Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60 The New York Times | Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died in Libya, family members told news agencies on Sunday, three years after Scotland released him on humanitarian grounds, citing evidence that he was near death with ...
Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president Herald Tribune | CAIRO - Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. | The voting that begins Wednesday is the greatest prize won by the multitudes who took to the streets to overthrow unpopular Hosni Mubarak in the string of p...
US Army’s ‘fatwa' on Islam and challenges before the Muslim world The Siasat Daily May 21: | The US Army’s fatwa that “America’s enemy is Islam in general, not just terrorists’’, is really very dangerous and highly provocative. It is really very shocking that the mid-level and junior US Army officers were being taught thi...
Lockerbie bomber dies in Libya Sydney Morning Herald | PAA | The death of the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people should not prevent a public inquiry into his trial, Britain's press says. | Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi died on Sunday, almost three years after...
NATO officials: No plan to intervene in Syria Austin American Statesman | CHICAGO — United States and NATO officials say the North Atlantic alliance has no intention of intervening militarily to quell violence in Syria. | NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder said memb...
Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies of cancer in Libya Jakarta Post | He was the embodiment of one of modern Libya's darkest chapters — a man synonymous with horrifying scenes of wreckage, broken families and a plane that fell out of the sky a generation ago. His name, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was little known compa...
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UN envoy: Libya unstable but moving to democracy The Guardian | EDITH M. LEDERER | Associated Press= UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top U.N. envoy in Libya said Thursday there are positive signs that the country is moving toward democracy but lo...
Challenge from the Sahel Gulf News | Is the Sahel about to become the new Afghanistan? A band of territory immediately south of the waterless Sahara, it has become a lawless haven for smugglers, kidnappers, armed Is...
Damascus blasts kill 40 and wound 170, says Syrian TV The Independent | Syrian television blamed "terrorists" for the morning rush-hour blasts, which were the deadliest to hit the capital since the revolt began. It showed mangled, burnt and...
REGIME CHANGE: Myanmar learns the lesson of Libya GlobalResearch | Strike Myanmar from the regime change list. Only two years ago, the resource-rich country located between India and China was practicing the kind of economic nationalism that got Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi deep into trouble with the US State Dep...
NATO Officials: No Plan to Intervene in Syria The New York Times | Connect With Us on Twitter | Follow @NYTNational for breaking news and headlines. | Twitter List: Reporters and Editors | CHICAGO (AP) — United States and NATO officials say the North Atlantic alliance has no intention of intervening militari...
Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies of cancer in Libya Denver Post | Click photo to enlargeFILE - This undated file photo, issued by the British Crown Office, shows Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. A son says Al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pa...
Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president Herald Tribune | CAIRO - Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. | The voting that begins Wednesday is the greatest prize won by the multitudes who took to the streets to overthrow unpopular Hosni Mubarak in the string of people-power uprisings that upended the Middle East...
