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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