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Online Soccer Network Plays Key Role in Eastern Libya

Online Soccer Network Plays Key Role in Eastern Libya

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Feb 25, 2011
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An online soccer network in eastern Libya played a key role in informing the outside world of developments in the eastern city of Benghazi and shuttling foreign journalists from the Egyptian border into areas controlled by forces opposed to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadaffi.

Tawfik al-Shohiby, a rebel in Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city which fell …

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