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American who risked life to stop Gadhafi killed in Libya

Published by Ellen on September 12, 2012


By the CNN Wire Staff

Ambassador ‘loved Libya so much’

Photo by Agence France Presse
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Chris Stevens, an American who risked his life to help Libyans overthrow dictator Moammar Gadhafi, was killed overnight in the former rebel capital of Benghazi — a city he helped save, making it an especially tragic place for him to die, President Obama said Wednesday.

An Arabic speaker who loved Libya and understood it deeply, Stevens died along with three other Americans when an angry mob stormed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. He was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979.

The consulate was one of several American diplomatic missions in the Middle East to face protests Tuesday after the release online of a film mocking Islam and depicting the Muslim Prophet Mohammed as a child molester, womanizer and ruthless killer.

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Ang ibang biktima ng sakuna sa Japan

Published by Ellen on March 20, 2011

Updates:
In Libya: Missiles strike in first wave of allied assault http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42164455/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
In Japan: Situation in Nuke plant stabilizing; radiation found in Japanese milk, spinach http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42165497/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

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Sinabi ni Dennis Garcia sa kanyang Facebook wall na kasama ang mga freedom fighters sa Libya sa mga biktima ng lindol, tsunami at nuclear fallout sa Japan.

Kasi nga, sabi ni Dennis (ng popular na bandang Hotdog noon) dahil sa ang atensyun ay sa Japan, napabayaan ang Libya ng ibang malalaking bansa at unti-unti nang nababawi ni Muamar Gaddafy ang mga teritoryo na sakop ng mga rebelde.

Bago nangyari ang lindol sa Japan, ang atensyun ng mundo ay sa Libya kung saan namimiligro nang mapatalsik si Gaddafi sa kanyang kapangyarihan na hawak niya ng 41 na taon. Lumalapit na ang mga rebelde sa Tripoli, ang capital ng Libya kung saan nandun ang mga pwersa ni Gaddafy.

Ngunit noong Biyernes, habang patuloy na binabantayan ng mundo ang sakuna sa nuclear reactor sa Fukushima, Japan na napektuhan ng lindol, inaprubahan ng United Nations ang no-fly-zone nan nagbabawal kay Gaddafy na magpalipad ng eroplano ng military laban sa mga rebelde.

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Del Rosario scores in redeeming DFA’s image

Published by Ellen on March 1, 2011

Acting Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario surprised everybody when he flew to Tripoli in Libya the day after he was sworn into office by President Aquino to oversee the evacuation of some 24,000 Filipinos in the African country which is now being rocked by violent protests between the forces loyal to strongman Muammar Gaddafi and rebels who want to end his 42-year dictatorship.

Not everybody applauded saying that the secretary’s job is at the home office to oversee the gargantuan evacuation operation. They said he was exposing himself unnecessarily to risks and added more pressure to the overburdened staff of Philippine embassy .

(Why is del Rosario’s title ‘acting secretary’? To allow him to assume the position of foreign secretary without confirmation by the Commission on Appointments.
Under the law, all cabinet appointments by the President have to pass CA approval. He can only make cabinet appointments without CA approval when Congress is not in session.

Congress is in session now but was not scheduled to meet the week del Rosario had to assume the job because of the emergency in Libya.Thus, the ‘acting” title. Del Rosario’s title will be upgraded once confirmed by the CA.)

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JDV’s connection to Gaddafi

Published by Ellen on February 27, 2011

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In the light of the United Nations Security Council’s strong action Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi, former House Speaker Jose de Venecia’s letter to the beleaguered strongman seems an exercise in futility and just a boast of his international connections.
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The 15-nation UN Security U.N. Security Council Saturday unanimously imposed travel bans and froze the assets of Gaddafi, members of his family and inner circle as he continued to crack down on escalating protests against his 42-year authoritarian rule.

More than a thousand have already been killed and more blood is expected to spill on the streets of Tripoli, where Gaddafi is expected to hold firm as long as he could. He won’t do a Hosni Mubarak. He had warned, “At the suitable time, we will open the arms depot so all Libyans and tribes become armed, so that Libya becomes red with fire.”

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