First Egypt now Libya

[naturegirl]

Muslim Brotherhood is ready to take control in Libya now. Muammar Gaddafi needed to go but our allies are getting fewer and fewer. Those drone attacks in Afghanistan and Libya seem to be having a negative effect. We had to apologize for those drone attacks to bring our boys home.

I'm thinking his foreign policy isn't working out too well. What's Obama got up his sleeve next??

Libya's top politicians have hatched a deal that would see the Muslim Brotherhood lead the government after the country's first free elections in almost five decades takes place on Saturday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/9379022/Libya-elections-Muslim-Brotherhood-set-to-lead-government.html

 

[LogikAndReazon]

As long as they are anti-american, they have "progressives" enthusiastic support.........

 

[The T]

I saw this too...yeah we were told by so many the MB couldn't gain office...'Arab Spring' of democracy (yes little 'd')...

The MB is about as 'Democratic' as Iran...

How stupid they were.

 

[naturegirl]

I didn't know Libya was in the Mid East?????

 

[RoadVirus]

Sad and stupid people. Thousands of lives lost and entire cities turned to rubble, and they go and elect a group that advocates the creation of an archaic/draconian society.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Muslim Brotherhood is ready to take control in Libya now. Muammar Gaddafi needed to go but our allies are getting fewer and fewer. Those drone attacks in Afghanistan and Libya seem to be having a negative effect. We had to apologize for those drone attacks to bring our boys home.

I'm thinking his foreign policy isn't working out too well. What's Obama got up his sleeve next??

Libya's top politicians have hatched a deal that would see the Muslim Brotherhood lead the government after the country's first free elections in almost five decades takes place on Saturday.

Libya elections: Muslim Brotherhood set to lead government - Telegraph

A similar, but slightly different take from Michael Savage:


1. Barack Obama’s life-long anti-Zionism is being played out on the world stage. The George Soros-Jimmy Carter- Zbigniew Brzezinski- Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton complex is out to neutralize any Arab leader who is on threat to Israel, and to support those who wish, with no hesitation, the demise of the Zionist state.

2. Obama supported the arrest of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak- a long-time friend of the United States, and a friend of Israel for over 40 years. Now, we will probably see Shariah law being imposed in once-secular Egypt by the violent Muslim Brotherhood.

3. Obama has taken credit for the killing of Ghadafi, who, evil as he was, seemed not to be an enemy of the Jewish state.

a. President Obama confirmed the death of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi in a brief Rose Garden speech, welcoming the lifting of "the dark shadow of tyranny" in Libya and the definitive end of the Gadhafi dictatorship. "Without a single U.S. service member on the ground, we achieved our objective," … Is Obama hogging credit for Gadhafi's death? - Yahoo! News


4. “When the mullahcracy that seeks the nukes in order to attack Israel rigged their presidential election even more clumsily than usual in order to return Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office, Iranians poured out into the streets in protest for months. Curiously, Barack Obama made no public overtures for weeks to the opposition, and the White House at one point even confirmed the results of the rigged election. “Did Obama ignore plea for help from Iranian opposition in 2009? « Hot Air

a. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is invited to dinner at Columbia University, Ghadafi gets a bullet to the head.


5. The US under Obama seems strangely impotent with respect to Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a puppet of Iran, and foe of Israel.


6. Obama willfully delayed negotiations with Iraq on keeping troops inthat country as a counterbalance to Iran. As a result of his intentional dithering, all American troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq.

7. Obama, it seems, is out to liberate Jerusalem for the Muslims.
Michael Savage, “Trickle Down Tyranny,” chapter seven.

 

[naturegirl]

Yea, I truly believe Obama is playing right into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. Intentional?? Not 100% sure but it sure seems like he's giving them a bunch of wild cards.

 

[waltky]

Libyans gonna try democracy...

Tensions in Libya ahead of first post-Gadhafi election
6 July`12 – Fears of militia violence and calls for a boycott threatened Friday to mar Libya's first nationwide parliamentary election, a milestone on the oil-rich North African nation's rocky path toward democracy after the ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Saturday's vote for a 200-member transitional parliament caps a tumultuous nine-month transition toward democracy for the country after a bitter civil war that ended with the capture and killing of Gadhafi in October. Many Libyans had hoped the oil-rich nation of 6 million would quickly thrive and become a magnet for investment, but the country has suffered a virtual collapse in authority that has left formidable challenges. Armed militias still operate independently, and deepening regional and tribal divisions erupt into violence with alarming frequency.

On the eve of Saturday's vote, gunmen shot down a helicopter carrying polling materials near the eastern city of Benghazi, the birthplace of the revolution, killing one election worker, said Saleh Darhoub, a spokesman for the ruling National Transitional Council. The crew survived after a crash landing. Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib vowed the government would ensure a safe vote Saturday, and condemned the election worker's killing and those who seek to derail the vote. "Any action aimed at hindering the election process is against the supreme interest of the nation and serves only the remnants of the old regime," he said next to a screen showing the face of the slain worker. "It is threatening to the future of the revolution and its accomplishments … and an attempt to stop democracy for which Libyans sacrificed their souls."

It was not immediately clear who was behind Friday's shooting, but it was the latest unrest in a messy run-up to the vote that has put a spotlight on some of the major fault lines in the country — the east-west divide, the Islamist versus secularist political struggle. Many in Libya's oil-rich east feel slighted by the election laws issued by the National Transitional Council, the body that led the rebel cause during the civil war. The laws allocate the east less than a third of the parliamentary seats, with the rest going to the western region that includes Tripoli and the sparsely-settled desert south.

The east was systematically neglected and marginalized for decades by Gadhafi, and easterners are sensitive to anything they perceive of as an attempt to prolong that neglect after the sacrifices they made during the civil war. After the NTC passed election laws, several tribal leaders along with former rebel commanders in the east declared self-rule, set up their own council and formed their own army, while saying that they would boycott elections and even work to prevent Saturday's vote from taking place. They are pushing for semi-autonomy for the east.

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Libya election helicopter 'shot near Benghazi'
6 July 2012 - Saturday's historic vote is causing tensions in the east of the country

Gunmen have fired at a helicopter carrying voting material for Saturday's election, killing an electoral worker, officials have said. The helicopter made a forced landing outside the eastern town of Benghazi. The identity of the attackers is not known, but eastern Libya has been a focus of unrest by groups seeking greater regional autonomy. The parliamentary poll is the first national vote since Col Muammar Gaddafi was toppled last year.

The news came as armed men closed at least three oil export terminals in the east in protest at the vote. They are angry that the west of the country has been granted more seats in the new 200-member General National Congress than the oil-rich east. The current system allocates 100 seats to the west, 60 to the east and 40 to the south. According to Reuters news agency, about half of Libya's oil exporting capacity has been shut down as a result.

Rogue militia

"A helicopter carrying ballots and flying over the region of Hawari [south of Benghazi] was struck by small arms fire," AFP news agency quotes Col Ali al-Sheikhi as saying. He said one person, later identified as an electoral worker, was killed when the helicopter was struck by anti-aircraft fire. The more than four-decade rule of Col Gaddafi, who died in October after the eight-month uprising, has left the country deeply divided along ethnic, regional and ideological lines.

The BBC's Rana Jawad in the capital, Tripoli, says the country is still awash with weapons and there are lone regional and city brigades as well as some rogue militia groups that only take orders from themselves. More than 2,000 candidates are standing for election to the legislative body which will replace the National Transitional Council (NTC) that led the campaign against Gaddafi.

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