Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Five years after the Arab Spring revolutions which swept the Middle East, the expansive North African country of Libya has descended into a dangerous downward spiral in which competing governments, militias, and terrorist elements are all part of a chaotic witches’ brew on the doorstep […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times At the very time President Obama, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other top leaders were blaming spontaneous protests for the deadly Benghazi attack, the Defense Department broadly circulated a detailed intelligence report that said an Al Qaida-linked group planned the assault 10 days beforehand. Its […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gen. Khalifa Haftar, a former officer involved in a coup that brought Moammar Gadhafi to power in 1969, has been appointed Libya’s new army chief a week after his nomination by the elected parliament. Hafter is also a former long-time resident of Vienna, Virginia, giving rise to rumors he had ties with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs An invitation is being sent by the leadership of the Senussiyyah movement — the largest Muslim sect in Libya — to the leaders of all 40 or so Libyan tribes to meet on June 19 and 20, according to primary sources in Benghazi, Libya. The purpose of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Libya’s Western-trained military appears to be disintegrating. Units of the Libyan military have been joining the so-called National Army led by Gen. Khalifa Hafter, a former resident of Northern Virginia. The units joined an offensive by Hafter against Al Qaida-aligned militias that controlled the eastern city of Benghazi. Hafter, part […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is losing the support of the American people. He is now facing the greatest crisis of his presidency — Obamacaregate. His repeated lies and deliberate distortions are leading many — including some liberal Democrats — to finally question Mr. Obama’s character. He has betrayed the public’s trust. Once that is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto President Barack Obama has been embroiled in multiple, crippling scandals since the start of his second term. Consider: Benghazi, snooping on Associated Press reporters, the Justice Department’s surveillance of Fox News reporter James Rosen, IRS abuses, investigation into the death of Navy SEAL Team Six, the implosion of Obamacare […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has shut embassies throughout the Middle East after being alerted to an imminent Al Qaida attack. Officials said the State Department has ordered the closure of embassies in such Middle East states as Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait and Libya. They said 22 embassies would be closed from […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings. They eventually brought down President Nixon, forcing him to resign. Mr. Obama is the liberal Nixon — a corrupt chief executive, who […]
Wesley Pruden There’s an immeasurably deep cleavage between left and right in America, illustrated vividly in the way Americans regard the Benghazi scandal and outrage. It’s in the DNA. Democrats generally and liberals in particular can’t understand what the noise from Benghazi is about, though they’re willing to concede that the deaths of the American […]