muammar gaddafi
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Gaddafi Planning To Blow Up Tripoli If He Loses Libyan Revolution?
Life imitates art – or at least, life imitates really bad super villain movies. Russia’s special envoy to Africa tells the UK Telegraph that Libyan head of state/accomplished lunatic plans to “cover [Tripoli]with missiles and blow it up”. Plan B!
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The Metal War Cloud Over Libya
Libya’s air power is destroyed. Its ground power is (largely) blasted. All because of a persistent storm of aircraft enforcing a strict no-fly zone – planes like this French Super Etendard fighter, dumping a plume of fuel across the sun.
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The Rebels Have Hacked Gaddafi’s Mobile Phone Network
When Colonel Gaddafi seized control of the internet and jammed cellular networks, it left two million Libyans without secure wireless communication to each other or the world. It also caused mayhem for the rebels, who were left coordinating their battle fronts with only hand signals, “a throw-back that proved disastrous,” says the WSJ.
