Muammar Gaddafi and Libyan crisis

[KanadaHye]

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U.S. repositions military around Libya

The U.S. military is repositioning its naval and air forces around Libya to provide "flexibility once decisions are made," a Pentagon spokesman said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...rld-libya.html

Here come the cowards to save the oil.

[Federate]

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Anyone have any insight on Gaddafi's "Ukrainian" "nurse" KGB strikes again

Lol, she fled Libya. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galyna_Kolotnytska

[KanadaHye]

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Anyone have any insight on Gaddafi's "Ukrainian" "nurse" KGB strikes again

[Federate]

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I think the protesters were more determined to finish him off after the Idiot Kadafi’s announcement that he will execute all the protesters and the responsible ones.

Ghazafi has a habit of doing that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_al-Sadr

[Yedtarts]

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I think the protesters were more determined to finish him off after the Idiot Kadafi’s announcement that he will execute all the protesters and the responsible ones.

[KanadaHye]

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Well the "peaceful" protesters were armed so they had no choice but to shoot and defend themselves. I still think Gaddafi has the upper hand and I'm willing to bet the protestors are weighing the odds of going down in flames or giving up completely and risking reprisals after the smoke clears. Either way they are screwed if the West leaves them high and dry. I can't see the West wanting to confront Libya directly with military intervention if the Libyan military is behind Gaddafi 100%.

[Federate]

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The West is openly talking about arming the rebels now. Next step if this fails is military intervention. Already Libya's sovereignty and territorial integrity have been violated from air, sea and land.

A Libyan official's comments about the situation:

In Tripoli, a government spokesman blamed the West and Islamic militants for the upheaval, saying they had hijacked and escalated what he said began as "genuine" but small protests demanding "legitimate and much needed political improvements."

"On one hand, Islamists love to see chaos ... this is paradise for them," he said. "The West wants chaos to give them reason to intervene militarily to control the oil."

"The Islamists want Libya to be their Afghanistan ... to complete their crescent of terror," he said. "This is not the first time the Islamic militants and the West find common cause."

I agree with the above statement except I think the official is exagerrating how much of this is Islam related. I also blame Ghazafi for making the situation worse than it was. The protests were small-scale until he started shooting at people which had the opposite of the intended effect, making the protests bigger as it caused outrage all throughout the country.

[KanadaHye]

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Importance of Libyan oil

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/27/levine.libya.oil.cnn

I can't stand how this guy Steve Levine's eyes light up when discussing the possible repercussions of all these simultaneous "revolutions".

[retro]

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Apparently, Libyan sovereignty and territorial integrity doesn't exist anymore. WTF?

The reason why we need to get our people out fast is to prevent them being taken hostage. British Special Forces have clearly had recon assets in the country for sometime and apparently, one of the C-130 Hercules involved in the NEO was a Spectre AC-130 gunship.

What about these Russian citizens stuck in the desert? If the Russians require assistance. I think that the Brits have secured a airstrip and they have been talking about sending in fuel. So maybe their are more people stranded in the middle of the Libyan desert.

Russia has sent four airplanes to evacuate a total of 563 Russians from Libya. Most of them are employees of the Russian Railways monopoly and the Gazprom energy giant or families of Russian diplomats.

The fate of about 150 Russian citizens, who are in the Libyan Desert (750 km away from the capital), is still unknown.

Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry has asked the Russian leadership to help evacuate Tajik citizens from Libya. There are about 20 Tajik students in Libya.

According to the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Russia is likely to evacuate the three Armenian citizens staying in Libya.

http://www.a1plus.am/en/politics/2011/02/23/plane

[KanadaHye]

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Italy just suspended its friendship treaty with Libya. Among the major clauses in the treaty are a pact to the committment of non-aggression.

*KanadaHye runs out to fill up on gas*

There was a rumour that Gaddafi was shot so the oil prices dropped.... gotta love Capitalism. Supply and demand my vor.