TRIPOLI SLANDER: I'm getting sick of the media 's patronizing nonsense - from fruitcakes like #NabilaRamdan - & various other UK & USA so called ME 'experts' - that for some reason the people of #Tripoli - don't have the will or capacity to restore order to their city - once the tyrant is deposed - and the conflict is over.

Take a look at #Benghazi civil society since liberation.

Boy scouts directing traffic - teenagers cleaning streets - mothers preparing community meals - policemen and civil servants turning up for work even if not always paid - parents forming education committees for their children - citizens establishing charities to provide food, housing, and medical services for displaced African and Arabic foreign workers stranded in the city during the uprising - intellectuals forming political and philosophical discussion groups - newspapers and media outlets opening up like there's 42 years of lost expression to make up for![there is].

And all this 'civilization' has happened - during a major military conflict - in which the city's very existence was under threat - by the massive military might of #Gaddafi goons and Regime contract killers.

Is there something about the citizens of the nation's capital - regarded by Libya people themselves - as among the most innovative and energetic in the country - that sets them apart from Benghazi citizens? - that dictates that they could not replicate the stable, secure, and commendable civil society of the East Libya cities?

The experience of #Iraq - has no logical or probative bearing on Libya.

The only foreign army in Libya is the collective of paid contract killers #Saif #Gaddafi imported from African and Eastern European countries - and most of them are now dead or imprisoned - or are soon about to be.

Moreover the #USA had no prepared occupation plans for Iraq - whereas the #NTC have already published a detailed blueprint for re-establishing order in Tripoli - including co-opting the existing Tripoli police and lower ranks of the Regime - to maintain order during the interregnum between the fall of the dictator - and the election of a new democratic Government.

There is nothing to warrant this slander against the character and social and intellectual capacity of the citizens of the nations capital.

Its just lazy, ignorant, ill informed, journalism - to overlook these facts - to refuse to accept the reality of the video and print evidence below - and I for one have had enough of it!

"Libya explores Open Media": [ENGLISH VIDEO]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj62PNOigBc

"The Women of Benghazi" [ENGLISH VIDEO]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SaSjAzz_6E

Check out these Benghazi citizens forming a medical magazine – do they look like #AlQueda operatives to you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrtzlkyYuE

"Benghazi Boy Scouts help fill the wartime vacuum": [English VOA article]:

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Benghazi-Boy-Scouts-Fill-Vacuum-of-Libyan-Social-Services--117668589.html

"School’s out for Libyan children of the revolution":
http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/12/schools-out-for-libyan-children-of-the-revolution.html [ENGLISH NEWS REPORT]



#Tripoli #Libya

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