Gary Gibbon
No ‘mission accomplished’ moment for Cameron on Libya
There will be no “mission accomplished” style banner on Libya when David Cameron attends the Paris Conference next week, blogs Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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FactCheck: Is Britain Nato’s top gun in Libya?
Britain “won’t be left behind” in the grab for Libyan oil contracts, William Hague said today, as world leaders flocked to Paris to plot out the new Libya. And why should we? Rumours are rife that Libya’s new government plans to hand the French the keys to 35 per cent of the country’s oil. And we’ve done just as much to help Libya as the French, haven’t we? Hmm not exactly, FactCheck discovers.
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Living in a warzone
Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the challenges of life in Tripoli’s war zone in the “most physically demanding trip” she has endured in a long time.
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High-velocity celebration: Tripoli after Gaddafi
For now it is the Eid holiday. A pause. A time to try and drink in what has happened across this city, where another simple grafitti slogan captures the mood, the practicality, the possibility of the new reality: “I love this year – 2011”
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Libya, the UK and military kit… it's just business
British firm General Dynamics signed one of the biggest deals of all with Colonel Gaddafi and as Alex Thomson blogs it is just one of several links between the UK and the ousted regime.
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Where were the women in Libya's revolution?
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum asks ‘where were the women’ during Libya’s revolution?
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Gangsta's paradise
Not for the first time, Alex Thomson didn’t know what to do, so he drove to the heart of Col Gaddafi’s Tripoli power base. And he found a party.
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Caught up in somebody else's war
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on the terrifying ordeal of black Africans caught up in the Libya war.
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Abu Salim, the 'spark' of Libya's revolution
The Abu Salim massacre of 1996, when 1200 prisoners were gunned down, may have been the spark that led to the Libyan revolution, as International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has been hearing.
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No more 'crazy hair' as Gaddafi's Libya lies wrecked
Tripoli airport is a quiet place these days. Colonel Gaddafi’s golf buggy used to transport him to his jet, lying on a pavement outside the terminal building, blogs Alex Thomson.
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The horror of Abu Salim
The hospital in Abu Salim is no longer a place of healing; it is a mortuary, writes Alex Thomson.
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Gary Gibbon
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Will Libya change David Cameron?
This has been a defining moment for David Cameron, just as Tony Blair’s intervention in Kosovo was for him. But whereas Blair developed a whole theory of liberal intervention around his Kosovo motives in his famous Chicago speech we must wait to see how the remarkable success of Cameron’s Libyan campaign will change him.
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Where is Gaddafi?
Jonathan Rugman looks at where Libyan leader Gaddafi could be – and what could happen next in the fight for control of Tripoli.
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In Libya you can have any colour you want, as long as it's green
For mile upon mile as we drove into Tripoli today, the colour was green. But the future of Libya is no longer green, blogs Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb.
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Tripoli hospital struggling as bodies keep coming
Alex is Thomson says that bodies piling up in Tripoli’s Al Zawiya Hospital the day after Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound was stormed by rebels.