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CAIRO, Egypt _ Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi, fell Sunday after a crack army unit defected to the opposition and clashes spread to the capital, Tripoli, as an uprising against Moammar Gadhafi appeared to threaten the Middle East’s longest ruling dictator’s 42-year grip on power, residents and news reports said.
Gadhafi’s youngest son, Saif Gadhafi, seemed to acknowledge in a rambling speech on state-run television that Benghazi and the nearby eastern city of Baida were no longer under government control.
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Look
Libya ins't a very big country, it's basically a giant catbox, with 6 million people
and 3 cities. Figure 1.5M people per city on average. That's like Montgomery county
Maryland smeared out over Texas with the same amount of oil.
The #2 city just flipped and the army went with the people.
Now Qaddafi Junior is threatening all sorts of things, but, These aren't the old man.
Hannibal got arrested for beating a servant in Switzerland and the Libyans banned
the Swiss Navy from Libyan Ports.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
The masses of Muslims must go to all airports in the Islamic world and prevent any Swiss plane landing, to all harbours and prevent any Swiss ships docking, inspect all shops and markets to stop any Swiss goods being sold," Gaddafi said.
now banning all 5 swiss ships from the ports of Libya is a blip on world trade it says
something about the connection between the dictator and his son.
A doctor and a resident reached by telephone in the seaside city of 1 million told McClatchy that between 50 and 70 people died in street battles on Sunday, and they charged that more than 200 were massacred a day earlier by troops and African mercenaries loyal to Gadhafi.
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Qaddafi is having to use african mercenaries to attack the crowds, which is probably
what sparked the military rebellion.
I give qaddafi no more then the week.