Egypt-Inspired Protests Spread to Libya

[Castout]

UN security council to hold a closed meeting Tuesday 9AM.

Time to intervene. What took so long?

Fly in fighters to fly CAP and bring in much needed medical supplies and set up temporary ad hoc field hospital and bring in food supplies from Egypt and if need UN troops!

If I had the money I'd send medical supplies for these Libyan from Egypt God damn it.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Castout

...and if need UN troops!

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[Skybird]

"Only on subsim would the trolls have 903 posts"
- gimpy117

Great, Sir, really great sig that is! I spilled my tea, and that on empty stomach!

Time to intervene. What took so long?

Firstly the UN is only as good as its membership, especially so when it comes to the big 5 on the security council.
Secondly nearly all their work can only be done with the agreement of the country involved. So in this case the trigger for that bit would have been the Libyan delegation to the UN getting some sense yesteday

[Castout]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

Firstly the UN is only as good as its membership, especially so when it comes to the big 5 on the security council.
Secondly nearly all their work can only be done with the agreement of the country involved. So in this case the trigger for that bit would have been the Libyan delegation to the UN getting some sense yesteday

The more delay the more people getting killed. Gaddafi only wants the land and its riches and not the people in it. To him he owns Libya and Libyans just rent

[joea]

Using your own air force to bomb your people, not cool Muammar.

Cool that a couple of colonels flew their migs to Malta though looks like the Clash were right:

The king called up his jet fighters /
He said you better earn your pay /
Drop your bombs between the minarets /
...Down the Casbah way / /

As soon as the shareef was /
Chauffeured outta there /
The jet pilots tuned to /
The cockpit radio blare /

As soon as the shareef was /
Outta their hair /
The jet pilots wailed /

Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah

[Betonov]

There will be billions in the reconstruction of Lybia after the protests, but only if gadaffi is still alive. Thats the mentality of my goverment

[Skybird]

Gaddi's latest appearance was bizarre, to put it mildly.

Heck, all his appearance always have been bizzare.

But since my schooldays I always considered him to be seriously mentally deranged. He is mentally ill, period.

That doe snot mean that ne is not a terrorist and a bloody criminal, too. He is. And European politicians, amongst them top ranks from the eU, from Italy, France, Britain, stoodline in recent years to shake his blood-dripping hand.

Send some cleenex to these capitals. And some H2SO4 to clean the especially stubborn stains on their hands.

P.S. Gaddi's second son, who sometimes got seen as a Westernised moderate and who talked his father into handing over Lybia's nuclear weapon material (and whom I complimented for that in some older threads- my wrong assessment of the man, my fault), also let fall his mask yesterday. I admit, for some time I fell for it - until yesterday. To hell with all the clan members. Once again I learned: good willingness regarding these types never pays off.

[Castout]

Gaddafi is not mentally deranged imo not at all.

He just loves power too much. In the spectrum of his kind of people he's completely normal. The people like him need to visit death without actually being dead to come back and realize what he's after is totally pointless if not done for the service of fellow men. Dead man never takes anything and anyone with him but all the motives for his deeds.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Skybird

And European politicians, amongst them top ranks from the eU, from Italy, France, Britain, stoodline in recent years to shake his blood-dripping hand.

Send some cleenex to these capitals. And some H2SO4 to clean the especially stubborn stains on their hands.

I dont think only cleenex will do for Ljubljana, we're standing in bucketloads of Lybian blood

[Gerald]

(Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed defiance in the face of a mounting revolt against his 41-year rule on Tuesday, making a fleeting television appearance to scorn protesters and deny he had fled the country.

Gaddafi's forces have cracked down fiercely on demonstrators, with fighting now spreading to the capital Tripoli after erupting in Libya's oil-producing east last week. Human Rights Watch says at least 233 people have been killed.

As the fighting has intensified across the thinly populated nation stretching from the Mediterranean deep into the Sahara desert, cracks appeared among Gaddafi supporters, with some ambassadors resigning and calling for his removal.

The justice minister quit in protest at the use of force and a group of army officers called on soldiers to "join the people," while two pilots flew their warplanes to nearby Malta.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...71G0A620110222

Note: Update Record,TRIPOLI | Tue Feb 22, 2011

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by joea

Using your own air force to bomb your people, not cool Muammar.

Cool that a couple of colonels flew their migs to Malta though looks like the Clash were right:

Aye rgr that.

[Gerald]

Embattled leader Moamer Kadhafi is to speak to the Libyan people in a nationwide address, Libyan state television said on Tuesday afternoon without giving a time.

Note: Update Record,http://www.afp.com/afpcom/en/

[TLAM Strike]

Early reports suggest that a Libyan Warship may have pulled a Red October.

This stuff gets crazier by the minute!

[Respenus]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I dont think only cleenex will do for Ljubljana, we're standing in bucketloads of Lybian blood

Agreed, our PM has been sucking up to him for so long in order to get some government contracts for our failing construction companies, that we Slovenians now own a Gaddafi camel, while he owns a Lipizzaner horse. Man that was some desperate sucking and I feel ashamed that we fell so low. Begging a man who would send fighter bombers against protesters and much more for some small scraps of money to support a company the state and the people have capitalised with expensive low-quality highways.

As far as the Gaddafi address is concerned, that is one more than a deranged man. There are limits to where a sane dictator will go and then there is a self-delusional one, who has no limits. Went on speaking for more than an hour, and went from accusing the protesters from being high to being foreign agents (as usual) and when China decides that it is too dangerous for its nationals to stay in the country, well then you know that the story is as good as finished.