Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 9, Part 3 (The Mother of of Intifadas today)

[Catherina]

Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 9, Part 3 (The Mother of of Intifadas today)

Previous Day 9 threads: Part 1, Part 2

Previous Day 8 threads: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x502125">Part 11

The world’s 100 largest arms dealers, excluding Chinese vendors, sold weapons for $401 billion in 2009, with US vendors remaining in first place

Threads for previous days are in my journal

To make sure the Army doesn't swing the revolution to the people, with the silent complicity of world leaders more concerned about the stability of oil prices than people's lives, Qaddafi has brought in more than 35,000 North African mercenaries specifically from Chad, Nigeria, Guinea and Darfur. There's a Facebook video of a captured mercenary from Chad (Youtube here). Captured mercenaries confessed they were paid between $12,000 - $30,000 each. Today pamphlet ads were found in Nigeria offering them $2000/day for their savage work.

Is Qaddafi the only one paying these mercenaries? Or are EU governments, with their long history of hiring mercenaries, chipping in? I demand to know.

LibyanThinker The Libyan Thinker
Remains of Soldiers Burned to Death for Not Shooting Protesters in #Libya http://www.twitvid.com/YXKOT & http://tinyurl.com/4d6a57n

MAP of Protests across the Middle East


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Please rec if you read these so I know if the effort here is worth it.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Good morning, Catherina! K&R, nt.

[Catherina]

3. Whoooooo, today is going to be quite a day. The *flu* seems to have spread all over

Response to Yemeni ldr complaining that this democracy madness started in Tunisia was like a bad flu spreading

"If it's a disease, we're the cure"

[GliderGuider]

2. Good morning Catherina! Is today THE day?

I never saw the protests in Iraq coming. Wow.

[Catherina]

4. I think today is the uprising of the Mother of all Intifadas. Hope the G5 is watching TV n/t

[JanDutchy]

7. Libyan ambassador to France has resigned

From FRANCE 24: The Libyan ambassador to France has resigned, a Libyan diplomatic source has said (Reuters).

[JanDutchy]

17. Union of Libyan Students in France

From FRANCE 24

12:06 : According to Rifaat Mohamad, secretary of the Union of Libyan Students in France, protesters are occupying the Libyan embassy in Paris, where they have put up the former Libyan flag. Contacted by FRANCE 24, Mohamad said that certain employees have joined the protesters, while others left the premises.

12:00 : Gaddafi's son says his family will "live and die in Libya'' (Reuters).


11:37 Reuters reporting that Libyan security forces have not been able to enter Zawiyah, a town about 50 km (30 miles) west of the capital which was the scene of heavy fighting with government opponents, according to witnesses.

[Catherina]

12. Its now after Juma3a (Friday) Prayer, lets see what happens. InshaAllah today is the day!

Libyan4life Jeel Ghathub
Its now after Juma3a (Friday) Prayer, lets see what happens. InshaAllah today is the day!
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

5. #Iraq: Protesters in Mosul carrying "No to occupation" signs

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
Protesters in Mosul carrying "No to occupation" signs #feb25 #iraq
9 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

14. #Iraq: Situation calm in Mosul's center square, protesters in control

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
Situation calm in Mosul's center square, protesters in control #Iraq #feb25
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

16. #Iraq: "These are Iraq's biggest ever protests"

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
Sharqiya: "These are Iraq's biggest ever protests" #Iraq #feb25
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

36. #Iraq: "Military burned down the governor's building in #Mosul"

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
From Mosul on the phone: "Military burned down the governor's building in #Mosul". #feb25 #iraq
7 minutes ago

[Catherina]

37. #Iraq: Nujaifi in #Mosul "Baghdad military dispatched to Mosul to attack me"

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
Governor Nujaifi in #Mosul "Baghdad military dispatched to Mosul to attack me" #feb25 #iraq - as reported on Mosuliya TV
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

42. #Iraq: Protests sweep Babil (Babylon) province south of #Baghdad

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
Protests sweep Babil (Babylon) province south of #Baghdad #feb25 #iraq
8 minutes ago

[Catherina]

46. #Iraq Curfew has been imposed. Police everywhere. Journalists not allowed

AliveIn Stories from MENA
#Iraq Curfew has been imposed. Police everywhere. Journalists not allowed. http://bit.ly/hpFaXZ (February 25, 2011) @smallworldnews
11 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Hillary, I think it's time to talk. All that stuff you were saying about freedom of the press, peaceful protests. Call me.

Curfew has been imposed. Police everywhere. Journalists not allowed.

on FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Audio in Arabic


English Summary:
On my way to Tahrir. Curfew has been imposed. Police everywhere. Journalists not allowed

http://alive.in/iraq/2011/02/25/curfew-has-been-imposed-police-everywhere-journalists-not-allowed/

[Catherina]

50. #Iraq: protesters point at helicopters flying overhead say they are being harassed

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
#Baghdad protesters point at helicopters flying overhead say they are being harassed #feb25 #iraq
12 minutes ago

[Catherina]

52. #Iraq: Iraqi government: Curfew from 6pm to 6am

Firas_Atraqchi Firas Al-Atraqchi
Iraqi government: Curfew from 6pm to 6am #feb25 #baghdad #iraq
11 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

53. #Iraq: Baghdad protesters chant "bring out your planes, we are not afraid"

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
RT @Firas_Atraqchi #Baghdad protesters chant "bring out your planes, we are not afraid" #feb25 #iraq
11 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

6. Calls mount for military intervention,,, #Italy have most too lose

mijadedios mijadedios
"@fuTuRe_sHOcK: Calls mount for military intervention in #Libya wsws.org/articles/2011/…" #Uk #Italy have most too lose
11 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Of course they are. You think the EU is going to leave their oil in your hands?

Calls mount for military intervention in Libya
By Ann Talbot
25 February 2011

The British government is actively considering sending Special Forces troops to Libya, on the pretext of rescuing 170 workers trapped in isolated oil exploration encampments, as fighting continues there amid mass uprisings against the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Reports from inside Libya were fragmentary, due to fighting and limitations on foreign media imposed by the Gaddafi regime. They suggested that Misurata, Libya’s third-largest city, was in the hands of anti-Gaddafi forces, with fighting moving to cities such as Zawiya and al-Khums, that are closer to Libya’s capital, Tripoli. Gaddafi also broadcast another belligerent speech today, blaming the uprising on Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and claiming that protesters were on drugs.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that he did not rule out the possibility of sending Special Forces to Libya.

Hague convened a meeting of the cabinet emergency group COBRA, along with Defence Secretary Liam Fox. Prime Minister David Cameron is on a trade mission in the Middle East, centring on the sale of arms to Persian Gulf despots.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/feb2011/liby-f25.shtml

Bookmarked. No time to read it all now.

[Catherina]

8. CONFIRMED: some people leading prayers in Tripoli, state sponsored, saying it's prohibited 2 protest

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
CONFIRMED: some people leading prayers in Tripoli seem to be state sponsored saying it is prohibited to protest #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes
11 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

9. Imam now reading a du'a, one that is only done during times of great distress & danger

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Imam now reading a du'a (prayer/supplication), one that is only done during times of great distress & danger #Feb17 #Libya
14 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

10. TO DO LIST: 1. Sabha 2.Surt 3.Tripoli

feb17libya Feb17Libya
#feb17 TO DO LIST: 1. Sabha 2.Surt 3.Tripoli http://f.ast.ly/qXqmP #@shabablibya
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


See map above

[Catherina]

11. The Benghazi city council refuses any foreign intervention

feb17voices Feb 17 voices
AJA: Journalist in Benghazi: The Benghazi city council refuses any foreign intervention #bef17 #Libya
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

:thumbsup:

[sabrina 1]

60. Good for them. No intervention needed. Go away, Colonial Powers your time

has come. Learn how to trade fairly with sovereign nations, or don't.

Just thought of a phony Bush statement about Iraq 'Freedom is on the march'. Except it wasn't.

But NOW 'freedom really is on the march'.

[Catherina]

13. protests after friday prayer in dhahra, clahes with live ammunation, no injuries

septimius_sever septimius severus
protests after friday prayer in dhahra, clahes with live ammunation, no injuries #libya #feb17 (via @SL0wZEr )
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

15. Revolution Command Central We need to add more screens damn it!

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
Revolution Command Central (SCREENSHOT) We need to add more screens damn it! LOL http://i.imgur.com/8wYPe. jpg #Egypt #Libya #Yemen #Iraq
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Had to resize it.

[Catherina]

18. Rumors that the Saudi FB group blocked in saudi.

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
RT @Shoushxxx RT @alahlawy29 Rumors that the Saudi FB group blocked in saudi. Will confirm soon http://on.fb.me/h3IWlH #Saudi
12 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

20. CONFIRMED: #Saudi Government Blocks Largest FB "Revolution Group"

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
CONFIRMED: #Saudi Government Blocks Largest FB "Revolution Group" http://post.ly/1fXpB #march11 #saudi
1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply


This is the page: https://www.facebook.com/K.S.A.Revolution



Founded
21 February 2011
Location
Saudi arabia
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 00966
Description
المطالب Demands

1 – a constitutional monarchy between the king and government.
2 – a written constitution approved by the people in which governing powers will be determined.
3 – transparency, accountability in fighting corruption
4 – the Government in the service of the people
5 – legislative elections.
6 – public freedoms and respect for human rights
7 – allowing civil society institutions
8 – full citizenship and the abolition of all forms of discrimination.
9 – Adoption of the rights of... (read more)
Mission
الرجاء من الجميع الإنضمام و نشر الصفحة لكي نجمع عدد اكبر من ابناء ارض الحرمين و نثور ثورة القهر
Email
[e-mail]

[Catherina]

19. Banner in Derna reads, 'East and West, we fight with zest until death'

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BREAKING: Banner in Derna reads, 'East and West, we fight with zest until death' #Feb17 #Libya #gaddaficribes
12 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

The people. United. Will never be defeated!

[Catherina]

21. VERY VERY TENSE scene in tripoli right now, could hear gunshots in background

ChangeInLibya Libyan Dude
Guys there is a VERY VERY TENSE scene in tripoli right now, could hear gunshots in background calling my uncle. #libya #feb17
2 minutes ago

[Catherina]

22. message for all youth in Tripoli: Urgent, Please head to Dahra now for peaceful protests

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
A message for all youth in Tripoli: Urgent, Please head to Dahra now for peaceful protests #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

23. protests erupt in Tripoli & Gaddafi Battalion forces open fire on the protesters

yassayari AYARI Yassine
RT @SultanAlQassemi: Al Jazeera: protests erupt in Tripoli & Gaddafi Battalion forces open fire on the protesters. #Libya
2 minutes ago

[Catherina]

24. URGENT! RT #Egypt ian drs on #Libya border calling for Egyptians to send surgical equipment

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
URGENT! RT @londontocairo: #Egypt ian drs on #Libya border calling for Egyptians to send surgical equipment - PLS RT
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

38. can buy surgical equipment 4 #Libya from Kasr El Aini Hospital or 23 Elsawah St , Alamyria, Cairo

marwame Marwa Elnaggar
RT @londontocairo: You can buy surgical equipment 4 #Libya from Kasr El Aini Hospital or 23 Elsawah St , Alamyria, Cairo #Egypt
8 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

25. BREAKING: the entire Libyan Embassy in India is with the protesters

yassayari AYARI Yassine
BREAKING: the entire Libyan Embassy in India is with the protesters #Libya #Feb17
3 minutes ago

[Catherina]

26. #Egypt: Chants in Tahrir, Egypt and Libya are one hand. Tunisia flag and Algeria

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Chants in Tahrir, Egypt and Libya are one hand. please note also Tunisia flag and Algeria #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes
3 minutes ago

[Catherina]

27. current time in Tripoli is 2:49 PM on Friday, 25 Feb

TimeInLibya Time In Libya
#Libya The current time in Tripoli is 2:45 PM on Friday, 25 February 2011
4 minutes ago

[JanDutchy]

33. Nato's Rasmussen speaks on Lybya

http://nos.nl/l/tcm:5-907828/

[Catherina]

28. Mercenaries paid $10,000 per head according to French TV5

yassayari AYARI Yassine
Tarif des mercenaires: 10.000$ par tête de libyen tué selon c dans l'air, france5. #Libya #Libye
4 minutes ago

[Catherina]

29. tate TV now showing a "demonstration" in support of #Gaddafi. My estimate 50-100 people.

yassayari AYARI Yassine
RT @iyad_elbaghdadi: #Libya state TV now showing a "demonstration" in support of #Gaddafi. My estimate 50-100 people. #Feb17
4 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

30. Huge Banner in Derna reads, We are one tribe called Libya, our ONLY capital is TRIPOLI

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Huge Banner in Derna reads, We are one tribe called Libya, our ONLY capital is TRIPOLI #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes
4 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

31. All in Tripoli, pls head to Dahra and Mustashfat al Sukar on the coastal Road

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
URGENT: All Protesters in Tripoli please head to Dahra and Mustashfat al Sukar on the coastal Road
2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Poboy]

32. k&r

[Catherina]

34. Video The bloody aftermath of the struggle in Tobruk

LibyaFeb17_com Libyan Youth
The bloody aftermath of the struggle in Tobruk - GRAPHIC - #feb17 #libya - http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2445
1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply


Guardian video

OMG> They caught a mercenary. He's up and bleeding from the mouth. Lots of ammo, rockets captured, tanks too. Thank God we won, they had weapons, we had stones. Blood all over the floor. Oh... shoots of Libyan soldiers with hands tied behind their backs who were executed. Also of a merc in blue uniform. makeshift hospital scenes. Shots of the dead under sheets.

Solidarity.

[Catherina]

35. 350,000+ protesters demanding the resignation of the government in Tunisia

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
RT @khoulhasnaoui More than 350 000 protesters demanding the resignation of the government in Tunisia http://on.fb.me/eYuiyn #tunisia
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply



Shit G5. You just don't know who to concentrate on today do you?

[Catherina]

39. Save The Children dispatches emergency response team

LibyaFeb17_com Libyan Youth
Save The Children dispatches emergency response team - #feb17 #libya - http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2448
8 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Save The Children dispatches emergency response team
Posted on February 25, 2011 by admin

The charity Save The Children has sent an “emergency dispatch team” to the Middle East in order to prepare for any potential refugees.

Save the Children’s Middle East regional director El Khidir Daloum received reports that children had been killed in the attacks by Libyan securityu forces and called them “deeply disturbing”.

He fears many children will be displaced if the violence intensifies and people flee the country.

http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2448

[JanDutchy]

48. UNHCR deploys staff at Ras Jedir border-crossing

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has deployed its staff at the Ras Jedir cross-border point, between Tunisia and Libya, where they have been working with the Tunisian Red Crescent and Tunisian authorities, according to the UN organisation. In a communiqué made public on Thursday, UNHCR specifies that “at the Tunisian government’s request,” <...>

http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/unhcr-deploys-staff-at-ras-jedir-border-crossing/

[JanDutchy]

55. Libya: ICRC sends medical teams to the region

23-02-2011 News Release 11/38
Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is stepping up its preparations to support medical facilities and treat the injured in Libyan cities where violence has taken place over the past few days. It is sending medical teams and surgical supplies to the area.
http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/news-release/2011/libya-news-2011-02-23.htm

[JanDutchy]

57. Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies working together

Middle East Crisis - Matthias Schmale, IFRC Under-Secretary General - Operational update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQLoYbNCKFk

[pinboy3niner]

40. AJE reports ferry w/Americans has left Libya

Now on the way to Malta.

[Catherina]

41. Live ammo being used on protestors in #tripoli right now

EnoughGaddafi Enough Gaddafi
Live ammo being used on protestors in #tripoli right now #feb17 #libya
8 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

43. CONFIRMED Live ammunition being used on protesters in #Tripoli RIGHT NOW.

feb17voices Feb 17 voices
LPC: CONFIRMED Live ammunition being used on protesters in #Tripoli RIGHT NOW. #Libya #feb17
10 minutes ago

[Catherina]

44. live ammonation Fashloom, eyewitness, afew ppl on ground Injured , now in Fashloom, tripoli

septimius_sever septimius severus
CONFIRMED : live ammonation Fashloom, eyewitness, afew ppl on ground Injured , now in Fashloom, tripoli #libya #feb17@cnn
11 minutes ago
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[Catherina]

45. MEDIA PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING AND COVER PROTESTS, IGNORE GADDAFI'S "TOUR" AND MONEY FFS IN TRIPOLI

ChangeInLibya Libyan Dude
MEDIA PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING AND COVER PROTESTS IN TRIPOLI IF YOU'RE ALREADY INSIDE.. IGNORE GADDAFI'S "TOUR" AND MONEY FFS #libya #feb17
11 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

47. At most 50 pro-Gaddafi demonstrators in Green Square

LibyaFeb17_com Libyan Youth
At most 50 pro-Gaddafi demonstrators in Green Square - #feb17 #libya - http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2453
12 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

At most 50 pro-Gaddafi demonstrators in Green Square
Posted on February 25, 2011 by admin
The BBC now also reports that State TV is broadcasting images of Green Square which they claim to be live, the BBC writes:

Libya’s state TV shows footage of what it says is Tripoli’s “Green Square now”. There are about 50 demonstrators at most in the shot, carrying pictures of Col Gaddafi. Someone is heard shouting pro-Gaddafi slogans and chanting “Popular revolution” and “We are Libyans”.

http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=2453

[defendandprotect]

58. LIBYA HURRA -- !!

[Catherina]

49. Demonstrations in many areas of Tripoli heading towards Green Square security forces firing bullets

libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Demonstrations in many areas of Tripoli heading towards Green Square security forces firing bullets on demonstrators #Feb17 #Libya
12 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

51. Where is the international press in Tripoli? At lest two dead so far, where is the media on the grou

libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Where is the international press in Tripoli? At lest two dead so far, where is the media on the ground? #Feb17 #Libya
12 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

54. ituation in Tripoli is NOW***** critical, gun shots tear gas and arrests

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
CORRECTION BREAKING: The Situation in Tripoli is NOW***** critical, gun shots tear gas and arrests #Libya #Feb17 #gaddaficrimes
10 seconds ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[Catherina]

56. Part 4 here

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x505136

[defendandprotect]

59. LIBYA HURRA -- !!