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THE Libya Thread pt 2 (merged)

Unread postby ralfy » Sun 25 Sep 2011, 04:22:32

The elite get their oil deals, the military gets its funding, and war costs are passed on to the sheeple.
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Unread postby M_B_S » Tue 27 Sep 2011, 03:48:29

BATTLE of SIRTE


NTC troops take port of Sirte!

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Libya

There were clashes in the night and we now are controlling the port," said Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan brigade, which is attached to the National Transitional Council, the new ruling body of Libya.....
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/wo ... 6148208443


GAME OVER for Gaddafi killers in Sirte!

VICTORY in Sirte is near!

Lets celebrate the total Gaddafi defeat!

Long live free Libya!

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Unread postby M_B_S » Wed 05 Oct 2011, 09:47:52

"More than half the city is under the control of the (anti-Gaddafi) rebels," said Adel Al-Hasi, a local NTC commander.

"In two days, God willing, Sirte will be free."

A Reuters reporter near the centre of Sirte said she could hear the occasional thump of mortars landing near NTC positions, but that pro-Gaddafi forces had now resorted to using small arms as they switched to close-quarter fighting...
http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews ... dChannel=0
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Inshallah Gaddafis "Untergang" in Sirte!

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Unread postby Keith_McClary » Fri 07 Oct 2011, 01:48:20

M_B_S wrote:Inshallah Gaddafis "Untergang" in Sirte!

Long live free Libya
Let us know when they have free elections. Like, with opposition parties.

Inshallah.
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Unread postby M_B_S » Fri 07 Oct 2011, 03:01:08

Libya interim troops launch Sirte attack

Troops loyal to Libya's transitional government have launched a major assault on the city of Sirte, one of the last Gaddafi loyalist areas.

Hundreds of vehicles have advanced on the city from both the east and the west and are close to the centre.
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Qaddafi killers the NTC is coming! Mr. Death is knocking on your doors!
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Sirte will be liberated from Qaddafi killers on sunday so god will!

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Unread postby rangerone314 » Fri 07 Oct 2011, 06:57:27

M_B_S wrote:Libya interim troops launch Sirte attack

Troops loyal to Libya's transitional government have launched a major assault on the city of Sirte, one of the last Gaddafi loyalist areas.

Hundreds of vehicles have advanced on the city from both the east and the west and are close to the centre.
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Qaddafi killers the NTC is coming! Mr. Death is knocking on your doors!
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Sirte will be liberated from Qaddafi killers on sunday so god will!

Long live free Libya!

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I will still only consider it true success when I see Gadaffi's bloody head either on a pole or hanging from a streetlight.

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Unread postby Keith_McClary » Sun 09 Oct 2011, 21:59:54

I found this on Google news:
In Sirte's hospital, shells fall as patients plead for helpGlobe and Mail - rory mulholland - ‎3 hours ago‎
Triumphant fighters bearing Kalashnikovs marched up and down shouting “Allahu akbar” as dazed and frightened patients in Sirte's main hospital lay crammed into a ground floor corridor. “It was a holocaust, not a hospital,” Dr. Nabil Lamine said as he ...

But when I clicked, it was "404 Not found"

I found it in a South African site with a changed title:
Sirte hospital crammed with the dazed and the deadRORY MULHOLLAND SIRTE, LIBYA - Oct 09 2011 19:24
Triumphant fighters bearing Kalashnikovs marched up and down shouting "Allahu akbar" on Sunday as dazed and frightened patients in Sirte's main hospital lay crammed into a ground floor corridor.

"It was a holocaust, not a hospital," said Dr Nabil Lamine as he fought his way through the crowd.

Fighters for Libya's new regime broke through to the hospital on the southern edge of ousted Libyan dictator's Muammar Gaddafi's hometown after days of shelling the surrounding area in their bid to capture the symbolic town.

Lamine headed upstairs to check on the only two patients left on the upper floors.

"We have to bring them all down because of the days of shelling" that preceded the capture of the Ibn Sina Hospital by National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters, he said.

He picked his way through shattered glass and turned right into the intensive care unit where two semi-naked men lay amid the stench of excrement in a room strewn with rubbish and broken medical equipment.

One needed brain surgery and the other had to have a leg amputated, said Lamine as artillery fire rocked the building from the fighting nearby as NTC forces tried to push Gaddafi loyalists back towards the city centre.

"We can't help them. We don't have the proper doctors. They may die," said Lamine as he rushed back downstairs, leaving the men alone in the unit where a torn poster of Gaddafi lay on the filthy floor.

One of the two tried feebly to sit up before falling back again onto stinking bed sheets.

I wonder why the Globe pulled this article?
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Unread postby Keith_McClary » Wed 12 Oct 2011, 11:09:51

Libyan forces make chaotic advance into Sirte
Obaid pulled up in his pick-up truck keen to fire the multiple rocket launcher mounted on the back at Gaddafi loyalists holding out in the Libyan city of Sirte, but just as he was about to shoot, he stopped to ask which way to aim.
His comrades standing nearby loudly conferred with one another then pointed him to what they agreed was the right direction and Obaid fired four Grad missiles at the city.

They all cheered him and shouted "Allahu Akbar." Smoke rose above the already wrecked city, but no one could say if the Grad rockets hit the target, or even what the target was.
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Weeks of bombardment followed by street fighting have killed an unknown number of civilians.
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"They are families inside fighting for their houses and their children who have died," said Mohammed, 23, who fled Sirte a few days ago.

"You know who is still fighting inside Sirte? Who is fighting is the person who has lost his brother, who has lost his mother, who has lost his sister ... The revolutionaries have brought us destruction."
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Unread postby M_B_S » Thu 13 Oct 2011, 06:55:49

VICTORY in SIRTE
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Libya
Game over for Gadaffi killers!

Now bring them to justice!

Lets celebrate the total defeat of the Gaddafi terror regime and lets build a free democratic islamic state!
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God is great!

The free libyans liberated their land from tyranny.

Great history is written in our times.

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http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidDS131 ... s_of_Sirte
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Unread postby Keith_McClary » Fri 14 Oct 2011, 01:44:02

Libya's interim authorities must end arbitrary detention and abuse of inmates, Amnesty International says.
the London-based rights group said it had uncovered evidence of torture and ill-treatment of thousands of people detained in recent months.

Sub-Saharan Africans suspected of being Col Muammar Gaddafi's mercenaries were particularly targeted, it said. The NTC pledged to look into the claims.
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The group said it had found a pattern of torture and abuse of suspected Gaddafi loyalists, as well as soldiers and suspected mercenaries.

"In some cases there is clear evidence of torture in order to extract confessions or as a punishment," the report said.

It said that researchers had found torture instruments in one detention facility, and also had heard whipping and screaming sounds in another prison.

At least two guards from separate detention facilities had admitted to beating inmates to get confessions, Amnesty said.

In another case, a 17-year-old Chadian accused of rape and being a Gaddafi mercenary had said the beatings were so severe that he had decided to "confess".

"I ended up telling them what they wanted to hear. I told them I raped women and killed Libyans," the Chadian inmate told Amnesty.
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The Amnesty report raises fears of a return to the types of abuses committed in the Gaddafi era.

M_B_S wrote:Lets celebrate the total defeat of the Gaddafi terror regime and lets build a free democratic islamic state!

Yay, Islamic state!
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Unread postby M_B_S » Fri 14 Oct 2011, 03:30:31

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 70225.html

Through hell and high water: final push in battle for Sirte

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And when the hell freezes NTC will bring Gaddafi his sons and killers to justice!

And when the angels fight the back devils into the hell a new morning will come over Libya with peace and freedom = free elections.

People of the world look @ these brave muslims in Syria Libya Egypt Tunesia Jemen Bahrhein they fight and die for freedom and democracy against tyranny.

I love this spirit!

Just do it!

Fight for your right!

Against tyranny and dictatorship!

Allah is great.

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Unread postby Keith_McClary » Fri 14 Oct 2011, 11:04:53

M_B_S wrote:People of the world look @ these brave muslims in Syria Libya Egypt Tunesia Jemen Bahrhein they fight and die for freedom and democracy against tyranny.
You forgot Palestine.

And Arabia: Has the Arab Spring Bloomed in Saudi Arabia
The Saudi Shia, who comprise a mere 10-15% of the total population, reside largely in the country’s oil-rich Eastern Province (EP) yet they have reaped little of the vast wealth beneath their feet, preferentially doled out to the rest of the nation as any visitor to Qatif will testify. The Shia have brazenly defied official bans on public protests—whether in support of Gaza, Bahrain, or their own rights and freedoms. According to Human Rights Watch, more than 160 anti-regime activists have been arrested since February as a result.

So what made the demonstrations of Oct. 3-4 any different?

For the first time, Saudi security forces did not shoot over protestors’ heads, but directly at them.

And it is this fact that heralds the arrival of the Arab Spring to the Kingdom. The first sign of an entrenched regime’s fear the status quo may change is the use of live ammunition against its people as we witnessed in Tunisia, then Egypt, now Bahrain, Yemen and Syria.

But, of course, Saudi is already an Islamic state.
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Unread postby M_B_S » Fri 14 Oct 2011, 14:36:11

Oh Yes the Saudi islamic tyranny have its best friends in the USA

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Unread postby M_B_S » Sun 16 Oct 2011, 14:24:00

Gaddafi killers ins Sirte under heavy NTC tank fire!
Video here:
Nothing left for you Gaddafi but death!

Source Reuters:
http://uk.reuters.com/video/2011/10/16/ ... fresh=true
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NTC battles Sirte resistance (0:38)
Oct.16 - Tank fire fills the air as Libya's National Transitional Council forces shell Sirte amid resistance from Gaddafi loyalists

Fight the Gaddafi killers down! NO MERCI

They dont want to surrender so fight them to hell!

Long live free Libya!

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Unread postby Keith_McClary » Mon 17 Oct 2011, 01:11:21

I found this
looters.jpeg
on Google News.

Strangely, when you click on the link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mid ... story.html
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/witnesses-libyan-fighters-looting-airport-houses-in-moammar-gadhafis-hometown-sirte/2011/10/16/gIQAbUGOoL_story.html

(The title of the original article is still in the URL)
you get a completely different article which does not mention NATO "rebel"
war crimes:
Libyans bulldoze walls of Gadhafi’s Tripoli compound, calling it symbol of tyranny
Libyan revolutionary forces bulldozed the green walls surrounding Moammar Gadhafi’s main Tripoli compound on Sunday, saying it was time “to tear down this symbol of tyranny.”
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“It’s the revolutionary decision to tear down this symbol of tyranny,” Ghargory said. “We were busy with the war, but now we have the space to do this.”


A little searching turns up the original article:
Witnesses: Libyan Fighters Loot Gadhafi’s HometownSIRTE, Libya (AP) — Witnesses say Libyan fighters have been looting Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, alongside fierce battles to drive out loyalists of the fugitive leader.

Associated Press Television News reporters saw trucks carting off tractors, industrial generators and heavy machinery on the road from Sirte to nearby Misrata.

Misrata was under siege by Gadhafi forces for months.

AP reporters also identified looted equipment from Sirte’s airport. Trucks were carrying red-carpeted mobile staircases, baggage carts, airplane towing vehicles and security screening equipment, all apparently meant for Misrata’s badly damaged airport.

They said Sunday they also witnessed looting of houses in Sirte.

The looting was an indication that reconciliation and unity may be difficult to achieve in post-Gadhafi Libya.

Looks to me like the US gubmint or WaPo's owners ordered this change to the article.
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Unread postby M_B_S » Tue 18 Oct 2011, 02:19:19

Victory in Bani Walid

Celebration Video:
http://uk.reuters.com/video/2011/10/17/ ... oChannel=1

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Bani Walid is now free!
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Unread postby Keith_McClary » Tue 18 Oct 2011, 02:56:20

So, M_B_S, when do you think your NATO pals will give the Libyan people back the $170 billion of Libyan state funds they have "frozen" in Euro banks? :lol:
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Unread postby M_B_S » Tue 18 Oct 2011, 03:57:55

It is not the NATO but UNO to unfreeze Libyen assets.

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Unread postby M_B_S » Tue 18 Oct 2011, 11:56:07

:-D

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"On behalf of the US, I congratulate all Libyans. It is a great privilege to see a new future for Libya being born," she said.

H. Clinton
The US secretary of state
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/afric ... 04263.html
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Unread postby eXpat » Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:16:52

Gaddafi is dead.
Libya: 'Gaddafi dies from wounds' suffered in Sirte capture
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered in his capture near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday, a senior NTC military official said.
National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta said that Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which Nato warplanes attacked.

Gaddafi was shot in both legs and "also hit in his head", the official said. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."

There was no independent confirmation of his remarks.

In the early hours of the morning, at least five cars carrying loyalist fighters attempted to escape the city.

Libyan rebels then moved into the city's Number Two residential neighbourhood, which was the last pocket of pro-Gaddafi resistance left in the war-torn country.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8838611/Libya-Gaddafi-dies-from-wounds-suffered-in-Sirte-capture.html
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