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06 Apr 2011 10:39

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World: Hundreds of Libyan refugees feared killed after ship capsizes

  • 200+ migrants, mostly sub-Saharan Africans, were on a ship headed from Libya to Italy
  • 50+ people were rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa after the ship capsized on Wednesday
  • 150+ people are still missing; “We fear they could be even more than that,” said one official source
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29 Mar 2011 19:37

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World: Obama: Gaddafi will ultimately step down from Libyan rule

  • At this point, in addition to maintaining a no-fly zone protecting civilian populations, we also have political tools, diplomatic tools, sanctions freezing his assets — all of which continue to tighten the noose. And so our expectation is that as we continue to supply steady pressure, not only militarily but also through these other means, that Gaddafi will ultimately step down.
  • President Barack Obama • Offering a follow-up to the sentiments he made last night about the American military action in Libya. While Obama says he was reluctant to start another military campaign, here we are — Obama emphasizing that we could “save a lot of lives” in Libya. Doesn’t this contradict all the stuff he’s been saying  about this being a specific mission with a limited scope? source
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29 Mar 2011 08:36

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World: Libyan government official: Men accused of rape suing the accuser

  • I heard that the attorney-general brought her in for questioning because she is now not just the accuser, she is the accused. There is a case against her.
  • Libyan government spokesperson Moussa Ibrahim • Revealing the woman who dramatically accused a number of men of violently raping her has been sued for those claims. “Now the four guys are having a case filed against her because instead of going to a police station and filing a case against them she went to the media and exposed their names,” he noted. “Now their honor is tainted, their families black-named and this in the Islamic law is a very grave offense.” Because, as we all know, it’s all about the men accused. Why not try the case first? (By the way, this is the same man who called her a “prostitute.” Yuck.) source
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26 Mar 2011 11:31

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World: On “naming the victim” in the terrible Libyan rape story

  • We’re supposed to be all Libyans, we are all brothers, but this is what the Gadhafi militia men did to me.
  • A reported rape victim • Talking to hotel staffers who were trying to restrain her (and her story) at the hotel where members of the press were invited by Gaddafi’s government. We’d like to note one thing: The AP notes in their article that the policy on naming rape victims is to only do it when they volunteer their names, as she did in this case. We think that we don’t have to necessarily follow that standard in this case. We greatly debated it, though. We can tell the story just as well without it. source
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