Posted on 09/03/2011 10:14:27 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Mustafa Abdel Jalil (right) and Mahmud Jibril of the Libyan National Transitional Council in Paris on September 1.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's interim leadership gave Moammar Gadhafi loyalists one more week to surrender before they face military force in the last bastions of the strongman's power.
But with the olive branch came a threat.
Anti-Gadhafi forces are positioning around the former leader's hometown, Sirte, and Bani Walid, where a powerful tribe is sympathetic to Gadhafi, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council, said Saturday.
"This extension does not mean we are unaware of what Gadhafi's accomplices are up to," Jalil said at a news conference, countering earlier criticism that a grace period might give Gadhafi's forces to regroup.
Ali Tarhouni, the interim deputy prime minister and oil minister, said there had been no fighting in Bani Walid for the last two days and the city was close to falling.
"It's possible, although we are not sure, that the Bani Walid [tribe] has joined the revolution, and now it's under control of the revolutionaries," he said.
He said Libya's new leadership will move their headquarters from Bengazi to Tripoli next week to begin implementing political plans to shape a new future.
But for the time being, guns trump government on the streets of the capital.
Tripoli has become a city of checkpoints, weapons and no real authority as the threat of Gadhafi's loyalists lingers.
Jittery and suspicious anti-Gadhafi fighters blocked a road Saturday where a drive-by shooting occurred earlier. They collected weapons and registered them at police stations and those who called themselves rebels just a week ago were now working with Tripoli's law enforcement authorities.
With Gadhafi's armories emptied, guns, always in large supply in Libya, have proliferated on the streets.
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A week? They don’t know where he is.
Tell me again. Why are we fighting for Al-Quaida?
And this time there will probably be a sternly worded letter thrown in for good measure.
We're done messin' around now!!-honest, we are.
Shades of Afghanistan. The Khaddafi loyalists melted away and are waiting to re-group. The NATO bombers will not remain forever.
FTFY, CNN
Off the track question why is Gadhafi sons bald and he isn’t? he doing a wig thing?.
“We’re still going to execute you without trial, but at least you won’t have to wait on line.”
Thanks MinorityRepublican.
Tell me again. Why are we fighting for Al-Quaida?
Because everything is turned upside down and is bass akwards to what it should be.
Symtamatic of having elected an evil bastard as president.
Evil is alive and well.
So until then are they relegated to operating under double secret probation? SNAFU. Did they learn the tough talk from Obama?
Reminds me of Gadhafi's "Line of Death" that he set and Reagan had our boys fly across it.
Then he moved it backward towards Tripoli. LOL
You got it backward. Al-Qaeda is fighting for us. Just like they did against the Russians in the 80's and the Serbs in the 90's. And as well they should since its US taxpayers that are giving them financing, training, weapons, logistical support, air cover, intelligence, command and control, and "advisers" on the ground. They are aren't even finished with the Libyans and already Al-Qaeda is attacking the Syrians so we have a convenient excuse to topple that government.
I thought Hillary was celebrating last week? It showed her braying in that picture.
Al Qaeda (Sunni) was never well liked in Iran (Shia) and we even got some support from Iran in western Afghanistan for a while. Iran has been giving us a hard time in Iraq because the minority Sunni used to rule the majority Shia. In Bharein the majority Shia are ruled by the minority Sunni who are being helped by the Sunni Saudis. Iran will not be happy that Syria’s Alawi (Shia sub group) government is likely to fall to Sunnis.
If you wish to better understand the violent crosscurrents of the Middle East, study the history of Europe in the 2 to 3 hundred year after Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation.
Very likely. His hair looks false, it is either dyed or it is a wig - one does not see the hairline.
Yes! This is a liquidation sale. Get your Persian rug now for a once in a lifetime price.
Final Week!
C'est la vie
Oh sure, surrender and be executed possibly by torture by rival tribesmen or kill as many of them as you can and make for the southern deserts to fight another day. When we get mixed up in this type of civil war, there will be slaughters and war crimes on all sides with the US as a complicit party when we had no business there in the first place.
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