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Won’t these brutal dictators ever learn? Think what you will of the cowardly path Tunisia’s Ben Ali took by fleeing into exile. At least he was smart enough to avoid the humiliation Egypt’s Mubarak is now suffering. Mubarak’s being wheeled into court on his deathbed to face trial, which will surely end in his Saddam-like… Read more.
The warrants further demonstrate why Gaddafi has lost all legitimacy and why he should go immediately. His forces continue to attack Libyans without mercy and this must stop. (UK Foreign Minister William Hague, London Guardian, June 27, 2011) The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued arrest warrants on Monday for Libyan leader Muammar… Read more.
No doubt you’ve heard President Obama being criticized variously for taking too long to launch military action to aid rebel fighters in Libya and for refusing to target dictator Muammar Gaddafi for assassination. But I thought these criticisms amounted to nothing more than a misguided and irresponsible attempt to goad Obama into war. This is why I… Read more.
Proving that Saif Al-Islam is in fact his son, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi delivered a rambling and menacing diatribe of his own on Tuesday, making the one Seif delivered on Sunday seem like President Abraham Lincoln’s lucid and ennobling Gettysburg Address by comparison. More to the point, though, I got the eerie impression that Gaddafi was channeling the… Read more.
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is the notorious Libyan convicted in 2001 of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. The explosion occurred over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, two-thirds of them American. Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison. Nevertheless, Scottish authorities released him on compassionate grounds last Thursday after determining he was suffering… Read more.
