When it comes to human rights and democracy, the United States and its allies in Europe have zero consistency.
You can help Libya’s rebels find the great Brother-Leader!
If the Libyan rebels get a theme song, it must be Ice Cube’s classic joint.
Sometimes you just have to stick with the bros… especially in times of mutual battle with foes.
Libya’s ruler is the million ideas man when it comes to the world’s problems. His great imagination when it comes to other countries is nowhere to be found as he finds his own country in turmoil.
Is Qaddafi going for a Tony Montana-like ending?
By Tasnim
“The revolution skipped us,” my brother said. He was in Libya, watching the celebrations in Tahrir Square on TV. The joke in Libya was that Tunisians were asking Libyans to duck so the Tunisians can see the revolutionaries on the other side.
At the time the Facebook page for Libya’s Day of Rage was being repeatedly taken down and put back up, young masked Libyans were posting videos encouraging people to go out to the streets, and the older generations were muttering “We’ll believe it when we see it.”
Two days before the “Day of Rage,” there were demonstrations in Benghazi. Relatives of the 1200 prisoners who were massacred in the Abu Sleem prison had taken to the streets following the detention of Fathi Terbil, human rights lawyer and the official spokesman of the victims’ families. For the next couple of days, and across several cities, there was a cycle of protests, deaths of protesters, and shootings at funeral marches for dead protesters. Police stations were burned, posters of Gaddafi were torn down and videos of unarmed protesters facing snipers, live ammunition and thugs with construction-hats were posted on the internet. Across the country people gathered for sit-ins and demonstrations, and in Benghazi the central square which is still the site of protests was renamed Tahrir Square. During this time, most media outlets were still using the excuse of not being on the ground and allowing their coverage of Libya to be limited to bulletins about “unrest” in the country.
Unlike in Egypt, the American-Israeli forces are clearly rooting for Qaddafi’s collapse, and should the rebels fail in their endeavor, I fear Obama will scream “war crimes” and get NATO to intervene to achieve what the rebels could not.
It will be another Iraq/Kosovo, except this time the people might actually receive the invaders with flowers.
To stem the tide of drug-induced protesters taking over Libya, the country’s Brother Leader Muammar Gaddafi is initiating a campaign against drugs. read.
It was a small size protest in comparison with other protests I have seen in the DC area. There were virtually no media outlets to document the protest. Why are most people leaving the people of Libya at the mercy of this lunatic bloody clown?