Sorin Adam Matei
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Gaddafi’s hometown and loyal city Sirt has fallen to the rebel forces and Gaddafi was killed after being gravely wounded while trying to escape in a convoy. Death is confirmed by this cell phone image and by the Al Jezeera video below.…
UPDATE: Gaddafi was shot and killed on October 20 in Sirt. See Gaddafi killing video and map. The news from Tripoli, Libya is not good. Mass graves of over 1000 prisoners killed in cold blood 15 years ago are uncovered around the…
Reuters reports that a large Libyan army convoy arrived on Monday in Agadez, Niger. The troops were until recently part of the southern Libyan military contingent. Local authorities claim that Gaddafi might be somewhere close and is also considering joining his troops…
The Libyan Civil War battle for Tripoli continued on August 23. Gaddafi loyalist troops were reduced to smaller pockets around or near the former center of power. A dangerous situation has developed around Rixos Hotel, which has been occupied by Gaddafi’s elite…
One of Gaddafi’s sons, Saif, was seen by the CCN correspondent Matthew Chance in person at Rixos Hotel, despite rebel claims that he had been captured on Sunday, August 20, 2011. And he has the picture to prove it… MSNBC reports about…
Since the beginning of the libyan rebellion, the foreign press has been forced to stay at the Rixos hotel, in Tripoli, not far away from Gaddafi’s residence and headquarters, at Bab al Aziza (See map below for details). Until recently, the hotel…
Al Jazeera filed this video report on the DYI armament mini factories set up by the Libyan rebels in Misrata. Improvisation is the name of the game and some contraptions are truly dumbfounding. My favorite: the pick up truck mounted airplane rocket…
The latest news from Gaddafi’s compound Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Of the two dozen residences Muammar Gaddafi calls home, the most known and recognizable is the Bab el-Aziza compound, located right in the heart…