Gary Gibbon
Libya meeting more about meaning than action
As the Libya conference draws to a close, Political Editor Gary Gibbon says the key aim was to show that the dismal planning over Iraq is not a mistake that is being repeated.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Libya: rebel council releases its vision for future
The Interim National Council of Libya has released its plan for the future of Libya as world leaders meet to discuss that very issue. Gary Gibbon takes a look.
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Libya: staying sane in insane situations
Everything is the same here and yet nothing is. Independent reporting was tough enough during my first stint; now my colleagues, those who have risked their sanity by staying this past month or more, tell me solo journalism is virtually impossible, with reporters frequently scooped up by police and returned to the hotel compound if they try to escape on anything other than an official bus tour.
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Jon Snow
A Libyan summit without Libya
Jon Snow first met Colonel Gaddafi in 1978, and was intrigued and appalled by his eccentricity in equal measure. That eccentricity, and his brutality, has never left him, he says.
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Obama and Libya – and the big question: Why?
Our Washington Correspondent, Sarah Smith looks at the questions the Obama Administration is still to answer about its intervention in Libya.
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Libya: lies and spin in Gaddafi's Tripoli
Jonathan Miller reflects on his time in Libya in the hands of “this nasty regime”, seeing the full force of Gaddafi’s power and ruthlessness.
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Around the Arab World in four uprisings
Jonathan Rugman has witnessed four uprisings – Tunisisa, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain – in less than four months. And when the dust finally settles, he sees democracy on the horizon in the Arab world.
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To protect all civilians or just rebellious ones?
Krishnan Guru-Murthy looks at the problems facing the alliance enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya – particularly the risk to civilians.
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Libya's Ajdabiya retaken by rebels: what next for coalition forces?
As rebel forces retake Ajdabiya, Lindsey Hilsum samples the atmosphere and asks what is next for the coalition.
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Libya: Fleeing families on the road to Benghazi
Lindsey Hilsum finds that Coalition bombing has allowed people to escape Ajdabiyah and meets one family who has spent several weeks in search of a safe haven.
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Libya: Tujura detour reveals a confusing picture
Jonathan Miller is taken to see evidence of a civilian hit on the outskirts of Tripoli, but is everything just as it seems?
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Omar al Sodani: a familiar face with familiar accusations
Lindsey Hilsum meets Omar al Sodani in a Libyan prison, a man accused by Libyan rebels of beling involved with killings in Benghazi, but more noyably for British journalists, a man linked to the shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher 27 years ago in Belgravia, London.
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Shooting first – and hitting the people they came to protect
Our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from the scene of the crashed US jet near Benghazi – and tells the sorry tale of what happened next.
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Obama supports Libya action, but it must be asked, why?
A man of decisive words more than decisive action over his time, President Obama has bucked the trend of his time in office announcing firm action in the mission against Gaddafi – but perhaps more words are needed to answer the question, just why he has got so involved?
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Gary Gibbon
Libya: mixed messages on targeting Gaddafi
The US is doing better than the UK at agreeing a line on whether Colonel Gaddafi is a target in the Libya bombing or not – and sticking to it, as Gary Gibbon blogs.