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Lebanon's Palestinians Require UN Action for Civil Rights
Monday, 17 October 2011, 1:13 pm | Franklin Lamb
Jalil Refugee Camp is located about 90 km east of Beirut near Baalbek in the Bekaa valley and is home to approximately 8000 of the World’s most destitute Palestinian refugees. It is usually referred to as “Wavell Camp”, after the British Field ... More >>
'US Must Stop Funding Israeli Crimes'
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 11:06 am | Franklin Lamb
A prominent political lawyer says that the US cannot continue to supply arms or economic aid to Israel which yet again is under international pressure for its atrocities against humanity. In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Franklin Lamb tells us ... More >>
Israel may not survive the current Arab/Islamic Awakening
Monday, 10 October 2011, 4:44 pm | Franklin Lamb
Three weeks after being named by President Obama in January 2009 as the 19th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and during his first day on the job which was February 12, 2009, Leon Panetta, now US Secretary of Defense, signed off on a ... More >>
Ahmadinejad/Obama at UN: Statesmanship & Political Pandering
Monday, 3 October 2011, 10:55 am | Franklin Lamb
For westerners, and particularly Americans who have watched Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad up fairly close as he delivers speeches in the US and elsewhere including during last year’s visit to Lebanon, his charisma and populist connection with ... More >>
Libya: 29 years after the Massacre at Sabra Shatila…
Monday, 19 September 2011, 4:16 pm | Franklin Lamb
“The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind” was the general consensus following a discussion between this observer and a gathering of Palestinian refugees in Sabha, Libya, many of whom would very much like to travel to Shatila camp in Beirut this ... More >>
Sanctioning messenger Bouthainia Shaaban assaults US values
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 10:49 am | Franklin Lamb
As part of its 7th set of US sanctions against Syria, which began in June, 2011, the Obama administration has targeted a messenger, a sometime spokeswoman, a positive image of Syria, someone people of all religions and cultures have easily identified ... More >>
Ma`a as-salaamah: Mohammad…May Allah protect you!
Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 12:54 pm | Franklin Lamb
My roommate left our hotel and hopefully Libya last night for his village near Arlit, Niger thanks to the assistance of one of Tripoli’s Christian Churches. I shall miss him a lot. More >>
The Hunt for Gaddafi
Sunday, 28 August 2011, 10:52 am | Franklin Lamb
Rumors and repeated rumors ricochet like shell casings off concrete walls this morning and depending on what one is inclined to believe, Libya’s former leader Colonel Gaddafi is safely in Algeria, his hometown of Sirte, Libya’s vast southern desert, ... More >>
The Strange Calm Over Tripoli Whither Gaddafi and Libya?
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:03 am | Franklin Lamb
The large gold framed portrait of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi that adorned the wall behind the reception desk of my hotel since it opened many years ago has vanished. Also gone are the 72 green flags that flew on the white poles have also been removed. More >>
Dispatch From Libya Tripoli on the Cusp
Monday, 22 August 2011, 7:10 pm | Franklin Lamb
Truth be told, some foreign observers, and certainly this one, having been based in Tripoli the past nearly eight weeks, have not taken very seriously occasional media predictions that Tripoli might soon be invaded by “NATO rebels” -- though ... More >>
Tripoli on the Cusp
Monday, 22 August 2011, 11:08 am | Franklin Lamb
Truth be told, some foreign observers, and certainly this one, having been based in Tripoli the past nearly eight weeks, have not taken very seriously occasional media predictions that Tripoli might soon be invaded by “NATO rebels” and certainly ... More >>
Waiting for the Endgame in Libya
Monday, 22 August 2011, 8:55 am | Franklin Lamb
Since this observer is not privy to any secrets around here and would not share them if he were, it’s fair enough to engage in frank discussions with former colleagues in Congress and new cyber acquaintances who work on the Hill. More >>
NATO'S Massacre at Majer, Libya
Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 1:40 pm | Franklin Lamb
Located about 20 miles east of the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna, six miles south of Zliten, and off Libya's southern coast across the Mediterranean from Rome, Majer was a picturesque village known for the fine quality of its dates and is claimed ... More >>
Where Have Libya's Children Gone?
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 5:35 pm | Franklin Lamb
The quality of life continues to degrade in certain areas of western Libya while public anxiety noticeably rises over missing Libyan children as the first week of an unusually stressful Ramadan passes. More >>
Dispatch from Tripoli: Where Have Libya's Children Gone?
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 11:05 am | Franklin Lamb
The quality of life continues to degrade in certain areas of western Libya while public anxiety noticeably rises over missing Libyan children as the first week of an unusually stressful Ramadan passes. More >>
End Game for Benghazi Rebels as Libyan Tribes Weigh In?
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 10:55 am | Franklin Lamb
On July 30, the day before this 97.5 per cent Muslim country began the holy month of Ramadan, NATO spokesperson Roland Lavoie has been lamely attempting to explain to the press at the Rixos Hotel and internationally, why NATO was forced to bomb ... More >>
Libyan Forum 101: Student Questions from Tripoli
Monday, 25 July 2011, 12:24 pm | Franklin Lamb
"When I grow up, I want to be just like you guys,” this increasingly flaccid middle-aged American visitor joked to his teenage to early 30s Libyan interlocutors, as we parted last night and promised to meet again soon to continue our dialogue on our chosen ... More >>
Feltman brandishes the Dahiyeh Doctrine & Neocon "realities"
Friday, 22 July 2011, 5:31 pm | Franklin Lamb
Libyan civilians have learned a thing or two from three decades of Lebanon’s experience with Israel’s five wars against that Levant country. Indeed NATO is using the same bombing, media, political and diplomatic strategy in Libya that Israel employed most ... More >>
Libya’s Palestinian Refugees and the current crisis: Part I
Wednesday, 20 July 2011, 12:52 pm | Franklin Lamb
As Tripoli’s Palestinian Refugees awakened the morning of 7/17/11, like the rest of us here, they saw in the western sky over the Mediterranean a vast swatch of black stratocumulus clouds of acrid smoke from last night’s NATO bombing. More >>
US decided to recognize Libya's rebels as legitimate govt
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 4:44 pm | Franklin Lamb
The U.S., along with more than 30 other nations, has decided to recognize Libya’s rebels as the legitimate government of the country. The Libyan Contact Group, convening in Turkey, has also urged Colonel Gaddafi to give up power. Dr. Franklin Lamb – ... More >>
