the size of Tripoli may look to locally brokered deals or a burgeoning popular uprising to break the will of Muammar …http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/21/us-libya-tripoli-battle-idUSTRE77K1O320110821 Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 20, 2011
20 August 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Eyes Early Missile Interception Capability 30-Story, 50,000-Ton U.S. Interceptor Missile Radar Deployed After Repairs Joint Strike Fighters: Australia’s Largest Military Build-Up Since WW II Most Combat Deaths Since Second World War: Poland Loses 28th Soldier In NATO’s Asian War NATO’s 2011 Death Toll Reaches 400 Statue Of Liberty… Continue reading
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FRANKLIN LAMB: TRIPOLI ON THE CUSP
Truth be told, some foreign observers, and certainly this one, having been based in Tripoli the past nearly eight weeks, have not taken very seriously occasional media predictions that Tripoli might soon be invaded by ‘NATO rebels’ and certainly not by NATO country forces putting their boots on the ground. Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Libyan Deaths, Media Silence – Were Dozens Killed in Majer NATO Airstrikes?
Allegations of Libyan civilian deaths as a result of NATO bombing have often been covered in the corporate media as an opportunity to scoff at the Gadhafi regime’s unconvincing propaganda (FAIR Blog, 6/9/11). But dramatic new allegations that dozens of civilians were killed in Majer after NATO airstrikes on August 8 have been met with… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 19, 2011
19 August 2011 — Stop NATO FAIR: NATO Air Strikes, Libyan Deaths And Media Silence U.S. NATO Quad Partners Demand Regime Change In Syria Israeli Missile Chief Briefs U.S. Space/Interceptor Missile Conference War Training In Eastern Europe: U.S. National Guard ‘Partners’ With 65 Nations U.S. Army Plans $1 Billion 100 Unmanned Helicopter Fleet Canada Restores… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 18, 2011
18 August 2011 — Stop NATO U.S. Deploys Two More Predator Drones For NATO’s Libyan War NATO To Test European Interceptor Missile Initial Operational Capability 246,000 U.S. Troops Abroad: ‘Space Has Revolutionized How We Fight’ 1.2 Million Combat Hours: Robots To Give Pentagon Casualty-Free Wars U.S. Navy On Arctic: Facing New Ocean For First Time… Continue reading
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Video: U.S. Marines fighting with rebels in Misurata
A U.S. Marine talking on what they are going to do & how they are going to aid the rebels! oops I thought Obama said that no U.S. Army/Marine would put foot on the ground of Libya. Here is the proof that American Troops are on the ground of the Libyan soil Continue reading
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Video: Tripoli celebrates the liberation of Misratah
Tripoli celebrates the liberation of Misratah Continue reading
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Jean Bricmont / Diana Johnstone: Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?
Last March, a coalition of Western powers and Arab autocracies banded together to sponsor what was billed as a short little military operation to ‘protect Libyan civilians’. Five months later, all the assumptions on which the war was based have proved to be more or less false. Human rights organizations have failed to find evidence… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 17, 2011
17 August 2011 — Stop NATO Lockheed, MEADS Unveil European Interceptor Missile Battle Manager South Korea Builds Supersonic Cruise Missiles To Strike Aircraft Carriers South Korea To Deploy Powerful Anti-Submarine Missiles On Aegis Class Destroyers Warfighting Capabilities: U.S. Applies Afghan, Iraqi Combat Experience In Massive South Korean War Games Raytheon, Rafael Market U.S.-Compatible Israeli Missile… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 16, 2011
16 August 2011 — Stop NATO Mediterranean: U.S. Guided Missile Destroyer Arrives In Malta Report: $3.7 Trillion For U.S. Wars, $12,000 Per Person NATO Troops Arrest Five Afghan Civilians, Torch Two Vehicles NATO Tankers Destroyed Near Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Pakistan: 47 U.S. Drone Strikes This Year, 450 Deaths Kosovo Serbs Protest New Threat To Security 86,000… Continue reading
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NATO’s Puppet Regime in Libya Falls Apart By Peter Symonds
What emerges is a devastating indictment of the Obama administration and its European allies along with all the pseudo left organisations and liberals such as American professor Juan Cole, who have acted as cheerleaders for the NATO bombing campaign in Libya. A TNC regime imposed on Libya by NATO would be at least as corrupt… Continue reading
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NATO, ICC Criminalise Stone Throwing, Legitimise Street Shooting By Bernard Anbataayela Mornah
As we are all witnessing the most aggressive form of neo-colonialism in the north of our continent? Overnight, the Brits and the French have become so concerned about Africa as to have to appointed themselves as the overseers of the mixed reactions in the north of our continent. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 15, 2011
15 August 2011 Stop NATO Gaddafi Calls On Libyans To Take Up Arms Against NATO Libyan War: U.S. Global Hawk Drone ‘Reaches Critical Milestone’ Iran Blasts NATO’s Meddling In Region As ‘Big Mistake’ Israel Plants New Mines, Deploys More Troops Along Syrian Border NATO’s Arm, The Neo-Ottomans State Department: U.S. Shifts Geostrategic, Military Focus From… Continue reading
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NATO Allows Libyan Refugees to Drown in the Mediterranean By Peter Schwarz
According to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, 1,500 Libyan refugees have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of the war against Libya in March. On August 4, German newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ reported a death toll of 1,820 since the beginning of the year. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 14, 2011
14 August 2011 — Stop NATO Turkey May Join NATO Action Against Syria Egypt Launches Large-Scale Military Operation In North Sinai New U.S. AFRICOM Services Battalion Joins Marine, Special Warfare Units Pentagon Prepares For Prospective War With China Arctic: Canada Flexes Its Military Muscle, Puts Russia On Alert Fall Of The Last Superpower In A… Continue reading