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Africa North
Libya: it wasn't supposed to be like this in free Benghazi
2011-03-24
The young gunmen at the roadblock took no chances. They put a knife to the throat of the driver before hauling the three men and one woman from the car, dragging them through the street into a nearby mosque for a rough round of interrogation.

"They were beaten on their feet and the woman was slapped around the face until she admitted planning an attack on the mosque," said Basim Mohamed, muezzin at Quiche mosque.

Inside the car they say they found an AK-47 and 10 cartridges of ammunition.

A frenzied mob formed outside the mosque as word spread that Gaddafi assassins had been cornered. It only dispersed when rebel gunmen arrived to take away the suspects to an uncertain fate.

It wasn't supposed to be like this in free Benghazi.
Really? The writer of this piece is a maroon.
After throwing off the shackles of Gaddafi's brutal rule, Libya's young opposition movement is rounding up suspected opponents and delivering its own brutal form of justice in a city living in fear that they have been penetrated by a fifth column of government loyalists.

Rebel leaders admit that dozens of Gaddafi supporters have been arrested or killed.
Of course that's the way it is in free Benghazi. It's a damned civil war!!

This is what happens in civil wars. The gloves come off. It's a bare-knuckled, nasty, brutal fight to the end. It's a rare civil war that respects the common rules of humanity. So of course the rebels are killing the Gadaffy supporters, and likewise is also true.

It's a civil war, not a indigenous kinetic military action.
Posted by:Oscar Spineck3066

#2  Suggested reading for our intrepid reporter. "Tale of Two Cities" and "Dr. Zhivago".
Or, at least, see the movies...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-03-24 19:34  

#1  Tribalism?
Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar   2011-03-24 10:38  

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