The Rescue
An oil tanker was ordered to save more than 100 migrants floating in the middle of the Mediterranean. Europe didn’t want them. They couldn’t go back to Libya. How would they survive?
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An oil tanker was ordered to save more than 100 migrants floating in the middle of the Mediterranean. Europe didn’t want them. They couldn’t go back to Libya. How would they survive?
Zach Campbell The Atavist Magazine Oct 2019 30min Permalink
A case of mistaken identity leads to the prosecution of an ordinary Eritrean for human smuggling.
Ben Taub New Yorker Jul 2017 20min Permalink
The Libyan Investment Authority was brand new, staffed by people who barely understood finance and had billions to invest. Goldman Sachs saw a whale. Now the Libyans want their money back.
Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel Bloomberg Business Sep 2016 20min Permalink
The U.S. Department of Justice investigates the Blackwater founder’s new firm.
Matthew Cole, Jeremy Scahill The Intercept Mar 2016 15min Permalink
The disappearance of the Ghost Boat and its 243 passengers off the Libyan coast.
Eric Reidy Matter Oct 2015 10min Permalink
Ken Dornstein’s older brother died when a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103. For the past three decades, he’s been obsessed with identifying who’s really responsible.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Sep 2015 40min Permalink
“The Jihad route leads from Tunisia via Tripoli into Turkey and on to Syria. Thousands have followed the path into Syria, and only a few have returned.”
Mirco Keilberth, Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Christoph Reuter Der Spiegel English Nov 2014 15min Permalink
Following Muammar Qaddafi’s death in 2011, Libya had hundreds of billions of dollars. This is the story of how it was erased.
David Samuels Businessweek Aug 2014 25min Permalink
Investigating the murky reality behind the attack in Libya.
David D. Kirkpatrick New York Times Dec 2013 10min Permalink
The story of the attack that killed U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, told from the persepctive of the security agents there to protect him.
Fred Burton, Samuel M. Katz Vanity Fair Aug 2013 30min Permalink
In a Turkish hotel, veterans of the Libyan Revolution meet with their fractured Syrian counterparts to transfer know-how and heavy weaponry.
Rania Abouzeid Time May 2013 15min Permalink
In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.
Robert Draper National Geographic Feb 2013 20min Permalink
A 21-year-old UCLA math major leaves his $9,000-a-month internship to fight with the rebels in Libya.
Joshua Davis Men's Journal Sep 2012 25min Permalink
Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s secret surveillance network.
Matthieu Aikins Wired May 2012 25min Permalink
The tables have been turned – brutally – on Qaddafi loyalists.
Robert F. Worth New York Times May 2012 20min Permalink
A profile of Seif Qaddafi.
James Verini New York May 2011 Permalink
How the contradiction-rich “country the size of Connecticut” that birthed Al-Jazeera has played an integral and surprising role in the revolutions of the Arab Spring.
Hugh Eakin New York Review of Books Oct 2011 20min Permalink
On the life, legacy, and last days of Muammar Qaddafi.
John Lee Anderson New Yorker Oct 2011 40min Permalink
Why the US intervened in Libya.
Michael Hastings Rolling Stone Oct 2011 30min Permalink
The aftermath of a revolution:
Amid all the chaos of Libya’s transition from war to peace, one remarkable theme stood out: the relative absence of revenge. Despite the atrocities carried out by Qaddafi’s forces in the final months and even days, I heard very few reports of retaliatory killings. Once, as I watched a wounded Qaddafi soldier being brought into a hospital on a gurney, a rebel walked past and smacked him on the head. Instantly, the rebel standing next to me apologized. My Libyan fixer told me in late August that he had found the man who tortured him in prison a few weeks earlier. The torturer was now himself in a rebel prison. “I gave him a coffee and a cigarette,” he said. “We have all seen what happened in Iraq.” That restraint was easy to admire.
Robert F. Worth New York Times Sep 2011 1h15min Permalink
In Tripoli, after Gaddafi.
Rory Stewart London Review of Books Sep 2011 15min Permalink
On Hillary Clinton’s Arab Spring.
Jonathan Alter Vanity Fair Jun 2011 30min Permalink
The sudden, bloody transformation of normal citizens into rebels.
Robert F. Worth New York Times Magazine Mar 2011 30min Permalink
No one really knows the script for days like these, and neither did we.
Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks New York Times Mar 2011 10min Permalink
What did $3M paid to a US consulting firm get Qaddafi? A glowing profile in The New Republic, written by a Harvard professor, who travelled to Tripoli to interview him. On the consulting company’s dime. Which he failed to disclose.
David Corn, Siddhartha Mahanta Mother Jones Mar 2011 10min Permalink