Jon Snow
Gaddafi's ominous 'cockroach' threat
Colonel Gaddafi’s speech in which he talked of the protesters as “drugged” and “cockroaches” has horrid resonances with past events, blogs Jon Snow.
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Gaddafi and the seven sons, blond mercenaries and X
In a dusty bar on the Tunisian border with Libya at dusk, Alex Thomson meets a Libyan insider who’s seen blond mercenaries on the streets of Tripoli.
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Egyptians fleeing Libya speak of the fall of western towns
In the desert close to the frontier with Libya the buses unload their cargos at the new camp which has sprung up in the last 24 hours. Run by the Tunisian army it is there to register and process people coming over the border from western Liby
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Libya's revolution, and its Rambo
Lindsey Hilsum meets the Libyan revolution’s Rambo – and others who fear for their lives if Gaddafi tries to re-take the east of the country.
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Jon Snow
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On the border as workers flee 'dangerous' Libya
I ask another car overfilled with Tunisian, Egyptian and Algerian guest-workers what things are like and the driver tells me: “If you go now from the border into Libya towards Tripoli, for the first 60km things are ok. But after that, well, it just gets more and more dangerous.”
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Faisal Islam
Libya: Colonel Gaddafi’s last stand?
Faisal Islam listens in on Colonel Gaddafi’s extraordinary speech, made as thousands protest against his regime. Is it his last stand?
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The revolutions will not always be televised
Egypt and Tunisia have made us believe “the revolution will be televised”, and that this is the era of “social media revolution” where demonstrators are organised by Twitter and Facebook, but Libya might yet prove that even when state TV is controlled, and the internet is largely shut down people can still bring down governments.
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Jon Snow
Arab uprising: How far will the sparks spread?
How far will the sparks from the Arab uprisings spread around the world, asks Jon Snow.
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Faisal Islam
Libya, BP, the curse of oil, and what Gaddafi Jr failed to learn at the LSE
Our Economics Editor looks at how oil is a major factor in events in Libya.
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The Blair Doctrine : buried in Libyan sand?
How Tony Blair must be angry. Colonel Gaddafi, the man he brought in from the cold, is isolated again and retreating. His armed supporters have gunned down scores of protesters demanding the end of 42 years of autocratic rule. The revolution has finally started to catch up with the old revolutionary.
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron: Megrahi release ‘not a BP decision’
David Cameron has just told PBS radio in Washington that the Megrahi release was “not a BP decision” but “the decision of British ministers” (by which he means Scottish ministers). He has revisited his initial decision to turn down a late request from four US senators to meet up and discuss the Lockerbie bomber’s release…
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Suffering of refugees in Muammar Gaddafi's Libya
Here’s an African love story. Adebe married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, in Addis Ababa when she was 22. The trouble was, although Daniel was born in Ethiopia, he was of Eritrean stock, and when the two countries went to war, he was deported to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, where he was forced to join the…
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Gary Gibbon
Gnomic truths from Brown on the Megrahi row
The most interesting line in Gordon Brown’s statement today was the most gnomic. “Were we right to spell out to ourselves the consequences of both eventualities, whether it was a Scottish decision for his release or for him remaining in prison? Yes – to have failed to have done so… would’ve been failing in our…
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Gary Gibbon
What lies behind Brown’s silence on Megrahi release
Why Gordon Brown is being advised to maintain his silence on the release of convicted Libyan al-Megrahi.
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African nations and the UN join the G8 talks
I am losing count of the Gs. Yesterday we had the G8 + G5 (including China and India) + 1. The 1 was Egypt. Today we have the G8 + 9 + 7, which includes African nations and international institutions like the UN, but perhaps we should take away 1 from that list – so…