As the collapse of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime enters its last days, Interpol has issued a ‘red notice’ on Qaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and Abdullah al-Senussi, his former chief of Libya’s intelligence agency. Convoys of high-level Libyan officials fleeing into Niger continue unabated, as more loyalists abandon the flailing regime. The government of Niger will […]
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 MoreSaif al-Islam, the purported caputred son of falling Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, is actually not in the custody of the rebels, not that it matters now. The compound Bab al-Aziziya has been captured by Libyan rebels, signaling the denouement of this heroic struggle to overthrow a dictator. With the embassy in DC now representing the […]
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