via Globalpost Five women who were part of Muammar Gaddafi’s elite team of female bodyguards have claimed they were raped by the deposed Libyan leader. According to the Sunday Times of Malta, the former bodyguards told a Benghazi-based psychologist that they were raped and abused by Gaddafi and his sons, before being tossed aside once […]
via CNN Libyan rebels continued their westward advance Sunday, claiming that they gained operational control of another key city, Ras Lanuf. Rebel forces told CNN that forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi pulled back from the city, but CNN has not yet independently confirmed the claim. If true, it would signify that the rebel […]
via Bloomberg Businessweek The United Nations Security Council voted 15-0 to freeze the foreign assets of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and four aides and to bar them from traveling, in the broadest international effort to halt his regime’s attacks on protesters. The resolution also imposes an arms embargo on Libya and calls for an immediate […]
via BBC News President Barack Obama has denounced the violent crackdown by the Libyan authorities on peaceful protesters as “outrageous and unacceptable”. Mr Obama said the world had to speak with “one voice”, and that the US was drawing up a range of options for action in consultation with its allies. The Libyan government would […]
