When the West’s very favoured were being blown away in the “Arab Spring”, how could the West permit the survival of a person whose entire persona over four decades has evolved in defiance of them.
Tripoli Diary
The first meeting with Muammar Qaddaffi was the most dramatic. It was exactly a week after President Ronald Reagan ordered the bombing of this city on April 15, 1986.
West sets up the war within Islam
When the US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan got into a scrum to launch a programme of manufacturing triple distilled mujahideen Islam in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets the seeds were sown for a conflict within Islam as well.
Credibility deficit in the Western media
When the Anglo-French plot on Libya was first hatched, I wrote in these spaces that folks in Benghazi luring Europe are the very same who started 2006 uprising against the Danish cartoons.
Win in Libya and lose the Arab Spring
The shaken monarchies and the remaining dictatorships have rallied around the US and Europe to protect themselves.
Arab Spring’s global linkages
Like Osama bin Laden, Ratkin Mladic was clearly helped in escaping arrest so far.
Europe helps create 'Jihad' next door
Have David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy ever paused to consider how the 20 million Muslims in Europe might react to their military action in Libya?
Why has Libya been attacked?
Libya with its vast oil resources was too important for Europe, to allow it to lapse into uncertainty.
Outline of New World Order?
And, just look at the coincidental configuration of the stars! In 1986, just when Chernobyl erupted, Col. Muammar Qaddafi was finding his way through bombs and falling rubble in his Tripoli palace, trying to help his wife strapped to a bed because of a slipped disc.