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As farraday mentioned the reason they're doing this to a dog is most likely because of the many passages that Muhammad wrote about dogs in the Holy Quran. Basically this training is teaching the men "Put your faith in Country before God." Lots of societies have all sorts of bizarre rituals to do similar things for thousands of years so it isn't surprising. Still weird as hell.
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The whole NATO debate is dumb precisely because they're still going to use the organizational structure and intel that NATO provides. To quote Shakespeare, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet." Call it whatever the Arab League wants, the same process will likely go down. Actually it's worse if NATO isn't directly involved since this removes some serious accountability to the mission. Geneva and other treaties still have be followed but specific NATO mission directives get to be tossed out the window since this mission isn't technically under the umbrella of NATO.
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Brown Moses posted:Bit of news from Misrata: quote:01:11 Direct from Misratah CONFIRMED: Gaddafi’s forces which are stationed in the square near the Central Hospital have been targeted with air strikes. The fighter jets are still flying above Misratah
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^^^ Without even some milk and cookies?! loving Libyans.quote:The Telegraph came out of the closet to report:
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Mar 23, 2011 15:14
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Hillary speaking right now talking about how NATO will take over. "Humanitarian relief is finally pouring in." It seems Benghazi will be the new capital?
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Baddog posted:I'm saying this is loving silly to get involved in something that probably isn't even a moderate democratic movement. We don't even know wtf it is, because nobody stopped to get any real intelligence on them. What we know about the rebels right now is that they hate Gaddhafi, they seem like they're neutral or pro-West, and it's a loose Coalition of tribal elders and Western educated ex-patriots. No one in the World knows what will happen after things calm down in a post-Gaddhafi rule. We know there will some amount of pro-Gaddhafi insurgents that will try poo poo. We know there will be some type of Republican State created since they don't want another dictator, and with so many different factions a democratic republican state of government is the most logical thing to enact. It's way too early to think about what policies they'll have.
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Wait a minute, why the gently caress didn't the journalist's security tell them to get the gently caress out of the hotel? This is such a bizarre story.
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Mar 26, 2011 16:27
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Namarrgon posted:Probably because getting your security guys to roughhand Gaddafi's men is a good way to get yourself shot in the head. Qaddhafi can't just kill one person in this scenario. He'd have to kill everyone in the hotel. If he's willing to massacre a couple dozen foreign journalists in the middle of a quiet hotel then really nothing is going to stop him. Defending a possibly raped and tortured woman is the right thing to do.
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Mar 26, 2011 17:28
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That sniper situation is a really awful one if they're any way coordinated with one another. Snipers in an urban environment could shut down the whole city and they can feasibly only be took out one by one with gunfire.
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Mar 26, 2011 23:23
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I would love to know about what is happening in the South. Is Gaddhafi still getting an influx of arms and troops from the Southern bordered African countries?
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Mar 27, 2011 19:56
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Bobfromsales posted:Which reminds me, what the hell happened to Mubarek? Ticonderoguy posted:Smart Money is on Venezuela or some under developed African Nation, like Chad or Nigeria
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Ticonderoguy posted:Are you talking about Gaddafi or Mubarak? Because I'm talking about Gaddafi Gaddhafi is holed up somewhere in uh, I forget the city name.
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Mar 27, 2011 23:12
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Obama can take a backseat and put troops on the ground. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. I suspect he'll end up putting some small contingency force on the ground if they aren't there already. Certainly there's going to be US military "liaisons" teaching the eastern Libyans some military knowledge, and probably even a couple of Green Zones will be set up.
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Brown Moses posted:Confirmed, Gaddafi is NOT a woman:
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I hope that pastor is put in jail for the rest of his life. RIP Vilerat, may not have agreed with you all the time but when I did it felt like we were on to something positive. 
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Xandu posted:I can't find anything on him, is he a journalist?
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David Cameron will be speaking later today on this.
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The UN just doesn't do anything without a massive amount of resolutions and I think Russia will veto any resolution because they don't want the US meddling in Syria any more than it already is.
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Shear Modulus posted:Russia is pretty happy with the status quo, yes, but the calculus may change if ISIS keeps making gains against Assad at the rate they are.
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