licinius

Unarmed people???? As with Bloody Sunday, just because the fighters put their weapons down or hide them, doesn't make them unarmed civilians.

You make out like he was just bored one day so went out killing to pass the time. What goes around comes around & just as we saw in Iraq, some people only understand force.

licinius

You know full well how the arab alliance works.

jackytoo

Haven't a good word to say about Gaddafi but I think they have made a mistake intervening. It is similar to Iraq, they have always had tribal divides as they are now between Tripoli and Bengazi etc. Far better to have let it pan out and seek alliances with the victor. Even when you see clips of the ragbag of rebels dragging Gaddafi supporters out of cars, beating up a soldier etc. they are not any different from Gaddafis henchmen. Effectively the alliance is fighting on the side of the rebels and they are an unknown factor.

anonimouse

Can you imagine the revenge for this then?

bil

What I do know is that it is most likely that the downing of that plane was paid for by Iran, and the bomb was NOT set by a Lybian.

bil

Sorry? I can't understand what you are trying to say here. No-one knows precisely what went on at Bloody Sunday. It is possible that the first shot was fired by an IRA agitator to start a bloodbath, equally it could have been fired by a British soldier. No-one knows except the person that pulled the trigger. The soldiers sent in there were about the worst they could have chosen for an encounter with civilians.

Gaddafi, well that has been a sustained campaign of torture and abuse for decades, and the turning point in Benghazi was when the soldiers turned live ammunition on unarmed protestors. I saw footage of them running for there lives and being shot in the back.

They wouldn't show the footage of what the streets looked like after the soldiers opened up with anti aircraft weapons, as it would have been to distressing to see the street scene redecorated with the assorted giblets and offal left after people explode.

bil

No, I would say there is a difference. Soldiers killing civilians, totally wrong.

Those civilians palying catch-up with these soldiers when the tables are turned? Wrong, but understandable. As I have said before. If you abuse and butcher people, you can hardly complain if they turn on you and beat the crap out of you.

bil

Best make sure then that we finish it by keeping the madman down so well that the people get their confidence back. The UN (if they had half the balls of a bull canary) should insist that the people get a democratic vote on who runs the country and how.

licinius

Totally off topic now so we'll drop it but I totally disagree with you there. 1 Para are specialist troops & not made up of young squaddies.

bil

Paras are brilliant at what they do. However using them for crowd control is a bit like using pitbulls to check a school for drugs. Someone's going to get bitten, and they did.

steviedeluxe

Well Gadaffi (unfortunately) has been carrying out further massacres in other towns. Would he have needed to do this if Bengazi had fallen?
Don't get me wrong, I like millions of others will be overjoyed to see Gadaffii run out of town. I just don't feel it's our job to do this - it leads to too many complications and can cause resentment in the Islamic world. But, I'm not part of the government that has done this, and I'm just hoping the relevant armed forces have the room (and the will) to get this over as soon as possible.

Dick Dasterdly

Casualties in other towns have been limited, as he obviously doesn't have enough control or firepower to do entirely as he pleases.
More than likely this will die down fairly soon as his supplies have been cut off.
As I said at the end of the day hopefully the ppl.will have the opportunity to decide for themelves how they run their affairs, not the Western powers, so no due cause for resentment from anyone except Gaddafi.

bil

So, let me get this straight. The Iranians get their plane shot down, they paid a NON LYBIAN terroist group a shedload of dosh, and Lockerbie follows.

Lybia is accused, and yet the Lybian accused can demonstrate that he could not have been in Malta on the day it was claimed that he was there.

What precisely has that to do with any arab alliance?

agoreira

I´ve resisted so many times in the past Bil, but FFS, the country is Libya!

bil

That probably reflects how much I care. At least be grateful I don't keep referring to it as Labia, what with Gadaffi being such a c***.