Special to WorldTribune.com Although she heavily pressed a reluctant President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton said the president is ultimately at fault for the Libya fiasco. The former secretary of state and current Democratic candidate for president also threw Obama under the bus for failures in Syria that happened on her watch at the State Department. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com President Barack Obama said not having a “day after plan” in Libya was the worst mistake of his presidency. But Obama, still very much the team player, saddled much of the blame on UK Prime Minister David Cameron rather than former secretary of state and current Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton. In […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Hillary Clinton’s reasons for pushing for U.S. intervention in Libya was more about money and oil than humanitarian assistance to a populace brutalized by longtime dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi, emails in an FBI investigation reveal. Newly-released emails from the then-secretary of state’s private server reveal a completely different agenda behind the intervention […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Libya is “a mess” and the plan pushed by Hillary Clinton that ended in the overthrow and death of long-time dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi “didn’t work,” President Barack Obama said. Sources have said that Obama leaned against intervention but was ultimately persuaded by then-secretary of state Clinton. “We got a UN mandate, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Hillary Clinton won praise from underlings for “turning POTUS around” on U.S. intervention in Libya, according to emails from the latest batch released from Clinton’s private server. The email to then-Secretary of State Clinton was sent by Anne-Marie Slaughter, who had served as Clinton’s director of policy planning. “I cannot imagine how […]
Special to WorldTribune.com “Smart power at its best.” That’s what Clinton calls the failed U.S. intervention she led that has turned into an enormous catastrophe for the people of Libya. “Gov. Webb has said that he would never have used military force in Libya and that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Libya’s ambassador to the United Nations, Al-Dabashi, has accused the United Nations Security Council of “encouraging” by its inaction the massacres conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in Sirte. In an interview with the London-based Arabic paper Asharq Al-Awsat, al-Dabashi said the UN will not agree to arm Libyan […]
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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Al Qaida has been stockpiling surface-to-air missiles in Algeria. Security sources said Al Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb was storing a arsenal of up to a thousand SAMs in Algeria. The sources said AQIM was also acquiring anti-tank missiles and other weapons for operations throughout North Africa. “The terrorists […]