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Clashes, fires reported in Libya's capital
The Herald-Mail ^ | 02/21/2011 | Bob Drogin

Posted on 02/21/2011 5:49:11 AM PST by FreeAtlanta

Anti-government protests raged Monday for the first time in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, with unconfirmed media reports of pro-regime snipers firing into crowds, bloody clashes on the city's main square, and fires blazing in key government buildings. Al Jazeera reported that a fire was burning inside the People's Hall, a symbol of longtime strongman Moammar Kadafi's repressive regime. TV images ......posted using frpa

(Excerpt) Read more at herald-mail.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: capital; chaos; clashes; fires; islam; leftist; libya; libyas; reported; tripoli
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To: PapaBear3625

Very true.


21 posted on 02/21/2011 7:01:00 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Allegra

More usually like the French revolution than the American one.


22 posted on 02/21/2011 7:05:01 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: SunkenCiv

The end of Quaddaffi couldn’t happen to a nicer islamist dictator.


23 posted on 02/21/2011 8:34:52 AM PST by TheOldLady ("I am optimistic... [and] greatly heartened by the response of America in 2010..." - Lazamataz)
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To: TheOldLady

:’)


24 posted on 02/21/2011 8:51:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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25 posted on 02/21/2011 10:24:31 AM PST by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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To: PapaBear3625

The primary difference between the American and the French revolutions was that the former based its claims on faith in the One Who made us. The latter did not.


26 posted on 02/21/2011 10:42:15 AM PST by EternalVigilance (No President who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. - JK Polk)
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To: L,TOWM
Arab military regimes have always given lip service to Islamic clerics, but they tend to ignore them in practice; this is a hope.

We're not going to get a Jeffersonian democracy out of the Middle East, but we can avoid the Moslem Brotherhood's grasp on power.

27 posted on 02/21/2011 4:12:34 PM PST by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

i do believe that the muslim brotherhood is not on the side of the protestors, but will have to muscle in to take it away from these people who, i believe, want what is promised in iraq.... freedom to choose... if it disintegrates into a caliphate, then all hell will break loose...

this administration should demand a constitutional move to protect individual human rights immediately... but i doubt they will.

teeman


28 posted on 02/21/2011 4:48:18 PM PST by teeman8r (armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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