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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi arrested in Libya

by News Sources 11.19.2011
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Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam seized in southern Libya

by News Sources 11.19.2011

The Associated Press reports: Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam was captured in a southern Libyan city along with two of his aides who were trying to smuggle him out of the country, a militia commander said on Saturday. Bashir al-Tlayeb of the Zintan brigades said that Seif al-Islam was caught in the desert town of [...]

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On road to reconciliation, Libya meets trail of anguish

by News Sources 11.04.2011

The New York Times reports: The present and future are daunting enough for the wobbly authorities here, but then there is the tormented past to consider as well: four decades of state crimes whose wounds demand attention. With mass murders, disappearances and public executions, the victims of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s People’s Court, Internal Security Agency [...]

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In Libya, fighting may outlast the revolution

by News Sources 11.02.2011

The New York Times reports: Many of the local militia leaders who helped topple Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi are abandoning a pledge to give up their weapons and now say they intend to preserve their autonomy and influence political decisions as “guardians of the revolution.” The issue of the militias is one of the most urgent [...]

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The murder brigades of Misrata

by News Sources 10.30.2011

Daniel Williams writes: If anyone is surprised by the apparent killing of Moammar Gadhafi while in the custody of militia members from the town of Misrata, they shouldn’t be. More than 100 militia brigades from Misrata have been operating outside of any official military and civilian command since Tripoli fell in August. Members of these [...]

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Rebels claim Gaddafi was tied to plot against Iraq

by News Sources 10.29.2011

The New York Times reports: When 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, according to an Iraqi official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The details of the [...]

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NTC asks NATO to extend Libya presence

by News Sources 10.26.2011

The New York Times reports: Libya’s interim leader said Wednesday that he had asked NATO to prolong its air patrols through December and add military advisers on the ground, despite his official declaration on Sunday of the country’s liberation after the killing of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. “We have asked NATO to stay until the end [...]

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Inside Story – End of Gaddafi, start of investigation

by News Sources 10.26.2011
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Revolution won, top Libyan official vows a new and more pious state

by News Sources 10.23.2011

The New York Times reports: The leader of Libya’s transitional government declared to thousands of revelers in a crowded square here on Sunday that Libya’s revolution had ended, setting the country on the path to elections, and he vowed that the new government would be based on Islamic tenets. The sea of flag-waving citizens reacted [...]

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‘NTC plans secret burial for Gaddafi’

by News Sources 10.21.2011
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Libya’s new rulers say fall of Sirte will mean war’s end

by News Sources 10.04.2011

The Guardian reports: Libya’s new leaders are poised to declare the country’s “full liberation” is complete and appoint a new transitional government. The new government will regard the war as won with the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s home town, Sirte – where there is still heavy fighting. It remains one of the last loyalist holdouts, [...]

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Libyan rebels discover Gaddafi’s chemical weapons

by News Sources 09.22.2011

The Guardian reports: Libyan rebel forces claim to have discovered banned chemical weapons stockpiles in southern desert areas captured from Gaddafi loyalists in the last few days. Spokesmen for the National Transitional Council (NTC) said a depot had been found in the Jufra area, 435 miles (700km) south of Tripoli, during part of an offensive [...]

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Inside Story – International interest in Libya

by News Sources 09.17.2011
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Libya’s new leader calls for civil state

by News Sources 09.13.2011

The New York Times reports: Aisha Gdour, a school psychologist, smuggled bullets in her brown leather handbag. Fatima Bredan, a hairdresser, tended wounded rebels. Hweida Shibadi, a family lawyer, helped NATO find airstrike targets. And Amal Bashir, an art teacher, used a secret code to collect orders for munitions: Small-caliber rounds were called “pins,” larger [...]

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Libya: NTC must take control to prevent spiral of abuses, says Amnesty

by News Sources 09.13.2011

The National Transitional Council (NTC) must get a grip on armed anti-Gaddafi groups to stop reprisal attacks and arbitrary arrests, Amnesty International warned as it released a major report into human rights violations during the Libyan conflict. The 107-page report The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture reveals that while al-Gaddafi forces committed widespread [...]

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Libyan rebel military chief says he was tortured by CIA

by News Sources 09.02.2011

Patrick Cockburn writes: The overthrow of Gaddafi has brought together strange allies, but few stranger than Abdulhakim Belhaj, the military commander of all rebel military forces in Tripoli, and Nato. An Islamist whom Gaddafi tried to have the US list as a terrorist, Mr Belhaj says he was tortured by CIA agents after being arrested [...]

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Libya’s rebels achieved what many thought would be impossible

by News Sources 08.31.2011

George Joffe writes: Given Libya’s dramatic lack of political and administrative experience (the legacy of the baleful perfection of the Jamahiriyah, which punished dissent with death or imprisonment), and the parallel lack of civil society (eliminated over the years for identical reasons), it is almost impossible for Libya to ignore the accumulated experience of the [...]

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‘Libyans don’t like people with dark skin, but some are innocent’

by News Sources 08.31.2011

Patrick Cockburn reports: Yassin Bahr, a tall thin Senegalese in torn blue jeans, volubly denies that he was ever a mercenary or fought for Muammar Gaddafi. Speaking in quick nervous sentences, Mr Bahr tries to convince a suspicious local militia leader in charge of the police station in the Faraj district of Tripoli, that he [...]

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Misrata rebels defy Libya’s new regime

by News Sources 08.29.2011

The Guardian reports: The first cracks in Libya’s rebel coalition have opened, with protests erupting in Misrata against the reported decision of the National Transitional Council (NTC) to appoint a former Gaddafi henchman as security boss of Tripoli. Media reports said the NTC prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, is poised to appoint Albarrani Shkal, a former [...]

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Why won’t the African Union back the Libyan rebels?

by News Sources 08.29.2011
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Gaddafi offers to negotiate with Libya rebels over transfer of power

by News Sources 08.28.2011

The Guardian reports: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has offered to enter talks with the Libyan rebels over the formation of a transitional government as loyalist fighters are pushed further to the outskirts of Tripoli and rebel forces prepare for an assault on the ousted dictator’s hometown of Sirte. Moussa Ibrahim, regime spokesman, called the New York [...]

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Evidence of massacres in Tripoli

by News Sources 08.27.2011

The New York Times reports: As the fighting died down in Tripoli on Friday, the scope and savagery of the violence during the nearly weeklong battle for control of the capital began to come into sharper focus. Amnesty International said Friday that it had evidence that forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had killed rebels [...]

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NTC leader: ‘Free elections in eight months’

by News Sources 08.24.2011

Al Jazeera reports: The leader of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) has said the new government will hold free elections within eight months and pledged to put Muammar Gaddafi on trial in the country rather than an international court. In comments published on Wednesday in Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil also [...]

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Saif al-Islam not captured by rebels

by News Sources 08.22.2011

The New York Times reports: 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 [...]

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