Wojtek
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Peter Fay <peterrfay at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the link I'm seeing - an article filed in Cairo, but about Libya,
>
> http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=24257
>
> By Abdulsattar Hatitah
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> "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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