The New Dark Age

1 July 2011 — williambowles.info

Libya’s women-at-arms
Washington Post
Among Moammar Gaddafi’s most ardent loyalists are a core of Libyan women who have risen to high-profile roles in the police, military and government and credit Gaddafi with giving them greater career avenues than many of their sisters elsewhere in the …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/libyas-women-at-arms/2011/06/30/AGM4qVtH_gallery.html

Libya’s abandoned stockpiles attract smugglers
Reuters
By Maria Golovnina SOUTH OF AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) – Packed to its limit with crates of artillery shells, the once-secret military base in the eastern Libyan desert is now open to anyone looking for an easy way to stock up on free ammunition. …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/us-libya-east-stockpiles-idUSTRE76044H20110701

African Union tries to reach consensus on Libya
The Associated Press
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) — Africa’s heads of state spent the day behind closed doors on Friday, trying to reach a consensus on what to do with Libya’s defiant leader Moammar Gadhafi, whose ouster would be a source of discomfort for the …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hUxWKIASjjr_eK0vuO2S1Gyyt5-g?docId=b4ae5885f96d4874ab4b48b50967c10d

Congress still not biting on Libya
CNN (blog)
By James M. Lindsay I wrote two weeks ago that nothing would come of congressional efforts to reverse President Obama on Libya. Lo and behold, lawmakers have given speeches, pounded tables, and held votes. The sum total of all this activity is that …
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/01/congress-still-not-biting-on-libya/

CORRECT: Marathon Oil CEO: SEC Probing Its Libyan Operations
Wall Street Journal
(“Marathon Oil CEO: SEC Probing Its Libyan Operations,” at 11:23 EDT GMT, misspelled CEO Cazalot’s last name throughout, misstated the estimated production growth per year in the sixth paragraph and the price the company agreed to pay in the Eagle Ford …
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110701-706501.html

Libyan Operation Demonstrates US-Europe Capabilities Gap
defpro
Final preparations of an RAF Tornado GR4 for the first UK air combat mission over Libya. (Photo: UK MoD, Lisa Conway) 15:19 GMT, July 1, 2011 One of the eye-opening features of the three month old NATO air campaign in Libya is the hollowness of the …
http://www.defpro.com/news/details/25963/?SID=6ed21ac3a24a04c18da888f70381c567

US rulers rebuke imperialist rivals over Afghan, Libya wars
The Militant
At the same time, tensions are rising between Washington and European powers not only over the Afghanistan operations, but also the ongoing NATO air assaults against Libya. The aerial pounding of that country is now in its fourth month. …
http://www.themilitant.com/2011/7525/752504.html

Libyan Weapons Are Reaching al-Qaeda, Algerian Minister Says
San Francisco Chronicle
July 1 (Bloomberg) — Libyan weapons are being trafficked to al-Qaeda, including French arms supplied to rebels battling to oust Muammar Qaddafi, Algeria’s foreign minister in charge of Africa and the Maghreb said. Weapons filtering out of Libya are …
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/06/30/bloomberg1376-LNNDXB0YHQ0X01-13J1M1TB10E089SNU937AL2QGK.DTL

Johnson blocks Senate action on Libya
Green Bay Press Gazette
Ron Johnson blocked Senate action on a Libya resolution Thursday in an effort to pressure Democratic leaders to craft a budget proposal that
addresses debt reduction. Johnson, R-Oshkosh, who is emerging as a deficit
hawk, has been vocal all week on the …
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20110701/GPG0101/107010540/Johnson-blocks-Senate-action-Libya

Harry Graver: Libya, American Exceptionalism and John Quincy Adams
By Harry Graver
Beyond the immediate implications of tactical policy, conservatives are
grappling with a much larger choice of ideology. The right is entering
into, whether they realize it or not, a referendum on the definition of
American …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-graver/libya-american-exceptiona_1_b_887886.html

GOP Freshman Blocks Libya Resolution : Roll Call News
By MeredithShiner@cqrollcall.com (Meredith Shiner)
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), fresh off an attention-grabbing mini-filibuster
earlier this week, objected Thursday to Majority Leader Harry Reid s
(D-Nev.) attempt to bring a resolutions on Libya to the floor.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/gop_freshman_blocks_libya_resolution-206956-1.html

French, British Moves to Arm Libya Rebels Decried — News from …
By Jason Ditz
The announcement earlier this week that the French military had delivered
armaments to tribal fighters loyal to the East Libyan rebel faction through
airlift has sparked a reaction of growing consternation the world over, …
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/30/french-british-moves-to-arm-libya-rebels-decried/

US looks on Libya as McDonald’s – Gaddafi’s son — RT
By RT
USA looks upon Libya as fast food expecting a fast war and a quick victory,
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader wanted by the ICC, told
RT. But the West will never get what they want, he added.
http://rt.com/news/interview-gaddafi-libya-usa/

Deciphering signals on Gadhafi, Libya | StarTribune.com
That scenario most likely would have involved Gadhafi fleeing Libya and
seeking asylum in another country. The few countries that may have been
willing to take him now may not, for fear that they would be pressured to
turn him in. …
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/124818254.html

Libya conflict: Libyan’s western front has its own battles – Los …
Graffiti on a wall in the center of Nalut has a message for Moammar Kadafi:
“Let us be free.”But the streets of this largely Berber mountain city of
western …
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/25/world/la-fg-libya-west-20110625