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Gadhafi Loyalists Take Town Near Tripoli

Uprising marks most serious security challenge yet for Libya

(Newser) - The Libyan war may not be over after all; fighters loyal to the old regime seized the town of Bani Walid yesterday, hoisting the green flag of Moammar Gadhafi's Libya after an eight-hour battle with the revolutionary brigade that had been holding the city. "They control the town... More »

Fighting Breaks Out Between Libyan Ex-Rebels, 4 Die

Misrata, Tripoli fighters battle over prisoners

(Newser) - A street battle broke out in Tripoli yesterday between two militias that had once been allies against Moammar Gadhafi. Around noon a group of fighters from Misrata drove their gun-mounted pickup trucks up to a makeshift prison run by a Tripoli militia, and demanded they hand over two prisoners, the... More »

Panetta Is First US Defense Chief to Visit Libya

His trip comes as US lifts sanctions

(Newser) - Leon Panetta became the first US defense secretary to go to Libya earlier today, touring war-torn Tripoli, reports the AP . Panetta is scheduled to meet with members of the transitional government and visit the graves of 13 sailors who died in 1804, when the US Intrepid attempted to destroy pirate... More »

Clinton Makes Unannounced Visit to Libya

Secretary of State brings aid, support

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton arrived in Libya today on an unannounced visit, the first by a Cabinet-level US official since Moammar Gadhafi was driven from Tripoli almost two months ago. Clinton’s visit to the capital, which was kept secret for security reasons, is expected to last just hours, the BBC reports.... More »

Libya Rebels Dig Up Mass Grave

More than 1,200 were executed after 1996 prison riot

(Newser) - Rebels in Libya have uncovered a mass grave of more than 1,200 people that rekindled brutal memories of a prison riot 15 years ago, CNN reports. Revolutionaries say they discovered the grave last week outside Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, where prisoners rioted over restricted family visits and poor... More »

Libyan Forces Fight for Gadhafi's Hometown

New leaders promise interim government in coming week

(AP) - With NATO jets roaring overhead, revolutionary forces fought their way into Moammar Gadhafi's hometown today in the first significant push into the stubborn stronghold in about a week. Libya's new leaders also tried to move on the political front, promising to announce in the coming week a new... More »

Cameron, Sarkozy Visit Libya

British, French leaders pledge support in first visit to rebels

(AP) - British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Tripoli today, and gave Libya's new rulers strong support, vowing to release billions of dollars more in frozen assets and to push ahead with NATO strikes against Moammar Gadhafi's last strongholds. Cameron told the fugitive Libyan... More »

UK, CIA Linked to Rendition Plot With Gadhafi Regime

One victim is now head of anti-Gadhafi forces

(Newser) - Today's bloodthirsty dictator was apparently yesterday's Western helpmate. Documents discovered in an abandoned Libyan government office reveal that the Brits, CIA and Libya were involved in a plan to deliver a terror suspect—with his wife and children—to a Tripoli prison where they likely faced torture, reports... More »

Foreign Firms Helped Gadhafi's Online Spies

Phone, online monitoring aided by advanced tech

(Newser) - As the Arab Spring swept around the Middle East in February, Moammar Gadhafi's regime stepped up its online spying of Libyan citizens thanks to a lot of technical support from Western companies, reports the Wall Street Journal . On February 15, the day uprisings started in Benghazi, Libyan officials met... More »

With Gadhafi Forces Gone, Tripoli Atrocities Uncovered

110 killings documented by Human Rights Watch thus far

(Newser) - As rebels cement their control of Libya and continue toward Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, human rights observers are discovering evidence of ever more bloody atrocities committed in Tripoli in recent days, reports the Wall Street Journal . Human Rights Watch workers have documented 110 bodies in four locations around... More »

Reporter Finds Lockerbie Bomber 'Close to Death'

Libya's rebel government refuses to extradite him

(Newser) - Hours after Libya's rebel government refused to extradite the Lockerbie bomber, a CNN reporter found him —slipping in and out of a coma, barely alive, sustained only by an intravenous drip. Reporter Nic Robertson had come for an interview, and was stunned by the site of Abdel Basset... More »

Bodies Clogging Tripoli Spark Disease Fears

Decay and summer heat threatens to unleash health disaster

(Newser) - As fighting continues in Tripoli for the future of Libya, bodies are piling up in the streets—from combat, reprisals, and innocents just caught in the crossfire. And as the corpses decompose in the summer heat, they are becoming such a health risk that removing the bodies has become the... More »

Libyan Rebels Fight for Control of Border Road

Taking the road would help ease food, fuel shortages

(AP) - Libyan rebels fought for control of a major supply road to the capital today after seizing a border crossing with Tunisia—strengthening their hold on the oil-rich country as they hunt for Moammar Gadhafi. Clearing the road from the Tunisian border to Tripoli would help ease growing shortages of fuel... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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.... More »

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... More »

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... More »

4 Italian Journalists Abducted in Libya, Driver Killed

Journalists were on highway between Zawiyah and Tripoli

(AP) - 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... More »

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.... More »

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