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The revolution in the Middle East has brought about a desired change for the people. It all started in Tunisia and spread to Egypt where the people won their freedom with a burning desire and sheer will power. It is not same for Libya. Qaddafi,...
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The Libyan revolution started as a hopeful resistance against one of the region’s most brutal and eccentric dictators. It has led by lawyers who took up the cause...
made popular Apr 5 2011
Did anyone think that things would turn out well for the poor Libyan woman, Iman al-Obeidi, who claimed she was gang raped by 15 members of Moammar Gahdhafi’s...
made popular Mar 30 2011
Saudi Arabia, as I wrote previously, is the most regressive force in the Arab world. This is a Kingdom that not only subjects its people to horrific Medieval oppression...
made popular Mar 30 2011
U.S. intelligence on the Libyan rebel force marching toward Libya’s capital of Tripoli to oust dictator Col. Gadhafi reports that some rebel elements include the...
made popular Mar 30 2011
Finally, President Obama made his case on why the United States joined other nations to attack Libya as part of the United Nation’s mandate to enforce a No Fly...
made popular Mar 29 2011
For years the EU has outlined a common foreign, security and defense policy (CFSP, ESDP) and has even created the EU battle troops (EUBG) and established its own...
made popular Mar 28 2011
On Saturday the 26th of March, 2011, Eman al-Obaidi, a Libyan lady, has entered a hotel full of foreign journalists in Tripoli/Libya to tell her story of being raped...
made popular Mar 28 2011
Where is the vision? Where are we heading? And how do we get there?
For some reason, when it comes to the Middle East, people the world over seem to content themselves...
made popular Mar 25 2011
John McCain may be one of the most Gung-ho politicians in Washington. You would think a veteran and prisoner of war, one who experienced the brutality of overseas...
made popular Mar 23 2011
Every day that this sweeping revolution continues, the stakes go higher for the Arab League and the West.
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s theatrics placed the Arab League...
made popular Mar 22 2011
Air strikes to Libya started after related UNSC resolution. In my opinion sc “Responsibility to protect” principle (R2P) could be applied if Gaddafi would use...
made popular Mar 21 2011
President Obama’s chosen national intelligence chief may finally see his long awaited delay. An inept buffoon from the beginning, James Clapper - to be fair to...
made popular Mar 11 2011
For the so-called leader of the free world, President Obama has been noticeably weak and timid in endorsing democratic movements in the Arab world.
Obama, it should...
made popular Mar 11 2011
Libyan leader, Col. Gadhafi, is trapped in a complicated quagmire. It appears that the only solution is for him to negotiate a deal that will allow him to leave Libya...
made popular Mar 9 2011
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has resorted to the most vulgar pronouncements in a delusional attempt to maintain power. Both Tunisia’s Ben Ali and especially...
made popular Mar 8 2011
Britain that has been pushing for a robust military action suffered an embarrassment on Friday when a team of SAS Special Forces who snuck into the rebel controlled...
made popular Mar 8 2011
The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa said on Thursday that a peace plan proposed by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez that would end the crisis in...
made popular Mar 4 2011
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After blaming the riots in Libya on hallucination pills, Qathafi seems to be going much more creative by sticking the charge on Al Qaeda as the supplying party of the...
made popular Feb 28 2011
Arabs seem to be enjoying a huge sense of humor during these rough times, coming up with jokes, and scribbling funny comments all over their Facebook walls. However,...
made popular Feb 28 2011
In the last few days we have seen a televised address by Libya’s dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, addressing the population of television and being quite belligerent...
made popular Feb 25 2011
Qadaffi has lost most of the country, the military and diplomatic corps, and fallen into an even more deranged and deluded state.
There’s a corrupt tyrant and...
made popular Feb 25 2011
Requesting Mugabe to back off on violence against the people, MDC and associated activists is rather like making a polite request to Adolf Hitler to stop persecuting...
made popular Feb 25 2011
The usually funny guy with the most flashy clothes amongst his playmates, is not acting so funny anymore (well, the funny factor is still there, just hidden below...
made popular Feb 24 2011
Thank God for revolutions. Now we can call Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s theatrics by its real name- bullshit.
Over the years, I have argued that Colonel Qaddafi was a...
made popular Feb 24 2011
“After the first successful thrust every revolution differentiates into political and class currents. This is the moment of greatest danger. The moment when the...
made popular Feb 22 2011
If one thought that Tunisia’s Ben Ali or Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak were ruthless against their people and obstinate in the face of popular will, Libya’s...
made popular Feb 22 2011
The Indian author of the US-published gripping novel JIHAD REDISCOVERED by CHANDER MEHRA is irked by media apathy over his novel having just been banned by Libya and...
made popular Nov 9 2010
Libya freed 37 prisoners late on Tuesday, including at least one former detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, who had been jailed for links to radical...
made popular Sep 1 2010
Moammar Gadaffi, Ghadafi, Qadafi or however you want to spell his last name, is just getting more and more outrageous. He’s spent the past few days in Italy on an...
made popular Sep 1 2010
So many of the world leaders today are just not playing with a full deck of cards. Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi ranks there amongst the top five biggest weirdo leaders...
made popular Aug 30 2010
In the outskirts of this city, Libya’s second largest, row after row of sand-colored concrete apartment blocks and villas are sprouting from the desert. Hundreds...
made popular Aug 28 2010
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday his dream of a United States of Africa was still alive and this week’s African Union summit was another step towards...
made popular Jul 28 2010
All was going well just before the flamboyant Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gadaffi, reached the security checkpoint at the venue of the ongoing 15th Ordinary Session of...
made popular Jul 27 2010
A Libyan charity’s aid ship, flanked by Israeli missile boats, was sailing in the direction of an Egyptian port on Wednesday, apparently deciding not to defy...
made popular Jul 14 2010
One of the owners of the Libyan vessel Almathea headed towards Gaza said on Tuesday that if Israel will only allow the ship to dock in Ashdod instead of reaching Gaza,...
made popular Jul 13 2010
Sudan said on Monday it was closing borders with Libya to protect travellers and traders from attacks by rebels, a likely reference to Darfur insurgents who have taken...
made popular Jun 29 2010
A Swiss businessman detained nearly two years in Libya amid a dispute over the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi’s son accused Libyan authorities Monday of kidnapping and...
made popular Jun 15 2010
Omar Mukhtar (Arabic عمر المختار ‘Umar Al-Mukhtār) (1862 - September 16, 1931), of the Mnifa tribe, was born in the small village of Janzour, near Tobruk...
made popular Jun 15 2010
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A participant with a sign attached on his hat, reading, “Libya and human rights, it’s a joke, during a demonstration demanding the release or the two Swiss citizens held in Libya over immigration charges since last summer, in front of the United...
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