Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2015
As I have been saying: the Libya debacle will return to haunt Cameron
Egyptian President Sisi tells UK: finish job in Libya to stop another Syria
4th November, 2015
David Cameron should complete the “mission” he started in Libya to prevent the country becoming another Islamist-dominated state like Syria, Egypt’s President will demand when he visits Downing Street on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on October 15, 2015
Cailean Bochanan
18th October, 2015
Once again Cameron’s nemesis, the spectre of the disastrous Libya intervention, has raised its head. This time SNP foreign policy spokesman, Angus Robertson, speaking during Prime Minister’s question time in the House of Commons, has referred to the “total anarchy and civil unrest: in Libya” as one of the “unintended consequences” of that war. He went on to ask, in reference to the military intervention in Libya as well as those in Iraq and Afghanistan: “What assurances can you give that you have learnt lessons from past mistakes and you will not repeat them?” As it transpired, Cameron fended off the attack with some ease, quipping: “Would you be happier with Gaddafi running Libya?”
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Posted by seumasach on March 8, 2015
Italy’s Prime Minister Renzi Meets Putin in Moscow
5th March, 2015
MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized economic ties Thursday as he welcomed Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, the first major European leader to make an official visit to Moscow since Russia annexed Crimea a year ago.
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Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2015
14th January, 2015
During a historic event last Monday at the Committee Rooms Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, dr. Moussa Ibrahim, the main media spokesperson of the Libyan Jamahiriya government at the time of the NATO aggression in 2011, spoke publicly in English for the first time after the so-called fall of Tripoli. Dr. Ibrahim, who is still wanted by the NATO powers for committing the “crime” of eloquently defending the truth about the imperialist war on Libya to the international press, joined the event called “Libya: NATO’s untold story” via video link.
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Posted by seumasach on December 11, 2014
Brian Cloughly
11th December, 2014
On March 19, 2011, the United States led NATO countries in a blitz of aircraft and missile strikes against the government of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s batty dictator who was visited in 2004 and 2007 by British prime minister Tony Blair, in 2007 by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2008 by US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, and in 2009 by Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, all of whom cordially assured him that relations between their countries and his were comfortable.
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Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2014
2nd November, 2014
TUNIS – French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy was expelled from Tunisia Saturday night only 24 hours after his arrival in the country.
He was supposed to stay in Tunisia till Thursday.
His visit had provoked a storm of protests in the country. The trade union federation (UGTT) called Saturday for his expulsion from the country denouncing his role in “inciting anarchy and encouraging civil wars and terrorism in the Arab World”.
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Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2014
Did you face difficulty in bringing together the Libyan army again?
I didn’t experience any difficulty in calling military members. As soon as they heard the call, they went in large numbers to various sites in Libya. It is difficult for the government to do this kind of thing.
Egypt and Algeria are brotherly states, and cooperation between us and Algeria will be quick and easy.
The reintegration of the Libyan army and the role of Egypt and Algeria are key to re-establishment of Libyan state
June, 2014
In the second part of an interview from within his stronghold at an air force base [in eastern Libya], Khalifa Hifter, the commander of “Operation Dignity,” spoke about the border with Egypt and securing it. Hifter said he agrees with the method chosen by Egypt [to secure the border], even if it reached the point of a military strike within the borders of Egypt’s western neighbor.
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Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2014
This raises the possibility of a new French intervention in Libya to combat the reviving nationalist movement there.
France’s top military officer warns of security ‘black hole’ in southern Libya
27th January, 2014
PARIS – France’s top military officer says he favours an international operation to battle a security “black hole” in southern Libya.
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Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2014
Protest demands end to Pro-Nato Libyan Junta and death squad crimes against the people of Libya
Sukant Chanden
21st January, 2014
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Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2014
20th January, 2014
Libyan nationalist forces regained control of several cities, especially in the sourthern part of the country. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on November 13, 2013
9th November, 2013
Two years after the revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is close to becoming what is called ‘a failed state’. Who is responsible for this, and are there ways to put things right?
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