A terrifying cache of missiles capable of shooting down passenger planes has been stolen from Gaddafi’s arsenal in Libya, it was claimed yesterday. Almost 500 of the Russian-made heat-seeking missiles have been looted in the past week, prompting fears they have been sold to Al Qaeda for use against the West. Peter Bouckaert, of Human […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online August 30, 2011 The world’s longest ruling head of state, Mu’ammar al-Qadhdhafi (the correct transliteration of his name), would have been ruler of Libya for exactly 42 years on Sept. 1. As he leaves the scene, his wretched reign deserves an appraisal. Qaddafi took power at the age of […]
When in November 1942 the British Army broke and routed Rommel, and sent him fleeing through Libya, Winston Churchill recognized that it was not the end of the war. But it was, he said, the end of the beginning. We are at the same place in Libya today – not at the end, merely at […]
His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle East might know of him, but few in the West and across the world would have heard of him. Time to catch up. Because the story of how an al-Qaeda asset turned out to be the top Libyan military commander in still war-torn Tripoli is bound […]
Tripoli, (AKI) – Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted for planting the bomb that killed 270 people aboard Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, has escaped together with toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, according to the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.lib According to witnesses cited by the daily, as soon as rebels entered […]
by Daniel Pipes August 22, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online Many are ready to party about the political demise of the hated, eccentric, and foul Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi as rebel troops move into Tripoli. I am not partying. Here’s why not. The NATO intervention in March 2011 was done without due diligence as to who […]
TRIPOLI, Libya — Forces loyal to the fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi struck back Monday against the rebel fighters who had swept euphorically into the capital the night before, forcing them to retreat from several strategic locations and tempering hopes that the battle for Tripoli was all but over. The dramatic appearance Monday night of […]
Libyan rebels converged on the capital city of Tripoli early on Monday with reports that the forces arrested two of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s sons, that the presidential guard protecting Qadhafi surrendered, and that the rebel forces controlled much of the city with the exception of Qadhafi’s leadership compound. Meanwhile, President Obama released a statement saying the […]
Zvi Mazel, Israels former ambassador to Egypt, said Thursday that the end of the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak, does not necessarily mean the beginning of a new era in Egypt. Mazel, who spoke to Arutz Shevas Hebrew-language news service following the beginning of Mubarak’s trial, said that Mubarak kept the peace with Israel. […]
After attending the summit of the Shanghai cooperation organization in Kazakhstan Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jin Tao flew to Moscow where they worked on a mammoth gas sale agreement from Russia to China guaranteed to provide the Chinese with energy security and Russia with hefty profits. The haggling over price […]
