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The rise of Qatar and the fall of Gaddafi

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2011

Sergei Balmasov

Pravda

29th November, 2011

The year 2011 can be called “the year of Qatar.” The events in Syria and Libya are particularly clear demonstration of the emergence of new regional powers, whose names until recently were not familiar to ordinary people.

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Syria and Libya NGOs weapons parallels – Moeen Raoof

Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2011

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Libya’s New Regime May Attack Syria

Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2011

Jason ditz

Antiwar.com

25th November, 2011

According to officials familiar with the situation, a meeting between Libya’s new regime, the NATO-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) and members of the Syrian National Council (SNC) ended with a request for the NTC to send arms to the opposition, and potentially to get involved even more.

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Libya – TNC leadership all abroad

Posted by seumasach on November 25, 2011

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The horror of ‘liberated’ Libya as the rebels take brutal revenge

Posted by seumasach on November 24, 2011

Patrick Cockburn

Independent.ie

24th November, 2011

THE detention of 7,000 people in prisons and camps by the anti-Gaddafi forces is not surprising. The conflict in Libya was always much more of a civil war between Libyans than foreign governments pretended or the foreign media reported.

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Libya U.N. envoy says Qatar arming Islamists

Posted by seumasach on November 18, 2011

Orlando Sentinel

18th November, 2011

TANGIER, Morocco (Reuters) – Libya’s United Nationsenvoy Mohammed Abdel Rahman Shalgam accusedQatar on Friday of providing weapons and money to Libyan Islamists and told the fellow Arab state to stop meddling in Tripoli’s domestic affairs.

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Libyan humanitarian activist versus NATO

Posted by seumasach on November 14, 2011

Voltairenet

13th November, 2011

Setting a momentous precedent, 34-year old Khaled K. El-Hamedi filed a lawsuit against NATO after his entire family was killed in a bombing raid on 20 June 2011 at 2:30 a.m. While in Libya, Voltaire Network’s Thierry Meyssan reported on the “The Sorman massacre“, denouncing NATO’s strategy of deliberately targeting the family members of Libyan leaders, aided by undercover agents who marked the targets for the strikes. Khaled K. El-Hamedi brings us his personal testimony of the barbarism that destroyed his loved ones, his life and his entire country.

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Indictment against NATO military and political leaders

Posted by seumasach on November 10, 2011

Pravda 

6th November, 2011

The law case of the century: Indictment against NATO military and political leaders (UPDATED)

NATO: Indictment for breach of international law in the Great SocialistPeople’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The military and political leaders of NATO are hereby accused of the following crimes committed in the Libyan campaign of 2011, in which the systematic breaches of international law are underlined.

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Libya- French soldiers killed near Ajdabiya

Posted by seumasach on November 10, 2011

Libye – Des soldats français tués près de Ajdabiya

Algeria-ISP

10th November, 2011

Please use Google-translate

Selon Zengtena, les combattants de l’armée de la libération de la Libye ont ciblé un groupe de 8 soldats français près de Ajdabiya. Il y a eu de violents affrontements. Les combattants ont éliminés tout le groupe.

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5000 Quattari troops helped to colonise Libya

Posted by seumasach on November 8, 2011

Voltairenet

7th November, 2011

Having long claimed that it participated in the fighting in Libya by only sending a few planes, Qatar admitted some ten days that it actually deployed hundreds of ground troops.

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Libya- Tajoura falls to pro-Gaddafi forces

Posted by seumasach on November 5, 2011

Libye – Tajoura tombe aux mains des pro-Kadhafi

Allain Jules

5th November

Please use google translate French-English

L’effondrement du dispositif de Kadhafi serait imminent, qu’ils disaient. Non, il s’est effondré renchérissaient-ils. Mais, la surprise est arrivée hier à Tajoura après la prière de vendredi. Selon le témoignage de plusieurs habitants de Tripoli, car Tajoura est situé à 14 kilomètres mais fait partie du district de Tripoli, de violents affrontements ont eu lieu dans la ville, aux abords de la Mosquée Murad Agha .

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