[gleeaikin]

This entire article, and if you comment without reading it you are ill informed, is one of the best on urban warfare I have ever read. It is highly descriptive of what is going on in Misrata, how the defense is being handled, etc. A serious problem is Qadaffi’s mercenary snipers who are killing anyone they can, who sticks their head out a door, including children who just want to play outside. It also describes in detail how the whole mess started with a few demonstrators who supported Banghazi, and how it escallated with Qadaffi’s ham fisted handling of the situation.

[Da Mav]

Like most articles in The Guardian, you are less informed after reading the propaganda than before it. Nowhere does the article explain who the rebels are or why we should “give a rat sass”.

Clearly the article wants us to believe that one side is responsible for all the bad things. And that this evil side is opposed by the al Qaeda side. If that doesn’t get your nose twitching at the aroma of BS... you’ve never worked in a barn.

The only intervention we ought to consider in Libya is selling Pay Per View as our enemies fight it out.

[iopscusa]

Ill informed??? You are delusional to think this article is anything but another piece of disinformation to boost these ‘rebels’ aka Islamic invaders. I read this Guardian piece and it’s just typical of the captured press hoping to force the weak minded westerners into putting boots on the ground. These rebel scumbags will hopefully be wiped out soon w/o the West putting any forces on the ground to fight in this hellhole! The only silver lining is an escalation will further damage the Obama Administration.

[firebrand]

I see that you and Al Guardian are on the same side here.

“the night cometh, when no man can work”

I hope I don’t end up saying I told you so anytime soon.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The article is misleading...the whole thing started when Al Qaeda operatives raided a Libyan Army depot in Al Baida.

Libya Islamists 'seize arms, take hostages'

[Marine_Uncle]

It is a basic repeat of what I read so often taking place in central and northern Iraq as well of course the many river towns along the Euphrates river in al-Anbar.
It is like replace the name of Misrata with Ar Ramadi or say Fallujah and one sees an exact same situation taking place.
And to some degree equivalent reporting. No one knows how many innocent where killed by mostly sniping by Saddamist and radical Sunni groups in general in those two cities, verse how many by US troops.

[Cicero]

Nonsense. The terrorists who started this have been using innocent civilians for their own purposes. Unfortunately, they started a war to take over from Kaddafi, and when you have people shooting at each other in cities, innocents will get hurt.

The rebellion was nearly over, when the jerks stepped in for “humanitarian” reasons and started bombing the government forces. Now, thousands more have been killed, and the war has been extended, for no good reason.

The press is entirely one-sided. Left-wing propagandists doing their best to portray Muslim terrorists and leftist agitators as the good guys.

Kaddafi certainly has his bad points, but he has done more for the people of his country than most Arab leaders. They hate him for that.

[Blood of Tyrants]

A serious problem is Qadaffi’s mercenary snipers who are killing anyone they can, who sticks their head out a door, including children who just want to play outside.

And how reliable is the source for that info?

[demshateGod]

That is a good article. Very well written.