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2011-08-25 Africa North

Battles in Tripoli as Rebels Offer $1.7 Mln for Gadhafi's Head

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Telegraph:
SAS has already been on the ground in Libya for weeks working with Libyan rebels. Now they are searching for Qadaffy.
Hostages at Rixos Hotel were freed after they persuaded their guards to lay down their arms.
Delivery of food, medicines & other supplies to Tripoli are being held up by snipers along the roads from the air and seaport facilities.
There are reports of gunfights in the tunnels beneath Tripoli.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-25 00:44|| 2011-08-25 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Where's the FRENCH SPECOPS???

* FOX NEWS AM > FOX FIVE comment = [IIHC] "Libya has more Al-Qaeda sympathizers than any other Muslim Country in the ME except for SAUDI ARABIA"???

SAUDI ARABIA = the Govt, Country that formally rejected or disowned OSAMA BIN LADEN, aka the FOUNDER OF AL-QAEDA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-25 01:58|| 2011-08-25 01:58|| Front Page Top

#3 The journalists at the Rixos are no doubt self-selected for the easily herded and receptive rather than adventurous and inquisitive. The adventurers are the guys in body armor rolling with the Nafusa technicals who are used to the idea of being occasionally shot at. And perhaps, that is the way it ought to be. Are the Rixos crews even equipped to cover a shooting war?

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-08-25 09:51|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-08-25 09:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Well the bar stayed open so it wasn't too bad. Mahmoud kept the TV on CNN International so we could cover the war and the gin and tonic flowing.
Ernie Pyle would've been proud of us.
War's hell, I tell ya...

Posted by Grizzled War Correspondent 2011-08-25 12:26|| 2011-08-25 12:26|| Front Page Top

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