a thread about the civil unrest in egypt (& elsewhere in 'the region' if necessary)

Pentagon repositioning Navy warships in the Mediterranean in advance of possible military intervention o_0

That headline surprised me too, but apparently the thinking is military for humanitarian aid distribution and maybe a no-fly zone.

x-post Why was Qaddafi blood money palatable to Nelly Furtado 4-years ago but not now?

i'd image because she's too ignorant to know anything about the man before.
anyways - why you picking on the one celeb that has, belatedly, given the money away?

I've picked on the rest of them upthread. Mariah, Beyonce, Usher ... step up!

yeah i mean i feel like for most people who don't follow world affairs--to say nothing of celebrities already inside of their own weird cultural bubble--being given a bunch of money by THE KING OF EGYPT, AMERICAN ALLY to perform would be like 'yeah alright' and not 'well hm let me make sure he is not a torturing dbag first'

It was Qaddafi's son, not Mubarak.

Yeah, we're talking the, er, Col. of Libya, iconic villain since for decades. I mean, haven't these singers seen "The Naked Gun?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruMMPQaimco&feature=player_embedded

c'mon guys Mariah really needed the money after Glitter bombed

I wonder when Bieber will get his first mass-murderer concert

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/28/egypt.mubarak.assets/index.html?hpt=T2">git that money

um yeah

It was Qaddafi's son, not Mubarak.

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, March 1, 2011 12:42 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

lmao misread that soz

'elsewhere in ''the region'''

haven't these singers seen "The Naked Gun?"

first time i ever heard the word libya would have been in 'back to the future'.

Guys, where are the cameras? Has every camera in Libya been destroyed?

The opposition says helicopters and MiGs are firing on them. Has anyone ever seen an image of this?

There are like 2000 dead in Benghazi (and 6000 wounded) over the last few days. Where are the photos?

not very recent but

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/02/libya_unrest_and_uncertainty.html

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/pictures-of-the-day-libya-and-elsewhere-3/

Cheers dayo - still, the latter half of that Big Picture series is of refugees in Tunisia

I'm guessing that the photojournalists who did venture into Libya were not of the hardcore war photog type - they were probably expecting something more akin to egypt. also, I imagine qadafi forces probably have a shoot-on-sight command w/r/t people walking around carrying cameras with big honking lenses.

i've read that even mobile phones are being smashed upon entry to libya (cause they have cameras in them)

not surprising, two birds w one stone

lol

wikileaks WikiLeaks
Nelly Furtado To Donate $1 Million Received From Gadhafi. Hint: http://wikileaks.ch/support.html
1 minute ago

lol

So apparently the rebels held three cities last night against serious attacks from Qaddafi's forces. One city, Zawiya, being a mere 30 miles from Tripoli. Armored forces, tanks, anti-aircraft jeeps, the whole bit, and they held them off.

Qaddafi supposedly has warned a tribal leader in Zawiya that if they don't gtfo he will hit them with warplanes. Maybe it's getting closer to no-fly zone time.

sneaky sneaky!

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/dating-site-is-the-new-hotspot-for-libyan-protest/

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-arab-protests-20110302,0,1504010.story

fuckin guy

this is genuine civil war now, isn't it. with all the conflicting info that implies. i feel like i'm living in 1890, when news of distant battles filters in weeks after the fact.

the guardian says Brega "retaken" by Gaddafi (updated: 1 minute ago); twitter says Brega "re-retaken" by Libyan Youth Revolutionaries (23 minutes ago)

photois of the opposition, and more:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/africa/2011-libya-slide-show.html

those are amazing. that is, as u say, an 'irregular army'

it is crazy how my western mind keep coming back, irresistibly, to the Spanish civil war and the POUM - it's the only template i have for this stuff i guess (and probably incredibly misleading)

i started thinking about the minutemen, but sure, think of spain, you commie.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/and-the-award-for-best-dictator-goes-to/#more-6566

that is stats geekery at its finest

Looks like the lovely Lukachenko is still Gaddafi's pal...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599205642000

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/libya0302/s_l34_27038152.jpg

everything about that is awesome

v-sign, turban, mustache, break shotgun, string, biblical get-up, cig, hatchet, empty bandolier, phat camo pants, sneakers

we should have an election just so nate silver doesn't have to write articles like that anymore

fuckin A yeah that pic!

wheres that pic from caek

my know-it-all computer tells me the pic's from:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/libya0302/s_l34_27038152.jpg

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/battles-across-libya/100018/

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/libya0302/s_l06_09699265.jpg

yeah "in focus" is the guy who used to do the "the big picture" for the boston globe

y

no country for old dictators

Prob shouldn't say so, but that pic reminds me of the tusken raiders from star wars.

Filmed in Tunisia, wasn't it?

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi launched renewed airstrikes against two key rebel-held towns Thursday, a day after poorly armed citizens repelled a major government assault on the area.

The day's clashes suggested that in the absence of outside intervention, Libya could be headed toward a long and bloody stalemate. Gaddafi holds Tripoli and other western cities, the rebels control the east, and neither side appears able to decisively shift the balance.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/02/AR2011030206907.html?hpid=topnews

Time for no-fly zones maybe, despite the risk it will get us further involved if Ghadaffi decides to challenge them.

nah the US guy said it definitely wasn't going to happen

russia wouldn't like it for one thing

So when can we expect Cameron to humiliatingly back down from his call for no-fly zone?