Civil War in Libya

**Montmorency** · 08-21-2011, 20:27

Then there's about to be a heck of a lot of collateral damage.

**PanzerJaeger** · 08-21-2011, 20:40

I fear for the black Libyans who have found temporary respite in Tripoli. The lynch mobs are coming... and if their actions in other parts of the country are anything to go by, they'll have no mercy.

**Adrian II** · 08-21-2011, 22:01

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

I fear for the black Libyans who have found temporary respite in Tripoli. The lynch mobs are coming... and if their actions in other parts of the country are anything to go by, they'll have no mercy.

Atrocities are committed during every civil war. But incidents are often exaggerated for propaganda reasons and it is usually only afterwards that the facts can be more or less established.

I am old enough to remember the gruelling stories we were fed about the 'systematic rape' of 200.000 Bosniak women by the Serbs in the early 1990's. All in all only a few thousand rapes have been documented during the entire civil war in the former Yugoslavia and the victims were more or less evenly spread over populations.

AII
P.S. By the way Al Jazeera is much better, they have people all over Libya who are reporting around the clock. Right now Tripoli is being massively invaded, some outskirts are already in rebel hands and celebrating, three of Gaddafi's sons have been captured. It's a matter of days at most, it seems, if not hours.

**tibilicus** · 08-21-2011, 23:42

According to most majors news sites the people of Tripoli are now pouring out of their homes to join the rebel advance. It appears Tripoli was perhaps not that loyal to Gadaffi after all. Also unconfirmed reports his sons have been captured and are being held by the rebels.

**Samurai Waki** · 08-21-2011, 23:45

Yep-- from some reports I've read, whats left of Gadaffi's army is out of basic necessities, food, water, ammunition, and most importantly, men. Any "mercenaries" he may have are probably either hiding and waiting for a moment to escape, or have slipped out of the Capital and are on their way out of the country as quickly as possible.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 08-21-2011, 23:58

The End is Near.

**tibilicus** · 08-22-2011, 00:17

Unconfirmed reports as of yet that Gadaffi himself has been captured. Not sure if true as it's literally just broken but either way it is game over.

**Furunculus** · 08-22-2011, 00:21

i imagine that i will be hearing of gaddafi's end when i wake up in eight hours time.

**HoreTore** · 08-22-2011, 00:29

This is simply wonderful.

**Furunculus** · 08-22-2011, 08:42

Originally Posted by Furunculus

i imagine that i will be hearing of gaddafi's end when i wake up in eight hours time.

lol, no surprises there then.

congrats to libya, they can only thank their lucky stars that clare short is no longer in charge of DfID, actively preventing her department from aiding in the rebuilding of institutions as she did in 2003, they should have hung that woman.