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  Mubarak, Kadafi, and Then… David C. Stolinsky Oct. 24, 2011 The dictator of Libya for 42 years is dead. As videos reveal, he is − like the Wicked Witch of the East in “The Wizard of Oz” − really most sincerely dead. This relieves the people of Libya from the burden of four decades of bloody, psychotic rule, and it relieves us from the burden of deciding how to spell his name. Still, we can wonder why we had the obligation of handling Bin Laden’s body with respect, according to Islamic law. We did not publish photos of...

Well, duh. It was another case of the MSM taking the word of a dictator and becoming propaganda outlets for the enemy. Happens time and time again.

A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the compound of Muammar Gaddafi said they believed the man who led Libya for four decades was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons. Rebels were exchanging fire with Gaddafi loyalists inside the buildings. They did not say why they believed Gaddafi and his sons were inside. "They are together. They are in a small hole," said one of the fighters involved in the battle, Muhammad Gomaa. "Today we finish. Today we will end that."

The CIA director said he believes Moammar Gadhafi survived a NATO airstrike that reduced much of the Libyan leader's family compound to rubble. Gadhafi has not been seen in public since Saturday's attack, which Libyan officials said killed one of his sons and three grandchildren. Gadhafi was in the building, but survived, Libyan officials have said, providing no details. Asked about Gadhafi's fate since the air strike, CIA director Leon Panetta told the U.S. TV network NBC on Tuesday that "the best intelligence we have is that he's still alive." Libya's deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, said Gadhafi met with...

John R. Bolton, the former ambassador to the United Nations who is weighing a presidential run in 2012, accused President Obama on Friday of failing to address threats to U.S. national security and called the administration's approach to the crisis in Libya "pathetic." Hours after the president warned that the United Nations was ready to launch a military strike to defend the Libyan people if their leader Moammar Kadafi did not halt his attacks on civilians and pull back from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi and three other cities, Bolton cast the president as indecisive, inconsistent and uninterested in foreign...

How do you spell the crazy Libyan dictator's name? He has been around for years and nobody can seem to agree on a proper English spelling. Some use a "Q" and others use a "K" or a "G." Whatever the spelling the namesake is an embattled terroristic dictator hoping to keep his regime in power. But let us explore possibilities.

Libya has opened a new phase in its journey from pariah state back to the international fold by calling for US President George W. Bush to visit and pledging action on human rights. The moves are the latest in a dramatic turnaround by the oil-rich nation, which was bombed by the United States in the 1980s, since Tripoli renounced its quest for weapons of mass destruction.

A High-Risk Nuclear Stakeout The U.S. took too long to act, some experts say, letting a Pakistani scientist sell illicit technology well after it knew of his operation. By Douglas Frantz, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Nuclear warhead plans that Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan sold to Libya were more complete and detailed than previously disclosed, raising new concerns about the cost of Washington's watch-and-wait policy before Khan and his global black market were shut down last year. Two Western nuclear weapons specialists who have examined the top-secret designs say the hundreds of pages of engineering drawings and handwritten notes...

The moment the meek and disheveled image of the Iraqi tyrant appeared on TV screens around the world, an old friend of mine announced that he got the message and said he would disclose his weapons of mass destruction. As chief of Romanian foreign intelligence, I worked closely with Libya's Muammar Khaddafi before I became, in 1978, the highest-ranking spy from the Soviet bloc to defect to America. I was Khaddafi's handler as he was gearing up these same weapons programs. Moscow had decided in 1972 to use three leftist Arab governments — Libya, Iraq, and Syria — plus Arafat's...

The Libya ruse Posted: December 22, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Libya and its allies in the Middle East would like you to believe Muammar Ghadafy has had a change of heart and has simply decided unilaterally to abandon the development of nuclear warheads and other weapons of mass destruction. Here are the real possibilities behind Libya's announcement: International sanctions against the country have truly hurt the economy; Libya has found a good place to hide its weapons of mass destruction and feels comfortable they can never be found by international arms inspectors; Libya is fearful it may...