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SIRTE, Libya, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Libyan government fighters have captured Muammar Gaddafi's son Mo'tassim as he tried to escape the battle-torn city of Sirte, National Transitional Council (NTC) officials said.
The capture of the deposed leader's national security adviser, and the first member of the Gaddafi family, is a boost to Libya's new rulers, whose forces are still battling pro-Gaddafi fighters in his home town of Sirte.
"He was arrested today in Sirte," Colonel Abdullah Naker told Reuters on Wednesday. Other NTC sources said Mo'tassim was taken to Benghazi where he was questioned at the Boatneh military camp where he is being held. He was uninjured but exhausted, the officials said.
Hundreds of NTC fighters took to the streets in several Libyan cities and fired shots in the air in celebration.
Gaddafi loyalists have fought tenaciously for weeks in Sirte, one of just two major towns where they still have footholds, two months after rebels seized the capital Tripoli.
"We have control of the whole of the city except neighbourhood 'Number Two' where the Gaddafi forces are surrounded," said Khaled Alteir, a field commander in Sirte.
Green flags, the symbol of Gaddafi's 42 years in power, still fly above many of the buildings there.
NTC tanks moved close up to buildings used by snipers and blasted large holes in the walls. Behind them came pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns, and behind them, the infantry armed with AK-47s began the assault.
The remaining forces still loyal to Gaddafi have been firing back on the attackers with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, but they were no longer using heavier weapons and their forces had lost some cohesion, an NTC commander said.
"We've noticed now they are fighting every man for himself," said Baloun Al Sharie, a field commander. "We tried to tell them it's enough and to give themselves up, but they would not."
The assault by the new government forces is still being aided by NATO reconnaissance and strike aircraft. Britain said its jets had bombed and destroyed two pick-up trucks belonging to Gaddafi's forces in Sirte on Wednesday.
PRISONERS KILLED
Mo'tassim is seen as belonging to a conservative camp -- rooted in the military and security forces -- which resisted his brother Saif al-Islam's reform attempts.
A senior NTC military official told Reuters that Mo'tassim had cut his usually long hair shorter to disguise himself.
Gaddafi and his most politically prominent son, Saif al-Islam, have been on the run since the fall of Tripoli in August. Gaddafi himself is believed to be hiding somewhere far to the south in the vast Libyan desert.
His daughter Aisha, her brothers Hannibal and Mohammed, their mother Safi and several other family members fled to Algeria in August and have lived their since. Another son, Saadi, is in Niger.
In the "Number Two" neighbourhood, government forces found 25 corpses wrapped in plastic sheets. They accused pro-Gaddafi militias of carrying out execution-style killings.
Five corpses shown to a Reuters team wore civilian clothes and had their hands tied behind their backs and gunshot wounds to the head.
"There are about 25 innocent people with their hands tied. There is no humanity. It's sad," said NTC commander Salem al Fitouri standing besides the corpses, which he said had been there for at least five days.
Medical workers at a hospital outside Sirte said four NTC fighters were killed and 43 others were wounded on Wednesday.
The NTC has said it will start the process of rebuilding Libya as a democracy only after the capture of Sirte, a former fishing village transformed by Gaddafi into a showpiece replete with lavish conference halls and hotels. (Additional reporting by Tim Gaynor in Sirte, and Barry Malone and Joseph Logan in Tripoli; Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by Giles Elgood)
Hope they gave the fucker some slaps :bananaman:
Why am I reminded of this:
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Libya: rebels build huge armoured battering ram
Rebel forces trying to punch into a final pocket of Gaddafi loyalists holding out in Sirte have built a huge armoured battering ram which they hope will break the deadlock.
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The contraption is built around a bulldozer covered in sheets of steel and concrete armour.
Thirteen days into the final assault on Col Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace, loyalists defending district two are still defying thousands of rebels and inflicting heavy casualties.
Brigades from Misurata said they would use the machine, painted in revolutionary red, green and black, to sweep aside barricades blocking the road from the western Zafran district into the loyalist enclave.
It would also plough through houses and walls to forge new routes for their advance, hidden from loyalist snipers who have killed or wounded scores in the past week.
Medics on the Zafran front said they had seen 10 killed and 51 wounded during a push forward on Tuesday alone.
Ali Abu Daboos, a 22-year-old mechanic who will be one of the five-man crew, said: "It's very dangerous and adventurous. It will help us make roads for the other vehicles to follow us." The machine's armour is a ton-and-a-half of concrete sandwiched between plates of inch-thick steel.
"We hope it is thick enough to resist the rocket-propelled grenades. They will be firing from very close," said one rebel onlooker.
Fighters cheered when a man in a naval officer's hat directed the machine, clanking and squealing, up to the front line.
The National Transitional Council forces have about 20 captured Soviet-era tanks in Sirte and a handful of armoured personnel carriers. However they have failed to use the armour to any effect in the siege.
Intense bombardment of district two has also done little to soften the loyalist defences and rebel leaders suspect the defenders can hide safely in basements during the barrages.
The driver directs the battering ram with the aid of a video camera mounted in the front armour.
Inside four gunners can fire from gun ports in the side. The inside was stacked with AK-47s, heavy machine guns, grenades and water bottles in preparation for the mission.
Ali Abdullah, a 20-year-old student who is another crew member said: "We will be watching from the portholes and if we see them trying to flank us, we'll shoot them."
Reports of Gadaffi being killed abound the internet.
BBC quoting NATO as saying they attacked a convoy near Sirte - and that may have been carrying Gaddafi. But hang on - wasn't NATO supposed to be a simple airpower operation to prevent Gaddafi's forces from attacking its own people? Oh well, I guess that will all be overlooked since the whole North Africa thing was a CIA op all along.
Actually, it was a corporate op.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer
Do you thing Qadaffi will sell as many T shirts in heaven as Che'?
I doubt it somehow. Few tears for his departure I'm sure. Doesn't change the fact that this was an Anglo-American backstabbing job.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
Don't forget the garlic munchers.
The Libyan Government offered 8 ceasefires to the crusader coalition, the UN , the UK and the USA. Every one was rejected, against the UNSC resolution.
The Libyan government knew that any honorable settlement was not available.The Crusader coalition waged an illegal war aginst the government of a sovereign state. The UN specifically prohibits regime change.
The NATO cowards bombed the Libyan people to death every day.
The wild west posse, directed by the crusader coaliton, claims another scalp.
Nothing changes.
RIP a great leader, who died protecting his country.
yes so typically American and British, why do you think the French are always suspicious of those 2 :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer
Maybe because they have been fucked royally many times by the pair, either together or individually:)
Vive la difference!
Honestly, how do you have the gall to come out with crap like this?Quote:
The NATO cowards bombed the Libyan people to death every day.
Gaddafi was slaughtering his own citizens. NATO crippled his military.
I doubt there are too many Libyans upset with NATO's assistance.
Except the ones who were clinging onto cushy government jobs and handouts on Mad Dog's payroll, and they can go and fuck themselves.
Another unexpected bonus is that a load of the Libyans living in exile in the UK said they can't wait to go home.
:)
Congrats, NTC! That's what happens to clowns like Gaddafi and Ceaucescu.
Now to get Saif.
Hmmm, obviously no-one gives much of a toss any more, but here you go anyway. A few people I know who worked on the original construction are being tapped up about coming back to rebuild.
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Libya boosts oil crude production to 600,000 barrels per day
Tripoli expects to raise oil output to 800,000 bpd before end of 2011, reach pre-crisis levels of 1.7 billion bpd by end of next year.
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DOHA - Libya has boosted its oil crude production to 600,000 barrels per day and is expected to add another 200,000 bpd before the end of the year, National Oil Corporation chief Nuri Berouin said on Sunday.
"Our production has reached 600,000 bpd of which 140,000 bpd go to (local) refineries," said Berouin, adding that the remaining 460,000 bpd are exported.
Tripoli expects to raise its oil output to 800,000 bpd before the end of 2011 and reach pre-crisis levels of 1.7 billion bpd by the end of next year, Berouin told reporters on the sidelines of a gas forum meeting in Doha.
He said that the damage to oil facilities from the revolution that ousted Moamer Gathafi is expected to cost "hundreds of millions of dollars."
A senior National Oil Corporation official said earlier this month that the rate of recovery of oil production was faster than expected after a vital pipeline was repaired.
The pipeline was blocked by Libya's former rebels to prevent crude from being pumped out of the giant Al-Sharara oil field to the refinery in Zawiyah to the benefit of Gathafi's regime, the official added.
Located in Libya's far south, Al-Sharara is operated by Spain's Repsol YPF.
Interim oil minister Ali Tarhuni said last month that Tripoli hoped to raise the country's oil production to nearly one million bpd by April, and to pre-conflict levels of around 1.7 million bpd by the end of 2012.
Estimates indicate that some 10 percent of the OPEC country's oil infrastructure was severely damaged during the eight-month rebellion against Gathafi.
Libyan commander: Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam arrested
Younger Gadhafi captured with two aides while trying to cross into Niger, commander says
Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam has been captured in southern Libya, a Libyan militia commander said Saturday.
Bashir al-Tlayeb of the Zintan brigades told a press conference that Seif al-Islam was captured with two aides trying to smuggle him out to neighboring Niger.
Libya's interim justice minister told Reuters that the younger Gadhafi was in good health.
The commander said that Gadhafi's son had been taken to the Libyan town of Zintan, and would not comment on where Seif al-Islam might be tried.
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Gaddafi supporters 'try to blow up Tripoli power grid' - Telegraph
Here you are harry a report from the UK daily telegraph. Indicates the terrorists are still killing Libyans, the Gadaffi supporters are still blowing things up and a call for more mercenaries to help the unelected terrorists.
""We captured explosives with them that they bought from the black market and now we're interrogating them," said Abdullah Naker, the commander of Tripoli's Revolutionist Council.
Militia groups who helped oust Gaddafi last year still hold considerable power in Libya, and have taken the law into their hands in several areas, setting up road blocks and arresting suspects despite the presence of an official police force.
Mr Naker said the nine Gaddafi supporters had been funded by a group of businessmen affiliated to the former leader, who was killed in October after militias overran his home town of Sirte.
Mr Naker also accused the nine and their supporters of trying to relaunch the former leader's official television station Al Jamahiriya.
The men had been planning to set off a number of explosions in the capital, state media reported, quoting a statement from Libya's electricity and renewable energy authority.
Libya's interim government set a deadline that expired on Dec 20 for militias to leave Tripoli, and most withdrew their fighters and dismantled checkpoints last week.
Mr Naker said a number of bands returned to the capital on Saturday, in a show of strength to Gaddafi supporters that he said were still at large, threatening the country.
Libya's interim rulers are trying to persuade thousands of militia fighters to join the military, police and civil service to try to break up the forces controlled by rival commanders with regional allegiances.
Mr Naker and other militia chiefs have said they want guarantees that their men will be paid well by the government before letting them go."
None of it surprises me. It's new to the democracy game, and it's hard to establish rule of law amongst tribes.
Ask Iraq.
Continuing battles in Libya. Bengali, Tripoli, Sirte, Misrata ....
Gunfire, rocket attacks, helicopters circling......
10,000+ prisoners held without trial.
Women and children being gunned down.
Dépêches | Algeria ISP
Animal Farm all over again:
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Hundreds of angry protesters have stormed the Libyan transitional government's headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi, carting off computers, chairs, and desks while the country's interim leader was holed up in the building.
Libyans have grown increasingly frustrated with the pace and direction of reforms in the country more than three months after the end of the civil war that ousted longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Those concerns spurred residents in Benghazi, where the uprising broke out in February, to begin protests nearly two weeks ago to demand transparency and justice from the country's new leaders.
The melee at the National Transitional Council's headquarters began after protesters broke through the gates using hand grenades and streamed into the grounds of the headquarters. They banged on the building's doors and demanded officials meet with them.
In a bid to calm tensions, NTC chief Mustafa Abdul Jalil tried to address the crowd from a second-floor window, but protesters began throwing bottles at him.
Protesters then torched Abdul-Jalil's armoured land cruiser and broke into the headquarters itself, smashing windows to get inside and cart off furniture and electronics.
A security official in the building said a team of 50 guards dressed as civilians were trying to calm the protesters.
The official, who served as a revolutionary commander during the civil war, said Jalil was still in the building and was refusing to leave. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
Some of the protesters pitched tents weeks ago outside the NTC's headquarters to protest against election laws they say were drafted by the interim leaders without consulting the public.
"The election laws have not been approved by thousands of Libyans and do not honour those who died for our freedom," said Tamer al-Jahani, a lawyer taking part in the protest. "We don't want to replace one tyrant with another."
The NTC is expected to soon pass the packet of laws, which specify how elections for a transitional parliament will be held. The council only took into account public suggestions through an online survey.
The NTC's handling of the draft laws has sparked criticism that the council is not living up to its democratic ideals.
Last week, NTC official Abdel-Hafiz Ghoga was assaulted in Benghazi by protesters angry at what they said is the NTC's lack of transparency.
Some demonstrators were demanding more rights for fighters wounded during the civil war.
Protester Ahmed Boras accused the NTC of sidelining anti-Gaddafi fighters.
"It seems to us that these people are no different than Gaddafi and they only speak the language of force," he said.
So, when do we start seeing the boatloads of refugees turning up in Italy? Or are they already being quietly turned away?
I don't believe the AyatollOhOh's Algerian version of mass carnage at all - they are pro-Gadhafi and are hosting (well protecting is a better word) members of the late sewer rat's family.Quote:
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If it was as bad as that "news" site portrays, Lampedusa and the Egyptian, Algerian and Tunisian borders would be swamped again.
But what is clear is that, as in Egypt, having got rid of one evil dictator, the people are sadly finding that their sacrifices are amounting to nothing, while those in power, even temporarily, seek to consolidate it.
Very sad.
^It is.
duh, welcome to the real world harryb :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
maybe if you didn't spend all your time playing XBOX games shooting bad guys, you would know that the real world is made of shade of grey, not good vs bad