After Boko Haram’s deadly car bomb attack on the UN compound in Abuja, police immediately responded by deploying bulldozers around the city to demolish all “illegal” structures, with the aim of securing better control of the city.
Juan Cole was a hero of the left when he slapped down mainstream media jive on the Iraq war just a few short years ago. But now he takes on idiot-left jive on Libya—which has at times deteriorated into shameless cheerleading for Qaddafi.
AlJazeera uncovers evidence of “mass executions” of opposition activists by Qaddafi-loyalists in Tripoli, while AP finds rebels may have executed captive Qaddafi-loyalists. South Africa’s Jacob Zuma calls for an International Criminal Court probe of NATO.
Representatives of Libya’s rebel council flew to Doha, Qatar, to meet with international officials, seeking $2.5 billion in emergency financing. Ahmad Shabani, founder of the new Democratic Party of Libya, especially appealed for support from Israel.
The Palestinian bid for UN recognition could deprive Palestinians of international representation by transferring that responsibility from the PLO to a state that doesn’t exist yet, a legal briefing warns.
As Libyan rebels continue to hunt Tripoli for Moammar Qaddafi—and to battle the remnants of his forces—the elusive strongman again delivered two broadcast messages during the night, urging residents to “cleanse Tripoli of rats.”
Virginia’s North Anna nuclear power plant, shut down by power failure after the East Coast earthquake, had seismographs removed in the 1990s due to budget cuts. Four other plants experienced “unusual events” due to the quake.
Rebels have overrun Moammar Qaddafi’s fortress-like compound in Tripoli, the Bab al-Aziziya, but the state TV station remains in pro-Qaddafi hands and continues to broadcast messages from the missing strongman.
A group of men armed with guns wounded seven indigenous campesinos during an hour-long attack on an encampment in the Polochic Valley in the northeastern Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz.
Campesino leader Secundino Ruiz was shot dead as he was leaving a bank in Tocoa in the northern Honduran department of Colón. This was the 12th killing in the Aguán Valley in a week.
Students have occupied some 150 public schools throughout Honduras over the past three weeks, and people are starting to compare the protests to the student movement in Chile.
New global recession fears have South American leaders so worried that pro-US Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is now pushing regional integration with the continent’s left-wing and populist governments.
