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• CNN on Libya’s Islamists

  
  The Arabist — Authority: 499
  [Note: if you cant see the above video, go here .] CNN’s Nic Robertson has really outdone himself in sycophancy and breathlessness – and he has quite a track record. In this special facilitated by Seif al-Islam al-Qadhafi, who gave CNN access to prisons as well as himself, Robertson does PR for Seif’s ...
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• Terrorist suspects released from house arrest after peace deal

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Four terrorism suspects have had their control orders revoked after a peace deal was struck with their alQaedalinked group it has emerged.
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• Apologising to the Colonel

  
  London Review Blog — Authority: 527
  The British mercenary Simon Mann isn’t the only would-be assassin who has been making apologies for trying to overthrow an oil-rich country’s government. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, established in Afghanistan in the 1990s, has killed dozens of Libyan soldiers and policemen over the years. But the LIFG ...
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• Clinton pushes peace deal between Manila, rebels

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 714
  Source: Reuters By Manny Mogato MANILA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the Philippines and the countrys largest Muslim rebel group on Friday to strike a peace deal before ...
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• Cambyses’ Still Lost Army

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 418
  Persian soldiers, on a glazed relief from Susa, now in the Louvre. You can leave it to archaeologists to make exaggerated claims and you can leave it to journalists to swallow the nonsense. The readers of this little blog know that I have introduced the Ctesias Scale to measure poor archaeological journalism. A ...
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• New Arab Reform Bulletin

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 487
  A new  Arab Reform Bulletin  has been released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In this issue, Sam Parker explains why the passing of the  Iraq election law  provides a “fair” outcome for the Kurds while also offering a “small victory” to the anti-Kurd forces. The election law will ...
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• Two Swiss businessmen in Tripoli to be tried for tax evasion

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 449
  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Libyan foreign minister said in Tripoli Thursday 12 November that the two Swiss businessmen who have been held against their will in Tripoli since last July will be tried for visa irregularities and tax evasion. The two men were returned to the Swiss embassy Monday 9 November ...
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• For this I will endure midget seats, bad air and the unredeemed incompetence of customs officials everywhere

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 555
  PJ O’Rourke, the acerbic American writer, was at a Kim Dae Jung political rally in South Korea when the kid standing in front of him bit off the tip of his finger and wrote “Kim Dae Jung” in blood on his white ski jacket. That was “the first time I ever felt like a foreign [...]Related posts: Libya: Ancient ...
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• UNODC to Open Office in Libya

  
  Database of Press Releases related to Africa — Authority: 495
  UNODC to Open Office in Libya  TRIPOLI, Libya, November 12, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Today in Tripoli, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, signed a host country agreement with Libya’s Minister of Interior, General Abdel Fatah Younes ...
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• Libya: Libya begins repatriating Tuareg rebels

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  Reuters reports Libya has begun repatriating hundreds of Nigerian Tuareg rebel fighters, state television in Niger reported on Wednesday, the latest sign of progress in pacifying Nigers north after two years of revolt.The fighters, who are from an MNJ faction of Nigers Tuareg rebels who launched an uprising in 2007, ...
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• The 12th Annual World Tourism Awards honor Tourism Cares, Gap Adventures, and Cyrene, Libya

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 539
  The 12th Annual World Tourism Awards, co-sponsored by American Express (AMEX), Corinthia Hotels, International Herald Tribune (IHT), and Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE), were presented at a special cere read more
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• Libya repatriates hundreds of rebels to Niger -radio

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 714
  Source: Reuters NIAMEY, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Libya has begun repatriating hundreds of Nigerien Tuareg rebel fighters, state television in Niger reported on Wednesday, the latest sign of progress in pacifying Nigers ...
  3 days ago

• Libyan Bits and Pieces

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 418
  Mausoleum F from Ghirza; museum of Bani Walid Over the years, my friend Marco and I made some 40,000 photos, which we have arranged geographically: there’s a directory for country X, which is subdivided into directories for towns A, B, and C. The names of the photos are usually sufficient to find back what we were ...
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• Al Qaeda: New Jihad Code Threatens Al Qaeda

  
  Feral Jundi — Authority: 480
  “Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like. Betrayal is prohibited and it is vital to keep promises and treat prisoners of war in a good way. Standing by those ethics is what distinguishes ...
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• New Jihad Code Threatens al Qaeda

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 130
  The codes most direct challenge to al Qaeda is this: "Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like.
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• UK pays Libya for advice on airline safety

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 539
  British taxpayers paid for Libyan security experts to fly to the UK, while British officials met Libyan counterparts at Tripoli airport. read more
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• Middle East International Refounded

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 487
  The Middle East International has  restarted its printing press  after a six-year hiatus, releasing a  free PDF issue  online in commemoration. According to the Arabist, MEI offers “long articles and analysis from writers based in-country who [know] what they [are] talking about.” There are several articles ...
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• Two kidnapped Swiss men returned to embassy in Libya

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 449
  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Two Swiss men who were whisked away to a secret location, without outside contact, by the Libyan government in October have been turned over to the Swiss embassy in Tripoli, Libya. The men were kidnapped after being lured away on the pretext of needing medical examinations. The two ...
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• Libya: Ancient and modern under a layer of dust

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 555
  Whew! Comms – which have been patchy on my Libyan travels – are up and running again. For a country that looks like it’s still half-built (unlike Egypt which looks like it’s half-unbuilt and going down, or so I’m told) Libya has pretty decent telecoms and infrastructure. Cellphones are ubiquitous and getting ...
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• Alcatel-Lucent deploys networks for Libyan parastatal

  
  ITNewsAfrica.com - IT news, Telecom news and Mobile news from an African perspective — Authority: 140
  Alcatel-Lucent has signed a multi-million dollar contract with LPTIC (Libyan Post Telecommunications & Information Technology Company), to deploy the second phase of Eastern Libya’s... This is a summary only. Visit ITNewsAfrica.com for full links, other content, and more!
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