tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post3972610583696009630..comments2024-03-18T22:03:28.458-07:00Comments on Monitor on Massacre Marketing: The Battle for Labraq Airport: Said's StoryCaustic Logichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-87298819277395591002014-08-01T10:55:30.396-07:002014-08-01T10:55:30.396-07:00While the number of sorties per day was less than ... While the number of sorties per day was less than in Kosovo <br />and the initial phase of Operation Enduring Freedom, NATO precision airstrikes<br />destroyed a signifi-cant amount of Qaddafi’s military assets. <br />NATO reported hitting a total of 503 targets in Brega, 416 targets in Misrata, and 723 targets in Tripoli.41<br /><br />The cumulative effect of the bombing of Qaddafi’s forces in and around <br />Brega, Misrata, and the Nafusa Mountains eventually enabled the rebel forces <br />to advance on all fronts.<br />http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/2012spring/Borghard_Pischedda.pdf<br /><br /><br />700 in zawiya ,acc to dr Mohammed Ali Leghuil<br /><br />About 50,000 people were killed since the start of the uprising,” Colonel Hisham Buhagiar, commander of the anti-Gaddafi troops who advanced out of the Western Mountains and took Tripoli a week ago,told Reuters.<br /><br />“In Misrata and Zlitan between 15,000 and 17,000 were killed and Jebel Nafusa (the Western Mountains) took a lot of casualties. <br /><br /><br />“Then there was Ajdabiyah, Brega. Many people were killed there too,” he said, <br />referring to towns repeatedly fought over in eastern Libya. <br /><br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2012/07/janat-hotel-exposed.html<br /><br />15 September 2011 NATO said that on Wednesday it had struck a command and control node, a military vehicle storage facility, four radar systems and two surface-to-air missile systems in the Sirte area.<br /><br />Around 15 percent of Kadhafi's forces are still operational, the alliance said.<br />http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/britain-france-help-hunt-dangerous-kadhafi-1<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-48314861676836878952014-08-01T10:40:31.513-07:002014-08-01T10:40:31.513-07:00The success of the insurrectionists, at first glan...The success of the insurrectionists, at first glance at least, remains a mystery. <br /><br />The uprising ostensibly has 6,000 trained soldiers from defecting battalions 05 Mar 2011 <br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8363610/Libyas-battle-for-Brega-Ive-not-had-any-training-but-Ive-seen-plenty-of-action-films.html<br /><br />Four battalions comprising several thousand soldiers have moved from Libya's second city, Benghazi, towards the front in the past two days, said Jelel Suleiman, a marine. Wednesday 09 March 2011 <br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/rebels-bombarded-by-planes-and-tanks-in-vicious-fight-for-zawiyah-2236290.html<br /><br />3/29/11 And while the rebels aren't necessarily calling coalition planes in when they need support, I think it's safe to assume that recon units—either drones and/or special operations units on the ground—are guiding these attacks to the places and battles where they are needed the most. In fact, you need to have recon units for these planes to operate correctly and kill the bad guys, not your friends. <br />http://gizmodo.com/5786793/why-are-spectres-and-warthogs-attacking-gaddafis-forces-now<br /><br />The second phase of the war created a situation on the ground which has led to the “rebel” side now being better armed than the “regime’s forces”. This was confirmed after the incident of 7th April, in which NATO planes accidentally attacked and destroyed an entire column of tanks, armoured vehicles and rocket launchers, killing up to 13 “revolutionaries” in the process.<br />http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol7/vol7_no1_takis_Libya_part1_pseudo_revolution.html<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-60892775434368449892014-08-01T10:34:07.241-07:002014-08-01T10:34:07.241-07:00Nissen also reckons in this photo that 150-200 civ...Nissen also reckons in this photo that 150-200 civilians were killed in Tobruk <br />(no video confirmation anywhere) area alone,<br />showing allegedly a former Captain who has changed sides and looks out over Tobrus firmly in rebel hands.<br /><br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/10/mercenary-myths-aruba-school-captives.htmlhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-64470400784842649342014-08-01T10:13:44.229-07:002014-08-01T10:13:44.229-07:00On the outskirts, the committees have bolstered th...On the outskirts, the committees have bolstered the guard at the city's only oil refinery, helping thwart what they believe was a plan by pro-Gaddafi thugs to attack the facility two days ago. <br /><br />They have also suspended oil exports, partly because the regime could try to bomb the refineries, they say, but also over fears that the revenue would end up in Col Gaddafi's pockets.<br />http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/protesters-and-army-unite-to-restore-some-normality-26707954.html<br /><br /> Already on Sunday, (20 february) Sheikh Faraj al-Zuway, leader of the crucial al-Zuwayya tribe in eastern Libya, had threatened to cut oil exports to the West <br />within 24 hours unless what he called the "oppression of protesters" in Benghazi was stopped. <br /><br />http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/02/201122131439291589.html<br /><br />24/02/2011 All southern oilfields are in rebel control. Moustafa Raba’a, <br />a mechanical engineer with the Sirte oil company, said pressure had been put on field <br />and refinery managers to stop work and protect all foreign nationals working with them. <br /><br />“The order was put out to send a message to Gaddafi to stop the slaying of our people in Benghazi. We made a decision to deny him the privilege of exporting oil and gas to Europe.” He said the blockade had prevented 80,000 barrels a day being exported from the Dregga field alone. <br /><br /><br />The real objective of “Operation Libya” is not to establish democracy <br /><br />but to take possession of Libya's oil reserves, destabilize the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and eventually privatize the country's oil industry, namely transfer the control and ownership of Libya's oil wealth into foreign hands (…) The strategic scenario would be to push towards the formation and recognition of an interim government of the secessionist province, with a view to eventually breaking up the country…The broad strategic objectives underlying the proposed invasion are not mentioned by the media.<br /><br />Following a deceitful media campaign, where news was literally fabricated without reporting on what was actually happening on the ground, a large sector of international public opinion has granted its unbending support to foreign intervention, on humanitarian grounds. <br /><br />http://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-invasion-planned-by-nato-since-2007-with-the-support-of-mi6/26804?print=1<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-58993983649136891592014-08-01T10:09:30.453-07:002014-08-01T10:09:30.453-07:00Thursday, February 24, 2011 Mr. Hague ... Thursday, February 24, 2011 Mr. Hague said he did not rule out the use of British special forces to rescue the 170 British workers marooned in desert camps away from Libya’s major cities. <br />http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/24/4500-chinese-escape-libya-sea-americans-stuck/?page=all<br />*<br />* BRITAIN: There are about 500 British nationals in Libya including 170 workers in various desert camps. About 300 are in the capital and 70 in the eastern city of Benghazi. <br />http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/24/us-libya-protests-evacuation-idUSTRE71N3WI20110224<br /><br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110228/ap_on_re_us/libya_evacuations_105<br />BERLIN – British and German military planes swooped into Libya's desert,<br /><br /> rescuing hundreds of oil workers and civilians stranded at remote sites, <br />as thousands of other foreigners are still stuck in Tripoli by bad weather and red tape.<br /><br />The secret military missions into the turbulent North Africa country signal the readiness of Western nations to disregard Libya's territorial integrity when it comes to the safety of their citizens.<br /><br />Three British Royal Air Force planes plucked 150 stranded civilians from multiple locations in the eastern Libyan desert before flying them to Malta on Sunday, the British Defense Ministry said in a statement. One of the RAF Hercules aircraft appeared to have suffered minor damage from small arms fire, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said.<br /><br />The rescue follows a similar secret commando raid Saturday by British Special Forces that got another 150 oil workers from the remote Libyan desert.<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-9261469170748085672014-08-01T10:01:55.125-07:002014-08-01T10:01:55.125-07:00On the same day police also questioned seven passe...On the same day police also questioned seven passengers who landed in Malta <br />from Libya <br />on board two French-registered helicopters, with Malta government sources saying the helicopters had left Libya without authorisation by the Libyan aviation authorities <br /><br />and that only one of the seven passengers - who say they are French citizens - had a passport.<br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/05/malta-pilots.html<br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/05/seven-frenchmen-escape-benghazi.html<br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/04/nouri-al-mesmari-and-paris.html<br /><br /><br />As Chossudovsky writes, “Hundreds of US, British and French military advisers arrived in Cyrenaica, Libya’s eastern breakaway province” on February 23 and 24— seven (7) days after the start of Gadhaffi’s domestic rebellion. “The advisers, including intelligence officers, were dropped from warships and missile boats at the coastal towns of Benghazi and Tobruk.” (DEBKAfile, US military advisers in Cyrenaica, Feb. 25, 2011) <br />http://www.t-room.us/tag/occidental-petroleum/<br /><br /><br />Furthermore, this myth was contradicted early on in the conflict by the arrest of a group of British SAS operatives who were found to possess quantities of arms and explosives (certainly not for their own personal protection!),[58] <br />http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol7/vol7_no1_takis_Libya_part1_pseudo_revolution.html<br /><br /><br />The advisers, including intelligence officers, were dropped from warships and missile boats at the coastal towns of Benghazi and Tobruk Thursday Feb. 24, <br /><br />*<br />Major-General Suleiman Mahmoud, the commander of the armed forces in Tobruk,<br /> told Al Jazeera that the troops led by him had switched loyalties. <br />http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/02/gaddafi-loses-more-libyan-cities<br />@Cyrenaican: General Suleiman al'Abaidi protesting with the people in Benghazi #Libya #Feb17 <br /><br />*<br />The company resumed oil shipments on Sunday, loading two tankers at a port in Tobruk, Mr. Bulifa said. The ships — one bound for Austria and the other for China — represented the company’s first shipments since Feb. 10. <br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/world/africa/28unrest.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0<br /><br /><br />*<br />for a threefold mission:<br />1. To help the revolutionary committees controlling eastern Libyan establish government frameworks for supplying two million inhabitants with basic services and commodities;<br />2. To organize them into paramilitary units, teach them how to use the weapons they captured from Libyan army facilities, help them restore law and order on the streets and train them to fight Muammar Qaddafi’s combat units coming to retake Cyrenaica.<br />3. The prepare infrastructure for the intake of additional foreign troops. <br /><br />Egyptian units are among those under consideration.<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-32564275692095138082014-08-01T09:56:01.564-07:002014-08-01T09:56:01.564-07:00we have two or three planes,” said a spokesman for...we have two or three planes,” said a spokesman for the council, Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga. <br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/world/africa/02libya.html?ref=world&_r=0 <br /><br />-<br /><br />He smiles wryly. “I don’t know if they were the same two fighter jets we once hosted here…<br /><br /> but fighter jets have bombarded the civilian population and targeted villagers…” <br /><br />Certainly it is an ironic perspective: Malta at the time had refused a request by the Libyan government for the return of those defected jets, precisely because there was a danger that they might be used to kill civilians. <br /><br />Cassar however admits that this irony became evident only with hindsight. <br />http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/interview/41667/what_future_for_libya__joseph_cassar<br /><br /><br />Feb. 21, 2011 the two aircraft landed at Benghazi, <br />where they were refueled and armed.<br />Two Libyan Air Force Mirage F.1s, armed with rocket pods, landed in the afternoon of Feb. 21, 2011, in Malta. <br />the two aircraft had taken off from Okba Ben Nafi airbase near Tripoli and landed at Benghazi, <br />where they were refueled and armed.<br />http://theaviationist.com/tag/okba-ben-nafi-air-base/<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-58835840717267286362014-07-29T05:51:31.192-07:002014-07-29T05:51:31.192-07:00 22 killed @ dernah?
More than 160 of the soldier... 22 killed @ dernah?<br /><br />More than 160 of the soldiers who fought the rebellion during several days of bloody standoff at the airport south of Darna were eventually released<br /><br /><br />Some of the soldiers were captured and about 20 were held in a large room of the mosque hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-84887377462707797312014-07-29T05:43:29.952-07:002014-07-29T05:43:29.952-07:00Dernah 4 killed and 22 killed
Two days earlie...Dernah 4 killed and 22 killed<br /><br />Two days earlier, on 16 February, it was also reported that Islamist gunmen, with the help of a defecting army colonel, stormed an arms depot in Derna and seized 250 weapons and an assortment of 70 military vehicles. <br /><br />During the raid four soldiers were killed and 16 wounded.[15] <br />By the end of 18 February, the only place that still housed a significant number of Gaddafi loyalists in Benghazi was the Katiba compound. <br /><br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/08/gaddafi-burning-soldiers-alive-really.html<br />On Friday, he said they attacked the port in Derna and seized an assortment of 70 military vehicles.<br /><br /><br /><br />The group calls itself the "Islamic Emirate of Barqa" after the ancient name of a region of northwest Libya, and the official said its leadership is made up of former al-Qaeda fighters previously released from jail. <br />http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/libyan-islamists-seize-arms-take-hostages-20110221-1b19c.html<br />*<br /><br />http://photouploads.com/?v=askaryeje.jpg<br /><br />http://photouploads.com/?v=askaryehe.jpg<br /><br /><br />http://photouploads.com/?v=askaryzvz.jpg<br />government soldiers captured in Dernah<br /><br /><br />Sheikh Choukri Al-Hasy, director of the town’s principal mosque: <br />the al-Sahaba mosque : Prophet's Companions mosque<br /><br />http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/8286938.jpg<br /><br />http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/isis-linked-terrorists-destroy-historic-tomb-at-celebrated-libyan-mosque/<br /><br /><br />http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/23/world/la-fgw-libya-color-20110224<br /><br />Some of the soldiers were captured and about 20 were held in a large room of the mosque for a few days before being moving to a location farther away, said Ashraf Sadaga,<br /> a member of the Prophet's Companions Committee, which oversees the area. <br />The location is secret and the soldiers are being protected from the wrath of the city's residents, he said.<br /><br /><br />At a hospital just a few miles away there are more bodies, residents said.<br />http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9121762<br />http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9121789<br />32° 45' 13.08" N 22° 38' 29.97" E<br /><br />On February 23, <br />a group of 22 government soldiers attempted to make a breakout from an air base near Derna, <br />which had been under siege for days by rebel fighters. <br />Within hours, all of them were captured<br />and eventualy 12 of them were shot execution style while a 13th was hanged by the opposition forces.[18] <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Libyan_Civil_War<br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/10/al-baida-massacre-iii-three-killings-in.html <br /><br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-87656488788401355442014-07-29T05:35:58.016-07:002014-07-29T05:35:58.016-07:00http://online.wsj.com/media/0223Libya20_J.jpg
http...<br />http://online.wsj.com/media/0223Libya20_J.jpg<br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/10/mercenary-myths-aruba-school-captives.html<br /><br />The guards let them into the school's lobby and then hold them back. <br />"They are scared that they will hurt the Africans," <br />says Tawfik al-Shohiby, an activist and chemical engineer. <br /><br />http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053490,00.html<br /><br />"There are snipers among them, but they won't talk," a guard told Hauslohner, <br />pointing into the room-full of 76 men <br /><br />http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/23/world/la-fgw-libya-color-20110224<br /><br />"Tawfik al-Shohiby, one of the rebels, said that in the early days of the revolt one of his relatives bought $75,000 in automatic weapons from arms dealers on the Egyptian border and distributed them to citizens’ groups in towns like Bayda."<br /><br /><br />Field Commander / Salem Musa Yusuf Khafifi returned from Britain <br /> entered through Egypt and bought up arms<br />https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/217917_250328935088595_498332401_n.jpg<br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2012/08/shed-massacre-annivesrsary.html<br /><br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/world/africa/25libya.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2&_r=0<br />Mr. Shohiby began helping lead an effort this week to shuttle foreign journalists from the Egyptian border to towns across eastern Libya. <br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-are-the-libyan-freedom-fighters-and-their-patrons/23947<br />“We know the Egyptian military council is helping us, but they can’t be so visible,” <br />said Hani Souflakis, a Libyan businessman in Cairo who has been acting as a rebel liaison with the Egyptian government since the uprising began. <br /><br /><br />In fact, even before the NATO attack began, according to the Wall Street Journal,<br />the new “progressive” Egyptian regime “has begun shipping arms over the border <br />to Libyan rebels with Washington’s knowledge,” as Libyan rebel officials said.[60] <br /><br />http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol7/vol7_no1_takis_Libya_part1_pseudo_revolution.html<br /><br /><br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-73205800610027260362014-07-29T05:09:02.033-07:002014-07-29T05:09:02.033-07:00Airport killings
Mujahideen brave tackled them [t...Airport killings<br /><br />Mujahideen brave tackled them [those inside] and killed those who killed and captured the rest, <br /><br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/10/al-baida-massacre-iii-three-killings-in.html<br /><br />100 captured pro-Gaddafi troops,<br />Thursday February 24 2011 Mustafa Mohamed Abdel-Jalil, [(...) was due to pass judgment<br />on about 100 captured pro-Gaddafi troops, both Libyans and African mercenaries. <br />The Khamis Brigade, one of the regime's special forces units made its last stand at the local airport. <br />http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/fledgling-state-takes-shape-in-the-east-26707695.html <br /><br />http://felixfeatures.photoshelter.com/image?_bqG=3&_bqH=eJwrqDJOMnKPdPcJDw6xcCtyc6kILTYPKq6sKCm2MjSxMjWwMjQAAivPeJdgZ9tgD0cPxxA1MCfe0c_FtgTIDg12DYr3dLENBSmsMAzMS3L2jyozDlSLd3QOsS1OTSxKzgAAT8AfIg--I_IDI000014CQTgMrXTY<br /><br />The captured soldiers are now being kept as prisoners in a local school. On 17 February 2011 Libya saw the beginnings of a revolution against the 41 year regime of Col Muammar Gaddafi. . <br /><br />http://felixfeatures.photoshelter.com/image?_bqG=5&_bqH=eJwrqDJOMnKPdPcJDw6xcCtyc6kILTYPKq6sKCm2MjSxMjWwMjQAAivPeJdgZ9tgD0cPxxA1MCfe0c_FtgTIDg12DYr3dLENBSmsMAzMS3L2jyozDlSLd3QOsS1OTSxKzgAAT8AfIg--I_IDI0000dbhB69iKhj4<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-7093771998038689962014-07-29T05:06:00.016-07:002014-07-29T05:06:00.016-07:00With eyes bruised from a beating and lacerations o...With eyes bruised from a beating and lacerations on his wrists, Rafaa Saad Younis said that he was among the group that went to the airport, but he said that he was taken hostage along with two dozen other people by a group of mercenaries and soldiers. He said the security forces killed people “in front of my eyes.” <br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/world/africa/24rebels.html?_r=1&<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-17561589989300026542014-07-28T16:06:35.274-07:002014-07-28T16:06:35.274-07:00or the date of downing the airplane was after ...<br />or the date of downing the airplane was after the night 17th? <br />The morning 18?<br />It was during this frenzy of fighting that young Rochya was struck by gunfire.<br />Twenty-five civilians were killed, the council says, though providing no figures for how many of Gadhafi’s troops died. <br /><br />http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2011/04/08/dimanno_shahats_citizens_may_take_secret_to_their_grave.html <br /><br />Twenty-five civilians = 24 + Ruqya<br />"Said was the only one of his [25] friends who survived the battle for the airport<br />*<br />After seizing battalion Garah <br />http://s1.directupload.net/images/140725/c653prnm.jpg<br /> the rebels headed to the airport for editing the mercenaries. <br />And the help of God enabled them to do so. with huge amounts of diverse weapons,<br /> which they distributed mostly among themselves, and sent others to their brothers<br />[ Omhabarn battalion Fadil Bu Omar] in the city of Benghazi,<br />in order to confront the elements of the battalion-Fadil Bu Omar. <br />http://libya-al-mostakbal.org/archive/author/3603<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-74381215143291848352014-07-28T15:58:41.761-07:002014-07-28T15:58:41.761-07:00downed by friendly-fire ?
http://s14.directupload....<br /> downed by friendly-fire ?<br />http://s14.directupload.net/images/140725/zixuq4xj.jpg<br />http://s7.directupload.net/images/140725/6jl8k3ru.jpg<br />http://www.qurynanew.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/3016.jpg<br /><br />"Said was the only one of his [25] friends who survived the battle for the airport," <br />by managing to not be dragged off to Tripoli like the other 24. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWxw3rxRE5k<br />@ 3.26 goverment car attacked and explodes<br />http://s14.directupload.net/images/140725/gzchkkcw.jpg<br /><br />@ 5.19 rebel anti aircraft arrives<br />http://s1.directupload.net/images/140725/o2trn6rk.jpg<br />http://s7.directupload.net/images/140725/he4e3xgy.jpg<br /><br /><br />@ 5.45 airplane approaches or try to flee <br />@ 6.04 hit and turn<br />@ 6.14 <br />@ 6.26 comes down<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-53094972342369648862014-07-28T15:54:37.771-07:002014-07-28T15:54:37.771-07:00http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/05/abdul-k...http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/05/abdul-kadrs-mythical-proofs-of-air.html<br />Abdul Kadr : From rooftops and from the street,<br />he shot images of Ilyushins landing at the airport <br />saturday February 26, 2011 02:18 PM <br />Though wobbly, one from last Saturday [19 february?] <br />shows a Libyan fighter jet roaring over Bayda -- and one can clearly see the jet dropping a bomb not far from the airport. <br />http://s7.directupload.net/images/140719/74kowng7.jpg<br /><br />*<br />we have two or three planes,” said a spokesman for the council, Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga. <br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/world/africa/02libya.html?ref=world&_r=0<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-67211394254331980032014-07-28T15:50:42.574-07:002014-07-28T15:50:42.574-07:00159This may be a reference to the person who died ...159This may be a reference to the person who died in the previous witness’ account. :<br /><br />132. The Commission repeatedly heard of cases in which persons were either denied<br />access to medical care, or faced obstacles by security forces to facilitate access to health<br />care after having been wounded in demonstrations.<br />http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.44_AUV.pdf<br /><br /> In one case reported to the Commission,a protestor in Al-Bayda on 18 February had received three gun shots and was provided with no medical care despite calls for the security forces provided assistance. He was left bleeding from 16:00 until 20:00 when he died, as a result of the lack of medical attention. <br /><br />http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.44_AUV.pdf<br /><br />197. 16 of the interviews conducted by the Commission included explicit reference<br /> to the use of mercenaries; in particular in Al-Bayda, Benghazi, Az-Zawiyah and Misrata. <br /><br />Doctors working at the Al-Bayda hospitals reported that out of 1,300 injured persons received by<br />the hospital during the period 17 to 21 February, 26 were identified as “mercenaries”.<br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-57607324614848499202014-07-28T15:46:09.592-07:002014-07-28T15:46:09.592-07:00Labraq Latitude / Longitude: 30°10'0"N...Labraq Latitude / Longitude: 30°10'0"N / 21°40'0"E Beida Labraq Airport<br /><br />Protesters had also set fire on Thursday [17 february] to the Labarj military airport outside of al Bayda, according to al Warfali. Reuters<br /> "The airport is closed now," he said at mid-day on Friday. <br /><br /><br /><br />a terrific firefight at the airport where 3000 local men gathered to attack mercenary reinforcements as they disembarked from a plane. [1] <br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/05/battle-for-labraq-airport-saids-story.html<br />Said explained how on the fourth day of this, February 18th, rumors spread of reinforcements about 400 foreign African mercenaries being flown in to mow them down. <br /><br />Feb 19<br />Farj's best friend Said is in a hospital in Bayda; one of his legs seriously injured by several bullets from a machine gun. <br />"Said was the only one of his [25] friends who survived the battle for the airport," by managing <br />to not be dragged off to Tripoli like the other 24. <br /><br /><br />Feb 19 OHCHR : an anonymous :<br />Those in the airport came out on to us firing arms<br />and I was shot along with Sharah Albal<br />who died later in the evening without medical care.159<br />http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.44_AUV.pdf<br /><br />I was shot on my right thigh on the left side...We requested medical emergency because we were wounded and no one responded. We asked for water they refused and searched us.<br /><br /> On Saturday 19 February afternoon, we were then moved from the hall <br />and literally thrown into a truck after blindfolding us and whoever moved was hit.<br /> We were put on board a military airplane on the floor and we arrived to Tripoli at night.<br /> We could hear them say ‘this one is dead, this one is alive.’<br /><br /> We landed in Mateigha airport and were taken to the military hospital there.<br />There the doctors took the blindfold off and put me in a bed for half an hour then they took me into surgery<br />159This may be a reference to the person who died in the previous witness’ account. <br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-38162846771728445802014-07-25T10:15:05.648-07:002014-07-25T10:15:05.648-07:00RE: Feb 18 3 mins ago :Amer Saad: Protesters h...RE: Feb 18 3 mins ago :Amer Saad: Protesters have taken over the military airpot in Al-Bayda<br /><br />*<br />Protesters had also set fire on Thursday to the Labarj military airport outside of al Bayda, according to al Warfali. It had been used to bring soldiers from Tripoli to reinforce the town. "The airport is closed now.<br /><br />http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/libyan-exiles-say-eastern-city-in-the-hands-of-the-people-1.344287<br /><br /> the rebels have managed to control it on the February 18, 2011, <br /><br />and were also able to capture some of the aircraft which landed in it, <br /><br />and the destruction of the airport runways. <br /><br /><br />a terrific firefight at the airport where 3000 local men gathered to attack mercenary reinforcements as they disembarked from a plane. [1] <br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/05/battle-for-labraq-airport-saids-story.html<br /><br />Said explained how on the fourth day of this, February 18th, rumors spread of reinforcements about <br /><br />400 <br /><br />foreign African mercenaries being flown in to mow them down. <br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-36041333885448588102014-07-25T10:11:26.185-07:002014-07-25T10:11:26.185-07:00Feb 16
Gaddafi's government flew in two planes...Feb 16<br />Gaddafi's government flew in two planes of foreign mercenaries on Wednesday night <br />to fight the protesters, say the airport employees standing amid the wreckage. [ = 16 feb ]<br /><br />http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053490,00.html#ixzz2hoVgJBNL <br /><br />Feb 17<br />Both groups, which link exiles opposed to the Libyan leader in several European countries, <br />said the protesters took over in al Bayda on Thursday<br /><br />Thursday, 17 February, 2011 <br />http://www.feb17images.com/3-planes-carrying-mercenaries<br />Planes carrying “ mercenaries “ on its way to land in Al Abraq airport <br /><br /><br />http://libya-al-mostakbal.org/news/clicked/24446<br />on Thursday the seventeenth of February was spotted a large number of mercenaries area of Sirte and Sabha, etc., landing their aircraft at the airport, located on the outskirts of the city of Casablanca, <br />to be transferred then by transporting troops at the airport waiting for them, to the city of Casablanca and the surrounding rebellious areas <br /><br />*<br />Pilot: It was on the 17th of February, after noon. <br />came a commander called Faraj, Faraj who I can't remember exactly, Albarasy <br />maybe or something, he asked the captain to please take those people from Albrag base <br />because it was surrounded by people and that they were in danger, and so the pilot took off fast , and the airport lights were off, we don't know if it was on purpose or unintentionally. <br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/10/al-baida-massacre-iii-three-killings-in.html<br /><br /><br />@ 2.00 we cut all the lights<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLmvS1saXY<br /><br />@ 2.46 we caught maybe 400 <br />@ 2.50 200 held in aruba school and put [the others?] them in labraq airport<br /><br /> Gaddafi special forces arrived at the airport Labraq gathered under the command <br />of a senior officer close to the Gaddafi camp to intervene in the event of any riots<br />or violence that affects installations of the State or one of its members,<br />http://eprints.undip.ac.id/37997/2/thesis_-_1_.pdf<br /><br /><br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-9472495024659168682014-07-25T09:49:03.436-07:002014-07-25T09:49:03.436-07:00Those captured alive said they had once numbered 3...Those captured alive said they had once numbered 325 <br /><br />bayda , Shahat 200 killed , 125 alive?<br /><br />All of them were later freed , but the press did never see any of them, except 2 :<br /><br /> Omar On the 28th, Hauslohner wasn't allowed to speak to the two black men arrested just that day, but spoke with Omar, a skinny dark-skinned kid whose family was from the country's south. <br /><br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/10/mercenary-myths-aruba-school-captives.html<br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/11/video-study-mercenaries-surrender-in.html<br /><br />he says he never picked up a gun<br /><br />All of them were later freed; on Monday, Feb. 28, Omar is the only one remaining <br />Shabat, Libya-- February 28, 2011:.Omar is the last of some 200 suspected mercenaries <br />to be freed from the Aruba School in the eastern town of Shahat. <br /><br />The school had become their prison for over a week, after days of heavy clashes (21 feb?)<br />After his capture, he was detained with some 200 suspected mercenaries at the Aruba School in the eastern town of Shahat.<br />http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2056006-1,00.html<br /><br />it was judged too dangerous to go into the room where he was being held with other Khamis Brigade men. 27 Feb 2011 <br />Amir Hamada, 25 and from Tripoli, was a sniper with the supposedly elite Khamis Brigade, named after one of Gaddafi's sons. (.) He shifted uncomfortably during a brief interview in the school corridor <br />– it was judged too dangerous to go into the room where he was being held with other Khamis Brigade men. <br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8349414/African-mercenaries-in-Libya-nervously-await-their-fate.html<br /><br /><br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-448584546863402372014-07-23T14:54:15.199-07:002014-07-23T14:54:15.199-07:00"dernah - shahat mix up"
That seems qui..."dernah - shahat mix up"<br /><br />That seems quite useful, thanks. I didn't check yet. I'm so behind on absorbing this stuff, it keeps me from trying. I'm a historian by (limited) training, so I can come back to it. Other readers can see it now, so thanks for pulling it together some. Caustic Logichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03082923821952309709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-42938692586179716542014-07-23T14:14:01.420-07:002014-07-23T14:14:01.420-07:0018 February 2011
The nurse said that last night, a...18 February 2011<br />The nurse said that last night, armed men, wearing "military or police" uniforms, which the nurse had "not seen before" entered the hospital at around 2am,<br />and carried away three patients who were involved and injured in the protest on Thursday night.<br /><br />http://www.channel4.com/news/libya-armed-men-kidnap-wounded-from-hospital<br /><br /><br /><br />Members of an army unit known as the "Thunderbolt" squad<br /><br />had come to the hospital,..they have overpowered the Praetorian Guard. Fri Feb 18, 2011<br />http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/10/al-baida-massacre-iii-three-killings-in.htmlhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-91179936746290629802014-07-23T09:07:26.879-07:002014-07-23T09:07:26.879-07:00Shortly after, 230 protester deaths were reported,...Shortly after, 230 protester deaths were reported, <br />prompting the UN to accuse the Libyan government of committing crimes against humanity. <br />http://jurist.org/feature/2011/06/libya.php<br /><br /><br />27 men and boys soldiers and civilians total ? #Mabroud Hur group<br /><br />Swiss TV reported today, a policeman from Al Baida told them that Anti-Gaddafi-protesters in Al Baida killed 200 Gaddafi supporters, who were quickly described as mercenaries. <br /><br />An amateur video shows the bodies of some 130 slain soldiers with their hands tied behind their backs. The mutinous soldiers were shot dead in al-Baida near the eastern city of Benghazi.<br />*<br />Some of the soldiers were captured and about 20 were held in a large room <br />of the mosque for a few days before being moving to a location farther away, <br />said Ashraf Sadaga, a member of the Prophet's Companions Committee,<br /> which oversees the area. The location is secret and the soldiers are being protected from the wrath of the city's residents, he said.raja.abdulrahim@latimes.com<br />http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/23/world/la-fgw-libya-color-20110224<br /><br />Thursday February 24 2011 Mustafa Mohamed Abdel-Jalil, (...) was due to pass judgment<br />on about 100 captured pro-Gaddafi troops, both Libyans and African mercenaries. <br />The Khamis Brigade, one of the regime's special forces units made its last stand at the local airport. <br />http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/fledgling-state-takes-shape-in-the-east-26707695.html hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-41948154660185437272014-07-23T07:45:01.006-07:002014-07-23T07:45:01.006-07:00Following the seconds attack on a funeral, opposit...Following the seconds attack on a funeral, opposition forces commandeered bulldozers and tried to breach the walls, often succumbing under heavy fire.<br /><br /> As fighting continued, a mob attacked a local army base on the outskirts of Benghazi and forced the soldiers to give up their weapons, including three small tanks. <br /><br />Opposition members than rammed those tanks into the Katiba’s walls. <br /><br />Days later, the burned hulks of the armored vehicles could still be seen, stuck halfway into the breaches they made.<br /><br />The fighting stopped in the morning of the 20th.<br /><br /> Another 30 people were killed during the previous 24 hours of fighting.<br /><br /> For a third time, a funeral procession was passing the compound.<br /><br /> However, under the cover of the funeral, a suicide car-bomber attacked the compound’s gates blowing them up. <br /><br />Opposition fighters again attacked the base, this time reinforced with fighters from al-Baida and Derna. <br /><br />During this final attack by the opposition 42 people died.<br /><br /><br />https://www.radio-utopie.de/2011/04/14/hidden-behind-propaganda-a-giant-crime-against-libya-is-fact/<br /><br /><br />hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091580307813686433.post-1391129148781516472014-07-23T07:29:31.306-07:002014-07-23T07:29:31.306-07:00ShababLibya on Twitter is saying that the Birka ba...ShababLibya on Twitter is saying that the Birka barracks have now surrendered. <br /><br />Apparently they are trying to negotiate free passage to the airport, with the Bengazi youth saying they're not going to let them leave without a fight. <br />Not surprising given how many people they've murdered... hnoreply@blogger.com