Franklin Lamb

Bad Moon Rising Over Great Sirte Bay

Posted by Franklin Lamb | Nov 21, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis, US |

Sirte, LIBYA– This observer, with his sandaled feet comfortably dug into the sand of a...

Terror and Revenge Engulfs NATO’s Libya

Posted by Franklin Lamb | Nov 12, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis, US |

The “new Libya” has entered its own “Terror” which is spreading inexorably, aided by NATO member...

Libya’s Liberation Front Organizing in the Sahel

Posted by Franklin Lamb | Nov 7, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis, US |

On the edge of the Sahel, Niger — “Sahel” in Arabic means “coast” or “shoreline.” Unless one...

Amnesty International’s flawed Syrian Hospitals ‘Investigation’

Posted by Franklin Lamb | Nov 2, 2011 | Middle East, News & Analysis |

NIAMEY, Niger — This observer counts himself among Amnesty International’s more than 3...

Revulsion, Resistance, and Angry Words from Tripoli University

Posted by Franklin Lamb | Oct 26, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, News & Analysis, US |

TRIPOLI — The people I had most hoped to be able to find on returning to Libya were eight...

Targeted for assassination by NATO? Will Seif al Islam Gadhafi survive to have his day in court?

Posted by Franklin Lamb | Oct 22, 2011 | Africa, Middle East, US, Viewpoints |

During the late evening of October 20, the White House, the Office of the Secretary of State, the...

Despite Newfound ‘Friends’, Lebanon’s Palestinians Require UN Action to Obtain Civil Rights

Posted by Franklin Lamb | Oct 17, 2011 | Middle East, Palestine, Viewpoints |

BAALBEK, Lebanon — Jalil Refugee Camp is located about 90 km east of Beirut near Baalbek in the Bekaa valley and is home to approximately 8000 of the World’s most destitute Palestinian refugees. It is usually referred to...

Panetta to Netanyahu: ‘Israel may not survive the current Arab/Islamic awakening’

Posted by Franklin Lamb | Oct 10, 2011 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |

BEIRUT — Three weeks after being named by President Obama in January 2009 as the 19th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and during his first day on the job on February 12, 2009, Leon Panetta, now US...