Summary Of The American And International Press On The Libyan Revolution - Tripoli Post
(Aljazeera.net) - Libyan rebels have reportedly captured several residential districts of Brega, a strategic city for Muammar Al Qathafi's government as other forces press towards Zawiyah.
Speaking on Thursday, Moussa Mahmoud al-Mograbi, a spokesman for the rebel forces, said: "It is liberated. It is under our control now."
Another spokesman, Mohammad Zawawi, said two rebel fighters were killed and 30 wounded in the fighting.
Brega's western half, where its oil facilities are located, remains in the control of Al Qathafi's forces.
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Unknown on Thursday, August 11, 2011
Libyan Rebels Capture Part Of Brega, Push North -- Swiss Info
SHALGHOUDA/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels said they had captured part of the oil town of Brega on Thursday while their forces in the west pushed towards Zawiyah, trying to get within striking distance of Muammar Gaddafi's capital.
Gaddafi is clinging to power despite a near five-month-old NATO air campaign, tightening economic sanctions, and a lengthening war with rebels trying to end his 41-year rule.
The rebels have seized large swathes of the North African state, but are deeply divided and lack experience, and Thursday's gains in the east broke weeks of stalemate.
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Unknown on Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Libyan Rebels Try to Impose Control -- Time
(BENGHAZI, Libya) — Libyan state television on Wednesday broadcast images of a man it said was Moammar Gaddafi's youngest son, footage that looks to undercut rebel claims of his death at a time when the opposition is showing signs of strain and disarray six months into its battle with the Libyan leader.
The images of Khamis Gaddafi, who commands one of the best trained and equipped units in the Libyan military, come as the rebel leadership, known as the National Transition Council, grapples with fallout from the killing of its top military chief, Abdel-Fattah Younis, possibly by other rebels.
Libyan Rebels Dissolve Cabinet Amid Discord -- New York Times
BENGHAZI, Libya — Rebel leaders dissolved their own cabinet on Monday, in an effort to placate the family of an assassinated rebel military leader and quiet discord in a movement already struggling to remove the country’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, from power.
A rebel spokesman said that the prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, the only member of the cabinet who kept his job, would have to present a new slate of cabinet members to the rebel legislative body, the Transitional National Council, for approval in the coming days. The cabinet was dissolved, the spokesman said, “for improper administrative procedures” that led to the arrest and subsequent killing of the military leader, Gen. Abdul Fattah Younes, a former top Libyan commander who defected to the rebel side.
Libyan Rebels Hold Western Town 80 Kilometers From Tripoli -- Voice of America
Libyan rebels are holding on to a western desert town captured from government forces on Saturday, marking the rebels' closest approach to the capital Tripoli in months of fighting.
Reporters for western news agencies who reached the town of Bir al-Ghanam said it was in rebel hands Monday. It is located about 80 kilometers southwest of Tripoli, in Libya's Nafusa mountain range.
Libya's Rebels Report Death Of Key Qaddafi Son -- Christian Science Monitor
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's son Khamis, the leader of one of the country's most elite fighting units, was reportedly killed in a NATO airstrike in Zlitan overnight.
According to Libya's rebels, Muammar Qaddafi's son Khamis was killed in an overnight NATO raid on the western town of Zlitan.
His death, if true, is a much bigger blow to the Qaddafi regime than that of his brother, Saif al-Arab, who was killed earlier in the war in another NATO airstrike. Saif al-Arab held no significant leadership role, unlike Khamis, the leader of the Khamis Brigade – one of the country's most elite fighting units and most feared elements of Qaddafi's regime. Read more ....
Libya Allying With Islamists, Qaddafi Son Says -- New York Times
TRIPOLI, Libya — After six months battling a rebellion that his family portrayed as an Islamist conspiracy, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s son and one-time heir apparent said Wednesday that he was reversing course to forge a behind-the-scenes alliance with radical Islamist elements among the Libyan rebels to drive out their more liberal-minded confederates.
“The liberals will escape or be killed,” the son, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, vowed in an hourlong interview that stretched past midnight. “We will do it together,” he added, wearing a newly grown beard and fingering Islamic prayer beads as he reclined on a love seat in a spare office tucked in a nearly deserted downtown hotel. “Libya will look like Saudi Arabia, like Iran. So what?”
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Killing Of General Vexes Rebels In Libya -- New York Times
BENGHAZI, Libya — In a mourning tent for the Libyan rebels’ top military leader, who was assassinated last week in mysterious circumstances, relatives and members of his tribe warned on Tuesday of dire consequences, including violence, if rebel leaders did not move quickly to find his killers.
The relatives, including three of his sons, warned that the provisional rebel government, the Transitional National Council, was moving too slowly to form a committee to investigate the death the commander, Gen. Abdul Fattah Younes. General Younes and two colleagues were shot to death by unknown gunmen on Thursday.
War To Go On Even If NATO Bombing Ends: Gaddafi Camp -- Yahoo News/Reuters
TRIPOLI/ZLITAN, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's camp has vowed to push on with its war against rebels whether or not NATO stops its bombing campaign, leaving little room for diplomacy to end the five-month conflict.
The rebels and their Western backers kept up the pressure on the veteran leader as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began, with NATO bombing military targets and dropping leaflets over the capital calling on loyalists to give up. Read more ....
Rebel Arrests As Libyan Revolt Splinters -- The Australian
NEW fractures have shot through Libya's rebel movement after one of the main revolutionary brigades attacked a smaller unit accused of being "fifth columnists" loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
On a day that included a five-hour raid in the heart of their stronghold of Benghazi, the rebels arrested at least 63 people in a bid to tighten security and unity.
The raid and arrests came just days after the murder of the rebel army's chief of staff. General Abdel Fatah Younis was abducted and killed behind his own lines after being served an arrest warrant by the rebel leadership, in circumstances yet to be fully explained. One of the rebel leaders has admitted the General was killed by an Islamist faction within the rebel organisation.
Libya Rebels Launch Offensive In West -- The Telegraph
Hundreds of rebels in western Libya launched a broad offensive against government forces on Thursday, seizing three small towns and advancing on others to secure a major supply route near the Tunisian border, rebel spokesmen said.
Four rebel fighters were killed and several wounded in what the spokesmen described as the biggest push in the area since the start of Libya's civil war five months ago. They said rebels captured 18 government soldiers, as well as weapons and ammunition.
Libya's civil war has been largely deadlocked, despite shifting front lines, and rebels have been unable to score a major breakthrough on the battle field. Rebels control Libya's eastern third and most of the Nafusa mountains in the west, as well as the western port city of Misurata. Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, entrenched in the capital of Tripoli, is clinging to the rest of the territory.
