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McCain: Libya inspires people in China, Russia, Iran, Syria
By William Maclean
TRIPOLI | Fri Sep 30, 2011 4:13am EDT
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain said on Thursday the fall of Muammar Gaddafi was inspiring people all over world, including citizens of Syria, Iran, China and Russia, but he twinned his praise with caution about Libya's many revolutionary armed groups, saying they had to be brought under control.
Leading the first visit to Tripoli by members of the U.S. Congress since Gaddafi's fall last month, McCain added at a media conference that U.S. investors were eager to do business in the oil-exporting country but this would be difficult as long as fighting continued.
Many residents of the capital say they want the return of the police and the departure of trigger-happy provincial gunmen who have based themselves there since they helped topple Gaddafi last month, saying they fear the militias' jockeying for post-revolutionary power may turn violent.
"We believe very strongly that the people of Libya today are inspiring the people in Tehran, in Damascus, and even in Beijing and Moscow," said the Republican Senator from Arizona, a former presidential contender.
"They continue to inspire the world -- and let people know that even the worst dictators can be overthrown and be replaced by freedom and democracy."
"How they succeed will also be watched very carefully by the rest of the world," said McCain, who was accompanied by fellow Republicans Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida, and Mark Kirk of Illinois.
They earlier held talks with the country's de facto head of state, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the chairman of the interim National Transitional Council (NTC), and the interim Prime Minister, Ahmed Jibril.
Rubio said the United States should always side with democracy even if it might be tempted not to, in cases where "those in charge of a government are friendly to our interests."
"Ultimately I believe we should always be on the side of a transition to democracy that includes Iran, Syria and eventually I hope Bahrain and Saudi Arabia," he said.
Asked if the United States would cooperate with Libya in the event that it had an "Islamic government," McCain replied: "I think the U.S. will be prepared to cooperate with any government that the Libyan people decide. But obviously our relations will be affected by what kind of government that is."
"I do not claim to be an expert on Libya but I do know enough to know that the people of Libya are not in significant numbers interested in a radical Islamic extremist government such as we have in Iran or a couple of other countries. That's not the nature of the Libyan people."
McCain also said the interim NTC had to continue trying to bring under control Libya's many armed groups, whose habit of shooting in the air unsettles many in the capital.
"It's important for the NTC to continue bringing the many armed groups in this city and beyond under the responsible control of its legitimate governing authority," McCain said. "It's essential to continue working together to secure the many weapons and dangerous materials that the Gaddafi regime proliferated around this country."
On Lockerbie, McCain said Americans wanted to know if anyone else was responsible for the 1988 airliner bombing which killed 270 people other than the one Libyan so far convicted for the attack, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi.
In March, NTC chairman Jalil, Libya's former justice minister, said he had evidence of Gaddafi's involvement in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
"I see no reason why we will not see cooperation on the part of the Libyan government after all 90 some Americans are dead as a result of his (Megrahi's actions) actions and we'd like to know who else was connected with it," McCain said.
Megrahi was convicted of the bombing in 2001 and sent to a Scottish prison to serve a life sentence. The Scottish government released him and sent him back to Libya on compassionate grounds in 2009 because he had cancer and was thought to have only months to live.
Megrahi's release and return to a hero's welcome in Libya angered many in Britain and the United States, home to most of the Lockerbie victims.
(Editing by Louise Ireland)
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29 September 2011 Last updated at 12:18 GMT
Libyan forces take Sirte airport
There has been intense fighting in and around the city of Sirte
Forces loyal to Libya's transitional authorities have taken the airport in the city of Sirte, the birthplace of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi.
A BBC correspondent says jubilant fighters moved through the partially destroyed terminal buildings tearing down symbols of the Gaddafi regime.
Gaddafi loyalists have put up stiff resistance in Sirte.
Two weeks ago transitional forces took the airport, a short distance from the city centre, but were then driven back.
The BBC's Jonathan Head says that this time they hope to hold it, despite facing continued rocket and gunfire from the other side of the runway.
Fighters arriving from the west and east say they will then mount a joint attack on Gaddafi loyalists, hoping to push them back towards the sea and to squeeze them into ever smaller areas of the city centre, our correspondent adds.
The airport is about 5km (3 miles) from central Sirte.
Forces loyal to Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) also recently seized Sirte's port.
Nato planes have been carrying out air strikes in the area against military targets including ammunition storage facilities.
Sirte and the city of Bani Walid are the last major areas under the control of Gaddafi loyalists, and both have seen heavy fighting in recent days.
Col Gaddafi's whereabouts are still unknown, though NTC officials have said they believe he may be hiding in Libya's southern desert.
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McCain arrives in Libya as rival forces battle for control of last few strongholds
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 7:43 AM EST, Thu September 29, 2011
Moammar Gadhafi often turned to the nomadic Tuareg to bolster his forces.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- United States Sen. John McCain arrived in the Libyan capital Thursday as the new leadership battled for control of the last few strongholds loyal to ousted ruler Moammar Gadhafi.
McCain was accompanied by Sens. Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and Mark Kirk. The group will meet with members of the National Transitional Council, the new leadership that toppled Gadhafi.
The group arrived on the same day that Interpol issued a Red Notice for the arrest of Saadi Gadhafi, one of Gadhafi's sons, for allegedly taking property through force and intimidation while serving as the head of the Libyan Football Federation.
A Red Notice allows Interpol, the international police agency, to widely circulate an arrest warrant with the intention of extraditing a suspect.
Earlier this month, Saadi Gadhafi fled to Niger, where he was granted safe haven on humanitarian grounds.
Niger has refused to heed the demand of Libya's interim government that it hand over regime officials who had fled there. Niger believes Saadi and other loyalists who have taken refuge there could face the death penalty if returned to Libya.
Interpol issued similar arrest warrants this month for the ousted Libyan leader and another of his sons, Saif al-Islam. Both are wanted by the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, for alleged crimes against humanity committed after the start of the uprising in February.
The Red Notice arrest warrant was issued as new reports surfaced over the possible whereabouts of Gadhafi and two of his sons, Saif al-Islam and Mutassim.
"We have reliable information that Gadhafi is protected by the Tuareg tribe located between Niger, Algeria and Ghadamis town in Libya," Col. Abdul Basit, an interim government military spokesman, told CNN.
He said Saif al-Islam is in Bani Walid and Mutassim is in Sirte.
Both Bani Walid -- home to a powerful tribe loyal to Gadhafi -- and Sirte have been the scene of fierce fighting as troops attempt to wrest control from Gadhafi loyalists.
The accuracy of attacks in and around Bani Walid have prompted allegations by at least one military field commander of possible infiltration by Gadhafi loyalists.
"There are spies among our revolutionaries who send our coordinates to the snipers and Gadhafi loyalists firing from inside Bani Walid, and the proof is that their attacks have been precisely targeted," said Emad Ziglam, a field commander of the Tripoli troops fighting outside Bani Walid.
"The mistake was mixing the rebel units. We should not have allowed fighters from Benghazi among others to join in, since we do not know them all. There are definitely traitors among us."
Division among the ranks of anti-Gadhafi fighters is not unusual. There have been a number of reports during the months-long war of infighting and arguments among troops, raising concerns about a lack of discipline and leadership among the ragtag group of fighters and the possible threat such issues could pose to the country's stability
Neither side appeared to be making headway in Bani Walid, Ziglam told CNN.
He described the humanitarian situation in Bani Walid as "really bad" and said 30,000 of the city's residents had fled toward Tripoli and 12,000 toward Sabha, in the south.
Thousands of people have fled the fighting in Sirte, the birthplace of Gadhafi, where the ousted leader retains a following. The National Transitional Council said that about 100 families left the city Wednesday.
It also said Sirte was surrounded by revolutionary fighters but estimated that about 5,000 pro-Gadhafi fighters remained within the city.
Transitional council military commanders said its forces would wait a few days before launching any major offensive against the city in order to give civilians there more time to leave.
NATO estimates that 200,000 of Libya's 6 million people are still under threat from Gadhafi's supporters.
Gadhafi has not been seen in public since the fall of Tripoli.
Basit, the military spokesman, did not say how the interim government discovered Gadhafi's putative whereabouts, and his assertions could not be verified. The National Transitional Council has made a number of claims about the whereabouts of Gadhafi that have later proved to be false.
Ghadamis is in western Libya, on the border with Algeria. Tuareg tribesmen have helped Gadhafi loyalists escape Libya across the expanses of the Sahel.
During his rule, Gadhafi often turned to the nomadic Tuareg to bolster his forces and his attempts to manipulate and destabilize the poor countries to the south of Libya: Niger, Chad and Mali.
CNN's Mohamed Fahmy contributed to this report.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
.McCain is accompanied by Sens. Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and Mark Kirk
.Saadi Gadhafi is wanted by Interpol for taking property through force and intimidation
.NATO estimates 200,000 Libyans still under threat from Gadhafi loyalists
.Gadhafi believed to be hiding in southern Libya, an NTC official says
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rene2 Right and when are they going to issue an arrest warrent on Eric Prince
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Guest yes right arrest the head of the football federation what did his team do beat England or France really Interpol is pitiful
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Badr99 The Interpol does not really have any effective authority towards making any arrest; it only works as info-sharing agency among police departments worldwide. In other words, issuing a warrant by the Interpol doesn't indicate any immanent arrest.
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joey042065 Qaddafy's son looks like a cockroach.. We need to dismember his body parts and throw them into the sea.
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______ Guest I disagree I think he looks like a proper English educated gentleman
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omambiapius The NTC was poor in strategy from the beginning. They have never advanced even a mile without NATO's assistance. Such a small village has defeated them. Now the turn to NATO again. The truth is; NTC will keep on turning to the West. NTC is full of beggars.
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wahihi the ntc will come up with all the allegations from wherever so they can kill the gaddaffi's. and we know most of their stories are proven to be lies, why would interpol take them seriously?
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Sakkage What about his slimebag son Hannibal? Have they arrested him yet & chopped off his ugly head?
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Libya's NTC thinks Gaddafi hiding near Algeria
Families flee as anti-Gaddafi fighters clash with pro-Gaddafi forces near Sirte, September 28, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Asmaa Waguih
By Joseph Logan and Sherine El Madany
SIRTE | Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:18pm EDT
(Reuters) - Libya's new rulers have said they believe fugitive former leader Muammar Gaddafi is being shielded by nomadic tribesmen in the desert near the Algerian border, while his followers fend off assaults on his hometown.
Intense sniper and artillery fire from pro-Gaddafi fighters has so far prevented National Transitional Council (NTC) forces from taking Sirte despite more than two weeks of fighting.
One of Gaddafi's last two bastions, it has withstood a siege, NTC tank and rocket fire as well as NATO air strikes. The United Nations and international aid agencies are worried about conditions for civilians trapped inside.
More than a month since NTC fighters captured the capital Tripoli, Gaddafi remains defiantly on the run pledging to lead a campaign of armed resistance against the new leaders.
Gaddafi himself may be holed up near the western town of Ghadames, near the Algerian border, under the protection of Tuareg tribesmen, a senior NTC military official said.
"There has been a fight between Tuareg tribesmen who are loyal to Gaddafi and Arabs living there (in the south). We are negotiating. The Gaddafi search is taking a different course," Hisham Buhagiar told Reuters, without elaborating.
Many Tuaregs, nomads who roam the desert spanning the borders of Libya and its neighbors, have backed Gaddafi since he supported their rebellions against the governments of Mali and Niger in the 1970s and allowed them to settle in Libya.
Buhagiar said Gaddafi's most politically prominent son, Saif al-Islam, was in the other final loyalist holdout, Bani Walid, and that another son, Mutassem, was in Sirte.
STRUGGLE FOR SIRTE
Lack of coordination and divisions at the frontlines have been hampering NTC attempts to capture Sirte and Bani Walid.
Fighting continued on separate eastern and western fronts in Sirte on Wednesday and commanders said they would try to join the two fronts together and take the city's airport.
"There is progress toward the coastal road and the airport.... The plan is for various brigades to invade from other directions," NTC fighter Amran al-Oweiwi said.
Street-fighting was under way at a roundabout 2 km (1.5 miles) east of the town center, where anti-Gaddafi fighters were pinned down for a third day by sniper and artillery fire.
As NATO planes circled overhead, NTC forces moved five tanks to the front but were immediately met with Grad rockets fired from inside the town, missing the tanks by only yards.
A Reuters crew at the scene saw some NTC fighters flee the frontline under heavy fire while others stood their ground.
Civilians continued to flee from Sirte.
"There is no fuel, no electricity and there are shells flying everywhere," resident Mohammad Bashir, who left Sirte on Wednesday, said at a checkpoint just outside the city.
He said that most pro-Gaddafi fighters in Sirte were volunteers. "Some tried to stop us from leaving and some of them will shoot at you," Bashir said.
Medical workers said 15 fighters were killed in Sirte on Tuesday, the highest single-day death toll. Two more, including a senior NTC field commander, were killed on Wednesday. More than 100 fighters were wounded, many from sniper fire.
NTC fighters captured 60 African mercenaries in Sirte on Wednesday. They said most had come from Chad and Mali to fight with Gaddafi loyalists.
GADDAFI CLAN STILL VOCAL
As the fighting continues, humanitarian organizations are sounding the alarm about the possibility of civilian casualties in the town. Gaddafi's spokesman has said NATO air strikes and NTC shelling are killing civilians.
NATO and the NTC deny that. They say Gaddafi loyalists are using civilians inside Sirte as human shields and have kidnapped and executed those they believe to be NTC supporters.
Four civilians were wounded when a shell fell on a house on the eastern outskirts of Sirte on Wednesday. Medical workers evacuated the four men to a hospital in Ras Lanuf, which lies 220 km (137 miles) east of Sirte.
"We were sitting in the house, making tea, and all of a sudden a rocket landed," said Ali Al-Ferjani, adding that he believed the shell was fired by Gaddafi fighters.
(Additional reporting by William MacLean and Alexander Dziadosz in Tripoli, Emad Omar in Benghazi, Samia Nakhoul in London, Christian Lowe and Hamid Ould Ahmed in Algiers; Writing by Barry Malone and Joseph Nasr; Editing by Myra MacDonald)
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Nightmare in Libya: Thousands of Surface-to-Air Missiles Unaccounted For
By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and MATTHEW COLE
Sept. 27, 2011
The White House announced today it planned to expand a program to secure and destroy Libya's huge stockpile of dangerous surface-to-air missiles, following an ABC News report that large numbers of them continue to be stolen from unguarded military warehouses.
Currently the U.S. State Department has one official on the ground in Libya, as well as five contractors who specialize in "explosive ordinance disposal", all working with the rebel Transitional National Council to find the looted missiles, White House spokesperson Jay Carney told reporters.
"We expect to deploy additional personnel to assist the TNC as they expand efforts to secure conventional arms storage sites," Carney said. "We're obviously at a governmental level -- both State Department and at the U.N. and elsewhere -- working with the TNC on this."
ABC News reported today U.S. officials and security experts were concerned some of the thousands of heat-seeking missiles could easily end up in the hands of al Qaeda or other terrorists groups, creating a threat to commercial airliners.
"Matching up a terrorist with a shoulder-fired missile, that's our worst nightmare," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D.-California, a member of the Senate's Commerce, Energy and Transportation Committee.
Though Libya had an estimated 20,000 man-portable surface-to-air missiles before the popular uprising began in February, Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro told ABC News today the government does not have a clear picture of how many missiles they're trying to track down.
"We're making great progress and we expect in the coming days and weeks we will have a much greater picture of how many are missing," Shapiro said.
The missiles, four to six-feet long and Russian-made, can weigh just 55 pounds with launcher. They lock on to the heat generated by the engines of aircraft, can be fired from a vehicle or from a combatant's shoulder, and are accurate and deadly at a range of more than two miles.
Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch first warned about the problem after a trip to Libya six months ago. He took pictures of pickup truckloads of the missiles being carted off during another trip just a few weeks ago.
"I myself could have removed several hundred if I wanted to, and people can literally drive up with pickup trucks or even 18 wheelers and take away whatever they want," said Bouckaert, HRW's emergencies director. "Every time I arrive at one of these weapons facilities, the first thing we notice going missing is the surface-to-air missiles."
The ease with which rebels and other unknown parties have snatched thousands of the missiles has raised alarms that the weapons could end up in the hands of al Qaeda, which is active in Libya.
"There certainly are dangerous groups operating in the region, and we're very concerned that some of these weapons could end up in the wrong hands," said Bouckaert.
"I think the probability of al Qaeda being able to smuggle some of the stinger-like missiles out of Libya is probably pretty high," said Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism advisor and now a consultant to ABC News.
Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council, told ABC News in a statement similar to Carney's remarks that, "Since the beginning of the crisis, we have been actively engaged with our allies and partners to support Libya's efforts to secure all conventional weapons stockpiles, including recover, control, and disposal of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles."
Boxer: U.S. Passenger Jets at Risk
Adding to the urgency is the fact that America's passenger jets, like those of most countries, are sitting ducks, despite years of warning about the missile threat. Since the 1970s, according to the U.S. State Department, more than 40 civilian planes around the world have been hit by surface-to-air missiles. In 2003, Iraqi insurgents hit a DHL cargo plane with a missile in Baghdad. Though on fire, the plane was able to land safely. Four years later, militants knocked a Russian-built cargo plane out of the sky over Somalia, killing all 11 crew members.
Now there are calls in Congress to give jets that fly overseas the same protection military aircraft have.
"I think we should ensure that the wide-bodied planes all have this protection," said Sen. Boxer, who first spoke to ABC News about the surface-to-air security threat in 2006. "And that's a little more than 500 of these planes."
Boxer sent a letter today to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano urging the two to establish a joint program "to protect commercial aircraft from the threat of shoulder-fired missiles."
According to Boxer, it would cost about a million dollars a plane for a system that has been installed and successfully tested over the last few years, directing a laser beam into the incoming missile.
"For us to sit idly by and not do anything when we could protect 2 billion passengers over the next 20 years [with] a relatively small amount of money [from] the Department of Defense, I think that's malfeasance," said Boxer. "I think that's wrong." And it could be more practical than trying to round up all the missing Libyan missiles.
"Once these missiles walk away from these facilities, they're very difficult to get back, as the CIA realized in Afghanistan," said Bouckaert.
When the Afghan mujahideen were fighting the Soviets more than two decades ago, the CIA supplied the Afghans with 1,000 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, which had a devastating effect on Soviet military aircraft. After the Soviets had retreated, however, the CIA spent millions of dollars trying to buy back the remaining missiles from the Afghan fighters.
According to Bouckaert, the CIA spent up to $100,000 a piece to reacquire the Stingers.
"In Libya we're talking about something on the order of 20,000 surface-to-air missiles," said Bouckaert. "This is one of the greatest stockpiles of these weapons that has ever gone on the loose."
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free-2-choose
11:48 PM EDT
Sep 27, 2011
Without U.S. help, it's highly unlikely that the Libyan rebels would today be in control and on the verge of victory. Early in the rebellion there were reports that the rebels were made up in part by fundamental Islamics and al-Quada fighters. Obama's decision to press on (with out any congressional approval or input) amounted to a decision to replace a stable, non-threatening country with one that could very easily become unstable and threatening to American interests. After we lose our first jumbo-jet, no doubt Obama will get a thank you letter from al-Quada. And to the post by minorkey1 11:04 pm---Pan Am 103 was shot down in 1988. minorkey took issue with my comment "you have to go back almost 25 years to find this example." Ok it was 23 years to be precise. And then he is able to find another example of terrorism 21 years ago. Most people would call that quibbling----and missing the point
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11:04 PM EDT
Sep 27, 2011
hope and change babywe CHANGED from a ruthless, but caged in and bought off, dictator to a terrorist free for all bonanzatalk about redistribution, third world style. just one of those missles will feed a family of 6 for ten years on the black market. or pay for the funeral costs of just what one can due. oh well, we can always HOPE that they are all past their expiration dates and don't work.Of course I stopped flying since they started with the DHS scanners, so its just academic for me personally.
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Sep 27, 2011
"By the same logic we should still be concerned with the threat from Japan." ~~~~~~ How do you figure that? Japan's last military action against the US was more than half a century ago and was part of a war, not Islamist terrorism against civilians. ____________ "That's right, you have to go back almost 25 years to find this example." ~~~~~~ Not at all. You forget about UTA Flight 772 in 1989, the Addis Ababa Hilton bombing in 1990, and numerous other examples of Libyan-sponsored terrorism since Pan Am 103. I agree with you there was evidence Qaddafi and his government had taken steps to de-radicalize, but you are still quite wrong in trying to claim that the current administration was somehow responsible for creating an Islamist state out of Libya, as if they've never been an Islamist threat prior to now.
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Libya's NTC says Lockerbie case closed
A couple shelters from the rain under an umbrella as they look at the main headstone in the Lockerbie air disaster memorial garden in Lockerbie, Scotland, August 19, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/David Moir
LONDON | Mon Sep 26, 2011 6:01pm EDT
LONDON (Reuters) - The investigation into the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland is closed and Tripoli will not release more evidence that could lead to others being charged, Libya's interim leaders said on Monday.
The British Foreign Office, however, said the investigation into the bombing "remains open."
Scottish prosecutors had asked Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) to give them access to papers or witnesses that could implicate more suspects, possibly including deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya's interim justice minister Mohammed al-Alagi turned them down, telling reporters: "The case is closed."
But the Foreign Office in London said it had talked with the NTC late on Monday and it had promised continued cooperation.
"NTC chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil has already assured the prime minister that the Libyan authorities will cooperate with the UK in this and other ongoing investigations," a Foreign Office spokesman said.
"Having spoken with the NTC this evening, we understand that this remains the case. The police investigation into the Lockerbie bombing remains open and the police should follow the evidence wherever it leads them."
Former Libyan agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was convicted of the bombing in 2001 and sent to a Scottish prison to serve a life sentence. The Scottish government released him and sent him back to Libya on compassionate grounds in 2009 because he had cancer and was thought to have only months to live.
His release and return to a hero's welcome in Libya angered many in Britain and the United States, home to most of the victims.
Pamela Dix, whose brother Peter was among those killed in the attack, told Reuters in an emailed statement: "Suggesting that the Lockerbie case is closed is ludicrous.
"I am not surprised that the new interim government might want to avoid getting involved, but this is a miserable attempt to avoid a perfectly reasonable request for any information or evidence that there might be in Libya. Perhaps there is nothing."
No one at Scotland's public prosecution service was available to comment on the Libyan minister's statement. A spokesman earlier said Scotland had asked the NTC to supply "any documentary evidence and witnesses which could assist in the ongoing inquiries."
"Lockerbie remains an open enquiry concerning the involvement of others with Mr Megrahi in the murder of 270 people," the spokeswoman said before the Libyan statement.
GADDAFI ACCUSED
Scottish prosecutors also noted that Megrahi's trial court had accepted he had not acted alone.
Police at the time said they had submitted a list of eight other suspects whom they wanted to interview but that Gaddafi had refused to allow them to be questioned.
In March, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Libya's former justice minister and now its interim leader, said he had evidence of Gaddafi's involvement in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Megrahi's co-accused at the specially convened Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands in 2000 was Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah who was cleared of mass murder.
He told Sweden's Expressen newspaper last month that Gaddafi should be tried in court over widespread suspicions he ordered the bombing.
"There is a court and he is the one to explain whether he is innocent or not," Fhimah said. "He has to."
(Reporting by William Maclean in Tripoli and Peter Griffiths, Stephen Addison and Michael Holden in London; Writing by Peter Griffiths; Editing by Robert Wooward)
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JamVee wrote:
The stupidity of the Brits and our own Congress amazes me! The Libyans don’t even have a functioning government yet. K-Daffy hasn’t even been captured yet. The Libyans are struggling with chaos on every front, and our (and the Brits) “Diplomatic” lawmakers are asking them for cooperation on the Lockerbie bomber. How about waiting a while, dontcha think they may have “bigger fish to fry” right now . . . YOU IDIOTS! You were asking for the rebuff that you got.
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Renox wrote:
You can’t skin a donkey twice. The British Government and the family members have already been compensated once. They got billions! If they had any self respect they should have refused the money. The Bush Government gave immunity to Libya from any terror related lawsuits in 2004. There was also a $300 million compensation package to Lybian victims killed by the US revenge airstrike ordered by Reagan. The world is ruled by Barbarians!
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Trying to scrape for some more justifications for taking over Libya for the media to trumpet.
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Dumped in the desert ... Gaddafi’s yellowcake stockpile
Sitting in row after row, each 15 long by four high, the blue barrels are as frightening as any remnant of the Gaddafi regime.
A rebel fighter among the yellowcake drums in the warehouse near the city of Sabha. The stockpile was abandoned and unguarded Photo: DAVID ROSE
By Richard Spencer, Sabha
9:00PM BST 25 Sep 2011
Some are marked radioactive, as were the open plastic bags alongside.
The powder they contain appears to be yellowcake uranium from neighbouring Niger. Yet when they were discovered by advancing rebel forces last week, they were abandoned, in tumbledown warehouses protected only by a low wall.
Niger mines yellowcake under a strict security regime designed to ensure none of it falls into the hands of illicit networks. But post-Gaddafi Libya affords little or no protection to this vast haul of material, which if refined to high levels of purity is the essential element of a nuclear bomb.
The Daily Telegraph reported last week that Iran, which is pursuing underground nuclear programmes, had joined in the looting of Libyan weaponry.
Despite the dangers, international atomic agencies and Libya’s rebels say it will take weeks to put safeguards in place.
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There are at least 10,000 drums with a total capacity of two million litres, though most have not been opened and checked for their contents. They are being stored not far from the southern desert city of Sabha.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says it knew that Col Muammar Gaddafi had stockpiled yellowcake uranium near Sabha – a relic of the years when he tried to develop nuclear weapons after obtaining blueprints from the Pakistani scientist, AQ Khan.
“We can confirm that there is yellowcake stored in drums at a site near Sabha in central Libya,” a spokesman said. “The IAEA has tentatively scheduled safeguard activities at this location once the situation in the country stabilises.”
After agreeing to dismantle the programme in 2003, Gaddafi was supposed to have given up all his nuclear technology. He was also supposed to have given up chemical weapons, but it is known he still had mustard gas awaiting disposal.
A WikiLeaks cable disclosed that two years ago he was trying to sell 1,000 metric tons of yellowcake on the world market. No one expected such a valuable commodity to have been left dumped in the desert.
Sabha was an important stronghold for Gaddafi, who spent part of his youth here, and many of the locals are from the Gaddafi tribe. Abdullah Senussi, his security chief, right-hand man and brother-in-law, is from a town 50 miles to the north.
But the city was only lightly defended. A total of 12 rebels died in the fighting, with just one or two parts of the town resisting at all.
Having driven out the remnants of the Gaddafi forces towards the Algerian border, the rebel troops said they were ordered to secure former military bases — a standard practice adopted belatedly to stop weapons stockpiles going missing.
They found the storage facility containing the radioactive drums totally unguarded. “I don’t think it’s ever been guarded,” said Musbah al-Mangoush, an agricultural engineer from the town who escaped Gaddafi’s grip three months ago and returned at the head of a brigade of troops from Benghazi.
“This was a military base until the 1990s, but then it was abandoned. There was no one here.”
In neighbouring sheds are rusting trucks, old fuel tanks, and surface-to-air missiles covered in pigeon droppings.
It is not clear how long the material has been there. Mohammed Othman, whose family owns a farm five miles further up the track away from Sabha, says soldiers were seen unloading trucks in the area a year ago. Mr Mangoush, on the other hand, links the find to what he claims is a high level of miscarriage and deformity in babies in the area, suggesting a longer term presence.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the president of the provisional government, the National Transitional Council, said at a press conference on Sunday that a second find of illegal material had been made near the town of Waddan — believed to be mustard gas. “There are weapons believed to be internationally forbidden, and they are under our control,” he said.
The United States previously said that Gaddafi’s yellowcake stocks were held at the town of Tajoura east of Tripoli and were “secure”.
The real site is now guarded by half a dozen rebel troops.
Fighting has moved on to the border town of Ghat, leaving virtually all the south of Libya, with its important oilfields, in the hands of the rebels.
Of Gaddafi himself, there is now no sign.
“Tell us if you find him,” is the commonest response to questions concerning his whereabouts.
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Libya transitional council believes mass grave found
By the CNN Wire Staff
September 25, 2011 -- Updated 2030 GMT (0430 HKT)
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Officials with Libya's transitional government announced Sunday they have located a suspected mass grave thought to hold the remains of 1,270 people, victims of a 1996 massacre at Abu Salim prison.
The Tripoli site was located by revolutionaries on August 20, said Kamal el Sherif, a member of a National Transitional Council committee.
It was unclear, however, whether the site actually was a mass grave, as no excavation has taken place. Members of the media were shown bones at the site, but medics with CNN staffers on the scene said the bones did not appear to be human.
The NTC committee called on international governments for help.
"There is a lot more to be done to reach the actual truth of this massacre," said Dr. Salem Fergani, a committee member. "To be honest, we were not prepared to deal with such human massacres, so we request the assistance of the international community. We need specialists in the field to help us in identifying the victims ... this is a national mission. The families of these victims have the right to learn the truth about their deceased sons."
Former guards at the prison cooperated in helping find the grave and provide details of the massacre, said Abdul Wahab Gady. He said he is a former prisoner who was at Abu Salim when the deaths took place.
The bones are scattered around an area with about a 100-meter radius, Fergani said. Members of the media were taken to the site on Sunday. Family members of the Abu Salim victims also turned up at the site.
On June 28, 1996, prisoners rioting over poor conditions and restricted family visits seized a guard and escaped from their cells.
"Five or seven minutes after it started, the guards on the roofs shot at the prisoners who were in the open areas," former prisoner Hussein Shafei told Human Rights Watch in an interview years later.
Security officials ordered the shooting to stop and feigned negotiations, he told the organization. But officials instead called in firing squads to gun down the prisoners.
After the inmates agreed to return to their cells, they were taken to prison outdoor areas, blindfolded, handcuffed, and shot.
At first, said Gady, the bodies were buried inside the prison walls, but moved outside the walls in 1999.
The government of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi did not acknowledge the killings and denied any crime had taken place. Some families filed a complaint against the government in 2007, Human Rights Watch said, and Gadhafi's government offered them compensation in exchange for their silence.
The families refused, calling it a bribe, and instead began holding protests each Saturday in Benghazi, one of the spots where the Libyan unrest began this year.
It could take years to identify all the bodies through DNA, Fergani said Sunday.
-- Journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and CNN's Phil Black contributed to this report.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
.NEW: No excavation has taken place at the site
.The suspected grave was found August 20, government officials say
.Libya's transitional government says it contains 1,270 bodies
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US STUDENTS SPARK RACE ROW WITH BAKE SALE
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•'50c for blacks, 25c for women'
A students' group is being criticised over a bake sale in which people are charged according to their race and gender.
A California students' group has sparked a racism and sexism row over plans for a bake sale in which people are charged according to their ethnic background and gender.
Campus Republicans at the University of California, Berkeley say critics have overreacted to their event planned for this week, which they insist is a protest over affirmative action.
The group's Facebook page lists the price of baked goods at the sale according to race: $2 for whites, $1.50 for Asians, $1 for Hispanics, $0.75 for blacks and $0.25 for Native Americans.
"$0.25 FOR ALL WOMEN!" it added.
Campus Republican President Shawn Lewis said the idea of the "Increase Diversity Bake Sale" was to highlight a legislative bill to let California public universities consider race and gender in their admissions process.
He said they planned to go ahead with the sale on Tuesday despite protests and threats. "We didn't expect the volume, the amount of response that we got," he told CNN.
"In the first few hours, hundreds of posts on our Facebook page. And the tone of some of the responses - we expected people to be upset. We didn't expect personal threats to be made.
"They were implicit and explicit threats made to the organisers of the event, from burning down the table to throwing our baked goods at us and other kinds of physical threats."
But the famous US college's student Democrats president, Anais LaVoie, has asked for an apology.
"The way they made the statement, the words that they used, the fact that they humourised and mocked the struggles of people of colour on this campus is very disgusting to me," LaVoie said.
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The World's Biggest Debtor Nations
Throughout the financial crisis, many national economies have looked to their government and foreign lenders for financial support, which translates to increased spending, borrowing and in most cases, growing national debt.
Deficit spending, government debt and private sector borrowing are the norm in most western countries, but due in part to the financial crisis, some nations and economies are in considerably worse debt positions than others.
External debt is a measure of a nation's foreign liabilities, capital plus interest that the government and institutions within a nation's borders must eventually pay. This number not only includes government debt, but also debt owed by corporations and individuals to entities outside their home country.
So, how does the US debt position compare to that of other countries? A useful measure of a country's debt position is by comparing gross external debt to GDP. By comparing a country's debt to what it produces, this ratio can be used to help determine the likelihood that a country as a whole will be able to repay its debt.
This report takes a look at the world's 75 largest economies to see which ones have the highest external debt to GDP ratio, calculated using the most recent numbers from the World Bank. We've listed the top twenty here.
Since the first time this report was published in April 2009, the debt situations of many countries have become of increasingly influential in the markets. In many European nations, these debt levels have caused international organizations and bond investors to put pressure on governments to cut public debt through austerity measures and additional reductions in spending. The countries in the most dire need are the ones in which government debt is a large proportion of external debt, such as the PIIGS nations.
So, what are the world's biggest debtor nations? Click ahead to find out.
By Paul Toscano
Updated 20 Sept 2011
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20. United States - 101.1%
External debt (as % of GDP): 101.1%
Gross external debt: $14.825 trillion
2009 GDP (est): $14.66 trillion
External debt per capita: $48,258
19. Hungary - 120.1%
External debt (as % of GDP): 120.1%
Gross external debt: $225.24 billion
2009 GDP (est): $187.6 billion
External debt per capita: $22,739
18. Australia - 138.9%
External debt (as % of GDP): 138.9%
Gross external debt: $1.23 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $882.4 billion
External debt per capita: $57,641
17. Italy - 146.6%
External debt (as % of GDP): 146.6%
Gross external debt: $2.602 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $1.77 trillion
External debt per capita: $44,760
(to be continued .. )
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Libya, Yemen and Middle East unrest- latest updates
• President Saleh makes dramatic return to Yemen
• Palestinian statehood goes to the UN
• Gaddafi's PM arrested in Libya
Anti-government protests in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA
8.55am: Welcome to Middle East Live. As has become the theme of the week, Yemen looks set to be the focus for today. But here's a round-up of the major developments across the region:
Yemen
Yemen
• President Ali Abdullah Saleh has flown back to Yemen after months recovering from injuries sustained in a June attack on his compound. The dramatic move comes at the end of a week which has seen the worst bout of violence in the eight-month uprising. Nearly 100 people are believed to have died.
• Some protesters are predicting Saleh's surprise return will fan the flames of the unrest in the capital Sana'a. AP reports that fighting has continued after his arrival, with heavy clashes and thuds of mortars heard throughout the night and into this morning. The Guardian's Tom Finn writes:
The timing of Saleh's return was described to me by a Yemeni analyst who did not wish to be named as "a characteristic Saleh move", he told me that Saleh's aim is to "suddenly emerge in a time of crisis so as to appear a saviour and peace keeper." He also speculated that Saleh would probably resign "within days" in an effort to excuse his surprise return and calm the situation.
Other believe it will have the opposite effect. Faizah Suleiman, a female protester leader from the coordinating council at Change Square (The tented protest camp in the heart of the capital) said she expected the president's return to coincide with an even more brutal crackdown on Change Square, "if we're still alive we'll march this afternoon." Another protester named Adel said that Saleh's reappearance was "dangerous" but would "breath new life" into the eight month protest movement which until recently was threatening to grow stale. He said thousands of people would march through the streets who would otherwise have stayed in their houses.
The gravest concern of all is that Saleh's sudden reappearance will draw Yemen's powerful tribal leaders into the ongoing fighting. When Saleh was airlifted to Saudi Arabia for treatment after his mosque was bombed in June, Sadeq Al-Ahmar, the grizzly-bearded sheikh at the head of Yemen's most influential tribe, the Hashed, swore "by God" that he would never let Saleh rule again.
Libya
• Muammar Gaddafi's last prime minister has been arrested in Tunisia, becoming the most senior member of the former Libyan regime to be detained since the government's overthrow. Ian Black in Tripoli reports:
Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi was caught near the country's border with Algeria and jailed for six months for illegal entry. He is likely to be handed over to Libya to face investigation, however, since the Tunis government recognises the new ruling NTC in Tripoli.
• The United States has reopened its embassy in Tripoli. Speaking to journalists after the flag-raising, Ambassador Gene A. Cretz raised the subject of oil. He told them:
We know that oil is the jewel in the crown of Libyan natural resources, but even in Qaddafi's time they were starting from A to Z in terms of building infrastructure and other things" [after the country had begun opening up to the West six years ago.] If we can get American companies here on a fairly big scale, which we will try to do everything we can to do that, then this will redound to improve the situation in the United States with respect to our own jobs.
Palestinian territories
Mahmoud Abbas will submit his bid for recognition of Palestinian statehood to the United Nations later today. The Palestinian leader is expected to hand over the letter seeking to join the UN shortly before he addresses the general assembly to plead the case for admission. You'll be able to follow all the developments in this story on a separate live blog manned by my colleagues in New York.
9.26am: Here's the latest update on Saleh's return from Tom Finn in Sana'a. Opinions are mixed, he reports, on what the wily president- and the protesters urging him to go- will do next:
President Ali Abdullah Saleh flew back into Yemen in the early hours of this morning. With no electricity in Sana'a, word of Saleh's arrival spread by the sound of gunfire with his supporters across the capital firing kalashnikovs and heavy artillery into the air. Most of the streets are empty with Yemenis staying indoors for fear of being hit by stray bullets.
The timing of Saleh's return was described to me by a Yemeni analyst who did not wish to be named as "a characteristic Saleh move". He told me that Saleh's aim is to "suddenly emerge in a time of crisis so as to appear a saviour and peace keeper." He also speculated that Saleh would probably resign "within days" in an effort to excuse his surprise return and calm the situation.
Other believe it will have the opposite effect. Faizah Suleiman, a female protester leader from the coordinating council at Change Square- the tented protest camp in the heart of the capital- said she expected the president's return to coincide with an even more brutal crackdown on Change Square, "if we're still alive we'll march this afternoon." Another protester named Adel said that Saleh's reappearance was "dangerous" but would "breathe new life" into the eight month protest movement which until recently was threatening to grow stale. He said thousands of people would march through the streets who would otherwise have stayed in their houses.
The gravest concern of all is that Saleh's sudden reappearance will draw Yemen's powerful tribal leaders into the ongoing fighting. When Saleh was airlifted to Saudi Arabia for treatment after his mosque was bombed in June, Sadeq Al-Ahmar, the grizzly-bearded sheikh at the head of Yemen's most influential tribe, the Hashed, swore "by God" that he would never let Saleh rule again.
The last time hostilities between the Saleh and Ahmar families turned violent, in May, a week's worth of mortar battles erupted, flattening an entire neighborhood in the capital's east and killing hundreds on either side. There are already reports that clashes have broken out in and around the neighbourhood where Sadeq Al-Ahmr lives, in addition there are thousands of Ahmar's rebel tribesmen and renegade troops loyal to defected general Ali Mohsin roaming the capital. What we may witness today is a battle for the capital.
A number of Western diplomats in Sana'a have told me they had "no clue" that Saleh was going to come back today. Even members of the Saleh's ruling party were kept in the dark suggesting it may have been a spontaneous move by the leader. Rumours are circulating that Saleh will appear this afternoon at a massive pro-government rally near his palace in the city's West. But most of the attention will be on the north of the capital where hundreds of thousands are expected to gather for Friday prayers and a mass march to denounce his return.
9.56am: Opposition activists in Bahrain are calling people to take part in protests today and tomorrow timed to coincide with by-elections for 18 of the 40 seats in the lower house of parliament. The February 14 Coalition, an opposition group, has urged people to march on Martyr's Square, the site formerly known as Pearl Roundabout and the scene of March's bloody crackdown. The Economist warns today that "another violent confrontation is quite likely".
The leader of the opposition Al-Wefaq party is quoted by CNN as telling an an opposition rally in Tubli, a village south of Manama:
When we talk about democracy, we want democracy like that of Westminster, France, and America, not the democracy of Saddam Hussein, nor the democracy of Zine El Abidine, nor the democracy of Gaddafi.
10.08am: For many world leaders it is a welcome moment in the limelight, but for Lilia Labidi, Tunisia's new minister of women's affairs, the UN General Assembly proved dispiriting and a bit of a drag. According to the New York Times, she decided to go home after realising the world's focus had moved on from the Arab Spring. The paper reports:
For Lilia Labidi, minister of women's affairs since the Tunisian revolution in January, her first giddy exposure to the United Nations rapidly dissipated. Her own appeal to the gathering for help in consolidating gains for women in Tunisia elicited little reaction, with Mrs. Clinton, President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and various other female heads of state sweeping out of the meeting on empowering women without stopping for even a hello.
Ms. Labidi, although a guest of the United Nations, decided to go home. "I cannot live here in such luxury," she said, noting that the $700-a-day cost of her staying in New York would be better spent on a project for rural women.
"To the degree that the Arab Spring is important, one would have wanted more than a warm welcome and a group photograph — what am I bringing back to the Tunisian women?" she said over breakfast in a Midtown Manhattan coffee shop. "The attention of the world has to be much more engaged in our region."
Ms. Labidi, a soft-spoken professor of anthropology and clinical psychology, said she found it frustrating that the question she was asked the most by people had little bearing on her projects, like improving girls' access to elementary school. The question she heard over and over: What effect will the revolution have on Tunisian attitudes toward the Arab-Israeli conflict?
10.22am: The situation in Bahrain is very tense, according to @in_bahrain, an anonymous Twitter user who describes themselves as a foreign observer in the country. Here's a series of their latest Tweets, with the most recent first:
Hearing a lot of "down down Hamad," and protests haven't even started yet.
Just visited a few homes, each one had either a large box or sack full of spent tear gas canisters and other "non lethal" weapons.
#Bahrain is on lock down with police everywhere. Situation very tense. Sound of helicopters is constant.
Lots of police checkpoints on roads, but only outside Shia areas according to activists.
Police choppers take to the skies early in #Bahrain.
Still looking for Bahraini preparing to vote this weekend. However, I did meet plenty ready to protest.
Based on discussions w/ activists, I have a feeling Bahrainis will put their country back on the map of Arab revolutions tomorrow.
10.55am: Sana'a seems to be convulsed with rumour and speculation about the intentions of the President.
Earlier this morning, a Dubai-based television channel broadcast unconfirmed reports that Saleh had come home simply in order to stand down. However al-Jazeera is now saying that one of the President's advisers has rejected this idea. Saleh, he said, plans to remain president and resolve the nation's turmoil through political channels.
That would seem to concur with a report from the Xinhua news agency which quotes an unnamed source as saying Saleh will deliver a speech later today in which he will announce measures designed to end the crisis in Yemen.
11.12am: They all had relatives who died in the battle to topple Gaddafi, and now they are calling on the NTC to honour its commitment to look after them. Al Jazeera has this interesting report from Tripoli on the demands for compensation from the families of the victims of the revolution.
11.25am: "Sana'a is truly a divided city", tweets the Guardian's Tom Finn from the Yemeni capital. "Huge crowds just a few miles apart from each other supporting and deriding Saleh's return." Finn is on his way to a rally in support of newly-returned President Saleh, where he says thousands are "waving flags, shouting 'thank god you arrived safely'." But, as he reported earlier (see 9.26am), hundreds of thousands are expected to turn out to an anti-Saleh demo later on today.
11.38am: Reuters reports that an interim government in Libya is to be announced within days. Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, a spokesman for the NTC, is quoted as saying:
We've agreed on a number of portfolios and who would hold the most important ones. There will be 22 portfolios and one vice premier. It would be a compact government, a crisis government.
This appears to back up Mahmood Jibril's statement earlier this week that the new government would be named within 10 days. As was remarked then, drawing up a list of ministers deemed inclusive in a country divided along tribal lines could be a tricky business.
11.49am: Campaign group Avaaz, which has contact with eye-witnesses, medical staff, military personnel and human rights activists in Yemen, has released its daily update on the situation on the ground. It reports that:
• Nearly a million pro-democracy youth protesters have turned out in Sana'a to call on Saleh to stand down.
• Six protesters were shot, two critically injured, when government forces opened fire, according to a medic in Change Square, Mohammed al-Qubati. He said:
They're shooting live ammunition at protesters...This is Saleh's welcome gift to his people.
• Since the arrival of Saleh last night, fierce clashes have been taking place in Sana'a between the Republican Guards and pro-democracy military of the 1st division.
• Protests have spread well beyond the capital, with millions of people taking part in demonstrations in 17 of Yemen's 21 provinces, including Taiz, Aden, Hodieda, Baitha, and Dhammar provinces.
• One protester was killed in the Zaid al-Moshiki district of the southern city of Taiz early this morning when he was shot by a pro-government sniper, according to eye witnesses.
11.58am: The European Union has agreed on an investment ban in the Syrian oil sector to put more pressure on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, AP reports.
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said Friday that the new measure seeks to reinforce the ban on Syrian crude oil imports agreed on Sep. 2.
Friday's additional measures also include a ban to deliver bank notes to the Syrian Central Bank and travel and visa bans on more officials linked to the regime.
The U.N. has estimated that some 2,600 people have already been killed during the suppression of anti-government protests.
In case you missed it, David Cameron spoke at the UN last night of the need for tougher diplomatic action- specifically for a Security Council resolution- on Syria. In his first speech to the UN since becoming prime minister, he said:
We have a responsibility to stand up against regimes that persecute their people. We need to see reform in Yemen, and above all, on Syria, it is time for the Members of the Security Council to act. We must now adopt a credible resolution threatening tough sanctions.
12.40pm: AP reports that Yemen's President Saleh has called for a cease-fire, saying the only way out of the crisis is through negotiations. In a statement from his office, Saleh also urged political and military figures to adopt a truce. More as soon as we have it.
12.48pm: Here's a lunchtime summary of developments across the region:
Yemen
• President Ali Abdullah Saleh has urged battling factions in Yemen to call a cease-fire, saying in a statement that the only way out of country's crisis was negotiations. The call came hours after he flew back to Yemen after four months in Saudi Arabia, prompting thousands of his supporters to turn out to a pro-Saleh rally in Sana'a.
• In the north of the city, thousands of anti-Saleh protesters have thronged Change Square. They are preparing for a big rally this afternoon, with many saying that the return of the president will merely fan the flames of unrest. Activists have reported that at least six protesters have been shot in Sana'a today, and that one man has been shot dead by a pro-government sniper in Taiz. (See 11.49am.)
• Protests have spread far beyond the capital today, according to campaign group Avaaz. They reported that demonstrations are being held today in 17 of Yemen's 21 provinces, including Taiz, Aden, Hodieda, Baitha, and Dhammar provinces.
Bahrain
• Anti-government activists are preparing to take to the streets again in demonstrations timed to coincide with tomorrow's by-elections in the lower house of parliament (see 9.56am). A foreign observer tweeting under the name @in_bahrain reports that the February 14 opposition group has called for the protest to begin at 3pm local time. Organisers have said they aim to move back to the Martyrs Square- the spot formerly known as Pearl Roundabout where protesters were shot and killed in March.
• A senior Shiite cleric has criticized the Gulf kingdom's Sunni rulers for practising what he says is "fake democracy" ahead of parliament elections. AP reported that Sheik Isa Qassim gave a sermon at Friday prayers in which he said the elections were meaningless. He was speaking in the opposition stronghold of Diraz, northwest of the capital Manama, it added.
Libya
A spokesman for the NTC has confirmed that an interim government line-up will be announced within days. (See 11.38am.) Abdel Hafiz Ghoga told Reuters there would be 22 ministerial portfolios and a vice-premier.
Palestinian territories
There are only hours to go now before Mahmoud Abbas submits his bid for Palestinian statehood to the UN. Shortly after he makes a speech before the general assembly, the Palestinian president is expected to hand over a letter stating his request. And shortly after that Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is scheduled to speak: he is likely to chastise the bid as harmful to the (largely dormant) peace process. You'll soon be able to follow all the day's events on a Guardian live blog hosted by my colleagues in New York.
Syria
The European Union has said it is imposing an investment ban in the Syrian oil sector to put more pressure on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. (See 11.58am.) EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said it would aim to reinforce the ban on Syrian crude oil imports agreed earlier this month. Last night, at the UN, David Cameron called for the international community to toughen its stance on Syria, calling on members of the Security Council to pass a resolution.
1.02pm: This is Peter Walker, taking over temporarily from Lizzy.
AP is citing Syrian activists as saying security forces have opened fire on anti-Assad protesters in the central city of Homs, killing one man.
1.04pm: In Bahrain, the kingdom's leading Shia cleric has been scathing about tomorrow's parliamentary by-elections, an indication of the religious divides which underpin the tensions. Addressing worshippers at a mosque in the opposition stronghold of Diraz, Sheik Isa Qassim said:
There is a class of society under repression and there are obstacles at every turn, blocking their voice. This is fake democracy.
1.24pm: A tweet from Brian Whitaker has pointed me to this fascinating story from Reuters, which recounts the work in Benghazi of "super-fixers", the well-connected and shadowy private envoys seeking to connect foreign oil companies with Libya's new regime.
1.30pm: Amnesty International says it believes an 18 year old is the first woman known to have died in custody during Syria's current unrest, a claim being reported widely.
The rights group said the family of Zainab al-Hosni found her mutilated body in a morgue in the central city of Homs while searching for the body of her activist brother. Amnesty said she was abducted by what appeared to be plainclothes security forces on 27 July, seemingly to pressure her brother to hand himself in. Philip Luther from the organisation said:
If it is confirmed that Zainab was in custody when she died, this would be one of the most disturbing cases of a death in detention we have seen so far.
1.51pm: As mentioned in the comment by my colleague, James Walsh, there are reports of clashes between activists and police Bahrain. Nothing as yet from the news wires, but Twitter has several accounts.
@alhojairy:
The police is shooting the protesters now near city center #bahrain #LuluReturen
@MARYAMALKHAWAJ
Sanabis: despite heavy attacks by security forces ppl still pushing towards pearl square via .@najialifateel #bahrain #feb14 #lulureturn
2.15pm: It looks like it's another bloody Friday in Syria: AP reports activists' claims that Syrian security forces have opened fire on thousands of protesters. There are few details for the moment, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says security forces killed one man near the restive central city of Homs.
2.27pm: Al-Jazeera are hosting a highly disturbing video appearing to show Syrian Special Forces beating and tormenting a man lying on the ground. They laugh and smile as they take turns beating the soles of his feet. A second video- highly graphic and upsetting- shows the severely bruised body of a man said to be Amer. A voice on the video says the body had been returned on August 13. None of this has been independently confirmed. Al Jazeera English writes on its blog:
Al Ittihad newspaper reported Amer had been teaching Arabic in Saudi Arabia and it is believed he was home in Hula for a holiday with family. Activists say it is likely Amer was arrested by security forces because of his long beard and his wearing traditional Muslim robes.
The Assad regime has repeatedly blamed Islamists for driving the popular uprising in Syria. As the video zooms in on his terrified face, the soldiers tell Amer to repeat the chant of loyalty to President Assad: "With soul and blood I sacrifice to you Bashar."
3.37pm: Re the earlier reports of clashes in Bahrain (see 1.51pm), Reuters have a round-up:
A massive police force blocked protesters trying to march to the Bahraini capital on Friday, witnesses said, a day before a key by-election to fill parliamentary seats vacated by opposition leaders in protest at the crushing of popular unrest in March.
Bahrain's Shia Muslim majority took to the streets of Manama in February seeking more access to jobs and a greater say in government but a brutal crackdown and martial law ended the protest wave. Conciliatory efforts by the Sunni Muslim-led government followed but have not yielded any agreements.
More radical elements of the opposition have tried several times to march back into the capital recently, and Friday's attempt appeared to be the largest yet, witnesses said.
But police barred their way and sealed off roads to the Sanabis area and Bahrain Financial Harbour, which flank the central roundabout that was the epicentre of protests seven months ago.
3.40pm: And once again on Bahrain, al-Jazeera is reporting that security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters.
3.50pm: There is, of course, another hugely significant Middle East story taking place today: the addresses to the UN general assembly in New York by the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. Abbas, crucially, is set to argue the Palestinians' case for formal UN acceptance as a state, something Israel bitterly opposes.
Follow live updates on the speeches and reaction with my US-based colleague, Richard Adams, here.
4.55pm: Hakim al-Masmari, the publisher and editor in chief of the Yemen Post, has the following observations about the return of Saleh:
Ali Abdullah Saleh's return to Sana'a came the day after one important event and three days before another.
He arrived in the capital after the UN's Yemen envoy and the Gulf Co-operation Council had again gone home without selling the exit plan they had drafted to save face for Saleh and save Yemen from a slide into full-blown civil war.
That proposal called for Saleh to stay in exile in Saudi Arabia and leave the presidency with his head held high. The sweetener was the International Criminal Court would stay off his tail – a pardon not granted other ousted dictators in the region such as Muammar Gaddafi.
Saleh's return to Yemen after more than three months as a guest of Riyadh would seem to be the death knell for the GCC plan and the start of a bid by Saleh to instead consolidate the ruling party's power base, which crumbled in his absence. He immediately called for dialogue with the opposition – hardly the sort of thing a man on his way out the door would pause to do.
And nor is this a sincere gesture; it's very likely to be a bid to buy time while Saleh circles the wagons ahead of a date in December that he had pledged earlier this year to formally begin a transition of power.
The December deadline is an important part in the Saleh equation, not because it represents an end game that he is likely to honour. The impetus instead lies in the fact that Riyadh likely believes he will do so. How they react when the disappointment sinks in is a crisis in waiting.
The second crucial date, 26 September, is the annual national holiday marking the anniversary of the 1962 Yemeni Revolution, in which most of the country became a republic. Saleh now wants the restless youth who have mounted a nine-month challenge to his authority to realise that no second revolution will take a place.
The arrival of the presidential jet has sharply escalated the interminable problems that now blight Yemen at every point. The security forces are fracturing daily and resentment continues to grow on the country's seething streets, where homes have an hour of electricity each day and food prices have risen around 400% in the past seven months.
Yemen is a ticking time bomb. And Saleh's return has just shortened the fuse.
5.20pm: We're closing this blog for today – many thanks for all the comments. Don't forget, you can follow live coverage of the Palestinian statehood debate at the UN here.
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benad361
23 September 2011 9:27AM
Morning all - what can I say? I am glad that the Palestinian state bid is going ahead, and I give all my best wishes to the Palestinians, and all revolutionaries around the Arab world and elsewhere who are fighting for their freedom.
As Ahmadinejad said, the illegal Israeli occupation is coming to an end.
BrownMoses
23 September 2011 9:29AM
Toronto Star - In one Libyan town, freedom isn't easy
An article about people in Tajura.
The Globe and Mail - In Tripoli, the ugly truth about Gadhafi emerges
Interesting read about Gaddafi supporters visiting places like Abu Salim
Vice - The Rebels of Libya : Part 1
The first time I went to Libya, in 2010, I was arrested just two days into my trip. Filming a documentary for VICE, I was detained for shooting where the authorities thought I shouldn't, and thus began endless rounds of questions, emphatic yelling, and head-shaking incredulity at my claims of innocence-and, of course, the requisite implications that I was a spy. When I was finally released, I swore I would never return to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (official name). But that promise was quickly broken, and I found myself back in the country almost exactly a year later, in the midst of a chaotic and violent revolution.
Vice video - The Rebels of Libya : Part 1
AFP video - US Embassy in Tripoi Reopens
Reuters - Raw uranium stored near Libya's Sabha - IAEA
The U.N. atomic agency said on Thursday that Libya's previous government had stored raw uranium near Sabha, after CNN reported that anti-Gaddafi forces had found a military site containing what appeared to be radioactive material.
The CNN report and the comment by the International Atomic Energy Agency seemed to contradict a U.S. statement last month that Libya's store of so-called yellow cake was held at the Tajura nuclear research facility near Tripoli.
Reuters - Libya NTC faces credibility test at Gaddafi strongholds
Libya's new government said it had tightened its grip on oasis towns which sided with Muammar Gaddafi, but faced a tough fight to take two remaining strongholds loyal to the ousted leader and bolster its credibility.
Forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC) said they controlled a string of desert towns in Libya's deep south, although they said Gaddafi loyalists were still holding out in pockets of at least one oasis.
Telegraph - Libya: success 'relied on luck'
The Royal United Services Institute's analysis of the operation said that the success of Nato air strikes relied on “improvisation” and “good luck”, as well as military prowess.
Reuters - Sirte Oil starts gas output from key Libyan fields
Libyan energy firm Sirte Oil has resumed gas output in the Hateiba and Assoumoud gas fields in eastern Libya and supplies are now flowing to coastal power plants, its chairman has said, reducing the need for expensive diesel imports.
Flight Global - Libya begins effort to rebuild its air transport infrastructure
Libya is working to rebuild its air transport sector in the wake of the ousting of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, as the country's two main airlines assess the damage to their fleets on the ramp at Tripoli airport.
BrownMoses
23 September 2011 9:30AM
Here's some stuff from yesterday evening you might have missed
Telegraph - First footage of Hana Gaddafi found
HRW - Libya: Halt Exhumations of Mass Graves
Reuters - EU eases Libya asset freezes to boost new government
CNN's Ben Wedeman uncovers a site containing what is possibly radioactive material in Libya
Foreign Policy Photo Gallery, Children of the Revolution
The British Council put an interesting entry on their blog about the need for citizen journalists in Libya
One blog it linked to was this one which is photographs being taken in various locations in Libya, it's worth a look, some interesting photos on there.
It also links to this site which is apparently a list of 120 blogs run by Libyans.
BrianWhit
23 September 2011 10:12AM
I've posted a few thoughts on my blog about President Saleh's return to Yemen.
capmint1
23 September 2011 10:22AM
brownmoses
the Telegraph article mentions RUSI, it includes a timeline and analysis, and more fuller coverage of role of Qatar, source doc here:
Several features of this operation show evidence of improvisation, innovation, and good luck, as well as the characteristic military professionalism of the allied forces involved.
http://www.rusi.org/news/ref:N4E7B610E8D672/
ByzantiumNovum
23 September 2011 10:25AM
Saleh is unreasonable.
LauraOliver
23 September 2011 10:25AM
@BrownMoses thanks as ever for those links. Particularly enjoyed the British Council blog post:
The revolts in Libya are moving into their seventh month, but many of the news stories and broadcast pieces that once sizzled with details have become staid, predictable and tired. The stories of the rebels and whereabouts of Qaddafi carry obvious news value, but the sentiment of everyday Libyans are vital voices for Americans to hear, especially since Western impressions of Libya are largely limited to the Lockerbie tragedy in 1988 and the machinations of Moammar Qaddafi. These blogs are helpful reminders of the personal toll of the revolt and hope for a new nation told largely from heartfelt perspectives. These blogs also undermine the prevailing view that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
Obviously we need to be careful how we verify/act on this material, but one of the best things for me about the thread on this blog has been the eye-witness accounts shared and the reports of how Libyan citizens' day-to-day living has been affected - like the piece shared a week or so ago about public services returning in Libyan cities.
capmint1
23 September 2011 10:25AM
also, on yestereday blog, one of the themes I picked up was media management.
link to an old article on Assymetric Warfare published back in 2002 by Singapore Armed Forces Journal (hopefully that counts as impartial) written shortly after Kosovo and Gulf War 1; section on 'winning the media war' is worth reading in context of Libya; bear in mind events since then are war on terror, Gulf 11, and role AJ as an Arab broadcaster and other recent events:
http://www.mindef.gov.sg/safti/pointer/back/journals/2002/Vol28_2/3.htm
SBS100
23 September 2011 10:36AM
Thanks for the links, BrownMoses. I needed a good laugh - especially this one:
CNN's Ben Wedeman uncovers a site containing what is possibly radioactive material in Libya
Essential viewing!
SBS100
23 September 2011 10:36AM
Thanks for the links, BrownMoses. I needed a good laugh - especially this one:
CNN's Ben Wedeman uncovers a site containing what is possibly radioactive material in Libya
Essential viewing!
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Link BrownMoses
23 September 2011 10:38AM
@capmint1 Thanks to the link to the report, there's a good section on special forces that's really worth a read on page 10, and the whole report is a really good analysis of the military situation in Libya over the last 7 months.
@LauraOliver At this stage of the conflict I find hearing all the stories of ordinary Libyans from across the country really interesting, especially in areas which were difficult to access in the earlier stages of the conflict.
It seems like there's many incredible stories from those places that need to be told. For example, Ben Wedeman mentioned in one of his tweets about parts of Sabha rising up against Gaddafi and pushing security forces out of different parts of the city and keeping them free, which to me sounds much more interesting then a bunch of barrels in a warehouse.
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