Moammar Gadhafi

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Gadhafi's Son Khamis Reported Killed

Younger Gadhafi commanded elite military unit, said killed in NATO strike

(Newser) - Khamis Gadhafi, Moammar Gadhafi's feared son who commanded an elite military unit known as the Khamis Brigade, has been reported killed in a NATO strike, reports Sky News . A man at the scene of a bombed-out Toyota Landcruiser says that the younger Gadhafi was in it when a NATO...

Gadhafi&#39;s Wife, Kids In Algeria
 Gadhafi's Wife, Kids In Algeria 
Aug 29, 2011 1:31 PM CDT

Gadhafi's Wife, Kids In Algeria

Rebels say they'll want them back for trial

(Newser) - There’s still no word on where Moammar Gadhafi is hiding, but now we know where his family is. The Algerian foreign ministry today revealed that Gadhafi’s wife, daughter, and two of his sons have entered the country, along with some of his grandchildren, CBS News reports. The government...

Gadhafi's Men Slaughtered Prisoners: Witnesses

Thousands of prisoners still missing

(Newser) - Troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi massacred some 150 detainees last week, according to volunteers who cleared charred bodies from the warehouse that had apparently served as the detainees’ prison. An escaped prisoner told his story to CNN : He and his brother were handcuffed and blindfolded for no apparent reason while...

With Gadhafi Forces Gone, Tripoli Atrocities Uncovered

110 killings documented by Human Rights Watch thus far

(Newser) - As rebels cement their control of Libya and continue toward Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, human rights observers are discovering evidence of ever more bloody atrocities committed in Tripoli in recent days, reports the Wall Street Journal . Human Rights Watch workers have documented 110 bodies in four locations around...

Rebels Diss Gadhafi Offer to Negotiate

Threaten to advance on Sirte, arrest him soon

(Newser) - Libyan rebels today rejected an offer by Moammar Gadhafi to negotiate and said they have captured the eastern town of Bin Jawwad, forcing regime loyalists to flee after days of fighting. With his regime crumbling, Gadhafi is on the run, but his chief spokesman Moussa Ibrahim says he's still...

Gadhafi's 'Dead' Daughter Really Alive

Rebels find evidence of Hana Gadhafi

(Newser) - The adopted daughter that Moammar Gadhafi has always claimed died in a US bombing in 1986 appears to have lived, grown up, and become a doctor. The Irish Times found documents that seem to prove as much in Gadhafi’s Bab Azizia compound in Tripoli. In a room that appears...

McCain Pushed to Arm Gadhafi, WikiLeaks Reveals

Cable details 2009 meeting

(Newser) - John McCain may be talking tough about Libya these days, but back in 2009 he promised Muatassim Gadhafi—Moammar’s fifth son and his national security adviser—that he’d do what he could to help Libya obtain military supplies, particularly new aircraft, a cable released by WikiLeaks reveals. McCain...

UN Releases $1.5B in Frozen Libya Assets

Fighting continues as British planes bomb Gadhafi's hometown

(Newser) - The UN has unfrozen $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets to be used as humanitarian aid as it called on both sides of the conflict to avoid revenge killings, the BBC reports. The money had been seized by the US in the spring. It won’t go straight to...

'Zenga Zenga' Creator Noy Alooshe Creates Libyan Rebel Remix 'Gadhafi's Hat'
 Next Viral Video: 
 'Gadhafi's Hat' 
Libya remixed
Aug 26, 2011 8:31 AM CDT

Next Viral Video: 'Gadhafi's Hat'

'Zenga Zenga' guy creates rebel rap

(Newser) - The man who brought you “Zenga Zenga” has a new music video, and this time it’s a Libyan rebel on the mic. Israeli musician and journalist Noy Alooshe autotuned a Sky News interview with a fighter who said he swiped Moammar Gadhafi’s famous military headgear from...

Rebels Had Double Agent in Gadhafi's Security Force

Mahmoud Ben Jumaa tells his story

(Newser) - How did Libyan rebels take Tripoli with such apparent ease? It was thanks in part to men like Mahmoud Ben Jumaa, a senior member of Moammar Gadhafi’s personal security force and secret rebel agent, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since February, Ben Jumaa had been tipping resistance leaders in...

Gadhafi to Loyalists: 'Drive Away the Infidels'

Ally says dictator can keep up the fight

(Newser) - Despite rebel claims to have Moammar Gadhafi surrounded , the leader has called on loyalists to “march in the millions to Tripoli to drive away infidels, crusaders, rats, and traitors.” The message, aired on two pro-Gadhafi TV stations, noted that “the rebels are few and you are plenty....

Gadhafi Had Album of Condi Rice Pics

He once praised her as 'my darling black African woman'

(Newser) - Did Moammar Gadhafi have a thing for Condoleezza Rice? It sure looks that way: Rebel looters found a photo album in Gadhafi’s compound filled with page after page of photos of Rice, MSNBC reports. Rice visited Libya in 2008 to celebrate what was supposed to be a new stage...

Fears of Dirty Bomb in Libya Grow

Research site near Tripoli contains nuclear materials

(Newser) - There's enough nuclear material in Libya to make a dirty bomb, former UN nuclear inspection chief Olli Heinonen warned today, urging rebel authorities to move to secure it. Libya's uranium enrichment program was dismantled in 2003, but a research center 20 miles east of Tripoli still has enough...

Moammar Gadhafi Almost Caught in Tripoli Safe House Yesterday: Report

 Rebels: We 
 Have Gadhafi 
 Surrounded 
UPDATED
Aug 25, 2011 9:09 AM CDT

Rebels: We Have Gadhafi Surrounded

Report follows near-miss yesterday

(Newser) - A group of Libyan rebels thinks it has Moammar Gadhafi right where it wants him. The rebels are currently exchanging fire with Gadhafi loyalists holed up in a cluster of apartment buildings near Gadhafi's breached compound in Tripoli, Reuters reports. The rebels are confident Gadhafi and some of his...

Bounty on Gadhafi's Head: $1.7M

Libyan rebels want to end this thing...

(Newser) - It sounds like quite the deal: Kill or capture Moammar Gadhafi, and you'll be pardoned for any crimes you may have committed ... and walk away with $1.7 million. That's the offer from Libya's National Transitional Council, which hopes the fairly sweet package will compel someone close...

Journalists Freed From Tripoli Hotel

Five-day siege ends

(Newser) - Gunmen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have freed the roughly 35 foreign journalists that they’d been holding hostage in the Rixos hotel, ending a five-day siege. The gunmen relented when they heard how things were going in Tripoli, according to Matthew Chance of CNN , who was one of the hostages....

Allies Fear Gadhafi May Unleash Chemical Weapons

US forces monitoring sites

(Newser) - As the battle for Libya nears its endgame , Western nations allied with the rebels fear a desperate Moammar Gadhafi could unleash chemical weapons as his final brutal act. US armed forces are monitoring suspected chemical weapons sites. "They are a vicious regime,” British Foreign Minister William Hague told...

Rebel Government Heads to Tripoli

Celebration on streets of Benghazi

(Newser) - Aiming to prevent a “vacuum” in Libyan leadership, rebel leaders from the Transitional National Council are traveling from the country’s east to Tripoli, the Christian Science Monitor reports. "We have to be there at the moment of liberation. We can’t leave any opportunities for remnants of...

Libyan Rebels Raid Moammar Gadhafi Compound in Tripoli
 Rebels Storm 
 Gadhafi Compound 
Aug 23, 2011 12:32 PM CDT

Rebels Storm Gadhafi Compound

Celebration ensues as fighting continues

(Newser) - Hundreds of rebels have stormed Moammar Gadhafi’s compound today, busting open its gates and pouring in, some riding golf carts, according to an AP reporter. They celebrated their success with gunfire; the head of a statue was pulled off as one rebel climbed atop another iconic structure: a giant...

Gadhafi 'Alive and Well' in Tripoli: Russian Chess Chief

Says he spoke to leader by phone today

(Newser) - The Russian head of the World Chess Federation says longtime friend Moammar Gadhafi is "alive and well," "still in Tripoli," and planning to stay in Libya. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov says he spoke to Gadhafi on the phone at 6pm Moscow time today, the AP reports. The chess...

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