Revolutionary fighter jets have attacked the airport in Sirte.
http://www.digestreport.com/story/a4a042cf4fd6bfb47701cbc8a1653ada#130020473
» Mar 16 - 12:58 AM by Digest Report: During Gaddafi's address, revolutionaries watching in Benghazi threw shoes and jeered at his image.
Mar 15 - 8:26 PM by Digest Report: @Zeinobia reports: "There is unconfirmed news that the armed forces council has refused to meet an envoy sent by Qaddafi."
» Mar 15 - 4:58 PM by Digest Report: @iyad_elbaghdadi reports that revolutionary fighter jets have attacked the airport in Sirte. @ChangeInLibya: "Libyans enforcing their own NFZ!"
» Mar 15 - 8:26 PM by Digest Report: @LibyaInMe says that he can confirm that revolutionaries have taken over the oil refinery in Tobruk, as reported on Al Jazeera.
» Mar 15 - 8:22 PM by Digest Report: Denmark has announced that they are ready to offer four fighters for air support in the event the international community agrees upon a no-fly zone over Libya. http://gobb.us/48O
» Mar 15 - 8:21 PM by Digest Report: @AJArabic confirms that several tanks in workable condition have been captured in the city of Ajdabiya.
» Mar 15 - 7:57 PM by Digest Report: The Independent claims that the "death squad" that killed an Al Jazeera journalist on Saturday by order of Gaddafi have been captured. http://gobb.us/anq
» Mar 15 - 7:24 PM by Digest Report: Reports that the suicide mission against Muammar Gaddafi's private residence is confirmed, and purported to have been done by a defected air force pilot who refused to bomb fellow Libyans. Awaiting further news.
» Mar 15 - 7:21 PM by Digest Report: @AJArabic reports that Ajdabiya is in the control of the revolution and that no part is being controlled by pro-Gaddafi forces.
» Mar 15 - 6:59 PM by Digest Report: We have begun blocking all incoming connections from Libya to protect those fighting on the ground. Anyone within the country likely is already aware of that which they need knowledge, and we don't want to aid the Gaddafi regime in any way. We will lift the restriction when the conflict abates.\
» Mar 15 - 6:37 PM by Digest Report: @LibyaFeb17_com reports that the big fire at Gaddafi's personal residence is the result of a suicide mission to crash a fighter jet into the compound. We are awaiting confirmation.
» Mar 15 - 6:30 PM by Digest Report: Alarabiya TV: News about Gaddafi retaking Ajdabiya and Brega are a lie, still controlled by revolutionaries.
» Mar 15 - 6:20 PM by Digest Report: TIME reports on the mistreatment of journalists in Libya: For a week, the government's press handlers had forbidden journalists from traveling the 30 miles to the fighting — and several who tried to sneak off to Zawiyah unofficially were arrested, with one BBC television crew severely assaulted by security forces (more on that below). Three times, our handlers loaded us into vans and a coach bus, saying they were taking us to Zawiyah, only to change their minds. Then at about 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, they bundled about 40 of us into vans and tore off toward Zawiyah at a death-defying 110 m.p.h. They assured us that the military had routed all the al-Qaeda fighters, whom Gaddafi insists instigated Libya's three-week revolt.
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On March 7, three journalists from the BBC's Arabic channel who tried to retrace Fletcher's route to Zawiyah were nabbed by soldiers at a checkpoint outside the town and locked in a cage for several hours. While in custody, Feras Killani, the BBC's Palestinian-Syrian correspondent familiar to many Libyan viewers, had a hood taped around his head before he was beaten and kicked with boots, plastic pipes and fists for hours. The team was held in a security detention center in central Tripoli. There Killani was subjected to more hours of assaults and finally a mock execution, which included the two other journalists and others in custody. "He pointed the [gun] barrel at each of us," recalled Chris Cobb-Smith, the sole British member of the team, in a detailed account shared with foreign journalists in Tripoli. "When he got to me at the end of the line, he pulled the trigger twice. The shots went past my ear."
During their night in jail, the team members encountered several Zawiyah residents who said they'd been arrested on suspicion of supporting the rebels or for talking to foreign press. "Throughout the night they could hear the screams of people being tortured," said the BBC's Middle East bureau chief, Paul Danahar. The journalists flew to London after their release, publishing their account only after leaving Tripoli.
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» Mar 15 - 6:16 PM by Digest Report:
@iyad_elbaghdadi reports of protests breaking out in Tripoli, and a fire in Gaddafi's compound and personal residence.
» Mar 15 - 6:13 PM by Digest Report:
@LibyaFeb17_com reports: "Almanara Media confirms demonstrations have broken out in Girgarish, Tripoli"
» Mar 15 - 5:32 PM by Digest Report:
@LibyaInMe reports: "Shots are heard in Gaddafi's compound Bab Alazaziyah in Tripoli."
» Mar 15 - 5:27 PM by Digest Report:
@ChangeInLibya confirms earlier reports of explosions, and now heavy gunfire, in Tripoli.
» Mar 15 - 5:18 PM by Digest Report:
@ChangeInLibya says: "While I do have confirmation that (we) have 2 MIGS and plenty of jet fuel, I can't confirm anything else till later tonight."
» Mar 15 - 5:17 PM by Digest Report:
@iyad_elbaghdadi says that explosions have been heard in Tripoli.
» Mar 15 - 5:13 PM by Digest Report:
@Tripolitanian reports: "Reports that rebels have used 2 Soviet-made MiG 23's to bomb a naval vessel and a Gaddafi artillery position."
» Mar 15 - 5:12 PM by Digest Report:
@AJEnglish reports on Riad Kahwaji, a military analyst in Dubai, who says that the revolutionaries should resort to "guerrilla" tactics to defeat Gaddafi.
Mar 15 - 5:08 PM by Digest Report:
@Libyan4life reports: "Revolutionary Libyan Navy from Tobruk intercepted a fuel tanker heading from Turkey to Tripoli."
» Mar 15 - 4:58 PM by Digest Report:
@iyad_elbaghdadi reports that revolutionary fighter jets have attacked the airport in Sirte. @ChangeInLibya: "Libyans enforcing their own NFZ!"
» Mar 15 - 4:55 PM by Digest Report:
@ChangeInLibya reports: "The Free Libyan airforce has apparently bombed the Gardabya airport runways, Gaddafi's biggest air base in the region."
» Mar 15 - 4:38 PM by Digest Report:
@iyad_elbaghdadi reports that, contrary to negative reports from most media sources, everyone he has spoken with in Benghazi is in very high spirits.
» Mar 15 - 4:35 PM by Digest Report:
@AJEnglish reports on the fall of Ajdabiya and the continued retreat of revolutionaries as pro-Gaddafi forces advance.http://gobb.us/N3M
» Mar 15 - 4:26 PM by Digest Report:
@iyad_elbaghdadi reports that Abdulfattah Yunus, the General in charge of the revolutionary army, has issued a statement to all special forces in the east to "report for battle." Libya may be reaching a critical point.
» Mar 15 - 4:24 PM by Digest Report:
@iyad_elbaghdadi reports that a pro-Gaddafi fighter jet has been downed between Ajdabia and Tobruq.
» Mar 15 - 4:20 PM by Digest Report:
The Libyan Transitional Council has contended that Gaddafi is being armed by Turkey, a violation of the UN arms embargo, and that rebel-controlled ships will soon begin preventing the Turkish ships from docking. http://gobb.us/a0c
» Mar 15 - 4:12 PM by Digest Report:
Reports are saying that Ajdabia has been surrounded by pro-Gaddafi troops, which @iyad_elbaghdadi reports means supply routes can be cut.
» Mar 15 - 4:06 PM by Digest Report:
An unlisted video on YouTube of conditions at the Egypt/Libya border has been posted.
Mar 15 - 4:03 PM by Digest Report:
@ArabicDemocrati says that pro-Gaddafi forces are now only 160 kilometers away from Benghazi, and the assault is feared forthcoming.
» Mar 15 - 4:00 PM by Digest Report:
@AJEnglish correspondent Tony Birtley reports on the latest from Benghazi.
