Libyans loyal to Gaddafi scorn UN resolution and 'al-Qaida'

[David__77]

It is 400 miles from Tripoli to Benghazi, but the fighting in Libya's second city might as well be on another planet for residents of the capital, where opposition to Muammar Gaddafi has been crushed or drowned out by an orchestrated chorus of loyal support for the "brother leader".

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Karim al-Garyani, a volunteer for the people's militia, was scathing about the UN security council's vote threatening to use "all necessary means" to defend Libyans from their own leader, and offered his mobile phone to display gruesome images of the corpses of soldiers killed in the month-long violence.

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Libyan media made little mention of the ceasefire announced on Friday, reinforcing the impression that it was intended to sow doubts in an already divided international community, rather than for a domestic audience.

Saturday morning's news headlines on al-Jamahirya TV were condemnation of the UN resolution by Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, and the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. A third and final item was about illegal immigrants from the Maghreb being washed up on an Italian beach.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/20/libya-tripoli-gaddafi-loyalists-supporters

[tabatha]

1. How many of them are there because they

have been forced by Gaddafi with retributions to their families if they do not.

[David__77]

2. Who knows?

It would be mistaken, though, to assume it is anything close to all of them. Even among those who take a political position "consciously," though, there are different levels of awareness of the reality of things.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Maybe wishful thinking

Of the 70 or so tribes some are dedicated to the Gadaffis come what may. I don't know the geographical distribution of the tribes but their positioning within Libya may determine, after Gadaffi has gone and the dust has settled , whether Libya is divided into more than 3 states - 3 is considered to be the minimum likely.

btw the three states would be Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica : Benghazi being in the latter. That's how it was the three states became to be called Libya.

[Iggo]

4. We have Republicans and the Tea Party here in the USA.

It'd be a mistake to think they don't have GKQaddafi groupies in Libya.

[tabatha]

5. Yes, but I know that Gaddafi has threatened retribution

to get people to do his bidding. In the States it is more like reward or assistance in doing the bidding of the powerful.