As his regime totters, Col. Qaddafi calls the insurrection an al-Qaeda conspiracy. But will it be enough to assure the good graces of his one-time advisor Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle?
More than 100 people have died in suicide attacks in Afghanistan in the last three weeks—as the New Yorker reports that the US has entered into exploratory talks with the Taliban.
Was Raymond Davis, the CIA operative held by Pakistan in connection with a shooting incident last month, supplying nuclear and biological warfare materials to al-Qaeda?
Government troops in the Comoros killed or repelled French-speaking white mercenaries who tried to seize control of part of the Indian Ocean archipelago nation.
Senegal cut diplomatic ties with Iran, accusing Tehran of arming separatist rebels in its restive southern Casamance region, where 16 soldiers have been killed this year.
Moammar Qaddafi’s regime has lost vast swathes of Libya’s east to insurrectionists, with many army troops going over the rebels. Two pilots defected after being ordered to bomb Benghazi.
Fidel Castro writes in his column “Reflections of Comrade Fidel” that NATO’s planned invasion of Libya will begin in “a matter of hours or a few days.”
On David Horowitz’s Front Page Mag, Phyllis Chesler exploits Lara Logan’s sexual abuse in Tahrir Square to portray the Egyptian revolution as a hatefest of Islamic extremism.
Libya’s UN Mission—breaking with the regime of Moammar Qaddafi—called on the UN to impose a no-fly zone over the country. European diplomats say NATO is prepared to enforce a no-fly zone.
Thousands of protesters filled Tahrir Square in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, in an ongoing campaign against the entrenched political machine in the Kurdish autonomous region.
Protesters, apparently joined by members of the security forces, seized control over several eastern Libyan cities, and fighting has now spread to Tripoli, where warplanes are strafing demonstrators.
Notorious narco-lord "Chapo" Guzmán was convicted by a federal jury in New York and faces life in prison. But violence in Mexico has only escalated since his capture. Few media accounts have noted how Chapo and his Sinaloa Cartel rose as militarized narcotics enforcement escalated in Mexico—a trajectory mirrored by the cartels' move from dealing in cannabis to deadly white powders. (Photo: US Coast Guard via Cannabis Now)
