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2011-08-16 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-16 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 The scud launch suggests that the Gaddafi force holding onto Brega with their finger-nails have started getting into "kitchen sink" territory, since they're as likely to drop those things on their own heads as the rebel positions - more likely to rearrange a random patch of coastal plain, though. I'm not sure why countries still invest in the damn things, they're about as tactically useful as smoothbore muskets.

The festivities are well and truly on in Az-Zawiyah. I have to wonder how many indigenous Zawiyari rebels are left after the spring collapse - my gut feeling is that the rebel presence there is mostly Nafusa hillbillies in poorly-coordinated town militias who aren't going to know the urban terrain worth a damn, and they're about to get chewed up pretty bad.

I wonder what's going on south of Misrata & in the vicinity of Gharyan? Zawiyah has *got* to have grabbed the cat's full attention, which should allow the mice elsewhere to come scurrying out of their holes.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-08-16 08:48|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-08-16 08:48|| Front Page Top

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