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One of the young Libyan rebels credited with capturing Moammar Gadhafi in a drainage ditch nearly a year ago died Tuesday of injuries after being kidnapped, beaten and slashed by the late dictator’s supporters — the latest victim of persistent … read more »
Tripoli – A UN commission investigating alleged war crimes and human rights violations in Libya was unable to determine the cause of death of slain leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim, a draft report said on Friday. The International … read more »
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One militia controls the airport. Others carve up neighborhoods of the Libyan capital into fiefdoms. They clash in the streets, terrifying residents. They hold detainees in makeshift prisons where torture is said to be rampant. As Libya on Friday marks … read more »
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Tripoli – A gun battle between rival militias erupted in the Libyan capital on Wednesday, illustrating how Libya’s new rulers have so far failed to put their stamp on their country and bring it under control. No one was hurt … read more »
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Tripoli – Libya’s deputy justice minister says his government has begun taking control of makeshift prisons in the country after human rights organisations complained of rampant torture of inmates. Minister Khalifa Ashour said on Sunday that judicial police are now … read more »
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Tripoli – Libya on Tuesday named Yousef al-Manqoush, a retired general from the anti-Gaddafi bastion of Misrata, as head of the armed forces in the first significant move to build a new Libyan military. The appointment was announced as four … read more »
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Tripoli – Libya’s interim government, under pressure from civilians, faces a tough task to disarm hundreds of former rebels who toppled Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and who are now ensuring security on the streets. The new government is yet to declare … read more »
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October 25, 2011 by benim
Misrata – Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried on Tuesday in a secret desert grave, a National Transitional Council official said, ending a wrangle over his rotting corpse that led many to fear for Libya’s governability. With their … read more »
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October 24, 2011 by benim
A fire rages in Sirte. A fuel storage depot near Sirte is engulfed in flames, killing some 50 people who had gathered to fill buckets of fuel according to local residents. The cause of the blaze is still unknown. Some … read more »
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October 24, 2011 by benim
Libya’s interim rulers ended the public display of the bodies of Muammar Gaddafi, his son and army chief on Monday after four days in which thousands of Libyans came to see for themselves that the dictator was really dead. Guards … read more »
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October 23, 2011 by benim
Misrata – Libyan forensic doctors carried out an autopsy overnight on the body of Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader killed last week, one of the people involved in the autopsy told Reuters on Sunday. “We worked all through the … read more »
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October 22, 2011 by benim
As Muammar Gaddafi lay still unburied, Libya’s outgoing premier said the coming days posed a crucial test of resolve for the new men of power, who are wrangling over the body, and about a formal end to the war. Mahmoud … read more »
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Tagged Gaddafi, International Criminal Court, Libya, Misrata, Misurata, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Reuters, Sirte
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September 23, 2011 by benim
Misrata – The graffiti on a burnt-out building on Tripoli Street – the main boulevard in Misrata in ruins after ferocious street fighting – sums up the bitter mood in a city besieged for months by Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. “We … read more »
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September 1, 2011 by benim
A father slit the throats of his three teenage daughters in an “honour killing” after they were raped by Gaddafi loyalists during the siege of the port city of Misrata. Allegations of the shocking executions are contained in a report … read more »
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Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to take the war in Libya to Europe while rebels come under heavy fire as they renew their push against his forces. Thousands of Gaddafi supporters rallied in the Green Square in Tripoli, Libya’s capital, for Friday … read more »
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Four rockets landed in rebel-held Misrata for the first time in several weeks on Tuesday, signaling that the coastal city remains within range of Muammar Gaddafi’s artillery fire. Although no one was hurt in the attack, it dampened the relative … read more »
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Six Libyan rebel fighters were killed on Sunday by a government artillery barrage near the rebel-held city of Misrata, an ambulance worker and a fighter told Reuters. The ambulance worker, at the Hekma hospital in central Misrata, said the six … read more »
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The battered Libyan port is coming back to life as a vibrant trading centre with an eye for a deal. But on its outskirts, frontline fighters struggle against Gaddafi’s professional army The sun is shining in Misrata on Friday morning, … read more »
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Libyan troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fought gun battles with rebels in the town of Zawiyah on Saturday, witnesses said, shutting the coastal highway that links the capital Tripoli with Tunisia. Two Reuters reporters traveling via the town, which lies … read more »
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The residents of Misrata came out as families — fathers with their young daughters, mothers with their toddler sons in tow — to survey with their own eyes what had become of their city. By word of mouth, they descended … read more »
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Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi bombarded the rebel-held city of Misrata with mortars on Thursday, and the United States said a fresh ceasefire offer from Gaddafi’s government was not credible. The bombardment of Misrata was the heaviest for … read more »
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Libya said on Tuesday its forces hit a NATO warship while it was shelling areas in the western parts of the rebel-held city of Misrata. Libyan state television said “our forces fired (at warships) and hit one directly and severely.” … read more »
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Tripoli – A number of blasts were heard from apparent Nato missile strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s compound and other sites in Tripoli on Tuesday, witnesses said. Libyan officials said four children were wounded, two of them seriously, by … read more »
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Niamey – The International Red Cross said on Thursday it has evacuated 1 381 Niger nationals in the past two weeks from the besieged Libyan port town Misrata, which has been bombarded by Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. “For several weeks these … read more »
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Geneva – A ship scrambled out of the besieged Libyan port of Misrata on Wednesday carrying 800 migrants and civilian casualties during heavy shelling on the town, the International Organisation for Migration said. The ship with limited capacity was forced … read more »
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Geneva – A ship scrambled out of the besieged Libyan port of Misrata on Wednesday carrying 800 migrants and civilian casualties during heavy shelling on the town, the International Organisation for Migration said. The ship with limited capacity was forced … read more »
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Fears that Colonel Gaddafi is planning to use chemical weapons against rebels grew yesterday when forces loyal to the Libyan tyrant were seen wearing gas masks. After giving rebels in the besieged city of Misrata until midnight tonight to surrender … read more »
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Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fought a gun battle with Tunisian troops in a frontier town on Friday as Libya’s conflict spilled over its borders. NATO accused Gaddafi’s forces of mining the harbor of the rebels’ besieged western … read more »
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MISRATA, Libya – Moammar Gadhafi’s forces shelled the rebel-held city of Misrata on Thursday, killing nine people. Regime supporters and opponents battled on another front in western Libya for control of a crossing point along the Tunisian border, killing refugees … read more »
At least 15 people were killed by booby-traps and in ambushes set up by Gaddafi brigades on Saturday while withdrawing from the Libyan city of Misrata, a rebel spokesman told Al Jazeera television. “I have received information about 15 people … read more »
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