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Camera Captures BBC Reporter Driving Into Gadhafi Force’s Ambush
- Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:45pm by
Buck Sexton
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While there may be jubilation in many parts of Tripoli, fighting continues and the city is far from stable.
BBC Reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes found this out the hard way yesterday, as he and his news crew drove a car alongside a rebel convoy in Tripoli and were caught in the middle of an ambush by forces still loyal to Gadhafi.
Hayes and his comrades were able to speed away to safety, but the incident is a stark reminder of the uncertainty and danger still present in Tripoli even as the regime of Colonel Gadhafi appears to be in its death throes.
Watch the video below, courtesy of the BBC and Mediaite (the ambush begins at the 2:00 mark):
(h/t Mediaite)
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Bum thrower
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 11:44amFortunately for the reporter, the rag heads can’t shoot either; it the middle east wars, the stupid ones get killed first; the fighters get smarter as time goes on…..LOL
Report Post »Attention2Detail
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 10:05amThis was almost as fake as the Geraldo bit. Definitely not 20MM and the news crew wasn’t even close. Geraldo still holds the record with his RPGs that were really a few shots of small arms fire pretty far off.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 5:40pmWait till they sexually assault him like that female journalist!
Report Post »daddy warbucks
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 9:05amWatch CNN, ABC & NBC, they make it look like street dressed angry citizens are taking over Tripoli.
Since Obama did not go to Congress for this war, the Bilderbergs are hiding things from you
Except for the occasional tank, they show not one scene of over seven thousand NATO air sortie strikes and Special Ops on the ground ‘softening’ Gaddafi‘s defenders and opening the way for the citizen ’rebels’ to run around and get filmed for a very naive world.
Gaddafi was also in process of going on a gold standard (a huge no no to central banks), think of other ‘regime changes’ in that region.
Report Post »daddy warbucks
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 9:04amExcerpt:
Since many do not know the difference between a state central bank, and a private central bank, we are doing that research first here. Indeed, the US had a state central bank until 1913, when it transferred power to a private cabal of banks which became the Federal Reserve. Libya has a state run central bank, which has complete control over its currency. The new central bank, created by the ‘rebels’ in Benghazi, is controlled by private banks, particularly European ones.
Why central banking in Libya?
The rebel group known as the Transitional National Council released a statement last week announcing that they have designated the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya, and that they have appointed a governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi, according to Bloomberg.
Robert Wenzel of Economic Policy Journal thinks the central banking initiative reveals that foreign powers may have a strong influence over the rebels.
This suggests we have a bit more than a ragtag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. “I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising,” Wenzel writes.
The simple fact is that we are now under the governance of the NEW WORLD ORDER, the UN, who it would appear to have the ability to take the U.S. and Canada to war, and without the people
Report Post »daddy warbucks
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 9:03amOriginal story at http://thecomingdepression.net
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial
Feeling a little ‘spoon fed’? getting a little angry?
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did I say NATO air strikes? how many sorties do you think the USA military was involved in? (shhhh, Obama didn’t bother with Congress on this)
This ‘NATO’ crap sure is handy in diverting attention away from Obama and Hillary
Report Post »Parnell3rd
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 2:06amI have personally been closer to a 20mm cannon being fired, and that was not a 20mm cannon! Sounded more like someone playing spoons on their leg.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 11:27pmWhen you look at the video clip read what it says at the top. “BBC News Convoy attacked by… MEDIA ite”. So you are all correct… it’s a fake from MEDIA ite and they say so at the top of the video. Go figure!
Report Post »yiddishlion
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 11:23pm20mm anti aircraft cannon? WTF? yeah, right……more like some Libyan kids with cap guns.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:50pmI guess saying welcome to reality to the reporters is redundant.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:17pmThis is pathetic. Do we have news anymore? Or are they all islamo-communist sympathizing dbags.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:10pmthat was staged and fake , that was fire crackers popping , am sure the reporter is some nutty liberal that makes fake stories and pass them off as true
Report Post »Michael Dabahue
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:37pmThis was all staged. LOL
Report Post »Xxoax
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 7:17amDid you see that awesome Camera work? he kept it pointed on the action the whole time….. the back of a truck………
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 8:00pmIs that Che Guevara at 1:30 in the back of the truck? Darn. I thought he was dead.
Report Post »JUSTDOUGIE
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 7:07pm“I lived it once, and I fought it twice. Now I see these muslims again, and again.”
Report Post »Infamous American
Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:32pmThat was all staged… I recognize Detroit when I see it.
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:38pmThen Detroit must be improving.
Report Post »teapartyteamstertrucker
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:59pmit may have been staged but definitly not Detroit, not one of those young guys was wearing his pants below his a$$
Report Post »ImmediateRealityCheck
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:28pmThe nation of Lybia is a key part of the coaltion that will attack Israel in Biblical prophesy. This coup, set up by our pro-muslim presidency will allow the radical element to set up a Sharia-law framework to make this possible. We are watching prophesy come alive right before our eyes. There is not much time for individuals to get right with God- I’m afraid it is too late for our nation.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:41pmGlobal Research journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya says he fears for his life and is being threatened for “not going by what NATO is presenting” as news out of Libya. He says he believes that some of the journalists covering events are “not real journalists”, but are instead working for security services.
As some quarters of the mainstream media are still reporting that the battle for the Libyan capitol Tripoli is part of a popular uprising, Senior US and NATO officials confirmed today that the intensification of fighting was initiated by NATO, as it candidly presided over rebel forces.
The New York Times today quotes an anonymous senior diplomat who states that over recent weeks NATO has been directly coordinating rebel groups, despite the fact that its UN endorsed mandate did not extend beyond “protecting” Libyan civilians and specifically outlined that NATO should not seek to influence the outcome of the conflict.
The source also stated that a significant step up in US ariel surveillance around Tripoli played a pivotal role in aiding rebel forces to erode military forces loyal to the Libyan government.
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/us-nato-officials-openly-admit-to-arming-training-libyan-rebels-forcing-regime-change/
llotus
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:49pmimmediaterealitycheck………..I agree with everyone needs to get right with God, but I whole heartedly believe our nation will indure what ever these forces throw our way. Our biggest threat is from within, 2012 will give us a choice if we want it. Your fears may be right if they dont. Lotus.
Report Post »cactusjoe
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:21pmLooks like anyother day in Jersey city NJ.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:20pmThe guy at 0:52 is doing a nice impression of Sly Stallone in Rocky 1…lol!
Report Post »srfnvet
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 9:03amCould also pass for a great impression of John Turturro from Transformers.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:54pmSure didn’t take him long to turn that truck around.Maybe he will be a little more careful the next time. But then again most of the time they are just shooting hoping to hit something besides themselves.
Report Post »Disnylv
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:59pmNO kidding, hey let us celebrate, what the heck we do not know, but is it an ARAB SPRING
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:07pmYour right, sure would hate to buy the ammo for them.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:53pm“It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.
Report Post »A leaked account of an ‘impartiality summit’ called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.
It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran, and that they would have broadcast an interview with Osama Bin Laden if they’d been given the opportunity. Further, it discloses that the BBC‘s ’diversity tsar’, wants Muslim women newsreaders to be allowed to wear veils when on air.”