Oorlog in Libië #93: De slag om Tripoli laat niet lang op zich wachten

En schoon...

volgens mij hebben ze geen ijzergebrek in het voedsel de komende jaren in libie

The son of a high-ranking Libyan police officer is thought to be among five people arrested after a woman claimed she was raped and tortured by men connected to Colonel Gaddafi's regime.

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 00:25 schreef Re het volgende:
En schoon...

Dank.

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 00:27 schreef Dance99Vv het volgende:
volgens mij hebben ze geen ijzergebrek in het voedsel de komende jaren in libie

Uranium ook niet.

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 00:30 schreef Lagrinta het volgende:

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Uranium ook niet.

lol

US still main force in anti-Libya strikes: Pentagon

WASHINGTON The United States has undertaken the lion's share of coalition military sorties against Libya late Saturday and Sunday, despite NATO formally taking command of operations, Pentagon figures showed.

Of 167 sorties flown between 1930 GMT Saturday and 1500 GMT Sunday, more than half -- some 97 -- used US aircraft, the US Defense Department said.

That figure is only slightly less than the 62 percent of sorties flown by the US planes since Operation Odyssey Dawn got underway on March 19.

The latest Pentagon figures showed some 1,424 missions conducted during the operation so far as it imposes a United Nations Security Council-mandated no-fly zone over Libya.

The international coalition enforcing the no-fly zone, headed by the United States, Britain and France, has struck Kadhafi's defense and air capabilities and sought to protect Libyan civilians.

As rebels pushed towards Tripoli after nine days of Western bombings on Kadhafi forces, NATO ambassadors overcame objections from Turkey and France after days of tense talks and agreed to take control of the campaign.

"Our goal is to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under threat of attack from the Kadhafi regime," declared NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

"NATO will implement all aspects of the UN resolution. Nothing more, nothing less," he said

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Op maandag 28 maart 2011 00:23 schreef yavanna het volgende:
bnnNEWS

Twenty western reporters escorted by Libyan authorities from Tripoli to #Sirte under intense bombing are safe.

Canadian General Charle Bouchard, from NATO's Naples headquarters, is in charge of no-fly zone and naval embargo operations over #Libya.

http://www.norad.mil/leaders/bouchard_english_bio.pdf Geen oude rot in het vak. In principe onervaren zelfs.

Helaas niet verrassend te noemen.

Andy Carvin

Al Jazeera says they've uncovered evidence of rape by Gaddafi forces; Libyan soldiers found with condoms and viagra in pockets.
Doctors in one of the Ajdabiya's main hospitals have told Al Jazeera English that they have treated women who were raped by Libyan soldiers over the past week and they have found viagra and condoms in the uniforms of dead Gaddafi soldiers.

The development has been uncovered by AJE correspondent Sue Turton, and follows the widely publicised case of Iman al-Obeidi who claimed in front of assembled press in Tripoli yesterday that she had been gang raped by fifteen members of forces loyal to Gaddafi.

@gpdMiddleEast GPD Middle East
Collega Jenan staat hier naast me, heeft benghazi familie van Eman aan de lijn...hoor zometeen of Eman vrij is of niet...

@gpdMiddleEast GPD Middle East
BREKEND-Familie van verkrachte vrouw tegen m'n collega Jenan: "KADHAFI LIEGT, EMAN IS HELEMAAL NIET VRIJ. ZE IS NOG ALTIJD VERDWENEN"

GPD Middle East
Voor de duidelijkheid: Eman is nog spoorloos.Sinds gisteren ook gearresteerd:zus Amal, Amals echtgenoot Salah en hun zoon. #FreeEman #Libi

BENGHAZI, Libya, March 27 (Reuters) - A Libyan woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel to show journalists injuries she blamed on Muammar Gaddafi's militia was first targeted by the authorities after a protest, her cousin said on Sunday.

Eman al-Obaidi entered a hotel where foreign journalists were staying on Saturday to show bruises and scars she said were caused by militiamen. After being intimidated by security men and hotel staff, she was bundled into a car and driven away.

Wadad Omar, who said she was her cousin, said Obaidi was originally from east Libya and was first arrested after taking part in a protest in the early days of the uprising in the western city of Zawiyah.

The revolt in Libya erupted in mid-February.

Omar said Obaidi was detained on her way back from Zawiyah to Tripoli, along with other women with her at that protest.

"There were other lawyers with her, and we don't have any information about them," Omar said, naming the three other women arrested as Naimaa, Amal, and Mona.

Omar said Obaidi was from the eastern city of Tobruk and was working for a tourism company in Tripoli when she was arrested.

Omar said the family did not know what had happened to Obaidi except for the little information they were able to glean from her sister's appearance on Libyan television on Sunday.

"(Obaidi's) sister went on television to say her sister is crazy," Omar said. "Muammar wants to prove to the world that she is insane. She (Obaidi's sister) is certainly under pressure from the government."

Residents in Benghazi staged a demonstration in support of Obaidi on Sunday, waving monarchy-era flags -- the adopted symbol of rebels -- and chanting as they marched through the city centre. "Eman, you are not alone," one placard read.

A lawyer in Benghazi told reporters she would try to take legal action to free Obaidi, although she expected it would be extremely difficult given the current conflict. (Reporting by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Edmund Blair)

Operation Odyssey Dawn
Credit: Combat Camera Detachment USEUCOM. Video by Spc. Neil Stanfield.

Andy Carvin

Eman al-Obaidi's cousin says she's a lawyer who was targeted for arrest because of her involvement in protests. -Reuters

Andy Carvin
Really fascinated by the responses I'm getting regarding the possibility that women are being raped by Gaddafi forces. Basically hate mail.