In Saif Al Islam Trial, Libya’s Post-Gaddafi Government Sees Chance to Reassert Legitimacy
With no justice system in place yet, the ICC wants to extradite Gaddafi’s son to The Hague… but the Libyan government sees his trial as an opportunity to reassert its legitimacy, setting the stage for what could be the first real test of the post-Gaddafi government’s institutional integrity.
To Libya, Missouri Sends B2 Bombers… and Lawyers
As the Gaddafi regime teetered on the brink of collapse, against an uprising that saw bands of rebels backed by “Spirit of Pennsylvania” B2 Bomber air strikes from Whiteman Air-force Base, 70 miles east of Kansas City, lawyers based in Kansas City and Springfield, Missouri, sought to secure a safe exit for Gaddafi and his family.
Tripoli: Another Curtain Comes Down as Gaddafi Regime Crumbles
Tripoli, the capital of Libya, has turned into a stage for a global power play in which China, despite the high exposure of it’s multi-billion dollar assets to risk, has remained largely silent, raising questions on whether the Asian giant will take a strictly non-interventionist stance in conflicts that may place it’s growing global investments in jeopardy.
The Gaddafi I Know: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
By the time Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi came to power in 1969, I was a third-year university student at Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. We welcomed his rise because he was a leader in the tradition of Col. Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt who had a nationalist and pan-Arabist position. Soon, however, problems cropped up with Qaddafi as [...]
Oil Companies That Gave ‘Bonuses’ to Libya Also Lobbied Against Disclosure Rules
Multinational companies operating in Libya have had to deal with many obstacles, including a government rife with corruption that often asked for what amounted to bribes [1].
Libya War: Will Battle Success Equal Mission Success? How Contradicting Mission Goals May Prolong Conflict
Military strategists and analysts like to be able predict the duration of a war as soon as the first shot is fired. The Libyan conflict has been a big upset in this regard due to its strategic fluidity and lack of clear goals among coalition forces. War, by its nature, is full of surprises, and this is what makes it particularly difficult to predict its duration.
War Games In the Desert As Hawks Descend on Libya
AS allied forces fire their first shots in Libya, many questions remain unanswered. With no clear plan on the protection of civilians in Libya, allied military aircraft has swarmed the country’s skies, targetting military vehicles on the ground and broadening the definition of enforcing a “no-fly-zone”. Military action against Gaddafi had been sold as primarily consisting of an effort to prevent him from using airpower against protestors. This has since expanded, with French fighter jets firing on ground targets. An air operation without ground forces and real-time ground intelligence sounds ambitious at the very least. U.S., British and French forces seem to assume that for the first time, a war can successfully be fought with surgical precision.
Libya plane crash kills 103
A Libyan aircraft has crashed while attempting to land at Tripoli airport, killing 103 people, more than half of them Dutch, officials said.