Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano ) The following is the timeline of the Benghazi events as they unfolded. I attempted to keep the timeline in place, as to allow the reader to follow the chain of events and draw their… Read More ›
Muammar Gaddafi
Libya threatens to bomb North Korean-flagged tanker if it takes oil from rebels
Prime minister warns of an ‘environmental disaster’ if tanker leaves rebel-held port of Es Sider with oil cargo Reuters in Tripoli theguardian.com, Sunday 9 March 2014 03.39 EDT The North Korean-flagged tanker docked at Es Sider. Photograph: Esam Omran… Read More ›
IRA victims plan to sue Tony Blair over Libya ‘conniving’
Tony Blair faces threat of legal action over allegation he helped Colonel Gaddafi over court case that led to British terror victims losing out on compensation deal Tony Blair with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2007. Photo: PETER MACDIARMID/AFP By Edward Malnick,… Read More ›
Arms deals fixer Ziad Takieddine refused entry and returned to France
– confessed to paying kick-backs to an aide of the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy – Claims late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi paid up to £40m towards Mr Sarkozy’s successful 2007 presidential election bid Tom Harper Tuesday, 31 December… Read More ›
Gunmen kill Libya’s military police force commander / The Benghazi assassinations continue
Source: Reuters – Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:22 PM Author: Reuters BENGHAZI, Libya, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen fatally wounded Libya’s military police force commander as he left his house in the eastern city of Benghazi to attend… Read More ›
Report: Libyan Troops Occupy Prime Minister’s Office To Demand Pay
<!—-> Oct. 7, 2013 – 03:10PM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | TRIPOLI — Dozens of unarmed Libyan soldiers occupied the prime minister’s office in Tripoli on Monday to demand unpaid wages, the privately-owned Alnabaa television reported. The channel said the… Read More ›
Is Saddam Hussein’s fortune in a warehouse in Moscow? Mystery over £16.75bn piles of cash left at airport for six years
Cash in 100 euro notes is stored on wooden pallets Each of the 200 pallets is worth 100million euros Money was sent to Moscow from Frankfurt in 2007 Documents show the sender was a 45-year-old Iranian No recipient listed but… Read More ›
Syrian fundamentalists got chemical weapons after overthrow of Gaddafi-Syrian deputy premier
Photo ITAR-TASS / Michael Pochuev LONDON, September 20 (Itar-Tass) – Chemical weapons got into the hands of fundamentalists, fighting against the Syrian government, from Libya – after the overthrow in 2011 of the government of Muammar Gaddafi. This statement was … Read More ›
Lockerbie bomber release linked to arms deal, according to secret letter
The release of the Lockerbie bomber was linked by the Government to a £400 million arms-export deal to Libya, according to secret correspondence obtained by The Sunday Telegraph. Tony Blair during one of his meetings with Muammar Gaddafi in… Read More ›
Silvio Berlusconi ‘asked Italy’s secret service to bump off Muammar Gaddafi’
Michael Day Thursday, 13 June 2013 Silvio Berlusconi asked Italy’s secret services to bump off Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, so the then premier could end his increasingly embarrassing ties with the Libyan dictator, it was claimed today. Mr Berlusconi’s… Read More ›
Cash deposits of former Nicolas Sarkozy aide come under fresh scrutiny
The former Interior Minister, Claude Guéant, denies money laundering Anne Penketh Tuesday, 7 May 2013 An investigation into the alleged use of slush funds by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election campaign took a new twist… Read More ›
Judicial investigation launched over claims ex-French president’s election campaign received €50m from Libyan regime
French inquiry opens into allegations Gaddafi funded Sarkozy 2007 campaign Angelique Chrisafis in Paris guardian.co.uk, Friday 19 April 2013 12.39 EDT Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi leaves the Elysée in Paris after a meeting with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy,… Read More ›
Sarkozy’s Gaddafi campaign scandal: Police search office of French ex-Interior Minister
Published time: March 01, 2013 00:46 Nicolas Sarkozy greets Muammar Gaddafi in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris as he arrives for a five day official visit December 10, 2007. (Reuters/Jacky Naegelen) French police searched the office… Read More ›
Cameron was warned that Overthrowing Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi would destabilize Africa
An existential threat? Why did Cameron not warn us before? Or did he only just come up with the idea in order to cover his tracks over Libya? LAST UPDATED AT 12:45 ON Fri 25 Jan 2013 Recent columns 100 … Read More ›
Nicolas Sarkozy DID take $50 million of Muammar Gaddafi’s cash, French judge is told
John Lichfield Wednesday, 2 January 2013 Documentary proof exists that France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy took more than €50m from the late Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, a French judge has been told. The claim, leaked today, was made just before… Read More ›
HSBC and Goldman Sachs held $335m of Libyan state oil money ( Gaddafi’s Billions? )
Reposted at request in regards to the HSBC Jersey offshore account scandal 26th May 2011 Update: Global Witness publishes the Libyan Investment Authority financial position as of September 2010 Read BBC Business Editor Robert Peston’s analysis of this story Listen to… Read More ›
Who pocketed Gaddafi’s billions? $150 Billion, who stole this money and where it is now?
Andrei Ontikov Nov 1, 2012 16:50 Moscow Time Photo: EPA NATO’s military campaign in Libya is remarkable, among other things, for the following two reasons. First – the damage that the air raids by the Western anti-Gaddafi alliance caused to… Read More ›
Air Force makes redaction blunder in Libya report
Christian Wenande October 12, 2012 – 11:53 An under-prepared NATO and the use of Israeli weapons among the issues conveyed in a report sent by the Danish tactical command The FTK report indicated that Denmark obtained Israeli parts… Read More ›
‘No food, no drugs’: Libyan troops siege ex-Gaddafi stronghold: Libya is still plagued with violence between pro-Gaddafi loyalists and supporters of the country’s new government
Published: 7 October, 2012, 20:24 Edited: 7 October, 2012, 20:36 Armed Libyan forces continue to surround the city of Bani Walid, Libya. As tension between government troops and opposition supporters continues to mount, residents have been left without food… Read More ›
Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, sources claim
* Engineering Evil: Waiting for 2nd Confirmation By Peter Allen PUBLISHED:06:43 EST, 30 September 2012| UPDATED:06:45 EST, 30 September 2012 A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was… Read More ›
Man who caught Gadhafi abducted and killed
Wednesday, 26 September 2012 Tension gripped Misrata Tuesday after the death of a rebel from the western city who was credited with capturing late Libyan leader Moamer Gadhafi, but who was later abducted and tortured in a rival town. Omran… Read More ›
Revealed: Ringleader behind ‘al-Qaeda attack that killed U.S. ambassador was former Guantanamo inmate handed over to Libya by America’
Sufyan Ben Qumu was classified as a ‘medium to high’ national security risk before his release from American custody Qumu reportedly was Osama bin Laden’s driver and worked for the al-Qaeda founder’s company in Sudan Libyans promised to keep him… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 