In the Land of the Brother Leader
michaeltotten.com 8/27/2009 — (Note: I wrote the following account of my trip to Libya years ago for the LA Weekly , but the staff recently revamped the Web site and took my story offline. It's one of my best, I think, and I want to republish it now because it's no longer ...

Limbaugh, others run with GOP attack on Obama for Libyan funding -- ignoring Bush's requests for billions for Libya
mediamatters.org 9/26/2009 — Right-wing media including Rush Limbaugh, National Review Online's The Corner blog, the Gateway Pundit blog, and the Say Anything blog have attacked President Obama over funding that the State Department plans to give to Libyan organizations, ...

Lockerbie Bomber Al-Megrahi Freed from Prison
politicolnews.com 8/20/2009 — Today marks a black mark against Scotland for making deals with terrorists of Libya who released Al-Megrahi from prison and it has a lot to do with oil deals. Today August 20, 2009 10: 00 a.m., Eastern standard time this man was set free. Parents of the dead 270 people on that plane that was ...

Blood For Oil
powerlineblog.com 8/30/2009 — The real thing, this time: leaked British diplomatic correspondence published in the London Times appears to make it clear that Great Britain let Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi go in order to finalize an oil deal with Libya: The ...

With Libya Ties Strained, U.S. Has Limited Options
nytimes.com 8/25/2009 — WASHINGTON — For days, members of the Obama administration have expressed outrage and threatened consequences for Libya ’s welcoming celebration of the man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing that killed 189 Americans. But United States ...

Legitimizing Qaddafi -- By: NRO Staff
corner.nationalreview.com 9/24/2009 — Later today, Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi will address the United Nations General Assembly, shortly after Pres. Barack Obama has spoken. Qaddafi’s U.N. appearance will cap a long line of official accolades. In recent years, Libya has chaired the ...

McCain says Congress backs expanding Libya ties-Jana
reuters.com 8/17/2009 — * McCain praises Gaddafi for peacemaking * Congress would "back measures" to expand ties further By Ali Shuaib TRIPOLI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Senator John McCain praised Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi for his peacemaking role in Africa ...

Blood for Oil – The Real Thing
behindbluelines.com 8/30/2009 — For years, we’ve heard the left condemn western military action as “blood for oil”. Now it appears that we’re seeing the left – in the form of Britain’s Labour government – cutting a deal for just that. There have been very unpleasant rumors since the ...

Libya to demolish notorious prison
news.yahoo.com 10/15/2009 — Libya to demolish notorious prison, frees 88 Islamists AFP Newly-released prisoners make phone calls as they walk out of Tripoli's Abu Slim prison. Libya freed

Libya and Al Megrahi: about those words and that big stick
neoneocon.com 8/24/2009 — The White House came through with some stronger words on Al Megrahi today: Asked after issuing a statement on Afghanistan’s elections for his thoughts on the jubilant crowd that greeted Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in Tripoli on Thursday, Obama ...

Karadzic attends UN war crimes court for 1st time (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 25 days ago
AP - Radovan Karadzic appeared at his U.N. war crimes trial on Tuesday for the first time since it began last week, claiming his "fundamental rights have been violated" by judges who started without him.

Tapes show Kennedy was conflicted over Saigon coup (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 25 days ago
AP - Newly released White House tapes from the Vietnam War era portray President John F. Kennedy wrestling over the fate of South Vietnam's strongman in a situation that appears to mirror President Barack Obama's quandary today in dealing with ...

Europe reluctant to send troops to Afghanistan (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 25 days ago
Reuters - European nations are unlikely to contribute more troops to Afghanistan, the head of the European Commission said on Tuesday, as President Barack Obama considers boosting U.S. forces there.

Shinseki cites plight, plan to help homeless veterans — Wash Post Federal Page 25 days ago
The Department of Veterans Affairs laid out Tuesday an ambitious five-year goal of curbing the number of homeless veterans, pledging $3.2 billion to an issue that is more rapidly affecting those who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars than by any ...

(AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 24 days ago
AP - British defense ministry says 5 soldiers killed in Afghanistan.