• Is this it? Fifty miles of sparsely-populated, indefensible land now lies between the Nafusa Mountai
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[QUOTE=Jsm;31593351]Public support over here in Europe seems to be good at the moment, not sure why.[/QUOTE] All my friends support it, but that might be because they don't really care and I have a fucking rebel flag in my room
[QUOTE=Jsm;31593351]Public support over here in Europe seems to be good at the moment, not sure why.[/QUOTE] Probably because the UK and France were the ones to spearhead the intervention. [editline]7th August 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=smurfy;31594094]All my friends support it, but that might be because they don't really care and I have a fucking rebel flag in my room[/QUOTE] I for one have many flags in my room.
[QUOTE=smurfy;31594094]All my friends support it, but that might be because they don't really care and I have a fucking rebel flag in my room[/QUOTE] A Brit with a rebel flag? [img]http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/images/cometakelg.jpg[/img]
Don't take my flag! :(
[QUOTE=smurfy;31594298]Don't take my flag! :([/QUOTE] Don't tread on my flag!
[QUOTE=jaykray;31586956]I don't know why, but the way you worded it made me imagine Gaddafi standing by himself in front of thousands of rebels, bending over and farting out massive quantities of mustard gas.[/QUOTE] That'd...be a sight to see
hnggrgr Glad to see some good news. (i've been out of the loop for awhile)
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14440843][b][u]UPDATE[/u][/b][/url] Pro-Gaddafi forces claimed to have retaken the town, but journalists [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14]confirm it is still in rebel hands[/url]. Meanwhile the rebels claim they are "moving closer" to Zawiyah. To reiterate, if the rebels reach Zawiyah it will be "fucking on now, chaps" and we would perhaps be seeing the final days of the war Meanwhile rebel offensives from Misrata and Ajdabiya are both going well according to the BBC Also, it appears NATO played a larger role in capturing Bir al-Ghanam than I thought. Considering it was a one-day battle this is a very impressive response from them [quote=NATO]1 Ammunition Storage Facility, 1 Command and Control Node, 1 Multiple Rocket Launcher System, 1 Military vehicle.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Jsm;31593351]Public support over here in Europe seems to be good at the moment, not sure why.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure about that. The state our economy is in, we're already waging a war in 2 other countries, I doubt the public would like to have a third.
I can't wait for a "Raising the flag on the Reichstag" moment for the rebels.
[url=http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=32.534078,12.821045&spn=0.952843,1.783905&t=h&z=10]The relevant area on Google Maps[/url] [url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/08/201187133915428.html]According to al-Jazeera[/url] the rebels are also moving up the road to Surman, just west of Zawiyah, and are 30 miles from the town. It seems likely that this group will reach Surman before the others reach Zawiyah, possibly today. [editline]8th August 2011[/editline] The Telegraph [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8688002/Rebel-blueprint-for-Libya-revealed.html]has seen[/url] a leaked NTC document detailing what they will do when Tripoli falls. [quote]the rebels plan to establish a 10,000-15,000 strong "Tripoli task force" to secure the capital and capture prominent Gaddafi supporters. Around 5,000 policemen will be recruited to serve as the interim government's security forces, according to the plan. The rebels claim that 800 current Gaddafi government officials have already been recruited to their cause, and could form a key plank of a post-conflict security apparatus, the paper reported. The document also maps out how telecommunications, power and transport infrastructure will be secured in the immediate hours after the regime's collapse. [/quote] Apparently they have learned from Iraq and plan to retain much more infrastructure rather than redoing everything, in the hope that they can avoid an Iraq-like insurgency.
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