Libya’s Rebels: Yesterday We Tortured Them, Today We Arm Them
There's no doubt that NATO, primarily the UK, France and the US, inserted themselves into the Libyan uprising as a means of gaining control over the course of the Arab…
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Libya Rebel Leader Underscores Our Deep Hypocricy
When it first became clear that NATO actions in Libya were going to far exceed the UN mandate of a no-fly zone to protect civilians and would instead be a…
Taking care of business
The Financial Post is pleased to report that Suncor Energy Inc., along with other oil companies, is preparing to return to the Libyan oil fields. After six months of intense…
Canada Wins The War! Canada Wins The War!
And history will record this: that it was the good work of Canada’s Armed Services – your work – working with our allies, that enabled the Libyan people to remove…
Did NATO Kill The Libyan Revolution?
What do you say when a dictator is overthrown and the news shows pictures of people celebrating? That's easy, right? You feel good that the world is a slightly better…
Has Libya Already Fallen to al-Qaeda?
According to Asia Times, the Libyan rebel commander now in charge in Tripoli and his colleagues elsewhere throughout the country are al-Qaeda assets.His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the…
The Battle of Underground Tripoli
Where's Waldo, er Gaddafi? After all, the guy swore he'd fight to the end but, then again, some of us remember when Muammar Gaddafi was determined to fight Israel to…
And this is where we juxtapose
Yesterday in the Guardian (with my emphasis): Nato will continue to deploy strike aircraft, spy planes and unmanned drones over Libya but will not put any troops on the ground…
Good Gaddafi, Hello NATO
There will be much celebrating across Libya over the next several days even as the mop-up operations get under way. Of course, there's no guarantee that this will be over…
Where’s Waldo? Tripoli Style
Muammar Gaddafi has gone to ground and nobody seems to know where. He might be hunkered down inside his personal compound where a fierce firefight continues as rebels close in.…
End of a very long road, or just a new corner?
The Libyan rebels are inside Tripoli in a so-far amazingly successful push against the tyrant Gaddhafi's stronghold. There are credible rumours that his son, Saif Al-Islam (pictured here), has been…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Andrew Jackson describes the next phase of the global economic crisis: Now we face a new financial crisis, or at least a…
Our Libya Policy Is Just What Islamist Extremists Prayed For
The most important thing in the fight against Gaddafi was the one we ignored - getting the job done quickly.Time was very much of the essence in this one. In…
Libya in Turmoil as Top Military Rebel Leader is Assassinated
Rebel military leader Abdul Fatah Younis has been killed, possibly by his own soldiers. Younis was called before a tribunal, after rumours circulated that he had maintained his connections with…
Never mind Gen. Natynczyk, the French have it right: jawr-jawr in Libya better than war-war!
Air forces: delivering failure from the sky since the dawn of flight. Next up, seeing as that didn’t work, boots on the ground? Below: Gen. Walter Natynczyk, Muammar al-Gaddafi.Gen. Walter…
Canadiant troops getting results in Libya
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/14/pol-mackay-libya.html
Harper’s Assault on Libya NOT Sanctioned by UN
I wondered why Harper took the extension of the so-called "mission" in Libya to Parliament. He didn't have to. As prime minister he alone can decide whether or not to…
We Knew it Was Just a Matter of Time. Libya Open for Business!
It didn't take long for the vultures to swoop down on Libya. News that Washington's largest lobbying group, Patton Boggs, has been hired to sell the rebel army as the…
Incentives in Prosecuting Dictators
The International Criminal Court has recently sought the arrest of Qaddafi, and others in the Libyan regime, for crimes against humanity. Justified, surely, but is this move wise? To answer…