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Libyan Government Reportedly Accepts Venezuelan Plan to End Conflict
2011-03-03
The Libyan government accepts a plan by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to seek a negotiated solution to the ongoing conflict in the North African nation, a Chavez spokesman told Reuters.

The Venezuelan plan would involve a commission from Latin America, Europe and the Middle East, along with talks between Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi and opposition forces.

Al-Jazeera reports that the deal was struck between Qaddafi and Chavez.

Venezuela's Information Minister Andres Izzara also confirms to Reuters the Arab League has shown interest in the plan.
Tomorrow... will they get together or will they end with a breakup? Next on "As the world Burns!"
I'm waiting for Obama to endorse this and for the Euros to force the opposition into going along. You know it's coming.
Posted by:DarthVader

#11  Libyan Government Reportedly Accepts Venezuelan Plan to End Conflict

Does it involve the compromise of smiling during the day and breaking into peoples' houses at night and killing them?
Posted by: gorb   2011-03-03 22:21  

#10  Thing: you say that, but actually Imperial Japan was relatively close to pre-war Poland, as they were both strategic threats to the Soviet Union, and thus had a common interest. I was just reading a book called Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin about the various genocides in the decade-and-a-half between the Elbe and the Dnepr, and how they were more related than not. One of those relations was how much of the Great Purges was aimed against imagined Polish subversion (and by weird extension, Japanese-subversion-through-Polish-exiles-in_Siberia) and Polish citizens of the Soviet republics. There was a very active Japanese intelligence operation run out of Lithuania which was directly responsible for the successful evacuation of a few thousand Lithuanian Jews during Barbarossa. (Kind of a sickly pittance, it was like 1 in 100 or 1 in 50 even in Lithuania, but they tried.)
Posted by: Mitch H.   2011-03-03 16:58  

#9  You mean ... someone has come up with a solution? You mean ... the junior Senator from Illinois' did not provide World Leadership? I even hear his golf score still sucks.
Posted by: Blossom Thrumble6693   2011-03-03 15:18  

#8  Hugo Chavez is the 2004 winner of the Al-Qaddafi International Prize for Human Rights.

Other winners of this award include Louis Farrakhan, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and Tayyip Erdoğan.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2011-03-03 14:04  

#7  This plan won't work. The Libyan rebels know that they and their families are dead if Gaddafi regains control, and Gaddafi has turned toxic in Western politics.

However the message is clear. Gaddafi has powerful friends in the world who will not abandon him, even though his assets are frozen and he's lost control over Libya's oil.

Gaddafi is still a force to be reckoned with and he might even, with the assistance of his friends reestablish his rule over Libya.

If the rebels don't swiftly crush Gaddafi militarily they will lose. Time is on Gaddafi's side now.
Posted by: Slorong Peacock2780   2011-03-03 13:33  

#6  It appears that answer would be..."no".

Reuters reports that the chairman of the rebel National Libyan Council rejected proposed talks with Qaddafi. "No one has told us a thing about it and we are not interested anyway. We will never negotiate with him," rebel spokesman Abdul Hafif Goga told The Guardian.

Another member of the committee told the U.K. paper that "talk of peace is far too late" because of the killings.

Too bad, Hugo. There goes your Nobel Peace Prize...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-03-03 12:36  

#5  I mean, this is kinda like Imperial Japan proposing a solution to the conflict between Germany and Poland.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-03-03 12:32  

#4  Anyone know if the other actual party to the conflict accepts the plan?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-03-03 12:31  

#3  Combinations like that should be kept in a Class V Biocontainment facility.

Gad zooks that is probably nearly as toxic a combination as our Congress.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2011-03-03 12:29  

#2  Mo, Hugo, and the Arab League.
Now there's a combination that just screams "success"...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-03-03 12:09  

#1  Opportunity abdicated?

Thanks, Obean.
Posted by: gorb   2011-03-03 12:06  

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