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Posted on 10/19/2013 6:41:12 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
Libya marks the second anniversary of the death of Muammar Gaddafi with the country on the brink of a new civil war and fighting raging in the eastern city of Benghazi, birthplace of its Arab spring revolution.
Violence between radical militias and regular forces broke out on Friday night and continued yesterday, while the capital Tripoli is braced for fallout from the kidnapping earlier this month of prime minister Ali Zaidan. Federalists in Cyrenaica, home to most of Libya's oil, open their own independent parliament in Benghazi this week, in a step that may herald the breakup of the country.
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Hours after an assassination branded a "heinous act" by US ambassador Deborah Jones, armed units stormed the Benghazi home of a prominent militia commander, Wissam Ben Hamid, with guns and rockets.
Fighting continued into the night, with army units heading for the home of a second militia commander, Ahmed Abu Khattala, indicted by the US for the killing of US ambassador Chris Stevens last year. There, they were turned back by powerful militia units.
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Oh, don’t forget Syria and Afghanistan. Credit where credit is due.
Brit newspaper had to report this.
HOW STRANGE, especially since the whole Libya adventure was 100% the idea of Hillary Clinton.
Soooo surprising.
In an Islamic State how is it possible to distinguish between these two simplistic categories (”radical militias and regular forces “)?
Ping.
Some interesting Benghazi tid bits in this article including an attempt by one malitia to seize Ahmed Abu Khattala from another malitia group. He’s the guy that we’ve indicted for the Stevens murder and was possibly targeted for a snatch operation at the same time as the raid in Tripoli a few weeks ago.
Are you talking about the Libyan civil war or the assassination of Ambassador Stevens? Our participation in the Libyan civil war was mandated by the UN and carried out by NATO, mainly to get the oil flowing to Europe again. I don't recall Clinton's name coming up much during that time.
Does the Obama regime still call this the “Arab Spring”? How nice.
I think the whole "Arab Spring" terminology went down the memory hole along with "Recovery Summer," "Kinetic Military Action" and other terms the media will never, ever put in print again.
The American media, cheerleader during the bombs being dropped, are now almost totally silent
“WE came, WE saw, HE DIED (ha ha ha)” - Sec. of State Hillary Clinton taking credit for the war crime torture, abuse, and murder of a POW named Momar Gaddafi.
Obama gave a “mission accomplished” speech at the UN that year.
The invasion of Libya scared Assad into giving up his chemical weapons.
Obama owns the Libyan fiasco, lock stock and barrel!!!
The scary part is that he's got his chief flying monkey babe cutting secret deals with Iran right now as we sit. The negotiations are now over not performing a test detonation under Obammy's watch. That's what the lifting of sanctions light is all about.
Obama just doesn't want Iran to set one off until the swearing in of the next president in America. Anything else goes.
40 years from now, all of the ME - Israel hopefully excluded - will be under the control of the murderous muslim caliphate, and it will have spread into the Mediterranean and into Europe, Canada, Australia and the US. The Western World will be under attack as we can’t imagine today. Unless He intervenes.
He’ll never “own” anything; it’ll always be someone else’s fault.
You are correct. The Italians were the never seen antagonists.
Saif Gaddafi was also in the confused mix of politics, business and religion that precipitated the US involvement in what was essentially a European farce
I used to be afraid of a caliphate but even the most powerful leaders in the Middle East have only a tenuous hold on their own countries. I can't see the Sunni and Shiite agreeing to one ruler, much less all the hundreds of major tribal factions.
Good point.
I always thought the uniting factor was hatred of Infidels and islamic fanaticism. How’d they do it when they took over before, or was that before they split into so many factions?
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