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2011-03-31 |
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
#12 Too many weddings with the AK-47 for celebratory effect? No. They didn't have much to begin with, and the rebels have wasted a lot of ammo in "celebratory effect" every time they get rumor of a victory, not to mention poor fire discipline. a.k.a. 'spray and pray'. |
Posted by: Pappy 2011-03-31 20:40 |
#11 Egypt's government may soon become Hamas's principle arms supplier. From Rubin Reports:Just read this article and compare it to what we were told during the revolution: |
Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-03-31 17:42 |
#10 At least the Muslim Brotherhood is efficent in piecemeal islamic aggression An Ikhwan state is a Hamas state. But we'll see soon enough. Egypt will show the way. |
Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-03-31 17:37 |
#9 that's a great idea, but who was going to ID the nationalist? |
Posted by: bman 2011-03-31 17:35 |
#8 Al-Qaeda in Libya allied with al-Qaeda in Iraq, because doing so oriented large numbers of Libyans to regional jihad-terror. At least the Muslim Brotherhood is efficent in piecemeal islamic aggression; the Libyan islamonazis are closer to Wahabi terrorists. Hussein Obama should have been supporting Libyan nationalists in the military, to the end of toppling Gaddafi and assisting a broad based government without an aggressive foreign policy. He went with the terrorists, as usual. |
Posted by: Snomble Poodle4499 2011-03-31 16:27 |
#7 Turns out 85% of the Libyans were suicide bombers. This is what is called a self correcting problem. AKA Islam's Useful Idiots™ |
Posted by: Frank G 2011-03-31 15:47 |
#6 Did some more reading of the study: Turns out 85% of the Libyans were suicide bombers. This is what is called a self correcting problem. Al |
Posted by: Frozen Al 2011-03-31 15:39 |
#5 Zhang, The problem with this study is that it is wildly at odds with other studies of foreign fighters in Iraq. This is addressed in Appendix 1 of the same study. It is likely that the national origin of foreign fighters changed over time. It is also possible different networks recruited in different countries. What IS clear is that most of the Libyan recruits came from eastern Libya, and well over 100 Libyans fought in Iraq (and hopefully died there). |
Posted by: Frozen Al 2011-03-31 15:28 |
#4 Too many weddings with the AK-47 for celebratory effect? |
Posted by: JohnQC 2011-03-31 14:27 |
#3 It's Al Guardian, Zhang Fei. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-03-31 13:28 |
#2 Al-Qaida has a negligible presence in Libya and is not considered a factor at all in the current fighting. From a West Point study of jihadists in Iraq:
A breakout of the hometowns of Libyan jihadists who showed up in Iraq:
Note that the 84% of the jihadists came from Darnah and Benghazi, both rebel strongholds that were (as pointed out in the West Point study) previously the scene of Islamist uprisings in the mid-1990's. |
Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-03-31 13:18 |
#1 Last guy with a full mag wins! |
Posted by: retired LEO 2011-03-31 13:09 |