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Libya´s Road to
Freedom
IT´S called a
street, but it´s
really a
neighbourhood.
Al Sarim Street in Tripoli, the
Libyan capital, falls between
low-lying Nasr Street and
elevated Al Jumhuriyya Street.
Its older buildings date from
the Italian colonial era. Most
were built as singlestory homes
on the upper side of the street.
I used to drive down this street
daily on my way home from my
law firm nearby. But on
Saturday, the day before rebel
forces poured into Tripoli, this
calm neighbourhood, which
empties out at noon to allow
traffic to pass through its wide
streets with ease, became a
fireball. Last fall, a few months
before the revolution erupted, I
was summoned to the regime´s
party headquarters in Tripoli,
where I was interrogated by
seven pillars of Col Moamer el
Qadhafi´s...
Arabs rode horses 9,000 years ago, reveals Jeddah site
REUTERS JEDDAH SAUDI Arabia is excavating a new archeological site that will show horses were
domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country’s antiquities expert said on
Wednesday.
The discovery of the civilisation, named al Maqar after the site’s location, will challenge the theory
that the domestication of animals took place 5,500 years ago in Central Asia, said Ali al Ghabban,
vice-president of Antiquities and Museums at the Saudi Commission for Tourism & Antiquities.
“This discovery will change our knowledge concerning the domestication of horses and the evolution
of culture in the late Neolithic period,” Ghabban told a news conference in the Red Sea port of
Jeddah.
“The Maqar Civilisation is a very advanced civilisation of the Neolithic period. This site shows us
clearly, the roots of the domestication of horses 9,000 years ago.” The site also includes remains of
mummified skeletons, arrowheads, scrapers, grain grinders, tools for spinning and weaving, and
other tools that are evidence of a civilisation that is skilled in handicrafts.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, is trying to diversify its economy away from oil and
hopes to increase its tourism.
Last year the SCTA launched exhibitions in Barcelona’s CaixaForum museum and Paris’s Louvre
museum showcasing historic findings of the Arabian Peninsula.
Rebels battle Qadhafi loyalists in dictator’s lair
DON´T BE A LOSER,
OBAMA
FOR months now, Obama has
been playing not to lose,
keeping his own plans for a
"Grand Bargain" on debt,
deficits, taxes, jobs and
investment vague, while
waiting for the Republicans to
say crazier and crazier stuff -
like promising the return of $2-
a-gallon gasoline, or insisting
that climate change was made
up by scientists to get research
grants (but politicians taking
millions from oil companies
can be trusted to tell us the
truth on this issue), or that
Texas has a right to secede. But
while the GOP candidates have
been obliging the president
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