The False Iraq-Crimea Analogy
Of all the strained analyses offered by the Left on the Crimea crisis, none is quite so ludicrous as the comparison of Putin’s invasion of the former Soviet territory to the 2003 Iraq War. As the...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Takes Over US Base in Libya
That time Obama decided to overthrow Gaddafi in favor of a bunch of militias aligned with terrorists? It’s working out about as expected. A key jihadist leader and longtime member of al Qaeda has...
View ArticleState Department Admits Libya has Become a Terrorist Safe Haven
I wonder whose fault that was. Must be the guy who kept boasting how he had beaten Al Qaeda and saved Detroit. The State Department’s latest report on global terrorism, released Wednesday, lists Libya...
View ArticleLibya Detains UN Observer for “Sorcery” and “Black Magic”
There’s nothing modern about the Muslim world. It may have skyscrapers and smartphones imported from modern countries, but it is a fundamentally medieval place. A United Nations observer at the trial...
View ArticleWill a Rogue General Undo Obama’s Regime Change in Libya?
It didn’t take Egypt very long to revert back to a military oligarchy. The Arab Spring was trumpeted as a new era in the history of the Middle East. But the Middle East is better at undoing history...
View ArticleGaddafi Didn’t Destroy Benghazi, but a Garbage Strike Might
In the spring of ’11, Obama claimed that he had to intervene in Libya because “if we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have...
View ArticleLibyan General Promises War on Jihadists, Arrest of Muslim Brotherhood Leaders
“We pledge not to abandon this mission until Libya is purged of terrorists.” That’s the kind of quote you expect to hear from the President of the United States. And you might have before 2008. But...
View ArticleTerrorist Groups Rise 58% Since 2010
One of the principal narratives of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign — as in al Qaeda has been “decimated” and put on a “on the path to defeat” — has itself been decimated. According to a study...
View ArticleObama’s Secret Directive Supporting Global Islamism
A recent Gulf News report sheds some light on how and why the United States helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies to power, followed by all the subsequent chaos and atrocities in...
View ArticleHow Long Until Obama is Forced to Bomb Libya… Again?
While the world’s attention is on Syria and Iraq, Tripoli is allegedly under the control of Islamist militias. Meanwhile fighting still continues in Benghazi. With Obama golfing, Egypt and the UAE...
View ArticleLibya Under Siege
While media attention has focused of late on the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), which has seized large swaths of territory in Syria and northern Iraq, jihadists are also on the march in Libya. A...
View ArticleIslamic Militias Behind Benghazi Attack Seize US Embassy in Tripoli
The strategy is in the mail. The strategy is coming next Thursday. The dog ate the strategy. An Islamist-allied militia group says it has ‘secured’ a U.S. Embassy compound in Libya’s capital, more...
View ArticleState Dept: US Embassy in Libya Held by Jihadists is “Secure”
This seems to be some usage of the word “Secure” that I was not familiar with. Neither was Ambassador Stevens who was assured that the Benghazi facility was secure. A senior State Department official...
View ArticleLibyan Jihadists Have a Bunch of Jetliners They Might Fly into Buildings
Obama’s regime change operation in Libya worked out really well. 1. There are now at least two governments in Libya 2. Most of the major cities are controlled by Jihadist groups, including the one...
View ArticleISIS: Obama’s ‘Al-Qaeda on the Run’
Obama often boasted that Al Qaeda was on the run. However it was Obama who had been running away from Al Qaeda ever since he took the job. The botched surge in Afghanistan, where his own intelligence...
View ArticleCountries that Overthrew Gaddafi Say There’s No Military Solution to...
Some of the countries that violently overthrow Gaddafi have a message for everyone in Libya. Violence is not the answer. You could make this sort of thing up, but why bother. The same geniuses...
View ArticleHow the West Destroyed Libya
The full impact of Western intervention in Libya was recently highlighted during a televised interview of Worlds Apart with guest Hanne Nabintu Herland, a Norwegian author and historian who was born...
View ArticleKilling Qaddafi: Hillary’s Secret Role
To justify an illegal ouster of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, Hillary Clinton falsely claimed the Libyan leader was planning genocidal attacks against his domestic enemies, an investigative report in the...
View ArticleChristian Slaughter in Libya
The disputed fate of the 21 Coptic Christians abducted in Sirte, Libya is now clear and visible for all to see on video: while holding them down, Islamic State members shove their fingers in the...
View ArticleRaymond Ibrahim on Christian Slaughter in Libya, Egypt’s Response, and...
On February 16, Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim was interviewed on Ave Maria Radio’s “Kresta in the Afternoon.” Topics discussed included the slaughter of 21 Copts in Libya, Egypt’s response, and...
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