Libyan Civil War Megathread

[jimmy olsen]

NATO General Secretary on the situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z2EpSYhhe0w

[CountDeMoney]

LOL It's a trap.

[Mr.Penguin]

LOL It's a trap.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14612843

Oh yes...

Seems that there is still some bite left in the pro- Gaddafi forces...

[Mr.Penguin]

Unconfirmed news: It looks like the pro- Gaddafi Bab al-Azizia compound is going to be the Reichstag of this battle. At the same time has Gaddafi younger son Khamis has risen from his grave* and is reorganizing the remains of the elite 32nd brigade for a counter attack to the east of Tripoli...

Looks more and like something out of the movie "Der untergang"...



*he has been declared dead at least 3 time the last couple of months...

[Martinus]

Unconfirmed news: It looks like the pro- Gaddafi Bab al-Azizia compound is going to be the Reichstag of this battle. At the same time has Gaddafi younger son Khamis has risen from his grave* and is reorganizing the remains of the elite 32nd brigade for a counter attack to the east of Tripoli...

Looks more and like something out of the movie "Der untergang"...



*he has been declared dead at least 3 time the last couple of months...

Will the defenses of the fortress be breached by: shai huluds?

[DGuller]

No.

[KRonn]

Tripoli fell fast, didn't it? Only earlier in the weekend, the Rebels hadn't yet approached the city, from what I understand in the news. But I assume that those stil loyal to the regime became fewer and fewer, so that there weren't many to oppose the Rebels, outside of the last compound area. So there wasn't much to oppose the Rebel advance. Seems events progressed as some said, that it just took time for the Rebels to get better trained, equipped, and to better coordinate with NATO air power. Not that this was necessarily at a long stand still.

[Mr.Penguin]

Tripoli fell fast, didn't it? Only earlier in the weekend, the Rebels hadn't yet approached the city, from what I understand in the news. But I assume that those stil loyal to the regime became fewer and fewer, so that there weren't many to oppose the Rebels, outside of the last compound area. So there wasn't much to oppose the Rebel advance. Seems events progressed as some said, that it just took time for the Rebels to get better trained, equipped, and to better coordinate with NATO air power. Not that this was necessarily at a long stand still.

Better coordinated, do I think is the key word here...

[mongers]

Reports in the last hour of NATO airstrikes on Gaddafi's compound.

[MadImmortalMan]

Matthew Chance of CNN is saying he just had a chat with Saif Gaddafi, who was never captured at all and spent the evening in a convoy traveling around Tripoli. Now he's hanging out at the Rixos.

http://twitter.com/#!/mchancecnn

[MadImmortalMan]

That's some wonderful work by the ICC. 

[mongers]

Matthew Chance of CNN is saying he just had a chat with Saif Gaddafi, who was never captured at all and spent the evening in a convoy traveling around Tripoli. Now he's hanging out at the Rixos.

http://twitter.com/#!/mchancecnn

Yep, he's just done a brief interview with the bbc at the gaddafi HQ or possibly that hotel.

[Caliga]

Not that rebel claims aren't often full of BS, but how do we know this CNN guy isn't being told to say that at gunpoint by the Gadhafists who are still controlling that hotel?

[Ed Anger]

I am going to laugh my ass off when Mummar and his boys re-emerge in Sirte.

[Josquius]

So Saif hasn:t been captured then....hmm....
Doubles? Or just lies?

With the conflicting claims on control I suspect either side actually controls 20% or so with the rest being unoccupied by either so both assume they are naturally on their side.