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| Libya Foreign Minister Says 5,000 Foreign Fighters Fighting Along With Extremists |
| Canada Rules Out Military Intervention in Libya |
| Iran Offer to Cut Centrifuges by a Third Led to Progress in Nuclear Talks |
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Evening Tweets.....
fred walton retweeted
ISLAMIST MILITANTS SHELL LIBYA'S BAHI AND MARBOUK OILFIELDS, CRUDE PIPELINE TO ES SIDRA PORT DAMAGEDL RTRS
FRANCE 24 English
US envoy to Yemen says Hadi 'legitimate' president http://f24.my/1GdcKd6
Top news story
BBC News (World)
Saudi diplomat held hostage for almost 3 years by al-Qaeda in Yemen is freed, officials say http://bbc.in/1BxvD86
"I get either no response or a weak response when I ask about evacuation." America abandoned one of its own in Yemen: http://interc.pt/1wEqivy
The Intercept
Morning Tweets.......
Donatella Rovera 
#Iraq PM Abadi announces anti- #ISIS fight in Tikrit, Salahuddin province, calls on ISIS members 2 surrender http://www.newsweek.com/iraq-launches-islamic-state-offensive-310448 …
Newsweek
ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY ENEMY: Idlib protesters call for an end to Nusra-Hazm fighting
Kurdish Official in #Baghdad : We Will Put More Pressure on Federal Government
http://basnews.com/en/news/2015/03/01/kurdish-official-in-baghdad-we-will-put-more-pressure-on-federal-government/ …
#TwitterKurds
Deadly rocket attack launched in Libya’s Benghazi: Nearly four years after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi, Libya ... http://bit.ly/1M3hjr3
Reuters Business
Oil falls 1 percent on weak China outlook, higher Libya production http://reut.rs/1DszuzT
#UNSC panel:Despite an invite by #Libya|n officials &lip-service from Leon, @UNSMILibya didn't provide needed support
#UN warns Arms Bound for #Libya Pose Terror Risk, could end up with Islamist radicals http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-warns-arms-bound-for-libya-pose-terror-risk-1425246008 …
Wall Street Journal
UN #Libya panel finds evidence Egypt gave helicopters to Haftar, simply painting over markings http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2015/128 …
And the #Libya map copying continues, this time it's @MiddleEastEye
The Forgotten War – Understanding The Incredible Debacle Left Behind By NATO In Libya http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-27/forgotten-war-%E2%80%93-understanding-incredible-debacle-left-behind-nato-libya …
In retrospect, Obama’s intervention in Libya was an abject failure, judged even by its own standards. Libya has not only failed to evolve into a democracy; it has devolved into a failed state. Violent deaths and other human rights abuses have increased severalfold. Rather than helping the United States combat terrorism, as Qaddafi did during his last decade in power, Libya now serves as a safe haven for militias affiliated with both al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The Libya intervention has harmed other U.S. interests as well: undermining nuclear nonproliferation, chilling Russian cooperation at the UN, and fueling Syria’s civil war.
As bad as Libya’s human rights situation was under Qaddafi, it has gotten worse since NATO ousted him. Immediately after taking power, the rebels perpetrated scores of reprisal killings, in addition to torturing, beating, and arbitrarily detaining thousands of suspected Qaddafi supporters. The rebels also expelled 30,000 mostly black residents from the town of Tawergha and burned or looted their homes and shops, on the grounds that some of them supposedly had been mercenaries. Six months after the war, Human Rights Watch declared that the abuses “appear to be so widespread and systematic that they may amount to crimes against humanity.”
As a consequence of such pervasive violence, the UN estimates that roughly 400,000 Libyans have fled their homes, a quarter of whom have left the country altogether.
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