I tried to tell you. “Energized Muslim Brotherhood in Libya eyes a prize,” by Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister for CNN, March 25 (thanks to Ray): (CNN) — Dr. Abdulmonem Hresha knows first hand how Moammar Gadhafi’s regime works. He says the seeds of his opposition were sown when he was age 10…. The prominent […]
MI5 warns that “Islamic extremists could be bankrolled as terrorists by wealthy and respected Libyan businessmen living in the UK”
Those who intend to fund jihadist attacks would find all too many willing mujahedin already on British soil, and all too many of a Tiny Minority of Extremists who would celebrate a successful attack. “Libyan expats plot revenge terror attacks on UK streets over Gaddafi bombing raids,” by Tom Kelly, Tim Shipman, and Ian Drury […]
The misconceived war against Libya
In “Symposium: The Mismanaged War Against Libya” at FrontPage today, a panel including Michael Ledeen, Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, Walid Phares and me explores what American “” and Western “” interests are served by the coalition’s war against Libya. The answer: none. Robert Spencer, let us begin with you. What is your position on […]
“America is now at war to protect a Libyan province that’s been an epicenter of anti-American jihad”
Obama’s bombing of Libya is aiding the jihadists. Confirmation from an unlikely source of what I wrote here. “U.S. Bombs Libya, Helps… Jihadists?!,” by Tim Dickinson in Rolling Stone (of all places), March 21: America is now at war to protect a Libyan province that’s been an epicenter of anti-American jihad. In recent years, at […]
Spencer: Firing on Libya — For What?
Human Events entitled my latest piece “U.S. Bombs on Libya May Backfire,” but it’s hard to see how something that lacks a clear objective in the first place can backfire. As the U.S. fired more than 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya on Saturday, the objective seems clear. Barack Obama declared that “we cannot stand […]
Arab League chief backtracks somewhat on criticism of Western powers’ action against Libya
He is still choosing his words carefully, and still essentially saying he approves of the no-fly zone, but not so much the enforcement of it. Only now, he is limiting his remarks only to his approval of the no-fly-zone. It may indeed be the case that he is altering his remarks based on the intended […]
U.K. Foreign Office: Backseat-driving Arab League leader “claimed he had been misquoted, or had put his criticism more strongly in Arabic than in English”
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Had Western powers done nothing, they would have been accused of sitting idly by, indifferent to the suffering of a Muslim population. Having done something, they are accused of doing too much, and chances are good that at some point, calls for revenge over the supposedly “indiscriminate” […]
Arab League criticizes airstrikes on Libya, says civilians have been killed
Yesterday, Marisol wrote: “Tomorrow, or soon, they will pillory us again as the ‘world’s policeman.’” And here we are. These strikes against Libya are disastrously wrongheaded and play into the hands of Islamic supremacists, but that doesn’t stop the Arab League from using them to play the victim card and try to stir up a […]
Hizballah top dog to Libya, Bahrain, Yemen protesters: Allah “will grant you victory if you persist in your jihad”
“These revolutions are the will of the people.” He seems confident that if the will of the people in Libya and elsewhere does indeed find expression, that what will result will not be pluralistic democracies guaranteeing the rights of their people and friendly toward the West, but Islamic states bristling with hatred for the Great […]
For Gaddafi, Obama goes from Muslim to Crusader
“Now, ruling America is a black man from our continent, an African from Arab descent, from Muslim descent, and this is something we never imagined — that from Reagan we would get to Barakeh Obama.” — Muammar Gaddafi, April 2010 Gadhafi, who has ruled Libya for 41 years, said the international action against his forces […]