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TRIPOLI | Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:02pm EDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya, preparing for elections in June, has banned parties based on religion, tribe or ethnicity, the government said on Wednesday, and a new Islamist party viewed as a leading contender signaled it would challenge the decision. National Transitional Council spokesman Mohammed al-Harizy said the council passed the law governing the formation of political parties on Tuesday evening.
Libya bans religious, tribal or ethnic parties | Reuters
TRIPOLI // After not hearing from her brother Mahmoud for several hours earlier this week, Amal Ali Ibrahim dialled his mobile phone number in dread.
After Qaddafi, Tripoli is a violent city of armed fiefdoms - The National
Global Security Newswire - U.S. Seeks to Renew Contacts With Libyan WMD Scientists
The United States is attempting to renew contacts with Libyan WMD experts in order to continue steering them toward civilian jobs as a means of ensuring their unique expertise is not used by hostile nations or terrorists to create new unconventional weapons, the Associated Press reported on Thursday (see GSN , March 10). The former regime of Muammar Qadhafi at one point employed hundreds of scientists in the research and development of weapons of mass destruction.Les armes du CNT
What Do We do about Libya NOW? | Stephen M. Walt
With the U.S. and NATO's thumb firmly on the scale, the balance of power in Libya seems to be shifting steadily toward the rebel forces.
Libya: Three rookie errors
In March, when China and Russia refused to veto UN Security Council resolution 1973 (authorising the use of force against Libya), alarm bells should have been ringing in Washington. The arch-realists in Beijing and Moscow were no converts to the lofty liberalism that suddenly overtook US foreign policy, nor keen to embrace a more elastic conception of sovereignty. They were just being pragmatic.
President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain have in effect called for the ouster of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, yet the failure to apply sufficient military force is a blow to NATO and U.S. credibility, says Robert E. Hunter , an ambassador to NATO in the Clinton administration. Hunter says NATO's enforcement of the no-fly zone has prevented a sweep of pro-Qaddafi forces across Libya, but "using the current methods, it would be most unlikely to succeed" in ousting Qaddafi.
NATO's Decline over Libya - Council on Foreign Relations
Jeffrey Lewis • Libya’s Lessons for North Korea
Hey, remember when Bush Administration officials tried to convince Kim Jong Il that he could get the same denuclearization deal Bush gave Qadhafi? It was fully exposed before the world that “Libya’s nuclear dismantlement” much touted by the U.S. in the past turned out to be a mode of aggression whereby the latter coaxed the former with such sweet words as “guarantee of security” and “improvement of relations” to disarm itself and then swallowed it up by force. It proved once again the truth of history that peace can be preserved only when one builds up one′s own strength as long as high-handed and arbitrary practices go on in the world.sans titre
T here are parts of the world that should be declared Zones of Total Bullshit. Take Libya. It seems like everybody who even tries to talk about the place starts lying.
From the no-fly zone to the Western intervention
International reactions to Gaddafi's actions against his populat
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Talk about The King's Speech ; this was The African King of Kings' Speech.Libya
Le Figaro - Matières premières : Fermeture d'un gazoduc reliant la Libye à l'Europe
Après le pétrole, le gaz. Ce mardi, le pétrolier et gazier italien Eni annonce avoir coupé le seul gazoduc reliant la Libye à l'Italie et à l'Europe en raison des violences. Une décision prise dans la foulée de l'arrêt des activités pétrolières en Libye.
Libya’s Oil Money Let Qaddafi Buy Support in Africa - NYTimes.com
At this stage, without cash for guns or transport, Mr.Comment se représente-t-on le nouveau chef d'Etat français outre-Rhin ?
Des milliers de Tunisiens quittent la Libye - Monde - Nouvelobs.com
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said thousands of lives were at stake. Some 75,000 people have fled to Tunisia since unrest began and 40,000 more are waiting to cross, the UN says.
BBC News - Libya unrest: UN urges mass border evacuation
Gérard Buffet, 60 ans, a été pendant un an et demi anesthésiste-réanimateur au Benghazi Medical Center. L'hôpital - 1 200 lits dont 300 opérationnels, 16 blocs opératoires - est le plus moderne de Benghazi, la deuxième plus grande ville de Libye , où est née la contestation. En compagnie d'une dizaine d'autres médecins français, Gérard Buffet y travaillait dans le cadre d'accords de coopération.
Libye : "C'était un carnage absolu", actualité Monde : Le Point
Resentment over the comfortable life-style of foreigners working in Libyan projects as compared to the poverty of Libyan workers seems to be playing a role in the current turmoil in Libya. This resentment has led to a number of attacks on South Korean and Chinese companies in Libya.
LIBYAN PROTESTERS ATTACK S.KOREAN & CHINESE COMPANIES
La Libye et son armement