…1973) allowed NATO to provide aerial support for Libyan rebels against the wishes of the country’s government and a few months later, the Council passed a similar resolution approving interventionist…
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…immigration reform meetings; made the final determination on a new national security team and announced it; planned for his reelection campaign; and launched a military intervention in Libya. The day…
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…of the attack clearly suggest that government forces were the source. In terms of a potential chemical weapons deal, the closest historical precedent is the successful dismantling of Libya’s weapons…
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…30% disapproval. March 1986: Libya fires missiles at U.S. planes and the Air Force responds In 1973 Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi stated that Libya had exclusive rights to the entire…
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…in which they operate. A 2015 study published in the Journal of Peace Research, “Filtering Revolution: Reporting Bias in International Newspaper Coverage of the Libyan Civil War,” analyzes a dataset…
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…of Libya, the researchers note: “Since Libya in 2011 was an extremely restricted regime with virtually no social media nor an independent press, the recent protests in Libya were unhelpful…
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…rate during the protests doubled or more than doubled compared to the same period a year earlier in all Arab countries except Libya. Citizens in Egypt, Yeman, Bahrain, Libya, Oman,…
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…and then spread to Egypt, Libya and beyond. The study, by Merlyna Lim of Arizona State University, looks at why Bouazizi’s death and the demonstrations that followed weren’t as easily…
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…restrained air power use supporting higher-priority ground combat, as in NATO’s 2011 intervention in Libya and the aerial drone campaign in Pakistan supporting NATO war making in Afghanistan.” “Libya’s…
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…“Military Operations in Libya: No War? No Hostilities?” Louis Fisher. Presidential Studies Quarterly, March 2012, Vol. 42, No. 1. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-5705.2012.03947.x. Excerpt: “The Obama administration produced two remarkable legal opinions about…
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