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I like the still for that video if only because according to On Point this morning the Russian official that Ghaddafi called was the head of the Russian Chess Federation.
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http://twitter.com/!/anupkaphle/status/106029363539091456 "What would be "breaking news" now is if they found Gaddafi playing chess with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden inside Bab al-Aziziya." lol.
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Aug 23, 2011 16:47
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 quote:AJA breaking: fighters announce their full control of Bab Alazizia through loudspeakers #Tripoli #Libya
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Aug 23, 2011 16:48
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Brown Moses posted:I hope this doesn't all go "the princess is in another castle" on us. My money is on Gadaffy holding out in the basement of the hotel all of the press is holed up in.
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Aug 23, 2011 16:49
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Golbez posted:The question is whether Ghadafi was there or not.
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Aug 23, 2011 16:50
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Fog Tripper posted:My money is on Gadaffy holding out in the basement of the hotel all of the press is holed up in. It seems to be the biggest "secure" area that is still held by the regime in Tripoli, so it may not be far off the mark.
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Aug 23, 2011 16:50
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Furious Mittens posted:It seems to be the biggest "secure" area that is still held by the regime in Tripoli, so it may not be far off the mark. If he's even in Tripoli. Still we'll find out soon enough.
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Aug 23, 2011 16:51
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Furious Mittens posted:It seems to be the biggest "secure" area that is still held by the regime in Tripoli, so it may not be far off the mark. Nice number of human shields as well.
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Aug 23, 2011 16:52
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quote:AJA: call w/activist: #Tripoli is under opposition control except Abu Slim area. #Libya. quote:AJA: call w/activist: remaining Katayeb in Bab Alazizia are "completely surrounded" #Tripoli #Libya
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Aug 23, 2011 16:52
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CNN reporter on a cellphone is doing her best to get herself blown up. She's inside or right outside the compound in the middle of a huge group of rebels and they just lost her (again)... "hold on guys I need t.." *big rear end explosion*
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Aug 23, 2011 16:53
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Brown Moses posted:I hope this doesn't all go "the princess is in another castle" on us. Fog Tripper posted:My money is on Gadaffy holding out in the basement of the hotel all of the press is holed up in.
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Aug 23, 2011 16:55
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Toplowtech posted:What kind of fortress (specially one built by a paranoid blood thirsty dictator) doesn't feature a secret passage for "emergency" exit? A bad one I guess. Edit: It would be nice if they got him here though.
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Aug 23, 2011 16:56
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Furious Mittens posted:It seems to be the biggest "secure" area that is still held by the regime in Tripoli, so it may not be far off the mark. Did I miss the rebels taking the hospital? That would be another cowards hiding spot.
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Aug 23, 2011 17:01
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Something big is on fire in the middle of the Tripoli live shot on Al-J. Earlier, there were two fires on either side of the frame, now there is just one massive black plume in the middle, behind the taller buildings in the middle. Anyone know where that shot might be relative to major action that we know of?
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Aug 23, 2011 17:02
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Time magazine will have another easy cover this week.
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Aug 23, 2011 17:03
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Number of possible outcomes here: 1) Gadaffi is a massive Harry Potter fan. Also an avid chess player. Below the compound is a massive chess board, in which the rebels are given buckets of water and must make up the white pieces, where the black pieces are robots with knives. They must win the game, sacrificing their companions, to proceed to the next chamber where Gadaffi is actually a rug with his face on. The rug we saw having the poo poo beaten out of it was a decoy. 2) One plucky rebel has to engage him in a sword fight. Except Gadaffi can fly, and shoot energy balls. After destroying him, he activates a self-destruction mechanism and the rebel has a limited amount of time to follow political prisoners out of the compound before they get blown up, whilst stabbing brainwashed Gadaffi goons on the way out. They get out in the nick of time and the place explodes. Gadaffi turns into Godzilla, NATO shoots him in the eyes with machine guns and then fires Hellfires into his mouth. He dies, world carries on. 3) They find a room with Gadaffi's corpse in it. A rebel picks up a note on his body which reads, "We are all Gadaffi". He turns around and sure enough, his comrades all have the face of Gadaffi. He looks in a shattered mirror in the room. He does not see himself, only the wall behind him.
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Aug 23, 2011 17:03
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Have they cleared the underground part of the base, yet?
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Furious Mittens posted:Something big is on fire in the middle of the Tripoli live shot. Earlier, there were two fires on either side of the frame, now there is just one massive black plume in the middle. Anyone know where that shot might be relative to major action that we know of? The rebels have lit Gaddafi's "historic" building on fire in the compound.
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Furious Mittens posted:Something big is on fire in the middle of the Tripoli live shot on Al-J. Earlier, there were two fires on either side of the frame, now there is just one massive black plume in the middle, behind the taller buildings in the middle. Anyone know where that shot might be relative to major action that we know of? It's the rug.
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Aug 23, 2011 17:05
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Ace Oliveira posted:Have they cleared the underground part of the base, yet? As big as the compound is, it's likely going to be a bloody battle fought room to room (if Gaddafi is intent on becoming a martyr) and that's just the area we know about. The underground part is probably sprawling as well. Now they are showing rebels hanging from the Gaddafi fist statue with the airplane in the fist, trying to break it apart. It's actually pretty comical. Furious Mittens fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Aug 23, 2011 |
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Aug 23, 2011 17:06
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Awesome watching them tear apart that metal fist sculpture in the compound. Amazing images.
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Aug 23, 2011 17:07
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Holy poo poo, watching the AJ feed of the rebels taking the Bab al-Aziziya main building. That's a loving long walk through open ground.Furious Mittens posted:As big as the compound is, it's likely going to be a bloody battle fought room to room (if Gaddafi is intent on becoming a martyr) and that's just the area we know about. The underground part is probably sprawling as well. Really, I see flamethrowers being an asset there. poo poo, just roll gasoline drums into the tunnels, set them on fire, and close the doors. All the air gets sucked out and whoever is stupid and/or loyal enough to stay inside that complex suffocates. \/\/\/ I think it's the Twilight Zone episode with Peter Falk playing a very blatant Castro analogy. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Aug 23, 2011 |
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Nuclear Spoon posted:Number of possible outcomes here: Is this the plot to something? Because it's creepy and I like it.
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Aug 23, 2011 17:08
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Ghadaffi's horcruxes are hidden around Tripoli. One of them was the huge building poster of Moammar,but there are more. One of the others is probably the gold fist crushing plane statue.
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Rip Testes posted:Awesome watching them terror apart that metal fist sculpture in the compound. Amazing images.
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Brown Moses posted:And I'm stuck on a bus going home. Yeah, sorry about that. Video of the compound completely overrun now showing. Incredibly shots from the inside.
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Aug 23, 2011 17:11
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I wish the rebels would have waited 30 minutes.
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Furious Mittens posted:As big as the compound is, it's likely going to be a bloody battle fought room to room (if Gaddafi is intent on becoming a martyr) and that's just the area we know about. Latest reports seem to state that the loyalist forces aren't putting up much resistance, so it may not be that bad (although there will be at least some fighting). I suppose it's hard to get mercenaries to fight to the last man.
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They have covered so much ground in such a short amount of time, I really hope that they are prepared to defend those gains from pockets of Pro-regime forces that are bound to pop up and make life extremely miserable for those caught inside. It looks like they've made it all the way to the inside of the compound, judging by the photos.
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Aug 23, 2011 17:14
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Man that one guy is pissed, hanging his whole body off the end of the jet part and trying to tear it down. ^ Most of the army surrendered to the NTC yesterday. The rebels have been fighting for six months now, while the pro gadaffi faction is just anyone stupid enough to pick up a gun for him.
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Zappatista posted:Ghadaffi's horcruxes are hidden around Tripoli. One of them was the huge building poster of Moammar,but there are more. One of the others is probably the gold fist crushing plane statue. And the final horcrux was CNN's wolf blitzer all along!
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Ghetto Prince posted:Man that one guy is pissed, hanging his whole body off the end of the jet part and trying to tear it down. I think he tried to climb it.
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Ghetto Prince posted:Man that one guy is pissed, hanging his whole body off the end of the jet part and trying to tear it down. I wonder how much that fist/plane sculpture would fetch on Ebay?
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So I'm not seeing any CQ forces, dead or alive. And the inside of that compound is SHOT. UP.
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Rip Testes posted:I wonder how much that fist/plane sculpture would fetch on Ebay? It's actually much smaller than the CQ camera crew made it through perspective IMO. e: spellin Burt Sexual fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Aug 23, 2011 |
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Aug 23, 2011 17:19
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Darth123123 posted:So I'm not seeing any CQ forces, dead or alive. And the inside of that compound is SHOT. UP. Well, it sounds like NATO has been bombing the poo poo out of it for a while.
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Where are you getting this fresh footage? AJE is just giving us a loop from inside the compound
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Furious Mittens posted:They have covered so much ground in such a short amount of time, I really hope that they are prepared to defend those gains from pockets of Pro-regime forces that are bound to pop up and make life extremely miserable for those caught inside. The mercenaries will either melt away or be captured. Without money in the offing why would they fight? All that leaves is the fanatics and regime hold-outs who can't make it out of the country, and I can't imagine that they'll last long against a well-armed, motivated force that has NATO providing air support. Zeroisanumber fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Aug 23, 2011 |
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^^^^ Probably true, but fanatics can cause a lot of trouble even in small numbers, and air power doesn't mean much if they want to carry out an insurgency of some sort. It seems te only resistance reports that are coming out are regime snipers taking pot shots and then withdrawing. Hopefully they can round them up in short order.Darth123123 posted:So I'm not seeing any CQ forces, dead or alive. And the inside of that compound is SHOT. UP. There was a shot on AL-J briefly of rebels bringing what looked to be an African (perhaps a merc from surrounding nations) male in a red shirt, with his arms tied behind his back out of one of the compound buildings and ushering him into a waiting Nissan rebel kill-dozer truck. Furious Mittens fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Aug 23, 2011 |
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Zappatista posted:Where are you getting this fresh footage? AJE is just giving us a loop from inside the compound That's the loop were watching (at least I am)
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