According to a CBS News report updated at 8:39 am Eastern time Wednesday, the Libyan security forces hired to protect the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya moved Ambassador Chris Stevens to a second building within the consulate, then told the
Early reports of the militant attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans offer a confusing picture of the facts surrounding these murders. CBS News is reporting that Ambassador Stevens
US ambassador Chris Stevens had hailed the Libyan revolt that overthrew Moamer Kadhafi, but now appears to have been struck down in a rocket attack by forces unleashed after the strongman’s fall. Stevens was killed in an attack on the
(AP) US ambassador killed in consulate attack in LibyaBy ESAM MOHAMED and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressTRIPOLI, LibyaThe U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Protesters attack U.S. Embassy in Cairo Egypt U.S. consulate employee killed in attack on Libya embassy Catalonia demands independence from Spain Germany’s Constitutional Court to rule on legality of bailouts Greece to determine WW
(AP) Egyptian protesters scale US Embassy wall in CairoBy SARAH EL DEEB and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressCAIROMainly ultraconservative protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt’s capital Tuesday and brought down the American flag, replacing it with a black
Tonight, 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin fired a shot across the bow of the Obama administration over its spineless response to radical Muslim takeovers of the US embassies in Egypt and Libya. She certainly didn’t hold back:
Mitt Romney came out firing this evening against the Obama administration’s feckless response to the attacks on American embassies in Libya and Egypt. His campaign just released his statement moments ago: I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions
A US official was killed and another wounded on Tuesday as an armed mob protesting over a film they said offended Islam attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, an official told AFP. Libya’s deputy interior minister Wanis al-Sharef said: “One
What the Arab Spring Barack Obama championed has wrought: According to Al Ahram online: An armed mob has attacked the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi and set fire to the building, witnesses reported, in what they said
(AP) TRIPOLI, Libya Attackers set off a bomb next to a wall of the U.S. Consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi Wednesday, the State Department said, causing no casualties. The blast underlined the unstable security situation in Libya,
From The Daily Mail UK: A furious mob has desecrated dozens of Commonwealth War Graves in a Libyan cemetery amid continuing fury in the Middle East over the burning of the Koran by U.S. soldiers. Headstones commemorating British and Allied
Middle East expert Fouad Ajami of the Hoover Institution says that Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad may be declaring victory. He’s defied the outside world by continuing to exterminate his own people, with nobody able to stop him. By now, the
The courthouse in Benghazi is the iconic seat of the revolt which toppled Qaddafi. It’s Libya’s “(im)moral equivalent” to Egypt’s Tahrir Square. During the tumultuous months of Libya’s brutal civil war, it was here that rebel forces established a provisional
Where will the revolution end up? Foreign Policy reports: Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of Libya’s transitional government Behind the scenes and off the record, officials close to the NTC describe the fissures that have opened up between top military commanders
From the Associated Press: Libya’s new leaders pledged “moderate” Islamic rule and affirmed their commitment to human rights on Tuesday, even as their fighters were accused of committing possible war crimes. A defiant Moamer Kadhafi, meanwhile, vowed from hiding to
Libya is a tribal society, with over 140 tribes, according to CNN. Some analysts are claiming urbanization has reduced tribal identities, and that the population has become much more homogeneous, but I strongly disagree with that, based on theory from
Mustafa Abduljalil spokesman for the new Libyan Zabibah-stan. Zabibah–prominent* Libyan “rebel” spokesperson Mustafa Abduljalil, born in 1952 in Al Baida, one of the first cities to rise against Gaddafi, studied law and Islamic jurisprudence in Benghazi before embarking on a
Italian minister Roberto Calderoli shows off a Mohammed cartoon on a T-shirt on Italian TV in 2006. In response, thousands took to the streets in Benghazi, ten people died in the ensuing violence directed at the Italiian embassy, Calderoli resigned,
With non-Constitutionally-US-supported anti-Qadaffi forces taking Tripoli today, it looks as if — to be as delicate as a NATO commander — the “flickers” of Al Qaeda and Hezbollah have won. In franker words, America’s jihadist allies, a significant presence among
Last month, to much fanfare, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Muammar al-Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, and Libyan military intelligence chief Abdullah Al-Senussi. ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo had filed an application for the warrants in
In justifying his refusal to release any photographic evidence of the killing of Osama Bin Laden by American forces, President Obama has said that “We don’t need to spike the football” and “We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies.”
The video images show the charred remains of five bodies. A crowd has gathered around the grisly spectacle, and someone pulls away the top of a green body bag so that the camera can get a better view. The scene
Tunisia’s interim government issued a sharp rebuke to the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi on Friday, after Gaddafi’s forces crossed the border into Tunisia in pursuit of Libyan rebels, according to the AP. In Dehiba, people gather around overturned car
I don’t know which is more outrageous: the State Department memo claiming that the Libyan “rebels” — sorry, their “political arm” — has “embraced the Geneva Conventions” (death grip?), or that Uncle Sucker (you) will be catering their halal meals
