Guest 688- Registered: 16 Jul 2009
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Watching Al Jazeera and Russia Today with regards the unfolding events in Libya it struck me how different the emphasis is on what is happening.Al Jazeera is very pensive over the out come of the civil war,whilst Russia Today see the conflict in the guise of Westernised procurement with Britain being the hub of activity.The general feeling was,I suppose,that the West has indulged in another bout of warfare to advance it's own ends.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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wouldn't have said that is was a different take, more of a general take.
i doubt if many people would think that we would have got involved if there was no oil there.
from what i have read france, germany and the u.s. have been more busy than the u.k. in forging business links for when the new government take sover.
Guest 688- Registered: 16 Jul 2009
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I think you could be right on that Howard,the Russians in particular were rather scathing about our involvement.Ironic that when the rebels look like they are in control oil prices start to fall.Do the markets now dictate what makes a successful war.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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With the "rebels" looking like they have been bombed to victory by western forces they are already dividing into three factions. Which side will the 'west' take if it falls into another civil war with Ghadaffi gone?
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Chris, The forces loyal to the Colonel will probably be concentrated in some areas where he has huge support, and the rebels might start bickering among each other, as happened in Somalia (when Siad Barre was defeated), and Afghanistan (after the Soviet army left), and discover that they have still to be voted for by an electorate.
If the rebels start shooting at each other, that's where we have to be careful that no bright spark decides to send in our soldiers to be sacrificed.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i have to agree with you alex, looking at the macho idiots in tripoli firing into the air as if they are playing cowboys and indians does not suggest that they are a professional army responsible to a political administration.
the situation has all the hallmarks of a civil war just waiting to start.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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In fact, Howard. Those now in Tripoli firing in the air are from western Libya, but in the East, in Benghazi, there is another set of rebels with their own national council, which wants to move to Tripoli.
How long will this last?
Jan Higgins
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The civil war had been going on for the last few weeks if not months.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not a civil war, the might of n.a.t.o. done it for the rebels.
now it will be real civil war with all the different interests tearing the country apart.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I feel sorry for the recipient of one of the spent shells fired into the air, what goes up must come down
Hopefully it will not come to a civil war, factions who were riled up against each other by Gadaffi in areas retaken by the National Council seem to be at peace at this moment.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Just in: many of the prisoners released in Tripoli by rebels are Al Quaeda members!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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More breaking news: the military commander of the rebels in Tripoli is an Al Quaeda member!
Can be checked on internet, rumours coming through by the hour.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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More news: the military commander of the rebels who was shot dead about a month or so ago in Benghazi, was supposedly killed by the Al Queda faction, whose leader now commands the rebels, according to news coming through.
The Al Quaeda-led rebels are now planning to attack Sirte, with NATO support!
May-be one day we'll be hearing a gospel-lament in America:
My God, my God, what have I done?!
Brian Dixon
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alex,you seem to have a fixation on al queda,this has become rather worring.just wondering if you have been groomed by these people.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I may have mentioned this on another thread in the past, al-qaeda in some dialects of Arabic is a slang term for a western-style lavatory.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
