Drive-by shooting at peaceful Tawerghan protest

Tripoli, 19 May 2013:

A drive-by shooting at the end of today’s peaceful protest staged by people from Tawergha in front of the General National Congress (GNC) left one man wounded in the leg.

http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/05/19/drive-by-shooting-at-peaceful-tawerghan-protest/

Aide Dan Pfeiffer: Obama’s location on night of Benghazi attacks is “a largely irrelevant fact”

Does it matter where President Obama was during the night of the Benghazi attacks? Not according to his aide, Dan Pfeiffer.

http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/05/19/aide-dan-pfeiffer-obamas-location-on-night-of-benghazi-attacks-is-a-largely-irrelevant-fact/

Red Alert Politics

Rumsfeld: Obama’s trust being ‘eroded’

By Jordy Yager – 05/19/13 12:02 PM ET

Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday said the public’s trust in President Obama is being “eroded” and the administration’s credibility has been undermined.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/300605-rumsfeld-obamas-trust-being-eroded#ixzz2Tmgz05jP

The Hill

Coastguard retrieves empty migrant boat, suspects tragic end

Tripoli, 14 May 2013:

An empty boat used by sub-Saharan migrants hoping to reach European shores retrieved by the Libyan Coastguard this morning suggests that more lives have been lost at sea.

http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/05/14/coastguard-retrieves-empty-migrant-boat-suspects-tragic-end/

Libyans in North Africa scared to return home

CAIRO, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) – Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been determined never to leave.

IRIN

http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98045/Libyans-in-North-Africa-scared-to-return-home

Nestled deep in Ghadames The Pearl of the Desert

Ghadames awaits the tourists

MARIE-LOUISE GUMUCHIAN

Perched on a low wall in the centre of the Libyan desert oasis town of Ghadames, 80-year old tourist guide Mohammed Ibrahim says he is waiting for the foreign visitors he used to show around to come back.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/africa/8586299/Ghadames-awaits-the-tourists

-Reuters

Libyan oil industry hit by legacy of violence

Published: May 16, 2013 at 11:03 AM

BENGHAZI, Libya, May 16 (UPI) — Protesters closed the Zueitina oil refinery in eastern Libya for the second time in six months this week, the latest setback for the North African country’s troubled efforts to develop its crucial energy industry in the violent aftermath of the 2011 civil war.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2013/05/16/Libyan-oil-industry-hit-by-legacy-of-violence/UPI-58161368716585/#ixzz2TjeBokvt

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