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Groups of young male volunteers left their homes in Tripoli for Benghazi, where they learned the art of insurgent warfare from an international force of covert units composed of the British SAS and MI6 agents and troops from the French, Qatar and United Arab Emirates special forces. As well as training the rebels, the British government also covertly supplied 1,000 sets of body armour, advanced telecommunications equipment and night-vision goggles.
the Libyans were trained in weapons, street fighting and sabotage in a series of disused compounds across the city. Hundreds of weapons, tons of ammunition and communications equipment were smuggled into Tripoli and hidden in secret arms dumps.
by mid-August, more than 200 volunteers were trained and primed for action. They then infiltrated back into the capital, disguising themselves as fishermen, or travelling through the western mountains that ringed Tripoli.
"They went back to Tripoli and waited - they became sleeper cells," said Fadlallah Haroun, a rebel military spokesman
Originally posted by yourmaker
Our leaders are representing us in ways none of us would truly consent in.
Sleeper cells? Deceptive. Whatever happened to dialogue? Now we simply destroy countries who oppose us?
I thought we despised these tactics, or is that only for the public image?
Originally posted by Skewed
The rebels in this case, are the majority of the citizens that no longer want Gaddafi as their leader. These rebels had nothing to fight back with when Gaddafi started opening fire on the rebels/citizens. I support helping citizens at any time when the leader is killing them. Do not let the term rebel have a negative vibe, rebels are not always the bad guys.
are the majority of the citizens that no longer want Gaddafi as their leader.
These rebels had nothing to fight back with when Gaddafi started opening fire on the rebels/citizens.
Benghazi- Rebels storm a local army base and force the soldiers at gunpoint to give up there tanks and weapons Quryna reports that rebels storm and overtaken a prison in Benghazi,freeing 1,000 nonpolitical prisoners According to Reuters "Protesters in the port city of Benghazi chanted slogans demanding the resignation of prime misnter Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi. There were no immediate reports of demonstrations agaisnt Gaddafi
attacking your own country soldiers,police officers,setting fires on banks, freeing terrorists and nonpolitical prisoners from prisons well claiming that you want democracy doesn't sound very revolutionary. Now does it?
Originally posted by yourmaker
Our leaders are representing us in ways none of us would truly consent in.
Sleeper cells? Deceptive. Whatever happened to dialogue? Now we simply destroy countries who oppose us?
I thought we despised these tactics, or is that only for the public image?
Originally posted by Darce
I agree with the OP.
As a Canadian this does not represent the mentality or spirit of supporting the humanitarian role that that action was supposed to take.
These are the tactics that the bad guys use. Training and supplying non-combatant operatives to incite civil-war is what we accuse other countries of doing when we call them state-sponsors of terrorists.
This reminds me of past operations carried out in Latin-American counties in the last century. Remember the Contras? It's wrong in every way, but it works well to topple your enemies from the inside out.
Originally posted by redrose123
reply to post by Skewed
Where did you get all your wisdom? Couldn't have been from MSM. You are joking right? The Al- quada who was started by the CIA and worked for OBL in Afghanistan. The same Al-Quada who Nato and the US just sent into Libya in order to help blow the Libyian people into utter destruction. Those people that this Al-Quada and Nato claim was being killed are the same Al- Quada that was supposedly involved with the World Trade Center 9/11 diaster. You know the ones caused the Patriot Act to be enacted against the American people. After all Al-Quada terrorists might get all of us. You know the same Al-Quada that have been given the control of Libya and now have embassy and embassy employees in the US. Oh those Al-Quada! I can not believe anybody and I mean anybody believes their admitted lies and propaganda.
Originally posted by wcitizen
Originally posted by yourmaker
Our leaders are representing us in ways none of us would truly consent in.
Sleeper cells? Deceptive. Whatever happened to dialogue? Now we simply destroy countries who oppose us?
I thought we despised these tactics, or is that only for the public image?
And it gets worse. Many of those rebels are Al Qaeda, and Pepe Escobar, a Brazilian journalist, exposed yesterday in an interview that the leader of the rebels is a known Al Qaeda asset.
Not only are they being trained by coalition special forces, but the coalition is bombing towns and villages indiscriminately - including schools, private homes, etc, killing thousands of civilians just to ensure an entry route for the rebels. Basically the rebels have to do very little except wait for the bombing to be done and then waltz into a town and claim they have taken it.
It's massive massacre on a collossal scale which is going on. All for greed and lust for power.
I know it's not good form to post a link to one's own thread, so I won't, but there's a thread with lots of information on it about the media and government lies about libya.