Sabha, Tarhuna, Zawiyah, Gharyan and Ghadames re-taken; heavy fighting in Tripoli
Jan. 5, 2011
Sent by Don DeBar dondebar@optonline.net Community Progressive Radio
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I have what appears to be some good news from Libya. But first, some comments:
As you know, of course, it has been a while since I gave my “report” on Libya, and the reason should be obvious. It has been extremely difficult to get any truthful and accurate news out of Libya. During the eight months that I covered the Libyan struggle, the reports I was giving you were accurate, for the most part. One way that you can believe that is by the fact that NATO’s aggression took “infinitely” longer than NATO had thought and predicted. In fact, when every single residential dwelling in Sirte was being bombed by NATO, and the non-combatant citizens were being slaughtered, one NATO commander openly remarked, in the corporate news media, “I am astonished at their will to fight!”
And, as you can easily recall, NATO kept pushing its “victory date” back. At first they said it would be three days. Then they said three weeks. Then they said three months [I’m not sure what this “three” thing was all about]. They would take Brega, and the LDF would take it back. They would take Ras Lanuf, and the LDF would take it back. In time, NATO, at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, conducted a self-assessment of its Libya operations, and conclude that its prosecution of the war had been, “ineffective and pathetic.” You will recall the DEBKAfile report that I sent you on that.
So, this should tell you that the “glowing” reports that I was sending you for most of those eight months was accurate: The LDF and the people of Libya, fighters by nature and history, had shocked NATO and the entire world by forcing the most powerful military alliance in human history to spend nine months in a tooth-and-nail fight. When NATO finally realized that it could not do it alone, it started recruiting Al-Qaeda fighters, European mercenaries, Afghani mercinaries, Qatar mercenaries, Paksitani mercenaries, and even mercenaries from Columbia, South America. Without all of that help, NATO would have failed.
Well, I cite the above as a prefix to the following short report. The only difference with this report is that I can’t be as certain as I was during those eight months, concerning the information that I’m receiving. Because as time progressed, NATO got total control of all communications, and that appears to be the case to this day. Nevertheless, I will give you a little summary of what I have received. And some of this might find support by one item that appeared in the New York Times today regarding Jalil, the so-call “head” of Libya. Well, he openly told reporters, from Benghazi, that he is NOT safe in Tripoli, the capital; that The Resistance has killed 4 key people. Well, the reports I’ve received show that there’s a lot going on that we aren’t hearing about in the corporate news media [as usual]. Libya lovers are hoping beyond hope that these reports are true.
I have to repeat: I cannot have the same confidence in these reports that I had during the eight months that I was receiving direct and indirect information from Libya, before NATO finally cut off all flow of information. But, since I’m not sure, I feel to present this information to you anyway. I’ll present it in bullet-point fashion, not in any chronological manner:
1. The Green Resistance has captured Ghaddams [a city ] near [the] Algerian border. And the Green Flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya is flying throughout the entire area. Continue reading