The Mission Creep guy said early on “there is nothing important in Libya south of the Coast highway – only a few old cold war era Russian bases”.<\/p>\n
That was true in 1986 when\u00a0he tried the first time to kill Qadaffi.\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently, he hasn’t been reading up on the Man\u00a0Made River that Qadaffi built to transfer water to Ajdabiya and Benghazi. over the last decade\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While NATO has been busy bombing Misrata, the\u00a0Libyan government troops\u00a0have been taking control of the oil fields and the water pipeline in the South.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back on the old blog, I had posted pictures of \u00a0Jalo<\/a> – the “end of the road”…. a really bleak place that will be very hard for the rebels to attack, and even harder for NATO to bomb.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I think NATO is going to discover a lot of the things they have been trying to destroy are hidden out in the middle of the desert.\u00a0 A country of 600,000 square miles is a very big place in which to hide things.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Man Made River is 14 feet in diameter – big enough to drive an Army through.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/africa\/battle-for-libya-shifts-in-desert-sands-as-gaddafi-loyalists-target-oilfields-2282681.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mission Creep guy said early on “there is nothing important in Libya south of the Coast highway – only a few old cold war era Russian bases”. That was true in 1986 when\u00a0he tried the first time to kill … Continue reading