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Thursday, 21 June 2012

Tribal Clashes In Western Libya

From BBC Africa:

June 21, 2012

Libya's tribal clashes leave 105 dead

Recent tribal clashes in western Libya left 105 people dead and some 500 injured, the government has said.

Government spokesman Nasser al-Manaa said there had been no fighting in the mountainous area since Monday, following the deployment of the army.

The area includes the towns of Zintan, Mizdah and Shegayga, some 150km (90 miles) south of the capital Tripoli.

The week-long clashes were seen as a test for Libya's new government, which has struggled to assert its authority.

The fighting was mainly between fighters from Zintan, backed by another tribe known as the Guntrara from Mizdah, and armed members of the Mashashya tribe based in Shegayga, the BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says.

Tensions date from the Gaddafi-era, when one tribe was given land expropriated from another, our correspondent says.

The latest clashes were triggered by the death of a man from Zintan after he was stopped at a checkpoint, which Zintan militias have blamed on the Mashashya tribe.

The ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), which took power last year, has been trying to maintain stability in a country awash with weapons left over from the conflict last year.

The violence comes just weeks before the country is due to hold elections for a national assembly, the first free poll in decades.

Tags: Libya

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Posted on 06/21/2012 9:40 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald

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22 Jun 2012

reactionry

Indian Tribe Clashes With MOT*

Leaving (Cleavon) Little To The Imagination

Before Mr. Fitzgerald's reposting of fun with "Tunisian Ali Ben Zidane Chehidi, 35, who was living above Purley Day Nursery..." http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/11726 , he had published In Tunisia, The Primitives Are On The Rampage and In MuslimTunisia, As In Nazi Germany, "Degenerate Art" Attacked . This somehow led to the discovery that Paul Klee (previously the brunt of moronic tweets about his Twittering Machine in comments here) was linked to Tunisia and a glance at Wikipedia revealed that he was also associated with someone whose name should make one think of a famous character of the silver screen (and possibly silver spurs).

Wie gewöhnlich, I, your 'umble Fensterlicher, will gladly submit some overdue dues in due time to NER for the correct names of the person and the character above.

-R.

* MOT - "Members of the Tribe"

Tags: Genghis & Sylvia Khan-Kahn, Wolfson, Kaminsky, Kandinsky, Klee, a comedy sketch too broad for Brooks leaps off the page and onto the cutting floor, Madame Butterfly, Gypsy the Moth, She Schtupps To Conquer, In "The Sound of Muslims" Get Thee To A Nunnery was sung by the Von Trappist Family, "Lili Marlene" stump[ ]s the band, Sheriff Bart, aka dark, dark, dark Cleavon Little amidst the blaze of saddles, Uncle Fester was a Fenster licker, "Excuse me while I whip this out," left much to the imagination of a bent spinster, who perhaps feared something of a sinister bent, Officer, officer, stoner of Rock Ridge, follow Decter, Midge, Sheriff, sheriff, put out that roach, whip out your gun and follow that coach, Fibber McFate and Molly, clashes in the Wild West of Libya

22 Jun 2012

reactionry

Unter den Lili

According to Wikipedia married a Bavarian pianist, Lily Stumpf in 1906.

Und memories of the Viled Vest are forever vedded to Lili von Schtupp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laq2rNiWDYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JqbCH4aVw

22 Jun 2012

reactionry

[oops - left out Paul Klee's name from the answer of Lily Stumpf given above]

What's Up, Death?

Good As Golda

Ich liebe dich, mein Schatz

Cheesecake? -You've got a lots

Don't care if you are müde

You're good as gold or gouda

Madeline Kahn/Wolfson (September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Kahn

Tags: Blazing Saddles, "I'm so tired"

22 Jun 2012

reactionry

Get Me Re-Write (Again)

The grammar or lack thereof would have been more internally consistent with "You gots a lots."

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