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2011-02-20 Africa North
Gaddafi recruits "African mercenaries" to quell protests
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Posted by Fred 2011-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ]  Top

#1 Usual warning.NSFW or for those with a weak stomach.
Benghazi Mercenary found Dead February 19th
Posted by tipper 2011-02-20 10:11||   2011-02-20 10:11|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sure Bob's 5th Brigade would reduce the opposition to bark-eating, leaf-soup drinking in a week or so without the world noticing, and Zimbabwe's debt to Daffy-Duck be much reduced.
Posted by Rhodesiafever 2011-02-20 11:05||   2011-02-20 11:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Is this a possible market / revenue stream for Kimmie?
Posted by Alan Cramer 2011-02-20 11:20||   2011-02-20 11:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Great to see you back again my china. Hope you are well.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-02-20 12:12||   2011-02-20 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Except that the captured mercenaries spoke French. Last I checked, that leaves out ZimBob.

Judging by the features of the dead merc, I'll go with Chadian.
Posted by Pappy 2011-02-20 12:21||   2011-02-20 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Taking a page from the book by Beijing to bring in troops from outside the city to end the Tienanmen Square protest.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-20 15:11||   2011-02-20 15:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't the Fembots handle this?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-02-20 17:37||   2011-02-20 17:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Taking a page from the book by Beijing to bring in troops from outside the city to end the Tienanmen Square protest.

Or from the Russians, who allegedly used far-easterners when quelling the uprisings in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

Can't the Fembots handle this?

I would suspect that since they might have relatives in the crowd, their usefulness in this situation is limited.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-02-20 18:21||   2011-02-20 18:21|| Front Page Top

#9 there's rumblings that Khadaffy Duck is on teh ropes. Hard to get the truth in a real dictatorship, but they're sounding often enough that I wouldn't be surprised to see him fall. I hope they do him and his family so that Jeri-curled Lockerbie-ordering POS gets to meet his judgement
Posted by Frank G 2011-02-20 18:24||   2011-02-20 18:24|| Front Page Top

#10 There are a couple threads on all hell breaking loose in Libya over on Freep Republic.

Including rumors that he's on a plane to Venezuela or some other third world nation.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-02-20 18:35||   2011-02-20 18:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Ala FREEREPUBLIC ARTICS = "THE COLONEL" GHADDAFI is repor still in LIBYUH [Libya] + in power, while his Son is warning of potential breakout of LIBYAN CIVIL WAR as THE LIBYAN ARMY HAVE SEEMING FAILED TO PREVENT SEVERAL TOWNS FROM FALLING INTO THE CONTROL OF PROTESTERS???

That sound you're hearing is RADICAL ISLAM licking its lips oer the OPPORTUNITIES WROUGHT BY THE "JASMINE" TRUBLES IN THE US [Wisconsin] + MUSLIM WORLD.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-02-20 19:20|| na  2011-02-20 19:20|| Front Page Top

#12 It seems to me that the breaking point will come from the military. How long are they willing to gun down demonstrators or rioters, regardless of provocation? When you bring in mercenaries, it seems to mean that you cannot depend on your own forces to do the job.

I hope that G'Daffy leaves for good, one way or another. He has spread misery in his country for 4 decades. Sorta Kimmie Lite. Not to make light of this disaster of a dictator.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-02-20 19:22||   2011-02-20 19:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Judging from what looks to be an exit wound just below the dead Mercs right cheekbone, I'd say he was dispatched after taking a round in the guts.

There for a second they opened his coat/tunic and it was pretty bloody inside. Well...time to eat, my Chili is done.
Posted by Secret Asian Man 2011-02-20 19:23||   2011-02-20 19:23|| Front Page Top

#14 "there's rumblings that Khadaffy Duck is on teh ropes"

"I hope that G'Daffy leaves for good, one way or another."

Agree that DaffyDuck is a worthless bastard, and deserves to burn in the hottest corner of hell, but before you plan his exit, better consider what will take his place.

I'm pretty sure the Libyan version of Madison and Jefferson ain't waiting in the wings. :-(
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-02-20 19:59||   2011-02-20 19:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Madison and Jefferson were preceded by Laud and Pym, Cromwell and Rupert. I'd say that's the stage the Muslims are at. They need to make up their minds, and the terrible thing for them is that they don't have nearly as much time as the Roundheads and Cavaliers.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-02-20 20:27||   2011-02-20 20:27|| Front Page Top

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