Operation Oil Theft: Month 17, Week 4, Day 7.

At around 21:40 on 6/7/12 I really can't get into the Libyan election in much detail because it's almost month 18 and it's almost election day. However one thing that's perfectly obvious is that the federalists are deliberately using violence to prevent people in the east participating in the vote. The long term objective is to paint the General National Congress (GNC) as un-representative of the east.

Today's incident in which an election worker was killed after a helicopter came under fire is much more serious. It seems to be a reference to the news that a militia group has closed a major supply route in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). I still need to check up on that to see if that's actually happened and why that counts as "news" in the DRC.

So dammit it looks like it's time for me to buy nightvision goggles and give up on the idea Iive in a civilized time zone.
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