- Phoenix1330
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Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.
So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.
LIBYA
US congress moving to vote on US participation in Libya. It's looking like the push is for the US to stop bombing and move into a patrol rather than enforcement role.
Rebels are saying that they can resume oil production in 3 to 4 weeks.
Rebels have now said "We consider that Gaddafi has to resign himself to leaving or accept retirement in a remote part of Libya. We have no objection to him retreating to a Libyan oasis under international control"
meanwhile Abdurrahaman Shalgam, who just abandoned the regime from his post as deputy foreign minister has said Gaddafi is trying to negotiate asylum in Belarus, and is expected to leave Libya within two weeks.
The ICRC has transported about 300 prisoners out of Tripoli to Benghazi. All were cleared by the NTC as having been people who were fighting on their side, and were captured.
Senior army officers who defected yesterday say that the death toll in Libya is now in excess of 15,000 people.
YEMEN
Looks like the cease fire was never meant to last, Yemen security forces fired on 10,000 protesters in Aden, this after the Vice President rejected transition of power talks in the absence of the President.
The UN has sent a human rights delegation to Yemen, their findings have to potential to sway Russia on the matter of a UNSC resolution according to the Russian PM.
SYRIA
Hundreds of Protesters are dead or injured across the country after mass protests in over a dozen cites broke out last night.
Syrian forces have moved away from the Turkish boarder and retreated into the towns out of sight of Turkish forces. The Boarder is a hilly region, and Turkey suspects that they have just retreated into the heavily forested area on the other side of the hills.
Turkey, Canada and the US threaten Syria with military action if they do not implement promised reforms by Tuesday. Russia has Reiterated that they, alongside China will take military action in the wake of any western intervention. The US has moved the USS George HW Bush Carrier attack Group to the Syrian Coast, and Canada has committed to send the frigates HMCS Ville de Quebec, and HMCS Fredericton frigates along side The HMCS Windsor submarine, and the HMCS Iroquois air defence destroyer.(on a personal aside, I think this is a little bit of posturing on the side of everyone but Turkey. I don't think anyone is willing to take the chance of a world war)
Russia has approved the Iranian Bushehr Reactor as refuelled and 'safe.' The reactor had previously been shut down due to it's ability to create weapons grade plutonium.
Western and Eastern Tensions
CBC morning news reported that a Canadian Aurora arctic patrol plane fired a warning shot with a dummy torpedo at a Russian patrol sub in Canadian waters.
[Edited on 06.24.2011 10:42 AM PDT]