We’re now a week into post-election Libya, and we don’t really know what the new Libyan government will look like. This vote count, seemingly cementing Libya as “post-revolution,” comes around the backdrop of Misrata’s military planning yet another offensive against “Gadhafi loyalists.”
After months of score-settling, always done in the context of one side accusing another of harboring secret loyalty, and mass detentions of suspected loyalists, the attacks are still going on, and the Misrata militia, always aggressive, is turning its eye once again toward the town of Bani Walid.
The town of Bani Walid has been sacked a number of times by Misrata and other militia factions, and a tribal faction called the Warfallah Elders Council (WEC), which still flies to Gadhafi-era flag, has held the town since late January.
The latest row centers around the kidnapping of Libyan journalists, with the group that captured them saying they filmed local military areas without permission. Misrata militia head Mohammed al-Swehill issued an ultimatum Wednesday threatening a full attack in the journalists weren’t released in 48 hours. The exact timing of the attack remains to be seen.
These Muslims who call in NATO to help them are idiots. They ruin their own nations and enslave future generations.
>>>"The exact timing of the attack remains to be seen."
Indeed.
Bani Walid was not sacked a number of times. Bani Walid was attacked a number of times with the support of heavy NATO bombing. Bani Walid held against and repelled every attack. On the day that Sirte fell NATO dropped a large fuel-air bomb on Bani Walid civilians. At this time Bani Walid agreed to allow NTC troops to enter Bani Walid and raise the NTC flag; with the agreement that they would not enter citizens homes or molest or arrest Bani Walid citizens, or loot. When the Misrata militia violated this agreement by arresting and molesting citizens of Bani Walid, the citizens of Bani Walid ejected then and the NTC from Bani Walid and raised the Libyan flag (green).
Your comment is a little too long. Try splitting it into multiple comments.
The Misrata militias are murderous racist punks who never won a battle without NATO bombers blasting a path for them to stroll in. Misrata is owned by Qatar and is despised by Tripoli and Benghazi, who are owned by the US and NATO. Bani Walid is a natural fortress. Bani Walid is Warfallah. Warfallah is the largest tribe in Libya. If Misrata attacks Bani Walid and the NATO bombers do not come back to help them (not likely), the Misratan attack will fail and many lesser tribes that have been pounded into submission by NATO bombers, upon seeing that the NATO bombers are not returning in significant numbers, will rise in alliance with Warfallah.