The Assassination of Salwa Bugaighis Benghazi’s senior lawyer Salwa Bugaighis voted in Libya’s general election on June 25. The polling was spare. Threats of violence kept people at home. Despondency amongst the people did not…
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On May 13, the Chief Prosecutor for the ICC, Fatou Bensouda, appeared before the UN Security Council to present the “Seventh Report of the Prosecutor of the ICC to the UN Security Council Pursuant to…
Its government has no real power; militias are ever more entrenched, and now the state itself is under threat The Libyan former prime minister Ali Zeidan fled last week after parliament voted him out of…
Al-Shabaab repels Navy Seals while Libyan kidnapping sparks protest On October 5 the United States military forces intervened in the African states of Libya and Somalia under the guise of waging its “war on terrorism.”…
Libya: The Second Anniversary of a Bloody Coup This weekend, marking the second anniversary of the start of protests that would usher in a bloody and prolonged NATO-led coup to overthrow the…
Blowback from Stupid U.S. Policy The U.S. is constantly fighting enemies which it helped to create. For example, U.S. backing of Al Qaeda led to 9/11. The fighters who overthrew Libya’s Gaddafi (as part…
Unnamed sources tell Fox News that the CIA Annex in Benghazi held three Libyan militia members for days and that retrieving these detainees may have been a motive for the September 11th attack on the nearby US…
The Deeper Questions Behind the Ambassador’s Murder … and the CIA Boss’ Sudden Resignation While the GOP is attacking (and Dems defending) the Obama administration in connection with the murder of the U.S. ambassador…
The official position is that the US has refused to allow heavy weapons into Syria. But there’s growing evidence that U.S. agents—particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens—were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to…
One month after the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in the assault on the US consulate and a CIA facility in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the incident…