Libya: why intervention into revolution may not go
Libya is not like the other Middle East revolutions – but that does not mean that the intervention route is the right one, writes Jon Snow.
Truth is the first casualty of war – and in the case of the Libyan conflict, we should be more sceptical about some of the claims being made by the anti-Gaddafi forces, blogs Alex Thomson
Colonel Gaddafi’s son Saif has called many things – often by fellow Libyans who want to kill him. But is he a fraud? FactCheck examines allegations of plagiarism surrounding the former LSE student’s PhD thesis.
Alex Thomson blogs from the border between Tunisia and Libya on the miracle of the modern telephone and the stories of those who have fled Gaddafi’s nation.
Our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, meets the families of prisoners killed in the most notorious massacre of Colonel Gaddafi’s rule.
Alex Thomson returns to the Libya Tunisia border to find that the situation has changed in the past three days: it is not chaotic or catastrophic – but it’s not comfortable.
Libya is not like the other Middle East revolutions – but that does not mean that the intervention route is the right one, writes Jon Snow.
Jonathan Rugman encounters a bubble of unreality in Tripoli, Libya, where the revolution has and yet has not taken hold, and misinformation is the order of the day.
After three months of confusion and hesitation, the French government has decided to get behind the pro-democracy movement in the Arab world, blogs John Sparks.
Is the government really moving towards imposing a no-fly zone on Libya or just beating a drum? Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs.
Expect the unexpected – no one predicted the unrest that has swept the Middle East, writes Jon Snow. So no one really knows where it could strike next – Oman, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia.
People in Libya’s Zawiyah, a town near Tripoli, are marvelling at their liberation – but it has come at a terrible cost, writes Jonathan Rugman from Libya.
Throughout the uprisings of the last few weeks the British government, and its allies, have been adamantly refusing to say whether the various despots, dictators and Royals should stay or go. That changed on Saturday night.
When protestors took sledgehammers to the symbols of his rule, Gaddafi’s regime started to crumble. Writing in The Sunday Times, Lindsey Hilsum meets a Libyan who put his life on the line, and onto YouTube.
Libyans are supposed to devote themslves to studying Colonel Gaddafi’s Green Book, but as far as I can tell, the people of Benghazi spend much of their time watching TV quiz shows, blogs International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
It seems to me that this does not add up to a regime in its last hours. It does not appear to be a regime in its very last days even, blogs Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.