Roadblocks were set up, and inexperienced and high-spirited fighters were stopped from heading to the frontline.
And then the most significant sign of change - the arrival of Abdul Fatah Younis, the former interior minister and the man who was in charge of the country's special forces, and Khalifa Haftar, the former head of the armed forces.
Do you know what the heck is going with the following story at IRNA? They have it as the headline on the home page so obviously it is a big deal to the government:
I went to Al-Arabiya English and I couldn't find anything related.
I couldn't even make heads nor tails of what they were so upset about. Have they totally lost it? My humble opinion, their agitprop is getting stranger all the time, not at all as savvy as it often was in the Bush years. Not to mention they are just ignoring some of the major stories, as if they imagine they are not there, they will go away, not bothering to spin some of them.
My above comment was meant as a reply to the comment of Richard Steven Hack at 7:11 pm.
You spoke too soon. BBC News, outside Brega, April 1:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12944518
Roadblocks were set up, and inexperienced and high-spirited fighters were stopped from heading to the frontline.
And then the most significant sign of change - the arrival of Abdul Fatah Younis, the former interior minister and the man who was in charge of the country's special forces, and Khalifa Haftar, the former head of the armed forces.
Dr. Cole,
Do you know what the heck is going with the following story at IRNA? They have it as the headline on the home page so obviously it is a big deal to the government:
Iranian envoy rejects recent claim by al-Arabiya network
http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30305705
I went to Al-Arabiya English and I couldn't find anything related.
I couldn't even make heads nor tails of what they were so upset about. Have they totally lost it? My humble opinion, their agitprop is getting stranger all the time, not at all as savvy as it often was in the Bush years. Not to mention they are just ignoring some of the major stories, as if they imagine they are not there, they will go away, not bothering to spin some of them.