News from Libya

Founder of Libya Alhurra TV Mohammad Nabbous Receives Lyons Award
November 18, 2011

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Nieman Fellows at Harvard University have selected Mohammed “Mo” Nabbous, founder of Libya Alhurra TV, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Nabbous, who was killed in March, was chosen as a representative of all those who courageously worked to disseminate news during the Arab Spring. In doing so, they helped further the cause of a free press. 

In their citation, the Nieman Fellows stated: “Mohammed ‘Mo’ Nabbous and others like him, at great personal risk, helped report the facts and spread the news of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.”

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011 Libya Aug6 2011 BirAlGhanam Falls

@sutthipolลั๊น ละ ลา ™ Rebels in western Libyan town claim victory over Gadhafi forces: Libyan rebel forces gained ground against ruler...http://bit.ly/qHJdtK Near Bir Al-Ghanam, Libya (CNN) -- Libyan rebel forces gained ground against ruler Moammar Gadhafi's forces Saturday after a massive offensive in the western town of Bir Al-Ghanam. Hundreds of opposition members joined in the battle, which lasted several hours. Grad rockets and gunfire were exchanged from both sides, and rebels took on Gadhafi fighters from three fronts. Doctors at a makeshift clinic said two people had died, and 20 were injured -- some seriously. Rebel fighters said Gadhafi's forces had retreated from Bir Al-Ghanam and claimed victory over the town. Bir Al-Ghanam is about 85 kilometers from the capital city of Tripoli. Capturing the town is significant because not much else stands in the way between Bir Al-Ghanam and the Libyan coastline -- where Tripoli is situated. For months, rebel fighters -- who have controlled the eastern city of Benghazi and other areas -- have been trying to move closer toward Tripoli, in the west. They are seeking the ouster of Gadhafi, who has ruled Libya for 42 years. Map July 28

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011 Aisha pic Daughter Gaddafi   Gaddafi daughter denies fleeing  It doesn't matter who is on board; they said it cannot land  Birkirkara : Malta | Mar 09, 2011

There had been reports on Wednesday that a Libyan plane carrying Gaddafi's daughter had been turned back from Malta after it was denied permission to land. Speaking late on Wednesday, Aisha Gaddafi, said: "I was surprised when my friends told me about this report. "I would like to sayto the Libyan men and women who I love and love me, that know me well, that I am steadfastly here. "In fact this demonstrates to the Libyan people the extent of lies and forgery these channels are resorting to in their reporting." Earlier on Wednesday, Cal Perry, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Malta, said: "The [crew]   circling overhead saying they were running low on fuel.  initially said they had 14 people on board. They were circling overhead saying they were running low on fuel. "At that point the ambassador from Libya who was here in Malta was called in to take part in the negotiations on whether or not they were going to allow this plane to land. "As he entered the talks it became clear from the pilots that Aisha Gaddhafi, Muammar Gaddhafi's only daughter, was aboard the plane. "The government said it was an unscheduled flight,  It doesn't matter who is on board; they said it cannot land  and diverted the plane back to Libya." Maltese goverPublish Postnment sources said that they had no information that Gaddadfi's daughter was on the plane or that the Libyan ambassador was involved in any negotiations.

Cave Art north and west of Sabha in the desert show water animals? That could have only existed there at the end of the ice age when no people hostorically should have lived there yet
The Sahara is the home of the world’s largest collection of prehistoric cave art sites: some 100,000 sites  

Libya's Tripoli's Assaraya Alhamra Museum houses a wonderful collection of prehistoric artifacts and treasures from the Sahara and there is no doubt that the museum deserves a visit. But serious explorers of ancient civilizations will benefit greatly from the museums of the Sahara herself - a place well-known to the Berber Nasamons of ancient Libya, from whom Herodotus appears to have had hurriedly derived his descriptions of this enigmatic interior of Libya. The Sahara is the home of the world’s largest collection of prehistoric cave art sites: some 100,000 sites; each is a unique gallery of prehistoric drawings, paintings and engravings, telling different stories about life in the past. One of the prehistoric paintings discovered by Henri Lhote, that of a human figure, about 18 feet tall, holds the record of being the largest prehistoric painting in the world. Professor Mori alone had identified more than 1400 prehistoric art sites. Among his famous discoveries was a Libyan mummy of a child (Gallery 4 of Assaraya Museum), thought to be at least 5400 years old. The complete mummy of a small boy, preserved in a good condition using a sophisticated and advanced technique of mummification, was found in a place called Wan Muhuggiag.