If anybody still has any doubt that the USA is heavily involved in Syria's civil war, I hope such numbskulls will bang their heads on the nearest marbletops and make those scanty cells within get to work ...at least for a few seconds. The first item below should dispel all doubts of the USA's totally fucked up foreign policy.
From TelegraphUK:
......The television network said that a CIA team was working in an annex near the consulate on a project to supply missiles from Libyan armouries to Syrian rebels.
Sources said that more Americans were hurt in the assault spearheaded by suspected Islamic radicals than had been previously reported. CIA chiefs were actively working to ensure the real nature of its operations in the city did not get out.
So only the losses suffered by the State Department in the city had been reported to Congress........
From Reuters:
.... Libya's deputy prime minister,
Awad al-Barasi, resigned on Saturday, saying he was not given enough powers to carry out his duties.
"I cannot work in a dysfunctional government where my powers are lost," al-Barasi told a news conference in Benghazi.
Barasi criticized Prime Minister Ali Zeidan's Cabinet, saying it did not deal with problems in a real manner.
Zeidan said last week he would reshuffle the Cabinet and reorganize the government to cope with the urgent situation in the country following killings in the eastern city of Benghazi that sparked violent demonstrations.
The unrest was sparked by the assassination of a prominent political activist and critic of the Muslim Brotherhood, Abdelsalam al-Mosmary, who was shot dead after leaving a mosque in Benghazi.
Barasi is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Justice and Construction party.
From LibyaHerald:
Though there has been no formal announcement yet on the embassy’s web site, it was reported this evening from Washington that the State Department has decided to extend the closure of 19 embassies in Middle East and North African countries, including Libya, for another five days.
Most Foreign missions and NGOs in Libya seem to have tightened their security. At least seven scheduled events involving expatriates were cancelled today, including three hotel-based functions and one reception at an ambassadorial residence. Three other gatherings, two of them by foreign oil companies were called off. There have been reports that some organisations have been advising staff not to leave their accommodation.
A senior security source confirmed to the Libya Herald that there were credible threats of some sort of attack, but indicated there was little firm detail. The source mentioned but refused to name, six hotels that were being “monitored” as possible targets. Tuesday week ago, the five-star Corinthia was the supposed target for a failed mortar attack, which damaged a nearby block of flats. Last Tuesday a car bomb was reportedly defused outside the city’s other five-star hotel, the Mahari Radisson Blu hotel. Security has since been beefed up at both establishments.
The head of Tripoli Local Council (TLC) Sadaat ElBadri told the Libya Herald that he had heard about the threat. “Unfortunately,” he said, “there is a threat every other day but for this specific day I don’t have a lot of information.”
From CBC News:
More than 1,000 detainees escaped from a prison near the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in a massive jailbreak Saturday, as protesters stormed the offices of political parties in Libya's main cities.
It wasn't immediately clear if the jailbreak at the Koyfiya prison came as part of the protests or if inmates received outside help. Protesters had massed across the country angry over the killing of an activist critical of the country's Muslim Brotherhood group......
....Gunmen at Tripoli Airport prevent Qatar Airways plane landing. A Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Tripoli today was reported to have landed instead in Alexandria after an armed group forced air traffic control staff at Tripoli International Airport to deny it permission to land there.
“We tried to negotiate with the armed group but did not succeed,” an airport official said. The plane was then diverted to Egypt because of fears that there might be trouble awaiting it at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport or even at Misrata or Benghazi. There were, the source said, “a considerable number of Libyans on board”.
According to the source, the flight refuelled at Alexandria and then returned to Doha. It is not known if any passengers disembarked at Alexandria.
The incident comes a day after a group of men forced their way into the Qatar Airways office at the airport and ordered staff to leave. The group reportedly said that they intended to prevent Qatari passenger and cargo aircraft from landing in Libya, although they would not say why. According to sources at the airport, they also said that they intended to force the closure of the downtown Qatar Airways office in Tripoli Tower........
From Reuters:
.....Five people were wounded in a bomb blast at a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, a security official said.
A bag containing explosives was thrown from a car in the central Sidi Hussein quarter, hitting a building that belongs to a police force tasked with guarding electricity installations, Benghazi security spokesman Mohammed al-Hijazy said.
Hijazy said this was not the first time the building had been targeted and that it was largely destroyed in the blast.......
From AP:
A criminal court in Libya sentenced a Gadhafi-era education minister to death on Wednesday for murder and for inciting violence during the 2011 civil war, the second such guilty verdict by the same court in recent days.
A judge in Misrata, one of hardest hit cities during the war, found Ahmed Ibrahim guilty of inciting residents in Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte to form armed gangs and fight the rebels that were seeking to overthrow the Libyan dictator. Ibrahim also was convicted of spreading false news through the local radio station there and terrorizing and demoralizing the public........
From YahooNews:
To his captors, the fate of Libya's most prominent prisoner, the son of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi, can be sealed only in one place - in the small straggling mountain town where they have kept him locked up for nearly two years.
The prize of former rebel fighters who triumphed in catching him as he tried to flee the country, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is being kept in a secret location somewhere among Zintan's sandstone and concrete buildings.
The one-time heir apparent remains out of reach of the government in Tripoli and even further from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, which also wants to try him. His captors, distrustful of a government they say is failing the state, say any tribunal he will face should be in Zintan........
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