Libyan Rebels Enter Capital With Little Resistance As Gadhafi Forces Crumble
- Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:08pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Euphoric Libyan rebels raced into the capital Tripoli on Sunday and moved close to center with little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi’s defenses collapsed and his regime appeared to be crumbling fast. Al Jazeera on the rebels’ move from the outskirts to capital:
Associated Press reporters with the rebels said they moved easily from the western outskirts into the regime stronghold in a dramatic turning of the tides in the 6-month-old Libyan civil war. A rebel leader said the unit in charge of protecting Gadhafi and Tripoli had surrendered and joined the revolt, allowing the opposition force to move in freely.
“They will enter Green Square tonight, God willing,” said Mohammed al-Zawi, a 30-year-old rebel who entered Tripoli. Green Square has been the site of night rallies by Gadhafi supporters throughout the uprising.
Earlier in the day, the rebels overran a major military base defending the capital, carted away truckloads of weapons and raced to Tripoli with virtually no resistance.
Gadhafi’s whereabouts were unknown. But he delivered a series of angry and defiant audio messages broadcast on state television. He was not shown in the messages. In the latest one, he acknowledged that the opposition forces were moving into Tripoli and warned the city would be turned into another Baghdad.
“How come you allow Tripoli the capital, to be under occupation once again?” he said. “The traitors are paving the way for the occupation forces to be deployed in Tripoli.”
He called on his supporters to march in the streets of the capital and “purify it” from “the rats.”
Opposition leaders at one point claimed Gadhafi’s son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, had been arrested, but they later backtracked and said this was not yet confirmed.
The rebels’ surprising and speedy leap forward, after six months of largely deadlocked civil war, was packed into just a few dramatic hours. By nightfall, they had advanced more than 20 miles to Tripoli. Sky News reports on the celebration of among Libyan rebels:
Thousands of jubilant civilians rushed out of their homes to cheer the long convoys of pickup trucks packed with rebel fighters shooting in the air. Some of the fighters were hoarse, shouting: “We are coming for you, frizz-head,” a mocking nickname for Gadhafi. In villages along the way that fell to the rebels one after another, mosque loudspeakers blared “Allahu Akbar,“ or ”God is great.”
“We are going to sacrifice our lives for freedom,” said Nabil al-Ghowail, a 30-year-old dentist holding a rifle in the streets of Janzour, a suburb just six miles west of Tripoli. Heavy gunfire erupted nearby.
As town after town fell and Gadhafi forces disappeared, the mood turned euphoric. Some shouted: “We are getting to Tripoli tonight.” Others were shooting in the air, honking horns and yelling “Allahu Akbar.”
Once they reached Tripoli, the rebels took control of one neighborhood, Ghot Shaal, on the western edge of the city. They set up checkpoints as a convoy of more than 10 trucks rolled in.
The rebels moved on to the neighborhood of Girgash, about a mile and a half from Green Square. They said they came under fire from a sniper on a rooftop in the neighborhood.
Sidiq al-Kibir, the rebel leadership council’s representative for the capital Tripoli, confirmed the arrest of Seif al-Islam to the AP but did not give any further details.
Inside Tripoli, widespread clashes erupted for a second day between rebel “sleeper cells” and Gadhafi loyalists. Rebels fighter who spoke to relatives in Tripoli by phone said hundreds rushed into the streets in anti-regime protests in several neighborhoods.
The day’s first breakthrough came when hundreds of rebels fought their way into a major symbol of the Gadhafi regime – the base of the elite 32nd Brigade commanded by Gadhafi’s son, Khamis. Fighters said they met with little resistance. They were 16 miles from the big prize, Tripoli.
Hundreds of rebels cheered wildly and danced as they took over the compound filled with eucalyptus trees, raising their tricolor from the front gate and tearing down a large billboard of Gadhafi.
Inside, they cracked open wooden crates labeled “Libyan Armed Forces” and loaded their trucks with huge quantities of munitions. One of the rebels carried off a tube of grenades, while another carted off two mortars.
“This is the wealth of the Libyan people that he was using against us,” said Ahmed al-Ajdal, 27, pointing to his haul. “Now we will use it against him and any other dictator who goes against the Libyan people.”
One group started up a tank, drove it out of the gate, crushing the median of the main highway and driving off toward Tripoli. Rebels celebrated the capture with deafening amounts of celebratory gunfire, filling the air with smoke.
Across the street, rebels raided a huge warehouse, making off with hundreds of crates of rockets, artillery shells and large-caliber ammunition. The warehouse had once been using to storage packaged foods, and in the back, cans of beans were still stacked toward the ceiling.
They freed several hundred prisoners from a regime lockup. The fighters and the prisoners – many looking weak and dazed and showing scars and bruises from beatings – embraced and wept with joy.
The prisoners had been held in the walled compound and when the rebels rushed in, they freed more than 300 of them.
“We were sitting in our cells when all of a sudden we heard lots of gunfire and people yelling ‘Allahu Akbar.‘ We didn’t know what was happening, and then we saw rebels running in and saying ‘We’re on your side.’ And they let us out,” said 23-year-old Majid al-Hodeiri from Zawiya. He said he was captured four months ago by Gadhafi’s forces and taken to base. He said he was beaten and tortured while under detention.
Many of the prisoners looked disoriented as they stopped at a gathering place for fighters several miles away from the base. Some had signs of severe beatings. Others were dressed in tattered T-shirts or barefoot. Rebels fighters and prisoners embraced.
From the military base, the convoy sped toward the capital.
Mahmoud al-Ghwei, 20 and unarmed, said he had just came along with a friend for the ride .
“It’s a great feeling. For all these years, we wanted freedom and Gadhafi kept it from us. Now we’re going to get rid of Gadhafi and get our freedom,” he said.
At nightfall, the fighters reached Janzour, a Tripoli suburb. Along the way, they were greeted by civilians lining the streets and waving rebel flags. One man grabbed a rebel flag that had been draped over the hood of a slow-moving car and kissed it, overcome with emotion.
“We are not going back,” said Issam Wallani, another rebel. “God willing, this evening we will enter Tripoli.”
The uprising against Gadhafi broke out in mid-February, and anti-regime protests quickly spread across the vast desert nation with only 6 million people. A brutal regime crackdown quickly transformed the protests into an armed rebellion. Rebels seized Libya’s east, setting up an internationally recognized transitional government there, and two pockets in the west, the port city of Misrata and the Nafusa mountain range.
Gadhafi clung to the remaining territory, and his forces failed to subdue the rebellion in Misrata, Libya’s third-largest city, and in the Nafusa mountains. Since the start of August, thousands of rebel fighters, including many who fled Gadhafi-held cities, joined an offensive launched from the mountains toward the coast.
The fighters who had set out from the mountains three weeks ago rushed toward Tripoli on Sunday, start out at dawn from a village just east of the coastal city of Zawiya. Only a day earlier had the rebels claimed full control of Zawiya, an anti-regime stronghold with 200,000 people and Libya’s last functioning oil refinery.
Rebels said Saturday that they had launched their first attack on Tripoli in coordination with NATO and gunbattles and mortar rounds rocked the city. NATO aircraft also made heavier than usual bombing runs after nightfall, with loud explosions booming across the city.
On Sunday, more heavy machine gun fire and explosions rang out across the capital with more clashes and protests.
Government minders in a hotel where foreign journalists have been staying in Tripoli armed themselves on Sunday in anticipation of a rebel take over. The hotel manager said he had received calls from angry rebels threatening to charge the hotel to capture the government’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim.
Heavy gun fire was heard in the neighborhood around the Rixos hotel, and smoke was seen rising from a close by building.
“We are scared and staying in our houses, but the younger boys are going out to protect our homes,” said a woman who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from the pro-rebel Tripoli neighborhood of Bin Ashour. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. She said a neighbor’s son was shot dead on Saturday night by Gadhafi troops as he tried to protect his street with a group of rebel youth.
Nuri al-Zawi, another resident of Bin Ashour, told the AP by phone that the rebels were using light arms to protect their streets, and in some cases were using only their bodies to fend off the Gadhafi troops riding in pickup trucks.
“We are used to this situation now. We are a city that is cut off from the world now,” he said.
The residents reported clashes in neighborhoods all over Tripoli as well as the city’s Mitiga military airport. They said they heard loud explosions and exchanges in of gunfire in the Fashloum, Tajoura and Bin Ashour neighborhoods.
Residents and opposition fighters also reported large anti-regime protests in those same neighborhoods. In some of them, thousands braved the bullets of snipers perched atop high buildings.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Comments (79)
ree758
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:37pmTell me where I go wrong in this. …For years Gadafy thumbs his nose at us takes down an airliner and we do basically nothing. Then we go into Afganistan and Iraq Gadafy get scared gives up his nuclear and bialogiocal programs. THEN WE TAKE HIM OUT. Why do we back the so called Arib Spring in Libya and Egypt two countries we can deal with and not in Iran.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:22pmSo what’s next for Libya? Just look where Egypt is headed. More Muslim Brotherhood. The Caliphate cometh!
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:48pmGadhafi is probally with Obama in Marthas Vineyard plotting their next move
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:20pmThis will only embolden Emperor Obama!
Report Post »cromag11b
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:56pmSo what I gather from the comments here is that people rising up to overthrow a dictator is bad unless a US invasion was involved or only if they are a good white christian people.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:08pmLet me help you with your “gathering”. Most of us here are in favor of revolutions when Muslims are being slaughtered and overthrown by NON-Muslim forces.
Report Post »HoosierExpatriot
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:31pmThat in it self is an uninformed comment. I agree that many of the comments have been anti-muslim, but the fact is that the extreme sectors of muslim society have a lot more control than the extreme sectors of christendom. “Prepare for the worst, expect the best”, I just think the majority of people are more on the the prepare for the worst side. Although I do agree with you on the USA invasion side, a people must win their freedom to properly use it.
Report Post »cicero1776
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:39pm@MODEL82A1
I’ll double down on that.
For LIBERTY
Report Post »mygunsweetness
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:27pmYou don’t get it we give them freedom and they give us or Israel bullets bombs and more war,They can’t live and let live.All they know is violence and stoning women to death.Islam is satan’s religion.They’ve proved it over and over.
Report Post »HoosierExpatriot
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:33pmDo not throw pearls to swine.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:37pmHardly Pal … Get it straight and tell the truth. For starters, this is not just a fruity “rebels unite ” episode. They received superior fire power and the lybian air force was demolished. You might want to call Ghaddafi an evil dictator because of his acts towards the West, but prior to this 6 month take over, if you pull the statistics, the people were well taken care of and paid quite well. In some respects, better than even here in the US. So what is the problem then, who stirred the pot to cause all of this ??
Maybe if you look to Ghadaffi not going through with the open society ideas as he once had agreed. Yes, the agreement he made in order to keep his son from being humiliated for cheating with his doctorate in England. They acted as if the whole Open Society would just be a subtle thing, until they started informing a certain sect of the intellects about their right to HIS oil…. oh no ..
Hey maybe I Am wrong, but the information is available about the happenings. Maybe this is a good thing, maybe not. But don’t pretend that this is just a simple rebel over throw of a dictator. You statement about not being happy unless the US invaded, is not accurate. Whether we invaded or we leveled the playing field, actually tilting the scales towards the rebels, we are still interfering in affairs that we shouldn’t be. You are tagging the wrong people here my friend, Most of us are tired of being over there and want our boys to come home. Don’t simplify and scr
Report Post »SandyfromChesterfield
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:44pmDo you think they realize that freedom means Shariah law?
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:42pmOver 140 tribes in Libya with about 6 major ones who are organized…should be weird as the Muslim Brotherhood will try to take it all…
Report Post »HoosierExpatriot
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:41pmI don’t believe it will make any difference in the end result, but a people must win their own freedom. “Freedom isn’t Free” is tried and true. No republic can be effectively formed without a struggle of the people. That said, even if they have earned freedom, the chances are that they will end up one of three ways; 80% chance Islamic Republic, 19.99% central African style civil war, .01% decent form of government. Heck, I’d even take an enlightened monarchy at this point.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:13pmWell, this’ll be one more excuse that Sock Puppet can invoke on why his otherwise brilliant policies are failing so badly — along with tsunamis and nuculer accidents and Greek meltdowns and London riots.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:10pmThey just announced on Fox News that Obama has the news media set up & that he may be making an announcement as soon as the “facts” have been verified.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:46pmand HOLLYWEIRD will immediately go into production under BraBra’s direction to make sure Obummer is glorified in taking Kadaffy down……..SIGH.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:06pmI wonder what country the muslim brotherhood will invade & conquer next? Who is now in control in Libya, etc…
Report Post »BCBORNCRAZY
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:05pmCelebrate what? This isn’t about freedom. This is about switching dictators.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:57pmLook for Obama to take a few minutes out of his current vacation to hold a prime-time television address to take credit for this latest imaginary victory.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:10pmHe had better not take one ounce of credit.. his words went something like this, this is not a war.. the UN is taking care of it.. But knowing him he will want a pat on the back.. but who should get the pat.. US armed forces.. Obama wouldn’t know the first thing about serving anything but himself!
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:55pmNow the Muslim Brotherhood will sweep aside the students and Liberals opposed to Momahar Gadhafi and immediately enforce Sharia Law upon the stunned populace. Goodbye to the old boss, hello to new boss ! When will the “Progressives” ever learn?
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:02pmLooks like all those americans invading iraq died and were injured for nothing. The iraqis would have over thrown saddam themselves too. long live the arab spring -whatever they freely choose for themselves is their business. And looks like Obama’s a shoe in now; his stragey there is proving successful!
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:09pmSMELLIN-ELLIN, startIng JAN 2012, New, Obama-ordered, US deployments to Iraq will be shortened from 12 to 9 months. Now THAT’S change you can believe in and for which you voted in 2008 and will again in 2012, right?
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:24pm@rose-ellen,
“Looks like all those americans invading iraq died and were injured for nothing. The iraqis would have over thrown saddam themselves too. long live the arab spring -whatever they freely choose for themselves is their business.”
THEY DIDN’T CHOOSE THIS FOR THEMSELVES!!!
It was instigated by the far Left radicals here in the United States. And further, the Muslim Brotherhood is taking over these uprisings, implementing Sharia Law!
See here.
Study Guide: Egypt and Organization
http :// www . glennbeck . com/2011/02/14/study-guide-egypt-and-organization/
And here.
Spontaneous? No Way! Organizers Speak in Egypt
http :// chieforganizer . org/2011/02/11/spontaneous-no-way-organizers-speak-in-egypt/
And here.
Egypt: Ordinary citizens join soldiers to drive pro-democracy protesters from Tahrir Square
Report Post »http :// www . jihadwatch . org/2011/08/egypt-ordinary-citizens-join-soldiers-to-drive-pro-democracy-protesters-from-tahrir-square.html
cicero1776
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 10:52pm@rose-ellen
U have a very short memory rosie! Remember how the Kurds rose up against Saddam (and were promised our military support?????) after our 1st invasion in ‘91????? Saddam gassed thousands of them to death. Let’s all hope the arab spring evolves into a Christian Summer!!!!!!
For Liberty
Report Post »ericthebarbaric
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:44pmJust exchanging one radical dictator for another. These people don’t know what freedom is and probably never will. Just like Egypt and Tunisia and Iraq and Afghanistan and Krapistan. Their religion is their captor.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:01pmYea, I was just going to say the same. I’m watching it on Fox and most all of our “experts” are saying how we should be celebrating with them — how’s that??? To their credit, the anchor and one of the experts are asking how we can do that since we don’t know what comes next? Maybe they will get rid of Ghadafi but Muslims are Muslims. We talked about this when the Egypt deal happened. “Democracy” means “majority rule” and that can be bad. We don’t have that – we have a Democratic Republic. Most, as in Egypt want Sharia law and they still want the destruction of Israel and eventually world take over. Plus the Muslim Brotherhood will probably take over like they are doing in Egypt — and…..caliphate here we come. I wish Americans weren’t so ignorant about Muslims – we already know why Obama likes them — but the Presidents before should have known better….
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:03pmagree………..they will be under someones boot in a few weeks
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:24pmSo , let me get this straight. In other countries, if the citizens fight back against dictators and tyrants, they are heros and freedom fighters. But, in the USA, if the citizens fight back they are enemies of the state and terrorists. Right? Right.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:40pmAnd in ten years, crybaby Democrats will be simpering, “We gotta get rid of that guy in Libya. He’s mean-spirited and unfair!”
Moslems never change, and neither do liberals.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:44pmMuslims not only kill infidels, they kill those less “Muslim” than they themselves are.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:50pm@loriann12
True. But they’re bigots, unlike liberals. Liberals try to get everyone killed, and don’t even know it. Nothing like equal opportunity, is there?
Report Post »llotus
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:33pmLylejk…..there will never be peace in lybia..never. Lotus.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:31pm“We are coming for you, frizz-head,”
Uh-oh! That sounds (all together now):
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:07pmThere is a world outside america and its’ narrow lens. Kudos to those revolutiionary libyans! ]and long live the arab spring-regardless of how nervous it makes the americans!]
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:16pmI think it’s an automatic spam thing like Cleverbot. That response is like a random fortune cookie message! WTF is that even supposed to mean?!?
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:26pm@rose-ellen
You don‘t even know what you’re defending, do you? And, seriously, do you think your little excursions into juvenile ‘writing’ are going to change the truth, let alone minds?
You defend rape, abuse of women, rape and other abuse of children.
You defend the murder of innocents who are doing no more than shopping for groceries.
To pitiable vermin like you, that’s all okay. That‘s ’fighting for freedom’, isn’t it?
But if a TEA shot up a Dem convention ‘in protest and in a fight for freedom’, disgusting liberal vermin like you would be all over it like white on rice.
YOU, rose-ellen, are exactly why people like me are disgusted by dishonest liberals like YOU.
Pffft!
Report Post »El Pistoffo
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:30pm“I think it’s an automatic spam thing like Cleverbot. That response is like a random fortune cookie message! WTF is that even supposed to mean?!?”
Would you make sense if you lived under a rock?
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 11:20pmI thought of that when I read the “frizz head” thing, too. Then I remembered that Calypso Louie sees racism in the overthrow of Kadaffi. While Calypso Louie sees racism EVERYWHERE, he might have had a point with his characterization of the Libyian conflict.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:28pmThank you president Obama for your courage and leadership in removing this mad man.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:36pmOMFG, I think he really means it!
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:41pmwhat you do with your G*d is your own business.Obama was just cleaning up Reagan’s failed attempt to remove this lunatic.
Report Post »darkrage000
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:48pmYes, thank you for creating yet more unrest in other countries and allowing more muslim nations to come into being.
People look down on Gadhaffi, and i understand why, considering his record… but they need to understand that this was one of our allies that we turned our backs on.
bad things, yes, but he did keep the region stable. Now the only real stable spot left… Egypt… ermm nope, Obama turned that into Chaos too… whats left… Israel? And heres Obama trying hte same thing there,
Things werent great in the middle east, but they WERE STABLE. Now its all a cesspool of violence and backstabing and covens for terrorists.
Thanks Obama!
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:48pmIf you want to talk about your Sock Puppet any more, you better put on your knee pads and get a hankie ready.
I conceded elsewhere that taking out Kadaffi was one of the few jobs Reagan left undone; defeating the USSR is enough, though, for any one man. That said, a few hard strikes back then sure shut his @ss up for a long long time.
Report Post »snyper99
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:51pmdont count your chickens,who hell do you think is going to take his place(if he really is gone),the muslim brotherhood? iran? barney frank?( hear real estate is pretty cheap right now)so dont go thanking curious george just yet
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:54pmPS– I just hope Sock Puppet doesn’t get last minute cold feet and sell out the rebels who relied on his word and leave them to twist in the wind the way Kennedy ffkked over the Cuban patriots at the Bay of Pigs. I don’t believe in conspiracy theories as a rule, and don’t believe Cuban patriots were behind the Kennedy assassination, but by God they sure would have had reason after that. That was the biggest betrayal since Quisling.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:01pmReagan didn’t even TRY taking out Ghaddafi. But the two Tomcats of Fast Eagle flight greased a pair of Libyan Su-22s in one minute and 45 seconds. Then, after we dropped a few 500lb slicks on Moe, he shut up for decades.
Sure, I’ll thank Obow. Soon as some frackhead liberal gives me a reason that isn’t another liberal delusion and/or lie.
Report Post »BCBORNCRAZY
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:07pmLOL investigate before you start talking
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 1:47am@ Steelhead
Report Post »Good slam on an outrageous (but common) internet/text acronym. As for your complimenting Obama, though, you may want to review the facts. Obama did not show leadership nor courage in this matter. If he had acted a few days earlier, then the Libyian tyrant would have been steamrolled by a surging uprising — Obama‘s delay gave time to stop the rebels’ momentum. Obama did not have the leadership and courage to ACT when taking action was going to save lives and property. Instead, Obama sought permission/cooperation from NATO and the UN (while simultaneously ignoring Congress!). It is typical for Obama — he acts multilaterally in international matters but acts unilaterally in domestic matters: a global participant and a national autocrat.
TheGreyPiper
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:28pm“Those people are destroying Libya, they hate Libya, they’re destroying the Libyan citizens.”
Sounds like Sock Puppet talking about Republicans.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:28pmMr. prez…..load our girls and boys in the military up…….getem home and out of that hell hole. The war is over. While you are at it do the same in afganistan. Lotus.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:31pmYou don’t get it do you Lotus? The “prez” as you call him wants as many of our guys killed or maimed as he can possibly get. That way, they will not be here on our soil to protect us from his and his goons when he gives the order. Next stop, Syria. Just watch. Fortunately, there are enough former Mils, Oathkeepers, and Patriots to smoke the traitors when it happens.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:24pmSo didja know that ol’ Moammar Kadaffi has a couple of brothers just as crazy as he is?
Yeah, Larrymar and Curlymar!
badump-bump
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:31pmAnd Shempmar and Curly Joemar.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:18pmLets shoot our guns into the air, ooohh what fun! What? What about gravity??
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:17pmI don’t want to know anything about this war in Libya except for: Why hasn’t Obama been tried for treason and sentenced to death for this unConstitutional war?!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:16pmObama will be reelected because of this successful overthrow of gadaffi.You rabid right wingers lose either way.[You are war mongerers until the wars benefit the muslims and obama. You stand for nothing and your own policies come back to bite you].Those muslim- killing -bombs which made you giddy with anti-muslim genocidal fantasies will be his re-election, as these muslim dictators are toppled by their people with obamas’ help.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:44pmSMELLY ELLY, You do know that Lybian citizens are not allowed to vote for Obama in 2012, right?
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 10:57am@rose-ellen
I’ve tried to respond to you here like three times already, and it’s not letting me post. TheBlaze must have added some strange criteria to their filter.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:13pmNow Obama will declare this to be HIS victory; crowing all the while as terrorists take control and impose their version of law and order via Sharia terms.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:16pmYes he will. But only after he finishes his round of golf.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:20pmKhaddafi is a terrorist himself. I hope you’re not expressing some sort of dismay at the prospect of seeing his head taken off. This was one of the few jobs Reagan didn’t finish adequately.
Report Post »Ready2Rumble
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:32pmThese people think they are going to get democracy???? Have any of them bothered to look at Egypt to see what happened there? These folks are going to be under Sharia law with a leader 10x worse than Khaddaffi faster than they can say “Allah Akhbar” and they will be wondering what went wrong.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:12pmLMAO…. as the rebels kill 1000 of their own while jumping up and down, firing into the air in celebration. Can we say…. FLASH MOB?
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 7:26pmYes, a bullet falling from the air can kill you but you have to understand that the critical velocity as the bullet falls is much slower then when it gets shot (air resistance). Still, it’s idiotic what these guys do with guns. Feel sorry for the thousands of folks that will get assasinated due to revenge killings too. Have little hope that there will be any peace in Libya anytime soon not to mention all the guarilla warfare that will happen. :)
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 21, 2011 at 8:01pmDead is dead, by a slow bullet or a fast bullet, lol. But I get your drift.
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