AP: Gaddafi 'is recruiting fighters from other African countries'

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Libya's acting prime minister has said that Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be recruiting fighters from other African countries and preparing for a possible insurgency, hoping to destabilise Libya's new regime.

Wednesday's comments by Mahmoud Jibril reflected fears that the ousted leader would be able to use friendly relations with neighbouring countries cultivated during his more than four decades in power to help him launch a bid to return to power.

"Reports have shown that 68 vehicles with at least eight fighters each crossed the Libyan borders to Mali and Gaddafi is hiding in the southern desert," Jibril told reporters.

He said Gaddafi had made a deal with the Hamada tribe, which roams the borders between Chad, Sudan and Libya, to provide 12,000 fighters "to enter Libya and start the fight".

full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/20/gaddafi-recruiting-fighters-african-countries

That was the day before Gaddafi died, but you never know if he's being aided and abetted.

[MADem]

1. Those 68 vehicles would be well served to have radios; a U-turn is in order. NT

[Warpy]

2. Well, he'd always done that even before the revolution

He'd pretty much starved the national army and raised his own private force, lavishly equipped, recruited from poor countries across the continent. It's why this thing has taken so long and has been so bloody.

The Libyan army went over to the side of the people very quickly, but was largely in the same boat as everybody else, ill equipped and outgunned. They were put into the position of having to steal superior weaponry from the private army.

So yes, this article is just a little redundant.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Guess we'll have to invade the entire continent, then

That's where these things always lead, isn't it?

[entropic]

4. no, not really

we never did actually invade Iran, for all the heat and light.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. We're still working on that one

Or haven't you read about the earth-shaking diplomatic assassination plot?