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    A southern suburb of Tripoli known as Ain Zara was a no-go land Saturday dawn as deadly clashes wreaked havoc in one of its neighborhoods.

    The story began as a checkpoint of Brigade 42 of the Interior Ministry did a routine stop of one of the cars that turned out to be for two brothers working at the Presidential Guard of the Presidential Council

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    The Special Deterrence Force SDF, also known as Radaa, denied Friday any connection to the demolition of the Bugharara Sufi shrine in Ghararat district of Tripoli.

    The SDF stated through their official Facebook page that they are investigating this incident and will prosecute the perpetrators of the crime.

    The force also pointed out that those who have carried out this attack intend to exploit the tension that has come about, especially after their forces raided the district recently.

    Social networking sites have been flooded with photographs of the demolition of the Bugharara Mosque and shrine, which are approximately 600 years old.

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    ISIS militants have allegedly begun to regroup in south Libya with Qatar’s help after the Gulf state was accused of transferring hundreds of fighters from Syria and Iraq to Libya, a UAE-based newspaper reported on Saturday.

    Military sources told Alittihad newspaper that the move is an effort to turn the south into a hotbed for extremists after ISIS took severe blows in Syria and Iraq,

    According to Libyan military officials speaking to the newspaper, ISIS fighters began to leave fighting areas through Turkey and are headed to Libya.

    The newspaper added that Doha, which is accused by the anti-terror quartet of supporting terrorist groups including groups in Libya that suffer from political divisions, is behind this activity.
    https://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...-to-Libya.html

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    from article
    "quartet" is this. there is still a boycott of Qatar.

    http://www.mcall.com/business/getsma...615-story.html
    FAST FACTS: Why are countries boycotting Qatar?
    Last week, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed ties with Qatar amid a slew of punitive measures.

    Qatar's Arab neighbors have accused it of backing al-Qaida and the Islamic State group's ideology across the region, from Syria to the Sinai Peninsula. Experts and groups in Syria say Qatari finances have indirectly propped up militant groups.

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    TRIPOLI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Across Libya's capital residents have started drilling through pavements to access wells in a desperate search for water after the taps ran dry in a new low for living conditions.

    After years of neglect, workers turned off the water to do urgent maintenance earlier this month, cutting supplies to many Tripoli households. Then an armed group sabotaged the system, prolonging the misery.

    The water crisis is a powerful symbol of state failure in a country that was once one of the wealthiest in the Middle East but has been gripped by turmoil since a 2011 uprising unseated Muammar Gaddafi.

    For Libyans the chaos has meant power cuts and crippling cash shortages. These are often made worse by battles between armed groups vying for control of the fractured oil-rich state and its poorly-maintained infrastructure.

    "We haven't had water for ten days. The state does nothing," said Nasser Said, a landlord in Tripoli's upmarket Ben Ashour district.

    Already equipped with a generator to keep the power running during outages that sometimes last more than a day, he hired drillers to dig some 31 meters to extract groundwater for the six apartments in the residential block he owns.

    "No water, no electricity. You become a state in a state," he said, standing next to his building on a leafy sidestreet. "We last had to do this maybe 20 years ago."

    Like many Libyans, Said is sceptical about the chances of U.N.-led peace talks unifying rival factions that have been fighting for control.

    The talks were adjourned last week with little sign of progress in creating a government that could stabilise Libya and stand up to armed groups that have repeatedly seized oil facilities and other state assets to make demands.

    The U.N.-supported Government of National Accord (GNA) has struggled to impose its authority since its leaders arrived in Tripoli in March last year.

    Early last week an armed faction in the south said it had turned off water supplies from Gaddafi's Great Man Made River, a pipeline system that pumps water from underneath Libya's vast southern desert to coastal areas such as Tripoli.

    The group is seeking the release of a leader imprisoned by a rival faction in the capital, said Tawfiq Shwehaidi, a manager at the Great Man Made River based in the eastern city of Benghazi.

    "We had started maintenance work on the 16th (of October) and cut supplies to Tripoli," he said.

    "Afterwards an armed group... set one power plant on fire which closed three other plants and shut down 24 wells."

    That has deprived residents of water while boosting the business of drillers who for 4,000-6,000 Libyan dinars ($2,940-$4,410 at the official exchange rate) access groundwater unused in some neighbourhoods since the Great Man Made River started pumping water to Tripoli in 1996.

    "We drill about three wells in two weeks -- it takes about three to four days to drill a well," said Abdulsalam Forganea, a 23-year-old worker helping to operate an ageing drilling rig.

    NO BUDGET

    Parts of Tripoli offer a semblance of normality and power cuts have eased since the summer.

    The city has seen fewer big clashes since a handful of armed groups aligned with the GNA earlier this year.

    But security is still fragile. A former prime minister was abducted in August for nine days by one of the two most powerful armed groups, while the other engaged in a battle this month that shut down the airport.

    A Reuters reporter recently saw a traffic clogged commercial street suddenly empty as a man was fatally shot by militiamen. Kidnapping for ransom is rife.

    A conflict that escalated in 2014 has put extra pressure on a Tripoli population that swelled to an estimated three million with the arrival of displaced families from other Libyan cities.

    Public health services are failing, inflation has spiraled, and the start of the school year has been delayed by several weeks because teachers are striking over salaries.

    Shutdowns crippled oil revenues so little has been spent on repairs and maintenance, and the water network and other infrastructure have been corroded.

    Most government spending goes on public salaries, including for former rebel groups that forced their way onto the state payroll after Gaddafi's overthrow.

    "No budget has been transferred... since 2011 except the emergency budget, which is the result of the financial difficulties experienced by the Libyan state," said Naji Assaed, head of the Libyan Water Authority.

    Production at desalination plants has fallen sharply, with output at a plant in the western town of Zuwara dropping from 80,000 cubic liters to 16,000 cl annually.

    Assaed said officials were working hard to resolve the crisis, but it was not clear when supplies would be restored. As he spoke a tanker arrived up to deliver water for his tattered ministry building.

    "In the absence of adequate spare parts, lack of budgets, lack of stability in the security situation, security chaos, people do not comply with the law and all this has affected the performance of the system," he said.

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    TRIPOLI, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Air strikes killed at least 15 people in the besieged eastern Libyan city of Derna late on Monday, a medical source and a resident said, in an operation condemned by the United Nations due to the high civilian death toll.

    The U.N. Support Mission in Libya said at least 12 children and women were among the dead in Derna, a city about 265 km (165 miles) west of the Egyptian border controlled by a coalition of Islamist militants and rebel veterans known as the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC).

    The medical source said all the victims appeared to be civilians.

    The coastal city has long been under siege by the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), which has occasionally carried out air strikes against it, as has Egypt, which backs the LNA. Both denied carrying out Monday's strikes.

    The air strikes, lasting around an hour, hit the Dahr al-Hamar district in the south of Derna and Al Fatayeh, a hilly area about 20 km (12 miles) from the city, a resident said.

    Islamic State established a foothold in Derna in late 2014, but was driven out by the DMSC the following year.
    http://news.trust.org/item/20171030225535-62nsv/

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    Last October marked the sixth anniversary of the brutal assassination of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s adored architect of the “Jamahiriya” or state of the masses. The assassination was conducted by NATO-backed “rebels” fully loyal to the notion of waging jihad on the socialist Arab republic.

    Libya was Barack Obama’s war. The “first Black President” enthusiastically promoted lies about the Libyan leader in preparation for the invasion. He called Gaddafi a dictator, a strongman, and a mass murderer of his own people. US military forces collaborated with the media to spread rumors that Gaddafi had deployed soldiers armed with Viagra to rape women and children. Like the war on Afghanistan and Iraq, everything said about Gaddafi and Libya ended up being a lie. There were no massacres led by Gaddafi. In fact, NATO-backed “rebels” were found to have committed the most heinous crimes against the populace imaginable.

    The long list of “rebel” crimes in Libya included the lynching of Black Libyans and the arbitrary destruction of schools and hospitals. When NATO intervened on their behalf in March of 2011, over 200 sorties were dropped on Libya every day for seven months. By October of 2011, the number of bombs that rained over the African nation totaled 30,000. NATO mercenaries and bombs led to the death of over 50,000 Libyans with many more across North Africa losing their lives in an attempt to escape the on-going carnage.

    NATO successfully imposed an American nightmare on the Libyan people. Yet what the Libyan state had achieved prior to the US-NATO invasion was nothing short of a miracle. Gaddafi had to go because his dream was antithetical to the imperialist interests of the US-NATO alliance.
    In 1969, Libya overthrew a neo-colonial monarchy that imposed poverty and illiteracy on the country on behalf of Western capital.
    The state of the masses was established, giving the Libyan people direct control over the future of the nation. Nationalized oil provided healthcare, housing, and employment for all. Underdevelopment gave way to industrial advances that eventually made Libya the most prosperous nation on the African continent.

    Gaddafi’s revolution liberated women from the clutches of colonial
    underdevelopment.
    After 1969, women in Libya were given opportunities to receive an education and equal pay for equal work.
    New mothers received $5,000 per month until they returned to work. When this author was a case manager for homeless individuals in Massachusetts, a Libyan woman presented to the agency. She reported that she had lost over $4,000 per month provided by the Libyan government to attend university. The stipend was stopped after the fall of Gaddafi leaving her unable to afford rent. Few in the US have any knowledge of how the Libyan state allowed Libyans to study abroad by subsidizing basic needs during their educational period.

    Gaddafi’s dream extended beyond Libya’s borders. Historically, Libya was well-known across Africa for its solidarity with national liberation struggles in places like South Africa, Algeria, and Somalia. However, Libya’s “state of the masses” or Jamahiriya really wore out its welcome with the US-NATO alliance following Gaddafi’s selection to the head of the African Union in 2009. Gaddafi used the platform to formulate concrete proposals to liberate the continent from dependency on US and Western capital. The most significant proposal was the creation of a continental military and the establishment of a regional currency in the form of the gold “dinar” used in Libya. Gaddafi was willing to use his nation’s vast oil wealth to unite the African continent and paid the price for it.

    Even though WikiLeaks exposed the Obama-Clinton machine’s motivations in Libya as being primarily driven by opposition to Gaddafi’s plan for African unity, his position on AFRICOM also posed a serious threat to US strategic interests.
    The same year that Gaddafi become the head of the Africa Union also happened to be the same year that China surpassed the US in terms of trade with the nations of Africa. AFRICOM was erected as a last gasp effort by the US to remain hegemonic in the resource rich continent. And the US was not about to allow Gaddafi to get in the way.

    Images spread worldwide of Gaddafi’s graphic murder at the hands of NATO’s mercenaries. The US-NATO backed “rebels” murdered the Libyan leader in cold blood without regard to international law. I
    The US did not consult any international body when it invaded Iraq and made up the pretext of “humanitarian intervention” to destroy Libya. Gaddafi’s bloody downfall represented the obliteration of international law itself.

    Similar to Iraq, the destruction of the Jamahiriya has forced Libya to go without a state capable of lending any direction to the future of society. Terrorism has spread to Nigeria, Mali, and surrounding nations as the arms funneled to “rebels” during the invasion of Libya have spread to terrorists throughout the continent.

    Instead of a higher income and net worth, the people living in NATO countries have been rewarded with poverty and joblessness. Reductions in healthcare, education, and housing have devastated the majority of the population despite the presence of growing military budgets. Libya is definitive proof that war only benefits the rich. That is why Gaddafi’s dream was a nightmare for the American elite. But from the perspective of the poor and working class, pre-2011 Libya provided an example of what a more just society could look like regardless of the geography. Libya and Gaddafi should be celebrated as part of a larger strategy to condemn US military aggression worldwide and bring forth real justice to all people and nations struggling against oppression.

    Danny Haiphong is a Vietnamese-American activist and political analyst in the Boston area. He can be reached at wakeupriseup1990@gmail.com

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    [FOIA] In March 2011, Hugh Parmer, former president of the American Refugee Committee, congratulated Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on persuading Obama to carry out the Libya War.


    https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOC.../C05780242.pdf

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    People in the Libyan capital Tripoli are facing a humanitarian crisis because of severe water shortages.
    The lack of investment and security has caused the taps to run dry.


    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/1...125030317.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    People in the Libyan capital Tripoli are facing a humanitarian crisis because of severe water shortages.
    The lack of investment and security has caused the taps to run dry.


    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/1...125030317.html
    The people in Yemen are in crisis as well, so are our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico, what is Trump and Tillerson’s response to these humanitarian problems.

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    https://www.libyaherald.com/2016/06/...ter-shortages/
    Power cut in southern Libya at the Hasawna mountain areas where the Man-Made River (MMR) water wells are located have led to a water shortage in Tripoli. Tripoli’s water is overwhelmingly supplied from this area. Some parts of the city have only noted a fall in pressure, others have had no water for two days.

    This latest water shortage comes two weeks after power cuts led to a water shortage to the capital, the largest urban concentration in Libya.



    The continued power cuts that have affected Libya on and off since the 2011 revolution and which peak in the summer months of high consumption, have in the last two weeks affected the MMR pumps at the Hasawna field water wells.

    This latest water shortage started with a number of temporary power cuts and a total blackout on Thursday to Friday. The power cuts were caused, GECOL reports, by some regions refusing to take their turn in organised power cuts.

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    xperienced since the revolution in 2011, and this summer has proved to be one of the toughest to date.

    With temperatures in the upper 30s and sometimes in the mid 40s, the severe shortage of all basic amenities has made life almost impossible. There have been days without water, although thankfully for the moment that is over. The Man Made River (MMR) company started to pump slowly again for homes in central Tripoli after six days of no water.

    What is not over are the electricity cuts. Outages have lasted between 14 to 20 hours a day, despite General Electricity of Libya (GECOL) saying they are only between five to ten hours daily. On top of this. there has been a fuel crisis with long queues at petrol stations as a result of panic because of militants in Zawia threatening to cut of fuel supplies to the capital.

    In the heat of the day, without electricity to power the air conditioners, or at night to light up homes and shops or watch television, it is one big misery – and that is quite apart from the kidnappings, the crimes, and the dangers of going out at night.

    The power and water crises have brought some much life in the city to a standstill. In the usually vibrant coffee shops, without electricity the coffee machines do not work unless there are standby generators. Many shops and homes have them, but far from all, and prices have rocketed – as have all prices – but there is no money in the banks.

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    epic biblical apocalyptic real time stuff. it is nauseating, maddening and depressing. yet...
    Even so, Come, Lord Jesus
    I do not participate in delusion count me out

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    US military has conducted two air strikes against Islamic States militants in Libya.

    In a statement, US Africa Command said one strike was carried out on Friday and another one on Sunday. It said both strikes were carried out near the city of Fuqaha in the Libyan desert, but did not say how many militants had been killed.


    The statement said the strikes were carried out in coordination with Libya’s Government of National Accord.

    Islamic State took over Sirte in early 2015, turning it into its most important base outside the Middle East and attracting large numbers of foreign fighters to the city. The group imposed its hard-line rule on residents and extended its control along about 155 miles (250 km) of Libya’s Mediterranean coastline.

    But it struggled to keep a footing elsewhere in Libya and was forced out of Sirte by last December after a six-month campaign led by brigades from the western city of Misrata and backed by US air strikes.

    Islamic State militants have shifted to desert valleys and inland hills southeast of Tripoli as they seek to exploit Libya’s political divisions after their defeat in Sirte.

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