Libya

South Africa was the only BRICS nation to approve the resolution, but it became the leading force mediating for a cease-fire in Libya.

Although he took himself seriously and obviously intended to be the next ruler of Libya, he was not happy in his own skin.

She and others reported having to say "Nothing but Allah, Muammar, and Libya, " as they passed through the checkpoints.

The African Union says it is ready to support the transitional council as it works to form an inclusive government in Libya.

There does not appear to be any serious plan for dealing with chaos in Libya, which could quickly turn into a humanitarian disaster.

Harder decisions followed. Libya's army continued to shell other rebel-held cities, and its snipers were plainly targeting civilians.

He said that Britain, France and Arab nations would take the lead, and that United States ground forces would not enter Libya.

He said he has no political ambitions in Libya.

He said that military action against Libya would be "several days" to combat the transition to the no-fly zone by the military on patrol.

It is only such a process of democratization and reconstruction that would truly lessen the salience of Libya's enduring divisions.

He said it would be hosting on humanitarian grounds like the other Colonel Gaddafi's loyalists who have fled Libya over the past week.

But he said the U. S. aircraft in the next few days will send a reconnaissance mission in Libya.

Before that, he had been a relatively unknown teacher, educated in Sudan and Libya, the grandson of a famous cleric.

He said the Pentagon had not yet assessed the damage that the missiles had caused and would not be able to do so until dawn broke in Libya.

THE most complete so far in the chain of upheavals to rock the Arab world, Libya's revolution seems to have come surprisingly well packaged.

Chen Shui-bian has made surprise visits to Libya and Indonesia on his way home from Latin America.

This would be a huge step, threatening an open-ended entanglement, though Libya's population is only a fraction of Iraq's or Afghanistan's.

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will meet and exchange views with him on the situation in Libya.

Among Libya's opposition, most people, though by no means all, seem ready to accept Western help.

He said the accord would provide for $200 million a year over the next 25 years through investments in infrastructure projects in Libya.

As you know, I'm the U. S. ambassador to Libya.

He said the visit would have a negative impact on bilateral relations between China and Libya .

More than 200 African migrants trying to reach Europe were thought to have drowned off the coast of Libya.

He said the Sudanese government was in contact with the governments of both Libya and France.

Against apartheid in South Africa and an embryonic nuclear programme in Libya, they seem to have encouraged change.

Zuma said the international community should not be biased or some foreign media reports, but should also listen to the voice of Libya.

These days, though, Faqiar wears the mismatched camouflage of Libya's rebels and a dashing bandana on his head, pirate-style.

Among the threats the United States is focusing on is Libya's stockpile of deadly mustard gas, he said.

While there is a lack of any fresh news out of Libya, the potential for contagion in the region seems to be a certainty.

He said Turkey's only interest is the well-being of Libya and he was working for an early ceasefire.

With Libya, there was "a very clear call for the sort of action that we have now taken" from the Arab League and the United Nations.

The only loud dissenter was Venezuela, whose envoy urged America and its allies to call off "invasion plans against Libya" .

Mr Ghanem is the head of Libya's national oil company and the man Mr Scaroni is on his way to see.

Before, "there was a barrier, " and Libya's hapless young men were to be pitied, Khalil said.

Two or three once belonged to the LIFG, but more had been pushed toward armed resistance after spending years in Libya's prisons, he said.

The U. S. military's nickname for the no-fly zone in Libya sounds like the beginning of a long adventure.

At some point over the next few days or weeks the situation in Libya will calm down and oil prices will subside.

And if Mr Qaddafi uses his air force to kill large numbers of his own people, the world would be right to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.

At least 250 people have been killed in Libya so far, according to the U. N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Aisha was the only daughter of Gaddafi, Libya's first known as the Princess.

Mitchell is trying to hammer out a compromise before the Arab League meets Friday in Libya to discuss the fate of the peace talks.

The thugs have put out by Suzy that the world was no more in need of dictators and that the revolution going on in Libya was a good thing.

He said the move marks a further step in Britain's involvement in Libya's conflict - a step that he said is necessary.

MacAskill says London's failure to answer this question was one reason why he could not transfer Megrahi to a prison in Libya.

Their piece appeared just a few weeks after Obama, European leaders, and others intervened in Libya for exactly this purpose.

"He was the key figure to rehabilitate Libya with the international community, " Benotman said by phone. "Now it is all gone. "

The allied air strikes against Libya are presenting a new challenge for the Bank of Japan in its efforts to stem the rise of the yen.

He said that Libya "crossed the Red Line" and came to the point where it was able to build an atomic bomb. But, he added.

Since the uprising against Col Gaddafi the old Libya flag - with red, black and green bands - has been used as a symbol of opposition.

Speaking in Benghazi, he said the council was now Libya's sole legitimate representative.

NATO, which has backed the rebels with a bombing campaign, said the transition of power in Libya must be peaceful.

Third, thanks to Qaddafi's obsession with a facade of direct democracy, Libya has no experience of party politics and competing interests.

Italy has long been a close trading partner of Libya, and its energy firm ENI (E) is one of the largest producers of oil in Libya.

"There can be no place in the new Libya for revenge attacks and reprisals, " she said in a statement.

It would be too easy to tell you if indeed Libya's leader is captured and killed.

A BP PLC spokesman said Monday the company was committed to returning to Libya 'as soon as conditions allow, ' though it had no time frame.

The head of the Transitional National Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said the money was needed in part to pay salaries in eastern Libya.

The Libya campaign has already cost three-quarters of a billion dollars, and yet Obama hasn't had to ask Congress for a dime.

The Scottish government engaged Libya and the United Kingdom on the matter of releasing al-Megrahi.

Others thought better of it, had arms twisted by America or, like Iraq and Libya, were caught radioactive-handed.

This just meant that no one in his government was happy when the president decided to apply classic French realpolitik in the case of Libya.

But it just could be a sign of the kind of intemperate policies many hope a future Libya will avoid, and what help now could prevent.

Appearing alone, Saif seemed to be speaking on behalf of Libya's government, although he himself has no official role in it.

Paired that with much needed democratic revolutions in places like Libya seems to be the recipe for cooking up even higher oil prices.

I'll begin by asking you to take a look at a map. From Libya to Italy by water is a little farther than from Washington to New York.

The freewheeling rap scene developing in Benghazi indicates how much has changed in eastern Libya in the past two months.

In an attempt to make up for complicity and dithering in Tunisia and Egypt, France has stuck its neck out over Libya.

"I'm sorry for all that happened to Libya, " he said, "from the beginning to the end. "

Libya's new leaders are unlikely to be so generous, since the country's earnings could be minimal for a while yet.

But it did not mention Libya or detail what was said about military operations there.

Who can say with any confidence what sort of countries Egypt, Tunisia or Libya will be five or even two years from now?

He said there's been enough bloodshed, with a huge number of Libya's youth killed, both civilian and military.

The International Energy Agency said the measure was a response to the disruption in the oil supply from Libya.

The U. S. intervened in Libya because of a humanitarian "responsibility to protect, " as it is often put in the United Nations.

US officials say one option that trying to push Gaddafi out of power is to create a no fly zone over Libya.

Reported that the air strikes took place in Libya to meet Gaddafi broadcast on state television hours after the video.

That would raise questions over whether such a trial could be fair, especially as Libya's judicial system must be built from scratch.

He said no one has the power to require Gaddafi to leave, do not welcome any request to leave Libya's Gaddafi program.

In the case of an attack on Libya, a fourth war theater would be opened up in North Africa, with the risk of military escalation.

Earlier, the head of Nato, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said he was strongly opposed to any supplying of weapons to rebel forces in Libya.

Hired buses will also stand ready to enter Libya to help with the evacuation if necessary, the foreign ministry said.

But now that Libya is convulsed by revolution, Gadaffi seems to have used up all his nine lives.

Armed predators have been used in Libya "purely as [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems] until today, " Cartwright said.

Rasmussen said the rebels are advancing militarily in Libya, although it was unclear how much.

Britain's Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton said he was planning for an operation in Libya lasting at least six months.

South Africa cannot block the unfreezing of the rest of Libya's assets indefinitely, as it has no veto at the UN Security Council.

Lapan said the Pentagon control of intelligence, Gaddafi did not leave Libya. Gaddafi is not clear, but the U. S. current hiding place.

Hague said the decision to send officers to Libya does not conflict with the U. N. resolution.

Libyan air raids in the West began, the British Ambassador in Libya, had been called home, now is not the British diplomats in Tripoli.

Meanwhile, the U. S. announced that Libya has "no-fly zone" was extended to Lee near the capital Tripoli, covering the Mediterranean coast.

Statements made by representatives of Libya's new leadership in the past have not always turned out to be true.

Russian concessions so far have been halfhearted and Russian policies, whether on Iran or Libya, do not coincide with those of America.

The lands of Cyprus, Cyrene (eastern Libya), and parts of Syria had been lost; Roman troops were soon to be garrisoned in Alexandria itself.

Libya's rebel movement, meanwhile, appeared to be in disarray after the mysterious death of their chief military commander.

LIBYA is never easy to read, but it has recently become more contradictory than ever.

Eni's chairman, Giuseppe Recchi, recently told analysts that it would probably take a year to return Libya to normal export levels.

Yet in the cases of Sudan and Libya, principle seems to be divorced from practice in the application of Chinese foreign policy.

It may be that America would have exercised the same caution in Libya even if it had not been for Iraq.

"The Revolution Everlasting" was one of the enduring slogans of his Libya, inscribed everywhere from bridges to water bottles.

Crude oil prices have hit a two-and-a-half year high amid concerns that the unrest in Libya could turn into a full-blown civil war.

China is ready to cooperate with Libya to further deepen bilateral friendly cooperation in various sectors.

A person familiar with BP PLC said the company wasn't currently doing any new trading deals in Libya.

If Libya requests it, the west should be ready to provide technical assistance in this process.

In war, of course, it is possible to be brave and afraid at once, and in Libya that was the norm.

The relationship between Britain and Libya is just a minor example of a much broader phenomenon.

Then came a vote on the motion that "This house believes that Qaddafi and the others should be tried in Libya, not in The Hague" .

South Africa said Monday it is not supporting the rebels and refuted reports that it had sent a plane to Libya to evacuate Mr. Gadhafi.

'We join the international community in strongly condemning the violence in Libya, ' she said in a statement Monday.

The plane then landed in southeastern Libya, near the border with Sudan, after the pilot said the craft was running low on fuel.

In his first big speech on the conflict in Libya Barack Obama laid out the reasons why he thought America should be involved.

He said his father's forces would align with radical Islamists against the rebels: "Libya will look like Saudi Arabia, like Iran. So what? "

Up to now, Italy set up in the implementation of the no-fly zones and arms embargo on Libya to play a supporting role.

It's easy to forget that Libya's organic and intense popular uprising preceded any international intervention.

If he ends up living a lavish life in South Africa and Libya is free of his madness, it's a small price to pay.

Libya he insisted, had been on the point of developing its own nuclear weapon.

Moreover, he made it clear that he was in favour of fundamental change in Libya.

Speaking on American television, she said it was important that the new Libya begin with the rule of law.

There is such a thing as opportunity cost, money not spent on Libya can be put to better use easing the pain of the American taxpayer.

"The crimes these people have committed are unforgivable in a conservative country like Libya, " he said.

In a new audio message, Colonel Gaddafi said he was ready for a long battle even if Libya burnt.

It is with a very heavy heart that I confirm the death of Chris Hondros, who died today of his injuries while covering events in Libya.

The International Federation for Human Rights says at least 700 people have died in Libya since the start of the uprising.

Goldman arranged for a security guard to protect them before they left Libya the next day, they say.

After Iraq war, the modernization of Libya began to turn from the revolutionary nationalism road.

Former commission members that did not seek election to the new group included Congo , Ethiopia , Libya, Sri_ Lanka, Sudan and Vietnam .

Indeed, Qaddafi's threat to turn the Mediterranean into a zone of instability is a reminder of precisely what a divided Libya could yield.

President Obama has said he does not rule out supplying American weapons to opposition figures in Libya.

No one in Libya's regime seems to have bothered to have tracked precise figures.

In Libya's long history of ruthless, ossified dictators, Qaddafi is in a league of his own.

CNPC is the only State-owned oil company invested in Libya, with its major focus on drilling and pipeline construction services.

In the typical fashion of dictators, Libya's leader appears to be confusing his own person with the nation as a whole.

Clinton said she needs Congress' help to see Libya's democratic transition through to a successful conclusion.

But this much is clear, the Gadhafi regime is coming to an end and the future of Libya is in the hands of its people, " he said. "

It looked like a sizable step backward for women in Libya, said The New York Times.

When he recovers Zuwei says he is going straight back to Libya to fight again on the front lines.

The Arab Spring appeared to flagging a few months ago, as Libya's opposition suffered setbacks even as Syria's regime dug-in.

If Libya's second-largest city fell back in the hands of Qaddafi loyalists, the resolve of Libya's rebellion would probably fall with it.

And he could see that, even as some Europeans pressed for action in Libya, they were pushing to cut their contributions to Afghanistan.

Moreover, Libya has no ruling party like the Baath.

The White House has also made clear nothing had been taken off the table, including the possibility of arming the rebels in Libya.

There was no immediate reaction from rebel leaders in their stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya.

Secretary of state Hillary Clinton said the administration was conferring with allies about imposing a no-fly zone over Libya.

Former commission members that did not seek election to the new group included Congo, Ethiopia , Libya, Sudan and Vietnam.

Libya is sitting on vast oil wealth and can tap into the millions of dollars that Gadhafi stashed away in foreign banks, he said.

A ferry that was chartered to take hundreds of U. S. citizens from Libya to Malta was held up for a while yesterday.

U. S. officials briefed on Libya said they believed some of the money seized was being managed by major Wall Street investment houses.

In what seemed a clear effort to sidestep the mistakes of postwar Iraq, there was no rush to send foreign troops to Libya.

So, far from being on the brink of another quagmire, Libya is in fact in pole position compared with other countries in the region.

Richards, the British chief of defense staff expanded from 16 to call for air strikes in Libya infrastructure.

Libya is not Iraq. The West has learned through bitter experience to avoid the grievous mistakes it made from the outset of that venture.

The director of the airport in Libya said the hijackers had asked for fuel and flight maps to travel to France.

It is possible that the Senoussi tribe will emerge from Benghazi's chaos and reassert its historic overlordship of eastern Libya.

The United States Friday suspended operations at its embassy in Libya after U. S. diplomatic personnel were airlifted out of the country.

The British government has condemned the hero's welcome Libya gave to the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988.

Nato defence ministers have resisted calls for an air exclusion zone over Libya.

But despite these advances, neither side appears poised to break out of the months-long military stalemate in western Libya.

Such a policy, he reminded Congress in testimony on Wednesday, would start with an attack on Libya's air defences.

Our number one concern in this country should be 'who's looting the treasury and Libya is just a distraction.

After 41 years of his violently capricious rule, Libya's 6. 5m people know Mr Qaddafi well enough to take him seriously.

Chris never shied away from the front line and his work in Libya was no exception.

Schwartz said he and Lindborg heard many reports and firsthand accounts of the difficulties many experienced leaving Libya.

Meanwhile Libya, with its checkered tribal history, might have a problem with armed young men in the streets.

Gibbs said the US would be keeping a close watch on what happens next in Libya.

Currently, the Libya government troops and rebels in fierce fighting continues, the war has not been significant progress.

Libya's interim government said he was captured unharmed and later mortally wounded in crossfire from both sides.

Later he called my companion to ask if we needed something and to say that they would win back all of Libya.

The report appears to be an internal planning document that could serve as the basis for a new UN mandate in Libya.

Then the Inspector asked, "If you were a professor at Harvard, why did you quit your job to come risk your life in Libya? "

Libya is prohibited from exporting any arms to any other state.

Industry executives estimated that at least half of Libya's output had been shut down.

In December 1988, two years after the U. S. bombing, Libya struck back with its most devastating attack.

Libya can regain a secure and respected place among the nations, and, over time, achieve far better relations with the United States.

Armed rebels have been battling Gaddafi loyalists for more than two months in an attempt to oust Libya's ruler of nearly 42 years.

After 42 years of his rule, Libya's new rulers have declared their liberation and must now begin rebuilding their country.

And during two visits to Libya, I've seen countless corporate executives from the U. S. and Europe line up for appointments with Saif.

Meanwhile oil companies are using private military groups to help scores of staff out of Libya by road to Egypt and Tunisia.

The aide, now 29, said the royal trade ambassador discussed relations between Libya and Britain and an oil contract.

If the president is ready to take some big, hard, urgent, decisions, shouldn't they be first about nation-building in America, not in Libya?

The politics, and the military campaign in the case of Libya, appear to be grinding to a desert stalemate.

For the West to turn its back on Libya's rebels and to stand aside while its allies shoot protesters in Bahrain betrays its own values.

I fear it's just an operation to open Libya up to Western style capitalism , which will help nobody.

If the wall ( Libya) has no opening the lizard (Nato) cannot get in.

Reports from Libya say that rebel forces have made new gains against government troops around the rebel-held city of Misrata.

She said a "significant portion" of their discussions focused on the political unrest in Libya.

Early efforts to ensure transparency and accountability could help Libya avoid the kind of corruption that has plagued Afghanistan and Iraq.

A leaked document appears to outline how the United Nations plans to help stabilise Libya in the coming months.

And here at the United Nations, the new flag of a free Libya now flies among the community of nations.

We were virtually in a state of undeclared war with Libya, culminating in Lockerbie.

Libya announced last week the opposition, Khamis Gaddafi and the other 32 members of NATO troops were killed in an air raid.

Nato has admitted that its aircraft mistakenly attacked rebel forces in Libya during an air strike on Thursday.

We are here today to announce the filing incredible court of a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the war against Libya.

He said 110 cruise missiles had been fired against Libya's air defence and missile systems.

The chief cause of Libya's poor performance is the capricious nature of its government.

In short order they conquered the major sources of Libya's oil production, at least temporarily, the learned professor commented.

Western governments are also only beginning to come to terms with what may soon be required in Libya.

Two years after the U. S. ordered strikes on Libya, in December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland.

NATO leaders are hoping that Libya will be the first such case, or at least that they can keep thousands of NATO boots out of Libya.

The US did not give the location of the talks, but Libya said they had taken place on Saturday in neighbouring Tunisia.

The Pentagon says the United States is now authorized to use armed Predator drones in Libya as yet another means to end the conflict there.

Libya has no licensed political parties and no formal forum yet for discussing the future in a constructive way.

Britain's defense secretary says a small british diplomatic team is in eastern Libya to try to talk to rebels there.

Its people are said to be gentle and warm by nature, lacking the fire of those in Iraq or Libya, where civil wars have recently raged.

'The suffering and bloodshed is outrageous and it is unacceptable, ' he said in his first public comments on the growing unrest in Libya.

In Libya, they would be the farmers and shepherds who walk the areas close to the roads where the mines are laid.

Tripoli, Libya's capital, is sprouting fancy new hotels, as well as a new airport, to welcome an influx of would-be investors and tourists.

Q: China did not veto Resolution 1973, but now it criticizes the coalition air strikes against Libya. Isn't that kind of contradictory?

Italy is cracking down on illegal immigration and under an agreement with Libya has begun sending boatloads of migrants back to Africa.

By the end of the decade, European allies were using caveats to opt out of military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

At home, however, the least costly of America's wars, the one in Libya, is turning into a serious headache.

Located in the Tibesti mountain range, Bardai has been a key area for rebel fighters near Chad's volatile northern border with Libya .

'Let them come to Libya and verify the situation but if they are determined to go after us then we accept the challenge, ' he said.

Thousands of Egyptians have also been streaming out of Libya over the western border to Tunisia.

Still, Panetta expressed optimism that the courage and heroism of those who fought Gadhafi would drive Libya into a better future.

He used Libya's oil wealth to support neighboring countries in debt and, Sani says, now looks set to collect on much of that goodwill.

Q: Foreign Ministers from a number of countries will meet in London on March 29 to discuss the current situation in Libya.

Mr Hague said the move was in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution on Libya.

This was an attack by a small and savage group, not the people or government of Libya.

Eastern Libya, the anti-Qaddafi rebels' stronghold, has long been a hotbed of Islamist activism.

But opinion polls showed ordinary Germans want just as little to do with the Libya conflict as their foreign minister.

Troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi have staged a hit-and-run attack on an oil refinery in Libya, killing at least 16 guards.

Jibril said the NTC will formally announce that Libya has been completely liberated from Gadhafi's rule by Friday.

On the Libya vote, there was no concerted campaign to persuade Germany, he notes.

The revolt in Libya is part of a widespread uprising against dictatorial government across the Middle East.

UNTIL the Arab awakening reached Libya, protesters seemed able to prevail armed with little more than self-belief.

ABC News said amphibious ship USS Kearsarge had left the Red Sea to transit through Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, close to Libya.

After spending decades as the United States' sworn enemy, Libya is embarking on a political, economic and environmental change of heart.

The cost of the war in Libya to the U. S. is 1% of the cost of the war in Afghanistan.

He made the announcement after meeting in Milan with Mahmoud Jibril, a leader of Libya's rebel council.

He wants Italy to stop bombing Libya to stem the flow of refugees across the Mediterranean.

Libya ready to fight, time, or long or short, will eventually win.

But this meeting has so far left unanswered the question which other countries are willing to join the active combat role in Libya.

Libya also stopped sponsoring terrorism in the West, though it continued to sow mayhem in Africa.

As the fighting in Libya increasingly resembles a civil war, the U. S. administration is coming under increased pressure to take action.

Libya faced years of United Nations sanctions until it finally surrendered the two suspects in the Lockerbie bombing.

Libya is one of the world's largest oil exporters and a member of the Opec oil producers' cartel.

To Mr Putin the conclusion from Libya is clear: this was a big political error, not to be repeated over Syria or anywhere else.

Having destroyed Libya's air defences, Western bombers and missiles pummelled the advancing troops into a speedy retreat.

Bulgaria refused to pay, but has joined the United States, the EU and Libya in agreeing to back the creation of an aid fund.

Unfortunately, these rash actions on Libya are beginning to raise new problems.

He also predicted that the protection of Chinese interests in Libya would be a major topic during the talks.

And if I go back to Libya, it would be silly, a crazy thing.

Scattered protests continued in Libya Saturday, amid reports of further defections by former top officials to the side of the insurgents.

The UN says the ship foundered off the coast of Libya late last week, but the witness accounts are only emerging now.

The Great Leader, as Libya's ruler is officially known, may have stepped in to order the release of his son's journalists.

They forbid any occupation, foreign occupation, of any parts of Libya, and we will absolutely stick to that.

Yet Belgium has set out a budget and even dispatched fighter jets to help police the no-fly zone over Libya.

At the end of the day on Libya, Russian officials may have tried to please everyone, but ended up pleasing no one.

As Libya's opposition fighters push west, doctors are uncovering more victims from the front line.

Earlier, leaders in France and the U. K. pushed for a transition to a post-Gadhafi Libya.

The resolution also includes an immediate demand for a cease-fire and a no-fly zone over Libya, among other measures.