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2011-02-28 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 "Zu dem Fuhrer Bunker, meine Freude!...Meine Freunde?"

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-02-28 15:20|| 2011-02-28 15:20|| Front Page Top

#2 meine Freude?

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-02-28 15:23|| 2011-02-28 15:23|| Front Page Top

#3 If it makes you happy...

Posted by Fred 2011-02-28 16:24|| 2011-02-28 16:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess that was some sort of slip-up.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-02-28 17:34|| 2011-02-28 17:34|| Front Page Top

#5 ION FREE INTERNET PRESS >REBELS IN LIBYA'S EAST SAY THEY ARE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO TAKE TRIPOLI, from Khaddafy as the latter's forces are too strong at present = highly trained + well-trained, etc. for the rebel "LIBYAN PEOPLES ARMY".

* PR NEWSWIRE > US TO POSITION AIRCRAFT CARRIER OFF LIBYA AS COUNTER TO GHADDAFY [US MilOptions on the table]

* SAME > [UK] PRIME MINSTER:BRITAIN CONSIDERING IMPOSING NO-FLY ZONE, SUPPLYING ARMS TO LIBYAN REBELS.

* SAME > HOSNI MUBARAK, FAMILY BARRED FROM LEAVING EGYPT.

OTOH AYMAN ZAWAHIRI VIDEO = claimed that EL BARADEI, despite being anti-Mubarak, will likely NOT FREE MUSLIM EGYPT FROM THE GRIP OF THE IMPERIALIST CRUSADER-ZIONIST US + ISRAEL, + that POST-MUBARAK EGYPT will hence remain a Base for the US-Israel-West agz Muslims???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-02-28 22:26|| 2011-02-28 22:26|| Front Page Top

#6 US QUANDRY > E.g. ANTI-QADDAFY + OTHER ANTI-DESPOT, PRO-DEMOCRACY "REGIME CHANGE" IN ME = may result in the allegedly "WEAK/DECLINING" USA all but hand the Middle East = Arab-Muslim World to the FUTURE, IRAN-CENTRIC, ANTI-US-WEST, ANTI-DEMOCRAT OWG ISLAMIST NUCLEAR CALIPHATE.

By default.

Again, iff ME Democracy + Region is usurped or otherwise succumbs to Radical Islam, THE US WILL HAD LOST THE GWOT IRREGARDLESS OF ANY MIL = MILPOL SUCCESS IN AFPAK [or elsewhere].

By extension, the US will had also LOST THE WAR FOR PRO-US + WESTERN DEMOCRATIC CAPITALIST, ETC. OWG-NWO. THE US WON THE COLD WAR BUT LOST THE WORLD, + ITS OWN US, WORLD FREEDOMS + SOVEREIGNTY.

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* PR NEWSWIRE > UNSTABLE MOMENTUM IN MIDDLE EAST CRISES CAUSE MORE NEED [not less] FOR US MISSLE DEFENSE.

ARTIC NUTSHELL = "OVER THERE" is still much preferred than "OVER HERE".

US Navy AEGIS, OTHER US BMD SYS in Bahrain + Qatar, which the US is at real risk of poten losing iff its not careful in how it responds to the on-going "Jasmine" mass protests in + around the Persian Gulf.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-02-28 22:48|| 2011-02-28 22:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Qaddafy still has potent Military, Police, + Paramilitary-Security forces on his side, + indeed IMO he may obstinately choose to hold on to political power AMAP ALAP even iff the Rebels succeed in dividing Libya into de facto separate sovereign new countries.

ALSO, EVEN IFF MUAMMAR CHOSE TO UNILATER RESIGN FROM FORMAL POWER ALA MUBARAK + BEN ALI, IMO HE WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO STAY EXTREMELY INFLUENTIAL [Semi-"retired", We-Need-His-Advice-N-Approval-To-Win Elder Statesman] IN POST-JASMINE LIBYAN + REGIONAL POLITICS.

I will be very surprised iff Uncle Muammar chooses to resign in quiet/silent pol retirement, as opposed to fighting + being killed in Office.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-02-28 23:02|| 2011-02-28 23:02|| Front Page Top

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