*Libya About To Go UP IN Smoke*

[chesswarsnow]

Sorry bout that,


1. I think things may get a whole lot worse before they get better.
2. Islam has a way of self destructing, its a Islamic thing.
3. I wonder how much they think of the Lockerbie flight 103, and I wonder how those who did the terrorist attack feel, about whats taking place in their country now?
4. You can hide, but sooner or laters yas gotta pay! Egypt now Libya, who's next?
5. LINK:Pan Am Flight 103 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



"Investigators from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were lowered into the cockpit in the wreckage before it was moved from the crash site, and while the bodies of the flight crew were still in the cockpit, they concluded that no emergency procedures had been started. The pressure control and fuel switches were both set for cruise, and the crew had not used their oxygen masks, which would have been required within five seconds of a rapid depressurisation of the aircraft"



Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

 

[chesswarsnow]

Sorry bout that,


1. Oh, and,......*CHECKMATE*!!!!!
2. Unless some one gets in the oil and gas fields and protects them, they will be set on, *fire*!
3. More importantly those assets should be protected over the people of Libya, the people of Libya depend on the income of oil products, if thats gone, so are they, and become dependent on who?
4. The open tit of the world, *USA*.



Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

 

[waltky]

Well, at least we got ships on the way to the area...

U.S. Unsure About Military Options for Libya
Wednesday, March 02, 2011 Washington (AP) - The Obama administration is weighing its military options for Libya, conscious that it may need to flex U.S. muscle to help usher Moammar Gadhafi out of power but fearful of provoking even deadlier violence from a regime that has shown little restraint in attacking its own people.

The U.S. military also has no interest in getting bogged down in a third war. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that any military action in the North African country must be carefully considered because it would have broad consequences for the region and the U.S. military, affecting even the effort in Afghanistan. And military leaders said it would be difficult to organize even the relatively modest threat of a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent Gadhafi from launching aerial assaults on his opponents.

"We also have to think about, frankly, the use of the U.S. military in another country in the Middle East," Gates said, a reference to the challenges involved with adding another war to the one in Iraq and the potential for backlash in the Arab world. 'We're sensitive about all of these things, but we will provide the president with a full range of options." Gates' caution contrasted with the more strident tone adopted by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who warned that Libya "could become a peaceful democracy or it could face protracted civil war" amid continued violent clashes between government forces and those seeking Gadhafi's ouster.

Clinton told Congress the U.S. must lead an international response to the crisis, including expanding already tough financial and travel sanctions against Gadhafi, his family and confidants and possibly imposing a no-fly zone. "The United States continues to look at every single lever it can use against the Gadhafi regime," she said. But the military seemed keen to temper the rhetoric.

Gates said he had ordered two Navy amphibious warships into the Mediterranean Sea, along with an extra 400 Marines, in case they are needed to evacuate civilians or provide humanitarian relief. And while he did not rule out other options, such as providing air cover for Libyan rebels, he made clear he has little enthusiasm for direct military intervention.

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Libya uprising: 5 steps the world is taking
The international community is struggling to respond to the escalating Libya conflict. Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has warned of “bloodshed” if other countries intervene, and the opposition rebels have yet to formally request military assistance. Here's what's been done so far.

Sanctions and asset freezes

The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Feb. 26 to impose tough sanctions on Muammar Qaddafi and his associates, including an arms embargo, travel ban, and asset freeze. The travel ban affects 15 people other than Mr. Qaddafi, while the asset freeze affects only six others, reported The Washington Post. In accordance with the UN measure, Spain today froze a tourism project owned by Qaddafi, reported Reuters.

The United States and and European Union also announced sanctions of their own. In the US, sanctions include an asset freeze of $30 billion – the largest asset seizure in US history, according to The Wall Street Journal – and a ban on US companies working with any of Libya's state-owned companies, including the National Oil Corporation (NOC). The European Union has not yet disclosed details of its sanctions, which were approved March 1, but there are rumors, according to the Journal, that they include a ban on Libyan businesses linked to Qaddafi. Britain, Austria, and Germany announced asset freezes of their own ahead of the EU sanctions.

Switzerland, which is not an EU member, was the first to freeze assets belonging to Qaddafi, on Feb. 24.

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[waltky]

Obama gettin ready to give Khaddafi a gob-smackin'...


Obama signals willingness to intervene militarily in Libya if crisis worsens
Friday, March 4, 2011 - President Obama said Thursday that he had ordered plans giving the U.S. military "full capacity to act, potentially rapidly," in Libya if the situation there deteriorates.

"I don't want us hamstrung," Obama said. He cited the possibility of a humanitarian crisis, or "a situation in which defenseless civilians were finding themselves trapped and in great danger," or "a stalemate that over time could be bloody" if Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi continues to resist international demands that he step down. Gaddafi "has lost legitimacy to lead, and he must leave," the president said.

But in his first public statement on Libya since the outbreak of widespread armed conflict between opposition forces and those loyal to Gaddafi, Obama expressed several notes of caution, stressing that the United States must act only "in consultation . . . with the international community." "The region will be watching carefully to make sure we're on the right side of history," Obama said at a White House news conference with visiting Mexican President Felipe Calderon. As with Egypt and Tunisia, he said, U.S. interests were best served if the United States was not seen as engineering or imposing a particular outcome.

Having raised the possibility of establishing a no-fly zone over Libya, and after moving warships into the Mediterranean, the United States and its allies appeared Thursday to step back from military intervention, even as opposition forces in Libya continued to call for assistance from foreign air power. After their unexpected victory Wednesday over well-armed Gaddafi forces in the oil port of Brega, rebel fighters regrouped to bury their dead and to lay plans to carry the fight toward Tripoli, Libya's embattled capital.

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Libya preventing refugees from leaving as fighting escalates
March 4, 2011 - 'Libya no good!' chanted refugees who had already made it across the Tunisia-Libya border. The flow of refugees has suddenly dropped 80 percent.

Satellite photographs indicate that Libya is slowing the exodus of migrant workers west to Tunisia, stopping them just shy of the border where the flow of more than 90,000 refugees over the past 10 days has suddenly begun to dry up. There has been an “artificial stop where the numbers have abruptly gone down 80 percent and no one knows why,” said Andrew Mitchell, the British Secretary of State for International Development, as he visited a transit camp at this remote Tunisia frontier Friday.

“Two days ago 10,000 came across the border, and yesterday 1,863 came across the border,” said Mr. Mitchell, noting that satellite data now being analyzed showed numbers of people at a point 10 miles from the border inside Libya. “There’s been a change, and it doesn’t feel right. It’s too abrupt for it to be a natural change.”

Tunisian military and police officers spoke to many who had crossed the border, but their accounts were “so contradictory” that they were unable to ascertain what was happening inside Libya. “In humanitarian terms, that makes it extremely difficult to plan,” said Mitchell. “We need to plan in a way that we can scale up rapidly for a humanitarian situation.”

A human column of Bangladeshis

 

[chesswarsnow]

Sorry bout that,


1. Looks like Saudi Arabia IS next.
2. The King came back from a medical leave, and promised to dole out 37 billion in chump change, to appease the masses of local terrorists.
3. Face it, if you're a Muslim Arab, you're potentially a terrorist, if things don't go well for you.
4. We are looking at the very same things here in USA, and soon there will be open debates on what needs to be done about it.
5. The only thing we have to fear is, *Political Correctness*, if we an get past this fear, we can finally do whats needed, get rid of Islam.
6. Are the American Leaders so stupid to sit back and *Do Nothing*?
7. England and the Australia are beginning to wake up, is it time we woke up too?
8. Will Saudi Arabia, find itself in *Times of Trouble*?
9. Link:Saudi Arabia bans all protest and marches - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com




"RIYADH — Saudi Arabia said Saturday it would ban all protests and marches after minority Shiites staged small protests in the oil-producing eastern province.

Security forces would use all measures to prevent any attempt to disrupt public order, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state television.

What you need to know about the Mideast unrest
..The ban follows a series of protests by Saudi Shiites in the kingdom's east in the past weeks mainly to demand the release of prisoners they say are long held without trial.

Saudi Arabia's Shiite minority mostly live in the east, which holds much of the oil wealth of the world's top crude exporter and is near Bahrain, scene of protests by majority Shiites against their Sunni rulers.

Saudi Shiites complain they struggle to get senior government jobs and other benefits like other citizens. "



10. Is this the beginning of the end of Islam as we know it?
11. No folks, this is the beginning of Islam going *Nutjob* on us all, and we will have to face up to the facts, and do something about it, and very soon.
12. Islam is *The Anti-Christ*, and is being sturred up of Satan, and Islam is Satan's army and is about to launch into its attack on Israel, no worries, I know how it ends, everything works out fine, Islam gets itself wiped out, across the planet, and the *Kingdom to Come* is ushered in.



Regards,
SirJamesofTexas