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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:33 PM
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Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 7, Part 4 (Richard III in a bad & dangerous way)
Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 7, Part 4 (Richard III in a bad & dangerous way)

"Let fall thy lance: despair, and die!" - Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard the Third, Act 5, Scene III, Bosworth Field

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

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

Yesterday's threads: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11

Threads for previous days are in my journal

To make sure the Army doesn't swing the revolution to the people, with the silent complicity of world leaders more concerned about the stability of oil prices than people's lives, Qaddafi has brought in more than 35,000 North African mercenaries specifically from Chad, Nigeria, Guinea and Darfur. There's a Facebook video of a captured mercenary from Chad (Youtube here). Captured mercenaries confessed they were paid between $12,000 - $30,000 each. Today pamphlet ads were found in Nigeria offering them $2000/day for their savage work.

Is Qaddafi the only one paying these mercenaries? Or are EU governments, with their long history of hiring mercenaries, chipping in? I demand to know.
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

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Please rec if you read these so I know if the effort here is worth it.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:35 PM
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1. Aha! Obama will speak this evening on Libya. What's his hurry?
ITwitius Tim Marshall
#Libya Aha! Obama will speak this evening on Libya. What's his hurry?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:37 PM
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2. Gaddafi may seek refuge in an African country and wage a mercenary war on #Libya.
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Aljazeera guest suggesting #Gaddafi may seek refuge in an African country and wage a mercenary war on #Libya. #Feb17
20 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

No shit. King of Africa and all with millions of followers while world leaders and arms dealers laughed, calling him just another eccentric. FIND HIM AND KILL HIM NOW.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:39 PM
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3. European Union calls for investigation into possible crimes against humanity
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Global community isolates Gaddafi: European Union calls for investigation into possible crimes against humanity ... http://aje.me/h9CQaa
21 minutes ago

Possible? Possible! G5, you're killing me.


European Union calls for investigation into possible crimes against humanity ahead of emergency UN meeting.
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2011 18:04 GMT


World leaders and rights activists have criticised the Libyan government's violent response to protests

International condemnation of the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Libya has escalated, with the European Union pushing for a UN-led probe into human rights abuses and preparing for possible sanctions against the African nation.

A draft proposal by the 27-nation bloc on Wednesday spoke out against "extremely grave human rights violations committed in Libya, including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, detention and torture of peaceful demonstrators," and said they could "amount to crimes against humanity".

The bloc has also agreed to prepare possible sanctions on Libya. Experts will now draw up a list of proposed measures, which could include visa bans, asset freezes, an arms embargo and other restrictions, before EU governments agree when to impose them.

The agreement came after Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, urged the EU to impose "concrete sanctions" on Libya, and David Cameron, the British prime minister, called for a full United Nations Security Council resolution on the issue.

....


http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/02/201122313501843624.html
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:42 PM
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when they are needed the most they just APOLOGIZE and say they cant help. i mean what the hell?
juhina_ jay_Libya
@
@Catherina_Guate i know, honestly when they are needed the most they just APOLOGIZE and say they cant help. i mean what the hell?
21 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:40 PM
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4. All those blacklisted in #Misrata will not be attacked but have been completely boycotted by the who
LibyanDictator The Dictator
All those blacklisted in #Misrata will not be attacked but have been completely boycotted by the whole community. #Libya #Feb17
22 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:41 PM
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5. gaddafi is finished. he can wipe out the population. but the whole world now knows what a monster he
LibyansUnite Libyan and proud
by juhina_
this is it for gaddafi. he is finished. he can wipe out the libyan population. but the whole world now knows what a monster he is #libya
24 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:41 PM
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6. Cairo was the heart of the revolution.Tripoli is the last bastion of the regime

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
In #Egypt the capital Cairo was the heart of the revolution. in #Libya the capital Tripoli is the last bastion of the regime #feb17 #jan25
21 minutes ago
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:42 PM
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7. k&r nt
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Poboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:42 PM
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8. Don't forget to rec, folks.
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:43 PM
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9. BREAKING CNN: Obama to make stmt on Libya at the top of the hour. nt
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:44 PM
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10. Part of Interior Ministry compound torched in Cairo
SaadAbedine SaadAbedine
Part of Interior Ministry compound torched in Cairo http://tinyurl.com/6j9gxnr
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Part of Interior Ministry compound torched in Cairo
From Ivan Watson and Amir Ahmed, CNN
February 23, 2011 -- Updated 1727 GMT (0127 HKT)


Soldiers help extinguish a fire at a building adjacent to the interior ministry set by former police officers in downtown Cairo

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Smoke billowed into the sky over Egypt's capital Wednesday from a fire at the Interior Ministry compound, a blaze witnesses say was set by protesters upset about labor issues.

Part of a building, surrounding buildings such as the criminal records building, and several cars had been torched. Witnesses said the flames could have been ignited by Molotov cocktails.

Soldiers and police rushed to scene and a couple of men were detained, the witnesses reported.

The compound is three blocks away from Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the sometimes violent clashes that eventually brought down the 30-year regime of President Hosni Mubarak February 11. Skirmishes also took place near where the fire burned Wednesday.

...

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/23/egypt.revolution/index.html
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:44 PM
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11. clear indication of Gaddaffis surrender. When the rats fleeing, shows the flood is on the corner
rajeshrjain Raajesh
by ShababLibya@
@ShababLibya I think this is a clear indication of Gaddaffis surrender. When the rats start fleeing it shows the flood is on the corner.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:45 PM
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12. says once #Gaddafi is over, the world will be shocked at the sheer number and type of crimes committ
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Aljazeera guest says once #Gaddafi is over, the world will be shocked at the sheer number and type of crimes committed by him. #Feb17 #Libya
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:46 PM
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13. A History of Middle East Mercenaries
SaadAbedine SaadAbedine
A History of Middle East Mercenaries http://tinyurl.com/6hflute
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While the protests convulsing Bahrain and Libya this past week occurred in vastly different contexts — and will likely produce very different results — both were met with conspicuously swift crackdowns. And in both cases, reports suggest the Libyan and Bahraini regimes deployed foreign fighters and mercenaries against their own citizens, lethal clashes that left scores wounded and many dead.

Though difficult to substantiate in the current chaos, reports from eastern Libya, in particular from the city of Benghazi, claim that snipers and militiamen from sub-Saharan Africa gunned down residents on the streets. The Dubai-based al-Arabiya network says some of the guerrillas were Francophone mercenaries recruited by one of the sons of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Qatar-based al-Jazeera detailed pamphlets circulated to mercenary recruits from Guinea and Nigeria, offering them $2,000 per day to crack down on the Libyan uprising. And, as further reports of defections from the Libyan military filter in, the cornered Gaddafi regime may turn more and more to hired guns from abroad. On television channels and Twitter, frantic rumors circulated about Gaddafi preparing for a mercenary-backed counteroffensive against his opponents.

While the violence appears to have pushed Libya to a tipping point, protests in Bahrain slackened after a week of bloody confrontations between demonstrators and the country's security forces. Sectarian tensions underlie the unrest, with the tiny island kingdom's Sunni Muslim monarchy pitted against the country's predominantly Shi'ite population. A significant segment of the state's security personnel are Sunnis brought in from countries like Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Pakistan to buttress the ruling dynasty's authority. It's a policy that Shi'ites say is symbolic of widespread institutional discrimination in Bahrain, and it played a key role in clashes earlier this month when uncompromising — and often foreign — security forces violently dispersed protesting crowds, killing at least six.

The popular outrage surrounding the use of these foreign soldiers in the crackdowns isn't surprising, but it's only in the past century that the armies of most of the world's nation-states have actually reflected the demographics of their countries. For centuries before, most militaries contained whole regiments of mercenaries and roving soldiers of fortune and were often staffed by officers from foreign lands. The term freelance — now a feature of journalistic lingo — still carries its original martial connotation from a time when companies of fighting men raised their blades in the service of the highest bidder.

...

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053107,00.html#ixzz1EoEYCoSc
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Iterate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:14 PM
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34. More background on the use of mercenaries
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 02:16 PM by Iterate
Text of the United Nations Mercenary Convention, at the ICRC website:
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/INTRO/530?OpenDocument

and
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x487362


The Mercenary Revolution
by Jeremy Scahill
August 15, 2007
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_blackwater08.htm

Libya’s “African Mercenary” Problem
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_blackwater08.htm

The last one is partly apologetics and to that extent should be ignored, but it does offer a more complex view of Libyan racial politics and identity as well as Gaddafi's manipulation and involvement with States to the south.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:47 PM
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14. Spoke with Eritrean refugees tdy in #Israel who suffered torture, rape&starvation by human trafficke
KMFlower Kevin Flower
by SaadAbedine
Spoke with Eritrean refugees tdy in #Israel who suffered torture, rape&starvation by human traffickers in the Sinai - really horrific tales
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:48 PM
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15. byan Soldiers tied up and executed in Darna by Mercenaries
feb17libya Feb17Libya
by rstripolina
#feb17 Libyan Soldiers tied up and executed in Darna by Mercenaries http://f.ast.ly/VcBhV #@shabablibya
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Libyan Soldiers tied up and executed in Darna by Mercenaries
Posted on February 23, 2011 by v1d

Numerous accounts are emerging all across Libya of Gaddafi’s Mercenaries killing Libyan army men who refused to fire upon fellow countrymen.


VIDEO

http://feb17.info/media/libyan-soldiers-tied-up-and-executed-in-darna-by-mercenaries/
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Poboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:53 PM
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16. Hands tied behind their backs, 20-30 men are face down, dead in the dirt in rows.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:55 PM
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17. handing out bread to fellow protesters in Libya one country one people
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
handing out bread to fellow protesters in Libya one country one people http://on.fb.me/eVEJWx #Libya #Feb17
23 minutes ago




Solidarity. Looks like workers of the world rose up in solidarity. But no, they said...
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:56 PM
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18. Elderly Woman Celebrating the Liberation of Benghazi

feb17libya Feb17Libya
by ChangeInLibya
#feb17 Elderly Woman Celebrating the Liberation of Benghazi http://f.ast.ly/VtFr4 #@shabablibya
30 minutes ago

Elderly Woman Celebrating the Liberation of Benghazi
Posted on February 23, 2011 by v1d

“God willing, we will always be victorious!”

VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXwQkm6HrYw&feature=player_embedded
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:57 PM
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19. Will Gaddafi be the first dictator to fall after only two speeches (if you count the umbrella short)
avinunu Ali Abunimah
Will Gaddafi be the first dictator to fall after only two speeches (if you count the umbrella short) or will there be a third?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:57 PM
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20. Tribes of Azzintan are completely united and as one hand against #Gaddafi
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Adel Zantani on Aljazeera, live from Azzintan: Tribes of Azzintan are completely united and as one hand against #Gaddafi #Feb17 #Libya
31 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:58 PM
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21. they will be stopped soon!! #libya will be free!! may Gaddafi and his family die a painful death and
all4libya Daysa Faysa
by ChangeInLibya@
@arwasm inshallah they will be stopped soon!! #libya will be free!! may Gaddafi and his family die a painful death and go to hell-ameen!!
36 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:59 PM
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22. Oil facilities at Hammada al Hamra are under our control and protection

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Adel Zantani on Aljazeera, live from Azzintan: Oil facilities at Hammada al Hamra are under our control and protection #Feb17 #Libya
31 minutes ago

You guys just rock
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:00 PM
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23. Charade: Didn't know Aisha #Gaddafi was UN goodwill ambassador. Her 'job' was terminated today.
marwame Marwa Elnaggar
She was WHAT? RT @bbckimghattas: Didn't know Aisha #Gaddafi was UN goodwill ambassador. Her 'job' was terminated today. #Libya #Feb17
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:01 PM
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24. K&R
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:02 PM
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25. "My Heart Is Burning With Sorrow" - message from mother of Mohamed Bouazizi to #Libya
Cyrenaican Libyana Americana
"My Heart Is Burning With Sorrow" - message from mother of Mohamed Bouazizi to #Libya andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish… #Feb17
32 minutes ago


Libya, Day 9: "My Heart Is Burning With Sorrow"
22 FEB 2011 08:04 PM

VIDEO


Al Jazeera says of the above video:
    You must watch this. The family of Mohamed Bouazizi, the young Tunisian from Sidi Bouzid whose act of self-immolation triggered the Tunisian Uprising, has a message for the families in Libya who have lost their loved ones to the violent repression of the protests.


Below is the second half of today's news round-up. From the Guardian:Gaddafi is not standing down or leaving the country. He said he would die in Libya "as a martyr". It was his first major speech since the beginning of the unrest that threatens to topple the regime. One of his sons, Saif, is expected to again address the country tonight. The Libyan leader has also telephoned Silvio Berlusconi, with whom he has forged a friendship, to tell him that "everything is fine" in Libya. But refugees streaming across Libya's eastern border into Egypt said Gaddafi was using tanks, warplanes and foreign mercenaries to fight the growing rebellion.

More on the Qaddafi/Berlusconi relationship here. The latest from AJE:
    Libyan government spokesman gives press conference outlining the vision of Gaddafi's eldest son, Saif al-Islam. Plans for reform include boosting payments to the unemployed. Also announces the formation of a committee to investigate events over the past couple of weeks. He says people "will be shocked by the extent of the distortion committed by Arab and foreign press and media. The spokesman goes on to attack "the brothers in Qatar" . ...

    ...

    http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/libya-day-9-my-heart-is-burning-with-sorrow.html


Mohamed Bouazizi you rest in peace now ok?

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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:12 PM
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29. "Mohamed Bouazizi you rest in peace now ok?" I second that!
Amazing to me still, that sometimes it just takes one very brave person to start the changes the rest of the world has been waiting for......

:hug:Catherina
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:10 PM
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26.  video we posted of the london protests,

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
this is a video we posted of the london protests, libeen ahum ahum (the libyans - here they are here they are) http://on.fb.me/eRxSxj #Libya
34 minutes ago


https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=112499612161392&oid=133738650025293&comments




Yeah, if I were the EU, I'd be worried about *immigration* too now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dr05tXktSo

sorry for the interruption. Tweeting and facebooking at the same time.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:10 PM
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27.  All tribes of west #Libya are with the revolution and against #Gaddafi now.
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 02:11 PM by Catherina
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Adel Zantani on Aljazeera, live from Azzintan: All tribes of west #Libya are with the revolution and against #Gaddafi now. #Feb17 #Libya
41 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

It goes like this for those who still haven't caught up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dr05tXktSo
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:12 PM
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28. Gaddafi should be stripped naked,set on fire & run on streets of tripoli,like he did to soldiers who

Neofluxs Ephram Potter
by ChangeInLibya
Gaddafi should be stripped naked,set on fire & run on streets of tripoli,like he did to soldiers who refused to shoot protesters #Gaddafi
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:12 PM
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30. Confirmed that Nalut has fallen out of #Gaddafi's control.
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Adel Zantani on Aljazeera, live from Azzintan: Confirmed that Nalut has fallen out of #Gaddafi's control. #Feb17 #Libya
43 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:13 PM
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31. Tripoli, we believe in you. We are one, brothers and sisters
juhina_ jay_Libya
Tripoli, we believe in you. We are one, brothers and sisters #libya
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:14 PM
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32. source in Janzour district (east Tripoli) spoke to AJ & talked about plain clothed men w. swords in
gfry Gilles Frydman
by ChangeInLibya
UNCONFIRMED A source in Janzour district (east Tripoli) spoke to AJ & talked about plain clothed men w. swords in streets.
44 minutes ago

No camels 2 b found Q?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:14 PM
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33. We liberated our city in half an hour after giving the regime an ultimatum.
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Adel Zantani on Aljazeera, live from Azzintan: We liberated our city in half an hour after giving the regime an ultimatum. #Feb17 #Libya
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:15 PM
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35. Free Palestine Rap Song
3Beee Farah
#BDS: Free Palestine Rap Song http://nblo.gs/eFdbU
44 minutes ago

Free Palestine DAM الحرية لفلسطين اغنية راب عربي

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trUtv6LvVJs&feature=player_embedded#at=18
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:20 PM
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36. Sudan says Darfur rebels involved in Libyan clashes
Raafatology Raafat- نيويورك
#Sudan says Darfur rebels involved in Libyan clashes #libya http://tinyurl.com/5rsla63
44 minutes ago

Sudan says Darfur rebels involved in Libyan clashes

KHARTOUM | Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:48am EST
(Reuters) - Sudan's Foreign Ministry accused Darfur rebels on Wednesday of involvement in Libyan violence as Muammar Gaddafi tries to quell a popular uprising.

Gaddafi has long hosted Darfur rebels, including the leader of the main rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Khalil Ibrahim who remains in Libya.

Witnesses have said Gaddafi has used African mercenaries to fight his people as he tries to crush the revolt against his rule that Italy says has killed as many as 1,000 people.

"There are elements from the Darfur rebels involved with the unfortunate events happening in Libya right now," Foreign Ministry spokesman Khalid Musa told Reuters on Wednesday.

...

Libya directly borders Darfur and Gaddafi, despite being an ally of Khartoum, has also supported the insurgents since the conflict began in 2003.

...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/23/us-sudan-libya-darfur-idUSTRE71M3ZC20110223


Damn. Darfur, the empires Darfur charade is unraveling at the seams. And thank you too Julian Assange.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:22 PM
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37. US Oil hits $100 a barrel for the first time since 08 on fears

HalaGorani Hala Gorani
US Oil hits $100 a barrel for the first time since October 2008 on fears unrest in Arab world will disrupt supplies.
48 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

No comment to the White House. You just had to call in Neocons for advice didn't you?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:24 PM
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38. bit old, but...French Communist Party condemnation of Gadafi 's violent repression
hurriya G.P.F. - Hurriya
(a bit old, but...) French Communist Party condemnation of Gadafi 's violent repression http://www.pcf.fr/8039 #Libya #Feb17 #Libia #Tripoli
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Libya: France must strongly condemn the repression of criminal Gaddafi regime

CPF condemns with the utmost force repression perpetrated by the criminal regime of Colonel Gaddafi on Libya's population. Far from wanting to ease things, the power of Tripoli fanning tensions. In a television interview, Seif al Islam Kadhafi's son, pretends to agree to reforms while threatening to drag the country into "civil war" with the risk of "rivers of blood". These recent statements are shocking! We urge the French authorities to outspoken and act urgently to stop this massacre and that the Libyan people can express themselves freely.

...

http://www.pcf.fr/8039
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:24 PM
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39. Botswana cuts diplomatic relations with #gaddafi FM "He is evil"

Democracy05 Human freedom
by LibyanDictator@
@LibyanDictator Botswana becomes first nation to cut diplomatic relations with #gaddafi FM "He is evil"
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I think Peru was first.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:25 PM
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40. SOLA "Aljazeera caller" is working for the regime and sending out false info to spread fear in the p
septimius_sever septimius severus
Reports that SOLA "Aljazeera caller" is working for the regime and sending out false info to spread fear in the protesters #libya #feb17
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:27 PM
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41. Dutch Socialist Party condemnation of Gadafi violence
hurriya G.P.F. - Hurriya
Dutch Socialist Party condemnation of Gadafi violence http://bit.ly/g21O5M #Libya #Libia #Tripoli
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A Libyan fighter landed at Malta. The pilots did not open fire on their own people, the newspaper Times of Malta | Photo: AFP / Ben Borg Cardona

EU PRESSURE TO END THE VIOLENCE LIBYA
02.21.2011 •

Group Chairman SP Emile Roemer has reacted with dismay to reports that Libyan forces opened fire on demonstrators Libyan citizens: "This is a terrible crime against his own people can not remain unanswered," said Roemer. "The bombing and shelling of his own people with serious resources, including air force, a war crime. Premier Rutte should imagine Europe and the world has to make immediate sanctions against the regime of Gaddafi. "

...

The SP wants the EU to exert immediate pressure is to end the violence. Emile Roemer: "The EU must immediately behind the Libyan population scissors. Discussions of negotiations between the EU and Libya on a Cooperation Agreement should be suspended immediately. If not immediately stop the violence we need the oil and gas imports from Libya to stop. "

http://www.sp.nl/wereld/nieuwsberichten/8785/110221-eu_moet_druk_uitoefenen_om_einde_te_maken_aan_geweld_libi.html


Capitalists, where are you?
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TriMera Donating Member (885 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:27 PM
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42. k&r. n/t
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:29 PM
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43. #Syria: authorities violently clamped down on rally in support of #Libya:
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Report from #Syria that authorities violently clamped down on rally in support of #Libya: http://j.mp/eWVpxV (Arabic) #Feb17
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Halima returned to their old habits - the new, where the Syrian authorities on Wednesday broke up a peaceful sit-called young and educated Syrians on the Internet for the second consecutive day in solidarity with the people of the Libyan revolutionary, with great brutality, as well as the arrest of several protesters.

In the details, he was not allowed to sit closer to the embassy Vtjmawa in the garden of the gun nearby, and began with chants against Gaddafi and the other arguing for freedom of the Arab peoples, then move the protestors and is estimated at more than 200 people, toward the embassy, which was surrounded by security guards and riot police, chanting anthem Syrian national, so the number of officers calling on them to leave immediately, with the rejection of the protestors who began Petrdad chants of "Jaen to Whitrb Chaabo" pounced on them elements of security and the maintenance of order with sticks, it was noted that the security agents in civilian clothes were the most violent in its use of hit and insulted the protesters and humiliate most heinous words and most obscenity. And have been prosecuted protesters even far away places and arrested several of them and knew them so far: Joanne Elliott, Rudy Io, Mohammed starling, Ayas Mekdad, AMR Kukes, Ibrahim al-Murr, Muthana Hamzawy, Ghassan Zakariya, loop Mekdad, Taha Mohammed, but some estimate that the number of detainees reached to 20 people.

According to an eyewitness to the site "Facebook" that one officer was yelling at the protesters and the burqa tough words and say, "Anto protesters against Muammar? ... Violin Grtoa of Tunisians and Egyptians? ... Blindness in your Lord, Shaw ()....".
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In a later news arrived of the appeal that the detainees numbered 13 people were taken to the Political Security branch in Damascus before being released after about two hours.

http://www.annidaa.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8215


Sooty. Google Chrome translation
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:31 PM
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44. Quick note to Seif el-#Gaddafi:You're NOT my type!
biladee P D
Quick note to Seif el-#Gaddafi: I don't know why you're following me on Twitter, but let me make it clear: You're NOT my type! #Libya #Feb17
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Tons of them. Spent ~2 hours blocking them yesterday
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:32 PM
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45. The Free People of #Benghazi Flood the Streets
3Beee Farah
IMAGE: The Free People of #Benghazi Flood the Streets http://bit.ly/ifDhA5 via @sseham #libya
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IMAGE: The Free People of Benghazi Flood the Streets
Posted on February 23, 2011 by main



Makes me wanna weep from joy
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:35 PM
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46. UN has stripped Aisha #Gaddafi of her "goodwill ambassador"
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
UN has stripped Aisha #Gaddafi of her "goodwill ambassador" title: http://j.mp/fgvP4R (Arabic) #Feb17 #Libya
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Gaddafi, the daughter of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi as a goodwill ambassador because of the bloody events in Libya.

He said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky in New York, said Aisha Gaddafi, was chosen for this task in the framework of the United Nations Program for Development to talk about violence against women and AIDS in Libya.

....

And Aisha Gaddafi, a professor at the law and was part of the defense team for Saddam Hussein after the fall of his regime.

And exported worldwide condemnation of her father Muammar Gaddafi after the bloody repression of the demonstrations taking place in the People's Libya a week ago.

http://www.alquds.co.uk/index.asp?fname=latest/data/2011-02-23-18-54-12.htm&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter




Really? They finally got a clue or is the exposure of their complicity just too embarrassing?
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:37 PM
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47. 15 tanks work for Khamees Batelon followed by mercenaries are headed to Tripoli
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Al Manara reports: eye witness in Tajoora, 15 tanks work for Khamees Batelon followed by mercenaries are headed to Tripoli #libya #feb17
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Khamis Brigade under command of 1 of Gaddafi's sons.

Hope too many don't die tearing those tanks down bolt by bolt with their bare hands

Brave Libyan warriors, I salute you.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:40 PM
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48. Turkey, with 25,000 nationals in Libya, launches the biggest evacuation operation in its history
biladee P D
Turkey, with 25,000 nationals in Libya, launches the biggest evacuation operation in its history - Al Jazeera http://bit.ly/gcSVmQ
12 minutes ago


Protesters chant anti-government slogans in Tobruk
8.30pm: Turkey has 25,000 nationals in Libya and the country is launching the biggest evacuation operation in its history.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/africa/2011/02/22/live-blog-libya-feb-23
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:42 PM
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49. Hilarious cartoon "interpreting" #Gaddafi's speech
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Hilarious cartoon "interpreting" #Gaddafi's speech: http://j.mp/gQON2g (so sorry it's only in Arabic, I laughed out loud!) #Feb17 #Libya
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Gaddafi's speech short .... Qathafi speech in Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8DFeVDdRY&feature=player_embedded


Heh. I don't speak a word of Arabic but that was hilarious.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:46 PM
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50. Moroccan single mother burns herself in protest
acarvin Andy Carvin
RT @mariammaslouhi Moroccan single mother burns herself in protest #morocco #feb20 http://bit.ly/ebGglA This breaks my heart..
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Moroccan single mother burns herself in protest
Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:54pm EST


RABAT (Reuters) - A young Moroccan set herself on fire after being excluded from a social housing scheme because she was an unmarried mother, a local government official said on Wednesday.

...

Mother-of-two Fadwa Laroui, 25, used flammable liquid to set herself on fire in front of the town hall of Souk Sebt, in central Morocco, late Monday, the town's mayor Boubker Ouchen told Reuters.

...

Laroui is the first Arab woman known to have set herself on fire in a protest at social conditions after Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation on December 17 led to a revolution that toppled President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali after 23 years in power and prompted several Arab men to do the same.

...

He denied newspaper reports that the authorities had destroyed the shack she, her two children and her parents were living in.

(Reporting by Souhail Karam; Editing by Alison Williams)

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE71M4ZF20110223


Mohammed Bouazizi. RIP
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:48 PM
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51. My heart will forever ache for the martyrs of #Libya
Cyrenaican Libyana Americana
My heart will forever ache for the martyrs of #Libya
30 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:49 PM
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52. Sign: "Rats do not face bullets with their bare chests, they hide in bunkers & give speeches."
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Sign in Darna demonstration today: "Rats do not face bullets with their bare chests, they hide in bunkers & give speeches." #Feb17 #Libya
5 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:50 PM
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53. Tunisia raised the flag, passed it to Egypt then to us, and we will pass it on to others.
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Libyan demonstrator in Europe: Tunisia raised the flag, passed it to Egypt then to us, and we will pass it on to others. #Feb17 #Libya
7 minutes ago
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:53 PM
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54. US: Seeking no fly zone over Libya 2 prevent attacks on protestors "significant degree of difficulty
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 02:53 PM by Catherina
cbsMcCormick Cami McCormick
by motazaline
State Dept: Seeking a no fly zone over Libya to prevent aerial attacks on protestors would involve a "significant degree of difficulty"
16 minutes ago


Worse than shameful but typical. You just buried your own empire.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:56 PM
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55. Libya's embassy in #Morocco joins the revolution!
biladee P D
#Libya's embassy in #Morocco joins the revolution! via @alihabibi1 @AmoonaE
2 minutes ago

Better late than never but bet Morocco govt not too pleased lol
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:58 PM
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56. Algerian surveillance reinforced at Libyan and Tunisian borders. Patrols on alert
ibnkafka ibnkafka
by Cethura
RT @DZCalling Algerian surveillance reinforced at Libyan and Tunisian borders. Patrols on alert http://is.gd/XvvhQK
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Lol. Like that's gonna stop the *flu* from spreading


MidEast Chant "If it's a flu, we're the cure"

In French, google chrome it if interested
http://www.presse-dz.com/revue-de-presse/17066-renforts-a-la-frontiere-algero-libyenne.html
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:01 PM
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57. Footage from Tajoura of citizens reacting to killings by #Gaddafi's mercenaries

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Footage from Tajoura of citizens reacting to killings by #Gaddafi's mercenaries: http://j.mp/iisNMf #Feb17 #Libya
3 minutes ago


Killing of innocent people in Tajura to Libya by the African mercenaries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pmob-VtYB4


Posted in last thread but here it is again
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:01 PM
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58. Hillary Clinton reportedly attempted to call #Libya counterpart Moussa Koussa today but >>
evanchill Evan Hill
Hillary Clinton reportedly attempted to call #Libya counterpart Moussa Koussa today but technical difficulties in Tripoli made it impossible
4 minutes ago

Sorry, this is just funny at this point
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:03 PM
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59. Pro-Gaddafi march in Tripoli .. pictures to be seen on Libyan State TV
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Pro-Gaddafi march in Tripoli .. pictures to be seen on Libyan State TV #Libya #feb17
4 minutes ago

I foresee green armbands nervously being burned in *lairs* right now.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:05 PM
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60. Part 5 here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x491433
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