Gadhafi Girds for Long Survival Battle

The Wall Street Journal ^ | APRIL 28, 2011 | SAM DAGHER

[MinorityRepublican]

Volunteers take part Wednesday in a weapons-training session given by Libyan government soldiers at a military camp in Tarhouna.

TRIPOLI—On a recent morning dozens of trucks filled with bulk food products coming via neighboring Tunisia were offloaded at the country's largest wholesale market outside the Libyan capital here.

The goods, including bags of flour and rice, filled warehouses as well as trucks headed to other centers sympathetic to Col. Moammar Gadhafi such as Sebha in the south.

Most food supplies used to arrive by sea at the ports of Tripoli and Misrata, Libya's commercial hub farther east. Imports have been rerouted to Tunisia because of fighting in Misrata and Western sanctions against Tripoli. Most Tunisians support the Libyan rebels and are hostile toward Col. Gadhafi but the business is welcome given the uncertain economic times in Tunisia.

The plentiful food supply is one illustration of how Col. Gadhafi's government has been adapting for a long battle.

Libyan authorities also are instructing civilian volunteers, some as young as 11, in the use of automatic rifles and distributing the weapons among households to combat the insurgency.

[wendy1946]

Several major tribal groups are currently rebelling because they were not so well treated when the goodies were being given out, not to mention other much worse treatment.

If you ask me, they're rebelling because they're a bunch of a*****es, and George Soros has sold them some sort of a vision in which a*****es inherit the Earth.

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The real title of this article should read something to the extent of “NATO and the US gird for another quagmire in another Middle Eastern country”.....=.=

[MinorityRepublican]

Yep especially since we killed one of the dictator’s sons, that doesn’t make us look good in the Arab World.

[MinorityRepublican]

Yep especially since we killed one of the dictator’s sons, that doesn’t make us look good in the Arab World.

[Gaffer]

From Drudge: Gadhafi escapes missile attack that kills his son and three grandchildren under the age of 12.

Further excerpt from the story link is Rebels honked horns and chanted “Allahu Akbar” or “God is great” while speeding through the western city of Misrata

Regardless of whether this action is UN, NATO or Kabuki, US forces, intelligence, likely missiles, and even pilots and aircraft were responsible for this. All to the cheers of a bunch of damned Muslim rebels who've just told us what they plan to do when they get in power. Far worse in my mind than anything done in Iraq or Afghanistan. At least there we weren't hiding behind dubious aegis.

It is a disgrace.

[MinorityRepublican]

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