Sejak awal krisis di Libya hampir semua pemberitaan cuma menayangkan gambar-gambar kelompok pemberontak bersenjata dengan pakaian sipil. Khas pejuang gerilya. Bahkan ketika pemberontak dipukul mundur dari Sirte, Ras Lanouf, Brega, tidak terlihat sosok pasukan pemerintah yang ditulangpunggungi Brigade Khamis.
Bisa jadi ini karena pers internasional kebanyakan berkumpul di kubu pemberontak sehingga kesulitan mendapatkan gambar pasukan pemerintah. Sejauh ini sepertinya hanya Metro TV dari Indonesia yang berhasil menyusup ke kubu pro Khadafi dan mendapatkan gambar pasukan pemerintah yang berseragam loreng dengan bendera hijau Libya sebagai balaclava / bandana di kepala (salut buat Metro TV). Sekarang, kehebatan pemberontak berpakaian sipil yang menguasai kota-kota wilayah timur Libya mulai terkuak. Selain mendapat dukungan darat dari intelijen Prancis & Inggris, rupanya pemberontak juga mendapat dukungan darat dari CIA. Jadi, wajar kalau demonstrasi damai menentang Khadafy di awal krisis ada yang langsung bawa-bawa senjata ringan sampai sedang. Persiapan berontak rupanya dirasa sudah cukup matang. Wajar juga kalau tampilan orang-orang sipil bersenjata itu mengingatkan orang pada gerombolan Al Qaeda yang "berseragam" non-militer. Wajar karena Al Qaeda dulunya juga gerombolan binaan CIA. Dengan begitu bisa dimengerti, tudingan Khadafy di awal krisis bahwa Al Qaeda berada di belakang pemberontakan adalah sebuah sindiran. Sehingga, merasa tersindir, sekutu buru-buru memperkosa resolusi PBB untuk menutupi kemaluannya dengan hiruk-pikuk bom. Dengan perkembangan mutakhir hari ini, Perang Libya memasuki babak baru karena negara-negara utama NATO (mereka tidak tahu Atlantik Utara itu di mana?) juga menghadapi persoalan di dalam negerinya. Atau, justru untuk menghindari persoalan dalam negeri itulah diam-diam mereka mengalihkan perhatian rakyatnya dengan menciptakan musuh bersama di kawasan Afrika Utara. Mengalihkan perhatian dengan memakai uang rakyat untuk membantu pemberontak Libya. - 31 March 2011 Last updated at 01:35 GMT Obama authorises covert aid to Libyan rebels - reports US President Barack Obama has secretly authorised covert assistance to rebels seeking to overthrow Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, US media reports say. He recently signed a document known as a "finding", allowing support to the rebel groups, Reuters news agency and ABC News said. Such "findings" are a common way for the president to authorise covert operations by the CIA. The CIA and White House have both declined to comment on the reports. White House spokesman Jay Carney said: "I will reiterate what the president said yesterday - no decision has been made about providing arms to the opposition or to any group in Libya. We're not ruling it out or ruling it in. "We're assessing and reviewing options for all types of assistance that we could provide to the Libyan people, and have consulted directly with the opposition and our international partners about these matters." The latest reports come amid an ongoing debate about the legality of arming the forces opposed to Col Gaddafi, the BBC's Steve Kingstone in Washington says. Mr Obama has said publicly the US has not ruled out arming the rebels. He has pledged US troops will not join the effort to eject Col Gaddafi. 'Intelligence gathering' The New York Times, citing American officials, said on Wednesday that the CIA has had operatives on the ground in Libya for several weeks. They are said to be gathering intelligence for air strikes and making contact with the forces fighting Col Gaddafi. The newspaper says British intelligence and special forces are also involved. The Associated Press news agency, quoting a US official and former US intelligence officer, said small teams of CIA operatives had been sent into Libya after the agency's station in the capital, Tripoli, was forced to close. Some of those operatives had been involved in rescuing the crew of an F-15E Eagle warplane that crashed in Libya a week ago, AP said. Meanwhile, US officials told the Washington Post newspaper that CIA operatives had been sent in to gather intelligence on the identity, aims and progress of the forces opposing Col Gaddafi. In interviews with US television networks on Tuesday, Mr Obama spoke of applying "steady pressure, not only militarily but also through these other means" to encourage Col Gaddafi to step down. He said the US had not decided whether or not to provide arms to Libyan rebels in the future. "It's fair to say that if we wanted to get weapons into Libya, we probably could. We're looking at all our options at this point," he told ABC News. ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! 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