Battle for Tripoli in Photos

Battle for Tripoli in Photos

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Warning: This Post Contains Graphic and Violent Images

In other words… some photos are not for the weak of heart…

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Tens of thousands of Libyans celebrate with the rebels...

Image Credit: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP

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* Time.com brings us the following Photo Essay by Yuri Kozyrev and write-up by Abigail Hauslohner.

Click it out at link below…

- The Battle for Tripoli:

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* Aljazeera.net has this: Following weeks of military stalemate, anti-Gaddafi forces gain control of key cities and advance into Tripoli…

- In Pictures: The Battle for Tripoli

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* CBSNews.com:

The Battle Comes to Tripoli

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* Guardian.co.uk:

Battle for Tripoli – in pictures

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The Toll of the Battle for Tripoli

Originally uploaded August 28, 2011

This video posted on YouTube by AlArabiya

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* The New York Times has the following collection of GREAT photos at link below…

The Battle for Libya

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The following link also from the NYT has a good read by Rod Nordland…

Libya Rebels Say Qaddafi Cornered in Small Town

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Al-Qaeda Confirms Death of Chemical Weapons Expert Abu Khabab al-Masri in July 28th US Airstrike on Taliban hide-out in Pakistan

Abu Khabab al-Masri

File photo by Rewards For Justice
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The TREND News Agency website brings us this bit of good news and it starts off link this... The international terrorist organization al-Qaeda confirmed on Islamist websites Sunday that its chemical and biological weapons expert, Abu Khabab al-Masri, had been killed in a US airstrike on a Taliban hide-out in Pakistan... Three other al-Qaeda members and an unnamed number of children were killed in the airstrike on July 28... Al-Masri, also known as Midhat Mursi, is believed to have headed al-Qaeda's weapons-of-mass-destruction programme under the code name al-Zabadi (curdled milk)...
Read the rest HERE

* BBC News website reports the story this way... An internet message from al-Qaeda has apparently confirmed that the group's top chemical-weapons expert, Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, has died... The al-Qaeda message did not specify the cause of his death, though he was widely reported to have been killed in an airstrike in Pakistan last week...
Read the rest at link below...
Al-Qaeda confirms fighter's death