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ment in which it declared itself to be the "only legitimate body representing the people of Libya and the Libyan state". On 21 August 2011 President Barack Obama issued a statement saying that the United States recognizes the NTC as the legitimate government of Libya. Page 12 of 9 EFTA00615364 An executi
Libyan state". On 21 August 2011 President Barack Obama issued a statement saying that the United States
nd the Libyan state". On 21 August 2011 President Barack Obama issued a statement saying that the United
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tuate the unhappiness of their people is going to require more than mere oratory from the White House. It is going to mean doing something that the Obama administration promised when it first took office but then turned away from shortly thereafter. It is going to mean embracing and leading a compreh
pushed the old order over the brink. And so, in those big, public spaces in Tunis, Cairo and Manama, Bahrain, in the Libyan cities of Benghazi and Tobruk, millions of Arabs came together to bid farewell to an age of quiescence. They were done with the politics of fear and silence. Every day and every
g for Al-Qaeda's caliphate. Al-Qaeda is not Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia or Mao's China. Today it is under unprecedented stress from the strategy Obama has developed. We should be vigilant but not panic. We don't need torture to defeat Al-Qaeda; we need respect for Islam and a determined effort to
ilitary Council, which post gives him authority over several thousand troops. 3) Key NTC figures whose political base is in Benghazi, Al Bayda and Tobruk in eastern Libya—the cradle of the uprising—and who are well represented in the NTC and who aspire to high political office but hail from western L
tuate the unhappiness of their people is going to require more than mere oratory from the White House. It is going to mean doing something that the Obama administration promised when it first took office but then turned away from shortly thereafter. It is going to mean embracing and leading a compreh
pushed the old order over the brink. And so, in those big, public spaces in Tunis, Cairo and Manama, Bahrain, in the Libyan cities of Benghazi and Tobruk, millions of Arabs came together to bid farewell to an age of quiescence. They were done with the politics of fear and silence. Every day and every
Entities connected to both Barack Obama and Tobruk

George W. Bush
PERSON
Donald Trump
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Marc Rich
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Middle East
LOCATION
Samantha Power
PERSON
Lebanon
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Yemen
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Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Cairo
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Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
India
LOCATION
Tunisia
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Bahrain
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Osama bin Laden
PERSON
al-Qaeda
ORGANIZATIONMediterranean
LOCATIONthe Soviet Union
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