Translation into plain English: UKUSA and French warplanes are bombing civilians indiscriminately after their AQ allies got pummeled and fled Sirte two days ago.
For linguistically challenged, this is what UKUSA and France are doing in Sirte:
Posted on 09/27/2011 10:31:15 AM PDT by Cardhu
She’s an American who grew up in Illinois, she’s three months pregnant, and she’s not quite sure how she and her Libyan husband got to be holed up in a mosque right on the frontline in Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte.
“I just want to get out of here, it’s dangerous,” she said Sunday, as NATO warplanes bombed the city a day after fighters for the country’s new regime engaged in deadly street battles with troops loyal to the ousted dictator.
The street fights continued on the eastern edge of the city, but fighters withdrew on the western side to a bridge just a hundred meters (yards) from the mosque compound.
It was there that the U.S. woman and around 150 others sought refuge.
The woman, who gave her name but asked for it not to be published, said the group had left the town of Tawarga − where she was living with her husband and three children − back in March to escape NATO bombing.
The residents of Tawarga are accused by the people of nearby Misrata of having played a major role in the months-long siege that city suffered. Misrata held off Qaddafi’s forces, but at the cost of 1,400 lives.
As fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC) advanced towards Sirte in the late summer, those still left in Tawarga fled.
Many Misratans say they will never let their neighbours return, blaming them for a wave of killings and rapes.
Tawarga had the distinction of being the only town on the Libyan coast where most of the inhabitants were as dark-skinned as sub-Saharan Africans.
It is now a ghost town, its 25,000 residents dispersed around the country, fearful of revenge attacks by fighters of the NTC, which now controls the whole country except for Sirte and Bani Walid.
In the Imam Malik mosque on the edge of Sirte, the U.S. woman was one of the few fair-skinned people in the group that has been hiding there for a week after spending months inside the city.
The men sleep and socialize in the mosque itself while the women and children live packed into a small one-story building in the compound.
The American said her father was a Libyan and that she had met her husband while he was working as a laborer in the United States. They decided to move to Libya and settled in his hometown, Tawarga.
When they fled their home they took only a few possessions with them, even leaving their U.S. passports behind them in their haste to escape.
They now have only a slim chance of retrieving them as many of the houses in Tawarga have been looted, and it could be dangerous for them to try and return there.
The woman appeared to know little about what has been happening in Libya since the anti-Qaddafi uprising began in February. She was skeptical when told that the NTC was now in power in the capital Tripoli.
The fighters − all from Misrata − manning the frontline nearby bring them food and water, and the ambulances that park under the bridge, waiting to ferry those wounded in battle to field hospitals, give them medical aid.
“The thwar (fighters) treat us well,” she said.
She and her husband said they wanted to go and stay with relatives in the south of Libya but did not know how they would get there as they have no transport.
Ultimately they plan to reach the United States and wait there until things settle down in Libya before returning one day to Tawarga.
“When we have peace and quiet we will come back,” she said.
Do you think marrying a Libyan had something to do with it? I'm not stuck in a Libyan mosque. (Can you imagine what the sanitary facilities are like? Never mind, don't ...) I married a German guy from Ohio.
She sounds like a moron coming to at least notice there’s a problem
one good use of a mosque aside from a nice range finding benchmark
Sounds like a Ann Dunham-Obamah-Soetoro clone.
“... she’s not quite sure how she and her Libyan husband got to be holed up in a mosque ...”
Maybe those evil Keebler elves and their transporter beams. She probably also doesn’t know how she got knocked up either...
Translation into plain English: UKUSA and French warplanes are bombing civilians indiscriminately after their AQ allies got pummeled and fled Sirte two days ago.
For linguistically challenged, this is what UKUSA and France are doing in Sirte:
she’s not quite sure how she and her Libyan husband got to be holed up in a mosque right on the frontline in Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte.
She married a MUSLIM and WONDERS about this???
There was a Househunter special on TV last year - before the Arab revolutions. It featured an American woman who married an Egyptian Muslim. He wanted to move back to Egypt so his children could experience his “culture” and they bought an expensive apratment in Cairo.
I wonder what happened to that idiot and her kids.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
I'll take "What happens if I marry a Libyan and live in Libya during a time of social unrest?" for $50 Alex.
ps. I suspect there might be facilities, but not very sanitary.
All I can say is, “Stupid is as Stupid does.” Didn’t this chick ever see “Not Without My Daughter”?
And the FIRST mistake was........
stupid is as stupid does........
Hey! Guys and gals give the poor woman a break it is hard to know where you are or where you’ve been with a bag over your head and living with other women with similar bags.
“Libya?... I thought we were in Tampa!”
I’m guessing she’s related to the two knuckle-heads that went hiking near Iran.
Mmmmm... you could be right
Ping
“...and she’s not quite sure how she and her Libyan husband...”
LOL! Great minds. My first thought, too. An idiot liberal from IL getting herself into a pickle like this? What are the ODDS?
*SNORT*
Saw the movie, very frightening. Knew a woman who years and years ago was dating a guy from Lebanon, the guy wanted to take her to his country for a visit. In this country he would not let her go out without him no matter where she was going, he slowly cut her off from her family and friends, moved in with her, controlled her life, meanwhile he was cheating on her. We got her the book, forced her to read it, after that, their relationship cooled, she found out about the cheating and finally refused to go to Lebanon with him.
And the FIRST mistake was........
stupid is as stupid does........
“...where you’ve been with a bag over your head and living with other women with similar bags.”
LOL! Paper or plastic?
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