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Libyan "expert" Benjamin Barber Is Just Another Flynt Leverette

Reform the Libyan Regime ? Are YOU KIDDING  ?

Libyan "expert" Benjamin Barber Is Just Another Flynt Leverette. HE is the fellow

speaking in the CNN Interview posted in my previous thread below. 

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Fool me Once Fool Me Twice ! Pedar Sookhtehayeh Amerikayee !

Jooneh Amat !

Gaddafi’s Son : Butcher or Closet Democrat ? 

Thanks Faramarz and RedWine Jaans

Lotf Dareed !

Appreciate your encouraging comments !

Gorbanetoon !

DK 

...

Darius Kadivar is the best .

Barack Hosain or Emam Hosain!

Thank you DK Jaan for your blogs and I tip my hat to you for consistently supporting the Libyan campaign from day one.

Obama has a few challenges with Libya and that’s why he is walking a tight rope and being quiet about US’s role in the whole affair. He does not want to become a martyr!

First of all, his base in the US, the liberal left, is not on board with this or any other wars. They want him to get out of Iraq, Afghanistan and all other engagement today, notwithstanding the consequences. The Republicans will not vote for him in 2012 no matter what miracle he performs.

Secondly, the make-up of the anti-Qaddafi rebels is a mix of the good guys and the al-Qaeda types that came to Iraq and fought the US forces. That’s why he is acting cautiously and wanting to make sure that he is not feeding a hungry lion.

He is doing a lot though. CIA is on the ground training the rebels and US air power is enforcing the no-fly zone. But this will take a while partly because Libya unlike Egypt is a tribal society where the eastern people (Benghazi) are different from the western people (Tripoli.)

One thing that is certain is that the Libyan success will be the blueprint for the removal of the IR Regime in our beloved Iran.

Dear Darius

I should actually thank you for your hard work and for bringing all these various news to our attention .... good job  

OK Soosan Khanoom Will do ... For the sake of contradiction ;0)

OK thanks for your feedbacks !

Cheers,

DK 

If this ain't World War III, I don't know what is ? ...

You don't need a Nuclear War to have one ...

Each side has blamed the other for the killings.

Now it all has come down to she said and he said  ...... I do not buy into these things anymore and I do not trust the news from neither sides ..... 

By the way ,   when Obama said:  " Yes we can "

I think he meant " Perhaps we can "    : )

Each side has blamed the other for the killings ...

'Liberian mercenaries'

Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said its team had found more than 100 new bodies in three locations in the west.

burnt alive and some corpses were thrown down a well

Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said its team had found more than 100 new bodies in three locations in the west.

"All the incidents appear to be ethnically motivated," he said.

The findings on 7 April were:

• Duekoue: 15 new bodies, bringing the total number of known dead in a 28-29 March incident to 244. Victims mostly or all of Guerre ethnicity, traditional Gbagbo supporters. Some seem to have been burnt alive and some corpses were thrown down a well
• Blolequin: 40 bodies. Perpetrators said to have been Liberian militias, who spared the Guerre after separating them out from other groups
• Guiglo: 60 bodies, including a number of West Africans

The reports of mass killings began last week, after Duekoue was captured by pro-Ouattara forces.

Each side has blamed the other for the killings.

Egypt's military council Threatens Military joining protests

Egypt's ruling military council is threatening immediate prosecution before a military tribunal for any troops seen participating in a planned protest in Cairo on Friday.
 FULL STORY

Ibrahim Suleiman was placed under arrest for alleged corruption

Ibrahim Suleiman was placed under arrest for 15 days for alleged corrupt business deals. 

Tahrir Square Protest to pressure Egyptian military (cnn)

Protestersgather in Tahrir Square to pressure Egyptian military (VIDEO)

Iranian War Correspondent Delphine Minoui on Fighting in Misrata

Misrata, prison à ciel ouvert sous le feu des pro-Kadhafi (Le Figaro)

What For ? Robert Gates: 'US Iraq troops 'can stay longer'

US troops could if required stay in Iraq beyond the agreed withdrawal date of 31 December, 2011, US defence secretary Robert Gates says.

US Iraq troops 'can stay longer'

Staged Protests in Tripoli: " The people want Colonel Muammar"

Tripoli has seen regular protests in support of Col Muammar Gaddafi
There is not much to learn from overheard snippets of ordinary people.

One elderly man tells his friend "I laughed and told him, but there are no more flights... [inaudible]… hard… [inaudible]… money".

It is what children say that is probably the most striking.

Earlier this week, I "accidentally" overheard the neighbourhood children chatting on the other side of our concrete fence.

There must have been at least three of them and one was particularly enraged as he spoke on a mobile phone

"Allo!... LISTEN… If he says ANYTHING!… what?... Ah… you tell him to shut his mouth!... and Allah, Muammar and Libya!" he said.

A few minutes later his friend asks: "What were you saying? Who were you talking to?"

The boy laughs and replies: "I was teaching him! Allah, Muammar, and Libya! The people want Colonel Muammar!"

I soon heard the others join in on the chanting, which faded within seconds as they walked back to their homes.

I was unsure of what to make of this exchange, knowing that some children are being taught by their parents to only say these words in public to avoid trouble.

But what if there is more to it than meets the eye? Or ear in this case. There are - for example - growing accounts, by parents and teachers alike of children from the eastern part of the country being slandered and intimidated by their peers on school grounds.

Many believe that the seeds of hatred have been planted by the regime to fulfil the prophesised "civil war" declared by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in February.

Libyan TV describes Rebels as 'Dogs and traitors'

'Dogs and traitors'

The state satellite channel al-Libiyah, run by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, was transmitting live through at least two extra-large billboards I came across; one in the business district of the Dat al-Emad building complex and another in the garden area parallel to Green Square in the centre of town.

Turkey Relishes Role as Mr. Fixit (ipsnews)

Turkey Relishes Role as Mr. Fixit

WASHINGTON, Apr 6, 2011 (IPS) - In the course of 24 hours earlier this week, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu met a top envoy from Libya, dispatched a senior Turkish official to Tripoli and traveled to Bahrain and Syria, all struggling to survive the pro- democracy Arab spring.




What Turkish officials have dubbed "neo-Ottomanism" is closer to "neo-Gaullism", says Omer Taspinar, director of the Turkey programme at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Turkey's role reflects not so much the country's desire to improve relations with Muslim neighbours as it does "Turkish national pride and a sense of grandeur," Taspinar said. "There is a new self-confidence bordering on hubris." 

Rage against America builds up in Afghanistan and Pakistan (bbc)

Anti-US sentiment is 'rife' in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Great So now I guess We Won the War on Terror !

There Goes Pakistan another US "Ally" delivered to God Knows What ... 

Tunisia tourism industry suffers amid Libya violence (bbc)

Tunisia tourism hit by Libya violence (bbc)
        So you thought the crisis in Libya would have no collateral Damage for the recently "democratic" transitions in neighboring countries ? ...
        Now go and ask them to build a stable democracy with an Empty Stomach ...           Oh Right Ben Ali was a Ruthless Bloody Tyrant ...  

    Tunisia could benefit from bitter lessons of Iran’s clumsy '79 revolution