Special report: The secret plan to take Tripoli. iLibya: Arab Spring Revolution | Reportage by Getty Images. L'information trop sérieuse pour être laissée aux journalistes : Des médias en guerre en Libye. Une analyse objective de la situation sur le terrain et du rapport de forces militaires ne permet qu'une seule conclusion: le régime de Kadhafi est fini. Ce n'est plus qu'une question de temps. Mais dans une guerre les médias font aussi la guerre. En Irak, on avait fait le raccourci avec les «médias embedded» dans les chars de l'armée américaine. En Libye, les médias font, en fonction des intérêts de leur Etat, le même boulot guerrier. Le patron d'Al Jazira, l'émir du Qatar, fait partie de la coalition qui mène la guerre en Libye. Et on peut affirmer que ce ne sont pas ses avions qui sont l'apport le plus significatif à cette guerre mais la chaîne Al Jazira, elle-même.
En l'occurrence, l'émir n'a presque pas besoin de faire beaucoup d'efforts. Démoraliser les partisans de Kadhafi Le régime de Kadhafi est fini. Un écran de fumée à double usage. WikiLeaks cables: A guide to Gaddafi's 'famously fractious' family | World news. Muammar Gaddafi presides over a 'dysfunctional' family of eight offspring, WikiLeaks cables reveal.
Photograph: Sabri Elmhedwi/EPA The leader of the Libyan revolution presides over a "famously fractious" family that is powerful, wealthy, dysfunctional and marked by internecine struggles, according to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The documents shed light on how his eight children – among whom rivalries have sharpened in recent years – his wife and Gaddafi himself lead their lives. Muammar Gaddafi The patriarch, now 68, was described by US ambassador to Tripoli, Gene Cretz, in 2009 as a "mercurial and eccentric figure who suffers from severe phobias, enjoys flamenco dancing and horseracing, acts on whims and irritates friends and enemies alike.
" Safiya (nee Farkash) Gaddafi's second wife travels by chartered jet in Libya, with a motorcade of Mercedes vehicles waiting to pick her up at the airport to take her to her destination, but her movements are limited and discreet. Aisha. Rebels Hijack Gadhafi's Phone Network. A team led by a Libyan-American telecom executive has helped rebels hijack Col. Moammar Gadhafi's cellphone network and re-establish their own communications.
The new network, first plotted on an airplane napkin and assembled with the help of oil-rich Arab nations, is giving more than two million Libyans their first connections to each other and the outside world after Col. Gadhafi cut off their telephone and Internet service about a month ago. That March cutoff had rebels waving flags to communicate on the battlefield. While cellphones haven't given rebel fighters the military strength to decisively drive Col. To make that possible, engineeers hived off part of the Libyana cellphone network—owned and operated by the Tripoli-based Libyan General Telecommunications Authority, which is run by Col. Google Earth, an iPhone compass and experience playing 'Call of Duty' have been vital to Libya's rebel war plan. A screenshot from the game Call of Duty. Inset: the iPhone compass app, and a Google Earth image of Misrata, Libya.
Source: Supplied IT is probably not what the designers of Google Earth had in mind, but for the rebels in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata their software has become a crucial part of the revolutionary armoury: a free battlefield system that helps them to aim mortars and pinpoint Gaddafi tanks. Other uprisings in the Arab Spring have leant heavily on the organising powers of Facebook and Twitter, but in Libya it is Google Earth that has become an invaluable asset. "The idea was that of an engineer named Ahmed Eyzert," said Mohammad Bashir al-Ruiyati, 35, who is in charge of artillery on Misrata's southern front. Mr Eyzert first looked at using the system to help the rebels when they began capturing mortars and artillery pieces from Colonel Gaddafi's troops in March, he said. "They search through binoculars. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi's 25 Strangest Moments. Lockerbie, the Great Manmade River, “Isratine,” abolishing Switzerland, all-female bodyguards, and camels in Belgrade: David A.
Graham chronicles some of the most extreme, outrageous, and bizarre actions and ideas of Libya’s unpredictable strongman. Although he might wish it had happened another way, fierce protests in Libya have put Muammar Gaddafi right back where he loves to be: in the international spotlight. Since Gaddafi came to power in 1969, his mix of panache, viciousness, and capricious rule has made him a figure of curiosity—with stunts like trying to pitch a tent in Central Park—and fear, stemming from a series of terrorist acts (a 1981 Newsweek cover story called him “the most dangerous man in the world”).
With many analysts predicting an end to Gaddafi’s four-decade reign, here is a look back at its the strangest, zaniest, and most important moments. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. In 1983, Gaddafi initiates work on the Great Manmade River, a network of wells and pipelines for water. 7. LIVE: Gaddafi defiant as rebels push towards Tripoli - LIBYA. Libya: SAS leads hunt for Gaddafi. Gaddafi said he would fight on “until victory or martyrdom”, while his spokesman said loyalist soldiers were well prepared to carry on the battle “for years”. In other developments: * Dozens of journalists who had been held against their will for five days in a Tripoli hotel were freed without bloodshed * Fierce fighting continued in Tripoli and elsewhere in Libya as hopes that Gaddafi’s forces would surrender proved to be fanciful * Aid agencies warned of a humanitarian “catastrophe” on the horizon as food, water and medical supplies started to run out in the capital * One of the leaders of the de facto government flew to Paris to ask western nations to speed up the unfreezing of £60 billion of Libyan assets held abroad.
With pro-Gaddafi forces putting up stubborn resistance in Tripoli and in loyalist towns including Sirte, the NTC and its Nato allies made urgent appeals for the swift capture of the former leader and his family. Mutassim Gaddafi's girlfriend tells of the final days of Libyan regime. The Accomplice | Politics. This was the background against which Held came to watch the speech, in his North London home, late on a Sunday evening. It came on around midnight, London time, on Al Jazeera or the BBC, he couldn’t remember. He was unsure what to expect, knowing Saif to be under intense pressure from his family, but hopeful that the Saif he knew would be vindicated. “I did believe in him, really—mistakenly, but I believed in him.”
He noted Saif’s appearance—“terrible . . . physically terrible . . . exhausted, tired, stressed”—and the delivery without a prepared text. “Not a good idea,” Held observed, knowing Saif well, knowing that he is always better speaking from a script. He was also, frankly, worried about his own situation—it was time for damage control.
Held told me he had heard that Saif had been prepared to give a different speech, one that was written for him by a close confidant, whom he would not name. III. Al-Hawni came to know Saif in 2000. Libya: Bloggers Between Dictatorship and War. This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011. It's been six months since the Libyan uprising began. How was the Libyan blogging scene before the February 17 revolution, and how has it evolved over the last few months? Sometime in 2009 and way before the Feb 17 Revolution as it is now known, a large number of the Libyan blogging community members had shifted their conversations to Facebook and later on to Twitter, which they felt was more interactive and ‘immediate'.
In this regard, the different English and Arabic blogs were a bit like an empty house with occasional updates on what seemed to be very important events in their life or when ‘guilt’ would prevail. However, this did not mean that the scene was empty but simply that it was somehow less spicy – apart from the usual suspects or hardcore earliest bloggers such as Khadijateri and Imtidad, as well as those who actually loved to write long prose, which was more than 140 characters. This is just getting ridiculous. How far Gadhafi went to monitor Libya's Internet activity - TNW Middle East. It’s no surprise that Libya’s former leader Gadhafi was using technology to spy on his people. As Libyan rebels take over his headquarters in Tripoli, we get to find out exactly how the government was keeping tabs on its citizens. The Wall Street Journal was able to get a firsthand look at a room filled with secrets about secrets. A repository of training manuals bearing the name Amesys, a unit of a French tech firm, Bull SA.
The infiltrated emails found are chilling, and evidence of just how closely Gadhafi’s government was watching the opposition’s every move. Libyan officials are known to have met with various international companies to implement a filtering and monitoring system that ran deep through Libya’s Internet system. There have been no sales or deployments of Narus technology in Libya. Judging by the manuals in the elaborate Tripoli Internet monitoring center, one would guess that Amesys wasn’t so innocent. “…record, store, analyze and display in real time information.
Foreign Firms Helped Gadhafi Spy on Libyans. ÉCOUTES – « On leur avait montré comment trouver tous les Libyens qui allaient sur LeMonde.fr » Le système de surveillance Eagle,, fabriqué par la société française Amesys. On vous parlait naguère sur ce blog d'Amesys, une filiale française de Bull, qui avait installé en Libye le système de surveillance du Web utilisé par le régime.
Le Figaro a retrouvé un des militaires français qui ont formé les services de renseignement libyens à l'utilisation de ce système, baptisé "Eagle". Son témoignage est édifiant et montre le niveau d'implication de cette société et des militaires français dans la surveillance de l'ensemble des internautes libyens.
"Nous avons mis en route le système d'écoute libyen fin juillet 2008. "Nous avons mis tout le pays sur écoute. Le militaire décrit ensuite toute l'organisation du système de surveillance, depuis l'opérateur de base jusqu'à l'état-major libyen. Cette entrée a été publiée dans Actualité, Afrique. I2E verse des commissions à Takieddine. Pétrole : l’accord secret entre le CNT et la France. News Desk: “Dear Moussa”: Libya and the C.I.A. In a series of trashed offices around the Libyan capital, many of Libya’s previously secret intelligence files now lie in plain sight. Yesterday afternoon, with a couple of representatives of Human Rights Watch, the New York-based human-rights organization, and several fellow reporters, I spent several hours combing through papers and ring binders and box files in an office that had previously belonged to a senior Qaddafi regime official.
The office, located in a villa that was guarded by a handful of rebel fighters, is situated on a residential street behind Tripoli’s Intercontinental Hotel, a hulking grey concrete massif that is still under construction on the city’s seaside corniche. The office had once been the domain of Moussa Koussa, a veteran Qaddafi deputy who, last March, early in the Libyan crisis, abruptly fled the country. He is rumored to have done so with the assistance of the British foreign intelligence agency MI6. Photograph by Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images.