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Win2Win Racing
26th August 2011, 11:26
UK jets bomb a bunker in Col Gaddafi's birthplace of Sirte as Libyan rebels prepare to launch their offensive on the town.

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Godspot
26th August 2011, 23:28
Another fine mess -


Libya: 80 Found Dead at Abandoned Tripoli Hospital

By The Telegraph

Rescuers finally reached the hospital late on Thursday, finding 21 surviving patients among a macabre scene of dead bodies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28959.htm


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Libya: Expect A Humanitarian Crisis

By RT

"Reporters in the field, more or less embedded with the rebels, cheering the rebels on"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28961.htm


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Special Operations Clear Paths For Rebel Forces Attack On Sirte

By Christopher Stephen at Kilometre 60, eastern Libya

British and French special forces are on the ground in eastern Libya, calling in air strikes and helping co-ordinate rebel units as they prepare to assault Sirte, according to a rebel officer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28950.htm


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10 Myths About Libya? Rejoinder

By Conn Hallinan

With Qaddafi gone, every country that borders the Mediterranean is now associated with NATO, essentially turning this sea into an alliance lake.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28963.htm


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NATO Destroys Yet Another Country

By M D Nalapat

The use of military power for commercial advantage ought to have vanished when the 19th century did. Its reappearance in Iraq and Libya is a worrisome sign that NATO has not learnt the lessons of history.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28952.htm


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Eyeing The Prize
NATO Nations Set to Reap Spoils of Libya War

By Rachel Shabi

In the context of responsibility for what happens next in Libya, an anonymous British official told the Economist that NATO's involvement in the Libyan uprising means that: "Now we own it."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28955.htm


Libyan conflict far from being over:

Tripoli was attacked not so much by Libyan rebels as members of NATO security services disguised as Arabs. It was them who cleared the way for the opposition to enter a direct fight against Gaddafi troops
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/26/55214837.html

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Don't Give In To Colonization:

Muammar Qaddafi Address to the people of Libya
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28951.htm

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Libyan rebel oil firm AGOCO send "small army" to eastern oil fields:

"Security is ok now. We have a small army in place," an AGOCO official told Reuters. Libya was producing a total of 1.6 million barrels per day before the war and the country's eastern field of Sarir and Mesla can produce 425,000 bpd, the official said.
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL5E7JQ1XW20110826


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In hunt for Kadhafi, US has crucial, low-profile role:

US intelligence agencies have a crucial role to play in tracking down Libya's Moamer Kadhafi but are anxious to keep a low profile, current and former officials said Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/hunt-kadhafi-us-crucial-low-profile-role-141528552.html


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AU won't recognise Libyan rebel council: diplomats:

The African Union will not explicitly recognize Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC), diplomats said on Friday, in a setback for Libyan rebels who have already been recognized by more than 40 countries as the legitimate government.
http://bit.ly/oNU16g


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No, we still won't recognise Libya's rebels, says Zuma:

"We can't stand here and say this is the legitimate [government] now. The process is fluid. That's part of what we inform countries -- whether there is an authority to recognise," Zuma told reporters
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-26-zuma-cuts-a-lonely-figure-at-aus-libya-powwow/


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Libya's imperial hijacking is a threat to the Arab revolution:

They don't give up. For the third time in a decade, British and US forces have played the decisive role in the overthrow of an Arab or Muslim regime.
http://bit.ly/qM4K2P

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Libya: a new breed of military intervention:

High-level bombing, planning by low-level ground forces and a back seat for the US. This was no great victory for Nato
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/25/libya-military-intervention


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U.S. May Buy Looted Libyan Missiles Sold in Mali's Black Market:

The fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi has kicked off a race to recover key types of weapons taken from his stockpiles, such as shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, by getting U.S. operatives to buy them before terrorists do.
http://bit.ly/o2dvLG