t look like a robbery because there was no break-in at their Toyota car parked nearby. It was left untouched until we came," the official told Reuters, declining to be named. "We found the bullets," he added. Both victims worked for Blue Energy, an oilfield maintenance firm, and had been driving in a Tripoli-registered car to Mellitah, 60 miles (100km) west of Tripoli. The New Zealand foreign affairs...
Army questioned pair about what they were doing at night on university campus normally closed to non-students Libyan authorities have released two Americans detained by the army in the violence-hit eastern city of Benghazi , the basketball club they played for said on Friday. The two had been detained at the campus of Benghazi university and brought to the army's headquarters, Libyan security officials...
s for humanists, scientists and who knows what other dangerous–ists. It's all about how we feel now Remember the Information Age? That was such an interesting period, when digital technology and the thirst for understanding converged to give the human race unprecedented access to heaps of revealing data, contemporaneous and historical. All you had to do was analyze the information without prejudice...
s biggest oil reserves, Libya was seen as a commercial goldmine, and was home to a people generally eager to open up to the outside world and break out of 40 years of isolation. But two years later, many foreigners have been scared off. Violence, stagnation, militia battles, attacks on diplomats, carjackings – life in the capital, Tripoli, is certainly not for the fainthearted. In October, the prime...
s killing alarms expats, raising concern that jihadist militia actions will accelerate exodus of foreign workers The murder of British oil company executive Mark de Salis, whose body was found alongside that of a New Zealand woman on a beach west of the Libyan capital on Thursday, has sent a shudder through the expatriate community in the country, and threatens serious damage to the country's oil industry....
Tuareg tribes from Ghat in the Libyan desert meet to celebrate Tuareg traditional culture, folklore and heritage Bridget Coaker ...
s regime and illustrate how the fate of Britons trapped in Libya weighed heavily on ministers' minds. Soon after Thatcher came to power in 1979, Gaddafi – who said he had not supplied arms to the IRA for three years – signalled that he wanted to improve relations with the new Conservative administration. The murders of exiled Libyan journalists and activists in London, however, soon soured relations....
s main gas export terminal on the coast, 60 miles west of the capital Tripoli. A photograph circulating on social media purportedly of the pair shows the bodies of a man and woman in civilian clothes lying face down on sandy terrain. There are reports that a Briton working for the Melittah oil and gas complex is missing. A Foreign Office spokesperson said: "We are aware of reports that the bodies of...
The Daily Beast reports that the Obama administration plans to decrease its budget for democracy promotion and governance programs in Arab Spring countries like Egypt and Libya. Should the US be cutting pro-democracy aid? ...
Four service personnel were investigating escape routes when they were briefly taken into custody, says US Defence Department official ...
s attack. It said three other soldiers were wounded, without drawing a distinction between civilian and military casualties. Car bombs and assassinations of army and police officers are common in Benghazi, where troops have clashed regularly with militants from the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia. But a suicide bombing would mark a shift in tactics, and fits a pattern common in other Islamist...
t think the truth possibly ever will be found so perhaps we will be talking about this for years to come," he told the BBC. Pan Am flight 103 was on its way from London to New York when it exploded above Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, on the evening of 21 December 1988, killing everyone onboard and 11 people on the ground. Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, and Lord Wallace, advocate general...
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s land in their twos and threes, desperate to surrender. The British were well prepared: there were large stockpiles of bottled water, tents and waiting vehicles. Occasionally something went wrong, there were misunderstandings – especially at dawn or dusk – and people were hurt, but, by and large, what I witnessed was a humanitarian operation. The Iraqis were brought under shelter, rehydrated, given...
s relations with the US, a high court judge ruled on Friday. The judge ruled that Abdel Hakim Belhaj could not sue MI6 and the former foreign secretary Jack Straw, even though he admitted that parliamentary oversight and police investigations were "not adequate substitutes" for a decision by a court of law. Though the ruling, by Mr Justice Simon, dismissed Belhaj's case, it directly challenged the...
s intelligence agencies 'totally unprepared' for US response to 9/11 and years later 'co-operated with interrogations' MI6 officers were under no obligation to report breaches of the Geneva conventions and turned a "blind eye" to the torture of detainees in foreign jails, according to the report into Britain's involvement in the rendition of terror suspects. Even when individual MI6 and MI5 officers...
s landmark nuclear deal was tempered by continued bloodshed in Syria and the further unravelling of the Arab spring It is always hard to predict how historians will judge current events. But the rough draft for any future tally of the Middle East in 2013 must include the Geneva agreement on Iran's nuclear programme , the bloody and escalating war in Syria – and fading hopes for a happy end to the other...
s complicity in the rendition – ie abduction – and torture of terror suspects will be dumped into the hands of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, the body of hand-picked MPs and peers that has shown itself to be so woefully incapable or unwilling to investigate this shameful scandal in the past. Soon after the coalition government came to power, David Cameron promised a judge-led...
s involvement in rendition and torture in the years after 9/11 is to be handed to the controversial intelligence and security committee (ISC), the government will announce on Thursday. The decision follows years of assurances by ministers that the inquiry would be headed by a senior judge, with the prime minister having told MPs that no other arrangement would command public confidence. It triggered...
s People & Power programme to be broadcast on Wednesday. "Sometimes they [interrogators] would come to me with questions and answers already done and force me to sign it", Belhaj says. "They would mention names to me and say that these people supported armed activities". He adds: "These were people who had nothing to do with Islamic or any other groups. They were just businessmen or people who were...