Oorlog in Libië #96. Met collateral damage.

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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 00:25 schreef zoefbust het volgende:
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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 00:28 schreef waht het volgende:

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Deze gast lijkt me ook geen local:
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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 00:29 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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di caprio photoshop

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22:00 Almanara Media source has reported that no less than 50 fuel tankers gathered in the area of As Sakheera in Tunisia preparing to enter Libya.

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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 00:25 schreef zoefbust het volgende:
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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 00:48 schreef svann het volgende:

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Het zou bijvoorbeeld -heel saai- één van de vele reporters kunnen zijn.

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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 00:36 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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is dit in het oosten of westen?

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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 00:54 schreef Ulpianus het volgende:

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Tunesië is in het westen.

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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 07:53 schreef von_Preussen het volgende:
Zijn Ghadaffi's troepen weer bij Benghazi?

Ik dacht dat ze door de bombardementen definitief waren teruggedreven en niet verder dan Ajdabija kwamen?

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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 08:47 schreef MangoTree het volgende:

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Bij dat YouTube filmpje klopt er ook iets niet, in de titel staat Benghazi en in de beschrijving: 'family scream as security forces bomb Brega 04.04.2011.'

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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 08:23 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Dus nu zijn de rebellen ontevreden over de NAVO, want de NAVO doet niet precies wat de opstandelingen hadden gehoopt. Goh.

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Op woensdag 6 april 2011 10:56 schreef eriksd het volgende:
Hebben die opstandelingen nou wel eens raak geschoten? Ik zie allemaal van die beelden met oude trucks waarmee in het wilde weg wat geschoten wordt.

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A Norwegian journalist has been recaptured by Libyan authorities just hours after being released from detention in the war-torn country. Al-Jazeera and Ny Tid reporter Ammar Al-Hamdam and his three colleagues were taken back into custody last Thursday shortly after they were freed due to diplomatic pressure.

There were hopes that the 33 year-old and his team of Mauritian, Tunisian and British crew members would return to Norway, but they were seized again at the Tunisian embassy by police who claimed they required additional time for questioning. According to the VG news agency, the eldest son of embattled dictator Muammar Gaddafi ordered the arrests of the Al-Jazeera team because he deemed their coverage of the ongoing civil war in Libya to be biased, The Foreigner reported.
Speaking to VG, Sammir Shatara, a colleague of Mr Al-Hamdan, said he is deeply concerned about the safety of the film crew. I am worried about them. The Libyan authorities are crazy and can do whatever they want. They promised that they would set him free, but now I cannot get hold of him, he said.

Dag Herbiornsrud, the editor of Ny Tid where Al-Hamadan also works, said in a report by NTB that fears for the reporter remain. Like everyone who stays in Tripoli, hes under Gaddafis control until he crosses the border, he said.

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PARIS, April 6 (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Wednesday NATO could get bogged down in Libya because leader Muammar Gaddafi had made it more difficult for the military alliance to avoid civilian deaths. NATO has been accused by Libyan rebels of being too slow to launch air strikes against Gaddafi's troops and military hardware to protect civilians, but the alliance has been forced to change bombing tactics because of human shields.

"We've formally requested that there be no collateral damage for the civilian population," Juppe said in an interview on France Info radio. "That obviously makes operations more difficult." He said he would discuss the issue in a few hours with the head of NATO, adding: "The situation is unclear. There is a risk of getting bogged down."

"The situation in Misrata cannot go on," Juppe added. Gaddafi's forces have been shelling Misrata, the only city in western Libya holding out against him, for weeks. The head of France's armed forces expressed frustration over the pace of the NATO operation to protect Libyan civilians.

"I would like things to go faster, but as you are well aware, protecting civilians means not firing anywhere near them," Admiral Edouard Guillaud said in an interview on Europe 1 radio. "That is precisely the difficulty". He said NATO forces were concentrating their firepower on Misrata, while trying to stop any transportation of weapons towards Tripoli, still firmly in the hands of Gaddafi's camp. Warplanes from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates were taking part in these missions, Guillaud added.

(Reporting by Brian Love and Nick Vinocur; editing by Elizabeth Piper)

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By Marc Burleigh - AJDABIYA, Apr 06, 2011 (AFP)

When Rashad Brydan decided to return from Britain to his native Libya to join rebels seeking to topple Moamer Kadhafi, one of the first things he did was hit eBay for a flak jacket.

"Guess how much it cost?" he asks proudly, modelling his trim black vest over an orange short-sleeved shirt. "One hundred pounds (115 euros, $160)!"

Brydan, 35, speaking in a heavy accent from Manchester, in England's northwest, says he felt he had to leave his post-graduate studies and adoptive land of the past decade for Libya to help the insurgency. "I feel it's my duty," he says, speaking from behind shiny sunglasses, holding an army-issue AK-47 rifle given to him by his brother. "I can't sit back at home in Britain and not do anything."

But Brydan, who cuts a natty figure with his clean city clothes contrasting with the mismatched camouflage jackets and bedouin scarves of the other rebels, says he has not yet seen the front line. He arrived in Libya on March 25, and has moved as far forward as Ajdabiya, 40-80 kilometres (25-50 miles) from the artillery and rocket exchanges of the past few days.

He brings with him an outsider's view of the conflict. What he has gleaned so far reaffirms the general conclusion that the rebels are badly outgunned and would lose without NATO air strikes. "Without a shadow of the doubt, there is no comparison ... We are the weak side," he acknowledges. The revolutionary cry may be "freedom or martyrdom," but when it comes to the crunch, most of the rebels are skittish and unwilling to die for their cause. "They can talk the talk, but can they walk the walk?" he asks.

"We have a belief as a Libyan nation we will succeed, although the major part of this will be with the help of NATO."

Despite his smart flak jacket and rifle, Brydan is still playing it cautious, hanging back with a large group of rebels milling around on the western outskirts of Ajdabiya. His rifle, he knows, is no match for Kadhafi's mortars and artillery shells. Instead it is for "personal protection," an accessory handled blithely by most of the young rebels. He has never fired one, he says.

His brother, who stayed with his family all these years in Libya in the northeastern town of Derna, speaks no English. But he drives a pick-up like so many rebels, painted with strident revolutionary slogans and the flag of their Free Libya.

Brydan, hopping into the cabin alongside his brother, looks the part with his rifle poking out, his vest snug, his face resolute. The vehicle points its nose briefly towards the front line several kilometres (miles) to the west. Then it turns around, and drives back into the safety of the town.