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Africa North
NATO sinks boat with Qadaffy Loyalist Troops
2011-08-19
NATO warplanes sunk a tugboat carrying troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi away from the strategic western city of Zawiya as rebels advanced ever closer to the Libyan capital, the alliance said Friday.
"run float away!"
The attack struck the tugboat Wednesday as rebels in Zawiya laid siege to Libya's last functioning oil refinery in a symbolic coup for the opposition, although government forces still hold the center.
"symbolic" is for the press release. Winning counts
Posted by:Frank G on the road

#7  glub glub.
Posted by: rammer   2011-08-19 23:20  

#6  The former are the wrong demographic, meneer.
Posted by: Pappy   2011-08-19 21:42  

#5  Retreating army troops of a sovereign nation are fair game but Somalia pirates on the high seas are OFF LIMITS! Someone please, what am I missing?
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-08-19 21:38  

#4  #2 at this stage various MSM-Net Analysts are arguing the POTUS BAMMER ADMIN = USA is more interested in breaking long-standing Diplomatic, Ideo impasses in the ME, etc. than worrying iff follow-on or successor Muslim Govts-regimes support terror or not.

THE US IS ACTING AS IFF ITS SEEMINGLY WORSENING ECON WOES WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON ITS ABILITY TO IMPOSE ALLEGED PRO-DEMOCRATIC "REGIME CHANGE" AROUND THE WORLD ANDOR TO MIL RESIST JIHADI TERROR, INCLUD IFF THE LATTER GOES NUCLEAR.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-08-19 21:28  

#3  Were they Qadaffy Loyalists, let alone Troops, before the boat was sank?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-08-19 16:55  

#2  Okay, but who are the rebels? Are they part of a neo-calipha movement that will export muhammadan power?

What happened to the so-called pre-emptive war doctrine? Didn't the muslim brotherhood hijack an Egyptian "unity" rally less than 2 weeks ago, and chant "we are all bin Laden?"
Posted by: Tyranysaurus the Younger6438   2011-08-19 15:35  

#1  All hands?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-08-19 11:33  

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