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2011-08-27 Africa North

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Posted by Bobby 2011-08-27 08:18|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Even in the east, the civilian leadership appears to have had little success in preventing fighters from carrying out revenge attacks.

Hmmm...wonder if this is what US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, meant when she said "there will be growing pains...".

Posted by DepotGuy 2011-08-27 09:08|| 2011-08-27 09:08|| Front Page Top

#2 wow. A merc army used to violently control the populace faces retribution when the roles are reversed? Whoa thunk it?

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-27 09:27|| 2011-08-27 09:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Hundreds of Islamist militants were among the prisoners freed from a notorious Tripoli prison this week, according to a former Libyan jihadist.

The freed militants had been imprisoned in Tripoli's Abu Salim prison by Moammar Gadhafi's regime during the height of the insurgency in Iraq, according to Noman Benotman, once a senior figure in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. Benotman said he believes as many as 600 militants may have been among the prison population at Abu Salim.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/26/libya.militants.analysis/index.html

Posted by It will get worse 2011-08-27 10:13|| 2011-08-27 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure Amnesty International will be just as concerned with 'collaborators' being killed in Paleo territory or Pak territory or Afghan territory. /sarc off
Not that the French or Dutch were too upset after their liberation in WWII with capping some collaborators as well.

To paraphrase the Condottieri Carmagnola to the Swiss at Arbedo - men who did not give quarter did not deserve to receive it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-27 10:54|| 2011-08-27 10:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Those deaths have cast a dark shadow over Libya's newfound ~~freedom~~ license

Here, fixed it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-08-27 12:13|| 2011-08-27 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 I take it the MSM has no clue how the winners clean up in the final days of a civil war.

Posted by Steve White 2011-08-27 17:22|| 2011-08-27 17:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Rebel forces mopping up the last remnants of Gaddafi regime resistance in Tripoli have discovered a warehouse containing the charred and still warm skeletons of scores of prisoners killed and burned as troops fled.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-27 18:00|| 2011-08-27 18:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I take it the MSM has no clue how the winners clean up in the final days of a civil war.

Nah. Everything is supposed to be nice and orderly, with Jimmy Carter jetting in to supervise the elections and some lefty actress there to look pretty and clueless.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-27 23:08|| 2011-08-27 23:08|| Front Page Top

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