Monthly Archives: March 2011

Libya Declares Ceasefire, By MARIA GOLOVNINA AND PATRICK WORSNIP

Muammar Gaddafi's government said it was declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its offensive to crush Libya's revolt, as Western warplanes prepared to attack his forces. "We decided on an immediate ceasefire and on an immediate stop to all military operations," Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa told reporters in Tripoli on Friday, after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing military …

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Br. Idris Tawfiq – Sri Lanka Lecture Tour March 2011

   Author of following books. 1. Garden of Delight. 2. Talking About Others Faith. 3. Calling Others to Islam. 4. Talking to New Muslims. 5. Talking to Young Muslims. 6. Talking to Muslims in the West. 7. Looking for Peace – in the Land of the Prophets.

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Roadmap of Political Reforms in Tunisia

For a month and a half since the famous popular uprisings that led to the Arab World's first democratic revolution, Tunisia had been struggling to identify and implement the necessary structural and ideological changes that are essential for the budding democratic system. Tunisians all over the country had been patiently waiting to see what the interim government and the opposition …

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Military action against Gaddafi ‘within hours’ of UN vote, By Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Nicholas Watt

Britain, France and the US, along with several Arab countries, are to join forces to throw a protective ring around the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi as soon as a UN security council vote on military action is authorised, according to security council sources. A source at UN headquarters in New York said military forces could be deployed "within hours" of …

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Libya, Tribes and Islam: Who’s fighting whom By Ameen Izzadeen

As the battle rages in Libya and scores, if not hundreds, die daily, the picture is slowly emerging giving a hint of who is fighting whom for what, and who is on whose side. The conflict in Libya has all the features of a civil war. The country is divided along the people's love and hatred for the embattled Muammar …

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