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| Libya air force bombs protesters heading for army base | |
| 2011-02-21 | |
A Libyan man, Soula al-Balaazi, who said he was an opposition activist, told the network by telephone that Libyan air force warplanes had bombed "some locations in Tripoli". No independent verification of the report was immediately available. The protesters were reportedly heading to the army base to obtain ammunition of their own, but witnesses said the air force bombed the demonstrators before they could get there. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 This stuff is pretty mild by Chinese standards. I'm kind of surprised - I had expected a Hama-scale massacre of tens of thousands, given that Arab regimes are much more repressive than their Chinese counterpart. In 1989, the Chinese government had two group armies (30K - 65K personnel each) tasked with defending the Sino-Russian border transferred to Beijing where they used armored vehicles spraying machine gun fire to squash the demonstrators, of whom NATO estimates 7,000 were killed. This transpired over 3 days. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-02-21 20:07 |
| #3 Well, what not to do if you want to stay in power/survive. If you don't care about your citizens or world opinion, Gaddafi is doing exactly the right thing. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2011-02-21 17:38 |
| #2 Penguin, easy answer. Obama won't do squat. Re: protests - crushing a popular uprising with force isn't really that hard. Plus, Gaddafi and the Chicoms have the advantage of Hosni recently demonstrating exactly what NOT to do. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-02-21 16:20 |
| #1 The big question is what does the White House do about it? There are many sides and arguments to this question. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2011-02-21 13:54 |