Documents on the War in Libya

The following is a small selection of some of the basic documents on the war in Libya produced by governments and international governmental organizations, and international non-government organizations, which formed part of the research used for this book. All of the documents below are PDF files.

NATO and Libya: Operational Media Updates. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, March 31-October 25, 2012. (208 pages)	Statement of General Carter Ham, United States Africa Command, before the House Armed Services Committee, February 29, 2012. Mission and Commander's Intent, General Carter Ham. Headquarters, United States Africa Command, Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany, August, 2011. Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa. Congressional Research Service, July 22, 2011. U.S. Africa Command, 2011 Exercises--Fact Sheet. U.S. Africa Command, April 25, 2011. International Military Education and Training: U.S. Africa Command Fact Sheet. Forward in Africa: USAFRICOM and the U.S. Army in Africa. Military Review, January-February 2010. United States Africa Command: The First Three Years. U.S. Africa Command Public Affairs Office, March 2011. United States Africa Command: 2010 Posture Statement. Statement by General William E. Ward to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, March 9-10, 2010. United States Africa Command: Command Overview. Libya’s Operation Odyssey Dawn: Command and Control. Prism, 3(2), 2012.
African Oil: A Priority for U.S. National Security and African Development. African Oil Policy Initiative Group (AOPIG), 2002. U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa. The White House, June, 2012. United States National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security. The White House, December 2011. National Security Strategy, 2010. The White House, 2010. Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, September, 2004. Department of Defense Directive, Information Operations. August 14, 2006. Information Operations Roadmap. October 30, 2003. The Creation and Dissemination of All Forms of Information in Support of Psychological Operations (PSYOP) in Time of Military Conflict. Defense Science Board Task Force, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, May 2000. The Struggle for Security in Eastern Libya. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September, 2012. Summary: The Struggle for Security in Eastern Libya. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September, 2012. Memo from the U.S. Embassy, Tripoli, Libya, March 28, 2012: request for more security. JTF GTMO Detainee Assessment: Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed. April 22, 2005.
Prime Minister opens London Conference on Libya. March 29, 2011. Foreign Secretary statement following the London Conference on Libya. March 29, 2011.	STRATFOR: collected files and reports on Libya. (150 pages)
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970. February 26, 2011. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. March 17, 2011. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2009. September 16, 2011. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2016. October 27, 2011. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2017. October 31, 2011. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2022. December 2, 2011. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2040. March 12, 2012. Responsibility to protect: timely and decisive response: Report of the Secretary-General. United Nations General Assembly, July 25, 2012. Implementing the responsibility to protect: Report of the Secretary-General. United Nations General Assembly, January 12, 2009. 2005 World Summit Outcome. United Nations General Assembly, October 24, 2005. Report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya. United Nations Human Rights Council, March 8, 2012. Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. United Nations Human Rights Council, January 4, 2011.	Short War, Long Shadow: The Political and Military Legacies of the 2011 Libya Campaign. Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, 2012.
	First National Survey of Libya: Cover. Oxford Research International, The Institute of Human Sciences (University of Oxford), The University of Benghazi. Fieldwork 13 December 2011 to 1 January 2012 First National Survey of Libya: Executive Summary, Oxford Research International, The Institute of Human Sciences (University of Oxford), The University of Benghazi. First National Survey of Libya: Presentation of Results. Oxford Research International, The Institute of Human Sciences (University of Oxford), The University of Benghazi.
Libya: The Forgotten Victims of NATO Airstrikes. Amnesty International, March, 2012. Militias Threaten Hopes for New Libya. Amnesty International, 2012. Detention Abuses Staining the New Libya. Amnesty International, 2011. The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture. Amnesty International, 2011. Europe, Now It Is Your Turn to Act: Refugees forced out of Libya urgently need resettlement. Amnesty International, September 2011.	Report of the Independent Civil Society Fact-Finding Mission to Libya. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Arab Organization for Human Rights, International Legal Assistance Consortium, January 2012.
	Unacknowledged Deaths: Civilian Casualties in NATO’s Air Campaign in Libya. Human Rights Watch, May 2012.
African Union Calls for an end to bombing and a political, not military solution in Libya. African Union High Level Ad Hoc Committee on Libya, June 15, 2011. The Creation of the African Monetary Fund. 4th AU Extraordinary Summit, Meeting of  Experts on the Establishment of Financial Institutions in Africa. African Union, September 19-20, 2005. The Creation of the African Investment Bank. 4th AU Extraordinary Summit, Meeting of  Experts on the Establishment of Financial Institutions in Africa. African Union, September 19-20, 2005. Agreement Establishing the African Investment Bank. 4th AU Extraordinary Summit, Meeting of  Experts on the Establishment of Financial Institutions in Africa. African Union, September 19-20, 2005. Establishment of an African Monetary Fund. UN Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, April 14-22, 1983.	Report of the 6th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council. Community of Sahel-Saharan States, Ouagadougou, August 22-23, 2001.
	WIKILEAKS: The complete collection of cables from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, 2004-2010. (2,080 pages; does not include cables on Libya from other U.S. missions)
	The Green Book, by Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Maximilian C. Forte is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec. He teaches courses in the field of political anthropology dealing with “the new imperialism,” cultural imperialism, Indigenous resistance movements and philosophies, theories and histories of colonialism, and critiques of the mass media. He writes regularly for the Zero Anthropology Project, with additional articles appearing in Global Research, CounterPunch, MRzine, and was formerly a columnist for Al Jazeera Arabic.