WRAP Gadhafi supporters celebrate claimed recapture of Al-Zawiyah, ADDS more
(11 Mar 2011) SHOTLIST
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1. Pro-Gadhafi supporters demonstrating, holding large poster of the Libyan leader, waving green flags
2. Pro-Gadhafi supporters demonstrating holding pictures of Gadhafi and waving flags
3. Pro-Gadhafi supporters demonstrating, child being held up in the air
4. Various of demonstration
5. Wide of mosque with a destroyed minaret
6. Close up of shell damage on building
7. Mid of tank at Al-Zawiyah square, damaged building in background
8. Low angle of soldier on tank, damaged building in background
9. Close up of damage on building
10. Mid of people walking past tank holding a green flag
11. Various of rubble in street
12. Wide of tank
13. Close up of armed soldiers on top of tank
14. Mid of soldier firing gun from truck AUDIO gun shots
15. Soldier in street firing gun into the air AUDIO gun shots
16. Soldiers carrying machine guns cheering
17. Mid of soldiers sitting near a tank
18. Wide of women chanting
19. Low angle silhouette of men holding Libyan flag and dancing
STORYLINE:
Moammar Gadhafi's regime gained momentum on Friday, showing off its victory over rebels in Zawiya, a key city near Tripoli as it strengthened its hold on the capital and surrounding areas.
The government had claimed victory on Wednesday, but the rebels who are seeking to oust Gadhafi said fighting was ongoing.
Journalists were also taken on an official government tour of the city.
The main square that had been the centre of resistance appeared to be in government control after nearly a week of fierce fighting, as tanks manned by Gadhafi loyalists and trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns were stationed there.
Supporters of the longtime leader were also rallying in the area.
The nearby mosque had been destroyed, its dome and minaret smashed, and the facades of other buildings overlooking the square were devastated.
Rubble and shattered glass were seen in the streets.
A resident said the government had used bulldozers to raze a rebel graveyard in the area. No death toll was immediately available.
The battle for Zawiya has emerged as a key test for the government's staying power because of the city's proximity to Tripoli, Gadhafi's main stronghold.
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Gadhafi supporters celebrate claimed recapture of Al-Zawiyah
(11 Mar 2011) SHOTLIST
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1. Mid of tank at Al-Zawiyah square, damaged building in background
2. Wide of mosque with a destroyed minaret
3. Close up of shell damage on building
4. Low angle of soldier on tank, damaged building in background
5. Close up of damage on building
6. Mid of people walking past tank holding a green flag
7. Various of rubble in street
8. Wide of tank
9. Close up of armed soldiers on top of tank
10. Mid of soldier firing gun from truck AUDIO gun shots
11. Soldier in street firing gun into the air AUDIO gun shots
12. Soldiers carrying machine guns cheering
13. Mid of soldiers sitting near a tank
14. Wide of women chanting
15. Low angle silhouette of men holding Libyan flag and dancing
STORYLINE:
Moammar Gadhafi's regime gained momentum on Friday, showing off its victory over rebels in Zawiya, a key city near Tripoli as it strengthened its hold on the capital and surrounding areas.
The government had claimed victory on Wednesday, but the rebels who are seeking to oust Gadhafi said fighting was ongoing.
Journalists were also taken on an official government tour of the city.
The main square that had been the centre of resistance appeared to be in government control after nearly a week of fierce fighting, as tanks manned by Gadhafi loyalists and trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns were stationed there.
Supporters of the longtime leader were also rallying in the area.
The nearby mosque had been destroyed, its dome and minaret smashed, and the facades of other buildings overlooking the square were devastated.
Rubble and shattered glass were seen in the streets.
A resident said the government had used bulldozers to raze a rebel graveyard in the area. No death toll was immediately available.
The battle for Zawiya has emerged as a key test for the government's staying power because of the city's proximity to Tripoli, Gadhafi's main stronghold.
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Pro-Gadhafi supporters at his compound
(31 Mar 2011) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of rally outside Moammar Gadhafi's home that was bombed in 1986, supporters waving green flags
2. Low angle view of demonstrators waving green flag, standing on top of clenched fist monument
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rada Abdul Jadil, Gadhafi supporter:
You keep talking about human rights, but you keep bombing our Libyan citizens....we are here not afraid.
4. Wide tilt down of exterior of Gadhafi's home that was bombed in 1986, with rally in front
5. Close of empty podium with microphone
6. Various of female security guard surveying crowd, scarf covering face
7. Mid of monument of clenched fist holding US warplane
8. Wide pan of buildings in Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound that were damaged in last week's international air strikes
9. Close of collapsed roof
10. Close pan of debris inside the bombed building including bomb debris with the Green Book (outlining the political philosophy of Moammar Gadhafi)
11. Close of the Green Book
STORYLINE
Hundreds rallied in Tripoli to show their support for Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday, even as the White House said that the Libyan leader's inner circle was clearly crumbling after two high-profile defections from his regime.
Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa flew from Tunisia to England on Wednesday, while Ali Abdessalam Treki, a former foreign minister and UN General Assembly president, announced his departure on several opposition websites the next day.
Gadhafi himself struck a defiant stance on Thursday, as did his supporters who waved green flags and chanted as they rallied in the Libyan leader's residential/military Bab al-Aziziya compound, which was bombed in airstrikes on March 20.
You keep talking about human rights, but you keep bombing our Libyan citizens...we are here not afraid, one of them told members of the foreign media who were taken to the compound by government officials.
It's an argument the Libyan regime has been using since international forces began enforcing a United Nations-mandated no-fly zone over the country.
The Bab al-Aziziya compound is within a few hundred yards (metres) of Gadhafi's home that was bombed under the Reagan administration in 1986 following a Libyan-sponsored attack at a Berlin discotheque which killed three and injured 229 people.
Gadhafi has converted the compound into an anti-Western shrine and dozens of Libyans, described as so-called voluntary human shields by the government, amass at the site each day to show their support for the leader, though their numbers have dwindled considerably since the airstrikes began.
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Assessment of military options for enforcing Libya No Fly Zone
(19 Mar 2011)
Tripoli, Libya - 18 March, 2011
1. Various of supporters of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Green Square, Tripoli
2. Gadhafi supporter Fawzi Al-Fhadli waving placard listing countries that abstained in UN Security Council vote
3. Close-up of placard
Washington, DC, USA - 18 March, 2011
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael O'Hanlon, Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution:
We've pretty much got the capability to hit no only the major radars, but probably the major commanding control nodes. But again, let's not make it sound too easy because, even though I think we would be effective with that kind of a force, we would not be able to destroy radars that had been moved and then left turned off, because we would have no way of knowing where most of them were. We could kill people in the process if Gadhafi put military personnel, or civilians next to these sites, essentially as human shields, and a weapon could always go astray and hit something it wasn't supposed to. So I wouldn't say it's all a 'slam dunk' kind of situation, but it would be rather doable on balance with these kinds of assets.
Near Benghazi, Libya - 18 March 2011
5. Close-up of rebels on tank purportedly captured from government forces
6. Rebel fighter holding gun in the air, chanting, UPSOUND: (Arabic) God is great
7. Rebels on purportedly-captured tank
Washington, DC, USA - 18 March, 2011
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael O'Hanlon, Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution:
If you're going to do a no-fly zone, you're going to have to maintain probably, let's say a dozen to two dozen aeroplanes in the sky continuously, indefinitely. And when you think about the pace at which aeroplanes can be flown, the pace at which crews can be utilised, the need for backup, the distances involved, you're probably talking about needing a couple of hundred planes to do that. That's roughly the number we used in Iraq over the course of the 1990s, and that's not a bad estimate of what might be required here. Again, I don't believe that France and Britain can easily generate a couple of hundred aeroplanes within easy, continual combat range of Libya, and so I think the United States would probably have to help.
Near Benghazi, Libya - 18 March, 2011
9. Various of rebels on road with weapons and vehicles
Washington, DC, USA - 18 March, 2011
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael O'Hanlon, Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution:
You would not just attack radars, you would attack all the ground communications and control facilities that you know of, and then even some depots or other places where surface-to-air missiles might be stored or operated. And then of course you have the option of actually going even further and trying to destroy Libyan aeroplanes on the ground, so that this doesn't require the constant patrolling of the airspace, and that if you get most of these planes in advance, you could sort of be done with the mission, the same way that Israel eliminated the Egyptian Air Force quickly in the early phases of the 1967 war.
Near Benghazi, Libya - 18 March, 2011
11. Various of rebels on road with weapons and vehicles
STORYLINE:
A senior fellow at Washington DC's Brookings Institution gave an assessment on Friday of military options for enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya that was authorised on Thursday by the United Nations Security Council.
Relying on lessons learned from NATO's intervention in the Balkans in the 1990s, Michael O'Hanlon, who specialises in defence and foreign policy issues, warned of the possible loss of civilian lives once the operation got underway.
Officials said an execute order could launch the operation as early as this weekend.
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More NATO airstrikes against targets in capital, morning explosion
(28 May 2011)
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1. Wide of Tripoli skyline, skyline turns orange as airstrike hits target, UPSOUND: large boom
2. Mid of plume of smoke
3. Wide of smoke
4. Mid of car passing in street
5. Wide of skyline as strike hits city
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6. Wide top shot of smoke over Tripoli
7. Mid top shot of smoke over Tripoli
8. Wide of Tripoli skyline, plume of smoke,
9. Mid of plume of smoke
10. Wide of smoke
11. Mid of cars passing in street
STORYLINE:
Explosions shook Tripoli on Saturday, as NATO fighter jets carried out further airstrikes overnight and in the morning against targets in the Libyan capital.
Columns of smoke were seen rising over the skyline of the city and loud booms could be heard.
Later on Saturday morning, more airstrikes were carried out in Tripoli.
Plumes of smoke could be seen over the capital.
NATO said it has struck a command and control centre where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi sometimes lives but he was not a target and there is no way to know if he was there.
An alliance spokesman said the Bab al-Aziziyah compound in Tripoli was hit in the early hours of Saturday.
That same compound was badly damaged by US warplanes 25 years ago in response to a bombing that had killed two US servicemen at a German disco.
Saturday's strike came after leaders at a summit of G8 world powers reiterated that Gadhafi had to leave power.
The spokesman said that around a vehicle storage area in the same area was hit.
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NATO and Libya - Press briefing, 14 June 2011 (w/subs) Part 2/2
Questions and Answers session
On Tuesday 14 June 2011, NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu briefed the press on events concerning Libya. Mike Bracken, Military Spokesperson for Operation Unified Protector provided an operational update by videoconference from Naples. NATO Homepage:
NATO and Libya - Press briefing, 17 June 2011 (w/subtitles) Part 1/2
Press briefing on Libya
by NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu and Mike Bracken, Spokesperson for the Operation Unified Protector NATO Homepage:
UPDATE A'math deadly strike, more daytime raids, FM reax
(19 Jun 2011) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of destroyed building surrounded by onlookers
2. Pull out from man fixing electricity wires to damage and onlookers
3. Wide of rubble, destroyed building
4. Onlookers in the street
5. Car flattened by rubble
6. Belongings amongst the rubble
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salem Ali Garadi, reported brother of victim:
No matter what public opinion is, no one can accept their country to be destroyed in this way.
8. Hole in wall (shot from inside house), pan down to rubble
9. Damaged living room
10. Pan from damage to boy sleeping on bed
11. Pull out to wide of destroyed building
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12. Libyan Foreign Minister Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi and Government Spokesman Moussa Ibrahim before start of news conference
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi, Libyan Foreign Minister:
In the early hours of this morning, the barbarian murderous organisation of NATO, supported and funded by criminal governments and criminal politicians, carried out an unjustified airstrike against the civilian neighbourhood of Souq al-Jumaa, Hay (District of) Arada, directly targeting a group of ordinary houses and murdering nine civilians, including two children, and injuring 18 others.
14. Cutaway, Libyan flag
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi, Libyan Foreign Minister:
We hold Prime Minister (David) Cameron, President (Nicolas) Sarkozy and President (Barack) Obama, Prime Minister (Silvio) Berlusconi, legally and morally responsible for these and other crimes committed in the last three months in Libya against civilians. We also hold the General-Secretary of the United Nations (Ban Ki-Moon) responsible for the atrocities committed by NATO under the watching eyes of the United Nations and the Security Council.
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16. Wide of Tripoli skyline, column of smoke rising UPSOUND: explosion
17. Various of smoke rising over buildings
STORYLINE
NATO on Sunday confirmed that one of its airstrikes went off target in
Tripoli, and may have caused civilian casualties.
The Libyan government has accused NATO of killing nine civilians in an airstrike on a residential neighbourhood in the capital early on Sunday, adding to its charges that the alliance is striking non-military targets.
The allegations are likely to provide supporters of Moammar Gadhafi's regime a fresh rallying point against the international intervention in Libya's civil war.
Shortly after the strikes early on Sunday, journalists based in the Libyan capital were rushed by government officials to the destroyed building, which appeared to have been partially under construction.
Later in the day a second survey of the site was organised by government minders.
These pictures showed a destroyed building, possessions and a car crushed by rubble, and a boy sleeping on the bed of a damaged room.
Salem Ali Garadi, who claimed to have lost his brother in the airstrike, told reporters no matter what the public opinion is, no one can accept their country to be destroyed in this way.
Journalists at the scene were also taken to a hospital, where they were shown at least four people said to have been killed in the strike, including the two young children.
Foreign reporters in Tripoli are not allowed to travel and report freely and are almost always shadowed by government minders.
At a news conference on Sunday, Foreign Minister Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi told reporters nine civilians, including two children, were killed in the strike and said 18 people were wounded.
It was not immediately clear what was being targeted by the strikes, which were carried out at approximately 3 pm local time (1300 GMT).
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NTC and pro-Gadhafi forces fight, NTC celebrations
(14 Oct 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Various of revolutionary fighters firing at a building AUDIO heavy gunfire
2. Mid of armed revolutionary fighters behind a wall shouting (Arabic) God is great
3. Mid of revolutionary fighter wearing flak jacket
4. Wide of revolutionary fighter car coming from gunbattle area AUDIO: honking, siren
5. Wide of revolutionary fighters on two lines of cars driving
6. Mid of revolutionary fighters on the top of their car holding machine guns saying (Arabic) God is great.
7. Close of one of the fighters carrying a heavy gun, standing on top of moving vehicle and making victory sign, two others next to him
8. Various of armed fighters on cars celebrating and shouting (Arabic) God is great
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Alkigly, revolutionary fighter:
All fighters come from all places in Tripoli and they arrested two from pro-Gadhafi and the rest of them have escaped.
10. Wide of cars under flyover AUDIO: heavy machine gun fire
STORYLINE
A gunbattle erupted on Friday between hundreds of revolutionary forces and Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
The confrontation is the first of its kind in more than two months.
It began when a group of loyalists carrying the green flag that symbolises the ousted leader's regime, appeared on the streets of Tripoli's Abu Salim neighbourhood, which houses the notorious prison of the same name.
Shouting God is Great, anti-Gadhafi fighters converged on the area, which has long been a loyalist stronghold, in pickups mounted with weapons, setting up checkpoints as heavy gunfire echoed through the streets.
The violence in the capital, which has been relatively calm since then-rebels seized control in late August, underscored the difficulty Libya's new rulers face in restoring order as Gadhafi remains on the run.
He has issued several audio recordings from hiding trying to rally supporters against the North African nation's transitional leadership.
Witnesses said the shooting began after a group of dozens of men and women tried to raise the green flag at the end of a street in the Hay Nasr district.
Revolutionary forces started searching every building in the area and found weapons on some of the rooftops, many hidden under water tanks, a local resident said.
Then snipers opened fire and the gun battle began as anti-Gadhafi fighters gave chase around the closely packed buildings.
A fighter from the Zintan brigade said several Gadhafi supporters apparently planned a protest but drew fire because they were armed.
They then fled and were pursued by revolutionary forces, prompting fierce street battles.
Later in the day, rebel fighters were seen celebrating on the capital's streets.
Fighter, Ahmed Alkigly, said two Gadhafi loyalists were arrested.
Explosions were also reported elsewhere in the capital on Friday, but details could not immediately be confirmed.
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