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Shit's Getting Weird in Benghazi
AZDuck
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Not the stale shit about the US consulate there. But apparently there's a dude that just led a successful offensive of 8,000 troops against the local militias there. And if you know anything about post-Ghaddafi Libya, you know that the militias are the story.
https://news.vice.com/article/actually-there-are-a-bunch-of-benghazi-conspiracies
https://news.vice.com/article/actually-there-are-a-bunch-of-benghazi-conspiracies
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Looks like a barrio in East LA.
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.591590
Libya: the Re-Dictatoring seems to be happening in full force.The top commander of the Libyan army's special forces said on Monday his troops had joined forces with renegade general Khalifa Haftar, who has said he wants to purge the North African country of militant Islamists.
This is not necessarily a bad thing.
"We are with Haftar," Wanis Bukhamada told Reuters in the eastern city of Benghazi. On live television he had earlier announced his forces would join "Operation Dignity", as Haftar calls his campaign.
The special forces are the best trained troops of Libya's nascent army. They have been deployed since last year in Benghazi to help stem a wave of car bombs and assassinations, but struggled to curb the activities of heavily-armed Islamist militias roaming around the city.
Earlier, a Libyan air force base in the eastern city of Tobruk also said it was allying itself Haftar. "The Torbuk air force base will join...the army under the command of General Khalifa Qassim Haftar," the statement said. Staff at the air base confirmed its authenticity.
More:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/19/an-ex-cia-recruit-adds-to-libyan-chaos.html#The fierce fighting that swept across the Libyan capital on Sunday and the storming of the country’s interim parliament, along with the announcement of its suspension, by militias from the western mountain town of Zintan, marks a worrying new twist in the long-running crisis that has seen prime ministers come and go after weeks in office and the country’s oil-exporting ports blockaded by federalist-supporting militias.
Other than their refusal to hand over to the fragil national government their prized captive, Gaddafi’s 41-year-old son Saif al-Islam, Zintan’s militias have been among the most loyal to Tripoli and dedicated to what passes in the north African nation for more orderly politics. They refused to participate in a coup last year against Libya’s longest-serving post-Gaddafi prime minister, Ali Zidan. Nor were they backers of a blockade of ministries last summer to force through a wide-ranging political isolation law excluding Gaddafi-era officials from holding public office. They have reserved their interventions in the capital to ensuring Tripoli’s international airport doesn’t fall into rogue hands.
But the strong Islamist make-up of the legislature and the Muslim Brotherhood’s behind-the-scenes maneuvering appears, along with the chaotic drift and bombings and abductions in Benghazi, to have tried their patience.
Zintan’s militias have now aligned with Retired Gen. Khalifa Haftar. Fighters from his self-proclaimed Libyan National Army, many drawn from official Libyan security forces, prompted Friday’s firefights in Benghazi with attacks on predominantly Islamist militias, including Ansar al-Sharia, one of the jihadist-inclined groups blamed for the 2012 razing of the U.S. diplomatic compound where Stevens died. -
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I'm not surprised since there usually is some pent-up bloodletting when a dictator takes power and after said dictator loses power.
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Point being, are we seeing the emergence of the "new boss (same as the old boss)?"
Egypt just got their new hard-ass general, seems like Libya's getting theirs.
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Yeah it never seems like a new general ever wants to hold real elections after seizing power. That's what made George Washington and Cincinnatus so impressive.
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With forced regime change coming at such a high cost, it seems you should be able to earn great money as a 'regime transition planner' in a country like that.HFNY said:I'm not surprised since there usually is some pent-up bloodletting when a dictator takes power and after said dictator loses power.
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Have we turned the Middle East into a parking lot yet?
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Let the arabs fight until there are none left.
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topdawgnc said:
Looks like a barrio in Yakima
