Libya

Goober

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The fighting goes on and on.
With support from Egypt and the UAE, support Hifter, Qatar supporting the Islamist's,the crap is still flying.
Libyan general’s forces make major push to oust Islamist militants from Benghazi - The Washington Post

CAIRO — A rogue Libyan general waging a months-long campaign against Libya’s Islamists launched a full-blown assault on the restive city of Benghazi this week, touching off clashes with the militants dominating the landscape there.

More than a dozen people have been killed in the violence, which started Wednesday, raising fears that the battles will evolve into an all-out civil war.

Khalifa Hifter announced in a televised address Tuesday that he intends to “liberate” Benghazi — the epicenter of the 2011 uprising against strongman Moammar Gaddafi — from the Islamist militias that stalk its streets.

A day later, the 71-year-old Hifter made good on his promise. His forces — a mixture of former Gaddafi officers, pro-Hifter militias and army troops — stormed Benghazi to oust the militants.

“The fighting was very bad. It was the worst it had been in weeks,” Mohamed al-Okbi, a Benghazi shopkeeper, said in a phone interview on Thursday morning.


Why the Bombing of Tripoli Is a Game-Changer - Defense One

If you believe the Obama administration had no idea that the United Arab Emirates and Egypt were about to launch airstrikes in Libya last week, I have a bridge you may want to buy. Egypt’s reliability as a US ally may wax and wane, but the UAE has been a steady partner as well as an avid acquirer of American military hardware. The Emirati air force participated in the 2011 NATO-enforced no-fly zone over Libya that led to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
 

damngrumpy

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Egypt is no longer a steadfast ally in the region and the UEA is going to look to what ever they
can get away with. Its time to do an accounting and find out who is who in the region but that
is difficult these people are tribal and allegiances change with the wind.
We thought we could bring democracy to this region and we should have our heads examined.
they don't want peace they want power and justice and balance exists in words only. Even
Saudi Arabia is a magnet of barbarism. We continue to sell them arms, we continue to play down
their savagery and we ignore the things they do while condemning ISIS for doing many of the same
things.
The problem is they are living in the 13th century and we are in the 21st and it won't change anytime
soon. That being said how do we expect them to assimilate into our world. Oh I forgot we'll give
them lots of money for oil as long as we get lots and lots of oil ethics can wait right
 

BaalsTears

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PetroCanada decided Gaddafi had to go not Obama.

Blame Canada. :)

He was going either way.

In the sense that Gadhafi was not going to live forever you are correct. However, Gadhafi's forces were on the march from Tripoli to Benghazi when Obama said he had to go, knocked down his air defenses, loosed a barrage of JDAMS and Tomahawk cruise missiles, and approved the weapons shipment from Qatar to the Jihadists that altered the balance of power in Libya. When Gadhafi was defeated his arsenal of weapons was distributed to a variety of Al Qaeda franchises across the Maghreb and elsewhere in North Africa. The balance of power was altered throughout the region. It would have been better if Obama had done nothing.
 

Cliffy

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This applies to Canada too, in the case of Libya
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