Saturday, March 19, 2011

Hopefully This Headline Will Read...

UPDATE: ...or Vive la France!
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Gadhafi ‘will regret’ International forces coming to Libya instead, in very short order.
"Moammar Gadhafi took advantage of international indecision to attack the heart of the five-week-old uprising on Saturday, sending troops, artillery and warplanes to swarm the first city seized by the rebels. Crashing shells shook buildings, and the sounds of battle drew closer to Benghazi's centre.

“Where is France, where is NATO?” cried a 50-year-old woman in Benghazi. “It's too late.”

Leaders from the Arab world, the United States and other Western powers are holding urgent talks in Paris over possible military action, and France's ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, told BBC Newsnight that he expected military action to begin within hours of the meeting. Mr. Gadafhi warned international forces: “You will regret it if you dare to intervene in our country.”
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"In a joint statement to Mr. Gadhafi late Friday, the United States, Britain and France – backed by unspecified Arab countries – called on Mr. Gadhafi to end his troops' advance toward Benghazi and pull them out of the cities of Misrata, Ajdabiya and Zawiya. It also called for the restoration of water, electricity and gas services in all areas. It said Libyans must be able to receive humanitarian aid or the “international community will make him suffer the consequences” with military action."
In the meantime, Ghadafi is pulling a Saddam Hussein:
"Misrata, Libya's third-largest city and the last held by rebels in the west, came under sustained assault well after the cease-fire announcement, according to rebels and a doctor there. The doctor, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals, said Mr. Gadhafi's snipers were on rooftops and his forces were searching homes for rebels.

“The shelling is continuing, and they are using flashlights to perform surgery. We don't have anesthetic to put our patients down,” said the doctor, who counted 25 deaths since Friday morning."
Faster, please.

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