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| Saadi Al Qathafi Wanted by Interpol; Al-Baghdadi on Hunger Strike in Tunisia |
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The world's police body Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi's third son Saadi for alleged crimes during his time at the head of Libya’s football federation, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, has started a hunger strike in a prison in Tunisia.
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| NTC Fighters Capture Sirte Airport But Report Casualties From Fierce Fighting |
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The National Transitional Council's forces say they captured the airport in former leader Muammar Al Qathafi's home town of Sirte. But there are also reports indicating that they are being forced to fight fierce battles against the former leader's loyalists in Sirte and the other remaining bastion loyal to him at Bani Walid.
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| US Senators, Sudanese V/President on Libya Visit |
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Four United States Republican senators have arrived in Libya Thursday to meet with the nation’s new rulers, the National Transitional Council. Also on an official visit is Sudan's vice president.
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| NTC Vowing to Remove Weapons from Tripoli Streets |
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With Libya's interim administration pledging to restore calm and remove heavy weapons from the streets of Tripoli, Ahmed Bani, Libya's National Transitional Council’s military spokesman, told reporters that heavy weapons have no place in the Libyan capital.
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| Bahrain: Medics Who Treated Protesters Jailed |
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Bahrain has jailed 20 medics up to 15 years, after convicting them of incitement to overthrow the regime. The medics were arrested after they treated people injured when a protest movement calling for more rights was crushed by the authorities.
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| Update: Saadi Al Qathafi; on Interpol's Wanted List; Al-Baghdadi on Hunger Strike |
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The world's police body Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi's third son Saadi for alleged crimes during his time at the head of Libya’s football federation, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, has started a hunger strike in a prison in Tunisia.
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| Libya Ready to Cooperate Over Lockerbie |
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After declaring on Monday as “cased closed” after a request from Scottish authorities to investigate more suspects in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, Libya's interim justice minister made a U-turn by saying at a news conference, that Libya would co-operate with investigators in Scotland.
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| Group Warns Against Food Shortage at Tripoli Zoo |
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One of the family and tourist attractions in Libya, the Tripoli zoo is in urgent need of medical equipment and only has enough food for three weeks, a Bulgarian animal welfare group conducting a relief operation has said.
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| Is an Islamic State (Caliphate) an Extreme Islamic Goal? |
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The word 'extreme' only takes on meaning when defined against some benchmark. 'Extreme' weather is a serious departure from a normal, expected climate; extremely hot or cold water is defined as such when compared against, say, lukewarm. The word is relative and defined in relation to some 'norm'. Ideas are not different.
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| Former Mubarak's Info Minister Gets Seven Year Prison Term |
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Anas el-Fiqqi is the latest in the growing list of convictions of high-ranking figures from the former regime for crimes committed during Mubarak's nearly 30-year rule. Others include the former interior minister, tourism minister and a ruling party insider and steel magnate. El-Fiqqi was jailed for seven years.
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| Summary of the American and International Press on the Libyan Revolution - Morgan Strong |
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Libya has issued a summons for Muammar Al Qathafi’s former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, who fled the country for neighbouring Tunisia, the interim justice minister said Wednesday.
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| Libya's NTC Postpones Formation of New Goverment |
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Libya's National Transitional Council, NTC has decided to postpone the announcement of a newly- formed interim government until the entire country is liberated from forces loyal to former leader Muammar Al Qathafi, and is under the council's rule.
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| In First Flight Into Sabha NTC Delivers 20M Dinars to the City |
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The first flight to touch down in the former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi's stronghold of Sabha, now occupied by the National Transitional Council forces, had Ali al-Tarhouni, the oil and finance interim minister on board. It also carried a fortune, 20 million dinars ($16m) that al-Tarhouni delivered to the desert city's central bank on behalf of the NTC.
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| “5+5 Group” Discuss Security Threats in North African, Mediterranean Region |
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Army chiefs from four north African states and five from Europe, all members of the European Union forming the group of nations, known as the "5+5", met on Tuesday in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, to discuss security threats in the region.
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| Summary of the American and International Press on the Libyan Revolution - Morgan Strong |
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About 200,000 Libyans remain under threat as Muammar Al Qathafi loyalists battle to the end in the only two areas still contested in Libya: Bani Walid and Sirte, the coastal birthplace of the fallen leader.
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