Sunday 21 August 2011

Al Jazeera and other news agencies lied about Gaddafi - disinformation campaign



Libyan rebels say they're pushing on towards Tripoli and claim they're now around 30 kilometers from the capital. There have also been reports of sporadic violence within Tripoli itself - but many people on the ground there say the situation is much calmer than those reports suggest. Lizzie Pheelan is an independent journalist in Tripoli who says that false accounts of what's happening have served only to stir up the conflict.