Posted on 01/21/2012 2:42:15 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Hundreds of angry Libyans on Saturday stormed the transitional government's headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi, carting off computers, chairs, and desks while the country's interim leader was still holed up in the building. Libyans have grown increasingly frustrated with the pace and direction of reforms in the country more than three months after the end of the civil war that ousted longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Those concerns spurred residents in Benghazi, where the uprising against longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi broke out in February, to begin protests nearly two weeks ago to demand transparency and justice from the country's new leaders.
The melee at the National Transitional Council's headquarters began after protesters broke through the gates using hand grenades and streamed into the grounds of the headquarters. They banged on the building's doors and demanded officials meet with them.
In a bid to calm tensions, NTC chief Mustafa Abdul-Jalil tried to address the crowd from a second-floor window, but protesters began throwing bottles at him.
Protesters then torched Abdul-Jalil's armored Land Cruiser and broke into the headquarters itself, smashing windows to get inside and cart off furniture and electronics.
A security official in the building said a team of some 50 guards dressed as civilians were trying to calm the protesters.
The official, who served as a revolutionary commander during the civil war, said Abdul-Jalil was still in the building and was refusing to leave. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
Some of the protesters pitched tents weeks ago outside the NTC's headquarters to protest a set of election laws they say were drafted by the interim leaders without consulting the public.
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when the genie is out of the bottle, you can’t get it back in
Obama’s “Arab Spring” at its finest!!! Any American that votes for Obama is not an American at all!! Obama is not one of us, his heart and soul belong to Saul Alinsky, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Louis Farrakhan, and....most of all, with his dearly beloved brothers, the Muslim Brotherhood!!! America wake up and realize Obama and his “hate America wife, Michelle are throwing America under the bus!!!
I wonder if the interim “leader” is prepping for his body to be sodomized after he is killed by the “arab spring” folks. nobama and hillary’s WTF foreign policy at it’s best.
hhaha
First, this is from AP, so the credibility of this story is highly questionable. AP hires the most stupid jihadists it can find to write crap about the Middle East.
Second, the provincial militias, along with Qaddhafi’s army, overthrew the traitor Qaddhafi.
Third, a few disparate militia groups, mostly stupid kids, are running around and creating chaos in Libya. They’ll soon be spanked.
Fourth, Osama al-Juwali, a tough militia leader from the Zintan militia, who captured Qaddhafi’s son, is in charge of Libya’s new army. Al-Juwali, a graduate of the Tripoli Military Academy, is highly respected among the various militia factions. He is in control. Libya’s army, BTW, deserted Qaddhafi and destroyed Qaddhafi’s dictatorship.
AP doesn’t a have clue what it’s talking about, which is to be expected from a bunch of leftist poodles who are trying to gin up a Muslim brotherhood take-over in Libya.
Screw AP. Anyone who doesn’t hate AP needs to learn how.
As an OUP vet, thanks for the note.
“As an OUP vet...”
Well, you got me there FRiend.
OUP = Oxford University Press?
You’re on a level I know knothing about.
Cheers, buddy.
Operation Unified Protector.
In other words the @ss-whuppin’ laid on Khaddafi and his thugs last spring by the U.S. under the guise of NATO.
Well said, very true.
I believe that the problems in Libya are only just beginning.
...while the country's interim leader was still holed up in the building... residents in Benghazi, where the uprising against longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi broke out in February... protests... to demand transparency and justice from the country's new leaders. The melee at the National Transitional Council's headquarters began after protesters broke through the gates using hand grenades and streamed into the grounds of the headquarters.
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