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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...

Obama: Libya's 'Outrageous' Violence Must Stop

Italy's foreign minister puts death toll at 1,000

(Newser) - President Obama made his first public statement on Libya's unrest this afternoon, calling the violence "outrageous and unacceptable" and warning Moammar Gadhafi that the US was considering a "full range of options," reports AP . He said Hillary Clinton would head to Geneva to consult other nations. Gadhafi,...

Libyan Defector: Gadhafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing

Ex-Justice minister says he has proof to back up claim

(Newser) - Libya’s ex-justice minister says that Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing—and that he can prove it. “I have proof that Gadhafi gave the order,” Mustafa Abdel-Jalil told a Swedish tabloid, according to the AP . “To hide it, he (Gadhafi) did everything in his power...

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...

WikiLeaks Exposed Gadhafi Family Abuses

Clan's abuse of power helped fuel unrest

(Newser) - Libyans had plenty of reasons to despise Moammar Gadhafi and his clan long before the leader ordered the use of heavy artillery on protesters. State Department cables released by WikiLeaks detail some of the Gadhafis' abuses of power, which are known to Libyans despite the regime's control of the media,...

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,...

Libya's Ambassador to UN: Be Tougher on Gadhafi

Says Security Council's condemnation isn't strong enough

(Newser) - The UN Security Council today condemned Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's crackdown on anti-government protesters and demanded an immediate end to the violence. A press statement agreed to by all 15 council members expressed "grave concern" at the situation. Libya's deputy UN ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi, who has called for Gadhafi...

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...

Libya Unrest Could Push Gas to $5

BP, Statoil have pulled out of country

(Newser) - Trips to the gas station could get a whole lot more painful soon, now that the unrest sweeping the Middle East has hit an oil-producing nation. Crude prices shot up 7% yesterday, and were still rising this morning, after BP and Norway’s Statoil evacuated workers from Libya, USA Today...

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 ...

Libyan Ambassador to UN: It's 'Genocide'

Deputy UN ambassador urges Moammar Gadhafi to step down

(Newser) - Libyan ambassadors in at least seven countries—including the UK and India—as well as Libya's Justice Minister have resigned in protest over the hundreds of deaths caused by the Gadhafi regime as it attempts to cling to power, reports the Guardian . "What's going on in Libya is a...

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...

Doctor: Libya Kills Dozens More Protesters

He counts 35 bodies in Benghazi hospital

(Newser) - Libyan security forces waged an escalating crackdown on protesters today. In the country's second largest city of Benghazi, a stream of 35 bodies was brought to one hospital, reportedly of protesters shot while trying to march on one of Moammar Gadhafi's residences, a doctor said. The deaths took place after...

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