Libya Superthread

I thought it was considered racist when the white man oppressed the black man in Africa in the colonial era? But now it's considered a African oppressing another African = Racism? What in the world is going on.

I see what you did there

I don't believe the man being accused of racism at any point denied the occurence of war crimes from both sides. That's the fun thing about large armies spread across civilian dense area's with no real training or discipline. It has no reflection on the over arching ideology of said organization if you have some crazies in your army.

Gaddafi had kept his own people imprisoned for ridiculous reasons, people had to live in fear under his establishment which should not happen in the civilized world. He clearly didn't have the support he thought he did .

Why do you think i'm neutral on the stand point of the war, for that very reason.

What?

Are you incapable of following conversation?

Yes, yes I am :cry:

I'm sorry, i don't put quotes on, i keep on forgetting to do that.

new info from the Algeria government says that most then half of Gaddafi's family are now in Algeria, but that Gaddafi and one of his sons are still in Libya.

So now Al Qaeda is openly declaring they are involved in the war in Libya, does any one think this is still about Ghadaffi? They openly saying the attack was in retaliation for the refusal of Algiers to recognize the NTC.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/ ... JF20110829

Al Qaeda claims responsibility for Algeria attack

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North Africa wing has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a military academy in Algeria, accusing it of supporting the regime of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.

A statement by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) named Abu Anas and Abu Noh as the two suicide bombers who hit the barracks housing a prestigious military school in the coastal town of Cherchell on Friday in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in recent years.

Algeria's Defense Ministry said 16 soldiers and two civilians were killed in the attack. AQIM's statement, posted on an Islamist website which regularly carries al Qaeda communiques, said 36 people were killed.

"On the night of the 27th of this holy month, and while the Muslim Libyan people were completing their victory over the dictator Gaddafi ... the mujahideen in Algeria pursued their blessed attacks against the Algerian criminal regime, an ally to Gaddafi," the statement, posted on Sunday, said.

"And this time we targeted a symbol of the Algerian regime, the biggest military barracks in the country in Cherchell."

Algeria has previously denied accusations by Libyan rebels of backing Gaddafi in the country's civil war.

Algeria, an energy exporter and a key U.S. ally in its campaign against al Qaeda, is still emerging from nearly two decades of conflict between security forces and Islamist militant groups that killed around 200,000 people.

In the past three years the violence has subsided, with suicide bombings on targets in built-up areas becoming rare.

The location of Cherchell, which lies some 100 km (60 miles) west from Algiers was unusual as attacks have previously focused on territory east of the capital, including the mountainous Kabylie region, where AQIM has a stronghold.

Algeria has said it believes AQIM is exploiting the chaos in Libya, and smuggling weapons out of that battlezone to its base in the Sahara.

On Friday, the attackers drove up to the barracks soon after iftar -- when Muslims break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan. Residents said the first attacker blew himself up at the entrance before the second ran into the front courtyard where officers were sitting down to eat.

(Reporting by Lamine Chikhi and Martina Fuchs in Dubai; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian)

They are fine with Al Qaeda leading the army in Tripoli, they were fine with Al Qaeda carrying out assaults on The Brega.

yeah yeah we've heard it before che, post your bull and leave so real debate can happen without your bullshit.

I don't support Che, but this statement was very detrimental and counter-productive to the pro-NTC cause.

hopefully other countries won't see the work of an independent terrorist group as being affiliated with the new Libya government

Billions of dollars spent on just one of Gaddafi's many social projects. What a evil corrupt man.
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Also again it is fact that the leader of the rebel army stationed in Tripoli is an Al Qaeda member. Abdelhakim Belhadj, he was even arrested by your own government in 2004 for being a high ranking member of Al Qaeda, and he is leading the rebel army in Tripoli. Are you denying the fact that he is? Are you denying that he was even arrested by the CIA in 2004 for being a member of Al Qaeda? I love when you fucking retards say I am in denial when it is a well known fact now that Abdelhakim Belhadj is the leader of the rebel army in Tripoli and is known to be very much a part of Al Qaeda.

so that instantly means the rebels support al quaeda?