Sunday, March 6, 2011

A Look Inside Libya's Rebel Army

A rebel fighter fires a cannon during a battle near Ras Lanuf Photo: REUTERS

Libya's Rebel Army Struggles To Create Order From Chaos -- The Telegraph

Firing their guns in the air and driving wildly, Gaddafi's opponents looked as much a menace to their own side as to the enemy, writes Nick Meo.

For an official spokeswoman of the Libyan revolution, Imam Bugrighis was being remarkably frank.

"It is chaos here," she said cheerfully. "Nobody is in charge of anything, and everybody is in charge of everything."

She moved across her office in Benghazi's seafront court building to shut the window as bursts of gunfire outside drowned out her words, followed by raucous cheering as celebrating revolutionaries wearing looted black, red and green berets staged yet another noisy demonstration.

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My Comment: This is truly a revolution in the process. This lack of leadership will change with time, but Gadaffi is now faced with a broad based uprising that will be difficult for him to stop and control. If past revolutions are any indication .... his days are numbered.

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