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Libyans Drive Islamic Militias From Benghazi in Massive Protest

Sep. 22, 2012 4:34pm Erica Ritz

Libyans Protest to Drive Islamic Militias From Benghazi

Libyans march against the militias in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (Photo: AP)

(TheBlaze/AP) — Benghazi residents warned Saturday of a “revolution” to rid the city of militias and Islamic extremists after protests against the armed groups– spurred in part by the killing of the U.S. ambassador– left at least four dead in an unprecedented eruption of public frustration.

On Friday, protesters overwhelmed the compound of the Ansar al-Shariah Brigade in the center of the eastern city of Benghazi. Ansar al-Shariah fighters initially fired in the air to disperse the crowd, but eventually abandoned the site with their weapons and vehicles after it was overrun by waves of protesters shouting “No to militias.”

“I don’t want to see armed men wearing Afghani-style clothes stopping me in the street to give me orders, I only want to see people in uniform,” said Omar Mohammed, a university student who took part in the takeover of the site, which protesters said was done in support of the army and police.

After storming the Ansar al-Shariah compound, the protesters reportedly moved onto the base of a second Islamist militia, the Rafallah Sahati Brigade. Brigade fighters opened fire to keep the protesters at bay.

The state news agency Saturday said four protesters were killed and 70 injured in the overnight violence.

Members of the Rafallah Sahati Islamic Militia Brigades stand on alert in front their base in Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. (Photo: AP)

In a sign of how weak the country’s post-Moammar Gadhafi leadership remains, authorities tried to stem popular anger by pleading that some of the militias are needed to keep the country safe, since the police and army are incapable of doing so.

During the day Saturday there were no new protests, but the city of 1 million in eastern Libya was brimming with anger, rumors and conspiracy theories.

Adding to the tensions, the bodies of six soldiers were found in the morning dumped on the outskirts of the city, shot through the forehead and their hands cuffed, state TV reported. An army colonel was reported missing, feared kidnapped. Some media reports accused militiamen taking revenge on Gadhafi-era veterans in the military; in contrast, a military spokesman, Ali al-Shakhli, blamed Gadhafi loyalists, saying they were trying to stir up trouble between the public and militias.

Since Gadhafi’s ouster and death around a year ago, a series of interim leaders have struggled to bring order to a country that was eviscerated under his 42-year regime, with security forces and the military intentionally kept weak and government institutions hollowed of authority.

The militias, which arose as people took up arms to fight Gadhafi during last year’s eight-month civil war, have typified the problem. They bristle with heavy weapons, pay little attention to national authorities and are accused by some of acting like gangs, carrying out killings. Islamist militias often push their demands for enforcement of strict Shariah law.

Libyan civilians celebrate the raiding of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades compound, after hundreds of Libyans, Libyan Military, and Police raided the Brigades base, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (Photo: AP)

On Saturday, armed Rafallah Shahati militiamen – weary from the clashes the night before – guarded the entrance to their compound, standing next to charred cars. The fighters, some in military uniforms, others dressed in Afghan Mujahedeen-style outfits, were indignant.

“Those you call protesters are looters and thieves,” said Nour Eddin al-Haddad, a young man with an automatic rifle slung on his back. “We fought for the revolution. We are the real revolutionaries.”

Activists and protesters, however, say it is time the militias disband and the army and security forces take control. Benghazi lawyer Ibrahim al-Aribi said that if the government doesn’t act, “there will be a second revolution and the spark will be Benghazi.”

“We want stability and rule of law so we can start building the state, but the Tripoli government appears to have not yet quite understood people’s demands,” he said.

Farag Akwash, a 22-year-old protester wounded in the arm during the night’s clashes, insisted, “We don’t want to see militias in the city anymore. We only want to see army and police.”

Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias, hold a demonstration against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (Photo: AP)

The Sept. 11 attack against the U.S. Consulate that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans galvanized public anger against the militias, according to the Associated Press. Some 30,000 people marched through Benghazi on Friday to the gates of the Ansar al-Shariah compound, demanding the groups disband. The storming of the compound came hours later after the march ended.

President Mohammed El-Megaref called on protesters to leave alone militias that are “under state legitimacy, and go home.”

Omar Humidan, assembly spokesman, acknowledged that militias “have wrong practices … serve their own agenda and have their own ideology.” But he warned that “striking these militias and demanding they disband immediately will have grave consequences.”

“These are the ones that preserve security,” he said. “The state has a weak army and no way it can fill any vacuum resulting in eviction of these militias. … The street is upset because of the militias and their infighting. We are worried of the fallout in the absence of those militias. The state must be given the time.”

Libyans march against Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (Photo: AP)

Fathi Fadhali, a prominent Islamist thinker in Benghazi, said the description of some militias as “legitimate” just contradicts common sense.

“How can you be a militia and legitimate at the same time?” he said. “How do you leave a group of extremists taking charge of security? Yes, you can accept their help for the short term but not long-term.

“The state must interfere as soon as possible – even, excuse me to say it, by using force – before everything collapses. I am extremely worried.”

One of the protesters explained his reason for attending the demonstration: “I am out today to defend Benghazi…Killing [Ambassador Stevens] is a completely separate thing…I don’t give a damn about the killing of the ambassador because the Americans offended the Prophet. I am just here for Benghazi.”

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TRILO
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:52pm
“bring order to a country that was eviscerated under his (Gadhafi) 42-year regime” Sorry the country was eviscerated by the United States and NATO. All we have done is replace one dictator with a weak alliance of thugs and terrorists.

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- Bum thrower
  Posted on September 23, 2012 at 6:25pm
  WE, the USofA caused the mess in Libia; with BHO ‘leading from behind’; what in the world did these yo-yos expect? They are neianve and living in a dream world; their own personal fantasy where ‘everyone just gets along’…..sickening………….and then they ‘blame Bush’….
  
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Dustoff
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:48pm
I wish I could trust the people of Libya. But not yet. If what is being said and it’s true. Push AQ out and I’ll scream all I can to see the USA help you. But….. I need more proof.

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PoochieGirl
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:24pm
OK, you can use a word in the article that I can’t use in a comment, got it, I’ll try again.
I don’t give a d@mn about their prophet because they assasinated an American Ambassador. All I care about is taking care of our country, it’s people, and putting it’s interests first! Pull out our money and support, and let them fend for themselves!

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- Sheep with a 45
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:12pm
  Yep.
  
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PoochieGirl
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:16pm
I don’t give a damn about the prophet because our Ambassador was murdered! All I care about is our country, and putting it’s interests first!!

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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:24pm
  Speak on, girl!
  
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GETLIFE
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:14pm
What!? You mean the people are not protesting against “the video?”

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- rose-ellen
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:11pm
  And let’s see how the anti muslim genocidal propagandists here spin this one!
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:53pm
  Rose it is hard to spin happy murder. Plain murder is more difficult. Which group of murderers do you personally have emotional ties to?
  
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- NOTMOHAMMED
  Posted on September 23, 2012 at 8:12am
  Drive them Rose? Maybe they bought them lunch too. Have a Lockerbie sandwich you pig you.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 6:57pm
Wanna Bet we armed the Wrong Side?

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- blackyb
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:07pm
  Yes, Obama makes sure the good guys are not armed as well. It would interefere with his plans.
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:50pm
  You mean there’s a Right Side in Libya?
  
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noslave
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 6:44pm
hey they realize they may have kissed off billions in aid,so like the whores that they are,there putting on a show,dragging/sodomizeing the ambassador?? they bought the farm,hopefully we’ll pull out ,let the mutts kill on another, to obama and clueless crew,they will never love us,just playing they love you like prostitutes,grow a spine you dumb-asses.

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Scothantlas
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 6:28pm
Before we start praising or Denouncing this group of people, lets get the facts first, Lets find out if they were truly acting in outrage and are on our side before shaking their hand lest we get another knife in the back. Once we know the facts then we should act upon them.

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- Thornyrose13
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:26pm
  agreed. though it is heartening to see that there are those who may actually be willing to stand up to the extremists and terrorists after all. They are in a position to do what we cannot; identify exact targets and make sure those who are a danger to us and them are neutralized and/or eliminated.
  
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LogicIsYourFriend
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:58pm
Foxnews.com is reporting that Sufyan Ben Qumu organized the attack on the embassy.
He was released in 2007 from Guantanamo Bay by G.W. Bush.

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- RLTW
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 6:46pm
  So Bush should have used logic and executed the guy, but instead he was constantly pressured by liberal hanky stompers to release prisoners and close Gitmo.
  
  Liberal logic isn’t logic it’s feelings.
  
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- LogicIsYourFriend
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 6:53pm
  Oh, I forgot, anything bad a conservative does is because they were talked into it by the left. Makes perfect sense.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 6:53pm
  Who released him, the progressive? Sounds about right.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:08pm
  At least you didn’t deny it; of course you know you can’t.
  
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- LogicIsYourFriend
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:24pm
  f I get arrested for something, I’ll just tell the judge that some other guy talked me into it, and the judge can’t deny it, and then he’ll say, “Yeah, you’re right, that makes total sense. It isn’t your fault. You were pressured into it. You are released. Have a good day, citizen.”.
  Or does that only work for Presidents?
  
  Or, maybe you’re right, and Bush was just a spineless wuss pushed around by the big, scary liberals. Some cowboy.
  
  Either way, it doesn’t make him look too good.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:49pm
  Why are you concerned about how GW looks? I’m not and he’s not running for a third term, so you should have stayed on topic from the beginning, but I understand your simplistic desire to continue blaming Bush for every Barry failure.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:49pm
  LogicIsYourFriend
  Under severe political pressure from Democrats in Congress, the Complicit media & people like your self.
  
  BTW how did your date with Cindi Sheehan go?
  
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- Psychosis
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:54pm
  @ logic
  
  what did he do that DOES make him look good ?????
  
  answer carefully
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:54pm
  Logic Is NOT Your Friend if your base assumption are wrong. Start off with a false 1st step & logic will not save your a$$. It will take you down irretrievably down the wrong path.
  
  Kind of like a a protein that starts folding & the 1st fold is wrong. It can become a prion & they is no going back.
  
  Nice presumptive name BTW
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:07pm
  LogicIsYourFriend
  
  I used these search terms “Gitmo indefinite detention Protest congress”
  
  And got results like these
  40 Members of Congress Protest ‘Indefinite Detention
  ACLU: Stop Indefinite Detention
  …
  
  The Democrats are always about 35 to 55% of Congress. So a threat of impeachment is real. The press is worth 15 points (per Newsweek’s assistant managing editor Evan Thomas). Makes it hard to get elected or even to have sufficient member of your party elected to matter on the national stage.
  
  You have to give a little. Put it this way. Sky scrapers are built to sway. If the were built completely rigid, the would never stand for long. In a fight you give ground at times or you would be quickly pawned.
  
  Yes, we have to give some ground, but it won’t always be that way.
  
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- LogicIsYourFriend
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:37pm
  Walkabout,
  My base assumption was that Bush signed off on the release. That is a demonstrably true base assumption. You could add to that base assumption, and say he caved to pressured and went against his morals, but that wouldn’t be the BASE assumption.
  
  And why won’t you always have to bend a little? Are you taking over the country and implementing a dictatorship?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 9:07pm
  You are starting from the assumption that Bush had the political capital & the popularity to stand up to the Democrats. Remember Democrats have a 15 pottn advantage due to the MSM.
  
  Given the nature of the progs, I thought George Bush was going to be impeached over health care.
  War or no war, the progs were out to stop anything Bush tried to at the very least or impeach if they could. Especially after all the bitterness of the 2000 election results. Where the Democrats did not want to count the overseas military vote (& still don’t for that matter).
  
  My position on Democrats has hardened after what I learned about the press & Cronkite & how they treated Eisenhower because he went on the Republican ticket.
  
  The best thing would be to have two countries & let the Democrats have their socialism (which will work this time) & let it devolve ever typically into oligarch.
  
  Anyway it hasn’t been nice talking to you as you are stupid & arrogant.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 9:28pm
  LOGICISYOURFRIEND, That is truly what you call yourself? Logic, blah, blah? How captures much less actual releases do you suppose that President Bush hopped down to GITMO in Air Force 1 and put his finger prints all over the paperwork? Okay, I’ll certainly agree that the release occurred during the Bush administration, but you’ll have to admit that Fast & Furious occurred under the 0bama administration. So, what is your point? You still stuck on that blame Bush thingy? He was not necessarily released by the Bush Administration either. He was repatriated to Libya’s Abu Salim prison due to overcrowding at GITMO, as well as pressure from various liberal groups complaining, demonstrating, as well as filing law suites to get as many prisoners out of there. It was the Libyans who released him in 2010 when there was a change of mind there regarding political prisoners. Yeah, with us he was an imprisoned combatant, but a political prisoner to the Libyans. In the future, dislodge your head from your 4th point of contact instead of making up a story that sounds the way you would like it. There are a good number of us here who tend to really know what is going on. Furthermore, the rest of the time we can actually use our search engines.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 9:40pm
  Forgive the typos please, Had a number of interruptions while trying to type the above.
  
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- LogicIsYourFriend
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:18pm
  RJJinGadsden,
  You said:
  “…that President Bush hopped down to GITMO in Air Force 1 and put his finger prints all over the paperwork?”
  True, he didn’t. But then again, Obama didn’t fly to Libya and unlock the consulate doors, but many are acting like it.
  My point is that people are so quick to blame the other “side”, while they dismiss any wrong doing of their “side”.
  Oh, and Fast and Furious, a complete and utter f—up. No doubts about that. 100% agree.
  Peace out…
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:52pm
Sounds like some of these people are coming to their senses. A fight of good vs. evil.

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paulsavage1
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:40pm
This fires me up….these guys have ‘stones’ something our current administration lacks……wouldn’t it be great if these folks received the money we send to Libya?
Be nice if we could somehow encourage more of this type of reaction…

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- 000degrees
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:46pm
  All free men should be armed
  
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- IronSights
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 6:32pm
  Been a good time to have a few drones in place supporting the people and snuffing the extremists as they were being run out. Just sayin.
  
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- grmlain
  Posted on September 23, 2012 at 9:34pm
  The money to the exact people that the odumbo people wanted it to go to, and none went to the people who are on the side of freedom!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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TJexcite
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:34pm
Time will tell but the people who drove the ALQ/militias out will be any different. Will they will still call for death of blasphemy or champion the free speech of someone else to denigrate your faith and prophet. The white Islamic flag will not fool, well should not fool anyone. Progressive name change from progressives to liberals.

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- sanpedro
  Posted on September 24, 2012 at 1:34pm
  Libyans have a chance, tho’ slim, of building a middle class thanx to 2 things:
  1) lots of sweet gas&oil
  2) Qaddafi left them without a strong military class that owns 99.9% of the country and terrorizes its own people UNLIKE Pakistan and Egypt who have become ‘armies with a country’ where an evil military oligarchy rules thanx to corrupting US billions (like UN$$$ in Haiti, Africa) pouring in yearly.
  Egyptians and Pakistanis, both once proud to live in urbane modern jewels of Islam, hate the US for propping up, defending and enriching ruthless goons like Mubarak and Musharref year after year who destroyed their democratic rights and freedoms and their country.
  KSM, 911′s chief, was brutally tortured by Mubarak, as were so many others who became rabid anti-American Muslim Brotherhood jihadists because of it.
  The US cannot claim barbaric tyrants as allies and expect the terrorized citizens of those states to remain friends of USA. Remember the psycho Bautista US chose to rule Cuba, whose dwarf bit off scrota of his political foes.
  Rome defeated Carthage not because of military prowess – Carthage had better weapons & strategies – but because it forged better allies. US has dumped corn and guns into Mexico, devastating its people and has robbed Canada of billions in oil & gas revenue, devalued thru bottleneck stockpiles and vetoed pipelines BUT Sauds, Putin, Chavez, Iran get full $.
  Romney is a TRUE FRIEND of Israel and personal friend of Netanyahu.
  WHO DO U L
  
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ronin_6
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:31pm
Never thought I would see something like this. Well done Libya. Be warned though. The Sand People are easily frightened but will return and in greater numbers.
Seriously good job. Just watch your backs.

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- GodFearingMama
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:56pm
  Let’s hold off on praising them.. They are in it for power not because what was done to our Embassy.. Sounds like they would have done the same.. I don’t humor the idea that we have any allies over there
  
  One of the protesters explained his reason for attending the demonstration: “I am out today to defend Benghazi…Killing [Ambassador Stevens] is a completely separate thing…I don’t give a damn about the killing of the ambassador because the Americans offended the Prophet. I am just here for Benghazi.”
  
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- shirelover
  Posted on September 23, 2012 at 7:42am
  nice quote from Obi Wan Kenobi there, and true, true…’tis sad tis true but ’tis true nonetheless.
  
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Crazy Times
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:28pm
“The Sept. 11 attack against the U.S. Consulate that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans galvanized public anger against the militias, according to the Associated Press. ”

– this does not make sense. So what is being told now, is that even though the middle east is protesting against the U.S., we now have a protest condemming the death of the Ambassador???

– really makes no sense. If this is true, then this is the first ever pro U.S. protest in the middle east. Historians, please take note.. geeezz how many more lies.

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- ronin_6
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:45pm
  There was a pro US protest the day after the ambassador was killed. This has been brewing since then. No lies. Just amazing things.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 6:56pm
  ….with the majority sitting idly by with their hands in their pockets as they commit atrocities.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:05pm
  So Logic
  You’ve spent quite a bit of time in the Middle East and have it all figured out? You make the mistake most people do you think those people think, believe and want the same things as you, you’re wrong I’ve spent years all over the ME, but you should go and check for yourself.
  
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- blackyb
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:09pm
  They may have sent some out to look like it so the U.S. would hesitate to do anything drastic. They need not worry. As long as Obama is in the thugs will have free reign. Those who oppose this better stand their ground because Obama is not going to help the good guys. He is not going to help anyone who intereferes with his Marxist/Socialist agenda. Obama needs to get out of our White House.
  
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- LogicIsYourFriend
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 7:52pm
  RLTW
  Were you in a uniform and carrying a weapon? If so, that could possibly change people’s attitudes towards you. Similar to how you would feel if you passed a Chinese or Russian soldier patrolling your neighborhood.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:13pm
  Logic
  
  I had all kinds of apparel even some local garb, but don’t think for a second you can’t get to know people over their just because of a uniform and a gun, I know guns scare liberals, less so them.
  
  Some are good people on the surface but beyond that they are culturally driven by ignorance, poverty and tyranny. For them to move into reality would require them to clean their own backyard and this little display is not even a blip on the screen of what the need to do.
  
  Sadly if left to their own means they will install another dictator because Islam doesn’t allow real freedom to exist
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:21pm
  LogicIsYourFriend
  Similar to how you would feel if you passed a Chinese or Russian soldier patrolling your neighborhood.
  ***
  Different Day, same claptrap B.S. by another liberal troll or the same troll with a different moniker.
  Listen here missy, I have not met a German citizen who said they felt occupied by American soldiers in Germany.
  
  Since Germany regained its independence May 5, 1955, America can only be there with German approval. The status of Americans forces is governed by a S.O.F.A. Maybe you have hear of a SOFA? Maybe you have not because you are stupid liberal (Wait that is redundant). Places where American troops are governed in the most part by a SOFAs unless it be an enemy state or ungoverned space.
  
  You can find your commie types in other countries who say they are occupied, but they are a fraction of the population just like they are here. You are one of those commie types. I know people in some of those occupied countries like South Korea, Japan & Germany. They never once told me that they felt occupied.
  
  Who know Logic maybe we will meet.
  
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- LogicIsYourFriend
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 9:06pm
  Walkabout,
  We have a SOFA with Libya?
  And when did we start talking about Germany or Japan? I was talking about reactions of people in the Middle East to armed U.S. soldiers, and how it might alter their attitudes. Most Americans are good people, but I can tell you if I had armed foreign soldiers in my town, they wouldn’t see my best side.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 9:55pm
  WALKABOUT, I can back you up regarding the fact that we were paying rent for every place we had troops. We were closing out some of the smaller kasernes where I was last stationed and I had a chance to see some of the paper work. During my three tours there as well as working at SHAPE, Belgium none of these people had reason to fear us. Well, maybe the newbies before they learned to drive in Germany. Naturally, Logic has no idea what you mean since we have no troops stationed in Libya and would have no reason to have a SOFA with them. I get the feeling that we are talking to a rock.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 10:13pm
  RJJINGADSDEN
  I usually agree with you, but insulting rocks that way I just find hurtful.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 11:05pm
  LogicIsYourFriend
  
  We have a SOFA with Libya?
  And when did we start talking about Germany or Japan?
  ***
  We had a SOFA with Iraq, which was for about 2 years. We were negotiating a new SOFA with Obama negotiating in bad faith. We didn’t get a SOFA so we pulled out.
  
  I gave South Korea, Japan & Germany as EXAMPLES of countries that we have SOFAs with. These are also countries that the left American local & international pi$$es & moans that we are occupying. You are one of the people pi$$ing & moaning. I know for a fact that many service members who break the law are tired in Japanese & South Korean Courts & are jailed there. The SOFA covers that. After they are released they are expelled back to America to become Democrat voters.
  
  For small details protecting consulates, embassies & ambassadors & I am not sure what kind of agreement we had with Libya. If the Libyan said that the protection had to go, we would have protested. If they said it again the protection had to go, the protection would have left the country as would the ambassador.
  
  No peace out, you lie to much!
  
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Magyar
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:25pm
Well how do you like that? I’m amazed—

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blackyb
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:24pm
It is horrible how those people have to live day to day over there. That is what Obama wants for America.

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blackyb
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:24pm
Those people better stand or they will be killed in their sleep. They should die fighting for freedom from those militias. They need to kill and throw all those Sharia Islamists in the gutter and get on with a form of government that will protect them instead of killing them off. They must be a better bunch that what we have been seeing who are trying to rule every aspect of their lives. They need to keep on and not let up, for if they do, they will be destroyed by that evil.

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- TRILO
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:04pm
  The people of Libya are not opposed to Sharia law. Their transitional government has even called for more islamic conformity in their laws. They are only fighting against the foreign fighters who have invaded their country and who are trying to take control due to the security vacuum.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:50pm
  In the 1990s Algerian Islamicists use to kill 200 to 300 people in villages in a single night. Young women of the village were humanely spared so they could serve (so to speak) the Islamicists back at base camp.
  
  Those Algerian Islamicists are now the backbone of Al Qaeda in North Africa (Mahgreb). Neat huh?
  And the are a__ f______ stupid liberals, who want to work things out with them.
  
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scott4freedom
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:19pm
Like the Old Testement stories,When Isreal was obeying and following God’s leading, He would bring them to a situation that they could not humanly overcome. God would do the miraculous. Maybe these fools will suddenly turn on each other and wipe each other out! We can only hope and pray!

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possom
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:06pm
Lets send obie, pelosi, biden, and reid over their to apologize and leave’em.

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- scott4freedom
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:15pm
  That is one of the best ideas I have ever heard, let them see how far diplomacy gets them!!!!!
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:16pm
  Gladly.
  
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- blackyb
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:20pm
  Great Idea. Send them where they belong.
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:36pm
  I just pictured a warped version of the Wizard of Oz. Pelosi as the Wicked Witch of the West, Biden as the Scarecrow, Reid as the Tin Man, Obama as the Cowardly Lion, Beghazi as the Emerald City, and Soros as the Great and Powerful Oz. I don’t know whether to laugh or to be very, very afraid.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:41pm
  and the Neo Cons to. Mccain Graham, Bush and Romney.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:59pm
  Windy
  Slow down on the weed.
  
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Sirfoldallot
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:02pm
We need a Leader here to be as strong as that group there.

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- Magyar
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:26pm
  You got that right!
  
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- blackyb
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:27pm
  He is strongly working for the enemies of America.
  
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barber2
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:00pm
Remember Saddam ? Remember Gaddafi ? These people just had the type of government they deserved . The type of government which could keep them under control. Sad but true. Are they going to evolve politically to something more advanced ? Hmmmm…..

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- Chromo200
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 9:14pm
  No they have no idea what freedom is about. We spend a lot of money and blood saving them from dictators and all they do fight each other and bite the hand that feeds them.
  
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Elena2010
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 4:58pm
Now, you awaken! It was in your hands to have rid the world of the militants all along.

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Seabass82
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 4:54pm
Glad to see this…now, if we can stop our meddling in everyones affairs!

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truthseekerusa
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 4:50pm
Maybe the West will be fortunate that civil war will break out among these and others that are now part of the Arab Nightmare and they will destroy each other.

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- U.N.hater
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 4:56pm
  They are muslims and always will be. They want our cash that’s all. Don’t be fooled.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 5:19pm
  @TruthSeeker
  
  Civil war is a possible occurance here; it depends on how long it will take one or more of the militia forces to respond with full lethal force when the attacks come, which groups throw in with whom, and who finally emerges as the dominate leader of the masses in the end.
  
  Unless it is a truely exceptional leader able to unite the masses for an effective government to be built – which all too easily can become another dictatorship – then another round of war is ordained.
  
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Critters58
Posted on September 22, 2012 at 4:42pm
I hope they can take back their country!

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