Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with libya www.salem-news.com 2013 The short answer is Iran and Hezbollah according to Congressional sources. “The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. Its capture by the Assad forces has essentially added Syria to Iran’s list of victories starting with Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, as well as its growing influence in the Gulf.” Other sources are asserting that Obama actually did not want to invoke direct military aid to the rebels... http://salem-news.com/articles/june142013/end-syria-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june142013/end-syria-fl.php Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:40:00 PDT The combat code of the US Military is that we don't abandon our dead or wounded on the battlefield. In US Air Force lingo, fighter pilots don't run off and leave their wingmen. If one of our own is shot down, still alive and not yet in enemy captivity, we will either come to get him or die trying. Among America's fighting forces, the calm, sure knowledge that such an irrevocable bond exists is priceless. http://salem-news.com/articles/june112013/benghazi-deceit-ph.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june112013/benghazi-deceit-ph.php Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:13:00 PDT Three women who were part of an aid convoy passing through Libya on the way to Gaza have been sexually assaulted in Benghazi, after a group of five British nationals were briefly kidnapped. The three women, two of whom are sisters, were part of a large aid convoy travelling to the Gaza Strip. http://salem-news.com/articles/march292013/convoy-assaulted.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march292013/convoy-assaulted.php Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:59:00 PDT The Imam Musa Sadr, Sheik Mohammad Yaacoub, and journalist Abbas Badreddine case, are like the Tell Tale Heart in Edgar Allen’s Poe novel. They simply will not stop crying out for justice despite more than three decades of political efforts to close the file. http://salem-news.com/articles/march282013/sadr-case.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march282013/sadr-case.php Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:39:00 PDT Here’s a shocking side of the ‘democracy’ the Arab Spring brought to Libya, remember Libya? It’s an oil rich country north of Africa that the west intervened by itself to ‘protect’ its people from themselves... http://salem-news.com/articles/march202013/death-wine.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march202013/death-wine.php Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:17:00 PDT Easy walking distance from this observer’s hotel near the city center is the Damascus Opera House, the site of yesterday’s Presidential address. It was inaugurated in May of 2004 by the President and his wife, completing a project of his late father, Hafez, who actually planned the opera house in detail, but which had been put on hold since the late 1970’s. http://salem-news.com/articles/january072013/damascus-opera-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january072013/damascus-opera-fl.php Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:04:00 PST It started even before the historic 139 to 8 vote of the UN General Assembly on November 29 of this year which opened up a plethora of legal remedies for Palestinians. A “legal intifada” — to borrow a phrase from Professor Francis Boyle — has been taking form in this region. http://salem-news.com/articles/january012013/syria-hague-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january012013/syria-hague-fl.php Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:56:00 PST A Texas writer, Robert Morrow, sent me the following: There is an extremely important book that came out in 2003 and was published by Vision. It is "Operation Cyanide-Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III " by Peter Hounam and it is about Israel's attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967. http://salem-news.com/articles/december282012/benghazi-israel-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december282012/benghazi-israel-bc.php Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:51:00 PST “Who does that obnoxious woman think she is?” The demand came from a staffer in the Russian Embassy media office inside the vast windowless soviet style massive high walled compound. http://salem-news.com/articles/december142012/damascus-notes-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december142012/damascus-notes-fl.php Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:44:00 PST Among the top 24 countries sending weapons to Syria to achieve regime change are USA, Iraq and Israel. The 24 arms suppliers constitute the majority of NATO’s 28 country membership. They are all benefiting from the crisis in Syria by injecting arms and watching the two sides kill and destroy their hope for a solid future. http://salem-news.com/articles/november052012/syria-damascus-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november052012/syria-damascus-fl.php Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:14:00 PST Pro-government militias intercept food, fuel and medicine and use grad rockets and gas weapons against Bani Walid, a man whose family remains in the town told RT. He claims the daily shelling of the town is Misrata militias’ attempt to eliminate it. http://salem-news.com/articles/october222012/walid-gas-attack.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october222012/walid-gas-attack.php Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:25:00 PDT When I read of the sad death of the American ambassador in Libya, I wondered whether Hilary Clinton, who had reacted with such depressing vulgarity and Caesarian pretension to the death of Colonel Gaddafi, registered the link between this killing and what the Americans had done in Libya. http://salem-news.com/articles/september242012/libya-loss-rw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september242012/libya-loss-rw.php Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:18:00 PDT With the publication of the profane pictures of the holy Prophet of Islam in Charlie Hebdo magazine, the West seems to be consciously moving in a direction where chaos will dominate the international arena. A clash of cultures will inevitably run deeper for an indefinite period of time. http://salem-news.com/articles/september202012/french-cartoons-is.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september202012/french-cartoons-is.php Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:50:00 PDT Both sides in the Syrian conflict — and all the Middle Eastern powers — are manipulating events and rumours for their own purposes. Media access to hard facts is limited where it exists at all, and anyway most media want a simple, sympathetic narrative, and want it now. http://salem-news.com/articles/september192012/syria-propaganda.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september192012/syria-propaganda.php Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:41:00 PDT Thousands of supporters took part in a demonstration in Peshawar, Lahore, Pakistan. Those Pakistanis took to the streets on Monday to condemn an anti-Islam film, burning US flags and chant slogans, as police warned of more protest rallies across the country. http://salem-news.com/articles/september192012/anti-islam-film-pk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september192012/anti-islam-film-pk.php Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:23:00 PDT Bangladesh has blocked the video sharing website YouTube for hosting an anti-Islam movie that insults the Prophet Muhammad on Monday. Visitors from different parts of Bangladesh has confirmed and reconfirmed that they are unable to access you tube after 5:05pm on Monday. http://salem-news.com/articles/september172012/bangladesh-rezx-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september172012/bangladesh-rezx-wg.php Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:57:00 PDT Former US Marine and war correspondent Tim King dismissed the US claims that it cannot stop the display of an anti-Islam movie which has recently been produced in the US due to the freedom of expression. He says that freedom of speech in the United States is an outdated promise and is only applied to few people. http://salem-news.com/articles/september172012/tim-interview-kz.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september172012/tim-interview-kz.php Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:50:00 PDT When penury and a lack of education in quantity and quality, are amalgamated with the circumstances of a war torn region, such acts of indiscriminate violence, a desire to reach out at the closer and weaker constituents of those perceived as oppressors occurs. It is a human phenomena that one can even see in US history and around the world in different contexts and times. http://salem-news.com/articles/september162012/hate-movie-reax-sd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september162012/hate-movie-reax-sd.php Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:28:00 PDT The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tonight called on local, state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate vandalism at a Virginia mosque as a possible hate crime. Reports indicate that the Islamic Center of the Shenandoah Valley in Harrisonburg, Va., was vandalized sometime Thursday night with obscene hate graffiti... http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/mosque-vandalised.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/mosque-vandalised.php Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:08:00 PDT While the nation mourns the killing of J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and four others, there lingers misunderstandings of what happened in Libya and Egypt and why. Here is an accumulation of my comments on other Salem-News articles. http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/islam-film-reax-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/islam-film-reax-rs.php Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:46:00 PDT The U.S. Secretary of State has stressed that the U.S. government had “absolutely nothing to do with” the anti-Islam film that has touched off violence in the Middle East. Hillary Clinton’s attempt to distance the U.S. from “Innocence of Muslims”--and, by extension, is complicated by the revelation that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula became a government informant after his 2009 arrest for bank fraud... http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/islam-film-us-sg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/islam-film-us-sg.php Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:16:00 PDT The U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens died in the invasion of thousands of protesters in Benghazi, Libya. It is a tragedy any time a person is violently killed, but in the case of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, it is a sharper, more painful tragedy. All politics aside, this is a man who dedicated his life to understanding the Libyan people, language and culture. http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/stevens-photos-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september142012/stevens-photos-tk.php Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:35:00 PDT The month of September has witnessed an accelerated trend of coordinated attempts to desecrate Islam and tarnish the image of the Muslims across the globe. That a blasphemous movie desecrating the person of the holy Prophet of Islam has been released in the United States simultaneously with the 9/11 tragic incident cannot be looked upon as sheer coincidence. http://salem-news.com/articles/september132012/israel-plot-is.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september132012/israel-plot-is.php Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:40:00 PDT In Egypt and in Libya popular outrage at a film on the Prophet Muhammad has escalated into violence. In Libya's second city, Benghazi, gunmen believed to be Salafis belonging to a group called Katibat Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law Brigade) stormed the US consulate and set it on fire, killing the ambassador and three of his staff. http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/israel-salafists-ns.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/israel-salafists-ns.php Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:22:00 PDT With heavy hearts the American Muslims for Palestine, a national grassroots organization, today offers condolences to the family of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff. They were killed when people stormed the US embassy in Libya Tuesday. http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/amp-stevens.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/amp-stevens.php Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:07:00 PDT Here is an idea: next time leave a stable sovereign government like Libya alone. Another suggestion, don't hire people who hate you to overthrow someone you trusted for decades. Let us remember the destabilizing attacks and whose decisions led to the deaths of thousands and thousands of innocent people, mostly at the hands of Benghazi rebels and western air raid attacks organized by the EU and UN http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/benghazi-reality-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/benghazi-reality-tk.php Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:52:00 PDT The US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed when local militia assaulted Washington's consulate in Benghazi. President Barack Obama has condemned the attack. Reports from various sources paint an unclear picture of the circumstances surrounding Ambassador John Christopher Steven's death. http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/libya-attack.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/libya-attack.php Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:33:00 PDT Manufacturing Dissent is a documentary about the psychological-warfare by the media and political establishment of the west and their allies aimed at facilitating the US, European and Israeli agenda of getting rid of the current Syrian government. It demonstrates how the media has directly contributed to the bloodshed in Syria. http://salem-news.com/articles/september012012/manufacturing-dissent.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september012012/manufacturing-dissent.php Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:22:00 PDT A Virginia college, a Colorado high school, a Texas military base, an Arizona strip mall, a Colorado movie theatre—all have become part of a recurring event in America: mass murder. Following the latest massacre, Tom Mauser, father of a 15-year-old victim at the Columbine High School slaughter in 1999, described the inescapable scene... http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/double-standards-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/double-standards-pb.php Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:13:00 PDT Television introduced us to the victims of the horrific shootings in Aurora, CO, and to the grieving survivors. Americans were dismayed, and President Obama went to Colorado to personally console the survivors. http://salem-news.com/articles/july252012/us-victims-rd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july252012/us-victims-rd.php Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:02:00 PDT