Islamic State militants in Libya shot and beheaded groups of captive Ethiopian Christians, a video purportedly from the extremists showed Sunday. The attack widens the circle of nations affected by the group s atrocities while showing its growth beyond a
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Drowning for Freedom: Libya’s Migrant Jails
Libya‘s Migrant Jails is a new three-part documentary from VICE News investigating the horrific, often fatal, journeys that migrants from Africa and the Middle East undertake to travel across the Mediterranean Sea into Europe.Part One of the documentary…
Too many questions remain about Benghazi attacks, Hillary Clinton says – The Washington Post
There are still too many unanswered questions about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday, even as she welcomed the capture of a suspected mastermind of the assaults. via…
Captured key Benghazi suspect will face U.S. criminal courts – CNN.com
(CNN) — U.S. forces working with the FBI captured a key suspect in the deadly 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. officials said Tuesday.Libyan militia leader Ahmed abu Khattalah was captured over the weekend, officials…
Navy SEALS board, take control of rogue Libya tanker | Fox News
Navy SEALs have boarded and taken command of an oil tanker that was seized by three armed men at a Libyan port earlier this month, thwarting an attempt by a splinter militia group from selling nationalized Libyan oil on the…
Delta Force commando saved ‘numerous lives’ in Benghazi seige – Washington Times
An Army Delta Force commando who infiltrated Benghazi to rescue U.S. diplomats, spies and security officers during a 2012 terrorist attack was critical to the success of saving numerous lives, according to a citation awarding him the military s second-highest…
The Benghazi Transcripts: Top Defense officials briefed Obama on attack, not video or protest | Fox News
Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense officials — headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama — were informed that the event…
Europe’s Deadly Border
EUROPE’S DEADLY BORDER By David Bacon in the Boston Review tells the story of a migrant tragedy in a journey by sea from Africa to Eureope. On the night of October 3 a beat-up, unseaworthy freighter left a dock in Tripoli, on…
Court of Appeal reverses first instance decision in “The Athena” on the applicability of the NYPE off-hire clause
The Court of Appeal has reversed the first instance decision in Minerva Navigation Inc v Oceana Shipping AG (The “Athena”).
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The vessel was chartered on the NYPE 46 form. Clause 15 provided as follows (with amendments from the…
State Department Issues Nuts and Bolts Guidance on Libya
By: Thad McBride
On May 10, 2013, the U.S. State Department issued unusually practical guidance (the Guidance) on exporting to Libya. The Guidance, which even has a practical name – “Direct Commercial Sales of Defense Articles and Services to Libya”…