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Fighting continues in Libya as government rejects cease-fire proposal
CNN ^ | April 2, 2011 10:13 a.m. EDT | CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 04/02/2011 8:26:01 AM PDT by keat

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Coalition airstrikes have hit several rebel vehicles in Libya and the opposition is looking into reports that some rebel fighters were killed, a spokesman for the Libyan opposition said Saturday. NATO is also investigating a report that a coalition airstrike in the eastern oil town of al-Brega hit opposition rebels, a NATO spokeswoman said Saturday. "NATO takes any reports of civilian casualties very seriously, but exact details are hard to verify as we have no reliable sources on the ground," NATO's Oana Lungescu said. "Clearly, if someone fires at one of our aircraft, of course they have the right to defend themselves." Meanwhile, forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi showed no signs of backing down Saturday after officials spurned an opposition cease-fire proposal. Government spokesman Musa Ibrahim told reporters in Tripoli on Friday that rebels were not "really serious" about the offer, which he said included "silly conditions." Libyan rebels attempting to organize Rebels discuss cease-fire with Gadhafi What does Koussa know? "They are asking us to withdraw from our own cities and open our cities to people, who are holding up arms, who are tribal, violent, no unified leadership, al Qaeda links, and no one knows who they are. If this is not mad, then I don't know what it is," he said. "We will not leave our cities. We will not stop protecting our civilians."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 0bamaswar; obamaswar
So hard to believe that Khadhafi wouldn't immediately cede to the demands of a tiny underarmed, underfed and undisciplined force of disorganized rebels. Especially since they are backed by a superpower who has set a pullout date of Sunday.

I'll never understand this war stuff.

1 posted on 04/02/2011 8:26:04 AM PDT by keat
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To: keat
I'll never understand this war stuff.

Neither will the President.

2 posted on 04/02/2011 8:28:51 AM PDT by Lysandru
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To: keat

I’m sure President Osama... er, President Obama will sit down with the Colonel for some face-to-face diplomacy and make him see the error of his ways.


3 posted on 04/02/2011 8:29:21 AM PDT by LiveFree99
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To: keat
O.K. NATO, so how do "rebel casualties" qualify as "civilian casualties?" If these guys are armed insurgents, they are combatants, right?

MORONS

4 posted on 04/02/2011 8:30:57 AM PDT by Lysandru
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To: keat

Q U A G M I R E


5 posted on 04/02/2011 8:31:11 AM PDT by evad (SHUT IT DOWN!)
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To: keat
Looks like the 0 forces have a new strategy...
If it moves, bomb it
6 posted on 04/02/2011 8:33:43 AM PDT by evad (SHUT IT DOWN!)
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To: keat
Meanwhile, forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi showed no signs of backing down..

Why should they...we're bombing his opposition.

7 posted on 04/02/2011 8:35:05 AM PDT by evad (SHUT IT DOWN!)
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To: keat
So hard to believe that Khadhafi wouldn't immediately cede to the demands of a tiny underarmed, underfed and undisciplined force of disorganized AL QAEDA TERRORIST rebels.
8 posted on 04/02/2011 8:50:54 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Lysandru

“...exact details are hard to verify as we have no reliable sources on the ground.”

Translation: We have absolutely no idea what we’re doing but when you haven’t bombed anyone in 3 days, you take what you can get.


9 posted on 04/02/2011 8:51:46 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: evad

To start making love to a Tar Baby is easy; to stop, almost impossible.


10 posted on 04/02/2011 9:05:22 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: evad
If it moves, bomb it

If you absolutely for some reason, must bomb Libya, that might not be a bad strategy, considering you have Gay-daffy on one side and Al Quaeda on the other.

11 posted on 04/02/2011 9:09:37 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: LiveFree99

The conversation will go like this:
OK Duhbummer, did you get the payoff
Yes kaka daffy now we are hitting the ones who are against you while declaring victory..
But duhbummer, we don’t know who they are how could you?
oh Kakka daffy we have our ways its is amazing what the American peoples money can do..
Both laugh the evil Mike myers laugh
Now if we can only get our Al Queda brothers in Israel as we planned..to which duhbummer replies..we got one in the white house didn’t we...more DR Evil Laughter...


12 posted on 04/02/2011 9:16:24 AM PDT by aces
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To: seowulf

A house, i.e., country cleaning seems to be in order. O orders Libya extinct for mookie’s farm.


13 posted on 04/02/2011 9:52:30 AM PDT by mcshot (So this is how it feels to be flushed. The "that's impossible" days are upon us.)
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To: evad
Why should they...we're bombing his opposition.

Maybe this osamaobama guy is really clever and has found a new way to kill al quada with the blessings of our mooselimb brothers.

No matter where the bombs fall, mooselimbs die...hmmmmm, I'm gonna have to re-think this strategery, maybe we misunderestimated this messiah.

14 posted on 04/02/2011 9:57:27 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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To: keat

I think the whole affair was about Obama wanting to say....”See, I’m not a Muslim”.


15 posted on 04/02/2011 10:09:19 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: keat
Daddy, did you stop the war yet?
16 posted on 04/02/2011 10:38:41 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: seowulf
If it moves, bomb it If you absolutely for some reason, must bomb Libya, that might not be a bad strategy, considering you have Gay-daffy on one side and Al Quaeda on the other

Excellent Point...I knew they knew what they were doing.

Target rich opportunities everywhere.

Bombs Away!!!

17 posted on 04/02/2011 10:51:25 AM PDT by evad (SHUT IT DOWN!)
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To: USS Alaska
The Grand Plan is coming together.

He IS truly "The One"

18 posted on 04/02/2011 10:53:13 AM PDT by evad (SHUT IT DOWN!)
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