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Video: ‘Western countries fighting for Libya’s oil fields like piranhas’ — RT
Months of chaos await Libya if the NATO-led operation in the country topples Muammar Gaddafi, political analyst William Engdahl told RT, but regime change would suit Western oil interests. Continue reading
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Gunshots during RT live from Tripoli — RT
Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya, who is stationed in a central Tripoli hotel with the international press, says the journalists are being targeted by the rebels and the NATO forces that support them. While he is speaking to RT, shooting can be heard. Continue reading
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Gunshots during RT live from Tripoli — RT
Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya, who is stationed in a central Tripoli hotel with the international press, says the journalists are being targeted by the rebels and the NATO forces that support them. While he is speaking to RT, shooting can be heard. Continue reading
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Video: Tripoli inside report: 'Snipers target reporters, NATO bombs falling'
Government tanks are shelling parts of central Tripoli despite rebels claiming they are in control of most of the Libyan capital. One of Gaddafi’s sons is reportedly leading forces towards the city centre. Continue reading
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Video: Tripoli inside report: ‘Snipers target reporters, NATO bombs falling’
Government tanks are shelling parts of central Tripoli despite rebels claiming they are in control of most of the Libyan capital. One of Gaddafi’s sons is reportedly leading forces towards the city centre. Continue reading
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Tanks shell rebels in Gaddafi compound assault — RT
Early on Monday morning, tanks rolled out of Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli residence and began shelling the rebels who had gathered near the compound as sustained heavy gunfire was heard in the Libyan capital. Continue reading
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'Rebels being gathered in Tripoli for a purpose' — RT
Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan who is in Tripoli says allowing the rebels inside the capital could well be a strategic move on the part of Libya troops who have corralled the rebels into a single location. Continue reading
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‘Rebels being gathered in Tripoli for a purpose’ — RT
Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan who is in Tripoli says allowing the rebels inside the capital could well be a strategic move on the part of Libya troops who have corralled the rebels into a single location. 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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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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Syria Newslinks 18-20 August 2011
20 August 2011 — williambowles.info 20 August 2011 Jay Rothermel, “Who Defends Syria’s Sovereignty?” MRZine.org Today at 15:43 Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 5 August 2011
5 August 2011 — williambowles.info Syrian unrest charges Lebanese tinderbox Asia Times Online Today at Noon The protests and violent counter-protests in Syria are echoed in Tripoli, the second-largest city in Lebanon and a microcosm of the treacherous field of Lebanese politics. Recent clashes in the city show that sectarianism remains a tinderbox, with the Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 4 August 2011
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info UN Security Council rebuke of Syria hailed as potential ‘turning point’ Christian Science Monitor The UN Security Council approved a statement Wednesday condemning human-rights violations in Syria. It contains no penalties, but it is significant as ‘a clear and unequivocal condemnation,’ the US ambassador to the UN said. … http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2011/0803/UN-Security-Council-rebuke-of-Syria-hailed-as-potential-turning-point Continue reading
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Silenced Evidence in Assassination of Rafik Hariri By Eslam al-Rihani
“Once the billionaire PM Rafik Hariri moves inside Beirut, everybody takes note of it. His limousine is equipped with a device able to foil any assassination attempt via booby-trapped car. Mobile phones are disrupted in the area near the convoy, … Whenever he leaves his house, his guards carry out car patrols in the streets… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter August 1, 2011: The President Surrenders
1 August 2011 — Information Clearing House Why the West is Committed to the Murderous Rebels in Libya By Patrick Cockburn William Hague chose to recognise the rebel leaders at the very moment some of them may have been shooting or torturing to death their chief military commander. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28709.htm Continue reading
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Video: Mutilated pro-Gaddafi soldiers found dead in rebel-controlled area – report — RT
A mass grave believed to contain the remains of Gaddafi loyalists has been discovered in the Nafusa Mountains in Libya, adding to concerns over the way the Libyan rebels treat captives and the civil population in territories under its control. Continue reading
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Video: Mutilated pro-Gaddafi soldiers found dead in rebel-controlled area – report — RT
A mass grave believed to contain the remains of Gaddafi loyalists has been discovered in the Nafusa Mountains in Libya, adding to concerns over the way the Libyan rebels treat captives and the civil population in territories under its control. Continue reading
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News Corp scandal just tip of privacy-breaching iceberg — RT
As the scandal over voicemail and phone-hacking by the Murdoch media empire rages, public and political fury has focused on ruthless tabloids out of control. But some say in this day and age, the whole concept of privacy is falling apart. Continue reading
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