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• Libyan PM lays wreath at London embassy siege site

  the dictator, he said, Libyans felt like aliens in their own country and lived in fear of security forces and secret police.The country's infrastructure faces a massive rebuilding job that will focus on health, education, and the economy, he said.   Read more »

• Tunisia to extradite ex-Libyan prime minister

  would be in the coming weeks once the necessary procedures were completed.Libya has been clamoring for the repatriation of Al-Mahmoudi to answer for his actions as Libya's prime minister under Gadhafi.Officials from the former regime have not fared well in   Read more »

• NATO officials: No plan to intervene in Syria

  quell violence in Syria.NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder said members of the alliance continue to seek ways to pressure Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime so it abides by a peace plan brokered by special   Read more »

• Lockerbie families still seek answers from Libya

  from trial -- suggested that al-Megrahi "may have suffered a miscarriage of justice." Its 800-page report prompted an appeal on al-Megrahi's behalf, but by then his fate was in the hands of politicians in London, Tripoli and Edinburgh , all of whom jockeyed   Read more »

• Libyans want answers over deadly NATO airstrikes

  one military-style shirt in the rubble."I'm wondering why they did this, why just our houses," one of the residents, Muammar al-Jarud, was quoted as saying in the report. "We'd accept it if we had tanks or military vehicles around, but we were completely civilians   Read more »

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• Red Cross makes 2nd visit to detained Gaddafi son

  fighters captured Saif al-Islam as he took refuge in the Sahara desert, following the overthrow and killing of his father Muammar Gaddafi in Libya's uprising. Saif al-Islam's capture and continued detention by militia fighters has raised concerns about how 2:18 AM from Reuters Africa Read more »

• Hands Off Syria – OpEd

  for months with no conclusion, with some bitten nails on the part of the administration. Ever since Bill Clinton learned in Somalia in 1993 that inserting substantial U.S. ground forces into developing countries could backfire or lead to a quagmire, the American 5/31/12 from Eurasia Review Read more »

• Libya ‘ready to try Gaddafi loyalists’

  late Muammar Gaddafi, was captured by militia fighters in November last year. Tripoli - The civilian trials of senior officials in Muammar Gaddafi's former government will begin in early June with his former spy chief, Libya's prosecutor general said on Thursday. 5/31/12 from Independent Online (South Africa) Read more »

• Jewish philosopher takes credit for Libya intervention; Arabs believe him

  Variety: Followers of global politics will be surprised to learn that Bernard-Henri Levy is responsible for the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi, but that's the story Levy tells in "The Oath of Tobruk," co-helmed with Marc Roussel. Levy is France's media star philosopher, 5/31/12 from Elder of Ziyon Read more »

• US concerns over Syria intervention

  together any type of coalition other than to alleviate the suffering," Clinton told reporters after meeting with top officials in Denmark, a key contributor to last year's Nato-led mission against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. "We are working very hard to focus 5/31/12 from News24 Read more »