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LIBYA: On Monday, as fighting waged on, the international community continued to debate the merits and technicalities of a no-fly zone. What, exactly, would it look like? Is Gaddafi's air capability really strong enough to warrant it? Who would enforce it? How long would it take to get it going? Is it inevitably a precursor to more military involvement there? Meanwhile, refugees are flooding into Tunisia. There is need for humanitarian aide there and within Libya. Your humble round-up producer wonders why, after so many world crises of this nature, there isn't a more rapid response capability for a no-fly zone and humanitarian aide. Deliberation of efficacy is one thing, but weeks to engage once a decision is made seems a bit useless in a rapidly unfolding scenario which could play itself out by then.
Bombing seems to have intensified or gotten more accurate on Tuesday:
(h/t bee tzu ) - From BBC news feed:
1349: More from John Simpson in Ras Lanuf: "The air strikes have died away because there is low cloud. The warplanes need to see their targets properly and are scared of coming too low because there are a great deal of rebel anti-aircraft guns on the ground. The rebels are firing off the guns all the time, probably to scare off Col Gaddafi's troops. Earlier today, the bombing was quite accurate. Often in the past, you got the feeling that the pilots were deliberately missing. But not today, when they bombed a house across the road from where we were filming. The more accurate bombing suggests the government has changed pilots or is giving different orders."
Did Gaddafi want to exit stage right? If so, the revolutionaries are reading a different script:
(h/t username ) - Libya rebels say Gaddafi offered talks on quitting
Officials from the council, which is based in the rebel-held eastern city of Benghazi, did not confirm any Gaddafi proposal on Monday, but on Tuesday a spokesman confirmed it was made.
"I confirm that we received contact from a Gaddafi representative seeking to negotiate Gaddafi's exit," a media officer for the council, Mustafa Gheriani, told Reuters.
"We rejected this. We are not negotiating with someone who spilled Libyan blood and continues to do so. Why would we trust the guy today?" he added.
Is this web site really from the group given authority in Benghazi? If so, why doesn't it have this? (that link is broken because they took down the English translation. Here is a cached copy.)
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - The Interim Transitional National Council
The Council’s statement
In this important historical juncture which Libya is passing through right now, we find ourselves at a turning point with only two solutions. Either we achieve freedom and race to catch up with humanity and world developments, or we are shackled and enslaved under the feet of the tyrant Mu’ammar Gaddafi where we shall live in the midst of history. From this junction came the announcement of the Transitional National Council, a step on the road to liberate every part of the Libyan lands from Aamsaad in the east to Raas Ajdair in the west, and from Sirte in the north to Gatrun in the south. To liberate Libya from the hands of the tyrant Mu’ammar Gaddafi who made lawful to himself the exploitation of his people and the wealth of this country. The number of martyrs and wounded and the extreme use of excessive force and mercenaries against his own people requires us to take the initiative and work on the Liberalization of Libya from such insanities.
On their contact page they list a Twitter id: @LibyanTNC
But a trusted Twitterer says that this The Council does not have a twitter account:
(h/t SallyCat) -
Arasmus Re @LibyanTNC account: RT @ShababLibya We have spoken to member of Libyan council: said they do not have a twitter account #Libya #Feb17
6 minutes ago via web
(h/t Phil S 33 ) - Foreign Nationals Trapped in Libya
• The UN has claimed up to 1 million foreign workers and others trapped in Libya are expected to need emergency aidbecause of fighting in the North African nation. It is seeking $160 million to deal with the crisis for the next three months, but officials said they expected the crisis to go on longer. "This appeal is based on a planning scenario projecting up to 400,000 people leaving Libya including the 200,000 who have left to date and another 600,000 people inside Libya expected to need humanitarian aid," said Valerie Amos, the U.N.'s humanitarian and emergency coordination chief.
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - Reluctant U.S. says Libya no-fly zone would have little effect
Reporting from Washington Even as the Obama administration insists that a no-fly zone remains an option, a senior U.S. envoy said Monday that directing Western militaries to suppress Libyan air attacks on rebels would not have a great effect on the conflict.
Ivo H. Daalder, the U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, told reporters that the number of Libyan air force flights has been decreasing after a peak last week. And, he added, it is hard to suppress helicopter attacks using such a tactic.
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Libyan Doctors for Hospitals in Libya an impressive new aide organization launched by one of our own: StepLeftStepForward.
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GENERAL ANALYSIS:
(h/t Richard Lyon)
Meet the Losers
The biggest potential losers in the still-roiling revolutions of the Middle East and North Africa are the people themselves. Many are democrats at high risk of being overwhelmed over time by new dictators and organized religious extremists. But the uncontested winners are already quite clear: those who own, sell, and bet on oil. In the last month alone, oil prices have leaped almost 10 percent, even with only tiny dips in supply.
(h/t UnaSpenser)The Gulf and the "Arab Rage"
The traditional assessment was that the Arab Gulf states – Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman – were largely immune to wide scale protests, the differences among them notwithstanding. With their large oil and gas revenues, the states distribute some of their wealth through widespread subsidies of goods and services. Now, however, the fear that as the Arab rage increases the shockwaves will reach these countries, too, is not groundless, if only because some of the incendiary issues – including authoritarian regimes that suppress human rights – are found in the Gulf, and because of the highly infectious nature of the protests, which appear to be far from ebbing.
The Gulf rulers have prepared for possible protests in several ways. Some have “responded” to the demands of the masses and made a number of political changes, mostly tactical; others have placed an emphasis on economic reforms in the hope that they will be sufficient to nip any fomenting activity in the bud. While such preventive measures are intended to take the sting out of any possible protest, they testify to the rulers’ fears as to the stability of their regimes, and they may even whet the political appetites of the masses further. Another customary step is pointing an accusing finger at foreign involvement (read: Iran) in inciting the riots.
ALGERIA:
(h/t Richard Lyon ) - Youths 'attack Algerian protesters'
Anti-government protesters have been attacked in the Algerian capital and an attempt made to lynch a prominent opposition politician, local media have said.
The reports said that protests organised by the National Co-ordination for Democracy and Change (CNDC) in Algiers were violently suppressed on Saturday morning.
BAHRAIN:
(h/t suejazz ) - Bahrain protests reach US embassy
Dozens of Shia Muslim political activists in Bahrain have gathered outside the US embassy, one of several scenes of protest in the Gulf state, calling on Washington to press for political reforms.
Activists gathered at a fence set up in front of the embassy on Monday, chanting slogans in English and Arabic against the monarchy of Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa.
(h/t suejazz ) - Bahrain:Tweeps Dreaming of a Better Bahrain
On Saturday morning, a new hashtag appeared on the Bahrain Twittersphere and many tweeps expressed their hopes, dreams and highlighted their demands through #IdreamofaBH. As for the origin of the hashtag @Bahrainman explains it as:
@BahrainMan it started with @maryamalkhawaja going on a solo rant. Then @UmFahad had the smarts to actually do something & created #idreamofabh
COTE D'IVOIRE:
(h/t UnaSpensr ) - Cote D'Ivoire/UNOCI Receives Two Attack Helicopters
The acquisition of these equipments, Mr. Touré explained, will reinforce UNOCI's operational capacity and will efficiently contribute to the protection of civilians. “UNOCI wants to stress that these helicopters will be used to promote peace and provide protection,” the spokesperson reiterated. “We have no reason to attack anyone with these equipments, we did not do it with our guns, we did not do it with our tanks, so there is no reason why we should do it with these MI-24”, he said in response to a question, while stressing that UNOCI will never act as an aggressor.
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Questioned on the issue of the “delivery of attack helicopters” to President
Laurent Gbagbo's camp, Mr. Touré said that UNOCI, having been prevented from accessing the site in order to check the veracity of the report of experts in charge of observing and monitoring the arms embargo, had communicated the information without checking it, which had led to the incident. “We admitted what happened and we did what needed to be done on the diplomatic front. We have certainly learnt our lesson,” he concluded.
DJIBOUTI:
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - Djibouti orders opposition to postpone protest
We are stunned by the assertion that Djibouti has been a "partner" with the CIA in the torture of an innocent victim in a secret "black site" prison in Djibouti. My country has never played a part in the so-called CIA rendition and detention program. Those who are putting unvarnished trust in the victim's memories by filing a legal case against my country, and urging it to "answer for abuses it committed as part of the CIA's secret program," are trading sound judicial inquiry for heresy and publicity.
EGYPT:
(h/t UnaSpenser ) -
Egypt unsure what to do about trove of security documents
The military-led interim authority has demanded that the classified files kept by Mubarak's dreaded internal spy agency be returned. Instead, they're being scattered throughout Egypt, with files turning up on Facebook and Twitter hourly, forcing the government to respond to them and raising fears among some activists that their value has been reduced for any future prosecutions for torture and kidnapping.
Some of what the documents contain is salacious and sinister.
One file includes a sex tape purportedly involving a Kuwaiti princess and a prominent Egyptian businessman. Another paints Egypt's highest-ranking cleric as a womanizer.
Israa Abdel Fattah, 32, a labor organizer and blogger, shared her file with McClatchy and marveled at the thoroughness of the surveillance. The file included detailed transcripts of e-mails sent from her Gmail account and phone conversations with her ex-husband. The feeling of violation was indescribable, she said.
Keep reading. It's eery.
IRAN:
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - Special to World Tribune
NOTE: does anybody know whether this source is reliable?
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Iran for first time warns Saudis not to crack down on Shi'ite population
NICOSIA — Iran, escalating its rhetoric against its Sunni neighbor, has warned Saudi Arabia of any crackdown on the kingdom's Shi'ite minority.
IRAQ:
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - video: Allawi: Iraq power sharing a myth
very sober assessment of the new Iraqi government.
(h/t UnaSpenser ) -
Kurd demo site set alight
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — A protest site in Iraq's Kurdish region was attacked overnight and the offices of an independent Kurdish radio station were ransacked, demonstrators and a press watchdog said on Sunday.
In Kurdistan's second-biggest city of Sulaimaniyah, several tents erected by protesters demanding political reforms at a central square were set alight by masked assailants, according to Nafit Qader, a spokesman for the demonstrators, who accused Kurdish security forces of being behind the attack.
"They came at around 2:30 am (2330 GMT on Saturday) at Tahrir Square, set fire to the tents, took some of the protesters and left," said Qader, who added that the attack had left no casualties.
JORDAN:
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - Jordanian journalists stage protest
The rallies held on Monday were attended by employees of major newspapers, news websites, state television and radio, Reuters reported.
"The press needs cleansing," said the protesters. "We want an end to government tutelage and we want to fight corruption,” they cried.
"No to government and security hegemony over the press," read a placard held up by the demonstrators.
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - Jordan's king accords unlimited powers to anti-corruption panel
Amman - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Monday told the country's anti-corruption watchdog that it would have a free hand in ridding all the government's institutions from corruption, including the royal court.
'There are no red lines for the panel's work, because no corruption should be entitled to protection in this homeland,' the monarch said during a meeting with head and members of the Anti- Corruption Department.
Kuwait:
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - Kuwaiti protests on Tuesday aim to remove PM
Kuwaiti youth groups will take to the streets on Tuesday to demand the removal of the prime minister and for more political freedom in the Gulf Arab state, the world's fourth largest oil exporter.
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"We're talking about reforms in political rights, governance, cabinet, education. In each country, every movement has a different nature. In Kuwait the movement is not to end the regime, but to reform the politics," Ghabra said.
LEBANON:
(h/t suejazz ) - Lebanese women defy Hezbollah, demand justice
Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, hundreds of Lebanese women defied Hezbollah and demonstrated over the weekend in downtown Beirut in support of an international tribunal investigating the assassination of former premier Rafiq Al-Hariri.
The women, all backers of the liberal March 14 Movement led by caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of the slain primer, formed a human chain Sunday stretching from Hariri’s grave to the spot where his car exploded in February 2005, killing him and 22 others.
(h/t suejazz) - LEBANON: Protest against sectarian system draws large crowds
For the second week in a row, Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut on Sunday to protest against the country's sectarian political system, waving Lebanese flags and chanting Egypt- and Tunisia-inspired slogans such as "People want to topple the regime" and "Revolution."
Some demonstrators carried signs saying "For the good of the country: secular democracy" and "We are all equal" while others had written "No to sectarianism" on their foreheads and wrapped their heads in the flag.
Sunday's demonstration suggested that activist calls for political change in Lebanon were gaining some ground because crowds were significantly larger than at last weekend's rally, which was attended by hundreds.
MAURITANIA:
(h/t mali muso ) - Top Mauritanian MP urges politicians to draw lessons from Tunisia, Egypt
Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, the President of the National Assembly in Mauritania and leader of the Opposition People’s Progressive Alliance (APP), has called on Mauritanian leaders to learn from the lessons of the youth revolutions which toppled the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents as well as from the current situation in Libya....Political dialogue in Mauritania, recommended in an agreement signed in June 2009, has still not taken firm root following endless media “warfare” between the ruling party and the opposition although President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, in late 2010, formally invited opposition parties, under the umbrella Democratic Opposition Coordination (COD), for dialogue....Political observers are waiting to see how fairly and openly the Mauritanian leaders will organize legislative elections in November.
MOROCCO:
(h/t Richard Lyon ) -
10 arrests after weekend pro-democracy Morocco protests
Fresh demonstrations took place over the weekend in Morocco, with police dispersing protesters in several cities where they had gathered to demand a more democratic constitution, the pro- democracy 'February 20 Movement' said Monday.
Rallies mobilized hundreds of people in Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier and Marrakesh on Sunday.
Police dispersed the protesters mostly without violence, media reported. About 10 people were arrested in Tangier.
(h/t bee tzu)Moroccans freeze for freedom
Protestors in Morocco are organizing flash mobs when they freeze for a certain amount of time, as part of the buildup to another national day of protests on 20 March. This one is in Rabat, in front of parliament.
OMAN:
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - Oman protests continue ahead of royal visit
For the eighth day in a row, hundreds of people in Oman have staged a demonstration in front of the country's consultative assembly demanding that Sultan Qaboos turn the body into a real parliament. Queen Beatrix, Crown-Prince Willem-Alexander and Princes Máxima were to begin a state visit there today. Due to the unrest, the visit has been postponed until Tuesday and downgraded to a private visit.
The protesters are peaceful, well-organised and very disciplined. They have set up tents, with separate accommodations for men and women, and placards with protest slogans have been translated into English, French and German for the benefit of international media.
Protests against corrupt ministers, poor living conditions and in favour of democracy had, until ten days ago, never been seen in Oman. Rallies in support of the sultan, who has been in power for the past 41 years, are a common occurrence and are being staged daily.
PALESTINE:
Facebook protest: 'Free Palestine' on NIS
Facebook group calls on members to promote peaceful protest by writing 'Free Palestine' on all forms of Israeli currency. Founders hope Netanyahu 'gets the message'
>QATAR:
(h/t lotlizard ) - Amnesty: Qatari blogger detained
Human rights group says Sultan al-Khalaifi has been held incommunicado in Qatar since March 2 and risks being tortured.
In the latest entry available on his blog, al- Khalaifi makes critical comments about book censorship in Qatar. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Najib al-Nuaimi, al-Khalaifi's lawyer, said: "This gentleman is Sultan al-Khalaifi, he is being detained with three others. "It's just for expressing his own opinion, . . . [he] was detained three, four, or ten times already by special security and he's still insisting [on] his own opinion."
SAUDI ARABIA:
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - Saudi 'Day of Rage' protests planned
A ban on demonstrations was backed Sunday by the Council of Senior Clerics. The council said demonstrations violate Islamic law and signing reform petitions "violates what God ordered."
Last Tuesday, BBC Arabic reported unrest in Saudi Arabia was growing. After the broadcast, Saudi security and intelligence forces raised their alert to the highest level, perceiving the broadcast as a coded call to opposition groups to try to oust 88-year-old King Abdallah, Debkafile.com reported.
After the BBC broadcast, government officials blocked some Web sites to cut down participation in the demonstrations, the intelligence Web site said.
(h/t UnaSpenser) - Will Saudis be the next to rise up?
Mubarak’s fall must set a precedent, not count as an exception. All sections of the regime guilty of committing crimes must be brought to justice. And the Egyptian activists must send a message to regimes across the region; you will not get away with oppressing us, the people, forever.
It will be extremely interesting to see how events develop in Saudi Arabia later in the week. It will also be interesting to see if the US and Britain take the Mubarak-Gaddafi-Ben Ali line in the case of Saudi; disposing of friendly dictators once they pass their sell-by date, or if they make a little more effort in supporting their number one ally.
It is difficult to be optimistic, especially when the Saudi monarchy can fall back on handing out $37 billion in “benefits” to citizens in an attempt to appease unrest, but then again, I would not have imagined seeing a day when the headquarters of the secret police in Cairo were taken over by ordinary people. Stranger things have happened.
SYRIA:
(h/t suejazz ) - Syria Must Change to Avoid Regional Turmoil, Assad’s Cousin Says
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should take steps to liberalize the country’s political system and allow more freedom to prevent the regional turmoil spreading to Syria, his cousin said.
Assad should “end the state of emergency, which would be a symbolic and tangible step,” Ribal al-Assad, head of the London-basedOrganisation for Democracy and Freedom in Syria, said in a March 4 telephone interview.
(h/t suejazz ) - Is Syria the Next Domino?
With the Tunisian and Egyptian regimes gone and street protests roiling cities from Algiers to Tehran, many people are now wondering which domino might fall next. Syria, whose secular, militarised dictatorship most closely resembles the fallen regimes of Tunisia and Egypt, may not be next in line - but appears nonetheless to be approaching a tipping point.
TUNISIA:
(h/t suejazz ) - Political ambiguity breeds violence
Tunisia vibrated with palpable euphoria in the days after mass protests forced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to decamp to Saudia Arabia.
A few short weeks on, utopic expectations of a sweeping break with the old regime are colliding with concerns that the country is edging towards political and economic crisis.
"There's a big discussion underway between those that are concerned that genuine revolution be realised, and those that are really concerned that the power vacuum will lead to chaos," says Michael Willis, a lecturer at Oxford University's School of Oriental Studies.
(h/t suejazz) - A border camp for displaced laborers taking shape
It had the feel of an old-fashioned barnraising - men tugging on ropes, chanting to keep a rhythm to their movements, as they pulled heavy white tarpaulin over a large metal skeleton.
The structure they put up is to serve as a makeshift warehouse for aid supplies in a transit camp for thousands of migrant workers who have fled the fighting in Libya in the past two weeks. Those helping to erect the roof, to joyous shouts of "Allahu Akbar," included displaced Bangladeshis and volunteers from Tunisia.
(h/t suejazz ) - Tunisia interim leaders dissolve secret police agency
Tunisia's interior ministry has announced it is dissolving the country's secret police service.
The agency had been widely accused of committing human rights abuses during the rule of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted on 14 January.
Interim Prime Minister Caid Essebsi has also announced a new government, which includes no members of the old regime.
(h/t jnhobbs) - from Juan Cole:
Tunisian Prime Minister Béji Caïd Essebsi announced on Monday the dissolution of the country’s secret police arm This step toward democracy is the most important taken by any Arab country for decades.
Tunisia’s interim government also abolished the ‘Ministry of Information,’ which had been in charge of censorship, allowing a free press to flourish. Of course censorship, especially habits of self–censorship, does not actually disappear with the stroke of a pen. Employees of state t.v. have struck recently to protest what they consider government censorship of their news reports.
An Arab country with neither secret police nor censorship is unprecedented in recent decades. Tunisia is inspiring similar demands in Egypt and Jordan. When skeptics wonder if the Revolutions of 2011 would really change anything essential in the region, they would be wise to keep an eye on these two developments in Tunisia, which, if consolidated, would represent an epochal transformation of culture and politics.
YEMEN:
(h/t UnaSpenser ) - Yemen opposition vows escalation
There have been calls for a greater military role to help stabilise post-revolutionary Tunisia, but North Africa analyst Francis Ghiles warns that a military coup would only damage Tunisia's long-term interests.
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Our Egyptian brethren articulated what people around the region are fighting for, though variations to the theme may exist from country to country. banner held by protesters and translated to English:
1 The departure of Mubarak
2 An end to the current Parliament
3 An end of the state of emergency
4 The creation of a national united government
5 A parliament elected by the people to modify the constitution and run the presidential elections
6 Put those responsible for the killings on trial
7 Put those responsible for stealing the country's money and other acts of corruption on trial
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