Libya then and now: Benghazi ignited Americans’ distrust in their government

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Libya then and now: Benghazi ignited Americans’ distrust in their government

Special to WorldTribune.com, August 1, 2018 By John McNabb In 2007 just before the November presidential election, I was serving as Chairman of an international energy contractor that had been in existence for over one hundred years and had operated in over sixty countries during that span. Some of my senior team accompanied me on […]

Six years after the West toppled Gadhafi, world still coping with a shattered Libya

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Six years after the West toppled Gadhafi, world still coping with a shattered Libya

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Libya is a shattered land. Awash in weapons and explosives, riven by tribal and political rivalries, flooded by illegal migrants, and haven to lethal terrorist groups, Libya remains North Africa’s glaring tragedy, six years after an Anglo/French/American military effort toppled the Gadhafi regime. Now with […]

Libya sinks further into chaos as terror, crime groups put down ‘deep roots’

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Libya sinks further into chaos as terror, crime groups put down ‘deep roots’

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 […]