Author: Potomac Local News

Like many others, I cautiously welcomed the news that Libyan rebels had finally entered Tripoli, the Libyan capital this week. Libyan strongman Muammar al Qaddafi and his forces appear to be defeated and after successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, an unclear result in Yemen and a failed one in Bahrain, Libya is poised to become the next nation to undergo a major political transformation that we have come to know as the “Arab Spring.”

The toppling of Qaddafi is particularly noteworthy. Qaddafi was a predecessor of bin Laden’s. He established ties to terrorist organizations early in his 42-year reign. He bankrolled groups as diverse as the Palestinian Liberation Organization, its terror off-shoot Abu Nidal, Germany’s Red Army Faction, Italy’s Red Brigades, and the Irish Republican Army.

The storm is expected to become a Category 4 storm that will churn it up seaboard and is expected to impact the Mid-Atlantic coast late Saturday into Sunday morning, bringing high winds to heavy rains to the coast.

For the Potomac Communities, well, the storm’s forecasted effects on us aren’t as clear.

The East Coast was rocked again overnight by an earthquake from Virginia.

The 4.5 magnitude quake was once again centered near where Tuesday’s large 5.8 quake originated  in Mineral, Va., just 32 miles southwest of Fredericksburg, according to the USGS.