Posted on 03/30/2011 4:53:24 PM PDT by kristinn
Client #9 CNN interview with New Yorker reporter John Lee in Libya says rebels where he is in Benghazi number in high hundreds to 1500, badly outgunned and outnumbered.
nah- they’re too busy whining about GOP budget cuts...
He's playing down reports of al Qaeda in Libya. Says he's seen a few jihadis, but they're nice and appreciative of America's help.
One problem with having a narcissistic psychopath as commander in chief is the seeming need to get all this typically secret information out to try and make the sicko appear tough.
They don’t wear boots??
Hush Puppies on the ground.
Now we are on the ground, actively assisting Al Quida gain control of the country. Wonderful. Just freaking wonderful.
A breakout of the hometowns of Libyan jihadists who showed up in Iraq:
Note that the 84% of the jihadists came from Darnah and Benghazi, both rebel strongholds that were (as pointed out in the West Point study) previously the scene of Islamist uprisings in the mid-1990's.
This is how our involvement in Vietnam started.
Granted, Libya has a relatively small population, but with hostile regimes on the horizon in Egypt and Yemen, along with the ease through which African foreign fighters can enter the country, we’re seeing the unfolding of a quagmire.
And still... we have NO FRIGGING IDEA of the Libyan insurgents’ aims!
I’m very sorry for the families of those troops whose lives will be lost in the coming ground action. How should the notifications be worded... “Please know your son/daughter gave his/her life for the flag of islam?” Because it sure as hell wasn’t for the cause of freedom.
Because Jihadis have every incentive to tell us they’re there and will take over once we do their work [not]
That would be Mike Spann. Jonny Spann is his father.
First American killed in this Afghanistan war. CIA, correct?
I so wish the Libyan Army would pour in there, wipe that contingent out, and moot this whole issue. We have NO business there!!!!!
Thank you for posting those charts
Why are we telegraphing ourselves?
/no need to answer...it was rhetorical.
Mike, right. My bad.
The CIA sent small teams of operatives into Libya after the agency's station in the capital was forced to close, and CIA officers assisted in the rescue of one of the two crew members of an F-15E Strike Eagle that crashed, an American official and a former U.S. intelligence officer told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
SNIP
Any Al Qaeda presence = total Al Qaeda presence. Same thing.
Day late and a dollar short I’d say. Gaddafi closing in for the kill. I had thought this coming weekend we would see Tripoli invested. Instead, Benghazi...
The knives are coming out. Imagine being one of those rebels that gave interviews on CNN/FOX/NBC/ or even appeared on YOUTUBE. I would be Egypt bound, with great rapidity...
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