Clashes, fires reported in Libya's capital

The Herald-Mail ^ | 02/21/2011 | Bob Drogin

[FreeAtlanta]

Anti-government protests raged Monday for the first time in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, with unconfirmed media reports of pro-regime snipers firing into crowds, bloody clashes on the city's main square, and fires blazing in key government buildings. Al Jazeera reported that a fire was burning inside the People's Hall, a symbol of longtime strongman Moammar Kadafi's repressive regime. TV images ......posted using frpa

[GeronL]

Very true.

[GeronL]

More usually like the French revolution than the American one.

[TheOldLady]

The end of Quaddaffi couldn’t happen to a nicer islamist dictator.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[SJackson]

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[EternalVigilance]

The primary difference between the American and the French revolutions was that the former based its claims on faith in the One Who made us. The latter did not.

[GAB-1955]

Arab military regimes have always given lip service to Islamic clerics, but they tend to ignore them in practice; this is a hope.

We're not going to get a Jeffersonian democracy out of the Middle East, but we can avoid the Moslem Brotherhood's grasp on power.

[teeman8r]

i do believe that the muslim brotherhood is not on the side of the protestors, but will have to muscle in to take it away from these people who, i believe, want what is promised in iraq.... freedom to choose... if it disintegrates into a caliphate, then all hell will break loose...

this administration should demand a constitutional move to protect individual human rights immediately... but i doubt they will.

teeman