Posted on 07/11/2014 5:06:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The United Nations has evacuated dozens of foreign staff from its mission in Libya due to a deteriorating security situation in the North African country, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.
“They will return if the security situation improves,” said Samir Ghattas, spokesman for the U.N. Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), without saying how many had left the country.
Libya has been in a state of near constant turmoil for three years, with successive governments struggling for legitimacy and unable to tame various armed groups that helped overthrow veteran ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 but are now defying state authority. …
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Ah. Husseins Spring in full flower.
Winning!
Do we leave too? Or stick around and let the Libya a take our flag down?
I hope that they call the Hildebeast for advice.
She’s good with Libyan Embassy evacuations and such.
It’s a sad day when the UN shows more sense than the President or Secretary of State.
“It’s a sad day when the UN shows more sense than the President or Secretary of State.”
Amen to that.
I’f we hadn’t meddled in Libya, overthrowing Kaddhafi (who had made a deal with us) this wouldn’t be happening.
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