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leveymg

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22. By your or my standards, Josh, most of them are Jihadi extremists, particularly in E. Libya.

Reply to joshcryer (Reply #15)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 10:42 AM

Sep 2012

That's what made that area so attractive for regime change, first against Ghadaffi and now, as a recruiting ground for Sunni Jihadi attacks against the Shi'ia regime in Syria, and tomorrow against Iran.

The westernized "liberals" you imagine these people are only number a small minority in Tripoli. Libya is a predominantly Sunni tribal society that is broken up into numerous local militant, armed factions. Don't mistake hatred for one of them by some of the others for support for us.

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That's a rather broad brush, imo. joshcryer Sep 2012 #32

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