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2-26-11 REVOLUTION IN LIBYA RJ MacDonald
News sources report that the US is evacuating it's embassy in Libya on the basis of the continuing violence in the city of Tripoli but that diplomatic relations are to be maintained in any case and so there will be no break in relations with Libya.
The situation is very sensitive for the USA in that Libya's oil is the highest source in Africa and is of a very high quality, needing minimal refinement prior to use. This does not want to be lost and so the strategic move is very likely based on not wanting to provide a reason to counteract and isolate Libya on the basis of the jeopardy or harm that that country might cause to US citizens residing there, especially were those US citizens to be high profile in status. So, in order to avoid trouble, remove the basis of the possible trouble and maintain a "diplomatic" position such that access to those high level and abundant energy reserves is maintained.
After 4,200 Chinese nationals had left Libya on Thursday another 2,900 had departed from Benghazi, Libya on Friday to then later arrived on Crete on Saturday. This evacuation from Libya is a rescue operation which is a cooperative effort on the part of China and Greece in respect to the recent events of political turmoil in Libya. Reportedly 13 citizens of other nationalities were taken with the group on Friday. This situation if paralleled to a degree by the American evacuation that has also taken place on Friday. It has been reported that 6,000 Chinese workers are to be transported from Libya in total. Food, water and shelter are being provided for the Chinese evacuees by the Greeks until subsequent flights from China to Greece to pick up those rescued and take them back to China is achieved - projectively on Saturday the 26th.
A committee of experts is reportedly on the verge of declaring a new government but are still waiting for events in Tripoli to unfold. They may be part of the opposition which has defeated by virtue of their numbers the government forces of Gaddafi. Atrocities have been reported to have occurred in respect to government soldiers who were disobedient in respect to refusing to oppose anti-government forces. Thirteen charred bodies have been evidenced as well as additional reports of 67 bodies stated to be in a military compound. Five hundred are said to have been killed and 1,900 injured but anti-government groups nonetheless are now in control of the city of Benghazi. Their success is apparently due to their numbers although mainly unarmed.
There is obviously good reason for the evacuations that are presently occurring in Libya as the reports that are emerging are suggestive of the seriously entrenched position that the Libyan Oligarchic autocracy is taking. What this could unfortunately lead to is an all-out civil war and one that could go on for an "extended" period unless outside forces such as the UN or NATO were to become employed therein.
http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/rm/2-26-11-Revolution-in-Libya.html
2-26-11 VOA "US shutters Libya embassy"
2-26-11 xinhuanet.com "2,900 more Chinese evacuees from Libya reach Greece"
2-26-11 Sky News "Libyan soldiers 'burned alive' by comrades"
2-26-11 Euronews.net "Thousands try to flee Libya as Gaddafi vows to fight to the death"
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