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2014-04-09 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Arab Spring

#1 If they have oil in Derna independence won't last long. Egypt should be looking for a source of cash about now and htey have a lot of hardboys that could use some distraction.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-04-09 15:29|| 2014-04-09 15:29|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Derna - dating back a millenium or so - has always been a pain in the a$$ for the assorted Deys, Bashaws, Sultans, Governors, Pharoahs, and forty-year-time-in-grade-Colonels who tried to run the place. It's always fought whoever said they were in charge, and has tended to be a hotbed of Mooselimb fundamentalism. When I wrote my book about the US Marine raid there in 1804, I was quite satisfied to get no closer than Google Earth, thank you very much.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-04-09 20:12|| 2014-04-09 20:12|| Front Page Top

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