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2011-04-01 Africa North

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Posted by Steve White 2011-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Apparently none of the elite bothers to read history, like the Spanish Civil War, WWII and postwar Yugoslavia, or the Congo.

Posted by Pappy 2011-04-01 00:25|| 2011-04-01 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 This could go very bad for us. If Al Qaeda has anything at all, they just need one murderous bastard like Zarkawi with fifty loyal men. Something like that and all hell breaks loose. AQ pulled off a good massacre in Tikrit earlier in the week.

It's a very dangerous thing this freedom fighting. It's got to be up to the Arabs to save themselves from murderous extremists. We're anchored on the west by Libya and Tunis, on the east by Iraq and Bahrain, and Jordan, the Saudis, and Syria in the middle. Shit's happening all over. This is clearly the start of something big.

Posted by Penguin 2011-04-01 00:41|| 2011-04-01 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 OTOH BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Debka] LIBYA REBELS SOLD HIZBULLAH + HAMAS [000's of] CHEMICAL SHELLS, from captured Gaddafi arms stocks in return for several Milyuhn dollars.

Approxi 2000 ea. Mustard Gas + 1200 ea. Nerve Gas Arty shells.

Iran + regional MilTerrs repor rushing to be first in line to purchase???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-01 01:14|| 2011-04-01 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Qaddafi is trying to take advantage of this mixing of combatants and noncombatants to deter NATO from striking, said one Obama administration official who was briefed on the intelligence reports.

A ~~dastardly and heretofore unheaard of~~ tactic which must have certainly took AFRICOM and French Air Staff planners and decision makers by complete and total surprise. [snark off]

Please amend "trying to take advantage" to successfully employing anti-kenetic defensive tactics and manuevers.

Coming soon: As a test of NATO's new...."we'll end this if we have to kill them all" ...resolve, Qaddafi authorizes relaxed grooming standards, mufti, and Toyota pickup trucks to select army (rebel look-alike) elements for the purpose of terrorizing and conducting UN comdemnation worthy atrocities among selected segments of the civilian population.

Other rogue look-alike rebel units will be tasked with conducting adhoc rebel link-ups for the obstensive purpose of conducting weapons and ammunition re-supply and medical support. These rogue units will actually conduct assassination, prisoner snatche, photographic, screening, surveillance, and intelligence reporting missions.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-04-01 01:19|| 2011-04-01 01:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Bomb these guys now, bomb those guys later. It's all good.

Let's face it. There are only a few places in the ME that would not be improved by a good strategic bombing.

Posted by SteveS 2011-04-01 01:37|| 2011-04-01 01:37|| Front Page Top

#6 No one seemed to have considered the Daffy wins scenario.

Posted by phil_b 2011-04-01 04:47|| 2011-04-01 04:47|| Front Page Top

#7 The French not considering a 'Daffy wins' scenario being the first movement in this avalanche.

Posted by Bobby 2011-04-01 06:49|| 2011-04-01 06:49|| Front Page Top

#8 No one seemed to have considered the Daffy wins scenario.
If the Duck of Death wins he will massacre his foes in Libya and after he's done with them he will attack the West by sponsoring terror attacks.

After a couple of new Lockerbies (or something much worse if the Duck did some shopping in North Korea) Western forces would have to take him out anyway.

Posted by Captain Omavising2428 2011-04-01 06:52|| 2011-04-01 06:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Besoeker, Gaddafi will end up fighting his own rebellion against himself going down that route.

I give up, everything I've said about this war has been either wishful thinking or wrong. It's a total trainwreck. He's going to end up dying of a heart attack in twenty years, schtupping a Bulgarian "nurse".

They've systemically proven that you can't pull off a regime change with aerial bombardment. *Some* sort of organized ground force is required.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-04-01 08:24|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-04-01 08:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Other rogue look-alike rebel units will be tasked with conducting adhoc rebel link-ups for the obstensive purpose of conducting weapons and ammunition re-supply and medical support. These rogue units will actually conduct assassination, prisoner snatche, photographic, screening, surveillance, and intelligence reporting missions.

Not disagreeing, but being mercenary type elements the other side of the knife says that they, too, could be bought by Daffy with their very own semi-autonomous (more so than before, perhaps waiving the I Don't See You Tax) south to conduct exercises against economic regions outside Daffy's direct control. Daffy said as much.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-04-01 10:53|| 2011-04-01 10:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe we will arm the rebels...and maybe we won't...we haven't decided yet. Then again, maybe at some point we may decide to bomb 'em...or not. Who knows we may even do both...or for that matter...we may do neither. Look...what part of "take all necessary measures" don't you understand?

Posted by DepotGuy 2011-04-01 11:56|| 2011-04-01 11:56|| Front Page Top

#12 If we are pulling out then the French and Brits will end up bombing both sides. Good ol colonialism. Which side are they on? Doesn't matter, Nigel, drop the bombs, they're all wogs.

Posted by OldSpook 2011-04-01 19:34|| 2011-04-01 19:34|| Front Page Top

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