Apology posted:

Here's a link to a Twitter portfolio of photos documenting the violence in Bahrain:

http://twitpic.com/photos/halmustafa

None of them are as bad as the one of the guy with his head destroyed, but still, there are dead bodies and a lot of blood in some of them.

Dieting Hippo posted:

Hey, did you hear about the protests in the capital of Bahrain?

"Manama? Nah."

Al-Saqr posted:

Ogive posted:

gently caress ME GENTLY WITH A CROWBAR.

Dustin1986 posted:

I just hope God doesn't win in the end.

Spiky Ooze posted:

China is extremely filtered as far as the internet and so on, but it really comes down to will the people there band together? Who knows. The courage is spreading, but it takes that commitment of the first people getting out on the streets and some dying. Maybe the Chinese are actually satiated enough by their booming economy to not want to do that. It's pretty hard to understand from our Western vantage point which other countries will change exactly.

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“Facebook” received many gifts from the youth who were overjoyed by her arrival and the new name.

Nuclear Spoon posted:

#tahrir on irc.synirc.net

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<&dana> on AJA; israel f-16s bombing libayns

Nckdictator posted:

Anyoe have the text of the speech Gadhaffi just gave?

Gravitom posted:

Not that this is incredibly newsworthy but I live near the UN and there are a couple hundred Libyans protesting that the UN and US should provide assistance. I'm heading back out to take some photos now.

Belgurdo posted:

All of this is so sudden...why all of these protests and uprisings now and not 10, 20, 50 years ago? What has changed over there?

Nenonen posted:

If the anti-Gaddafi folks haven't had time to organize themselves into a mass movement in Tripoli, then it's too late for it now,

CJSwiss posted:

According to MSNBC, the Pentagon's labeling this "Operation Odyssey Dawn".

Jiminy Cricket posted:

I can't give you specifics,

Contraction mapping posted:

As others have posted, this is highly doubtful. The rebels were doing quite well and even their very improvised, rag-tag advance on Tripoli was making impressive progress

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the youth of the 17th February in Benghazi are detaining the remaining members of Gaddafi’s Revolutionary Committees in the city. This is due to the hostile activities that are being organised by Gaddafi’s committee members in the city.

Ham posted:

Parliament still retains the horrible system where 25% must be workers and 25% must be farmers, regardless of their education.

Xandu posted:

Revolution music, subtitles on the second one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wohc3qyhcQQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgw_zfLLvh8

Democrazy posted:

Actually, funny you mention that. The first constitutional referendum was just held today in Egypt, and new elections will be held soon. 77.2% eligible voter turnout!

Shageletic posted:

Read a few posts upward. Tornado attack on Ghaddafi compound called off due to civilans and CNN reporter.

IRQ posted:

The rebels asked for help and we have the means to provide it, so why shouldn't we?

It's really hard to compare this to other UN actions.

The Reaganomicon posted:

Whoa, at there I was thinking that you now have a black man for president? Did I dream that?

Mozi posted:

At least there were no casualties.

Competition posted:

He is a neo-con

Competition posted:

A statement without refute due to a two year period where one single progressive policy can't be found yet dozens of continued neo-con policies can be cited in half a minute.

I would love to be proved wrong, come on, someone make my day.

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they killed 30 government snipers in Misrata and managed to reach the center of the town

evilweasel posted:

But, in one of those hilarious politicalspeak things, we are not after "regime change", it's just something that's going to happen because we keep bombing his poo poo and then the rebels overthrow him. But we are not after regime change.

DevNull posted:

I saw a few reports on twitter that it was not actually NATO that bombed the rebels. They were actually bombed by Qaddafi's forces.

CerebralAssassin posted:

Brown Moses posted:

That's a great article, it's amazing the rebels have held onto Misarata for as long as they have.

Cable Guy posted:

It seems like after (almost) every shot the same phrase is being yelled out (a lot of times by the same person). I thought it might be Allāhu Akbar, but the more I try to pick it, the less like that it sounds. Could someone give me a translation.

I'm kinda hoping its something like "YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON"

ZetaReticuli49er posted:

In 2007, I use to frequent the website Liveleak.com. The site is run mostly by US and coalition military personnel and many of the commentators of the videos are also members of the US military.

During 2007, all kinds of videos were posted on that website of US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before I started frequenting Liveleak and being largely ignorant of US foreign policy, I assumed the Iraq/Afghanistan war was a "nice war" where the US was the good guys.

On Liveleak, I saw many, many morally reprehensible videos of US soldiers and US mercenaries murdering people for sport and generally acting like depraved lunatics. The comments, which were and are probably still made mostly by US military personnel, were equally depraved. If Liveleak is a representation of how the US conducts a war, then that means the US military, at least in Iraq and Afghanistan, largely consists of a bunch of scumbags.

So I felt enraged by seeing such things and I made some comments on Liveleak about how I felt George Bush should be assassinated for the whole Iraq debacle. I was also, unfortunately, stupidly ignorant of the fact that making such statements, even on an online forum, is very illegal.

A few months later, the US Secret Service arrived at my house, and interviewed me for hours. I was forced to tell them and had to write down why I made such statements online, which I gave them my honest answer. And they then proceeded to confiscated my PC for a hard drives forensic test (I got it back around 3 months later).

I was, fortunately, never arrested or prosecuted for anything, and I think that may be because my father, who has worked for the government his whole life in various agencies such as the IRS and is a Vietnam veteran as well, persuaded them to have some sympathy and not prosecute me. I think they largely avoided prosecuting me mainly to pay respects to him. I also used the excuse that I was on SSRI anti-depressants and the medication side-effects caused me mental issues to help get out of being prosecuted.

JammyLammy posted:

I'm pretty sure that isn't true. If I remember correctly, Liveleak was just a spinoff from Orgish when Orgish want to be more "legit" and report current event, war, etc.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Holy poo poo. Where's this from?