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من هو محمود جبريل Who is Mahmood Jebril

عينه المجلس الوطني الانتقالي الليبي في رئاسة لجنة الأزمة في 5 مارس - آذار 2011، لتسهيل صناعة القرار في ليبيا الجديدة بعدما يرحل معمر القذافي.

وظف جبريل -وهو خبير دولي مرموق في التخطيط الاقتصادي- جهوده خلال عدة سنوات لتطوير مشاريع ثقافية تهدف لتأسيس بنية لدولة ديمقراطية، قبل أن ينشق على نظام القذافي ويصبح عضوا في المجلس الوطني.

في 23 يوليو/تموز 2007 أسس المجلس الوطني للتطوير الاقتصادي بتمويل حكومي، وذلك لمواكبة المستجدات في المنطقة العربية والعالم من تطورات وتحولات اقتصادية واجتماعية، وخرج عام 2009 من رئاسة المجلس متعللا برغبته في التفرغ لأعماله الاستشارية.

حرص جبريل خلال عمله في ليبيا على ترك مسافة بينه وبين نظام معمر القذافي، واعتذر نهاية العام الماضي عن قبول "جائزة الفاتح التقديرية"، متعللا بأسباب شخصية.

وكان مجلس أمناء الجائزة -التي تأسست عام 1995 وتعتبر أعلى جائزة أكاديمية ليبية- قرر منحه الجائزة تقديرا لدراساته الاقتصادية والإستراتيجية.

ولد جبريل في ليبيا عام 1952 وحصل على بكالوريوس الاقتصاد والعلوم السياسية من جامعة القاهرة عام 1975، وتزوج هناك من زميلته الباحثة الأكاديمية في الجامعة سلوى شعراوي جمعة ابنة وزير داخلية مصر الأسبق.

أكمل دراساته العليا في الولايات المتحدة، فحصل على الماجستير في العلوم السياسية من جامعة بتسبيرغ بولاية بنسلفانيا عام 1980، وعلى الدكتوراه في التخطيط الإستراتيجي وصناعة القرار عام 1984 من نفس الجامعة، التي عمل فيها أستاذا للتخطيط الإستراتيجي لعدة سنوات.

صدرت له عشرة كتب في التخطيط الإستراتيجي وصناعة القرار، وقاد الفريق العربي الذي صمم وأعد دليل التدريب العربي الموحد، وقام بتنظيم وإدارة أول وثاني مؤتمر للتدريب في العالم العربي عام 1987 و1988.

وتولى الدكتور جبريل بعد ذلك تنظيم وإدارة العديد من برامج التدريب لقيادات الإدارة العليا في كثير من الدول العربية. منها مصر والسعودية وليبيا والإمارات والكويت والأردن والبحرين والمغرب وتونس وتركيا وبريطانيا

This article in BBC goes in more detail about other members of the council:  

Mr Mahmood Jibril:
Born in Libya n 1952, obtained a BSc in Economics and Political Science from Cairo University in 1975. Holds a masters’ degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1980. He also obtained a Doctorate in Strategic planning and decision-making from the same university in 1984 where he worked as a professor in the same subject field for several years. So far he has published 10 books in Strategic planning and decision making. He led the team who drafted and formed the Unified Arab Training manual. He was also responsible for organising and administering the first two Training conferences in the Arab world in the years 1987 and 1988. He later took over the management and administration of many of the leaders’ training programs for senior management in Arab countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey and Britain

We are not Alqaida. He is a liar

Excerpt from "Dying To Be Free". from Libyan Emergency Aid on Vimeo.
Scene at the Port of Benghazi, Sat. 12 MAR 2011.


Two clips from our forthcoming documentary that was shot in Cairo and Benghazi between the 8th and 15th of March 2011.

The Women fighting, organising, feeding and healing Libya's revolution

The National takes an in-depth look at the women's role in Benghazi since the start of the revolution on Feb 15.  Great insight and inspiring stories.

The Women women fighting, organising, feeding and healing Libya's revolution

Lists of Assasination targets in Benghazi

Aljazeera Sue Turton reporting from Benghazi about Gaddafi infiltrators within the city of Benghazi.

LTNC Founding Statement. Declaration 3

Founding Statement of the Interim Transitional National Council (TNC)

BENGHAZI, LIBYA – 5 March 2011 – The Transitional Interim National Council (The council) held its first meeting on Saturday, 5th of March, 2011, in the city of Benghazi, the temporary location, till the liberation of Tripoli the Capital City and the permanent location of The Council.
The Council derives its legitimacy from the city councils who run the liberated cities, and who had been formed by the revolution of the 17th February to fulfil the revolutionary gains in order to achieve their goals. The Council is headed by Mr Mustafa Abdeljeleel and the meeting is attended by:

1. Mr. Othman Suleiman El-Megyrahi (Batnan Area)
2. Mr. Ashour Hamed Bourashed (Darna City)
3. Dr. Abdelallah Moussa El-myehoub (Qouba Area)
4. Mr. Zubiar Ahmed El-Sharif (Representative of the political prisoners)
5. Mr. Ahmed Abduraba Al-Abaar (Benghazi City)
6. Mr.Dr. Fathi Mohamed Baja (Benghazi City)
7. Mr. Abdelhafed Abdelkader Ghoga (Benghazi City)
8. Mr Fathi Tirbil and Dr. Salwa Fawzi El-Deghali (Representative of youth and women)

The council concluded the following:

1. The Council emphasised that the most important role is the one played by the youth. They were the base of foundation of the revolution and the focal power for the Libyan to reach where they stand today to be able to demand the termination of the dictatorial regime.
2. The Council Declares that it is the sole representative of all Libya with its different social and political strata and all its geographical sections. Its membership is open to all Libyans and thus received the members of the following cities: Misurata, Zentan, Zawya, Zwara, ,Nalout, El-Jabel El-Gharbi (West Mountain) Gaat, and Kufra and their names will not be declared for safety reasons till the liberation of all Libya. The council is waiting for the delegations from Tripoli , the south Areas and Middle areas of Libya to join it.
3. The council declares Mr. Omer El-Hariri as its representative of the Military Affairs for Safety and Security of Libya.
4. The Council also declares the information of the Executive Team to administrate the crisis and to deal with currant situations. The function of the Executive Team is to run all foreign matters and to represent the foreign affairs of Libya. It is headed by Dr. Mohamed Jebril Ibrahim El-Werfali and Dr Aziz Al-Eisawi as the reprehensive of the Foreign affairs of Libya. The council declares that there will be more members to the Executive Team to run the main vital sectors of the country after further discussions between the head of the Executive Team and the Council.

The council delegates to Dr. Mohamed Jebril and Dr Ali El-Esawi the right to negotiate and communicate with all members of international communities to accomplish international recognition of all the Council, and both members have the right to take all the necessary measures to reach this goal.
The council affirms that all Libyan delegations to the UN, Arab League, International and regional organizations and members of all the Libyan embassies who joined the revolution are considered legitimate representatives of the Council. The other representatives of the fallen regime should take the above stance.
Finally, even though the balance of power is uneven between the defenceless protestors and the tyrant regime’s mercenaries and private battalions, we will relay on the will of our people for a free and dignified existence. Furthermore, we request from the international community to fulfil its obligations to protect the Libyan people from any further genocide and crimes against humanity without any direct military intervention on Libya soil.
Long live Libya, free and united.
The Transitional Interim National Council
5th of March 2011

Provisional Transitional National council Statement on March, 23rd 2011

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The Provisional Transitional National Council of Libya, on behalf of all free Libyans, would like to express its thanks and gratitude to the international community as represented by the United Nations and the coalition countries for coming to the aid of the Libyan people and protecting innocent civilians from the massacres being perpetrated against them by the Gaddafi regime.

The military action undertaken by the coalition has prevented unimaginable atrocities from being committed against the population in the city of Benghazi last Saturday, on an even larger scale than what the Gaddafi militias are doing in other cities in Libya. The people in Benghazi continue to be ready to fight to defend their choice of liberty and democracy. The actions taken by the coalition forces, however, have averted widescale loss of life and destruction, judging from the size and types of military materiel of the Gaddafi militia's forces attacking the city.

At the same time that we express our relief of averting a catastrophe in Benghazi, we call on the international community to continue seeking to execute the mission spelled out in the UN resolution 1973 to protect the civilians all over Libya . At this very time, the Gaddafi militias continue to terrorize our people with constant, unrelenting and indiscriminate bombardment with tanks and other heavy weapons of civilian areas in cities in the west of Libya, especially in Misurata, Zentan, and Yefren, in an effort to break the will of the people and subject them to the terror to which the populations of Zawia and Zwara have been subjected in the past weeks.

The Gaddafi regime is depriving these cities from the most basic necessities. Misurata, a city of close to half a million people, has been under siege, without telecommunications for three weeks, and without electricity or water for ten days. Snipers have been positioned on rooftops to shoot at anyone who ventures outside and even at some people inside their own homes. A number of tanks that have gotten into the main street of the city are firing indiscriminately at residential buildings, resulting in the almost complete destruction of the center of the city.

These criminal acts are indefensible and can only be described as crimes against humanity, punishable under international law. We call on the international community, and especially the coalition countries, to take all possible measures including the destruction of Gaddafi’s heavy military equipment, military facilities, and command and control centers, to force him to stop this massive destruction. The utmost pressure needs to be exerted on this regime to restore all communications services, and water and electricity supplies to all Libyan towns and cities, and allow international humanitarian organizations to enter them and operate freely in assisting the wounded and to provide humanitarian aid.

The Gaddafi regime has over the past weeks murdered uncounted thousands of Libyans because they demonstrated peacefully to demand freedom and democracy. The Libyan pro-democracy forces have only borne arms to defend themselves after the regime responded to their peaceful demands with brutal military force, killing and maiming countless civilians and wrecking havoc and destruction in Libyan cities. The light arms of the pro-democracy fightersare no match to the Gaddafi's brutal war machine which is being unleashed against them. In Gaddafi’s Libya, peaceful protesters have always been subjected to arrest, torture and murder. The thousands of detentions carried out in Tripoli in the past weeks to preempt protests there only go to show how this regime operates in areas under its control.

The Gaddafi regime has lost all legitimacy in the eyes of Libyans as well as the world community. It cannot be permitted to continue slaughtering its people because they ask for change. We implore you to act now.

Long live Libya free and democratic.