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All updates are in Libyan local time (GMT +2)
6:25pm:
President Barack Obama promised the Libyan people that the world will stand with them as they reshape their country following the fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime
6:10pm:
The first of around 50 Libyan patients injured during the uprising in the country has arrived in Britain for medical treatment among them is 15 year old AbdulMalek Hamadi who suffered devastating injuries when a grenade he was playing with blew up.The Libyan government is paying for his treatment here, as well as for treatment for the other patients who will come over. Plastic surgeon Shehan Hettiaratchy said: “I think, if he had been left, his injuries would have become infected and septic.
6:00pm: 
The new leader of Libya’s sovereign-wealth fund said he has recommended that an independent committee investigate all past investments made during the Gaddafi regime for possible corruption. In an interview, Rafik Nayed, the Libyan Investment Authority’s acting chief executive since last month, said the fund’s investment operations are on hold while a new management team sifts through $65 billion in holdings and tries to unravel previous dealings with people tied to Gaddafi.
5:30pm:
Opposition fighters have been blocked from taking Gaddafi’s stronghold of Sirte
5:20pm: 
Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim says that 151 civilians had been killed in Sirte in the previous 36 hours, as pro-government forces attempted to take the town and the other northern Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid. As journalists are unable to reach the city, it is difficult to verify the claims.
5:00pm: The European Union said Friday it was lifting sanctions on Libya’s National Oil Corp. following the fall of Col. Moammar Gadhafi last month, ending a key hurdle to the meaningful return of the country’s oil exports to European consumers.In its official journal, the EU said it was striking NOC, along with state-controlled oil-field and port operator Zueitina Oil Co., from a list of entities European companies were barred to have transactions with.
4:00pm: Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi was arrested overnight in the southern town of Tameghza, near Tunisia’s border with Algeria, according to ministry spokesman Hichem Meddeb.Meddeb said Thursday two others were detained along with al-Mahmoudi after Tunisian officials found none had visas
2:00pm: In Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokeswoman Gill Tudor said, “We can confirm that there is yellow cake stored in drums at a site near Sabha … which Libya previously declared to the IAEA.”
12:31pm: An interim government in Libya will be announced within the next few days and include 22 ministerial portfolios, a spokesman for the North African country’s transitional rulers said on Friday.
“We’ve agreed on a number of portfolios and who would hold the most important ones. There will be 22 portfolios and one vice premier,” said Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTC). “It would be a compact government, a crisis government.”
Discussions in Libya to set up a more inclusive interim government have been unproductive before. It remains unclear whether the NTC, still based in the eastern city of Benghazi, can unify a country split along tribal and regional lines.
9:54am: Libyan energy firm Sirte Oil has resumed gas output in the Hateiba and Assoumoud gas fields in eastern Libya and supplies are now flowing to coastal power plants, its chairman has said, reducing the need for expensive diesel imports.
Violent clashes between Libya’s interim leaders and those still loyal to deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi have raged along Libya’s eastern coastline since the revolt began in February, leading to a virtual halt in oil and gas production.
Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, which the oil company is named after, is still contested.
“We have started producing and sending gas to the power plants of Benghazi and Zuetina. We even sent some power to Egypt the other day,” Sirte Oil Chairman Fathi Issa told Reuters by telephone.
“Soon we won’t have to use diesel anymore.”
8:40am: US Ambassador Gene Cretz returned to Libya to repoen the US embassy in Tripoli on Thursday following a flag-raising ceremony
7:38am: The UN atomic agency said on Thursday that Gaddafi’s government had stored raw uranium near Sabha, after CNN reported that NTC forces had found a military site containing what appeared to be radioactive material.
In Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokeswoman Gill Tudor said, “We can confirm that there is yellow cake stored in drums at a site near Sabha … which Libya previously declared to the IAEA.”
Minutes after he spoke, cheers of “Allahu Akbar”—God is Great—broke out at the frontline position as the revolutionaries’ Grad multiple-rocket launcher truck rolled up. Its rockets, swooshing overhead and leaving a black tail of smoke, flew in the general direction of Bani Walid’s center, producing sand-colored plumes at the impact sites. Some of the plumes then turned black, as the explosions caused fires.
All of this from the games the council has played the last six months……….If they had prosecuted the war with militarily authority, as oppossed to trying to protect all of their old elistist relationships, this type of shyyttt wouldn’t be happening. The longer they prolong it, the worse it will get………I say to the people of Libya, descend on Sirte and Bani Walid. Bear personal witness to the new beginning of your country. If not, the council will believe you docile enough to accept anything and everything they say at face value, just as it has always been. Jibril says two days. In two say he will say ten. Sirte has run out of time, and meaningless delays simply allow more executions. Are they executing people who now say they want a new country, or are they executing people who might bear witness to the double agency of specific council members. If they are killing familuies that seek to leave, what are they doing to prisoners that have been held throught the war. All of this death will be on the head of the council members, as well as Gaddaffi, not on Freedom Fighters that seek to help their fellow citizens , even at the cost of their lives……..ATTACK…………………..
There is absoulutely nothing in that video to support or validate the claim that the FF are blocked in taking Sirte . No one even said that.The video doesn’t even spend any time on Sirte.
Fake news – Fake headlines.
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Here’s some real news
A-l-j-a-z-e-e-r-a’s Sue T-o-r-t-o-n reporting from the East Gate of S-i-r-t-e!!!
Eastern Gate of Sirte!
hXXp://egyptday1.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-sirte-aljazeeras-sue-torton.html
Her team are the only reporters with the Eastern Army according to the video. They are 20 KM (maybe more depending how calculate) from Sirte.
Sirte given til Saturday to surrender or face j-o-i-n-t attack from both Eastern and Western Armies. (Uh-Oh! deadline has expired already!)
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Another report from BBC – Seems G-forces tried a bit of an ambush at the Eastern Gate but hasn’t seemed much of a problem.
But that indictates G-forces very highly organized as well as strong – no pell mell reteat for them.
“The BBC’s Alastair Leithead in nearby Harawa, whose recent capture the forces are celebrating, says ,large field guns were towed past the town mosque on the way to the front line.” (those guns are now in range of Sirte).
hXXp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14963973
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Alarabiya Report
Libyan fighters control Sirte’s eastern gate: commander
“Our fighters are in control of the eastern gate of Sirte,” Commander Ahmed Zlitni from the operations centre told AFP.
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“They are two kilometers (1.2 miles) ahead of the gate and holding positions there. Technically we can say that we entered Sirte from the east,” Zlitni said, adding that the fighters “did not face any resistance” when they crossed the gate.
Fighter Muatiz Saad, deployed near the town of Sultana, 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Sirte, also told AFP that a large number of his comrades had entered Sirte from the eastern gate.
“I was at the frontline and I came to know that our troops have entered Sirte from the eastern gate,” he told AFP at one of their bases near the town of Harawa, around 40 kilometers east of Sirte.
hXXp://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/23/168350.html
President Obama when are you going to Libya ?
Sue Turton, be careful sweetheart . You are getting too close to the frontline. I would hate to see something happen to you.