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Horrors of War Revealed at Abu Salim's Hospital in Libya
 In Tripoli Hospital, Horror 
Aug 26, 2011 3:45 PM CDT

In Tripoli Hospital, Horror

200 bodies left unattended, decomposing at Abu Salim hospital

(Newser) - Out of Tripoli, a sobering reminder of the cost of war: hundreds of corpses, abandoned and decomposing, in a hospital. The BBC reports on the horrifying scene at the Abu Salim hospital, where 200 bodies of men, women, and children are found on gurneys and in corridors, and doctors and...

McCain Pushed to Arm Gadhafi, WikiLeaks Reveals

Cable details 2009 meeting

(Newser) - John McCain may be talking tough about Libya these days, but back in 2009 he promised Muatassim Gadhafi—Moammar’s fifth son and his national security adviser—that he’d do what he could to help Libya obtain military supplies, particularly new aircraft, a cable released by WikiLeaks reveals. McCain...

UN Releases $1.5B in Frozen Libya Assets

Fighting continues as British planes bomb Gadhafi's hometown

(Newser) - The UN has unfrozen $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets to be used as humanitarian aid as it called on both sides of the conflict to avoid revenge killings, the BBC reports. The money had been seized by the US in the spring. It won’t go straight to...

'Zenga Zenga' Creator Noy Alooshe Creates Libyan Rebel Remix 'Gadhafi's Hat'
 Next Viral Video: 
 'Gadhafi's Hat' 
Libya remixed
Aug 26, 2011 8:31 AM CDT

Next Viral Video: 'Gadhafi's Hat'

'Zenga Zenga' guy creates rebel rap

(Newser) - The man who brought you “Zenga Zenga” has a new music video, and this time it’s a Libyan rebel on the mic. Israeli musician and journalist Noy Alooshe autotuned a Sky News interview with a fighter who said he swiped Moammar Gadhafi’s famous military headgear from...

Rebels Had Double Agent in Gadhafi's Security Force

Mahmoud Ben Jumaa tells his story

(Newser) - How did Libyan rebels take Tripoli with such apparent ease? It was thanks in part to men like Mahmoud Ben Jumaa, a senior member of Moammar Gadhafi’s personal security force and secret rebel agent, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since February, Ben Jumaa had been tipping resistance leaders in...

Gadhafi to Loyalists: 'Drive Away the Infidels'

Ally says dictator can keep up the fight

(Newser) - Despite rebel claims to have Moammar Gadhafi surrounded , the leader has called on loyalists to “march in the millions to Tripoli to drive away infidels, crusaders, rats, and traitors.” The message, aired on two pro-Gadhafi TV stations, noted that “the rebels are few and you are plenty....

Gadhafi Had Album of Condi Rice Pics

He once praised her as 'my darling black African woman'

(Newser) - Did Moammar Gadhafi have a thing for Condoleezza Rice? It sure looks that way: Rebel looters found a photo album in Gadhafi’s compound filled with page after page of photos of Rice, MSNBC reports. Rice visited Libya in 2008 to celebrate what was supposed to be a new stage...

Fears of Dirty Bomb in Libya Grow

Research site near Tripoli contains nuclear materials

(Newser) - There's enough nuclear material in Libya to make a dirty bomb, former UN nuclear inspection chief Olli Heinonen warned today, urging rebel authorities to move to secure it. Libya's uranium enrichment program was dismantled in 2003, but a research center 20 miles east of Tripoli still has enough...

Moammar Gadhafi Almost Caught in Tripoli Safe House Yesterday: Report

 Rebels: We 
 Have Gadhafi 
 Surrounded 
UPDATED
Aug 25, 2011 9:09 AM CDT

Rebels: We Have Gadhafi Surrounded

Report follows near-miss yesterday

(Newser) - A group of Libyan rebels thinks it has Moammar Gadhafi right where it wants him. The rebels are currently exchanging fire with Gadhafi loyalists holed up in a cluster of apartment buildings near Gadhafi's breached compound in Tripoli, Reuters reports. The rebels are confident Gadhafi and some of his...

Journo Describes 'Terrifying' Time in Rixos Hotel

Journalists feared being killed, used as human shields

(Newser) - For the five days they were held in Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel by Moammar Gadhafi loyalists, Matthew Chance and his fellow journalists feared they could be executed or used as "human shields." "We had been acting out in our heads these paranoid scenarios," Chance told the...

4 Italian Journalists Abducted in Libya, Driver Killed

Journalists were on highway between Zawiyah and Tripoli

(Newser) - Italy's foreign ministry says four Italian journalists have been kidnapped and their driver killed, apparently by Libyan regime loyalists, as they traveled down the highway to Tripoli. The abductions occurred today on a stretch of highway between Zawiyah, 30 miles west of Tripoli, and the Libyan capital. Italian news...

Bounty on Gadhafi's Head: $1.7M

Libyan rebels want to end this thing...

(Newser) - It sounds like quite the deal: Kill or capture Moammar Gadhafi, and you'll be pardoned for any crimes you may have committed ... and walk away with $1.7 million. That's the offer from Libya's National Transitional Council, which hopes the fairly sweet package will compel someone close...

Journalists Freed From Tripoli Hotel

Five-day siege ends

(Newser) - Gunmen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have freed the roughly 35 foreign journalists that they’d been holding hostage in the Rixos hotel, ending a five-day siege. The gunmen relented when they heard how things were going in Tripoli, according to Matthew Chance of CNN , who was one of the hostages....

Rebels Loot Gadhafi Compound
 Rebels Loot Gadhafi Compound 
Aug 24, 2011 9:33 AM CDT

Rebels Loot Gadhafi Compound

Loyalists fled ahead of assault

(Newser) - Rebels and their supporters gleefully looted Moammar Gadhafi’s Bab Azizia compound in Tripoli today, celebrating the fall of the regime by making off with various valuables and weaponry from hastily abandoned homes. “The money of the Libyan people is now going to the Libyan people,” one bank...

Allies Fear Gadhafi May Unleash Chemical Weapons

US forces monitoring sites

(Newser) - As the battle for Libya nears its endgame , Western nations allied with the rebels fear a desperate Moammar Gadhafi could unleash chemical weapons as his final brutal act. US armed forces are monitoring suspected chemical weapons sites. "They are a vicious regime,” British Foreign Minister William Hague told...

Rebel Government Heads to Tripoli

Celebration on streets of Benghazi

(Newser) - Aiming to prevent a “vacuum” in Libyan leadership, rebel leaders from the Transitional National Council are traveling from the country’s east to Tripoli, the Christian Science Monitor reports. "We have to be there at the moment of liberation. We can’t leave any opportunities for remnants of...

Lobbyists Scramble to Sign Libyan Rebels

K Street trying to get chunk of frozen Gadhafi cash

(Newser) - The fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime should be a huge boon—for K Street. Lobbyists are scrambling to get an in with the Transitional National Council, the rebel government that the US has now recognized as legitimate, the National Journal reports. Two firms are already working for the TNC,...

Gadhafi 'Alive and Well' in Tripoli: Russian Chess Chief

Says he spoke to leader by phone today

(Newser) - The Russian head of the World Chess Federation says longtime friend Moammar Gadhafi is "alive and well," "still in Tripoli," and planning to stay in Libya. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov says he spoke to Gadhafi on the phone at 6pm Moscow time today, the AP reports. The chess...

US to Rebels: Don't Party, Seek Revenge Iraq-Style

Obama administration fearful of Iraq-style chaos, looting, and violence

(Newser) - Rebels have already gleefully displayed the jeweled pistols they've taken from Moammar Gadhafi's family's homes—and the Obama administration is likely hoping the pillaging ends there. The White House is working furiously with rebels to ensure that Libya does not descend into the chaos, looting, and violence...

US Tab in Libya: at Least $896M

Libya, by the numbers

(Newser) - With fresh fighting erupting in Tripoli today, the intervention clearly isn't over yet—but how much are we already in for? The Pentagon yesterday announced how much we've spent in Libya through July 31: $896 million. But that's not the only number ABC News collected. Libya, by...

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