Pro-Qaddafi thugs kill 17 at oil refinery

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Tue, 2011-09-13 00:38

A Syrian-based television station that has broadcast messages from Qaddafi in the past said he was still in Libya, but it was unable to air a televised appearance for security reasons.
“It was meant to show the leader among his fighters and people, leading the struggle from Libyan lands, and not from Venezuela or Niger or anywhere else,” Mishan Jabouri, owner of the Arrai channel, told viewers.
He read out a text quoting Qaddafi as saying: “We cannot give up Libya to colonization one more time ... There is nothing more to do except fight until victory.”
A doctor at Ras Lanuf hospital said the death toll had risen to 17 after one of two wounded people died.
China, which obtained three percent of its oil imports from Libya last year, recognized the NTC as the country’s “ruling authority,” ending weeks of uncertainty about when Beijing would formally embrace those who overthrew Qaddafi.
Qaddafi’s playboy son, known for his love of fast cars, soccer and excessive partying, slipped into Niger over the weekend and began making his way Monday to the capital, a Niger government official said.
The 38-year-old Al-Saadi Qaddafi is one of the highest-profile former regime figures to flee to this landlocked African nation whose immense northern desert has been a haven for drug smugglers, Al-Qaeda terrorists and now fleeing Libyan loyalists.
The discovery is bound to raise pressure on Niger which has promised to turn over anyone wanted by the International Criminal Court which includes Qaddafi and a different son.
“Nobody called us to tell us that these people were coming,” government spokesman Morou Amadou said on Monday. 

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