by Piper Bayard | Mar 12, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes In 2004, Moammar Gadhafi realized that he had to make a fundamental choice. Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups were on the rise in the Sahara. Moammar could no longer live in conflict with the oil-consuming, cash-delivering Western nations while...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 10, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes In 1984, the United Kingdom broke off relations with Libya when a Libyan Embassy staff member gunned down London policewoman, Yvonne Fletcher, in front of the Libyan Embassy. The British SAS was called in to storm the Libyan Embassy. US Navy Sixth Fleet...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 8, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes In 1970, the last US base in Libya closed. The American troops were happy to let oil tycoon Armand Hammer work his deals without them having to hang out in a place filled with sand, heat, more sand, more heat, and little water. Moammar Gadhafi had just...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 3, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes Events in Libya are fast and furious right now, and many are wondering what Libya will look like in the near future. Let’s start with a brief history so as to remind ourselves that beyond the painful glaring light that is Gadhafi, there is a...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 2, 2011 | Espionage, Special Edition Libya
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Piper: Holmes has a long and involved past with Moammar Gadhafi (“Uncle Momo”) so these events in Libya are especially moving for him. It wasn’t a difficult decision for him to write this Dear John Letter now that it looks like a break...
by Piper Bayard | Mar 1, 2011 | Special Edition Libya
By Jay Holmes In short, what happens if you sell your soul to the devil, and the devil is deposed? European businessmen, the United Kingdom, and Italy are in exactly that quandary. European businessmen and the UK government, under Labor Party’s Gordon Brown, did a...
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