Libya almost liberated now what?

[mai]

On other matters related to the discussion.

There's third force in the conflict people are often forgetting about - Islamists (I mean besides Gaddafi vs. NTC plus NATO, which are mainly French and Brits, US are really playing their own game here). Yes, it seems like they're on the side of National Transitional Council (the whole deal with Tripoli Brigade etc, see below), but that's only for a while. NTC is playing here a role of a infamous Moor, the one that has done it's duty and can go (and he will, mark my words). On Saturday they've started their own military operation in Tripoli named "Badr" (yep, just like Taliban). At this point the only who's is writing anything about them in the conflict is Thierry Meyssan, but given his reputation *ahem* no surpsise he isn't getting attention, though the story perfectly fits current situation at Maghreb and the Near East (or in other words "makes perfect sense"!).


//Tripoli (Revolutionaries) Brigade was formed in February 2011 by the citizen of Republic of Ireland Mahdi al-Harati. They've even got an account at Facebook. It stared from the modest 150 fighters and grew up to 1000. First entrants were trained at Nalut, by "Qatari" specialists (Taliban training camps anyone?), see Al-Jazeera report. Most "officers" there are migrants from the region and citizens of Canada, Great Britan and the US (sort of Islaminter). It's performance was rather mixed, they've got heavy beating at Zawiya from Khamis (Frunze Academy graduate after all), but re-established themselves as meaningful force at Tripoli, though to be fair they were dealing with militia mostly there.