A Libyan government spokesman later claimed he had not defected and was merely on a "diplomatic mission", but declined to say where he was going. Libya's deputy foreign minister Khalid Kaim dismissed the reports as "nonsense".quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:18 schreef sunny16947 het volgende:
Ik ben erg benieuwd of dit nieuws in Tripoli terecht komt en hoe ze daar reageren.
De geruchten gaan dat die ook al een veilig heenkomen heeft gezocht en zijn vader niet meer steunt. Maar dat zijn nog geruchten.quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:17 schreef ChristianLebaneseFront het volgende:
Iemand nieuws over Saif? Waar hangt die player uit?
Wanneer was ie voor het laatst on State TV?quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:20 schreef sunny16947 het volgende:
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De geruchten gaan dat die ook al een veilig heenkomen heeft gezocht en zijn vader niet meer steunt. Maar dat zijn nog geruchten.
De Libische versie van Saeed Al-Sahhaf (Iraakse minister van info) sprak al van "complete nonsense" op de Libische staats tvquote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:18 schreef sunny16947 het volgende:
Ik ben erg benieuwd of dit nieuws in Tripoli terecht komt en hoe ze daar reageren.
Sowieso petje af. Het is zo anders. Het lijkt mij iets om jaren over te doen en onwijs veel wil om dat te leren.quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:16 schreef deleriouz het volgende:
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Mijn Arabisch is erg beperkt ik heb ooit een intensieve cursus gedaan voordat ik in het Midden Oosten en Noord Afrika ging werken, maar ben inmiddels een hoop 'kwijt'. Ook voor Arabisch geldt: "use it or lose it"...
Idd. Al een hele tijd geleden. Ook geen interviews meer gegeven.quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:21 schreef remlof het volgende:
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Wanneer was ie voor het laatst on State TV?
Mijn idee iets van een week geleden.quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:21 schreef remlof het volgende:
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Wanneer was ie voor het laatst on State TV?
quote:Sultan Al Qassemi
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Shalgam to Al Arabiya "On my last visit to Libya in Nov I went to Kusa's office, told him can you believe #Libya is a failed state?" He said
Musa Kusa (as per Shalgam) "Did you only now notice? (that #Libya is a failed state), Libya has been a failed state for tens of years"
Shalgam "Musa Kusa was angry, he spoke to me about what Gaddafi's sons were doing, he refused to sign some papers, I was worried about him"
Lucht-grond raketten van een jetquote:
quote:Libya crisis: Gaddafi forces adopt rebel tactics
Ras Lanuf has now changed hands for the fourth time in three weeks. BBC world affairs editor John Simpson in Tripoli has been assessing the fighting.
Colonel Gaddafi's forces have changed their tactics.
The Libyan army has not always been known for its efficiency or its high morale.
Now though, it has shown a remarkable degree of flexibility, and has chosen to adopt tactics used by the rebels only a few days ago, when they were sweeping along the coastal road, apparently unstoppably, in the direction of Sirte.
The sudden turnaround of fortune is the result of several factors.
The first is that Colonel Gaddafi's army has decided to follow methods which the rebels have used so successfully.
Great panic
Its men are racing forward in the ordinary flat-bed trucks known elsewhere in Africa as 'technicals', with heavy machine-guns or anti-aircraft guns mounted on the back.
Others are equipped with mortars. Though these are quite light, they often cause great panic among the rebels, and are quick and easy to move forward.
Once the pro-Gaddafi forces managed to regain momentum, there was another shift in morale, and the rebels lost the confidence they had built up during the previous days.
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In Tripoli, government officials are noticeably relieved and happy
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The rebels have no perceptible command structure.
Individual gunners and their crews decide to go forward, if and when they choose, and vanish from the front line once they have had enough fighting.
Their morale has often been very high indeed, but when they are being beaten, it is easy for a retreat to turn into a rout.
The same is not true of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's army.
Their skills are not particularly impressive, and their morale until recently was noticeably lower than that of the rebels.
But when they are forced to withdraw, as they were at the start of the week, their training means that they can halt and regroup much more effectively than the rebels can.
And they have officers to urge them back into the fighting. The rebels have few, if any, officers.
Subterfuge
In the past, too, the rebels became used to the sight of Col Gaddafi's soldiers manoeuvring into positions from which they could surrender and come over to the other side.
But by now, most of the pro-Gaddafi forces who want to switch will probably have done so.
Libyan rebels flee Ras Lanuf as they come under fire by Gaddafi's forces Libyan rebels flee Ras Lanuf as they come under fire from Gaddafi's forces
Here in Tripoli, government officials are noticeably relieved and happy.
Just a few days ago they had to come to terms with the possibility that the rebels would capture Sirte and then advance up the coastal road to Tripoli itself.
There is another problem for the rebels. After the big advances which the pro-Gaddafi forces started making towards Benghazi 10 days ago, intervention by the coalition turned things round.
But it was fairly easy to destroy tanks and artillery from the air, even though, as we now know, the coalition's aircraft and missiles had difficulty dealing with tanks that had been well camouflaged or were stationed in narrow streets between houses, where ordinary civilians live.
Now the pro-Gaddafi forces have largely switched to the use of "technicals" of the kind the rebels use, the coalition will have much more difficulty identifying which ones belong on which side.
If the rebels try to mark their vehicles in some way, the pro-Gaddafi forces can be expected to follow suit.
The best that the rebels can probably hope for now is that the situation will stabilise and a stalemate can be established at some point along the coastal road to the east of Sirte.
That would make it far easier for coalition planes to identify the pro-Gaddafi troops.
But for that to happen, the rebels will have to overcome their terror of Col Gaddafi's mortars and the light motorised guns which his officers have copied from the rebels' own, and make a stand.
There may well be more changes of fortune to come along the coastal road.
Ja, maar dan die pods die ze ook onder helicopters kunnen hangen en waar allemaal kleine raketten uit worden afgeschoten.quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:39 schreef ChristianLebaneseFront het volgende:
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Lucht-grond raketten van een jet
Om zichzelf te bevechten?quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:46 schreef deleriouz het volgende:
Het is nu nog afwachten wanneer Gaddafi naar de revolutionairen overloopt
Brother leader? Die is toch al Guide of the Revolution?quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 00:46 schreef deleriouz het volgende:
Het is nu nog afwachten wanneer Gaddafi naar de revolutionairen overloopt
quote:ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
WORLD ALERT: From #Djerba waiting to fly to #EU dest: Omar Abu-Said Durdah, Dr Shukri Ghanim, Abu Al Qassim Al-Zawi, Abdulati Al-Ubaidi
quote:7:31 a.m. | Lourdes Garcia-Navarro | National Public Radio - Macintyre says journalists are constantly surrounded by dozens of government minders, so it's almost impossible to talk to people freely. Going out alone puts not only reporters in danger many have been detained and some abused but also those they speak to. So, most of the day is spent in the government-sponsored bubble.
"There is something very surreal about sitting in Tripoli and hearing people talking about things that we actually know to be untrue, but having no access to the outside world," he says. "That is a very surreal experience."
1+1=2 Volgens berichten eerder 32 auto's van het regime. Zullen wel met familieleden zijn.quote:
Ik had wikipedia nog open:quote:
quote:AJE - 12:55am
Ahead of a NATO press conference expected tomorrow, where the 28-member military alliance will outline its operations, the office of the US secretary of defence has said:
In the last 24 hours:
- the Coalition and US have conducted a total of 188 sorties
-- 102 of these were "strike" sorties (61 by Coalition; 41 by U.S.)
- the US launched 2 TLAMs [Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles]
Total Sorties:
- Coalition = 784 (489 "strike")
- U.S. = 1206 (463 "strike")
Total TLAM:
- Coalition = 7
- U.S. = 216
http://www.time.com/time/(...)?xid=rss-mostpopularquote:Bin Jawad didn't want to support us from the beginning," says Fayez Mohamed Zwei, a fighter from Ajdabiyah. "The whole east was with us except Bin Jawad.
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But as the rebels tread into unwelcome territory, they seem to mean it in much the way Gaddafi did — in a kind of unrelenting and paranoid door-to-door campaign to rout their enemies. "Search the houses," another man shouted, as fighters ran down Bin Jawad's alleys and took up position behind walls. Gunfire and the explosions of rocket-propelled grenades reverberated from within the town. At least one house was set on fire after rebels located a suspected Gaddafi loyalist there.
1 huis in de brand gestoken tegenover Ghadaffi die tig huizen heeft laten bombarderen.. Ik weet wel aan welke kant ik dan sta.quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 08:14 schreef Monidique het volgende:
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Volgens mij is dat een Belgisch bomrichtvizier wat je in dat filmpje ziet.quote:
Volgens mij schiet 'ie een raket keurig naar binnen via de voordeur. Voltreffer dusquote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 11:43 schreef partyman26 het volgende:
Zat er een klodder mayo in z'n helmke? Volgens mij mist hij gewoon target. Amaiii!
quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 11:49 schreef zoefbust het volgende:
Rebel op de fiets ha ha
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LoL! En check dat 'met plakband geprepareerde magazijn van z'n geweer .
Haha mijn god.. Het wordt tijd dat we die jongens met wat knaps bewapenen! Zo kun je geen oorlog winnen natuurlijk
volgens mij staat er: "geprepareerd"quote:Op donderdag 31 maart 2011 12:03 schreef ioko het volgende:
Dat magazijn is niet gerepareerd: hij heeft het reservemagazijn er vast tegenaan geplakt.
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