[lbo-talk] U.S. giving up on Libyan rebels

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Apr 14 15:32:55 PDT 2011


[So much for all those grand plans that seemed so grand just a week or three ago.]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-libya-usa-rebels-idUSTRE73D68S20110414

U.S., allies see Libyan rebels in hopeless disarray

By Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Too little is known about Libya's rebels and they remain too fragmented for the United States to get seriously involved in organizing or training them, let alone arming them, U.S. and European officials say.

U.S. and allied intelligence agencies believe NATO's no-fly zone and air strikes will be effective in stopping Muammar Gaddafi's forces from killing civilians and dislodging rebels from strongholds like Benghazi, the officials say.

But the more the intelligence agencies learn about rebel forces, the more they appear to be hopelessly disorganized and incapable of coalescing in the foreseeable future.

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