Blog posts tagged "Gaddafi"

April 18, 2012 4:56 pm 5 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum recalls a conversation with the man at the centre of Libyan rendition claims on how close the CIA and MI6 became with Libyan intelligence.

February 22, 2012 4:17 pm 39 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the loss of her friend, veteran war reporter, Marie Colvin.

November 19, 2011 1:26 pm 2 Comments

This is the Zintan's chance to redeem themselves. If they treat Saif al Gaddafi humanely - in contrast to how the Misrata brigades treated his father when they captured him - it will boost their image and that of the new Libyan authorities.

November 16, 2011 8:05 pm 2 Comments

MI6 had struck up such a budding relationship with Libyan Intelligence in the preceding years that when they wanted to kill our people earlier this year, we seem to have known about it. Which illustrates a point the spooks often like to make: that it is in Britain's national interests to do business with people we don't like.

October 21, 2011 7:16 pm 6 Comments

I've spent much of today with the Al Ghiran brigade, the fighters from Misrata who caught Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday. They are proud of themselves, writes Lindsey Hilsum.

3:25 pm 1 Comment

The death of one of the world's worst tyrants on Thursday made it impossible for me to report that we are now three months on since the UN declared a famine in southern Somalia, writes Jonathan Rugman.

October 20, 2011 5:41 pm 6 Comments

Lindsey Hilsum witnesses scenes more in keeping with a funfair than Tripoli's Martyr's Square as families turn out to celebrate the death of the despotic Muammar Gaddafi

October 9, 2011 1:26 pm 4 Comments

Normal life is returning to Tripoli, blogs Lindsey Hilsum, back in Libya to research a book on recent events in the country. Petrol is now plentiful and the population's attention has turned to the national team's performance in football's African Nations Cup.

September 19, 2011 6:29 pm No Comments

Speeding along the road towards Tripoli, on 2 September, some graffiti caught my eye. It was scrawled in English, on a wall in the town of Zahwiya, where the uprising against Gaddafi had been so brutally put down. The message was exquisite in its simplicity. It read: “WE ARE NOT RATS.”

September 1, 2011 5:01 pm 6 Comments

Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the challenges of life in Tripoli's war zone in the "most physically demanding trip" she has endured in a long time.