(Photo: Amb. Chris Stevens, left, in Tripoli, Libya in Aug. 2012, Credit: AP) I didn’t know Chris Stevens. I admit that the first I’d heard of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya was the morning of Sept. 12, when I woke up and, along with the...
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International Developments
❖ Anonymous US military official: “Marines and other American forces in Europe have been placed on a heightened state of alert” due to a “deteriorating security situation” in Tripoli,...
Info below from FNC’s Jennifer Griffin:
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The US military has alerted 2 elite military units to be on standby if needed to respond to a deteriorating security situation in Tripoli, Libya, Fox News has learned.
In recent days both the US...
Reuters:he British embassy is temporarily withdrawing some of its staff from Libya over concerns about political uncertainty and the risk of clashes between rival armed groups in the capital, it said on its website.Sounds to me like the terrorists...
Fox News ignored congressional testimony that confirmed military leadership ordered a small team of troops to remain in Tripoli in order to protect embassy staff there from possible threats during the September 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic...
WHOA!
Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), a former ambassador, told Dana Loesch today: Only the president gives the stand down order.
Benghazi whistle-blower Greg Hicks testified this morning that the stand down order for the rescue team in Tripoli came from...
Mr. Hicks testified this morning that the stand down order for the rescue team in Tripoli came from either AFRICOM or SOCAFRICA. General Ham. leader of AFRICOM, may have been in Washington DC at the time.
So who ordered AFRICOM to stand...
Meanwhile in Tripoli and Benghazi ...
While the House Oversight Committee prepares to hear testimony from three whistleblowers that may expose a cover-up in the Obama administration, the Libyans have their own problems after the...
Gunmen surrounded the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli on Sunday, calling for a ban on officials who worked for the country’s former dictator, Muammar Gaddafi.
The armed protest came just days after the French embassy in Tripoli was bombed....
Continuous exchanges of gunfire between Sunni Muslims and Alawite Muslims in Lebanon’s second largest city, Tripoli, located in the north of this multi-faith country 50 kilometers away from the Syrian border have split residents into two hostile...
Stripped to the waist, his face heavily bruised and a rope around his neck, the grey-haired Syrian man was led by his captors on a humiliating parade through the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
A Syrian man, with a rope tied around his neck, is...
Benghazi jihadists still waging war -- maybe the French will get to the bottom of what Obama ignored despite the deaths of Americans.
Car bomb targets French Embassy in Libya CNS, April 24, 2013
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A car bomb targeted...
A car bomb exploded just outside the French embassy in Tripoli early Tuesday morning, injuring two French security guards and a local girl, officials said.
The blast was so powerful it blew the front wall off the embassy. Windows of nearby buildings...
BREAKING OVERNIGHT:
CNN: Car bomb explodes outside French embassy in Tripoli; 2 guards, girl injured
A bomb exploded outside the French embassy in Tripoli, Libya, early Tuesday morning, witnesses told CNN. Two French security guards and a young girl...
The recent blocking of the Lebanese exports by Syria forced the Lebanese exporters to find a way to bypass Syria altogether.
On March 27 Ya Libnan reported that a truck ferry route to Jordan was established by the Sidon Chamber of Commerce...
A delegation of March 14 MPs handed Lebanon Speaker Nabih Berri a petition calling on him to convene the parliament before the end of the March in order to pass a draft law to raise the retirement age of soon-to-retire security officials, ...
From Britain’s Independent:
The French celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy was banned from joining the former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Libya this week because he is Jewish.Keep reading this post . . .
The news of Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati's resignation spurred fierce weekend clashes in his hometown, the coastal city of Tripoli.
Residents lobbed rockets and fired bullets at one another Saturday, leaving at least three people...
Clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Lebanon’s second city of Tripoli escalated Saturday night and shattered a day-old ceasefire in the latest round of fighting that has killed seven...
