Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 10, Part 7 (The Mother of all Intifadas continues)

[Catherina]

Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 10, Part 7 (The Mother of all Intifadas continues)

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

"We have Plan A, Plan B, Plan C. Plan A is to live and die in Libya. Plan B is to live and die in Libya. Plan C is to live and die in Libya." - Saif Islam Qaddafi during interview

I called this Day 10 because the official kick off day was #Feb17 but the kickoff was 2 days early and today is in reality day 12.

Video evidence of clean ups: Gaddafi's men picking up dead bodies in #Tripoli

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, Part 12, , Part 14, Part 15

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.




mijadedios mijadedios
RT @Dee_Easley: Anyone realize that prophecy is being filled at an alarming rate? Psalms 83, Isaiah17-19,Daniel,Eze 38-39, etc? YES!Exciting
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[steve2470]

1. k&r nt

[Catherina]

2. Quryna daily: Employees at Libya's Arabian Gulf Oil Co have joined revolt against Gaddafi

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Reuters quoting Quryna daily: Employees at Libya's Arabian Gulf Oil Co. (Agoco) have joined revolt against Gaddafi #libya #feb17
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

3. Agoco is affiliated to the state owned National Oil Company

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Agoco is affiliated to the state owned National Oil Company #libya #feb17
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

7. Agoco says they have kept operations going at fields & production sites since revolt started

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Agoco says they have kept operations going at fields & production sites since revolt started #libya #feb17
16 minutes ago

[Catherina]

4. Saif Gaddafi thanked Al Arabiya. Will he like new poll "WIll Gaddafi commit suicide or quit?"

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Saif Gaddafi thanked Al Arabiya for their Libya coverage. What would his opinion be on their poll: "WIll Gaddafi commit suicide or quit?"
13 minutes ago

[Catherina]

5. Video: Martyr in Souk El Joma'a, Tripoli

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
Martyr in Souk El Joma'a, Tripoli GRAPHIC VIDEO http://post.ly/1fusj #feb17 #graphic #libya #tripoli #video
15 minutes ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqJ5UKWBX4I&feature=player_embedded
http://arabrevolution.posterous.com/martyr-in-souk-el-jomaa-tripoli-graphic-video



Terribly hard to watch. Just awful.

[Catherina]

6. #Gaddafi long time trusted Min of INJustice+Prisons climbs on bodies of Libya's dead 2 steal revolu

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#News #Gaddafi long time trusted Min of INJustice+Prisons #Mustafa #Abduljalil climbs on the bodies of Libya's dead to steal the revolution
15 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[defendandprotect]

59. K

[pinboy3niner]

8. BREAKING, AJE: Obama calls for Gaddafi to leave now

Hard it on-air, and here:

a_prentiss‎ RT @UpfrontNews: Obama calls for Libya's Qadhafi to leave now
Obama calls for Libya’s Qadhafi to leave now : Upfront News ...‎ - upfrontnewswire.com
Twitter - seconds ago

[bobbolink]

9. well, whaddya know...

:applause:

Better late than never, I guess.... :(

[joshcryer]

15. Same as Egypt, outcome is set in stone now.

They got the airports, they got a good deal of Tripoli, they have popular support throughout the country.

How about the UK or any EU states anyone know their position?

[bobbolink]

18. YEs. Exactly. Yet, I tear up thinking of those who will continue to die.....

:cry:

Rationally, I know that the suffering and misery is bringing the people together, and strengthening them to form a better country.

Emotionally, though... I cry for the suffering....

[joshcryer]

41. I called for intervention almost on day 1. Every new death image or vid breaks my heart.

But I underestimated them in the beginning, they took Libya so quickly. It's Tripoli that has been giving them the biggest problems, and it could still be quite a few days before popular uprising happens there. But they'll get there, I think.

[pinboy3niner]

12. Reuters reporting it ~ LINK:

Obama says Libyan leader needs to leave now: White House
– 14 mins ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in a call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi should step down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110226/pl_nm/us_libya_usa

[joshcryer]

16. "No mention by name" is that some sort of political thing?

Not mentioning his name is that supposed to be an insult or what?

[pinboy3niner]

25. That must be how one head of state 'disses' another

He who shall not be named should step down. RIGHT NOW! You know who you are. :)

[Catherina]

27. "#Gaddafi doesn't gives a damn about what #Obama says now."

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya #Gaddafi doesn't gives a damn about what #Obama says now.
18 minutes ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

10. French Left Party sides with #Libya protestors

hurriya G.P.F. - Hurriya
French Left Party sides with #Libya protestors http://bit.ly/flHgqV <> #Libia #Gaddafi #Gadafi #Feb17
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Libye : Le Parti de Gauche sera toujours du côté des révolutions citoyennes

SAMEDI, 26 FÉVRIER 2011 21:11

...
Le Parti de Gauche est au côté des révolutions citoyennes et soutient la lutte du peuple libyen pour sa liberté.
Aucun pouvoir n’est légitime à tirer sur son peuple.Nous applaudissons le “dégage” crié par les peuples tunisien, égyptien et libyen comme nous avons soutenu le « que se vayan todos » sud américain.

Partout nous condamnons les régimes dictatoriaux souvent soutenus par la puissance Etats-unienne et appuyons les révolutions citoyennes qui soulèvent aujourd’hui les peuples arabes et particulièrement libyen confronté à un massacre.

Nous resterons aussi vigilants sur les intentions réelles des pays européens et des Etats-Unis en Libye et dans la région.

Libya: The Left Party is always on the side of citizens' revolution

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2011 9:11 P.M.

...

The Left Party is at the side of revolution citizens and supports the struggle of the Libyan people for their freedom. No power is legitimate to shoot his peuple. We applaud the "releases" shouted by the people of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya as we supported the "what Vayana todos" South America.

Everywhere we condemn the dictatorial regimes often supported by U.S. power and support the citizens' revolution today that raise the Libyan Arab people, especially facing a massacre. We also remain vigilant about the real intentions of the European countries and the United States and Libya in the region.

http://www.lepartidegauche.fr/editos/actualites-internationales/3502-libye--le-parti-de-gauche-sera-toujours-du-cote-des-revolutions-citoyennes

First sentence is dismay over the comment that was sent from Chavez twitter account that 200 people manage. I really need Chavez to break his quasi silence and make a statement.


Edit. See post 10

[defendandprotect]

60. K

[Catherina]

11. Workers rise up in Tripoli

hurriya G.P.F. - Hurriya
#Libya Workers rising up against Gaddafi http://nhtr.se/n317359
19 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Google Chromed from Swedish

Workers rise up in Tripoli

Published February 26, 2011 20:46 Updated February 26, 2011 20:46

Tripoli. Workers in Tripoli rise against Muammar Kaddafi. The military has gone away from town Tajura, reported foreign journalists in Tripoli on Saturday.

The poor in Tajura demonstrated against the regime in five days.

...

In Venezuela , President Hugo Chavez late Friday only lukewarm support to his former warmly cherished Libyan colleague.

- I can not say that I support and applaud any decision taken by friends, anywhere in the world. But yes, we support the Government of Libya, "he said.

...

http://www.sydsvenskan.se/varlden/article1396424/Arbetare-reser-sig-i-Tripoli.html

Ok Hugo, that's extremely disturbing. You who righteously denounce every Israeli massacre in Gaza MUST denounce this NOW.

[Catherina]

13. Caller Mocking #Gaddafi @Speak2tweet

Caller Mocking #Gaddafi | @Speak2tweet

Caller Mocking #Gaddafi | @Speak2tweet
on FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Link: http://bit.ly/hq0W2n

Time of Call: 2/22/2011 15:01:00

Audio: in Arabic

(Laughs) How are you Gadafi? How are you? How are you, O long-lived one, may your life be shortened soon. How are your children, Gadafi? I see you today in this speech trembling. Why are you trembling, Gadafi? I see your eyes, I see your twitches. Why? What have you taken, cocaine, heroin or what, pills, steroids? First they had no effect on your trembling, and then they did and you were strengthened. This cocaine, it gives you strength, take some more. Take another hit. It’s cheap on the market now. Come on. Take some more.

This is what will make you victorious. Just how are you going to be victorious, how? Black, black days are coming at you. Black as your dyed hair. Your days are numbered. The Libyan people will take their revenge, woe upon you from this nation, they will tear you apart, they will turn you into minced meat. They will eat you, butcher you and your children. These are your last days. And you claim that you are strong.

Where is your strength? In these days, your intestines are all tangled up. How often do you rush to the toilet, Gadafi? How often? Or do you carry it with you? Are you wearing diapers? They are waiting for you Gadafi. We’ve heard you’re good at escaping. Where are you going to escape, Gadafi? The whole nation is after you. 6 million people are rushing at you. They will eat you. How are they going to divide you up in 6 million? Every one tear off a gram. The nation will grind you into meat. God abandon you, God abandon you. Woe upon you of this hungry nation who will eat you. Sleep, sleep, try to sleep. We will meet very soon, Gadafi. Wake up in hell, Gadafi. (Play on "good night," literally: wake up well)

http://alive.in/libya/2011/02/22/caller-mocking-gaddafi-speak2tweet/?utm_campaign=libyatweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

[Catherina]

14. Volunteerism and pulling together in Eastern Libya

LibyaFeb17_com Libyan Youth
Volunteerism and pulling together in Eastern Libya - #feb17 #libya - http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2753
23 minutes ago

Volunteerism and pulling together in Eastern Libya
Posted on February 26, 2011 by admin

This article writes that US officials are struggling to understand the situation as it is developing. A major concern everywhere is that the country will erupt into civil war after Gaddafi’s regime.

However, Eastern Libya tells a different tale. Umm Ahmen, head of the management committee for Benghazi’s new transitional city council tells Washington not to worry.

“Yes, there are no police, no institutions. Law and order as defined doesn’t exist,” she says. “But in practice, Benghazi is incredibly safe. Safer than it was under Qaddafi. People are all volunteering, the banks are opening. We surprised even ourselves.”

[bobbolink]

19. The power of the people. Beautiful.

We in the US have so much to learn from all of you!

[Raksha]

42. Very revealing and enlightening. Where there is true solidarity,

society is self-organizing. There is no need for any big bosses or slave drivers cracking the whip and saying "do this or else." People see what needs to be done and they do it. I think I've just become an anarchist!

The big challenge for the Libyan people, and the reason there will be a need for laws in the near future, is to prevent remnants of Gaddafi's regime from re-asserting the old tyranny without Gaddafi. But I'm sure they don't need me to tell them that. If there is a real power vacuum for a week or so, they are actually in a better position than Egypt. It gives them a chance to start off with a clean slate.

[bobbolink]

62. It kinda puts to rest the myth that people don't want to work and are naturally lazy, doesn't it?

[Raksha]

64. You're damn right it does!

[Catherina]

17. Guardian: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: The new face of Libyan defiance

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
The @Guardian: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: The new face of Libyan defiance http://bit.ly/eiWH3s #Libya
23 minutes ago

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: The new face of Libyan defiance
Colonel Gaddafi's son was educated in London and has friends in the City and Westminster. Or he did until last week

Jamie Doward
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 26 February 2011 20.10 GMT


Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, speaks to the media last week. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

Geneva places a high premium on guarding secrets, but rumours are a different currency. Amid momentous scenes being played out across the Middle East last week, sources in the Swiss financial centre were privately gossiping about a visit to Geneva earlier this year by Farhat Bengdara, the governor of the Central Bank of Libya.

According to one popular rumour, Bengdara had visited Geneva with a purpose. He was there to make changes to key Swiss accounts, into which flow hundreds of millions of dollars of Libyan oil money that are then allocated to the Libyan Investment Authority and the Libyan Central Bank.

Financiers in Geneva gossip that, as far back as 17 January, Bengdara established that four new names would be added as signatories on three crucial accounts controlling much of the money. The signatories were Colonel Muammar Gaddafi; his son Khamis, who heads Libya's infamous martyrs' battalion; the Libyan leader's daughter Aisha; and his son Saif al-Islam.

...

Rothschild's son and heir, Nat, also a close friend of Mandelson, held a party in New York attended by Saif in 2008. Saif in turn invited Nat Rothschild to his 37th birthday party in Montenegro, where the financier is investing in a luxury resort.

Prince Andrew, too, has played host to Saif at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle and the two men have also met in Tripoli. Others whom Saif classes as good friends include Tony Blair and, bizarrely, the late Austrian far-right leader, Jörg Haider.

...


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/27/gaddafi-son-saif-al-islam-profile

[Catherina]

20. Minister INJustice Abduljalil -forget we got rich while we tortured "This is not time 2 settle score

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya Minister IN#Justice #Mustafa #Abduljalil -forget we got rich while #Gaddafi tortured "This is not the right time to settle scores"
26 minutes ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

21. like it wasn't right time to speak out about torture when he paid me

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya #Gaddafi #Minister of #Justice "not right time to settle scores" like it wasn't right time to speak out about torture when he paid me
23 minutes ago

[Catherina]

46. "We will spread the wealth of Libya on Libyans rather than on Gaddafi's projects. "

feb17voices Feb 17 voices
AJA: frmr Justice Mnstr: We will spread the wealth of Libya on Libyans rather than on Gaddafi's projects. #feb17 #Libya
18 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

I hope they don't believe this guy.

[Catherina]

22. #Oman 1000s protesting in Oman. Protesters are unhappy about the ministerial changes, govt same face

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Hurra: Eyewitness: Thousands are protesting in Oman. Protesters are unhappy about the ministerial changes, calling it the same faces.
17 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

26. Omani intellectuals warn Sultan Qaboos. Protests in Sohar, Muscat, Dhofar & Sur >>

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Hurra: Omani intellectuals warn Sultan Qaboos. Protests in Sohar, Muscat, Dhofar & Sur. Demanding "reforms & end to corruption"
18 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

23. footage showing the army in Zawia joining the people

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
http://on.fb.me/etdVXB footage showing the army in Zawia joining the people #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes
18 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Added 53 minutes ago

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=182987045075771&oid=197898230226131&comments

[Catherina]

24. WARNING Internet is back in #Banghazi, I believe it's to monitor them.

AliTweel Ali Tweel
WARNING Internet is back in #Banghazi, I believe it's to monitor them.
18 minutes ago

[Desertrose]

29. Kind of a double-edged sword now. nt

[Catherina]

28. Powerful banner at Chicago’s demonstration today

LibyaFeb17_com Libyan Youth
Powerful banner at Chicago's demonstration today - #feb17 #libya - http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2761
19 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Powerful banner at Chicago’s demonstration today
Posted on February 26, 2011 by admin

[Desertrose]

30. That's impressive!! nt

[bobbolink]

63. Whoa! Art is such a good organizing tool!

Great work!

[Catherina]

31. FP: Libya's information walls come tumbling down

LibyaFeb17_com Libyan Youth
Libya's information walls come tumbling down - #feb17 #libya - http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2760
16 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Libya’s information walls come tumbling down
Posted on February 26, 2011 by admin
In this day and age it is almost impossible to stop information from getting out. But Gaddafi’s regime has certainly tried. However, earlier this week journalists were invited into the capital to show that all is normal.

When some reporters broke away from their minders, however, it was clear that the situation in the city was not completely under control.

Blocks of cities were seen where revolts happened out in the open, and eyewitnesses spoke of snipers, anti-aircraft guns and the dead and wounded being removed from hospitals.

This is a second article about journalists in Tripoli, read it here

Libya's information walls come tumbling down
Posted By Blake Hounshell Saturday, February 26, 2011 - 2:31 PM


Earlier this week, Seif had invited foreign journalists to the Libyan capital so they could see for themselves just how wonderfully the Qaddafis were handling what he downplayed as the work of foreign-backed, pill-popping Al Qaeda terrorists bent on Libya's destruction.

But correspondents for both Al Arabiya and the New York Times, two news outlets that took up his invitation, managed to break away for their minders and report that all was not, in fact, under control.

The Times' David Kirkpatrick "discovered blocks of the city in open revolt" and spoke with eyewitnesses who told of "snipers and antiaircraft guns firing at unarmed civilians, and security forces were removing the dead and wounded from streets and hospitals, apparently in an effort to hide the mounting toll." Al Arabiya reported that Qaddafi's security forces appeared to be abandoning Tripoli's streets to the rebels. And the Associated Press relayed word that the Libyan regime "passed out guns to civilian supporters, set up checkpoints Saturday and sent armed patrols roving the terrorized capital."

...

Perhaps he (Saif)thought that the regime really could control the flow of information, present a cleaned-up Potemkin village inside the capital, and earn some goodwill from foreign news organizations by appearing to be cooperative. But nobody's buying the spin, and newspapers and satellite channels have become extremely sophisticated in how they leverage citizen networks in difficult reporting environments. Libyans inside the country are still, miraculously, risking their lives to take gritty cell-phone videos and upload them to Facebook or other social networking sites, where Libyan exiles pick them up, translate and provide context, and pass them along to a broader audience. Activists and journalists have been using tools like Skype to communicate directly with sources in and around Tripoli, and then spreading the news quickly on Twitter.

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http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/26/libyas_information_walls_come_tumbling_down

[Catherina]

32. Military planes fly over Zawiya, citizens try 2 use AA weapons they obtained to block attacks

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Just in - Al Hurra: Military planes fly over Zawiya, citizens try to use anti-aircraft weapons they obtained to block attacks. #Libya
20 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

33. Al Hurra: Activists in Zawiya: Citizens detain four men who tried to poison water resource

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Hurra: Activists in Zawiya: Citizens detain four men who tried to poison water resource (50km/30miles west of the capital Tripoli) #Libya
19 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Al Hurra was descredited once as a news source. I'm asking how reliable it is and how reliable this story is because the same trick was tried in Tunisia and Egypt.

[Catherina]

34. Italy Suspends 'Friendship' Treaty With #Libya, can now send military there

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
WSJ: Italy Suspends 'Friendship' Treaty With #Libya http://on.wsj.com/hTN47n
13 minutes ago

Italy Suspends 'Friendship' Treaty With Libya
FEBRUARY 26, 2011, 4:24 P.M. ET
BY NATHANIA ZEVI AND STACY MEICHTRY

ROME—Italy has suspended a treaty that forbids it from participating in any military action against the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, according to Italy's defense minister, making it easier for Rome to participate in any potential peace-keeping mission to the North African country.

"The treaty is de-facto no longer operational," Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said in a phone interview on Saturday. Mr. La Russa said Italy no longer considered the treaty enforceable, because the popular uprising in Libya had weakened Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime to the point that it could no longer uphold its end of the accord.

...


As part of that sweeping accord, Italy agreed to refrain form "direct or indirect" use of military force against the Libyan government. The accord also forbids Italy from "allowing the use of its territory in any hostile act against Libya."

Some analysts have questioned whether the treaty would prevent Italy from participating in potential peace-keeping missions in Libya—or as a potential staging ground for forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703796504576168774016612758.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

They're cooking something up and the Libyan people aren't going to like it one bit. Don't do it. Just do what they asked. No fly zone, freeze accounts, ban travel and ICC

[Catherina]

35. "Friendship treaty" that was suspended by Italy "forbids it from participating in any military actio

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
WSJ: "Friendship treaty" that was suspended by Italy "forbids it from participating in any military action against the regime." #Libya
17 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

36. In other words: Italy unfriends Libya. #Facebook

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
In other words: Italy unfriends Libya. #Facebook
15 minutes ago

[pinboy3niner]

37. LOL!

:rofl:

[Catherina]

38. Funny Gaddafi Best Speech Ever

libya_7orra Libya 7orra
Funny Gaddafi Best Speech Ever القذافى http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF6tipZDs4k funny take on #Gaddafi's speech.. #feb17 #libya
15 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF6tipZDs4k


I didn't want to laugh because this is no laughing matter but by shiber shiber I lost it. Funnier the second time around.


Not that the Libyan youth specifically asked certain comedians to help them.

[Catherina]

39. Tripoli is centre of ctr-revolution W\ arming of 1000's of pro-Gaddifi ppl, its pure terror there

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya Tripoli is the centre of counter-revolution With arming of thousands of pro- #Gaddifi ppl, tweets are saying its pure terror there
17 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

40. Will the U.S. VETO UN Sec Council on #Libya? Last week US said it isn't a forum for conflict resolut

HendOfPalestine Hend
Will the U.S. VETO UN Sec Council on #Libya? Last week US said it isn't a forum for conflict resolution #Israel #Feb17 #Pointless #hypocrisy
18 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

43. Latest pictures from Benghazi:

evanchill Evan Hill
Latest pictures from Benghazi: http://ow.ly/443gA #Libya #feb17
18 minutes ago







Many more at link

[bobbolink]

44. Heartwarming! Some of these pictures seem like they would be dangerous....?

[Desertrose]

45. Makes me feel a bit better...wish the ppl in Tripoli could see them

Thank you Catherina :hug:

[Catherina]

47. US had Abduljalil declare interim govt at same time Obama called 4 Gaddafi to go. US 2 create puppet

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya US instructed #Abduljalil 2declare interim govt at same time Obama called 4 #Gaddafi to go He is working with US 2 create puppet govt
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Desertrose]

52. Damn! I am not surprised though. This can't be good. nt

[Catherina]

48. Australia imposes tough travel & financial sanctions on #Libya regime

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
ABC: Australia imposes tough travel & financial sanctions on #Libya regime http://bit.ly/hoScTn
12 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Australia imposing tough Libya sanctions
Updated 26 minutes ago


Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd has urged the UN Security Council to administer similar sanctions. (Reuters: Suhaib Salem)


The Federal Government has imposed sanctions on Libya, as UN Security Council diplomats clash over a proposal to refer the deadly crackdown against anti-government demonstrators to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd announced travel and financial sanctions against Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi and key members of his regime, in a bid to halt attacks on its people.

The 22 figures include members of Mr Gaddafi's family, senior military and security people. The Government also banned the listed people from entering or transiting Australian territory.

Under the sanctions, Australians would not be able to engage in any financial transactions with the 22 figures.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/27/3149954.htm?section=justin

[Catherina]

49. 2morrow #Gaddafi will denounce interim govt as separatists splitting nation(with help of Al Qaeda+US

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya- tomorrow #Gaddafi will denounce interim govt as separatists splitting nation(with help of Al Qaeda+US) +say they alone defend nation
14 minutes ago

[Catherina]

50. Libyan envoy urges UN to save #Libya The UN chief & Libya's entire team of envoys at the world body

SaloumehZ SaloumehZ
RT @AJEnglish Libyan envoy urges UN to save #Libya The UN chief and Libya's entire team of envoys at the world body ... http://aje.me/fPKut8
14 minutes ago

Libyan envoy urges UN to save Libya
The UN chief and Libya's entire team of envoys at the world body urges the Security Council to act quickly.
Last Modified: 26 Feb 2011 01:28 GMT


The Security Council has met to consider a draft sanctions resolution calling for an end to Libya violence

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Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham, Libyan ambassador to United Nations, who has defected, made an emotional plea before the UN to save Libya.

"Please, the United Nations, save Libya. Let there be no bloodshed, no killing of innocents. We want a decisive, rapid and courageous resolution from you," Shalgham told the Security Council on Friday.

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The six-page draft, obtained by Reuters, calls for an end to the violence and says "the widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place in Libya against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity."

The draft also calls for an arms embargo against Libya as well as travel bans and asset freezes for top Libyan leaders

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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/02/20112261323395683.html

[Catherina]

51. Internet coming back in Benghazi and on mobile phones... something is VERY suspicious

ChangeInLibya Libyan Dude
Internet coming back in Benghazi and on mobile phones... something is VERY suspicious #libya #feb17
14 minutes ago

[Catherina]

53. Part 8 here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x516740

[YellowRubberDuckie]

54. I was listening to NPR the other day on my way hom...

...and they were talking to a guy standing in a crowd in the middle of Tripoli. All of a sudden, you hear gunfire erupt, and the interviewer, I can't remember who it was, started asking "are you in a safe place right now?" and he was like, "I'm standing out in the open in the middle of a bunch of people. I drove all the way home with my hand over my mouth, hoping that the dude was OK. It scared me just listening to it.

[Desertrose]

55. Was that the interview where they actually took his phone?

The interviewer kept asking ..."are you there? Are you still there?" but his phone had been taken and that was that.

So many brave souls we will never know how they are.....:cry:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

56. I got out of the car before it was over.

So I don't know. I think it was Meshelle Norris interviewing him, but I can't remember.
Duckie

[pinboy3niner]

57. That interview was on AJE

AJE kept trying to re-establish contact, but I don't think they ever succeeded.

[Desertrose]

58. Oh, OK...you're right.

Have heard so much I can't keep anything straight.

How does Catherina DO it??? She's amazing isn't she??

[pinboy3niner]

61. I get it all mixed up, too

With so much information coming so fast from so many sources, it's a wonder Catherina manages to keep it straight.