orces of Libya’s new regime were looking to move in for the kill against Moamer Kadhafi’s diehards in his hometown Sirte on Wednesday after meeting little resistance and taking several key landmarks. A day after seizing Sirte’s police headquarters, the National Transitional Council (NTC) forces were still locked in skirmishes around eastern districts and…
TRIPOLI — Rebels overran Moamer Kadhafi’s compound in Tripoli Tuesday, raising their flag and ripping the head off his statue, but said they had found no sign of the strongman or his sons. The streets of Tripoli erupted into celebratory gunfire when news spread that the insurgents had breached the…
Soldier testifies that officer ordered him to delete video shot during Fort Hood rampage A soldier who recorded the terror of last year’s deadly shooting rampage in Fort Hood using his cell phone was ordered by an officer to delete both videos, a military court heard Friday. Under cross examination,…
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