SAS on ground during Libya crisis
• www.bbc.co.ukThe British involvement in the campaign to overthrow Col Muammar Gaddafi was a very public one, particularly the part of it involving the use of RAF aircraft.
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Libya Redux: France and al-Qaeda Assist Free Syria Army in Turkey
• prisonplanet.comNews of France’s effort to arm and train anti-Assad rebels in Turkey is all over the alternative and foreign media, but suspiciously absent in the establishment media.
‘Gaddafi son knows too much, will be silenced’
• prisonplanet.comThe National Transitional Council has since said it won’t hand him over to the Hague Tirbunal. Instead it’s vowed to try him at home for crimes against the Libyan people, that could result in the death penalty.
West rushes to grab its Libya reward
• Mail & GuardianIt certainly didn't take them long. Literally one day after the gory images of Muammar Gaddafi being dragged, kicked and stabbed through the streets of Sirte were broadcast worldwide, the announcement was made. It seems it was what everyone was waiti
New Libyan “PM” is Big-Oil Goon
• www.prisonplanet.comEl-Keib is listed as a “Professor and Chairman” in his Petroleum Institute profile which also describes extensive research conducted by him sponsored by various US government agencies and departments over the years.
Dual US-Libyan Citizen Appointed New Libyan Prime Minister
• news.antiwar.comAbdurraheem el-Keib spent his career in academia and has at least some tenuous ties to the energy sector. He served as Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at The Petroleum Institute in UAE before joining Libya’s interim council last spring
Libya struggles to create army out of militias
• Washington PostLibyan leaders establish a new interim government with the authority to create the armed forces, choosing the technocratic Abdurrahim el-Keib as prime minister. But the militiamen who won the war will not submit to the new civilian authorities.
Libya Rebels Said to Uncover Qaddafi Tie in Plot Against Iraq
• NY TimesWhen Tripoli, the Libyan capital, fell, rebel fighters found secret intelligence documents linking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to a plot by former members of Saddam Hussein’s military and Baath Party to overthrow the Iraqi government,
Public Spectacle of Gaddafi's Death Signal for Expanded War?
• www.thedailybell.comKilling Gaddafi not such a good idea after all ... The greatest punishment for the Libyan dictator would have been incarceration and humiliation
Inside the DIY Weapons Workshop of the Libyan Rebels
• PopSci.comFormer rebels took apart 14.5mm machine guns from Russian-designed ZPU-4 antiaircraft weapons and mounted each one on a pickup truck. They did the same with ZU-23mms, Soviet anti-aircraft twin-barreled autocannons, and Grad multiple rocket launchers.
De Borchgrave: Former al-Qaida Leader Emerging as Strongman in Libya
• NewsMax.ComThe death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi could create a vacuum that a whole new slew of Islamic terrorists and would-be despots seek to fill, says award-winning journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview.
The End of History
• LewRockwell.com/Paul Craig RobertsNow that the CIA’s proxy army has murdered Gadhafi, what next for Libya?
The Gadaffi I Knew - by Eric Margolis
• by Eric Margolis via LewRockwell.com"Why, Mr. Eric, why are the western powers trying to kill me?" I was stunned. Gadaffi appeared to be sincere. Could he not understand why he had become a hate figure and target number one. A leader Ronald Reagan called, "the mad dog of the Middle Eas
Libya's "transitional leader" declares liberation
• APLibya’s top leader declared the country officially “liberated” Sunday from the four-decade rule of Moammar Gaddafi, pledging to replace his dictatorship with a more democratic but also a more strictly Islamic system.
Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy
• APDragged from hiding in a drainage pipe, a wounded Moammar Gadhafi raised his hands and begged revolutionary fighters: "Don't kill me, my sons." Within an hour, he was dead, but not before jubilant Libyans had vented decades of hatred by pulling the e
Muammar Gadaffi reported dead: So what?
• The Political CommentatorGadaffi is dead, but what comes next in Libya? This "breaking news" was going to come sooner or later. There are, however, much larger questions remaining. It has never been established just who the rebels are assuming power in this country.
Gaddafi supporters clash with NTC in Tripoli
• AljazeeraGun battle breaks out in Libyan capital between armed supporters of Gaddafi and forces from the NTC.
Libyans in retreat from Qaddafi stronghold
• ReutersAs in many episodes during Libya's conflict, the front lines at Sirte and Bani Walid have moved back and forth, with shows of bravado crumbling in the reality of battle. An incoming shell landed within 200 meters of NTC-held lines, only to be met
Libya: Tony Blair and Col Gaddafi's secret meetings
• The GuardianNew questions over Tony Blair's ties to Col Muammar Gaddafi and his role in the release of the Lockerbie bomber have emerged from documents discovered in Tripoli.
Documents: Libya worked with CIA to interrogate terror suspects
• www.dailycamera.comThe CIA worked closely with Moammar Gadhafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation, according to documents seen Saturday by the AP, cooperation that could spark tensions between Washington and Libya's n
Libyan rebel “gains” smokescreen for talks in Tunisia to end war
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/The rush of military advances claimed by the Libyan rebels and the rumors of the near collapse of Muammar Qaddafi’s army and his imminent flight are designed, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report, as a smokescreen for three current oc
Libya: What America's Media Won't Report
• warisacrime.org/In other words, falsified reports suppress reality on the ground, including that NATO miscalculated. As a result, it's losing because Libyans are united against lawless, naked aggression, refusing to let their country become another imperial trophy.
Libyan TV still on air despite NATO bombing
• ReutersNATO said on Saturday it had bombed three satellite dishes in Tripoli to stop "terror broadcasts" by Muammar Gaddafi, but Libyan state TV remained on air and condemned what it said was the targeting of journalists. NATO has been bombing Libyan tar
Libya blames NATO for raid on food warehouse
• http://english.aljazeera.net/Officials claim air strike killed eight people in Zlitan as UN envoy holds meeting with Benghazi-based opposition.
In Libya, rebel casualties tell the story behind fight for key city
• http://www.latimes.com/As rebels battle Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi's troops for control of the strategic oil city of Port Brega, an injured fighter inspires patriotism in his father, and doctors deal with the effects of land mines laid by government forces.
The US and the new Middle East: Libya
• http://english.aljazeera.net/Fault Lines travels to the frontlines of the war in Libya to see what US policy looks like on the ground.
Ron Paul Slams Absurd Libya War Powers Debate
• PrisonPlanet.comRep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, came down hard today against a House bill (HR 2278) that would have limited the use of funds for the U.S.’s involvement in the Libya War.
U.S. House keeps Libya funding, fails to authorize mission
• Xinhua & RT via PrisonPlanet.comA resolution that bars most funding for the U.S. military mission in Libya failed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, shortly after another measure authorizing the Libya mission suffered the same fate.
Congress to vote on curbing Libya operations
• RawStory.comThe US House of Representatives will vote Friday on a resolution aimed at limiting the US military role in Libya without undermining NATO there, Republican House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday.
Bill would approve US role in Libya retroactively
• RawStory.comTwo top US senators on Tuesday introduced a bill that would retroactively support America's military role in Libya, amid a raging debate over whether President Barack Obama flouted the law by not getting prior congressional approval.
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