quimcunx
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Today we are all Libyan.
Libya - civil unrest & now NATO involvement
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Today we are all Libyan.
elbows
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Whats that supposed to mean?
dylans
overlord of all acorns
Don't bother. Really, don't bother
elbows
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Good plan, if there is a decoy its him, not Bahrain.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
classicdish
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old school 
Barking_Mad
Non sibi sed omnibus
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
That's who i'm following -
latest: revolutionary guard building now up in flames in Zawia
elbows
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Thats the twitter account that I have some credibility concerns about, and so far its almost impossible to corroborate a lot of what is said there. It could be mostly true, but without sources, images or whatever I really wonder about some of the stuff, such as whole cities being taken over by protesters, army or police switching sides, etc.
quimcunx
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It was easier to get a feel for reliable tweeps on Egypt I think. That account dominates Libya. Seems things are retweets, but it also retweets others. However, it describes itself as Libya Youth Movement so is maybe being fed into by several different people in different locations.
I think all in all I trust it. Maybe not to be right all the time but to tweet in good faith. I haven't seen anything in particular which has then gone onto be contradicted.
Although you can read something somewhere else, on a blog say, or even an independent website and it's possible it's the same people behind it or it's just repeating the rumour.
I think all in all I trust it. Maybe not to be right all the time but to tweet in good faith. I haven't seen anything in particular which has then gone onto be contradicted.
Although you can read something somewhere else, on a blog say, or even an independent website and it's possible it's the same people behind it or it's just repeating the rumour.
elbows
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True, but there are a lack of other sources available to us that would be able to provide the contradictions. I hope we get a lot more sources from the key eastern locations tomorrow, otherwise I'll still be none the wiser.
quimcunx
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In my post with the link to the liberated Benghazi radio I edited as when I continued listening it sounded more like a series of phone ins and wondered if I was confused, and the tweets were just meaning recordings from an answering machine set up for non internets. Then I re-edited because the news seemed to be confirmed. They did mean it was Benghazi.
I guess we will have to wait and see if we have been conned.
elbows
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I think that particular confusion was two separate stories that got conflated. There were reports that the 'media centre' there had either been taken over or burned, and Ive no idea if these are true. And separately a protest 'radio station' was setup, which is the internet site you linked to.
One of the only things those twitter accounts have mentioned today that I've been able to confirm to some extent via video out of Libya, was something about mercenaries wearing 'yellow hats' , and on the page of .mp4 videos linked to earlier there is one clip which shows men with guns who are wearing yellow hardhats of the type we would see on building sites. But without further info I cant read much more into what the clip is actually showing.
elbows
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Right I think Im going to have to give up with the tweets for now, too much in the way of unconfirmed rumour flying around. The latest of which seems to be the idea that foreign mercenaries are entering the homes of people who are out protesting, with some insinuation that the wives are being raped.
Riklet
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Yeah definitely lots of rumours etc floating around, nothing seems very clear, just read this on Groandian though... no idea as to the accuracy. Seems to be theories floating about of the regime unleashing criminals to spread panic, but also of protesters freeing political prisoners etc...
"Amer Saad, a political activist from Derna, told al-Jazeera: "The protesters in al-Bayda have been able to seize control of the military airbase in the city and have executed 50 African mercenaries and two Libyan conspirators. Even in Derna today, a number of conspirators were executed. They were locked up in the holding cells of a police station because they resisted, and some died burning inside the building."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/18/libya-protests-massacres-reported?intcmp=239
"Amer Saad, a political activist from Derna, told al-Jazeera: "The protesters in al-Bayda have been able to seize control of the military airbase in the city and have executed 50 African mercenaries and two Libyan conspirators. Even in Derna today, a number of conspirators were executed. They were locked up in the holding cells of a police station because they resisted, and some died burning inside the building."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/18/libya-protests-massacres-reported?intcmp=239
elbows
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Oh now there are rumours about the water supply being poisoned, thats it, a rumour too far for me tonight.
Im also getting a strong sense that many of the English tweets are coming from people listening to calls to that 'radio station'. So one person calls in and claims something, then it gets tweeted by numerous people who are in no position to verify whats being said. And I can only understand the english tweets, who knows what the volume of rumour in arabic is.
Im also getting a strong sense that many of the English tweets are coming from people listening to calls to that 'radio station'. So one person calls in and claims something, then it gets tweeted by numerous people who are in no position to verify whats being said. And I can only understand the english tweets, who knows what the volume of rumour in arabic is.
butchersapron
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Yep. Time to wait and look for other sources. Post up as find.
butchersapron
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It's doing make your own bombs now- big beware
quimcunx
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Yeah definitely lots of rumours etc floating around, nothing seems very clear, just read this on Groandian though... no idea as to the accuracy. Seems to be theories floating about of the regime unleashing criminals to spread panic, but also of protesters freeing political prisoners etc...
"Amer Saad, a political activist from Derna, told al-Jazeera: "The protesters in al-Bayda have been able to seize control of the military airbase in the city and have executed 50 African mercenaries and two Libyan conspirators. Even in Derna today, a number of conspirators were executed. They were locked up in the holding cells of a police station because they resisted, and some died burning inside the building."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/18/libya-protests-massacres-reported?intcmp=239
Techniq's link goes straight to the film. If someone speaks arabic and can contradict it I haven't seen it. I wonder if the Guardian would do that check?
butchersapron
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Person(s) above getting lots of attacks. Says just posting info for others. Time to wait (as earlier)
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yep.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yep, so just waiting. Not having a go at him, or you.
elbows
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Well its a shame these people are going to have to learn the lessons about the downside of spreading rumours the hard way, hope they are quick learners!
At least we are getting some sense of what callers to that station are saying, but Im afraid the tweets of recent hours have made me less hopeful that the earlier messages about the scale of the protesters takeover of various places are actually true.
Even some tweets about 'new videos just released' arent true, its the same videos we have already seen, possibly mixed in with some much older videos, possibly some new vids but no way Im wading through that lot again like I did with the link posted earlier, only to find little new stuff. And now there is a photo which allegedly shows government thugs burning part of a hospital but for all I know its other people burning a completely different sort of building.
At least we are getting some sense of what callers to that station are saying, but Im afraid the tweets of recent hours have made me less hopeful that the earlier messages about the scale of the protesters takeover of various places are actually true.
Even some tweets about 'new videos just released' arent true, its the same videos we have already seen, possibly mixed in with some much older videos, possibly some new vids but no way Im wading through that lot again like I did with the link posted earlier, only to find little new stuff. And now there is a photo which allegedly shows government thugs burning part of a hospital but for all I know its other people burning a completely different sort of building.
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