"Countdown to invasion......Libya’s Neighborhoods Prepare for NATO’s Boots''

from foreignpolicyjournal............

"Tripoli’s 3,200 neighborhoods, independently of the Libyan Armed Forces, are intensively preparing for the possibility that NATO forces, or those they are seen as increasingly arming and directing, might invade the cosmopolitan greater Tripoli area during the coming weeks or months.

This observer has had the opportunity to visit some of these neighborhoods the past couple of nights and will continue to do so. As noted earlier, contrary to some media reports by the BBC, CNN, and CBS, Tripoli’s neighborhoods during the cool evenings with wafting sea breezes, are not tense or “dangerous for foreigners and in control of trigger happy soldiers or militias.” The latter assessment is nonsense. Americans and others are welcomed and their presence appreciated.

Libyans are anxious to explain their points of views, a common one of which is that they are not all about Qaddafi, but about protecting the family, homes, and neighborhoods from foreign invaders. A majority does support the Qaddafileadership, which is what they received with their mother’s milk, but nearly all emphasize that for them and their friends, it is very much about defending their revolution and country first. They appear to this observer to be very well informed about the motives of NATO and those countries that are intensively targeting their leader and their officials without regard to civilians being killed. It’s about oil and reshaping African and the Middle East"............READ MORE