Following the Libya news? Here’s the Al Jazeera Libya live blog.
We spent time with the rebel forces in Libya in this Fault Lines episode that first aired in July. The episode examines the US decision to intervene in Libya and what it reveals about US priorities in the region.
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Rebel fighters make a rocket launcher from steel pipes, in a workshop in Zintan, on July 30, 2011 [AFP]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp6xj3D5z51qggs77o1_1280.jpg)
Rebel fighters make a rocket launcher from steel pipes, in a workshop in Zintan, on July 30, 2011 [AFP]
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Head of Libyan opposition forces, General Abdel Fatah Younis, was assassinated today along with two aides. The head of NTC, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, announced his death in Benghazi today and said that security has a made an arrest in connection with the killings. (Photo Credit: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty)
Read the news stories at the Guardian and Al Jazeera.
And here’s our Libya episode from last week, “The US and the New Middle East: Libya.”
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Libyan Rebels Gain Inches Toward Link to Tripoli
- NYTimes.com
July 6, 2011Tomorrow: CJ Chivers (who wrote this piece) on Libya
Our Fault Lines episode from July 18, 2011 on Libya and oil issues, “The US and the New Middle East: Libya.”
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Fault Lines’ Seb Walker travels to the Perisan Gulf to look at US policy in the region, and to explore why the United States has taken an interventionist policy in Libya, but not in Bahrain, where there has been a brutal crackdown on protesters. Why does the White House strongly back democracy in one Arab country, but not another?
Fault Lines travelled to Bahrain to hear from those who had been protesting, to ask them what they think about the lack of real US pressure on their country’s rulers. The country is also home to the US 5th Fleet, where Fault Lines gained exclusive access to the USS Ronald Reagan, an American aircraft carrier deployed in the Arabian Gulf.
The film traces America’s response to the protests in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and examines how the stability of oil prices, the steady supply of crude, and concerns over Iran have affected America’s response.
This episode of Fault Lines, “The US and the New Middle East: The Gulf,” first aired on Al Jazeera English July 25, 2011 at 2230 GMT.
Livetweets during last night’s first episode airing from the program staff appear at @AJFaultLines
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Libyan rebels prayed near a truck with a mounted weapon on the frontline south of the town of Bir al-Ghanim. Rebels at Bir al-Ghanim hold the high ground on the outskirts of the town, their closest position to Tripoli, about 50 miles away.
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Yesterday was a disaster.
Dr. Sarahat Atta-Alah, a Libyan doctor at Ajdabiya Hospital.
18 rebel fighters were killed and up to 150 wounded in Brega Tuesday after fighting with pro-Gadhafi forces.
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This is the promo for Monday’s episode; Fault Lines’ Sebastian Walker looks at US policy in the Persian Gulf, after the protests in Bahrain.
The new episode of Fault Lines, “The US and the New Middle East: The Gulf,” first airs on Al Jazeera English July 25, 2011 at 2230 GMT.
Producer Jeremy Young describes the most challenging aspects of filming on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier in this video extra from the upcoming episode of Al Jazeera Fault Lines.
“It’s an incredible boisterous place…You have headphones on, so you can’t communicate with your team.”
The new episode of Fault Lines, “The US and the New Middle East: The Gulf,” first airs on Al Jazeera English July 25, 2011 at 2230 GMT.
In the first of a two-part series, Fault Lines examines how the Obama administration is reacting to the enormous changes taking place across the Middle East. Part one examines the decision to intervene in Libya and what it reveals about US priorities in the region.
