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Gadhafi to Supporters: 'Get Ready to Fight'

Libyan leader vows to 'triumph over enemies'

(Newser) - The rebels are closing in and other nations are seeking sanctions against Libya, but Moammar Gadhafi has no plans to step down. The Libyan leader addressed supporters in Tripoli's Green Square today, urging them to put the rebels "to shame" and insisting, "We can triumph over the enemies,...

Gadhafi's Desperation: He Offers Families $400

But protesters continue to advance toward Tripoli

(Newser) - With protesters closing in on the capital and the international community uniting against him, Moammar Gadhafi is apparently hoping a little bribery will help his cause. He's promising to give families $400 apiece, reports Global Post , a sum that might speak more of the nation's living standards than anything else....

UN Human Rights Body May Kick Libya Out

As US, Europe weigh sanctions

(Newser) - The United States will support efforts to expel Libya from the 47-member UN Human Rights committee, in what would be an unprecedented suspension of one of its own members. "The crackdown in Libya of peaceful demonstrations is escalating alarmingly with reported mass killings, arbitrary arrests, detention and torture of...

Libyan Rebels Vow to Take Tripoli
 Rebels Vow to Take Tripoli 
Feb 25, 2011 5:45 AM CST

Rebels Vow to Take Tripoli

Demonstrations planned in Libyan capital today

(Newser) - Libyan rebels say they are closing in on Moammar Gadhafi's Tripoli stronghold and they won't stop until the leader is ousted. Residents of the capital say they have received text messages calling for a massive demonstration today, which would be the first in Tripoli for several days. "It's now...

Gadhafi: I'm Like the Queen of England

He blames the protests on bin Laden, hallucinogens

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi was supposed to appear on state TV today, but instead simply spoke to the station by phone, announcing that he was like “the queen of England,” with only “moral authority” in Libya. He doesn’t make laws, he said; Libya’s people hold the power....

Libya to Treat Visa-Less Journos as al-Qaeda

Military attacks mosque, airport; Gadhafi aide defects

(Newser) - Journalists who have entered Libya to cover the unrest will be treated as al-Qaeda collaborators if they don’t have visas, Libyan authorities have told US diplomats, according to the State Department. Libyan officials say they won’t ensure the journalists’ safety if they’ve entered the country illegally; instead,...

Protesters Vow to Capture Gadhafi

Government offers rewards to any who report on protest leaders

(Newser) - Despite the ominous buildup of security forces in Tripoli, opposition groups are vowing to liberate the capital and capture Moammar Gadhafi. Protesters, breakaway military units, and a collection of tribes have joined together, particularly in eastern Libya, to battle the dictator, reports MSNBC . "There is now an operating room...

Gadhafi Masses Forces in Tripoli
Gadhafi Masses Forces in Tripoli 
Feb 24, 2011 2:26 AM CST

Gadhafi Masses Forces in Tripoli

Ultimate showdown looms with brigades loyal to Libyan strongman

(Newser) - A desperate Moammar Gadhafi is calling in thousands of mercenaries and any available security to quell the rebellion edging dangerously close to his door. The move almost ensures a savage and bloody showdown between armed forces and thousands of protesters determined to take control of their nation. The Libyan strongman...

Desperate Foreigners Flee Libya Chaos

Governments scrambling to get their citizens out

(Newser) - Countries around the world are scrambling to get their citizens out of Libya by air, sea, and land. Turkey has launched the biggest evacuation effort in its history, sending ships to take away the estimated 25,000 Turkish citizens who have been working in Libya, AP reports. Hundreds of Americans...

Libya Chaos Pushes Oil Over $100 a Barrel

Concerns over global supply

(Newser) - Oil prices topped the $100 per barrel threshold today, as investors hedged their bets against a supply disruption caused by the turmoil in Libya. Crude for April delivery hit $100.01 and then retreated, MarketWatch reports.

First Western City Falls to Libyan Protesters
 First Western City Falls 
 to Libyan Protesters 
1K THOUGHT DEAD
Feb 23, 2011 7:56 AM CST

First Western City Falls to Libyan Protesters

More than 1,000 believed dead

(Newser) - Libyan opposition forces seized control of Misurata today, raising flags that predate Moammar Gadhafi’s reign in celebration. It’s the first city in the western part of the country to fall, the Wall Street Journal reports; much of the East is already under protester control. Those flags were also...

Gadhafi Orders Destruction of Oil Pipelines: Source

Desperate leader 'seeking to sow chaos'

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi has vowed to fight until his last drop of blood and he's apparently ready to spill Libya's last drop of oil in the process. The Libyan leader has ordered security forces to sabotage the country's oil pipelines, according to former CIA field agent and Time columnist Robert Baer,...

How Gadhafi Blew It
 How Gadhafi Blew It 
analysis
Feb 22, 2011 2:38 PM CST

How Gadhafi Blew It

Among other things: Libya's rich, but most citizens live in poverty

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi has always talked about instituting reform—usually via his son, Seif—but has never quite gotten around to it, writes Andrew Solomon in the New Yorker . "The regime has always wanted credit for its beneficent decrees, without accepting blame for its failure even to try to turn...

Gadhafi: I Will Die Here as a Martyr

'May Allah curse those rats'

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi isn't going anywhere. In a furious speech delivered on state TV today, the AP reports that he called himself a warrior and said he was willing to die as a martyr. Speaking from a podium set up at a bombed out building that appeared to be his Tripoli...

In Ravaged Tripoli, Bodies Left on Streets

Opposition in control in South

(Newser) - As Libya seemingly slips out of his control, Moammar Gadhafi’s forces rained what witnesses described as “small bombs” down on Tripoli last night, as helicopters, special forces, and foreign mercenaries shot freely at protesters. “It was an obscene amount of gunfire,” one witness tells the New ...

Gadhafi: 'I'm in Tripoli, not Venezuela'

Libyan makes bizarre appearance on state TV

(Newser) - The rumors of Moammar Gadhafi's Venezuelan vacation are greatly exaggerated: The embattled Libyan leader made a bizarre, minute-long appearance on state TV at 2am local time, declaring, "I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela. Do not believe the channels belonging to stray dogs." Gadhafi appeared in a...

Fighter Jets Open Fire on Protesters in Libya

Two pilots land in Malta, choosing to defect rather than bomb protesters

(Newser) - Libya made good on its threats to get bloody today, sending fighter jets to fire on protesters in Tripoli, Al Jazeera reports, though it cautions that reports are difficult to verify because Libyan intelligence has shut down all landline and wireless communications. But two military pilots seem to confirm the...

Gadhafi Son Warns of Fight to 'Last Bullet'

Reforms will come only if protesters back down, he vows

(Newser) - The son of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi has vowed a "fierce" civil war if protesters don't stand down in the nation's mounting violence. Saif al-Islam Gadhafi promised in a speech today on state TV that significant democratic reforms would be instituted—but only if unrest stops. If current protests...

Gadhafi Troops Open Fire; Libya Toll Hits 200

Protesters were at funeral for slain compatriots

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi's forces have opened fire on mourners at the funeral for anti-government protesters in the city of Benghazi, where a doctor says at least 200 people have already been slain in days of demonstrations. A man shot in the leg today said marchers were bearing coffins to a cemetery...

Death Toll in Libya Protests Reaches 100

More than a dozen more were killed at funerals today

(Newser) - In direct contrast to the "delirious joy" in Bahrain, the death toll keeps climbing in Libya's protests. Moammar Gadhafi's minions killed another 20 people today, bringing the five-day total to at least 104, says Human Rights Watch. Gadhafi has effectively shut off Internet service and forbid media coverage, but...

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