Deceased Libyan Leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi had agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign – to the tune of 50 million euro.
The Paris-based investigative website Mediapart published “documentary evidence” that Gaddafi was ready to put forth tens of millions of dollars to see that Sarkozy won the French presidential race. Read more…
Laaska News Mar. 19, 2012
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Libya is sending a delegation to Mauritania for the extradition of Abdallah al-Senussi, intelligence chief to Muammar Gaddafi. France has filed a competing extradition request, while the ICC is also seeking to bring him to trial.
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“Libya’s Foreign Service is in touch with its Mauritanian colleagues. We are planning to send a delegation to Nouakchott,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Saad Elshlmani said on Sunday. Read more…
Laaska News Mar. 19, 2012
Still frame from a video uploaded to Twitter by user Libynprincess featuring clashes in Abu Salim on March 18, 2012 – RT
At least one person was killed outside Tripoli in a fight between a powerful militia group from Zintan and local residents loyal to slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, reports the Associated Press. Read more…
Nicolas Sarkozy lashed out at journalists and rejected claims he took €50 million from Muammar Gaddafi to fund his 2007 presidential campaign before backing an insurgency against him, as documents alleging a money-trail between the two emerged. Read more…
Laaska News Feb. 9, 2012
Aisha Gaddafi. Photo: EPA.
The daughter of Libya’s slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, Aisha Gaddafi, has accused the UN commission on human rights violations in Libya of not even trying to find her father’s killers. Read more…
Files picture dated September 22, 2011 shows Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters launching a rocket towards Bani Walid from their outpost at the entrance of the city. Photo: AFP
Fighters loyal to late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have clashed with revolutionary forces in the former-regime stronghold of Bani Walid, taking control of the city in the process. Read more…
The press secretary of Muammar Gaddafi, Musa Ibrahim, has been arrested in the city of Abassia, near the Libyan capital Tripoli.
He was the mouthpiece of the previous Libyan regime throughout last year’s civil war in the North African country. Read more…
“Gaddafi’s children are still waiting for justice”
Libyan families Visit the body of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi inside a storage freezer in Misrata (Reuters / Thaier Al-Sudani)
While Libya has been quick to shake off 40 years of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s legacy, his children are still waiting for justice. The lawyer of the late leader’s daughter has been telling RT why his killing in October still hasn’t been investigated. Read more…
Yevgeni Primakov. Photo: RIA Novosti
Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov believes the removal of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a test run of a new NATO scenario to change regimes using loosely-worded resolutions of the UN Security Council. Read more…
Libya. Photo: EPA
In the Libyan capital Tripoli former opposition fighters and government troops have been trading gunfire hours after members of the local militia tried to storm into the former headquarters of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence services. Read more…
Laaska news Dec. 30, 2011
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The daughter of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi Aisha has applied to the International Criminal Court requesting a probe into her father’s death, the Guardian writes. Read more…
Laaska news Dec. 17, 2011
“Africa-Russia business forum” in Addis Ababa Friday.
Mikhail Margelov. Photo: RIA Novosti
Russia fears that weaponry from the looted Gaddafi arsenals may find its way into the hands of extremists, separatists and terrorists across Africa. Read more…
Laaska news Dec. 16, 2011
A National Transitional Countil (NTC) fighter points a gun at Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte in this still image taken from video shot on October 20, 2011 and released on October 22, 2011 (Reuters / Reuters TV)
The ICC suspects the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a war crime. The international court’s chief prosecutor says there were strong indications he was killed in custody. Read more…
Laaska news Dec. 15, 2011
Aisha Gaddafi. Photo: EPA
The daughter of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has inquired if the International Criminal Court intends to investigate the deaths of her father and brother. Read more…
Laaska news Nov. 25,2011
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Supporters of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi may be given political asylum in France despite their convictions, the country’s Interior Minister Claude Gueant said in a statement on Friday.
Laaska News Nov. 12,2011
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President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufi announced his readiness to grant refugee status to Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi. He stressed that another son of Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam is not in Niger. Read more…
Laaska News Nov. 9 ,2011
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Muammar Gaddafi. Photo: EPA
The Egyptian press reports the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi earmarked $28 million to a group of terrorists to carry out assassinations in Libya and abroad under the motto of “revenge after the fall of the regime.” Read more…
Laaska News Nov. 8 ,2011
Sirte, Libya. Photo: EPA
Tombs of the parents of the dead Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi were desecrated and destroyed in his home town of Sirte.
The Algerian An-Nahar newspaper blames the act of vandalism on a jihadist movement which claims to have close links to al-Qaida. Read more…
Laaska News Nov. 1 ,2011
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CAPE TOWN, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) – There exits “uneasy feeling” about Libya’s future following the execution of Muammar Gaddafi, South African President Jacob Zuma said here on Tuesday. Read more…
Laaska News Oct. 31,2011
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The international coalition forces in Libya are winding up all military operations in the country. Meanwhile, Libya’s new authorities want NATO to stay. Russia has warned that it will raise the issue of NATO’s operations in Read more…
