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SHOCKING: Libyan Mob Attack Kills Four, Including U.S. Ambassador
UPDATE: ‘Full-Blown … Crisis’
UPDATE: Hey, MSM, No Fair Shouting Questions at President Gutsy Call

Just woke up to this news. When I went to bed last night, I knew that one American had been killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But when I woke up — wow. This is stunning. UPDATE: Washington Post: U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans […]

We Are Prepared to Come Kill You UPDATE: One American Killed, Another Wounded in Libyan Attack

The other day I asked my wife where our 19-year-old son Bob was. The answer: Hiking up a mountain with an 85-pound pack. He recently enlisted in the Army, having scored a near-maximum on the ASVAB test, and will report to boot camp in a few months — some kind of delayed-entry deal — as […]

Journalist Says She Was Molested in Custody by Egyptian ‘Security’ Forces

Is this a logical sequel to the “Arab Spring”? The US-based Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy has been released, according to her personal Twitter account, after 12 hours in detention at the hands of Cairo security forces. A later tweet from the account @monaeltahawy said that she was sexually and physically assaulted while being held inside the […]

No Surprise: Sharia Law in Libya

What “liberation” means in the Islamic world: Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its “basic source”. … Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi’s era that he […]

Moammar Qaddafi Is Dead

ABC News: Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said today. The flamboyant tyrant who terrorized his country and much of the world during his 42 years of despotic rule was reportedly cornered by insurgents in the town of Sirte, where Gadhafi was born and which was a stronghold of […]

Who Should Be Embarrassed, Mr. Yoo?

by Smitty John Yoo at the National Review: Obama did the right thing to order U.S. forces in [to Libya], but it was done reluctantly, with the administration claiming it was not really at “war,” limiting the U.S. and its allies to enforcing a no-fly zone only, and then trying to reduce our participation in […]

Libyan Regime Collapses; Rebels Enter Tripoli; Qaddafi Sons Reported Captured

Looks like Moammar Qaddafi’s dictatorship has finally been vanquished: TRIPOLI, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s grip on power dissolved with astonishing speed on Monday as rebels marched into the capital and arrested two of his sons, while residents raucously celebrated the prospective end of his four-decade-old rule. . . . The rebel leadership announced that […]

Qaddafi Cornered as Rebels Attack Tripoli

More than five months after the launch of Operation Odyssey Dawn — which was supposed to have toppled Moammar Qaddafi’s regime in a matter of days — Libyan rebels say they’re finally on the verge of victory: Euphoric Libyan rebels have pushed to the western outskirts of Tripoli without meeting any resistance after they overran […]

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