Civil War In Libya -- News Updates June 20, 2011



Claims Of Wartime Rapes Unsettle And Divide Libyans -- New York Times

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said this month that evidence was emerging that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had authorized his soldiers to rape Libyan women, an assertion that seemed to support months of rumors about a brutal, continuing campaign.

“We have information that there was a policy to rape in Libya those who were against the government,” the prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said at a recent news conference. There is evidence, he said, that anti-impotence drugs were bought in bulk and supplied to soldiers. In some parts of Libya, he said, there may have been hundreds of victims.

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More News On Libya's Civil War

NATO denies new Libya civilian deaths claim -- Yahoo News/AFP
Libya says NATO airstrike kills 15 west of capital -- Yahoo News/AP
Nato bomb 'kills nine Libyan civilians' as stray air strike is blamed on 'system failure' -- Daily Mail
NATO: We're to blame for Sunday's civilian deaths in Libya -- Christian Science Monitor
Nato 'regrets' Tripoli deaths -- The Independent
NATO apologizes for Libya civilian deaths -- Politico
NATO admits bombing mistake killed civilians -- Sydney Morning Herald
NATO: Airstrike targeted high-level Gadhafi command site -- CNN
NATO bombing deaths strain alliance -- The Australian
Libya civilian deaths sap NATO credibility: Italy -- Yahoo News/Reuters

Inexperience Costing Rebels in Advance on Tripoli
-- New York Times/Reuters
Libyan civilians build weapons of rebellion -- CBS
Libyan civilians build weapons to fight Gadhafi -- AP
Libya: Misrata's terrifying routine -- BBC

US Legal Deadline for Libya Expires -- Voice of America
Congress, Obama at the Brink on Libya War -- FOX News
House May Vote This Week on Money for Libya Strikes -- New York Times
Congress barking, not biting on War Powers -- CNN
Critics assault Barack Obama's Libya policy -- Politico
Key Senate Republicans disagree with House GOP on War Powers debate -- CNN
Graham urges Congress to 'shut up' on Libya -- Politico
Gates Defends Libya Action Minus Congressional OK -- FOX News
Gates Defends U.S. Libya Involvement -- Wall Street Journal

EU tries to find Libyan solution -- The Independent
UPDATE 1-EU to look at using frozen Libyan funds for rebels -- Reuters
Exclusive: Libya rebels buy grains in first major deals -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Investigators ‘gather documentary evidence to prosecute Gaddafi for war crimes’ -- Independent
China says Libya rebel leader to visit -- Reuters
Libyan opposition leader to visit China -- RIA Novosti
After Gaddafi -- Nick Robinson, BBC

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