Posts Tagged ‘poised’

Gaddafi defiant as rebels poised to strangle capital

  Michael GeorgyReuters August 15, 2011 (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi urged Libyans Monday to free the country from “traitors,” as rebels in the west began to strangle a major lifeline to his capital. His broadcast appeal was made over a bad telephone line from an undisclosed location. In the following hours, a senior figure in […]

US poised to call for Syria’s Assad to go

  AFP August 11, 2011 The United States, after weeks of hesitation, has finally decided to call explicitly for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down amid broadening pressure to staunch the bloodshed. The announcement, which US officials said is expected as early as Thursday, would come as President Barack Obama’s administration presses for tougher […]

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