starting this thread, which i hope will be short-lived, to keep the board up to date with latest reports gleaned from the net

A civilised country before the religious nutters took over - yes, even under Pahlavi.

c,
I always though you were only a little chappie or something like that 8-)

Your Libya seems to be getting messier and messier.

Absence of the tools and leadership.

I think they could have those SAS personalities Dave, George and George parachuted in.

Won't help them much, but will remove a few problems for Britain.

Eye-ran remains the biggest threat and that's where the world needs regime change before they attack Israel (hay parrot applauding) and we have nuclear war.

I came across this in my wanderings, and noting the date, I wonder whether this is related to the uprising in Libya.

Am I beginning to believe in conspiracies?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/01/21/businessproind-us-libya-gaddafi-oil-idUKTRE50K61F20090121


http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/01/21/businessproind-us-libya-gaddafi-oil-idUKTRE50K61F20090121

Gaddafi says looking at oil firm nationalization

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (R) gestures during a news conference in a tent in Kiev, November 6, 2008.

By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON | Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:08pm GMT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Wednesday his country and other oil exporters were looking into nationalizing foreign firms due to low oil prices and suggested Tripoli might not stick to OPEC

spiracy schmiracy, as some might say!

in an age where news is live 24/7 we have rather come to expect things to be resolved quickly and easily ..... "world drama" can often feel like a tv serial with neat little conclusions at the end of each episode, which of course is ridiculous

Looking at Iraq and probably Libya and possibly Egypt your conclusion is possibly correct.

How will the Drama of Syria and SA work out?

iraq - coronation street
libya - the likely lads
egypt - carry on cleo
syria - pilot programme only
sa - never got past consideration

Is he slipping something to the frog

Israel - Waiting for Godot

the wasteland!

fred's and parrot's and fahel's favourite book is.....Mein Kampf

Is it porno

Do any of you free thinking gentlemen honestly think that it will end when Gaddafi goes?? I say there will be one big bun fight while various factions try to wrest control from the others. We may well end up out of the frying pan so to speak !!!! You cannot knock the bravery shown but to what end?? I bet that in some shady little dens deals are all ready being struck and not by the people dodging the bullets.

it will at least be the end of the beginning, but it is indeed possible that the frogs will ultimately inherit a heron king

very Churchillian

In the 1920/30s we would have backed them to the hilt until the chips were down then walk away as they were fed to the lions. As a nation we are not without guilt ask the cossacks!!

itlob - the first part indeed; the second is aesop

Yes, I know, though the heron king reminded me of the long necked de Gaulle and all the problems we had with him and his ego both during the war and afterwards :)

There speaks a true sesquipedalian. Mr.c lol.

and there's a great non-seq ..... i'ld have liked oxymoron, but that isn't apposite unfortunately

but meantime and back on subject, things are looking very bloody and nasty in libya