West Demands Longtime CIA General to Withdraw From Libya Oil Ports
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The news of the release from a Libyan prison in Zintan of Saif Al Islam Gaddafi, heir apparent to his late father, is surprising to many outsiders but it nothing to what may come next - a return in some form to power.
In retrospect, Obama's intervention in Libya was an abject failure, judged even by its own standards. Libya has not only failed to evolve into a democracy; it has devolved into a failed state.
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President Barack Obama said five years after the U.S. intervened in Libya to topple then-dictator Moammar Qaddafi and prevent a bloody civil war that the plan pushed by advisers including Hillary Clinton "didn't work" and Libya is now "a mess
I went to Libya in 1987 to interview its strongman, Muammar Gaddafi.
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Three days of Islamic State attacks on Libya's biggest oil terminals have started fires that have spread to five massive oil storage tanks, a guards spokesman said on Wednesday.
At least 47 people were killed on Thursday when Libya's worst bomb attack since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi hit a police training center as hundreds of recruits gathered for a morning meeting.
"We are helpless and not being able to do anything against this deliberate destruction to the oil installations. NOC urges all faithful and honorable people of this homeland to hurry to rescue what is left from our resources before it is too late.
Libya's National Oil Corp. issued a "cry for help" as Islamic State militants attacked a second oil tank in the region of Es Sider, the country's biggest oil port which has been closed for more than a year.
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In March 2011, President Barack Obama succumbed to French pressure and led the NATO alliance from behind in bombing the Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. At the time, Obama was criticized for not letting the United States remain in the forefront of e
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Growing frustration over the reality of life in eastern Libya, which contrasts with the promises of politicians, is feeding support for a former army general, Khalifa Haftar, who has set himself up as a warrior against Islamist militancy and who some
Italian Interior Minister called for UN intervention in Libya against the Caliphate in Libya. See here and here. The former article in Italian translates as follows: "Italy calls for the intervention in Libya with a UN mission. The appeal came from
NATO's 2011 air-bombing assault on Libya turned the most successful country in Africa into a failed state now run by terrorists. If the result of this intervention wasn't bad enough, it appears our leaders lied to sell this war again.
U.S. special forces raided Libya in 2013 and seized him in the streets of the capital, Tripoli, bringing him back to America to stand trial, where the FBI had placed a $5 million bounty out for his capture. He had pleaded not guilty
The American foreign policy elite should learn something from the recent humiliating evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya--amid the chaos of tribal civil war in that country--but probably won't.
The United States shut down its embassy in Libya on Saturday and evacuated its diplomats to neighboring Tunisia under U.S. military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli as fighting intensified between rival militias
The United Nations is withdrawing its staff from Libya because of deteriorating security after rival militias fought over Tripoli International Airport and a renegade general's forces continued to battle Islamist militias in Benghazi.
Libya condemned the United States on Wednesday for snatching a man suspected of masterminding the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, describing the arrest as a violation of Libyan sovereignty.
The Moriartys reveal what's happening in Libya--Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, the role of other Arab regimes, the ongoing destruction of the country, Benghazi, the USG support of immigration of mercenaries to the US.