The Lightning Advance That Ended Gadhafi's Rule -- Clemens Höges, Spiegel Online
In the end, the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's regime came quickly, after the rebels mounted a lightning advance into Tripoli to finally topple the hated dictator who ruled Libya for 42 years. SPIEGEL followed the ragtag convoy of desperate, committed fighters into the capital.
The man is finally sitting on the fine sandy beach of Tripoli. The sea is calm and the water a deep turquoise blue. He says that he's a very good marksman, and has a black rifle lying across his knees. Now, after all that's happened, it doesn't bother him anymore to shoot black Africans he believes are mercenaries. But shooting Libyans, says Abu Bakr Uraibi, is still difficult for him. And the first time he killed someone was the most difficult of all.
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My Comment: If you have the will, moral high-ground, sense of direction and purpose, and determination .... coupled with a little NATO air support and military aid .... these men proved that anything is possible.
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