Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Arab Spring Bleeds Deeper into Africa


by Derek Henry Flood

Columnist Derek Henry Flood researches to topic Arab Spring and how it bleeds
deeper into Africa in the following article.
"He is a black man! From Africa!" was how an exuberant Libyan rebel fighter described to Asia Times Online a purported Chadian national captured from pro-Gaddafi forces after the rebel victory in the immediate aftermath of the first battle of Brega on March 2, 2011.
 Brega, a key oil terminal town west of Benghazi, was significant for not only being the first clear military victory for the rebels against regime forces who had begun to creep eastward toward the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, but also for more quietly being the place where rebel forces began to disseminate statements to journalists about the importance of sub-Saharan Africans in the war that at times bordered on
hysteria.

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