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According to sources, Libyan officials plan to immediately arraign Gaddafi and put him on trial, but have agreed to let him finish a quick game to 100.
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Andrew Mitchell has sent what we call a stabilisation response team, that's leading the international assessment in Benghazi … of what would be needed for Libya to stabilise the situation for the people of Libya after Gaddafi goes.
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If Gaddafi survived, would it weaken or strengthen his position as leader?
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The UN however did not authorize or agree to the UK attempting to take over Libya or kill their leader - neither did the UN agree to foreign forces in Libya - Gaddafi was right all along - this war is all about foreigners in Libya destablizing the country -ie, the UK and their useless SAS.
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This time there was less of the light-hearted banter that had marked earlier appearances: this was a serious President Obama answering questions about the deaths of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Muammar Gaddafi.
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On the same day, "National Transitional Council, " spokesman Abdul Sharm cefoxitin - Mulla said, did not hide in Sirte, Gaddafi may be because of the terrain features are not easy to Sirte escape.
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Then there are those damning insidious remarks of Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi thanking, among others, the Queen, Prince Andrew (a so-called "Special Representative" for British trade) and Brown for their assistance, as well as open admissions by British trade experts as to the "helpfulness" of the release, leaving many to conclude, despite denials, that the deal was done in exchange for Libyan oil.
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But in a hotel lobby, Modeer, the engineer, said he was willing to speak out against what he described as atrocities by Gaddafi's crumbling government.
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As world leaders united to demand that Muammar Gaddafi face the full consequences of what Barack Obama called the "brutalisation" of his people, the defence secretary, Liam Fox, confirmed that the rescue had been a success, so far.
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TRIPOLI, Libya AP -- Tripoli began to look like a solidly rebel-held city on Friday, the calmest day in the capital since Muammar Gaddafi's opponents swept in nearly a week ago.
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The proposed mission, according to the diplomat, would be convincing Gaddafi that the only way he will survive the conflict is by giving up power and leaving Libya for any country he deems safe.
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If Gaddafi survived, would it weaken or strengthen his position as leader?
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The dazzlingly vain Gaddafi, dressed in a custom-made silk Italian jump suit and zippered kidskin boots, beamed with pleasure.
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Last night's military action by Nato forces, raining scores of missiles on targets across the country, signals the upmost determination to fulfil the United Nations mandate to protect civilians from violent repression by Colonel Gaddafi.
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Watching Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi, France's President Nicholas Sarkozy and other world leaders squirm with embarrassment walking next to Gaddafi decked out in flamboyant, clownish uniforms straight from an Italian "opera buffo" was always amusing.
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But I did not realise the full extent of Gaddafi's dictatorship, the way he had stamped himself on to our country, until I visited an internet cafe in Manchester and looked up my homeland.
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After marching for an hour toward the city center, they encountered what he described as a hail of gunfire volleyed by Gaddafi forces into the crowd.
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The erratic behavior and preposterous claims of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- probably the only contemporary politician whose life was the subject of an opera produced in September 2006 by the English National Opera under the title Gaddafi: A Living Myth -- make it difficult to take him seriously, yet some of the utterances he made during his 42 years in power warrant closer examination.
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When the speech prompted outcry from the Vatican, Berlusconi dismissed Gaddafi's behaviour as merely "folkloric".
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Several doctors say they have found Viagra tablets and condoms in the pockets of dead pro-Gaddafi fighters, alleging that they were using rape as a weapon of war.
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While Gaddafi publicly denounced the payment of interest, he did not support the development of Islamic banking in the country, analysts said.
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Awad Sayidi, the local head of Gaddafi's internal spy agency, the General Intelligence Office, had also arrived to oversee the interrogation.
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I thought of Ms Ghosain yesterday morning as the "Allies" - a phrase trotted out immediately by the television clamouratti, I noticed - started their "ground preparation" against Libya with their "air assets" against Colonel Gaddafi.
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A defiant Gaddafi repeated in a national address that he would arm civilians to defend Libya from what he called "colonial, crusader" aggression by western forces.
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In addition, Gaddafi's scraggly hairline was blamed on a botched hair implant sometime in 2008 or 2009.
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Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA Libya under increasing pressure from the Gaddafi regime's sophisticated weaponry, the White House says President Obama has called a top-level meeting of his security advisors to discuss Libya.
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Gaddafi's rise to power had roots in his belief in pan-Arabism, an idealized vision of a united Arab nation stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean.
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But Gaddafi's information minister, Moussa Ibrahim, said late on Friday the government's military retained the upper hand in both Zawiyah and Zlitan and scorned what he described as 'bands of insurgents'.
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Farther into the rebel-held east, pro-Gaddafi forces also aerially bombed the coastal town of Brega, a rebel stronghold.
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After marching for an hour toward the city center, they encountered what he described as a hail of gunfire volleyed by Gaddafi forces into the crowd.
Rebel army may be formed as Tripoli fails to oust Gaddafi
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We are very happy Gaddafi is gone," said a woman clad in black called Aisha.
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Even if Gaddafi's forces succeed in checking the advance of rebel forces, and the civil war becomes protracted, it is the home-grown nature of this revolt that contains the ultimate seeds of the destruction of Gaddafi's regime.
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He was given refuge in Libya by his long time ally, Colonel Gaddafi.
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She did not mock the quasi-Maoist and wholly deranged ramblings of his Green Book – "according to gynaecologists, women, unlike men, menstruate each month", is a typical example of Gaddafian prose.
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Abdul Jalil called Younis "one of the heroes of the 17th of February revolution", a name marking the date of early protests against Gaddafi's regime.
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So, sic semper tyrannis for sure, that is the powerful lesson of Muammar Gaddafi's failed reign and violent death.
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If the US and NATO impose a no-fly zone, it gives Gaddafi a frame he thrives in: Libya against what he calls the imperialistic and neo-colonial interventions of evil America and the West.
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Attempts to take the town previously had led to heavy losses and frequent back-pedalling by anti-Gaddafi fighters who were outgunned by the 2,000 dug-in loyalists that are thought to have remained.
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Everyone hates the prolix Gaddafi, particularly Arab despots who he routinely blasts as "old women in robes," "Zionist lackeys," and "cowards and thieves.
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TUNIS Reuters - A defiant Muammar Gaddafi said on Saturday he will arm civilians to defend Libya from what he called "colonial, crusader" aggression by Western forces that have launched air strikes against him.
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Flicking her hair coquettishly, she addressed him as "brother leader" – choosing as a free woman in a free country to honour the title Gaddafi compels his subject people to use on pain of punishment.
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Weeks of bloody urban fighting in Benghazi may have been prevented by the French action, although it could equally be argued that a speedy UN resolution may have precipitated a push into built-up areas, which provided Gaddafi's columns cover from the air.
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After all, they could be on the side of the good guys against a man, Muammar Gaddafi, that just about everyone agrees is a wacky dictator, and help save face for the states who have been looking to reduced their involvement in Libya almost since the moment they declared that they had an responsibility to protect R2P in diplospeak innocent Libyan civilians.
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One would assume this is because the moment ten people get together in a public square to call for Gaddafi's removal in the Libyan capital they will be mown down with machine gun fire as the first syllables escape their lips.
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Another famous star who reportedly performed for the Gaddafis is notorious pussy 50 Cent, the crybaby pant-shitting wuss whom I could definitely have in a fight.
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In 1996, RSF published a report entitled Libya: "We can criticize Allah but not Gaddafi" in which it referred to a "relaxation" of restrictions on the media, but noted that journalists critical of the regime spoke to its representatives in hushed tones for fear of reprisals.
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History, particularly the disastrous Italian legacy in Libya, has been a constant element in Gaddafi's speeches since he took power in a bloodless coup in 1969.
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Indeed, if you had taken me aside in 2008 and sketched out the first three years of Obama's presidency, I would have thought you were being overoptimistic: an $800 billion stimulus package -- recall that people were only talking in the $200-$300 billion range back then -- followed by near-universal health-care reform, followed by financial regulation ... don't ask don't tell, Bin Laden, Gaddafi, etc ...
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Ameri says it is Gaddafi's regime that introduced the use of the term "tribalism", and did so to "crush the confidence of those in their own western Libya cities" as well as to "confuse outsiders into believing that the Gaddafi regime is all that's holding together a fractured and disunited people".
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Libya's diplomatic service abroad has fractured into those calling for Mr Gaddafi to go and those loyal to the regime.
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Ali Osman, head of a state-affiliated youth organization, says they fell victim to invitations to attend a pro-Gaddafi rally in Tripoli, only to wind up on an army base in al-Baida.
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The UN however did not authorize or agree to the UK attempting to take over Libya or kill their leader - neither did the UN agree to foreign forces in Libya - Gaddafi was right all along - this war is all about foreigners in Libya destablizing the country -ie, the UK and their useless SAS.
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By not taking on this issue head-on to explain why this intervention has nothing to do with the colonial past or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, neither of which asked for military intervention as Libyans have, Obama allowed Gaddafi's crude anti-imperialist and anti-crusader propaganda to stand.
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The most incongruous sight of all in the "House of Resistance", as Gaddafi called the bombed-out building, was several dummy missiles hanging from the ceiling as if they had just fallen from an American bomber -his idea of a memorial to the little girl, perhaps.
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The issue for us was, can we attribute these rapes to Gaddafi himself, or is it something that happened in the barracks," he explained.
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But at least one site, where the more than 30 victims might be Gaddafi fighters or supporters, suggests that both sides may have been guilty of brutal conduct in the battle for Tripoli.
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The head of Nato in Libya, Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, said Col Gaddafi's forces had employed what he called underhand and immoral tactics in their seven-week drive to dislodge the rebels from the city.
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Yesterday, as our correspondent's account made clear, an ad hoc motorised cavalry of scores of youth fighters on pick-up trucks charged at Ajdabiya, only to retreat in disarray when Gaddafi's tanks, which were dug in around the town, fired back.
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I will say this: i find it fascinating that Gaddafi is willing to be so in your face about identifying as an African, dealing with Europeans in particular. eta: gaddafi's stylist.
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The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said French aircraft were already in action by late afternoon to stop what he described as Gaddafi's "murderous madness".
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I wonder whether the phrase 'queasily optimistic' more accurately describes my stance with respect to a post Gaddafi Libya and I suspect yours.
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Arab broadcasters showed graphic images of the balding, goateed Gaddafi – wounded, with a bloodied face and shirt – but alive.
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Along with Saif al-Islam, he persuaded Gaddafi to abandon his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, and opted to share intelligence information with the U.S. on al-Qaeda operatives in Libya.
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The nickname helped us communicate in one of the most paranoid countries in the world: Muammar Gaddafi's Libya.
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Isolation did not suit Gaddafi's his self-aggrandising, showman side, nor were his banknote-scattering, one-man African tours sufficient to feed his ego.
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Unsurprisingly, we are also selling to the Gaddafi government in Libya, another nation which has not signed the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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Back when he signed this pact, Gaddafi said he had "closed the U.S. dozier.
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Over the past few days, the air force here has been setting up antiaircraft weapons to protect against airstrikes on the town, the center of resistance against Gaddafi's regime.
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genuflection" before visiting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi last week and of "lying down" in front of his coalition partners in the Northern League.
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This country may have ended state-sponsored terrorism, but it continues to exhibit a miserable human-rights record; its dictatorial leader Moammar Gaddafi is at best a public nuisance and at worse an outright nutcase.
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Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
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In interviews with Reuters in Tripoli on Monday, officials of the National Transitional Council NTC made plain that feelings are running high against neighboring Algeria, which one described as Gaddafi's "right-hand man.
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Brady68: Amazing to think that facebook and twitter have now changed And Obama is too busy boogying to Motown to use the word "Gaddafi".
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The reason for this is that Benghazi's starting point, as a primary precondition is that Gaddafi steps down, while Tripoli's starting point, as a precondition is the refusal to step down.
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Frankie GreenWhitstable, Kent• Considering that Nato planes (and now Apache strike helicopters) are searching out Gaddafi, and have already killed three members of his immediate family, no reasonable psychiatrist would label Gaddafi as paranoid (Gaddafi is paranoid and on the run, MI6 tells Cameron, May 27).
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After marching for an hour toward the city center, they encountered what he described as a hail of gunfire directed by Gaddafi forces into the crowd.
Rebel army may be formed as Tripoli fails to oust Gaddafi
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After presenting the rebels' plan "from A to Z", Mlegta handed NATO officials three memory cards: the one packed with information about regime strongholds in Tripoli; another with updated information on regime sites as well as details of 65 Gaddafi officers sympathetic to the rebels who had been secretly supplied with NATO radiophones; and a third which contained the plot to take Tripoli.
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Hundreds of people marched from a charred former Gaddafi compound in Benghazi on Friday night criticising what they called "climbers" and "opportunists" in the NTC leadership, many of whom are defectors who once served under Gaddafi.
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I referred to Gaddafi as a domineering autocrat with a bad record on human rights and terrorism.
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