It's Libyan for "thank you"

[kentonio]

Oh wow, it turns out one of the diplomats in Libya was the Eve Online character VileRat from Goonswarm.

[Elok]

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A man offered to shake my hand today, but I refused. If taken to its logical conclusion, this would mean giving the man oral sex, and that I am not prepared to do.

[The Mad Monk]

Someone you know?

[Elok]

...I'm assuming that was a really inopportune Xpost.

[Zevico]

Andrew Bolt's post on his blog summarises matters:

How naive was the Obama Administration?
Andrew Bolt
SEPTEMBER
13
2012
(9:12am)
March 2011:
[Secretary of State Hillary] Clinton defended the operation so far. “I know that the nightly news cannot cover a humanitarian crisis that thankfully did not happen,” she said, “but it is important to remember that many, many Libyans are safer today because the international community took action.”

October 2011:



October, 2011:

Islamists appear to be gaining control—or have already gained control—of the emerging government in Libya. The new Tripoli Municipal Governing Council is led by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood—Abel al-Rajazk Abu Hajar. The country’s most influential politician—Ali Sallabi—is an Islamic scholar. And the country’s most powerful military leader—Abdel Hakim Belhaj—is the former leader of a group believed to be aligned with Al Qaeda.

October 2011:

LIBYA may yet turn out to be one of the worst own-goals in Western diplomacy…

Libya’s new draft constitution starts with the declaration that “Islam is the Religion of the State, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia)”...



March 2012:

Libyan authorities on Tuesday condemned the desecration of World War II graves in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over US troops burning the Quran in Afghanistan.

The interim government, in a statement, expressed ‘strong condemnation of the attack on non-Muslim graves by subversive elements who have no respect for religion or international law.’

September 1:

An estimated 200 heavily armed Islamists destroyed 30 graves at a historic Turkish school in Tripoli’s old city early Wednesday and an unspecified number of other mosques also were attacked, further signs that Libya’s Nato-installed government is facing a major challenge from extremists…

...school staff said the attackers also damaged as many as 1,000 books they found on the premises and destroyed a tree that the attackers said people had been worshipping in contravention of Islamic teachings…
On Tuesday Libya’s interior minister, Fawzi Abdel Al, said that heavily armed Islamists posed a serious threat to Libya’s security.

September 11:

The US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed when local militia assaulted Washington’s consulate in Benghazi.*

September 12:

Prominent Salafi-jihadi ideologues from al-Qaeda (most notably Ayman al-Zawahiri) have long seen the country as ripe for exploitation… What is most worrisome about the recent attacks on Sufi sites has been the government’s reaction—a response that has blended toleration and active collaboration.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now:

How could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?

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[Zevico]

Xpost

[The Mad Monk]

...I'm assuming that was a really inopportune Xpost.

Um, yeah.

[kentonio]

No, not personally. I spent years in the game though and he was always one of the huge characters that were involved in much of what went on. Turns out the poor guy left a wife and 2 kids behind. Much love pouring out from the geek community tonight apparently.

[regexcellent]

Oh wow, it turns out one of the diplomats in Libya was the Eve Online character VileRat from Goonswarm.

Oh man, my roommate last year played that game to death. In the last few weeks of school I played it with him a lot, chillin' in 0.0 and getting blasted to pieces by people in ships orders of magnitude more expensive than mine.



I feel bad for his family. At first glance the state department is just another bureaucratic job with the government but really, the diplomatic service is a service.

[Hauldren Collider]

This is why the smart folks get diplomatic postings in places like Bermuda and New Zealand where nothing happens.

[The Mad Monk]

You're just batting a thousand today, aren't you.

[Felch]

They consider they have many good reasons. Maybe one day when people like you realize that they are no different from you or anyone else, and the only difference is their circumstances then the world might start actually improving a little.

There is a difference between us. I believe in freedom, and they believe in oppression.

[Al B. Sure!]

[Hauldren Collider]

How big was this crowd compared to the death-to-the-infidels crowd?

[DinoDoc]

The pictures would have more impact with me if the signs were in Arabic.