Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 15 (or 17*), Part 4

[Catherina]

Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 15 (or 17*), Part 4

Today's threads: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

#Feb17 Youth organizers invite Gaddafi's collaborators to stand under his umbrella ella ella ella ella ella http://bit.ly/faa34E

"We have Plan A, Plan B, Plan C. Plan A is to live and die in Libya. Plan B is to live and die in Libya. Plan C is to live and die in Libya."
- Saif Islam Qaddafi during interview

*I called this Day 15 because the official start date was #Feb17 but the kickoff was 2 days early so in reality today is day 14.

Previous Day 14 threads: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

The world’s 100 largest arms dealers, excluding Chinese vendors, sold weapons for $401 billion in 2009, with US vendors in first place

Threads for Days 1-13 are in my journal

"I was born in Tunisia, I persevered in Egypt, I sacrificed myself in Libya, I have fought in Yemen&Bahrain. I am Freedom, I will not die."
- Libyan4life Jeel Ghathub

LibyanThinker The Libyan Thinker
Remains of Soldiers Burned to Death for Not Shooting Protesters in #Libya http://www.twitvid.com/YXKOT & http://tinyurl.com/4d6a57n

MAP of Protests across the Middle East


Click here for updated and interactive map
Google Earth DL here to see positions of army and patrolling route of mercenaries

Please rec if you read these so I know if the effort here is worth it.

[Catherina]

1. #UN is investigating arms transfers from Zimbabwe to Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo

fieldproducer Neal Mann
Reuters: UN is investigating arms transfers from Zimbabwe to Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo http://me.lt/588pI
31 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Novel idea here, how about the UN investigate and stop arms transfers period?

Exclusive: U.N. probes Zimbabwe arms transfers to Ivory Coast

UNITED NATIONS | Thu Mar 3, 2011 4:15pm EST
(Reuters) - The United Nations is investigating suspected arms transfers from Zimbabwe to Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo in violation of U.N. sanctions, according to a report obtained by Reuters.

The report emerged after a week of gun battles between forces loyal to Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Ouattara, almost universally recognized as winner of a November 28 poll, that risk pushing the top cocoa grower back to full-blown civil war.

Diplomats on the U.N. Security Council said the possible transfer of weapons to Gbagbo was a serious matter. They said his forces could use them against U.N. peacekeepers -- UNOCI, who recognize Ouattara as Ivory Coast's president -- or Ivorian civilians who support Ouattara.

UNOCI's confidential "Embargo monitoring report January 2011," obtained by Reuters on Thursday, said the mission was gathering more information on "the arrival of light weapons cargoes from Zimbabwe." U.N. officials told Reuters arms from Zimbabwe would have been intended for Gbagbo and not Ouattara.

In January, Gbagbo sent a special envoy to Harare to meet with and enlist the support of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who like Gbagbo has been accused by his opponents of election fraud and is under U.S. and European Union sanctions.

...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/03/us-ivorycoast-un-arms-idUSTRE72279X20110303?WT.tsrc=Social%20Media&WT.z_smid=twtr-reuters_%20com&WT.z_smid_dest=Twitter

[Catherina]

2. some kidnapped persons have been seen taken into Bab Al Azizia

ceoDanya Danya B Mohammed
#from a creditable source in TRIPOLI: some kidnapped persons have been seen taken into Bad Al 3azaazeya @libyaoutreach @SultanAlQassemi
33 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Alarming!

[pinboy3niner]

13. Human shields

:puke:

[joshcryer]

20. Wonder what the political consequences would be for the nation that bombed Gaddafi's next speech.

Good, bad, what? Hundreds if not thousands could be killed by such an attack.

[pinboy3niner]

24. That would be a bad move, with costly consequences

That kind of attempt would also maim and kill innocent civilians--and don't forget the journalists who are covering him.

The first concern is human consequences. But yes, there would be negative political consequences, too.

[joshcryer]

29. I don't think it's ever been done has it? I don't think anyone would do it, just speculating.

[pinboy3niner]

42. Reagan tried it in '86

The airstrikes missed Gaddafi, but killed 15 civilians--including Gaddafi's 3-year-old adopted daughter.

[CJvR]

40. Perhaps...

...but it is quite likely the cheapest way to end the Libyan civil war.
If it costs a few innocent civilians (not that there will be many of those around Gaddafi) and reporters so what? Just how many innocents are Gaddafi killing on a daily basis now? How many more will it be before the rebel forces advance through defensive lines after defensive line, house after house and dig Gaddafi out of his bunker?

Sometimes there are no good options, only various degree of bad. Letting Gaddafi stay alive to keep his crumbling empire together when there is an option to kill him is a very bad choice.

[Catherina]

67. After the '86 bombing, which didn't work, #G had his compound doubly reinforced

to withstand any such future attacks. He's also dug in deep underground in a reinforced bunker. Where's that bunker? He's got so many tunnels down there that extend for kilometers that I'm not sure we'd even know where to bomb. And with what? Is there a precision bunker buster that doesn't cause much or extensive surface damage?

I wanted that option but after reading how extensive the tunnels were, I wonder if we really could. He's so paranoid and had 25 years to improve his hole in the ground. I'd support any option that could kill him but would this one? Is there such a weapon?

[CJvR]

70. Undoubtedly.

But he has held long speaches in the open, that is an oppertunity.

There are bunker busters but they really aren't the kind of weapons you use to kill one specific person, particulary not if the bunker is inside a city.

[Catherina]

27. He's mad Josh, totally mad with no moral boundaries. I shudder 2 think

what he'd do.

[defendandprotect]

62. What it means is that Gaddafi fears a wayward pilot/etal air strike on his compound ... just as much

as we're all hoping for one!!

That's why he's doing.

Obviously, Gaddafi doesn't feel safe in his own compound -- and presume

he understands multiple groups after him ... perhaps some even in his

own military, his own compound, his own family!!


Kidnapping citizens will be just another chapter in the ICC investigations!!

[joshcryer]

65. +infinity, exactly right

[Catherina]

3. Rebels in Tripoli prepair crowds for tomorrows protest (day of challenge)

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Rebels in Tripoli prepair crowds for tomorrows protest (day of challenge) #Libya #Gaddafi
31 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

4. our brothers in Gaza are preparing to send a nurses on medical mission to hospitals Libya

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
our brothers in Gaza are preparing to send a nurses on medical mission to hospitals Libya. #Libya #Gaddafi
32 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

5. Internet, mobile phones down in Tripoli, mass kidnappings

MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya Seems that Internet and mobile phones down in #Tripoli+reports of mass kidnapping-v.bad #Gaddafi trying 2 behead the revolution there
32 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

6. Mercs tried to enter AlZaweya but revolution youth blocked them

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Mercenaries today tried to enter AlZaweya but revolution youth blocked them, the city is still under the revolutionaries influence. #Gaddafi
32 minutes ago

[sasha031]

8. Rec

[defendandprotect]

64. LIBYA HURRA -- !!

[Catherina]

7. not going through any negotiations unless its about Gaddafi's resignation.

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Speaker: Libyan revolutionaries are not to go through any negotiations unless its about Gaddafi's resignation. #Libya #Gaddafi
32 minutes ago

[joshcryer]

11. No shit.

[Catherina]

9. Spanish FM: Venezuela's mediation in Libya is "good" if the purpose was to help.

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Spanish Foreign Minister: Venezuela's mediation in Libya is "good" if the purpose was to help. #Libya #Gaddafi
33 minutes ago

[Catherina]

10. Breiga is now quiet, last bombardment was at11 AM without any casualties. The city is now quiet

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Last Breiga news:Breiga is now quiet, last bombardment was at11 AM without any casualties. The city is now quiet without any confrontations.
33 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

12. Protesters Being Treated at #Ajdabiya #Hospital (English Subtitles)

AliveIn Stories from MENA
#Libya Protesters Being Treated at #Ajdabiya #Hospital (English Subtitles) http://bit.ly/gQULZ9 (Mar 3) #feb17
33 minutes ago


on MARCH 3, 2011

http://alive.in/libya/2011/03/03/protesters-being-treated-at-ajdabiya-hospital-english-subtitles/

[Catherina]

14. Interrogation of Gaddafi Fighter in Brega

AliveIn Stories from MENA
#Libya Interrogation of Gaddafi Fighter in Brega http://bit.ly/egcbDg (Mar 3) #feb17
32 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

(English Subtitles)
http://alive.in/libya/2011/03/03/interrogation-of-gaddafi-fighter-in-brega/


Posted earlier but this has the subtitles

[joshcryer]

16. Amazing that they were able to keep Brega after *two* attacks by Gaddafi.

[Catherina]

15. Audio: Libya Bloody Libya tells the news in a U2-way

LibyaFeb17_com LibyaFeb17.com
Audio: Libya Bloody Libya tells the news in a U2-way - #feb17 #libya - libyafeb17.com/2011/03/audio-…
27 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Audio: Libya Bloody Libya tells the news in a U2-way
Posted on March 3, 2011 by Admin

AUDIO at link

Libya Bloody Libya by dimitristuer

Libya Bloody Libya tells the news in a U2-way. Based upon different versions of U2′s Sunday Bloody Sunday. With quotes of the son of Khadaffi, Khadaffi himself, even Hitler…, the French president Mr. Sarkozy, the United Nations, the American president Mr. Barack Obama and so many others !Concept & audio editing by Belgian radio producer & presenter Dimitri Stuer of the national private radiostation “Nostalgie” (http://www.nostalgie.eu).Dedicated to the people of Libya, fighting for democracy and freedom.Spread this audio, spread the message of peace, freedom and democracy.Spread the human rights.

[Catherina]

17. your brothers ask you to pray to Allah for them, to help them tomorrow, Friday "day of challenge"

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
your brothers ask you to pray to Allah for them, to help them tomorrow, which they called Friday "day of challenge" . #Libya #Gaddafi
27 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

18. #Aljazeera's Wadah Khanfar's TED Speech: A Historic Moment in the Arab World

AymanM Ayman Mohyeldin
#Aljazeera's Wadah Khanfar's TED Speech: A Historic Moment in the Arab World http://fb.me/U6mh64Ht
26 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world
http://www.ted.com/talks/wadah_khanfar_a_historic_moment_in_the_arab_world.html?awesm=on.ted.com_Khanfar&utm_content=awesm-bookmarklet&utm_medium=on.ted.com-static&utm_source=direct-on.ted.com

[Catherina]

19. latest from libyan hiphop artist @ibnthabit tribute to martyrs

EnoughGaddafi Enough Gaddafi
http://tiny.cc/13ohi latest from libyan hiphop artist @ibnthabit tribute to martyrs #libya #feb17
28 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Martyrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_MHalNiTHQ

[defendandprotect]

71. K/R

[Catherina]

21. Anonymous Will Avenge #Manning

CyanideL Lily
Anonymous Will Avenge #Manning shar.es/3A5ne
30 minutes ago

THU MAR 03, 2011 AT 01:24 PM EST
Anonymous Will Avenge Manning
bybarrettbrown

The decision to charge Bradley Manning with a capital offense in addition to other charges is a provocation and Anonymous is set to respond accordingly. Thus it is that we have begun #opbradley at irc.anonops.in in order to supplement our work at #oppalantir and #anonleaks. We have gone through additional e-mails via our server at anonleaks.ru and discovered the full extent of Palantir's involvement in the degenerate campaigns fielded by HBGary on behalf of their mercantile client Bank of America, which itself will be facing certain other troubles soon. But today is about Palantir, which "cut off ties" with HBGary at the beginning of the scandal and has since tried to explain away the fact that not one, but two employees told HBGary CEO Aaron Barr that the top execs, including Karp, had signed off on this possibly criminal campaign to destroy Wikileaks and the venerable journalist Glenn Greenwald. Today is the day we begin to attack Palantir in earnest - not by their methods, but by ours.

(Note: Some people have asked for background on all of this. See my Guardian op-ed from a little while back. Be sure to listen to the recording between myself and Aaron Barr, who lies his ass off. And take note of how polite I am! Lol.)

Our Palantir file is being finished at this moment. Here's a preview.

Katherine Crotty; Jeremy Glesner; Aaron Marshall; Eli Bingham confirmed involved. E-mail links to follow.

Here's a fun little connection between Palantir and BoA's law firm, Hunton & Williams, which not only saw but clearly provided input into the proposal in direct contradiction to the lies that have been told to the opposite effect.

http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/aaron_hbgary_com/439.html

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/03/952165/-Anonymous-Will-Avenge-Manning

[Catherina]

22. Revo ctrls air bases, fighter planes+helicopter gunships Pilots ready but nobody will give order

MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya The Revolution controls air bases, functioning fighter planes +helicopter gunships Pilots said ready 2 fly but nobody will give order
29 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Jesus.

[Catherina]

23. Kidnapping campaign in Tripoli

LibyaFeb17_com LibyaFeb17.com
Kidnapping campaign in Tripoli - #feb17 #libya - libyafeb17.com/2011/03/kidnap…
29 minutes ago

Kidnapping campaign in Tripoli
Posted on March 3, 2011 by Admin

The Network of Free Ulema in Libya has said that pro-Gaddafi forces have been carrying out kidnappings in advance of tomorrow’s planned demonstrations.

The statement from the group read:

“This is to URGENTLY notify the world and the International Criminal Court in particular, that Gaddafi and his criminal accomplices are currently (March 2nd and 3rd 2011) implementing a massive kidnapping campaign in Tripoli and its vicinities in order to ‘clean up’ key youth leaders before tomorrow’s Friday prayers, and in order to ‘look good’ to the international Media, which has been invited to Tripoli as part of a public relations campaign aimed at covering up the crimes against humanity that have been inflicted upon the brave Libyan people. We call upon and urge every man and woman of good will, worldwide, to do their utmost to save our youth from the hands of Gaddafi, his thugs, and mercenaries.”

Similar reports have been circling on Twitter, as well.

http://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/03/kidnapping-campaign-in-tripoli/

[Catherina]

25. Obama says his murder of innocents is different than Gaddafi's cuz he murders innocents for freedom

Remroum Remi Kanazi
Obama says his murder of innocents is different than Gaddafi's cuz he murders innocents for freedom & democracy #NotReally
27 minutes ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

USA, pls stop the wars!

[Catherina]

26. #Jordan: Jordanian students

3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
Jordanian students الشعب يريد إسقاط المدير http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/jordanian-students.html
26 minutes ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Jordanian students

Aljazeera has just aired a report about a Jordanian school in which students protesters chanted in unison against the school principal who hit a teacher. They chanted (borrowed from Egyptian protests):
الشعب يريد إسقاط المدير
(the People want the downfall of the principal). (IT does not rhyme in Arabic but they are school kids, for potato's sake). Someone should send me the video link NOW.

Posted by As'ad AbuKhalil at 11:55 AM

Very nice

[sasha031]

28. Brega local people came with water, hot tea, chicken and rice 2 support the fighters

MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya Battle for #Brega local people came with water, hot tea, chicken and rice 2 support the fighters and ambulances stood by 4 injured

[joshcryer]

30. That's awesome. Brega is liberated it seems.

[Catherina]

31. Taking Ras Lanuf can be bridgehead 2 build up a force to take Sirte- then=open road 2 #Tripoli

MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya Taking Ras Lanuf can be bridgehead behind which 2 build up a force of 3-4000 probably needed to take Sirte- then=open road 2 #Tripoli
40 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[necso]

32. Phase one meant remarkably well;

there were just some nuts too tough to crack using phase-one tactics (note this opinion well). So momentum diminished, and there was some pushback. But nothing catastrophic, and it so far it appears to have been handled quite well (and I tend to worst case thinking).

Now, to many this was startling; the big-time players largely didn't think the opposition had much of a chance (and are probably still sweating it). Me, I figured that a people that greathearted (showing such courage and maintaining such humanity during all of this -- and after all that suffering -- is really quite touching, even to an old cynic like me) could do impressive things.

Now, phase two looks to be more military in nature, but the outcome seems inevitable. It will just take more time.

But phase two is a less spontaneous thing. Military command, coordination, communications and planning are essential (even if only regionally). And throwing the best weapons against defenses of unknown strength risks losing them to little avail, when latter they might be essential. (Any air attack forces must have good fighter support, or operate so far from any bandit bases as to be immune from counterattack.)

The end objective is clear; nibbling away to make them draw in should provide some tactical data on strength, and could be started with little resources, like by using light forces in hit-and-run or probing (with forces securing the area) attacks.

Momentum and morale important.

[Catherina]

33. For Victory in #Brega there were no orders, no officers, no plans >>>

MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya Victory in #Brega There were no orders, no officers, no plans: most men said they simply jumped in cars to defend their freedom+won
33 minutes ago

They drove beat-up old taxis clutching rifles, pistols, even butcher knives. “We fought them barefoot,” we can defeat Qaddafi.”#Brega

local people came with water, hot tea, chicken and rice 2 support the fighters and ambulances stood by 4 injured

Working in small groups, they fought street2street "We aren't trained, but we know how to use guerrilla tactic

"With courage+enthusiasm we can succeed with just a Kalashnikov or even a knife. We don't need the army, just their weapons"

"Wielding hunting rifles+Kalashnikov+knives they fought #Gaddafi ’s men, who were backed by air power+mortars and won

Masoud wore a partial uniform + a bandoleer of bullets. He carried a satchel full of TNT which he uses 2 kill fish..... they won

200 volunteers signed up in the first hour after the #Brega attack was known. 5,000 have signed up since Monday in #Benghazi alone
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[sasha031]

35. history is being made

[Desertrose]

41. This really is amazing. These people are impressive.

Gives me goosebumps!

Libya Hurra!

[joshcryer]

49. HURRA LIBYA! This is so powerful.

[Catherina]

34. #Egypt: Judges threaten to strike if Mubarak's minister of Justice is included in new cabinet

3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام
Judges threaten to strike if Mubarak's minister of Justice is included in new cabinet http://bit.ly/fkS4e3 #Jan25
41 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Detection, a judicial source of the original constitution, condition of anonymity, that there is a large number of judges had decided to enter the open-ended strike for work in all courts of Egypt and all the prosecutors in the case of continuation of pay Chancellor Mamdouh Marei, minister of justice, where there were reports from receiving EA honor of the new Prime Minister to Chancellor Mamdouh Marei Minister of Justice, which is interpreted by the existence of an intention to continue in the ministry.

...

http://www.dostor.org/politics/egypt/11/march/3/37384

[defendandprotect]

72. Libya Hurra -- !!

[Catherina]

36. Underground Prisions Revealed, ‘Men Found Buried Alive’ At Gaddafi Compound

feb17libya Feb17Libya
Underground Prisions Revealed in #Benghazi http://bit.ly/etsMNz @feb17libya #Feb17 #Libya
39 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

‘Men Found Buried Alive’ At Gaddafi Compound
Posted on March 3, 2011 by main

VIDEO

...

Libyan revolutionaries in Benghazi claim to have rescued seven prisoners that had been buried alive.

They say the group was found entombed in a small underground cell in the city’s dreaded government compound – forbidden territory for 40 years, now overrun by the forces of revolution.

The rescuers said they heard voices underground and dug through earth and freshly laid concrete to discover the seven men, some of whom were barely alive.

...

Their rescuers said some of the seven were anti-Gaddafi protesters and others were soldiers who had rebelled against the dictator.

...

http://feb17.info/media/underground-prisions-revealed-in-benghazi/

[joshcryer]

50. This is how Gaddafi treats his protesters, he doesn't have the men to guard them, so he buries...

...them alive. I have no doubt that many many more are locked up in prisons with the key thrown away, somewhere.

[Catherina]

68. How do you bury people alive under the very floors you walk on?

The only other people I know who did that were the Duvaliers.

[Catherina]

37. Video: Gaddafi's Son Saif Al-Islam Tells Sky News Forces Have Not Bombed Civilians In Brega

Hendka hend mohammed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzKPn99JKVc&feature=player_embedded can't he be any more silly ? #libya #feb17
39 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Libya, Brega Gaddafi's Son Saif Al-Islam Tells Sky News Forces Have Not Bombed Civilians In Brega
PROTECTOR1973REBORN2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzKPn99JKVc
Libya, Brega, Gaddafi's Son Saif Al-Islam Tells Sky News Forces Have Not Bombed Civilians In Brega

[Catherina]

38. confirmed reports that internet in #Tripoli is blocked, will b difficult 2 get communications out

Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
confirmed reports that internet in #Tripoli is blocked, it will be difficult to get communications out, hope it comes back by morning #Libya
38 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

39. rpts that many activists are being detained #Tripoli and other towns in west #Libya

Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
getting reports that many activists are being detained #Tripoli and other towns in west #Libya
37 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[defendandprotect]

73. kr

[Catherina]

43. 5 Ways To Help Libyan Refugees

Hendka hend mohammed
#libya #feb17 ٥ طرق لمساعدة اللاجئين الليبين huff.to/eyYNOg
22 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

5 Ways To Help Libyan Refugees
First Posted: 03- 2-11 02:02 AM | Updated: 03- 2-11 02:02 AM

...


1. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is working to feed migrant workers fleeing into Tunisia. A plane charted by the WFP landed in Djerba, Tunisia carrying 80 tons of high energy biscuits to be distributed. The first truckload of biscuits arrived at the border on March 1.

Donors can give online to support the WFP's distribution of food to Libyan refugees.


2. To safeguard the conflict's most vulnerable victims, Save the Children has dispatched teams to provide aid to children in areas along Libya's border with Egypt. The organization will be distributing supplies and helping reunite lost children with their families.

Save the Children has set up a designated fund for Libyan children in crisis. You can make an online donation to support children.


3. AmeriCares is rushing an emergency shipment of medical supplies to the Libyan border. The supply is expected to land in Cairo, Egypt on March 3 and be rushed to the border region.

Supporters can help Libyan refugees by donating to the AmeriCares International Disaster Relief Fund.


4. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reports the situation at the border is at a "crisis point" with over 14,000 refugees fleeing Libya in a single day.

The organization established a transition camp of 1,500 tents to house 12,000 people by nightfall on March 1. An airlift is expected to arrive March 3 with additional tents and supplies for 10,000 more.

Supporters can donate online to support the UNHCR's work.


5. International medical nonprofit Doctors Without Borders has dispatched a medical team to bring supplies to Libyan hospitals, help deal with the influx of wounded patients and train Libyan medical staff to cope with patients injured in future conflict.

You can contribute to Doctors Without Borders online to support the doctors and nurses lending a hand in Libya.

[Catherina]

44. Were we using 'rebels' and 'civil war' as catch phrases at this same point 4 Tunisia & Egypt? >>

OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
So some ppl asked to have definition of civil war checked...there it is. We pray that if doesn't come to that. But right now I would say...
27 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
...that situation in Libya is more similar to Tunis and Egypt at this point than that of a full blown "civil war".
25 minutes ago


OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
Were we using 'rebels' and 'civil war' as catch phrases at this same point during #Libya's neighbours conflicts?
22 minutes ago

[joshcryer]

52. Difference between Tunisia and Egypt = massive bloodshed. It is not a civl war, it is uprising.

[Catherina]

45. State TV TV now announcing protests tomorrow against the foreign intervention

ZahratTrablis Zahrat El
AlJamahiraya #Libya TV now announcing protests tomorrow against the foreign intervention
20 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[joshcryer]

57. Foreign intervention = terrorists + CIA! Gaddafi said so.

[Catherina]

46. tomorrow there will b a lot of people killed marching 4 freedom. please keep #Libya in your prayers

OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
RT @IbnOmar2005: tomorrow there will be a lot of people killed marching for freedom. please keep #libya in your prayers
18 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[pinboy3niner]

54. We do

[joshcryer]

55. +1

[Desertrose]

77. We sure do. nt

[Catherina]

47. .S. business community asks for leeway on Libya sanctions

feb17libya Feb17Libya
#Feb17 #Libya U.S. business community asks for leeway on Libya sanctions http://f.ast.ly/baUWg
17 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

U.S. business community asks for leeway on Libya sanctions
Posted By Josh Rogin Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 4:52 PM

A group of U.S. companies that do business in Libya is asking the Treasury Department to take measures to protect them despite wide-ranging sanctions announced by President Barack Obama last week.

National Foreign Trade Council President William Reinsch wrote a letter on March 1 to Adam Szubin, the head of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), asking for several clarifications on how the Libya sanctions will be implemented and whether U.S. companies will be able to protect their assets there and keep paying their local employees. In the letter, obtained by The Cable, Reinsch also said he represents the U.S.-Libya Business Association, which is composed of U.S. businesses dealing with the Libyan government.

"While U.S. companies have evacuated most or all of their expatriate employees from Libya, numerous Libyan nationals and others remain in Libya and continue to maintain the operations and facilities of the companies to the extent permissible," Reinsch wrote, noting that American companies "seek authorization to provide for the continued safety, welfare, and support of their employees and contractors by paying their salaries and for other routine taxes, fees, benefits, goods and services associated with their employment."

The companies want to be able to send money to their Libyan bank accounts, which would then be used to pay salaries, income taxes, social security taxes, telecommunications bills, residential lease payments, and many other day-to-day expenses that require giving money to the Libyan government, although not directly to the Qaddafi family.

...

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/03/us_business_community_asks_for_leeway_on_libya_sanctions

[pinboy3niner]

53. There's also this:

In other oil-related news, a cargo of Libyan crude oil is currently sitting in a tanker off the coast of Texas and Louisiana in the United States, with authorities unable to offload it for fear of violating recent US sanctions.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/africa/live-blog-libya-march-2

[Catherina]

48. As night breaks into the early hours in Libya,please take a few minutes >

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
http://bit.ly/gMD0SY As night breaks into the early hours in Libya,please take a few minutes to pray for a nation who long to be free #Libya
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An emotional moment ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlGwazCl3qU

[sasha031]

56. This remarkable,too the beautiful people of Libya

:grouphug: :loveya: :grouphug:

[Catherina]

51. I ASK ALL PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW, TO JAM THE HELL OUT OF JAMAHIRIYA CHANNELS

OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
RT @ChangeInLibya If Nilesat pressure doesn't work then I ASK ALL PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW, TO JAM THE HELL OUT OF JAMAHIRIYA CHANNELS #libya
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[Catherina]

58. Ajdabiya demonstration even after 3 days of bombing

feb17libya Feb17Libya
#Ajdabiya demonstration even after 3 days of bombing http://bit.ly/i6ueov @feb17libya #Feb17 #Libya
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Ajdabiya demonstration
Posted on March 3, 2011 by v1d

On March 2nd , hundreds of protesters took to the streets in the eastern city of Ajdabiya to show support for freedom and to bury and honor those who died in their city. Ajdabiya was bombed by government aircraft’s on February 28, March 1, and March 2. Despite the attempts to kill and deter protesters, Ajdabiya remains under civilian control and they are still coming out- loud and proud.

The Video below demonstrates the strong will of the people and their quest for liberty.

Chants: “There is no god but God, and martyrs are loved by God!”

“There is no god but God, and Gaddafi is the enemy of God!”

“The blood of the martyrs will not go to waste!”

VIDEO

http://feb17.info/video/ajdabiya-demonstration-march-2/

[joshcryer]

59. Beautiful.

[defendandprotect]

74. LIBYA HURRA -- !!

[Catherina]

60. Last night, PFC Manning Was Forced to Strip Naked for 7 hours.

C0d3Fr0sty Anonymous
Last night, PFC Manning Was Forced to Strip Naked for 7 hours. http://bit.ly/dLnUU4 #wikileaks #humanrightswatch
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03 march 2011 From the Law Offices of David E. Combs

PFC Manning Forced to Strip Naked
Last night, PFC Manning was inexplicably stripped of all clothing by the Quantico Brig. He remained in his cell, naked, for the next seven hours. At 5:00 a.m., the Brig sounded the wake-up call for the detainees. At this point, PFC Manning was forced to stand naked at the front of his cell.

The Duty Brig Supervisor (DBS) arrived shortly after 5:00 a.m. When he arrived, PFC Manning was called to attention. The DBS walked through the facility to conduct his detainee count. Afterwards, PFC Manning was told to sit on his bed. About ten minutes later, a guard came to his cell to return his clothing.

This type of degrading treatment is inexcusable and without justification. It is an embarrassment to our military justice system and should not be tolerated. PFC Manning has been told that the same thing will happen to him again tonight. No other detainee at the Brig is forced to endure this type of isolation and humiliation.

posted by army court-martial defense specialist at 4:53 pm

http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2011/03/confinement-conditions-worsen.html

[sabrina 1]

69. That is disgusting. They are torturers as charged.

That is why they hate him, because he exposed their crimes in Iraq. I think the International human rights organizations need to step in to protect him from these monsters now. This is a crime.

[defendandprotect]

75. Obama could stand against this -- he doesn't --

and above all this treatment of our prisoners shows the weakness and corruption

of our government.

[Catherina]

61. #US, #France, #Libyan opposition reject Venezuelan-mediated talks w/ #Gaddafi

Tripolitanian Libyan
#US, #France, #Libyan opposition reject Venezuelan-mediated talks w/ #Gaddafi
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[defendandprotect]

76. KR -- I think any advice Chavez wants to give Gaddafi should be in the open ... clear ...

and in the interests of the Libyan people, not Gaddafi!!

[Catherina]

63. I share with you this beautiful picture from Libya, and hand you over to our team in N.A.

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
I share with you this beautiful picture from Libya, and hand you over to our team in North America http://on.fb.me/fiaF1N #Libya #Feb17
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[Catherina]

66. Part 5 here

http:// www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x552372