now the "Official Swiffness! (TM) Brand Libyan Revolution Thread"

[KTULU IS BACK]

How is that guy not dead from syphilis?

 

[Sovo_Nah]

Why people aint putting up more of a fuss that the Black man is the real Afrikans. Not no "A-Rabs."

 

[fiat_money]

Video related:

Libya: Protestor Shot in the Face Dying in the Street

Libyan protesters seeking to oust longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi took to the streets in five cities Thursday on what activists have dubbed a "day of rage"

 

[janklow]

yeah, Gaddafi is not the type to quietly acquiesce to grievances

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I love the democratic, we're all about liberty and freedom, hypocrisy in America.

 

[getchamoneyrigh]

Half the crazy dudes on SL are pulling out their snipers in support of Gaddafi. Man I remember those convo's with people on here straight up praising dude and attempting to debate me. lol what now?

 

[Swiffness!]

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday that he had information suggesting that embattled Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi was heading to Venezuela.

Speaking in Brussels, where he was attending a European Union meeting, Hague said he did not believe Qaddafi had yet arrived in the South American country but said he had reason to believe that he could be heading to Caracas.

However, Reuters reports that A senior source in President Hugo Chavez's government denied reports that Libyan President Qaddafi was heading to Venezuela.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/0...sts-ghadafi-en-route-venezuela/#ixzz1EcJuHyGx

 

[Swiffness!]

Salem Gnan, a London-based spokesman for the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, says eyewitnesses in Tripoli have told him the navy has opened fire on parts of the capital.

"We have just heard that the military ships are bombing an area in Tripoli and many people have been killed although we don't know how many at the moment because people have just called to tell us it is happening."

Gnan said the navy appeared to be bombing a residential area outside the city centre as part of a desperate crackdown by Gaddafi's troops.

"He is even turning the ships on his people now. His plan is to use absolutely everything he can to stop what is happening."

holy shit

Libyan Ambassador to India Ali al-Essawi resigned in protest against his government's violent crackdown on demonstrators who have called for the ouster of the country's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, the Indian Express daily website reported on Monday.

Ambassador al-Essawi also accused the government of using foreign mercenaries to break up mass protests.

There was no immediate comment from the Libyan Embassy in New Delhi.

Libyan security forces began withdrawing from the country's capital Tripoli on Monday, the satellite channel Al-Jazeera reported.
On Sunday evening, Libya's permanent representative in the Arab League, Ambassador Abdel Moneim al-Huny, announced his resignation to protest Libyan authorities' use of violence against demonstrators, Al-Masry Al-Youm news agency reported.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.c...-he-is-coming-down-he-is-coming-down-ctd.html
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110221/162698818.html

Here's video of soldiers that were shot and burned by pro-Gaddafi troops for being "traitors":

[video=youtube;XLYUtjfk0pQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLYUtjfk0pQ[/video]

Karl Stagno-Novarra, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Malta, reports the pilots of the jet fighters that landed there are "senior colonels", who were ordered to bomb protesters. They refused and have defected to Malta, he said.

 

[Swiffness!]

In a highly significant development, the leadership of the large and powerful Wafala tribe announced that it was now siding with the opposition against Qaddafi. About a million Libyans belong to this extended kinship group. Since cultivating tribal loyalties was one of the ways Qaddafi had remained in power, this major tribal defection underlines his loss of authority. It was further underlined when Arab Warfala leaders managed to convince their Berber counterparts in the southern Tuareg tribe, who are 500,000 strong, to join in opposing Qaddafi.

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[Qaddafi's son's] speech was certainly crazy, but he may be right about one thing: There is a nasty internecine conflict on the way in Libya. From all that we've seen, the regime will do anything to stay in power, including shooting people in cold blood with heavy-caliber weapons. It doesn't look like there will be a nice, friendly "let's all hold hands and clean up Tahrir Square" moment. After four decades of unspeakable tyranny, Libyans will be out for vengeance.

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[A] reason that Libya's regime appears in some respects more fragile (at least in parts of the country) is that it is the worst in the Middle East — basically the region's North Korea. Except that it's not protected by China, and is situated in a region of the world that is historically globalized. Libyans may have been cut off from the rest of the world by the sanctions, but they share an Arab and Mediterranean culture with over 300 million people and know that there is better than Qaddafi out there.

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In a worst-case scenario, eastern Libya moves not toward peaceful regime change but low-level civil war.

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Libya has an especially close relationship with its former colonial master, Italy. It now provides about 20 percent of all Italy’s oil imports and has invested in sizeable amounts in that country’s energy infrastructure including the transnational energy giant ENI.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/libya-reax.html

 

[Swiffness!]

According to GulfNews editor Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Libyan protesters have now taken control of several Libyan cities, thanks to defections by by the military. Clearly, if you thought Mubarak had a loyalty problem, Gaddafi's is much worse. There are reports of defections not just at the military, but among various government workers, including diplomats at the embassy level. Meanwhile, international oil companies are jetting out of town.

0948 GMT: Reports coming in that Libya's government headquarters in Tripoli is on fire. The building is near Martyrs' Square, where protesters are gathered. Eyewitnesses also say that demonstrators have burned all police bureaux in capital Tripoli.

They burned all the police stations? Good shit. Word to Darcskies.

powerful quote:

Ghazi Ramadan, 40, woke up in Tripoli Sunday morning feeling anxious and looking for news about the protests.

He walked outside to see people, mostly young men, rushing to a nearby square. He decided to join them. “I sensed the opportunity for change,” he said. “I don’t mind being dead. We’ve been dead for 42 years.”

 

[ThaChozenWun]

Got dayum lmao

 

[one_manshow]

Example how one revolution can trigger a domino effect its time these empowered people from these nations take action. Couple more leaders also on the hot seat and more violence will erupt.

 

[Swiffness!]

Members of Libya’s mission to the United Nations renounced Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Monday, calling him a genocidal war criminal responsible for mass shootings of demonstrators protesting against his four decades in power. They called upon him to resign.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/world/africa/22nations.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Your own ambassadors tho? Lauce.

 

[ThaChozenWun]

OVER/UNDER

50,000 people Ghadaffi kills before resigning

 

[Swiffness!]

OVER/UNDER

50,000 people Ghadaffi kills before resigning

Magic 8 Ball say Civil War certain, OVER

 

[tru_m.a.c]

OVER/UNDER

50,000 people Ghadaffi kills before resigning

damn 50,000....shiiiit that means we're definitely gonna see a bloody, globally interested revolution huh?

I gotta wait a day or 2 for some more army defects....if the army totally defects I'm going Revolution Under 5000

 

[Swiffness!]

grain of salt because its from National Review (booooooooo), but shit could get even realer:

Al Aribiya is reporting from multiple sources that Libyan aircraft could begin bombing the city of Benghazi within hours. Benghazi is the second largest city in Libya behind Tripoli, and is now believed to be more or less under the control of protesters, after an army unit joined forces with citizens to push Gaddafi’s forces out.

 

[ThaChozenWun]

Damn, if they start bombing their own citizens... it's a wrap.

 

[Swiffness!]

Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa that any Libyan soldier who can shoot dead embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi should do so 'to rid Libya of him.'

'Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Gaddafi should do so,' Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who is usually based in Qatar, told Al-Jazeera television.

He also told Libyan soldiers 'not to obey orders to strike at your own people,' and urged Libyan ambassadors around the world to dissociate themselves from Gaddafi's regime.

Famous in the Middle East for his at times controversial fatwas, or religious edicts, the octogenarian Qaradawi has celebrity status in the Arab world thanks to his religious broadcasts on Al-Jazeera.

http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=580641&vId=

this Qaradawi nigga is big time but relatively moderate amongst Islamists believe it or not

i watched a video today where he said its wrong to kill your daughter because her hymen isn't 100%

i was like well damn

and he thinks the jews are evil, but he doesn't deny the Holocaust (because it was God's punishment). Like i said, MODERATE!

 

[ThaChozenWun]

I'm glad to see all these nation rising up, and after Ghadaffi resigns or is killed I'm sure there will be 2-3 more countries to successfully riot, but at the same time there's gonna be some dictator 10 times worst taking over in one of them or America is gonna come put a chokehold on a broke country and drain it dead.