Culture Buzz Moving, tragic, awe-inspiring photos and the tales of how they came to be. Reuters released a year-end round up of their best photographs and had the photographers provide a sort of director's commentary. Compelling stuff.
Culture Buzz Good news! Thanks to the International Fund For Animal Welfare, abandoned animals at the Tripoli Zoo in Libya finally have clean food, water, and stables. If you want to find out more information how you can help, you should check out their Facebook page.
The new president of Tripoli's Fateh University has discovered a hidden complex underneath the Green Theatre. I'm not saying that things of a rape-y nature have occurred there. But a set of underground rooms that include a bedroom, jacuzzi, and fully equipped gynecological operating theatre? Don't mind the Marvin Gaye in the background. Just tell me if this rag smells like chloroform. (via bbc.co.uk)
Culture Buzz The charred remains of 53 people, more than likely rebels and rebel sympathizers, were found in a warehouse outside of Tripoli today. Yet another reason Gaddafi must be found and brought to justice. WARNING: Disturbing images.
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Professional photojournalist Benjamin Lowy was in Libya on assignment for three weeks in March, at the front lines of the Rebel and Gadaffi Loyalist battle and amidst the wreckage of Libyan towns. Between shooting a reportage with a DSLR, he used his iPhone to take some pretty amazing pictures.
Politics Buzz When a polarizing political figure as monumental as (former) Libyan President Muammar Muhammad Gaddafi comes along, a seemingly endless stream of artistic interpretations follows. Whether satirical, political, humiliating, immortalizing, or tragic, there hasn't been one defined way to portray Gaddafi in drawings.
Tripoli has fallen, and that can mean only one thing. It's time for the Taiwanese animation news network to give us a rundown on the fall of Gaddafi's dictatorship. (via b3ta.com)
Politics Buzz Google's map of Tripoli is already listing the city's Green Square by it's orignal pre-Khaddafy regime name, Martyrs' Square. (via maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com)
Shouted by revelers in Green Square as Tripoli falls to the rebels, this is apparently a popular nickname among the Libyan people for the soon to be ousted dictator. Ya got burnt, Moammar!
Tripoli is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Tripoli.
Culture Buzz Al Jazeera is reporting that the dynasty and regime of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has fallen as rebels swiftly overtake the capitol of Tripoli, Gadhafi's last stronghold. Two of Gadhafi's sons have been captured by the freedom fighters, but the whereabouts of Gadhafi himself remain unknown. Regardless, his more than 40 years of autocratic rule in Libya appears to have come to an end. More as it develops.
The United States, in concert with European air strikes, launched missiles into Libya today in an effort to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone and protect civilians from the regime of Muammar Gadaffi. Here is President Obama's statement on the strikes, codenamed Operation Odyssey Dawn.