PROTEST TODAY OUTSIDE LIBYAN EMBASSY
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February 21, 2011 at 10:14pm
Protestors who were shot dead by Gaddafi's men
Libyan friends have asked me to post this notice.
A call to protest in front of the Libyan Embassy in Attard today at 11am until 2pm, to condemn the massacres of innocent civilians by the Gadaffi regime.
This is a plea to all those who value human life and the upholding of human rights and dignity.
You don’t have to be Libyan to go there.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
2001GMT: Ominous news from our colleagues over at BBC Monitoring: “‘Libyan military source confirms orders were issued for the aerial bombardment of Benghazi within two hours,'” reported Al-Arabiya TV in an urgent screen caption at 1947 GMT.”
2020: UK comedian Eddie Izzard tweets: “Just sent this Direct Message @SaifGaddafi Please stop the military killing your people. History is watching and you can stop it. Thank you.”
Libyan Due is one of the most active anti-Gaddafi tweeters
http://twitter.com/ChangeInLibya/status/39786820812279808#
Ok, more important than ever to say this I guess: We don’t want foreign (and western) intervention, only condemnation and humanit. aid
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110221/local/pm-meets-maltese-investors-in-libya
Flash
22:41
LIBIA. AL ARABIYA: “ATTESO DISCORSO TV DI GHEDDAFI ALLA NAZIONE”
Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi told the al-Jazeera TV network that any Libyan soldier who has the opportunity should shoot and kill Col Gaddafi.
We don’t need Joseph’s marketing campaign. We’ve got Twitter.
http://twitter.com/search?q=Malta
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/libya/labour-leader-in-libya
For a moment I thought he was stupid enough to go there when everyone is trying to get out.
He is.
Wasn’t Gaddafi supposed to have promised ‘Joseph’ something last summer?
That’s right: no oil spills.
No oil spills, just blood.
He sent his regards to Mintoff – birds of the same feather…
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100803/local/repatriation-of-immigrants-libya-confirms-governments-version-of-events-muscat
Photos of Monday’s demonstration
http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=1435
Tuesday’s protest is at 11am.
Libya claims that its armed forces are only firing on arms depots and not on civilian targets.
Then who’s responsible for this?
http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=1474
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
2300: A group of Libyan army officers issue a statement urging fellow soldiers to “join the people” and help to remove Col Gaddafi, Al Jazeera reports.
More from Hillary Clinton: “The government of Libya has a responsibility to respect the universal rights of the people, including the right to free expression and assembly. Now is the time to stop this unacceptable bloodshed. We are working urgently with friends and partners around the world to convey this message to the Libyan government.”
2320: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke to Col Gaddafi earlier today. In a statement to the BBC, his office now says Mr Ban is “outraged” at reports of aircraft firing on civilians in Libya. Calling for an immediate end to the violence, the statement adds: “Such attacks against civilians, if confirmed, would constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian law and would be condemned by the secretary-general in the strongest terms.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698‘
Mohamed from Tripoli in Libya: “President Clinton said that the one thing he regretted during his presidency was that he didn’t intervene in Rwanda. Will President Obama regret not intervening in Libya… You can stop this so please don’t stand and watch us fade away.”
Karl Stagno Navarra live on Al Jazeera …
Protest planned for tomorrow in VALLETTA.
Is this accurate?
[Daphne – That’s another protest. Today’s is outside the embassy.]
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/
LIBYA, 6:46 p.m. ET, 1:46 a.m. local: CNN’s Cairo bureau chief Ben Wedeman has entered eastern Libya and is the first Western TV journalist to report in Libya on the Libyan protests.
“What we saw as we were driving in is that this part of eastern Libya is clearly under the controls of the rebels – the forces that are opposed to Col. Gadhafi,” Wedeman by phone on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”
“We saw along the road a lot of groups of men with shotguns – with machine guns – in civilian clothing. They call themselves basically the popular committees that are trying to maintain some sort of order along the way.
“Clearly the situation is very unstable. What we saw was that there are a lot of people – mostly Egyptians – who are leaving Libya at the moment. At the Egyptian border we were told by Egyptian officials that 15,000 Egyptian s left Libya, returning to Egypt.”
“There are some signs of normal life. Gas stations are open. Stores are open. We saw … what looked like kebab shops that are functioning. There is a fair amount of traffic on the road, although I was told that was mostly Egyptians leaving the country.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/21/us-libya-protests-soldiers-idUSTRE71K6AV20110221
Officers call on Libya army to remove Gaddafi: report
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
0023: The imminent threat from Libya should be discussed at an immediate meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, Lord Owen tells the BBC. Military action is the only thing Col Gaddafi and his sons are going to listen to, he says.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
0022: Former British Foreign Secretary Lord Owen tells the BBC Col Gaddafi is “unbalanced” and that the situation in Libya now represents a direct threat to world peace
0020: A reminder of words from earlier in the day from the senior US diplomat in the US, Ali Aujali. He told the BBC he was leaving Col Gaddafi’s government after 40 years. “I can’t really end my career representing a government which is killing its own people in a very savage way.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/feb/21/libya-uprising-middle-east-protests
11.43pm: The former British foreign secretary Lord Owen has tonight called on the UN and regional powers to enforce a no fly zone over Libya. He said:
The UN Security Council should meet in emergency session tonight and declare the situation in Libya as a threat to peace under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter and declare a no flight zone for the Libyan airforce and ask the regional power, Nato, to enforce it from dawn tomorrow.
And hopefully other Arab nations, particularly Egypt, might decide to participate to demonstrate that this is not just a Western initiative.
He also called on “airforces in the region with sufficient range to reach Libya to prevent any Libyan airforce military action against civilians”.
They can stick a fork in Ghaddafi, he is done.
Daphne, are Mintoff or KMB offering their homes? After all, they are his friends. They should be proud of him.
Thank goodness Joseph Muscat has kept his mouth shut. Politics is not a kid’s game.
The Gaddafi Satan has been permanently unmasked; there are no more socialist illusions in his terrorism and genocidal massacre of the Lybian people. Gaddafi is not the leader of his people, but its self-defined god.
Gaddafi is the enemy of his people and the enemy of true Islam, which in the courage and martyrdom of Libya’s citizens, is an expression of their faith in God and in their commitment to rid the devil in their midst.
Gaddafi’s Green Revolution is crumbling, but he will not be gone until the last bullet is fired. Whose bullet for the demon and when and how in this sea of blood?
The world and its citizens must express its revulsion, but not let the rage of a madman ravage the people of Libya. The Libyan people have regained their voice of truth. Now, for us, there must be solidarity and prayer with the suffering of Libya.
Is it true that there are quite a few Gaddafis? I am told that there are about 10 of them.
Yes, two of them are KMB and Mintoff. The way these are joined to the hip to him…
I am sick to my stomach…reading all the crass, inhumane, moronic comments posted by some under the story about the jet fighters on timesofmalta.com.
How small are we? Not in size but in civility, love of neighbour and basic decency
Reading the posts on timesofmalta.com should carry a health warning: heartburn.
All the wackos, pettyminded weirdos, people who have never read a book or even a newspaper in their lives: they all come rushing out of the woodwork to post their inane comments based on total ignorance, grocer hearsay, conspiracy theories, beware of the bogey man attitudes, the more the merrier.
If you need evidence of the failure of education coupled with selfish characters plus I am all right so f&%k Jack attitude, it’s all right there. I forgot the lack of grammar, punctuation, spelling, postin with Caps Lock on; it makes one weep with frustration.
you forgot these: !!!!!!
Imma l-aqwa immorru nitqarbnu
The moderator at timesofmalta.com should do his or her job and moderate certain comments which transmit racial hatred, xenophobia or call for Malta to abdicate its international obligations.
Reading the comments makes me cringe. Timesofmalta.com should be a respectable website which reflects the newspaper’s brand and image. Instead, it has become a forum of hatred, racism, xenophobia and ignorance.
If the newspaper were to receive letters like that, would it publish them? No, it wouldn’t.
We cannot be indifferent to the massacre taking place just 200 miles away. Malta is closer to Tripoli than Benghazi is.
A hell of a lot closer, like 1000km closer. Or thereabouts.