October 2012 Khamis Qaddafi was discovered and arrested in Bani Walid today but died while being taken to Misrata. Confirmation of his arrest and subesquent death was announced on TV this evening, Saturday, by the General National Congress spokesman Omar Hmaidan. According to Hmaidan, Khamis was wounded when he and army forces were involved in a shoot-out in Bani Walid. [ Read More ]
October 2012 It has been reported today, Saturday, that Al-Hamali Ahmed Al-Hatmani, commander of the Wadi Eshatti Battalion, has been murdered. He is credited as the man who told revolutionaries from Zintan where Saif Al-Islam was hiding. Although himself a revolutionary from the south, he reportedly gained Saif’s confidence in order to help capture him. It is reported he was killed in [ Read More ]
October 2012 The Qaddafi regime’s media spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, has been reported as captured in Bani Walid and is now being held at Mitiga airbase in Tripoli. He was said to have been flown to Tripoli from Misrata this afternoon. Around 30 other Qaddafi figures are also said to have been caught in the past 24 hours in and around [ Read More ]
October 2012 Youngest son of the former Libyan dictator allegedly killed a year to the day after rebel forces killed his father Muammar Khamis Gaddafi, youngest son of the former Libyan dictator, has allegedly been killed during fighting in the town of Bani Walid, a year to the day that rebel forces killed his father, Muammar. A short statement from [ Read More ]
Sunday 21st October 2012 Thirteen soldiers were killed in the assault on Bani Walid on Saturday and 121 wounded, according to a member of the intensive care unit at Misrata general hospital. It is unknown how many were killed from Bani Walid in what appears to have been the fiercest day of fighting so far, with the Libya Herald having been unable [ Read More ]
Sunday 21st October 2012 Congressman Adel Asharshari, the independent member for Sorman, was attacked west of Tripoli yesterday and his car stolen. The incident appears to have been that of common theft. He was driving not far from Camp 27, which at the time was under attack from Qaddafi supporters, when he was stopped. He was asked to produced identity [ Read More ]
October 2012 A group of Libyan officials and legislators has been in Warsaw, Poland on a five-day course in joined-up government. The 18 bureaucrats and three legislators were told by their Polish hosts that, especially in a time of transition, it was imperative all officials look beyond the narrow concerns of their individual departments to the wider national interest.They needed [ Read More ]
Sunday 21st October 2012 The president of Benghazi’s local council tendered his resignation today, less than two months after taking office. Juma Sahli, who took office on 3 September, cited the “desperate” situation regarding non-payment of local salaries and the government’s failure to fulfill promises of support to Benghazi as reasons for his decision. He is the third president to [ Read More ]
October 2012 A year today Libya’s ruler of 42 years, Muamar Qaddafi died. It was a day that is seared in the psyche of most Libyans. Most Libyans had only known one ruler since 1969. Waking up on October 21st last year without Qaddafi alive was surreal. So much seems to have happened in the post February 17th Libya, yet it was [ Read More ]
Sunday 21st October 2012 Guards used automatic weapons to break-up a demonstration at the National Congress today, after some 500 people stormed the grounds of the legislative assembly in protest at the ongoing assault on Bani Walid. Anti-aircraft guns and Kalashnikovs were fired in the air in warning; the first time security forces have deployed such measures outside the Congress [ Read More ]
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