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Mar 19, 2011188 notes

“Oh my God, oh my God, you can see the blood, they had casualties in here, kids were hit, you can see the blood, you can see, these were two missiles inside of Benghazi, there is a lot of blood, one of them 5 years old, one of them four months old. You can see the sky out of this hole in the roof of the room, it happened right here… Show the damage, oh my God, look at this, this is here in Benghazi, what can you call this, isn’t this attacking cilivians, this is the pillows, which is full of the blood of the kids, I can’t believe this, we are being attacked in our houses. The wall of the room is blown away.”

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Mohamed Nabbous, live on his channel Libya Al Hurra, reporting from a house in Benghazi that had just been hit with a missile.

Mar 19, 2011118 notes

fuckyeahmiddleeast:

A report that a jet fighter pilot has crashed into Bab Azizia, Gaddafi’s secure compound in Tripoli is confirmed, and a huge fire has erupted according to reports by the Libyan Youth Movement.

The pilot who flew his plane into Baab Al Aziziyah took off as part of a 2 plane team with the mission…

Mar 16, 201132 notes

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Was the American Revolution “completely organic”? Funny, I could have sworn those were French ships off Yorktown. What about Britain’s Glorious Revolution, the one that established parliamentary rule? Strange, I had this crazy idea that William III was a Dutchman.

The reality is that very few revolutions, good or bad, succeed without some foreign assistance. Lenin had German money; Mao had Soviet arms. Revolutions that don’t get some help from outside aren’t so much inorganic as unsuccessful. Indeed, they generally don’t go down in history as revolutions at all. More than one revolt has been brutally crushed by an Arab dictator—think of the Marsh Arabs’ fate at the hands of Saddam Hussein. Such events tend to be remembered as massacres. We must hope that someone gives President Obama a history lesson before thousands of Libyans share their fate. It will be tragic indeed if America concludes from the experience of overthrowing murderous tyrannies in Afghanistan and Iraq that the correct policy is to turn a blind eye to murder in Libya. That, remember, was the policy pursued by the last Democrat to occupy the White House, in Rwanda as well as, for much too long, in Bosnia.

” —Niall Ferguson, How To Get Gaddafi (Newsweek)

Mar 15, 2011

“We are bracing for a massacre. We know it will happen and Misrata will be like Zawiya, but we believe in God. We do not have the capabilities to fight Gaddafi and his forces. They have tanks and heavy weapons and we have our belief and trust in God. The fighters here and the people of Misrata hold the international community responsible for the fall of Zawiya and for all the deaths that happened. Gaddafi is responsible, but they are partners in crime.” —Mohamad Ahmed, a rebel fighter. Misrata is the only town in the west of the country still under the control of the insurgents after their defeat in a vicious battle for Zawiya. The rebels said that Misrata was now surrounded by Gaddafi’s forces, which included tanks. (via newsflick)

March 2011

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February 2011

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