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8
Dirk Vandewalle, “How Not to Intervene In Libya,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 10, 2011.
9
Ibid.
10
“Libya's no fly zone: The Military Balance,”
The Economist
, March 3, 2011.
11
International Crisis Group, “A Ceasefire and Negotiations: the Right Way to Resolve the Libya Crisis,” March 10, 2011; see
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/media-releases/2011/a-ceasefire-and-negotiations-the-right-way-to-resolve-the-libya-crisis.aspx
.
13
Richard McGregor and Peter Spiegel, “US split on response to Tripoli,”
Financial Times
, March 10, 2011.
15
Joseph Berger, “U.S. Senators Call for No-Flight Zone Over Libya,”
New York Times
, March 6, 2011.
17
Feb17.info (reference was removed from site).
19
CNN, “Paul Wolfowitz Hits Obama On Libya, Blames Pan Am Families For Bush Policy Toward Gaddafi,”
Fareed Zakaria GPS
, video, February 27, 2011.
20
Michele Bachmann, “Obama ‘Put Us in Libya. He Is Now Putting Us in Africa'” video, October 18, 2011. Bachmann was referring to a recent announcement that the US would be sending 100 American troops to Uganda.
21
“Herman Cain Stumbles on Libya Questions,”
Huffington Post
, November 14, 2011.
23
Elliott Abrams, “Qaddafi's Fall: No, Obama Was Not Right,”
National Review
, August 22, 2011.
25
Abrams, “Qaddafi's Fall: No, Obama Was Not Right,” National Review, August 22, 2011.
26
Condoleezza Rice,
No Higher Honor
(New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, 2011), p. 703.
28
Chorin interview, source requested anonymity.
29
Chorin interview, source requested anonymity.
30
Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, “CIA agents in Libya Aid Airstrikes and Meet Rebels,”
New York Times
, March 30, 2011.
31
David Bromwich, “The CIA, the Libyan Rebellion, and the President,”
Huffington Post
, March 31, 2011.
33
Mazzetti and Schmitt, CIA agents in Libya Aid Airstrikes and Meet Rebels.
35
Josh Rogin, “How Obama turned on a dime toward war,”
Foreign Policy
, March 18, 2011.
36
Stephanie Funk, “The Domestic Context and Policy Process that Created an Unprecedented U.S. Policy to Libya,” unpublished paper, National Defense University, National War College, Summer 2011, p. 4.
37
Robert Dreyfuss, “Obama's Women Advisers Pushed War Against Libya,”
The Nation
, March 19, 2011.
38
Funk, “Domestic Context and Policy,” p. 4.
39
Samantha Power,
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
(New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2002), p. 261.
41
Samantha Power had called Clinton a “monster” in an interview with UK media during the presidential campaign.
42
Rogin, “How Obama turned on a dime toward war.”
45
Samantha Power, in
A Problem from Hell
, claims that President Bush Sr. intervened in Somalia mainly to deflect attention from atrocities in Bosnia, and to demonstrate that lack of action there was not a “Muslim thing”. [Samantha Power,
A Problem from Hell
(New York, NY: Basic Books, 2002), p. 285.]
46
The piracy analogy went the other way as well: a recent book by Martin N. Murphy on Somalia-based piracy was titled:
Somalia: The New Barbary?: Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa
(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2010).
49
See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-13044846
; Mas'a arabi li iqna' al qadhafi bi ‘al manfa' wa amreeka takhshi min ‘Sumal Kabir.'
50
Gianandrea Gaiani, “The Leader in Tripoli's Method's to Isolate the Islamists,” Sole-24 Ore, March 4, 2006.
51
“Al-Qaeda in N. Africa Backs Uprising,” Agence France Presse, February 23, 2011.
52
“Cameron's lead of Libya sows Confusion,”
Financial Times
, March 3, 2011.
56
Editors, “‘Unified Protector' Quels Parametres pour une Operation Lance sans Filet?”
Defense et Sécurité Internationale
(DSI), no. 70, May 2011, p. 34.
58
Bernard-Henri Lévy,
La Guerre Sans l'Aimer
(Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2011), p. 81.
59
Ibid., p. 100.
60
Le Nouvel Observateur
(unknown date).
61
Marc Pierini,
Le prix de la liberté
(Paris: Actes Sud, 2008), p. 139.
63
Editors, “‘Unified Protector,' ” p. 28.
64
Ibid., p. 28.
67
Ibid.
71
Stephanie Funk, “The Domestic Context and Policy Process that Created an Unprecedented U.S. Policy to Libya,” unpublished paper, National Defense Universtiy, National War College, Summer 2011.
74
Obama, “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning.”
76
Hastings, “Inside Obama's War Room.”
77
Ibid.
78
Musa Kusa was named foreign minister in a cabinet shuffle in 2009, replacing Abdelrahman Shalgam.
79
Jon Lee Anderson ,“Sons of the Revolution,”
New Yorker
, May 9, 2011.
80
Chorin interview with Adel Husni Bey, July 21, 2012.
81
Chorin interview with Youcif Mgarief, April 2012.
82
Lévy,
La Guerre aans l'Aimer
, p. 121.
84
Ibid.
85
“Masāʾ al-Arbiʿāʾ li-Iqnāʿ al-QaḏḏāfÄ« bi-l-Manfā wa AmrÄ«kā Taḫša min ‘Sumāl KabÄ«r,
Al Hayat
, March 3, 2011.
88
Hastings, “Inside Obama's War Room.”
89
“Libya Thanks Qatari Task Force at Honoring Ceremony in Doha,” Tripoli Post, May 26–June 1, p. 5.
90
Lancement d'une Chaine de Television par L'opposition Libyenne depuis Doha,
Moyen- Orient
, July-September 2011, p. 75.
91
Pierini, p. 116.
92
Hugh Eakin, “The Strange Power of Qatar,”
Financial Times
, October 27, 2011.
93
Laurent de Saint Périer, “le Qatar mise et gagne,” in
Jeune Afrique
, September, 4–10, 2011.
94
Laurent de Saint Périer, “Le Qatar Mise en Gagne,” in
Jeune Afrique
, September 4-10, 2011.
95
“No Illusions,”
The Economist
, March 19, 2011.
96
Editors, “Unified Protector,” pp. 26–40.
97
Jean-Marc Tanguy,
Harmattan: Récits et Révélations
(Paris: Nimrod, 2012), p. 42.
98
Joby Warrick, “Clinton credited with key role in success of NATO airstrikes, Libyan rebels,”
Washington Post
, October 28, 2011; see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hillarys-war-how-conviction-replaced-skepticism-in-libya-intervention/2011/10/28/gIQAhGS7WM_story.html
.
100
“A United front against Gaddafi,”
Financial Times
, March 21, 2011.
101
Charles Clover, “Tripoli's anti Gaddafi Voices reemerge,”
Financial Times
, March 23, 2011.
102
“Allies will allow dictator to Leave Libya,”
The Times
(of London), March 29, 2011.
104
Chorin interivew with Hunsi Bey, May 2011.
106
More-junior State Department officials expressed doubts about the “criticality” of Power's role, saying she was not in evidence at early sub-principal Libya meetings.
107
Gareth Evans , “Responding to Mass Atrocity Crimes: The ‘Responsibility to Protect' After Libya,” transcript, Chatham House, October 2011; see
http://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/papers/view/178795
.
108
Matthew Moran, “Saving President Sarkozy?,” April 5, 2011; see
http://frenchpolitics.blogs.france24.com/article/2011/04/05/saving-president-sarkozy-0
.
109
Duthel, Duthel Intelligence Report.
CHAPTER 11
1
“BinġāzÄ« TastaÊ¿idd li-z-Zaḥf Ä arban,”
al Hayāt
, March 3, 2011.
5
Jon Hilsenrath, “Gates Says Libya Not Vital National Interest,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 27, 2011; see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ev7TyrP08k
.

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