Libya Prime Minister sums up Libya situation nicely - Libya has many problems , one of which is the non - existence of the State ! Stateless or not , Libya gears up to give Said al - Islam , Abdullah al - Senoussi and Al Baghdadi al - Mahoudi - along with 26 other former regime members fair trials in prompt executions next month ! In other " de facto Stateless States - Afghanistan sees NATO tankers torched ( 25 this time ) as the Taliban continue their war season , Iraq death dealing continues.....

Afghanistan news.....

25 NATO fuel tankers attacked, destroyed in west Afghanistan

Wed Aug 28, 2013 7:19AM GMT

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Taliban militants have attacked and destroyed 25 fuel tankers belonging to the US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah.

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Iraq.....

Car bomb attacks kill 29 people in Iraqi capital

Wed Aug 28, 2013 6:16AM GMT

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At least 29 people have been killed in a series of car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, officials say.

Colin Powell Worried US Got Steamrolled Into Iraq War, Calls Out Dick Cheney Iraq Court Blocks Term Limits for Prime Minister Libya....... Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to stand trial next month The son of former Libyan ruler, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. (File photo) Wed Aug 28, 2013 6:59AM GMT 0 0   0   Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of slain Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, is to stand trial on September 19, the country’s general prosecutor says. Libya’s prosecutor Abdel-Qader Radwan said on Tuesday, that the former Libyan ruler’s son, his spy chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, former Prime Minister Al Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, and 26 other former regime members, will be tried for various charges next month. The charges include murder, forming armed groups in violation of the law, inciting rape and kidnappings over the past four decades and during the 2011 revolution. Radwan added that over 280 other arrest warrants had been issued for those wanted over similar charges. According to the prosecutor’s aide al-Seddik al-Sur, the former intelligence chief had confessed to having a role in the production of car bombs in the Libyan city of Benghazi. He added that the defendants "were not subject to any form of pressure to extract confessions." Libyans rose up against Muammar Gaddafi’s four-decade rule in February 2011 and deposed him in August 2011. He was slain on October 20 of the same year. Saif al-Islam, who served as Gaddafi’s de facto prime minister, has been in the custody of a local militia in the western mountain city of Zintan where the writ of the central government runs weakly. The 40-year-old was captured in November 2011 while trying to flee the country. In July, the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled that Libya had to extradite Saif al-Islam to The Hague in order to face charges of crimes against humanity, stressing that Libya could not give Gaddafi’s son a fair trial. How Militias Took Control of Post-Gadhafi Libya

Compensation claims filed “in the garbage bin” say angry Misratans outside Congress

By Ahmed Elumami.

Misratan protestors outside Congress today demanding a quick settlement to compensation claims for damages during the revolution (Photo: Aimen Eljali)

Tripoli, 27 August 2013:

Traffic near the General National Congress was brought to a standstill this morning as hundreds of Misratans who lost property and belongings during the devastating siege of the city in 2011demonstrated demanding the Congress speed up the compensation process.

Other protestors were expected Zawia, Zuwara and Ajdabiya but did not turn up, in the case of the former two because of the fragile security situation following the clashes between Zawaia and the Warshefana and, in the case of Ajdabiya, supposedly because of the distance.

According to Libya’s Liberation War Victims Association, there are 10,749 claims from Misratans who lost properties and belongings in the city as well as elsewhere in the country during the revolution.

Following meetings in May and June between the association, the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Economy, Mustafa Mohammed Abofanas, a committee had been formed to oversee a system to evaluate claims and decide payments, said Ahmed Abdulhadi Al-Gesh who was appointed to the association’s committee by Misurata Local Council.  But nothing had happened so far.

“All we got from the meetings were just promises and I think that the files have been placed in garbage bins” said Al-Gesh.

In 2011, at the end of the revolution, damage in Misrata was put at LD 916 million while claims for Misratan losses elsewhere in Libya as a result of the fighting is put at LD 146 million. Al-Gesh told the Libyan Herald. The former figure, however, this is seen as a significant underestimation.

This is because that although it was agreed that compensation would cover farms, including animals, crops and agricultural equipment, as well as factories, companies and private vehicles and heavy machinery, there would be limits on claims for houses.

Only 60 percent of the value of homes damaged or destroyed would be paid, with an upper limit of LD 10,000, Al-Gesh explained.

What has disappointed and angered locals, he said, was that nothing was happening thanks to the negligence of government and silence of Congress. Problems were being exacerbated as ordinary citizens were being prevented from putting their lives back together.

Two out of three Benghazi hospital A&E departments shut to protest violence

Ayman Amzain

Only the Benghazi Medical Centre is now providing A&E cover for the city

Benghazi, 26 August 2013:

With two of the city’s three hospitals  accident and emergency departments now closed by strikes, Benghazi is tonight heading for crisis.

Since Al-Jelaa and Hawari hospitals shut their A&E facilities in protest at continued violence against staff members, Benghazi Medical Centre has been the sole large-scale provider of A&E cover. As a result it is having to turn away all but the most critical cases.

Last Friday for instance, BMC doctors only agreed to treat the two most serious case of food-poisoning among 127 scouts who had been taken ill at a summer camp.  A&E staff at Al-Jelaa had that same day gone on strike in protest at violence in and around the hospital, which had included a gun attack on two security guards. Though Al-Jelaa’s medical professionals said that they would continue to treat in-patients, they insisted that A&E would close, for at least a fortnight,  along with all other outpatient clinics

Then yesterday it was the turn of doctors and nurses at Hawari hospital’s accident and emergency ward to close their facility, following the beating up of nurses by people who had forced their way into the department.

Hani Arabi, the press officer at Hawari told the Libya Herald that some visitors accompanying some casualties, tried to come into the emergency room. When they were asked to leave, they began smashing equipment and hitting staff.

The A&E personnel have copied their Al-Jelaa colleagues in shutting down their department for a fortnight. In-patients are reportedly unaffected.

With BMC now covering only the most urgent emergencies from the entire city and wider region, there are serious problems for those with serious but non-life-threatening injuries and conditions. It is reported that two private hospitals, Al-Marowa and Al-Tarek are taking in casualties. However, not everyone can afford to pay for emergency treatment.

Libya has many problems – Zeidan

By Sami Zaptia

Tripoli, 26 August 2013:

At yesterday’s press conference Prime Minister Ali Zeidan admitted that Libya had many problems.

Zeidan blamed Libya’s current problems on the budget, the lack of security, the non-activation of the projects, and the non-existence of the state.

The Prime Minister was responding to a question from the media as to why despite his government having access to a generous budget there were still assassinations and resignations in his cabinet. He was asked what were the reason for Libya’s continued problems.

The Prime Minister said that Libya faced many problems including the government’s inability to disburse the budget with flexibility. “The government is tied from the beginning. This does not happen in any other country”, he repeated one of his frequently made complaints.

Zeidan also lamented his inability to activate Libya’s “thousands” of stalled projects. “The security situation led to this”, he explained. He explained that he was therefore unable to disburse this section of the budget. “The budget is not given to us in a purse to spend, but given to us with strings attached”, he explained.

In passing, Zeidan thanked the GNC and the Finance Committee for trying to muster 120 GNC members to vote on giving the government the power to transfer money from one section of the budget to another. Important issued such as the budget require a quorum of 120 GNC members to vote on them.

“You talk as if we received a full state”, Zeidan complained to the media member who posed the question. He reminded the audience that the state after the Revolution had “no police, no army, no institutions and no system. This is a legacy of 42 years of destruction”.