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Dan Glazebrook – NATO’s response to the ‘Arab Spring’

10th Nov 2012

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Bani Walid in Ruins

Homes, businesses, and public buildings including Bani Walid’s hospital looted, burnt and destroyed by militias

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Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa

The next time that empire comes calling in the name of human rights, please be found standing idly by By Stephen Gowans, 8th November 2012 Maximilian C. Forte’s new book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (released November 20) … Continue reading

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Obama Turned Out Worse Than Bush – Dan Glazebrook

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Muammar Gaddafi Memorial, Conway Hall, London, 3rd November 2012

Dave Roberts – Global Civilians For Peace in Libya Asari Sobukwe, All African Peoples Revolutionary Party

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Refinery protest causes petrol shortage in Libyan capital

Nov 5 (Reuters) – Protests outside western Libya’s main oil refinery shut down operations for a second day on Monday, causing long queues at petrol stations in the capital Tripoli, a refinery spokesman said. Essam al-Muntasir of the Zawiya Oil … Continue reading

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Libya militias clash in central Tripoli

4th November (Reuters) Rival Libyan militias fired guns and rocket-propelled grenades at each other in Tripoli on Sunday and set fire to a former intelligence building in one of the worst breakdowns in security in the capital since the fall … Continue reading

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Bani Walid Pays Price for Refusing to Accept the Mark of the Beast

Pan-African News Wire, October 29th, 2012 By Gerald A. Perreira It is a year since the brutal killing of Muammar Qaddafi and the installation of NATO’s proxy government in Tripoli. The installed government is not in control and heavily armed … Continue reading

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NATO’s gifts to the children of Libya

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ICRC: Situation remains difficult for population of Bani Walid

ICRC, 26th October 2012 The humanitarian situation remains difficult for the people of Bani Walid in Libya. To help those who fled the city after heavy clashes this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is working with … Continue reading

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Bani Walid: ‘Where is the international community, why have they forgotten us?’

Reuters, 26th October 2012 Hours after taking control of Bani Walid, a former stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan militias from the rival city of Misrata fired ferociously at its empty public buildings. Fighters yelling “Allahu akbar (God is greatest) and … Continue reading

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Mummar Gaddafi loyalists hold out in last stand at Bani Walid

The Guardian, 25th October 2012 Bani Walid was supposed to be safe. The last of Muammar Gaddafi‘s loyalists were supposed to have been purged from this Libyan desert town, after an eight-day offensive by the army. Instead, there was mayhem here … Continue reading

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‘US, UK silent on Bani Walid massacres and chaos’

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Interview with Bani Walid residents

Bani Walid residents refused right of return

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‘Scenes of chaos’ in Bani Walid as militia attack residents returning home

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Government’s Laying Siege to Town Exposes West’s Indifference to Human Rights

Counterpunch, 23 October 2012 For some time to come, Libya shall stand as an enduring symbol of the West’s hypocrisy, and indeed duplicity, on the issue of human rights.   While the West, and especially the United States, justified its aerial … Continue reading

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Endless Siege: Death count in Bani Walid rises daily

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Former Libyan Spokesman Moussa Ibrahim releases audio proving he has not been captured by Libyan militia

Sons Of Malcolm English Translation – Moussa Ibrahim audio message 20.10.2012 In the Name of God, the Great, and in the name of Fatah the great. Salute to all of you, freedom fighters of Libya. I am Dr. Moussa Ibrahim … Continue reading

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Moussa Ibrahim has not been captured – Lizzie Phelan

Lizzie Phelan: ‘The news that Dr Moussa Ibrahim has been arrested in Tarhouna, Libya is 100% false, and it will be proven so. It is not surprising that it comes on the one year anniversary since Muammar Qaddafi was murdered … Continue reading

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Muammar al-Gaddafi: 7 June 1942 – 20 October 2011

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‘Bani Walid is the centre of the new Libyan Revolution’ – Sukant Chandan

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The siege of Bani Walid

Middle East Online, 13th October 2012 The siege of Bani Walid, 180 km, south west of Tripoli has been in place for nearly two weeks now. It was publically authorized, encouraged and approved by Libya’s newly elected General National Conference GNC. … Continue reading

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Libyan militia ‘executed 67 detainees’

*Militias were posting videos of themselves executing detainees throughout the conflict as HRW and The Guardian promoted NATO ‘intervention’ The Guardian, 17th October 2012 Militia forces from the Libyan city of Misrata executed dozens of detainees following the capture and death of Muammar … Continue reading

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U.S. to send Marines to Libya to bolster security: official

WASHINGTON | Wed Sep 12, 2012 9:48am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is dispatching a Marine fleet anti-terrorist security team to boost security in Libya after an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador, a U.S. official told Reuters, … Continue reading

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Religious sectarian tensions are reaching record levels in post-Gaddafi Libya

Published: 26 August, 2012, 11:38 Edited: 28 August, 2012, 02:48 Libyan Islamist hardliners use a bulldozer to raze the mausoleum of Al-Shaab Al-Dahman near the center of Tripoli (AFP Photo / Mahmud Turkia) TAGS: Arms, Conflict, Crime, Religion, Human rights, … Continue reading

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Worrying signs of lawlessness in Libya

CS Monitor, Aug 1st 2012 Some of the militias who fought Qaddafi resemble little more than criminal gangs today. Generally untouchable, they continue to swagger through Libya’s towns and cities, demanding special treatment as a reward for their role last … Continue reading

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SADC irked by inaction on Libya

By Lugenzi Kabale, The Citizen, 25th Jul 2012  Failure by the African Union Commission under the leadership of former Gabonese top diplomat  Jean Ping angered  key members of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc). This factor has been cited as … Continue reading

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Lion of the Desert – Omar Mukhtar

Anthony Quinn stars as Libyan hero Omar Mukhtar, who organizes Libyan forces to hold off the encroaching Italian troops under General Rodolfo Graziana (Oliver Reed), who are trying to gain a foothold on Libyan soil under direct orders from the … Continue reading

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60 Minutes – “Libya’s Gaddafi” (1980)

*Although we don’t support all the assertions made in this feature or the way in which it is framed, we feel there is enough insightful information into Libya 10 years after the 1969 al-Fateh revolution, to justify re-publishing it.

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Human rights disaster unfolding in Libya

‘Humanitarian’ intervention brings humanitarian catastrophe LiberationNews, Derek Ford, JULY 21, 2012 Nine months after the U.S./NATO-led overthrow of the Muammar Gaddafi government in Libya, the country remains entrenched in violence and disorder; human rights abuses are rampant. In fact, according to Nasser al-Hawary of … Continue reading

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