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The Mikado
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« Reply #25 on: July 17, 2011, 08:04:51 PM »
The rebels are now willing to say that Qaddafi can stay in Libya unprosecuted if he steps down.  Talk of killing the guy is counterproductive.
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« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2011, 12:55:16 AM »
Colonel Gaddafi's daughter Hana, reported killed in US bombings of Libya a quarter-century ago, apparently...wasn't killed and has been kept in secret for the last 25 years so Gaddafi could have a "they killed my daughter" moral high ground?
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« Reply #27 on: August 20, 2011, 12:12:45 PM »
Quote from: Sibboleth on August 20, 2011, 06:13:13 AM
Quote from: Joe Republic (featuring T-Pain) on August 19, 2011, 12:14:39 PM
Quote from: opebo on August 19, 2011, 11:52:18 AM
So the Men in Beards get another country. 

I didn't know Al and Lewis were into global conquest.  Huh

Shhhh... keep it quiet. People might hear.

Honestly, an Al + Lewis government might be pretty great.
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« Reply #28 on: August 21, 2011, 08:13:51 PM »
Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.  Muammar has been weighed and found wanting.

Congratulations, rebels.  You did it.  Allah akbar.

Anyway, I've said enough, so I'll let the man himself give his final speech here, devoid of my commentary.

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« Reply #29 on: August 21, 2011, 08:57:37 PM »
Quote from: President Polnut on August 21, 2011, 08:45:26 PM
The speed of capitulation and the capture of Qaddafi's heir is a difference, and before Beet comes in and joins JJ in the negativity party... there will be instability, that is without doubt... but that has to happen.

Try "heirs."  They caught 3/7 of them.
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« Reply #30 on: August 21, 2011, 10:09:13 PM »
The only part of Libya that's confirmed loyalist-controlled is Sirt.  Without Tripoli, he doesn't really have a base anymore outside of his hometown of Sirt, and a town of ~200k people is no base of operations in a country of over 6m people.
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« Reply #31 on: August 21, 2011, 11:19:13 PM »
Quote from: J. J. on August 21, 2011, 10:44:18 PM

Quote from: The Mikado on August 21, 2011, 10:09:13 PM
The only part of Libya that's confirmed loyalist-controlled is Sirt.  Without Tripoli, he doesn't really have a base anymore outside of his hometown of Sirt, and a town of ~200k people is no base of operations in a country of over 6m people.

The rebels don't have Tripoli yet. 

LOL.
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« Reply #32 on: August 22, 2011, 01:54:23 PM »
« Edited: August 22, 2011, 01:59:40 PM by The Mikado »
Quote from: Chemistry & Sleep Deprivation on August 22, 2011, 01:07:43 PM
Something new since yesterday?

Canadian news more or less stopped coverage of it, for obvious reasons.

Since yesterday?  Well, a fair amount of journalists are trapped inside the Rixos Hotel, a Qaddafi stronghold in a rebel-occupied city, and are getting very nervous.

Also, Khamis Qaddafi has promised to use what's left of the regime's military in one last-ditch strike on Tripoli.  Stay tuned.

EDIT:  Also, apparently Muhammad Qaddafi (one of Qaddafi's sons captured by the rebels yesterday) escaped from house arrest this morning.  How the hell does that even happen?
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« Reply #33 on: August 22, 2011, 07:34:37 PM »
...Saif al Islam Qaddafi claims to not be in rebel hands.  I'm not sure how this is possible unless rebel security is so s**tty that they manage to catch and lose two different sons of Qaddafi over the course of 24 hours.
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« Reply #34 on: August 23, 2011, 02:22:49 PM »
Some of you people...
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« Reply #35 on: August 23, 2011, 06:30:52 PM »
Loving the rebels trying to knock down that horrid statue with the fist and plane.  You go, guys!

These guys just seem so happy, it's adorable!  Lots of rebels shooting the air in joy and letting us know just how akbar Allah is.  Smiley
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« Reply #36 on: August 24, 2011, 01:48:36 PM »
...And you can find any number of pictures of blacks among the ranks of the "rebels" (the NTC shouldn't be called the rebels anymore, frankly, now that they control Tripoli...Qaddafi loyalists are the rebels now).  The NTC is not some sort of anti-black racist movement no matter how much some pieces of "anti-imperialist" (snort) media wants to portray them as such.
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« Reply #37 on: August 25, 2011, 09:50:20 PM »
King, Qaddafi might have been fabulous, but he was definitely batting for our team.
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« Reply #38 on: August 27, 2011, 05:19:54 PM »
I highly doubt that there will be a military intervention in Syria.  The Syrian military's strong enough and the rebellion disorganized enough that the "NATO airpower plus local rebel soldiers on the ground" model has zero chance of success (call me back if the Syrian rebels become a realistic military force).  Without that, there's simply no way to oust Assad without NATO (esp. American) boots on the ground, and that simply is not going to happen.
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« Reply #39 on: October 21, 2011, 12:28:43 PM »
Of all the thousands of people to die in this conflict on both sides, Qaddafi is the one least mourning.  I don't understand condemning the death of a man that fired on unarmed protesters with AA guns back in February.  Where was their due process?  Their trials?  Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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« Reply #40 on: October 21, 2011, 10:25:13 PM »
If the leader of the Libyan government had died, I'm sure the US would've sent condolences.  However, the leader of the Libyan government, Mahmoud Jibril, is very much alive.  A rebel insurgent leading an armed insurrection against the legitimate and recognized Libyan Government died.  Sending a message of condolences to Libya would be like sending a message of condolence to Cambodia in the late 1990s when Pol Pot kicked the bucket.
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