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Libya Situation (pg. 11)
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| Lira |
Dear English-speaking press,
Make up your mind. Is it Qaddafi, Gadhafi or Gaddafi? Do us all a favour and just call him "Gaddafy", will you? That's how Libyans pronounce his name and it also looks kind of pathetic for a dictator.
By the way, in case anyone here is lost, here's a map of the Jasmine Revolution as of today:
Tahiti Brown = Revolution
Simply Red = Governmental Changes
Citric Orange = Major protests
Pee Yellow = Minor protests
Green = Good to go, no fuss just yet. |
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| igottaknow |
| quote: | Originally posted by jester
I guess the militia have no real family or friends, so its easy for them to kill people and not care. |
Thats precisely why he brought them in. I wish there was some thing we could do to actually help the ppl over throw this motherf****. I hope he doesn't escape the country. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
Thats precisely why he brought them in. I wish there was some thing we could do to actually help the ppl over throw this motherf****. I hope he doesn't escape the country. |
the only way he will be overthrown is by death....that's the way he wants it. |
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| jester |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Dear English-speaking press,
Make up your mind. Is it Qaddafi, Gadhafi or Gaddafi? Do us all a favour and just call him "Gaddafy", will you? That's how Libyans pronounce his name and it also looks kind of pathetic for a dictator.
By the way, in case anyone here is lost, here's a map of the Jasmine Revolution as of today:
Tahiti Brown = Revolution
Simply Red = Governmental Changes
Citric Orange = Major protests
Pee Yellow = Minor protests
Green = Good to go, no fuss just yet. |
That map needs Citric Orange for Greece (I know its not part of Northern Africa or the Middle East) but that place been going crazy since the summer. |
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| narcism |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
holy that's sick. i can't imagine firing against my own people. i might hate people that protest against certain things, but i would never kill them.
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It's not the Libyan soliders, Gadaffi has hired militia from Africa who are doing all the dirty work. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Dear English-speaking press,
Make up your mind. Is it Qaddafi, Gadhafi or Gaddafi? Do us all a favour and just call him "Gaddafy", will you? That's how Libyans pronounce his name and it also looks kind of pathetic for a dictator.
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lol i hate it when they do that. same with osama/usama bin laden |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | | On Wednesday, in addition to the northwestern city of Misurata, protesters claimed victory in nearby Zawai, where local army units are said to have joined them. Some said there had been intense fighting in the past few nights in the town of Sabratha, home of an important Roman archaeological site 50 miles west of Tripoli, where witnesses on Wednesday reported a heavy deployment of machine-gun toting foreign mercenaries and Qaddafi loyalists known as revolutionary committees. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
lol i hate it when they do that. same with osama/usama bin laden |
Hehe, I'm just making fun of this mess, but it makes sense. Classical Arabic had only three vowels (they used to sound like ah-ee-oo) that varied in length (short and long). As more than a thousand years passed since Mohammed (or Muhammad) wrote the Koran (or Qur'an), the language evolved and the pronunciation changed, so the different spellings reflect the battle between the effort to "write like it sounds" and the struggle to "write like it's written".
Because of this, Osama bin Laden is, according to the traditional spelling, Usāmah bin Lādin - see? It's inevitable, really. Learn the script while you can, it's probably worth it. |
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| Zharen |
Damn, it's turned into a civil war over there. And for those here in the US who don't care, you better, your gas is going to go up because of this. The dow has already fallen due to the unrest in the Middle East. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by jester
That map needs Citric Orange for Greece (I know its not part of Northern Africa or the Middle East) but that place been going crazy since the summer. |
Oh, I forgot to mention. Greece is probably grey because their problems are unrelated to what's going on in North Africa/the Middle East. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Everyone have their bug-out bags ready? |
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| malek |
معمر القذافي Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī
that's how its said in arabic, notice the deep Q. |
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