Witnesses: Tribal clashes in Libya kill scores

[Bonobo]

Easy to let slip the dogs of war.

Not so easy to control them once they are off the leash.


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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h7-BakQsKqX7s4nG9xpBYUF8sT_A?docId=39af1300cc034f9e8854557b1f1e2935

[h]Witnesses: Tribal clashes in Libya kill scores[/h]

By RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI, Associated Press – 8 hours ago

KUFRA, Libya (AP) — Scores of civilians have been killed in the past 24 hours in tribal warfare in a remote region of southern Libya, witnesses said on Tuesday.

Moussa Bazama, an ambulance worker driving north taking the injured to treatment, said 50 people had been killed by the rockets, mortars and gunfire rocking residential areas in the desert town of Kufra.

Lines of trucks and cars carrying hundreds of families were streaming out of Kufra on the highway leading towards the populated areas of the coast, some 500 miles (800 kilometers) away.

"The situation is extremely bad," said Abdel-Rehim al-Shewih, an engineer in Kufra contacted by phone. "It is about who kills the most every day."

[Bonobo]

1. Funny how these posts get no responses.

Libya sure attracted a lot of attention before we went in because Gadaffi was a bad guy.

Now there is chaos and it's like... "Yawn. So what do you think about Syria?"

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. well, I think many agree with the news reports posted here (on DU)

about the instability currently mutating in Lybia (and elsewhere), but many of us at DU never wanted to get the firepower involved in the first place, partly because we felt it'd be another media-fuck-around. And we we're right. Its hard to reply to posts about the ME because we're so starved of facts, (apart from unconfirmed snippets), and drowned with MSM spin; when it suits their purposes. So how Do you respond with any insightful, reasoned integrity.......fucked it I know. Despite all the ability we have to report on these situations, we might as well be reporting on a war on Pluto. I know Du'ers hearts in the right place, but its hard to discuss.

To add to your lament; our difficulty discussing non-existent news from Iceland, and spun news from Greece, and total confusion of the world markets are other examples. And then there is south America!

(previous post deleted because it was to the OP, not comment #1 as intended)

[KG]

4. it's only to be expected, don't ya know.

[mainer]

5. Those of us who predicted this got tired of being labeled Ghadafi lovers

I've just dropped out of the conversation entirely. This is one case where you get no satisfaction saying "I was right."

[Bonobo]

6. Oddly I am labelled an authoritarian supporter of apartheid for some reason.

There are some very "different" people on DU.

[KG]

7. +indeed

[Dokkie]

8. Sad to see what is going on in that beautiful country

But lets hope it is the NTC people and their supporters suffering all the deaths. The people who called for their country to be bombed should pay for what they did. Its only a matter of time but Libyans will regain their country back.

[xchrom]

9. du rec. nt