NATO bombs Tripoli, sending Khadafy into rage

Boston.com ^ | June 18, 2011 | By Adam Schreck and Hadeel Al-Shalchi

[Jet Jaguar]

Provoked by renewed daylight NATO bombing of his capital, Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy raged against the alliance yesterday, screaming his message and daring Western forces to keep it up.

Khadafy spoke in a telephone call that was piped through loudspeakers to a few thousand people demonstrating in Tripoli’s Green Square at the end of a day when NATO intensified bombing runs across the capital. State television carried the Khadafy message live, then repeated it a few minutes later.

“NATO will be defeated,’’ he yelled in a hoarse, agitated voice. “They will pull out in defeat.’’

The sound of automatic weapons being fired defiantly into the air echoed through the square for hours as carloads of pro-Khadafy supporters, many with children in tow, crammed the streets leading to the plaza.

Although there was a large presence of police and soldiers in the square, many of those who were shooting wore civilian clothes.

Protesters and foreign journalists in the capital said it was one of the biggest such demonstrations since airstrikes began.

“Everyone in Libya wants Colonel Khadafy, not some traitors,’’ Rajab Hamman, a 51-year-old engineer from Tripoli, said in the square as another demonstrator shot a magazine load from an automatic rifle into the air a few steps away. “These are the real, true Libyans,’’ he said of the crowd.

East of Tripoli, Khadafy’s forces exchanged intense shelling with rebels who are slowly breaking the government siege on their western stronghold, the port city of Misurata.

Doctors at the Hikma hospital in Misurata said nine rebel fighters and a woman living near the battle were killed and 30 others were wounded. Government casualties were not known.

[Polybius]

The Western powers won’t like the guy who replaces him, and will come to perceive his reign as “The Golden Years.” In time, they’ll come to see that this whole thing was a bad mistake.

It's like 1979 all over again.

[hinckley buzzard]

Most objective observers recognize that NATO is engaged in a totally illegal assault against a sovereign state. There is no legitimacy, since the "no fly zone" lie has been long discarded, even by the eurotrash. This is naked aggression against a government, granted an autocratic government, but no worse than ten of its neighbors.

NATO may actually accomplish the feat of making Quaddafi into the underdog. Personally I hope he outlasts the illegitimate euros.

[hinckley buzzard]

December 1942?

[240B]

How is bombing Tripoli ‘protecting civilians’?

That is an aggressive action, not a defensive or protective action. (oh but shhhh, this is not a war btw)

[onedoug]

He can´t?

[onedoug]

And the cowards in Congress?....

[PA-RIVER]

1941 oops.