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Africa North
Libya unrest 'worse than under Gadhafi': evacuees
2014-08-03
Libya is descending into a civil war spiral that is “much worse” than the unrest that toppled its dictator Moamer Gadhafi in 2011, residents fleeing the country said Saturday.
Remember when the Democrats said that GWB had wrecked Iraq by removing Saddam and not being prepared to rebuild Iraq properly? You'd think Champ would have learned from that since he was one of the more vociferous critics. Then came Libya where we (from behind the Europeans) removed Daffy, and left Libya completely unprepared to come through what came next. Try pointing that out to your goofy progressive friends...
“We have gone through (war) before, with Gadhafi, but now it’s much worse,” Paraskevi Athineou, a Greek woman living in Libya, told AFP.

“Chaos reigns. There is no government, we have no food, no fuel, no water, no electricity for hours on end,” she said.

Athineou was part of a group of 186 people evacuated from Tripoli by a Greek navy frigate which reached the port of Piraeus early on Saturday. In addition to 77 Greek nationals, there were 78 Chinese, 10 Britons, 12 Cypriots, seven Belgians, one Albanian and a Russian. Among them were several diplomats, including the Chinese ambassador to Libya.
"这就对了! 我在这里!"
“So many people died to make the country better. But now we started killing each other in a civil war,” said Osama Monsour, a 35-year-old employed at a non-governmental organisation in Tripoli.

“It is worse than 2011,” said Ali Gariani, a Libyan married to a Greek woman.

“That time were were being bombed by NATO. But now we are being bombed by the Libyans themselves, and that is really shameful,” he said.
Posted by:Steve White

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