http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=24257
By Abdulsattar Hatitah
"Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – Libyan tribes played an important role in the country's fight against Ottoman, and later ..."
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:33 PM, ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> But that is the monarchist flag as independence was achieved under the
> king.
> Libya surely was put together from three different areas and the division
> between Tripolitania and Cyrenaica is resurfacing to some extent now. While
> there may have been urbanisation and industrialization surely tribal
> connections
> are still very important. The link Peter gives is to material on Egypt is
> there
> another to Libya?
>
> Cheers, ken
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "dredmond at efn.org" <dredmond at efn.org>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Mon, February 28, 2011 10:35:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Investment in Libya
>
> On Mon, February 28, 2011 8:01 pm, Peter Fay wrote:
>
> > 1) The 'democrats' revolting in Libya are not waving the Libyan flag (as
> > the Egyptians waved the Egyptian flag), but instead the Libyan Monarchist
> > flag
>
> No, it's the flag of the newly independent Libya, created when it won
> freedom from colonial occupation.
>
> > 3) Libya is only ostensibly a nation-state, rather than a Ottoman-Italian
> > patching together of three separate regions.
>
> This is Orientalist nonsense. Libyans have gone through decades of
> nationhood, urbanization and industrialization.
>
> > 5) Qaddafi's forces are brutal and ruthless. And undemocratic. But they
> > also fight to the end.
>
> No they don't. They're murderous, cowardly swine, good only at shooting
> unarmed protestors with .50 weaponry. The videos are all over Youtube,
> just do a search or click on <http://www.libyafeb17.com/>. The people of
> Libya are going to defeat the dictator who robbed them blind for 40 years,
> and I salute their courage and determination in standing up to a dreadful
> tyrant.
>
> -- DRR
>
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