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الساطور
:
( في انتظار الذي يأتي ولا يأتي ) 
( من الخصيان المدني إلى العصيان المسلح )
بقلم : يوسف المجريسي
محمد بن احميدة
:
( منظمة العفو الدولية ـ هولندا
ـ
تكرّم المناضل ادريس بوفايد
)
( فلترتفع الأصوات مع اللواج والبعجة )
بقلم : د. عبدالله جبريل
( قراءة متأنية للدكتور فتحي البعجة )
بقلم : عمر العقاد
( الدرر البهية في بيان بعـض فضائل شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية
(1) )
بقلم : المحمودي
Libya And Italy: A Storm In A Teacup, Or There's More To It? By : Ghoma
( درنة الليبية )
بقلم : مجاهد البوسيفي
( تلاقح الحضارات! (2) )
بقلم : فرج بوالعَـشّة
 Friday, 16 May, 2008:
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) welcomes the Libyan government's help to maintain ceasefire in Mindanao, the Philippines, but is skeptical over Libyan peace monitors in taking the International Monitoring Team's (IMT) lead role.
MILF deputy chair for political affairs Ghazali Jaafar said the IMT Terms of Reference (TOR) explicitly provided that the IMT shall be headed by Malaysia, but other countries and international organizations, as may be agreed by both the MILF and the Government of the Philippines, shall be invited to participate in the team. MILF deputy chair for information Khaled Musa accused Secretary Norberto Gonzales and Secretary Jesus Dureza of bad faith "for trying to secure the nods of our Libyan brothers on board the IMT in full force without following the TOR of the IMT."
"This is sowing intrigues and darkness among the direct players in the peace talks. This is unacceptable; it will not work," Musa said. [Sun Star]
Friday, 16 May, 2008:
The Secretary General of the CEN-SAD Community (the Community of Sahel-Saharan states), Mohammed Al-Madani Al-Azhari, examined in Tripoli with the British government special envoy to Sudan, Michael O' Neil, the latest developments in Sudan.
Mr. Al-Azhari, in this context, informed the British official about the viewpoint of the CEN-SAD regarding the “serious” events occurring in Sudan; he also noted the CEN-SAD “categorical refusal of the internationalization of the African problems ".
The Secretary General of the CEN-SAD stressed that the regional group has elected Leader Qadhafi to find the adequate solutions to end the insecurity in Sudan.
On his part, the British government’s special envoy in Sudan highlighted, during the meeting, the essential role of Leader Qadhafi and Libya in the examination of the adequate solutions to the problems which are slowing down the process of development in some areas in the African continent. [AlArab OnLine]
Friday, 16 May, 2008:
Libyan authorities have arrested 240 illegal immigrants and are preparing to repatriate them, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
Those detained in operations around the country were of various nationalities, a statement said without giving details.
With 1,770 kilometres, Libya is a popular jumping off point for people seeking to reach Europe from elsewhere in Africa. Malta and the Italian island of Lampedusa are only a few hundred kilometres away.
The Italian interior ministry recently said 16,482 illegal immigrants landed in Italy last year, adding that they probably came from Libya.
In December, Tripoli and Rome signed an accord to cooperate in the battle against illegal immigration, which includes joint sea patrols. [Reuters]
Friday, 16 May, 2008:
The Libyan Government has again deported Nigerians residing in the North African country for crimes ranging from incomplete immigration documents to other illicit activities.
One hundred and sixty three Nigerian were forcefully brought back into the country yesterday through the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.
Many of the deportees, who wore sad, forlorn faces, were women and children. They reluctantly walked through immigration and other security checks raining curses on Libyan authorities who deported them. One of the deportees who identified herself as Joy, told newsmen that she was working as a hairdresser and she was in shop when she was arrested and taken to deportation camp.
With tears in her eyes, she said that the job she was doing was a legitimate one and wondered why Libyan government arrested her, describing government's action as unfair, but admitted that her immigration documents were yet to be regularised. [This Day]
منكم وإليكم : الخميس، 15 مايو
Letters : Thursday, 15 May, 2008
( قبل فوات الأوان )
بقلم : عـبدالمنصف البوري
( ليبيا إلى أين؟ بل انت إلى أين؟ )
بقلم : الشارف الغرياني المحامي
( الإستراتيجية الشاملة لنصرة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم )
بقلم : د. علي الصلابي
( فايزة الباشا والوثيقة الخضراء )
بقلم : فوزي عبدالحميد / المحامي
( هل العرب على شفا عصر التنوير؟ )
تقرير : عمر الكدي
Thursday, 15 May, 2008:
Libya's Central Bank on Tuesday launched repurchase agreements for the first time as part of reforming the country's banking system.
"The Central Bank reached accords today with the country's main banks to launch repurchase agreements. Such agreements did not exist in the banking system before and they are new. The repurchases rate are fixed at 4.25 percent for now," Ali Ramadane Chnebech, the bank's research department chief, said.
"The Central Bank would have a new tool to manage in an indirect way the liquidity of the banking system," he told Reuters by telephone from the Central Bank's headquarters in Tripoli.
The Central Bank started also an electronic auction trading system on 91-day treasury bills and hiked the rate for certificates of deposits to 2.25 percent from 1.75 percent.
"The RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement) auction system is also new. It replaced the old system of papers. It allows rapid access to the market by banks and permits the central bank to mop up liquidity when the need arises," Chnebech added. [Reuters]
Thursday, 15 May, 2008:
The Togolese national football team is to lock horns 25 May in Tripoli with Libya in an international friendly tie which will count for their preparations for the joint 2010 World Cup/African Cup finals, sources close to the Togolese Football Federation (FTF) told PANA.
The Togolese team, preparing for its first match against Zambia, will test its players who did not participate in the last Nations cup finals in Ghana.
The Togolese will play with a young team led by Skipper and Arsenal star Emmanuel Adebayor.
Frenchman Henri Stambouli, approached to coach the Togolese team, is yet to sign his contract with Togolese officials. [Pana]
Thursday, 15 May, 2008:
A Sudanese official today accused foreign countries besides Chad of providing support to Darfur rebel assault on the capital.
The director of political affairs at the ruling National Congress Party Mandoor Al-Mahdi told the daily Al-Hayat newspaper that a “neighboring country” and a “Western intelligence agency” were involved in Saturday’s assault by Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).
Some political analysts speaking to Sudan Tribune said that the Chadian government does not have the means to provide the amount of support that enabled them to reach the capital and suggested that Libya has something to do with it.
“The Libyans were slow in condemning the attack. Al-Bashir [Sudan president] exchanged calls with the Egyptians, Saudis and even the Jordanians and Syrians but not with Al-Qadhafi [Libyan president]. ” one analyst told Sudan Tribune.
“I find that very strange” he added.
Some reports have mentioned that Libya is not happy with Sudan’s support to rebel leader Mohamed Nouri, from the Qura’an tribe, opposed to Chadian president Idriss Deby.
Libya also played a key role to foil the February coup, believed to be backed by Sudan, against Deby.
[ST]
Thursday, 15 May, 2008:
Countries such as China whose land can not feed their public started to buy fields from other countries. The most popular fields are in Ukraine.
Ukraine lent the field of 200 thousand hectares to Libya for sowing wheat. One investment company purchased a field of 30 thousand hectares in Ukraine. China is worried about feeding its rapidly increasing population from Siberia region of Russia. [Sabah]
Thursday, 15 May, 2008:
Muammar al-Qadhafi's Libyan government ran a training camp in the 1980s that prepared Charles Taylor's troops to seize power in the West African nation of Liberia, a key witness at Taylor's war crimes trial testified Wednesday.
Moses Blah, who served as vice president under Taylor after he rose to power in Liberia, is the highest-ranking witness to testify against his former boss since the trial began early this year in the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone.
Blah's testimony was the strongest link yet in the prosecution's case against Taylor that Qadhafi had a hand in his rise to power and also linked the Libyan leader to other bloody African insurgencies.
Taylor has pleaded not guilty to charges that include murder, rape, torture and enlisting child soldiers during the 10-year civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone that ended in 2002. Prosecutors allege he orchestrated the atrocities from his presidential power base in Monrovia.
Blah said he was among about 180 rebels recruited by Taylor and flown to Libya in the late 1980s to undergo months of military training. The fighters learned to use AK-47 assault rifles and surface-to-air missiles at a military camp near Tripoli, he said. Rebels from countries including Gambia, the Philippines and Sierra Leone were also at the camp, Blah said. Among them was Sam Bockarie, one of the Sierra Leone rebels who Taylor is accused of supporting.
"Bockarie called him 'chief,'" Blah said.
Taylor's forces entered Liberia late in 1989, triggering a civil war that lasted years and left thousands dead.
After Taylor grabbed power in Liberia, Qadhafi sent Taylor's regime a shipment of crude oil to sell so the proceeds could be used to buy "military hardware," Blah said.
[AP]
تعازي إلى آل الجهاني
الجبهة الوطنية لأنقاذ ليبيا
:
(
بيان صحفي
:
اجتماع المكتب الدائم )
( ليبيا ومجلس الأمن ودروس الأخلاق الزائفة )
ترجمة : رمضان جربوع
Wednesday, 14 May, 2008:
Immigration officials in the northern Nigerian city of Kano said Tuesday they have arrested a suspected human trafficker with 21 victims, some of them teenagers, bound for Libya.
"Our men on Monday apprehended a man suspected to be a human trafficker with 21 victims, 16 of them girls, between the ages of 16 and 30 at a motor park in the city heading for Libya," Oemi Bio Ockiya, head of the Kano immigration authorities, said while presenting those arrested to reporters.
Ockiya said the suspected trafficker, a Nigerian national and a resident of Libya, Samuel Osagie, told the victims' parents he was taking them to Libya ostensibly to work as maids and labourers.
Each of the trafficked persons was to pay Osagie a fee of $1,272.
Ockiya said the 16 girls in the group had arranged with Osagie to pay their fees out of the money they would earn once in Europe, their final destination.
Ockiya said that the money would come from prostitution. [AfricAsia]
Wednesday, 14 May, 2008:
Forty-seven illegal migrants died of starvation and cold after the engine of rickety boat transporting them from Libya to Italy broke down, a Tunisian newspaper reported on Monday.
Sixteeen other migrants, who survived the tragedy, dumped the 47 bodies on the Mediterranean sea in a bid to prevent the boat from sinking, the weekly Assabah el Ousboue said, quoting security officials who had been briefed by survivors.
The wind pushed the damaged boat towards Tunisia's shore where coastguard rescued the 16 would-be migrants.
The migrants left the coastal Libyan city of Zawara last week. Three corpses, believed to be those of the dead migrants, washed up near the coast village of Bekalta, some 250 km (150 miles) southeast of Tunis. Last year, nearly 20,000 migrants arrived in Italy by boat from North Africa. At least 471 were reported dead or missing after hazardous journeys, according to the United Nations and migrant defence groups. [Reuters]
Wednesday, 14 May, 2008:
Former Liberian president Moses Blah is due to testify in an open session of the ongoing trial against Charles Taylor in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in The Hague, the court announced in a press statement on Tuesday.
Moses Blah served as Liberia's vice president under Charles Taylor, and became president in August of 2003, following Taylor's departure from the country.
Blah was trained in Libya in the 1980s and was among the founders of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), a rebel group that initiated and participated in the Liberian Civil War.
Blah is expected to testify about the relations between Libya and Liberia during Taylor's presidency.
Libya was allegedly responsible for providing Taylor with weapons and ammunition, later used to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. [MandC]
تاوالت
:
(
ذاكرة الظل ـ للمخرج ؤمادي يفتتح مهرجان مكناس الدولي )
فتحية حسين مازق
:
( في الذكري الثانية لرحيلك يا أبي )
( الدستور: تدوين حقوق أم ممارستها؟ )
بقلم : بوزيد لهلالي
لجين عبدالمولى دغمان :
( السيّد حسين مازق..
في الذكرى الثانية لرحيله
)
Tuesday, 13 May, 2008:
Nigeria is prepared to receive 314 Nigerians detained as illegal immigrants from Libya, Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Ojo Maduekwe said Monday in Abuja.
'The Nigerian mission in Libya has screened and issued emergency travel certificates to them, while pursuing a permit for the Libyan plane to land in Nigeria,' he said.
Maduekwe said that the first returnees would arrive Wednesday, while the second group would land Thursday in Nigeria.
'This is a fallout of an inter-ministerial body set up by the Nigerian government to look into cases of deportation of Nigerians from Libya,' he said. Many Nigerians who migrated into Libya in the past with the hope of traveling to Europe had been deported by Tripoli after serving jail terms in Libya.
[MandC]
Tuesday, 13 May, 2008:
The Libyan government on Monday agreed to send 25 ceasefire monitors for the ceasefire between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a top government adviser said.
National Security Adviser Sec. Norberto Gonzales, who is currently in Tripoli, Libya, told Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Jesus Dureza that the Libyan government will send an initial four peacekeepers for the Mindanao ceasefire.
The four will join six other Libyan peackeepers already in Iligan City currently assigned to the International Monitoring Team (IMT) site there. They will complete the 10-member contingent the country committed in 2004, Dureza said.
"We welcome this good news. We thank this gesture of faith to our peace process, and we continue to hope for Libya's participation in the IMT," Dureza told ABS-CBN News. [ABS-CBN]
Tuesday, 13 May, 2008:
The Brazilian minister of Foreign Trade, Celso Amorim, is on a visit today (12) in Libya, an Arab country located in North Africa. According to information supplied by the press advisory at the Itamaraty (Brazilian foreign office), the minister's schedule includes a meeting with the Libyan ministers of Foreign Affairs, Abderrahman Chalgam, and of Public Works, Abuzeid Omar Dorda.
Minister Celso Amorim also has appointments scheduled with Brazilian businessmen operating in Libya. According to the Itamaraty, Brazilian service supplier companies are responsible for large infrastructure projects in Libya. Brazilian oil company Petrobras, which is present in Tripoli since 2005, is conducting offshore oil bloc research. [Anba]
Tuesday, 13 May, 2008:
Parliament Speaker Yahya al-Ra'ei received here on Sunday an invitation from the Secretary of the General Peoples Congress Muftah Kaiba to visit Libya.
The invitation was handed over to al-Ra'ei during his meeting with the foreign affairs secretary of the Libyan General People Congress (GPC) Suleiman Ash-shahumi.
The visit would include holding talks over the bilateral relation between the parliament and the Libyan GPC and exchanging views over the Arab, local and global issues of common concerns.
[Saba]
الساطور
:
( بلا مضايقات! )
( صاحب الثلاث جوازات سفر.. أين الصور؟ )
بقلم : فوزي عبدالحميد / المحامي
مصطفى البتير
:
(
أرسمها دونك يا رسّام
)
( مافيا الصعاليك :
هل ستصبح ليبيا دولة كليبتوقراطية؟ )
بقلم : تامر الزيات
فتحي بن خليفة
:
الأمازيغ والفلسفة
(1)
( ادريس وجمال وفتحي في هامبورغ )
بقلم : محمد بن احميدة 
( قصة فتحي الجهمي
على ضوء رسائله.. (2) )
بقلم : سليم الرقعي
Monday, 12 May, 2008:
Libya is re-examining some of the agreements with ENI, following the Calderoli case, a representative of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) said, according to reports from the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. "The agreements with ENI are being revised. The Libyan government is very angry for what is happening in Italy with Calderoli", the top manager of the NOC said. The chairman of the NOC, Shokri Ghanem, did not confirm neither denied that Libya is revising the deals with ENI and added only that "there are many angry people for what is happening in Italy". ENI did not make comments on the matter. [ANSAmed]
Monday, 12 May, 2008:
Kuwait's Investors Holding plans to set up a $2 billion investment firm with the Libyan government and offer half the new company to foreign investors, the company said on Sunday.
Investors has signed a memorandum of understanding with Libya to create the firm, with each holding 25 percent and the remainder sold to strategic investors, the company said in a statement on the Kuwait bourse website.
He said both sides would be targeting institutional investors in several countries in the Middle East in a private placement for which details had still to be decided.
The new company will undertake several large projects, including energy investments in Libya and other countries in North Africa and the Middle East.
Investors said a committee would look at potential deals in tourism, real estate, financial services, transport and telecommunications. [Reuters]
Monday, 12 May, 2008:
Libya has approved the Philippine government’s request to lead the International Monitoring Team (IMT) in lieu of Malaysia, which has started its gradual pull out from the multi-national peacekeeping contingent overseeing the ceasefire in the troubled south.
The Malaysian-led IMT, composed of police and military personnel from Malaysia, Brunei, Libya, and a rehabilitation expert from Japan, has been monitoring the ceasefire between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) since 2003.
Dr. Hadji Salem Adam, special envoy to Mindanao of the Qadhafi International Charity and Development Foundation (QICDF), told The STAR in an email from Tripoli that they have accepted the proposal of the Philippine government to lead the IMT, whose total pull out from Mindanao might lead to renewed hostilities between the military and the MILF.
The GICDF, chaired by Saiful Al-Islam Al-Gaddafi, is Libya’s conduit for humanitarian and peace-building projects in poor Muslim communities in foreign countries. [Philstar]
Monday, 12 May, 2008:
Yemen and Libya discussed Saturday cooperation and ways of reinforcing them.
During a meting between Yemen's minister of foreign affairs Abu Bakr al-Qirbi and Libya's secretary of foreign affairs Suleiman Ash-shahumi, the two dealt also with the latest developments in Lebanon. [Saba]
Monday, 12 May, 2008:
Libya’s special security forces Thursday arrested, in southern Gatroun, 157 people of different nationalities while they were attempting to illegally migrate to Europe. The office of Committee for Public Security said that all necessary humanitarian aid and assistance were given to the arrested persons, adding that arrangements had been made to repatriate them to their respective countries at the expense of Libya. But the committee warned against the dangers of illegal immigration, including the risk of loss of lives. [Afrik]
( تاللهِ إن كِدت لتردين.. )
بقلم : د. فتحي الفاضلي
( الحالة الليبية.. )
بقلم : اسعد العقيلي
حوار "صفحة الإنقاذ" مع الأمين العام للجبهة الوطنية لأنقاذ ليبيا
( الأولويات..!! )
بقلم : محمد عمر حسين
( هل انتهى الحلم الأمريكي؟ )
بقلم : طارق القزيري
Sunday, 11 May, 2008:
Libya's foreign ministry calls on all Lebanese leaders for calm and restraint and move toward a comprehensive political dialogue.
This political dialogue as the only way to reach a lasting and just solutions to all issues of contention, according to the Arab initiative, and to assist the Secretary-General of the League.
The ministry realized in a statement issued about the serious events taking place in Lebanon, that the responsibility of containing the crisis and its dangers rests on the Lebanese leadership. [LJBC]
Sunday, 11 May, 2008:
Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi on Thursday received the president of the African Basketball Association and vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, Alain Kara in Tripoli, Libyan officials said.
Kara's visit is part of the preparations for the organisation of the African basketball cup taking place in Libya in 2009 as part of activities marking the 40th anniversary of Libya's 1 September Revolution and 10th anniversary of the Sirte Declaration establishing the African Union (AU) on 9 September 1999.
[PanaPress]
Sunday, 11 May, 2008:
Any guide to doing business in Libya would not be complete without emphasising the need for perseverance.
South Korean contractors are some of the most adept at sticking it out in Libya. They, like anyone else venturing into this tough market, hope that with time things will change, bureaucratic processes will become more transparent and the rules of the game will become clearer.
For now, though, they continue to suffer the peculiarities of Libya. As MEED has previously reported, non-payment is one of the most difficult problems with which contractors have to contend.
The General Electricity Company of Libya (Gecol) is one of the worst transgressors.
While the budget for the Al-Khaleej steam project has been allocated, Gecol has not managed to secure funds from the government for the Tripoli West project. [MEED]
Sunday, 11 May, 2008:
Security errors at Heathrow's Terminal 5 have allowed hundreds of foreign passengers to walk into Britain unchecked.
Confusion at the terminal has led to overseas passengers being treated as domestic arrivals, who are taken through the airport without passing through immigration or customs controls.
In one case, passengers arriving on a British Airways flight from Libya were able to leave Heathrow without ever showing their passports.
The Immigration Service Union claims six passengers from the Tripoli flight have never been found, although the Home Office insists all the passengers were traced. [Telegraph]
تعازي إلى آل السنوسي
الساطور
:
( بعد اللقاقه هذي كلها )
( الأخ الهايك قائد ثورة الهايك من سبتمبر! )
بقلم : فوزي عبدالحميد / المحامي
صفحات من كتاب ( بدايات الصحافة الليبية )
تأليف : عبدالعزبز الصويعي
(6)
( يسألونك عن الدستور )
بقلم : عيسى عبدالقيوم
Dr Fathi Akkari : The Love of Libya (2)
Saturday, 10 May, 2008:
Libya on Friday accepted an apology from a newly appointed Italian minister from an anti-immigrant party who wore a T-shirt that offended Muslims in 2006, and withdrew previous threats of "repercussions" against Italy.
Roberto Calderoli of the Northern League was named this week as a member of the new government of Silvio Berlusconi, who was installed as prime minister for a third term.
A statement from the Libyan embassy in Rome said Libya noted "with satisfaction" the "public statement of regret" by Calderoli and, after further contacts with the Italian authorities, considered that "the case is closed".
Berlusconi, facing a diplomatic clash -- and possible energy sanctions -- after Libya made clear its anger at his choice of minister, said earlier he was "confident we will be able to clarify and calm down the situation with Libya". [Reuters]
Saturday, 10 May, 2008:
Because the Fulbright Program has awarded thousands of grants to scientists from the Muslim world, the Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology (FAST) has a program specifically designed to enhance relationships between Muslim scientists and scientists in the United States.
This year, FAST has been focusing on Libya, a country which for many years had no diplomatic relations with the USA. The FAST science diplomacy initiative with Libya began in February, when 20 Libyan scientists attended the Academy's Third Annual Conference, held at Northeastern University in Boston. A special half-day program was led by David Nothmann, a senior manager at Monsanto and President of the FAST Board of Directors; Khalifa Tamer, President of the Libyan Students Union-USA; and William Lawrence, Manager of the Muslim World Science Partnership Program in the US Department of State, Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science. [Newswise]
Saturday, 10 May, 2008:
French Minister for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Development, Brice Hortefeur, yesterday underlined his government’s commitment to make immigration a top priority when France assumes the presidency of the EU in July.
Hortefeur also confirmed that Sarkozy’s government is forging ahead with its plans to build a nuclear reactor in
Libya – the country of origin for most of the boat people apprehended in the central Mediterranean – raising questions over France’s ability to broker any meaningful agreement with the Qadhafi regime.
Emerging from a discussion with Justice Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici and AFM Commander in Chief Carmelo Vassallo at the Auberge D’Aragon yesterday, Hortefeur explained that the French presidency would push for greater awareness of immigration among all 27 EU member states. [Malta Today]
Saturday, 10 May, 2008:
A group of 16 global telcos is to build a high-bandwidth submarine cable system to link Europe, the Middle East and India.
The 15,000km Europe India Gateway (EIG) optical fibre cable system will cost around $700m.
EIG is expected to be up and running by the second quarter of 2010, and will connect three continents.
The 16 companies investing in the project are AT&T, Bharti Airtel, BT, Cable &Wireless, Djibouti Telecom, Du Gibtelecom, IAM, Libyan Post Telecom and Information Technology Company, MTN Group, Omantel, PT Comunicacoes, Saudi Telecom, Telecom Egypt, Telkom SA and Verizon Business.
Thirteen 'landings' are planned in the UK, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, Monaco, France,
Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, United Arab Emirates and India.
The EIG will also provide seamless interconnection with other major cable systems connecting Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
Bandwidth of up to 3.84Tbps will be achieved using dense wavelength division multiplexing to support video, data and voice services.
[VNU Net]
( شمال إفريقيا في اليوم العالمي للصحافة )
تقرير : عمر الكدي
( ذكرى عصيّة على النسيان..
السيد حسين مازق في ذكراه الثانية )
بقلم : بوخزام العناني
( تلاقح الحضارات! (1) )
بقلم : فرج بوالعَـشّة
موقع "الإنقاذ" :
(
ملف خاص عن معركة باب العزيزية الخالدة )
Friday, 9 May, 2008:
Libyan leader Qadhafi accused a "corrupt" government of failing to manage the country's oil wealth and ordered it to hand out oil money directly to the country's 5 million people.
Western diplomats said the call, on Wednesday, appeared aimed at putting pressure on the government to speed up reforms to improve the living standard of the population.
In March, Qadhafi urged a sweeping reform of the government bureaucracy, saying most of the cabinet system should be dismantled to free Libyans from red tape and protect the budget from corruption. The government has yet to implement the changes.
"This may come as a shock for people to accept but such a surgical operation is what is needed to reach a healthy situation," Qadhafi told a gathering of government officials and teachers. The text of his speech was carried by the official news agency Jana. [Reuters]
Friday, 9 May, 2008:
Libya on Thursday told Italy it would no longer help protect Italian shores from waves of illegal African migrants because Rome and other European Union states had failed to come up with promised support.
The move was announced shortly after Silvio Berlusconi took an oath to serve as prime minister - his third time leading Italy's government - and heralded potentially stormy relations between diplomatic and economic allies Rome and Tripoli.
"Libya is no longer responsible for protecting Italian coasts from illegal migrants .... because the Italian side did not make good on its commitment to provide support for Libya," the Libyan Interior Ministry said in a statement faxed to Reuters. Italy is OPEC member Libya's main European trade partner and Italian oil company ENI holds stakes in pipeline, natural gas and oil projects in Libya.
[Reuters]
Friday, 9 May, 2008:
Oil prices, which this week hit a record high near $123 a barrel, will probably rise even further, the head of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Wednesday.
Libya and fellow members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have blamed factors other than supply and demand for oil's record run. U.S. crude hit a record $122.73 on Tuesday.
"I think it will go higher," Shokri Ghanem, head of NOC, told Reuters in a telephone interview. "It is the same old story - speculation and geopolitics."
Oil has risen from below $20 in early 2002 and is widely predicted to continue its climb. The price could hit $200 within the next two years driven by poor supply growth, Goldman Sachs said this week. [Reuters]
Friday, 9 May, 2008:
Libya has signed a deal with the British arm of General Dynamics to equip the country's mechanized Elite Brigade with a tactical communications and data system plus technical and training support. It's Britain's first major defense deal with the North African state since an arms embargo was lifted by European countries and others in 2004. General Dynamics UK puts the value of the deal at $165 million.
However, analysts reckon that price tag could be just the tip of the iceberg if Libya eventually opts to equip other elements of its armed forces with the same equipment. General Dynamics UK is the supplier of the Bowman tactical communications and data system to the British Army, and has exported similar capabilities to the Netherlands and Romania.
Unlike the Bowman kit, though, the system destined for Libya has been designed without the use of U.S. technology and is completely free from U.S. export licensing restrictions.
Although the U.S. government is normalizing relations with Libya, it still retains a ban on selling weapons. [Defence News]
Friday, 9 May, 2008:
The Libyan population could increase from 5.3 million to 8 million in 2030, according to a survey conducted by the Libyan urban planning office published by the Libyan paper "Oya" in its Wednesday issue.
To meet the needs of the populations at this date, it will be necessary, according to the survey, to build a broad-based environmental and social infrastructure and create 1.6 million jobs.
The findings of the survey, conducted in collaboration with the United Nations Programme for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat), highlighted that the exported products, mainly oil, supported the growth of the Libyan economy, adding that although oil, the country’s main foreign currency earner, only provided a small number of jobs for Libyans. Oil products represent 90 per cent of total local production while hydrocarbon products account for 95 per cent of exports. [Pana Press]
Friday, 9 May, 2008:
Verenex Energy Inc., Calgary, Canada, contemplates the southern part of Area 47 in Libya's Ghadames basin as the core for an initial production phase of up to 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil by early 2010.
Two engineering firms are performing front-end engineering and design work on gathering, pipeline, and processing facilities. The company plans to incorporate the information into a commerciality application planned for early in the third quarter. Since the company's initial discovery on the block in 2006 in Silurian Lower Acacus, it tested five other discoveries in 2007 and is preparing to test an apparent discovery at the A1-47/04 wildcat drilled in early 2008. Besides Lower Acacus, various of the wells have tested oil from the Middle Acacus, Ordovician Memouniat, and Devonian Aouinet Ouenine formations.
[Oil & Gas Journal]
الساطور
:
( رابطة الأدباء والكتاب تعلن استجابتها.. )
Remembering May 1984 ذكرى أحداث مايو
في ذكرى أحداث مايو 1984 : لقاء "إذاعة الأنقاذ" مع الشهيد مجدي الشويهدي 
( سيف الإسلام وإشكاليات تحرير الإعلام )
بقلم : د. عبدالله جبريل
( رشاد الهوني.. انه الباقي.. ما دامت الصحف )
بقلم : رجب الشلطامي
( عن ذكرى
اليوم العالمي لحرية الصحافة.. )
بقلم : السنوسي بلاّلَه
( من اّفات السياسة )
بقلم : د. محمد بالروين
Thursday, 8 May, 2008:
Libya's al-Jurf offshore oil field, where 45,000 barrels a day of production has been shut in for two weeks because of well damage, may need another six weeks to resume output, Libya's top oil official said.
``It will take at least four, five, maybe six weeks to resume production,'' Shokri Ghanem, chairman of Libya's state- run National Oil Corp., said in a telephone interview today from Tripoli. ``A well is damaged and the whole field should stay shut for safety reasons.''
Ghanem on April 30 said he hoped the field, operated by Total SA of France, could be restarted within three weeks. The well sustained damage during drilling, he said.
Al-Jurf is located 100 kilometers (62 miles) off western Libya at a depth of 90 meters (295 feet). National Oil has a 50 percent stake, Total 37.5 percent and Wintershall AG, a unit of BASF SE, 12.5 percent. [Bloomberg]
Thursday, 8 May, 2008:
The Egyptian government and Libya are currently holding discussions regarding the establishing of agricultural projects in Siwa and East of Owaynat (700 Km north of Cairo), said Libya's ambassador to Egypt, Kadaf El Dam. According to independent newspaper Al Alam El Yom, Kadaf El Dam said during his inspection to a Libyan farm with investments of 2 billion Egyptian pounds (some 242 million euro). The farm is located in 6th of October city (one of Cairo's suburbs) and the production of wheat is expected to reach 25,000 tonnes. Libya seeks to increase its investments in the Egyptian land especially in the agricultural sector. The escalating worldwide food crisis requires an increase in food production, said Kadaf El Dam. [ANSAmed]
Thursday, 8 May, 2008:
Ashraf al-Hadjudj, the Palestinian doctor with Bulgarian residency, who was sentenced to death by the Libyan Court along with the Bulgarian nurses, has became a father of a boy on Tuesday, May 6.
The name of the baby is Rayan, which means ‘door to heaven'.
I am very happy, I wish to my wife and child good life and luck, Ashraf said.
The doctor was asked how he accepts the sign of the fate considering that 4 years ago the medics were sentenced to death by the Libyan judge system.
This is one big slap for Libya's justice. Four years ago six innocent people were sentenced to death by them, and today a new life appeared.
It's obvious that God is holding everything in His hands, Ashraf commented. [News.bg]
Thursday, 8 May, 2008:
Libya needs an extra 40,000 hotel rooms as it faces a massive influx of foreign businessmen and tourists after trade sanctions were lifted about four years ago.
And Ong Beng Seng's Hotel Properties Ltd is said to be one of the companies in talks on hotel projects to help meet the demand. Libya now has only 12,000 hotel rooms.
'The country has 2,000 miles of coastline and white beaches - and not a single beach resort,' said Louis Tay, deputy regional director for the Middle East, Africa and South-east Asia at Surbana Int'l Consultants.
He is part of a 20-strong business delegation in Libya accompanying an official trip by Singapore's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan. [Hotels]
الساطور
:
( أحمد قذاف الدم )
( الظلم.. سنوات العذاب.. صفحات من جذور الصراع )
بقلم : د. فتحي الفاضلي
( الإسلام السياسي : هل من جديد؟ )
بقلم : مجاهد البوسيفي
( مع البائس "أمارير" مرة أخرى )
بقلم : سالم بن عمار
( لمن أعطيت صوتي في الإنتخابات المحلية!؟ )
بقلم : سليم الرقعي
( ما يحق للنبي.. لا يحق لعبد النبي )
بقلم : فوزي عبدالحميد / المحامي
What Caused It: Arabs' Failures or Zionism's Successes?
By : Ghoma
Wednesday, 7 May, 2008:
In a worldwide survey, a democracy watchdog organization said 90 countries respect a broad array of basic human rights and political freedom while 103 countries fail to some degree to observe standards of liberal democracy. Eight countries were judged by Freedom House, the New York-based organization, to have the most repressive regimes. They were Cuba, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Two restive territories, Chechnya and Tibet, "whose inhabitants suffer intense repression," the organization said, were placed in the lowest category, as well. [YNetNews/AP]
Wednesday, 7 May, 2008:
A Libyan health staff will be trained in Pisa as regards the laparoscopic, vascular surgery, organ transplantation surgery (kidney, pancreas, liver), pancreas surgery, and in the field of new surgery technologies and in the robotic surgery. This is the result of an agreement signed between University Hospital Company of Pisa (UHC) and Libya. A central role in the project will have ENDOCAS, the new centre par excellence for computer-assisted surgery, financed by the Ministry of Universities and Research and by the Tuscany region, created after the cooperation between the University of Pisa, the National Research Council (NRC) and Sant' Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, issued to the hospital of Cisanello. [AnsaMed]
Wednesday, 7 May, 2008:
Singapore's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong arrives in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Monday for an official visit at the invitation of the Libyan government. Singapore imported S$35 million (US$25.7 million) worth of machinery and petroleum crude from Libya in 2007, and exported S$58 million worth of goods, including machine parts, tools and jewellery, to Libya. [Reuters]
Wednesday, 7 May, 2008:
Benin's President Yayi Boni arrived in Tripoli on Monday at the head of a high-powered delegation for a visit to Libya. The delegation accompanying Boni includes Minister of Higher Education, Mathurin Nogo and Miniter of Finance, Pascal Irenee Koupaki. [PanaPress]
Wednesday, 7 May, 2008:
Italy will take note of foreign concerns after Libya warned against appointing a far-right lawmaker as minister, but it will not accept interference in its internal affairs, the incoming Italian foreign minister said. A Libyan charity chaired by Qadhafi's son warned on Saturday of "catastrophic repercussions" to bilateral ties if Roberto Calderoli — known for his anti-Islam rhetoric — becomes reforms minister in Berlusconi's government. The comments threatened to create a diplomatic spat and sparked an bipartisan outcry in Italy, where both right-wing and leftist lawmakers criticised Libya for unwelcome meddling. "It is upto us to understand the worries of governments and friendly people and listen to their advice," Franco Frattini, who is expected to become Italy's next foreign minister, said in an interview with La Repubblica daily yesterday. [Reuters]
( إشتباك الإرادات..
على هامش التعقبات لبيان الصلابي
)
بقلم : محمد عمر حسين
( فصل الخطاب في بيان مخالفة فلم الرسالة للصواب (3) )
بقلم : المحمودي
( هـاذي حياتي )
بقلم : جلال عثمان
( هـنـيّـة )
شعر شعبي : عبدالله علي العباسي
Tuesday, 6 May, 2008:
Nearly 20 years after the terror bombing aboard Pan Am Flight 103 killed 189 Americans, the Bush administration is trying to resolve a bitter dispute between U.S. terror victims and Libya -- while still boosting oil supplies.
The victims' families say Libya, which admitted its involvement in the attack, hasn't fully compensated them for the bombing.
And the relatives accuse the administration of letting the north African nation off the hook by trying to ease limits on investment in Libya before the full payments are made.
The Bush administration wants to give Libya a waiver on a law that allows terror victims to sue the country as well as the U.S. companies that are eager to do business with Libya. The law has halted billions of dollars in contracts between U.S. companies and Libya and slowed exploration for new oil supplies because of questions about liability.
"Are we willing to trade the blood of Americans for oil?" Kara Weipz, president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, told CNN. "If Libya is really serious about their commitments to the victims, why don't they just do what they are supposed to do?" [CNN]
Tuesday, 6 May, 2008:
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been awarded a contract by LTT (Libya Telecom and Technology), the national Internet Service Provider in Libya, to deploy the first commercial WIMAX network based on the 802.16e-2005 WiMAX standard, in Libya. LTT plans to launch the commercial service on the network in September 2008.
The new network will support voice over IP (VoIP) and high-speed internet access, enabling the delivery of advanced broadband multimedia services, such as video streaming, through a variety of end-user including modems and WiMAX terminals. It will also accommodate stationary, nomadic and mobile applications and complement the carrier's existing fixed-based broadband services.
Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will provide a complete WiMAX infrastructure solution, including the radio access network, microwave backhaul and IP routers and will deploy around 120 sites in a first phase. LTT has an aggressive schedule for additional deployments. [PRN]
Tuesday, 6 May, 2008:
German utility group RWE (RWEG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) has made a new oil discovery in the Libyan Sirte Basin, the third since April last year, Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Monday.
"This discovery was made at the exploration well B1-NC 195 at Area 195 in Sirte Basin about 800 kms (500 miles) east of Tripoli and 100 kms south of Ras Lanuf," it said in a statement.
Tests showed oil output was at 204 barrels per day (bpd) at a choke point of 52/64 on its Dahra formation and 840 bpd at a choke point of 32/64 on its Beda formation, it said the statement posted on its website.
RWE's first oil find in Sirte Basin in 2007 was announced by NOC in April. Its second discovery came in in September last year also in the Sirte Basin, according to a NOC's statement. [Reuters]
Tuesday, 6 May, 2008:
Repsol YPF SA. has declined to comment on whether it is looking to abandon a $10 billion natural gas project in Iran after a report in Saturday's Expansion said the oil giant could face sanctions from the United States if the project goes ahead.
According to the Spanish daily, Repsol YPF and European peer Royal Dutch Shell have until the end of May to tell Iran whether they wish to participate.
Separately, Repsol YPF declined to comment on a report in El Economista today which said the group is re-negotiating its oil contracts in Libya.
The Libyan government wishes to increase its control in the groups that exploit the country's oil wells to 72 percent from its current 50:50 percent controlled share with Repsol YPF. [Thomson Financial]
Tuesday, 6 May, 2008:
While the agenda of the Italian-Libyan political relations sees as order of the day the tensions on the hypothesis that a ministry would go to Northern League member Roberto Calderoli, the latest available economic data show that the trade between the two countries enjoys an excellent health. In 2007 Tripoli confirmed itself again as the first provider of Italy in the Mediterranean, a total 42.7% of the imports to Italy from the region arrive from Libya, for a record value of over 14 billion euro (up 16.8%). As regards the imported goods, there are mostly mineral fuels. The figures are revealed by a research of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan on the import-export between Italy and 13 Mediterranean countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Malta, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan) made on ISTAT data at December 2007. In the period under study, exports to the North African country increased (up 10.7%) for a value equal to 1.6 billion euro, which places Libya at the sixth place among the Italian outlet markets in the area. [ANSAmed]
تعازي إلى آل الأشهب
تعازي إلى آل بالتمر
الساطور
:
( كراكوز )
( المصالحة في بلاد العرب! )
بقلم : عمر الكدي
( الإسلام ، نحن والآخرون )
بقلم : أمارير
Monday, 5 May, 2008:
Italy's foreign minister attacked Libya's warning against appointing a far-right lawmaker to a ministerial post as "intolerable" interference in internal affairs, adding to a growing political outcry over the issue.
Italian lawmakers have been angered by a Libyan charity's warning of "catastrophic repercussions" to bilateral ties if Roberto Calderoli -- a maverick lawmaker known for his anti-Islamic rhetoric -- becomes reforms minister as expected.
"I find the interference of a foreign country on the formation of the Italian government intolerable," outgoing Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema told Italian television.
The issue now risks becoming the first diplomatic headache for Silvio Berlusconi's new government.
Italy is OPEC member Libya's main European trade partner and Italian oil company ENI holds stakes in pipeline, natural gas and oil projects in Libya.
[Reuters]
Monday, 5 May, 2008:
Silvio Berlusconi is facing a row with the Muslim world over his plans to appoint a member of the far-Right to his cabinet.
Roberto Calderoli, 52, a senior member of the Northern League, enraged Muslims two years ago during the row over a set of Danish cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed. He appeared on television wearing a T-shirt printed with one of the cartoons. The Italian consulate in Libya was set on fire and 11 people died in riots.
Despite the controversies, which forced him to resign as a minister for reform in 2006, Mr Calderoli is likely to get another job when Mr Berlusconi picks his cabinet because of the strong results obtained by the Northern League in the general election.
Saif al-Qadhafi, the son of the Libyan leader, said the appointment would have "catastrophic consequences" for trade between Italy and Libya. [Telegraph]
Monday, 5 May, 2008:
Algerian prisoners detained in Libya have started a hunger strike until next Thursday.
Yet, a representative of prisoners said two prisoners, namely: T.Z and A.A have sewed their mouths to protest the rejection of the Libyan Justice implementing the amnesty issued by the Libyan leader Qadhafi. 60 Algerian prisoners detained all along the penitential institutions in Libya have started a hunger strike Saturday amid fears that they would use dangerous protest practices, mostly after that two prisoners have sewed their mouths with needle and thread. However, the prison direction has transferred immediately the first hurt prisoner to hospital, but as soon as being brought back to prison he sewed his mouth again, a representative of prisoners told El Khabar, adding that the second hurt prisoner has not been discovered until yesterday. [El-Khabar]
Monday, 5 May, 2008:
Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's president, says his country is ready to cooperate with Libya in the military field, as regards space research and the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
In a message from President Yushchenko to Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi, the Libyan le ader, he reiterated Ukraine's willingness to launch joint projects with Libya in Africa and to initiate cooperation in the military and technical fields.
"The people of Ukraine are in a position to satisfy the needs of the Libyan side. Ukraine is also ready to implement fully the proposals and to show great interest to cooperation, especially with the Libya-Africa Portfolio for investment, and benefit from its experience in the creation of common interest projects on the African continent," he said.
An official Libyan source affirmed that President Yushchenko said priority should also be given to bilateral economic projects as well as to the establishment of a common industrial base. [Panapress]
Monday, 5 May, 2008:
Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong will be the most senior Singapore leader to visit Libya in his first trip to the country from today to Thursday, at the invitation of the Libyan Government. The official visit will strengthen Singapore's political and economic relations with Libya, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement yesterday.
Mr Goh is scheduled to meet key Libyan leaders and senior officials. He will also witness the signing of Memorandums of Understanding between the Singapore Business Federation and the Libyan Businessmen Council, as well as companies from both countries.
The visit will complete Mr Goh's recent series of visits to the Maghreb countries, namely Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. [TodayOnline]
( ايطاليا هي المجرمة في حق الشعب الليبي )
بقلم : د. الهادي شلوف
( ألا فلنفرغ سجوننا وليصبح "صبح" من جديد! )
بقلم : رمضان جربوع
صفحات من كتاب ( بدايات الصحافة الليبية )
تأليف : عبدالعزبز الصويعي
(5)
( دع هبل فى منامه (2) )
بقلم : أبو أحمد
صفحات من كـتاب ( برقة الهادئة ) (8)
الحزب الليبرالي الليبي ( ح . ل . ل )
:
بيان
Sunday, 4 May, 2008:
Libya will invest $155 million to build a trans-Saharan highway in Niger under accords signed between the neighbours, whose ties had been strained by a Tuareg revolt, officials said. Prime ministers from the two countries agreed to expand cooperation during talks in Niger's capital Niamey on Friday. The deals signed also foresaw Libyan investments in shoe and textile manufacturing and an irrigation project in Niger. Relations between Niamey and Tripoli had cooled after Niger accused northern neighbour Libya last year of supporting a rebellion by Tuareg-led rebels in Niger's northern, uranium-producing region of Agadez. [Reuters]
Sunday, 4 May, 2008:
US President George W. Bush denounced governments which muzzle the media and imprison journalists, pointing out China as "the world's top jailer for journalists," followed by Cuba.
"Just and open societies protect and rely on the freedom of the press," Bush said in a statement marking World Press Freedom Day, which falls on Saturday.
Bush cited Belarus, Myanmar, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, N. Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe for repressive anti-free speech laws and for often imprisoning media workers.
"We call on all governments to guarantee the inalienable rights of their people, including, consistent with Article 19 of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the right to freedom of speech and the press," he said. [AFP]
Sunday, 4 May, 2008:
Insurgents attacked an army convoy in northern Mali Saturday, violating a cease-fire and sparking a fire fight that left five people dead, a military official and area residents said. It was the first major clash since the ethnic Tuareg rebels and the government signed a cease-fire a month ago. Libya had brokered that deal in an attempt to restore peace to a region that has been plagued by raids, kidnappings and clashes for more than a year. On Saturday morning, a group of armed men attacked an army supply vehicle outside of the town of Tessalit, a regional army official said. He said four attackers and one soldier died in the fighting. [AP]
Sunday, 4 May, 2008:
Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive financier who spent most of his life eluding American justice, might even have managed to die on the sly ... If Mr. Vesco indeed eluded the American authorities until his final day, it was the fitting end to his nearly four decades on the run. He was wanted for, among other things, bilking some $200 million from credulous investors in the 1970s, making an illegal contribution to Richard M. Nixon’s 1972 presidential campaign and trying to arrange a deal during the Carter administration to let Libya buy American planes in exchange for bribes to United States officials.
Mr. Vesco, who was sentenced to a long prison term in Cuba in 1996 and was wanted in the U.S., died on Nov. 23, from lung cancer, say people close to him. If so, it was never reported publicly by the Cuban authorities, who said Friday that they considered him a “nonissue.” American officials said Friday they knew nothing about his death. [The New York Times]
Sunday, 4 May, 2008:
Malta, Italy, France and Germany are at loggerheads over who should be responsible for illegal immigrants saved in Libya's search and rescue area during the next EU anti-immigration patrol mission, Nautilus III.
Various attempts during the past days by Frontex and the European Commission to launch the mission have failed, The Times has learnt. "We will be holding a technical meeting early next week to try to get everyone together and solve the outstanding problems. "However, we can only try to facilitate things where it comes to technical matters. The dispute is also of a political nature and there, we can't intervene," a spokesman for Frontex said yesterday. Nautilus III - a six-month long anti-immigration EU patrol mission covering the Sicily-Malta-Libya strait, was scheduled to start on April 22 but was postponed at the 11th hour. [Times Of Malta]
Sunday, 4 May, 2008:
A bomb rigged to a motorcycle blew up amid a crowd of worshippers leaving Friday prayers at a mosque in a rebel stronghold of northern Yemen, killing at least 18 people and wounding about four dozen.
The attack occurred in Saada, a city in a Shiite Muslim area on the border with Saudi Arabia where a rebellion by members of the al-Zaydi sect erupted in 2004. Thousands have died in violence between the rebels and the government. Government officials blamed the bombing on rebel leader Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi and said six people had been arrested in Saada. Many officials in Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and in Yemen's government suspect Iran and Libya support al-Hawthi. Sunni governments in the region suspect Shiite Iran is trying to increase its influence by supporting Shiite groups like the militias in Iraq and Hezbollah in Lebanon. [AP]
تعزية إلى آل بوسفيطة
الرابطة الليبية لحقوق الأنسان :
( ليبيا : صحافة بدون حرية )
( الترجمة العربية للدستور الألماني )
تقديم : محمد بن احميدة
( على هامش ذكرى يوم العمال العالمي )
بقلم : السنوسي بلاّلَه
( لـو كان شاعرنا حيا.. ماذا سيقول يا ترى؟ )
بقلم : الشارف الغرياني المحامي
The UN Security Council And The West's Sham Moralizing! By : Ghoma
( فك معضلة التنحي بالاستفتاء أو التنحية )
بقلم : ادرار نفوسه
( أساطير نورنبارغ..
حكايات من الريف الألماني )
بقلم : عيسى عبدالقيوم
Saturday, 3 May, 2008:
The opaque nature of Libya's domestic politics often leaves analysts scratching their heads, but all agree on one central point: after almost four decades at the helm, Qadhafi remains in complete control.
Troubles in the 1990s with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) - comprised of returning Libyan "Afghans" seeking to overthrow Qadhafi and establish an Islamist state - look to be at an end. The government just released 90 LIFG members from jail following the group's decision to renounce violence and accept Qadhafi's leadership. "It recognized that it can't beat the regime," says George Joffe of the UK's Cambridge University.
Qaddafi used the army to crush the group, based in Libya's northeast, after it tried to assassinate him in the mid-1990s. Qadhafi's wish to stamp out Islamist militancy was also a driving factor behind Libya's rapprochement with the US early this decade, and Washington complied in 2001 by freezing LIFG assets, later designating the group a terrorist organization. Qadhafi combines this tight internal grip with an idiosyncratic approach to reform. In March, he launched yet another wild scheme when he called for the dismantling of government and the direct payment of oil revenues to Libyan families each month ...
The policy announcement may also be a power balancing exercise between two of Qadhafi's sons -- the globe-trotting Seif al-Islam, who in recent years has been tasked with presenting the face of a kinder, gentler Libya to the West, and the younger, more conservative Muatassim, who acts as national security adviser and will oversee the latest changes.
[EnergyIntel]
Saturday, 3 May, 2008:
Libya’s Foreign Minister Abdulrahman Shalgham was received on Friday by his Cuban counterpart Felipe Perez Roque at the venue of the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana.
Prior to the beginning of official talks between the two diplomats, Perez Roque recalled that Cuba and Libya have always had solidarity and cooperation relations. He also thanked Libya for its support of Cuba in the struggle against the almost-fifty-year-old US economic blockade of the Caribbean nation.
Earlier in the morning, Shalgham and his accompanying delegation laid a floral wreath in front of the monument dedicated to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti.
Shalgham arrived in Cuba on Wednesday at the invitation of his Cuban counterpart.
[RCA]
Saturday, 3 May, 2008:
Libya's Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi arrived Friday in Niger's capital Niamey where he will co-preside a meeting of the commission overseeing cooperation between the two countries.
The commission is supposed to define priority areas for cooperation between Niger and Libya.
The meeting is also expected to lead to a thaw in relations between the two neighbours.
The two countries fell out in 2007 after demonstrations were organised in Niger, with the backing of the Niamey authorities, to denounce Libya's alleged support for Niger's Tuareg rebels.
Libya's leader Qadhafi brought libel suits against Niger newspapers that evoked alleged Libyan funding for Niger's Tuareg rebels, the Movement of Niger People for Justice (MNJ). [MEonline]
Saturday, 3 May, 2008:
Libya and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a cooperation agreement on air transportation and a MOU allowing the UAE to have air links to some Libyan airports.
The agreement, signed by the head of the Libyan Office for Civil Aviation, Mohamed Shleibak, and the Emirati Ambassador to Libya, Abdallah M'Hamdi, compels both countries to accept each other's carriers.
Under the agreement, the UAE will accredit Libyan airlines (Libyan Arab Airlines and Afriqiyah Airways) while Libya will do the same for Emirati airlines (Etihad Airways, Emirat Airways, Ras Khaima Airways and Arabian Airways). [PanaPress]
Saturday, 3 May, 2008:
The son of Libyan leader Qadhafi warned Italy on Friday that the nomination of right wing MP Roberto Calderoli to a ministerial post would have "disastrous consequences" for Rome-Tripoli ties.
Calderoli was a minister in the previous centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi when he sparked deadly riots in the former Italian colony after appearing on television wearing a T-shirt bearing a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed.
"If he becomes a minister, that will have disastrous consequences for relations between Italy and Libya," Qadhafi's son Seif Al-Islam said in a statement released by the influential Qadhafi Foundation over which he presides.
The statement recalled the February 2006 Benghazi riots which killed 11 people and injured 69, saying Calderoli "is seen as the real killer of the Libyans who were killed" in the riots. [AFP]
جلال عثمان
:
(
قناة "الحرّة"
:
الدستور في ليبيا
)
( ليبيا في حاجة إلى قانون إجراءات جنائي جديد.. )
بقلم : د. الهادي شلوف
Dr Fathi Akkari : The Love of Libya (1)
( كذب وسرقة عيني عينك )
بقلم : بوزيد لهلالي
Friday, 2 May, 2008:
Arab states are not giving enough money to the Palestinian cause, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday, and urged them to open up their purse strings.
"I think that states that have resources ought to be looking not for how little they can do but how much they can do," the top US diplomat said, a day before a series of meetings in the British capital on the stalled Middle East peace process and aid to the Palestinian territories.
She did not specify which countries could do more, but a senior State Department official, who asked not to be named, said she was referring to Kuwait, Qatar and Libya.
"It is extremely important that people pay their pledges," Rice said, speaking on the plane while en route to London. [AFP]
Friday, 2 May, 2008:
Libya’s place on the U.N. Security Council never promised to be a smooth ride, but the North African nation’s brashness since joining the council last year has become a major headache for the world body. Tripoli has sided with Western countries on the crucial issue of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but Libya’s representative has shown no hesitance in speaking out on issues having to do with the Middle East. After months of simmering tensions over Libya’s aggressive posturing, matters came to a head last week when several Western envoys took the unusual step of walking out of a Security Council session after the Libyan envoy compared the situation in Gaza to Nazi concentration camps. Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Dan Gillerman, warned that this was a result of opening the Security Council to a “terrorist state,” a swipe at Washington’s decision last year to lift its decades-long opposition to Libya’s candidacy to a council seat ... “This sometimes feels like 30 years ago, in the heyday of the anti-Israel mantra,” a Western diplomat said. “But the Libyans are much more subtle and constructive on Iran, and this is really important, including for Israel.” [Forward]
Friday, 2 May, 2008:
Worldwide, the environment for journalists grew more hostile last year, extending a six-year downturn, researchers reported Tuesday.
Setbacks for press freedom outnumbered advances 2-to-1 across the globe, although the Internet and blogs helped slow the decline, particularly in Iran, reported Freedom House, a nonprofit organization that released the report in advance of World Press Freedom Day on Saturday.
Still, the U.S.-backed country was not listed among the worst countries for press freedom. The worst-rated country was North Korea, while Burma was second with a worsening crackdown in the media. Cuba,
Libya, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea were also among the worst-rated.
[AFP]
Friday, 2 May, 2008:
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has systematically condemned Israel for "collective punishment" in Gaza, undermining its stated agenda of promoting human rights universally, according to a report released this week by the Jerusalem-based watchdog NGO Monitor ...
"This report shows, yet again, that any claim of even-handedness by HRW is hollow," said NGO Monitor's executive director, Bar-Ilan University Prof. Gerald Steinberg. "Their exclusive condemnation of Israel is discriminatory, and should end immediately. HRW's continued disproportionate focus on Israel is not only an injustice, but it also allows some of the worst human rights abusers in the Middle East, countries like Syria and Libya, to escape serious scrutiny." [Jerusalem Post]
Friday, 2 May, 2008:
Libya's Al Nasr could not stay undefeated in Arab Club Championships. The new group that the team advanced to brought Libyan team the first upset.
Orthodox beat Al Nasr as the latter tasted the first loss in the tournament. Orthodox won almost every aspect of the game including the opening quarter. The hosts opened the game with 23:18 and the second quarter was the break in the game. Orthodox pushed the tempo and increased to 46:32 at the half time. Before the Final period it became clear that the team from Libya would not recover. Orthodox played their game supporting by the fans and enjoyed 69:55 after the three periods played. It was not a big deal to lead the game to 89:73 win in the final stanza. [Basketball In Africa]
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Thursday, 1 May, 2008:
Libya stands by its U.N. envoy's comparison of the plight of Palestinians in Gaza to the Holocaust and deplores a walkout by Western diplomats in protest at the comments, official Libyan media reported on Wednesday.
Libya's Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors of France, Belgium and Britain and the U.S. charge d'affaires and asked them to explain the April 23 walkout at the U.N. Security Council.
Western U.N. envoys walked out of a Council discussion that day after a Libyan diplomat likened the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to the Nazi Holocaust.
"The Libyan representative was right to express the stance of his country," Jana quoted Abdelatti Abidi, head of the ministry's European Affairs department, as saying. U.S. envoy to the U.N. Alejandro Wolff said the Libyan remarks "reflect a degree of historical ignorance and moral insensitivity".
Six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust during World War II.
[Reuters]
Thursday, 1 May, 2008:
Since the U.S. rescinded Libya's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism in June 2006, Libya has continued to cooperate closely with the U.S. and the int'l community on counterterrorism efforts. Since renouncing terrorism in 2003, Libya has endeavored to show its commitment to the War on Terror, a report on terrorism, issued by the US Department of state reads. The report continues:
On November 3, Egyptian cleric and AQ leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announced a merger between AQ and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). In an audiotape, al-Zawahiri urged AQ fighters to topple the government of Libya, describing Libyan leader Qadhafi as an "enemy of Islam" and criticizing Qadhafi's 2003 decision to renounce WMD and terrorism. According to press accounts, LIFG maintained a limited presence in eastern Libya and has facilitated the transfer of foreign fighters to join insurgents fighting U.S.-led forces in Iraq.
A number of U.S. court cases seeking compensation from Libya for its past support for terrorism remained unresolved. Libyan officials are engaging with the courts and, at USG urging, are continuing settlement talks with the claimants, including the families of the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the 1986 bombing of the La Belle nightclub in Berlin. [FIA]
Thursday, 1 May, 2008:
Libya has offered to hand over US$5 million to Sao Tome and Principe to co-fund the country’s State Budget for the current year, the Sao Tome prime minister said Tuesday.
Patrice Trovoada made the statement on state television station TVS on summarising his recent tour of several African and European countries during which he went to Tripoli, Libya, at the invitation of his Libyan counterpart.
Libya’s willingness to co-fund the Sao Tome state budget comes after a Sao Tome diplomatic offensive in relation to its cooperation partners with a view to garnering financial support to re-launch the archipelago’s economy.
The Sao Tome state budget, which has estimated expenditure of US$86 million for this year, is due to be discussed in the country’s parliament for approval over the next few days. [MacauHub]
Thursday, 1 May, 2008:
Italian oil and gas major Eni will offer Russian gas giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM: Quote, Profile, Research) upstream assets outside Italy worth $350 million as part of their deal to swap assets, Eni Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni said on Tuesday.
The asset swap is part of 2006 strategic partnership between Gazprom and Eni, Europe's fourth-biggest oil company by market value.
"We have decided to focus (Gazprom's) investment opportunities in the upstream sector and not in Italy," Scaroni told a news conference after Eni's shareholder assembly.
He added that the assets to be offered to Gazprom would be worth $350 million.
Scaroni said this month his group would offer Gazprom a stake in the Elephant oil field in Libya, but the deal required approval from Tripoli.
He told the news conference, "The first asset is Elephant in Libya, in which we hold 33 percent and are thinking of ceding a third to Gazprom.
"If this asset is enough, considering the value, ... then the deal is done. Otherwise we will look at other assets in Libya or elsewhere." [Reuters]
Thursday, 1 May, 2008:
Libya aims to choose which companies are eligible to bid to become a partner at its Azzawiya refinery project within a month, Shokri Ghanem, chairman of the country's National Oil Corp., said today.
Libya wants a partner to help it double the processing capacity at the 120,000-barrel-a-day oil refinery by forming a joint venture in which partners will hold stakes. Ghanem spoke today while attending a conference in London.
The overall process of pre-qualifying bidders and choosing winners will take about two months, Ghanem said in Rome on April 19. Six international companies are interested in the project, Ghanem said on April 19, adding that he expected three to be short- listed before a final decision is made.
[Bloomberg]
Thursday, 1 May, 2008:
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is ready to meet if necessary, but has no plans to do so, Libya's top oil official said on Wednesday, adding oil prices would rise higher still.
"Before September, there may be a meeting. They could meet, but at this moment, there's no plan to do so, but of course, we stand ready for a meeting between now and September," Shokri Ghanem, head of Libya's National Oil Corporation, told reporters.
Oil prices hit a record of $119.93 on Monday and would continue to rise, Ghanem said.
"The price is going to go higher, but I cannot put numbers on it." [Reuters]
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