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THERE are as many people as one could possibly fit in a modest sized room somewhere in Paddington. That is, about twice more than you might first imagine. Sardine-like, many of those clutch rapidly warming bottles of beer, rammed into rows of uncomfortable seats, while a faint smell of perspiration pervades. Everyone present at London’s Frontline Club, a mix of eager journalism students and old timers, is ready. Waiting for an insight into a woman who challenges both the the usual code of the journalistic canon and – if the general tide of Cath Kidston-clad, cupcake eating yummy mummy-hood is anything to go by – the A to Z of mothering.

She is Alex Crawford, Sky News foreign correspondent and the female Fonz of television news broadcasting. Definitely as cool but, alas, minus the leather jacket. Much feted for her journey into Tripoli this year, as Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s power finally collapsed – Crawfie, as she is known to her colleagues, comes across as tough as old boots.

“I’d rather eat my own liver than be a presenter, because it isn’t out in the field,” she declares soon after taking her seat in front of her audience. For the past six years, the television journalist has been a foreign correspondent, but she started out at the Wokingham Times newspaper – a world away from days now spent being kidnapped by Afghan intelligence officials or scooping the BBC in Libya.

Before starting at Sky in 1989 as the channel launched, the reporter did the unthinkable and resigned from the BBC. The fight to get to the position she is in now marks Crawford out as dogged and persistent as she confesses “a series of rejections” that ran through her early working life.

“I spent 10 years having children and each time coming back through,” says mother-of-four Crawford, who has recently publicly slammed “insulting and very, very sexist” attitudes towards the perceived incompatibility of juggling motherhood and frontline journalism. She said at the MediaGuardian International Television Festival earlier this year in Edinburgh: “It’s much more sexist than holding you back or not giving you the job, to actually criticise you for doing your job as you say. I’m working alongside today the chief correspondent who’s a man, who’s got three children and there will be no one who says what do you think you’re doing, how awful, what are you doing to your children?” In spite of this, Crawford admits it is difficult to get back home to a world of homework and changing beds.

She tells the Frontline crowd: “My children are incredibly grounding and I have a massive gear change in what I do because I go from …doing some fairly high octane pressured stuff to having four little people who really need me and just want me to be a mum,” she explains. “The most important thing is ‘actually, you are a mum’ and they are very dependent on me and my partner is incredibly supportive, I couldn’t do it without someone being a back up at home. “Children really need their mums, no I don’t think I would be able to cope without them.” Clearly not one to do things by half measures, Crawford has won the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year three times since starting the foreign correspondent gig. This year, covering parts of the Arab Spring, the Sky journalist consistently scooped rivals – later attracting strong rebukes for the BBC across the global Twitterati.

Crawford twice went to Zawiya, first in March at the beginning of the unrest, when the rebels in the town were “not a fighting force” and she claims she felt “a moral responsibility” to get news of what was happening there back to the west. “Gaddafi had to take control of [Zawiya] – it stood between him and the supply route to Tunisia and was a big oil route. We ended up being trapped there for the next three days as Gaddafi’s troops surrounded the town and tried to crush them. We were the only people who had witnessed it and people were still taking Gaddafi quite seriously at that time. That was an incredibly dramatic time for all of us , I have never been through anything like it and hope never to again – so many people injured with the most appalling injuries, so many people killed there. [It was] very much civilians, there was no real rebel army it was a town trying to stop itself being crushed – we left and that went on for the next five months.”

The correspondent returned to Zawiya in August “just as it was about to fall”, which led on to the fall of Tripoli and ultimately the regime. Crawford, who reported live from the back of a pick-up truck as rebels moved into the city’s centre, puts the coverage down to being in the “right place at the right time with the right people”. “You have got to feel that the risk has been worth it and one of those things that makes you feel it has been worth it, is if you have had some sort of impact – even if only affects one or two persons’ lives. At the end of the day, you have got to feel all these risks and dangers are worth it. I want to be able to go back and face the children and feel I have done something worthwhile.”

Between small interruptions from polite questioners, Crawford offers the attentive room a surreal flickbook of stories detailing such morsels as gaining access to Taliban fighters, surviving an attack on a Mosque and being abducted by the NDS (intelligence officers in Afghanistan). The latter came about when she and her cameraman were returning from some time spent with Afghan military insurgents in a remote region near the Pakistan border. Grabbed by two carloads of the men, Crawford was taken away to be interrogated, but not before managing to raise the alarm with colleagues who facilitated the US military arriving en force to rescue her. “Thank God [they] tried looking for us – they were going to sell us to the Taliban,” she tells us, with steely calm, explaining two French journalists went missing in the same area and probably only freed after a ransom paid.

On the subject of impartiality, Crawford is delightfully forthright – even with the knowledge the room is awash with students from the BBC School of Journalism. “I think it is almost a fallacy you can be impartial,” she says, eyeing the crowd sternly. “We are reporters…but we are humans as well and when looking at people being hurt, killed, injured, abused, you have got to be able to feel something. [We have] got to stop apologising for feeling something – I cannot be detached and do not want to be detached. The moment I stop feeling, [it is] time to do another job, if you cannot feel it, how can you report with passion? There is a difference between being independent and impartial, you have just need to be able to know what [people] are going through.”

And so it ends and off Alex Crawford slips – through the relative comforts of London, out into the night and, doubtless, towards warring men and the endless scent of fresh and bloody stories.

 The website of the Libyan resistance, Zengtena, reported that in the city of Hrawi , the resistance fighters blew up a weapons stockpile located downtown and have successfully completed the capture of rebel leader Mokadem Bani Salem .

A daring operation was performed successfully by a group of Libyan resistance with 5 fedayyen of the Taqrvat group. They entered a rebel camp and have dropped bombs.  Gentlemen Bokhozam Elkabas, Adnan Alam, Hoceine Farjani Ahmed Lamloum Maneam Garbani have given their lives for the love of Allah, their people and their country, so that their brothers and sisters can live in freedom and dignity  (may Allah accept their sacrifice and give them the highest levels of Paradise, El Firdaus. Amine). Five Martyrs blew up the rebel camp, killing 43 and destroying 14 tanks plus a fully equipped combat helicopter and armed.

The Mujahideen have carried out anambush succesfully on the road to a supply convoy for the rebels. A tanker truck and a vehicle loaded with ammunition were destroyed. They also strafed a bus carrying new rebel recruits, before retiring, leaving behind many dead and wounded rebels who were inside the vehicle.

The freedom fighters have made ​​a sweep on the road from the waterfront and between Khomsa Kaem . They killed 13 insurgents who were guarding a roadblock.

In Zawiya , shootings on the coastal road leading to El Fassi are reported.

In Sirte fifty rebels were killed and hundreds more injured when thousands of rebels, backed by NATO planes, attempted a breakthrough within the city and the Libyan resistance fighters welcomed them with mortar fire.

Still in Sirte, a brother of the resistance moved towards the rebels disguised as them, he has opened his arms wide in  as a welcome sign and when he approached them enough, he turned his belt of explosives which killed them instantly (may Allah approve his martyrdom and give the best rewardsto him). Fifteen minutes later, the brothers of strength attacked the remaining rebels with small arms and rocket launches. They have killed fifty, a hundred wounded and seized four tanks. The NATO planes keep flying over the city at low altitude bombing civilian population randomly.

The Tuaregs  were delivered new anti-personnel mines. These explosives are fitted with thermal detonator and can destroy tanks. A single mine can cover an area of one square kilometer and spray enemy’s material.

In Bani Walid ,  a cameraman working for the channel of mental manipulation of criminal Qatar who has done everything possible to initiate and maintain this terrible war against the noble people of Libya, was injured while trying to get closer to Bani Walid. He had the idea to walk in front of the lens of a sniper at the wrong time. A single bullet was shot in the right hand. He was lucky not to have been killed despite the seriousness of his crime against the peaceful innocent people of the Jamahiriya.

By Hassan Alliby 

Source: AngeeVerse

This division has already been seen in battle field, as fighters refuse to take orders outside BaniWalid, and fighting has already began in certain areas between different factions of NATO militias.

For example in one incident at least 12 NATO militiamen were killed and another 16 injured when two different factions started fighting each other like thieves fighting over the stolen bounty.

(source: Ozyism )

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This division has already been seen in battle field, as fighters refuse to take orders outside BaniWalid, and fighting has already began in certain areas between different factions of NATO militias.

For example in one incident at least 12 NATO militiamen were killed and another 16 injured when two different factions started fighting each other like thieves fighting over the stolen bounty.

(source: Ozyism )

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BIR SHAEB, Libya (AP) — Libyan rebels fought their way into the strategic city of Zawiya west of Tripoli on Saturday in their most significant advance in months, battling snipers on rooftops and heavy shelling from Moammar Gadhafi’s forces holding the city.

Zawiya, 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the capital, is a key target for rebels waging a new offensive launched from the mountains in the far west of Libya, an attempt to break the deadlock in combat between the two sides that has held for months in the center and east of the country.

A credible threat from the rebels in the west could strain Gadhafi’s troops, which have been hammered for months by NATO airstrikes. Defending Zawiya is key for the regime but could require bringing in better trained forces who are currently ensuring its hold over its Tripoli stronghold or fighting rebels on fronts further east.

A group of about 200 exuberant rebel fighters, advancing from the south, reached a bridge on Zawiya’s southwestern outskirts, and some rebels pushed farther into the city’s central main square. They tore down the green flag of Gadhafi’s regime from a mosque minaret and put up two rebel flags. An Associated Press reporter traveling with the rebels saw hundreds of residents rush into the streets, greeting the fighters piled into the backs of pickup trucks with chants of “God is great.”

Gadhafi’s forces then counterattacked with a barrage of heavy weapons, and the loud crackle of gunfire could be heard as rebels and government troops battled.

Regime snipers were firing down from rooftops on the rebels, said one resident, Abdel-Basset Abu Riyak, who joined to fight alongside the rebels when they entered the city. He said Gadhafi’s forces were holed up in several pockets in the city and that there were reports of reinforcements coming from Tripoli, though there was no sign of them yet.

Rebel spokesman Jumma Ibrahim claimed that the opposition’s fighters controlled most of Zawiya by nightfall. “What remains are few pockets (of Gadhafi forces) in the city,” he said. “The road is now open all the way from the western mountains to Zawiya, we can send them supply and reinforcement anytime.”

Perhaps more importantly,the rebels now control the main highway linking Tripoli to the Tunisian boarder, according to Fadlallah Haroun, the head of the rebels’ security council in Benghazi. The road passes through Zawiya.

Zawiya’s residents rose up and threw off regime control when Libya’s anti-Gadhafi revolt first began in February. But Gadhafi’s forces retaliated and crushed opposition in the city in a long and bloody siege in March. Many of Zawiya’s rebels fled into the mountains — and were among the lead forces advancing on the city Saturday — while others like Abu Riyak remained in the city, lying low.

Speaking to the AP by telephone, Abu Riyak said residents were now joining up with the rebels’ assault, saying, “95 percent of Zawiya’s people are with the revolution.”

“There is shooting from all sides,” said another rebel, 23-year-old Ibrahim Akram. “The people joined us. Fierce clashes are still ongoing, but thank God our numbers are great.”

But Gadhafi is likely to fight hard to keep control of Zawiya. The city of about 200,000 people on the Mediterranean coast is key because it controls the main supply road to the capital from the Tunisian border and is the site of the sole remaining oil refineries in the west still under the regime’s control.

The state of government forces after months of punishing NATO airstrikes is not known. The best armed and equipped units, led by Gadhafi’s sons, have been involved in fighting at the main fronts — around the city of Misrata, east of Tripoli, and at the oil port of Brega in the center of the country.

Government spokeman Moussa Ibrahim dismissed reports of rebel advance on Zawiya as a “media game,” dismissing it as the act of “remnants of armed gangs.” He told state TV that “Tripoli is secure and safe. Even if there is advancement by the armed gangs, it’s only temporary under the cover of NATO.”

The rebel force has been advancing into the coastal plain for the past week from the Nafusa Mountains, an opposition stronghold about 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the south. Commanders have said the plan is to seize Zawiya and other nearby towns and then move on Tripoli itself, Gadhafi’s stronghold.

At the same time, rebels were attempting to seize control of another strategic town, Gharyan, south of Tripoli.

In the morning Saturday, rebels claimed control of Gharyan, saying they had moved into the center of the town and that Gadhafi’s troops had withdrawn. But several hours later, regime forces returned with reinforcements and the two sides clashed, said rebel spokesman Gomma Ibrahim.

Gharyan lies at the northern end of the Nafusa Mountains, and Gadhafi’s hold on the town had been a sticking point for rebels who have taken control of most of the range. The town lies on the main road leading directly from Nafusa to Tripoli, 50 miles (80 kilometers) to the north on the coast.

South of Zawiya, rebels said a suspected NATO airstrike accidentally killed four opposition fighters in a tank captured from Gadhafi forces.

Saturday’s initial foray into Zawiya appeared hasty, with a band of enthusiastic rebels pushing to the main square while the main force remained on the outskirts. Still, the rebels appear to have learned from the main mistakes from the fronts further east, where the untrained citizen fighters were long on enthusiasm and short on skill.

But during this week’s advance in the west, rebels were more cautious.

On a main highway headed to Zawiya, rebels set up a rear position at a key intersection by erecting an earthen wall across the road, manned by a tank, to fall back to if necessary. That was a contrast to past battles in the east, where fighters would charge ahead in furious advances, then retreat pell-mell when hit by Gadhafi’s artillery and rockets.

Libya’s revolt began in February, with the rebels quickly wresting control of much of the eastern half of the country, as well as pockets in the west.

But since April, the conflict has been locked in a stalemate. Despite months of NATO airstrikes hitting regime forces, rebels have failed to budge the main front lines, particularly at the oil port of Brega.

Rebels were claiming some progress at Brega, saying they seized part of the residential zones around its oil terminal. The Benghazi-based rebels’ military spokesman, Col. Ahmed Bani, said that rebel fighters are clashing with Gadhafi forces to take control over the rest of the town. “Very soon all Brega will be liberated,” he said.

Images such as the one below demonstrate vividly why many sub-Saharan Africans in Libya may be fearful of reprisal or harm if they are suspected by rebel forces of being a Qadhafi mercenary.  This picture (Florent Marcie/AFP/Getty Images) was taken on 19 August in Zawiya and reportedly shows “suspected members of the Libyan regime forces [being] rounded up in a pick-up truck by Libyan rebel fighters in Zawiya.”

Click here for article.  (IT)

Click here for my previous post on re-implementing the migration control agreement.

Two reasons lead me to predict this:

1. He is an enemy of religions and he wants to fight during Ramadan and during the Eid celebration
2. September 1st is the anniversary of his Fatah revolution and we all know he has to celebrate that right?

I really wanted to cut to the chase with this post. I’m going to be updating the Gaddafi problem informally as it is very rapidly developing. So, consider this the first in the series.

I am currently in the process of creating a timeline of all his speeches since the revolution.