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The Quilliam Foundation published 'Libya after General Younis’s murder: Q and A with Noman Benotman' on the 3rd:...

Thanks to Enduring America for the signpost to an update on the rebel activity in the western mountains of Libya - in the NYT:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/world/africa/26libya.html?_r=1

A curious mixture of photos of rebel weapons, I noted the FN SLRs:http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/diy-weapons-of-the-libyan-rebels/100086/

A commentary from Australia, which draws...

A lengthy IISS Strategic Comment on the situation:http://www.iiss.org/publications/strategic-comments/past-issues/volume-17-2011/june/nato-steps-up-the-pace-in-libya/

A shorter article - with a...

A good analysis of the Libyan situation and the problems with intervention:



Link:http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/02/libyan_limbo?page=0,0

Other issues have removed the daily...

I missed this. An IISS list of contributions and a map:http://www.iiss.org/whats-new/iiss-voices/operation-odyssey-dawn-ellamy-harmattan-mobile/

IIRC some nations within NATO have declared no...

Just overheard a very direct report by Marie Colvin, The Times reporter in the city, very similar to "Where is NATO, this city is being shelled, why cannot they stop them?".

Undoubtedly the media...

Graycap,

You asked:

Yes, you are the Italian and thank you.:)

I was aware of Gadafy's role in Africa, which has complicated any response by the AU and others. The comment on Algerian-Libyan...

Tequila,

Good catch the LAT report.

The capture of a border crossing was reported here without any context or helpful comment; almost as if the rebels had crossed over the border.

I am sure...

JMA,

From my armchair I'd say he was in his mid-thirties and since Libya has selective conscription he could have been trained. He just poked his rifle out, squinted through the sight and fired a...

JMA asked;

Yes, in the BBC TV footage in Misrata in the last week or so. It was an adult male aiming a FN SLR with a scope through a loophole and firing a round. Yes, a film clip taken for TV.

In Post 791 JMA commented:

Having been to Grenada several times I know a little more and not one local now opposes the intervention. Grenada went through a terrible period, verging on civil war;...

Hat tip to Abu M and see:http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2011/04/quote-day.html-0

Which cites WSJ reporting from Misurata; here there has been a flurry of reporting.

The important point...

JMA,

Yes I heard the UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, on BBC Radio 4 AM today talk about:

BBC report:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13115874

Details aside...

Mark Urban, a BBC reporter and ex-soldier has a film report on the situation amidst the rebels, which ends in the WW2 defences of Tobruk, alas I fear it will not be globally...

I know this is a sub-issue in this thread, mainly for our USA members and a few who live this side of the Atlantic - the perception that Europe is not paying it's way in European security and the USA...

JMA,

Whatever happened is clearly not in the public domain, rightly so for numerous reasons. Why then has someone leaked this reported information now? Instead of clarity we have "smoke &...

An intriguing FP article on the Libyan rebels, such as this, regarding the Toyota TV elements:

Better still:

The real fighters are:
...

An odd story IMO, which cites Algerian sources, that Libyan arsenals have been emptied and taken by convoy - eight Toyota pick-up trucks - across the desert to stores in Northern...

Why Libya is really two provinces, OK way back in Classical times and only joined by the Italians in 1911:http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/6808848/ancient-and-modern-the-two-libyas.thtml

On KoW...

Mary Kaldor has long argued for a better strategy to advance human security and the mismatch between conventional Western military capabilities.

Sub-titled:

I can follow the argument, but it...

Full of adjectives and I've no idea who the author is, but it is ......

Link:http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/wests-vain-libyan-venture-must-end/story-e6frg6ux-1226026968542

I find it difficult today from my armchair to see how AQ, more particularly LIFG & AQIM, can claim 'credit' when it is a local rebellion that has survived and made gains to date due to Western air...

Opens with, citing an Italian newspaper story;

Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html...