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1 September 2011 Last updated at 00:42 GMT
RAF flies £140m unfrozen cash assets to Libya
People rushed to get cash from their accounts after the Libyan banks reopened on Tuesday
The RAF has flown £140m of Libyan banknotes (280m Libyan dinars) to Libya after an assets freeze aimed at Col Muammar Gaddafi was lifted.
The cash, printed in the UK, is the first tranche of £950m that will be handed to Libya's Central Bank.
A Whitehall official said the money should be available for cash machines and banks in Libya very quickly.
Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that David Cameron set up a unit to block fuel supplies to Col Gaddafi's forces.
The secret "Libya oil cell" also ensured that petrol and diesel continued to get through to the rebels in the east, BBC deputy political editor James Landale said.
The Whitehall-based unit was made up of a handful of civil servants, ministers and military figures.
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If you didn't have the fuel, you couldn't win the war”
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How UK starved Gaddafi of fuel
It played a crucial role in starving the regime's war effort of fuel while making sure that the rebels could continue taking the fight to Gaddafi, Whitehall officials told our correspondent.
Our correspondent said the unit was the idea of International Development Minister Alan Duncan. He was unavailable for comment on Wednesday evening.
The former oil trader convinced the Mr Cameron in April that part of the solution to the conflict lay in oil, our correspondent said.
One Whitehall source said: "If you didn't have the fuel, you couldn't win the war. So our aim was to starve the west of fuel and make sure the rebels could keep going.
"Gaddafi had lots of crude but he couldn't refine it. So he had to rely on imported fuel. And we turned off that tap."
The unit was established in the Foreign Office and was initially headed by a senior admiral, and later by a senior government official.
The operation gathered intelligence about oil and fuel movements, and information was passed to the government and Nato.
'Britain's commitment'
The release of the Libyan currency came following a decision by the United Nations sanctions committee in New York.
The official said the cash delivery, worth $1.55bn, should make it possible to pay many public sector workers, including nurses, doctors, teachers and police officers, over the Eid holiday.
Many of those dependent on government salaries have not been paid for a number of months.
The money will also be used to provide aid for refugees displaced by the conflict and to pay for medicine and food supplies.
The funds were frozen in February when the uprising in Libya started.
The move comes on the eve of a major international conference on the future of Libya to be held in Paris on Thursday, chaired jointly by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the UK prime minister.
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was "delighted" the delivery to the Central Bank in Benghazi had been completed.
"Returning money to the Libyan people is part of our commitment to help the National Transitional Council rebuild Libya and help create a country where the legitimate needs and aspirations of the Libyan people can be met," said Mr Hague.
He added further deliveries of the remaining funds would be made shortly.
Ship held
Germany has also asked for agreement to release about 1bn euros (£900m) in seized assets, while France wants to unfreeze about 5bn euros (£4.4bn) to help pay for humanitarian aid and keep essential services going in Libya.
Last week, the UN agreed to a US request to unblock $1.5bn (£1bn) in frozen Libyan assets.
In March, a ship carrying Libyan currency worth £100m was impounded.
The Home Office said the ship was intercepted by UK authorities after heading back to British waters following an aborted attempt to dock at Libya's capital, Tripoli.
The money, which was printed in north-east England, was held at Harwich, Essex.
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Rebels accuse Gaddafi of using human shields as showdown in Sirte looms
As rebel forces prepare to attack Gaddafi's home town, they say his men are dragging civilians into the firing line
David Smith in Sdada bridge, Libya
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 31 August 2011 21.13 BST
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A rebel fighter rests 100 miles west of Sirte. The rebels accuse Gaddafi's troops of using civilians as human shields. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are holding children as human shields on the frontline as they prepare to make a desperate stand in the deposed leader's hometown, rebel fighters have claimed.
Pro-Gaddafi loyalist forces are still fiercely defending Sirte, where the final major battle of the war is set to take place on Saturday. With total victory in their grasp, the rebels say they are prepared to sacrifice their lives to see the uprising through to the finish.
The fighters from Misrata have advanced to a bridge about 140km (87 miles) west of Sirte. From there, they make reconnaissance patrols into the desert of no man's land, probing the enemy's defences and regularly exchanging fire. Their most advanced foray so far came within 70km of Gaddafi's birthplace.
In an incident on Monday, the rebels were surprised when 15 of Gaddafi's pick-up trucks with mounted machine guns appeared on the horizon and opened fire. There were between 10 and 15 families lined up at gunpoint, they claimed.
"They put the families between our guys and theirs so we can't fire," said Mohammed Abobaker, 26, who was in the rebels' lead vehicle.
"I saw a man, his wife and a boy through the telescope. They were less than a kilometre away and they looked scared. If the families move, they will be shot, so they don't have an option to run away."
Abobaker said the tactic put him and his comrades in a terrible dilemma. "Gaddafi's men are cowards. I'm so sad about this situation. I can't fire on them because I might kill innocent people. But then I might die because Gaddafi's men are firing. You are in the middle of a crisis."
While the rebels have swept through vast swaths of Libya, including Tripoli, the regime loyalists who still control Sirte have spurned all attempts at negotiation. They are being pounded by Nato airstrikes and have been given a deadline of Saturday to surrender or face invasion from both east and west.
In the meantime, rebels say they are attempting to rescue families from nearby villages to minimise civilian casualties. Abobaker, 26, a former crane operator, said: "We are trying to get the families out. They are prisoners in their own homes. Gaddafi hopes to use them as human shields to stop us attacking. But on Saturday we will."
The rebels estimate that anywhere between 3,000 to 6,000 diehard loyalists may be in Sirte, their last coastal stronghold. They believe food and weapons supplies may be reaching the town through the desert from Algeria. But they are also convinced that many soldiers are being fuelled by drugs.
Asked why Gaddafi's troops are still fighting for a seemingly lost cause, Adel Benjesi, a rebel brigade commander, said: "These guys believe in the Green Book written by Gaddafi and that kind of bullshit and propaganda. They are fighting for money and they are stoned. We find drugs in the pockets of all the guys we capture.
"Around 90% of the guys we capture say bullshit about loving Gaddafi.
"Then after three days they wake up and say, 'Where am I?' They all say it was the effect of the drugs."
Benjesi sits in a makeshift military headquarters in Tawarga, captured from Gaddafi two weeks ago, where fighters play table tennis and a broken disco ball gathers dust on a bench. Bald and bearded, he wears a floppy sunhat, sunglasses, a white Adidas T-shirt stained with juice, khaki trousers and a bandage on his left wrist. The 39-year-old former customs official does not fear becoming one of the last casualties of the war.
"We are not going to give up," Benjesi said. "From the start of the revolution we expected to die, so we do not mind if we die now. We are not going to give up until we catch him.
"When we head to Sirte, we are not going to fire. But if they attack us, we have no choice. We are ready for anything. We are confident. We are going to nail them. I expect the battle will last for four hours, inshallah. [God willing]"
His wounded comrades include a man with an arm and a sling and another leaning on a crutch. Yet all are determined to fight on Saturday, along with around 4,000 other volunteers.
"I am not afraid of death," said one.
Along the flat motorway, an effigy of a hunchbacked Gaddafi in green uniform and boots hangs from the awning of a checkpoint and gently twists in the breeze. Further on there are ghost towns with abandoned cars, a smashed up caravan, groups of camels and clusters of spray-painted tanks and armed pickup trucks, set amid a seemingly limitless expanse of bushy desert.
But beyond the last rebel base at the Sdada bridge, there are still political as well as military battles to be won. Loyalist green flags still fly from houses in the town of Heisha, where elders are reportedly ambivalent about the change that has come to Libya. Rebels claim the flags are merely an expression of fear in the Gaddafi heartland.
"I am 100% sure no one likes Gaddafi," Benjesi said. "There is nobody who likes the devil."
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Và các anh chị nghĩ gì về nhận xét, suy nghĩ của Benjesi, đã chắc chắn rằng không ai thích độc tài Gadhafi . Benjesi còn ví độc tài Gadhafi như ác quỉ và không ai thích ác quỉ cả qua kết luận của bài viết :
"I am 100% sure no one likes Gaddafi," Benjesi said. "There is nobody who likes the devil."
Nhìn cảnh Người Dân Libya đã ĐỨNG LÊN LẬT ĐỔ cầm quyền ĐỘC tài Gadhafi, họ đã làm cho "ác quỉ" Gadhafi đã từ trên ngai vàng trở thành một tội phạm, phải trốn chui trốn nhủi như một con chuột một cách NHỤC NHÃ, mà cảm thấy hổ thẹn cho những tên "vịt kiều yêu nước", những "trí thức hải ngọai" miệng hô hào đấu tranh cho tự do dân chủ nhân quyền cho người dân VN nhưng lại lòn trôn khấn gấu tội đồ dân tộc là những tên ác quỉ cộng sản VN, đội những con ác quỉ này lên đầu "chống tàu xâm lược", hết "thỉnh nguyện thư" rồi thì là "kiến nghị" van xin và lại càng NHỤC hơn nữa khi chính những con ác quỉ vô lọai Việt cộng này là lũ súc sinh BÁN NƯỚC cầu vinh, đội giặc tàu lên đầu, hủy diệt giang sơn Việt, nô lệ dân tộc, lăng nhục Tổ Tiên , nòi giống .
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HEAD COVER BAN ON NY AMUSEMENT PARK RIDES SPARKS SCUFFLES WHEN MUSLIM TOUR GROUP VISITS
AP
September 1, 2011, 10:07 am
•Not playing by the rules
A ban on hats and head coverings on an amusement park ride sparked scuffles that led to 15 arrests.
NEW YORK - A ban on religious and other head coverings on rides at a suburban amusement park on Tuesday sparked scuffles leading to 15 arrests.
Rye Playland, just north of New York City, was crowded with roughly 3,000 visitors from a Muslim tour group celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Islam's holy month of fasting, Ramadan.
Disputes broke out after women wearing traditional Muslim scarves called hijabs tried to get on rides that prohibit any head coverings for safety reasons, Westchester County officials said. The women were offered refunds. But then male and female visitors started to argue among themselves, according to a statement from the county executive's office. Two park rangers who intervened were injured and were hospitalised.
The tour operator, the Muslim American Society of New York, had been advised of the rule numerous times before the event, parks Deputy Commissioner Peter Tartaglia said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
The group did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday night.
Tartaglia defended the policy against head coverings on rides as a safety precaution. He said scarves can become entangled in mechanical parts, choke riders or fly off and land in a ride's tracks. He faulted the tour operator for not ensuring the visitors understood the policy.
"We respect the religious purpose of wearing it, but we have several rides that you cannot go on with any sort of headgear," he said.
The park entrance was closed for two hours as police responded to the scene. More than 6,000 people were in the park at the time.
Tartaglia said all the people arrested were later released. Westchester County officials would not say what the charges against them were.
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ASYLUM STRATEGY IN TATTERS AFTER COURT RULING
ABC
September 1, 2011, 5:27 am
.All options on the table
With the Malaysian solution rejected, Labor is now forced to contemplate other options they've been ridiculing for years.
The Federal Government is still reeling from yesterday's historic High Court ruling which effectively declared the Malaysia refugee swap deal invalid.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said all options were on the table yesterday as the Government contemplated the possible wreck of its offshore processing strategy.
In a 6-1 decision yesterday, the court said Malaysia did not have laws in place to ensure the safety of asylum seekers.
The court said the Minister had no power under the Migration Act to remove asylum seekers from Australia if their claims for protection had not been determined.
Cabinet will now be forced to contemplate two things Labor has ridiculed for years: the re-opening of a detention facility on Nauru, and the return of Temporary Protection Visas.
Last night, the Government would not rule them in or out, and Prime Minister Julia Gillard did not have much to say about the High Court ruling.
"We are going to study this High Court decision, but nothing in it is going to diminish our resolve to break the people smugglers' business model. We will study the decision though," she said.
Adding to the Government's problems, the Greens say they will block any attempt to change the Migration Act in a bid to try and resurrect the Malaysian Solution.
Mr Bowen has also said Australia will not ask Malaysia to change its laws to bring it into line with United Nations rules on the treatment of refugees.
The four-year asylum swap deal, in which Malaysia would take 800 asylum seekers from Christmas Island in return for Australia accepting 4,000 refugees from Malaysia, was signed more than a month ago but almost immediately challenged by human rights lawyers.
Since then a temporary injunction had put the transfer of asylum seekers on hold, and yesterday the High Court declared that injunction permanent.
Cabinet will also consider what will be done with the 335 asylum seekers on Christmas Island who had been scheduled to be flown to Malaysia.
From next week, the Immigration Department says children in the group will start school.
And Mr Bowen has admitted Australia will probably have to accept the 4,000 genuine refugees from Malaysia who were covered by the deal.
"My position is that the arrangement with Malaysia was entered into [in] good faith by Australia and Malaysia," he said.
"We said we'd take those 4,000, therefore I would be inclined to continue to take the 4,000.
"The Government will consider the intake, because very clearly we wanted to increase the intake, we wanted to take more refugees, but we wanted to do so as we broke the people smuggler's business model through this arrangement."
Immigration authorities are still working out how they will respond to the High Court decision, and what it means for the hundreds of asylum seekers on Christmas Island.
Clapping and cheering could be heard from the Phosphate Hill Detention Centre yesterday as the High Court handed down its decision.
In a statement the Department of Immigration said it would not speculate on its next step until it had considered the implications of the decision.
'Profoundly disappointing'
Yesterday, Mr Bowen described the court's decision as "profoundly disappointing" and said the High Court "applied a new test" to protecting asylum seekers during offshore processing.
"What the High Court has decided today is not what was previously considered as understood and accepted law," Mr Bowen told reporters in Canberra.
He said the decision had ramifications not only for the Malaysian deal but for offshore processing generally, and was likely to encourage people smugglers to ramp up their trade.
Describing his portfolio as "the hardest job I've ever done", Mr Bowen said he was determined to see the asylum seeker issue through and maintained the legal advice the Government had received "was very solid".
The lawyer behind the legal challenge, David Manne, says his clients are very relieved.
"These people came here in fear for their lives and were very fearful of being sent to Malaysia. They feared they would be harmed," Mr Manne said.
"The court has now ruled it would be unlawful to expel them to that type of situation."
Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison described the judgment as "another policy failure by an incompetent government", while Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said the decision vindicated her party's position on the deal.
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START PROCESSING ASYLUM CLAIMS, GOVT TOLD
AAP
September 1, 2011, 5:05 am
•'Don't leave them in limbo'
The government is facing calls to end the 'legal limbo' for asylum seekers after the High Court sunk the Malaysia Solution.
Refugee lawyer David Manne has urged the federal government not to find ways around the High Court's decision declaring its Malaysia people swap deal unlawful.
Instead, he says it should focus on processing the claims of the 300-plus asylum seekers who remain "locked up in limbo" on Christmas Island.
"I call on the government to not only respect the decision of the court, but to not embark on some sort of exercise in trying to circumvent the decision in any way," Mr Manne told ABC Television.
"To quickly move to process the claims of these asylum seekers in Australia."
The High Court on Wednesday ruled the Malaysia swap deal invalid because it did not provide adequate protections.
Mr Manne, who headed the legal challenge, denied Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's claim that the High Court had set a "new test" of asylum seeker protection laws.
"It's not a new test," he said.
"It's an interpretation of the law and it's an emphatic judgment from six out of seven judges."
Mr Bowen says the government will be seeking urgent legal advice on the way forward now that the deal to offload 800 boat arrivals to Malaysia is dead in the water.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard insists the government hasn't been put off.
"Nothing in (the decision) is going to diminish our resolve to break the people smugglers' business model," she told reporters in Brisbane on Wednesday.
"We will study the decision though."
Mr Manne believes the High Court decision has cast doubt about the legality of offshore processing in general and the possibility of re-establishing detention centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
"I certainly think that the proposals to send people to other countries in the region and whether that would in fact be lawful is an open question," he said.
Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison earlier insisted that the coalition's plan to reopen Nauru would not fall foul of the court's ruling.
Mr Morrison told ABC Television that the Howard government-era facility had in fact been "favourably referred to" by the High Court when it handed down its ruling.
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9 COMMENTS
Anthony (joseph) William
21 minutes ago
Simple solution... Take refugees for 5 years.. Teach them skills, apprenticeships, english.... Then return them to their countries so they can help their own people.. They do not belong here.. Just like an Australian is not suited for relocating to Afghanistan or Somalia ... This is is real "AID".
Robyn17 minutes ago
what a joke this government is as usual, shame the alternative is just as stupid. now we are getting 4000 more refugees here than we started with. If all these do gooders and judges and lawyers want them in the country perhaps they can house them in their backyards and posh holiday houses they have. I'm over these stupid boffins in the government making unattainable decisions that just cost us taxpayers a small fortune to fight in court, I think it was a stall tactic, they knew from the...
Rudolph
17 minutes
if they hurry up one off them be might become the 5 th wiggle. as they are wigglying in front off the people that went through the right procedure's to come to australia.
J Memphis tn'se
12 minutes ago
Simple solution indeed! Take all aborigenes, teach them relevant modern skills, then return intruders to Britain/Europe to continue with their way of life. Just like an aborigene is not suited for England or Italy. This is real JUSTICE.
Jethro
11 minutes ago
One warning shot 4 foot below the bow by our navy would either turn the illegal people smuggling boats around, or make them disappear better than any David Copperfield trick.
Guido Fawkes
10 minutes ago
Its an easy solution, no documents no processing and jailed for 5yrs for illegally entering australia, and once released banned from entering australian for life. This would allow ASIO to conduct background checks so much faster. They like to throw these documents prior to boarding the boat to australia or on the way over. The crew that man these boats should be jailed for a mandatory sentencing of 15yrs, and once released banned from entering australian for life With these laws in place I...
J Memphis tn'se
10 minutes ago
"Nothing is going to break our resolve"...even though it is "an emphatic judgement from six out of seven judges". Isn't this lawlesness from a ruling head of state?
Hazz
8 minutes ago
More incompetence by Gillard and Bowen....Bowen was told by DFAT his policy was flawed but took no notice...Words defy me on the incompetence and stupidity of this minister....This asylum seeker debacle has cost us the tax payers Billions upon Billions and all Gillard had to do was re-open Naru.... Imagine that all the money wasted on this issue would have done for our Public Hospitals, the needy, pensioners etc....
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7 minutes ago
Actions speak louder than words people. If you don't want them here, you know what's to be done.
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Các anh chị nghĩ gì, có ý kiến, phê bình gì qua bài viết "START PROCESSING ASYLUM CLAIMS, GOVT TOLD" và ý kiến phê bình từ "9 COMMENTS" của độc giả ?
Và những người VN BỊ MẤT NƯỚC vào tay bè lũ phản quốc CƯỚP NƯỚC DIỆT CHỦNG BÁN NƯỚC Việt gian thổ phỉ ĐỘC tài ĐỘC đảng vô loại cộng sản VN, những người VN từng vượt biển trên những chiếc thuyền mong manh đi Tỵ Nạn cộng sản, đi tìm TỰ DO, có suy nghĩ gì, còn nhớ được gì qua hình ảnh những người "ASYLUM SEEKERS" đã và đang xảy ra ở Australia ?
Có những điểm giống nhau và khác nhau gì giữa những người VN Tỵ Nạn cộng sản và những người "ASYLUM SEEKERS" ???
Nhìn hình ảnh của người bị trả lại nhà tù họ đã từng thóat ra, nếu đó là nhà tù thật sự, thì những kẻ đã từng vượt thóat khỏi nhà tù cộng sản, ngày hôm nay tự nguyện đút đầu vào rọ, tự nguyện làm chó ghẻ, tự nguyện làm tay sai đầy tớ cho những thằng súc sinh cai tù, có thấy đó là hành vi vô sỉ, là tự bôi tro trát trấu vào mặt, là nhổ ra liếm vào, còn đáng phỉ nhổ hơn cả bè lũ thú vật độc tài độc đảng phản quốc BÁN NƯỚC cộng sản VN ???
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Father of Revolt May Not Lead Post-Qaddafi Era
By Chris Stephen, Massoud Derhally and Flavia Krause-Jackson - Aug 31, 2011 2:01 PM GMT+1000
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the first cabinet minister to break ties with Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, has won praise from his countrymen and Western leaders. Even so, it is unlikely that he will lead Libya after its transition from a dictatorship to a promised democracy.
Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil pauses during a press conference on in Benghazi. Photographer: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images
The 59-year-old former judge -- who created a government- in-waiting from a loose collection of exiles, nationalists and regime defectors -- is “a wise and respected man of integrity,” said Hassan Tatanaki, 53, a Cairo-based Libyan oil- industry businessman whose family is spread among Tripoli, Cairo, London and Abu Dhabi.
“His only problem is that he is not into the political wheeling and dealing and maneuvering,” Tatanaki said in an Aug. 26 interview. “He’s someone who calls a spade a spade, and that sometimes is a problem.”
Even under the Qaddafi’s four-decade iron rule, Abdel Jalil developed a reputation as the judge who didn’t shy away from ruling against the regime. That attitude paradoxically led to his promotion to justice minister in 2007 by Qaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, who was in his final year of a doctorate at the London School of Economics and fancied himself as a reformer.
For a few years, Abdel Jalil worked to improve Libya’s criminal code and human-rights track record. U.S. diplomats, in an embassy cable released this year by the group WikiLeaks, said he was “considered to be a fair-minded technocrat.”
Defying the Regime
Then in January 2010, he did something unexpected that astonished Libyans. Appearing on the ever-compliant state television, he criticized the regime for failing to uphold promises on reform. Even as he steered clear of direct references to Qaddafi, his resignation as justice minister was the pebble that set off an avalanche.
The kind of candor that won a place in the hearts of Libyans might not find a place in the leadership once his creation, the rebel’s National Transitional Council, has carried out its mission of preparing for elections in a nation lacking a constitution. Before succumbing to Qaddafi’s bloodless military coup in 1969, Libya was a short-lived monarchy and an Italian colony.
The NTC was formed on Feb. 27, 2011, in a Benghazi courthouse, and on March 5 issued a statement calling itself “the only legitimate body representing the people of Libya and the Libyan state.” Still, it took more than four months of lobbying to persuade the U.S. and 31 other nations to agree.
If recognition was achieved, much of the credit lies with Mahmoud Jibril -- prime minister to Abdel Jalil’s chairman. The axis of the NTC revolves around the two men who are of the same age. Should Abdel Jalil step aside, Jibril is his heir apparent.
European Circuit
Flitting between Paris and Rome, Jibril is the public- affairs face of the revolution and spent much of his time working the European circuit in search of aid, diplomatic recognition and the unfreezing of Libyan assets.
It was the U.S.-educated former university professor who led meetings and negotiations with President Nicolas Sarkozy that resulted in France being the first country to publicly assign legitimacy to the NTC as the representative of the Libyan people.
Unlike Abdel Jalil, Jibril had made no public criticism of the Qaddafi regime yet quickly joined the uprising and helped form the NTC. His career displayed his ability to walk the line between pleasing both a dictator at home and juggling a career abroad as independent thinker.
Qaddafi, who was undergoing full-rehabilitation with the West, appointed him head of Libya’s National Economic Development Board in 2007.
Foreign Credentials
A graduate from Cairo University, Jibril earned a master’s degree in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate in the same subject at the same university in 1985. He went on to teach business practice at the university and wrote 10 books on strategic planning.
The different styles of Abdel Jalil and Jibril were put on display when they dealt with the still-unexplained July 28 assassination of Abdel Fattah Younis, the rebel military chief and regime defector. Abdel Jalil held an incoherent news conference where he hinted at the involvement of pro-Qaddafi forces and promised an investigation, which wrapped up inconclusively. Jibril remained silent.
‘Jury Is Out’
“They are good people and they mean well, but the jury is out on both on them,” said Omar Turbi, an NTC adviser.
While a political future is assured for the NTC members who may want that, the top job will be reserved to someone yet to emerge, according Michele Dunne, a former specialist on Middle East affairs at the U.S. State Department and White House. The ability to mobilize assistance from abroad, including fluency in English, might not be what Libyans look for when casting their votes.
“The leaders of today won’t be those of Libya’s tomorrow,” said Dunne, who heads the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council in Washington. “That chapter is yet to be written.”
European leaders such as Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, who went as far as kissing Qaddafi’s hand at a televised March 2010 summit, may struggle to form a bond with the new leadership. For Italy, the challenge will be to prevent France from stealing deals after Sarkozy led in the Western intervention on behalf of the rebels.
Other Prospects
As Western powers jockey for oil deals and reconstruction profits, some are looking beyond the NTC’s leadership. From the non-rebel camp, Abdel Salam Jalloud, Qaddafi’s former right-hand man until a falling out in the 1990s, has already won plaudits in Italy, whose government is seeking to preserve Eni SpA’s position as the biggest investor in Libya.
As Tripoli fell into rebel hands, Jalloud -- who helped Qaddafi in the 1969 coup that brought him to power -- fled to Rome, where he announced he will form a secular, liberal party for Libya.
“I won’t make the mistake of picking who might be the best leader for the Libyans, but I do believe that Jalloud has excellent features and he can be one of the protagonists of the new Libya,” Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told reporters in Rome on Aug. 23. “He had a balanced role and he did not stain his hands with blood.”
-- With assistance from Caroline Alexander in London. Editors: Terry Atlas, Jim Rubin.
To contact the reporters on this story: Flavia Krause-Jackson in Washington at fjackson@bloomberg.net; Massoud A. Derhally in Beirut at mderhally@bloomberg.net; Christopher Stephen in Libya at cstephen9@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Mark Silva at msilva34@bloomberg.net; Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net
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Libya: rebels reject UN plan to send international troops into liberated Libya
Rebel leaders have rejected plans by the UN to send hundreds of international forces into liberated Libya, insisting that they will secure the country themselves.
Rebel fighters prepare ammunitions in Ben Jawad, some 120 kilometers of Sirte Photo: AFP/Getty Images
By Jon Swaine
12:19AM BST 31 Aug 2011
A leaked document drafted by a Libya taskforce reporting to Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary-General, called for up to 200 military observers and 190 UN police to help stabilise the country.
The observers were to oversee the process of dealing with forces who had surrendered after fighting for Muammar Gaddafi, while the police would also have helped train local forces under the new regime.
It is thought that Jordan and Turkey had been approached over the role of heading the multinational force, which would also have protected a planned UN mission comprising dozens of civilian officials.
However leaders of the National Transitional Council, who have been in frequent contact with high-level UN officials, have ruled out the possibility of foreign forces playing a major role.
Ian Martin, Mr Ban's special adviser on post-conflict planning for Libya, told a meeting of global bodies engaged in the country: "We are not now expecting a request for any United Nations military deployment".
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However he added: "We stand ready to bring the extensive experience the United Nations has developed from so many post-conflict contexts".
A US-based human rights watchdog yesterday said that the Gaddafi regime forced civilians to act as human shields, and placed children on Libyan tanks to deter NATO airstrikes.
Physicians for Human Rights said it had also found evidence of a pattern of murders, rapes "disappearances" and other apparent war crimes during an investigation in the city of Misurata in June.
"Four eyewitnesses reported that troops forcibly detained 107 civilians and used them as human shields to guard military munitions from NATO attacks south of Misrata," their report said.
The group also said a witness reported that a primary school in the city had been turned into a detention site where Gaddafi troops "raped women and girls as young as 14 years old".
In one instance, three sisters aged 15, 17 and 18 were raped by troops before being killed by their father in an attempt to rid the family of the shame, the report said.
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'Zero hour' looms for Libya
Last updated: August 31, 2011
From: NewsCore
August 31, 2011 5:24AM
Battle 'imminent': A rebel fighter stands next to an image representing Libya's leader-in-hiding Muammar Gaddafi at a checkpoint in Tripoli. Picture: AP Source: AP
DECLARING "zero hour is quickly approaching", Libya's rebel leaders have given loyalist towns and soldiers until Saturday to surrender or face a "final military battle."
The insurgents' ultimatum came as Colonel Muammar Gaddafi continued to play cat-and-mouse with the rebels, leaving behind reports of where he may have been but no information on where he is now.
According to Sky News, the dictator, now at the end of his 42-year rule, was in Tripoli as recently as Friday but then fled in the direction of the southern stronghold of Sabha. The report was based on information provided by a captured bodyguard for Gaddafi's son, Khamis.
But the Italian news agency ANSA, citing "authoritative Libyan diplomatic sources," said that Gaddafi and his sons Saadi and Saif al Islam were in the town of Bani Walid south of Tripoli.
Meanwhile, the rebels wasted no time declaring they were ready for the final battle of their six-month uprising.
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"Zero hour is quickly approaching. We would like everyone to know that we are ready for a final military battle," the insurgents' military chief Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani told reporters in Benghazi yesterday.
"So far we have been given no indication of a peaceful surrender. We want everyone to know that we are prepared militarily for the battle that will end the conflict
"We continue to seek a peaceful solution, but on Saturday we will use different methods against these criminals.”
Earlier, National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said the rebel government was giving a Saturday ultimatum for surrender, AFP reported.
He said the respite of several days was offered to mark the three-day Eid al Fitr feast, which follows the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
"This window of opportunity will be closed at the end of Eid al-Fitr (Friday in Libya)," Mr Jalil said.
"From Saturday, if no peaceful solution is in sight on the ground, we will resort to military force," he warned.
In another possible blow to the remnants of Col Gaddafi's regime, Col Bani said rebel fighters may have killed Col Gaddafi's intelligence chief, Abdullah al Senussi, when they destroyed two armoured vehicles southeast of Tripoli.
Loyalists reportedly said one of the passengers was Mr Senussi, who is Col Gaddafi's brother-in-law, according to AFP.
Col Gaddafi also faced the possible key death of his son Khamis after their reported meeting Friday.
Khamis' bodyguard said he was killed in a subsequent attack on his armoured vehicle, which was reported by rebels Monday but was not independently confirmed.
His body was not found and Libyan state television denied the report.
The death of Khamis, 28, a military leader, has been prematurely reported several times already.
At the same time as Col Gaddafi fled to his latest lair, his wife, Safiya, and three of his children, Aisha, Hannibal and Mohammed, crossed on Monday from Libya into Algeria.
Aisha, a lawyer, gave birth yesterday in Djanet, Algeria, to a baby girl whom she named after Safiya, AFP reported, quoting the daily Ennahar.
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•Top secret cable leaked
A Wikileaks cable from the US embassy reveals 23 Australians with supposed links to Yemeni terrorism.
GOVERNMENT SLAMS WIKILEAKS ON TERROR CABLE
By Adam Gartrell, AAP
Diplomatic Correspondent, AAP
August 31, 2011, 6:42 am
The federal government has slammed the Wikileaks website for publishing a US diplomatic cable that details 23 Australians believed to have links to Yemeni terrorism.
The latest tranche of Wikileaks diplomatic cables contains one from the US embassy in Canberra that recommends 11 Australians be placed on a no-fly list and a further 12 on another "selectee" watch list.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland on Tuesday broke the government's long-standing policy of not commenting on Wikileaks to condemn the cable's release unredacted.
"I note that on occasions in the past, Wikileaks has decided to redact identifying features where security operations or safety could be put at risk," Mr McClelland said.
"This has not occurred in this case.
"The publication of any information that could compromise Australia's national security - or inhibit the ability of intelligence agencies to monitor potential threats - is incredibly irresponsible."
Mr McClelland said he had made a number of statements expressing concern about the growing terrorism threat emanating from Yemen.
"A number of Australians have been drawn to extremist figures in Yemen, including to Anwar al-Aulaqi, an al-Qa'ida linked-cleric based in Yemen."
The cable - dated January 21, 2010 and labelled "secret" - says the 23 names were provided to the embassy by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
"The 23 individuals are Australian citizens, or are Australia-based, and are of security interest because they have either an historical or current association with Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, or are based in Yemen or the surrounding region and may come into contact with al-Aulaqi," the cable reads.
Aulaqi is an American citizen at large in Yemen with links to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP.
An unapologetic advocate of violence against the West, Aulaqi has been linked to the attempted bombing of a US airliner on December 2009 - less than a month before the embassy cable was written.
He narrowly escaped a US drone attack three days after American commandos killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in May.
Among the 23 names is Rabiah Hutchinson, a grandmother born in the NSW wine-growing town of Mudgee.
Ms Hutchinson has been described as the "matriarch" of Australian-based Islamist militants and has travelled extensively through strongholds of al-Qaeda including Afghanistan.
It is understood she has been monitored by ASIO, the nation's security intelligence agency, for years but has never faced terrorism charges. She denies any links to terrorism.
"They've got it wrong. I am not important. I'm just a 54-year-old granny with diabetes and arthritis. What are they so worried about?" she told Australian media in 2008.
But the embassy cable recommended Hutchinson be placed on the no-fly list "due to her demonstrated connections with al-Qaeda" and AQAP's wishes to recruit females for future attacks.
"While we have every confidence Australian authorities can and will monitor her activities and work to prevent her from departing Australia, her past history and association with al-Aulaqi merits her being on a NO FLY status," the cable reads.
The cable - which carries the name of current US ambassador Jeffrey Bleich - also recommends Melanie Joyce Brown, the 34-year-old wife of terrorist Willie Brigitte, be placed on the no-fly list.
"She is out of country, making it more difficult for Australian and US authorities to monitor her whereabouts and travel plans," the cable says.
The no-fly list also includes 33-year-old Shyloh Jayne Giddins, who was subsequently arrested in Yemen after the federal government cancelled her Australian passport.
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63 COMMENTS
12Thumbs UpThumbs Down1 Jools12:54pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
If these imports want to blow themselves up and kill each other they have the right to do so in their own country but not in ours. These illegal’s are religious barbarians from Stone Age countries they only understand violence, killing and a lawless society.
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7Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 Jet12:57pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
How old do you think half of these zombies that plan these acts of terror are? A 54 year old grandmother. So what? Col. Gaddafi is 69. Dont hide behind the grandmother facade Rabiah
7Thumbs UpThumbs Down12 Beady Eyed Big Eared Briber06:23pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Most LIARbral terrorist are from Aborts namesake town of ABBOTTSBAD.
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6Thumbs UpThumbs Down8 Geoff Wilson06:24pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
But how many of you Liberal supporters got a mention.?
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2Thumbs UpThumbs Down1 Wendy07:40pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Don't worry Geoff I'm sure she'd have the ASIO watching me. Hell I was even chaufer driven by a high ranking Federal Police Officer to the Convoy Rally last week.
10Thumbs UpThumbs Down10 Dalone07:40pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
I'll be glad when the Wikileaks founder is in jail. Doesn't he know what SECRET means. He's a traitor.
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4Thumbs UpThumbs Down1 Stan08:06pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Beady and Geoff, what a pair bring the Liberals into this when there is no mention of politics. Well if you want to bring politics into it It is Labor who have opened the boarders and let anyone in and then when they are deemed not legal they do not send them home. Or pay them to go home. Also I would like the people who may be a dangtr to Australia to be known. I don't like wikileaksbut maybe they have a point sometimes, there is too much secrecy in government
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2Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 Mark08:08pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Why is it the Government is trying to hide the truth of Australians situation and what it means - Other Australians are studying Terror - for what - origami? Another hide it under the carpet and it will go away - well it simply is not going to happen. I demand the Government negotiate with religions in this country to make it clear this will not be tolerated and what they hope to achieve can never be realized in a Democracy.
6Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 Geoff Wilson08:22pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Every Government have secrets, how many put an add in the paper stating they are watching a particular person or group you bunch of dipsticks.
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5Thumbs UpThumbs Down3 Beady Eyed Big Eared Briber08:23pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Asshanger is a squealing little bish boy.
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NHỮNG LỜI NÓI CÓ TRÁCH NHIỆM CỦA CỰU TT. TRẦN VĂN HƯƠNG
Trần Đông Phong
Cố Tổng Thống VNCH Trần Văn Hương
«Thấy các em còn trẻ tuổi mà phải chịu hy sinh gian khổ vì chiến tranh, qua rất thương, nhưng số phận của đất nước mình là như vậy, mình phải đánh cho tới cùng »
Cựu Tổng Thống Trần Văn Hương không chịu di tản
Trong ngày 29 tháng 4, dù rất bận rộn trong việc di tản hàng chục ngàn người Mỹ và người tị nạn VN. Đại sứ Martin cũng đã tìm cách đến gặp cụ Trần Văn Hương, cựu Tổng Thống VNCH tại phủ Phó Tổng Thống trên đường Công Lý lần chót.
Theo GS Nguyễn ngọc An, bạn thâm giao của cụ Hương thì cuộc gặp gỡ nầy đã diễn ra như sau :
« Cũng ngày đó, 29 tháng 4 năm 1975, đại sứ Hoa Kỳ, ông Martin đến tư dinh đường Công Lý với một tham vụ sứ quán nói tiếng Pháp. Đại khái, đại sứ nói :
« Thưa Tổng Thống, tình trạng hiện nay rất nguy hiểm. Nhơn danh chính phủ Hoa Kỳ, chúng tôi đến mời Tổng Thống rời khỏi nước, đi đến bất cứ xứ nào, ngày giờ nào với phương tiện nào mà Tổng Thống muốn. Chính phủ chúng tôi cam kết bảo đảm cho Ngài một đời sống xứng đáng với cương vị Tổng Thống cho đến ngày TT trăm tuổi già»
Tổng Thống Trần Văn Hương mim cười trả lời :
«Thưa Ngài đại sứ, tôi biết tình trạng hiện nay rất là nguy hiểm. Đã đến đỗi như vậy, Hoa Kỳ cũng có phần trách nhiệm trong đó. Nay ông đại sứ đến mời tôi ly hương, tôi rất cám ơn Ông đại sứ. Nhưng tôi đã suy nghĩ và quyết định dứt khoát ở lại nước tôi. Tôi cũng dư biết Cộng Sản vào được Saigon, bao nhiêu đau khổ nhục nhã sẽ trút xuống đầu dân chúng miền Nam. Tôi là người lãnh đạo đứng hàng đầu của họ, tôi tình nguyện ở lại để chia xẻ với họ một phần nào niềm đau đớn tủi nhục, nổi thống khổ của người dân mất nước. Cám ơn ông Đại sứ đã đến viếng tôi.»
Khi nghe câu «Les États-Unis ont aussi leur part de responsabilités (Hoa Kỳ cũng có phần trách nhiệm trong đó), đại sứ Martin giựt mình nhìn trân trân ông Trần Văn Hương. Năm 1980, ông Hương thuật lại với tôi: Dứt câu chuyện, on se sépare sans même se serrer la main» (GS Nguyễn Ngọc An. Cụ Trần Văn Hương, đăng trên Thời Luận không rõ ngày)
Cựu đại úy Nguyễn Văn Nhựt, sĩ quan tùy viên của phó Tổng Thống Trần Văn Hương cho người viết biết vào những ngày tháng cuối cùng trong tháng 4 ,1975, cụ Trần Văn Hương đã nói với anh em phục vụ tại phủ Phó Tổng Thống rằng:
«Thấy các em còn trẻ tuổi mà phải chịu hy sinh gian khổ vì chiến tranh, qua rất thương, nhưng số phận của đất nước mình là như vậy, mình phải đánh cho tới cùng »
Sau khi bàn giao chức vụ TT cho Dương Văn Minh, tối 28 tháng tư, cụ Trần Văn Hương đã dọn ngay về tư gia ở trong hẻm đường Phan Thanh Giản. Tuy nhiên, sáng hôm sau, ngày 29 tháng tư, cụ phải trở lại dinh Phó Tổng Thống ở đường Công Lý một lần cuối để tiếp kiến đại sứ Martin khi Martin đên từ giã cụ.
Trong một cuộc tiếp xúc với BS Nguyễn Lưu Viên, cựu Phó Thủ Tướng VNCH, tại Westminster vào cuối 2002, BS. Viên có cho người viết biết rằng vào sáng ngày 29 tháng 4 năm 1975, ông và bà Trần Văn Văn có đến thăm cụ Trần Văn Hương một lần cuối và cụ Hương đã nói với hai người rằng hai vị đại sứ Pháp và Hoa Kỳ có đến mời ông đi tị nạn, nhưng ông đã từ chối lời mời của họ.
Vào năm 1978, khi Việt Cộng trả lại «quyền công dân cho Dương Văn Minh, các anh em đang bị tù học tập cải tạo đều bị đi xem hình ảnh và phim chiếu lại cảnh cựu «Tổng Thống» Dương Văn Minh đang hồ hởi hân hoan đi bầu Quốc Hội «đảng cử dân bầu » của Cộng Sản.
Cụ Trần Văn Hương cũng được CS trả lại quyền công dân, nhưng cụ đã từ chối. Cựu Tổng Thống VNCH Trần Văn Hương đã gởi bức thư sau đây đến cấp lãnh đạo chính quyền CS :
«… Hiện nay vẫn còn có mấy trăm ngàn nhơn viên chế độ cũ, cả văn lẫn võ, từ Phó Thủ tướng đến Tổng bộ trưởng,các tướng lãnh, quân nhân công chức các cấp, các chính trị gia, các vị lãnh đạo tôn giáo, đảng phái, đang bị tập trung cải tạo, rỉ tai thì ngắn hạn mà cho đến nay vẫn chưa thấy về. Tôi là người đứng đầu hàng lãnh đạo chánh phủ VNCH, xin lãnh hết trách nhiệm một mình. Tôi xin chánh phủ mới thả họ về hết, vì họ là những người chỉ biết thừa hành mạng lệnh cấp trên, họ không có tội gì cả. Tôi xin chánh phủ mới tha họ về sum họp với vợ con, còn lo làm ăn xây dựng đất nước. Chừng nào những người tập trung cải tạo được về hết, chừng nào họ nhận được đầy đủ quyền công dân, chừng đó, tôi sẽ là người cuối cùng, sau họ, nhận quyền công dân cho cá nhân tôi »
Cụ Trần Văn Hương không hề nhận quyền công dân của Cộng Sản và cho đến khi từ trần vào năm 1981 thì cụ vẫn còn là công dân của Việt Nam Cộng Hòa.
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The new Libya needs Britain to give, not take
The best reward for our role in deposing Muammar Gaddafi would be stability in the North African state.
Black gold: despite the lure of Libya's vast oil reserves, Malcolm Rifkind says Britain's main role must be to help get life back to normal Photo: GETTY
By Malcolm Rifkind
8:20PM BST 30 Aug 2011
First came the rebellion: now for the reckoning. Even though the dust has yet to settle on the streets of Tripoli, a lengthy shopping list is already being drawn up by British commentators, outlining what the new authorities can do for us, given all that we’ve done for them.
First, could we please have the Lockerbie bomber back, so that he can be returned to the comforts of Barlinnie prison in Glasgow? And can we have an assurance that if Gaddafi is captured, he’ll be sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC), not put up against a wall and shot? And that the killers of WPc Yvonne Fletcher will be brought to justice? And that British companies will get a juicy share of the contracts, once the oil starts flowing again?
All of these demands are perfectly understandable. They are also – at the very least – grossly premature. For the Libyans, the absolute priorities (apart from an end to the actual fighting) are clean water, medical supplies, functioning electricity and adequate food. To be fair, these are also the priorities of David Cameron and his Government. After that come efficient government, effective security and the creation of a stable, pluralist political system and an independent judiciary.
Even if it were a good idea to distract the fledgling government by demanding a return on our investment, some of the items on the agenda are not so simple as they seem. For example, Mr Megrahi did not escape from Britain. He was sent home two years ago by the Scottish government, on the grounds that he was terminally ill. That was a foolish and misguided decision, which has caused great offence to the relatives of those killed, and damaged our relations with the United States. But realising it was a mistake is not the same thing as admitting it, or being able to reverse it. It is now reported that Megrahi is in a coma: without wishing to sound harsh, his demise might be the only way to resolve the issue.
The unresolved case of WPc Yvonne Fletcher is very different. As The Daily Telegraph has reported, a diplomat called Abdulmagid Salah Ameri is believed to have been responsible for her murder, shooting her from within the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984. His extradition to the United Kingdom, once prima facie evidence is presented to a Libyan court, is not only essential, but would also demonstrate that the rule of law now prevails. To refuse to extradite him, or any accomplices, would not just be deeply resented in Britain, but would seriously damage the new Libya’s reputation.
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As for what should happen if and when Gaddafi is captured, that is straightforward. Although the ICC has issued an indictment for war crimes, it is entirely reasonable for the Libyan government and people to try him in his homeland, where the vast majority of his crimes were committed. What the Libyans will have to show, however, is that he will be given a fair trial, in humane conditions, with proper legal representation and rights of appeal. The question of punishment is also for the Libyans. We do not use the death penalty; nor does the ICC. But it must be for the Libyans to decide, in framing their new penal code, whether they will.
It is in the desire for business contracts, however, that the demand for a quid pro quo is most naked. A Western thirst for oil in the Middle East is as predictable as the sand: it was, in part, the explanation for Tony Blair’s naive and ill-fated attempts to cuddle up to Gaddafi. Yet British oil companies should not expect – or receive – any exceptional favours. Whether they win contracts should depend on the skill of their negotiators and the attractiveness of their tenders, not on the prior contribution of the RAF to Libya’s liberation. Any other consideration is corruption by another name. It may be that the new government will end up corrupt, but we should certainly not encourage it.
The obvious question, then, is why did we go into Libya in the first place? It is, of course, true that Britain’s – and Nato’s – participation was not out of selfless altruism, or for purely humanitarian reasons. But it was not, as is so often implied in the Middle East, because of the lure of oil.
No, our self-interest lay in the fact that Libya is Europe’s neighbour. As long as it was ruled by a tyrant, it appeared stable – but, like next-door Egypt and Tunisia, was a breeding ground for political turmoil, terrorist recruitment and a potential flood of refugees across the Mediterranean. If these countries can develop stable, friendly governments with the consent of their own people, then Europe – and Britain – will benefit significantly. That is the most important reward for our efforts that we can hope to receive.
On Thursday, David Cameron will be in Paris with Nicolas Sarkozy, co-chairing a conference on aid to Libya. Because that country is oil-rich, with a small population, there will be no need for major funding once the pipelines are flowing again. The main emphasis must be on helping getting life in Tripoli back to normal, and identifying the best practical support that will be needed to create a stable state.
At the risk of sounding like the Mayor of London, it is an apt moment to cite Pliny: “Ex Africa semper aliquid novi.” When he remarked that there was always something new out of Africa, it was probably Libya that he was referring to. It is welcome news that something new – something better – might be coming into being there today.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind is MP for Kensington, and a former Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary
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DETAINEES 'SPEND $5M ON GOVT PHONE CARDS'
AAP
August 31, 2011, 3:48 am
•Costly calls
Taxpayers are forking out more than $5 million a year for immigration detainees and asylum seekers to make phone calls.
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2Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 Day Go1 hour, 50 minutes agoReport Abuse
Aliean, Phone home!
0Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 Andre1 hour, 40 minutes agoReport Abuse
offer them more economical ways like , carrier pidgeons
1Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 mumof61 hour, 36 minutes agoReport Abuse
This is geting ludicrous, no wonder people are getting annoyed at this govt and cost blowouts on each and every policy....simply put un-friginreal...Why do they keep throwing their friggin mobiles overboard?
1Thumbs UpThumbs Down1 Helen37 minutes agoReport Abuse
Sad to feel that we are so poor of spirit that we would begrudge these wretched souls behind our razor wire the comfort of a phone call to loved ones. Surely one of the advantages of a few international calls from the refugees in detention is that they are sending the message home - don't come, all they do is lock us up for years, now they're planning to send us to Malaysia!
0Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 Mark Maserati32 minutes agoReport Abuse
Make them call reverse charges.
2Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 del32 minutes agoReport Abuse
No one pays for my calls except me. They had money to pay illegall people smugglers to come here as illegals, so stop this joke with our money. Stop their free calls, one only when they break our laws and sneak through our borders, and no more. They are not invited and not wanted.
0Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 ken31 minutes agoReport Abuse
You should be going to Malaysia also helen you wacko!!!
0Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 Geoff Wilson29 minutes agoReport Abuse
Thought you intended to get a bit tougher on the refugees Gillard. If you get any more tougher you will be sending Tim in each day to cut their hair. Get the phone cards off them, boot the lawyers out of there, visit on Tuesday ,Thursday only max 4 hours, build an Airport next to the complex and if they fail security checks load em up and fly them out, no appeals.
0Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 Frank27 minutes agoReport Abuse
What?....They don't have internet access? You're not serious!! Why not use the many free methods of contact.....like skype. And yes,I agree with Helen.....We can't afford these guys (and women) a miserly phone call every now and then.....unbelievable. Phone companies should charge them nothing!! Show some compassion idiots!
1Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 PN21 minutes agoReport Abuse
If it is News Limited papers reporting this then we know it is reliable news since the Murdochs sure know a lot about phones. Australia must be part to a global solution to refugees. If our refugees were integrated in our society since their arrival the cost for taxpayers would be less. But if we detain them and do not let them look for jobs etc, then of course we need to pay shelter, medical bills, food, phone calls, etc.
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•World's most liveable city
Four Australian cities have been named among the world's most liveable with one knocking Vancouver off the top spot.
MELBOURNE WORLD'S MOST LIVEABLE CITY
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August 30, 2011, 2:27 pm
Melbourne has finally knocked Vancouver off its perch as the best city in the world to live in.
Melbourne has finally knocked Vancouver off its perch as the best city in the world to live in.
Melbourne claimed the title of the world's most liveable city in the Economist Intelligence Unit's latest survey, with Sydney, Perth and Adelaide also making it into the top 10.
It's the first time in almost a decade of the global liveability survey that Vancouver hasn't ranked as the best place to live in the world.
Melbourne had shared first position with Vancouver in 2002 but finally nabbed the top spot in its own right in the August survey, released on Tuesday.
Economist Intelligence Unit survey editor Jon Copestake said Melbourne managed to move up one spot to claim the top ranking thanks to a slight fall in Vancouver's infrastructure score, which is one of the measures of liveability.
The Canadian city slipped to third spot, behind Vienna in Austria.
Sydney made it to sixth position in the London-based research company's latest ranking of 140 cities, from seventh in the February survey, while Perth and Adelaide again shared eighth place.
"Australia, with a low population density and relatively low crime rates, continues to supply some of the world's most liveable cities," Mr Copeland said in a statement.
"Despite the rising cost of living driven by the strong Australian dollar, these cities offer a range of factors to make them highly attractive."
Melbourne scored 97.5 per cent, just beating Vienna on 97.4 per cent and Vancouver on 97.3. A ranking of 100 per cent is considered ideal.
Brisbane came in at number 21 on the survey, two spots ahead of Wellington but behind Auckland which was number 10.
The debt crisis in euro zone countries led to a slight fall in European cities' liveability rankings.
The Greek capital Athens dropped five places due to its austerity measures and civil unrest, with its 67th place putting it below cities in emerging economies such as Montevideo in Uruguay.
Expats working in Athens could now qualify for a hardship allowance, the survey said.
The survey said the `Arab Spring' uprisings and the Libyan civil war pushed down scores across the Middle East and North Africa with the Libyan capital Tripoli falling into the bottom 10 for the first time.
Bottom place went to Harare in Zimbabwe, which scored 38.2 per cent.
The survey ranks 140 locations as having the best or the worst living conditions, with cities scored on political and social stability, crime rates, access to quality health care, cultural events, the environment, education and the standard of infrastructure.
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18Thumbs UpThumbs Down21 JohnV02:38pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
It is now that Brumby's gone. Wish we had kennett back though
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8Thumbs UpThumbs Down5 Kingy02:40pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
"a slight fall in Vancouver's infrastructure score". Melbourne's is better?!
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35Thumbs UpThumbs Down50 thetrureal02:43pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Melbourne has always been the best!Comment hidden due to its low rating. Show
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73Thumbs UpThumbs Down39 Cara02:45pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
I can't believe any Australian city is on this list - it's over-expensive, isolated, and generally boring. We don't have the same access to resources as people in North America and Europe.
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4Thumbs UpThumbs Down0 Ante03:00pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Note the dichotomy between the places they rate as the most liveable and places where people actually live or want to live?
33Thumbs UpThumbs Down22 Yahoo Serious03:06pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Oh no, not AGAIN !! Melbourne is simply the world's largest coffee machine. It has nothing else to offer. Survey conducted yet again no doubt by people who can think of nothing more exciting than having a cup of coffee on a city street.
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6Thumbs UpThumbs Down10 Mona03:08pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Melbourne is 100% man-made entertainment. No nature at all.
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37Thumbs UpThumbs Down12 Jason03:10pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
How come thousands of Melbourne people move to Queensland to retire every year?
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35Thumbs UpThumbs Down9 Reese Carman03:18pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
Obviously, chosen by people who have never lived in Melbourne!
48Thumbs UpThumbs Down7 beverly03:19pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 ESTReport Abuse
I like little country towns where neighbours look out for each other.
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Algeria's regime: out on a limb that looks set to fall
By giving the Gaddafi family refuge, Algeria's gerontocracy is putting itself on the wrong side of history
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Brian Whitaker
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 30 August 2011 12.12 BST
Article history
Algerian protesters throw stones at an anti-riot policeman during clashes in Algiers in January. Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images
With three out of five countries now under new management along the north African coast, the spotlight is turning towards the remaining two: Algeria and Morocco.
In Morocco, where a new constitution was approved in July, the king's promises of reform may succeed in staving off a mass revolt – at least for the time being. Morocco also recognised the national transitional council (NTC) in Libya with deft timing a week ago, declaring its support for "the legitimate aspirations of the brotherly Libyan people".
That leaves Algeria out on a limb, increasingly identified with the forces of counter-revolution. Not only has it so far failed to recognise the Libyan NTC, but it is now openly providing refuge for members of the Gaddafi family.
Welcoming the Gaddafis, according to Algeria's ambassador at the UN, was nothing more than a humanitarian gesture, in line with the traditions of desert hospitality – but we don't have to look very far to see the politics behind it.
What happened to the Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan regimes could easily have been the fate of the Algerian regime, too. In January, as the Tunisian uprising gathered pace, Algeria also experienced widespread disturbances – and for very similar reasons. Regular protests were still continuing on a smaller scale at the end of March.
The fact that the Algerian regime survived almost unscathed while others fell is due partly to the country's history – many Algerians still have bitter memories of the internal conflict in the 1990s that cost 100,000 or more lives – as well as some smart handling of the situation by the authorities. Unlike Mubarak in Egypt, they lifted the 19-year-old state of emergency and, cushioned by oil and gas revenues, were able to offer economic concessions.
Writing in Foreign Policy, Lahcen Achy highlighted a couple of additional factors. The opposition, while heavily constrained by the authorities, was divided by internal disagreements, and without a common set of grievances disparate groups of protesters – students, the unemployed, civil servants, doctors, etc – pursued their own sectional interests.
Achy also noted that the Algerian security forces are more integrated into the political system than in Tunisia and Egypt. The police force is very substantial, having increased from 50,000 in the mid-1990s to 170,000 today, and is comparatively well paid and professional. Perhaps more significantly, the security forces were careful not to fan the flames by killing large numbers of protesters.
So far, the Algerian regime has been lucky, but it has probably won only a temporary respite. By continuing to back a loser (in the shape of Gaddafi), or at least failing to acknowledge that its neighbourhood is changing rapidly, it has placed itself on the wrong side of history – a point that has not gone unnoticed in the Algerian media. As a result, pressure for change in Algeria is likely to increase now, rather than diminish.
Last week, a report from Chatham House thinktank warned:
"Algeria's 74-year-old president [Abdelaziz Bouteflika] is increasingly isolated in a fast-changing north Africa. Bouteflika, so far, has not faced a mass uprising, but the ingredients – high unemployment, anger over corruption, disillusionment with an unrepresentative political system – are all there. Rather than carrying out serious reforms, the Algerian government has responded to the Arab unrest with a mixture of money and repression."
Unlike the toppled regimes of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, the Algerian regime is not really a one-man (or one-family) show. It is more of a collective gerontocracy, whose members are gradually fading away without being replaced by new blood.
Assessing the state of the regime last year, "Kal", who blogs as the Moor Next Door, wrote:
"Over the last 10 years, many of the key figures in the military hardline – Mohamed Lamari, Smain Lamari, Khaled Nezzar, Larbi Belkheir, et al – have died, retired or grown too ill to manipulate politics. What is left are the stalwarts of the praetorian order, especially the ones most well-entrenched in the 'privatised' industries."
This suggests it's only a matter of time before the regime follows its neighbours into oblivion. Possibly Algerian leaders are hoping to keep revolutionary fervour at bay by creating difficulties for the transitional government in Libya next door but, if so, they could be making a big mistake.
As smarter approach is to accept the inevitable in Libya, as Morocco has cheerfully done, and not draw attention to their hankering for the past.
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jockyscot
30 August 2011 12:16PM
The gaddaffis are victims of an imperialist environment. They should be helped to overcome their problems. The mentally ill should be protected by law.
haward
30 August 2011 12:18PM
Hmmmm.....and for how long did the Saudis shelter Idi Amin?
usini
30 August 2011 12:25PM
Biran Whitaker clearly knows far more than I do about the situation but I think some points stand out. Clearly the Algerians have some kind of free press, judging from the comments from the Algerian newspapers. How far this extends into TV I do not know.
Secondly the Algerian bloggers that I read a few months ago were very cautious. The horrible ten year civil war is still a serious constraint, and nobody wants to see a return to those times.
terua 30 August 2011 12:26PM
Posterity writing for cif. Whoever supports Western Imperiialism is on the wrong side of history, who wants to make a bet?
terua 30 August 2011 12:28PM
haward
30 August 2011 12:18PM
Hmmmm.....and for how long did the Saudis shelter Idi Amin?
and for how long will the west shelter the Saudis?
cardigansinbound 30 August 2011 12:43PM
The police force is very substantial, having increased from 50,000 in the mid-1990s to 170,000 today, and is comparatively well paid and professional. Perhaps more significantly, the security forces were careful not to fan the flames by killing large numbers of protesters.
The police force may of increased by 120'000 since 1990 but the population has increased by 15 million.
Algeria has been able to keep a much tighter lid on its suppression of protests, no major slaughter in the streets but plenty of knocks from the secret police. There's still a balance between an insurgency weary public and a desire for greater freedom from the authoritarian regime.
windupbirdchronicles 30 August 2011 12:44PM
The pursuit of western national interests in Africa is disgraceful. It's usually very violent causing leaders in the region to shake and tremble. It'\s disappointing watching my president Goodluck side with the rebels the moment Nato decide to bomb. I mean what the f**k. Where your balls. Where the hells the African union in all this. The UN aren't neutral in this at all. Yet African leaders keep quiet. Good on Algeria to stand on their own two. They ought to give the man asylum. He isn't going to get a fair trial anywhere.
Alaninwolverhampton 30 August 2011 12:50PM
I do not know much about Algeria, but taking in wives and children seems like a genuinely decent thing to do. Especially when the unelected NTC appears to want to send them all to the scaffold.
We should already have NATO's bombing campaign on behalf of the Libyan rebels on our conscience, without adding the slaughter of Gaddafi's family to that account!
HendTunis 30 August 2011 12:57PM
The same mood of caution in Tunisia too. Nervous military on the frontiers for fear of any infiltration. Given the poor nb of tourists this year, officials tried to allure the Algerian tourists with hotels and shopping (it used to be 1 million annually). But we were surprised by a number of virulent articles in Algerian newspapers: bride kidnappings, car lootings, and other hate crimes that specifically target Algerians! This never-seen smearing campaign has been very efficient, in spite of all the official promises to back Tunisia in these difficult times. We are sandwiched between Libya and Algeria and we know it would be difficult if the two don't get along.
crankymullah
30 August 2011 1:11PM
@ Usini
As an algerian I guarantee there was no civil war, it's a pathetic myth, there was a flase flag massacre commited by the military dictatorship south America/CIA style
Obviously they did a good job of painting it as a "conflict" given the amount of people who fell for that story line
I had the mother of all parties when I learned these predictible morons gave shelter to the khadafis, THIS IS ONE MISTAKE THEY WILL DEFINITELY HAVE TO PAY FOR, the lybian freedom fighters will eventually support their brethen in Algeria with everything ... and then some HAHAHA
OmarL82
30 August 2011 1:11PM
Brian - please give some credit to Morocco - It was one of the first countries to support the NTC and played a massive role in rallying Arab support for the implementation of a no-fly zone. Morocco was one of the only Arab countries at the Paris conference. It is a major Nato ally and has no doubt played a logistical and intelligence gathering role on the ground.
Libya was no ally of Morocco and played a disruptive role in N-African politics by threatening Tunisia and offering support for the Polisario.
The military junta in Algiers has just lost its only ally in the region. Hopefully this will foster domestic change in Algeria as well as a change in their aggressive foreign policy. This would be of great benefit to Tunisia and Morocco.
Dont be blinded by your hatred of Morocco please.
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