Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... its way to support the "Desert Rats" of the Eighth Army. Captured by the Germans on a beach near Benghazi, Libya, he spent the next four years in prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag Luft III, site of the "Great Escape", made famous in the 1963 film starring Steve McQueen. Mackay had been a trainee journalist before the war, working for D C Thomson's People's Journal in Aberdeen for ten...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... its way to support the "Desert Rats" of the Eighth Army. Captured by the Germans on a beach near Benghazi, Libya, he spent the next four years in prisoner-of-war camps, including Stalag Luft III, site of the "Great Escape", made famous in the 1963 film starring Steve McQueen. Mackay had been a trainee journalist before the war, working for D C Thomson's People's Journal in Aberdeen for ten...
Euractive (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... at $4.5 billion (but in reality, worthless) in exchange for new contracts for building the Sirt-Benghazi railway, a joint development of oil and gas fields, and arms sales. In the past months, however, Alexei Miller, the CEO of Gazprom, and Vladimir Yakunin, the head of Russian Railways, who are both Putin's courtiers, have discovered that the documents signed were declarations of intent...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... their interaction in oil and gas.Mr. Qadhafi also offered Russia a naval base in the port of Benghazi, according to media reports. Russia is keen to re-establish permanent military presence in the Mediterranean and is already upgrading port facilities at Syria’s Tartus. The civil nuclear pact signed by the nuclear energy chiefs of Russia and Libya provides for the construction of reactors...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... their interaction in oil and gas.Mr. Qadhafi also offered Russia a naval base in the port of Benghazi, according to media reports. Russia is keen to re-establish permanent military presence in the Mediterranean and is already upgrading port facilities at Syria’s Tartus. The civil nuclear pact signed by the nuclear energy chiefs of Russia and Libya provides for the construction of reactors...
Libyaonline.com (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
The demonstration of youth held in Benghazi yesterday at Benghazi Shabyat in which participated by young revolutionary movement commissions , the World Green Revolutionary Guard , the National Youth Organization , born in Libya and light , the sons of the great comrades , the people-movers for the great night light and linkages youth clubs and social and educational institutions at Shabya....
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... Friday that Gadhafi was prepared to offer Russia's navy access to Libya's Mediterranean port of Benghazi. The newspaper said Gadhafi, fearing another U.S. attack, thinks a Russian military presence would be a deterrent.Russia has sought to revive a naval presence in the Mediterranean and has looked toward historical allies in the region, such as Syria, as potential bases or ports. A Russian...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... military arsenal.Libya may offer to host a Russian naval base at the Mediterranean port of Benghazi, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Friday."The Russian military presence will be a guarantee of non-aggression against Libya from the United States," it said.Libya could buy more than $2bn of Russian arms, including surface-to-air missiles, tanks and fighter aeroplanes, the Russian...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... Friday that Gadhafi was prepared to offer Russia's navy access to Libya's Mediterranean port of Benghazi. The newspaper said Gadhafi, fearing another U.S. attack, thinks a Russian military presence would be a deterrent. Russia has sought to revive a naval presence in the Mediterranean and has looked toward historical allies in the region, such as Syria, as potential bases or ports. A Russian...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... Friday that Gadhafi was prepared to offer Russia's navy access to Libya's Mediterranean port of Benghazi. The newspaper said Gadhafi, fearing another U.S. attack, thinks a Russian military presence would be a deterrent.
Russia has sought to revive a naval presence in the Mediterranean and has looked toward historical allies in the region, such as Syria, as potential bases or ports....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... Friday that Gadhafi was prepared to offer Russia's navy access to Libya's Mediterranean port of Benghazi. The newspaper said Gadhafi, fearing another U.S. attack, thinks a Russian military presence would be a deterrent.Russia has sought to revive a naval presence in the Mediterranean and has looked toward historical allies in the region, such as Syria, as potential bases or ports. A Russian...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
All 269 passengers and crew, including 180 Americans, on the Pan Am flight and 11 people on the ground were killed in the Lockerbie bombing. Three people, including two American soldiers, were killed and 230 wounded in the Berlin disco attack. That attack prompted Mr. Reagan to order air strikes on targets in Tripoli and Benghazi that Libyans say killed 41 people, including Mr. Gadhafi's adopted...
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
One of 178 liberators that toof off from Benghazi to bomb oil refineries in Ploesti.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
... But he sourced water from artesian wells in the Sahara and brought it to his people in Tripoli, Benghazi and Sirte.When Gamal Nasser of Egypt dreamed of building the Aswan dam, many people dismissed him as a revolutionary hot-head who could not be trusted. They were wrong.When South Africa's Nelson Mandela made a life sacrifice by refusing to bow down to inhumanity through apartheid, many...
