Benghazi

The Brits, holed up in a Benghazi hotel compound with one of the generals, are trying to help with that.

Under such circumstances, he said, for America to turn a blind eye to the fate of Benghazi would have been "a betrayal of who we are" .

'We are hoping for the best, ' he said. 'We are trying to hang on until the people of Benghazi arrive. '

He was not expecting Colonel Qaddafi to reach Benghazi, he said, but wanted a few street-fighting skills under his belt just in case.

Until mid-March, Ed Ou was on assignment for The Times in Benghazi, shooting primarily feature photographs in and around the eastern city.

When the air strikes began, government forces were poised to enter Benghazi. A bloodbath appeared to be inevitable.

Gen Abdel Fattah Younis was killed on Thursday en route from his command post on the front line near Brega to the rebel capital Benghazi.

Until the U. N. passed its resolution, loyalist forces appeared ready to retake Benghazi.

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

The next day it was Benghazi's turn, Qaddafi appearing to determined to eat up as much territory before international action began.

He said the rebels' National Transitional Council will soon move to Tripoli from the eastern city of Benghazi.

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

Hussein had been studying engineering at a university in Benghazi for a while, but dropped out.

Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith, and Chris Stevens were all killed in an outrageous attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi.

Colonel Qaddafi's rapid advance to Benghazi meant that the outside world had to intervene within days or not at all.

But the commander of an artillery training unit outside Benghazi, Mustafa Sagisli, said the opposition forces were making progress.

He said his troops out of Benghazi, Sirte when the armed attack, the decision to join forces to Misurata.

The name Benghazi then isn't a modification of the earlier name Berenike but a newer name replacing the old Greek one.

The F-15 Eagle fighter came down in the desert in friendly rebel-held territory, not far from the opposition centre of Benghazi.

The rebels who rose up in Benghazi and elsewhere must be saying and thinking similar things.

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

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

Jalil Benghazi 27 in a news conference that the opposition has so far not been on the exact whereabouts of their children Gaddafi news.

"This battle has already been decided, " said Ahmed Bani, the rebels' military spokesman based in Benghazi. "It is only a matter of hours. "

Benghazi is flooded with looted weapons and, with Colonel Qaddafi's forces knocking at the door, new owners are learning how to use them.

There, he found he could make money by exporting construction equipment to Benghazi, and he flew back and forth to supervise the business.

When loyalist forces bombed the outskirts of Benghazi a week or so ago, scores of pro-Qaddafi gunmen suddenly surfaced.

If the enemy broke through to Agedabia , Benghazi and everything west of Tobruk were imperilled .

The Revolutionary Committee's Benghazi headquarters looks like an outsized high-modernist tepee.

The rebels beat off the colonel's forces in their attempt to recapture Brega, an oil town west of Benghazi (see map).

The Russian official said he was sending aides to Benghazi to forge contacts with the opposition.

AT MIDNIGHT army pickup trucks trawl Benghazi, the rebels' main town, collecting thawar, or revolutionaries, for the front.

So it's not hard to understand why the residents of free Benghazi seem a little paranoid about the Revolutionary Committees.

But a Libyan spokesman denied media reports that rebels shot down a government warplane and that the military was bombarding Benghazi.

It was the intervention of NATO aircraft that prevented Gadhafi from rolling into Benghazi and potentially halting the rebellion.

All may change if Colonel Qaddafi can move his forces to the outskirts of Benghazi even if he does not attack the city directly.

A ship loaded with flour was sent to the city of Benghazi by the World Food Programme but had to turn back after reports of explosions.

He had referred to the rebel leaders in Benghazi as criminals and al Qaeda supporters.

On Monday, the pilots of two Libyan fighter jets landed in Malta and defected after they had been ordered to attack protesters in Benghazi.

Hunkered down in the back of a car, Ali Tarhouni sucks on a cigarette and gazes out at Libya's eastern city of Benghazi.

It was feared that an assault on Benghazi, a city of a million people, would be brutal.

After those prayers, we are told they retired to a guest house in Brega to prepare for the journey next day to Benghazi.

Despite an Internet shut down and heavy restrictions on mobile phone communications, protesters still managed to mass in Benghazi.

The admirable action to save Benghazi may, in the long term, expose dwindling defence budgets.

another quarter were from Benghazi, the heart of the current uprising.

Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the head of the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council in Benghazi, suggested celebration was premature.

The man who was to become Alsature, now a 55 year old with a youthful twinkle in his eyes, is a Libyan who was born in 1955 in Benghazi.

Indeed, there was a firefight on Sunday right outside the hotel in Benghazi where foreign journalists are staying.

Rebel leaders in Benghazi said the claims were unfounded. U. S.

In a Friday sermon outside Benghazi's courthouse, the uprising's base, the preacher calls for a democratic civil state.

But it has not translated into mass uprising or manifest support for the Benghazi forces.

'They shall be exterminated in Benghazi or any other place. '

The court said Sanussi had "directly instructed the troops to attack civilians demonstrating" in Benghazi, now the rebels' city stronghold.

Benghazi Callers confirm that AJA and AJE and BBC CNN are reporting from BENGHAZI near the HOTEL and claiming its TRIPOLI.

In Benghazi, Mr. Abdul Jalil said the rebels weren't on the move yet.

In Libya, women lawyers were among the earliest anti-Qaddafi organizers in the revolutionary stronghold of Benghazi.

The rebel-led governing council, based in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, rejected the invitation and said it wasn't sincere.

A grenade was recently hurled into a Benghazi hotel full of Western journalists.

Many revolutionaries on the streets of Benghazi desire a wholesale clean-out of the old regime.

Earlier, French warplanes destroyed a number of pro-Gaddafi tanks and armoured vehicles near the rebel-held city of Benghazi.

The friend, this person said, had been making celebratory phone calls to friends and family in the opposition-held city of Benghazi.

The opposition Transitional National Council (TNC) it is moving some of its ministries from Benghazi in the east, to the capital.

He began spending time with bearded men at the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq mosque in Benghazi.

Libyan man stands near the site of a massive explosion at an ammunition depot in Benghazi.

Then, on Thursday morning, a huge column of smoke appeared on the city's horizons. The war was finally coming to Benghazi.

Earlier, French war planes destroyed a number of pro-Gaddafi tanks and armored vehicles near the rebel-held city of Benghazi.

The east of the country would be the first to start producing again through their Benghazi-based Arab Arabian Gulf Oil Company.

A Chinese official in Benghazi says that Beijing is still encouraging a negotiated solution to the crisis.

As the roadside carnage near Benghazi showed, however, the loyalist forces' superior armour now stands exposed to devastating aerial attack.

The Turkish foreign minister told reporters he plans to travel Tuesday to Benghazi for a meeting with the TNC leadership.

No longer credentialed as diplomats, they are still working -- but in many cases on behalf of the opposition government based in Benghazi.

The first western sorties came after Gaddafi loyalists had bombed and moved into Benghazi, the last main rebel stronghold in eastern Libya.

Air force pilots and navy ships that have defected to Malta have reportedly said they were sent to bomb Benghazi but refused.

Since from the 16th of this month, Libya Benghazi and other places continued to protest, demanding the government resign.

Qatar and Kuwait, petroleum rich Gulf states, have recognised the transitional council in Benghazi as the legitimate government of Libya.

Antigovernment protesters hold a suspected African mercenary in a room at a courthouse in Benghazi, Libya.

Benghazi's residents seem determined to move toward a peaceful future without Qaddafi -- a future without the Revolutionary Committees.

The demonstrations began in Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, and quickly spread throughout the eastern regions of the country.

But it's breaking their supply chains as well as slowing down their advance onto Benghazi by taking out their tanks and artillery.

The Washington Post: "In both Cairo and Benghazi, protesters said they were demonstrating against a U. S. -released film. . . . "

A cameraman from Al-Jazeera and a Libyan journalist were killed in fighting around Benghazi in March.

Just over two hours before the main assault began, French Rafale (pictured) and Mirage 2000 fighters went into action over Benghazi.

Witnesses in Benghazi are describing what sounds like a sustained battle with government forces.

Whereas the front line is thin and shaky, there is a security vacuum in Benghazi.

Pictures of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi burn inside the main prison of his forces in Benghazi, Libya.

Already, control of Brega gives Gaddafi control of the natural gas that fuels Benghazi's electricity-generating plant, notes McGregor.

A young man walks by the remains of weapons destroyed by coalition air strikes on a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah in Libya.

General Younes also confirmed reports that oil fields in Sarir, 600 kilometers south of Benghazi, had been bombed by pro-Gadhafi forces.

' He said: 'I'm from Benghazi, we just ran away.

"I'm stopping in Benghazi for the night and then heading to Ajdabiya, " the young man -- I'll call him Hussein -- replied.

But by mid-March, Qaddafi's militias had regrouped and his tanks had rumbled back to the outskirts of Benghazi.

The strikes came as Gaddafi's forces pushed into Benghazi, where the opposition forces were making a final stand.

Many officers admitted to me they stood no chance against NATO, and one of them told me he was in touch with the people in Benghazi.

Here, suspected mercenaries are detained at a rebel checkpoint on the road between Benghazi and Tobruk.

He could soon be in a position to strike at Benghazi, the rebels' chief stronghold.

He seized and fortified the town of Ajdabiya and blitzed Benghazi, provisional capital of the interim government.

France, they added, would be sending an ambassador to Benghazi, their stronghold.

In March, when pro-Qaddafi forces threatened to annihilate Benghazi, Western powers built a broad coalition to save it.

The fighting has entered a sort of stalemate, ranging over a 50-100 kilometer stretch, 200 kilometers west of Benghazi.

Doctors at hospitals in Benghazi, where the worst of the violence took place, put the death toll at more than 200 people.

Benghazi exploded in protests, and though Terbil was quickly freed, his release did nothing to stop their momentum.

Witnesses said most of the eight-man group arrived by helicopter on Friday near the eastern city of Benghazi, from where Jon Leyne reports.

'The only victory will be when Gadhafi is captured, ' he told reporters in Benghazi.

Repulsing government forces from Ajdabiya, which controls the water supply to Benghazi, is a key objective for the coalition and the rebels.

These images were shot all over eastern Libya, including Benghazi.

Allied commanders hoped the strikes would produce an outcome similar to that in Benghazi, where Col.

Posters of the confident, neatly uniformed general smilingly greet motorists on several of Benghazi's main streets.

One source here in Benghazi with close connections to Misrata said all the tribes there were fighting against Colonel Gaddafi's army.

So in the end we came up to finally accept this reality. And realize that the representation by the people in Benghazi.

'The soldiers have fled and the citizens have taken their weapons, ' one resident of Benghazi said in a telephone interview.

The residents also raised a Libyan national flag on top of the criminal court building in downtown Benghazi, the report said.

Early Saturday a warplane belonging to rebel forces was shot down over Benghazi, crashing in a ball of smoke and flames.

According to a press judge the case, the Libyan government forces may be recovered today in the city of Benghazi.

At around midnight, thousands of people gathered to watch the U. N. vote on large screens set up outside the courthouse in Benghazi.

Libyan authorities have made several arrests in connection with the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.

The French had one good idea when sending aid direct to Benghazi. Europeans could work to build up a temporary free government.

And when the civilians of Benghazi were threatened with a massacre, we exercised that authority.

Benghazi Callers say No food and NO medicine and NO salaries Paid. Only Rebels are walking street and randomly killing and Jailing.

Thousands of Libyans also celebrated in the streets of Benghazi, the rebels' de facto capital in the east.

In Benghazi, witnesses said forces loyal to Gadhafi pounded a weapons depot, an airstrike that caused casualties and widespread damage.

Libya's ports -- including Zawia, Tripoli, Benghazi and Misurata -- have been closed, traders in the country said.

Benghazi, the neglected metropolis of Cyrenaica, has seen locals waving "independence" flags since shaking off Gaddafi's hold.

But foreigners in Benghazi say it has begun to function a lot better.

Western policymakers are also concerned that Col Gaddafi's advance on Benghazi will trigger an exodus towards Libya's border with Egypt.

For Republicans, the protests over benefit cuts in Madison, Wisconsin, are more important than the rebels in Benghazi, Libya.

A rebel recruit jumps over his comrades during a military training exercise in Benghazi, Libya.

Ahmad: "In Benghazi, they use TNT to blow the fish out of the water. "

This was followed in July by another visit to Benghazi by a senior Chinese diplomat.

Colonel Gaddafi declared a ceasefire on Friday. But soon afterwards his troops attacked rebel positions in Benghazi and Misrata.

Kadhafi agreed on a ceasefire last Friday, but his troops continued attacking the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

The revolt against Gadhafi began in Benghazi, an eastern city, and gathered steam as revolutionaries marched toward Tripoli.

It is market day at Findiq Market, Benghazi's largest vegetable market. Business is good despite fighting a few hundred kilometers away.

Benghazi's new council includes both Islamists and westernised merchants, and promises elections within six months.

That was what was threatening to happen in Libya, as Col Gaddafi's troops advanced on Benghazi.

As The Economist went to press, the UN Security Council was at last discussing this but Colonel Qaddafi was advancing towards Benghazi.

Impatient rebel sons are begging their fathers to let them march on Tripoli; some 17, 000 have signed up as volunteers in Benghazi alone.

The town is the last big population centre before the main rebel city Benghazi.

Multinational troops have prevented the Libyan rebels attack government forces control of Benghazi.

Thousands more including Turks and Vietnamese are reportedly trapped near Benghazi airport waiting for planes to ferry them out.

A Libyan girl fleeing Benghazi sits in a bus on March 19 as the exodus of civilians began shortly after the first air strikes hit Benghazi.

Libyan rebel shoots his rifle in the air at a destroyed army barracks in Benghazi.

Quryna, a Libyan newspaper based in rebel-held Benghazi, Libya's second city, has long been close to the regime.

But Gadhafi's forces halted the momentum and pushed rebel forces back until regime loyalists were at the gates of Benghazi.

On humanitarian aid issues, Clinton said a medical team has now entered Benghazi, humanitarian aid has already started in this city.

Some days later I saw pictures of young guys drawing Gaddafi in women's clothes on a wall in Benghazi.

Unlike their inexperienced counterparts in Benghazi - who are prone to easily prompted retreats, Misurata's rebels are hardened fighters.

The siege of the rebel army headquarters in Benghazi Western planes tanks and armored vehicles were hit.

Arrived in Benghazi, the African Union delegation will opposition leaders to the African Union cease-fire road map.

Many Libyans were held in two large concentration camps: one in Suluq, a dusty town near Benghazi, and the other in the sands of Al Uqaylah.

Libya's government was clear in its condemnation of the Benghazi attack.

Even so, the people of Benghazi have been celebrating today, believing that the balance of power has now swung in their favour.

Refugees fleeing the fighting in Benghazi were greeted by young men holding house keys, offering empty homes for shelter.

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A Benghazi-based rebel fighter fires his weapon a few miles outside of Brega.

I'm sitting in the third row of a classroom at the Libyan International Medical University (LIMU) in Benghazi.

Most of today's Islamists in Benghazi look to the West for help in rebuilding civil institutions, after decades of military rule.

He was speaking at the airport in Benghazi on his return from a conference on Libya.

But few of Benghazi's people are brave enough to fly it on their houses.

On Friday, an IOM-chartered ship left the eastern Libyan town of Benghazi for Misrata.

A military aircraft has just crashed in Libya after the pilot and the co-pilot refused to follow orders and bomb Benghazi.

Reports are emerging of large protests in Lybia's second city Benghazi following chaos 'Day of Rage' demonstrations.

Despite the military uncertainty, rebels in Benghazi are moving forward with plans for political change.

If or when Benghazi is under immediate threat, the West is going to face stark options.

Two members of the Libyan Air Force have defected to Malta rather than attack protesters in Benghazi.

Some ministers have come over from Benghazi, the rebels' base in the east.

But at prayer times, differences among the celebrants in front of Benghazi's court-house do emerge.

The Arab League asked the United Nations to intervene to protect the civilians in Benghazi.

Citizens tour an underground jail that opposition supporters excavated at a Qaddafi palace compound on Feb. 24 in Benghazi.

Amid the fighting, hundreds of civilian vehicles were seen fleeing Benghazi towards Tobruk and the Egyptian border.

But the situation was much more violent at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Originally from Benghazi, he was expelled from college for political activism and fled to the U. S. in 1973, at age 22.

Gadhafi. The rights group says hospital sources in the eastern city of Benghazi say they have received numerous bodies with gunshot wounds.

The control of the country's oil industry is critical in the battle between Col Gaddafi's forces and the rebels based in Benghazi.

An Allied bombing raid in late March prevented Col. Gadhafi's forces from overrunning the rebel capital of Benghazi.

Green resistance made attack on Checkpoints in Benghazi and also attacked Hotel controlled by rebels.

A spokeswoman for the rebel ruling council, Iman Bugaighis, said on Friday that Colonel Qaddafi's troops were moving toward Benghazi.

Boy scout Abdil-Salam Al-Birnawe, 10, wears a traffic police uniform, as he directs traffic in Benghazi.

He then pointed to a pickup truck filled with Ruba's Benghazi fighters.

There was Riot in Benghazi as people attacked Supply Warehouse. The people were having Shortages blamed NTC of Hoarding food.

Nato planes then started bombing government forces, who retreated from the outskirts of Benghazi.

For more than 40 years, Gadhafi survived by isolating, impoverishing, and sometimes crushing those tribes, near Benghazi.

Senator John McCain was taken first to Benghazi's Liberation Square, where he received an enthusiastic welcome from local activists.

The popular uprising against Colonel Gaddafi's regime, initially centred in Benghazi and other eastern cities, swept across Libya.

According to the newspaper, the American pilot was rescued by rebels after ejecting from the aircraft near Benghazi.

Libyan jets bombed the Benghazi airstrip, outlying military barracks, and arms depots.

'What are they waiting for? ' wondered Salwa Bugaigis, a spokeswoman for the transitional rebel government in Benghazi.

On the streets of Benghazi, the mood of despair that reigned Thursday shifted dramatically to jubilation.

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But amid celebrations in Tripoli and the rebel capital of Benghazi, Col Gaddafi maintained a defiant posture until the end.

In the east, the opposition has consolidated its hold and controls the main city Benghazi.

At a local bank, Benghazi native Tariq stands in frustration before the teller. Once again, there's a shortage of cash.

And he declined to address the possibility that the government's forces were continuing to push swiftly toward Benghazi.

And McCain said Clinton must be more forthcoming about what really happened in Benghazi.

Those concerns echoed rebel leaders in Benghazi, who on Tuesday again pressed for further action by NATO.

In another development, the European Union will open an office in Benghazi on Sunday, officials said.

It is now called Benghazi and is the second biggest city in Libya.

Rivalry between Benghazi and Tripoli for control of the oil sector persists.

The two sides exchanged fire on April 14 in this coastal town, just south of the opposition stronghold, Benghazi.

Coalition airstrikes saved Benghazi in mid-March, forcing Qaddafi's militias to retreat.

Opposition protesters also rallied on Friday in the city of Benghazi, a rebel stronghold.

In spite of recent criticism, the UK was right to seek contact with the transitional council in Benghazi.

They came to join, from a distance, the official ceremony in Benghazi, in the east, a city that played a key role in the uprising.

Despite banners calling on Benghazi's merchants to reopen their shops, many are still shuttered.

A onetime Libyan Arab Airlines engineer, Osama had, with Suzi, raised four children in Benghazi.

Here, a young child stands guard for opposition forces in Benghazi, the capital of the uprising, on March 14.

Benghazi, with nine members, is over-represented, whereas Tripoli, a city twice its size, has five.

He managed to get his tanks into Benghazi before western air strikes drove them back.

In Benghazi, rebel leaders said they had heard that a colonel in the Khamis Brigade, led by the son of the Libyan leader, had defected.

"He was afraid of Benghazi even before we had weapons, " says a lorry driver whose brother died in a massacre in 1996.

The military action is a "fast, accurate and relentless, " the first air raids started from Benghazi.

In Benghazi, streets were eerily empty as many residents started fleeing toward Egypt.

Libyan television said witnesses saw a city of Benghazi in the planes carrying the leaders of several rebel transfer.

Libyan state-owned media broadcast unconfirmed reports saying that government forces had retaken most of Benghazi, prompting many of Col.

Second, the Arab League will be located in the eastern city of Benghazi in Libya, "National Committee" to contact.

VOA's Scott Bobb spoke to opinion leaders in the opposition-controlled city of Benghazi and has this report.

Nearly two months into Libya's uprising, the rhythms of rebellion in Benghazi seem almost normal.

The immediate goal of protecting Benghazi from massacre was achieved within days.

The coastal strip on Libya's east side remains firmly under control of the rebels, with their headquarters at Benghazi.

The rebels say roads to the east of Benghazi are clogged with carloads of terrified families.

Reportedly angry mobs of protesters assaulted Sub-Saharan Africans in Benghazi and other cities and killed dozens of them.

As The Economist went to press, reports suggest he may have retaken Zawiya. He may then counter-attack eastward towards Benghazi.

But soon afterwards his troops attacked rebel positions in Benghazi and Misrata.

After bilateral visits, China is now preparing to send humanitarian supplies, such as food and medicine, to Benghazi.

Airstrikes hit the abandoned airport in Benghazi, while the city quietly braced for an attack.

Libyan protesters burn copies of Muammar Gaddafi's "Green Book" during an anti-government demonstration in Benghazi.

A few ministers are still in Benghazi but most of us are here.

Anti-government protesters on the ground there say they are celebrating the liberation of Benghazi tonight.

Younis and his entourage in the early morning the remains of 29 were found outside the city of Benghazi.

Suliman Ali Zway contributed reporting from Benghazi, Libya.

"We didn't know which side the shooting was coming from, " said Umm Muftah, who escaped from Benghazi with her family about 2 p. m.

Last week Algeria sent its own delegation to Benghazi.

Pandya says another boatload of migrants will leave Benghazi for Misrata next week.

At the Benghazi compound's front gate, two anti-aircraft guns pointed skyward.

The eastern rebels in Benghazi are too far away to threaten Tripoli directly. But even they are showing signs of progress.

Regular troops loyal to Libya's embattled leader, Muammar Qaddafi, had pressed into Benghazi, the east's main city, on Saturday.

April 22 this year, Sarkozy, after meeting with Libyan opposition leaders "agreed in principle to" visit Benghazi.

The fighters first set up shop in a school, but the Benghazi leadership kept its distance.

The paper said a rebel source in Benghazi confirmed the possibility of opening a dialogue.

A young boy peers into an underground jail cell at a Qaddafi palace compound on Feb. 24 in Benghazi.

The photographers had reached the city by sea from Benghazi, the rebelcapital.

In Benghazi, small children in cars waved the rebels' flag as their parents honked horns.

Britain says it will send a team of military officers to the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

Every Friday thousands of people gather in front of opposition headquarters at Benghazi's courthouse.

Rebels suffered over 700 injured on all Fronts of sirtecombined have been flown to Benghazi the hospitals of misrata are too full.

In the central Benghazi, there is the burnt-out shell of the sinister internal security headquarters.

If Ras Lanuf falls, it brings the frontline closer to the main opposition-held city of Benghazi.

Merchants in Benghazi's gold market are tentatively opening their shops.

There are French flags all over Benghazi's central square.

A truck driver in his fifties, he fled with his family from Misrata in April for the relative safety of Benghazi.

Serwer acknowledges that Ambassador Stevens had good reason for staying inside the Benghazi compound.