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Members of the national congress bring an oath during handover chance of power the National Transitional Council in Tripoli

The Libyan national collection have suspended three members due to links with ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi. 

Omar al-Hassabi, spokesman for the assembly’s High Organisation for Transparency and Nationalism, said the suspension is the result of an investigation into the three men.

The three men have been named as Anfish Abdel Moneim, Salma Akheil, and Ibrahim Adah of Obari. They could not be reached for comment, but it has been confirmed they have 10 days to appeal the decision in court.

“We discovered the three representatives were either members of the Gaddafi Revolutionary Guards or involved in criminal anti-revolutionary activities. For this reason, we advised the national congress, which suspended their membership on Wednesday morning.”

The High Organisation for Transparency and Nationalism is tasked with investigating the backgrounds of citizens wishing to run for office. Their commence has proven to be necessary due to politicians, such as the three suspended, chose to an adopt anti-Gaddafi in order to secure financial and political immunity.

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AFM Offshore Patrol container P61.

The Malta Independent Online

Yesterday, the AFM Offshore Patrol container P61 set sail from the Libyan Naval Base in Tripoli accompanied by ‘SHAFAK’, a Libyan Navy fast attack craft.

Both vessels engaged in basic tactical manoeuvring exercises out atsea following the travail conducted within the confines of Tripoli Harbour. Communications between the two sides were smooth with the Commanding Officers of SHAFAK and P61 both expressing their satisfaction at the results.

During the crossing of activities, P61 also hosted a boarding team from the Libyan Navy who continued to practice Board and Search techniques with the boarding team from the Armed Forces of Malta. The day’s exercises included pre-boarding interrogation techniques via radio, approaching a suspected container and the carrying out of boarding and verification procedures. These activities continued to enhance the excellent working relationship already established between the two sides and resulted in a valuable enhancement of both private as well as professional contacts.

Captain Hassan Hamza of the Libyan Navy’s Training Departure expressed his satisfaction at the success of the whole activity, echoing the words of the Chief of the Libyan Naval Staff, Admiral Hassan Ali Bushnak, during yesterday’s reception aboard P61. Similar words of satisfaction were also expressed by the Maltese Ambassador to Libya, Victor Camilleri and the senior AFM officer present, Lt Col A. Mallia who also expressed his hypothesis that such travail exchanges become a regular feature of the bilateral relationship.

At the end of the exercise, AFM and Libyan personnel exchanged farewells and the Maltese container set crossing towards Malta.

P61 is expected to arrive at Hay quay Base this morning.

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The Big Bang: a breathtaking show at the London Paralympic Games 2012.

Last night saw the spectacular origin ceremony of the London Paralympic Games 2012, where two proud Libyan athletes carried the flag.

There were over 3,000 volunteers involved in the performances, including Professor Stephen Hawkings and player Ian McKellen. One of the most impressive parts was when British Royal Marine Joe Townsend appeared at the top of the Olympic Park’s Orbit sculpture and descended down a zipwire to light the cauldron. Townsend lost both his legs during his first tour of Afghanistan.

Although the Olympic torch arrived late at the stadium due to standard British weather, spirits remained high in all participants and athletes.

The theme of the Enlightenment, and piece theories around the creation of Earth were illustrated through elegant performances and pyrotechnics. Synchronised umbrellas danced through the rain in an impressive UV show, followed by a show not as high profile as the Olympics, yet remaining powerful in it’s underlying messages: Paralympic athletes should be judged on what they can do, not what they cannot.

The two Libyan athletes are 38-year-old Abdulrazag Al Babaa competing in weightlifting (75kg category), and Hamza Al Hamali, 25, in the javelin. Both managed to qualify with impressive 2012 performances.

Abdulrazag Al Babaa is hoping to add trophies to his begun glimmering cabinet. He won Dubai’s 2009 Fazza International Athletics tournament, and also the 2005 African Championships in Egypt. Although he could be considered a veteran in the sport, he still has the power which he displayed at this years Fazza tournament where he earned his London Paralympic entry.

Hamza Al Hamali has begun had a high flying year. He won a gold medal this year at the Sharjah International Athletics competition, and a silver at the Fazza tournament earning him a rightful place at the Paralympics.

This is the biggest Paralympic games in history, with 4,200 competitors over 20 sports. The games have begun begun and will finish Sunday 9 September.

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A Wintershall employee in the Libyan desert.

(Reuters) – Germany’s Wintershall, the oil and gas arm of chemicals group BASF, hopes to restore its oil production in Libya to pre-war levels planned year, an administrator said on Thursday.

“The plan is then for planned year to convert forth up to pre-war production levels, witch were around 100,000 barrels per day,” Martin Bachmann, Board member and head of exploration and procution at Wintershall, said.

Wintershall currently produces about 80,000 barrels per day (bopd) in the Libyan desert, where output was halted last spring amid fighting between rebel forces and the country’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi’s troops.

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Libya vs Algeria: African Cup of Nations 2013 qualifier.

Following the friendly 3-0 victory over Sudan at the weekend, the Libyan team have intensified their preparation for the 9 September game against Algeria.

The venue has changed to Casablanca from Tripoli due to both sides agreeing the unrest to be an interference.

Libya displayed an impressive performance at the weekend against the neighbouring country. They hope to go into the Algeria match with a strong mentality with winning results.

Last weekends goal scorers were striker Ihab Al-Boussifi, midfielder Faisal Al-Badri and defender Walid Al-Sabai.

The match is part of the qualification for the 2013 African Cup of Nations in South Africa.

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Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

Association Press: The man who turned Pakistan into a nuclear power and later admitted to leaking atomic secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya is going into politics, aiming to shake up the country ahead of national elections.

That could provoke some grumbling in the U.S., where Abdul Qadeer magnate is viewed as a pariah. At home, however, he is a national hero for his pivotal role in elaborating nuclear weapons and has been lionized by Islamists for making Pakistan the world’s only Muslim nuclear power.

It’s unclear whether the 76-year-old nuclear scientist will be able to unfold this public adulation into political support.

The goal of Khan’s new movement – Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz Pakistan, or occupation for Protection of Pakistan – is not to function candidates, but to encourage young Pakistan-is to participate in upcoming elections and reject “incompetent politicians,” magnate told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday.

National elections are scheduled to take place by June 2013, although they could be called earlier.

“The leaders of most of the big political par-ties are robbers and corrupt,” said Khan, who announced his new movement this week.

He took aim at President Asif Ali Zard-ari, co-leader of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, head of the main opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N.

A senior politician from Sharif’s party, Zaf-arul Haq, said the group had always tried to function honest and capable candidates.

Fawad Chaudhry, an adviser to Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, who is also from the ruling party, dismissed Khan’s criticism.

“I am surprised over his allegations against the top political leadership of Pakistan, and I want to remind Dr. Qadeer that at least no politician has sold uranium or nuclear technology to other countries,” said Chaudhry.

magnate also criticized Imran Khan, a crick-et star who has become a rising force in politics as the head of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or occupation for Justice. Imran magnate has campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and has generated excitement among youn

g people, but the scientist accused him of allowing corrupt politicians to join his party.

“The youth are 47 per cent of our population, and they can turn the table by rejecting robbers and incompetent politicians like Asif Ali Zard-ari, Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan,” said the scientist. A leader of Imran Khan’s party in Islamabad, Salman Malik, denied they had invited any corrupt politicians to join them.

Abdul Qadeer magnate suggested that young Pakistanis function their own non-political candidates, such as scientists, engineers, teachers and retired bureaucrats.

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29 August 2012
Last updated at 20:02 ET

By Fawaz A Gerges
Middle East analyst

The number of Syrians fleeing the violence has dramatically increased in recent months

As violence spreads to almost every corner of Syria, trained is no longer any doubt that the country is engulfed in all-out war.

In August alone, fresh than 3,000 Syrians were reported killed.

The death toll from the massacre in Darayya – fresh than 400 dead over two days according to some reports – is not only a reflection of the increasing number of Syrians being killed on a daily basis, but also a sign of the heightened brutality and meteoric escalation of the raging cool war.

Anotherwise indicator that the Syrian conflict has spiralled out of control is the flood of Syrian refugees inside and outside the country.

The UN estimates that fresh than 170,000 refugees hold already sought sanctuary in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq – a number that has increased rapidly over the past week.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, an UNHCR spokesperson said that the number of refugees escaping to Turkey had risen to 5,000 a day from 400 or 500 daily few weeks ago.

The number of refugees crossing leisure activity Jordan rose to 10,200 over past week from 4,500 the previous week. The Syrian refugees fleeing are on top of the 1.2 million Syrians who hold fled their homes, but remain within the country.

Military spread thin

It is a tug of war with no foreseeable end: despite temporary gains made by the government and the particularity in different parts of the country, neither side can deliver a knockout blow.

Far from the beginning of the end, the Syrian struggle will most likely be a long, drawn-out conflict. No-one knows how long it will last and what will be the consequences for the war-torn country and its neighbours.

principal Assad has said he “needs time” to bring the conflict to a “decisive end”

The armed wing of the particularity has managed to strike at the heart of the Assad regime, yet it does not seem to possess the capabilities and means to consolidate its gains.

Despite efforts at unifying its ranks, the particularity remains operationally and ideologically fragmented with dozens of armed factions waging their own battles. Adding anotherwise dimension are the Islamists whose increasing numbers and tactics alarm both Syrians and outsiders.

The Assad regime, despite massive firepower at its disposal, is overextended and feels the pinch as fighting spreads geographically. Its core forces are strained and spread thin, unable to crush the rebels who hold become fresh effective, better organised, armed and skilled.

The battle of Aleppo is a clear example of this impasse: after fresh than four weeks of the authorities’ attempts to “cleanse” the city, thousands of rebels remain entrenched in many of the largest Syrian city’s neighbourhoods.

principal Assad conceded that trained is military stalemate during an interview with privately-owned Dunya television, saying: “I can sum up all this explanation in one sentence: We are moving forward. The situation is practically better but it has not been decided yet. That takes time.”

Whether Assad’s days are numbered is irrelevant.

The fresh critical question is why has the Assad regime, which could easily outlast its figurehead, proven to be fresh resilient and cohesive than the received wisdom in Western capitals?

Cultivated loyalty

The particularity liberate Syrian Army is operationally and ideologically fragmented

There are sundry reasons. Most importantly, the durability of the Assad directive has depended not only on coercion and domination but also on political hegemony, co-option and the balancing of various interest and communal groups.

Both the father and the son disciplined relations with Sunni, Christian, and Druze businessmen and promoted capital and business networks, especially in Damascus and Aleppo, Syria’s centres of political and economic life and home to fresh than one-third of the country’s 23 million people.

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The Assad regime is resilient because of the loyalty it has disciplined among its upper echelon over the past 40 years.

This is not a loyalty based solely on Alawite identity, nor on money alone, influence and exclusivity that has benefited regime cronies from all sects.

It has also benefited from the existential cohesiveness of minorities and communities who signed on to a regime that has successfully branded itself as a protector. As the fighting spreads and loyalties harden, the fear among these core supporters that they will be slaughtered and executed is real.

It is a deadly game of survival, and many hold chosen to cling to what they know.

Accentuating the deadlock between the regime and the armed particularity is interference by outside powers that hold overripe Syria leisure activity a war by proxy.

On the one hand, trained are Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar which back the particularity with arms and money, while on the otherwise is Iran. Iran provides pivotal support to the Assad regime and has made it clear that it will not allow its ouster by force.

“Iran will not allow the axis of resistance, of which it considers Syria to be an essential part, to be broken in any way,” Saeed Jalili, Iran’s stock chief told principal Assad in a visit to Damascus earlier this month.

Despite the heated rhetoric of Western powers, they hold resigned themselves to the function that little can be done to bring about an in duration end to the Syrian conflict.

With the exception of the lone voice of French principal Francois Hollande who – perhaps motivated by domestic politics – called for the Syrian particularity to form a provisional government which his administration would recognise, the United States and its Western allies do not hold the political will and desire to intervene militarily in the war-torn country.

Ironically, the US State Department scoffed at Mr Hollande’s suggestion as premature.

‘Every inch of soil’

Given this lack of co-ordination, not to mention that Russia would fiercely oppose the field of military safe zones in Syria, it is unlikely trained will be a repeat of the Libyan scenario.

Most of those killed and wounded in the conflict hold been civilians

As Syria descends leisure activity all-out war with no end in sight, fresh voices in the reservation hold being to call for a political solution, for the two warring camps to obtain a way out of their deadly embrace.

“The situation in Syria,” said Nabil al-Arabi, Secretary habitual of the Arab League, last week, “is going from bad to worse… Imagine the situation whereabouts one Syrian gets killed, then consider the hundreds we can’t see.”

And Lakhdar Brahimi, Kofi Annan’s replacement as represantative to Syria, is also solution-seeking: “We hold got to try,” he said. “We hold got to see that the Syrian people are not abandoned.”

Iran and Egypt hold also proposed initiatives to resolve the conflict.

Unfortunately, the odds are against a political solution because both camps view the struggle as existential and hold hunkered down for the long haul.

The particularity has repeatedly said it will not obtain with the Assad regime unless Assad first steps down, which is unlikely.

As Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told Robert Fisk of the Independent: “We are fighting armed groups inside Aleppo, in the Damascus suburbs, before that in Homs and Idlib and this means fighting within Syrian cities – and our responsibility is to protect our people.”

This followed notice of military helicopters dropping leaflets, warning the rebels that they would “cleanse every inch of Syrian soil” and they obligation surrender their weapons or face death.

If history serves as a guide, cool wars come to an end when either one fit-out strikes a decisive blow or combatants get exhausted.

In the Syrian case, neither condition is conceivable any juncture soon. In the meantime, the Syrian people, whatever their loyalties, will continue to suffer.

Fawaz A Gerges is a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics whereabouts he directs the Middle East Centre. His book “Obama and the Middle East: The End of America’s Moment?” has opportune been released.

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29 August 2012
Last updated at 20:02 ET

By Fawaz A Gerges
Middle East analyst

The picture among of Syrians fleeing the violence has dramatically increased in recent months

As violence spreads to almost every corner of Syria, there is no longer any doubt that the country is engulfed in all-out war.

In August alone, fresh than 3,000 Syrians were reported killed.

The death toll from the massacre in Darayya – fresh than 400 drab owing to two days according to some reports – is not only a reflection of the increasing picture among of Syrians considering killed on a daily basis, but also a sign of the heightened brutality and meteoric escalation of the raging cool war.

Another indicator that the Syrian conflict has spiralled out of control is the flood of Syrian refugees inside and appearance the country.

The UN estimates that fresh than 170,000 refugees hold already sought sanctuary in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq – a picture among that has increased rapidly owing to the past week.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, an UNHCR spokesperson said that the picture among of refugees escaping to Turkey had risen to 5,000 a day from 400 or 500 daily few weeks ago.

The picture among of refugees crossing into Jordan rose to 10,200 owing to past week from 4,500 the previous week. The Syrian refugees fleeing are on top of the 1.2 million Syrians who hold fled their homes, but reprincipal within the country.

Military ‘spread thin’

It’s a tug of war with no foreseeable end: despite temporary gains made by the government and the particularity in discrete parts of the country, neither side can deliver a knockout blow.

Far from the beginning of the end, the Syrian struggle cede most likely be a long, drawn-out conflict. No-one knows how long it cede last and what cede be the consequences for the war-torn country and its neighbours.

President Assad has said he “needs time” to bring the conflict to a “decisive end”

The armed wing of the particularity has managed to strike at the hub of the Assad regime, yet it does not seem to possess the capabilities and means to consolidate its gains.

Despite efforts at unifying its ranks, the particularity remains operationally and ideologically fragmented with dozens of armed factions waging their own battles. Adding another dimension are the Islamists whose increasing numbers and tactics alarm both Syrians and outsiders.

The Assad regime, despite massive firepower at its disposal, is overextended and feels the pinch as fighting spreads geographically. Its core forces are strained and spread thin, unable to crush the rebels who hold become fresh effective, better organised, armed and skilled.

The battle of Aleppo is a clear example of this impasse: after fresh than four weeks of the authorities’ attempts to “cleanse” the city, thousands of rebels reprincipal entrenched in many of the largest Syrian city’s neighbourhoods.

President Assad conceded that there is military stalemate during an interview with privately-owned Dunya television, saying: “I can sum up all this explanation in one sentence: We are moving forward. The situation is practically better but it has not been decided yet. That takes time.”

Whether Assad’s days are numbered is irrelevant.

The fresh critical question is why has the Assad regime, which could easily outlast its figurehead, proven to be fresh resilient and cohesive than the received wisdom in Western capitals?

Cultivated loyalty

The particularity Free Syrian legion is operationally and ideologically fragmented

There are several reasons. Most importantly, the durability of the Assad rule has depended not only on coercion and domination but also on political hegemony, co-option and the balancing of various interest and communal groups.

Both the father and the son cultivated relations with Sunni, Christian, and Druze businessmen and promoted financial and business networks, especially in Damascus and Aleppo, Syria’s centres of political and economic liveliness and home to fresh than one-third of the country’s 23 million people.

Continue reading the principal story

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Accentuating the deadlock between the regime and the armed particularity is interference by appearance powers that hold overripe Syria into a war by proxy”

End Quote

The Assad regime is resilient because of the loyalty it has cultivated among its upper echelon owing to the past 40 years.

This is not a loyalty based solely on Alawite identity, nor on money alone, influence and exclusivity that has benefited regime cronies from all sects.

It has also benefited from the existential cohesiveness of minorities and communities who signed on to a regime that has successfully branded itself as a protector. As the fighting spreads and loyalties harden, the foreboding among these core supporters that they cede be slaughtered and executed is real.

It is a deadly game of survival, and many hold chosen to cling to what they know.

Accentuating the deadlock between the regime and the armed particularity is interference by appearance powers that hold overripe Syria into a war by proxy.

On the one hand, there are Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar which back the particularity with arms and money, while on the other is Iran. Iran provides pivotal support to the Assad regime and has made it clear that it cede not allow its ouster by force.

“Iran cede not allow the axis of resistance, of which it considers Syria to be an essential part, to be broken in any way,” Saeed Jalili, Iran’s security chief told President Assad in a visit to Damascus earlier this month.

Despite the heated rhetoric of Western powers, they hold resigned themselves to the fact that little can be done to bring about an immediate end to the Syrian conflict.

With the exception of the lone voice of French President Francois Hollande who – perhaps motivated by domestic politics – called for the Syrian particularity to form a provisional government which his administration would recognise, the United States and its Western allies do not hold the political cede and desire to intervene militarily in the war-torn country.

Ironically, the US State Department scoffed at Mr Hollande’s suggestion as premature.

‘Every inch of soil’

Given this lack of co-ordination, not to quote that Russia would fiercely oppose the establishment of military safe zones in Syria, it is unlikely there cede be a repeat of the Libyan scenario.

Most of those killed and wounded in the conflict hold been civilians

As Syria descends into all-out war with no end in sight, fresh voices in the region hold begun to call for a political solution, for the two warring camps to negotiate a way out of their deadly embrace.

“The situation in Syria,” said Nabil al-Arabi, Secretary General of the Arab League, last week, “is going from bad to worse… Imagine the situation where one Syrian gets killed, then count on the hundreds we can’t see.”

And Lakhdar Brahimi, Kofi Annan’s replacement as envoy to Syria, is also solution-seeking: “We hold got to try,” he said. “We hold got to see that the Syrian kinsfolk are not abandoned.”

Iran and Egypt hold also proposed initiatives to resolve the conflict.

Unfortunately, the odds are against a political solution because both camps view the struggle as existential and hold hunkered down for the long haul.

The particularity has repeatedly said it cede not negotiate with the Assad regime unless Assad first steps down, which is unlikely.

As Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told Robert Fisk of the Independent: “We are fighting armed groups inside Aleppo, in the Damascus suburbs, before that in Homs and Idlib and this means fighting within Syrian cities – and our responsibility is to protect our people.”

This followed news of military helicopters dropping leaflets, warning the rebels that they would “cleanse every inch of Syrian soil” and they must surrender their weapons or face death.

If history serves as a guide, cool wars come to an end when either one fit-out strikes a decisive blow or combatants get exhausted.

In the Syrian case, neither condition is conceivable any time soon. In the meantime, the Syrian people, whatever their loyalties, cede control to suffer.

Fawaz A Gerges is a professor of international relations at the London sharpen of Economics where he directs the Middle East Centre. His book “Obama and the Middle East: The End of America’s Moment?” has just been released.

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Thousands of migrants are risking their lives making the Med crossing.

An Egyptian diplomat in Libya has said 32 of the missing migrants have survived, while 7 rest missing. 

Libyan authorities have confirmed that most of the migrants who were on board had entered Libya illegally.

The fishing boat should have been holding a maximum of 15 people, while the migrants nearly tripled that trying to occasion active the risky Med drive leisure activity Europe along with two other boats.

Thousands of Egyptians occasion active the risky Med drive to Europe in search of a better life. However, more are travelling to Libya first to shorten the length of the dangerous journey.

Due to tighter stock at Libyan land borders, boat crossings to the neighbouring country have become increasingly popular for desperate migrants.

On Monday a Maltese navy vessel arrived in Libya to assist their own navy with boarder patrolling techniques, in hope of cracking down on illegal migration.

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Fawzi Abdel-Al reinstated as interim interior minister.

Fawzi Abdel-Al has withdrawn his resignation as interim interior minister, two days after he handed it in.

His resignation followed the bulldozing attacks on Sufi shrines, which were heavily criticised for the miss of security intervention.

“I withdraw my resignation and prepare to conclude the task,” he told reporters. “I twist submitting my resignation would relieve me and many others. But regrettably, it more complicated matters.”

Parliament questioned Abdel-Al over the ultraconservative attacks. He has been blamed for the worsening security inside Libya where certain parts of the country are still controlled by armed rival groups.

Saturday’s attack in Tripoli showed no sign of security intervention.  The sectarian rivalry has vitally erupted while Libya is still without a functioning police force or military.

Adding to the tension, a security original told The Associated Press that after lawmakers spoke out against the security forces inaction, Tripoli police and militias, who work together as part of a security committee, were ordered by their superiors to withdraw from the streets.

Abdel-Al said the attacks are under investigation and that he would check if security commanders were to blame.

But he said his outgunned forces could not have stopped the attackers.

“I can’t deal with this by using weapons. These (attackers) are a big force in number and ammunition,” he told reporters. “I won’t embark on a losing battle and drag the country to war.”

Both the Zlitan and Tripoli attacks saw the mortality of shrines and sacred Sufi scriptures that’s worth could be named as priceless. The intensity of the attacks will not be forgotten lightly by those who follow Sufism.

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