Friday, February 25, 2011

Libyan ex-minister: Gaddafi is said to have ordered the Lockerbie attack

What is the role played at the Gaddafi Lockerbie bombing? In the words of a renegade minister Libyan dictator has ordered the attack personally, but he had evidence. Gaddafi will end as Hitler - with suicide - so the prediction of the politician in a Swedish newspaper. Stockholm - It was a bloody attack, 270 people died there.

To date, the exact reasons for the attack on an American Airlines plane are the airline Pan Am over the Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 uncertain. has now a renegade minister who was until recently part of the Gaddafi regime, in a Swedish newspaper reported the floor - and charged the Libyan rulers difficult: "I can prove that Gaddafi has given orders for Lockerbie," said Mustafa Abdel Jelil the Swedish paper "Expressen".

The accounts do not add up Italy

In the days of the tragedy in Libya, the international press to terms in his pocket to Italy: on the one hand, the impressive weight of what the Financial Times in a commentary, called the "Italian connection" Business and finance from ' other, the unbearable lightness of the political influence of Mr.

B. "Environ" Gaddafi, ready to overthrow him on charges of fomenting the insurgency with weapons and the threat of coastal download the biblical exodus of desperate migrants. A pretty impressive map of the billions invested by Colonel dictator track the Guardian: Banks in Dubai, luxury properties in London and Italian waters and spa to Antrim and Fiuggi, not counting the attendance count in UniCredit, Fiat, Fininvest, Juventus.

Libya: "A textbook case of right of interference"

Charles F. Dunbar is a professor of international relations at Boston University College, former ambassador to Yemen and Qatar, former director of the U.S. embassy in Kabul. It is Persian and Arabic scholar. Washington can not do nothing without relying on the Security Council of the UN. We must act in two directions: one, to rise very quickly the pressure on the regime to end its abuses, and two, to prepare active intervention to protect those who can.

Libya, the wave of refugee migration Napolitano: "Do not fall for alarmism"

BERLIN - In these times of great concern for the problems that traumatic rupture of the balances in Libya will be able to determine, the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, on a state visit to Germany, invited everyone to soften the tone: "Do not give to victims and alarmist, "said the Head of State before concluding his visit.

In the German capital, Napolitano gave an update on the situation in the Maghreb with its counterpart in Christian Wulff and Chancellor Angela Merkel. He then reiterated "the need for a strong solidarity to deal with this emergency, a need that is not only Italy or Germany, countries that do not you ask for a particular role, but of all." Why, he added, "the problem is not only Italy, but throughout the European Union." "The EU to act better." Napolitano has also responded to some comments in the press: "The newspapers - said the Head of State - I read that my appeal to Germany would have fallen on deaf ears or he would find the doors closed.

Human Rights Council calls to suspend UN Libya

The Human Rights Council on Friday the UN adopted a resolution demanding the suspension of Libya as a member of the body, and an independent investigation into violations committed by the regime of Moammar Gadhafi. This determination was preceded by exhortations from Mexico and other Council members like France, Britain and Spain, to proceed with the removal of Libya from the body by the killings of civilians in the crackdown against protesters in the African country.

If we were a bank

Oh, oh, I beat you to write a serious post, or serious, which is worse. I ran away from the spin doctors-to-superficial moralist. Oh well, those who fear allergic-type reactions, read these first three lines stop and go to more qualified bloggers. If you want to go I will try, at least, to be brief. Let's talk about money.

And responsibility. And Libya. I read and I feel a bit 'indignation everywhere, position papers, to protest for what at best can be described as international relations very careful to respect the most basic civil rights of so-called developed democratic countries and those rich in natural resources but poor democracy.

"The risk of a new Somalia '

Laurence Pope, Arabist, a retired diplomat and former political adviser to the "Central Command U.S. Army, was chief advisor to the U.S. embassy in Tripoli from 1974 to 1976. Washington is in a situation where there are only bad options and worse others. Libya is a country where it is very difficult to operate, mainly because ...

it's not really a country but a union of three provinces, carried out in 1950-1951. Colonel Gaddafi has continued to rule over Libya playing its divisions. There are heavily promoted regionalism, tribalism, and prevented the development of national institutions. It is no coincidence that today Cyrenaica is in the hands of the rebels - but not Tripoli.