Qaddafi Will Fight Back

In Tripoli, Libya the day after American and European forces began the series of air strikes against the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Reported by The New York Times, Qaddafi intends to fight all the way to the end when he declares,

 Speaking of a “long war,” Colonel Qaddafi said: “We will not leave our land and we will liberate it.”

“We will fight you if you continue your attacks on us,” he Qaddafi said. “Those who are on the land will win the battle,” he declared, warning without explanation that “oil will not be left to the United States, France and Britain.”

He is confident that his forces on the ground would win the war in the end. He has just recently opened military depots to his supporters and the Libyan people. Qaddafi is preparing for battle, quickly, expecting to be hit again by the US and its European Allies. However, President Obama already declared that he would use any American ground forces when he says,

 “I am deeply aware of the risks of any military action, no matter what limits we place on it,” he said. “I want the American people to know that the use of force is not our first choice, and it’s not a choice that I make lightly. But we can’t stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy.”

With America making attacks from the sky and Libya retaliates from the ground; who knows what the outcome of this war will be. All we know now is that it won’t be pretty. 

Obama Gives Libya A Warning...

  Reported earlier, President Obama ordered Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to take immediate cease-fire, withdraw his forces from rebel-held cities and to stop all attacks on Libyan residents. Otherwise, Qaddafi will have to face military action from the United States, Europe and in entire Arab Nation. However, Qaddafi refused to listen and Obama went ahead with the necessary precautions and unleashed the first round of warplanes and missiles on Libya. The New York Times, reports the conditions of the airstrike,

The mission to impose a United Nations-sanctioned no-flight zone and keep Colonel Qaddafi from using air power against beleaguered rebel forces was portrayed by Pentagon and NATO officials as under French and British leadership. But the Pentagon said that American forces were conducting a campaign to knock out Libya’s air-defense systems, firing more than 100 Tomahawk missiles from nearby ships against Libyan missile, radar and communications centers around Tripoli, the capital, and the western city of Misurata.

If Qaddafi continues to defy Obama’s orders, this entire situation could get out of hand. The United States and its European Allies only launched the first round of missile attacks, and it managed to injure many people. I can't imagine what the second round of missiles would do to Libya. During this point in time, this situation doesn't look it will improve any time soon. For America at least, these are increasingly difficult times, considering we still have our troops in Iraq. As one war is coming to an end, a new one has just started...

Libyan War Traps Poor Immigrants

    A new refuge crisis is rising on the outskirts of Tripolis, wearing thousands of migrant workers from sub-Saharan Africa have been trapped with limited supply of food and water, no international assistance and little hope for escape. Many of the immigrants are fighting to survive, and trying to live off of what they can. As seen in The New York Times,

"The migrants — many of them illegal immigrants from Ghana and Nigeria who have long constituted an impoverished underclass in Libya — live amid piles of garbage, sleep in makeshift tents of blankets strung from fences and trees, and breathe fumes from a trench of excrement dividing their camp from the parking lot of Tripoli’s airport".

Most of the immigrants are trapped due to lack of passports or other documents that are necessary to board the planes. Many of these immigrants are desperately trying to flee the country, just to get away from the violent outburst that's taking place in Libya.

"The airport refugees, along with tens of thousands of other African migrants lucky enough to make it across the border to Tunisia, are the most desperate contingent of a vast exodus that has already sent almost 200,000 foreigners fleeing the country since the outbreak of the popular revolt against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi nearly three weeks ago".

Many immigrants can't get out of Tunisia, and at this point, this rate, their odds of ever getting the chance to leave the country look very slim. The option of leaving the airport or going across the boarder didn't seem like something they would do, just because they are fearful of assaults by the Libyan citizens or militia checkpoints. Not even international aid workers can help them, because the Libyan Government made tight security around the Tripoli prevents any of them through. If the immigrants can't find a way out, it won't be a very happy ending for them...

An Update on the Current Conditions in Libya...

Just recently, it was known world wide that Libya now rises in conflict with itself, as it begins to transition into democracy. Many also question Col. Muhammar el-Qaddfi's claims and purpose in this fight amongst themselves.