Road trip! American student joins rebels in fight for Qaddafi stronghold - The National
Posted on 09/04/2011 7:17:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The battle for Libya is far from over as brigades of NTC fighters close in on two major cities and move to control thousands of square kilometres of desert believed to be occupied by pockets of African mercenaries and Qaddafi loyalists, said one of the Libyan rebels top military commanders.
Fawzi Bukatif, the head of the Union of Revolutionary Forces on the eastern side, the director of the rebel army control room and top commander with the powerful February 17 brigade, spoke during an interview late on Saturday.
"Ours is a big country," he said. "We have information about a lot of troops still out there, but we are moving in on them. Once we gain control of the coast, we will push south."
Mr Bukatif said he was personally involved, along with the minister of defence, with negotiations for the surrender of Sirte and several small villages on the eastern side of the city. He said that the villages of Umm El Ghindel and Harawa have agreed to lay down their weapons, leaving only Qaddafi's hometown of Sirte as the final obstacle to linking up Tripoli and Benghazi.
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Road trip! American student joins rebels in fight for Qaddafi stronghold - The National
I had to go to the store for more salt.
Another Afghanistan
The first thing that came to mind was The Black September Group. Originally organized by our buddy Yasser to wage protests against the King of Jordan for not letting the Palistinians settle there that were eventually ousted for plotting his assasination . . . .
I thought we were only supposed to be there for a week. Obama’s got a strange sense of ‘time’, but I can’t say much about that since I spent a month in Detroit one night.
Shame isn’t it, the real Libyans having to fight these foreign insurgent b’ds off their country, while the US and the EU help them steal it.
And not only that, had the foreign insurgents the Libyans own money to establish a usurping government with it.
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