Category Libya
Blair helped Saif Gadaffi with his LSE doctorate
The Sunday Times Tony Blair helped Saif al-Islam Gadaffi, the son of the ousted Libyan dictator, with his controversial PhD thesis, according to documents found at the ransacked British embassy in Tripoli. In a copy of a signed letter from Blair to “Engineer Saif”, the former Labour prime minister thanks Gadaffi for outlining his “interesting” […]
Storming Tripoli
The Sunday Times Six months ago Mehdi al-Harati, an Arabic teacher, said goodbye to his wife and four children in Dublin and went off to war. Last week I was alongside him and his men — many of them from Britain — as they prepared to storm the Bastille of the Libyan revolution. In quick […]
I was shot in the head and survived
The Sunday Times The bullet clanged into my helmet, smacking the Kevlar into the left side of my skull and throwing me to the ground. The shock of being floored by something I couldn’t see confused me: it took a few seconds to realise I’d been hit in the head. I could hear a metallic […]
Onslaught on oil town tightens noose on Tripoli
The Sunday Times The sniper’s bullet sliced into Musab Shawish’s thigh as the rebel fighter rammed another magazine clip into his assault rifle. The 26-year-old student crumpled to the ground among the empty bullet casings strewn across the rebel-controlled road junction in the centre of Zawiya. Still able to move despite his wound, Shawish rolled […]
Gadaffi’s men raped me, she cried – then they dragged her away
The Sunday Times Despite the brutality of the regime, one woman yesterday was prepared to risk everything to get her message out to the wider world. As foreign journalists sat down to breakfast in a Tripoli hotel, a well-dressed Libyan woman in her thirties charged into the dining room, crying out that Gadaffi’s militiamen had […]
Miles Amoore 