Libya: New York Times reports CIA agents working with rebels. This should not be surprising. Someone must have given the New York Times the go ahead to inform everyone. According to the article the clandestine operatives are in Libya to gather intelligence for airstrikes and contact the rebels. The rebel military leader is probably a CIA operative too so they can have a big party. For a list of a few of the operations the CIA has been involved in in Libya see this site. Obama has insisted that no American military ground troops are involved in the Libyan campaign but groups of CIA operatives have been working in Libya for a couple of weeks already. Current and former British officials also said that dozens of British special forces and MI6 intelligence officers are working inside Libya. The westerners are also meeting with the rebels.
"We didn't have great data," Gen. We find out now that Obama signed a secret finding authorizing the CIA to provide arms and other support for the Libyan rebels. World News Blog - Libya: lies and spin in Gaddafi’s Tripoli. I’m in a Libyan Government bus again, this time, heading for the Tunisian border, through checkpoint after endless checkpoint, manned by regulars and paramilitaries, faces grim-set, serious, fingers on triggers. We’re leaving, and although I’d love to be reporting on the downfall of this nasty regime, I’m tired and I’ll be glad to see the back of the obstructive and aggressive Government minders who seem to exist only to make our lives difficult and unpleasant.
Maybe Gaddafi will hang on in there for a while yet, grinding down successive teams of foreign journalists as they rotate through, frustrated by their inability to tell the story of what is really happening, unable to talk to dissenters who no longer dare to stick their heads above the parapet. “Follow the money, man, if you want to know what’s really going on,2 an American newspaper correspondent said to me this morning. On Tripoli’s black market, the dinar to dollar exchange rate doubled in a week. “Sahafi! Sahafi!” “Pull over. Obama on Libya: A war for US “interests” By Bill Van Auken 29 March 2011 In his first speech to the American public on what is now a 10-day-old war against Libya, President Barack Obama Monday night made a case for US imperialism’s right to carry out military aggression anywhere in the world where it sees its “interests and values” at stake.
Riddled with contradictions, evasions and lies, Obama’s speech failed to enunciate in any comprehensible form what these “interests and values” are. Nor did it explain to the American people why and how he had arrogated to himself the right to launch a war without first explaining its causes and aims, much less seeking a vote of authorization from the US Congress. Obama put forward a narrative of the events leading up to the Libyan intervention that was false from start to finish. “For more than four decades,” he said, “the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant—Muammar Gaddafi.”
Under Obama, relations became even more cordial. This is another deception. What hypocrisy! Ibn Omar: "from #libya fbook group: ..." « Deck.ly. Missing: Agency and Alternative in the Anti-Intervention Critique. EU to admit Africans from Libya. By Toby Vogel - 24.03.2011 / 16:24 CET Member states and European Commission will meet tomorrow to discuss fate of thousands of Africans who have fled Libya. This article is reserved for paying subscribers... Select your offer today and receive: Please log in to read this article:
Libya uprising: Libyan rebels appear to take leaf from Moammar Kadafi's playbook - latimes.com. Reporting from Benghazi, Libya — The rebels of eastern Libya have found much to condemn about the police state tactics of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi: deep paranoia, mass detentions, secret prisons and tightly scripted media tours. But some of those same tactics appear to be creeping into the efforts of the opposition here as it seeks to stamp out lingering loyalty to Kadafi. Rebel forces are detaining anyone suspected of serving or assisting the Kadafi regime, locking them up in the same prisons once used to detain and torture Kadafi's opponents. For a month, gangs of young gunmen have roamed the city, rousting Libyan blacks and immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa from their homes and holding them for interrogation as suspected mercenaries or government spies.
Over the last several days, the opposition has begun rounding up men accused of fighting as mercenaries for Kadafi's militias as government forces pushed toward Benghazi. Photos: A meeting with prisoners held by rebels in Libya. Americans Approve of Military Action Against Libya, 47% to 37% PRINCETON, NJ -- A Gallup poll conducted Monday finds more Americans approving than disapproving of the military action against Libya by the United States and other countries. The March 21 poll was conducted just days after the United States joined other countries in conducting airstrikes against Libya to enforce a United Nations no-fly zone. The U.N. passed a resolution calling for a no-fly zone in response to reports that Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi had attacked Libyan forces opposed to his government.
The 47% of Americans approving of the action against Libya is lower than what Gallup has found when asking about approval of other U.S. military campaigns in the past four decades. Americans showed the highest level of support for the 2001 military action in Afghanistan that was a response to the 9/11 terror attacks. Americans also widely supported U.S. airstrikes against Iraq in 1993 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Republicans, Democrats in General Agreement Implications. Libya: US fighter pilot rescued by transformer aircraft. Libyan Developments by Gilbert Achcar. [Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon, and is currently Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. His books include The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder, published in 13 languages, Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S.
Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky, and most recently The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. He was interviewed by Stephen R. Shalom.] Who is the Libyan opposition? This flag is not used as a symbol of the monarchy, but as the flag that the Libyan state adopted after it won independence from Italy. So who is the opposition? So the Libyan opposition represents a mixture of forces, and the bottom line is that there is no reason for any different attitude toward them than to any other of the mass uprisings in the region. Is Gaddafi — or was Gaddafi — a progressive figure? Throughout these metamorphoses, Gaddafi's regime was always a dictatorship. Noam Chomsky talks about Libya and Obama on the BBC. The Libyan Republic - The Interim Transitional National Council.
In this important historical juncture which Libya is passing through right now, we find ourselves at a turning point with only two solutions. Either we achieve freedom and race to catch up with humanity and world developments, or we are shackled and enslaved under the feet of the tyrant Mu’ammar Gaddafi where we shall live in the midst of history. From this junction came the announcement of the Transitional National Council, a step on the road to liberate every part of the Libyan lands from Aamsaad in the east to Raas Ajdair in the west, and from Sirte in the north to Gatrun in the south. To liberate Libya from the hands of the tyrant Mu’ammar Gaddafi who made lawful to himself the exploitation of his people and the wealth of this country. The number of martyrs and wounded and the extreme use of excessive force and mercenaries against his own people requires us to take the initiative and work on the Liberalization of Libya from such insanities.
Gaddafi wins little Arab sympathy as West strikes. Analysis: Finally outgunned, survivor Gaddafi plays for time. Libyan Americans react to U.S. offensive. Libyan Americans react to U.S. offensive They gathered outside the state capitol Saturday afternoon. "A lot of these people haven't been to a free Libya," said Libyan American Del Elmagbari. "They've been to a scared, oppressed Libya so everyone here is excited to go back and visit. Elmagbari said his people have been waiting for this kind of offensive against Gadhafi for decades and hopes it's the beginning of the end of the Gadhafi regime. "For 42 years, he's been oppressing Libyans in Libya and outside of Libya," Elmagbari said.
Elmagbari said he has faith in the U.S., the United Nations and his countrymen back in Libya. "The Libyan people are very brave people and, once they start, they aren't going to stop," he said. But Middle East expert and University of Denver professor Shaul Gabbay said Saturday's attack could be the beginning of a much longer struggle. Gabbay said air strikes and missiles are not going to be enough to actually force Gadhafi out of office. "We want Gadhafi alive. Gaddafi 'has lost all legitimacy': UN. UN chief Ban Ki-moon says Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has "lost all legitimacy" and must step down. "Gaddafi has lost all legitimacy. He cannot stay in power in Libya. Whatever happens, he has to go," he told the Spanish daily El Mundo in an interview published on Saturday. The UN Security Council late on Thursday passed a resolution approving "all necessary measures" to impose a no-fly zone in Libya, protect civilian areas and pressure Gaddafi into accepting a ceasefire.
The Libyan government on Friday announced an immediate halt to military operations following the resolution. Advertisement But the commander of the rebels fighting to overthrow Gaddafi dismissed any ceasefire offer as a bluff. Ban told El Mundo he was "confused" about the ceasefire "because reports tell us that bombardments are continuing in the outskirts of Benghazi". "We need to monitor and verify the seriousness of this (ceasefire) statement. If Gaddafi survives, West faces terrorist reprisals: Cameron. Cameron told members of parliament that British national security interests would be at risk if the Gaddafi survives in Tripoli after the attacks, especially in light of Britain’s prominent role against the Libyan leader.
Gaddafi was one of the world’s leading state sponsors of global terrorism (including the bombing of the Pan Am airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 which killed 270 people), until the Sept. 2001 attacks in New York and George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in March 2003. By that point, Gaddafi seemed to make amends for past activities and sought a kind of rapprochement with the west. Now, however, Gaddafi may avenge today’s air strikes on his country by again financing terrorist acts (should he survive).
In the House of Commons, Cameron said that while Britain has no formal policy in place of removing Gaddafi immediately, there will likely be repercussions if he is not defeated. “We should be clear about where our interests lie. Now, that scenario has become a reality. West pounds Libya, Gaddafi vows to fight. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says all Libya's people have been armed and are ready to fight a "long war" to defeat foreign forces attacking his country, in a televised audio message. "All the Libyan people are united.
The Libyan men and women have been given weapons and bombs ... You will not advance, you will not step on this land," Gaddafi said. "We promise you a long, drawn-out war with no limits. " The Libyan leader was speaking on state television for a second straight day without appearing in front of camera. Advertisement "We are ready for a long war. The leaders of Britain, France and the US would "fall like Hitler ... "All tyrants fall under the pressure of the populist masses. " "America, France, or Britain, the Christians that are in a pact against us today, they will not enjoy our oil ... "We do not have to retreat from the battlefield because we are defending our land and our dignity. " The Libyan strongman has faced a month-long armed uprising focused in the east of the country. Libya: French plane fires on military vehicle. 19 March 2011Last updated at 19:57 Watch: French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces military action against Col Gaddafi's forces in Libya A French plane has fired the first shots in Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone begins.
The UK prime minister later confirmed British planes were also in action, while US media reports said the US had fired its first Cruise missiles. The action came hours after Western and Arab leaders met in Paris to agree how to enforce the UN resolution. It allows "all necessary measures" to protect civilians from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces. 'Stop the bombardment' The French plane fired the first shot in Libya at 1645 GMT and destroyed its target, according to a military spokesman. French planes also flew reconnaissance missions over "all Libyan territory", French military sources said earlier.
Around 20 French aircraft were involved in Saturday's operation, the Reuters news agency reports. Continue reading the main story Analysis In other developments: Mohammed Nabbous. Mohamed "Mo" Nabbous (محمد نبوس ; 27 February 1983 – 19 March 2011) was a Libyan information technologist, blogger, businessperson and civilian journalist who created and founded Libya Al Hurra TV. In the wake of the Libyan civil war, Nabbous founded Libya Alhurra TV, the first independent broadcast news organization since Gaddafi took power in Libya. Libya AlHurra TV was established in Benghazi, Libya on 19 February 2011 and started broadcasting online when Nabbous established a two-way satellite connection in the wake of a complete Internet blackout imposed by the Gaddafi regime subsequent to the 17 February protests.[1] Background[edit] Born in Benghazi in 1983, Nabbous graduated from Garyounis University, with a Degree in Mathematics.[3] A member of Nabbous' family, aged 17, was cited[by whom?]
As one of the first casualties of the 17 February protests in Benghazi. On 2 June 2011 Mohamed's wife Samra Naas gave birth to a baby girl named Mayar "Maya" Nabbous.[4] Work in media[edit] [edit] Libyan revolution and imperialist meddling. Yesterday the United Nations Security Council voted by 10 votes in favour against 5 abstentions to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.
The resolution authorises UN member states "to take all necessary measures... to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory". A few weeks ago in Benghazi. Photo: Al Jazeera Gaddafi has responded – through his foreign minister – by announcing his intention to call a cease-fire. This is clearly intended to stop the airstrikes which were being prepared by NATO and other forces. He realises what he risks if he ignores the UN and simply marches on and bombs the rebel held towns. With such a ceasefire in place – if Gaddafi keeps his word and isn’t using this simply to buy time to take towns such as Misurata – the country is de facto divided into two. A ceasefire means neither side attacks the other. The Intellectual as Courtier - The Chronicle Review. Libyan rebels arrest 'Gaddafi death squad' that killed journalist - Africa, World.
Interior minister resigns rather than carry out Gadhafi orders. Mercenary Ukrainian pilots are flying Libyan MiGs to fire on protesters in Tripoli,Italian mafia helping Moammar Gadhafi. Gadhafi’s Son Warns Protesters of US Occupation. Highly Graphic Images from @ajarabic from Libya. Discretion Advised. - jan25voices's posterous. What's Happening in Libya Explained. To LIBYA: We hear you, we see you, we support you! ENGLISH LPC: "Head of security joined protesters, left vacuum in security." #Libya #Feb17 #Tripoli #Benghazi.
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