The Facebook Revolution in Lybia

[Nbadan]

Momar is getting Ghadafied!

Another one bites the dust!

Just a matter of time...

As we speak...

[ChumpDumper]

All according to SEIU's plan....

[boutons_deux]

80+ Libyans killed say reports, so far

[Capt Bringdown]

Under-reported in US media is the organized labor aspect of the uprisings sweeping the ME. Gee, I wonder why?

[RandomGuy]

80+ Libyans killed say reports, so far

That has climbed today. Looks like it is on the verge of civil war.

[BlairForceDejuan]

Community organizers = extremists.

[RandomGuy]

Libyan unrest spreads to Tripoli as Benghazi erupts

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya's unrest spread to the capital Tripoli on Sunday after scores of protesters were killed in the second city Benghazi, which appeared to have slipped out of control of forces loyal to strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

Gaddafi has attempted to put down protests with a violent crackdown, triggering some of the worst bloodshed in the two months since unrest began sweeping across the Arab world.

In the first sign of serious unrest in the capital, thousands of protesters clashed with supporters of Gadaffi in Tripoli. Gunfire could be heard and police using tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.

In Benghazi, center of Libya's unrest, tens of thousands of people took to the streets and appeared to be in control of the city before security forces opened fire and killed scores.

Benghazi residents said soldiers from a unit had joined their protest and defeated a force Gaddafi's elite guards. Bodies were brought to a hospital riddled with bullets and wounds from rocket-propelled grenades.

A witness in Tripoli said police in the capital were using tear gas against protesters, some of whom were throwing stones at billboards of Gaddafi.

A resident of the capital told Reuters by telephone he could hear gunshots in the streets. "We're inside the house and the lights are out. There are gunshots in the street," he said. "That's what I hear, gunshots and people. I can't go outside."

Members of an army unit known as the "Thunderbolt" squad had come to the hospital carrying wounded comrades, he said. The soldiers said they had defected to the cause of the protesters and had fought and defeated Gaddafi's elite guards.

"They are now saying that they have overpowered the Praetorian Guard and that they have joined the people's revolt," another man at the hospital who heard the soldiers, lawyer Mohamed al-Mana, told Reuters by telephone.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110220/...libya_protests

[RandomGuy]

Gadhafi's son warns of civil war in Libya

CAIRO – The son of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi warned in a nationally televised address that continued anti-government protests that have wracked Libya for six days might lead to a civil war that could send the country's oil wells up in flames.

Appearing on Libyan state television after midnight Sunday, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi said the army still backed his father, who was leading the fight, although he added that some military bases, tanks and weapons had been seized.

"We are not Tunisia and Egypt," the younger Gadhafi said, referring to the successful uprisings that toppled longtime regimes in Libya's neighbors.

He acknowledged that the army made mistakes during protests because it was not trained to deal with demonstrators but added that the number of dead had been exaggerated, giving a death toll of 84. Human Rights Watch put the number at 174 through Saturday, and doctors in the eastern city of Benghazi said more than 200 have died since the protests began.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110220/...libya_protests

[RandomGuy]

Other rumors, gleaned from an Al Jazeera blog:

12:11 am: Libya's ambassador to China, Hussein Sadiq al Musrati, has just resigned on air with Al Jazeera Arabic. He called on the army to intervene, and has called all diplomatic staff to resign.

He made claims about a gunfight between Gaddafi's sons and also claimed that Gaddafi may have left Libya. Al Jazeera has no confirmation of these claims.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-ea...ive-blog-libya

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It appears as if the port of Benghazi in the east has some simmering hatred of the regime, stemming from an incident in which thousands of people were slaughtered in prison riots about a decade ago.

Then the regime shot some protestors, then mourners at the funerals for those dead protestors.

I think a lot of people in Libya are highly pissed, and with good reason.



Libya also appears to have some tribal splits.

[RandomGuy]

Did I mention that Libya exports a lot of oil?

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922041.html

Not on par with Saudi Arabia, but a withdrawal of Libya's oil from the global bath tub of oil, will mean a sharp rise in the price of oil.

[clambake]

where is lybia?

[RandomGuy]

where is lybia?

Lybia Avenue, Birmingham, AL ?

or the country in north africa just south of Italy that used to be a former italian colony?

[boutons_deux]

Libya is huge exporter of LNG. And has anybody forgotten Lockerbie?

A few years ago they discovered a huge underground lake/aquifer under the Sahara that dated back 10s of 1000s of years, and are now sucking it dry.

[RandomGuy]

Libya is huge exporter of LNG. And has anybody forgotten Lockerbie?

A few years ago they discovered a huge underground lake/aquifer under the Sahara that dated back 10s of 1000s of years, and are now sucking it dry.

They are going to end up having to use a good chunk of energy to de-salinate water, after that "one-time" aquifer is gone.

I have not forgotten Lockerbie, but the billion+ Ghadafi pledged to the victims went a long way to making some amends.

I won't shed a tear to see his crazy ass go. One has to wonder which dictator is next.

Brent crude is now above 100 bucks a barrel, with West Texas Intermediate hugging 90 at $87 and change. Mark the time. Betcha it will be a lot higher next week.

[MannyIsGod]

I think its completely wrong to keep calling this "the facebook revolution".

[cheguevara]

Exon telling Obama and the Eurotrash presidents to STFU. Then telling Omar to start gassing mother ers.

[boutons_deux]

Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebook

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12522848

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hmmm...

[boutons_deux]

According to reports, Libyan consular staff in China, India, the U.K., Indonesia, Bangladesh, Poland and at the Arab League have all resigned over the government's brutal crackdown on protesters

According to reports, Libyan consular staff in China, India, the U.K., Indonesia, Bangladesh, Poland and at the Arab League have all resigned over the government's brutal crackdown on protesters

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews...r_own_comrades

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Oligarchies are falling in the Arab world, while the oligarchy is consolidating and increasing its power in the UCA.

[Yonivore]

Hey, anyone checked how that "popular democratic revolution" is going in Egypt?

Yeah, the Extreme Islamists seem to be on their way to another Iranian-style regime. Good luck with that...

The Yuppie Revolution In Egypt Is Over, The Islamist Revolution Has Begun

Who saw that coming? Oh yeah, anyone with a brain.

[ChumpDumper]

Hey, anyone checked how that "popular democratic revolution" is going in Egypt?

Yeah, the Extreme Islamists seem to be on their way to another Iranian-style regime. Good luck with that...

The Yuppie Revolution In Egypt Is Over, The Islamist Revolution Has Begun

Who saw that coming? Oh yeah, anyone with a brain.

You still never said anything about what you would do to protect ruthless dictators like Mubarak.

[MannyIsGod]

Yoni wants dictators because he doesn't like others politics.

Yoni only wants you to be free if you think like him

[Yonivore]

Yoni wants dictators because he doesn't like others politics.

Yoni only wants you to be free if you think like him

Some things are worse than western-friendly autocrats and dictators. I'm afraid the Egyptians are about to find out...much as the Iranians did, after the Shah was deposed.

In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences

I think we're destined to end up with a cesspool of Islamic extremism in the Middle East and Northern Africa intent on destroying anything and everything non-Islamic.

Conversion, Dhimmitude, or Death.

[ChumpDumper]

Some things are worse than western-friendly autocrats and dictators. I'm afraid the Egyptians are about to find out...much as the Iranians did, after the Shah was deposed.

In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences

I think we're destined to end up with a cesspool of Islamic extremism in the Middle East and Northern Africa intent on destroying anything and everything non-Islamic.

Conversion, Dhimmitude, or Death.

Glenn Beck really got to you.

[boutons_deux]

Yoni's hoping for a BecKKK-style terrorist caliphate to justify his Islamophobia, (but he needs no justification)

[MannyIsGod]

Some things are worse than western-friendly autocrats and dictators. I'm afraid the Egyptians are about to find out...much as the Iranians did, after the Shah was deposed.

In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences

I think we're destined to end up with a cesspool of Islamic extremism in the Middle East and Northern Africa intent on destroying anything and everything non-Islamic.

Conversion, Dhimmitude, or Death.

I think this forum is littered with your incorrect predictions so we can safely file this one away with those.