In Libya, the captors have become the captive " Inside their barracks - usually repurposed schools, police stations or security centers - a vast ... General item (Libya, Libyan revolution, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-10 15:30 - 0 comments

What the Libyan intervention may have cost us " Just a year has gone by since the Arab Spring first hit Libya, and celebrations of Libya ... General item (Arab Spring, Libya, Libyan revolution, The New Republic) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-08 14:33 - 0 comments

The attempt to topple Assad has failed " It has not happened. Syria will not be like Libya. The latest international action has been an EU ban on Assad's wife, Asma, and his mother travelling to EU countries. As damp squibs go, ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-26 14:38 - 0 comments

Libya struggles to curb militias as chaos grows "The government  has found itself virtually paralyzed by rivalries that have forced ... (Libya, Libyan revolution, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-10 14:40 - 0 comments

Presidential candidate Herman Cain discusses the Libya situation (video) ... (American Politics, Herman Cain, Libya, Youtube) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-16 13:54 - 0 comments

Seif al-Islam captured in Libya "If he ... likely embarrass a great many people, in Libya, but especially abroad." ... (Libya, Libyan uprising, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-21 14:00 - 0 comments

How Qaddafi fooled Libya and the world "Qaddafi, an unknown 27-year-old lieutenant with the army signal corps, announced that he and a group of 70 ... (Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan revolution, Libyan uprising, The Atlantic) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-21 14:09 - 0 comments

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The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-21 14:09 - 0 comments

Qaddafi is killed "The official version of events offered by Libya's new leaders - that Colonel Qaddafi was killed in a cross-fire - did ... (Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan revolution, Libyan uprising, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-10-21 14:09 - 0 comments

Five rules of thumb for Libya "For those who might be feeling bewildered by the news reports coming out of Libya, here are a few things ... (Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan uprising, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-24 14:17 - 0 comments

Enigmas and lies in Libya "Truth was not the lingua franca of Qaddafi's Libya; there is no honor among these thieves. Even those who oppose ... General item (Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan uprising, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-23 16:56 - 0 comments

he caught in Libya, and spent four months in hospital and a year in isolation. Alone in his sick bed, ...

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Can you vacate your room, sir? Libya's new government needs it "There has been no water in the hotel or most other places in Tripoli ... (Libya, Patrick Cockburn, The Independent) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-29 15:39 - 0 comments

Libya, Obama and leading from behind "A calculated modesty can augment a nation’s true influence. Obama would not be the first statesman to realize ... (Barack Obama, Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan uprising, Obama, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-26 15:50 - 0 comments

Libya's ragtag rebels are dubious allies (Patrick Cockburn) "In a masterpiece of mistiming, Britain recognised the rebel government on the day ... (Libya, Libyan uprising, The Independent) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-12 16:11 - 0 comments

The accomplice, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi "Having discarded a prepared speech, which might have set Libya on a path toward reconciliation, he chose belligerence and confrontation. His closing words pulled him firmly into the murderous tent of his embattled ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-08-25 14:53 - 0 comments

The Arab counterrevolution "Since Mubarak's ouster, everything that has happened in the region has offered a striking contrast with what came before. Protests turned violent in Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, and Syria. Foreign nations got involved in each ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-08 16:55 - 0 comments

to justify Nato's war in Libya ... (Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan uprising, The Independent) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-14 10:09 - 0 comments

Libya: Here we go again "So we are joining the civil war in Libya. We and our European allies will fly against Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s ... (Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan uprising, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:21 - 0 comments

Libya: 'No-fly zone' is a euphemism ... rebels bring regime change to Libya, the inducement to deploy ever more force if that fails will ... (Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan revolution, Guardian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:23 - 0 comments

Libya: The defining battle in Benghazi "The young men of Benghazi pounded the dreaded military barracks in the city center with everything ... (Benghazi, Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan revolution, Washington Post) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:23 - 0 comments

"The oil, chemical and uranium fields of Libya lie to the south of "liberated" Benghazi. Gaddafi's hungry capital controls only water resources, so a temporary division of Libya, which may have ... (Gaddafi, Libya, Libyan revolution, The Independent) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:23 - 0 comments

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The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-14 10:09 - 0 comments

in countries like Iran, Syria and Libya, according to participants in the projects." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:21 - 0 comments

General item (Libya, Obama, Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:21 - 0 comments