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Libya Threatens Counerstrikes Against Civilians, Mediterranean Traffic If Attacked As UN Set To Vote On Air Strikes At 6 PM
Minutes after the United Nations announced it would vote on imposing the No Fly Zone (resolution text link) over Libya, which is probably merely a formality at this point with virtually no hold outs on the Security Council, Libya has immediately retaliated by saying that it such a decision would open counterstrikes by Libya against any "air and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean Sea" as well as "civilian and military facilities in the country." Whether this means that Gaddafi will promptly attack his oil infrastructure as Zero Hedge first suggested 3 weeks ago is unclear, but the Crude market is not taking any chances: Brent is now up almost $4 on the day having snapped its several day losing streak.
From Reuters:
Any foreign attack on Libya will endanger air and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean basin and expose the area to both short and long term risks, the Defence Ministry said in a statement broadcast on Libyan television.
The statement said Libya would strike back at civilian and foreign targets if the country comes under attack from foreign forces."Any foreign military act against Libya will expose all air and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean Sea to danger and civilian and military (facilities) will become targets of Libya's counter-attack," said the statement.
"The Mediterranean basin will face danger not just in the short-term, but also in the long-term," it said.
The ensuing disruptions to naval traffic should Libya follow through with its threat could mean the short Japan relief-based covering spree in the market today will promptly come to an end.
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You dont need to a be a moozzi bros to state the obvious: people fighting Gaddafih's military are illegal combatants.
Plain and simple.
Plain and simple
What, you're writing your autobiography now?
Let's face it, people love to think of the US government as the world's police,
Maybe in your Edward Bernayse/Goebbels inspired Matrix. Most people around the world know the US is not a police man but a thug. A cheap thug who butchers the weak. A country which if it used its talents for good wouldn't even need armed forces (having nukes) much less a trillion dollar "defense" budget.
Get a clue.
every block needs an enforcer even if he is immoral.
The need still remains.
The many are weak and need a strong hand.
Spoken like a true psychopath. If you truly believe that then you belong in prison. Oh wait, that's for black and hispanic non-violent "drug offenders" and a job source for the uncouth redneck "drug warrior" white trash with your mentality.
You people are truly divorced from reality.
No surprise France is pushing for action, will be the perfect opportunity to bail out Portugal while the world is busy watching Japan and Libya.
do not cross the line of death
I really enjoy watching those cruise missle launches by the Navy.
Maybe they could get a camera on the one they send to Qaddafy Ducks palace (bunker, hovel) and post it on YouTube?
Why not simply go kidnap Quaddafi and drop him into the core of one of those reactors?
My avatar e-mailed me today and said that she is still interested in meeting your avatar.
I'm suffering some severe crisis fatigue here. The news is just unrelentingly bad from all for corners of the planet. When the fuck will it all calm down?
Xanax, take me away!!
That's the whole point. Don't fill your stomach on the appetizer.
Yeah - could one of you guys (or gals) call up the Chinese and get them to turn down the dial on that whole "interesting times" curse-thingey. Sheesh - the year isn't even one quarter over, and I'm exhausted already.
Well, we missed his tent in the middle of the friggin desert with nothing else around for miles once - who says we'll be any more competent this time? Any bets on whether or not the oil infrastructure is already wired, primed, and ready to blow at the throw of a switch? Libyan oil would be offline for a minimum of 6-12 months if the sabotage is done right - and I have no doubt that it would be. At some point psychotic rulers stop caring about living and start envisioning a blaze of glory, taking as much and as many with them as possible. Apres moi, le deluge.
Sure is a good thing Daffy doesn't have any nukes, right? We took care of that once and for all a few years ago, right? A man of his word, that Daffy.
Their oil is a drop in the bucket.
Back online in no time.
Do the dude and his cohorts NOW.
Move on.
So we enter the second peak of this Ferbruary 6th Oil price graph. Very accurate, UN actions and Libyas reactions, in comparison with peaks and throughs on my forecast graph.
This one will reach Brent about 10 USD higher than previous peak, so 125-130 USD, on about April 1. Conclusion could be that by April 1 Gadaffi will be taken out or Japan will get hit by a crisis that will reduce its oil consumption substantially, as oil will fall for a full month of April. Or just prices will reduce overall demand. Not too long to wait to check if that will happen:
http://saposjoint.net/Forum/download/file.php?id=2609
Oil tastes 'em 'em good.
Qduffy is a smart cookie. that should throw a monkey wrench into shtadlan Reb Shalom Bernookystein's 'recovery'; but it wont stop hofjuden getting Libya's gold. Libya will experience how gold swaps work. tungsten bitches. Fort Knox is full of them tungsten bricks.
The world's policeman is no more. How's that working out for y'all?
What this guy said about getting involved in overseas wars.
Charles A. Lindbergh (1902–1974)
Very true. All the protest songs and placards now have "Imperialism" scratched out and "Inaction" written instead.
The race to the Dark Ages is on, who will get there first?
Well put yet chilling (not in a good sense) to hear. GoDaffy should be able to raise some hell inside Europe itself so this is what these clowns want for their police state. To think of all the sheep in wolf's clothing on this site crowing for blood and oil. I for one hope they're in for a rude awakening.
To the preening morons who post on this site:
SUCK MY MOTHERFUCKING DICK
you ignorant fucks
Obama: Our first woman President
It's not personal its just good business.
The guy just threatened to massacre everyone in Bengazi. They will pass the resolution. Go long oil.
Wow Quadaffi fuck you. Just reinforcing why you need to be taken out...
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Everyone said Saddam's republican guard was going be a real issue.
When daffys troops feel too much heat, they may flee to higher ground, in the matter of hours.
The same bullshit intervention show, but on a different channel. Check you local listings.
THe only wildcard that is here, is Iran. Wonder they have been offered?
So the Jew state and house of saudshit, will have controlling interest, before long. It just takes alittle time and some collateral damage.
where is the Charles de Gaulle? Call me a cynic, but I think France wants to try this. There is nothing to test out the effectiveness of your nuclear carrier and 4.5G fighter like actually using them to impose air supremacy on a 3rd world nation.
I think France regrets not participating in Iraq as they have been desirous of "operational" experience for their armed forces for some time. The CDG is a big toy, bigger than anybody's but ours and if they can sail it and impose their will with it, suddenly France's international big-stick clout goes way up.
Hey Tyler, I think you may have misspelled "counterstrike".
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/counterstrike
Philip Giraldi laments Congress’ ignorance and ignoring of George Washington’s words in “A Farewell Address,” and says: “If contemporary Americans really believe the grand illusion that this nightmare world created by the Bushes, Clintons, and the Obamas will somehow lead to a bright and prosperous future they are delusional, if not mad.”
Here’s a quote from Giraldi’s powerful column on Antiwar.com referencing The Washington Post March 4 page one story where Scott Wilson writes on how the “US prepares for possible rise of new Islamist regimes”) :
"But, as Hillary put it somewhat ominously, they have to 'agree to play by the rules of democracy.'
Now I wouldn’t want to speculate too much, but I would guess that the rules of democracy will come from Washington and they might be somewhat tricky to navigate. The White House will also have a pretty fixed idea on what constitutes bad behavior. I would bet being nice to Israel will be right up there on both lists. Antisocial behavior will quite possibly also include mentioning America’s propensity to invade other countries and the war crimes and other incidents that seem to follow the flag. Minor transgressions like waterboarding, rendition, Abu Ghraib, and Guantánamo should best be forgotten if one wants to play at democracy. And then there are the usual politically correct trimmings – free trade, women’s and gay rights, religious freedom, and labor unions. Will they have to agree to 'choice?'
"Farther back in the newspaper, on the op ed page, Charles Krauthammer picks up the Iraq theme, congratulating himself and his other neocon friends for having the perspicacity to embrace the George W. Bush 'freedom agenda' that is currently liberating the entire world and which started in Baghdad, where, regrettably, the democracy remains 'fragile and imperfect.' After seven years and hundreds of billions of dollars invested, one might note that perfection is also something that costs a lot. As ex-Trotskyites, neocons can be unyielding in their understanding that freedom doesn’t come cheap or easy, even if they have been able to avoid the fighting and paying on any personal level. They know that that’s why you have government and a professional army – to make someone else actually bear the pain and cough up the cash.
"On the Post‘s pages A8-9, 'The World,' one learns that a violent spring looms in Afghanistan, that blood money might have to be paid to free American hitman and CIA contractor Raymond Davis from Pakistan, that Mexico really doesn’t like the United States very much, and that Bibi Netanyahu is happy because Pope Benedict XVI has rejected 'the claim that the Jewish people were responsible for killing Jesus.' Must have been the Romans, but the Post is not reporting any current plans to invade Italy to punish them...."
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2011/03/16/a-farewell-address/
Ah, The Washington Post - "America's" media at its finest.
I read on another site the Gaddafi is promising to throw out western oil companies and replace them with Chinese and Russian companies. China and Russa both have seats on the security council. I wonder how they will vote? Which do they care more about: Libyan civilians or Libyan oil?
It appears to me that the Libyan rebels are not going to win unless they get outside help.
Who would help illegal combatants in the West?
You really want to know who's illegal? The guys who don't win.
I read on another site the Gaddafi is promising to throw out western oil companies and replace them with Chinese and Russian companies. China and Russa both have seats on the security council. I wonder how they will vote? Which do they care more about: Libyan civilians or Libyan oil?
It appears to me that the Libyan rebels are not going to win unless they get outside help.
Who would help illegal combatants in the West?
So the Libyan rebels are "illegal combatants"? Wow! It looks like even Gaddafi has started reading and posting on ZeroHedge!
Well, hell yeah, let's start another war, afterall, with stunning strategic victories in Iraq and Afghanistan, done at bargain basement prices, why not continue the winning streak! We should have this all cleaned up in time for the Final Four. Go 'BAMA!
Kids, go get daddy's leather bomber jacket out of the closet - Daddy's going to be a WAR president!
Hillary Clinton is already saying that a No-Fly Zone would "REQUIRE" bombing Libya.
I'm just sickened by this. Not sure if someone or Mr Durden has noted this latest war mongering by the Clinton. Its at yahoo news.
PLEASE. I cannot stand anymore of this...please help...Call the State department's comment line and give them hell. Don't let them get us into more invasions. If Sorkozy and Cameron want their stupid North African Union so bad then LET THEM GO AND DO THE BOMBING.
We cannot afford this and most importantly WE DON'T NEED ANYMORE BAD KARMA and bad reputation. The U.S. has become the bad guys to many if not most around the world. Let the Europeans and Israelis fight their own battles.
Both these areas have been using our troops and our money and our weapons to clear out what they want cleared out. THEN, they turn around and pin all the guilt and shame on American people. You can read this in many comment areas in several websites...most likely lots of "agents" abound on some of the anti-war websites.
Don't let them trick the American people into this again. Call the State department. I did and I was not nice. I'm tired of being polite:
202-647-4000
Maybe we should have been b*mbing G. Britain...They are the ones that talk about "cells" in their nation. And they are the ones that have the little talked about MI-5 and 6... Which is the "city of London's" personal secret army.
"8.Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, to take all necessary measures to enforce compliance with the ban on flights imposed by paragraph 6 above, as necessary, and requests the States concerned in cooperation with the League of Arab States to coordinate closely with the Secretary General on the measures they are taking to implement this ban, including by establishing an appropriate mechanism for implementing the provisions of paragraphs 6 and 7 above"
Carte blanche really.
When do we impose the no fly zone over Bahrain?
Did everyone forget Sadaam's warnings sounded roughly the same. Look how that turned out for him.
Obviously your son didn't get wasted over there ...
How many 5000+ !
They won't occupy this time. i) they've learnt their lesson and, ii) there's no need
There will be no American troops on the ground.
A few special ops perhaps. But noting more.
Egypt has begun supply lines to the "rebels".
Qaddafi would do well to open back channels for an exit.