• First rebels enter Tripoli from the west. No resistance as first neighborhood liberated. WARNING: Ma
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The BBC reporter is apparently held up in a hotel which is still in the Gaddafi controlled area.
[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;31869224][video=youtube;lXLQAUUpJwU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXLQAUUpJwU[/video] Looks like it was a pretty good place, before you bombed your own damn protesters.[/QUOTE] Ghadaffi called his ideology '' Islamic Socialism''. Libya is one of the most developed countries on the African continent, with a developement rate higher than Russia or Bulgaria for example. Ghadaffi spent lots of money on education and got the litteracy rate from like 20% to about 82%. Ghadaffi loved his country and with his iron rule he turned it from one of the poorest countries on earth to a relatively rich one. Educated poeple don't like dictators tough, he dug his own grave.
[QUOTE=Nerbil;31869425]Source?[/QUOTE] Its Saif Al-islam Gaddafi, ICC have confirmed it.
[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;31869224][video=youtube;lXLQAUUpJwU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXLQAUUpJwU[/video] Looks like it was a pretty good place, before you bombed your own damn protesters.[/QUOTE] Well if he didn't bomb protesters and suppress political dissent it might've been an okay place.
[QUOTE=Jsm;31869427]The BBC reporter is apparently held up in a hotel which is still in the Gaddafi controlled area.[/QUOTE] Only in so much as the rebels haven't reached there yet, most if not all the minders have appearently left the hotel.
[QUOTE=cheezey;31869431]Ghadaffi called his ideology '' Islamic Socialism''. Libya is one of the most developed countries on the African continent, with a developement rate higher than Russia or Bulgaria for example. Ghadaffi spent lots of money on education and got the litteracy rate from like 20% to about 82%. Educated poeple don't like dictators tough, he dug his own grave.[/QUOTE] I saw an article a few days ago on CNN about how Cuba isn't having a revolution like the middle east. Basically it said that the less sanctions a country has around it and the more interaction it does with other nations, the more likely the people are to rebel against a dictatorship. Cuba won't rebel because they're shut off from most of the world through the US embargo. And Libya has been opening a lot these past few years.
Rebels are in Green Square
I wonder what is in the Gaddafi compound they cant seem to capture.
Al Jazeerah English saying various nations offering Gadaffi asylum/exile including South Africa and the AU [editline]22nd August 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=doonbugie2;31869532]I wonder what is in the Gaddafi compound they cant seem to capture.[/QUOTE] Likely a very significant bunker complex.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;31869532]I wonder what is in the Gaddafi compound they cant seem to capture.[/QUOTE] I don't think they have tried yet. One of Sky's reporters was suggesting it might turn into a situation like they had in Iraq with Uday and Qusay.
[QUOTE=Killoch0;31869543]Al Jazeerah English saying various nations offering Gadaffi asylum/exile including South Africa and the AU [editline]22nd August 2011[/editline] Likely a very significant bunker complex.[/QUOTE] The rebels made it all the way to Tripoli, they can make it to Cape Town!
[QUOTE=Killoch0;31869543]Al Jazeerah English saying various nations offering Gadaffi asylum/exile including South Africa and the AU [editline]22nd August 2011[/editline] Likely a very significant bunker complex.[/QUOTE] He might not want to go to South Africa, they are signed up to the ICC.
Could somebody post a picture of the rebels in green square please? I'm on my iPod, so I can't view any of the videos on sky news and the BBC.
Does anyone have a link to the Sky news live stream of green square?
Sky saying there maybe a battle underway somewhere in the city, possibly at the gadaffi compund.
[QUOTE=scurr;31869603]Could somebody post a picture of the rebels in green square please? I'm on my iPod, so I can't view any of the videos on sky news and the BBC.[/QUOTE] Blurry as hell but here you go. [img]http://img.meteornet.net/uploads/4mwppv/vlcsnap-2011-08-22-00h27m31s53.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Prez;31869612]Does anyone have a link to the Sky news live stream of green square?[/QUOTE] [url]http://news.sky.com/home[/url] Right on the front page.
[QUOTE=Prez;31869612]Does anyone have a link to the Sky news live stream of green square?[/QUOTE] [url]http://go.sky.com/vod/content/Home/content/videoId/eefdd9d2c3e5f110VgnVCM1000001f5012ac________/content/detachedLiveTv.do#url=http://go.sky.com/vod/content/Home/content/changeDetachedChannel.do?videoId=eefdd9d2c3e5f110VgnVCM1000001f5012ac____[/url]
[url]http://news.sky.com/sky-news/app/liveTV/liveTv.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Jsm;31869623]Blurry as hell but here you go. [img]http://img.meteornet.net/uploads/4mwppv/vlcsnap-2011-08-22-00h27m31s53.png[/img][/QUOTE] A single clip cannot discribe how amazing revolution and freedom in the capitol looks on video. Its crazy to think, at this very moment in time people in Tripoli and experiencing the first glimpse of freedom, clashing and taking down a oppressive government.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;31869646]A single clip cannot discribe how amazing revolution and freedom in the capitol looks on video.[/QUOTE] Its a shame that they obviously do not have proper broadcasting equipment with them.
[QUOTE=Jsm;31869671]Its a shame that they obviously do not have proper broadcasting equipment with them.[/QUOTE] It would be impossible to be embedded with anything other than simple broadcast equiptment.
"Alex Crawford" is apparently trending world wide on Twitter. It seems she is getting the well deserved respect for her reporting.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;31869646]A single clip cannot discribe how amazing revolution and freedom in the capitol looks on video. Its crazy to think, at this very moment in time people in Tripoli and experiencing the first glimpse of freedom, clashing and taking down a oppressive government.[/QUOTE] It wasn't really that opressive if you look at the video, it's just that Gadaffi went bat-shit insane at the first appearance of a protest
[QUOTE=Killoch0;31869706]It would be impossible to be embedded with anything other than simple broadcast equiptment.[/QUOTE] It seems that they are using a mobile phone or a web cam, such simple equipment but its letting them broadcast stuff that no other channel is putting out.
Rebels renamed Green Square 'Martyr Square' [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_of_nations[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_spring[/url]
There's a creepy looking long haired guy trying to hog all the Sky News camera time he can I think :v: This is actually pretty amazing to watch, when just the other week there were fears of the resistance falling after being pushed back.
The BBC have their reporter who is stuck in the hotel on at the moment talking.
Airport is under control of the rebels.
[QUOTE=Jsm;31869730]It seems that they are using a mobile phone or a web cam, such simple equipment but its letting them broadcast stuff that no other channel is putting out.[/QUOTE] More likely it's a ruggidised HD camera compressing its video well enough to steam it straight to a sattelite.
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