Lockerbie

March 26, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

The Power-Hungry vs. the War-Weary

Russia’s Vladimir Putin, seething over the collapse of the Soviet Empire, wants to become the hegemon of Eurasia — at least. Iran’s Ali Khamenei, outraged by the...

June 26, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Jyllands-Postan |

Muammar Gaddafi’s Unlawful Threat of Force Against Switzerland and Other States

Although one could perhaps be forgiven for not realising it given the violence that ravages our world, one of international law’s cardinal principles is the general prohibition of, to quote...

March 20, 2012 | Sheryl Saperia The Huffington Post

Bill C-10 Will Finally Punish Terrorists AND Their State Sponsors

Bill C-10, the government's controversial omnibus crime bill, recently passed...

October 24, 2011 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

From Tripoli to Tehran

Killing Muammar Qaddafi wasn’t easy. What President Obama said would take days wound up taking eight months. At first the administration did not seem to understand that NATO’s objecti...

August 23, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal

Libya’s New Government Should Give Up the Lockerbie Bomber

Berlin — As Moammar Qaddafi’s 42-year tyranny comes to an end, the transitional government faces enormous challenges in establishing democratic institutions and eradicating t...

May 31, 2011 | Standpoint

Losing Libya

When US President Barack Obama offered his rationale for supporting the UN-imposed no-fly zone over Libyan skies, he said: "We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi [...] could suffer a m...

May 16, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

West Should Be Telling Assad To Go

 When US President Barack Obama offered his rationale for supporting the UN imposed no-fly zone over Libyan skies, he said that "We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi - a city nea...

May 16, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer The American Spectator

Achieving the Impossible

 President Barack Obama's response to the spread of unrest across the Middle East has been an unpredictable combination of neutrality (Tunisia), reluctant involvement (Egypt), and force...

April 5, 2011 | The Commentator |

Iran Looks on as the West Wrestles with Contradictions Over Libya Intervention

Sometime in the next few months, Col. Moammar Gaddafi was meant to turn over the remaining mustard gas he still has in stock. He had agreed to relinquish his weapons of mass destruction to the We...

March 24, 2011 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Libya a Fatal Distraction From Iran

Why are British planes bombing Libya? Humanitarian intervention - that's the answer. Consider this: until two months ago, Libya was a new friend - and a textbook example of the kind...

March 2, 2011 |

Libya’s Makeover

‘The relationship has been moving in a good direction for a number of years now, and I think tonight does mark a new phase,” said Condoleezza Rice. President Bush’s secretary of...

February 24, 2011 | Weekly Standard

The Libyan Terrorist: Muammar Qaddafi

It is not surprising to see Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi use any and all means, including the most savage violence, to hold onto power. Qaddafi is, after all, a terrorist. There was a...

February 23, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Free Republic

Bomb Libya

Since our leaders evidently have no clue what to do in Libya, let’s give them a few ideas. The basic rules are easy: don’t do anything that is likely to make things worse, and you can...

February 21, 2011 | |

Forget Arab Democracy, Let’s Pretend It’s about Israel

 It is no coincidence that the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government, a non-standing member of the U.N. Security Council and an Iranian subsidiary, sponsored a resolution last Friday conde...

September 23, 2009 | FoxNews.com |

Message to the U.N. – Support Democracy Not Dictators

By Dr. Walid Phares As President Obama was addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, just before Libya's dictator Moammar Kadhafi called for the demise of the...

March 12, 2009 | |

The U.N.’s Year Of Libya

Should a veteran acolyte of Qaddafi's tyranny lead the General Assembly?

October 12, 2006 | World Defense Review

Still at Large: Qadhafi the War Criminal

It's hard to have any sympathy for Charles Ghankay Taylor. During his murderous fourteen-year rampage through West Africa, the former Liberian president was responsible - according...

January 31, 2006 | Mideast Monitor |

Saudi-Syrian Relations after Hariri

Tony Badran is a PhD candidate in Ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University. He is also a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with a particular focus on Lebanes...

June 14, 2005 | Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal and European Edition)

Will Anyone Answer?

Allowing Libyan tyrant Moammar Gadhafi to make a mockery of U.S. policy is not a good idea, especially not when the Bush administration has been talking Gadhafi up for the past 18 months as one o...

December 5, 2004 | |

Syria’s Murderous Role

By: Amb. Richard Carlson, Barbara Newman, and William Cowan. A factor complicating the coalition mission of bringing stability to Iraq is the covert role played by Syria in fina...