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Thread #136495   Message #3211545
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
23-Aug-11 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bombing of Tripoli March-April, 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Bombing of Tripoli March-April, 2011
Charley, "catastrophic victory" as they call it - ie victory before the rebels are sufficiently organised to avoid a power vacuum - is a problem that NATO people were aware of and warning against, as reported in The (London) Times. I can't give you a link because I am not a subsciber to the online edition.

How well organised are the rebels so far? Not at all, if their farcical atempt to detain Gadaffi's sons is anything to go by. Here's a cut-and-paste for the BBC's live internet stream a few minutes ago:

Libya's former envoy to the UN, says the rebels had two of Col Gaddafi's sons in their custody but they managed to escape. "This is a popular revolution," said Ibrahim Dabbashi, who defected from Cold Gaddafi's government in February. The rebels "don't have any training in the field of security," Associated Press quoted him as saying.