Saturday
Mar262011
Syria, Libya (and Beyond) LiveBlog: How Serious is This?
Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 16:53 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
2045 GMT: Reuters reports that French warplanes have destroyed five Libyan jets and two helicopters at Misurata airport.
2035 GMT: Video from Misurata in Libya of residents surrounding regime tanks:
2010 GMT: Syria's official news agency SANA has claimed that several people who were arrested by security forces during current protests are foreigners. One allegedly has US citizenship and is of Egyptian descent: “[The arrested man] admitted that he had secretly visited Israel and confessed to being funded from abroad in exchange for sending photos and videos about [the current events in] Syria.”