Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 9, Part 12

[Catherina]

Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 9, Part 12 (The Mother of of Intifadas today)

Previous Day 9 threads: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11


Previous Day 8 threads: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x502125">Part 11

The world’s 100 largest arms dealers, excluding Chinese vendors, sold weapons for $401 billion in 2009, with US vendors remaining in first place

Threads for previous days are in my journal

To make sure the Army doesn't swing the revolution to the people, with the silent complicity of world leaders more concerned about the stability of oil prices than people's lives, Qaddafi has brought in more than 35,000 North African mercenaries specifically from Chad, Nigeria, Guinea and Darfur. There's a Facebook video of a captured mercenary from Chad (Youtube here). Captured mercenaries confessed they were paid between $12,000 - $30,000 each. Today pamphlet ads were found in Nigeria offering them $2000/day for their savage work.

Is Qaddafi the only one paying these mercenaries? Or are EU governments, with their long history of hiring mercenaries, chipping in? I demand to know.

LibyanThinker The Libyan Thinker
Remains of Soldiers Burned to Death for Not Shooting Protesters in #Libya http://www.twitvid.com/YXKOT & http://tinyurl.com/4d6a57n

MAP of Protests across the Middle East





Please rec if you read these so I know if the effort here is worth it.

[Catherina]

1. Libyan Revolutionaries in Misurata airport seize plane carrying 50 mercenaries

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Manar: Libyan Revolutionaries in Misurata airport seize plane carrying 50 mercenaries #Libya
4 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Send pics

[Catherina]

2. URGENT: ARMY & SPECIAL FORCES IN ALMAALLA SHOOTS BUILDINGS & UNARMED CITIZENS IN ADEN

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
RT @alaaisam: URGENT: ARMY & SPECIAL FORCES IN ALMAALLA SHOOTS BUILDINGS & UNARMED CITIZENS IN ADEN #Aden #South #Yemen
4 minutes ago

[defendandprotect]

4. LIBYA HURRA -- !!

[Catherina]

3. Why are all the UN delegates kissing Libyan Ambassador to UN who refused to abandon Gaddafi?

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Why are all the UN delegates kissing Libyan Ambassador to UN Abdul Rahman Shalgham who refused to abandon Gaddafi? #Libya
4 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Protocol, to be kind.

[Catherina]

7. He declared Gaddafi a madman and told about the massacre that's currently going on in Libya. >>

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
@
@SultanAlQassemi He declared Gaddafi a madman and told about the massacre that's currently going on in Libya. It was moving & powerful.
4 minutes ago

[Catherina]

11. Speech: Very good and honest

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Shalqam "Stop what Gaddafi & his sons are doing against our people" "Sanctions must be against Gaddafi & his family not the country" #WOW

"You cannot be a leader & kill your people because they said they want to be free. It's not a crime to be free"

"Libya is more important that Gaddafi, more important than me"

"I was one of his closest friends, not friends, we started with the revolution"

"90% of our missions around the world are not with Gaddafi. They consider me the foreign minister now"


"From Morocco to the Gulf, everyone is supporting Bahrain. Within year the Arab world will not be the same"


SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Respect to Abdul Rahman Shalgham, despite his previous stance with Gaddafi. #Libya (Someone send me the video of his UN speech please)

Abdel Rahman Shalgam (born 1949) was Foreign Minister of Libya from 2000-2009 when he was appointed as ambassador to UN. Source: Wikipedia

http://twitter.com/#!/SultanAlQassemi

[Catherina]

14. Rahman Shalgam (born 1949) was Foreign Minister of Libya from 2000-2009 when he was appointed as amb

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Abdel Rahman Shalgam (born 1949) was Foreign Minister of Libya from 2000-2009 when he was appointed as ambassador to UN. Source: Wikipedia
10 minutes ago

[Catherina]

53. Video recording of Abdul Rahman Shalgham's emotional UN address

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Video recording of Abdul Rahman Shalgham's emotional UN address http://bit.ly/ieDg0x English. Starts: min 15:47. Via the resourceful @vwyeth
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

UN Video http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/02/security-council-meeting-english-5.html

[Catherina]

5. Gaddafi appears to control the region of hometown Sirte and Fezzan. Fall of Sirte would b a blow

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya Outside #Tripoli #Gaddafi appears to control the region of hometown Sirte and Fezzan. Fall of Sirte would be a body blow.
3 minutes ago

[Catherina]

6. am 1000% convinced that #Gaddafi's latest address was prerecorded.

Libyan4life Jeel Ghathub
I am 1000% convinced that #Gaddafi's latest address was prerecorded.
4 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

You and most of the rest of the world.

[highplainsdem]

8. K&R

[Catherina]

9. #UN Sec Gen Ban tells Security Council Gaddafi forces r entering hospitals & shooting injured

SaloumehZ SaloumehZ
RT @denisfitz #UN Sec Gen Ban tells Security Council forces loyal to #Gaddafi are entering hospitals and shooting injured opponents #Libya
53 seconds ago

[UndertheOcean]

10. knr n/t

[Catherina]

12. #Yemen: 9 killed, their bodies are still there in front of Kenya plaza hotel in Maalla district

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
RT @alaaisam: Witness: 9 killed, their bodies are still there in front of Kenya plaza hotel in Maalla district #Yemen #Aden
9 minutes ago

[Catherina]

13. #Gaddafi had already recruited African migrants 2 Europe into “Deterrent Battalion” (the 32nd Bde)

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya - Reports say that #Gaddafi had already recruited African migrants to Europe into the “Deterrent Battalion” (the 32nd Brigade)
10 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[JanDutchy]

There is no prove for: let us focus on Libya

[Catherina]

24. Yes there is.PLENTY and much documented right here. n/t

[JanDutchy]

27. Where are the updated sources?

[Catherina]

31. Catch up. No time to explain this. Sorry. See journal n/t

[JanDutchy]

17. There is no prove for: let us focus on Libya

[Catherina]

15. Cmndr Col Hussein:To the people of Sirte, u have tonight to make up your mind. w/ us or against us.

levinsonc Charles Levinson
Rebel Cmndr Col Hussein:To the people of Sirte, u have tonight to make up your mind. w/ us or against us. Join us or we’ll finish you #Libya
9 minutes ago

[Catherina]

16. 100+ bodies of soldiers who refused to follow orders, found at camp in #Benghazi, in mass grave.

SaloumehZ SaloumehZ
RT @OmarAlmu5tar Over a hundred bodies of soldiers who refused to follow orders, found at camp in #Benghazi, in mass grave. #Feb17 #Libya
7 minutes ago

[Catherina]

18. live ammo shot close range in back lanes & allies. Protesters arrested. My contact barely escaped

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
RT @shabablibya: Tripoli: live ammo shot close range in back lanes & allies. Protesters arrested. My contact barely escaped. #feb17 #Libya
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

19. #Egypt: Central Sec Forces in Mansoura firing tear gas on protesters around Security Directorate.

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
RT @3arabawy: Central Security Forces (yes they r back!) r now in Mansoura firing tear gas on protesters around Security Directorate. #Egypt
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

20. courage of pro-dem protesters in #Libya matched only by fecklessness of the int'l community.

SaloumehZ SaloumehZ
RT @NickKristof The courage of pro-democracy protesters in #Libya is matched only by the fecklessness of the int'l community.
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[JanDutchy]

22. 'Libië stops output oil ' ( dutch news)

25/02/11, 19:20
TRIPOLI-Libya stops expected in the short term with the output of oil. That said the second man at the UN for Libya, Ibrahim Dabbashi, Friday.

EPA oil-rich Libya would be for security reasons stop oil exports.


Dabbashi has urged the United Nations Security Council urged directly to impose sanctions on Kaddafi and other Libyan leaders. Dabbashi has previously called Kaddafi to leave. (REUTERS)
---

Instead EU said whe don't want blood-oil.

[Catherina]

21. Unconfirmed: #Libya navy ships sent to bombard Benghazi. fear attack from AF if they run for Malta

EndOppression Free the World
UNCONFIRM RT @NickKristof phone appeal: #Libya navy ships sent to bombard Benghazi. They fear attack from air force if they run for Malta.
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Fuck that. Run for Malta! Your life or millions of innocents in your country.

[Catherina]

23. Guardian: UK officials tell #Gaddafi loyalists to defect or face war crimes

SaloumehZ SaloumehZ
RT @AJELive The newspaper reports that UK officials tell #Gaddafi loyalists to defect or face war crimes #Libya
8 minutes ago

[Catherina]

25. salute #LEEDS city council, they support LIBYANS in their quest for freedom

septimius_sever septimius severus
I salute #LEEDS city council, they support LIBYANS in their quest for freedom #feb17 #libya - libyafeb17.com/?p=2569
5 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Leeds City Council today supporting Libya:

VIDEO

http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2569

[Catherina]

26. Qadfi's army defeated in Misrata, the airport is under protesters control,a conl was arrested 2

libi4ever Soliman Albrassi
Qadfi's army defeated in Misrata, the airport is under protesters control,a conl was arrested as well #libya
1 minute ago

[JanDutchy]

29. UN-concept: : Gaddafi must be for ICC (The Haque NL)

9.10pm GMT: Breaking news from Reuters – the draft UN resolution says the Gaddafi regime's attacks on its people may be crimes against humanity requiring prosecution by the International Criminal Court.


And don't forget this:
La stampa : Berlusconi has affair with daughter of Gaddafi '
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7949642-la-stampa-berlusconi-has-affair-with-daughter-of-gaddafi

[Catherina]

28. EU's military exports to Libya

EU's military exports to Libya
"The EU exports around €340 million of military equipment to Libya each year. Here are the details -- what country, what kind of equipment." (thanks Jenny)
Posted by As'ad AbuKhalil at 7:51 AM Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz

EU Military exports to Libya

The EU exports around €340 million of military equipment to Libya each year. Here are the details -- what country, what kind of equipment.

The official record is here www.eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2011:009:0001:0417:EN:PDF" type="application/pdf" . This is data for 2009, the most recent available. I've pulled out the relevant data, simplified the categories somewhat, and made a spreadsheet out of it:

SPREADSHEET @ frame

What's to notice in these numbers?

- €343m per year buys you a lot of weapons. This isn't fiddling around the edges, it's a major contribution to keeping Gaddafi in power.
- The 4 biggest exporters were Italy, Germany, France and the UK. Exactly the same four led the drive in 2004 for the EU to lift the arms embargo on Libya. Can anybody claim with a straight face that this wasn't a case of commercial interests taking precedence ovr the people of Libya?
- Britain and France had the most varied arms exports, including much of the really nasty stuff. They provided respectively $210,795 and €476,604 of "Chemical or biological toxic agents, 'riot control agents', radioactive materials, related equipment, components and materials"
- There's plenty happening that isn't in these numbers. Take a look at my post on German training services, for a start.
- Malta's €80m small-arms sale is an accounting fiction, or possibly some kind of legal dodge. They were sold by an Italian company, which moved them between ships in the sea near Malta.
- These figures are all for export licenses granted. It's possible that in some cases the weapons weren't sold in the end. But licenses are the best public figures we have

http://ohuiginn.net/mt/2011/02/eu_military_exports_to_libya.html

Posted by As'ad AbuKhalil at 7:51 AM

[JanDutchy]

30. Rosenthal (Dutch Foreign Minister) and Parliament will be asked !

Asked and to investigate: (the problem will be Bush- and the Blair-administration and we will not forget the Frenche-policy)

[Catherina]

41. I certainly hope so. Relying on you for that n/t

[Catherina]

32. Highlights of Abdul Rahman Shalgham, Libyan UN Ambassador speech at the UN

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Highlights of Abdul Rahman Shalgham, Libyan UN Ambassador speech at the UN an hour ago coming up. #Libya
11 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Shalgham: Gaddafi addressed a crowd made up of children & soldiers who were dressed in civilian clothes. #Libya
9 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

If the protesters were indeed taking hallucinogenic drugs they would need mountains of them.

The weapons that Gaddafi wants to distribute on the people will be turned against him.

The six month old child that was killed is not a follower of Bin Laden.

#Libya was formed as a result of a United Nations resolution so you have to now save it.

We want a brave & strict decision from the UN Security Council today.

http://twitter.com/#!/SultanAlQassemi

[Catherina]

33. Breaking France 24 Arabic: Saif Gaddafi says hopes 2 find peaceful solution by tomorrow (Saturday)

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Breaking France 24 Arabic: Saif Al Islam Gaddafi says he hopes to find a peaceful solution to the crisis by tomorrow (Saturday) #Libya
1 minute ago


Hah.

[Catherina]

34. #Egypt: now being surrounded by military police , being cordoned we are about 200

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج
We are now being surrounded by military police , being cordoned we are about 200
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

35. Number of Vienna hotel that Aisha #Gaddafi & her mother are staying at 011431501100. BLAST these

Anony_Ops Anonymous Operations
Number of Vienna hotel that Aisha #Gaddafi & her mother are staying at 011431501100. BLAST these lines #Libya #Feb17 via @Cyrenaican
4 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Thought Aisha was with dad in bunker? Or was that more technicolor pretend?

[Catherina]

36. Libyan Naval Forces announced a statement saying that they have joined the revolution.

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Libyan Naval Forces announced a statement saying that they have joined the revolution. #Libya #Gaddafi
4 minutes ago

[JanDutchy]

40. Concept draft UN - and I want for the first time in history: democratic company policy

9.44pm GMT: More on the draft UN security council resolution being prepared by France and the UK – according to Reuters the text of the draft says "the widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place in Libya against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity."

If the security council does approve a referral to the International Criminal Court on the grounds of crimes against humanity, it would only be the second time in UN history.


\\\=
I want for the first time in history: democratic company policy formulated in coöp with the ILO ( International Labour Organization'

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@sitestudio/documents/sitestudioasset/d4wcms_046345.gif

[Catherina]

56. Video Statement by Libyan Navy joining the Revolution

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Video Statement join forces Libyan Navy of the Revolution...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9sru3D71U...#Libya #Gaddafi
28 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9sru3D71U

[Catherina]

37. In #UNSC consultation room, draft sanctions resolution being circulated by UK, under discussion now

petsound brett walker
RT @patrickventrell: In #UNSC consultation room, draft sanctions resolution on #Libya has been circulated by UK, under discussion now
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

38. @NATO @StateDept Announce safe passage for Libyan ships/planes refusing orders from Gadahfi regime

umifty Noor-Aiman Khan
by EndOppression
@monaeltahawy @chrislhayes Please RT @NATO @StateDept Announce safe passage for Libyan ships/planes refusing orders from Gadahfi regime
36 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Final'y. Something tangible

[Catherina]

39. love that a Arms Embargo is being placed on Libya, who were geniuses that armed him to begin with??

LOVE2LIBYA FreeLibyaNow
by ChangeInLibya
love that a Arms Embargo is being placed on Libya, who were the geniuses that armed him to begn with????????????
2 minutes ago

[JanDutchy]

44. Yes Catharine. I´am aware

Í shame myselve that I didn´t take more notice of the Amnesty Reports on countries.

[Catherina]

45. You're not alone. Just repeating tweets. Not my comments n/t

[Catherina]

42. No outside military wanted.PPL power. Just food, med, humanitarian aid

hajmar silent observer
by EndOppression@
@leilalya @monaeltahawy Outside food, medical,and other humanitarian aid is deff needed and wanted. No outside military wanted.PPL power
49 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

43. Negotiations with surrounded brigade near #Misrata about their surrender underway

LibyanDictator The Dictator
CONFIRMED: Negotiations with the surrounded brigade near #Misrata about their surrender are underway. #Libya #Feb17
21 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

46. am in Tripoli at Saif Gaddafi press conference. Asked if dad felt he was near end >>

jrug Jonathan Rugman
^JR I am in Tripoli at Saif Gaddafi press conference. Asked him if dad felt he was near end. "Libya is not Tunisia or Egypt" his reply.
10 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

55. says army holding back, hopes for peaceful settlement "

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Reuters: Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam says army holding back, hopes for peaceful settlement "by tomorrow". #Libya via @AbdulHamidAhmad
27 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


UFB.

[Catherina]

47. Mercenaries drag killed protester into truck and drive off!

LibyaFeb17_com Libyan Youth
BREAKING: Mercenaries drag killed protester into truck and drive off! - #feb17 #libya - http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2576
10 minutes ago




Video at link

[Catherina]

48. Defeated Mercenary Protected By And From Protesters

Cyrenaican Libyana Americana
Defeated mercenary protected BY and FROM protesters in #Libya #Feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=IpXxHB…
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Defeated Mercenary Protected By And From Protesters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpXxHBfuPvI

Repost from previous thread but important

[Catherina]

49. Talk of a peaceful settlement by #Saif #Gaddafi is psychological+ tactical.Tomorrow he will say we >

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya Talk of a peaceful settlement by #Saif #Gaddafi is psychological+tactical.Tomorrow he will say we offered peace, now u will have war
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

50. Protesters set fire to Gaddafi family palace

newsworldtoday News World Today
by mijadedios
Protesters set fire to Gaddafi family palace #news http://bit.ly/ha8UJB
26 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Protesters torch Gaddafi family palace
Posted on 02.25.11
Categories: Activism, World
What became of buildings associated with Moammar Gaddafi’s regime? Exactly what one might expect: hoards of angry protesters ransacked and burned them. Amid a boiling revolution, the Gaddafi family palace was no exception. Little more than a burned-out husk of a building remains.

This video is from CNN, broadcast Feb. 25, 2011.

VIDEO


http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/02/protesters-torch-gaddafi-family-palace/

[JanDutchy]

51. Lessons learned

September 13, 1940
The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya.

[Catherina]

52. doctors tell me +2000 people killed in benghazi & surrounding area

nour_odeh Nour Odeh
by blakehounshell
Libyan medical relief volunteer to Al-Arabiya: doctors tell me +2000 people killed in benghazi & surrounding area #Libya #Gaddafi
41 minutes ago

[Catherina]

54. Saif Gaddafi just called Mandelson and Rothschild "friends">>

jrug Jonathan Rugman
^JR Saif Gaddafi just called Mandelson and Rothschild "friends", hopes they are not condemning him.;
15 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Calling out the big guns now but they're too afraid to rush to their friend's side now. Just as dirty as he is.

[Catherina]

57. Part 13 here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x509483