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Lizzie Phelan

Irish independent journalist. She was PressTV correspondent in Tripoli during the assault of NATO.

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New York Times interview with Lizzie Phelan

"In Lybia now the truth is coming out"

by Lizzie Phelan

4 February 2012

Irish free-lance journalist Lizzie Phelan reverts to her recent interview by New York Times reporter Robert Mackey. In this article, she elaborates in greater detail on the three themes discussed in the interview. She argues that, though labeled as "activists" and "firebrands", those (...)

Witch hunts in "free" Libya

by Lizzie Phelan

London (United Kingdom) | 22 September 2011

While NATO’s mandate enjoins it to protect civilians, the Alliance allows the forces of the Libyan National Transition Council to continue their abuses. After hunting down black Africans, the summary executions now extend to members of the Qadhadhfa tribe, that of the fallen Leader. Hundreds (...)

Testimony

Witnessing the Transition to fear in Tripoli

by Lizzie Phelan

8 September 2011

Evacuated by the ICRC from the Rixos hotel where she had been blocked for five days, Lizzie Phelan offers her first impressions after the fall of Tripoli. Danger, death and fear reign have engulfed the capital of the "New Libya", while NATO and its collaborators are peacocking around.