Reply #12: Tripoli's new normal - bickering politicians

[joshcryer]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/14/libya-tripoli-idUSL5E7KE08720110914">Tripoli's new normal - bickering politicians
Less than a month after Muammar Gaddafi's fall, Tripoli is bustling. Shoppers throng markets. Banks are open. Electricity and water are back, most of the time. Out in the desert, some oil flows.

With parts of the giant OPEC member country still at war, the rapid spread of a semblance of normality is startling.

"We actually thought it was going to be far worse than this in our planning for Tripoli," said a security official, who asked not to be identified as he was not authorised to talk to the media.

But for Tripoli, home to a third of Libya's 6 million population, it's a distinctly new kind of normal.

Tripoli, the http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1778354&mesg_id=1782439">bloodbath.