Gwynne Dyer » Libya

The ‘mad dog of the Middle East’, as Ronald Reagan once called Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, is on the brink of achieving his life’s ambition: becoming the dictator of Libya. He’s a rathe...

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Late last year, the governments of the European Union, having refused to share the cost of a very successful operation called Mare Nostrum in which the Italian Navy rescued tens of thousands of r...

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The “Islamic State” franchise in Libya, which is emerging as the main winner in that country’s chaotic civil war, published a video on Sunday showing 21 Egyptian men in orange overalls bein...

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A coalition of imams and organisations representing British Muslims has written Prime Minister David Cameron asking him to stop using the phrase “Islamic State”when talking about the new coun...

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16 March 2014 The Framing of al-Megrahi They lied, they’re still lying, and they’ll go on lying until Libya calms down enough to allow a thorough search of its archives. That’s what intelli...

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20 November 2013 Bad Times in Libya By Gwynne Dyer A little over two years after the former Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, was captured and killed by rebel militiamen outside the town of Sirte...

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14 October 2013 The African Union and the ICC By Gwynne Dyer Surprise of the week: the club of African presidents (aka the African Union) has held a special meeting and declared that African pres...

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6 February 2013 Richard III By Gwynne Dyer You can hear them shouting it in the horrible mobile-phone footage of the mob killing the wounded, befuddled Muammar Gaddafi: “Not the face, don’t t...

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16 September 2012 Insulting Muslims By Gwynne Dyer One of the first scenes in the ridiculous but thoroughly nasty film “Innocence of Muslims” shows angry Muslims running through the streets s...

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11 July 2012 The “Arab Spring”: Good News By Gwynne Dyer The good news about last weekend’s election in Libya, as relayed by the Western media, was that the “Islamists” were defeated an...

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