Libyan Civil War Megathread

[Tamas]

[Mr.Penguin]

wonder if the rebels mount a real counter offensive and push the pro- daffy troops back on their own, not just 200 wannabe fighters in pick-up trucks racing up and down the main coastal road, while posing for the cameras...

[Ed Anger]

I think that guy sold me my snacks yesterday.

[DGuller]

wonder if the rebels mount a real counter offensive and push the pro- daffy troops back on their own, not just 200 wannabe fighters in pick-up trucks racing up and down the main coastal road, while posing for the cameras...

Uh oh.    I thought the rebels didn't have tanks.  This guy's posing days may be over.

[Mr.Penguin]

wonder if the rebels mount a real counter offensive and push the pro- daffy troops back on their own, not just 200 wannabe fighters in pick-up trucks racing up and down the main coastal road, while posing for the cameras...

Uh oh.    I thought the rebels didn't have tanks.  This guy's posing days may be over.

They have Tanks and artillery, just as they got or rather had Mig-23's, they just not very good at using them...

[Admiral Yi]

Anyone know where the French planes are flying out of?

[DGuller]

Italy, most likely.

[Ed Anger]

Sarkozy's left nostril

[Slargos]

Sarkozy's left nostril

LOL ANTI SEMITE! 

[Lettow77]

Corsica

[Ed Anger]

bonjourmew!

[Sheilbh]

then we bomb them. Iirc the UN resolution allows the intervention-forces to engage anyone that engages in atrocities against civilians.

I don't think us bombing them is any more likely than NATO bombing the KLA in case of attacks on civilians.

[Josquius]

Hope so.
Lets also hope the supposed 8000 professional, fully organised soldiers the rebels have show themselves. They've been suspiciously abscent lately.

[Admiral Yi]

Hope so.
Lets also hope the supposed 8000 professional, fully organised soldiers the rebels have show themselves. They've been suspiciously abscent lately.

He's gotta keep those guys in Tripoli in case the rebs try and slip a unit in during the mechanized movement phase.

[Tonitrus]

then we bomb them. Iirc the UN resolution allows the intervention-forces to engage anyone that engages in atrocities against civilians.

I don't think us bombing them is any more likely than NATO bombing the KLA in case of attacks on civilians.

Well the KLA were a much more organised 'entity' ; they were proficient at ethnic cleansing, torture and progressing gangsterism into political office, so no.

You left out drug trafficking.