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'Everyone suddenly burst out singing.' there are rebels and citizens and and ? who what where in his mad parade of Joy and VicTory the chaOsz of what did one expect what was one foreseeing?

______________ push for steps towards forming a constituent assembly of some sort to give the new government legitimacy. It will need to create institutions which Colonel Gaddafi largely abolished and replaced with supposedly democratic committees that, in effect, policed his quirky one-man rule. This will not be easily done. Long-term opponents of the regime will find it difficult to share the spoils of victory with those who turned their coats at the last minute.

Some groups have been empowered by the war itself, such as the long-marginalised Berbers from the mountains south-west of Tripoli, who put together the most combat-effective militia. They will want their contribution to be recognised in any new distribution of power.
Libya does have several advantages over Afghanistan and Iraq. It is not a country with a large and desperate part of the population destitute and living on the margins of malnutrition. It does not have the same blood-soaked recent history as Afghanistan and Iraq. For all the demonisation of Colonel Gaddafi over the last six months, his one-man rule never came near rivalling that of Saddam Hussein for savagery.__ assemblage  of   texts together  ----- way back in January when the former president of Egypt was thrown off his billion dollar plus throne Well today it looks like that other bum the phony ' Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ' 'has seen his better day'  ~  




                                       not that the people of that country ever had it better under his crackpot authoritarian regime    ~ 




. He was a wicked man,  and will go 'down' the drain 


of
history
as a tyrant , a yahoo,  and a cruel vindictive man   ~ whatever happens in Libya must be better 
than having had
to live under that despot's rule of disorder and torture  ~.


 So let's celebrate the end of tyrants, despots , gangsters, thugs, cheap hoods, scumbags of history   


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_________________________________ The courageous bold people of Egypt are now the living example 
                                                                     to the rest of  us    ~ ___________________

A tyrant's exit. A nation's joy

Robert Fisk: They sang. They laughed. They cried. Mubarak was





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no more.

Everyone suddenly burst out singing.

And laughing, and crying, and shouting and praying, kneeling on the road and 

kissing the filthy tarmac right in front of me, and dancing and praising God for 

ridding them of Hosni Mubarak – a generous moment, for it was their courage rather 

than divine intervention which rid Egypt of its dictator – and weeping tears which 

splashed down their clothes. It was as if every man and woman had just got married, 

as if joy could smother the decades of dictatorship and pain and repression and 

humiliation and blood. Forever, it will be known as the Egyptian Revolution of 25 

January – the day the rising began – and it will be forever the story of a risen 

people.

So Goodbye dictators

and tyrants

 

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dam Hussein for savagery.__ assemblage  of   texts together  ----- way back in January whe

Robert Fisk: How long before the dominoes fall?

The West is offering lessons in democracy to New Libya; how to avoid the chaos we ourselves inflicted on the Iraqis

Tuesday, 23 August 201

The remaining Arab potentates and tyrants have spent a second sleepless night. How soon will the liberators of Tripoli metamorphose into the liberators of Damascus and Aleppo and Homs? Or of Amman? Or Jerusalem? Or of Bahrain or Riyadh? It's not the same, of course.

The Arab Spring-Summer-Autumn has proved not just that the old colonial frontiers remain inviolate – an awful tribute to imperialism, I suppose – but that every revolution has its own characteristics. If all Arab uprisings have their clutch of martyrs, some rebellions are more violent than others. As Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said 

at the start of his own eventual downfall, "Libya is not Tunisia, it's not Egypt...It will become civil war. There will be bloodshed on the streets." And there was.

  To gaze into the ball of Power and its hour?

And so we gaze into the crystal ball.

And how soon, we must ask, before the people of Europe demand to know why, if Nato has been so successful in Libya – as Cameron and his mates now claim – it 

------------------History is not a dominoe 

cannot be used against Assad's legions in Syria, using Cyprus as a territorial aircraft-

carrier, devastating the regime's 8,000 tanks and armoured vehicles as 

Damn those soldiers eyes

damn their hands

their fingers on machinegun triggers

Libyan rebels have consolidated their grip on the capital of Tripoli by capturing Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s main compound, but the whereabouts of the Libyan leader remain unknown, and he has vowed his forces would resist "the aggression with all strength" until either victory or death. Reporters in Tripoli say heavy gunfire could still be heard nearby the area of the Rixos Hotel, where dozens of international journalists guarded by heavily armed Gaddafi loyalists are unable to leave. The Arab League said on Tuesday it will meet this week to consider giving Libyan rebels the country’s seat at the League, after it was taken away a few months ago from the Gaddafi government. Today Britain’s National Security Council is meeting to discuss unfreezing Libyan assets to financially assist the National Transitional Council. We speak with Gilbert Achcar, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. "Who are the rebels? Well, this is actually the $1 billion question," says Achcar. "Even in NATO circles, you find the same questions." [includes rush transcript]

they besiege the country's cities. Or must we heed the neighbours; Israel still secretly hopes (as it shamefully did in the case of Egypt) that the dictator will 

survive to be a friend and make an ultimate peace over Golan.

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Domino theories are a fraud. The Arab Spring is going to last for years. We better think about that. There is no "end of history".