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Did Libya Just Invade Tunisia?
Sounds crazy but, "Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi crossed into neighbouring Tunisia and fought a gun battle with Tunisian troops in a frontier town as Libya's conflict spilt beyond its borders...Pro-Gaddafi forces fired shells into the town of Dehiba, damaging buildings and injuring at least one resident, and a group of them drove into the town in a truck, local people and a Reuters photographer in the town said. The Libyan government troops were pursuing anti-Gaddafi rebels from the restive Western Mountains region of Libya who fled into Tunisia in the past few days after Gaddafi forces overran the border post the rebels had earlier seized." So is this the carte blanche that Pro Oil liberation forces need in order to justify a land invasion of Libya? And what happens to oil in that case when Gaddafi's back is truly against the wall?
From the Telegraph:
"There were lots of clashes in the town this morning. Lots of gunshots. The Tunisian military clashed with Gaddafi's forces ... Some of Gaddafi's people were killed," said Reuters photographer Zoubeir Souissi from the town.
"There are a lot of Gaddafi's people who were injured. They are in the hospital in Dehiba," he said.
Two residents also told Reuters that shells had fallen on the town from pro-Gaddafi positions across the border in Libya.
"Rounds from the bombardment are falling on houses.... A Tunisian woman was injured," one of the residents, called Ali, told Reuters by telephone.
He said later the fighting and shelling had stopped. "The Tunisian army is combing the town. We have no idea about the fate of Gaddafi's forces there because the Tunisian army closed the gates to the town and nobody is allowed to enter."
A Libyan rebel said anti-Gaddafi fighters had retaken control of the border crossing near Dehiba. The main crossing into Libya, two hours' drive to the north, remains firmly under Libyan government control.
"Right here at this point I'm looking at the new (rebel) flag flying up there at the border. The rebels have got control of it, the freedom fighters. We're just in the process of opening it up," rebel Akram el Muradi said by telephone.
Tunisia, which recently lost its own dictator, has decided to issue a statement, sternly warning against further incursions or else:
Tunisia's government late on Thursday issued a statement condemning incursions by Libyan forces after shells fired by Gaddafi loyalists fell into the desert near the border.
"Given the gravity of what has happened ... the Tunisian authorities have informed the Libyans of their extreme indignation and demand measures to put an immediate stop to these violations," a statement from the foreign ministry said.
Friday's clashes marked the first time that Libyan government ground forces had crossed the border and entered a Tunisian town.
h/t Stuart
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the UN now has an international aggression excuse to turn the screw on Q-daffy. The Brit and French special forces will get the green light for an even bigger bunker blitzkrieg
Muammar, it has been reliably reported by the unimpeachable reuterz noos spigot, is also about to invade Iraq and Afghanistan to send the alien invaders packing and to take from them the oil and the heroin which are wasted simply propping up all their bankrupt "banks" such as GSuks, JPMorgue, boa, etc. etc.
False flag, black ops CIA. Now gives NATO the excuse they need for boots.
DOW doesn't care. SPY doesn't care. Gold weak, silver weak, oil weak.
Up is down, down is up. Black is white, white is black.
Order out of chaos : New World Order.
Why, I ask you, should anybody care? It's really just a whoop-de-fucking-do, right? Libyans (presumably the 'Quadaffy' variation) exchanging the usual inaccurate gunfire (really just the ineffectual gestures that the Arab male is so fond of) with Tunisians (the 'we lost our dictator' variations). Why bring up the NWO? Weren't you told not to bring that up? Didn't you get the memo, MonkeyBoy?
The last communique I got from Cheney in the Bilderberg/Trilateral Commision bunker said ixnay on any public discussion of the plans.
Dick is probably looking for you right now.
consider your "carte blanche......sentence as a perfect bulls eye
better get those dozers in there to carry off Kaddafi's 599s too
all-kinda did it
Maybe the falafel is just that much better in Tunisia.
An army marches on its stomach you know...
Didn't you get the NWO memo about the "soldiers without borders" campaign?
Don't need no stinkin borders.
I think the Archduke Ferdinand just got capped.
my thoughts exactly
in Poland with a bolt action rifle and a boxcutter
It's equally typical that such "small" events get completely overlooked, no reaction whatsoever.
Just another butterfly flapping its wings.
Well, just look at that butterfly's effects down in Mississipi.
I saw Michelle O standing out in public wearing a ratty white t-shirt with her gut hanging out.
Can we blame that on the butterfly?
I believe the soldiers were trying to show their passports to the rebels who controlled the border crossing. It's the rebels fault for running away.
I am shocked at this behavior. Invading another sovereign nation, without a declaration of war and in defiance of international law, on only the most specious of justifications. Good thing the United States would never do something like that.
Correct. This type of thing would never happen in the USA We have our constitution to protect agianst that.
Global dictatorships don't need permission
+1 lol
haha lol that's like that time Britain invaded Germany on specious justifications. Hate it when global hegemons push around the nice little guys. Probably for oil or cocoa or something.
+ 1000!
I had the same kind of event happening to me just a few days ago.
I typed in my GPS go to a city in West Flanders and I ended up over the border of France.
but then you have an excuse...you're a Belgian! GPS or no GPS.
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I had the same kind of event happening to me just a few days ago.
I typed in my GPS go to a city in West Flanders and I ended up over the border of France."
Did they surrender?
John McCain: "We're all Tunisians now"
does he eat couscous?
Looks like europeans and NATO realy fucked up and need some "help" ... jesus help us to survive jerking of powerz
Tunisia has better looking women, or guys!
as per CNBC headline:
US Says Gaddafi Troops Raping, Issued Viagrawhy viagra? that's for seventy year olds!
They should go organic and use Ginsing
White Rhino horn....
Ginsing doesn't do it for 70 year olds. Voice of experience.
First winner of the ZH Most Candid Truthful Statement award...
Congrats!
can't stop progress!
Makes me wonder at which point they will start throwing babies from incubators on to their stiff sabres?
Ten reasons why the U.S. role in Libya is a CIA operation :
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_7783.shtml
Ten reasons why the U.S. role in Libya is a CIA operation :
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_7783.shtml
Been saying this along.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-military-says-repositioning-forces-area-around-libya-be-able-provide-flexibility-options#comment-1004341
Did TRE hit the motherlode?
Oh.... I get it now. (After running and checking yahoo finance TRE quote) Duh!
Tunisia is where the revolution began months ago. I can see why failed-state Libya harbours animosity towards the neighbouring country.
Sure and NATO is bombing Libya purely for humanitarian reasons
If I were to venture an educated guess: any former security apparatchiks escaping punishment from Tunisia who found work in Libya killing more people at random for Quadaffi do not differentiate from operating over the Libyan border.
As for NATO, its no good to them unless its a turkey shoot.
This is another Gulf of Tonkin deal. The SAS have been operating out of Tunisia in support of some Berber tribes. They are trying to entice Libya over the border so that British can put ground troops in Tunisia for humanitarian purposes and hence operate closer to Tripoli. Hey, look a royal wedding! Its a little disconcerting to see the UN (Russia and China) (must be a "let the US die by a thousand paper cuts" policy) using a rubber stamp on these operations. Let's hope that Obama doesn't use the Mexican 'drug war' to put blue helmets into Arizona.
I bet those blue helmets show real good in a scope... just sayin.
The people in Juarez have been asking for blue helmets for months.
Yes because a bunch of impotent UN cops will stop the violence just like they did in the Congo
"Borders?"....these are nothing more then political boundaries created by some far away powerful nation at some time in the past......the Real Borders are the ancient Tribal boundaries that still exist on the ground.
Once again, it's "Fairy Land" v. "on the ground" reality that determines their intentions.
That being said, I hope their conflict ends soon, Sarkozy gets his Nobel Peace Prize for bombing the heack out of Libya and we all hope the oil starts flowing again.
John McCain: 'The Libyan Rebels Are My Heroes!'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijA8GDH5M2w
Keep supporting them with MSM propaganda and funds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE2B4UbGd-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8bpNgB1oEk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdW-4BulJFA
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dn-izaczn2Fk
What eludes most of the folks is that what's happening in the MENA countries, ie Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrein, Yemen, etc - is all part of the plan to radicalize the whole region. This is going to be a test bed for a whole bunch of Islam regimes who've managed to "break free from their dictators" and then "UNEXPECTEDLY" (haha!) went rogue.
Libyan rebellion has radical Islamist fervor: Benghazi link to Islamic militancy:U.S. Military Document Reveals
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2011/03/17/libyan-rebellion-has-radical-islamist-fervor-benghazi-link-islamic-militancyus-milit
"John McCain: 'The Libyan Rebels Are My Heroes!' "
He probably meant "The lesbian divas are my whoreO's"
Gaddafi will fight to the finish, he has made that clear. He is arming the citizens of the country. He knows foreigner cannot win a gorilla war. The locals always have the advantaged. Snipe here, snipe there, strategically placed bombs, and the invaders quickly become demoralized. I keep wondering when people will care about the chaos in the Middle East. It grows and grows and nobody seems to care. I guess the people will care if the oil is cutoff, and the price heads to $200+ per bbl. That will get peoples attention. Until then...
http://www.TheAngryGrapes.Com
He knows foreigner cannot win a gorilla war
Can they win a chimpanzee war?
The people don't want these wars. It is the Western governments and media that are fanning the flames of hate.
it's not the westerners. try the other direction, it's the Persians and their minions doing the islamic boogie.
Doesn't anyone remember Khomeinie and his doctrine of "Invisible Hands"?
buncha children around here with no memory and no knowledge of history.
dbl post
False Flag - excuse to go groundtroopin' for NATO, to protect their newest member...Tunisia. What's that, you missed the Press Conference that they were added to NATO ? Oh well, it's here somewhere...I believe the white house has a backdated layered document around they can post up later online
Stop the madness, bring our troops home. End the empire. Let the Arabs manage themselves.
Palin is wrong about pretty much everything except her label "lamestream" media. When is the last time you saw a real report on Iraq or Afganistan?
I'm not a fan of hers, but is she wrong when she said that we need to balance the budget and live within our means?
I'm not so sure it was an invasion... maybe they were just taking the super secret libian winnebago for a spin?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083131/
What a sham....Q-Daffy is just working for McCain&LittleMissSpoke.
CIA did what?
Black Swan! Escalation Next!
The rebel forces aren't very good at fighting, but they are hell on getting two sources to tell a reporter what he wants to hear so they can get NATO to fight for them.
It's rather past time for Russian military advisors to arrive on the scene to work with Gadaffi's troops. Maybe a few Chinese oil advisors to work with Gadaffi, too. Fair is fair.
I doubt it. These little fairy tales are all coming from the Western governments and media.
This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And as always, in a situation like this, the only question that needs to be asked to arrive at the answer of what the fuck is really going on is: Cui Bono?
Party on at Exxon and the Oil Family tonight.
Party on in Afghanistan by the Terror Family.
Party on in Iraq, Syria, and who knows where.
Obama the Warrior on the March, A strong leader to be re-elected.
AMERICA AT WAR
again
yup :(
Now why in the world would Gaddafi attack Tunisia...????....how can we believe this news.......??....they are looking for an excuse for an Land Invasion anyway/......
Now why in the world would Gaddafi attack Tunisia...???
Maybe because he heard there was a washed silk camo cloth done up in subdued desert reds, oasis greens and sunset oranges for sale in the souk in Tunis.
"This night for the first time Libyan regular soldiers fired on our territory. Since 5.45 A.M. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met by bombs."
Arbitrary lines are being redrawn.
there is something in tunisia that was causing problems for old Muamar. You betcha.
maybe Q-daffy wants to take Carthage. He has seen the roman light and is now singing "blame it all on Carthage, boys!" Like Old Cato did! ...