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• Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.comMoammar Gadhafi’s forces are killing Libyan civilians and pushing back rebel forces, NATO air strikes be damned. So it’s time to send in the drones.
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Moammar Gadhafi’s forces are killing Libyan civilians and pushing back rebel forces, NATO air strikes be damned. So it’s time to send in the drones.
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Husain Abdulla - Update on Bahrain - Arab Democracy Protests in D.C. - Abdulla is director of Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain.
Husain Abdulla - Update on Bahrain - Arab Democracy Protests in D.C. - Abdulla is director of Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain.
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Ahmed Algallal, an importer of Kone OYJ lifts in Libya, spent 14 years in the U.K. because his father preferred exile to life under Muammar Qaddafi. “There won’t be another exile for me,” he said. “We win or die.”
As government shelling continued in a besieged city in western Libya, a United Nations call for a cease-fire went unheeded on Monday.
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Either the Pentagon bombs the hell out of Muammar Gaddafi's forces, or we want our money back (as in eastern Libyan oil marketed by Qatar).
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says NATO’s military intervention in oil-rich Libya has gone far beyond the mandate authorized by the United Nations.
New York Times op-ed piece by Obama, Sarkozy, and Cameron. When presidents are writing editorials in newspapers a hard-sell is just around the corner.
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