• Gaddafi: Fall of Benghazi imminent "in 48 hours"
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[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/16/libya-benghazi-gaddafi-48-hours]Source[/url] [img]http://static.guim.co.uk/static/102178/zones/news/images/logo.gif[/img] [quote] [b]The Libyan government claimed on Wednesday that it would defeat opposition forces in Benghazi within 48 hours and put an end to the most serious challenge to Muammar Gaddafi's rule in more than 40 years.[/b] But as the leader's son Saif al-Islam boasted of imminent victory, rebels said they had inflicted heavy losses on government forces fighting to regain control of Misrata, a port which is the last big anti-Gaddafi stronghold in western Libya. Opposition sources said they had destroyed 16 tanks and captured 20 members of an elite unit commanded by Khamis, another son of Gaddafi, after an armoured force attacked Misrata from the south and west. Artillery and rockets were also deployed. Libyan officials, however, were speaking with mounting confidence about the outcome, insisting that foreign media had exaggerated the extent of the violence and portraying the rebels as influenced by al-Qaida – a claim for which there is little evidence. Saif al-Islam poured scorn on talks at the UN and elsewhere to impose a no-fly zone over Libya. "The military operations are finished," he told France's Euronews channel. "In 48 hours everything will be over. Our forces are close to Benghazi. Whatever decision is taken, it will be too late." Last night the Libyan army told Benghazi's residents to leave rebel-held locations in the city and weapons storage areas. Muammar Gaddafi told Lebanon's LBC TV he did not expect a battle in Benghazi, and that Libyan people have been helping get rid of "al-Qaida" elements there. The government, meanwhile, was maximising efforts to display popular support for Gaddafi. Fireworks and celebratory gunfire illuminated the night sky over Tripoli after Tuesday's fall of Ajdabiya, a strategic town that commands the approaches to Benghazi. State media also reported that two tribes which had previously declared for the opposition had switched back and pledged their loyalty to Gaddafi. Libyan TV showed delegations of cheering regime loyalists expressing their support for the leader in his headquarters at the heavily guarded Bab al-Aziziya barracks in central Tripoli and excoriating traitors and conspiracies at home and abroad. "We would never forsake the pure blood with which our grandfathers liberated the land and we would never betray or abandon it," Gaddafi told them. Senior officials said that Gaddafi's offer of an amnesty for those who had taken up arms would be applied "without exception", and repeated the call for a "national dialogue" on reform that would allow opponents of the regime to express their wishes peacefully. "We want to avoid bloodshed," said one well-placed source in Tripoli. "It is time for the rebels to lay down their arms." But it is hard to see the opposition taking up the offer after previously insisting that Gaddafi step down and rejecting all talks with the regime. Reports of disappearances and abductions of opposition sympathisers in the capital and elsewhere will also make it difficult for the Benghazi rebels to accept official promises that there will be no retribution. Last night Britain and the US appeared to be at odds over the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya as Britain joined forces with France and Lebanon to press for a fresh UN security council resolution. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, played down the prospects of a no-fly zone when she declared that there were "other ways" to help the opposition as she warned against unilateral action. The intervention by Clinton, in an interview on BBC Radio 4's PM programme, came shortly after William Hague said that Britain was prepared to impose a no-fly zone without the authority of the UN. Even if French-led diplomatic efforts fail to secure a no-fly zone, widespread hostility to Gaddafi is now unlikely to fade. Nor will UN security council sanctions and referrals to the international criminal court simply fade away. Accounts of the fighting in Misrata could not be verified because the Libyan authorities have barred journalists from the city., the country's third largest. A doctor at Misrata hospital told Reuters that 11 people had been killed and 20 wounded in the fighting. [/quote]
Will someone shoot this jerkoff
[QUOTE=TH89;28648141]Will someone shoot this jerkoff[/QUOTE] [img]http://avatars.fpcontent.net/image.php?u=2843&dateline=1297752219[/img] You can do it!
If we don't intervene, they'll end up losing
[QUOTE=Shadowstone;28648145][img_thumb]http://avatars.fpcontent.net/image.php?u=2843&dateline=1297752219[/img_thumb] You can do it![/QUOTE] [img]http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/Adolf_Hitler_salute_s_in_a_late_1930_parade.jpg[/img] Yeah! You can do it T89! We and your followers believe in your cause.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;28648463][img_thumb]http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/Adolf_Hitler_salute_s_in_a_late_1930_parade.jpg[/img_thumb] Yeah! You can do it T89! We and your followers believe in your cause.[/QUOTE] Shit help Indiana Jones is here. [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Uxo-M64lTjY/S8K40-2k7TI/AAAAAAAAAAc/OsayfsNAL88/s1600/face-melt.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=TH89;28648141]Will someone shoot this jerkoff[/QUOTE] Thunderhawks are already in orbit over Libya preparing to drop Eversor assassins on a moment's notice.
They'd better hurry the hell up with the no-fly zone.
The hell with a no fly zone, they need to start just outright bombing Gaddafi's military trolls.
How the hell is preventing planes from flying over Libya going to prevent Gaddafi from winning?
Meanwhile, the UN is working feverishly to decide whether or not they can decide to maybe impose a no fly zone any minute now.
I doubt it will fall in 48 hours
I am praying for some ex sas commando gone rogue killing him while hes making his victory speech. But I guess thats whishfull thinking.
[QUOTE=taipan;28649228]I am praying for some ex sas commando gone rogue killing him while hes making his victory speech. But I guess thats whishfull thinking.[/QUOTE] Yeah I just thought then when reading the OP, some ex military guy just goes over, gets a mile or so away, .50 cal ready and then blows his arm off and have to run through an apartment complex...wait a minute...
Almost reminds me of the korean war in reverse.
[quote=sphinxa279;28649241]yeah i just thought then when reading the op, some ex military guy just goes over, gets a mile or so away, .50 cal ready and then blows his arm off and have to run through an apartment complex...wait a minute...[/quote] LEVEL UP. c
[quote=hatredviral;28649256]level up. C[/quote] master seargent of important person too the extreme!
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;28649166]How the hell is preventing planes from flying over Libya going to prevent Gaddafi from winning?[/QUOTE] It isnt definately going to prevent him from winning. Its just gonna make it slightly easier for the protesters so they dont get raped up the ass by bombs.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;28649166]How the hell is preventing planes from flying over Libya going to prevent Gaddafi from winning?[/QUOTE] Uh isn't that like the only single reason he's winning?
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;28652421]Uh isn't that like the only single reason he's winning?[/QUOTE] He's winning because it is currently pubbers versus pros. The rebels are fighting highly armed and highly trained soldiers who have godlike equipment compared to the rebels. Gaddafi has MBTs and the rebels have SUVs.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;28649166]How the hell is preventing planes from flying over Libya going to prevent Gaddafi from winning?[/QUOTE] generally, when you destroy bombers, they cant fly, and bomb people anymore. Gadafi's military probably wont stand a chance without the fighter-bombers constantly bombarding the rebels.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;28652493]generally, when you destroy bombers, they cant fly, and bomb people anymore. Gadafi's military probably wont stand a chance without the fighter-bombers constantly bombarding the rebels.[/QUOTE] Why are people coming to that conclusion all of a sudden?
I wonder what is the remaining population in Libya now
[QUOTE=BCell;28652712]I wonder what is the remaining population in Libya now[/QUOTE] After Gaddafi kills everyone with his army its just him and the army left So 0 Unless you want to count worthless organisms
Wouldn't setting up a no fly zone be as good as a declaration of war?
Good, hopefully the opposition ends and everything will return to normal.
News: Gaddafi's forces have surrounded the rebel-held town of Misrata, and intend to take it as they took Zawiyah a few days prior. Misrata is the only large rebel-held compound in the western part of Libya. Rebels have shot down two warplanes in Benghazi; one at the airport, and one at the outskirts.
Fucking Gaddafi, I hate him so much now.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;28649166]How the hell is preventing planes from flying over Libya going to prevent Gaddafi from winning?[/QUOTE] The no-fly zone was conceived when he was bombing protestors. Now that it's turned into an all out land war and the rebels have practically lost already, it wouldn't really be that useful.
[QUOTE=TH89;28653993]The no-fly zone was conceived when he was bombing protestors. Now that it's turned into an all out land war and the rebels have practically lost already, it wouldn't really be that useful.[/QUOTE] All that's going to happen is Gaddafi will use the fuel (I heard he has been running a bit short on it) to run tanks instead of aircraft. The rebels are pretty much screwed.
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