Gary Gibbon
Who’s in the ‘alliance of the willing’?
Our Political Editor looks at President Obama’s warning to Colonel Gaddafi and at who might be lining up to take part in the alliance against Libya.
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Can Gaddafi stay in power?
Although the rhetoric is more fierce by the hour, and French planes are already flying over Libya it seems increasingly plausible that Colonel Gaddafi will stay in place.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Libya: Why Cameron must wait for regime change
Our Political Editor reviews David Cameron’s comments in his interviews on Libya and Colonel Gaddafi.
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Cameron’s Rules of War?
Has David Cameron learned his own lessons before deploying British forces to military action in Libya?
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron’s military moment
Our Political Editor reports on the Prime Minister’s statement to the Commons on Britain’s involvement in military action against Libya – and looks at some of the questions behind the UN vote.
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The elephant in the Tripoli hotel room
Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller is summoned from his hotel room in the early hours for a bizarre news conference, with a Gaddafi Government Minister…and assorted supporters.
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Gulf states back US Libya plans, but at a price?
Is the support of a number of Arab countries to help with US plans to oust Gaddafi in return for a go-ahead to smash Shi’a protests in Bahrain, considered to be ‘the backdoor for Iran’ to get influence?
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Gary Gibbon
What chance of the UN approving a Libyan no-fly zone?
Gary Gibbon considers the prospects for the British-sponsored resolution that calls for the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya which is now under discussion at the UN Security Council.
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Gary Gibbon
PM under pressure as Gaddafi forces approach east Libya
As Saif al-Islam Gaddafi tells Channel 4 News Benghazi will be “liberated” in two days Gary Gibbon says the Prime Minister will have a number of phone-calls to make.
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Gary Gibbon
Libya and Cameron’s lack of pulling power
David Cameron told the Commons that time was “of the essence” and looking at the advances of Colonel Gaddafi’s troops that seems like a monumental under-statement, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Rebel graves bulldozed over in Zawiyah
Rebel graves bulldozed over in Zawiyah: “But the apparent desecration of the graves is what disturbs me most. I asked a man with deadened eyes where the dead people had gone. “No people,” he insisted repeatedly, before walking away.”
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Jon Snow
Teach First: war later
Teachers, how do they do it? You think it’s a creamy career, well-paid with great holidays? It is so much more as I discovered, blogs Jon Snow.
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Shakespeare and kalashnikovs, Kennedy and rocket launchers. This is Libya
Chanel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum meets the idealistic students, teachers and war rookies making up the ranks of Libya’s rebels.
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Gary Gibbon
Libya ‘misunderstanding’ or Hague over the garden fence?
Foreign Secretary William Hague told the Commons that there was a “serious misunderstanding” about the role of the team he despatched to Libya with the PM’s backing. You could say that, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Foiled SBS mission will upset UK's 'good reputation' in Libya
Lindsey Hilsum on why the failed mission in Libya could seriously tarnish Britain’s excellent reputation with the Libyan protesters.