France deployed Mirage fighter jets to bomb Islamist militants in Mali in an action authorized by the United Nations (UN) and backed up by a coalition of African nations. France is also receiving logistical support from the United States (US) and the United Kingdom(UK). French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said: There were (airstrikes) last night, there are now and there will […]
Read MoreLibya and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea were quite friendly prior to the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. Now that Gaddafi’s dictatorship has joined the likes of Ozymandias, Kim Jong-il is wary to have those North Koreans return, most of whom were sent abroad to Libya and elsewhere to work on anything from […]
Read MorePrime Minister Mahmoud Jibril of the National Transitional Council informed reporters in Tripoli today that Gaddafi, hated former dictator of Libya, had been killed in action near his hometown of Sirte. Gaddafi was allegedly shot in the head in a drainage ditch while begging for his life. Video of the felled dictator being dragged through […]
Read MoreQaddafi is on the run from the law according to US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Many are speculating as to whether the ousted dictator has even left Libya yet. Convoys carrying gold and cash have been caught leaving Libya for Niger, but it is unknown if Qaddafi family members are among those with the convoy. […]
Read MoreChina’s Foreign Ministry admits to having met with representatives of Qaddafi’s regime in the hopes of buying weapons to fight back the insurgents. Chinese state-run arms companies were broached by Qaddafi representatives but no arms transactions ever actually took place. The Foreign Ministry denied that Chinese officials knew of any such meetings having ever taken […]
Read MoreMoussa Koussa, Libya’s chief spy and foreign minister, has been fed information from the CIA and MI6 according to the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch. Moussa, who is now in exile in London, apparently exchanged reams of diplomatic cables with the CIA and MI6. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in an effort to draw […]
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