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Fall of Gaddafi: The 2011 Libyan Revolution | Animated History
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Front Lines of the Libyan Revolution (Documentary)
VICE Founder Shane Smith takes you into the heart of the Libyan revolution, where the stakes are simple: victory or death. We head into rebel-controlled eastern Libya, traveling from the Egyptian border to Benghazi and then onto the front lines in Misrata to document the violent revolution.
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published: 27 Jul 2012
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What Was It Like To Be Part Of The Libyan Revolution?
The Road To Tripoli (2011): As the NTC besieges Sirte it appears to be the end for the pro-Gaddafi forces. Through the eyes of one fighter we look back at the push on Tripoli and see the hope for a new Libya that drives them on.
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Muammar Gaddafi Interviewed Just Before Libyan Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51wDZwv4log
What Was Libya Like 20 Years Ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHafA6dVBs
An Interview With Muammar Gaddafi (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pyN5C_6Ov4
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published: 02 Aug 2016
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Bitter sweet anniversary of Libyan revolution amid siege of Tripoli
EU foreign ministers have agreed to launch new sea patrols in the Mediterranean to try to enforce an arms embargo in war-torn Libya.
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The announcement comes on the ninth anniversary of Libya's revolution, but it's too soon to say whether the EU's first deployment to prevent the conflict will stop the fighting or the smuggling of arms.
The majority of Libya is currently under the control of General Khalifa Haftar and his so-called Libya National Army.
But the capital Tripoli is still held by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj's UN-recognised government
Since last April the city has been under siege after Haftar launched a military campaign to capture it.
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published: 17 Feb 2020
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The Libyan Civil Wars: Quagmire in a Quagmire
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🇱🇾 The Lust for Libya: How a Nation was Torn Apart | The Big Picture
Libya has been broken apart. Torn asunder by competing local, regional and international forces, its survival as a singular nation-state is under threat.
Once Africa's wealthiest country with the continent's largest oil reserves and highest standard of living, Libya, liberated from a dictator's grip, is mired in a violent, internecine conflict that has left many of its people struggling for food, fuel and security.
So how did it come to this?
Libya is split between rival governments and conflicting centres of power – one in the east of the country and one in the west - each backed by militias fighting for their own share of Libya’s loot seven years on from the violent ouster of the Gaddafi regime.
"Divisions in Libya are not based on ethnic, or religious, or sectarian factors. The divisi...
published: 18 Oct 2018
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The Case for War in Libya
President Obama defends the war in Libya - but does it make sense?
published: 29 Mar 2011
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Libya conflict: rebels fight their way into Col Gaddafi's compound
Triumphant rebels seized Muammar Gaddafi's compound after a fierce battle with a loyalist rearguard but there was no word on the fate of the Libyan leader who vowed again to fight "to the end".
who vowed again to fight "to the end".
published: 23 Aug 2011
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Understanding the Libyan Revolution
Praescient Analytics developed the following demonstration analyzing the Libyan Revolution. Utilizing open source reporting from the Institute for the Study of War, an analyst at Praescient will guide you through the relational, temporal, and geospatial elements of the civil unrest in Libya, ultimately concluding with an analysis of the strategic landscape in order to make an assessment on the long term stability of the country.
published: 11 Oct 2011
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Fall of Gaddafi: The 2011 Libyan Revolution | Animated History
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Barmin, Yury. “Revolution in Libya.” In Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century : The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change, 725–738. Springer, 2022.
Brahimi, Alia. “Libya’s Revolution.” The Journal of North African Studies 16, no. 4 (2011): 605–624.
Buera, Anas Abubakr. “Libya’s Arab Spring: Revolution against a 42-Year Dictatorship.” In Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring, 143–155. Routledge, 2015.
Frosini, Justin, and Francesco Biagi. “Actors and Factors in Libya’s Revolution.” In Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa, 93–118. Routledge, 2015.
“Gaddafi Tells Benghazi His Army Is Coming Tonight | Reuters.” Reuters, March 17, 2011. https://www.reuters.com/article/libya-gaddafi-address-idUKLDE72G2E920110317.
Kendall, Sara. “The Libyan Civil War and the Rise of the ‘Responsibility to Protect.’” In Global Challenges: Peace and War, 219–234. Brill, 2013.
Sengupta, Kim. “Misrata Becomes Libya’s Stalingrad.” The Independent, April 16, 2011. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/misrata-becomes-libya-s-stalingrad-2269008.html.
Suhbi, Salah. “Breaking Our Invisible Chains The 17th of February Revolution: Libya’s Rise to Freedom.” Libyan Studies 43 (2012): 111–114.
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Barmin, Yury. “Revolution in Libya.” In Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century : The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change, 725–738. Springer, 2022.
Brahimi, Alia. “Libya’s Revolution.” The Journal of North African Studies 16, no. 4 (2011): 605–624.
Buera, Anas Abubakr. “Libya’s Arab Spring: Revolution against a 42-Year Dictatorship.” In Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring, 143–155. Routledge, 2015.
Frosini, Justin, and Francesco Biagi. “Actors and Factors in Libya’s Revolution.” In Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa, 93–118. Routledge, 2015.
“Gaddafi Tells Benghazi His Army Is Coming Tonight | Reuters.” Reuters, March 17, 2011. https://www.reuters.com/article/libya-gaddafi-address-idUKLDE72G2E920110317.
Kendall, Sara. “The Libyan Civil War and the Rise of the ‘Responsibility to Protect.’” In Global Challenges: Peace and War, 219–234. Brill, 2013.
Sengupta, Kim. “Misrata Becomes Libya’s Stalingrad.” The Independent, April 16, 2011. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/misrata-becomes-libya-s-stalingrad-2269008.html.
Suhbi, Salah. “Breaking Our Invisible Chains The 17th of February Revolution: Libya’s Rise to Freedom.” Libyan Studies 43 (2012): 111–114.
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- published: 22 Jun 2024
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Front Lines of the Libyan Revolution (Documentary)
VICE Founder Shane Smith takes you into the heart of the Libyan revolution, where the stakes are simple: victory or death. We head into rebel-controlled eastern...
VICE Founder Shane Smith takes you into the heart of the Libyan revolution, where the stakes are simple: victory or death. We head into rebel-controlled eastern Libya, traveling from the Egyptian border to Benghazi and then onto the front lines in Misrata to document the violent revolution.
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VICE Founder Shane Smith takes you into the heart of the Libyan revolution, where the stakes are simple: victory or death. We head into rebel-controlled eastern Libya, traveling from the Egyptian border to Benghazi and then onto the front lines in Misrata to document the violent revolution.
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- published: 27 Jul 2012
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What Was It Like To Be Part Of The Libyan Revolution?
The Road To Tripoli (2011): As the NTC besieges Sirte it appears to be the end for the pro-Gaddafi forces. Through the eyes of one fighter we look back at the p...
The Road To Tripoli (2011): As the NTC besieges Sirte it appears to be the end for the pro-Gaddafi forces. Through the eyes of one fighter we look back at the push on Tripoli and see the hope for a new Libya that drives them on.
For similar stories, see:
Muammar Gaddafi Interviewed Just Before Libyan Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51wDZwv4log
What Was Libya Like 20 Years Ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHafA6dVBs
An Interview With Muammar Gaddafi (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pyN5C_6Ov4
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Three exiled Libyans, Muaz, Bassa and Tariq, are on their way home to Tripoli for the big push. A rebel flag flying out of their car. They look more like football fans than freedom fighters. "I just wanted to join the rebels and free my country", Muaz says. The battle is short but violent, the streets ringing with gunfire."I was willing to sacrifice everything for our new Libya", says Muaz in the aftermath. A touching insight into life inside Libya's chaos.
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The Road To Tripoli (2011): As the NTC besieges Sirte it appears to be the end for the pro-Gaddafi forces. Through the eyes of one fighter we look back at the push on Tripoli and see the hope for a new Libya that drives them on.
For similar stories, see:
Muammar Gaddafi Interviewed Just Before Libyan Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51wDZwv4log
What Was Libya Like 20 Years Ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHafA6dVBs
An Interview With Muammar Gaddafi (2010)
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Three exiled Libyans, Muaz, Bassa and Tariq, are on their way home to Tripoli for the big push. A rebel flag flying out of their car. They look more like football fans than freedom fighters. "I just wanted to join the rebels and free my country", Muaz says. The battle is short but violent, the streets ringing with gunfire."I was willing to sacrifice everything for our new Libya", says Muaz in the aftermath. A touching insight into life inside Libya's chaos.
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- published: 02 Aug 2016
- views: 63333
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Bitter sweet anniversary of Libyan revolution amid siege of Tripoli
EU foreign ministers have agreed to launch new sea patrols in the Mediterranean to try to enforce an arms embargo in war-torn Libya.
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EU foreign ministers have agreed to launch new sea patrols in the Mediterranean to try to enforce an arms embargo in war-torn Libya.
(Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
The announcement comes on the ninth anniversary of Libya's revolution, but it's too soon to say whether the EU's first deployment to prevent the conflict will stop the fighting or the smuggling of arms.
The majority of Libya is currently under the control of General Khalifa Haftar and his so-called Libya National Army.
But the capital Tripoli is still held by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj's UN-recognised government
Since last April the city has been under siege after Haftar launched a military campaign to capture it.
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EU foreign ministers have agreed to launch new sea patrols in the Mediterranean to try to enforce an arms embargo in war-torn Libya.
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The announcement comes on the ninth anniversary of Libya's revolution, but it's too soon to say whether the EU's first deployment to prevent the conflict will stop the fighting or the smuggling of arms.
The majority of Libya is currently under the control of General Khalifa Haftar and his so-called Libya National Army.
But the capital Tripoli is still held by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj's UN-recognised government
Since last April the city has been under siege after Haftar launched a military campaign to capture it.
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- published: 17 Feb 2020
- views: 23522
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The Libyan Civil Wars: Quagmire in a Quagmire
From Gaddafi's brutal downfall in 2011 to the Second Civil War, and the struggle for peace, this video recounts Libya's tumultuous journey through a decade of c...
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- published: 04 May 2023
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🇱🇾 The Lust for Libya: How a Nation was Torn Apart | The Big Picture
Libya has been broken apart. Torn asunder by competing local, regional and international forces, its survival as a singular nation-state is under threat.
Once A...
Libya has been broken apart. Torn asunder by competing local, regional and international forces, its survival as a singular nation-state is under threat.
Once Africa's wealthiest country with the continent's largest oil reserves and highest standard of living, Libya, liberated from a dictator's grip, is mired in a violent, internecine conflict that has left many of its people struggling for food, fuel and security.
So how did it come to this?
Libya is split between rival governments and conflicting centres of power – one in the east of the country and one in the west - each backed by militias fighting for their own share of Libya’s loot seven years on from the violent ouster of the Gaddafi regime.
"Divisions in Libya are not based on ethnic, or religious, or sectarian factors. The divisions are purely political, purely based on disagreement and how to share power and wealth," says Libyan academic and politician Guma el Gamaty.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had held a nation together for more than four decades, strategically doling out cash incentives, nurturing division and combining political brokering with ruthless state repression.
In October 2011, the dictator who claimed to have brought participatory democracy to the Libyan people was killed by fellow Libyans. The one-time revolutionary’s life and often brutal rule brought to a grisly end by those also calling themselves revolutionaries. These self-declared revolutionaries were supported by regional players such as the UAE and Qatar as well as Western powers that included the US, the UK and France who painted Gaddafi as sometimes friend and oftentimes foe according to their own interests.
"Libyans never thought that Gaddafi would be gone, so they're willing to sacrifice their lives to be able to be liberated from Gaddafi and what he has done to them," says Libyan politician Mustafa Abushagur.
"The West did not do anything during the Tunisian revolution. They did not do anything during the Egyptian revolution. Clearly they are fed up with Gaddafi and here is an opportunity for Gaddafi to be removed ...
It was an opportunity for the world to get rid of a menace, it's called Gaddafi.
The Big Picture - The Lust for Libya charts the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi, uncovering the seeds of discontent – both at home and in his relations internationally – sewn across his turbulent reign. We dissect the geopolitical self-interest of Western and Middle Eastern nations, culminating in the NATO-led intervention of 2011 that deposed Gaddafi, as well as attempting to understand the chaos left in its wake. The Lust for Libya examines ancient schisms mapped anew on a contested landscape offering oil riches as well as strategic control, tracing the timeline of events - reaching back before the construction of Libya itself - that have left Africa's erstwhile richest nation in ruins.
"The Libya that we knew before is gone. It's gone," says Mohamed Buisier, Libyan political adviser. "All what we see in front of us, the scene now it's at the end, it's taking us to disintegration. Nothing is bringing the country back to unity, and everyday we are closer to this final scene."
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Libya has been broken apart. Torn asunder by competing local, regional and international forces, its survival as a singular nation-state is under threat.
Once Africa's wealthiest country with the continent's largest oil reserves and highest standard of living, Libya, liberated from a dictator's grip, is mired in a violent, internecine conflict that has left many of its people struggling for food, fuel and security.
So how did it come to this?
Libya is split between rival governments and conflicting centres of power – one in the east of the country and one in the west - each backed by militias fighting for their own share of Libya’s loot seven years on from the violent ouster of the Gaddafi regime.
"Divisions in Libya are not based on ethnic, or religious, or sectarian factors. The divisions are purely political, purely based on disagreement and how to share power and wealth," says Libyan academic and politician Guma el Gamaty.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had held a nation together for more than four decades, strategically doling out cash incentives, nurturing division and combining political brokering with ruthless state repression.
In October 2011, the dictator who claimed to have brought participatory democracy to the Libyan people was killed by fellow Libyans. The one-time revolutionary’s life and often brutal rule brought to a grisly end by those also calling themselves revolutionaries. These self-declared revolutionaries were supported by regional players such as the UAE and Qatar as well as Western powers that included the US, the UK and France who painted Gaddafi as sometimes friend and oftentimes foe according to their own interests.
"Libyans never thought that Gaddafi would be gone, so they're willing to sacrifice their lives to be able to be liberated from Gaddafi and what he has done to them," says Libyan politician Mustafa Abushagur.
"The West did not do anything during the Tunisian revolution. They did not do anything during the Egyptian revolution. Clearly they are fed up with Gaddafi and here is an opportunity for Gaddafi to be removed ...
It was an opportunity for the world to get rid of a menace, it's called Gaddafi.
The Big Picture - The Lust for Libya charts the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi, uncovering the seeds of discontent – both at home and in his relations internationally – sewn across his turbulent reign. We dissect the geopolitical self-interest of Western and Middle Eastern nations, culminating in the NATO-led intervention of 2011 that deposed Gaddafi, as well as attempting to understand the chaos left in its wake. The Lust for Libya examines ancient schisms mapped anew on a contested landscape offering oil riches as well as strategic control, tracing the timeline of events - reaching back before the construction of Libya itself - that have left Africa's erstwhile richest nation in ruins.
"The Libya that we knew before is gone. It's gone," says Mohamed Buisier, Libyan political adviser. "All what we see in front of us, the scene now it's at the end, it's taking us to disintegration. Nothing is bringing the country back to unity, and everyday we are closer to this final scene."
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- published: 18 Oct 2018
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The Case for War in Libya
President Obama defends the war in Libya - but does it make sense?
President Obama defends the war in Libya - but does it make sense?
https://wn.com/The_Case_For_War_In_Libya
President Obama defends the war in Libya - but does it make sense?
- published: 29 Mar 2011
- views: 111934
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Libya conflict: rebels fight their way into Col Gaddafi's compound
Triumphant rebels seized Muammar Gaddafi's compound after a fierce battle with a loyalist rearguard but there was no word on the fate of the Libyan leader who v...
Triumphant rebels seized Muammar Gaddafi's compound after a fierce battle with a loyalist rearguard but there was no word on the fate of the Libyan leader who vowed again to fight "to the end".
who vowed again to fight "to the end".
https://wn.com/Libya_Conflict_Rebels_Fight_Their_Way_Into_Col_Gaddafi's_Compound
Triumphant rebels seized Muammar Gaddafi's compound after a fierce battle with a loyalist rearguard but there was no word on the fate of the Libyan leader who vowed again to fight "to the end".
who vowed again to fight "to the end".
- published: 23 Aug 2011
- views: 1849893
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Understanding the Libyan Revolution
Praescient Analytics developed the following demonstration analyzing the Libyan Revolution. Utilizing open source reporting from the Institute for the Study of ...
Praescient Analytics developed the following demonstration analyzing the Libyan Revolution. Utilizing open source reporting from the Institute for the Study of War, an analyst at Praescient will guide you through the relational, temporal, and geospatial elements of the civil unrest in Libya, ultimately concluding with an analysis of the strategic landscape in order to make an assessment on the long term stability of the country.
https://wn.com/Understanding_The_Libyan_Revolution
Praescient Analytics developed the following demonstration analyzing the Libyan Revolution. Utilizing open source reporting from the Institute for the Study of War, an analyst at Praescient will guide you through the relational, temporal, and geospatial elements of the civil unrest in Libya, ultimately concluding with an analysis of the strategic landscape in order to make an assessment on the long term stability of the country.
- published: 11 Oct 2011
- views: 2039