Posted on 08/31/2014 4:13:16 PM PDT by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of a Libyan militia have taken over an abandoned annex of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli but have not broken into the main compound where the United States evacuated all of its staff last month, U.S. officials said on Sunday.
A YouTube video showed the breach of the diplomatic facility by what was believed to be a militia group mostly from the northwestern city of Misrata. Dozens of men, some armed, were seen gleefully crowded onto the patio of a swimming pool, with some diving in from the balcony of a nearby building.
Libya has been rocked by the worst factional violence since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi, and a Misrata-led alliance, part of it which is Islamist-leaning, now controls the capital.
A takeover of the embassy compound could deliver another symbolic blow to Washington over its policy toward Libya, which Western governments fear is teetering toward becoming a failed state just three years after a NATO-backed war ended Gaddafi’s rule.
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Obama’s pals, installed by his illegal war against Kaddafi.
He’d better do something about this. Maybe send them some money, so they can use the pool to play water polo.
One cruise missile would be on its way if I were the President.
Another Obama success story
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I suspect sarcasm but, in fact, I have been arguing that your comment s literally true. If chaos and Jihadist rule and the triumph of the Caliphate is Obama’s goal then this event is just another small step along the way.
“Let zem tuch nice tings!” -Celine Dion.
The bigger point is that Kaddhafi was assassinated which is not allowed. Oh...Obama said it was okay to kill a Head of State.
Had a discussion with a liberal last week wherein he doubled down on the “caliphate is an absurd notion” meme. Totally downplayed the idea that IS is dangerous at all. Just a sideshow... These people who defend Zero are very dangerous to us all.
Glad we left and nobody home.
Heck, just for fun ... May we send 10?
Now, now....we must be proportional.../puke
Remember when our enemies used to respect us?
10 golf balls?
There’s actually nothing wrong with Assasinating a head of state if we are engaged in a war in which said head of state is a general or god-like leader of an invading force. Again, we would really have to be on the defensive or stuck in a long drawn-out war, and this would also be a bonus if it were an American who defected over to the enemy.
The real issue I look at is all those liberals who cry war for oil when the fact is out there that Libya supplies our Allies’ oil. So we are fighting a war just so our European allies get their oil. Sounds a whole lot like what the liberals said about Iraq to me.
10 sounds like fun though ... could blow up the swimming pool and everything go BOOM
We could use a putter
Oh please. That women is an idiot and only mildly talented.
The resemblance to looting Ferguson is striking. Free Stuff!
Must have been another video... What difference does it make? Obama is still an incompetent fool the people elected twice.
He was sodomized with a metal rod before his death. (Not that I liked the guy.)
And Hillary cackled on.
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