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2011-06-12 Africa North

Pro-Gaddafi forces crushed the historic city of Ghadames

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 There was a long Totten post a few years ago about Ghadames - supposedly the regime had banned actual habitation of Old Ghadames, having forced everybody out to live in a typical Third-World concrete slab hive, basically "New Ghadames".

So either the locals moved back to the old town in the absence of the assholes who'd thrown them out in the first place, and this was somebody sending a flying column through to roust out "squatters", or else this is bullshit aimed at pulling heart-strings among those tools who prize masonry over men. And since NATO seems to think that they can win a war by blowing up empty palaces and barracks, maybe the bullshitters know what they're doing...

And since Ghadames is on the far side of Zintan and Yafran, which is where the southwestern "front" was at last report - and that report was of the regime forces beating feet, presumably northward to participate in this week's counterattack on Misrata and Zlitan, my sympathies in this analysis leans towards "bullshit story". Unless this is some sort of local dust-up of actual, legitimately local regime loyalists acting on their own hook. Ah, who knows.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-06-12 23:21|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-06-12 23:21|| Front Page Top

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