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LIBYA, Gadaffi about to fall?

POSTED BY: OLDENGLANDDRY
UPDATED: Thursday, February 24, 2011 14:18
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:43 PM

OLDENGLANDDRY

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:20 PM

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:24 PM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


He's still a dangerous clown. Using the mercenaries was about as low as you can get... oh, wait, we do that.

I like how the Saudi head royal came back from "3 months of health related issues" - right, eating on your back will create digestion problems - just in time to bribe his citizens to not revolt. Too late I hope. These old Dictators see the writing on the wall but they don't want to read it - they probably don't even know what the internet is.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:20 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


I hope Gadafi falls.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:53 PM

KANEMAN


no-one cares about Libya or soccer.....

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:35 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12570279

Now he's saying the uprising is al-Qaeda inspired. Hoping to stoke Western fears about a terrorist state emerging I suppose - only the neocons can save him now...

I despise this man.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 8:29 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Just saw the news, to discover they'd taken control of a little over a third of the country, the second and third largest cities, and two cities WEST of Tripoli! Amazing, absolutely amazing.

Even more amazing, a reporter there said the opposition is forming a government, is keeping things going, food, gas, supplies, etc., and that things are moving along like normal there! I'm impressed.

Ghadafi is a mad dog; he'll say anything and probably doesn't even know what he's saying at this point, he's just blurting. The al Qaeda thing is because they HAVE publicly expressed backing of the opposition, so it's not surprising he's latched onto that and is telling the people they're being brainwashed by al Qaeda.

Will be interesting to see where it goes. If Ghadafi can't get control back, who comes to power? Given Lybia and Iran are (it appears) the two most repressive regimes, what do the governments of the other countries in ferment think about all this? Kind of like "If Libya can fall..."? I hope they manage it, more power to 'em.

Heard a phone interview with a protester; asked what kind of freedom they're looking for, she came up with the two most obvious ones right away, a constitution and freedom of speech. But then she said she couldn't SAY what other freedoms, as they'd never had any and didn't even know for sure what was possible...imagine not knowing what kind of freedoms you want as a country because you have a hard time conceptualizing freedom!

The world is changing before our eyes...let's hope it's for the better. One thing I'm pretty sure of; now that they've seen what's possible, it's going to be hard to suppress people who are starting to imagine what freedom might be like.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off




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Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:59 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Quote:

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday blamed the violence in his country on young people, who he said are taking some sort of pills and being exploited by Osama bin Laden.

Gadhafi also addressed Zawiya, saying, "We shouldn't leave" the town "without any control." Gadhafi's characteristically rambling remarks followed reports that anti-government forces have gained control of Zawiya, west of the capital, Tripoli.

Quryna newspaper reported that 10 people were killed and dozens were wounded in an attack security forces launched. The wounded could not be transferred to a hospital due to heavy shooting, the Quryna report said. The forces surprised people by coming from the west, instead of Tripoli, the paper said.

When the protests began last week, Quryna carried regime propaganda. It later changed and began covering the protests and casualty figures.

A woman, who said her son was shot, told CNN, "Blood is all over the streets." The woman said unarmed people were being fired on indiscriminately and that she believed far more than seven people were killed. The hospital in Zawiyais "a disaster," she said, adding that some shooters were coming in and insisting that no one was killed.

Misrata -- also spelled as Misurata -- is in the hands of the opposition, who have driven out the mercenaries, according to witnesses and media reports. It is the country's third-largest city.

Witnesses and reports also said the town of Az Zintan was under opposition control. The opposition already controls Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi, where crowds cheered as international journalists drove through. The only shooting that could be heard was celebratory gunfire. "When they saw us arrive, they just exploded with cheers and clapping, people saying, 'Thank you, thank you,' in English, throwing candy and dates inside the car," CNN's Ben Wedeman said.

But Tripoli was a different story. Sounds of gunfire erupted at dawn Thursday as chanting crowds fled. Government security forces tightened their grip on the capital, according to sources. In one neighborhood, no one was allowed in or out. There's nobody walking in the street, nobody is trying to get out, even to look through the window," a resident who did not want to be identified for security reasons said. "It's a little scary." he caller said she is risking her life by talking to the media.
"I've been trying to keep my identity hidden," the woman said. "There are reported kidnappings happening in homes for anybody credible that is talking to the media and giving them the truth about what's happening in Libya."

Continuing a stream of defection among some Libyan diplomats, the ambassador to Jordan, Mohammed Hassan Al Barghathi, said Thursday he is resigning due to the unrest. He also paid condolences to Libyan families who lost their loved ones in the violence.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/24/libya.protests/index.html?h
pt=T1


Wow.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off




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Thursday, February 24, 2011 1:56 PM

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:18 PM

WHOZIT


Are you sure you spell it "Gadaffi"? I've seen it spelled so many different ways. I'd spell it "Loonatic".

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