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Q: Why Is Lebanon Drafting the U.N. No-Fly Resolution on Libya?
A: I suspect most of this blog's readers already know this, but charismatic Lebanese leader Musa Sadr disappeared while traveling to Libya in 1978. Musa Sadr, an Iranian-born cleric, was at the time the unquestioned leader of Lebanon's Shia community and was also widely respected outside his own sect. It is hard to imagine the 1980s Hizballah-Amal split among Lebanon's Shia community taking place had Musa Sadr not been "lost" (or, as is likely, executed by Gadhafi). No one knows why Gadhafi disappeared Sadr, though some suspected the hand of the PLO given rising tensions between the Palestinians and Lebanese in (the mostly Shia area of) southern Lebanon. I have at times been critical of the more recent work by both Fouad Ajami and Richard Norton, but they both wrote really great books on Musa Sadr and the Shia political awakening in Lebanon: The Vanished Imam: Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon and Amal and the Shi'A: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon, respectively. Anyway, Gadhafi has always avoided visiting Lebanon as the result of still visceral anger about the disappearance of Musa Sadr, and no one would be happier to stick the knife in Gadhafi than the Lebanese.
P.S. How about we just forget about a no-fly zone and ask Hizballah to take care of Gadhafi? I know it's unorthodox, but a) I am ever budget-conscious, b) I like to think outside the box, and c) based on our experiences in Iraq with Jaysh al-Mahdi, Hizballah has some experience with this kind of thing. So maybe we can ring Hassan Nasrallah and ask him if he is busy?*
*Before anyone loses it in the comments section, this is a joke.
I've heard that he's still
I've heard that he's still alive, I don't know how well founded that is.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_...
Andrew, You not thinking far
Andrew,
You not thinking far enough out. Why Hizballah?
Just start a Twitter/Facebook rumor that there is a bounty on Gadhafi's head.
All you have to do is pay more to Gadhafi's "loyal" people to get the knife moving the other direction. That is the bitch about hiring mercs, they get paid and they like more. How many Sons of Iraq did we get for $300/mo? That is about the same rate in Afghanistan. All you need is one willing applicant.
Joking aside, I really do not get the "standardized warfare" that the rebels are fighting in Libya against Gadhafi's forces. They have battle lines, go figure. If the "free zone" is "the home of the jihadists", they are not living up to their reputations. Guys from Benghazi must not have been the smart ones. They really should execute guerrilla warfare if the Rebels are out gunned. Heck we have all been looking at the TV for the past ten years. These rebel guys are not too bright and maybe Darwin was right.
Are the guys running the UN also from Benghazi?
If distances in Libya are the
If distances in Libya are the issue. Gadhafi's supply lines are stretched out like the Rebel's logistics were.
Advice to the Rebels......cut some wood.
Know anything about the Finnish Winter War? Cut and burn. Need supplies? So do Gadhafi's mercs. Pick up some stuff that folks do not need anymore.
Yes of Course Visitor, it's
Yes of Course Visitor, it's just that easy. It was that easy for the Romans, Italians, British, Jurgathines...
You forgot: "Because Lebanon
You forgot: "Because Lebanon wouldn't have to do anything to enforce it."
What the heck is
What the heck is this?
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/20113167497706160.h...
While meeting Essam Sharaf, the country's new prime minister, she said: "I am so looking forward to help in any way that we can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=489pO9q8guA
I am like, soooooo sure is
I am like, soooooo sure is is.
sooooo looking forward to spending all she can.
Half the US government is serious about debt and the other half is throwing cash to the wind.
Nasrallah would probably be
Nasrallah would probably be glad to help his bearded brothers in the newly founded "Islamic caliphate of Benghazi"
During his visit to Libya,
During his visit to Libya, Imam Moussa Al-Sadr had met with Gaddafi and has harshly criticized Gaddafi’s bible “The Green Book" written by the Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. His unkind comments on the book infuriated Gaddafi and prompted the latter to kill Imam Musa al-Sadr and his trace had not been departed Libya since.
obviously the visitor who
obviously the visitor who made the comment on the Finnish winter war has no military knowledge or knows the history of that conflict. with the Russsian In Nth Africa distances need Fast attack guerrilla moves
This is in effect what the Jihadist rebels committed to in the early stages of the Libyan insurgency with their land cruisers and trucks. Eventually the unconventional force has to resort to conventional warfare to maintain gains. Unless it has the majority of people on side it will lose which is what is happening now in Libya and why the US has to try and aid the rebel force. This force is a motley collection of fighters including Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Hakim Al-Hasadi who went to Afghanistan in 1999 and fought with the Taliban
Thats really serhwd! Good to
Thats really serhwd! Good to see the logic set out so well.
Good to see a tealnt at work.
Good to see a tealnt at work. I cant match that.
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