Posted on 03/31/2011 12:20:11 PM PDT by Hojczyk
CNNs Jon Lee Anderson gave Eliot Spitzer some bad news yesterday. According to Anderson there are only 1,000 rebels fighting Gaddafi forces in Libya.
During In the Arena, Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer for The New Yorker reporting from Benghazi, Libya, tells Eliot Spitzer that the number of opposition fighters on the front lines are fewer than anyone would think and that they are poorly armed and badly trained. Anderson says, Effective number of fighting men, well under 1,000. Actual soldiers, who are now in the fight, possibly in the very low hundreds on the opposition side.
Earlier it was reported that there were 1,000 Al-Qaeda members in the rebel ranks.
Former jihadist Noman Benotman, who renounced his al Qaeda affiliation in 2000, said in an interview that he estimates 1,000 jihadists are in Libya
Outside observers generally estimate the number of trained Libyan fighters to be about 1,000.
Hmm. Thats weird. So if there are only 1,000 rebel fighters in Libya and there are 1,000 members of Al-Qaeda fighting with the rebels in Libya, then wouldnt that mean that the rebels are 100% jihadists?
And, the Obama Administration wants to arm them? Now does that sound like smart power to you?
Not to worry
There are at least 200 more Al-Qaeda fighters on their way to Libya from Afghanistan.
Nah... they're all 'Humanitarians'.
/s
Any arms we send them are going to re-sold to al-Queda, or taken outright,
One Al-Qaeda in WH.
We spent HOW MUCH supporting just 1,000 JIHADI’S in a nation of HOW MANY MILLION???
Are you f___ing kidding me???
What? We bombed the wrong side again??
I wonder how many of our special forces guys are working on the ground with them.
Just a 1000 more reasons to side with Col Ghaddafi.
So, let's pretend the population is split 50:50 male and female. Let's pretend that 50% of the males are capable of fighting for their freedom. Let's pretend that there are 51% of the men, who are old enough to fight, want to fight for freedom.
6.4 Million x 0.50 x 0.50 x 0.51 = 816,000 potential fighting men for the Rebels.
So, we have a Rebel army (1,000 "fighters") that represents approximately 0.000122% of the population that cares enough about freedom to do something, when they have the opportunity.
Why are we wasting our time with these cowards?
Who to help first? My 'father'? Or my brothers in al Qaeda?
Especially now that they know Obama will be arming them to the teeth very soon.
Yeah, our guys can swap stories with them on how they were on opposite sides in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Dude, we wasted you guys in Anbar in 07, remember that”.
“What? We bombed the wrong side again??”
No. 0bama picked the wrong brackets. Cut him some slack. He was on spring break. /s
Sort of means the “mass revolt” isn’t a mass revolt after all, huh?
So if we brokered a cease fire and brought Khaka daffy, the rebels, Uhbummer lenin khomeini, and Bin laden together we would have 100 % enemies in one place?
Oh great...
One al queda indivisible with tyranny and slavery for all..
We'e doing the dirty work for the Caliphate!
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