A bipartisan group of House lawmakers led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio) today sued the President and Secretary of Defense to stop U.S. military operations in Libya. The complaint in Kucinich v. Obama alleges that the President exceeded his
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Evidence Growing that Libyan Forces Using Rape as Tool of War and Repression
According to Louis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), a team of "[i]nvestigators with the [ICC] are gathering evidence that the Libyan leadership is using rape as a tool of war and repression and had even acquired large…
Qatar Accused of Violating Intenational Law of Nonrefoulement
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has accused Qatar of violating international law by returning a female refugee from Libya to her home country after she complained about gang rapes by Libyan government troops in Tripoli. UNHCR had determined that Ms.…
House Resolution on Libya
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a resolution (268-145) introduced by Speaker Boehner purporting to limit the use of ground troops in Libya and to require the President to provide justification for and information about U.S. involvement in…
Congressional Response to WPR Restriction on Libyan Operations
Since President Obama blew by the 60-day restriction in the War Powers Resolution, 50 U.S.C. Sec. 1544(b), on unauthorized troop commitments in Libya on Friday, a spate of legislation has appeared authorizing, de-authorizing, or otherwise expressing the sense of Congress on…
Getty Images Journalist Chris Hondros Dies In Mizrata: Total Deaths of Members of the Media Now Total 4 In Libyan Fighting
From MSNBC.com: Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros, a Pulitzer Prize finalist who was covering the same battle as Tim Hetherington, has now also died. Both Mr. Hondros and Mr. Hetherington were injured in the fighting between Libyan government forces and rebels…
Journalist Tim Hetherington Killed In Libya
Just in from MSNBC.com: British photojournalist Academy Award nominee Tim Hetherington (“Restrepo”) has died in Libya. He and some colleagues were covering the fighting in the town of Misrata when they came under rocket fire. More here from Vanity
More CIA in Libya Tom Smith
I would not have necessarily pegged Obama as one to run the CIA in a covert war in a third world country. What a surprising fellow.
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Qaddafi’s Thugs Rape a Law Student
A woman burst into a hotel room filled with foreign journalists on Sunday. She wanted to show them the bruises and scars and tell the journalists that she had been raped by 15 men. The waiters and hotel staff — revelaing themselves…