Blog posts tagged "libya"

September 2, 2011 7:20 am 54 Comments

Very bad men and cults that go bad: Jon Snow blogs on Gaddafi and the green that turned to black, tinged with the red blood of those who opposed his dictatorship.

March 31, 2011 7:11 am 18 Comments

Moussa Koussa's defection represents a major breakthrough for western allies, but donlt expect his taskmaster Gaddafi to follow, says Jon Snow.

March 29, 2011 9:44 am 20 Comments

Jon Snow first met Colonel Gaddafi in 1978, and was intrigued and appalled by his eccentricity in equal measure. That eccentricity, and his brutality, has never left him, he says.

March 10, 2011 8:30 am 27 Comments

Teachers, how do they do it? You think it's a creamy career, well-paid with great holidays? It is so much more as I discovered, blogs Jon Snow.

March 1, 2011 8:40 am 20 Comments

Libya is not like the other Middle East revolutions - but that does not mean that the intervention route is the right one, writes Jon Snow.

February 28, 2011 8:02 am 17 Comments

Expect the unexpected - no one predicted the unrest that has swept the Middle East, writes Jon Snow. So no one really knows where it could strike next - Oman, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia.

February 23, 2011 7:04 pm 36 Comments

Colonel Gaddafi's speech in which he talked of the protesters as "drugged" and "cockroaches" has horrid resonances with past events, blogs Jon Snow.

February 21, 2011 12:14 pm 45 Comments

How far will the sparks from the Arab uprisings spread around the world, asks Jon Snow.