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2011-02-21 Africa North

Libya: Tribe Turns Against Gaddafi, Only Al-Sibyl Brigade Still Loyal

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Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Civil War? I dont think so.

I think the end will resemble more like what happened to Saddam's sons. Remember them?
I wonder if Khadaffy will look as good as what the undertakers efforts made the two sons of Saddam....look like?
If you were in the al-Sibyl Brigade would you have a plan for your "transportation"? The smart ones will. The stupid ones will be like the AVO in Budapest.

Stupid people dont live to get old. But then, Khadaffy got old.
And he is gonna get even older. Which one of the Pharoah mummies was cleaned up from being killed with an axe? One of them....dried nicely, and packed...but with a twelve inch gap in his head which was impossible to hide with cosmetics...and a strange grin.

Khadaffy Duck may be stupid enough to stay until "the end".

Ever seen those old sepia photographs of Mussolini hanging upside down on a greasy blood soaked winch, dripping in that gas station ?
In Libya, its out of the bag now so how do you think Khadaffy is gonna get it BACK in the bag? The answer is, he AINT gonna.
There is only one way this can end now.

Posted by Dribble2716 2011-02-21 03:23|| 2011-02-21 03:23|| Front Page Top

#2 There hasn't been a real civil war outside of subsaharan Africa in a long time and I doubt there will be one in Libya.

Daffy will probably be gone by the end of week, assuming he doesn't meet with an accident involving a rope and a lamppost.

Posted by phil_b 2011-02-21 04:14|| 2011-02-21 04:14|| Front Page Top

#3 When I read the word "tribes," for a moment I feel like I have been transported back in time to the 7th or 8th century and then I pinch myself and realize it is still 2011...

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-21 08:06|| 2011-02-21 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Daffy will probably be gone by the end of week, assuming he doesn't meet with an accident involving a rope and a lamppost.

But what then of his charming son, good ol' Sword of Islam himself? The one with all those technocratic degrees (BS Engineering, MBA, PhD Economics) who's been so busy running charities, throwing fancy parties, and being the pretty face of Libya? Master Sword has made promises to the people, after all, on the official Libyan television.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-21 08:47|| 2011-02-21 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 CIA and US State Department predictive analysis wizards were on top of this ~~months~~, ~~weeks~~, ~~days~~, minutes ago.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-02-21 08:56|| 2011-02-21 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps we can soon re-open the real Wheelus O-Club?

And while we're at it, get the remains of the Lady Be Good from the trash heap in Benghazi where Khaddafi had it thrown a few years back.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-02-21 09:23|| 2011-02-21 09:23|| Front Page Top

#7 JohnQC, you took the word right out of my mouth.

No region that is still this tribal will ever reach true democracy / freedom. The key to the success of the West (where it's successful) is the concept of individualism. But that is anathema. To any tribal society especially an Islamic one.

Posted by Alan Cramer 2011-02-21 10:35|| 2011-02-21 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 When I read the word "tribes," for a moment I feel like I have been transported back in time to the 7th or 8th century and then I pinch myself and realize it is still 2011...

Call them 'special interest groups'. That ought to make it feel "2011".

Posted by Pappy 2011-02-21 11:22|| 2011-02-21 11:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Next year at Wheelus.

Posted by Fred 2011-02-21 11:54|| 2011-02-21 11:54|| Front Page Top

#10 It has become a religious quest, sort of, Fred. I want to see the machine shop in 3d.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-02-21 19:15|| 2011-02-21 19:15|| Front Page Top

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