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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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…
Saadi Gaddafi extradited from Niger cannot get fair trial three years after Pentagon-NATO bombings On March 19, 2011, the United States and allied NATO war planes began a massive bombing campaign against the North African…
For nearly seven months in 2011, NATO planes — particularly from the U.S., France, Britain and Canada — carried out a massive bombing campaign in Libya intended to overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi. After…
Renewed Intervention Threatened After Pro-Gaddafi Forces Seize Areas in Southern Libya French military official says situation warrants imperialist involvement Fighting has flared up again in southern and western Libya as clashes between pro-Gaddafi forces and…
All the wars and attacks, which were started by the U. S. and its so-called allies in the wake of 9/11, have wreaked havoc. You name it, you got it: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya,…
The West’s hypocrisy and oil-greed are coming home to roost with a vengeance in Libya as the Arab spring in that country turns into a nightmarish winter characterized by armed gangs, economic collapse,…
Gaddafi Stronghold Bani Walid Have Been Shelled for Three Weeks Hundreds of supporters of the people of Bani Walid demonstrated outside the General National Congress parliament in Tripoli on October 21. Protesters attempted to enter the building but were dispersed by police. The demonstration called for a halt to the siege of this town of 80,000 people, a bastion of support for the former Jamahiriya government led by the martyred Col. Muammar Gaddafi. For three weeks the rebel militias that are financed through the United States-backed regime in Tripoli, have blockaded the city denying food, medicine and other essential goods to enter the area. Eyewitness accounts and videos posted on YouTube show constant shelling and large amounts of smoke emanating from the targeted sites inside the city. Hospitals are reporting that people are being treated for chemical poisoning and the loss of limbs.
Lame Attempt To Shift Blame Away From U.S.-Backed Extremists While the establishment media has engaged in a concerted effort to bury the fact that today’s attack on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was carried out…
Sham elections installed him. The process was farcical. Illusion substituted for reality. Obama called his ascension “another milestone in the country’s transition to democracy.” EU leaders hailed “Libya’s first free elections.” They called them the…