ANOTHER TYRANT – GADDAFI FALLS IV
Kyaemon
Rebels swept into the center of Tripoli over the weekend, and the end appeared to be inevitable for the 42-year reign of Moammar Khadafy as leader of Libya, but government forces were still putting up sporadic resistance in pockets of the city. The whereabouts of Khadafy were unknown. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for crimes against humanity. The six-month uprising had been marked by slow progress followed by setbacks, but moved with startling speed over the weekend. Gathered here are pictures from the last few days of the fighting and celebrations. — Lane Turner (31 photos total)
Libya on the brink of change – The Big Picture – Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/libya_on_the_brink_of_change.html
August 22, 2011
World urges Gadhafi to surrender
The Frame: World urges Gadhafi to surrender
http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2011/08/world-urges-gadhafi-to-surrend.html#more
ROME (AP) — World leaders said Monday the end is near for Moammar Gadhafi’s regime and began planning for Libya’s future without the man who has held power there for 42 years.
Leaders across Europe welcomed the rebels’ dramatic advances in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after six months of fighting, and urged Gadhafi to surrender and avoid a bloodbath. Hundreds of Libyans living abroad celebrated in the streets, taking over embassies, burning images of the Libyan strongman and hoisting rebel flags.
Though Gadhafi’s whereabouts were not known, leaders were already setting the stage for new leadership. (30 images)
Qaddafi’s Son Taunts Rebels in Tripoli – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/world/africa/23libya.html?hp
TRIPOLI, Libya — The euphoria that followed the rebels’ triumphant march in Tripoli gave way to confusion and wariness on Monday, as Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi remained at large, his son Seif al-Islam made a surprise appearance at a hotel with foreign journalists, and pockets of loyalist forces stubbornly resisted rebel efforts to take control of the capital.
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Kyaemon
August 24, 2011 at 12:28 am
Blasts rattle Tripoli as Libyan rebels encircle Kadafi compound
Battle for Libyan capital nears a climax as rebels prepare an offensive on Moammar Kadafi’s vast fortress. Both joy and paranoia permeate the city.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fg-libya-tripoli-20110824-20110824,0,7345515.story
Reporting from Tripoli—
Explosions and gunfire rattled parts of Libya’s capital Tuesday as rebels launched an offensive against the huge central compound of Moammar Kadafi, the aging colonel whose rule appeared to be crumbling in the face of NATO airstrikes and opposition advances.
Residents living near Kadafi’s Bab Azizya compound, a vast fortress in the middle of Tripoli, reported indiscriminate gun and tank fire by loyalist forces attempting to fend off a rebel encirclement of the compound. NATO warplanes could be heard scouring the skies above, and smoke was rising above the center of the city…..
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Search on for Kadafi as Libyan rebels storm his Tripoli compound
Libyan rebels enter Moammar Kadafis vast fortress after hours of fierce battle. The end is near, a NATO spokeswoman says, though pockets of fighting persist.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-tripoli-2-20110824,0,5092315.story
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya —
Rebels stormed Moammar Kadafi’s central compound Tuesday, detaining his supporters and searching for the aging leader as gunfire sounded and columns of black smoke billowed from the building.
Hundreds of rebels entered the green gates of Kadafi’s expansive Bab Azizia complex and poured inside, some driving golf carts and firing their guns in celebration, said an Associated Press reporter who looked on after hours of fierce gun battles and NATO airstrikes against the building.
Kadafi’s whereabouts were not immediately known.
Rebel fighters could be seen on CNN emerging from the compound with items they had seized: guns, vehicles and medical files that appeared to belong to the Libyan strongman’s relatives, including his son, Seif Islam Kadafi.
“We have it, we have it, we’re winning this fight! God is great, we’re here,” they cheered in the streets outside the compound.
However, it was not yet clear whether rebels had captured the sprawling complex, which reportedly sits atop a maze of tunnels and secret passageways. Some in the streets feared further bloodshed before Kadafi is ousted.
“We hope this over soon. I fear that the violence will continue until Kadafi and his family have left the country,” one bystander, identifying himself only as Omar, an unemployed engineer, told Reuters.
Another unnamed man added: “Kadafi is finished, even if some snipers and mercenaries are still resisting. But there is no doubt that we are free and Kadafi is finished.”
As many as 500 highly trained fighters from the rebel-controlled city of Misurata were said to be participating in the battle for Kadafi’s compound…….
zoe
August 24, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Thank you for all your efforts. Must admit , I’ve got the breaking news initially from your post in this site, at least for me…
Kyaemon
August 25, 2011 at 12:45 am
Thank you for your kind comments. It is a pleasure to serve our villagers.
kai
August 24, 2011 at 12:59 pm
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Kyaemon
August 25, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Dear Thugyi
Ceausescu wasn’t hanged. He and his wife were shot.
Extracts for Wikipedia
“….Ceaușescu and his wife Elena fled the capital with Emil Bobu and Manea Mănescu and headed, by helicopter, for Ceaușescu’s Snagov residence, from where they fled again, this time for Târgoviște. Near Târgoviște they abandoned the helicopter, having been ordered to land by the army, which by that time had restricted flying in Romania’s air space. The Ceaușescus were held by the police while the policemen listened to the radio. They were eventually turned over to the army. On Christmas Day, 25 December, the two were tried in a brief show-trial and sentenced to death by a military court on charges ranging from illegal gathering of wealth to genocide, and were executed in Târgoviște. During the trial, Ceaușescu repeatedly denied the court’s authority to try him, and asserted he was still legally president of Romania. The video of the trial shows that, after sentencing, they had their hands tied behind their backs and were led outside the building to be executed.
The Ceaușescus were executed by a firing squad consisting of elite paratroop regiment soldiers: Captain Ionel Boeru, Sergant-Major Georghin Octavian and Dorin-Marian Cirlan,[14] while reportedly hundreds of others also volunteered. The firing squad began shooting as soon as they were in position against a wall. The firing happened too soon for the film crew covering the events to record it.[1…. ” (Interesting story, too),

Black Mercenaries used by Gaddafi.
See below (from Wikipedia):
“Libya
Muammar Gaddafi in Libya has been reported to have been using mercenary troops including Tuaregs from various nations in Africa.[39] Many of them had been part of his Islamic Legion[40] created in 1972. Reports say around 800 had been recruited from Niger, Mali, Algeria, Ghana and Burkina Faso.[41].”
Kyaemon
August 25, 2011 at 1:31 am
Libya unrest: Fighting in Tripoli as loyalists hold out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14656369
Libyan rebels and forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi have fought running battles in Tripoli, a day after the fugitive leader’s compound was overrun.
There have been fierce firefights in Bab al-Aziziya, as well as in several southern and central areas of the city.
However, foreign journalists have been allowed to leave a hotel where they have been confined for several days.
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.
Kyaemon
August 26, 2011 at 4:49 am
Kadafi remains elusive, defiant as fighting continues in Tripoli
Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi in a TV broadcast calls on followers to drive out rebels who now control most of the capital, which is returning in some areas to a semblance of normal life.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-fighting-20110826,0,2668702.story
Fighting continued in the Libyan capital Thursday as rebel forces pressed the search for the country’s longtime ruler, Moammar Kadafi, who was dislodged from his command-and-control center this week and remains in hiding.
Rebels who overran the city and all but toppled Kadafi’s decades-long rule said they had a group of Kadafi loyalists surrounded in an apartment building close to his Bab Azizya compound, which was ransacked by lightly armed rebel forces following a rapid advance from three directions on the capital. A ferocious gun battle was unfolding in the district.
In a short audio broadcast on loyalist television channels on Thursday, Kadafi called on his supporters to march on Tripoli and “purify” the capital of rebels, whom he denounced as “rats, crusaders and unbelievers.”
“Street by street, alleyway by alleyway, house by house,” Kadafi said. “The tribes that are outside of Tripoli must march on Tripoli. Each tribe must control its area and stop the enemy setting its foot on this pure land.”
It was not clear from where Kadafi’s statement originated. The French magazine Paris Match cited an unnamed intelligence source as saying Kadafi was still in the capital, though earlier such claims have been proven false.
British Defense Secretary Liam Fox told Sky News: “I can confirm that NATO is providing intelligence and reconnaissance assets to the [rebel leadership] to help them track down Col. Kadafi and other remnants of the regime.” He did not specify what those assets were.
But in Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said the U.S. was conducting aerial surveillance in support of the alliance’s military mission to protect civilians from attack but was not targeting Kadafi. The spokesman, Marine Col. David Lapan, said NATO’s mission was not to target or hunt down individuals.
Kadafi’s forces continued to hammer away with rockets at the city’s international airport, now under rebel control, and there were reports of continued fighting between his loyalists and rebel fighters west of the capital along the road to the Tunisian border.
It also remained unclear who controlled the country’s crucial main border with Tunisia, the main supply route for the capital. Some rebels claimed it was under their authority. But journalists who have tried to enter through the crossing said it remained in the hands of Kadafi’s forces.
Despite the occasional clashes, rebels appear to have deepened their hold over much of the capital, especially in areas of the city long hostile to Kadafi. In Souk Joumeh, a district near central Tripoli, shops have begun to reopen.
Rebel fighters reduced the number of checkpoints on the streets the city. And volunteers with shovels and pickup trucks were cleaning up mounds of garbage that had accumulated during the days of unrest.
Police stations began to reopen, with security officials elected by local rebel political representatives. An acting police chief in Souk Joumeh said there were few security problems in his district. “There were some instances of robbery, but nothing serious,” said Shokri Dernawi, a former domestic security official who joined the rebel cause months ago. “Only 50% of the people even know the police station is open.”
A group of Italian journalists kidnapped by pro-Kadafi forces and held overnight were released Thursday after the loyalists themselves decided to let them go…….
Kyaemon
August 26, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Libya erupts as Qaddafi’s compound falls to rebels
The sprawling Bab al-Aziziya – the symbolic heart of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime – fell to the Libyan rebels today, sparking wild celebrations in much of Libya.
Libya erupts as Qaddafi’s compound falls to rebels – CSMonitor.com
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0823/Libya-erupts-as-Qaddafi-s-compound-falls-to-rebels
Benghazi, Libya
In 24 hours, Muammar Qaddafi has lost the two symbols of his regime. Green Square, where he was fond of delivering rambling harangues against his domestic opponents and foreign antagonists like the US, is now being called Martyrs’ Square. Bab al-Azizya, the gated residential and military district that acted as the nerve center for his regime, has been largely overrun.
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Hundreds of Libyan rebels stormed Moammar Gadhafi’s compound Tuesday, charging wildly through the symbolic heart of the crumbing regime as they killed loyalist troops, looted armories and knocked the head off a statue of the besieged dictator. But they found no sign of the man himself.
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The storming of Bab al-Aziziya, long the nexus of Gadhafi’s power, marked the effective collapse of his 42-year-old regime. But with Gadhafi and his powerful sons still unaccounted for – and gunbattles flaring across the nervous city – the fighters cannot declare victory.
Libya: Rebels Control Tripoli Compound
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/libya-rebels-tripoli_n_934496.html
Kyaemon
August 27, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Escape Route
http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/inside-moammar-gadhafi-s-escape-route-26429735.html
Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Escape Route
18 hrs ago – ABC News 1:37 | 109,205 views
Jeffrey Kofman goes inside tunnels the Libyan leader may have escaped through.
Qaddafi: A look back – The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com
http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Qaddafi-A-look-back
Kyaemon
August 27, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Six armored vehicles cross Libyan-Algerian borders: report
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/27/c_131078661.htm
CAIRO, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — Six vehicles which may be carrying Colonel Mummar Gaddafi or other key figures of the toppled Libyan regime crossed the Libyan-Algerian border Friday, Egypt’s official news agency MENA reported Saturday.
An Algerian government official told Xinhua by telephone that the report has yet to be confirmed by the authorities.
Libyan military sources were quoted by MENA as saying that six armored Mercedes bullet-proof cars entered Algeria’s border town of Ghadames from Libya, without any pursuit from the rebels as the vehicles were well equipped.
The sources pointed out that those vehicles may have important Libyan officials on board, including Gaddafi and his sons. They added that the convoy was escorted by pro-government Libyan troops until it crossed the border.
Related:
Report of Gaddafi entering Algeria cannot be confirmed
ALGIERS, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — A report saying that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi may have fled his country and entered neighboring Algeria by land cannot be confirmed by Algerian authorities on Saturday.
An official from the Foreign Ministry hung up Xinhua’s call after hearing the confirmation question. Xinhua’s calls to the president office and information ministry were not answered. Full story
Gaddafi’s al-Azizya camp under control of Libyan rebel forces
BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) — In southern Tripoli on Friday, several kilometers away from downtown Green Square, stands the Bab al-Azizya compound, a military complex which had accommodated Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s offices, residential houses and soldiers until it was captured by rebel troops on Tuesday.
Unlike military camps in other countries, which are mostly set up in the suburbs of a city, al-Azizya sits within a residential area, merely separated from nearby residential houses by a three-meter-high concrete wall. Full story
Kyaemon
August 27, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Libyan War Goes a Long Way to Improve the Pentagon’s View of France as an Ally
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/world/africa/27military.html?_r=1&hp
WASHINGTON — Eight years ago the French were called the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” who opposed the Iraq war. They inspired “freedom fries” and jokes meant to boost American military morale. “Have you heard about the new French tank?” a United States Marine commander asked his men in Kuwait in March 2003, only days before his unit crossed the border into Iraq. “It’s got six gears — all in reverse.”…..
Zeina Khodr reports live from Tripoli – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wbb3xPkgr8
Al Jazeera correspondent Zeina Khodr reports live from the Green Square in Tripoli as residents celebrate the opposition fighters’ gains against Gaddafi forces in the Libyan capital
Kyaemon
August 29, 2011 at 2:31 am
TIME PHOTO ESSAY
In Case of Loss — Refugees Flee Libya
http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/15/in-case-of-loss-refugees-flee-libya/#1
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Didar Howlader, Azizur Rahman and many others were worried that all they had left would soon disappear, too. In the vain hope of finding their bags again — in case that happened — the men attached photo IDs to the small sacks and suitcases carrying their belongings as they set out across the Libyan border into Tunisia.
The devastated lives and livelihoods of foreign migrant workers have been among the most tragic and overlooked consequences of Libya’s ongoing civil war. Nearly 70,000 Bangladeshi nationals were working in Libya; mostly for Chinese, South Korean, European or Libyan construction companies when the violence erupted in February 2011.
Like most Libyans, the uprising caught the foreign workers by surprise. But unlike many Libyans, the Bangladeshis, Chinese, Africans and other foreign nationals who had come to Libya to make a modest living had no interest in local politics. None of that mattered when clashes erupted across the country between the forces loyal to Col. Muammar Gaddafi and the rebels. Many foreign workers found themselves alternately trapped in the crossfire — or fleeing for their lives.
Tens of thousands have managed to escape, traversing perilous desert routes rife with danger, harassment and threats to arrive at overcrowded and under-supplied refugee camps on the Tunisian and Egyptian borders, or at ports on the country’s Mediterranean coast.
With the help of the World Bank and the Bangladeshi government, 35,000 migrants have been able to return to Bangladesh in the aftermath of the uprising – most of them heavily in debt, and with no ready means of earning a living at home. Their traumatic return also underscores the difficulties that many overcame to get to Libya in the first place; many have sold their homes and mortgaged their own lives for the opportunity to provide for their families by earning income overseas. Suddenly deprived of that option, desperation is mounting.
Perhaps that is why, in passing out of Libya, the Bangladeshis hold tight to what little they have managed to salvage; attaching photos to their bags with the hopeful expectation that not everything has to be lost.
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China evacuates largest-ever number of citizens amid Libya unrest
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-02/24/c_13748510_9.htm
China’s miraculous evacuation from Libya widely applauded
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/07/c_13765062.htm
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) — The Mediterranean Sea drew the attention of the world as the situation in Libya abruptly turned worse over the past weeks. The safety of Chinese nationals there was at risk.
At this crucial moment, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented evacuation operation by land, sea and air and took home 35,860 Chinese nationals from the unrest-hit North African country in merely nine days.
The operation created a miracle in the history of its overseas evacuation operations since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949 and it was lauded by various circles around the world.
Such a swift, highly efficient and orderly large-scale evacuation reflected China’s comprehensive strength, said officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization of Migration.
The evacuation action demonstrated the Chinese government’s outstanding capacity for organizing, coordinating and contingency-handling as well as the Chinese people’s spirit of mutual assistance and dedication, said Jacinto Suarez, vice president of the Central American Parliament.
Yakov Berger, a professor at the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, described China’s evacuation operation as “large in scale, well organized and implemented efficiently.”
The swift evacuation operation can tell every Chinese national overseas that their motherland will never ignore them wherever they are when they plunge into crisis, said Berger.
A chartered Shanghai Airlines flight touched down in Shanghai Hongqiao Airport at 11:15 p.m. Saturday, bringing back home the last group of 149 evacuees from Libya via Malta.
A total of 35,860 Chinese nationals evacuated from Libya had all returned home, said the Chinese Foreign Ministry late Saturday night.
From Feb. 22 to March 5, the Chinese government organized an overseas evacuation of citizens by air, land and sea — its largest since 1949, involving 91 domestic chartered flights, 12 flights by military airplanes, five cargo ferries, one escort ship, as well as 35 rented foreign chartered flights, 11 voyages by foreign passenger liners and some 100 bus runs.
Wall Street Journal said on its website that China had vowed to protect Chinese in Libya.
The whole operation organized by the Chinese government to evacuate its nationals safely from Libya was perfect, said Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of Russia’s State Duma International Affairs Committee.
The Chinese government’s success in helping its nationals withdraw from Egypt and Libya in a large scale demonstrated the maturity of China’s mechanism for tackling contingencies, Kosachyov said.
Singaporean newspaper United Morning Post said in a commentary that the evacuation operation from Libya was the largest in scale and most difficult ever for China.
Through huge inputs and high efficiency, the Chinese government once again showed the world its economic strength and fast-reacting and mobilizing capacities, the daily said.
During the highly complicated mission, China also evacuated some 2,100foreigners from 12 countries out of Libya, living up to its international humanitarian responsibility.
The U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs said China’s evacuation operation displayed the Chinese government’s good international relations and capacity for diplomatic mediation.
Kyaemon
August 29, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Libyan Revolution: Rebels explore Gaddafi’s bunker – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjbF7Zr0NS8
116,585
Aug 25, 2011
Al Jazeera has gained access to part of an underground tunnel network beneath Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli. Fighting for overall control of the area around Bab al-Aziziyah is still going on. Our correspondent Andrew Simmons and cameraman Justin Okines, joined rebel fighters as they combed Gaddafi’s underground hideouts.
Kyaemon
August 29, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Death toll rises in Libyan unrest – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwmlYXnnvmE&NR=1
241,083
Feb 20, 2011
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is confronting the most serious challenge to his rule in 42 years. Government forces have been unleashed onto protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi, where one hospital official put the death toll at 200. Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker takes a look at the scale of the unrest in the country.
Kyaemon
August 30, 2011 at 1:13 am
Gaddafi’s family members arrive in Algeria — APS
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/30/c_131082503.htm
ALGIERS, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — Members of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have arrived in Algeria, the official APS news agency quoted an Algerian Foreign Ministry communique as saying.
Gaddafi’s wife Safia, his daughter Aisha, his son Hannibal and Mohammed, accompanied by their children entered in Algeria at 08: 45 through the Algerian-Libyan border, the communique said.
Kyaemon
August 30, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Rebel commander: Khamis Gadhafi killed in battle
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/29/rebel-commander-khamis-gadhafi-killed-in-battle/
Khamis Gadhafi, a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in a battle Sunday night with opposition forces, a senior rebel commander told CNN on Monday.
Mahdi al-Harati – the vice chairman of the rebel’s Miltary Council, the military wing of the National Transitional Council – said that Khamis Gadhafi died in a battle with rebel forces between the villages of Tarunah and Bani Walid. The battleground is in northwest Libya, near Misrata.
Khamis Gadhafi, who was a senior military commander under his father, was taken to a hospital where he died from his injuries, said al-Harati.
He was then buried in the area by rebel forces, according to the rebel commander.
Kyaemon
August 30, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Libyan rebels demand Algeria return Gadhafi family
http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-rebels-demand-algeria-return-gadhafi-family-084237995.html
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan rebels are demanding that Algeria return Moammar Gadhafi’s wife and three of his children for trial after they fled, raising tensions between the neighboring countries.
Algeria’s decision to host members of the Gadhafi clan is an “aggressive act against the Libyan people’s wish,” said Mahmoud Shammam, information minister in the rebels’ interim government.
Safiya Gadhafi, her daughter Aisha and sons Hannibal and Mohammed entered Algeria on Monday, while Gadhafi and several other sons remain at large. In Washington, the Obama administration said it had no indication that Gadhafi himself has left the country.
Rebels also said Gadhafi son Khamis, was likely killed last week in a battle south of Tripoli, rebels said.
“We are determined to arrest and try the whole Gadhafi family, including Gadhafi himself,” Shammam said late Monday night. “We’d like to see those people coming back to Libya.”
Rebel leaders said they were not surprised to hear Algeria welcomed Gadhafi’s family. Throughout Libya’s six-month uprising, rebels have accused Algeria of providing Gadhafi with mercenaries to repress the revolt.
The departure of Gadhafi’s family was one of the strongest signs yet that the longtime leader has lost his grip on the country….
Kyaemon
September 1, 2011 at 4:31 am
Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam calls for continued resistance in TV audio tape
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/01/c_131087270.htm
CAIRO, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — In an audio tape on a Syrian TV channel, Seif al-Islam, son of toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Wednesday urged Gaddafi’s loyalists to continue resistance against the rebels.
In the tape broadcast on the Damascus-based Al-Rai television, he said he was staying in a suburb of Tripoli and the resistance would continue.
He also claimed that there are more than 20,000 armed youths in Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown and one of the few towns still in the hands of the former Libyan leader’s forces.
In a conflicting sign from Gaddafi’s camp, the former leader’s another son, Saadi, said Wednesday he had talked with a member of the Libyan National Transitional Council in Tripoli by phone on ending the bloodshed in Libya, al-Arabiya TV reported. Saadi said he was authorized by his father to contact the rebels.
In a related development, Libyan rebels said Gaddafi’s foreign minister, Abdelati Obeidi, had been arrested at his farm in Janzour, a suburb west of Tripoli, al-Jazeera television reported Wednesday.
pyinlepyaw
September 1, 2011 at 8:39 am
Thanks Kyaemon .
စိတ်ရှည်လက်ရှည်နဲ့ ဒီလောက်အများကြီးကြိုးစားတင်ပြထားတာကိုု ခုမှ မြင်ရတော့တယ်ဗျာ၊
ကျနော်က အင်္ဂလိပ် အားနည်းလို့ပါ၊ 😳
Kyaemon
September 2, 2011 at 3:22 am
Thank you for your comments.
Hopefully, these postings about rebellions will remind rulers and administrators to administer with benevolence, justice, and kindness and to obey people’s wishes.
Buddha’s “Ten rules for Kings.” “Lu Gyi Wut/Elders’ duties, Confucius and ancient philosophers have same or similar principles.
Democracy is “For the people, by the people, and of the people.”
Here, “FOR” the people means NOT solely for the NARROW INTERESTS of “Rulers/Officials” and their families, but really for the LARGER and HIGHER interests of the community/country and people.
Kyaemon
September 7, 2011 at 2:32 am
Libyan convoys in Niger, may be Gaddafi deal
http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-army-convoy-niger-may-gadaffi-deal-030824775.html
BENGHAZI, Libya/AGADEZ, Niger (Reuters) – Scores of Libyan army vehicles crossed the desert frontier into Niger in what may be a bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state, military sources from France and Niger told Reuters on Tuesday.
The Libyan rebels who overthrew Gaddafi two weeks ago said they also thought about a dozen other vehicles that crossed the remote border may have carried gold and cash apparently looted from a branch of Libya’s central bank in Gaddafi’s home town.
Details of the developments remained very sketchy.
The military sources said a convoy of between 200 and 250 vehicles was escorted to the northern city of Agadez by the army of Niger, a poor and landlocked former French colony. It might, said a French military source, be joined by Gaddafi en route to adjacent Burkina Faso, which has offered him asylum.
U.S. officials said they thought Gaddafi was still in Libya, though the convoy in Niger might contain senior figures.
France, Niger and Burkina Faso, as well as Libya’s new rulers and NATO, all denied knowing where Gaddafi was or of any deal to let him go abroad or find refuge from Libyans and the International Criminal Court who want to put him on trial.
French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said it was for Libyans to decide the venue but that Gaddafi must not slip away quietly. “He will have to face justice for all the crimes he has committed in the past 42 years,” he said.
Near Tripoli, Reuters journalists found torture chambers used recently as Gaddafi tried to suppress the revolt.
Sources close to Niger’s government said the head of Gaddafi’s security brigade, Mansour Dhao, was in the capital Niamey. He was allowed in to the country earlier in the week.
But Niger’s foreign minister, Bazoum Mohamed, was quoted by Al Arabiya television saying that Gaddafi was not in the military convoy, which arrived late on Monday.
Those comments did not contradict a French military source who said the 69-year-old fugitive and his son and heir Saif al-Islam might join the convoy later to head for Burkina Faso.
France has taken a lead in the NATO action backing Libya’s uprising and, with its Western allies, would be likely to have the ability to track any sizeable convoy in the empty quarter.
But Niger’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Adani Illo, told Reuters that such surveillance over thousands of miles of desert was still hard. “The desert zone is vast and the frontier is porous,” he said. “If a convoy of 200 to 250 vehicles went through, it is like a drop of water in an ocean.”
Gaddafi has broadcast defiant messages since he was forced into hiding two weeks ago, and has vowed to die fighting on his own soil. But he also has long friendships with his poor African neighbors, with which he shared some of Libya’s oil wealth.
The sources said the convoy, probably including officers from army units based in the south of Libya, may have looped through Algeria rather than cross the Libya-Niger frontier. Algeria last week took in Gaddafi’s wife, daughter and two other sons, angering the interim council now ruling Libya.
“GOOD SPIRITS”
Gaddafi’s fugitive spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said in remarks broadcast on Monday: “Muammar Gaddafi is in excellent health and in very, very high spirits … He is in a place that will not be reached by those fractious groups, and he is in Libya.”
NATO warplanes and spy satellites have been scouring Libya’s deserts for months, raising the likelihood that any convoy of the size mentioned would have been spotted. But a spokesman for the Western alliance said it was not hunting Gaddafi and had a U.N. mandate only to stop his forces attacking civilians.
“Or mission is to protect the civilian population in Libya, not to track and target thousands of fleeing former regime leaders, mercenaries, military commanders and internally displaced people,” Colonel Roland Lavoie said in a statement…..
Kyaemon
September 9, 2011 at 10:07 am
Qaddafi: I didn’t and won’t leave Libya
In a recorded statement, Muammar Qaddafi dismissed another round of rumors that he had fled Libya.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/Qaddafi-Watch/2011/0908/Qaddafi-I-didn-t-and-won-t-leave-Libya
In an audio recording released today, Muammar Qaddafi denied rumors that he had fled the country and vowed to not leave Libya, Agence France-Presse reports.
In the five-minute-long audio, a man who sounded like Gaddafi denounced reports that he had fled to neighbouring Niger and claimed he is still in Libya.
He called those who ousted him “a bunch of mercenaries, thugs and traitors”.
“We are ready to start the fight in Tripoli and everywhere else, and rise up against them,” Gaddafi said.
“All of these germs, rats and scumbags, they are not Libyans, ask anyone. They have cooperated with NATO.”
He also encouraged his supporters to keep fighting. AFP reports that his loyalists fired rockets Thursday from inside Bani Walid, one of his last remaining strongholds, at anti-Qaddafi fighters in the area surrounding the town.
Kyaemon
September 17, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Libya Counts More Martyrs Than Bodies
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/world/africa/skirmishes-flare-around-qaddafi-strongholds.html?_r=1&hpw
TRIPOLI, Libya — Where are all the dead?
Officially, according to Libya’s new leaders, their martyrs in the struggle against the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi should number 30,000 to 50,000, not even counting their enemies who have fallen.
Yet in the country’s morgues, the war dead registered from both sides in each area so far are mostly in the hundreds, not the thousands. And those who are still missing total as few as 1,000, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Those figures may be incomplete, but even if the missing number proves to be three times as high, and all are dead, the toll would be far short of official casualty totals.
On Friday, anti-Qaddafi fighters attacked the two remaining strongholds of the loyalist forces, in the seaside city of Surt and the desert town of Bani Walid. Although both assaults were repulsed by determined resistance from the pro-Qaddafi forces, there can be little doubt that the war is in its final phases. And as it winds down, the question of how many died is taking on greater significance.
The death toll from the Libyan uprising is unarguably horrendous, even if it does not fit neatly into the former rebels’ narrative of a David-and-Goliath struggle against a bloodthirsty regime that slaughtered tens of thousands of the helpless and the innocent. It has also become a politically delicate issue, with some new government officials refusing to release hard statistics on casualties and human rights groups cautious about taking a definitive position.
The new authorities say the confirmed death toll will rise with the discovery of mass graves where the Qaddafi government hid its victims, both during its final months and as it collapsed and fled Tripoli and other population centers.
Mass graves of recent vintage have indeed been found — 13 of them confirmed by the Red Cross, or “about 20” found by the government, according to the Transitional National Council’s humanitarian coordinator, Muattez Aneizi. More are being found “nearly every day,” Mr. Aneizi said.
“Mass” is slightly misleading, however, because the largest actual grave site found so far, in the Nafusah Mountains of western Libya, had 34 bodies. In many of the others, the victims numbered only in the single digits. Many are not even graves, but rather containers or buildings where people were executed and their bodies left to rot.
Kyaemon
September 18, 2011 at 1:40 am
BATTLE FRONT VIDEO INSIDE
BBC News – Libya: Gaddafi loyalists remain defiant
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14958422
17 September 2011 Last updated at 03:35 ET
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Forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi continue to hold out in two of their strongholds.
In the town of Bani Walid, they fired rockets and mortars at anti-Gaddafi fighters, forcing them to retreat. There have also been fierce clashes around Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte.
The BBC’s Alastair Leithead has been following the opposition forces.
Kyaemon
September 25, 2011 at 4:31 pm
YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND NEWS OF THE LIBYAN WAR
Coming War on Oil, USA invasion, Libya, World War 3, Prophecy News, Middle East Protests Part 3 – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBYzcbRIC80&feature=related
Video of night fighting in Libya, bombing aftermath, fighter jets take off – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMRegf2y2x4&feature=related
Combat camera video of Canadian CF-18 striking Libya weapon depot – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IS5JIU6_XE&feature=relmfu
Canadian Department of Defense released a video showing Canada’s CF-18 attack on a Libyan weapons depot. It comes as fresh explosions and gunfire have been heard in the Libyan capital Tripoli, with reports saying coalition forces are targeting major military facilities across the country. Allied forces have also conducted air strikes against troops loyal to the leader Muammar Gaddafi, in the country’s western city of Musrata.
Night video of UK Tornado jets bombing Gaddafi battle tanks – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc7W17_S1y8&feature=related
UK Ministry of Defence has released footage showing warplanes attacking targets near the town of Ajdabiya as part of coordinated strikes against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces. The images, which were filmed on Thursday, show Tornado GR4 jets bombing pro-Gaddafi Libyan battle tanks a few miles south of Ajdabiya. Other footage released by the MoD shows Tornadoes returning from Libya to Gioia Del Colle airbase in Italy after a mission in which British aircraft destroyed at least two Libyan Main Battle Tanks.
Combat camera: RAF Tornado missile strikes Gaddafi forces tank – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHFwq3rCkw&feature=relmfu
NATO released aerial footage on Friday showing operation Unified Protector forces using a missile to strike a pro-Gadhafi tank operating in Misrata. The images, filmed by a British Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 surveying the area before the strike, show the tank being used to spearhead an attack in the city, according to NATO. The RAF jet filmed the tank firing it’s gun as it circled overhead. The moment of impact of the Brimstone missile appears clearly on the footage, creating a huge cloud of smoke which clears to show the burning debris of the tank. Ground forces can then been seen fleeing from the area near where the missile struck.
Libya war. Air target attack for two tanks – 25.3.2011 – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lI3Avia0f8&NR=1