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The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company. Perhaps when this conflict is over those rebels can become time management consultants. They sure do get a lot done. What a skilled bunch of rebels - they can fight a war during the day and draw up a new central bank and a new national oil company at night without any outside help whatsoever.
Libyan rebel leader spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia
WASHINGTON - The new leader of Libya's opposition military spent the past two decades in suburban Virginia but felt compelled — even in his late-60s — to return to the battlefield in his homeland, according to people who know him.
Khalifa Hifter was once a top military officer for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, but after a disastrous military adventure in Chad in the late 1980s, Hifter switched to the anti-Gadhafi opposition. In the early 1990s, he moved to suburban Virginia, where he established a life but maintained ties to anti-Gadhafi groups.
Late last week, Hifter was appointed to lead the rebel army, which has been in chaos for weeks. ...
[ "Appointed" by WHO? ]
Since coming to the United States in the early 1990s, Hifter lived in suburban Virginia outside Washington, D.C. Badr said he was unsure exactly what Hifter did to support himself, and that Hifter primarily focused on helping his large family.
Originally posted by TKDRL
Freeze their banks, check. Embargo them from selling oil, check. Rebels start their own bank, and start selling oil that doesn't even belong to them, checkmate. Yep, this has been started, fueled and helped by at least one letter agency, no doubt in my mind. Are people really so blind they think some ragtag rebels could be doing this?
Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by ThaLoccster
Try opening up a oil company or a bank in a STABLE society, and see how fast that goes. And we are to believe in an unstable country, they can do it this fast? Sounds like a stretch to me...
Originally posted by sirjunlegun
The selfish part of me thinks well maybe gas will go down.
Originally posted by Pirateofpsychonautics
I wonder who the biggest purchaser of this oil will be and who will dictate the sell price....