Colonel Gaddafi S Hat

Author : Alex Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 000746729X

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Colonel Gaddafi's Hat by Alex Crawford Pdf

Author : Alex Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Libya
ISBN : 0007467303

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Colonel Gaddafi's Hat by Alex Crawford Pdf

Alex Crawford's daring reports were beamed across news networks from around the globe, and against a dramatic backdrop of celebratory gunfire, Alex and her team showed the world the final symbolic moments of the fall of a regime that had held power for more than 40 years.

Author : Daad Sharab
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526795991

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The Colonel and I by Daad Sharab Pdf

An insider’s view of Libya’s fallen dictator by the woman who served as his longtime troubleshooter and confidante. For almost half of Muammar Gaddafi’s forty-two-year reign, Daad Sharab was his trusted confidante—the only outsider to be admitted to his inner circle. Down the years many have written about Gaddafi, but none have been so close. Now, years after the violent death of “the Colonel,” she gives a unique insight into the character of a man of many contradictions: tyrant, hero, terrorist, freedom fighter, womanizer, father figure. Her account is packed with fascinating anecdotes and revelations that show Gaddafi in a surprising new light. Daad witnessed the ruthlessness of a flawed leader who is blamed for ordering the Lockerbie bombing, and she became the go-between for the only man convicted of the atrocity. She does not seek to sugar-coat Gaddafi’s legacy, preferring readers to judge for themselves, but also observed a hidden, more humane side. The leader was a troubled father and compassionate statesman who kept sight of his humble Bedouin roots, and was capable of great acts of generosity. The author also pulls no punches about how Western politicians such as Tony Blair, George Bush, and Hillary Clinton shamelessly wooed his oil-rich regime. Despite her warnings the dictator was ultimately consumed by megalomania, and Daad was caught up in his dramatic fall. Falsely accused by Gaddafi’s notorious secret service of being both the Colonel’s mistress and a spy, she faced betrayal and imprisonment—and, caught up in the Arab Spring uprising, she also faced a fight for her life as bombs rained down on Libya.

Author : Annick Cojean
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802121721

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Gaddafi's Harem by Annick Cojean Pdf

Follows a fifteen-year-old girl who, after presenting Gaddafi with a bouquet of flowers during a visit to her school, was summoned to his compound where she, along with a number of young women, was violently abused, raped, and degraded.

Author : Lindsey Hilsum
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101583593

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Sandstorm by Lindsey Hilsum Pdf

Over a quarter century, the renowned British international correspondent Lindsey Hilsum has covered crisis and conflict around the world. In February 2011, at the first stirrings of revolt, she went to Libya, and began to chronicle the personal stories of people living through a time of unprecedented danger and opportunity. She reported the progress of the revolution on the ground, from the conflict of the early months, through the toppling of Gaddafi’s regime and his savage death in the desert. In Sandstorm, she tells the full story of the events of the revolution within a rich context of Libya’s history of colonialism, monarchy and dictatorship, and explores what the future of Libya holds. Sandstorm follows the stories of six individuals, taking us inside Gaddafi’s Libya as events unfold, change accelerates, and those who had never before dared to speak, tell their stories for the first time. We see the dynamics of the insurrection both from inside the regime and through the eyes of the men and women who found themselves starting a revolution. Woven into her account is a revelatory exposé of the dysfunctional Gaddafi family, the scale of whose excesses almost surpasses belief. She tells the stories of Libyans who lived in the United States or Europe, but went home to risk everything to provide secret intelligence, or commit daring acts of civil disobedience, to bring the regime down, knowing that the punishment if caught would be torture and death. The fall of Gaddafi, who was for forty-two years the great autocrat-madman on the world stage, is among the past decade’s most dramatic pivot points. In Lindsey Hilsum, it has found its definitive chronicler.

Author : Lindsey Hilsum
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571288052

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Sandstorm by Lindsey Hilsum Pdf

Sandstorm is the best kind of reportage: humane, historically-informed and full of details that only a writer close to the action could have noticed. The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Arab world's most bizarre dictator brought down by his own people with the aid of NATO aircraft. Lindsey Hilsum was in Libya when Gaddafi met his squalid end. She traces the history of his strange regime from its beginnings - when Gaddafi had looks, charisma and popular appeal - to its paranoid, corrupt final state. At the heart of her book, however, is a brilliant narrative of Libyan people overcoming fear and disillusionment and finding the strength to rebel. Hilsum follows five of them through months of terror and tragedy. This is the Libyan revolution as it was made and lived. Sandstorm will take its place in a library of classic books about turning points of history.

Author : Ian Martin
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787388574

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All Necessary Measures? by Ian Martin Pdf

The international intervention after the 2011 Libyan uprising against Muammar Gaddafi was initially considered a remarkable success: the UN Security Council’s first application of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine; an impending civilian massacre prevented; and an opportunity for democratic forces to lead Libya out of a forty-year dictatorship. But such optimism was soon dashed. Successive governments failed to establish authority over the ever-proliferating armed groups; divisions among regions and cities, Islamists and others, split the country into rival administrations and exploded into civil war; external intervention escalated. Ian Martin gives his first-hand view of the questions raised by the international engagement. Was it a justified response to the threat against civilians? What brought about the Security Council resolutions, including authorising military action? How did NATO act upon that authorisation? What role did Special Forces operations play in the rebels’ victory? Was a peaceful political settlement ever possible? What post-conflict planning was undertaken, and should or could there have been a major peacekeeping or stabilisation mission during the transition? Was the first election held too soon? As Western interventions are reassessed and Libya continues to struggle for stability, this is a unique account of a critical period, by a senior international official who was close to the events.

Author : Peter Millar
Publisher : Arcadia Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908129123

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All Gone to Look for America by Peter Millar Pdf

At the age of 52 and with a shoestring budget, Peter Millar set about rediscovering the United States by following the last traces of the technological wonder that created the country in the first place - the railroad. On a rail network now ravaged and reduced, he managed to cross the continent in slow motion, talking to people and taking in their stories and concerns while watching the vast landscape unfold. Wry, witty, intelligent and always observant, his account will appeal to modern Britons keen to get beneath the skin of this influential nation.

Author : Mark Kersten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191082948

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Justice in Conflict by Mark Kersten Pdf

What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the effects of interventions by the ICC on peace, justice and conflict processes. The 'peace versus justice' debate, wherein it is argued that the ICC has either positive or negative effects on 'peace', has spawned in response to the Court's propensity to intervene in conflicts as they still rage. This book is a response to, and a critical engagement with, this debate. Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court's effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. This framework is applied to two cases: Libya and northern Uganda. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the core of the book examines the empirical effects of the ICC on each case. The book also examines why the ICC has the effects that it does, delineating the relationship between the interests of states that refer situations to the Court and the ICC's institutional interests, arguing that the negotiation of these interests determines which side of a conflict the ICC targets and thus its effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. While the effects of the ICC's interventions are ultimately and inevitably mixed, the book makes a unique contribution to the empirical record on ICC interventions and presents a novel and sophisticated means of studying, analyzing, and understanding the effects of the Court's interventions in Libya, northern Uganda - and beyond.

Author : Susannah O'Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317209676

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Military Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa by Susannah O'Sullivan Pdf

This book contributes to an increasingly important branch of critical security studies that combines insights from critical geopolitics and postcolonial critique by making an argument about the geographies of violence and their differential impact in contemporary security practices, including but not limited to military intervention. The book explores military intervention in Libya through the categories of space and time, to provide a robust ethico-political critique of the intervention. Much of the mainstream international relations scholarship on humanitarian intervention frames the ethical, moral and legal debate over intervention in terms of a binary, between human rights and state sovereignty. In response, O’Sullivan questions the ways in which military violence was produced as a rational and reasonable response to the crisis in Libya, outlining and destabilising this false binary between the human and the state. The book offers methodological tools for questioning the violent institutions at the heart of humanitarian intervention and asking how intervention has been produced as a rational response to crisis. Contributing to the ongoing academic conversation in the critical literature on spatiality, militarism and resistance, the book draws upon postcolonial and poststructural approaches to critical security studies, and will be of great interest to scholars and graduates of critical security studies and international relations.

Author : Ronald Bruce St John
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538157428

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Historical Dictionary of Libya by Ronald Bruce St John Pdf

Of all the countries in North Africa and the Middle East, less has been known about Libya for decades. Only recently have we begun to appreciate the complexity of Libya’s turbulent past, including the revolution in 2011 in which demands for better living conditions and more job opportunities led to widespread protests. When the Muammar al-Qaddafi regime responded with force to these peaceful protests, killing scores of unarmed civilians, the protesters called for regime change. In what came to be known as the February 17 Revolution, the 42-year-old Qaddafi regime was overthrown, and Qaddafi was killed in October 2011. Over the next decade, Libya endured a series of interim, transitional governments in a prolonged struggle to draft a new constitution and to elect a democratic national government. Historical Dictionary of Libya, Sixth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Libya.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : IND:30000085303612

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West Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Briton Hadden,Henry R. Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Current magazines
ISBN : UOM:39015020557263

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Time by Briton Hadden,Henry R. Luce Pdf

Author : Gill Partington
Publisher : Saqi Books - Saqi Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dictators
ISBN : 0863566316

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The Axis of Evil Cookbook by Gill Partington Pdf

"The existence of Gaddafi is closely related to the historical development of humanity itself."--Colonel Gaddafi Ever wondered what an Axis of Evil leader eats after a day spent threatening neighboring countries with weapons of mass destruction? This unique cookbook tells you how to prepare these dishes in the safety of your own home. Present a genuine dog stew for that special dinner party and play "spot the Elvis impersonator" among Axis leaders. Both funny and informative, this book also includes cultural anecdotes and political insights. Gill Partington is thirty-five years old and lives in North London with her cat. The cat is not a devotee of Gill's cooking.

Author : John Baylis,James J. Wirtz,Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Military police
ISBN : 9780198708919

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Strategy in the Contemporary World by John Baylis,James J. Wirtz,Colin S. Gray Pdf

A complete introduction to strategy in the contemporary world, which explores the enduring, present and emerging issues dominating strategic debate.