Legitimizing Qaddafi
Later today, Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi will address the United Nations General Assembly, shortly after Pres. Barack Obama has spoken. Qaddafi’s U.N. appearance will cap a long line of official ...
How ‘Compassionate’ Libya Treats Its Prisoners, and How the British Treat Theirs
The celebrations for — and the British government’s complicity in the release of — Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi highlights not only the lack of seriousness with which the ...
Reformed Rapprochement
On November 6, 2007 Senator Richard Lugar, the Ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for rapid nomination of a U.S. ambassador to Libya; “We have to get ...
Libya Model for Disaster
On January 18, 2007, the European parliament issued a resolution urging EU member states to review their relations with Libya unless it frees five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor ...
Preconditions for Peace
It is no secret that Iran and Syria use Hezbollah and Hamas as proxies. The kidnapping operations in Israel would not have transpired without a green light from Tehran and ...
True to His Terrorist Ways
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. military strike against Libya. On April 14, 1986, President Ronald Reagan ordered the U.S. Air Force to attack military targets in ...
Bad Decision 101
Beginning on March 22, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs will host a conference entitled “The Prospect for Democracy: A-Libyan-American Dialogue.” On the second and final day ...
The People Vs. Qadhafi
More than two years after the U.S. government began its rapprochement, how goes life in Libya? At first appearance, some may think Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi has reformed. Last week, ...