Libya Archives - Page 13 of 111

15Jul

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Libya, NATO

NATO Used Depleted Uranium Munitions in 2011 Libya Airstrikes

NOVANEWS By: Sputnik International Note to readers: please click the share buttons above A military operation against the government of Muammar Gaddafi, conducted by NATO in 2011, led to a civil war and split the country into three parts with different governments and various militant groups. A report, made by a group of Libyan nuclear experts, says that NATO forces missiles with depleted uranium. “We conducted a study at one of the headquarters of the Libyan army, which was bombed by NATO. There were places with increased levels of radiation. After precise measurements we found that this radioactivity was a result of using an assembler with depleted uranium,” Nuri al-Druki, an advisor to the Libyan committee for the environment and nuclear energy told Sputnik. He also stat...

1Jul

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Libya, Middle East, USA, Yemen

War against civilians: The US in Libya and Yemen

NOVANEWS AFP Jon V. Kofas During the Vietnam War, American historian Howard Zin wrote: “all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral” and “political leaders all over the world should not be trusted when they urge their people to war claiming superior knowledge and expertise.” This holds true just as true today as in the Vietnam War era. While the Western media remains focused on the cult of personality even whether it covers domestic or foreign policy issues and always with all the pre-conceived notions of American Exceptionalism, the US under President Donald Trump has continued the Obama administration’s war in Yemen where 10,000 people have been killed in the last four years and 80 percent of the population is in dire nee...

6May

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Libya

Death toll in Libya election commission bombing rises to 14

NOVANEWS Libya’s health ministry said Thursday that the death toll from the suicide attack against the headquarters of the electoral commission in Tripoli a day earlier had risen to 14. Six others were wounded in the attack on the High National Elections Commission building in Tripoli’s Ghout Al-Shaal district, which saw two assailants open fire at guards and officials before blowing themselves up. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. The death toll had previously stood at 12 killed and seven injured. The attack has been strongly condemned by the United Nations, the European Union, France, the United States, Britain and Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Accord. The bloodshed comes as the international community pushes for elections in Libya...

2Apr

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France, Libya

Sarkozy’s Hand in the French Cookie Jar?

NOVANEWS By Eric Margolis Eric Margolis There was something refreshing about watching former French president Nicolas Sarkozy being interrogated in a French jail. Particularly since he may soon be accused of conspiracy in the murder of my old friend, Col. Muammar Khadaffi of Libya. Sarkozy and his former chief of staff, Claude Guéant, are being investigated for secretly accepting at least fifty million Euros from Khadaffi for his 2007 electoral campaign. Such a payment violated France’s maximum permissible limit for political donation, not to mention a ban on foreign financing of candidates and failure to report the payments. Sarko also faces investigation over secret payments from the Gulf oil states. French political candidates often have to wade through the sewers to finan...

22Mar

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France, Libya

Gaddafi’s Son, Saif al Islam Welcomes Sarkozy Arrest, Offers Evidence

NOVANEWS Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of fallen Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has welcomed the detention of former French president Nicholas Sarkozy and reiterated his offer of evidence showing that Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign was funded by illicit funds. By Daniel Mumbere Africanews Saif al-Islam alluded to the evidence he gave to European media channel, Euronews in Tripoli in 2011, and lamented that it had taken the French justice system seven years to act on the matter. An official of the French Judiciary told journalists on Tuesday that Sarkozy was being held in police custody for questioning by magistrates looking into allegations of Libyan funding for his 2007 election campaign. A judiciary inquiry into the matter had been opened by France in 2013, while in January ...

21Mar

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Libya

Another Reason Why Imperialism Wanted Libya Overthrown

NOVANEWS Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy detained for questioning over Gaddafi loan By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research Featured image: Libya leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi along with former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (Source: the author) Seven years ago this month, beginning on March 19, 2011, the United States Pentagon and NATO began a massive bombing campaign against the North African state of Libya. For seven months the warplanes flew tens of thousands of sorties over Libya, at the time the most prosperous state in Africa. Nearly ten thousand bombs were reportedly dropped inside the country resulting in an estimated 50,000-100,000 dead, many more injuries and the dislocation of several million people. On October 20, longtime Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, w...

9Mar

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Libya, USA

Video: Obama/Clinton to Blame for Slave Trade in Libya?

NOVANEWS Reality Check By Ben Swann Global Research It’s been three months since the media outcry over the open market slave trading in Libya and yet, the problem persists. And the root cause of how these slave markets were created, thanks to U.S. foreign policy, has been ignored. Do you want to end the slave trade in Libya? We’ll tell you the biggest step toward making that happen… in a Reality Check you won’t get anywhere else. The video shocked the world. CNN posted the images: men who appeared to be sold at auction in Libya for $400. The grainy undercover video appears to show smugglers selling off a dozen men outside of the capital city Tripoli. So how did we get here? Most media will tell you that Libya is the main transit point for refugees and migrants trying to reach ...

26Feb

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Libya

How the BLACK PANTHER & ‘Wakanda’ Came to Represent Gaddafi’s Libya…

NOVANEWS I haven’t seen the Black Panther movie yet; but I’m looking forward to it. T’Challa, the Black Panther, has for a long time been one of my absolute favorite comic book characters – and I’ve been glad that his mythology has been given the cinema treatment: and that it appears to be doing so well and generating so much conversation. But, amid all of that conversation (much of which, rightly, is focused on the subject of the first entirely black superhero movie), one thing that probably won’t be discussed is the subject I’m going to cover here now: which gives me a rare opportunity to talk about both my love of comic-book mythologies and my interest in real-world geo-political conspiracies at the same time. This isn’t an article about the film or even about the character’s histor...

11Feb

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Libya

In Libya, ISIS Is Using Human Trafficking to Finance Its Activities

NOVANEWS A UN report, which was delivered to a UN Security Council committee, highlighted ISIS' involvement in human trafficking networks. By Al Shahid Al Shahid A new UN report has warned of potential collusion between human traffickers and state institutions in Libya, amidst further concerns that groups such as ISIS are exploiting these processes. The 150-page report, which was collated by UN officials, was sent to a 15-member UN Security Council committee on Wednesday and documented how state security institutions might be working with smugglers to engage in illegal trafficking activities. For several years, these smugglers have worked with complete impunity as they transferred thousands of people across the Mediterranean. Many of the people who undertook these dangerous j...

28Dec

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Libya

Why We Can’t Ignore Libya, Enslavement and the Damages of US Intervention

NOVANEWS By William C. Anderson, Truthout Members of the Africa Diaspora Forum (ADF), civil society organisations, churches, trade unions and other coalitions wear chains and shout slogans during a demonstration against the slave trade and human trafficking in Libya on December 12, 2017, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. (Photo: Gulshan Khan / AFP / Getty Images) In November, CNN released footage of Africans being sold into slavery at an auction in Libya, shocking and angering many around the world. The outlet reported witnessing "a dozen men being sold like commodities -- some auctioned off for as little as $400." However, though the auction has been portrayed as part of a recent phenomenon, the disaster that is enslavement is not new at all, even in the modern world. Though the...