Allies Destroy Gadhafi's Compound, NY Times Reporters Freed

Last night, a missile strike hit Libyan strongman leader Moammer Gadhafi's compound in Bab al-Aziza. CNN reported that the compound "lay in shambles Monday following bombing by the United States and its allies, prompting a debate about whether the allies were trying to kill the Libyan leader." But a coalition military official told the network "neither Gadhafi nor his residence were intended targets of the bombing late Sunday...[and he] said the compound was targeted because it contained command-and-control facilities for Libyan forces." U.S. Vice Adm. Bill Gortney said at a Pentagon press briefing, "We are not going after Gadhafi."

Over the weekend, Gadhafi promised a "long war" with the allies, who started attacks to enforce the U.N.'s no-fly zone declaration—and he called the allies "the new Nazis." But Crowley suggested that the U.S.'s military operations may have already peaked, "We are moving from the action phase to a patrolling phase. Our aircraft participation has... plateaued, if not reduced somewhat." The Washington Post reports, "The rebels by Monday had regained control of Zuwaytinah, an oil terminal about 16 miles northwest of Ajdabiya that had been captured by loyalist forces last week." However, Gadhafi's whereabouts are unknown.

Nearly a week after they went missing in Libya, four NY Times reporters were released into custody of the Turkish embassy in Tripoli. According to the NY Times, "Like many Western journalists, the four had entered the rebel-controlled eastern region of Libya over the Egyptian border without visas to cover the insurrection against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. They were detained by forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi in Ajdabiya. The journalists are Anthony Shadid, The Times’s Beirut bureau chief, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting; two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have extensive experience in war zones; and a reporter and videographer, Stephen Farrell, who in 2009 was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan and was rescued by British commandos."

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By Jen Chung in News on March 21, 2011 10:12 AM

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kevd

I'm done with this child.....

Guest

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kevd

You are also replying to my quote of your comment as if it were my comment.
You are too dumb to even respond to.

Stiff01

If you say so wise one . Seriously , How can I respond to a person claiming to know so much . Yet responds with such a High Schoolers terminology . "Close enough for a fucking retard, right?" Really ? How articulate ( Hope I spelled that correctly ) . You must a scholar . Lol , (Punctuation marks aren't words, incidentally.) ( Good Lord, He can read as well ! Though the Gentlemen seems to have a problem with understanding terms of context) * Snickers* Correct sir , They aren't ! They just act as words . Meaning in a sentence a punctuation carries the same value of a word . Simply put , A space is suppose to be placed between each . Sadly , I doubt you read much so this may not make much sense to you , OR people like yourself . I tried so ....... Whatever .

kevd

Punctuation marks act like words. eh? They carry the "same value." Seriously, you are a fool.
You are only embarrassing yourself. No one is impressed.
Clearly, you have never even looked at a book. Please do so before making a bigger fool of yourself on this website. But, I suppose some attention (even if it can only come in the forms of correction and ridicule) is better than none, right?

proudliberal1947

I guess the Anti American republican Hate and Fear mongers have their International American Colonization Plan back on track, since they haven't been attacking Obama or telling us that Japan is nothing to worry about and we are all over reacting to the devastation there.
Yup when you see the TURD crystal crawl out of the CESS POOL he has been living in you know the HATE and FEAR Mongers are back in CHARGE. The biggest give away was Obama used the WAR CRIMINAL bush tactics I wonder if Biden is going to follow suit with the TRAITOR cheney tactic and OUT another CIA operative as a distraction.

Guest

how does the French sabre-rattling fit into this proud liberal soundbite? are they under the power of Cheney, CIA, and co.?

kevd

You mean "How does the French SABRE-rattling fit into this PROUD liberal soundBITE? are they UNDER the power OF Cheney, CIA, AND CO.?"

See how random caps lock makes its so much more effective?

Samba Lamba

Half of USA or probably more, did not know who Gaddafi was, they probably thought it was an italian slang or middle eastern dish. Now they all hate it. This is so funny. By the way, if goDDamist is going to get into international politics, the least you can do is to get his name right. He can be a miserable piece of crap, or the greatest person in the world, but we had no right to bomb his ass, he was not a threat to USA.

Guest

you'd have to either live in a hole or be too young to remember Lockerbie to not know who Gadhafi is.

and since it is being translated from Arabic, media outlets spell his last name differently.

MSNBC, Wash Times, ABC, Yahoo, CNN, FoxNews have all spelled it Gadhafi. but you could be right in saying Gaddafi is the preferred spelling. don't forget there is also al-Gaddafi, Khaddafi, Gadhafi, and Qaddafi too.

Guest

perhaps none of the above commenters noted that there are several nations involved with complete UN backing. this is not Iraq 2003. fuck Gadhafi in his goat ass.

MermaidFornicator

ooh tough talk, i guess you will be enlisting today?

Guest

so you're a gadhafi fan i take it?

MermaidFornicator

spoken like a true chickenhawk

Guest

ah, name-calling. so you don't actually want to engage in a lively debate about assisting popular democracy movements when protesters are being annihilated by a tyrant?

Fadlo K. Shell

How do you know it's "popular"?

Who are these people, and why do they have such strangely easy access to the American Secretary of State?

Guest

the same way anyone that is not on the ground does, i read news from a variety of sources. are you under the impression that there are no protests going on? are you disputing that numerous Libyan diplomats and politicians have defected from Gadhafi's murderous regime?

this is a good source for info, not exactly a bastion of pro-American thought. http://english.aljazeera.net/i...

there is loaded presumptuousness to your secretary of state comment. what is your grounds for it?

Stiff01

So fucking what ! That still doesn't give them the right to bully another nation into submission, Even if they kill their own people ! ( I'm sorry, But again we got our own problems and need to focus on that . Sometimes you have to be selfish and tend to your own house before you can "Work in the garden") " You do what we say , Or we'll block your ports from receiving traded goods, Patrol your airways preventing you from using them . Push come to shove, We'll use our military to further make our point that we run this shit and you are just a clog that got the fuck out of place ! The U.N. has been a joke pretty much from the beginning personally . It's like the worlds "club house" for Arrogant Bullies .