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Friendship test {March 10, 2011 , 12:07 AM} I don't exactly intend to turn this page into a Libya-nexus, so I'll cease and desist on such posts for at least a day or two. But it's just been reported that Q is torturing journalists. His recapture of Ras Lanuf turned out to be a lie, but the battle for the refinery-town is currently raging. Libya's defecting-ambassador says the people are "waiting" for a NFZ. If Egypt's interim government is looking to reassert the nation's role as a leader of the Arab world, I couldn't think of a better way to do so than taking a stand against Qaddafi. They've begun to aid the rebels. The U.S. global security consultancy Stratfor says these troops "have played a key role in quietly providing weaponry and training to Libyan opposition forces while trying to organize a political command in the east."It's been noted elswhere that the bloodshed in Libya has guaranteed a refugee problem for its two reborn nieghbors. [Egypt] is deeply concerned about a flood of refugees pouring across the desert border from Libya as well as a resurgence of Islamist militancy in eastern Libya that could reignite its own Muslim extremists. Labels: Egypt, Gaddafi, Libya, no-fly zone, Qaddafi, rebels, war ---------- Post a Comment ---------- Who's the Boss? {March 8, 2011 , 2:04 PM} According to his inner circle, Qaddafi has no intention of cutting a deal to leave the country. Airstrikes and starvation will continue. Nic Robertson believes this is one of the many propaganda volleys we'll be seeing during Libya's civil war. Who's gonna tell Qaddafi he has to do this? No one's even sure who could do that; perhaps one of his sons—there seems some distance from this kind of thing...So the government says these reports are utter nonsense: That's the government position, that they'll continue with [the airstrikes], they'll retake many of the towns and cities in the east before they, in their terms, force some talks on the rebels. They'll do it from a position of strength when they feel the country's close to being unified.Yeah—good luck with that, chums. Labels: Gaddafi, Libya, no-fly zone, Qaddafi, rebels, war ---------- Post a Comment ---------- His Kingdom for Some Cash { , 12:54 AM} Might Qaddafi be losing his nerve? Some reports are surfacing that he's willing to slip away with some money and a get-out-of-jail free card. He's supposed to have made this offer to the "interim council" governing the rebel-controlled eastern provinces: A source close to the council told Reuters he had heard that "one formula being proposed by the other side would see Gaddafi hand power to the head of parliament and leave the country with a certain guaranteed sum of money." Al Bayan quoted a source close to Gaddafi's inner circle as saying the Libyan leader had begun looking for a safe haven outside Libya.There is no creature loves him.  Labels: Gaddafi, Libya, no-fly zone, Qaddafi, rebels ---------- Post a Comment ---------- Time To Decide {March 7, 2011 , 5:08 PM} We can take out Qaddafi's airfields, or we can sit back and watch the rebels mowed down by bullets from the sky.
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