Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 8, Part 1

[Catherina]

Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 8, Part 1

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

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

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.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Good morning, Catherina!

Another day, another dollar, huh? :)

:hi:

[Catherina]

12. Yeah but you mean that mass murderer isn't dead yet?

:hi:

[pinboy3niner]

21. Not yet, but...

...there's a good possibility that, pretty soon, a translator will be pushed to the breaking point and take matters into his own hands...

Fingers crossed! :evilgrin:

[Catherina]

2. Vatican calls for the world to intervene to stop the carnage in Libya

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Vatican calls for the world to intervene to stop the carnage in Libya .. # Libya # Gaddafi
1 hour ago

[Catherina]

3. Misurata: 1000 #Gaddafi Hansa brigade with big firepower fighting ten thousand protesters with polic

MilitantNews MilitantNews
Misurata #Libya 1000 #Gaddafi Hansa brigade with big firepower fighting ten thousand protesters with police fighting on side of revolution
1 hour ago

[Catherina]

4. Libya TV announcing #Gaddafi to address nation soon. Al Jazeera translators starting to drink heavil

yassayari AYARI Yassine
Libya TV announcing #Gaddafi to address nation soon. Al Jazeera translators starting to drink heavily in preparation
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[CJvR]

15. LOL!

Seriously, being drunk is probably a great advantage in interpreting Gaddafi rants. :)

[pinboy3niner]

26. Reports of mass translator suicides in Libya not yet confirmed...

:rofl:

[Catherina]

5. 30,000 protesters now in Zawiya & mercenaries are gathering 7km away from the town.

yassayari AYARI Yassine
Al Jazeera: Eyewitness: 30,000 protesters now in Zawiya & mercenaries are gathering 7km away from the town. #Libya
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

6. 30,000 protesters now chanting "Victory or martyrdom", face attacks with sticks & stones

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Eyewitness from Azzawiya on live Aljazeera: 30,000 protesters now chanting "Victory or martyrdom", face attacks with sticks & stones #Libya

[Catherina]

7. Azzawiya: rmy in city joined protesters and distributing weapons to the citizens now

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Eyewitness from Azzawiya on live Aljazeera: Army in city joined protesters and distributing weapons to the citizens now #Feb17 #Libya
1 hour ago

[Catherina]

8. 16 youths killed in #Gaddafi attack, over 40 seriously injured

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Eyewitness from Azzawiya on live Aljazeera: 16 youths killed in #Gaddafi attack, over 40 seriously injured #Feb17 #Libya
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

9. 72% of world's poor live in middle-income countries, not poor countries

TAGAfrica Africa Philanthropy
Surprising: 72% of world's poor live in middle-income countries, not poor countries. http://bit.ly/eryxN6 RT @ONECampaign @TAGPhilanthropy
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Why give aid to middle-income countries?
Most of the world's poor live in middle-income countries, which is why donors should continue to work in places like India and Brazil

Over the past few years a large number of once-poor countries have reached middle-income country (MIC) status, set by the World Bank at $1,000 per person per year. The global poverty problem has changed: most of the world's poor no longer live in poor countries.

In fact there's a new bottom billion – 960 million poor people, or 72% of the world's poor – and they live not in poor countries but in middle-income countries, and most of them in stable states. Only a quarter of the world's poor live in the remaining low-income countries (LICs), which are largely in sub-Saharan Africa. This is a dramatic change from just two decades ago when 93% of poor people lived in low-income countries.

The poor haven't moved, of course. The countries in which many of the world's poor live have got richer, in per capita terms, and have been reclassified. With growth, countries transitioning from low- to middle-income status under World Bank classifications have led to this new bottom billion. China and India together account for about half of the world's poor. However, the story isn't just that India and China have been upgraded to MIC status. If those two countries are removed, the proportion of the world's poor in MICs has still tripled – this is a range of other countries like Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia but also some surprising ones such as Sudan, Angola and Cameroon. There is a now a concentration of the poor – 850 million, or two-thirds of the world's poor – in five populous MIC countries: Pakistan, India, China, Nigeria and Indonesia.

Will this pattern of concentration of the poor in MICs continue? Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz at the Brookings Institution believe this is the case. Even with conservative assumptions they find that, by 2015, the proportion of the world's poor in MICs will still be 55%. So, it seems that this "new geography of global poverty", with significant numbers of poor people living in middle-income countries, will be with us for a decade or more.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/23/aid-to-middle-income-countries

[Catherina]

10. Young Jordanians are demanding the government to take decisive action to stop the "massacres" in Lib

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Young Jordanians are demanding the government to take decisive action to stop the "massacres" in Libya...#Libya #Gaddafi
1 hour ago

[Poboy]

11. Time to make the beignets...k&r.

[Catherina]

13. Counsellor Embassy in Canada Libya: Muammar Gaddafi is no longer even control the 5% of the country

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Ihab cuneiform, Counsellor Embassy in Canada Libya: Muammar Gaddafi is no longer even control the 5% of the country...#Libya #Gaddafi
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

14. Libyan diplomat: Gaddafi has used gas "sarin.

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Libyan diplomat: Gaddafi has used gas "sarin...#Libya #Gaddafi
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[CJvR]

23. Sarin?

That is a nerve agent, if Gaddafi uses that in a city you can expect casualties in the tens of thousand. A simple mask will not protect you, you need a full NBC suit.

WIKI on Sarin:

Effects and treatmentSarin has a high volatility relative to similar nerve agents. Inhalation and absorption through the skin pose a great threat. Even vapor concentrations immediately penetrate the skin. People who absorb a non-lethal dose but do not receive immediate appropriate medical treatment may suffer permanent neurological damage.

Even at very low concentrations, sarin can be fatal. Death may follow in one minute after direct ingestion of a lethal dose if antidotes, typically atropine and pralidoxime, are not quickly administered.<3> Atropine, an antagonist to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, is given to treat the physiological symptoms of poisoning. Since muscular response to acetylcholine is mediated through nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, atropine does not counteract the muscular symptoms. Pralidoxime can regenerate cholinesterases if administered within approximately five hours.

Sarin is estimated to be over 500 times more toxic than cyanide.<11> Treatment measures have been described.<12>

Initial symptoms following exposure to sarin are a runny nose, tightness in the chest and constriction of the pupils. Soon after, the victim has difficulty breathing and experiences nausea and drooling. As the victim continues to lose control of bodily functions, the victim vomits, defecates and urinates. This phase is followed by twitching and jerking. Ultimately, the victim becomes comatose and suffocates in a series of convulsive spasms.

[CJvR]

40. You think your job sucks?

Meet someone who is worse off!

Canary Rabbit. His job to find Sarin leaks... Where is the unions when you need them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sarin_test_rabbit.jpg

[Catherina]

16. Isn't it Ironic?

Libyan4life Jeel Ghathub
Isn't it Ironic? #Libya #Feb17 http://twitpic.com/437p9r
1 hour ago

[Catherina]

17. Elements of the army joining the revolutionaries in the corner and open the stores of ammunition..

libyafreedomnew Libyanews
Elements of the army joining the revolutionaries in the corner and open the stores of ammunition...#Libya #Gaddafi
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

18. citizens have regrouped and are attempting an ambush against #Gaddafi mercenaries in Misurata airpor

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Reports that citizens have regrouped and are attempting an ambush against #Gaddafi mercenaries in Misurata airport #Feb17 #Libya
1 hour ago

[Catherina]

19. a lot of people died in a football match as Saadi #Gaddafi started shooting at the crowd once

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
RT @feblib: just so u know, there was a time when a lot of people died in a football match as Saadi #Gaddafi started shooting at the crowd
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

20. Reports that #Gaddafi's personal wealth valued at $116 billion; enough to feed entire Arab world for

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Reports that #Gaddafi's personal wealth valued at $116 billion; enough to feed entire Arab world for 4 years #Feb17 #Libya
1 hour ago

[Catherina]

22. Mugabe dispatches Commandos to protect #Gaddafi, but captured weak mercenaries show signs that they

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya Mugabe dispatches Commandos to protect #Gaddafi, but captured weak mercenaries show signs that they are not getting food+supplies
56 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[defendandprotect]

60. LIBYA HURRA

[Catherina]

24. Gaddafi trying to secure towns around #Tripoli to stop their use as bases for all-Libya attack >>

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya #Gaddafi trying to secure towns around #Tripoli to stop their use as bases for all-Libya attack on the city
54 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

25. Security chief called for return of weapons to Social Committees in towns-doesn't he know they >

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya #Gaddafi Security chief called for return of weapons to Social Committees in towns-doesn't he know they all been burnt to the ground?
52 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

27. UAE strongly condemns, wants UN to intervene, orders urgent humanitarian aid 4 ppl of Libya

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
WAM: UAE strongly condemns violence against civilians in #Libya and demands that the Libyan authorities immediately stop using violence.
51 minutes ago


SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
WAM: The UAE calls upon the UN to intervene and investigate the violence in Libya
51 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
WAM: the UAE President orders that urgent humanitarian aid is sent to the people of Libya
49 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

28. Police apparently shot a microbus driver in Maadi, Cairo.People set police van on fire.Situation exp

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
#Egypt is still on fire.Police apparently shot a microbus driver in Maadi, Cairo.People set police van on fire.Situation explosive. #jan25
49 minutes ago

[Catherina]

29. United revolutionary #tribes call on #Tripoli youth to rise up tonight in preparation for attack on

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya - United revolutionary #tribes call on #Tripoli youth to rise up tonight in preparation for attack on Tripoli for tomorrow #feb17
46 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

30. Aid convoy reaches #Libya Near 1 million LE of supplies, medical, food, doctors

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
From #Egypt, with ♥. RT @londontocairo: BREAKING: Aid convoy reaches #Libya. Near 1 million LE of supplies, medical, food, doctors #Feb17
41 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

31. not just tribes but ex- Gaddafi General organizing attack on Tripoli- in effect a Revolutionary Army

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya Reports that not just tribes but ex- #Gaddafi General organizing attack on Tripoli- in effect a Revolutionary Army
38 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[highplainsdem]

32. K&R. Good morning, Catherina!

[Catherina]

33. Gaddafi had an escape plane prepared, loaded with gold & hard currency; would head to Zimbabwe.

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Reports that #Gaddafi had an escape plane prepared, loaded with gold & hard currency; would head to Zimbabwe. #Feb17 #Libya
38 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Zimbabwe. What a surprise. Not

[Catherina]

34. Wikileaks: #Libya placed billions of dollars at U.S. banks

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Wikileaks: #Libya placed billions of dollars at U.S. banks: http://j.mp/hHzljT #Feb17
37 minutes ago

Libya placed billions of dollars at U.S. banks-WikiLeaks
Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:37am GMT Print | Single Page <-> Text <+>
By Natsuko Waki


LONDON Feb 24 (Reuters) - Libya's secretive sovereign wealth fund has $32 billion in cash with several U.S. banks each managing up to $500 million, and it has primary investments in London, a confidential diplomatic cable shows. The cable, obtained by WikiLeaks and revealing the details of a January meeting between the head of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and the U.S. ambassador in Tripoli, comes as the United States and European governments explored the possibility of freezing assets belonging to the Libyan government.

LIA, the umbrella body for Libya's sovereign funds managing oil windfall revenues, is estimated to manage assets of around $70 billion with stakes in European bluechips such as Italian bank UniCredit and British publishing group Pearson.

LIA's Mohamed Layas told the U.S. ambassador at a Jan. 20 meeting that the fund operated with high liquidity and was not concerned about the volatility in the oil market.

"We have $32 billion in liquidity, mostly in bank deposits that will give us good long-term returns," the cable quoted Layas as saying at the meeting at LIA's office overlooking the Mediterranean Sea

...

http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE71N19T20110224?sp=true

Can someone please read the other paragraphs and list the high points since DU has a 4 paragraph copy limit pls?

[Catherina]

35. Reports that #Gaddafi will attempt to flee #Libya before a no-fly zone is declared

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Reports that #Gaddafi will attempt to flee #Libya before a no-fly zone is declared #Feb17
36 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

36. NATO Secretary General says that NATO has no intention to intervene in Libya

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
NATO Secretary General says that NATO has no intention to intervene in Libya #feb17 #nato #libya
31 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

37. US-based CIA-funded #NFLA getting media publicity but it has played no role in revolution

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya US-based CIA-funded "National Front for Liberation of Libya" #NFLA getting media publicity but it has played no role in revolution
31 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

38. 50,000 estimatesnot real. he's relying on maybe 5-10,000max revolutionary guards + mercs for tripol

ChangeInLibya Libyan Dude
I don't think the 50,000 estimates are real. i think he's relying on maybe 5-10,000max revolutionary guards + mercs for tripoli control
29 minutes ago

[Catherina]

39. Gaddafi is master of misinformation and lies. That's how he kept the country for 42 years. He's just

ChangeInLibya Libyan Dude
Gaddafi is a master of misinformation and lies. That's how he kept the country for 42 years. He's just doing more of that now. #libya
28 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

41. Their #s aren't that big, constant driving around and shooting in air etc. that creates this image.

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
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@ChangeInLibya Their nrs. aren't that big I think, it's probably constant driving around and shooting in air etc. that creates this image.
27 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

42. Qaddafi supporters attack mosque in Zawiya with anti-aircraft missile

feb17libya Feb17Libya
#feb17 Qaddafi supporters attack mosque in Zawiya with anti-aircraft missile http://f.ast.ly/q9Ad6 #@shabablibya
26 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

← Breaking Video: Liberated Zlitan (Feb. 23)
Qaddafi supporters attack mosque in Zawiya with anti-aircraft missile
Posted on February 24, 2011 by Chronos



Qaddafi forces counter attack on Zawiya

A Libyan army unit loyal to Muammar Gaddafi has blasted a minaret of a mosque with anti-aircraft missiles and automatic weapons injuring scores of anti-government protesters who refused to leave the area, a witness said.

Protesters who had been camped inside and outside the mosque suffered heavy casualties in the attack on Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, the witness added, though he could not provide an exact toll.

But Col Gaddafi’s son denied the government had launched airstrikes against Libyan cities and claimed reports of the number of protesters killed have been exaggerated.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi told a press conference aired on state TV, that the number killed by police and the army had been limited and “talking about hundreds and thousands (killed) is a joke.”

...

http://feb17.info/confirmed/qaddafi-supporters-attack-mosque-in-zawiya-with-anti-aircraft-missile/

[pinboy3niner]

57. Eyewitness told AJE army forces have drawn back 10 km...

...and the city is bracing for another attack. He said antitank weapons also were used against the people of Zawiya. Another attack is expected after dark (it's just after 4 PM there now).

I thought I heard another report on AJE that Ghadafi intended to make his next televised address from this city. If I heard it right, that would explain why Ghadafi is so determined to take the city and make his address on top of a victory.

Ed. to correct typo on the time.

[Catherina]

43. Libyan got now considers reporters that entered #Libya illegally 'Al Qaida collaborators'

fieldproducer Neal Mann
US State Dept: Libyan government now considered reporters that entered #Libya illegally 'Al Qaida collaborators' http://me.lt/2lLS
27 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Press Releases 2011

Notice to the Press
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
February 24, 2011

In meetings with senior Libyan government officials, U.S. diplomats were told that some members of CNN, BBC Arabic and Al Arabiya would be allowed into the country to report on the current situation. These same senior officials also said that some reporters had entered the country illegally and that the Libyan government now considered these reporters Al Qaida collaborators.

The Libyan government said that it was not responsible for the safety of these journalists, who risked immediate arrest on the full range of possible immigration charges. Foreign journalists already in Libya who are not part of the approved teams were urged to immediately join the approved teams in-country.

Be advised, entering Libya to report on the events unfolding there is additionally hazardous with the government labeling unauthorized media as terrorist collaborators and claiming they will be arrested if caught.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/02/157040.htm

[Catherina]

44. If there were 50,000 mercenaries in Tripoli, they'd be crawling all the way from here to flipping Tu

ChangeInLibya Libyan Dude
If there were 50,000 mercenaries in Tripoli, they'd be crawling all the way from here to flipping Tunisia. It's a BIG exaggeration. #libya
27 minutes ago

[Catherina]

45. may try to flee to #Zimbabwe, but will be caught because there will soon be a revolution there

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya #Gaddafi may try to flee to #Zimbabwe, but he will be caught because there will soon be a revolution there
28 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

46. French Communist Party calls for solidarity protest for ppl of #Libya and Arab world on Feb 26 in Pa

hurriya G.P.F. - Hurriya
French Communist Party calls for solidarity protest for ppl of #Libya and Arab world on Feb 26 in Paris http://bit.ly/eiWxAo >> Libia Gadafi
26 minutes ago

The biggest protest, huge

Libya / Arab world: the Communist Party calls for greater mobilization Saturday, February 26
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 , by Pcf Nanterre

As part of the week anticolonial, CPF calls for greater mobilization Saturday, February 26 at 15h00 Place de la Republique in Paris, in solidarity with the Arab peoples in struggle.

The policy of the French authorities and their supporting dictators have lasted too long.
The CPF supports the Arab peoples who face a brutal, murderous unbearable, especially in Libya. He also protested against the pillage of natural resources, land grabbing, recolonization and economic interference of multinationals in African political life.

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.

The PCF will protest on Saturday 26 for a world of solidarity and peace, respect the rights of peoples and individuals and draws all its activists, loving all progressive justice and democracy, to come and express their support for the Arab peoples in struggle

Saturday, February 26 to 15 H, starting Place de la Republique "out of Colonialism"
http://www.pcf-nanterre.fr/Libye-monde-arabe-le-PCF-appelle-a

In French

[Catherina]

47. #Libya map updated with recent developments in the west, esp. in Azzawiya and Misurata

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
#Libya map updated with recent developments in the west, esp. in Azzawiya and Misurata http://yfrog.com/gzz9t7j
25 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
I've updated the map with recent developments: http://yfrog.com/gzz9t7j (zoom in to see it best) #Feb17 #Libya
26 minutes ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply





OP map updated

[Catherina]

48. impossibility of a civil war. This is just #Gaddafi propaganda to discredit protests

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
Every single #Libya n I've heard has been adamant about impossibility of a civil war. This is just #Gaddafi propaganda to discredit protests
27 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

49. State radio saying revolt is a media trick.. All exaggerated

richardengelnbc richard engel
#libya.. State radio saying revolt is a media trick.. All exaggerated
26 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

50. State radio: libya can't become like iraq and afghanistan..but must be loyal to leader

richardengelnbc richard engel
#libya.. State radio saying libya can't become like iraq and afghanistan..but must be loyal to leader
25 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

51. Notice there has been few reports of large pro #Gaddafi demonstrations in #Tripoli 4 few days

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya Notice there has been few reports of large pro #Gaddafi demonstrations in #Tripoli 4 few days probly growing loyalist demoralization
25 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[brooklynite]

55. Were there -ever- pro-Gaddafi demonstrations?

I know State TV reported them, but have there been any independent witnesses that they actually occurred?

[Catherina]

52. How Gaddafi became a Western-backed dictator

hurriya G.P.F. - Hurriya
How Gaddafi became a Western-backed dictator http://bit.ly/hsct1g <<<>>> #Libia #Libya #Feb17 #Tripoli
24 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

How Gaddafi became a Western-backed dictator
Posted: February 24, 2011 by peterb1953 in Uncategorized


Italian President Silvio Berlusconi & Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

On February 22, Muammar Gaddafi was boasting on state TV that the Libyan people were with him and that he was the Libyan revolution, even while his dwindling army of special guards and hired mercenaries attempted to drown a popular revolution in blood.

Civilians were strafed and bombed from helicopters and planes. Snipers with high-powered rifles fired into unarmed crowds. Two pilots flew their fighter jets to Malta rather than bomb their own people and another two are reported to have crashed their jets rather than attack civilians. Sections of the armed forces, several diplomats and a couple of ministers abandoned the regime and at the time of the writing the east of Libya was in the hands of popular revolutionary committees.

And as more sections of his armed forces stared to go over to the people, he ordered troops who refused to shoot their own people to be executed.

...

First Gaddafi’s son Saif al Islam (a darling of greedy US and European corporations in recent years) and then Gaddafi himself tried to deny these massacres while simultaneously threatening the Libyan people to carry out ruthless retribution against those who dared to rise up against the regime.

...

http://peterb1953.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/how-gaddafi-became-a-western-backed-dictator/

Bookmarked to read later

[Catherina]

53. State radio saying foreign media frightening people into revolting + taking up arms

richardengelnbc richard engel
#libya.. State radio saying foreign media frightening people into revolting + taking up arms
24 minutes ago

[Catherina]

54. Ceausescu called mass party loyalist rally, who came with his pics+flags. As he spoke his ppl eventu

MilitantNews MilitantNews
#Libya #Ceausescu called mass party loyalist rally, who came with his pics+flags. As he spoke his ppl eventually began 2 boo+he had to flee
24 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

56. to suggest that a ppl shouldn't b free 4 fear of civil war or increased Islamism is most immoral >

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
And FYI: to suggest that a ppl shouldn't be free for fear of civil war or increased Islamism is the most immoral position you can take
21 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


We got plenty of those immoral worms on the US net

[Catherina]

58. libya state radio saying tripoli safe, calm, quiet..and foreign media 'stupid'

richardengelnbc richard engel
#libya state radio saying tripoli safe, calm, quiet..and foreign media 'stupid'
22 minutes ago

[Catherina]

59. Part 2 here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x497085