SNC-Lavalin says former executive's illegal actions justify firing
Source: The Globe & Mail
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 11:38:15 -0700 | political-news
EDT Montreal headquarters of engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. S (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press) SNC-Lavalin says it was justified in firing a former executive last year because it says he acted illegally to help smuggle the son of Libya's...
Christie: Obama wasn't assertive enough
Source: Passaic Valley Today
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 11:36:50 -0700 | sports-news
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says President Barack Obama has not been assertive enough as three scandals involving his administration have mounted. Christie said during a campaign news conference in Burlington City on Friday that "when you're the elected executive...
Where gas is cheaper than water
Source: CNN
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 19:30:10 -0700 | political-news
Homemade anti-tank weapons Bourdain meets Libyan Boy Scouts What American food is a hit in Libya? Libya's population is small, just more than 6 million, more than 80% inhabiting the coastal region. More than half of that is concentrated in...
Reporter Turned White House Spokesman Enjoys the Hot Seat
Source: The New York Times
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 12:44:54 -0700 | political-news
For the better part of a decade, Jay Carney sat slumped in his tiny chair in the White House briefing room, parsing, challenging and at times pillorying the words of an array of press secretaries. But over the last week...
Tribes Keep Uneasy Peace in Southern Libya
Source: Inter Press Service
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 06:55:31 -0700 | business-news
Kaltoum Saleh, 18, is elated to graduate from her overcrowded high school in the remote Saharan town of Ubari, near the Algerian border. Saleh, a member of Ubari's indigenous Tebu tribe, says that for decades under former Libyan dictator Muammar...
KUHNER: Lawless in office
Source: The Washington Times
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 04:24:38 -0700 | political-news
President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings. They eventually brought down President Nixon, forcing him to resign....
Benghazi: What Did the CIA Know, and When Did It Know It?
Source: Mother Jones
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 14:57:36 -0700 | political-news
GOP scandal-chasers have been obsessed with the Obama administration's talking points about the attack on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, and the White House on Wednesday tried to put the pseudo-scandal to rest by releasing...
Libya: Benghazi Insecurity Persists
Source: Africa Headlines
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 03:54:36 -0700 | political-news
Benghazi The security situation in the Libyan city of Benghazi continues to deteriorate. In the latest of a series of attacks, gunmen assaulted and burnt the al-Hadek police station on Wednesday (May 15th)...The same police station was attacked on three...
House committee to grill ousted IRS chief
Source: SF Gate
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-17 12:49:41 -0700 | political-news
Lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service as Congress holds its first hearing on the tougher scrutiny the IRS gave tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. With the scandal...
Fund securities of US embassies: Barack Obama to Congress
Source: Zee News
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-05-16 20:53:02 -0700 | political-news
US President Barack Obama has asked the Congress to support and fully fund his Administration's budget request to improve security of American embassies around the world in the wake of terrorist attack on its mission in Libya that left its...
In Benghazi and beyond, federal workers who died on the job are remembered
Source: Washington Post
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-16 18:51:04 -0700 | political-news
Secretary of State John Kerry reflects during dedication ceremonies at the State Department for new names inscribed on the American Foreign Service Association Memorial Plaque. May 17, 2013 12:17 AM EDT The Washington Post Let's take a break from the...
Family dispute kills one, wounds another in Tripoli
Source: The Daily Star
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-05-16 17:57:17 -0700 | travel-news
A family dispute developed into a gunfight in the northern city of Tripoli Thursday, killing a passerby and wounding another man, security sources said. The shooting pitted members from the Sharafeddine family against those from the Othman family in an...
Malkin Column: Obama's Emptiest Benghazi Talking Point
Source: Newsbusters
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-16 16:38:44 -0700 | political-news
On Sept. 12, 2012, President Barack Obama vowed to "bring to justice" the perpetrators of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya. On Oct. 26, 2012, Obama said his "biggest priority" was bringing the "folks" in Libya responsible for murdering four...
CNN: Obama Ready To Unleash A Swarm Of Military Special Operators On Benghazi Perpetrators
Source: BusinessInsider
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-16 16:31:13 -0700 | travel-news
Special Operations is going to ferret them out. "The military has fresh plans to capture or kill perpetrators of the attack on the American compound in Benghazi that killed four Americans," reports Barbara Starr of CNN . Starr also reported...
‘The Daily Show': Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld
Source: Truthdig
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-05-16 15:05:24 -0700 | political-news
May 16, 2013 As Republicans continue to pile on the Obama administration in the wake of several recent scandals, Daily Show host Jon Stewart argued on his program Wednesday night that there are two conservatives who should not be allowed to join...
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