Libyan 'War' Megathread - Any news pertaining to surgical strikes is to be posted HERE
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[QUOTE=smurfy;28697425]Full translated text of Gaddafi's statement earlier[/QUOTE]
Gaddafi: Help, the French are attacking me!.
Everyone else: What's that?, we can't hear you over the sound of France being awesome, we'll ask them to turn it down.
France:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXstOweChc[/media]
Everyone else: Sorry they said no.
[img]http://loscuatroojos.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/trollface.jpg[/img]
It's not a good sign when you have to go crying to the international community when you are attacked by the French.
2358: That concludes our live coverage for Saturday. Join us shortly for our reporting on Sunday's events.
0003: Good evening and welcome to the BBC's live coverage of the Libya crisis. Stay with us for the latest updates - reports from our correspondents on the ground, expert analysis, and your reaction from around the world. You can contact us via email, text or twitter. We'll publish what we can.
Uh what
[QUOTE=smurfy;28698105]2358: That concludes our live coverage for Saturday. Join us shortly for our reporting on Sunday's events.
0003: Good evening and welcome to the BBC's live coverage of the Libya crisis. Stay with us for the latest updates - reports from our correspondents on the ground, expert analysis, and your reaction from around the world. You can contact us via email, text or twitter. We'll publish what we can.
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Sleep teim noaw, bbl.
[QUOTE=smurfy;28698105]2358: That concludes our live coverage for Saturday. Join us shortly for our reporting on Sunday's events.
0003: Good evening and welcome to the BBC's live coverage of the Libya crisis. Stay with us for the latest updates - reports from our correspondents on the ground, expert analysis, and your reaction from around the world. You can contact us via email, text or twitter. We'll publish what we can.
Uh what[/QUOTE]
Its a new day. They're just saying that Saturday has ended and Sunday is starting.
[QUOTE=smurfy;28698105]2358: That concludes our live coverage for Saturday. Join us shortly for our reporting on Sunday's events.
0003: Good evening and welcome to the BBC's live coverage of the Libya crisis. Stay with us for the latest updates - reports from our correspondents on the ground, expert analysis, and your reaction from around the world. You can contact us via email, text or twitter. We'll publish what we can.
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Its for logging purposes I think, so they can do "Saturday in detail" etc.
Just got the lowdown on Al Jazeera.
This is excellent.
:france:
[QUOTE=smurfy;28698105]2358: That concludes our live coverage for Saturday. Join us shortly for our reporting on Sunday's events.
0003: Good evening and welcome to the BBC's live coverage of the Libya crisis. Stay with us for the latest updates - reports from our correspondents on the ground, expert analysis, and your reaction from around the world. You can contact us via email, text or twitter. We'll publish what we can.
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Can I ask where you get the updated times with information? I've only been watching AJE but they keep giving out the same info over and over.
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;28698307]Can I ask where you get the updated times with information? I've only been watching AJE but they keep giving out the same info over and over.[/QUOTE]BBC, there's a live feed on their website.
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;28698307]Can I ask where you get the updated times with information? I've only been watching AJE but they keep giving out the same info over and over.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12776418[/url]
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;28698323]BBC, there's a live feed on their website.[/QUOTE]
For anyone looking:
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12776418[/url]
BBC now have a camera in Tripoli facing the sky as apparently there's been reports of AA fire.
And I just saw it, appeared too quickly to grab a screenshot of it.
Why does Libya even keep having press conferences at this point? They keep talking themselves in circles. Usually the analysis of them are concluded as "lol nope".
[QUOTE=Jsm;28698670]BBC now have a camera in Tripoli facing the sky as apparently there's been reports of AA fire.
And I just saw it, appeared too quickly to grab a screenshot of it.[/QUOTE]
The fox reporter in Tripoli was talking live when he said he heard a loud explosion go off (he thought it was a tomahawk) then the sky lit up with AAA fire. They were busting caps like a motherfucker. The reporter said to leave the camera pointing out toward the city and they all ducked on the ground.
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;28698860]Why does Libya even keep having press conferences at this point? They keep talking themselves in circles. Usually the analysis of them are concluded as "lol nope".[/QUOTE]
Its partly propaganda and partly a away of saying "We are still in charge".
They are trying to convince people that this is a crusade by the west to plunder their oil, all of the analysis I have heard of their recent announcements have been along the lines of that "that was 20 minutes of nothing".
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[QUOTE=OvB;28698884]The fox reporter in Tripoli was talking live when he said he heard a loud explosion go off (he thought it was a tomahawk) then the sky lit up with AAA fire. They were busting caps like a motherfucker. The reporter said to leave the camera pointing out toward the city and they all ducked on the ground.[/QUOTE]
BBC were reporting that there was a lot of shouting of "god is great" and some gun fire into the air. I think they saw something and attempt to shoot it.
Lack of ball of fire suggests they hit nothing.
Edit: BBC are using Reuters feed LOL, it just died and the Reuters clip came up.
[QUOTE=smurfy;28698105]2358: That concludes our live coverage for Saturday. Join us shortly for our reporting on Sunday's events.
0003: Good evening and welcome to the BBC's live coverage of the Libya crisis. Stay with us for the latest updates - reports from our correspondents on the ground, expert analysis, and your reaction from around the world. You can contact us via email, text or twitter. We'll publish what we can.
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tomorrow is saturday
and sunday
comes afterwaaards
[QUOTE=Jsm;28698899]
Edit: BBC are using Reuters feed LOL, it just died and the Reuters clip came up.[/QUOTE]
No news there, most news agencies recycle and use each other's material. Only Al jazeera doesn't do it, but when you have infinite money and people everywhere it gets kinda easy.
BBC are talking to someone on the phone but before they just said that the Libyan government can and is allegedly listening into phone calls to the media. Also sky were warning before some of their reporters in Tripoli started to talk that they were being monitored by the Libyan authorities.
[editline]20th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Hotespresso;28699054]No news there, most news agencies recycle and use each other's material. Only Al jazeera doesn't do it, but when you have infinite money and people everywhere it gets kinda easy.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I know its not news its just funny when it cuts without the broadcasters realising and you get "Reuters: just fed" or what ever the message is.
[editline]20th March 2011[/editline]
Where there's a camera there's pro Gaddafi protesters...
[img]http://img.meteornet.net/uploads/r1dkjfi/vlcsnap-2011-03-20-00h52m17s58.png[/img]
(Sorry for blurryness, I dunno why VLC does this)
A few look like police or something and some look [I]REALLY[/I] into it.
[editline]20th March 2011[/editline]
The BBC just called it "the conflict in Libya". First time I have heard it been refereed to as that.
Looks like that guy is punching himself
Al Jazeera are showing some very loud gun fire, in Tripoli.
Doesn't sound like celebratory gunfire it sounds like proper fire.
Oh, not live.
[quote]Mary in Sussex, UK writes: "The Libyan people have been oppressed for 42 years, telling the opposition they should have taken time in planning the revolution to minimise the death of civilians is a bit rich as going by the history anyone who even spoke out against the regime either disappeared or were locked up! My sister has been living in Benghazi for the last 20 years, she has heard the stories, when we have been able to speak on the phone, I have heard from her what her family are experiencing and seen. Now I can't get hold of her, if by sending the UN/Coalition means that she and the extended family will be safe... things have to change now."[/quote]
If there were agree ratings on the BBC News site...
[QUOTE=smurfy;28699599]If there were agree ratings on the BBC News site...[/QUOTE]
Some of the comments on the BBC site blow my mind how dumb they are. That is one of the very few decent comments.
[QUOTE=Jsm;28699627]Some of the comments on the BBC site blow my mind how dumb they are. That is one of the very few decent comments.[/QUOTE]
You should see the Fox comments...
0111: The British fast jets flew 4,828km (3,000 miles) from RAF Marham and back - the longest range bombing mission conducted by the RAF since the Falklands conflict, according to the Ministry of Defence. The operation was supported by VC10 and Tristar air-to-air refuelling aircraft as well as E3D Sentry and Sentinel surveillance aircraft.
Something the UK does surprisingly well, bombing people way too far away.
This is the reason we have no carriers.
I hate how the BBC keeps saying the resolution outlaws ground forces. It doesn't, it outlaws a 'foreign occupation force', there is certainly room for ground forces there. I'm not saying there will, should be or need to be ground forces, just that it's not right to say there can't be.
This only proves that we cannot have virtue without violence
[QUOTE=smurfy;28699692]I hate how the BBC keeps saying the resolution outlaws ground forces. It doesn't, it outlaws a 'foreign occupation force', there is certainly room for ground forces there. I'm not saying there will, should be or need to be ground forces, just that it's not right to say there can't be.[/QUOTE]
The problem is that to most people any sort of ground force in a foreign country is an invasion and occupation. Sky were reporting earlier that this does not rule out small forces and special forces.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were special forces from various countries all over Libya.
From the reports I have read those TLAMs were very accurate, perhaps someone was guiding them in on the ground.
[QUOTE=Jsm;28699688]0111: The British fast jets flew 4,828km (3,000 miles) from RAF Marham and back - the longest range bombing mission conducted by the RAF since the Falklands conflict, according to the Ministry of Defence. The operation was supported by VC10 and Tristar air-to-air refuelling aircraft as well as E3D Sentry and Sentinel surveillance aircraft.
Something the UK does surprisingly well, bombing people way too far away.
This is the reason we have no carriers.[/QUOTE]
Well, some people during WWII did jokingly refer to the UK as the USS Great Briton, the US's largest Aircraft carrier :v:
[QUOTE=goon165;28699860]Well, some people during WWII did jokingly refer to the UK as the USS Great Briton, the US's largest Aircraft carrier :v:[/QUOTE]
Not only is that pretty funny but it's not far from the truth.
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