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Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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I wonder if anyone will organise a party outside the Libyan embassy in London :unsmith:

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Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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I hope nobody gets hit by those stray rounds :ohdear:

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Brown Moses posted:

I do indeed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xutI9gQX45M&t=162s

This owns :)

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Everyone get in #tahrir on irc.synirc.net.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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IRQ posted:

If they exist, NATO let them land.

They've actually been driven all the way up from Johannesburg.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Can we not post about Twitter rumours unless there's at least some kind of substance to them?

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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gently caress, I wish people would specify which Gadaffi. THERE ARE SO MANY.

He planned this. The fucker planned this. It's all just one huge troll.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Arkane posted:

Codebreakers, stat

Oh, Ireland do have teams in the Magners League!

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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i find all your bitching tiresome, here is a kid holding another kid

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Torpor posted:

Maybe they'll ship a box of goo to the Hague?

Muammar Gadaffi in the most hosed up edition of Get Your Own Back ever.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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http://twitter.com/#!/AvrilRocksSum41/status/105441087329550336

welp

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Also, here's the Mohammed Gaddafi phonecall. Anyone speak Arabic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ2BheZHvAs

edit: AJE are gonna translate it, nvm.

Nuclear Spoon fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Aug 22, 2011

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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How big is this compound?

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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I am F5ing the entire internet right now.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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"Blake Hounshell, managing editor of Foreign Policy tweets: Former high-ranking Libyan official claimed earlier that the tunnels beneath Bab al-Aziziya are booby-trapped."

:ohdear:

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Oh hey I didn't know Reuters had a live blog

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Tripoli_Besieged

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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http://twitter.com/!/anupkaphle/status/106029363539091456

"What would be "breaking news" now is if they found Gaddafi playing chess with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden inside Bab al-Aziziya."

lol.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Number of possible outcomes here:

1) Gadaffi is a massive Harry Potter fan. Also an avid chess player. Below the compound is a massive chess board, in which the rebels are given buckets of water and must make up the white pieces, where the black pieces are robots with knives. They must win the game, sacrificing their companions, to proceed to the next chamber where Gadaffi is actually a rug with his face on. The rug we saw having the poo poo beaten out of it was a decoy.

2) One plucky rebel has to engage him in a sword fight. Except Gadaffi can fly, and shoot energy balls. After destroying him, he activates a self-destruction mechanism and the rebel has a limited amount of time to follow political prisoners out of the compound before they get blown up, whilst stabbing brainwashed Gadaffi goons on the way out. They get out in the nick of time and the place explodes. Gadaffi turns into Godzilla, NATO shoots him in the eyes with machine guns and then fires Hellfires into his mouth. He dies, world carries on.

3) They find a room with Gadaffi's corpse in it. A rebel picks up a note on his body which reads, "We are all Gadaffi". He turns around and sure enough, his comrades all have the face of Gadaffi. He looks in a shattered mirror in the room. He does not see himself, only the wall behind him.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Furious Mittens posted:

Something big is on fire in the middle of the Tripoli live shot on Al-J. Earlier, there were two fires on either side of the frame, now there is just one massive black plume in the middle, behind the taller buildings in the middle. Anyone know where that shot might be relative to major action that we know of?

It's the rug.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Golbez posted:

Is this the plot to something? Because it's creepy and I like it.

It could be! I just made it up because I felt like writing stupid poo poo and I have work to do.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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What's that thing on fire on AJE?

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Any news on the Rixos?

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Ghetto Prince posted:

I love this guy, hundreds of rounds going into the air and hes just "well, this is a little alarming, bit of an unpleasant experience as what goes up, must come down"

I am not sure I can imagine anyone else but a Brit dealing with a situation like that :britain:


VikingSkull posted:

Was that the kid running covering his ears? Definitely the coolest kid in the world today.

Looked like an AC Milan top to me.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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I know it probably will, but just in case:

I hope that interview with that baller gets on YouTube.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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yesssssssssssssssssssss

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Baddog posted:

Just taking a little nap while the tent is on fire and everyone is blasting off thousands of automatic rifles and heavy weapons into the air right outside.

Gadaffi is totally into stumpfucking, he had his house soundproofed so he could watch it with a 9.1 surround sound system.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Fog Tripper posted:

I love drudge


how i get here

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Picture of Journalists at the Rixos, might be old. More here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.194581230607701.51961.133738650025293

edit: http://www.rubiconmango.com/post/9306482866

gently caress, I might be tearing up.

another edit: @MyFreeLibya has made some tweets with regards to a plan for the Rixos but I am not sure as to the validity of the account.

Nuclear Spoon fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Aug 23, 2011

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Fog Tripper posted:

Are those journalists disallowed from leaving the building? Not that I wish them harm, but I thought the whole war correspondant thing required you kind of go out and document stuff that is happening. (Like AJ seems to do)

GQ's goons aren't letting them outside. The reason why other journalists are out there is because presumably they were never in the Rixos in the first place.

Speaking of which: http://carolv27.tumblr.com/post/9308866132/list-of-journalists-at-the-rixos-tripoli

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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12.08am: Muammar Gadaffi is planning to address the Libyan people over a local radio station, Reuters reports.

Again?

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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"By the time you hear this, I will have shot myself. In March, as it happens. Y'all got trolled. Also, Hugo Chavez has a tiny dick and likes boys. That's what you get when you don't pay up after being wiped in poker."

Apart from it not working in Linux, I've never had a problem with Silverlight. I must be one of a few.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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zalderach posted:

Sky news have really impressed me with their reporting on this. They are up there with AJE now.


Some of the videos remind me of this badass from my own country:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR2I_L9CL14

"I AM SORRY I CANNOT HEAR YOUR GUNFIRE OVER HOW FEW FUCKS I HAVE TO GIVE"

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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dr_rat posted:

wouldn't running by plane, from an international airport, in a city surrounded by hostile forces, in a country which has had a no fly zone in place for quite a few months now, be pretty much the stupidest thing he could do?

I mean I'm not saying he might not try it, but it does seem right up there on the crazy scale.

I'm fully expecting Gaddafi to try and commandeer a MiG.

Which he doesn't know how to fly.

edit: In the unlikely event he knows he's hosed, if I were him, I would try and get myself killed in the strangest way possible, with evidence of death at least a little dubious, as to create a whole bunch of conspiracy theories and laugh at the world from the afterlife as the world trips over itself trying to explain/deny whatever the gently caress happens.

Nuclear Spoon fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Aug 24, 2011

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Golbez posted:

Why is the hashtag #rixos4 being used? For while I thought that meant only four journos were in the hotel.

I believe it might be that they are the only ones on, or having a prolific presence on, Twitter. I haven't bothered to check if the other journalists there are on Twitter though.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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According to Wikipedia, the AK47 has a rate of fire of about 600 rounds per minute (which seems a little high). Nonetheless, you're one of about 40 people in a group being guarded by 2 brainwashed goons who have fully automatic rifles, and you have little idea of what their intentions are. 5-star hotel and MacBook or not, it doesn't sound a fantastic position to be in. I don't think one would be so quick to trivialise the situation would one be in it.

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Just noticed this from AJE's Gaza Liveblog.

quote:

In the North of the Gaza strrip in Beit Lahia the Israeli F 16 jets have fried a rocket a sports club.

can't we all just sit down and talk over a fried a rocket

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Xandu posted:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/a-qaddafi-family-photo-album/

This is just amazing. Gaddafi's family photos.

#6 "Who wants this baby?"

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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How are u posted:

:what:

Are you loving kidding? I find it in extremely poor taste that you're looking at this tremendous struggle and thinking about it being put into a video game for white man-children. That is seriously insulting to everyone involved in the revolution, and I'd say to the Arab Spring as a whole. gently caress.

Yeah, you could have at least hoped for a Battlefield game instead. :colbert:

Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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ecureuilmatrix posted:



*No longer really appropriate. How should we refer to them now? Free Libyans? NTCists? Republic Forces?

I've seen FF (short for freedom fighters) a lot, so I guess that.

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Nuclear Spoon
Aug 18, 2010

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Xandu posted:

brownmosesreport.com

please tell me i was not the only one for a second who got a little excited :(

edit: brown moses parting the red sea, lol

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