Libya’s gold reserves, ranked No. 23 in the world, ahead of Saudi Arabia, as of December 2009 (see table above), are worth around $6.5 billion at current prices, enough to finance Gadhafi’s defense against opposition and international forces for quite a while, to say the least.
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March 22, 2011 04:57
Brit Hume on lacking Libya leadership
Brit Hume discusses the US role in attacking Libya. “Failure it seems in this case is an option.”
March 18, 2011 10:07
The Mexican war front – Obama AWOL
In first 9 months of 2010 663 individuals from “special interest countries”—such as Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, as well as the four nations currently on the list of “state sponsors of terrorism,” which are Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Sudan entered illegally from Mexico. Those were just the ones apprehended.
March 18, 2011 06:26
Obama’s new war hours away?
Will the left be chanting “Obama is the terrorist” like they did for Bush? US military readies forces for attacks on Libya. UK and France to start within hours.
March 7, 2011 05:42
Libya casualties spark UN moves
The UN appoints a new envoy on Libya and is to send a humanitarian team as the battle between forces loyal to Col Gaddafi and rebels intensifies.
February 25, 2011 06:21
Libyan crackdown ‘escalates’ – UN
Reports from Libya indicate thousands may have been killed or injured as the government crackdown escalates “alarmingly”, UN human rights head Navi Pillay has said.
February 24, 2011 06:37
Gadhafi Ordered Pan-Am Lockerbie Bombing
Libya’s ex-justice minister was quoted as telling a Swedish newspaper that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988. (Feb. 23)
February 24, 2011 06:19
Gaddafi digs in as protests mount
The area controlled by Libya’s embattled leader Col Muammar Gaddafi is shrinking, reports say, as the opposition gains momentum.
February 22, 2011 16:31
Gaddafi: Obama is ‘a Beacon of Light in the Darkness of Imperialism’
In October of 2009 Chairman of the African Union Muammar Gaddafi praised the US President Barack Obama saying he is “a beacon of Light in the darkness of imperialism.”
February 22, 2011 05:56
Libya Descends Into Madness
As warned, blood is in the streets. Cell phone images show extensive violence against the protesters.
