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ic and social inequalities that prevailed between North and South . . . and the conflicts and tensions th
ya meant that it was now decision time on launching a third American war in the Middle East, though no one in the U.S. government dared call it that. Muammar Qaddafi was ramping up his genocidal threats, pledging to show “no mercy” toward his own people (whom he described as “rats’’) in the eastern city of Benghaz
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024975 →on- Paris-Cairo-Tunis-Washington-Paris-Washington route. On March 14 and 15, she met with Nicolas Sarkozy. The French president was gung-ho to attack Qaddafi, who by then was reversing rebel advances and regaining the offensive. After taking the measure of Mahmoud Jibril, recognized as one of the leaders o
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024977 →and the ruling cliques of Burma, Afghanistan and North Korea. That sanctioned regimes sometimes come to
year ago, sanctions were "painful ... but make us more self-reliant". Indeed, for a regime to be sanctioned is to receive an elixir: witness Castro, Gaddafi, the ayatollahs and the ruling cliques of Burma, Afghanistan and North Korea. That sanctioned regimes sometimes come to an end is not proof that sanc
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028652 →ards nuclear power, because they also think, like North Korea, that (then) you have much more leverage to
in his first year in office, with the rise of Islamist governments and the widening repercussions of civil revolt. After Obama helped topple Moammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, many in the region wondered when he would emerge again to help shape the course of the tumultuous Arab Spring, which has replaced a
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029780 →SIGHT_031582 --- PAGE BREAK --- capital of both North and South Cyprus, remains today as the last divid
regime change in Iraq in 2003. The frustration was even greater during the Libyan crisis that ended with the overthrow and execution of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. Indeed, from Beijing's perspective, resolution 1973 of the United Nations seeking to impose a no-fly zone in Libya did not give any foreign power th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031587 →ards nuclear power, because they also think, like North Korea, that (then) you have much more leverage to
in his first year in office, with the rise of Islamist governments and the widening repercussions of civil revolt. After Obama helped topple Moammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, many in the region wondered when he would emerge again to help shape the course of the tumultuous Arab Spring, which has replaced a
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029693 →Entities connected to both Norther and Muammar Gaddafi

Barack Obama
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Cairo
LOCATION
Donald Trump
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Yemen
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Damascus
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Bahrain
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Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Muslim Brotherhood
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West Bank
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