THE DOMINO EFFECT IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Nick Pisa, in Rome



Desperate Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi begged for his life by
offering gold and money before he was killed, a witness has revealed.







Colonel Gaddafi after he was found hiding in a drain in Sirte




Hammad Mufti Ali, 28, has told how the former leader
frantically offered his captors riches beyond their wildest dreams after
he was dragged from his sewer hideaway.


The details emerged as mystery
still surrounded the final moments of Col Gaddafi's life and as his
body remained unburied amid calls for an investigation into his death.


Mr Ali, the commander of a brigade in Sirte, told Italian newspaper
Corriere Della Sera: "He was pulled from the drain and he was pushed
around.















Gaddafi's Final Moments



Watch all the footage of the dictator's capture and death. WARNING: Graphic content.
















"He said he was willing to offer anything in exchange for his life - he said he had money and gold for us if we spared his life.


"He was losing a lot of blood - he was 69 years old and his body
could not take it. He was in a bad way. He had had wounds everywhere
from shrapnel and from being beaten."


Mr Ali added: "At one point someone screamed at him that instead of
talking about money, as a good Muslim he should have been praying for
his soul to be entrusted to God before dying.


"But he just kept saying he was ready to give us lots and lots of money and gold."







The dictator had taken refuge in this drain after a Nato airstrike





Col Gaddafi
is said to have had more that $200bn (£125bn) in cash and gold hidden
away with some of it spread in secret accounts across the world.


Reports earlier this year after the start of the revolution said he had flown some of his wealth to Zimbabwe.


The International Monetary Fund
has said it believes Libya had at least 140 tons of gold hidden away -
if not more and that the bulk was hidden in the vaults of the central
bank in Tripoli.


But he was thought to have taken several bars with him to use as bargaining chips.




Read more on Colonel Gaddafi's death:


:: Libya's Challenges On The Road To Democracy


:: Stark Warning To Other Middle East Autocrats


:: Confusion Over Gaddafi's Final Moments


:: Gaddafi Family Members: Where Are They Now?


:: Muammar Gaddafi: The Kitsch Dictator


:: Pictures: Anti-Gaddafi Fighters Celebrate


:: Pictures: Life And Times Of Libya's Former Leader


:: The Road To Revolution: How Civil War Unfolded



































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Isn"t it disgusting that Gaddafi , after all the innocent lives he took , could try to barter for his.!!!!

HIS WIFE AND OTHERS ARE SAYING HIS HUMAN RIGHTS MAY HAVE BEEN VIOLATED.
IRONICALLY WASN'T COLONEL GADDHAFI VIOLATING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF A LOT OF PEOPLE?

Badboy wrote:HIS WIFE AND OTHERS ARE SAYING HIS HUMAN RIGHTS MAY HAVE BEEN VIOLATED.
IRONICALLY WASN'T COLONEL GADDHAFI VIOLATING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF A LOT OF PEOPLE?

Morning Badboy, his wife has a nerve, . His " Sons are alive, I wonder if the uhad he stood Trial he would have got life imprisonment at least.
His 2 Sons are alive , I wonder if they will try to claim all the millions which were sequestered by all the Banks .

Badboy wrote:HIS WIFE AND OTHERS ARE SAYING HIS HUMAN RIGHTS MAY HAVE BEEN VIOLATED.

Ah bless, his rights were violated were they? Such a shame.....

Now, what should we worry about, the human rights of the 40,000+ he killed or Gaddafi himself.....?

Thousands are flag waving and I really hope this will lead to good Governance in Libya and the Rebels fight has not been in vain.

Gaddafi has been buried in a secret desert location.

sky news



Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al Islam is proposing to hand
himself in to the International Criminal Court, according to a National
Transitional Council official.







Colonel Gaddafi's son could hand himself into The Hague




Former intelligence chief Abdullah al Senussi is also said to be considering the same course of action.


"They are proposing a way to hand themselves over to The Hague," Abdel Majid Mlegta, a military official with the NTC, said.


However, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it had no confirmation the pair would be surrendering.


"We don't have confirmation about this now. We are trying to contact
the NTC for more information," said ICC spokesman Fadi El Abdallah.


In June, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Gaddafi, his son Saif and
al Senussi on charges of crimes against humanity after the UN Security
Council referred the Libyan situation to the court in February.


The news came as Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, said he had
been 'disgusted' by television images of Gaddafi's last minutes.


He said: "Almost all of Gaddafi's family has been killed, his corpse
was shown on all global television channels, it was impossible to watch
without disgust.


"The man was all covered in blood, still alive and he was being finished off."


More to follow...

Saif al Islam has been arrested in Libya and next stop will be the Hague.

Hundreds defect from Yemen's military

By Hakim Almasmari, for CNN
November 20, 2011 -- Updated 0047 GMT (0847
HKT)


Defecting Yemeni troops guard anti-government
protesters during a demonstration Friday after noon prayers.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• More than 400 troops defect, are welcomed by general who defected
  
• They say they will defend unarmed protesters, not attack them
  
• Majority of troops were members of Republican Guards and central security
  forces
  
• President addresses thousands of Republican Guards, calls defectors part of
  the past
  

Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- More than 400 troops defected from the
Yemeni military Saturday evening, saying they would no longer attack unarmed
protesters.

The troops announced their defection after standing for hours in front of
tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Sanaa and vowing to support
their cause with their lives.

"We will stand with the will of the people and will not kill unarmed youth.
We are here to defend the people and we will do that," one soldier told CNN.

"The butcher must stand trial," the troops shouted as they marched in what
has been known as Change Square Sanaa.

The organizing committee in the square announced this week that dozens of
unarmed youth activists were killed by government forces over the past month.
The committee says nearly 1,000 youths have been killed by the government since
protests began in January.

Hours after the celebration, the defecting troops were welcomed at the
military compound of Gen. Mohsen Ahmar, who defected from the government forces
in March.

The majority of the troops were members of the Republican Guards and central
security forces, which are headed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh's eldest son
and nephew.

Youth activists celebrated the defection.

"With every day that passes, this oppressive regime is weakened," Abdul
Nasser al-Kulaibi, a youth protester in Sanaa, told CNN. "Saleh will soon be
surprised to see the rug beneath him pulled away and he will fall without
expecting it."

He added, "Change will happen and we will not stop marching against the
regime. More than 1,000 of us have died. It's too late to stop now."

Earlier in the day, state media reported that Saleh and senior government
officials visited thousands of Republican Guard troops and encouraged them to
stand firm in defending the country.

Saleh told the troops that Yemen's leaders are "willing to sacrifice for the
sake of the country, but you will stay. You will remain here even if we let go
of authority, because you are the authority," according to state media.

Saleh's country has been the scene of violent protests for months as his
opponents demand he leave power after 33 years in office. Government troops have
responded with live fire to protests, according to medics and opposition
sources.

The guards number more than 80,000 and are considered the most powerful force
in the country.

Saleh blasted the opposition forces and called them "gangs that cut off
roads." He said those who have defected are part of the past.

"Yemen will not collapse. Yemen is steadfast due to its people and military,"
Saleh said.

Gaddafi"s Son says he never intended to give himself up. He says he is ready to spill the beans about Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and Prince
Andrew.

3 December 2011
Last updated at 13:41












Three Nato troops killed by Afghan roadside bomb













Three soldiers from the
Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) have been killed
in Afghanistan, Nato officials have said.

The three, whose nationalities have not been disclosed, died when a roadside bomb exploded in the east of the country.

No further details were immediately available of the incident, which took place on Saturday.

More than 500 Nato troops have been killed so far this year in Afghanistan.

I hope Bush and Blair read this report........will they have a conscience about the lies they told to invade Libya, I think not.!!!

11 December 2011
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Army chief Khalifa Haftar was part of a convoy which came under attack, a military spokesman said


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Gun battles broke out near the international airport in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, army officials said.

An army spokesman told Libyan TV two gunmen opened fire on
Saturday on a convoy accompanying army chief Maj-Gen Khalifa Haftar but
called it an "isolated incident".

It was reportedly followed by hours of clashes along the coastal road.

The violence adds to concerns over stability in Libya after the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi earlier this year.

'Exaggerated'
Army officials and rebels offered conflicting accounts of events.

Unnamed army officials told AP news agency that rebels
belonging to the Zintan brigade - who control the airport - were behind
the violence.

But a member of the Zintan brigade, Abu Bakr al-Ahrash, told
AFP that it was members of the army who attacked his unit near the
airport.

"They confiscated two pick-up trucks loaded with
anti-aircraft guns. They tried to take control of the checkpoint. They
wounded two of our fighters and arrested two others," he said.

Members of the Zintan brigade are holding Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam.

Col Ahmad Bani, spokesman for the Libyan National Army, said only that an army convoy returned fire after coming under attack.

One person was arrested, while an investigation is under way, he said.

"Media sources have exaggerated what happened. It was only
an isolated incident which did not have any political or criminal
background," he told al-Ahrar TV.

The clashes came on the same day as the country's governing
National Transitional Council held its first conference on national
reconciliation.

The NTC has given militias in Tripoli until 31 December to disarm and leave the city.

Cairo (CNN) -- Pro-democracy demonstrators battled
Egyptian police for a third straight day Sunday, their anger stoked by
images of a military police officer stomping on a woman's exposed
stomach over the weekend.

The latest round of street clashes has left at least 10 people dead
and 500 wounded since Friday, said Dr. Hisham Sheeha, a spokesman for
Egypt's health ministry. An 11th person, a boy arrested Saturday, died
in police custody from his wounds, the boy's attorney, Ragia Omran, said
Sunday.

Cairo's stock exchange plunged amid the new turmoil, while Saturday's
images of the woman's beating appeared to draw more people to the
streets.

"I will go down and fight the army and retrieve the honor of this
woman and those martyrs killed for the sake of Egypt's future," taxi
driver Ahmed Fahmy told CNN.

The woman and a male companion were set upon by more than 20 police
officers during Saturday's demonstrations in Cairo. She been dressed in a
traditional robe and headscarf -- but as police clubbed her and dragged
her down the street, those items were pulled away, exposing her midriff
and blue brassiere in a country known for its Islamic conservatism.

Then one of the police officers aimed a foot at her upper abdomen and
stamped squarely on it, while another officer jumped on the man as he
lay on the pavement nearby.

"The army were like vultures who found a prey," said Mohamed Zeidan,
who filmed the beating from a balcony overlooking Tahrir Square. He said
after he stopped filming the beating out of fear of being discovered,
"The soldiers even beat an older couple who tried to help her up."

A CNN crew that managed to escape Saturday's chaos witnessed other
beatings, with children, the elderly and people on their way to work
finding themselves on the end of police truncheons.

Images of the woman's treatment were splashed across the front pages
of Egyptian newspapers on Sunday and zipped around the world on social
media networks. But a spokesman for the military, which has ruled Egypt
since February's ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, had no
apologies.




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"What was woman like her doing in a conflict zone?" asked the
spokesman, Maj. Mohamed Askar. "She must have participated in the
attacks on the military and the Cabinet."

Askar questioned why the woman has not come forward to identify herself.

"Our troops do not just attack people for no reason," he said. "If
she had nothing to hide then she would have presented herself. Where is
she?"

Two people who know her, including the man seen being beaten
alongside her in the video, told CNN the woman is a political activist
and student. She does not want to speak to reporters now, but a
journalist who saw the incident and was beaten as well said the woman
suffered "serious bruises and cuts" as a result.

"I started to run, but she froze and fell to the ground when another
protester bumped into her," said Hassan Mahmoud, the journalist. "I
tried to help her get up, but the soldiers were brutal even when I told
them I was a journalist. They even continued to beat her after her body
was exposed."

Some Egyptians questioned the authenticity of the video. Cairo
businessman Shehab Ali said there was "something fishy" about it to him.

"The army officer is wearing a pair of sneakers, which is not
standard military attire considering they are all in full gear and
wearing flak jackets," he said. "And how come the woman is not wearing a
t-shirt or anything else under the traditional Arabic robe, although
it's freezing cold and winter now?"

But cabdriver Fahmy said the images brought tears to his eyes.

"I grew up admiring our army and chanted, 'The army and the people, one hand,' " he said. "This seems like the enemy."

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the reports of
violence on Sunday and said her thoughts are with the families of those
killed or injured.

"I urge Egyptian security forces to respect and protect the universal
rights of all Egyptians, including the rights to peaceful free
expression and assembly ... Those who are protesting should do so
peacefully and refrain from acts of violence," she said in a statement.

Tahrir Square has been the epicenter of anti-government
demonstrations since last January, when the revolt against Mubarak
began. Fresh protests sprouted in November, when the generals named
Mubarak-era premier Kamal Ganzouri as a caretaker prime minister until
parliamentary elections are complete.

Hundreds of police and troops swept through the plaza on Saturday,
barricading nearby streets, chasing off protesters and setting tents on
fire. Authorities arrested 14 people Friday and 150 on Saturday, nine of
them women, said Adel Saeed, the spokesman for the general prosecutor's
office.

"They have been accused of inciting violence, resisting arrest,
throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks at security forces, burning public
property," Saeed said.

Sunday, demonstrators hurled more rocks and Molotov cocktails and
police and soldiers, injuring 58 of them, Interior Ministry spokesman
Gen. Marwan Mustapha said.

Protesters captured an army officer in uniform and beat him before
debating whether to swap him for a demonstrator who has been captured by
the military. Several newly elected lawmakers and religious leaders
from Cairo's al-Azhar University tried to negotiate a truce between
protesters and security forces, but failed and were asked to leave.

The Egyptian stock market went into a nosedive amid the latest
violence, losing 6 billion Egyptian pounds (about $1 billion) at its
opening Sunday and finishing down nearly 3.5%.

Ganzouri criticized the unrest as an "attack on revolution" Saturday
and condemned protesters for throwing stones and damaging public
property. He also denied that security forces were using live ammunition
against demonstrators.

In addition, 213-year-old Egyptian maps and other artifacts were
destroyed after a library in Cairo was set ablaze during Saturday's
clashes, officials said.

The original manuscript of the "description of Egypt" and
"irreplaceable maps and historical manuscripts preserved by many
generations since the building of the Scientific Center in August 1798
during the French Campaign" were destroyed in the fire, Ganzouri said in
a statement.


CNN's Ben Wedeman contributed to this article

Baghdad (CNN) -- A wave of explosions in Baghdad
Thursday killed at least 63 people and wounded 185, authorities say,
raising fears about the stability of the country amid political upheaval
that threatens to undo Iraq's government just days after U.S. troops
withdrew from the country.

The explosions -- four car bombs and ten roadside bombs -- occurred
within two hours of one another, targeting residential, commercial and
government districts in the Iraqi capital, two police officials told
CNN.

The violence comes as Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political
leaders square off over a warrant issued for the arrest of Vice
President Tariq al-Hashimi, who is accused of organizing his security
detail into a death squad that targeted government and military
officials.

Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has demanded Kurdish lawmakers
hand over the Sunni vice president, who has denied the charges and
refuses to return to Baghdad from northern Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish
region.

The seemingly coordinated explosions Thursday struck during the
height of morning rush hour, hitting a number of Baghdad's primarily
mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods.

There have been no immediate claims of responsibility, though the
attacks resemble previous bombings that have been claimed by both the
Sunni and Shiite insurgents as well as al Qaeda in Iraq.

Among the attacks was a parked car bomb explosion outside the offices
of the Integrity Commission, the country's main anti-corruption body,
that killed at least one person and wounded five others, said the police
officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to release details to the media.

At the Medical City hospital in central Baghdad, doctors treated the
wounded whose bodies were peppered with what appeared to be shrapnel
from explosions, according to CNN television footage.

Images of bloodied, battered bodies and destroyed storefronts and homes were broadcast on Iraqi television stations.

While violence in Iraq has fallen off in recent years, the latest
spate of attacks are among the worst since August when a series of
coordinated bombings killed at least 75 people in 17 Iraqi cities.

The attacks come amid heightened sectarian tensions, raising fears
that the political turmoil in Iraq could spark a return of sectarian
bloodshed that nearly ripped the country apart during the height of the
war.

Al-Hashimi has denied the charges against him, saying the accusations
are politically motivated amid the rivalry between his Sunni-backed
Iraqiya minority political bloc and al-Maliki's Shiite majority bloc.

The warrant for al-Hashimi's arrest was issued just days after
Iraqiya suspended its participation in Parliament amid claims it was
being cut out of the political process by al-Maliki.

The prime minister has said failing to hand over al-Hashimi or allowing him to flee to another country "could cause problems."


CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report.

Clash Over Regional Power Spurs Iraq’s Sectarian Rift

Michael Kamber for The New York Times
Iraqis waiting to apply for police jobs in Baquba, where a Sunni-backed proposal on regional control led to mostly Shiite protests.

By JACK HEALY

Published: December 23, 2011

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BAQUBA, Iraq — The governor has fled this uneasy city. Half the members of the provincial council are camped out in northern Iraq, afraid to return to their offices. Peaceful protesters fill the dusty streets, though just days ago angrier crowds blockaded the highways with burning tires and shattered glass.

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Tribal sheiks in Baghdad called on Friday for Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi to face trial on charges he led a death squad.


All of this because the local government here in northeastern Diyala Province recently dared to raise a simple but explosive question, one that is central to the unrest now surging through Iraq’s shaky democracy: Should a post-American Iraq exist as one unified nation, or will it split into a loose confederation of islands unto themselves?
A dire political crisis exploded in Baghdad this week, after an arrest warrant was issued against the Sunni Arab vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, accusing him of running a death squad. But years of accumulated anger and disenfranchisement are now driving some of the country’s largely Sunni Arab provinces to seek greater control over their security and finances by distancing themselves from Iraq’s Shiite leaders.
Many Sunni leaders have rallied to the cause while top Shiites in Baghdad have fought the efforts, aggravating the sectarian divisions among the country’s political elite.
“They feel that they have no future with the central government,” said Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq, a prominent Sunni.
This development comes at a moment of rising tensions and could herald a near-breakdown of relations between the countryside and the leaders behind the concrete walls and concertina wire guarding Baghdad’s Green Zone. It has splintered communities within provinces along religious lines, while deepening the sense of political uncertainty pervading Iraq in the days after the American military’s withdrawal.
“We’ve reached a point where the exasperation with the entire political process is so big in Sunni majority areas,” said Reidar Visser, an expert on Iraqi politics and the editor of the blog historiae.org. “They are just fed up and disillusioned.”
On Friday, thousands of protesters marched through largely Sunni cities to condemn the warrant for Mr. Hashimi’s arrest. In Samarra, where the destruction of a Shiite shrine in 2006 set off waves of violence, 2,000 demonstrators filled the streets after Friday Prayer, waving signs that declared, “The people of Samarra condemn the fabricated charges against Hashimi.”
The schism is one thread of a growing battle between Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a Shiite, and politicians from the political opposition and Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority.
Security forces who take orders from Mr. Maliki — sometimes personally — have arrested dozens of people tied to opposition politicians in recent weeks. The government accused Mr. Hashimi, the Sunni vice president, of running a death squad from his offices in central Baghdad, a charge he denies. And Mr. Maliki has urged Iraqi lawmakers to unseat his own deputy, Mr. Mutlaq, who frequently inveighs against the prime minister.
A leading political coalition supported by many Sunnis and secular Iraqis has boycotted Parliament, refusing to attend sessions, and its ministers and lawmakers have threatened to resign en masse. An American-backed partnership government uniting Iraq’s three main factions — the Shiite majority, Sunnis and Kurds — appears poised to fall.
That discord is resonating in the largely Sunni provinces around the capital, places that once hewed to a rigid nationalism cultivated by Saddam Hussein.
In recent months, Anbar, Salahuddin and Diyala Provinces have each pushed for a public vote on creating their own regional governments.
Mr. Maliki has pushed back harder. His supporters contend that the movement threatens to destabilize the central government. They say that regions controlled only by local security forces would provide safe havens for Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Baath Party and other Sunni-aligned militant groups at a tenuous moment so soon after the American military withdrawal.
During a trip to Washington this month, Mr. Maliki was asked in a meeting about the movement for greater regional control and offered a brusque reply, according to an American who met with Mr. Maliki during his visit.
“His response was: ‘Everything those people are doing is illegal. The only way to deal with them is through a legal process, and not a political process,’ ” said the American, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid jeopardizing access to Iraqi leaders. “This is not a guy who has any interest in compromising.”
Early Friday morning, Iraqi police commandos arrested a leading advocate of Salahuddin Province’s push for regional status and seized his computer and reams of documents, security officials said. They did not say why he had been detained.
The provinces are not seeking a total divorce from the rest of Iraq, just a wider separation in the mold of Kurdistan, the relatively prosperous and safe area in northern Iraq. The Kurds, who have lived for decades as a people apart from the rest of Iraq, have their own Parliament and president, command their own security forces and have signed lucrative oil deals with foreign companies without Baghdad’s approval.

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A version of this article appeared in print on December 24, 2011, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Clash on Regional Control Spurs Iraq’s Sectarian Rift.

Egyptian court rules against virginity tests



From Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
December 27, 2011 -- Updated 1510 GMT (2310 HKT)






A group of mainly women protesters chant and sing in Tahrir Square on November 26, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.


STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• NEW: Ruling involves military prisons and temporary detention, governemnt consultant says
  
• Woman who says she was subjected to virginity test says justice has been served
  
• "I will not give up my rights as a woman or a human being," Samira Ibrahim says
  
• Women arrested during March protests say they were subjected to the examinations
  

Cairo (CNN) -- An Egyptian administrative court
issued an order Tuesday banning virginity tests for female detainees,
months after several women alleged they were subjected to such
examinations following a March protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

The ruling comes in the case of Samira Ibrahim, a 25-year-old
marketing manager who took the country's military led-government to
court in August, alleging she was among those subjected to the test
after her arrest during the March 9 protest. She said she faced death
threats after bringing the case.

"Justice has been served today," Ibrahim told CNN. "These tests are a
crime and also do not comply with the constitution, which states
equality between men and woman. I will not give up my rights as a woman
or a human being."

Aly Hassan, a judicial consultant affiliated with Ministry of
Justice, said the order only affects the use of such tests in military
prisons and on women in temporary detention.

"Those tests are not considered a crime or else the file would be in
the Criminal Court," Hassan said. "It's the circumstances of the alleged
test that may be in question here."

In March, the human rights group Amnesty International reported that
Egyptian troops beat, shocked and strip-searched women arrested during
the protest in Cairo and forced them to submit to virginity tests.

Egyptian authorities initially denied requiring virginity tests, but
in May, a senior general who asked not to be identified acknowledged the
practice.




Beaten activist: 'There is no justice'








The general said the tests were performed as a safeguard against the
women accusing authorities of sexual assault, and he defended the tests.

"The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,"
the general told CNN at the time. "These were girls who had camped out
in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the
tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs)."

But Ibrahim said her treatment clearly showed the tests were meant to "degrade the protesters."

"The military tortured me, labeled me a prostitute and humiliated me
by forcing on me a virginity test conducted by a male doctor where my
body was fully exposed while military soldiers watched," she said.

Another protester arrested in the March 9 protest, Salwa Hosseini,
offered a similar account, according to an Amnesty International report
on the allegations.

In addition to Ibrahim, a member of the No to Military Trials to
Civilians group, Maha Mamoun, joined the legal action even though she
was not subjected to a test, said Ahmed Ragab, an attorney with the
Hisham Mubarak Law Center who handled Ibrahim's case.

Ragab said government lawyers initially denied that the tests were
administered and the case was repeatedly delayed before Tuesday's
ruling.

KHAMIS GADDAFI HAS BEEN KILLED NEAR BANI WALID

Badboy wrote:KHAMIS GADDAFI HAS BEEN KILLED NEAR BANI WALID

Badboy, since I started this thread a year ago , nearly every Country in the Middle East is at War and Countries like Lebanon and Yemen are being dragged into it by association , it really is frightening because the damage done to the infrastructure , like Libya, will take years to put right, if ever. In the meantime all these refugee camps will be spawning future Terrorists. Life is very cheap it seems.

BTW, that was clever of you finding this thread ,

Panda wrote:

Badboy wrote:KHAMIS GADDAFI HAS BEEN KILLED NEAR BANI WALID

Badboy, since I started this thread a year ago , nearly every Country in the Middle East is at War and Countries like Lebanon and Yemen are being dragged into it by association , it really is frightening because the damage done to the infrastructure , like Libya, will take years to put right, if ever. In the meantime all these refugee camps will be spawning future Terrorists. Life is very cheap it seems.

BTW, that was clever of you finding this thread ,

I TYPED IN LIBYA IN RIGHT HAND SEARCH BOX

Badboy wrote:

Panda wrote:

Badboy wrote:KHAMIS GADDAFI HAS BEEN KILLED NEAR BANI WALID

Badboy, since I started this thread a year ago , nearly every Country in the Middle East is at War and Countries like Lebanon and Yemen are being dragged into it by association , it really is frightening because the damage done to the infrastructure , like Libya, will take years to put right, if ever. In the meantime all these refugee camps will be spawning future Terrorists. Life is very cheap it seems.

BTW, that was clever of you finding this thread ,

I TYPED IN LIBYA IN RIGHT HAND SEARCH BOX

Yeah well see, I would never have thought of anything as simple as that.LOL

WATCHING FILM ABOUT GADDAFI, HE WAS A CHILD RAPIST AMONG OTHER THINGS puke:                      
CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 6 WERE KILLED FOR THEIR PARENTS ACTIONS.
ONCE ORDERED ALL CAMELS TO BE KILLED IN TRIPOLI.

they're all mad out that part of the world.