Libya: Rebel forces hold huge armoury, ready for march on Tripoli. On a sand-blown horizon, to the left of what makes for a rebel frontline, stand 12 large and dilapidated hangars that will likely prove pivotal to where Libya's revolution goes from here.
Inside each of them is an enormous array of weaponry, stacked from floor to ceiling, which the haggard band of rebels gathering nearby say they will soon take on the long march to the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Just under two weeks ago, this giant arsenal on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, 100 miles south of Benghazi, was one of the Libyan army's biggest weapons dumps in the east of the country, a collection of arms so vast it was considered crucial to the country's eastern defences. The dusty wooden boxes, containing rockets, mortars, artillery shells and howitzers, had clearly been assembled over a long period. Some seemed to date back to the late 80s – a time when Colonel Gaddafi last had Europe and the US threatening military measures against his regime.
# Tunisia: Border Tensions / Help request... UN General Assembly Suspends Libya From Human Rights Council. The United Nations General Assembly, consisting of all 192 member nations, decided today to suspend Libya from the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council because of attacks on protesters by Muammar Qaddafi’s regime.
The resolution, adopted without a recorded vote because no nation asked for that formality to be observed, noted that the council’s bylaws provide for suspending a country’s membership for “gross and systematic” violations of human rights. It marked the first suspension of a council member. “This is a harsh rebuke, but one that Libya’s leaders have brought down upon themselves,” U.S.
Ambassador Susan Rice said. UP TO DATE MAP OF THE SITUATION / Translated: Statement from the tribes of Zintan. A large organization?
No. A privately funded group? Umm..nope! Old Libyan flag draped on embassy balcony - official flag still on flagpole - ambassador leaves. Terrible crush at Libyan border. Libye - 1er mars 2011 - 12ème jour. Id-db3c48e9387e429f8dd2674b1ce19e69?utm_source=dlvr. Gaddafi loses Libya: Tripoli last target of opposition. The day the Katiba fell - Libya. Exclusif i>TELE : des mercenaires au service de Kadhafi. Ex Qadhafi (female) bodyguard. # Lybia HOT line 4 Refugees 218 214777503 PLZ RT. US, France, Britain set up bases in Libya. US, France, Britain set up bases in Libya US troops (file photo) Britain, France and the United States have dispatched hundreds of military advisors to Libya to set up military bases in the country's oil-rich east, reports say.
Several Libyan diplomats have been quoted by news outlets as saying these forces are setting up bases in the eastern cities of Benghazi and Tobruk -- the two oil-rich cities that have been liberated by the opposition forces. British and US special forces entered Libyan port cities of Benghazi and Toburk on February 23 and 24. Three Indian navy warships are also expected to be deployed in the region. A Pentagon spokesman said various contingency plans are considered to provide options and flexibility once decisions are made. Earlier on Monday, the US military confirmed it has deployed naval and air forces around Libya. On Monday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington would “continue to explore all possible options for action. " 10 more Maltese fly home from Libya, another arrives on frigate. Passengers disembark from HMS Cumberland. 10 more Maltese oil workers arrived back in Malta this evening from Libya.
They were flown in on a private Medavia flight, the third organised in coordination with the Maltese government. Another worker arrived this afternoon on HMS Cumberland and 23 are on their way back on a catamaran. The sole Maltese among 250 workers brought to Malta from Benghazi on the Cumberland, Francis Camilleri said he had spent the rough 21-hour trip sitting on a blanket. “It was an escape operation so it was a stressful trip,” Mr Camilleri said after hugging his family. Mr Camilleri said he worked on an oil rig in the desert that was four hours drive away from Benghazi.
The guardian. Gaddafi gives an interview to western journalists Muammar Gaddafi was labelled "delusional" by the US ambassador to the UN, after he laughed off suggestions that he should go into exile and insisted that he had the support of the Libyan people.
The dictator's defiance came as the prospects of western military power being used against him moved closer. The US deployed naval and air force units around the country and Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, ordered contingency plans for a no-fly zone. The US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, also criticised Gaddafi as "unfit to lead" and "disconnected from reality" after the Libyan leader, speaking to news organisations including the BBC, mocked his opponents.
"All my people love me. "As if anyone would leave their homeland," he replied, accusing western leaders of betrayal and of having "no morals". Gaddafi's remarks were met with derision in Washington. "In Britain who has the power, is it Queen Elizabeth or is it David Cameron? " # Libya MAP SITUATION / 01/03 MASS RT PLZ.