Libya late news

[tabatha]

05:29 BBC Abdel, a doctor in the town of Misrata, Libya, about 200km east of Tripoli, tells BBC World television that Gaddafi loyalists have been moving the bodies of people killed in clashes between rebels and government forces to sites that have been bombed by the coalition to make it appear they have died in the strikes.

04:20 BBC Abdul Karim, a doctor in Libya’s third city of Misrata, tells the BBC: “There has been strong firing from Gaddafi’s tanks from the western side of Misrata, in an area called Guseir. The firing started five hours ago. I can still hear the sounds of explosions. I was heading home when I heard the explosions, so now I have gone to a safer place.”

03:16 The Guardian Qatar’s prime minister has told local new channel al-Jazeera that Qatar will definitively participate in the military action in Libya

“Qatar will participate in military action because we believe there must be Arab states undertaking this action, because the situation there is intolerable…. it has become an open war involving mercenaries. I think that this is an issue that must stop very quickly,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said, adding:

We do not accept any harm coming to the Libyan people. We are not targeting the Libyan people, or targeting even the colonel or his sons, quite the opposite. How can we stop the bloodshed, this is our intention.

05:33 Reuters China wants stability restored to Libya as soon as possible, the foreign ministry said on Sunday, after Western forces started using strikes from air and sea against Muammar Gaddafi’s troops. Expressing regret about the military attacks in Libya, the ministry said it hoped the conflict would not escalate and lead to greater loss of civilian life.

http://www.libyafeb17.com/

[joshcryer]

1. Was to be expected, btw.

I predicted that the students he disappeared a few weeks ago would 'reappear' in the event this happened. And I bet that's exactly what happens.

[aquart]

2. Yah, we waited two weeks too long.

I remember a friend who worked at WAPO telling me how hard Bill Clinton was trying to get European cooperation to move against the Serbs but they preferred to let the mass murders continue. Until Kosovo, when even the UN troops couldn't contain their nausea. Lotta people died because Europe and the UN wouldn't stop those genocidal bastards.

I remember the footage of the Muslim men being put on buses after being separated from their families. EVERYBODY KNEW they were being taken to their graves but no one intervened.