[11:10 p.m. ET, 5:50 a.m. in Libya] Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, eldest son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, derided rebels and NATO for their efforts to take their fight inside Tripoli.
"We are in our land, in our country. We have no problem if it takes six months, one year or two years, victory will be ours. This is our country and we will not leave it," he said on Libyan state TV.
"Didn't they say that today, August 20, will be the day they take back Tripoli”
[9:50 p.m. ET, 3:50 a.m. in Libya] Below are translated quotes from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's televised speech a few hours ago:
"Greeting to all of you gathered at the Green Square in Bab Al-Aziziya when you were gathered earlier. I tried to join you but my security did not allow me. We congratulate you for getting rid of those rats that were discovered tonight and who were attacked and defeated by the crowds ...
We did not picture that Ramadan this year would look like this. Who transformed our happiness to Sadness? Who transformed Libya’s Green face to a black one? Who brought the Christians’ Airplanes to kill our children everyday and applauded? Who is the Libyan who applauded as the NATO airplanes kill our Children every night and day during the month of Ramadan? Can we call such a person a Libyan, a Muslim or even a human being? Not even Satan would do such a thing...
What have we done to France or Britain or Italy or Norway or the Denmark? You brought them here. You want to give them our oil. If you rule Libya, you will hand Libyan oil to the French people. Sarkozy wants to take Libyan oil and give it to his people. You are just a tool that they are using and providing with weapons so you can give him Libya on a Golden platter. This is clear to everyone...
This is not a Libyan roject, this is not the Project of any Libyan or any tribe or any young Libyan. Its impossible. The Libyan youths love Moammar...
They have lost and used everything and their last resort is their lying campaign. They will end with it the same way they started with it. Now this is the ending."
[8:20 p.m. ET, 2:20 a.m. in Libya] Faithi Baja, political affairs chief for the rebel's Transitional National Council, said in a video statement that the operation "is going easily" and opposition fighters are inching toward Gadhafi's Bab al-Azizia compound.
Rebel spokesman Jumma Ibrahim said clashes in Tripoli were "planned by rebels inside Tripoli in the neighborhoods of Fashloum, Souq al-Juma, Ben Ashur ... and other places." This came after coordination with other anti-Gadhafi elements, added Baja.
But speaking just before midnight in Tripoli, government spokesman Musa Ibrahim insisted that all is safe and well.
[8:20 p.m. ET, 2:20 a.m. in Libya] In a live audio address, Gadhafi blasted the rebel "traitors" and the NATO forces backing them as unethical and intent on destroying the county and ruining lives.
As he had done in a speech six days earlier, he tried to rally citizens to his side.
"A great thing, anyway, that despite the Christian air raids, you continue to be up in Tripoli," he said, an apparent reference to those who listened to his speech from Green Square. "March forward, march forward, march forward."
[8:07 p.m. ET, 2:07 a.m. in Libya] Gunfire erupts outside the hotel where CNN's Matthew Chance is staying after Gadhafi finishes his speech, Chance says via Twitter.
Gadhafi spoke on the phone live on Libya state TV, Chance said. He gave the correct date and time in an effort to prove he was speaking live, Chance said.
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[7:53 p.m. ET, 1:53 a.m. in Libya] Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was heard speaking on Libyan state TV early Sunday.
The broadcaster characterized the comments – which come amid reports of intensified fighting in Tripoli and shortly after a rebel spokesman's claimed that opposition fighters have taken the "revolution" inside the capital – as live.
The audio address was also aired in Tripoli's Green Square, where Gadhafi supporters were gathered.
[7:33 p.m. ET, 1:33 a.m. in Libya] Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi makes public address on Libyan state TV, CNN's Matthew Chance reports via Twitter.
[5:39 p.m. ET, 11:39 p.m. in Libya] Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim said late Saturday that all is safe and well in Tripoli, despite reports of intense fighting and a rebel spokesman's claim that an opposition offensive had been launched in the capital.
Ibrahim added that the government of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi remains in control of Tripoli.
Analysis: As Libyan conflict grinds on, NATO's mission shifts
[5:05 p.m. ET, 11:05 p.m. in Libya] Libyan rebels have taken their fight inside Tripoli, home to embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi, a rebel spokesman said early Sunday.
[4:55 p.m. ET, 10:55 p.m. in Libya] Heavy clashes broke out late Saturday in a Tripoli neighborhood, marked by intense gunfire, explosions and people screaming as they ran through the street, a resident of the Libyan capital told CNN.
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By his own account, Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu has a long and sordid history, including close ties to the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Osama bin Laden. Born in Derna in 1959, bin Qumu
Served as a tank driver in the Libyan armed forces as a private. The Libyan Government states he was addicted to illegal drugs/narcotics and had been accused of a number of crimes including: murder, physical assault, and distributing narcotics. He was sentenced to ten years in prison. In 1993, he escaped from prison and fled to Egypt. He traveled to Afghanistan (AF) and trained at Usama Bin Laden’s (UBL) Torkham Camp. After participating in the Soviet jihad, he moved to Sudan (SU). Detainee worked as a truck driver for Wadi Al-‘Aqiq, one of UBL’s companies in Suba, SU.
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT LYING AMERICAN TROLLS! OUR GOVT IS DEFENDING AL-QAEDA AND ARE LYING TO YOU FOOLS! but they didnt even have to lie to you all! white americans are BIGOTS and HYPOCRITES! AND HABITUAL LIARS!!
YOU ALL HAVE KNOWN ALL ALONG THAT BARACK WAS DEFENDING AL-QAEDA!! JUST REFUSED TO ADMIT IT!
Will John McCain never learn? On Wednesday, the 2008 presidential hopeful was busy banging the drum for increased American presence in the civil war raging in Libya. Arguing that a stalemate in the conflict between Libya’s leader Colonel Moamer Gadaffi and rebels in the country’s east would harm American interests, McCain suggested that “we could do the same thing that we did in the Afghan struggle against the Russians. There are ways to get weapons in [to the rebels] without direct US supplying.”
Little does McCain know (we have to hope), but he was advocating for aiding and arming some of the same people that were actively trying to harm the United States just a few short years ago. As an embassy cable released months ago by WikiLeaks made clear, some of the rebels fighting Gadaffi got their chops battling American forces in Iraq as insurgents following the US invasion in 2003. And now this week comes word that one of the rebel leaders was a former detainee in Guantanamo Bay.
By his own account, Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu has a long and sordid history, including close ties to the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Osama bin Laden. Born in Derna in 1959, bin Qumu was considered such a nuisance to the Gadaffi regime that the Libyan government persuaded the Sudanese to push him out of the country. “He left Sudan sometime in 1997, using a false Mauritian passport. He travelled to Pakistan (PK), where he resided in…Peshawar.” Soon, according to bin Qumu’s own narrative, he “joined the Taliban movement…and fought with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance and was wounded in the leg.”
Served as a tank driver in the Libyan armed forces as a private. The Libyan Government states he was addicted to illegal drugs/narcotics and had been accused of a number of crimes including: murder, physical assault, and distributing narcotics. He was sentenced to ten years in prison. In 1993, he escaped from prison and fled to Egypt. He traveled to Afghanistan (AF) and trained at Usama Bin Laden’s (UBL) Torkham Camp. After participating in the Soviet jihad, he moved to Sudan (SU). Detainee worked as a truck driver for Wadi Al-‘Aqiq, one of UBL’s companies in Suba, SU
THOUGHT SO!! LIARS AND BIGOTS AND HYPOCRITES!! ENJOY YOUR NEW ALLIES FROM AL-QAEDA UNTIL THEY ATTACK ISRAEL!!
How is it one person can hijack a thread?
FINALLY a truthfull question bansay! the LYING WHITE AMERICAN HYPOCRITES AND TROLLS RAN FOR COVER WHEN THEY SAW WITH THEIR OWN EYES AND COULDNT LIE ANYMORE THAT THE REBELS ARE AL-QAEDA AND WE ARE DEFENDING THEM!
what does that say about american democracy if we are willing to defend the supporters OF OSMA BIN LADIN! WE ARE DEFENDING PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT WITH OSMA BIN LADIN!!!
BARACK SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND TRIED FOR TREASON!! but as americans will always do,you all will lie and claim that WE DIDNT KNOW THAT THEY WERE AL-QAEDA AFTER THEY ATTACK ISRAEL WITH THE HELP OF EGYPT AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD! SHAME ON AMERICA!! BUT AS YOU CAN SEE,AMERICA HAS NO SHAME!!
JUST IMPERIALIST AND COLD BLOODED MURDERERS!
BANSAY.....
sorry for all of the caps! they saw the truth and couldnt handle it! they and our govt have been exposed as the liars and hypocrites that they are! they ran from the truth! americans always do that!!
The fact that I'm a paid troll should answer your question. As soon as Gadhafi is dead I will be able to speak the truth once more. I hope they hang him by a light pole.
I'm still here. People believe their own truths. They just don't want to heard the loyalist crap you spew out. Now, go back to listening to rage against the machine and cutting yourself to sleep.
REUTERS is reporting that there are no fighter jets in the sky but there is fighting on the ground in tripoli!
the reason that there are nato fighter jets is because they dont want to drop bombs on NATO FORCES who are fighting this war for the rebels!! WAR CRIMINALS!!!
Gadhafi's days are numbered. The rebels will clear the dictator's troops neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block. The end is near for that animal. We shall not relent to pro-Gadhafi trolls. Long live Libya!
Finally, someone to shut that other mar up. He's clearly gaddafi on a computer. Hey mar, zenga zenga!
to the imposter who is using my name, what are you goingt o say when these al-qaeda terrorist who you call rebels join with the muslim brotherhood and attack israel and wipe them out?
AMERICA propped up the DICTATOR MUBAREK and now egypt is armed so heavily thanks to us that we CANNOT attack them! here is a C.I.A. list of the arms that AMERICA GAVE THAT DICTATOR FOR 32 YEARS MUBAREK.
Combat Aircraft
F-4 Phantom II United States Fighter bomber E 32 [19] Out of 46 delivered. Assigned to 222nd Tactical Fighter Brigade at Cairo West.
F-16 Fighting Falcon United States
Turkey
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MRCA Total
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C
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D 240
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186
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54 [20] 220 (46 built by TAI of Turkey) delivered with another 20 Block 52 on order with expected delivery in 2013
J-7 Airguard China
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Interceptor
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MRCA Total
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B
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M 53
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27
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26 Out of 150 delivered.[20]
Mirage V France
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OCU
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Interceptor
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MRCA
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Reconnaissance Total
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SDD
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E
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SDE
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DDR 60
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6
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12
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36
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6 Out of a total of 82 delivered [20]
Mirage 2000 France
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OCU
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MRCA Total
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BM
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EM 18
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3
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15[20] Out of 20 delivered.
MiG-21 Fishbed Soviet Union
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MRCA
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Interceptor
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Reconnaissance
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OCU Total
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MF
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PFM
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R
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UM 62
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36
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12
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12
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2 Out of over 360 delivered. Upgraded with British avionics and armed with mixed Russian and Western weapons. In 2008, Egypt made agreements with Ukrainian companies to upgrade the current fleet.[21]
Model-324 Scarab United States Jet Reconnaissance UAV 52 Out of 56 delivered.
R4E-50 Sky Eye United Kingdom Reconnaissance UAV 48
Camcopter Austria Helicopter Reconnaissance UAV 2
Kader Egypt Reconnaissance/Target UAV N/A
CH-47 Chinook Italy
United States
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Navigational training
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Assault Support Total
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C
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D 19
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3
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16 New order for additional 6 rebuilt CH-47D is in progress.
SH-2G Super Seasprite United States ASW G/E 13 Electronic/Navigation Suite upgraded to Egyptian Navy requirements.
Mi-8 Hip Soviet Union
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Assault/Gunship
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Gunship
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Command
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EW
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Reconnaissance
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MedEvac
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Artillery observer Total
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T
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TVK
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PPA
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MV
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R
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MB
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K 42
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16
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10
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3
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4
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4
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3
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2 Out of over 140 delivered, some replaced by Mi-17 Hip.
Mi-17 Hip Russia Assault Support H 51 Including 24 units ordered in 2009 & were delivered in 2010.
AH-64 Apache United States Attack helicopter D 47 Modernization of current fleet is underway and an additional 10 AH-64D Longbow Block II are being delivered.
UH-60 Black Hawk United States
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Assault Support
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CSAR
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Assault Support Total
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A
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M
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M 30
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22
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4
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4
Sea King United Kingdom ASW Mk.47 6 Egyptian variant of the British HAS.2 model.
Commando United Kingdom
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Assault Support
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Assault Support
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EW Total
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Mk.1
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Mk.2
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Mk.2E 26
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5
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17
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4 A total of 28 were delivered, 2 Mk.2B version were relegated as VIP transport of the Presidential fleet.
SA-342 Gazelle France/ Egypt
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Maritime Patrol
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Battlefield Scout
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Attack helicopter Total
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K
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L
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M 84
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9
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40
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35 Out of 108 license-built by the Arab British Helicopter Company.
Airborne Early Warning and Control
E-2 Hawkeye United States AEW C HE2K 8 Egypt is in the process of upgrading its E-2C aircraft to the Hawkeye 2000 (HE2K) configuration.
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AND THAT IS JUST THEIR AIR FORCE!! WAHT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
You just copied and pasted from Wikipedia. May I remind you that you're just spamming this blog with your loyalist propaganda. Don't you have a family to go home to. I'm sure they miss you.
Sorry for the cut & paste. Master Gadhafi just left the room so I can speak freely once again. By the will of Allah this mad dog of a dictator will taste his own blood as I toast his demise. No longer will I cringe in fear from his guards and their daily whippings. Pray for me. Pray for Libya. I am at peace.
So we are finally entering the "end game" here. With the real Libyans in control of Zawiya & Zliten again, advances from all directions, and serious uprisings in Tripoli itself lets hope it is all over as quickly as possible now, for the sake of the Libyan people, and Gaddafi's determination to turn his departure into a bloodbath in Tripoli doesn't come to fruition.
Please. Shut. Up. For the love of all that is Holy, just shut up!
Gadhafi just cut off my right hand! I'm typing with only my left hand now and mousing with my bloody stump that used to be my right arm. I fear the next time he comes in the room may be my last breath. That son of a jackal will get what's coming to him. It's good to be the King.
EMIGDIO.....
I wish that I was wrong on Libya,but I know that I am correct on this! take a look at what just happened in Egypt and Israel yesterday over there? the people in Egypt are now chanting death to israel! THAT NEVER HAPPENED UNDER MUBAREK!
these Libyan al-qaeda rebels along with EGYPT are going to attack ISRAEL! DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT IBRAHIM BIN QUMU IS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH,HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY? this man PERSONALLY escorted the wives and children of OSAMA BIN LADIN safely out of afghanistan and into Iran immediately after 9-11?
what is wrong with you people? does that mean nothing to you? I bet the families of SEAL TEAM SIX would be upset if they found out that our govt was defending him?
GOD HELP US ALL IF I AM RIGHT!
I think it's the same troll from the Casey Anthony trial.
@ mar:
Do you know who I am?
sorry,casey anthony was not on my radar! but I would spend some time with her if she likes. with the lights on only though. she might have a flash back!
no, who r u? r u important to us or just u?
who r u?
Brennen said in his post that Lybians are getting rid of Ghaddfi because the majority of Lybian don't want him anymore. Well, since most Americans don't want Obama anymore, maybe we can get rid of our own tyrannical maniacal despotic leader. Should we do this by impeachment, or can we take a page from the Arab Spring and call it the American Fall. As in the fall of Obama.
Why don't you go first ? We will watch and see what happens. How about running for prez in the next election ?
Oh, that reminds me. I have to change the oil in my lawn moammar.