Posted on 02/21/2011 7:44:33 AM PST by SE Mom
Ongoing live thread for developments in North Africa and the Middle East.
Twitter:
Libyan justice minister resigns in protest at 'excessive use of violence against protesters,' Quryna newspaper says - Reuters 6 minutes ago via breakingnews.com
Group of Libyan Muslim leaders says rebelling against Libyan regime is everyone's divine duty - Reuters 33 minutes ago via breakingnews.com
Anti-government protests break out in Libyan oil town of Ras Lanuf, Libya's Quryna newspaper says - Reuters about 1 hour ago via breakingnews.com
Police station in suburb of Libyan capital of Tripoli is on fire, according to a Reuters reporter on the scene about 2 hours ago via breakingnews.com
Europe plans for Libya evacuation: EU foreign ministers discuss plans to transport citizens out of Libya, as vio... http://aje.me/dMmkVb 4 minutes ago via twitterfeed
I don't get it.
The whole world is falling apart and they are interviewing some union thug taking about his astro turf demonstration... and now they are showing video of some black idiots beating up a cameraman for no reason... WOW that's important news!!!
China
*groan*
From the BBC:
1533: Leading ratings agency Fitch downgrades Libya’s credit rating from BBB+ to BBB to reflect the “eruption of political risk” in the country, and warns another downgrade may be in the offing.
1530: Libya’s army chief, Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabir, is reported to have been put under house arrest after siding with the protesters, according to a former Libyan official, reports the Libya al-Yawm website.
1525: Tim Niblock, an expert on Libya at Exeter University, says it is fairly clear that Col Gaddafi has lost control over the main part of the military in eastern Libya: “There are brigades under two of his sons who are still apparently active a bit, but those are probably marginal by now,” he tells the BBC World Service’s Newshour programme. “Two key figures are supporting the rebellion and have done, especially one of them, from a very early stage. They feel that the regime has corrupted itself.”
Syria - starting to bubble
Lebanon - civil war brewing (again)
Jordan - starting to bubble
That’s why we have FR and the internet!
For anyone interested- here’s the link to Al Jazeera streaming:
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
Drudge is reporting that Libya’s head honcho has fled Tripoli. Where are you Gadaffi??
No need to groan—that wasn’t intended as a pun.
Actually, the analogies between the ME and Wisconsin are very thin. Now, if we start hearing chants of “Death to America” in Madison and seeing Saudi-style religious police going around draping cows in burqas, I’d worry.
Here we have gangs of Communist agitators and Muslim fanatics burning cars and tossing molotov cocktails all over the place, and the news media talks about them as “Democracy protestors.”
= =
What’s the take here on a moral question, if put like this: “Can the USA continue business (oil and payoffs) to these despots and dictators on the backs of their repressed, depressed and tortured populations, for our own ease and comfort at home?”
Misery has its limits when the hold of fear is finally broken to the point that, unarmed, you are willing to die by going into the streets to face off against the despot’s military.
Not likely. The opposition, wherever it is, tried to get demonstrations going a few weeks ago. No one showed up. Probably the Syrians remember Assad père and what he did to the town of Hama. (Strangely (he, he) our MSM leading lights seem to have forgotten this story completely.)
Thanks for the map!
As Taki has noted Quadaffy’s son is a big time POS who shows up all over Europe acting like all the other mooslim hypocrites with their boozing and whoring.
1604: Zubin Gulati in Tripoli, Libya, tweets: “ALL Cellphone networks DOWN in #Tripoli #Libya where I am. Some landlines still working COM STATUS: RSTRD”
1556: Two Libyan fighter jets have landed unexpectedly in Malta, witnesses say. The Mirage jets were seen landing at Malta’s international airport on Monday afternoon. The Maltese foreign ministry said it was trying to establish why the planes had landed.
Jordan?..........
Why it’s not being covered?
Well, Qaddafi is still enough of our enemy that the media and dems think they’d better protect him a bit.
Anyone who thinks they don’t defend our enemies and hate only friendly governments, hasn’t been watching the last 5 decades or so. Obviously our priority should be revolutions in Iran and Syria.
I supposedly live in the free-est country in the world... and yet I have to listen to AL JAZEERA !!! to get the freaking news!!!!!!!!!
Madistan, Wisconsin? ;-)
Holed up with the Wisconsin Democrat State Senators?!?
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