Brother Leader's War Machine

[Neil]

Among the trove of never-before-seen photographs and documents rescued from Muammar al-Qaddafi's intelligence ministry buildings and his personal compound by Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director of Human Rights Watch, and re-photographed by freelance photojournalist Michael Brown, are these rare images of the colonel's war machine. From Soviet-era tanks to high-tech attack helicopters to paramilitary shock troops to Qaddafi in his war room, it's a unique glimpse into a martial country. Foreign Policy invites readers to help us identify some of the individuals and events in these photographs;


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[sesha_maruthi27]

Were are these machines and why were they not used against the rebels and NATO?

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Were are these machines and why were they not used against the rebels and NATO?

It looked like photos from campaign against Egypt in 1977.

 

[civfanatic]

Well what's the point of having a "war machine" if you can't prevent your own country from being toppled in a foreign intervention?

 

[Neil]

Were are these machines and why were they not used against the rebels and NATO?

they tried using it...remember the initial gains of gaddafi against the rebel...thats when NATO entered the war and changed it...

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Well what's the point of having a "war machine" if you can't prevent your own country from being toppled in a foreign intervention?

Someday I hope they ask that question of Dear Leader of the DPRK.

 

[civfanatic]

Someday I hope they ask that question of Dear Leader of the DPRK.

I think Dear Leader knows that his "war machine" is crap. That's why he's working so hard to get nukes.