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Libyan Opposition Voice: Show Us Money

Britain has now recognized the rebel or "Council of transition" government of Libya, after the removal of Washington earlier this month. But in a telephone interview yesterday, Ali Errishi, a defector from the government as early Muammar Gaddafi Immigration Minister, said that what the challengers are most in need is access to billions of dollars in frozen Libyan assets.

Without these funds, anti-Gaddafi forces run dry in the current military stalemate and can backscatter jobs and other sources of support, he said."We are short of cash, food and fuel ... With just enough money to help our people survive Gaddafi, the sanctions will work "with NATO raids continue to oust him.

In addition, he said from Washington, an absence of such financial support may increase suspicion among the opposition that Western powers are simply trying to weaken all parties in Libya, to the point where foreign economic interests can gain better bargaining position. "Conspiracy theories are to find the root," he said.

Thus the discourse is still some sort of internal exile for Gaddafi as part of an agreement adds to concerns that such an agreement would maintain elements of the regime currently in place in Tripoli, Errishi said, adding that this would lead to continued opposition and was not a feasible scenario. Whatever the official assurances were given to the mad colonel himself, he added, it would not protect him from being "prosecuted or pursued" by the Libyans aggrieved individual.

Errishi, not affiliated with the Council of transition, but has been a voice for opponents of Gaddafi expressed his particular admiration for the United Statesas a model of free-world to the Libyan revolution a member of NATO, which is not considered to have the same legacy of ties with the regime or with the European states' territorial ambitions or cultural. "At the same time, he said, the rhetoric of freedom heard in the United States has created expectations among the opposition that should not be disappointed.

Both funds and weapons, which also would Errishi for the opposition, might seem to be outside the terms of the resolution of the Security Council on which the NATO military campaign now is founded.However, counsel argues that the means exist to circumvent the prohibition, such as through loans guaranteed by the Libyan assets frozen. These funds may be subject to strict checking, he said.

Libyan women fight for freedom on the home front « Shabab Libya

ZINTAN, Libya - Libyan men had to reassess how they view the fairer sex since the beginning of the insurrection, and when the dust settles on the role of women in the North African country could be changed forever.

Women of Libya - especially in the mountains Nafusa - were among the demonstrators before the fighting began, and since they prepared their son and their husbands to battle and have treated the wounded.

Meanwhile, they also fight for their own emancipation in the new Libya, they help their men at the forge.

Women do not exchange glances in the streets of the Arab city of Zintan conservative base of the range Nafusa in western Libya. Behind the walls smeared with graffiti proclaiming a "Free Libya", they move like ghosts black, hidden behind the veil of the niqab.

At home, the arrival of an unfamiliar male guest sparks panic, and the ladies of the house spread like bees. In wartime, they spend most of their time cooped up inside four walls.

However, the ladies of Libya have felt the wind of change at their backs.

They chanted "Down with Gaddafi" at the beginning of the insurgency alongside men, calling for strong veteran Muammar Gaddafi to go.

"I joined with many young women, even some pregnant. The men were so impressed that they fired their Kalashnikovs in our honor! This showed that we were their equals, and changed their opinion of us" said Afaf Abusaa, an engineering student of 20 years.

With men on the battle, women secure the front home with household chores and providing moral support.

"Men have seen women nurse the wounded, to volunteer and cook for fighters. They saw mothers say to their son:" Go and fight. I'll support you. "They did not anticipate that, "said Hana Akra, a 24-year medical student.

Women in Libya have come to see the revolution as a way for their own emancipation, a way to free up jobs reserved for them: a nurse, secretary or teacher, jobs that leave time to care for family.

No, they can see a future in which they are not overlooked for a position because a man, even a less qualified, applied for the same work.

They hope that in the new Libya, their parents allow them to choose their own husbands, their fathers and brothers around the humps and stop prohibiting them from actively choose their own path through life.

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