Posted on 04/28/2011 6:42:51 PM PDT by 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.
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I’ve read he has been doing extensive bunker building for years. Cannot attest to the veracity of those claims but I think Reagan scared him good some years ago. If he has had 25 years to prepare it might be difficult to nail him outright. Still speculation though.
Where are the lefties, screaming no blood for oil. Since this is really what this, is an attempt to steal a whole country for the oil and kill women and children so they don’t attempt to kill someone per Hilliary..
Looks like he's taking Joe Biden's advice.
This is a hand wringing mess. You stomp em or woo them but you never show that you are unwilling to show fortitude.
Last I heard, this guy said they bit off more than they can chew. He asked that Tunisia,Egypt,Algeria and Chad help bail out the UN.
According to this story, they are giving the UN the finger
UN/NATO
You know who is digging in now?
Hugo Chavez.
This is Europe’s war.
Obama whipped it up, but it’s Europe’s war.
We’ll see how the CIC does. I suspect we will see a mess.
There is not one defined goal.
We have No national interest in this matter.
The lefties are tossing allies like Mubarak under the bus and fomenting revolution under the flag of freedom while ignoring uprisings in Iran and Syria.
There is no clear goal here. Is this about Oil or freedom?
I suspect the former rather than the later.
Ultimately I suspect Obama wants that oil in the muhadijeens hands
Watch that SOB. He does not have our interest in mind.
He did not take over the cement factory’s to build patios.
He is building bunkers.
I will say that I give barry credit for conning Europe into fighting for their own interests,
At least we arent losing Americans in this BS.
But seriously, I think Barry set this up to punk Europe.
He’s backing the Muslim brotherhood.
He promises EU and gets them on board, then he walks away.
The guy is scary.
He wishes to bring it to our backyard.
Seriously, the last report I got on this was that Obama handed this ugly matter to Anders Fogh Rassmuessen on NATO.
He declared that NATO was getting its ass whooped and asked that Tunisia,Algeria,Egypt, and Chad bail them out.
Looks like Fogh is getting punked and Obama is off to the Okra show and a fund raiser.
Gotta hand it to Obama.
No Americans where lost in this action
He tumbled like a puss for GWB.
He stood tall on Reagan and got his butt kicked.
Not sure to what make of this. Gaddaffi had been a very good boy for a very long time.
At this point in time we have no demonstrated interest in Libya.
Back in the 80’s I remember guys getting hijacked to go fight the ahole because he had blown up a few discotheques.
he’s been pretty tame for a long time.
The only reason I imagine we have the EU there is because of oil.
In the 80’s we were there because they were killing people, exercising terrorism and extortion
Thanks MinorityRepublican. The only way he’ll leave office is death by old age.
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