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Muammar al-Qathafi
Libya
August 2011
The Role of the UN Security Council in Unleashing an Illegal War against Libya
Posted: 2011/07/31 From: Mathaba 
Sooner or later, the legal case against NATO will have to be made. This article presents the absolutely shocking details of the clear illegalities of specific acts that lead to the implementation of Resolution 1973, and that the United Nations “Security” Council callously ignored.
This may be the first time that these details have appeared in the open. This is an important document that should be used by Libyan lawyers, as well as any lawyer that believes in justice, to make the case for the cecessation of NATO’s aggression, as well as the recovery to the Libyan Jamahiriya of the Libyan wealth that was stolen by the criminal governments of the north. At the April 4 press conference marking the beginning of the Colombian Presidency of the Security Council for April, Nestor Osorio, the Colombian Ambassador to the United Nations was asked what on the surface would seem an unusual question by one of the journalists.
The journalist said (1): “In the wake of Security Council Resolution 1973 [authorizing military action against Libya–ed] are we to expect a more aggressive and proactive posture on the part of the Security Council in supporting rebel groups?” The journalist gave several examples of such rebel groups as the IRA in the UK, ETA in Spain and perhaps the Corsican rebels in France. Another journalist added the example of the FARC in Colombia. The question referred to the fact that with SC Resolution 1973, the UN Security Council had taken on to support an armed insurgency fighting against the government of a member nation of the UN. The Colombian Ambassador responded that SC Resolution 1973 had not been adopted to support the rebels in Libya, but a rebel group which started out as civilians who had now become the core of the armed rebellion.
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The reason the Security Council had taken up the issue of Libya, he said, was because a member of the Security Council, Lebanon, had brought the issue to the Security Council. Ambassador Osorio added that the Arab League had asked for concrete action from the Security Council on Libya. Is it, as Ambassador Osorio proposed, that the issue of Libya was taken up by the Security Council because Lebanon, a member of the Security Council, brought the issue to the attention of the other members?
Is it that the Security Council was just deferring to the expertise of the Arab League, which the Colombian Ambassador presented as the relevant regional organization with respect to Libya? The Colombian Ambassador’s remarks raise the question of how the Security Council made the decision to approve SC Resolution 1970 against Libya, the first of two resolutions on the issue. Was it as the Colombian Ambassador claimed because of a recommendation from the appropriate regional group, or was there a more complex process at work?
Also, significantly in this situation, there were actually two conflicting recommendations to the Security Council from two groups, one from the Arab League, which is not a geographical regional group but is organized on some other basis, and the other from the geographic regional group that Libya is part of, from the African Union.
What were the factors that influenced the Security Council decisions first, to pass Security Council Resolution 1970 authorizing stringent sanctions, including a referral of Libyan officials to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and then, subsequently, to pass SC Resolution 1973, which authorized a no-fly zone and other military action? Ultimately these decisions set the basis for the NATO military alliance to join with the armed insurgency fighting against the government of Libya.
While it is difficult to determine the specific underlying reasons for Security Council action, this article will demonstrate that the explanation provided to journalists at the Colombian press conference differs significantly from the actual sequence of events that occurred at the Security Council with respect to Libya. By failing to account for the actual sequence of events that occurred, the Colombian Ambassador’s response left unanswered the critical question. How had the Security Council come to authorize military action against a member nation of the United Nations, in support of an armed insurgency against the government of that nation?
Such a course of action is clearly contrary to the UN Charter provision not to intervene in the internal affairs of a member nation of the UN (Article 2 Section 7). How the Issue of Libya was Brought to the Security CouncilLooking back at the sequence of events by which the issue of Libya was brought to the Security Council, leads to an important observation. It was not a Security Council member nation which started this process. Nor was it the Arab League. Rather it was a party that one could argue had no legitimate basis to speak at the United Nations, especially not to the Security Council. This party, was, by that time, the former Chargé d’Affaires to the United Nations for the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Ibrahim Dabbashi. Dabbashi
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had taken the unusual actions of first announcing to the press that he had defected from representing the government of Libya at the UN, and then requesting an emergency meeting of the Security Council about the situation in Libya. His request to the Security Council began a process which, in less than a week, resulted in passing the stringent sanctions against Libya and the referral of its officials to the ICC that are included in SC Resolution 1970.
SC Resolution 1970 then set the stage for SC Resolution 1973 passed three weeks later which authorized military action against Libya. February 21 is an important date in this set of events. It is on February 21 that Dabbashi announced his defection from the service of the government of Libya at the United Nations. While an appropriate course for a defecting government official from a country would be to resign his official position as a Deputy Ambassador for Libya at the United Nations, this is not what happened.
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It is also on February 21 that another important event occurred, though not at the UN. Another Libyan official, Nouri al Mesmari, officially announced his defection from his Libyan government position. Living in France under the protection of the French government, he gave an interview to the French newspaper Liberation about his defection. What is significant about Mesmari’s action is that his defection puts Dabbashi’s defection in a broader context. A widely circulated article in the Italian newspaper Libero, an article which has not been refuted or denied, provides this context (2).
Mesmari left Libya in October 2010 for Paris, four months before the alleged suppression of demonstrations cited as one of the pretexts for the NATO aggression against Libya. Mesmari had been an important Libyan official with vast knowledge of and contact with the foreign service officials of Libya and vast knowledge of Libya’s contacts with government officials in other countries. Libero reported that after Mesmari went to Paris in October 2010, he was in contact not only with French foreign intelligence officials, but also with elements of the Libyan opposition.
His actions help to shed light on the events in Libya in February 2011. Learning about some of the activities Mesmari was part of between October 2010, and February 2011, several commentators propose that Mesmari, along with other opposition activists, and officials in the French intelligence, helped to foment the uprising in Benghazi that took place in February 2011. (3) Unlike the Egyptian non violent protests, the uprising in Benghazi very quickly became an armed uprising against the government of Libya.
Western media accounts of this rebellion, and Arab news media like Aljazeera, reported a series of unverified allegations by those involved in the rebellion itself, with little or no evidence presented to verify the accuracy of the reports. To this date, there is no evidence for the widely reported “use of mercenaries” or “bombing his own people.” (4). Mesmari was granted protection by the French government. In his February 21 interview with the French publication Liberation about his defection, he accused the Libyan government of genocide. He gave no evidence to support his claim. Similarly, when Dabbashi held a press conference at the Libyan Mission to the UN on February 21, he claimed that the Libyan government was guilty of genocide. He, too, offered no evidence for his allegations.
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He called for the overthrow of the Libyan state headed by Muammar Gaddafi. Similarly, the lawyer for the Libyan mission spoke to journalists at the February 21 press conference. He indicated to journalists that he was from Benghazi. He, too, called for the overthrow of Gaddafi, the long time head of the Libyan state (a position called ‘Guide’). Following is the content of the letter that Dabbashi, as a defector from the official government of Libya, sent to the Security Council. The letter is dated February 21, 2011 (5): “In accordance with rule 3 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council, I have the honour to request an urgent meeting of the Council, to discuss the grave situation in Libya and to take the appropriate actions.”
The letter is listed as an official document of the Security Council, and given the document identification symbol S/2011/102, dated February 22, 2011. It is worth noting that Rule 3 of the Security Council’s Provisional Rules of Procedure provides for a member nation of the United Nations to request a meeting (6).
Under Rule 3, Dabbashi, as a defecting Deputy Ambassador of Libya, was not entitled to take part in any Security Council procedures, especially not to request a meeting of the Security Council to take punitive action against the government he has defected from and is seeking to overthrow. Monday, February 21 was an official UN holiday (Presidents’ Day in the US) and the United Nations was not open. On the next working day at the UN, on Tuesday, February 22, the Security Council held a closed meeting on the situation in Libya, under the title “Peace and Security in Africa – Libya”(7).
At the meeting the Security Council heard a report on developments in Libya from Lynn Pascoe, the Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the UN. In addition to the 15 members of the Security Council, 74 other nations of the UN were present at the closed meeting without any right to vote. So was Dabbashi. The Libyan Ambassador to the UN, Abdel Rahman Shalgham also attended the February 22 Security Council meeting, along with
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Dabbashi. In informal comments after the meeting, Shalgham indicated that he had been in contact with a relative in Tripoli and was told that the alleged atrocities that the media was claiming had happened in Tripoli were not true. Similarly, speaking to the press, he indicated that he had been in contact with government officials in Tripoli who said that they, too, disputed the claims of atrocities taking place in Tripoli and planned to invite journalists from Al Arabiya and CNN to see for themselves that the allegations were inaccurate. (8) After he made his presentation to the Security Council, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, Lynn Pascoe spoke to the
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press at a stakeout. He was asked if he had any evidence of atrocities in Tripoli. He responded that the UN people on the ground there had no such direct evidence. (9)
Describing the February 22 closed meeting of the Security Council, the Reuters News Agency said that most of the Libyan delegation had defected. Reuters reported that the Security Council met at the request of Dabbashi, who “was no longer working for the Libyan government”.
It would appear to be a serious breach of UN protocol for a defecting official who had formerly been the representative of a nation that is a member of the UN, to be able to request a Security Council meeting and to have the Security Council grant the meeting and allow the defecting official to participate in the meeting. Similarly, to allow the defecting diplomat to make unverified allegations at the meeting against the government of a UN member nation would only compound the serious violation of the UN Charter represented by this abuse of UN processes. Here is the Reuters report (10): “UNITED NATIONS | Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:42pm GMT (Reuters) –
The U.N. Security Council held closed-door discussions on Tuesday on the crisis in Libya, with Western envoys and Libya’s own breakaway delegation calling for action by the 15-nation body… The council met at the request of Libyan Deputy Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi, who along with most other staff at Libya’s U.N. mission announced on Monday they were no longer working for leader Muammar Gaddafi and represented the country’s people. They called for Gaddafi’s overthrow.” Taking into account Mesmari’s activities with French intelligence officials and Libyan opposition figures, there is the basis to assume that there were powerful forces acting behind the scenes at the UN supporting Dabbashi’s activities and encouraging the Security Council to allow this abuse of its processes.
False Media Reports about Libya
Among the media reports at the time were unverified allegations that Libyan government planes were shooting at civilians in Tripoli and that there were many dead in various parts of Libya. Also there were reports that Gaddafi had fled to Venezuela.
Gaddafi and the Libyan government disputed these reports, with a video demonstrating Gaddafi was in Libya. This video was shown around the world demonstrating the inaccuracy of the false allegations being made about Libya. Also, the Libyan media disputed that there had been any such shooting of civilians from planes in Tripoli. Later Russian media provided reports of Russia’s surveillance of aircraft activity of Libya during this period.
That surveillance did not show any firing from aircraft (11). Despite having defected, Dabbashi continued to have access not only to the Security Council processes, but also to official UN press stakeouts to speak to reporters as if officially the representative of a member nation of the UN. At these press stakeouts Dabbashi attacked the Libyan government, accusing it of genocide, without offering any proof for his claims. He also continued to call for the overthrow of the government of Libya. Then on Friday, February 25, the Libyan Ambassador to the UN, Abdel Rahman Shalgham announced his defection and denounced the Libyan government during a Security Council meeting. The President of the Security Council invited the defecting Ambassador to take part in the meeting under Rule 37 of the Security Council’s Provisional Rules of Procedure. Rule 37 specifies that it is a member nation that can be invited to participate. A defecting Ambassador or diplomat has no basis to take part in a UN Security Council meeting. The Rule reads (12): “Rule 37 Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council may be invited, as the result of a decision of the Security Council, to participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question brought before the Security Council when the Security Council considers that the interests of that Member are specially affected, or when a Member brings a matter to the attention of the Security Council in accordance with Article 35 (1) of the Charter.”
An Ambassador who defects, by that act, is ceasing to represent the UN member nation. According to the rules of protocol (2005) online at the UN website, once an Ambassador ceases to represent his member nation, one would expect him to submit his resignation to the Secretary General. Thus it is not appropriate for him to be invited to take part in a Security Council meeting under Rule 37 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council. This Rule applies to an official representative of a member nation of the UN, not to someone who claims that he no longer represents that nation. Following is the relevant section of the rules of protocol (13). “Section X Termination of Service at Permanent/Observer Missions:
Permanent Representative Before relinquishing his/her post, a Permanent Representative/Observer should inform the Secretary-General in writing and, at the same time, communicate the name of the member of the mission who will act as Chargé d’Affaires a.i. pending the arrival of the new Permanent Representative/ Observer. It is of special importance to note that a Chargé d’Affaires a.i. cannot appoint himself and can hold this function only after being appointed by the Permanent Representative/ Observer or by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State concerned.” It would appear to be outside the procedure provided for by Security Council rules for a defecting Ambassador to be part of a Security Council meeting as the representative of the government he claims he no longer represents, and denouncing the member nation he has defected from. At the Security Council meeting on February 25, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke to the Security Council about the situation in Cote d’Ivoire and Libya. In his remarks on Libya, the Secretary General claimed he was basing his reports on accounts
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from “the press, human rights groups and civilians on the ground.” He acknowledged that there was no conclusive proof for his allegations, but dismissed this lack of verifiable information by saying that action should be taken along with efforts to get more reliable information. This action is contrary to other situations where the Secretary General recognized the need for an impartial fact finding group and appointed such a group to obtain the needed information to determine what course of action to take to promote a peaceful settlement of the situation. After the Secretary General presented his unverified allegations, the defecting Libyan Ambassador was called on to speak. By February 25, Shalgham, too, had defected. (One could imagine that pressure for his defection may well have been a fear of the referrals to the ICC of Libyan officials being planned by some Security Council members.)
Contrary to an earlier promise to journalists that if he no longer supported the Libyan government, he would resign, Shalgham did not formally resign. Instead, he continued to use Security Council processes to encourage the Security Council to impose sanctions and ICC referrals on the government of Libya. In his presentation to the Security Council meeting on Friday, February 25, Shalgham made a virulent denunciation of the Libyan government, complete with analogies to Hitler. Shalgham ignored the conflicting accounts of what was happening in Benghazi and instead painted a picture of peacefully demonstrating civilians unjustly subjected to a massacre (14). Shalgham presented no proof for his allegations nor was he asked to present any. Instead, he was consoled by the Secretary General and members of the Security Council, with several Security Council members, embracing and comforting him.
The following day, Saturday, February 26, a day long emergency meeting was held at the Security Council. While the Security Council was discussing a resolution about Libya, Shalgham is reported to have sent a letter to the Security Council to influence the votes of its members. One journalist offered the following as the content of the letter Shalgham sent to the Security Council (15): “With reference to the Draft Resolution on Libya before the Security Council, I have the honour to confirm that the Libyan Delegation to the United Nations supports the measures proposed in the draft resolution to hold to account those responsible for the armed attacks against the Libyan Civilians, including trough [sic] the International Criminal Court.”
According to journalists waiting outside the Security Council meeting on Saturday February 26, some Security Council members indicated that their aim was to induce more defections of Libyan officials by including referrals to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Security Council resolution they were proposing. This is using the ICC as a political tool rather than as a means of punishing actual crimes. Libya is not a member of the treaty creating the ICC. Though the UN Charter provides for the Security Council to create tribunals it has no provision to force a nation not a member of a treaty organization creating a tribunal to be subject to its jurisdiction.
When Security Council members are asked under what authority they refer a national of a state not a member of the ICC to its jurisdiction, they cite a provision in the ICC treaty. But a provision of the ICC treaty cannot be substituted for some provision of the UN Charter. No provision of the UN Charter has been cited as providing the authority for the Security Council referrals of non treaty members to the jurisdiction of the ICC. Late in the day, on Saturday February 26, the Security Council passed Resolution 1970, imposing strong sanctions against Libya and referring Gaddafi and several others to the ICC. No proof of any wrongdoing was presented and no reference was made to any investigation into the allegations.
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When the French Ambassador Gérard Araud explained why he votedin favor of SC Resolution 1970, he referred back to Shalgham’s “moving statement” at the meeting on Friday Araud said(16): “Yesterday, the Permanent Representative of Libya (sic) made to this Council a moving appeal for assistance.
France welcomes the fact that the Council has today unanimously and forcefully responded to that appeal”. In explaining his vote in favor of Security Council Resolution 1970, the Indian Ambassador explained that he was not inclined to support the referral to the ICC, but he was responding to the letter sent to the Security Council by Shalgham urging the Council to do so. The Indian Ambassador said: “(We) would have preferred a calibrated and gradual approach.
However, we note that several members of the Council, including our colleagues from Africa and the Middle East, believe that referral to the Court would have the effect of an immediate cessation of violence and the restoration of calm and stability. The letter from the Permanent Representative of Libya (sic) of 26 February addressed to you, Madame President, has called for such a referral and strengthened this view. We have therefore gone along with the consensus in the Council.” Similarly the Nigerian Ambassador explains: “We have taken into consideration the letter dated today from the Permanent Representative of Libya (sic) supporting the measures as we have proposed.” The Brazilian Ambassador also refers to the appeal by the defecting Ambassador in explaining her vote for Sec. Council Resolution 1970:
“In our deliberations today, Brazil paid due regard to the views expressed by the League of Arab States and the African Union, as well as to the requests made by the Permanent Mission of Libya to the United Nations.”(17) At the meeting, Dabbashi was given the floor to speak on behalf of Libya. Dabbashi denounced Gaddafi and thanked the Security Council members for granting his request for harsh measures against Libya and members of its government. The Secretary-General as the last speaker on the Security Council agenda, spoke about how he welcomed the sanctions and saw them as a means for a new governance regime in Libya. He said: “The sanctions that the Council has imposed are a necessary step to speed the transition to a new system of governance that will have the consent and participation of the people.”
This sequence of events can only be seen as a violation of the Security Council’s obligations under the UN charter. The provision of the Security Council rules used to invite the defecting former Libyan government officials into Security Council meetings were provisions providing for officials representing the government of Libya to speak. The defecting officials were now former government officials and as such had no authority to speak for the official government of Libya, and no authority to appear at Security Council meetings as officials of Libya. (18) The actions of such officials were not the actions of a member government. Unspoken was the process of how they had defected and through what arrangements with US and other western government agencies they had gained the ability to remain in the US and to participate in Security Council procedures.
The Security Council was providing support and aid to members of a group attempting to carry out a coup against the government of Libya. Such an action is contrary to the obligations of the UN Charter requiring the non-intervention in the affairs of member nations. The Security Council supported these defectors acting to overthrow the government of Libya. Also it failed to make any effort to initiate an independent investigation of what was happening in Libya. Apart from the biased western or Qatar supported media reports (reports from Aljazeera only represented the Libyan opposition viewpoint when it reported on the Libyan conflict), the Security Council did not seek out any other source of information. UN personnel in Libya were not requested to investigate the allegations.
No legitimate Libyan government official was invited to take part in Security Council proceedings. When the Libyan government tried to appoint legitimate government officials to replace the defector delegation, the US government would not approve the visa requests for the replacement delegates, in violation of the Host Country obligations of the US. In this way, the US prevented the Libyan government from being able to present its case before the Security Council. By March 3, 2011, the Spokesman for the Secretary General acknowledged that the Secretary General had received notice from the Libyan government withdrawing the credentials of Dabbashi and Shalgham (19).
Yet for a period of time, they had continued to speak to reporters at the official Security Council stakeout and their statements to the press were covered by the UN media services and were treated as official Libyan government statements available at the UN Security Council website. Eventually the access of the two diplomats was converted from diplomatic passes into courtesy passes granted at the discretion of the Secretariat so they could continue to have access to the UN, but on a more restricted basis than the official diplomatic access.
When some journalists questioned the grounds on which these defector diplomats continued to have access to official UN and Security Council procedures such as requesting a meeting of the Security Council, the spokesman for the Secretary General said that someone who has presented credentials to the Secretary General is the representative of a nation (20): Disagreeing with the Spokesman’s response, one journalist pointed out that the “Request for a meeting of the Security Council normally is by request from Member States, not from Ambassadors sitting in missions. Ambassadors ask for a meeting of the Council on the basis of a letter from the Foreign Ministry and, in this case, presumably there is no such letter emanating from the Foreign Ministry of Libya. So, on what basis, legal basis, is the Security Council meeting?” asked the journalist. Instead of acknowledging the accuracy of the explanation that it is member nations that are represented at the Security Council, not an Ambassador, particularly not an Ambassador who has defected, the Spokesperson for the Secretary General answered: “I think you know what I am going to say…ask the Security Council. Next question.” Part IV – Libya Prevented from Presenting its Case at the UN While the defecting Libyan diplomats have been supported and protected to have continual access to United Nations facilities, the opposite has been the case for the Libyan government. One good example of this departure from protocol obligations is demonstrated by two documents. The first is Security Council Resolution 1970 (S/RES/1970(2011). The document states in its opening statement (21): “Taking note of the letter to the President of the Security Council from the Permanent Representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya dated 26 February 2011.” (S/Res/1970(2011), p.1) The problem of acknowledging this letter this way in the body of Resolution 1970 is that on February 25, the former Libyan Ambassador to the UN, Abdel Rahman Shalgham had informed the Security Council that he had defected. By February 26 he no longer represented the Libyan government. Consequently there was no basis for the Security Council to refer to a letter from him, as a letter from the Permanent Representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya The Security Council should have found a way to hear from a member of the government of Libya, rather than substituting a defector Ambassador and his delegation for the official delegation of Libya. Despite several efforts of the government of Libya to appoint a new Ambassador to replace the defector Ambassador and his staff members who had defected, neither the UN nor the US, the host country of the UN, acted in accord with their obligations to make this possible. A letter from the Libyan government dated March 17 was sent to the Security Council President. It appears that this letter was not made an official document of the Security Council. Yet this letter provided the Libyan government explanation of what was happening. According to Article 32 of the UN Charter, the Security Council has an obligation to hear from member nations. The relevant portion of Article 32 states: “Any member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council….if it is a party to a dispute under consideration by the Security Council, shall be invited to participate, without vote, in the discussion relating to that dispute.” (22) This would be true as well, for a state which is not a Member of the United Nations. The picture the Libyan government presents in the communication to the Security Council is one where there is an armed confrontation between armed insurgents and the State Authorities. (23)
This is a different description of the situation than any of the members of the Security Council publicly considered on February 26 when the Security Council passed Resolution 1970 or on March 17 when it passed Resolution 1973.(24) In the letter of March 17, Libya explains that what is happening is a confrontation between terrorist groups and the State Authorities. It cites Libyan Law No. 38 of 1974, article 1, as the basis for the armed forces of Libya to “maintain security, if the general safety of the ‘Republic’ or any part of it so requires.”
The letter explains that “Libyan army camps that have been attacked have taken no violent action against the armed attackers until the latter have brandished their weapons.” This is in conformity with Libyan law, the letter notes. The letter explains that “Article 2 of the same law provides that orders to fire may be given in the following circumstances: “(a) If any member of forces is attacked. (b) If rebels refuse to restore order, after having been warned and given the opportunity to do so. (c) If rebels carry out an armed attack against persons or property.” The letter from the Libyan government describes how the government is fulfilling its responsibility to protect Libyan residents and citizens by confronting the armed insurgents. The letter also says that Resolution 1970 and the draft of Resolution 1973, the resolution being considered for adoption on March 17, and subsequently adopted, “exceed the mandate” of the Security Council. The letter says that “what is at issue is not a conflict between two States, as provided for in article 24 of the Charter of the United Nations.” The Council therefore has no authority to adopt resolutions in such cases. The Charter, the letter explained, “provides that States shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity of any State.”
Also in the letter, Libya referred to the mission to Libya by the African Union that was planned for March 20 to negotiate a political solution. The letter called the adoption of resolutions under Chapter VII premature, until an evaluation of the situation had been made by the African Union. The Security Council made no mention of the letter or the points it raised when it went ahead and passed Resolution 1973 on the evening of March 17. Only an AP article mentioned that there was such a letter and referred to some of its contents, including the challenge Libya presented to the section of Resolution 1970 referring Gaddafi and his family members to the International Criminal Court (ICC). (25) After the March 17 Security Council meeting, the US and then NATO began bombing Libya. A letter dated March 19 from the government of Libya has been made one of the documents of the Security Council.
In the letter the Foreign Minister refers to previous letters that he sent to the Security Council which are not found in Security Council records. In the March 19 letter, he writes (26): “In my previous letters to you, I emphasized that an external conspiracy was targeting Jamahiriya and its unity and territorial integrity. I pointed out that the Security Council had been drawn into implementing this conspiracy by its adoption of Resolution 1970 (2011) and 1973 (2011) under which a ban was imposed on all aviation in the airspace of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. By taking this decision,” the March 19 letter explained, “the Security Council has paved the way for military aggression against Libyan territory. France and the United States have bombarded several civilian sites, thereby violating all international norms and instruments, most notably the Charter of the United Nations, which provides for non-intervention in the affairs of member states.” Libya asked the Security Council to hold an emergency meeting “in order to halt this aggression, the purpose of which is not to protect civilians, as is purported, but rather to strike civilian sites, economic facilities, and sites belonging to the Armed Peoples on Duty.”
The UN Security Council discussed this request at a meeting on Monday, March 21 and decided not to grant the Libyan government’s request. As of February 21, the Libyan government has been deprived of the ability to have a representative to the UN. In March, when the Libyan government tried to appoint another Ambassador, the US government did not grant a visa. (27) Instead the defecting diplomats continue to have access to the UN and to use their presence at the UN to attack the legitimate government of Libya. An article published by Al Ahram, is unusual in that it presents an account of some of the abuse of Security Council procedures that occurred in passing Resolutions 1970 and 1973 against Libya. The article was written by Curtis Doebbler, the American Human Rights lawyer. Doebbler writes (28): “The West focused its propaganda machinery on the UN with a vengeance. And it was no mere ordinary propaganda campaign but a full-blown orchestration of history for the books. First, Libyan diplomats were induced and threatened to step down from their
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positions and promised that if they supported the opposition they would be ‘taken care of.’ This resulted in the Libyan diplomats at the UN not only resigning, but doing so and still maintaining a type of diplomatic status that allowed them to advocate on behalf of the armed rebels who were challenging the government of Libya for control of their country.” Doebbler continues:
“This was accomplished by the spurious actions of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who issued special passes to the former Libyan diplomats after their government had withdrawn their credentials. Bypassing the UN General Assembly’s Credentials Committee and well-established protocol, the UN secretary-general for the first time in the world body’s history personally favoured one side in what was by now a civil war.” Among Security Council members there have been a number of complaints that the resolution they allowed to pass (1973) did not authorize the kind of NATO bombing of Libya in support of the rebels that has been carried out. Because of the veto power of the US, France and the UK, the Security Council appears to have no means of oversight over NATO to stop what they believe to be an abuse of Security Council processes.
In the context of the sequence of events that took place at the Security Council in February and March, the question asked at the press conference in April, “…are we to expect a more aggressive and proactive posture on the part of the Security Council in supporting rebel groups?” is about a serious change. The precedent set by the Security Council’s supporting an armed insurgency against the government of a UN member nation is a significant and dangerous precedent. It is an important issue to be seriously examined.(29) Notes 1) I.K. Cush of Global Breaking News, Press Conference for the Colombian Presidency, April 4, 2011
2) “French plans to topple Gaddafi on track since last November” by Franco Bechis http://www.voltairenet.org/article169069.html
3) See the account in Libero of Nouri al Mesmari’s defection and connections with foreign intelligence forces. http://iamaghanaian.com/index.php?do=/news/reports-suggest-french-intelligence-encouraged-anti-gaddafi-protests/ and http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=204415.0;wap2
4) “‘Airstrikes in Libya did not take place’ – Russian military,” News, Russia Today (RT) Moscow, March 1, 2011. RT report was made by journalist Irina Galushko. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iytgO0tscSI Radio Netherlands, “HRW: No Mercenaries in eastern Libya”, March 2, 2011 http://margotbworldnews.com/WordPress/wp-content/Mar/Mar5/NoMercenariesnE.Libya.html
5) Ibrahim Dabbashi, Letter to Security Council dated February 21, 2011, S/2011/102, February 22, 2011 http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=JOURNAL%20NO.2011/42&Lang=E
6) Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council refers to Article 35 of the Charter referring to ‘nations that are Members of the UN’ or ‘nations that are not Members of the UN’. Nowhere does it provide for defecting officials to request a meeting of the Security Council.
7) Closed meeting Security Council, no notes but the occurrence of the meeting is noted as 6486th meeting (closed) Peace and security in Africa Feb. 22, 2011
http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/En/20110223e.pdf
Video by Nizar Abboud of UN Ambassador of Libya, Shalgam, 22 Feb. 2011
English responses begin at approx. 1:53.
9) B. Lynn Pascoe, “Informal comments to the media by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, on the situation in Libya,” Feb. 22, 2011 http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/02/b-lynn-pascoe-on-the-situation-in-libya.htm
10) “UN Security Council Discusses Libya Crisis”. Reuters, Feb. 22, 2011 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/02/22/us-libya-un-council-idUKTRE71L4T920110222
11) See note 4 above.
12) Provisional Rules of Procedure Security Council Rule 37
http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/scrules.htm
13) Manual of Protocol, United Nations Protocol and Liaison Service
http://www.un.int/protocol/10_12.html
14) Abdel Rahman Shalgham at the Security Council 6490th meeting, Feb 25, 2011, United Nations S/PV.6490 http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=S/PV.6490&Lang=E
15) Letter Shalgham sent to Security Council as quoted on Inner City Press blog http://www.innercitypress.com/banros1libya022611.html
16) Gérard Araud at the Security Council, 6490th meeting, Feb 26, 2011, United Nations S/PV.6491
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=S/PV.6491&Lang=E.
See this transcript for other statements at that meeting quoted in the text.
17) The reference to the African Union was mistaken. The African Union called for dialogue and was opposed to the sanctions and referral to the ICC before the Security Council took its votes on Resolutions 1970 and 1973. See for example, Ruhakana Rugunda, “African Union Statement on the NATO Invasion of Libya: It’s Time to End the Bombing and Find a Political Solution in Libya”
http://www.counterpunch.org/rugunda06222011.html
18) See for example International Labour Conference, 5C, Provisional Record, 100th Session, Geneva, June 2011, Reports on credentials, Second report of the Credentials Committee, Representation of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_norm/@relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_156839.pdf
19) March 3, 2011, Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2011/db110303.doc.htm
20) Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, February 22, 2011 http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2011/db110222.doc.htm
21) Security Council Resolution 1970 http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=S/RES/1970%20(2011)&Lang=E
22) United Nations Charter Article 32 can be found in Chapter 5 at http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter5.shtml
23) Letter sent to Security Council dated 17 March 2011 from Secretary of the General People’s Committee of Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to President of the Security Council. (English translation of document previously circulated in Arabic).
24) Ronda Hauben, “UN Security Council March 17 Meeting to Authorize Bombing of Libya all Smoke and Mirrors”, March 30, 2011 http://blogs.taz.de/netizenblog/2011/03/
25) Edith Lederer, “UN Rejects Emergency Meeting Sought by Libya,” AP, March 22, 2011 http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1264/un-rejects-emergency-meeting-sought-by-libya
26) Letter dated 19 March 2011 from the Secretary of the General People’s Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya addressed to the President of the Security Council, S/2011/161 http://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N11/270/02/pdf/N1127002.pdf
27) Turtle Bay blog “TurtleLeaks: No visa, no entry! How the U.S. bars diplos from the U.N.” http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/04/turtleleaks_no_visa_no_entry_how_the_us_bars_diplos_from_the_un
28) Curtis Doebbler ,“Libya: Who wins?”, Al Ahram, 7 – 13 April 2011, Issue No. 1042 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1042/op7.htm
29) According to General Assembly Resolution 396(V), December 1950, Recognition by the United Nations of the Representative of a Member State, when a controversy arises with more than one authority claiming to be the government of a Member State, it becomes a question for the General Assembly to consider in light of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the UN and the circumstances of each specific case.
See http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/059/94/IMG/NR005994.pdf or
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/5/ares5.htm
See General Assembly Resolution396(V), December 1950, Recognition by the United Nations of the Representative of a Member State , when a controversy arises with more than one authority claiming to be the government of a Member State, it becomes a question for the General Assembly to consider in light of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the UN and the circumstances of each specific case. See, General Assembly Resolution 396(V), December 1950, Recognition by the United Nations of the Representative of a Member State
http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/059/94/IMG/NR005994.pdf or http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/5/ares5.htm
About Dennis South
I have been serving, for 43 years, the cause of helping to create a new, balanced and peaceful world. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
from the pen of Thierry Meyssan Thierry Meyssan French intellectual, founder and chairman of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace Conference.
His columns specializing in international relations feature in daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last two books published in English : 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate. 
- The Libyan dinar is the first (and last?) currency backed by gold and by IMF Special Drawing Rights. In 2000, Colonel Gaddafi had thought of creating a pan-African currency based on gold, but was unable to pursue his idea. Also, in 2009, he had spontaneously availed himself of the Zhou project and adopted it unilaterally for his country.
The Zhou project on 29 March 2009, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, challenged the predominance of the dollar as reserve currency. Deploring that the objective of economist John Maynard Keynes to create an supranational currency (the Bancor) was not achieved at the end of World War 2, he suggested that the IMF Special Drawing Rights could be used to fulfill this function [9]
- Mr. Zhaou Xiaochuan has not said his last word.
At the London G20 summit on 2 April 2009, yielding to pressure, the United States agreed to the tripling of IMF resources and to the issuance by that institution of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) for a value of 250 billion dollars. They also acquiesced to the principle of a Financial Stability Council associating the major emerging countries. This idea was debated at the G8 summit at L’Aquila (Italy) on 8 July 2009.
Pushing the pin further, Russia submitted that the new world currency should be minted rather than being virtual. Dmitry Medvedev, who had a few sample of coins minted, slapped them on the table. One side displays the faces of the eight Heads of State, whereas the flip side bears the motto “Unity in Diversity”
[10]. The project was submitted to experts from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Their report, in which Professor Popov of the New Economic School of Moscow took part, was examined on 25 April 2010 by a joint IMF and World Bank meeting [11].
This project should have seen the light of day on 26 May 2011 at the G8 summit in Deauville (France). The dollar would thus have met its demise as the reserve currency against the backdrop of an imminent cessation of payments on the part of the U.S. Federal Government. As for Washington, it would have had to give up financing its super-powerful military apparatus through debt and to start concentrating on its domestic restructuring.
NATO AND THE BILDERBERG GROUP
http://imperialtwilight.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/what-you-dont-know-about-the-bilderberg-group/
The first meeting
70 personalities from 12 different countries attended the first meeting of the Group. It was a three-day seminar, from May 29 to 31, 1954, near Arnhem (Netherlands). The guests were housed in two nearby hotels, but the debates were held in the Bilderberg Hotel, which gave the Group its name. The invitations with a letterhead from the Soestdijk Palace are intriguing: “I earnestly request your presence at the informal International Conference, to be held in the Netherlands in late May. This conference wishes to explore a number of issues of great importance for Western civilization and is intended to stimulate mutual understanding and goodwill through a free exchange of views.“ The invitations were signed by the Prince Consort of the Netherlands, Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, and accompanied by several pages of administrative information concerning transportation and accommodation. At most, we learn that the delegates originated from the United States and 11 from Western Europe, and that 6 sessions of 3 hours each were scheduled. Given the Nazi past of Prince Bernhard (who had served in the SS cavalry until his marriage in 1937 to Princess Juliana) and in the context of McCarthyism in the U.S., it’s clear that the “issues of great importance for Western civilization” revolved around the struggle against communism.
Once there, the anticipation of the guests was mitigated by the two chairmen: U.S. entrepreneur John S. Coleman and outgoing Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Paul van Zeeland. The first was an active partisan of free trade and the second a supporter of the European Defense Community (EDC) [1].
Last but not least, at the far end of the table sat Retinger Joseph, the intellectual influence behind the British. All this suggests that the Dutch and British monarchies sponsored this meeting to support the European Defense Community and the economic model of free-market capitalism against the anti-Americanism that the Communists and the Gaullists were promoting. However, appearances are deceiving. The goal was not to campaign for the EDC, but to mobilize the elite for the Cold War. His Royal Highness, Prince Bernhard, was chosen to convene this conference because his status as a prince consort would give it a Stately character without being formal.
This was meant to hide the real sponsor: an inter-governmental organization which intends to manipulate the governments of some of its Member States. John S. Coleman was not yet the President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, but he had already created the “Citizen’s Committee for a National Trade Policy” – CCNTP. According to him, absolute free trade, that is to say, the renunciation of all customs duties, would allow countries allied with the United States to increase their wealth and finance the European Defense Community (in other words, rearm Germany and integrate its potential military power within NATO). However, the documents in our possession show that the CCNTP was a “Citizen’s” committee in name only.
This is actually an initiative of Charles D. Jackson, the White House psychological warfare adviser. The operation was controlled in reality by William J. Donovan, the former commander of the OSS (the U.S. intelligence service during the war), now in charge of building the American branch of the new secret service of NATO, Gladio [2]. Paul van Zeeland was not only the promoter of the European Defense Community, but also a politician of great experience. At the Liberation, he chaired the Independent League for European Cooperation (ILAE) whose objective was to create a customs and monetary union. This organization was established by Joseph Retinger, mentioned earlier. Specifically Retinger, who was acting as secretary for the Bilderberg conference, served during the war in the English secret services (OES) of General Colin Gubbins. A Polish adventurer, Retinger found himself advisor to the Sikorski government in exile in the United Kingdom. In London, he livened up the small world of governments in exile and compiled one of the best address books in newly liberated Europe.
His friend, Sir Gubbins, officially left the service and the SOE was disbanded. Retinger ran a small textile business, which served as a “cover”. In fact, alongside his counterpart Donovan, he was responsible for creating the English branch of Gladio. He participated in all of the preparatory meetings of the Bilderberg conference and was present among the guests, seated next to Charles D. Jackson. Unknown to the participants, the secret services of NATO were, in fact, the organizing power behind the scenes. Bernhard, Coleman and Van Zeeland were used as fronts. Contrary to the idea developed by the creative journalists who imagined the Bilderberg Group forging a secret World Government, this club of influential leaders is in reality a lobbying tool to promote NATO’s interests.
It is in fact much more serious and dangerous, because it is NATO which aims to be the secret World Government – guaranteeing the international status quo and maintaining U.S. influence. Moreover, the security of each subsequent meeting was not provided by the police of the host country, but by the soldiers of the NATO Alliance. Among the ten speakers, there were two former Prime Ministers (Guy Mollet, France, Alcide de Gasperi, Italy), three officials of the Marshall Plan, the Cold War hawk (Paul H. Nitze) and, above all, an extremely powerful banker (David Rockefeller). According to the preparatory documents, approximately 20 people were in the inner circle. They knew more or less in detail those who were pulling the strings and preparing in advance their work. The smallest details were prepared before hand and nothing was left to chance. On the other hand, the fifty other participants knew nothing of what was happening behind the scenes.
They were chosen to influence their respective governments and public opinion in their countries. The seminar was organized to convince these leaders and incite them to diffuse the point of view of the NATO Alliance in their respective countries. The debates didn’t address the major international problems, but rather analyzed the supposed ideological strategy of the Soviets and set out how it should be countered by the “free world“. The first statements assessed the communist threat. The “conscious communists” are individuals who intended to put their homeland at the service of the Soviet Union in order to impose a collectivist world.
They must be fought. But it was a difficult challenge because these “conscious communists” in Europe were embedded with a mass of Communist voters who knew nothing about their evil plans and followed them in hopes of improved social conditions. Gradually, the rhetoric became more radical. The “free world” must oppose the “world communist conspiracy“, not only in a general way, but also by responding to specific questions concerning U.S. investments in Europe or on decolonization. Finally, the speakers addressed the main problem which the Soviets, according to them, were exploiting to their advantage. For cultural and historical reasons, the political leaders of the “free world” used different arguments in the U.S. and in Europe, arguments that sometimes contradicted one another.
The most emblematic cases are the purges organized by Senator McCarthy in the United States. They were essential to save democracy, but the method was perceived in Europe as a form of totalitarianism. The final message was that no diplomatic negotiation, no compromise was possible with the “Reds“. The role of the Communists in Western Europe had be prevented at any cost, but it would take cunning: as they cannot just be arrested and shot. They should be neutralized discreetly, without their voters realizing what’s happening.
In short, the ideology developed was that of NATO and Gladio. No one said that elections should be rigged or that moderates should be assassinated, but all participants agreed that to save the “free world“, that freedom should be put “in brackets”. Although the proposed European Defense Community (EDC) was defeated three months later in the French Parliament under the attacks of the Communist deputies and the “nationalist extremists” (in other words, the partisans of de Gaulle), the Congress was none the less considered a success. Despite appearances, there was no intention to support the creation of the EDC or any other specific policy. The real goal was to spread the ideology of the ruling elite by influencing the opinion makers, who in turn would influence the rest of society. Objectively, the Western Europeans were less aware of the freedoms that they were being denied and increasingly aware of the freedoms that were not available to the people of Eastern Europe.
The Bilderberg Group becomes an organization
A second conference was held in Barbizon, France, from March 18th to 20th 1955. The idea that the conferences would be held annually and that they required a permanent secretariat became increasingly evident. Prince Bernhard became less visible after he was caught influence peddling (Lockheed Martin scandal). He was replaced by the former British Prime Minister Alec Douglas Home (1977-80). The following Presidencies were held by former German Chancellor and President Walter Scheel (1981-85), former Governor of the Bank of England Eric Roll (1986-89), former NATO Secretary General Peter Carrington (1990-98), and finally the former vice-president of the European Commission Etienne Davignon (since 1999). For many years the Chairman of the Bilderberg Group was assisted by two Secretary Generals, one for Europe and Canada (the vassal states) and one for the U.S. (the ruler), however, there has been only one Secretary General since 1999.
From one year to the next, the debates have been highly redundant. This is why the guests change regularly. But there is always a core group who prepares the conference in advance and the newcomers who are taught the atlanticist rhetoric in vogue. Currently, the annual seminars bring together over 120 participants, including one third of the permanent core group members. They were selected by the Alliance based on their social network and their capacity to influence the rest of society, irrespective of their particular functions in society. Thus, they remain members of the core group even after changing their job. Here is the exact list of the core group, including members of the Board of Directors, which serve as fronts for the guests, and the less visible members, in order to not scare away the newcomers. Board of directors
| Josef Ackermann | Swiss Banker, head of Deutsche Bank, Vice-Chairman of the Forum in Davos. |
| Roger C. Altman | U.S. Banker, a former campaign adviser to John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, Chairman of investment Bank Evercore Partners Inc. |
| Francisco Pinto Balsemão | Former Socialist Prime Minister of Portugal (1981-83), president and founder of the largest group of Portuguese television SIC. (T) |
| Fran Bernabè | Italian banker, current director of Telecom Italia. (T) |
| Henri de Castries | CEO of the French insurance-company AXA. |
| Juan Luis Cebrián | Director of the Spanish media and broadcasting group Prisa. |
| W. Edmund Clark | Canadian banker, CEO of Toronto-Dominion Bank Financial Group. |
| Kenneth Clarke | Former vice president of British American Tobacco (1998-2007), British minister of Justice, vice president of the European Movement UK. |
| George A. David | CEO of Coca-Cola. |
| Étienne Davignon | Belgian businessman, former vice president of the European Commission (1981-85), current vice president of Suez Tractebel. |
| Anders Eldrup | CEO of the Danish gass and oil corporation DONG Energy. |
| Thomas Enders | Director of Airbus. |
| Victor Halberstadt | Economy professor at the Dutch university of Leiden, business-consultant for various corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Daimler-Chrysler. |
| James A. Johnson | U.S. financier, he was a major contributor to the Democratic Party and an architect of the nomination of Barack Obama. He is vice-chairman of the investment bank Perseus. |
| John Kerr of Kinlochard | Former UK Ambassador to Washington, Vice President of oil group Royal Dutch Shell. (T) |
| Klaus Kleinfeld | German CEO of the U.S. aluminium giant, Alcoa. |
| Mustafa V. Koç | CEO of Koç Holding, the largest Turkish company. |
| Marie-Josée Drouin-Kravis | Economic columnist in print and broadcast media in Canada. Researcher at the very militaristic Hudson Institute. She is the third wife of Henry Kravis. |
| Jessica T. Mathews | Former Director of Global Affairs at the National Security Council of the United States. Current director of the Carnegie Foundation. |
| Thierry de Montbrial | Economist, founding director of the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) and the World Policy Conference. |
| Mario Monti | Italian economist, former European commissioner for the protection of free-trade (1999-2005), co-founder of the Spinelli Group for European federalism. |
| Egil Myklebust | Former president of Norwegian employers, director of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). |
| Matthias Nass | Assistant director of the German Newspaper Die Zeit. |
| Jorma Ollila | Finnish businessman, former CEO of Nokia, current president of Royal Dutch Shell. |
| Richard N. Perle | Former Chair of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee at the Pentagon, He is a key leader of the Straussians (disciples of Leo Strauss) and as such, a major figure of neo-conservatism. |
| Heather Reisman | Canadian businesswoman, CEO of the Publishing Group Indigo-Chapters. |
| Rudolf Scholten | Former Austrian Finance Minister, Governor of the Central Bank. |
| Peter D. Sutherland | Former Irish EU Commissioner for competition, then director general of the World Trade Organization. Former director of British Petroleum, current chairman of Goldman Sachs International, former President of the European section of the Trilateral Commission, and Vice-President of the European Round Table of Industrialists, now honorary president of the European Movement – Ireland. |
| J. Martin Taylor | Former MP, CEO of the chemical and agribusiness giant Syngenta. |
| Peter A. Thiel | U.S. Businessman, CEO of PayPal, president of Clarium Capital Management and Facebook shareholder. |
| Daniel L. Vasella | CEO of the Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis. |
| Jacob Wallenberg | Swedish banker, he is the director of many transnational companies. |
- Members of the hidden core group
| Carl Bildt | Former Liberal Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-94), former special envoy of the European Union and the UN in the Balkans (1995-97, 1999-2001), the current Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs. (T) |
| Oscar Bronner | CEO of the Austrian daily Der Standard. |
| Timothy C. Collins | American investor, director of the investment fund Ripplewood. (T) |
| John Elkann | CEO of the Italian group Fiat Auto (his grandfather Gianni Agnelli was for forty years one of the leaders of the Bilderberg Group. He inherited the family fortune after the natural death of his grandfather Giovanni and the premature death of his uncle Edoardo. However, police sources were convinced that Edoardo was murdered after he converted to Shia Islam, so that the family fortune would remain within the Jewish branch of the family). |
| Martin S. Feldstein | Former economic adviser to Ronald Reagan (1982-84), and current economic adviser to Barack Obama. He was on George W. Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He teaches at Harvard. (T) |
| Henry A. Kissinger | Former national security adviser and U.S. Secretary of State, central figure of the U.S. military-industrial complex, current president of the consulting firm Kissinger Associates. |
| Henry R. Kravis | U.S. financier, investment fund manager KKR. He’s a major fundraiser for the Republican Party. |
| Neelie Kroes | Former liberal Dutch minister of Transport, European commissioner for competition, and current Commissioner of the digital society. |
| Bernardino Léon Gross | Spanish diplomat, Secretary General of the Presidency of the Socialist Government of Jose Luis Zapatero. |
| Frank McKenna | Former member of the Supervisory Commission Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada’s ambassador in Washington (2005-06), Vice-President of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. |
| Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands | She is the daughter of Prince Bernhard. |
| George Osborne | British Minister of Finance. This neo-conservative is seen as a eurosceptic, meaning that he is opposed to the participation of the United Kingdom in the European Union, but he is a supporter of the organization on the continent within the Union. |
| Robert S. Prichard | Canadian economist, director of print and audiovisual Torstar. |
| David Rockefeller | The patriarch of a long line of Bankers. He’s the oldest member of the core group of Bilderbergers. He is also chairman of the Trilateral Commission, a similar organization incorporating Asian participants. |
| James D. Wolfensohn | Australian Banker who acquired U.S. citizenship to become President of the World Bank (1995-2005), now director of the consulting firm Wolfensohn & Co. |
| Robert B. Zoellick | American diplomat, U.S. diplomat, former U.S. Trade Representative (2001-05), current president of the World Bank. |
- The Bilderbergers don’t necessarily represent the companies or institutions in which they work. However, it is interesting to observe the diversity of their political and economic influence.
The Lobby of the most powerful military organization in the world
In recent years, the number of topics discussed at the annual conferences has increased to keep up with world events. But the subjects of discussion are not really important, because the discussions have no precise objectives in and of themselves. The conferences are merely a pretext to convey other messages. Unfortunately, we do not have access to the most recent preparatory documents and we can only speculate about the directives that NATO will try to disseminate through these leaders of opinion. The reputation of the Bilderberg Group has led some authors to imagine that the Group nominates people to important positions. This is ridiculous and it obscures those who truly pull the strings behind the scenes within the Atlantic Alliance. For example, during the last U.S. presidential elections, it was reported that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton disappeared on June 6, 2008, in order to negotiate an end to their rivalry. In reality, they participated in the annual conference of the Bilderberg Group in Chantilly, Virginia (USA). The following day, Mrs. Clinton announced that she was retiring from the race. Some authors concluded that the decision was taken during the Bilderberg meeting. The logic is faulty, since the decision was already a foregone conclusion three days before, given the number of votes for Senator Obama at the Democratic Party’s nominating committee. According to our sources, something else happened. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton concluded a financial and political agreement. Senator Obama bailed out his rival financially and offered her a position in his administration (Clinton refused the vice-presidency and instead chose the State Department) in exchange for her active support during the campaign against McCain.
Then, the two leaders were presented by James A. Johnson to the Bilderberg Conference, where they assured the participants that they would work together. Barack Obama had already been NATO’s candidate for a long time. Mr. Obama and his family have always worked for the CIA and the Pentagon. [3] Moreover, the initial funds for his campaign were provided by the Crown of England, via a businessman named Nadhmi Auchi. In presenting the Black Senator to the Bilderbergers, the Atlantic Alliance was, in fact, organizing public relations at the international level for the future president of the United States. Similarly, it was reported that the Bilderberg Group held an impromptu dinner outside of the Conference on November 14th, 2009 at the Chateau de Val Duchesse, owned by the King of Belgium. The former Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman van Rompuy, delivered a speech. Five days later he was elected president of the European Council. Once again, some authors wrongly concluded that the Bilderberg Group had been the “kingmaker”.
In reality, the President of the European Union could not be chosen outside of the NATO circles, and it should be remembered that the European Union itself was the result of several secret clauses in the Marshall Plan. In addition, this choice must be endorsed by the Member States. This type of decision requires lengthy negotiations and is obviously not taken during an informal dinner with friends. Also according to our source, the Bilderberg Group President, Etienne Davignon, convened this special dinner to introduce Van Rompuy to his influential relays. These contacts were all the more necessary since the first person to occupy the new post of President of the European Council was totally unknown outside of his own country. During the meal, Mr. Van Rompuy outlined his program for creating a European tax to directly fund the institutions of the Union without going through the Member States. The role of the Bilderbergers was to proclaim far and wide, that they know Herman von Rompuy and testify to his qualities to chair the Union.
The reality of the Bilderberg Group is less romantic than some authors have imagined. The incredible deployment of military force to ensure security during the meetings is not so much intended to protect, but rather to impress those who participate. It does not display their power, but instead shows that the only real power in the West is NATO. Everyone has the “choice” to either support NATO and be supported by it… or fight it and be relentlessly crushed. In addition, although the Bilderberg Group developed an anti-communist rhetoric when it was created, it was not oriented against the USSR and is not today oriented against Russia. It follows the strategy of the Alliance which is not a pact against Moscow, but rather the defence – and possibly the extension – of Washington’s zone of influence. At its inception, NATO had hoped to integrate the Soviet Union, which would have implied a commitment from Moscow not to challenge the division of the world stemming from the Conferences of Potsdam and Yalta.
Recently the Alliance met with President Dmitry Medvedev at the Lisbon Summit and proposed that Russia join the group. It was not intended to be a form of subservience, but recognition of the existing New World Order, in which all of Central and Eastern Europe now falls under the U.S. orbit. Russian membership would be a sort of peace treaty: Moscow would concede defeat in the Cold War and recognize the new division of the world. In this case, the Bilderberg Group would invite Russian personalities to its annual meetings. Bilderberg would not ask these personalities to influence public opinion in Russia in order to Americanise them, but to convince them to renounce their dreams of past greatness and glory. French political analyst, founder and chairman of the Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace conference. He publishes columns dealing with international relations in daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. Last books published in English : 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate.
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In previous articles Mathaba has covered ‘Operation Mistral’ aimed at ‘Southland’ back in March, which was signed between Britain and France in late 2010 to attack Libya on March 21st, brought forward one day to prevent the landing of the African Union delegation Peace and Security Council.
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628372 By Tony CartalucciAlternative media activist David Icke, who has been warning about the false nature of the “Arab Spring” since it began over six months ago, has pointed out an astounding “flashback” regarding an August 3, 1981 Newsweek article titled, “A Plan to Overthrow Kaddafi.” ‘The details of the plan were sketchy, but it seemed to be a classic CIA destabilization campaign. One element was a “disinformation” program designed to embarrass Kaddafi and his government. Another was the creation of a “counter government” to challenge his claim to national leadership. A third — potentially the most risky — was an escalating paramilitary campaign, probably by disaffected Libyan nationals, to blow up bridges, conduct small-scale guerrilla operations and demonstrate that Kaddafi was opposed by an indigenous political force.” Quite obviously this plan has been executed verbatim with the necessary addition of a NATO intervention to rescue the above stated “paramilitary” campaign from Libyan security forces – a contigency plan explicitly spelled out in another Wall Street-London subsidized, signed confession, Brookings Institution’s “Which Path to Persia?” Using Military Force to Assist Popular Revolutions, page 109-110 (page 122-123 of the PDF): “Consequently, if the United States ever succeeds in sparking a revolt against the clerical regime, Washington may have to consider whether to provide it with some form of military support to prevent Tehran from crushing it.” “This requirement means that a popular revolution in Iran does not seem to fit the model of the “velvet revolutions” that occurred elsewhere. The point is that the Iranian regime may not be willing to go gently into that good night; instead, and unlike so many Eastern European regimes, it may choose to fight to the death. In those circumstances, if there is not external military assistance to the revolutionaries, they might not just fail but be massacred.Consequently, if the United States is to pursue this policy, Washington must take this possibility into consideration. It adds some very important requirements to the list: either the policy must include ways to weaken the Iranian military or weaken the willingness of the regime’s leaders to call on the military, or else the United States must be ready to intervene to defeat it.” The disinformation campaign began in February as overt, now verified lies were told to the public regarding both the nature of the uprising and the Libyan government’s reaction to it. As tank driving, jet flying battle hardened LIFG Al Qaeda mercenaries waged war against the Libyan army, the corporate media in tandem with NATO member states preparing to intervene, portrayed the uprising as peaceful placard waving activists being mowed down by machine gun fire and strafed by Libyan warplanes. Evidence now confirms no such atrocties took place, however the UN citing this intentional disinformation authroized NATO intervention.The very nature of the Benghazi rebels has been deceptively presented to the public. In fact, they are a collection of extremists and mercenaries, many of whom had been fighting recently in Iraq and Afghanistan against US forces. These mercenaries, who have been backed by the CIA and MI6 for the last 30 years (see time line), are being portrayed as an “an indigenous political force” opposing Libya’s government. It has just been recently revealed that the rebel commander attempting to seize Tripoli isnone other than Abdelhakim Belhadj, an Al Qaeda asset who was previously captured by in Malaysia, tortured by the CIA in Bangkok, Thailand in 2003, before being release back in Libya where he is now fighting on behalf of NATO.Additional disinformation comes in the form of media attempts to portray Qaddafi as a rambling madman who despite the disparagement, has turned out to be one of the few heads of state speaking any truth at all regarding the conflict besieging his nation. From his earlier claims that the uprising was foreign backed Al Qaeda, to now verified claims that the rebellion was nothing more than a means to usher in a foreign occupation and the despoiling of Libya’s resources, he has been spot on.
As rebels loot his home and his compound in central Tripoli, he is now being disingenuously portrayed as an opulent tyrant who hoarded state resources at the cost of his population. Betraying the duplicity of this lie is the UN’s own Human Development Index which lists Libya as one of the most developed nations in Africa and is ranked higher than many other nations including Russia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia. Quite obviously Libya’s oil wealth was put to good use, and as Libya has ensured the West’s nefarious corporate-funded NGOs were excluded from Libyan society, no other explanation for Libya’s development exists beyond the government’s own initiatives. What we are witnessing in Libya is a concerted, admitted war of aggression by corporate-financier interests who have openly conspired to carry out a campaign of military and economic conquest throughout the Middle East (and beyond), including Northern Africa and specifically including Libya. From Wesley Clark’s 2007 speech, to Newsweeks’ 1981 article, we have been handed a signed confession that “our” governments are the true enemies of free humanity, masking their agenda with the thinnest veneer of moral justification, almost as if to insult the intelligence of so many who eagerly continue to empower them as they maliciously move forward. Once again, we must commit ourselves to identifying the corporate-financier interests truly driving this agenda, lurking behind the military and political leaders paraded before us as the executors of “international policy.” We must also commit to boycotting and replacing these corporate-financier interests as well as ending the recognition of any of the legitimacy they endlessly heap upon themselves. — See links below for details about the Franglo-American planned attack on Libya  # |
NATO’S MISSION: KILLING THE TRUTH. SLAUGHTERING CIVILIANS. DESTROYING A NATION.
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NATO Special Forces and Al Qaeda Join Hands
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky. Global Research
Killing the truth is an integral part of the military agenda.
Realities are turned upside down.
The lie becomes the truth.
Its an inquisitorial doctrine. The NATO consensus dwarfs the Spanish Inquisition by a long shot.
Extensive war crimes have been committed. NATO has blood on its hands. The heads of government and heads of state of NATO member countries are responsible for extensive war crimes,
The “pro-democracy” rebels are led by Al Qaeda paramilitary brigades under the supervision of NATO Special Forces. The “Liberation” of Tripoli was carried out by “former” members of the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).
The jihadists and NATO work hand in glove. These “former” Al Qaeda affiliated brigades constitute the backbone of the “pro-democracy” rebellion.
NATO special forces with “boots and the ground” pass unnoticed. Their identity is not known or revealed. They blend into the Libyan rebellion landscape of machine guns and pickup trucks. They are not highlighted in the photo ops.
Special forces composed of US Navy SEALS, British Special SAS Forces and French legionnaires, disguised in civilian rebel garb, are reported to be behind major operations directed against key government buildings including Gadhafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli.
Reports confirm that British SAS were on the ground in Eastern Libya prior to the onset of the air campaign. Special Forces are in close coordination with NATO air operations. “Highly-trained units, known as ‘Smash’ teams for their prowess and destructive ability, have carried out secret reconnaissance missions to provide up-to-date information on the Libyan armed forces.” (SAS ‘Smash’ squads on the ground in Libya to mark targets for
coalition jets, Daily Mirror, March 21, 2011)
NATO special forces and the CIA sponsored Islamic brigades under the command of “former” jihadists constitute the backbone of combat capabilities on the ground, supported by the air campaign, which now includes Apache helicopter raids.
The remainder of the rebel forces include untrained trigger happy gunmen (including teenagers) (see photo below), which serve the function of creating an atmosphere of panic and intimidation.
What we are dealing with is a carefully planned military intelligence operation to invade and occupy a sovereign country.
Killing the Truth. The Role of the Western Media
The Western media constitutes a major instrument of war. NATO war crimes are obfuscated. Popular resistance to the NATO led invasion is not mentioned.
A narrative of “liberation” and “opposition pro-democracy rebel forces” is instilled in the inner consciousness of millions of people. Its called the “NATO Consensus”.
“The NATO Consensus” which upholds the “humanitarian mandate” of the Atlantic alliance cannot be challenged. The bombings of civilian areas as well as the role of a terrorist militia are either trivialised or not mentioned.
Killing the truth is an integral part of the military agenda.
Realities are turned upside down.
The lie becomes the truth.
Its an inquisitorial doctrine. The NATO consensus dwarfs the Spanish Inquisition by a long shot.
The criminal invasion and occupation of Libya is not mentioned. The lives of independent journalists in Tripoli who report on what is actually happening are threatened. The catch words are “Liberation” and “Revolution” with NATO’s mandate limited to R2P (“Responsibility to Protect”).
Liberation or Invasion? By camouflaging the nature of the military operation not to mention NATO atrocities, the Western media has contributed to providing the Transitional Council with a semblance of legitimacy and international recognition. The latter would not have been forthcoming without the support of the Western media.
NATO special forces and intelligence operatives on the ground are in permanent liaison with military planners involved in coordinating NATO strike sorties and bombing raids on the Libyan capital.
Intensive Bombing Raids over Tripoli
On August 27, NATO acknowledged the conduct of 20,633 sorties since March 31st, and 7,768 strike sorties. (These figures do not include the intensive bombing raids conducted in the two weeks prior to March 31st). Each fighter jet or bomber carries numerous missiles, rockets, etc. depending on the ordnance specification of the aircraft.
Multiply the number of strike sorties (7768 since March 31) by the average number of missiles or bombs launched by each of the planes and you get a rough idea of the size and magnitude of this military operation. A French Dassault Mirage 2000, for instance, can transport 18 missiles under its wings. America’s B-2 Stealth bombers are equipped with bunker buster bombs.
France’s Mirage 2000 used in Operation Odyssey Dawn against Libya
USAF Stealth B-2 Bomber used in Operation Odyssey Dawn
Pursuant to NATO’s humanitarian mandate, we are informed by the media that these tens of thousands of strikes have not resulted in civilian casualties (with the exception of occasional “collateral damage”).
Not surprisingly, already in mid April, three weeks into bombing campaign, the Atlantic Alliance announced that “NATO planes flying combat missions over Libya are starting to run out of bombs” (UPI, April 16, 2011);
“The reason we need more capability isn’t because we aren’t hitting what we see — it’s so that we can sustain the ability to do so,” one NATO official told the Post. “One problem is flight time, the other is munitions.” (Ibid)
The bombing raids over Tripoli were intensified in the course of the last two weeks. They were intended to support ground operations led by NATO special forces and the Islamic paramilitary brigades. With limited NATO ground force capabilities, NATO strategists decided to intensify the bombing raids.
Global Research’s Correspondent in Tripoli, whose life is threatened for revealing NATO war crimes described a shift in the pattern of bombing, starting in mid-July, with increasingly intensive air raids leading up to the ground invasion on August: 20th:
“Until approximately 2:35 a.m EET [July 17], the strident noises of fighter jets over Tripoli could be heard. The bomb blasts triggered an atmosphere of fear and panic over the entire city, a poignant psychological and emotional impact on tens of thousands of people, from the young to the elderly. It also alerted people and brought them out onto their balconies while they witnessed the bombing of their country.
One of the explosions resulted in a huge mushroom cloud, pointing to the possible use of bunker buster bombs. … There was something unusual in the pattern of this NATO bombing operation.
The bombings tonight were not like other nights. The sounds were different. The smoke plumes were different. In previous bombings the smoke would usually go up vertically like a fire, but tonight the smoke plumes were horizontal and hovering above Tripoli with a white cloud in the horizon.
People who were not directly affected by the bombs, within a radius of 15 kilometres experienced burning eyes, lower back pain, headaches.” (Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, NATO Launches Bombing Blitzkrieg over Tripoli hitting Residential Areas , Global Research, July 17, 2011)
The mass killing of civilians in a Blitzkrieg environment as well as the creation of a generalized atmosphere of panic is intended to curtail the population’s resistance to the NATO-led invasion.
The Death Toll
According to sources from our correspondent in Tripoli, the death toll in the course of the last week (20-26 August) is of the order of 3000. The hospitals are in a state of turmoil, unable to come to the rescue of the wounded. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirms that medical supplies are in short supply throughout the country.
In recent developments UNICEF has warned of shortages of water due to the NATO bombing of water infrastructure throughout the country. “This could turn into an unprecedented health epidemic “ said Christian Balslev-Olesen of UNICEF’s Libya Office.
NATO warplanes deliberately targeted the peaceful vigil of tents in front of the Gadhafi compound in a gruesome massacre. The mainstream media acknowledges the massacre, while stating that gun wounds are the cause of death in crossfire between loyalist and rebel forces. The victims are :
“The identities of the dead were unclear, but they were in all likelihood activists who had set up an impromptu tent city in solidarity with Gadhafi in defiance of the NATO bombing campaign. (Forbes.com, August 25, 2011)
We are not dealing with collateral damage. Extensive war crimes have been committed. NATO has blood on its hands. The heads of government and heads of state of NATO member countries are war criminals.
The Central Role of Al Qaeda Operatives in the “Liberation of Tripoli”
According to CNN, in a twisted logic, the terrorists have repented: “former terrorists” are no longer “terrorists”.
The LIFG is said to have been disbanded.
Following their disavowal of violence, these former LIFG leaders created a new political organization called the Islamic Movement for Change, which according to CNN “is committed to working within a future democratic process”. “The Libyan Islamic Movement for Change (Al-Haraka Al-Islamiya Al Libiya Lit-Tahghir), is made up of former members of the now defunct [CIA supported] Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)” (Reuters, August 26, 2011)
In a contradictory about turn, former “bad guys” (terrorists) are heralded as “good guys” committed to “combating terrorism”. The “former” members of the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) are now portrayed as “pro-democracy activists” who “have assumed leadership positions in several rebel brigades”.
Labels have been switched: the CIA supported Al Qaeda affiliated LIFG has been transformed into the CIA sponsored Islamic Movement for Change (IMC), which supports the pro-democracy rebellion.
When was the LIFG disbanded?
In a bitter irony, the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) was listed until June 2011 by the United Nations Security Council as a bona fide terrorist organization. On June 21 2011, The Listing of Terrorist Organizations, conveniently vanished from the UN Security Council website pending the revamping of the website. (See annex below)
The LIFG entry was included in the (updated March 24, 2011, accessed April 3, 2011) United Nations Security Council “terror list” as follows:
QE.L.11.01. Name: LIBYAN ISLAMIC FIGHTING GROUP
Name (original script):
A.k.a.: LIFG F.k.a.: na Address: na Listed on: 6 Oct. 2001 (amended on 5
Mar. 2009)(The LIFG Listing is on p. 70, http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/pdf/consolidatedlist.pdf, (accessed April 3, 2011, no longer accessible)
Other information: Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) was concluded on 21 Jun. 2010. The website is down and is currently being revamped.
Who Leads Libya’s Islamic Brigades?
Recent reports confirm what was known and documented from the outset of the “rebellion” in mid-March: The key military command positions of the rebellion are held by the “former” commanders of the Libya Islamic fighting Group (LIFG)”.
The commander of the assault on Tripoli is Abdel Hakim Belhadj, (also known as Abu Abdullah al-Sadeq, Hakim al-Hasidi). He has been entrusted, with NATO’s approval, of “one of the most powerful rebel brigades in Tripoli [which] took charge of successful rebel efforts earlier this week to storm Gadhafi’s Bab al-Azziziyah compound, further bolstering his prominent position in rebel ranks.” (CNN, op cit)
“Sadeeq was a well-known figure in the jihadist movement. He fought the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan and helped found [with the support of the CIA] the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group there.” (Ibidt)
But Saddeeq, according to CNN has repented. He is no longer a terrorist (i.e. a bad guy) “but a powerful voice against Al Qaeda’s terrorism”. (Ibid, emphasis added)
“In 2009, Sadeeq and other senior LIFG leaders formally repudiated al Qaeda style terrorism and disbanded their campaign to overthrow the Libyan regime.
The breakthrough was the result of a two-year dialogue with the regime brokered by Benotman [a former LIFG commander now in the employ of the London based Quilliam Foundation with a mandate in conflict resolution. CNN interviewed leading figures of the LIFG in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli in September 2009, shortly before the group’s leaders were released. Although they were then behind prison bars, the leaders’ disavowal of violence appeared genuine. (Ibid)
According to DebkaFile (Israeli intelligence online report), the “pro-Al Qaeda brigades “led by LIFG Commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj constitute the dominant force of the rebellion, overriding the authority of the Transitional Council. They are in control of strategic buildings including Gadhafi’s compound.
“The LIFG chief [Abdel Hakim Belhadj] now styles himself “Commander of the Tripoli Military Council.” Asked by our sources whether they plan to hand control of the Libyan capital to the National Transitional Council, which has been recognized in the West, the jihadi fighters made a gesture of dismissal without answering. (Debka, Pro-Al Qaeda brigades control Qaddafi Tripoli strongholds seized by rebels, August 28, 2011 )
Abdul Hakim Belhhadj received military training in CIA sponsored guerrilla camp in Afghanistan. An earlier report suggests that he has some 1,000 men under his command. (Libyan rebels at pains to distance themselves from extremists – The Globe and Mail, March 12, 2011)
The US-NATO coaltion is arming the Jihadists. Weapons are being channelled to the LIFG from Saudi Arabia, which historically, since the outset of the Soviet-Afghan war, has covertly supported Al Qaeda. The Saudis are now providing the rebels, in liaison with Washington and Brussels, with anti-tank rockets and ground-to-air missiles. (See Michel Chossudovsky “Our Man in Tripoli”: US-NATO Sponsored Islamic Terrorists Integrate Libya’s Pro-Democracy Opposition, Global Research, 3 April 2011)
A “Democracy” run by Terrorists
Reports also confirm that large numbers of terrorists imprisoned in Abu Salim jail were released by rebel forces. They are now being recruited by the former LIFG Islamic brigades, led by “former” jihadists pro-democracy commanders.
So all ends well in the smooth transition towards a democracy run by terrorists.
NATO’s Islamic Jihad
There is indications that NATO, in coordination with Western intelligence agencies (including Israel’s Mossad), is involved in recruiting Islamist fighters. Israeli intelligence sources confirm that NATO in cooperation with Turkey, is now directly training and recruiting in several Muslim countries a new jihadist generation of “Freedom Fighters”. The Mujahideen after undergoing training are slated to participate in NATO’s “pro-democracy” “humanitarian” military campaigns. The Israeli report by Debka pertains to Syria, which is next in line on the NATO military roadmap:
“Our sources report, is a [NATO] campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels… ” (Debka File August 15, 2011 http://www.debka.com/article/21207/ )
Concluding Remarks
The conduct of the NATO led invasion and occupation of Libya is making use of Islamic fighters as the backbone of an alleged transition to democracy.
The tragic events of 9/11 have played a key role in developing a massive propaganda campaign geared towards justifying a “war on terrorism” directed against Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda.
In a bitter twist, throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, the Western military alliance is using Islamic brigades, trained and groomed by the CIA, MI6 and Mossad, to wage its “Global War on Terrorism”.
The war on terrorism constitutes a broad consensus instilled in the minds of millions of people, What is not known to Western public opinion is that the West’s holy crusade against Islamic terrorism rather than targeting terrorists actually includes terrorists in his ranks, i.e Al Qaeda “freedom fighters” have been integrated into the ranks of US-NATO led military operations.
Rest assured, in the case of Libya, the rebels are “the good guys”: they are “former” rather than “active” members of Al Qaeda.
The Western media has not reported on NATO war crimes. It has casually dismissed NATO atrocities: 8000 strike sorties represents more than 50,000 missiles and bombs dropped on the Libyan people.
There are various ways of concealing the truth. From the outset of the air campaign, the media has denied the existence of a war. Its causes and consequences are distorted. In turn, an effective propaganda campaign requires targeting people’s mindset in newspapers, network TV and online.
People must be distracted from an understanding of the war on Libya. News coverage is redirected towards a number of trivial “talking points”, including the size of Gadhafi’s swimming pool, his female bodyguards, his cosmetic plastic surgery. The Guardian, August 23, 2011)
Not included in the journalist’s “to do list” is the coverage of the three thousand men, women and children who lost their lives in the course of a weeklong Blitzkrieg bombing of Tripoli using the most advanced weapons systems in human history.
Against this background of lies and fabrications, the lives of several independent journalists including Global Research’s Correspondent Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya trapped in Tripoli were threatened, for saying the truth.
Note
The Libya Islamic Fighting Group was listed until June 10th as a terrorist organization. The United Nations Security Council, confirmed that the LIFG is bona fide terrorist: organization. The LIFG entry was included in the (updated March 24, 2011, accessed April 3, 2011) United Nations Security Council “terror list” as follows:
QE.L.11.01. Name: LIBYAN ISLAMIC FIGHTING GROUP
Name (original script):
A.k.a.: LIFG F.k.a.: na Address: na Listed on: 6 Oct. 2001 (amended on 5 Mar. 2009)
Other information: Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) was concluded on 21 Jun. 2010
(The LIFG Listing is on p. 70, http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/pdf/consolidatedlist.pdf, (accessed April 3, 2011) Under the UNSC rules disbanded terrorist organizations are removed from the list in conformity with a delisting procedure. The LIFG has not been removed from the list).
United Nations Security Council:
>Consolidated List established and maintained by the 1267 Committee with respect to Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden, and the Taliban and other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them (updated March 24, 2011).
The above entry was on the UN Security Council’s list of terrorist organizations until June 10th. A new UNSC resolution was passed on June 10 and The Listing of Terrorist Organizations updated on March 24, 2011, conveniently vanished from the UN Security Council website pending the revamping of the website:
IMPORTANT CHANGES TO THE COMMITTEE WEBSITE PURSUANT TO SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1989 (2011)
On 17 June 2011, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolutions 1988 (2011) and 1989 (2011) as successor resolutions to resolution 1904 (2009). By adopting these resolutions, the Security Council decided to split the Al-Qaida and Taliban sanctions regime. Resolution 1989 (2011) stipulates that the sanctions list maintained by the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) will henceforth be known as the “Al-Qaida Sanctions List” and include only names of those individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with Al Qaida.Pursuant to these decisions by the Security Council, this website is in the process of being updated. In this interim period, any remaining references to the Consolidated List on this website should be considered as references to the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.
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A school in Zlitan, bombed by NATOBy Alex Newman The North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) is being heavily criticized for civilian casualties and a series of bombings apparently targeting essential non-military infrastructure in Libya, with some observers calling the actions war crimes. The Libyan rebels being supported by coalition forces have also been accused of wanton savagery and even crimes against humanity. Most recently, a NATO bombing campaign near the Libyan city of Zlitan earlier this month reportedly killed almost 100 civilians — more than half of them women and children. The attack sparked a new wave of outrage worldwide as journalists and activists called for investigations.
Representatives of the Libyan government took a large group of foreign reporters to the site. They were reportedly shown bodies of women and children, including the remains of a baby. Multiple bombed out homes were also presented to international journalists. “Today was yet another crime by NATO against civilians,” Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim was quoted as saying by Fox News about the attack, noting that over 1,000 civilians had been killed by NATO so far. “They are killing women and children.
This happens every day. Help us to stop this madness.” The Western military alliance defended the strikes, saying they were against “legitimate” targets. According to NATO spokespeople, the coalition believed the town was being used as a staging ground for pro-Gaddaffi forces and tribes aimed at repelling an upcoming rebel invasion of Tripoli. But the victims cited in news reports said that was not the case.
“NATO bombed us, for what reason? We did not do anything to them. We are civilian people,” a man who lost his daughter and his home in the strike was quoted as saying in The Australian newspaper. “Why did they kill us? We had peace in my house with our family. What did we do to the other countries?” International law expert Franklin Lamb, writing in the Foreign Policy Journal from Tripoli over the weekend, accused NATO of committing a “massacre” after visiting the bombing site. Citing international lawyers, U.S. congressional staffers and human rights activists visiting the war-torn nation, he charged that NATO had “committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Other foreign reporters — particularly from Russia — have been fiercely critical of the NATO campaign for months. “Do those who planned this and other crimes have a right to live? I’m talking about the Bilderberg club. What would they feel if their families are also deprived of a quiet life, and then killed in cold blood?” wrote Russian columnist Konstantyn Scheglikov following the bombings, attacking the “NATO maniacs who do not like the resistance of the small North African country.” Other reporters who toured the site offered similarly devastating analysis of what happened. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya with the Centre for Research on Globalization said civilians in Tripoli and other major Libyan cities were “bombed indiscriminately by NATO” in recent weeks. “In Zliten, 85 people were killed including 33 children, 32 women, and 20 men as a result of NATO’s deliberate targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure,” he wrote, posting a dozen pictures showing the aftermath of the attack, which he called “photographic evidence of NATO war crimes.” International human rights groups also had questions about the bombing. “NATO continues to stress its commitment to protect civilians,” said Amnesty International’s Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui in a statement. “To that effect, it should thoroughly investigate this and all other recent incidents in which civilians were reportedly killed in western Libya as a result of air strikes.” In addition to the hundreds or even thousands of “collateral damage” deaths so far, NATO is also under fire for air strikes on civilian infrastructure. On July 25, the Associated Press reported that the international coalition bombed a hospital, leaving several doctors dead. Another infrastructure attack that drew international condemnation was the bombing of facilities associated with Libya’s so-called Great Man-Made River system, a pipeline that delivers water to a large percentage of the population. The Pakistan Observer said the attack was “a clear war crime” and could easily lead to a “humanitarian disaster.” On July 30, NATO warplanes also repeatedly bombed a Libyan television station, killing three and injuring 15. Surviving journalists blasted the attack and called for international support from other reporters. “We are not a military target, we are not officers in the army and not a threat to civilians,” the Libya Broadcasting Department Employees said in a statement after the attack, which it called an “act of international terrorism” and a violation of international law.
“We are doing our job as journalists in representing what from the bottom of my heart we believe is the reality of the NATO aggression and violence in Libya.” Countless press-freedom groups including the International News Safety Institute and the International Federation of Journalists have demanded an investigation of the attack. But NATO defended the bombing, saying the TV station was being used to spread pro-Gaddafi propaganda. A separate incident in early August involving NATO’s alleged failure to rescue ocean-bound refugees in distress has also been widely criticized around the world. According to news reports, up to 100 people died escaping Libya on a rickety boat after the engine died and nearby NATO ships failed to respond to SOS calls.
“The idea that NATO, with all its surveillance technology, was not aware of a boat of this size is a story that not even Little Red Riding Hood would believe,” charged Italian Parliamentarian Roberto Castelli. The government of Italy has requested an inquiry to find out why the refugees were apparently left to die. The internationally backed rebels trying to seize power in Libya have also been accused of numerous war crimes and wide-scale barbarity — some of it too horrendous even to mention. Numerous gruesome videos have been posted online showing beheadings, lynchings and other crimes, proving that at least some of the allegations are true. “The evidence provided by these videos makes clear that the rebels’ conception of warfare has more in common with that of Al-Qaeda than that of the Geneva Conventions,” explained John Rosenthal in a piece for the U.S.-based Hudson Institute.
“The abuses documented in the videos could serve as textbook examples of precisely the sort of savagery that the Geneva Conventions were supposed to prevent.” As The New American and countless other sources have reported, the NATO-backed rebels are, in many cases, led by self-described leaders of al Qaeda and other extreme Islamic groups that have boasted of battling American forces everywhere from Iraq to Afghanistan.
Some of the leaders are even former U.S. prisoners who were held in Guantanamo Bay. Suspicions about the rebels’ true motives and supporters were also raised when the self-proclaimed Interim Transitional National Council announced the creation of a new central bank weeks after the NATO invasion. It remains unclear whether the new monetary authority will follow the Gaddaffi regime’s state-owned model, or if it is to be privately owned like the U.S. Federal Reserve. Though Western powers were arming the rebels well before intervention became official, the Obama administration and NATO publicly intervened in Libya in mid-March to enforce a United Nations resolution. Since then, the “mission” has morphed into “regime change,” with foreign powers hoping to oust dictator Gaddafi and install the rebels as the new government. Without congressional approval, which Obama himself acknowledged in 2007 is required by the U.S. Constitution prior to foreign militarism, critics have charged that American involvement is itself illegal. And while the administration has already informed Congress that it would ignore any attempt to rein in the war, critics worldwide are still hoping that there will eventually be some accountability and justice if crimes were indeed committed. #
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The mainstream media is the most obvious in its inherent bias and manipulation.
Never before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and sources of information. We are – as a society – inundated and overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources, but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and individuals that own them. The main sources of information, for both public and official consumption, include the mainstream media, alternative media, academia and think tanks. The mainstream media is the most obvious in its inherent bias and manipulation. The mainstream media is owned directly by large multinational corporations, and through their boards of directors are connected with a plethora of other major global corporations and elite interests. An example of these connections can be seen through the board of Time Warner. Time Warner owns Time Magazine, HBO, Warner Bros., and CNN, among many others. The board of directors includes individuals past or presently affiliated with: the Council on Foreign Relations, the IMF, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Warburg Pincus, Phillip Morris, and AMR Corporation, among many others. Two of the most “esteemed” sources of news in the U.S. are the New York Times (referred to as “the paper of record”) and the Washington Post. The New York Times has on its board people who are past or presently affiliated with: Schering-Plough International (pharmaceuticals), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chevron Corporation, Wesco Financial Corporation, Kohlberg & Company, The Charles Schwab Corporation, eBay Inc., Xerox, IBM, Ford Motor Company, Eli Lilly & Company, among others. Hardly a bastion of impartiality. And the same could be said for the Washington Post, which has on its board: Lee Bollinger, the President of Columbia University and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Warren Buffett, billionaire financial investor, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; and individuals associated with (past or presently): the Coca-Cola Company, New York University, Conservation International, the Council on Foreign Relations, Xerox, Catalyst, Johnson & Johnson, Target Corporation, RAND Corporation, General Motors, and the Business Council, among others.
 It is also important to address how the mainstream media is intertwined, often covertly and secretly, with the government. Carl Bernstein, one of the two Washington Post reporters who covered the Watergate scandal, revealed that there were over 400 American journalists who had “secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.” Interestingly, “the use of journalists has been among the most productive means of intelligence-gathering employed by the CIA.” Among organizations which cooperated with the CIA were the “American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune.” By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc. The CIA even ran a training program “to teach its agents to be journalists,” who were “then placed in major news organizations with help from management.” These types of relationships have continued in the decades since, although perhaps more covertly and quietly than before. For example, it was revealed in 2000 that during the NATO bombing of Kosovo, “several officers from the US Army’s 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group at Ft. Bragg worked in the news division at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters.” This same Army Psyop outfit had “planted stories in the U.S. media supporting the Reagan Administration’s Central America policies,” which was described by the Miami Herald as a “vast psychological warfare operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in enemy territory.” These Army PSYOP officersalso worked at National Public Radio (NPR) at the same time. The US military has, in fact, had a strong relationship with CNN. In 2008, it was reported that the Pentagon ran a major propaganda campaign by using retired Generals and former Pentagon officials to present a good picture of the administration’s war-time policies. The program started in the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003 and continued into 2009. These officials, presented as “military analysts”, regurgitate government talking points and often sit on the boards of military contractors, thus having a vested interest in the subjects they are brought on to “analyze.” The major philanthropic foundations in the United States have often used their enormous wealth to co-opt voices of dissent and movements of resistance into channels that are safe for the powers that be. As McGeorge Bundy, former President of the Ford Foundation once said, “Everything the Foundation does is to make the world safe for Capitalism.” Examples of this include philanthropies like the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation providing immense financial and organizational support to Non-Governmental Organizations. Furthermore, the alternative media are often funded by these same foundations, which has the effect of influencing the direction of coverage as well as the stifling of critical analysis. |
Why NATO Is Danger To World Peace – Lies For Devastating Wars Against Serbia, Iraq, Now Libya NATO is committing war crimes in Libya http://www.botswanaguardian.co.bw/newsdetails.php?nid=1940&cat=BG%20OpinionsOn Saturday NATO forces attacked Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s compound and killed his youngest son and three of his grand children who were all under the age of twelve. Within twenty-four hours US President Barak Obama announced the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in order to shift the spotlight away from the war crimes committed by NATO forces in Libya. The African media shouldn’t buy into that diversionary tactic. They should focus on covering the war crimes and the violation of international law. International law is a gimmick. It is used selectively to achieve the objectives of western imperialism. More than twenty years ago when I wrote about the “new world order” and the west’s plan to recolonise Africa, many people perhaps thought I must have smoked something very strong. I recently wrote about two articles for Foreign Affairs, a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations and Canada’s Globe and Mail which published an article and editorial on the recolonisation of Africa. Events in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Ivory Coast point to that direction and betray the west’s plan of establishing a “new world order”. Those who were old enough will remember the words of George Bush Senior in 1991 prior to the first invasion of Iraq when he spoke about a “new world order” which apparently the Ba’ath Party of Saddam Hussein wanted to derail. Research reveals that a “new world order” is the establishment of a one-world-dictatorial government. The west doesn’t give a hoot about world opinion now that the Warsaw Pact no longer exists and we now live in a unipolar world where only one superpower dominates. And they become surprised when such hegemony breeds the likes of Bin Laden and others. By the way if Bin Laden has been killed that doesn’t wipe out the west’s headache because Bin Laden’s ideology, movement and objectives are going to remain with his followers. As far as Afghanistan is concerned, the Taliban are fighting against foreign occupation which has nothing to do with the presence or absence of Bin Laden. Moreover, Israel is the common denominator and has escaped the glare of the media because of events in the Arab world. The Palestinian question is a unifying factor and still outstanding and will not go away until it is resolved. Sam Ditshego KAGISO, SA May 18, 2011 at 9:50 am _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Libya: Events Between February and April 2011
Posted: 2011/08/10 From: Mathaba
The date of this documentary is estimated end of April 2011 because it mentions the attacks on Muammar Qaddafi by NATO at the end of April but not the fatal NATO bombing of May 1st which killed family friends, babies and children of the Qaddafi family. The Importance of Prayer Posted: 2011/08/11 From: Source Share on TwitterFacebook 
“Enjoin prayer on your people, and steadily adhere to it. We do not ask from you a sustenance. We provide for you. And the (good) end is for guarding against evil.” –Holy Qur’an 20:132 By Sultan Rahman Muhammad “Enjoin prayer on your people, and steadily adhere to it. We do not ask from you a sustenance. We provide for you. And the (good) end is for guarding against evil.” —Holy Qur’an 20:132 Prayer is a universal institution, which has existed throughout the most ancient of times of humanity until this very day. Prayer has been practiced by all of the prophets, on them be peace. It is a tradition so strong in our natural urges that it will never be abolished. Prophets had the practice of offering prayer in the morning, the night and some are recorded in the Bible as having prayed in midday.
It is the symbol of humble reverence before the Creator of the heavens and the earth and it represents the justice and equality we find as servants in surrender to the Will of Almighty God. 
Qadhafi praying Prayer is the soul of all religions and it has always formed an essential part of Islam. Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him, guided by Divine inspiration, established prayer five times a day. When telling how prayer was prescribed for his followers he said, “I asked Allah and He said these are five prayers and they are equal to fifty and what has been said will not be changed.” In Islam the five prayers of the day are equal in reward to fifty prayers!
Yet, even with this exponential blessing we must ask ourselves, ‘Do I neglect my prayers?’, ‘Could I be more perfect in my communication with my Lord?’ The word ‘prayer’ within Western context does not fully capture what in the religion of Islam is an institution as a system of self-purification, which among its many benefits is designed to build the spiritual will of its practitioner. Among the signs of the Muslim’s Prayer (salah) is the symbol of humble reverence and thankfulness before the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
It is we that need the Blessing of provisions from Allah, not He that is need of our prayer to add or take away anything from His Might and Glory. If we reflect on the Muslim prayer, understanding that it is prime among the five principles of Islam we will find all other principles may be excused from practice under certain conditions except the Muslim’s daily prayers. Prophet Muhammad said that, “the prayer is one of the five pillars of Islam, which Islam is raised upon.” As a building has a foundation that holds the structure from collapsing the Muslim’s daily prayer service has been established as a foundational purpose for the demonstration of the principle of obedience to the Will of Allah (God). Whatever has been said about prayer, whatever has been practiced of prayer throughout ancient times, it is part of our very nature to establish a strong connection with the Creator. Allah (God) says in chapter two of the Holy Quran “And when my servant asks concerning Me, surely I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he calls on Me. So they should hear My call and believe in Me, that they may walk in a right manner.”
Where there is no prayer there can be no purification. It is the remedy for the ills that beset our hearts. The heart is the seat of will and must be cleaned of impurities of mind and spirit that need to be washed away through an open and physically deliberate act of obedience to Allah (God). With these impurities covering our will, so to speak, we find impediments in our other actions. Allah (God) has prescribed for us words of protecting guidance throughout His Scripture stating that prayer is a protection from, “indecency and evil,” Prayer is a protection from the chastisement of evil, a spiritual and physical purification of the ‘self’ through the mental and physical surrender to the Lord of all the worlds. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan concerning surrender states, “Surrender to what?
Not surrender to a man, then you are a slave again. Surrender to a principle, surrender to a teaching, surrender to a new idea that is the embodiment of a new vision that will bring you a new mind.” As we enter the Month of Ramadan let us practice being more prayerful as is the practice of the Muslim to show forth our thankfulness and seek redemption from all of our transgressions. It is on Allah (God) alone upon whom we rely and in Him alone we put our ultimate trust. Sultan Rahman Muhammad is the great-grandson of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and teaches Arabic at Muhammad University of Islam.
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Minister Farrakhan discusses the The Millions March in Harlem
By WLIB / FinalCall.com News | Last updated: Aug 12, 2011 – 3:54:37 PM
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[Editor’s note: On July 31, 2011 the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was interviewed by legendary radio host Imhotep Gary Byrd of WLIB 1190AM in New York to discuss the upcoming Millions March in Harlem scheduled for Saturday, August 13. The following text originally appeared in The Amsterdam News and is being reprinted with their permission.]
Watch the Millions March in Harlem Live Webcast @ http://NOI.org/webcast/MillionsInHarlem/
Imhotep Gary Byrd (GB:) Brother Minister, it’s always a pleasure to have you back.http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628014?rss
‘Sister Viola Plummer and the 12th of December Movement came up with an idea and thought that the enemies of Africa were planning to recolonize Africa, and she wanted to hold a march in Harlem to gather Black people together to alert us to this ugly fact that the Western powers are planning and are in active form of recolonizing the mother continent.’ |
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (HMLF): Oh, my brother, it’s my great honor, privilege and pleasure to be your guest on WLIB and to be able to speak to the wonderful brothers and sisters of New York City and the surrounding area. Thank you so much for this privilege. GB: You are more than welcome and we are more than appreciative, believe me. Why is it important for you to come to New York for the upcoming Millions March in Harlem, scheduled for Aug. 13?
HMLF: Well, as you may know my dear brother, Sister Viola Plummer and the 12th of December Movement came up with an idea and thought that the enemies of Africa were planning to recolonize Africa, and she wanted to hold a march in Harlem to gather Black people together to alert us to this ugly fact that the Western powers are planning and are in active form of recolonizing the mother continent.
And we cannot sit by and allow this to happen without our feet marching, our voices being heard and organizing throughout the country to let our government know, and the governments of the world know, that we will not stand by and allow the mother continent to be recolonized by those who have sucked her blood over many centuries, and now wish to do it again. GB: There is a place in which the march is projected, and obviously we’ve had some conversation along the timeline with the December 12th Movement. As I indicated, the theme focuses on the attack on African people on the continent, which you just responded to, but also adds the attack on African people in the United States. What is your perspective on that part of the agenda? HMLF: Well, as our people know, we are suffering more now than we ever have. And even though we have a larger Black middle class, and we have many Black millionaires and a few Black billionaires, the masses of our people are continuing to slide backwards into poverty and want. We cannot allow in a new election season our brother president, who gained 97 percent of the Black vote in 2008, to go to sleep and think that he can take the Black vote for granted. He has spoken out on gay rights and on unions and on other things that affect many people. We want him now to address the deep thirst and concerns of Black and Brown people in America who are now suffering from great injustices: police brutality, racial profiling, loss of jobs, loss of money. We need the president of the United States to speak out for us, and we need to unite and speak for ourselves. 
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GB: Let’s stay on that point for a moment. In the last hour, we had a program called “Obama Watch,” and in the course of that dialogue, the panelists there joining us, Milton Allimadi, Bancoli Thompson and with Cash Michaels, there was a debate and discussion that also involved some of our listeners who seem to feel, to the point that you just addressed, that the president is not necessarily speaking up for that particular base and electorate for his election. And from your remarks, you said something along that line. Can you just expand your perspective over what came up in the broadcast, the distinction between candidate Obama and President Obama? HMLF: Well as president, as you know, he is surrounded by forces that he was not surrounded by necessarily when he was candidate Obama. We never would have thought as we looked at our beautiful brother, as he campaigned for this very high office, that he would be responsible for bombing Africa and killing a leading African president or calling for his death and calling for regime change under the guise of humanitarian help. It’s so much bigger than that, but the forces that surround him, for instance, as you know, this brother is a very brilliant man. He is a Harvard graduate, but his degree is in law and constitutional law. When you become president and you have all of the problems that you have to face as the president of the United States of America, he has to surround himself with people in the economic realm who can help him make economic decisions. Unfortunately, he’s surrounded himself with some of the same people from Goldman Sachs and others from the Federal Reserve who are not in the best interest of the little man. These are people who encouraged him to make this tremendous bailout package of nearly trillion. But the little people in Harlem, in the Southside and Westside of Chicago, in Cleveland, Ohio, Los Angeles or in Atlanta, they never got the benefit of what our brother was able to secure from Congress. We bailed out the banks with the little people losing their homes at an alarming rate. Little people are suffering from poverty and want. What we want is our brother to speak to the hurt of the little man. Everybody talks about what’s happening to the middle class, and the middle class is suffering, but nobody seems to be responsible for the poor. This is what we need our brother president to address, and he need not fear that if he addresses the concerns of the mass poor that he will lose the vote of those Whites who voted for him. Because they knew he was a Black man, they voted for him in spite of the color of his skin, and they would not think less of him if he spoke out from the base and on behalf of the base that helped to put him in office.
And this is what we need to do to encourage our brother, and I believe he will, but it’s going to take all of us uniting, just as people are calling the White House, calling Congress, tweeting and doing all of that on the debt ceiling crisis. Well, we can do the same to let him know and representatives in Congress know, and those in the Congressional Black Caucus know, business as usual cannot be tolerated. Not only in this election season, we have power that we can use in a constructive way, and hopefully our brother will hear the cry of his constituents who put him in that high office. GB: We have the domestic issue on the one hand and the issue of international affairs on the other, as your remarks have indicated. I’m going to return to your essential criticism about U.S. foreign policy where Africa is concerned and concerning Libya in particular.
‘I don’t know if our listening audience is aware that the United Nations in March of this year was going to present Muammar Gadhafi with the United Nations Humanitarian Award for the great work that he and those with him were doing not only for the Libyan people, but for the African continent as well. Muammar Gadhafi, whether we like him or not, when you understand what this brother has done not only for Libya, but also using petrodollars to help Africa.’ |
HMLF: I don’t know if our listening audience is aware that the United Nations in March of this year was going to present Muammar Gadhafi with the United Nations Humanitarian Award for the great work that he and those with him were doing not only for the Libyan people, but for the African continent as well. Muammar Gadhafi, whether we like him or not, when you understand what this brother has done not only for Libya, but also using petrodollars to help Africa—this man put into a bank billions of dollars to help Africa get her own satellite so we don’t have to call through Europe to get to Africa.
Now we can call directly to Africa, which caused Europe to lose over million last year. Gadhafi put millions of dollars into an account to set up an African Development Bank. Gadhafi used money-oil revenue that he gets from Libya—to finance business projects throughout Africa to make Africa more independent. Instead of raw materials coming up out of the land in Africa being sent to Europe to be fashioned into goods that are sent back to Africa at a higher price, this was going to stop. Africa would take her own resources, make products and put her own products on the market. He used billions of dollars to connect states in Africa.
This man has something to make Western powers, who have grown strong sucking the blood of Africa, fearing that if Africa became independent and used the tremendous resources that Africa has, and that the Western world needs, in order to become powerful and stay powerful in the 21st century.
So he became a threat. In order to vamp on him and destroy him and destroy what he was doing with Africa and for Africa, they manufactured this false play that he was killing his own people in order to put him out of power, assassinate him, destroy the good that this man has done and put a puppet regime in power so that they would no longer have to contend with the idea of the United States of Africa, which the African Union was moving towards under Brother Gadhafi’s guidance, help and monetary assistance. GB: The award that you were mentioning just moments ago in regards to the United Nations is interesting in relation to looking at the timeline of what’s been happening.
There was also a UN report that was issued around January 2011, a multi-country report that seemed to give Libya, and subsequently Muammar Gadhafi’s government, rather high marks and praise as early as January 2011 around a whole range of issues, from human rights to a number of the areas that you mentioned as well. HMLF: That is correct, my dear brother, and of course that was what was leading to this humanitarian award to Muammar Gadhafi and the Libyan Jamahiriya. What Brother Gadhafi did coming to power in a bloodless coup is, he nationalized the oil, he removed Britain and America from their bases in Libya and he used Libyan oil to finance revolutionary movements against puppet regimes in Africa and other parts of the world. This made him persona non grata in the West, and it also set him up as an enemy of those who have traditionally misused Africa and poisoned African leadership.
When I say poison, I don’t mean with physical poison, but African leaders who wanted more for themselves than they wanted for the liberation of our people—these are the types of leaders that America supported. She did not support Osageyfo Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Ture and many of those revolutionaries and many of those revolutionary thinking Black leaders, Patrice Lumumba and others. These are the Black leaders who were murdered or abandoned or who were set up to destroy their power, because they were the leaders who understood a united Africa. Not all of these separate states. Kwame Nkrumah, Gamal Adel Nasser, they wanted to lift up the idea of the Honorable Marcus Garvey-that there should be one Africa. That is what Nasser wanted, that is what Nkrumah wanted, that is what Muammar Gadhafi spent billions of dollars trying to promote: an African Union on the way to a United States of Africa. This is what made him such a threat to the West, and unfortunately for them, he’s still there, he’s still alive. They will ultimately have to deal with that man.
If I can make a point with this. He raised the standard of living with the Libyan people to the highest on the African continent and even the highest in the Middle East. He freed women who were Muslims to be a part of government, to be a part of a society where they don’t sit back and allow men to do everything. The women are partners with the men in Libya. He was a socialist in orientation in the early days, but as he became involved deeper and deeper with the Quran, he saw himself as a reformer of Islam, and he was in the process of reforming Islam in his country and influencing the development in others. I was there with him, my dear brother, when he spent billion to create a marvel in the 20th century where they discovered water under the desert. And he invested billion to bring that water up out of the desert, and I was with him on the day that we pushed a certain button and the water began from near Benghazi into Tripoli, almost to the Tunisian boarder.
He made agriculture an absolute must for Libya, that they would produce their own food. He made it possible for the Libyans to get land and equipment to farm the land so that Libya would never have to depend on others for the basic necessities of food. This is what this man was doing, not only for Libya, but he was doing it for Africa as well. He became a thorn in the side of Europe, so now they want regime change. The man was not in any office of power, he’s the revolutionary leader. We call him Brother Leader Muammar Gadhafi. He set up a participatory democracy where the people make the decisions for the future, and he guides the revolution.
I was with him, dear brother, when African presidents would come in, and he encouraged them and said, “Look, we are revolutionaries and you cannot have a revolution and every four years or eight years you bring somebody else in who may or may not continue the trend that you have started.” So when people say he has been in power too long, it takes a long time to bring a mind out of a colonial and slave mentality. He is not interested in power in that sense for himself, but he wants to empower the people. And lastly, brother, he shared oil revenue with all the citizens of Libya. No Libyan has to pay for health care, education or for living in a house or an apartment. Everybody there has a place to live. And he has sent hundreds of thousands of Libyans all over the world to study and the Libyan government pays for their education. If there is an operation that a Libyan needs and they have to go to Europe or America for that operation, the Libyan government pays for it. There is no government on the earth that does that for their people to the degree that this man has done. That kind of leader with that kind of work for his people is an enemy to those who want to live off the sweat, blood and labor of the poor, but not give the poor anything in return. This is why some say that if this man came to America with what he has done for Libya and was trying to do for Africa, maybe they would renounce the 22nd Amendment and change it and make Gadhafi president in America for life. GB: I’m ill positioned right now to end our interview without raising a point that Milton Allimadi highlighted related to a Wall Street Journal article, which has shown some rather shocking activities involving ethnic cleansing in Libya. And the surprise, ultimately, which the Wall Street Journal article raised, was that it was the rebels who were originally on the side of the people. Is this something you are aware of?
‘Gadhafi got into trouble with many Arabs in his own country because he said that Libya really belonged to the Blacks, and that the future of the world would be with Black people. He invited many Black people throughout the world to come to Libya. He gave them work and they became Libyan citizens. Now, when Arabs saw that-some of whom are absolutely racist—they felt he was doing too much for Africans and for Africa.’ |
HMLF: Yes, I am, my dear brother. You know, Gadhafi got into trouble with many Arabs in his own country because he said that Libya really belonged to the Blacks, and that the future of the world would be with Black people. He invited many Black people throughout the world to come to Libya. He gave them work and they became Libyan citizens. Now, when Arabs saw that-some of whom are absolutely racist—they felt he was doing too much for Africans and for Africa. They rebelled against him for that. So when this group rose in Benghazi, the hatred for Black Africa and for Blacks came out of them and they’re slaughtering African Libyans, Black Libyans and calling them mercenaries when, if fact, they belong to Libya. Yes, this has gone on and it is going on, and with the help of Allah, we hope that all of this will stop, and that if the NATO bombing stops, then maybe the Libyan forces can liberate Benghazi and stop the slaughter of African people by Arabs who hate Black people. GB: Brother Minister, it is a great pleasure once again to have you with us.
I just want to make sure for many who are with us tonight—when it was projected that you would be at the Millions March in Harlem, it was obviously the media buzz and it was also, “Is he really coming?” So I think that your visit tonight has given assurance that we will be seeing you. HMLF: I want to say, dear brother, that it would be my great honor to be back in New York City, especially in Harlem, where I have spent some of the best years of my life working at the mosque on 116th Street.
Those of you in other boroughs, this is not just for Harlem, it’s for the Bronx, it’s for Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island. It’s for all of us to make an appearance, to let America and the world know we are African people, and we will not stand by and watch our beloved mother continent recolonized, nor will we stand by and watch our people suffer poverty and want, and not raise our voices united and do something to end the suffering of our people. And if you would like to call for further information, call (718) 398-1766 or visit http://www.millionsmarchharlem.com. My dear brother, thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me this privilege to speak to your audience on WLIB, one of my favorite stations when I lived in New York. May Allah God continue to bless you, dear brother, bless your station and bless your listeners. And I look forward, Allah willing, to seeing all of you on the 13th of August in Harlem. ___________________________________________________________________________
Is there any legal background to NATO war crimes?
Posted: 2011/08/10 From: MathabaFatwa (Ruling) on UN Resolutions 1970-1973 “They are insane, they should be arrested and brought to The Hague, or to a nuthouse. Those NATO leaders are either mad and drunken and must be put into a psychiatric facility, or, if sober – they are CRIMINALS who must be brought to the ICC…” (Colonel Muammar Qadhafi) “NATO is committing war crimes in Libya. The rules of engagement are bound by the UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) in which there is no mention of taking out Colonel Gaddafi, his aides or children or grandchildren. NATO was supposed to police a no-fly zone and explain any misgivings to the international community. China and Russia asked the countries proposing the above-mentioned Resolutions to explain the details of the “measures” inherent in the agreements. No explanations were given, making the basis for the Resolutions void. No rules of engagement allow for the purposeful targeting of Libyan officials, therefore the murder of Colonel Gaddafi’s relatives and the recent strikes on civilian targets in Tripoli amount to war crimes. The international community is bound to abide by the rules of international law. International law is ruled by the UN Charter and Resolutions from the UNSC. NATO has acted outside these rules, and therefore Obama, Harper, Rasmussens, Sarkozy, Cameron, Berlusconi and other sick NATO warmonger leaders are guilty of high treason and War Crimes…” (quoted from Pravda.ru, by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey) “Libyan government opposes the completion of NATO humanitarian mission and endangers peaceful population by TV broadcastings which translate Qaddafi’s speeches and information on destructions inflicted by NATO bombings…” (French pervert Roland Lavoie) VERDICT / Fatwa : To save the world from greatest threat of war and terrorism, all degenerate perpetrators Bar. Obama, Robert Gates, Samuel Locklear, Carter Ham, Michael G. Mullen, John McCain, Hill. Clinton (Shiksa), Jo. Kerry, rat David Cameron, David Richards, William Hague, Liam Fox, Stuart Peach, the Queen, Nik. Sarkozy (Hungarofruit), Alain Juppe, Gerard Longuet, Th. Burkhard, Edouard Guillaud, Rinaldo Veri, Sil. Berlusconi, Lars and Anders (Fag) Rasmussen, Stephen Harper, Ch. Bouchard, Peter Mckey, Harald Sunde, Sverker Göranson, Grete Faremo, Ban Ki-moon, Abdullah II. Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Yus. Qardawi, Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Lu Moreno Ocampo…
must be summoned to the International Tribunal in Nurnberg and publicly HANGED (together with the sponsored subhuman “rebels” from Benghazi and hired Al-Qaeda agents) for the committed crimes against humanity. Each of their countries is to fully compensate for heavy damages, harm and death inflicted on Libya, all involved governmental and parliament bodies of USA, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Qatar, Turkey, Netherlands, Spain, FRG, Sweden, Czechia, Malta, Morocco, Jordan, UAE, Rumania, Bulgaria, Australia, Russia to be stripped of all state posts, their private property confiscated, while all Libyan assets and funds frozen in Western banks (looted by the Western Mafia) immediately released for the legitimate possessor – the people of Libya.
Hey, cunning England! Hey, stupid France! You get everybody in rage and trance ! Hey, f_cken Berlusca ! Hey, empty Barak ! You fall on big trouble, much worse than Iraq… Be you Ami or Briton, Danish, Roman orGaul, You’ll obtain your deserts and go to the wall!!! Once the hypocrite West blamed USSR on aggression against Hungary and Afghanistan, and who blames the West on attacking Vietnam, Nicaragua, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya??…
Collective Euro-American Hitler and his international Gauleiters are the worst danger and obstacle to the world ! Sane society must put an end to barbarous Crusader atrocities, immediately cease diplomatic relations with all members of anti-Libyan fascist coalition; BOYCOTT coalition’s products and commodities; impose total EMBARGO on deliveries thereto of oil, gas, metals, chemicals, uranium, diamonds, jewelry, engines, foodstuffs; completely stop tourism to barbaric Europe and UAssA….
And, hey UNO, why not issue a supplemental Resolution protecting the civil population of Libya: – To assassinate the real dictators and beef-squad serial killers Rasmussen, Cameron, Sarkozy, Obama, Locklear and Clinton?…. – And, if necessary, to transfer the warfare to the enemy’s territory?… Moegen drohen die Faschisten, Bald vorbei ist ihre Zeit… Mutige Sozialisten Immer sind zum Kampf bereit! More quotes (by Raja Chemael): “We hereby would to remind all the short-memories that the UN resolution on Libya mentioned exclusively a no fly zone!! And then, 2 days later, 99% of the Libyan Air force were made inactive, if not completely destroyed… In the meantime this “no fly” included direct bombing of cities, of villages, economical boycott and killing of civilians!! No to mention, arming the opposition and blocking the national financial assets of Libya abroad… Now the West shall confiscate the billions of the Libyan Dollars and hand them over to a Marionette opposition that does not even know each other, a dissociated bands… If this is not a nation-robbery, then what is it? If this is not piracy, then what is it? If this is not day-light robbery, then what is it? If this not colonial hegemony, then what is it? Who is the NATO ??….. and what for is it?? — only to bomb Belgrade, Baghdad, Kabul and Tripoli??!! They only sell us the artificial-democracy flavors….. “Hey, I need 5 or 6 Libyans aged between 35 and 60 years. No matter what education they might have, nor any degree of ethics is ever needed. They shall found a “Congress” and call it LDC- Democratic Libyan Congress. Thereafter they can pretend to represent all the insurgencies in Libya whether real ones or not, is not relevant…. as long as they are anti-Qaddafi and pro-democracy of course… Upon that, the Western-governments shall hand over all of financial assets Libya has in their banks to that Demo group. We are talking about 103 billions of US dollars: 60 Billions will go back to the Pentagon and the NATO, 40 Billions to bail out Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain and Italy, 3 Billions will be divided between the 6 Libyan Liberators of the DLC foundation, Hilary Clinton, Ahmad Chalabi, Robert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, and poor Judas Sarkozy…” Signed : International Mafia for Nation’s convinent-metamorphoses” About Sam Dudic Contacted Mathaba in 2002-2004; read the ” Green Book “; admirer of Muammar Qadhafi, Louis Farrakhan and Mahmud Ahmadinejad; support the concept of Islamic Socialismbased on people’s self-rule and direct democracy without shahs, sheikhs, kings, sultans, emirs, party secretaries, presidents and parliaments – as future for mankind View all posts by Sam Dudic → # http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya ___
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Mathaba was the first to break the news of the liberation of Misrata from the reliable source of Mathaba Libya Coordinator and this is now confirmed by additional sources
Lizzie Phelan has given a report that confirms an earlier report that was given by Mathaba Libya Coordinator and also a young member of the Libyan Army: Misrata has been liberated by loyalist volunteers of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan Defence Forces.Ms. Phelan says, in her report, that this has been confirmed also by Dr. Moussa Ibrahim, the honest Jamahiriya media spokesperson.Earlier reports had been circulated and reached pub.mathaba.netbut not passed for publication as unverified claims that “hundreds” of U.S. soldiers had entered Misrata and were reports meant to create confusion.Reports in NATO media outlets as always claiming that the tebels (terrorist rebels) are about to “liberate” Tripoli when they are in complete disarray, were also designed to create confusion however they have no effect on Libya but are aimed at the foreign supporters of the tebels.Chinese media too has echoed these reports, we assume because the Chinese media often simply echoes western media in their reports without checking of facts. After China allowed the F-UK-USA alliance to enter African sovereign air space and massacre Libyans, almost 2 million Chinese have been affected adversely.By Lizzie PhelanWhile the journalists suffering from cabin fever in Tripoli’s Rixos hotel, publish their dreams that imperialism’s lackies (the rebels/rats “tebels”) have taken Zawiya, Ghuriyan and Sorman, they are ignoring a decisive moment in the crisis.That is the liberation of the hitherto rebel-held area of Misratah. Last night the Libyan army moved into the centre of the city and now the rebels are trapped between Misratah and Tawergha. 75 per cent of the city has been secured including the port, which was a lifeline for the rebels to receive shipments of arms and other supplies, as well as being a key transport route for them.
This was confirmed today by government spokesman Dr Moussa Ibrahim and at a press conference by tribal leaders of up to 200 Libyan tribes. This includes the leaders of four of the largest Libyan tribes which make up half the Libyan population: Wafalla, Tarhouna, Zlitan, Washafana.
They have all given the allegiance of their tribes to the leader Muammar Gaddafi. The tribal leaders also confirmed that Zawiya, Ghuriyan and Sorman, are secure, in contrast to claims by foreign reporters in Tripoli and Djerba (Tunisia) that they have been taken by the rebels. There are pockets of rebels in these areas, but they are isolated and surrounded by the Libyan army and Libyan tribes. But of course, the claims of some mainstream journalistswho have next to no knowledge of Libya will determine the orientalist public opinion of the west. These claims stand in stark contradiction to the reports of the Libyan tribes adhwho of course know their land with great intimacy.
It is clear that these claims were designed to try and boost the moral of the rebels which just goes from one disaster to another, and also to try and create panic amongst the Libyan population. Also, they have been desperately trying to secure some victory before August 17th (17 day of Ramadan), a very important date in the Islamic calendar. This was the date of Prophet Muhammad’s victory in the Battle of Badr. However, all the best efforts of the international press to create confusion and panic on the ground and Libya are always swiftly turned around by a speech by Leader Muammar Gaddafi. This was delivered last night by telephone to supporters that had flocked to Green Square. He reasserted his calls for the Libyan people to remain steadfast in defeating NATO’s allies on the ground and NATO itself. So the media war goes on. And in case anyone is still actually watching Al Jazeera, which has been at the centre of the conspiracy against Libya, here Press TV’s Afshin Rattansi screens footage of an Al Jazeera editorial meeting with the Emir of Qatar and none other than Israel’s Tzipi Livni. From 9 mins and 11 secs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WUQKyl1x5yQ Just to clear up some more crap coming out in the international press: The interior minister Nassr al-Mabrouk which the western press is claiming has “defected” is ***live*** right now (3.05 am Libyan Time) on Libya’s most popular talk show saying he left because he had to go for an operation and he is still 100 per cent with Gaddafi. Finally, we are still waiting for absolute confirmation of reports that rebel commander Khalifa Hefter has been captured by pro-Gaddafi forces. This would obviously plunge the rebels into further disarray following the assassination of other the former top rebel commander Abd al Fatah Younis by Al Qaeda (which runs throughout the rebel ranks). Hefter was living in Virginia for 20 years working as a CIA agent, right up until the crisis began when he swiftly returned to Libya to join the TNC. Key leaders and supporters of the tebels have now conceded that NATO itself is going to lose this war. Read one such confirmation here. Mathaba: Note to the gullible western tell-lie-vision watchers. What has been going on since March when NATO started to bomb Libya, is that tebels under massive air support of NATO which carries out massive bombings of towns in order to drive out the citizens and the Libyan defence forces, move in for a few hours along with western journalists and take some photo shots to show they have “liberated” that particular town.
Those reports then make it to prime time tell-lie-vision news. But: What the western “news” media editor’s do not allow to be shown to you after that is the proofs that always just hours later, the tebels flee again as the Libyan defence forces and population move back in, their houses having been ransacked by the tebels. If you want to have an idea of the level of support for Qaddafi within Libya, but also to just get a clear picture of what is going on there, and to see what you are never shown on tell-lie-vision, just take a look at www.bit.ly/LibyaTruth The reason NATO cannot win this war without dropping nukes on the entire population, is because it is the majority of the population that makes up the self-governing direct democracy “Jamahiriya” as well as the defence forces. A cursory look at Libyan history and unity against foreign invaders will show that NATO has no option but to withdraw, or continue massacres that are hour by hour increasing the level of support not only within Libya and Africa, but now worldwide, for the Libyan Jamahiriya and its direct participatory democracy. Libya: Zlitan celebrates the liberation of Misratah, 16 August 2011 Libya: Zlitan celebrates the liberation of Misratah – Part II, 16 August 2011 Libya: Tripoli celebrates the liberation of Misratah, 15 August 2011, II Libya / Ben Walid: TODAY # http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya Tuesday, 16 August 2011Battle for Libya: MISRATA HAS BEEN LIBERATED [15. Auguts 2011.][16. August 2011] Lizzie Phelan /CONFIRMED: MISRATA HAS BEEN LIBERATED.
by Lizze PhelanWhile the journalists suffering from cabin fever in Tripoli’s Rixos hotel, publish their dreams that imperialism’s lackies (the rebels/rats) have taken Zawiya, Ghuriyan and Sorman, they are ignoring a decisive moment in the crisis.
That is the liberation of the hitherto rebel-held area of Misratah. Last night the Libyan army moved into the centre of the city and now the rebels are trapped between Misratah and Tawergha. 75 per cent of the city has been secured including the port, which was a lifeline for the rebels to receive shipments of arms and other supplies, as well as being a key transport route for them.
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This was confirmed today by government spokesman Dr Moussa Ibrahim AND at a press conference by tribal leaders of up to 200 Libyan tribes. This includes four of the leaders of four of the largest Libyan tribes which make up half the Libyan population: Wafalla, Tarhouna, Zlitan, Washafana. They have all supported leader Muammar Gaddafi.. ->
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The Leader:” I welcome you in Libya, and thank you for coming. I had appealed to professors in the world, and to thinkers, politicians, parliamentarians, and members of social, economic and political research centers, asking them to come to the Jamahiriya, enter the Green Auditorium, learn lessons and see for themselves the applications of direct popular democracy. In fact the appeal was heeded by members of the Russian Duma, professors from Russian Universities and thinkers whom we met.
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*1: This is probable reference to the provocations that the USA made with “military exercises” off the Libyan Mediterranean coast between 1981-1986, which resulted in destruction and bombings of sovereign Libyan lands and properties and the sinking of Libyan vessels and shooting-down of Libyan jets in and over waters designated as belonging to Libya by The American Armed Forces. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sunday, 14 August 2011A Legitimate Target.August 12/13, 2011Reporters taken to mass funeral in Libyan town, nearby hospital, CNN, August 10
No. One at least – very graphic video – seems to be in military clothing. Another blown to small bits (worse yet) is a grown male, at any rate.
Here’s the evidence. Mercenaries?A girl, injured physically but she’ll be fine. Emotionally … she lost someone, possibly several someones.
This one’s just dead. She was just a baby.
Definitely dead, not likely to be fake.
But hey, you can’t make a fucking omelette without breaking a few eggs, huh? The only way to protect civilians is to get rid of Gaddafi, and if that requires pressure that means sometimes killing 33 children, 20 men, 32 women, well … such is the high cost of the type of freedom we require them to have there. Did they mention some mercenaries might’ve been killed too? Again for emphasis, Mecenaries – that’s code for Gaddafi’s faltering, and we’re almost done here – just like everyone said back in February.
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Spokane Protest: A Small SuccessAugust 14, 2011 The other day, August 12, was a record day for viewers on my blog and Youtube page, scoring already more than 300 views for my new video, three new friends, new followers, etc. Then I diappeared at the same time, leaving comments not responded to and so on. I was preparing for the protest yesterday here in Spokane, in solidarity with the Harlem march by the ANSWER coalition, the Nation of Ilsam, and others.
 This went ahead, if not in a way that spurred further news stories, according to two articles that finally appeared, one with video, the other with a photo, inset here. As you can see, they wave the monarchist/rebel/CIA flag in some number (handed out by organizers?), and the real, green, pan-African flag not at all that I saw. That’s unsettling. Our rally was last-minute, planned by my girlfriend when we saw the larger local group not planning anything. She put out the fruitless invites, I made the signs and prepared a flier I couldn’t print when my printer jammed. We didn’t expect much, but more than the five people who attended, including myself, my girlfriend, her niece and her niece’s boyfriend. I’m on the right with the green bandana. The fifth, a great help, was street musician Harpman Hatter, providing electric blues harmonica (just off to the right). We plan to do these regularly, but more general usually.  We also had a rebel flag. I had it so it was green until you flipped down the panel with the added colors and their associated ideas. This is a photo I cleaned up and enhanced a bit.  The contrast turned out sort of odd, seeing this same flag being waved by African-Americans on the streets of Harlem. Posted by Caustic Logic at 5:00 AM 0 comments
“Bombing His Own People.” Really?Evidence and Over-Acitivist Imaginations August 1/2, 2011 last edits Aug 14There has been virtually no Libyan Air Force presence over Libya’s own territory since the March imposition of a no-fly zone and swift enforcement of it by NATO. Just how much aerial bombardment there was prior to that, and of what kind, is the matter of some deabte.The pre-no-fly period can be further broken into two main segments. The first is late February, the 16th to about the 25th, when the rebellion is generally understood (incorrectly) to have been strictly protest oriented and peaceful. The other span is after cities had fallen, starting Feb 19 really, but only a solid fact to respond to by the last days. By then, no one could reasonably deny the government’s opponents were armed bligerents to be called “rebels” or “freedom fighters,” not “protesters.”It’s the earlier reports of bombing simple protesters that had the shocking effect on world conscience driving intervention, especially in the skies NATO would seize to bomb Libya. These came in quick, in a rapid burst from Feb. 21-23, and then stopped.Supporting evidence beyond the flimsy early reports never surfaced. We saw no videos of jets over head, let alone of bombs falling from them. There are no photos of craters in the streets, or of homes or anything flattened by these attacks. Remains of the exploded bombs, or any unexploded ones, never surfaced. No victims among the hundreds claimed have ever been shown or named.The only evidence is as follows:Videos from Labraq Airport: Der Spiegel reported on Feb. 26 about “the first solid proofthat the dictator’s regime had bombed his own people.” This they cited an activist’s “shaky” videos of the Feb 18-20 battle for Labraq airport, near al Baida. Among other things, this footage was said to show “a Libyan fighter jet roaring over al-Baida and dropping a bomb not far from the airport,” itself not clearly against protesters, but there was also “a helicopter shooting into the mass of people.”The video was said, by Der Spiegel, to have been posted all over the Internet, but as I said there, I cannot find it now, nor any other allusion to it. It seems likely this claim of widespread dissemination – or the content of said videos – was just a miscommunication.Orders to Bomb Benghazi The most high-value moment that really made an impression on the world community, and shaped the coming “no-fly zone,” was when pilots defected to the rebel side and claimedthey were ordered to bomb innocent people. It happened twice in a three day span.As I’ve written about elsewhere, two Libyan pilots in their single-seater Mirage jets defected and landed on Malta February 21. They didn’t just land quietly either, but swooped around in an air-show manner to draw attention prior to landing, a witness tells me (see the link). They claimed they’d been ordered, at least as Reuters put it, citing Maltese officials, “ordered to bomb anti-government protesters in Libya’s second largest city of Benghazi.”Benghazi had just the day before fallen under rebel control, in a military sense. So even if the order was true, it’s not obvious why the government would be interested in killing those still only protesting, rather than the heavily armed and ruthless gangs declaring war on the government.But we don’t know for sure the order, or even a more legitimate version of it, was ever truly given. We have only the word of those two pilots. They remain unnamed, but were both reportedly high-ranking colonels, not unlike their fellow Air Force colonel Abdullah Gehani, arrested by the Libyan government a couple of weeks earlier on suspicion of helping set up some kind of overthrow with French involvement (see here).The defecting colonels also seemed to be – possibly – escorting two helicopters ferrying undocumented, mysterious Frenchmen who arrived on Malta just before them. One set of craft escaping from Benghazi without clearance, the others allegedly sent toBenghazi but veering off without clearance, both meeting up on Malta. Hmmm…Strange as it this alleged order was, two days later came confirmation of the charge. Two more Libyan air force pilots ejected from and ditched their two-seater SU-22 jet near Ajdabiya. They landed and surrendered to the rebels, claiming they too were ordered to bomb Benghazi but just couldn’t follow through. News 24, Libya pilot rejects orders, crashes plane:
So, to summarize: three jets were allegedly sent to the rebel capitol to kill protesters only. Four pilots, two missions, all aborted by the pilots, none carried out. This alleged universal rejection reflected poorly on the regime, whose orders no one seemed to follow anymore. And their 0% success rate might explain why they stopped allegedly trying to bomb Benghazi just three days after it fell. Ammunitions Depots, not Protesters Successful air-strikes in rebel-held areas were nonetheless implied in a February 22 interview with Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi. The leader’s son told Christiane Amanpour that the military had not attacked Libya civilians. “Show me a single attack, show me a single bomb. The Libyan air force destroyed just the ammunition sites. That’s it.” he said.” [source] Again, no one has shown him or anyone the evidence that any bombs were dropped on protesters as opposed to raid-worthy ammo dumps and possibly other fully military targets the “protesters” had already stolen. Aerial Bombing of Tripoli Neighborhoods While the government failed to bomb actual enemy fighters or civilians in the east, there were contemporaneous claims of successful attacks on their own capitol city to snuff out the relatively small violent protests that had started there. At first, I thought it came down to a single bold claim by one Adel Mohamed Saleh, a “political activist”, to al Jazeera. It was translated and reported by Reuters, filed 1:43 PM EST (6:43 GMT).
“There was no independent verification of the report,” Reuters noted, and in fact the evidence suggests he didn’t witness any of that at all. Another message of the day, via Twitter (See here and/or here), said:
Multiple reports? Indeed. Another Tripoli witness came out in support of the activist Saleh who spoke to al Jazeera. This time it came in via al Jazeera, from “Soula al-Balaazi, who said he was an opposition activist.” As Reuters again translated, filed actually before the other report (5:11 PM GMT, one hour, 32 minutesbefore).
Again, “no independent verification of the report was immediately available,” said Reuters. But a while later there would be, and the second time, that same statement wasn’t true. Or were they suggesting these two were not independent reports? One way or another, they probably weren’t. A Version by Sea Possibly related is a similar accusation of insane naval bombardment of Tripoli on the 21st. This time, it was an activist, named Salem Gnan, “a London-based spokesman for the National Front for the Salvation of Libya,” speaking to the UK Guardian (I presume) and reported at 5:07 PM GMT – four minutes before al-Balaazi and 96 minutes before Mr. Saleh. Gnan said eyewitnesses in Tripoli told him the navy ships were firing into one part of the capital, on the outskirts. “Many people have been killed,” he said, and added that “[Gaddafi’s] plan is to use absolutely everything he can to stop what is happening.” But there’s no mention from these witnesses of jets – which Gaddafi had – dropping anything. Both versions of the attack of Feb 21 share multiple deadly explosions across town, but differ on what was happening in the sky. And they all three came in over a span of about an hour and a half. Quite strange. My guess is this: something blew up loudly at about 5:05 PM, heard by many people who would be left wondering what it was. This triggered the first two dramatic guesses what it was. Then Mr. Saleh thought for a bit before he decided to “corroborate” and expand the airplanes version with his over-activist imagination. Thus “multiple reports” can sometimes be born. What it Meant If not the evidence, the implications were certainly clear. As Reutersreported (the second one cited here), citing a total genius:
Just like ordering protesters shot, running to Venezuela, hiring mercenaries, resorting to mass rape, sniping children dead, and so on. All of these and more fantasies yet strongly hint to to us that Gaddafi is over. It’s been said worldwide, daily, for over five months now. Each time, the big “if” was the big problem. Video Evidence from Tripoli There are videos from Tripoli claiming to show the aftermath of these air attacks. By one of these I’ve seen, but didn’t save and cannot re-locate, we might have been seeing the effects, over a whole neighborhood, of some type of bomb that sprays graffiti, burns out a few buildings, and drags junk across the street. Does such a weapon exist, and is Gaddafi known to have acquired them? Another with very similar effects is still around. This is given as the rebellious Tajoura district: bombing in tajoora tripoli 22.02.2011.mp4. There is smoke rising in the distance, perhaps from an air-strike. But this bomb does nothing, on closer inspection, than burn a car and perhaps the insides of a building, sending up a plume of smoke. There’s also gunfire from men perhaps guarding a hilltop building in the distance. But a horde of civilians is unafraid of the warning shots into the air, charges the security line, and breaks through as the guards retreat. Others clamber over a wall and join their march towards that green-domed building. Another interesting video on Youtube is a re-broadcast on Jazeera English, it seems, of the original Saleh phone call (dubbed in English). Here it’s specified he’s calling from and speaking of the Fashlum neighborhood “where the revolution erupted in the city of Tripoli.” He claims that anyone who comes out to help the wounded and dead are shot by pervasive snipers, and that bombing runs were ongoing and aiming for people. Yet the B-roll footage under the audio shows many hundreds of people calmly walking away from somewhere, towards somewhere. A few run in and out of that column, for unclear reasons, but no one is falling dead. There’s no mass panic as if suddenly attacked, and there are no jets or anything shown. Mr. Saleh’s rant is worth a listen. He’s clearly fired up and shrieking over these things he says happened. And he knew just what was needed to stop them: outside intervention.From the video:
On March 4 Sky News had a look at Fashlum and Tajoura and brought back video:
Sukhat Chandan was part of a UK delegation that spent longer and was more thorough. Here in late April he speaks with Russia Today about one of the first fact-finding missions. Mr. Chandan started with what he considered the most important claim, vis-a-vis unleashing the bombing of Libya. This was the alleged bombing of “three particular districts in Tripoli: Souk-al-Jouma, Fashlum, Tajoura,” all well-stocked with men like the ones we just heard from. “We visited these areas and there was no indication whatsoever of any aerial bombardment,” he said, along with many other fascinating findings. Looking for these scant videos of or about Tripoli bombings in February, I saw a very large number of non-hits roll by. Bombings of Tripoli, flames, flattened buildings, craters, unexploded ordnance, mangled or charred bodies, including baby-sized ones, damaged civilian infrastructure, etc. But these were all after mid-March, and exclusively carried out by NATO, for months now aggressivelybombing civilians to protect them from bombing that was itself only rumored to begin with. Update Aug 14: The Russian Evidence Goodness, did I completely neglect for weeks now to even mention the Russian evidence against Gaddafi “bombing his own people?” Most, like this scholarly article by Ronda Hauben, cite an alleged Russian satellite-based information proving there were no airstrikes carried out in Libya in these early days I don’t really like this evidence, especially in its wide re-use as a lazy crutch. The allegation comes from a Russia Today broadcast, re-posted on Youtube here, for example. There are no supporting explanations or even specifics I’m aware of. It was satellite-based, perhaps photo-based. But if so, to prove a negative like “no airstrikes,” you’d need something like constant security camera footage over numerous Libyan military bases, showing no craft leaving, or over all cities, to prove no bombs dropped. Perhaps it was based only on photos looking for damaged buildings or craters in the streets. Or maybe it was something different, like monitoring military communications that would have heard such an order. Again, no specifics were given. Besides, Saif al-Islam admitted there were air strikes, just at ammunition depots, not on protesters in the street. When this notion was put before the skeptics at the JREF forum, it didn’t do so well. A reasonable-sounding consensus emerged among people of middling knowledge that this wasn’t possible. That’s not scientific disproof, and the forum has a mixed record, but I can’t see why I should embrace this as a leading point of evidence. If the claim is ever explained better and shown to be proof, or even as inconclusive supporting evidence, so be it. Until then I’ll call it an alleged support for an idea that’s still apparently true and is better illustrated in other ways. Posted by Caustic Logic at 2:00 AM 0 comments
Whose Cluster Bombs Fell on Misrata?8/9 June 2011 last update (pulled) August 14I’ve pulled down this article, finally. It seems Human Rights Investigations was wrong on pretty much all fronts, and has been correcting the record, with help even from C.J. Chivers, etc. I won’t bother trying to sort out just what turned out different vs. what I had passed on before. Updates can be, or should be able to be, found at the HRI site. If anyone would like a copy of the old article summarizing the flawed arguments, drop me a line.In short, if the case for a NATO false flag operation in Misrata has fallen apart, it would seem Libyan forces did non-lethally deploy semi-banned cluster munitions they’re now known to hold, despite the government denials (see Moussa Ibrahim). This isn’t the gravest or most illogical move for them to make, but it is troubling if it’s a government order.However, perhaps mr. Ibrahim and the government didn’t know of such an order because it didn’t exist. Is it possible a rogue field commander got hold of some MAT-120 shells and used them on his own authority? Or that he made sure to shoot them harmlessly towards the journalist area, only to be seen and cause problems for the regime he was betraying? Yeah, either is possible. In fact, I’m going with either one of these, or an actual order from on high as the two best guesses. It’s one alleged Gaddafi regime crime I cannot rule out.
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Friday, 12 August 2011Video Study: The Qala’a MassacreAugust 9, 2011 last update Aug 13First, the Confusion I recieved this comment yesterday from Peet73 at my post Rebel Atrocity Videos:
We can only presume (perhaps?) this is the same video being talked about and shown here. Either way, the video at that link is the main subject here, covered below. But first, the commentary added at the posting mentioned a “propaganda machine” that “delete[d] this video” because “they describe this like murder by Libyan Army BUT you can see on 0:23 there is not Libyan army!” I’m not sure what this means. The whole video, that spot included, shows civilian victims only, going by clothes, and nothing shows whether it was the army or anyone else who killed them. Although ovbiously rebel forces are the natural suspect by a long shot. It might be that the confusion is about the victims, not the killers – was this massacre of soldiers or civilians by the “machine’s” narrative? Clearly this video shows the latter, but there have been many reports in recent weeks mentioning a “mass grave” of “Gaddafi loyalists” who were also, apparently, soldiers. But this isn’t news, really. I happened to catch a Russia Today broadcast that I thought might be a hit. The re-post I saw was from July 26, but in fact, it’s from July 22, and the anchor spoke with Sukat Chandan of British Civilians for Peace, who’d been, for the last couple of days, re-breaking a story from a week or so earlier. The anchor’s understanding was of:
This sounds a bit like the Qawalish massacre first revealed by its discover, C.J. Chivers, on about July 12 (undated). The grave, while improper, wasn’t very massive – five dead soldiers dumped in a deep water basin, one buried under an olive tree next to it. I wrote about this on June 21, having caught it a couple of days late. Chandan spoke to Russia Today the next day so, for all I know, I was his source. But alas, I was already looking for a Telegraph story from that time, and I only now am aware of it. It ran on July 20 and is worth a read:
Actually it sounds like exactly the same massacre. The body Chivers said “appeared to have been beheaded” was “cleanly decapitated.” The other with “his pants bunched down around his ankles” is confirmed with “the trousers of another had been ripped down to his ankles, a way of humiliating a dead enemy.” There is a photograph attached to the article of some men standing around looking, with only one of the victim’s hands visible in the foreground. There are some other additions I’ll have to update my post with. I had no idea they beat me to it by a day! And like Chivers but unlike me, they were there and seeing it first-hand. But it’s not the same as what we’re looking at here. I hope someone thought there was confusion, or else that was all a waste and a distraction. However, Peet cites Saturday, August 6 I presume, for this video mention by Chandan’s crew, and feels what Libya SOS has – posted Sunday the 7th and noting a deletion – is or might be the same. So again there might be a connection worth finding there, but I didn’t find it. Their Facebook page didn’t let me see wall posts older than yesterday, and I don’t know where else it would be. If anyone reading can help me find more info on this new video, I’d be happy to hear it. The New VideoAll I have so far is what it shows and what Libya SOS added, aside from an unrelated but interesting Fox News article:
It’s hosted through Youtube in the unusual Libya SOS way, where I cannot find it on Youtube, cannot save a copy, and cannot embed it here, since the video ID code isn’t displayed. It was there both before and after my work shift, but since its alleged previous postings have vanished, I saved a lot of stills. Here is the title screen, in Arabic, using “Indian numbers” to indicate 34 victims.  I can’t vouch for that number. Some spots aren’t too clear, but I was fairly thorough, and counted exactly 30. It’s not less than that, possibly a bit higher. The still at left gives an idea of the layout. It looks like someone made a slight effort to dig a trench. Very slight. There’s certainly nothing proper about these burials. For what it’s worth, I think this is filmed early morning, not late afternoon. By their long shadows and the few observers viewed, this is filmed by armed rebels. I suspect these victims were not killed here. The lack of visible blood anywhere, and the uneven dispositions of those killed – some bound, some not, for example – and the haphazard arrangement suggests they were killed in various places around Qala’a or Yefren, and then dumped here.  The victims are varied, including young and old, fit and fat, apparently all male, but I’m no expert on Libyan attire enough to venture the few I’m not so sure about. Three victims of special interest are clustered at the near end in the above view. In fact, the odd one with his pants half-down I focused on at right. If pants down is an insult, what’s this? A half-insult, one half-revoked by someone later on, or an accident in dumping? We may never know. He seems to be bound, hands behind his back. As for his face, it’s just a dark blur. Is this some burning-related torture, a dark rag, some added blur for decency, or what? I’m not sure. Several of the faces seem strangely blurry, in fact.  It’s a bit the same but less so with the apparent old man at left. We can see his hair and short beard are white, his head mostly bald. His hands seem to be bound behind his back, but how exactly he was killed isn’t clear. His face seems strangely yellow, even for being covered in the yellow soil. It’s probably nothing but the dirt, however.  As I said above, I suspect the rebels filmed this themselves, and posted it online. Why? Did they think their own discovery on video would make it possible to claim loyalist forces were responsible? Was it just one rebel faction running across the work of an allied network? What was their motive for filming it? Political or ethical? We may never know. Do they perhaps film these things to cause terror among those whose neighborhoods they’ll be in next? Perhaps. Are we the water carriers for this operation? Do they even watch Youtube closely in Qala’a and Yefren? If they do, will they run away or just get more pissed off and arm themselves to drive out the vermin? Can even NATO get away with bombing Libyan civilians defending themselves from eggregious human rights abuses like this seems to be? I look forward to seeing where this story goes. Where its Gone August 10: Peet73 alerts me in a comment below that there is a new postings, and a Googlesearch gave me another. The resolution of both seems a bit better, they’re able to be saved my way, and they’re posted by rebel-affiliated accounts. which I can save. And, as both Peet73 and a Google search revealed, another rebel group/site, Shabbab Libya (Libyan youth) is calling for an investigation! It’s the different twist they add that makes that make sense. http://shabablibya.org/news/press-release-august-9-2011-al-qalaa-nafusa-mountains-libya
So now it was allegedly filmed by Gaddafi forces and therefore, by implication, carried out by them. They have some specifics that are hard to double-check – an abduction date and some names, making them seem to know what they’re talking about. And perhaps it’s so. I’m glad they get the same impression the ones filming are sympathetic to the crime. I thought they seemed like rebels, but I still haven’t had the time to study closely, and I myself can only read so much from this kind of evidence. Nonetheless, I’m working on it, and have some analysis half-done. I will wait to post it until after I finish my new video, hopefully tonight. In the meantime, what I could use is anyone able to provide a transcript of what the observers are saying. Arabic-speakers? The best is an Arabic transcription of actual words spoken, then translated and available for reference. One valuable clue as to who’s filming can be heard at 2:15, about seven seconds after the cameraman seems to spit in disgust: the man behind him in a camo jacket mentions “Muammar Gaddafi,” I think. In what context? Aug 11:Video Timing: “Al-Gala massacre, 34 men executed including one child.” Posted by user misratapost, August 5.
Then, “Footage of Gaddafi forces murdering farmers in Al-Qala, Nafusa Mountains.” Posted by Libyanym, August 6. Adds details.
Then Libya S.O.S. re-post, August 7, referring to previous deletions. Which posting was pulled? That’s not clear. IF there was a version up first that Libya S.O.S. and the British Civilians saw in the context of a rebel crime, that would be quite relevant. Conversely, if the rebels put it up first, it would go a ways towards illustrating their case – that this video was just now discovered by their forces. As it stands, it seems like the rebel version went up first. Does that mean real Gaddafi soldiers filmed this? Not necessarily. If so, does that mean they did it? Not necessarily. If they did, does that suggest a government order? No. Would it be right to demand the overthrowof the Johnson regime following the My Lai massacre? Probably not. We have as possibilities: 1) crimes against humanity by Gaddafi, alleged for the millionth time 2) the actions of a rogue unit, a side-effect of loss of command and control, what happens when the central authority is removed as NATO’s tried to do. 3) a rebel atrocity, like the others we know of Asking for an investigation: This is something I don’t recall seeing rebels do before. The truth is always clear, and the solution is always more weapons and help getting rid of Gaddafi. Would a TNC probe would mean a damn thing as far as discovering the truth? Or just provide confirmaton with some “authority?” The request does however seem to show their openness to an “investigation” as opposed to their earlier bulldozer work. They fear the truth, I suspect, hence the showof not seeming to fear it. The MO: Feels like Islamist-tinged, cocky, rebel work to me. Even the cartoon ruler all rebels know doesn’t fit the bill.
These are all males 12 and up, when everyone knows Gaddafi is either indiscriminate, or goes for women and small children first. The Location: I think I was wrong to be so sure that area is a match with Qala’a. User “Antinazi Hippy” questions the location in comments at Misratapost’s posting. He cites a topography mismatch, and suggests it was actually filmed in Zlitan, making all three postings – all claiming specific knowledge of the circumstances – wrong. That’s a hefty thing to propose, but as I said, I’m not seeing it like I did at first. Basically that was “there’s trees and a gully.” But it’s pretty flat, there’s no gully really, just the ditch. And the trees just go on in all directions, like they do in very few spots around Qala’a. Or so it seems now. Will come back with images and semi-final thoughts. Also, the cameraman’s shadow stretching across the trench makes clear the trench itself runs roughly north-south, whatever clue that is. By this, the trees – bushy evergreens – are present in large numbers in all four cardinal directions. Hundreds. The dots around al Qala’a are single trees that can be counted in the dozens at most in any one patch. Right? Will look closer … The party filming is no more than four, I’m pretty sure. The cameraman has a rifle, and a gaurd standing back is armed. The other two, not clearly armed. I’ll be back with stills and thoughts. The best clues will be in the audio track – what the two men who speak say, when, and how. Until find a friendly Arabic translator, I have nothing but the words at the bottom of the screen of misratapost’s posting. I’ll be back with those and anything else I find in the meantime. Aug 12: The layout/scenery, best views I could find, rotated to upright. Directions given are if this is sunrise. If not, it’s sunset and all directions are reversed.  So it’s not really flat – there’s a decent slope to the west/northwest, or else the trees there are all slanted. It’s not as obvious in the west view, but the trees further back are progressively higher. (We don’t ever get a view of due east, or into the sun, that I caught.) Too many trees. I don’t think it’s Qalaa, immediate area. Looking closer at the Google maps imagery, the slopes there are steeper, and terraced in a funky way I don’t see here. An image search shows photos of imposing slopes, desert soil, rocks, dust, few trees. The soil between them blows and drifts like dunes. Here we have a veritable forest, leaves from something like olive trees, wispy dry grass (visible in the better views I’m seeing), a cover of greenish grass in spots. There could be lichens or moss in there somewhere, in an extra-shady spot. Other things I’ll need to figure out – what was going on in early June and in the time since. I need a feel for the temporal topography as well. More video links, and a possible original: “Civilians 34 from the city of Qalha executed by soldiers of Gaddafi.” Posted by user algelawy2009, August 5.
“MASSACRE IN QALAA LIBYA.” Posted by ibnomar2005, Aug 5. This one may have the best resolution yet.
Another posting, CCTV prince, August 5. This one gives:
An original link from Facebook, a large format video posted in HQ on August 5 at 6:50 am. Definitely a tie or a winner for best clarity, apparent original. I’m using this for future screen grabs, and will see about saving a copy. —
 Aug 13: A clearer view of the victim with his pants down. It’s not clear if his arm is really tweaked back, missing, or what. The dark patch beneath him is I think a shadow of a rock ledge there. He’s clearly blindfolded here, it just slipped out of place. The “Gaddafi soldiers” on video:  Soldier #1 walks up, seen in shadow, armed and filming. The smaller inset shows the shape of his camera – not an iphone. #2 and #3 walk up behind, in that order I think, pass to his left and cross the trench. #4 stays behind standing guard.  # 3 wears sandals as well, but a military jacket. His face is covered (to avoid smelling, or to avoid being seen?) but he seems fairly young, and seems to be filming on a smaller device. I’m not an expert on the different camo styles, weapons, etc. typically used by different parties. Do Gaddafi soldiers wear sandals? I suppose they could.  #4, standing off to the north, wears a striped shirt. He’s got a chubby face, looks black (or is that just the shade?), with something on the side of his head that looks like gray hair, giving him a George Clinton look. He doesn’t seem any more professional in stance or attire than the others. He also seems to be recording the scene, making me guess that #2 is doing the same. Subtitles via Misratapost – no guarantee it’s what’s actually said. Subtitles in quotes, speaking party in [square brackets].
The last line sounds like what’s spoken, the Pakistan part anyway. It’s an odd side-track, but I presume they’re referring to the boy with the hole in his head, wearing the outfit I think is called a shalwar kameez, like several others are. It’s popular in Pakistan, and wherever conservative Muslims live. The guy in jeans just didn’t get it. Is he even Libyan? The “fate of rats” part is repeated – the sound is about the same each time the cameraman says it: a bit like “muslaida jirdat.” This isn’t really impressive I suppose, but Google translate lets your hear various translated words. What it gives me for rats isn’t in there. Nor the words for rodents, dogs, fate, destiny, end, death – none of them is a match. What am I doing wrong, I wonder? Getting too literal? — Aug 14: I’ve been over and over the area in Google maps, and still can’t find a good match. It’s hard to be sure, but the area in question is only a nook of hospitability a few miles wide, surrounded by tangled tectonic masses that just look bizarre – plus barren and treeless – from above. For anyone who wants to help, here again is the satellite imagery you can zoom way in on. If the spot can be found there, I want to know. Since I’ve heard Zlitan mentioned as an alternate, I tried to look there, but Google maps imagery is clouded over in that spot. It could provide some matches if visible, but I was also pulled to the area just north of Dafiniya, a few miles east of there as an area that makes sense. Either would put the heat on Misrata rebels instead of Zintan/Nafusah ones. We also have the supposed men making at least three recordings of the scene. They’re said to speak like Gaddafi soldiers, calling the dead “dogs” and “rats.” If that’s a well-known thing they’re supposed to do, wouldn’t that make it a well-known thing to do if you were trying to act like gov’t soldiers? I’m pretty sure I’ve caught rebels impersonating wicked soldiers in a few fake videos before. They act stupidly brutal, possibly drunk, demanding allegiance to Gaddafi, extracted with fake-slap and fake-kick force, and insulting the overly-cowed and helpless-looking people at every chance. Apparently Arabs don’t do subtlety very well. This … if fake it’s more subtle. Maybe even the Pakistan line was designed to show how ignorant of Islam the regime’s western-dressed soldiers and mercenaries really are. But that’s a ways ahead of where we’re at. And some points from Peet73:
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African Mercenaries: In Mythology and RealityJuly 6-8, 2011 last edits Aug 12Note, July 11: There are renewed and more credible reports of people who could almost be described as foreign African mercenaries fighting for Gaddafi. These are covered separately, for reasons explained there. This post is dedicated to the disastrous and unfounded accusations of February that helped make excuses for the excesses of the uprising.Accusations: One of the most widespread claims of the Libyan civil war is the Gaddafi regime’s use of sub-Saharan African mercenaries to crush the protests and turn back the first military gains. The “people of Libya,” we heard, were up against well-paid, black-skinned, black-hearted killers from the sandy or steamy depths of the continent Libya sits at the northern edge of. It’s so prevalent a claim as to be bland and no longer shocking – hundreds of articles, reports, and videos cite Gaddafi’s “African mercenaries” as self-evidently behind a range of atrocities.There’s no real controversy over the Libyans regime’s occasional use of foreign mercenaries, from farther south in Africa, to supplement the small military Libya can cull from its six million people. But the over-the-top and reflexive allegations here seem to flourish with ignorance, not scrutiny. It seems to be a racist mass hysteria – or something more calculated – at work.My article Anti-Black racism among Libyan rebelsexplains some of the background tensions and how they’ve played out this year. It’s ultimately nothing new, with Gaddafi’s pan-African vision, aid across the continent, exchanges and moves toward unification going back years, along with racial tensions and violence erupting, occasionally in massive race riots. But this time, it’s really been whipped up with specific allegations, claiming special knowledge that, in retrospect, seems to not have existed.
One rather troubling series of tweets from supposed rebel insiders I re-posted here. It uses the term “protesters” interchangeably with “mercenaries,” and the paranoid idea seems to be the same:
ABC News (US), Feb 22: Gadhafi’s Private Mercenary Army ‘Know One Thing: to Kill
These yellow helmets can be seen famously bobbing around in a crowded street, as they’re said to be terrorizing or massacring protesters. This video is something I’ve analyzed in detail in another post, in video and words. It only shows some kind of security men guarding some green doors. Two or maybe three possible protesters run into their ranks and perhaps get arrested. At the end, the gaurds get the door open and start going inside. An insightful early article by T. Miles (Feb 20)delved into Libya’s racism problem in connection with these emergent allegations.
This last was a common theme, supported with no credible evidence. In connection with mass rape charges, Afro-Mercs are frequently invoked as sexual boogeymen, as can be seen in the post “Rape Allegations Ganging up on Gaddafi.” The examples of reckless mainstream media bullhorning of these alarmist allegations are too legion to bother with. Just two egregious examples from one outfit, the UK Telegraph will stand-in: a video of Feb 20: ‘foreign mercenaries using heavy weapons against demonstrators‘ and an article of Feb 27: African mercenaries in Libya nervously await their fate. Some took the notion of Black African fighters to ridiculous extremes. One Canadian Twitter twit accused these villains of being government slaves raised from birth to kill. “Confirmed the African mercenaries were raised in campus [sic] around Sabha and West Mountain since childhood as salves [sic].” [source] If these bred killers had lived in Libya since childhood, are they really foreigners? Another silly take passed on by Maximilian Forte, Monthly Review, April 20
A strangely credulous dispatch from the UK Guardian, February 22, which I previously overlooked, adds some detail to the allegations.
That’s some specialized and unlikely knowledge these guys claim to have. And did these simple folks understand the importance of what they were witnessing with their own eyes and reporting truthfully? Implications: The negative fall-out of these troubling claims were of two broad types – those against the government of Libya (intended), and those against non-mercenary black men in Libya (if not intended, not hard to predict either) Implications for the Libyan government said to employ these savages: The main hit against the Gaddafi regime of this Afro-Merc fever was helping create the image the leader had lost his legitimate military to defections to the rebel side – they went to “the people.” It was later noticed how little of the army – aside from its weapons – showed up in the rebel ranks, and how much of it NATO had to bomb. But before these twin facts became clear, Gaddafi was presented as stripped of the native force’s loyalty, explaining why he bought up some cheap slaves as a “personal army” to throw at “his people.” A point that was quickly decided about these foreign mercenaries is that they must have been flown in to kill innocents, especially to airports in the south (where some of the Black soldiers were flown from there). This in turn became a factor in imposing a no-fly zone and air embargo against the regime, to prevent the arrival of more “mercenaries.” The merc meme has also damaged by discrediting Gaddafi’s long-standing policy of African unity. It re-brands his empowering policies, continent-wide aid projects, and encouragement of immigration into a crime against humanity.And paying the Afro-Mercs to replace the army was a factor in the U.S. freezing of tens of billions of dollars of Libya’s sovereign funds – at least for each man, woman, and child on all sides, who won’t get it back ’til they agree to shake Gaddafi.Although the idea has faded some with time (see below, it was debunked), as recently as July 25, Newsweek ran an “expert” and his poetic opinions.In part,he said:
Implications For Black Men in Rebel Hotspots: Christian Science Monitor’s credulous report of Feb 28 Libya’s mercenaries pose difficult issue to resolve
Oh they figured it out, as it fell to them bit by bit. As an unnamed rebel soldier was quoted referring to the unfounded allegations of mercenary violence: “After what happened here, we lost faith in every black guy that’s walking around. So especially if he doesn’t have a passport, we just grab him.” [source] Some suspects were released quietly as innocent after all, but others were first lynched, bludgeoned, burneed, tortured, decapitated, and so on. Rebel treatment of suspect mercenaries who weren’t quick enough to flee can be to some extent seen here: http://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2011/04/rebel-atrocity-videos.html. Routinely, black-skinned prisoners were singled out for worse treatment and more frequent, and brutal, degradation and summary execution. And then more degradation, usually. What can you expect from irrational fanatics who run around believing things like these guys were part of a murder and rape conspiracy against themselves? Based on skin color, maybe language, paperwork… Many other were thus chased away in fear. Refugees fleeing racist-infesteed Misrata, especially, in rickety refugee ships that have an unhappy habit of sinking – at least four so far, with many hundreds left dead. (Italy, swamped with most of the survivors, likely breaths a sigh of relief mixed with sadness each time). American National Public Radio did a piece on February 25 (after earlier reporting mercenaries as fact), called “In Libya, African Migrants Say They Face Hostility.” What kind of hostility did they claim to face? A Turkish oil field worker had to speak for some of them:
 A famous video published on Feb 19 (still at left) shows the corpse of an “African Mercenary” killed and shown to a camera, described as seeming to be from Chad. But as has been noted, he seems to be wearing the uniform of Libya’s internal security forces. As far as anyone knows, they only hire Libyans. The “Chad mercenary” was, according to an online posting, killed in Az Zintan, south of Tripoli. He seems to have been tortured – perhaps into confessing he was a mercenary. What else explains these grave injuries to a finger, his nose, and his cheeks? Others fled or otherwise left that town in the same days – in March the same security man was re-discovered dumped in the desert, and in late May, at least twelve bodies of black men were found in the desert south of Az Zintan. Each in his unique civilian clothes and frozen in his own final pathos, they were found half-mummified by prolonged exposure. I suspect they died there about two months prior.  The sickening description at that Liveleak posting (by a “Mr. Creosote” no less) says: “The survivors [sic] of a gang of Nigerian mercenary wretches [sic] who were forced to flee into the desert south of Az-Zintan are kept alive [??] by the heroes of free Libya. The gang fled into the desert without water, after coming under concerted attack.” Why did the “mercenary wretches” cross the Sahara? To get to the other side? I don’t think so. At the end of the video, at least two living black man are shown being watered and cared for by someone. These tack-ons look emaciated, but clearly not “survivors” of the same doomed party as it was found and shown. Perhaps they were the ones who made it back to town after they were all dropped off for dead. In the long run, this epic episode of violence is likely to create a lasting rift between Africa and Libya, if the rebels who oversaw the slaughter manage to gain control. And in the short-term, it robbed uprising hot-spots of a known source of regime support. Blacks there, especially dual-nationals and immigrants, tend to support Gaddafi just as Blacks in the United States tend to vote democrat. They make as obvious a target to anti-Gaddafi rebels as certain Florida voters did to anti-Gore Bush family members in 2000. I now have a video on this subject, showing much of this and more. I’ll go ahead and re-embed it here. Do be warned, it’s meant to be upsetting stuff. There’s blood and hate, dead people and bad people, and spooky music.
Refutations: The refutations started coming in almost as soon as the allegations, but were somehow ignored as the implications rolled ahead heedless.VOA Nearly Level, Souare’s Doubts Voice of America even, on March 1, cited two experts, one supportive of merc use and one not, neither supporting anything like the massive threat the rebels claimed to fear.
In contrast, Issaka Souare, senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies:
The bolding is important to consider – a basic reason the whole paranoid construct fails to even make much sense. The whole rebellion was a surprise – protests were known of, unrest likely, but this … if they’d known, there are other things besides pre-positioning Afro-Mercs that would have been done (like beefing up the defense of army bases). Mr. Souare was also cited by the Guardian. On the 22nd, he was reported as saying:
HRW and Bouckaert: “No mercenaries in eastern Libya”In a March 2 interview with Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Peter Bouckaert – emergencies director for Human Rights Watch – refuted the claims, after going to Al Baidah. This was to investigate reports that 156 mercenaries had been arrested there, and should be a good opportunity to verify at least a few.
http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/hrw-no-mercenaries-eastern-libya-0
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=246936
CIRET-AVT/CF2R International Center for Research and Study on Terrorism and Aid to Victims of Terrorism (CIRET-AVT) and the French Center for Research on Intelligence (CF2R) sent a joint team of their top people and a translator to sort through “disinformation” and chatter to get a clear view. Throught the month of April they visited both sides, received statements and supporting evidence, and reported at the end of May. Their findings on Mercenaries adds some nuance, finding foreign fighters presence at some fairly early point, but under circumstances much different from those alleged. There’s no evidence any of these real foreign fighters were among those lynched by the hundreds and arrested by thousands. July: The Smack-down: Amnesty International, HRW, Others, Dismiss the Hoax with Force AI and other experts, including HRW again, came out in late June with more solid doubts yet. Independent, UK:
My observation here – their more astute plotters learned from watching the best – the Anglo-American propaganda machine against Libya, the ones responsible for the travesty of the Lockerbie “investigation.” My take on this development, with larger excerpts
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Thursday, August 11, 2011Video: How the Rebels Gave Africa the BootHow Freedom* Came to Libya, part 2: How the Rebels Gave Africa the Boot August 11, 2011Here, the video. Warning, it’s graphic and creepy in spots. See part one here. More notes or explanation, etc., perhaps forthcoming.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011The Qawalish Basin Massacre, via … New York Times?July 21, 2011News of Abuses With a little illegal help with air-dropped weapons, rebel forces in the western Nafusah mountains have in July been able to expand their holdings from Az Zintan outward to towns like Qawalish, aka Gualish, between Mizdah and Gherian in the desert of southwestern Libya. There the liberators discovered a number of “African mercenaries”, and trumpeted to the world as supporting the claim they’d been making since February 18. As NPR found, Gaddafi’s army was “hiring sub-Saharan Africans” to replace those lost in the war, but upon inspection “they aren’t the fearsome mercenaries described by many rebels.” They were all amateurs, culled from Libya’s body of undocumented workers, and simply didn’t exist as a force before April at the earliest.It seems that the rebels were less forthcoming with some others among the town’s defenders, and we have New York Times columnist C.J. Chivers and his towering photographer Bryan Denton to thank. He wrote on July 10 about abuses during the taking of Qawalish, whose entire populationhad fled in advance, as if the Mongols were coming. It then became evident why – Chivers witnessed open and massive looting (especially of grains, animal feed, and straw, possibly “punitive,” he thought) and burning certain homes (especially of the loyalist Mashaashia tribe). They drained the only gas station of fuel, and then burned the place. Sounds a bit punitive, and highly criminal, to me. He also noted:
On July 12, Chivers reported backwith the supportive findings of Human Rights Watch, adding news of reprisal beating across the area.
Maybe some of them were patriots like that – it might just take a team effort, civilian and government, to turn back the no-longer civilian rebel forces and their multi-government outside support, and its air power presence. The local commanders might have hit on something their soft-hearted patrons don’t realize – maybe starving out these cities and clearing them of loyalist people – everyone if necessary – is the only way to free those towns the way NATO and the rebels want. Destroying villages to save them is nothing new. Nothing New Daniel Larison at the American Conservative, on July 11, called Chivers’ dispatch “a balanced, detailed report,” but astutely noted:
Indeed, amazing and relevant as the reportage is, the public shock comes across as naive. These atterns especially apply in Libya, 2011, where the spirited, “Allahu Akbar” shouting, weapon-confiscating, absolved-of-everything buggers at first gleefully filmed themselves butchering their captives, as can be seen in their own Rebel Atrocity Videos. Most of their victims were military, but some were foreign workers, and at least one was a truck driver from the Warfalla tribe. Mr. Hamza al-Gheit Fughi, was executed in March; the assassins filmed themselves painstakingly removing his head with a knife, for refusing to denounce Gaddafi. By and large, these artifacts of cruelty show black-skinned men beaten, hanged, shot, hacked, burnt, degraded, displayed, and always called African mercenaries. If what the experts have found so far holds across the field, none of themwere mercenaries, but those things did happen to them. Aside: NATO’s foot soldiers in old barbary are barbarians.
To the shores of Tripoli they’re pointed, ready to wash it in blood if need be.
Between red blood shed and funeral black, they’re doing their part in earnest
to add their colors to the new flag. (any poet who wants to re-work it, go ahead)
These recordings were made all across Libya, but most relevant here (see below) are two examples, both from the Nafusah region we’re considering here, of victims’ bodies tossed out like garbage. This crime adds insult to injury, since Islamic law mandates a proper burial within 24 hours. An internal security soldier was tortured and killed by rebels, in crucial Az Zintan, on February 19. Shown to the world as an Afro-Merc (Chad), his body was found again and filmed two weeks later in the desert. Another twelve or more alleged mercenaries (Nigeria) – but in civilian clothes – were filmed in late May, long-dead and mummified in the desert south of Zintan. Predictable Brutality: Bottom of the Basin There is an allegation in a video, which I was alerted to in comments below, that at least four civilians were executed in their home in reportedly empty Qawalish, while al-Jazeera was filming (from the outside, and apparently ignored the deaths inside). Otherwise, the reportage so far doesn’t seem to reflect the killing of any civilians, loyalist or otherwise, in this region. But it does now reveal killings of those in the line of duty, along the lines of their earlier known rampages, as seen on Youtube. Since March, we’ve seen less of those atrocity videos, because the rebels either got more civilized, ran out of victims or steam, or became more discreet about their abuses. Chivers’ next finding suggests the last option is closest to the mark. A photo-based piece collaborating with Denton, it chronicles their discovery of “the rotting remains of five men whose bodies had been hiddenin a cement basin on the road outside Qawalish.” Again, clearly not a proper burial. The text, with one photo, is as follows:
More recently yet, he added this on the rebel response:
An Equally Predictable Denial
This as well is nothing new. It was the “protesters” who were well-known for using fire as a weapon against government buildings in February. But whenever charred corpses were found in those days, they were filmed and shown as victims of Gaddafi’s mercenaries – soldiers burned alive for refusing to shoot innocent protesters. The world just needed to see the horror for themselves, they explained in apology for so shocking us. When 21 soldiers were were found in al Baida, bound and with their heads blown off, the same story was given, and still accepted, despite video proof the rebels themselves ordered the killings. Chivers also added the dumpers chose their spot poorly, the basin being visible from the main road to Qawalish. Upon simply walking up to this odd spot, “the blood stains on the concrete, and tire treads on the soft soil” were clear, along with a scrap of green clothing, and even a picture of a handsome black-skinned man in uniform, perhaps one of the victims. These things they photographed but left, and they’re all gone now. He closes with a promising sign that freedom and openness are finally, at such great cost, coming to Libya – now that the rebels are being called the government of the place by people like Barrack Obama. No more massacres, cover-ups and lame excuses, and government minders controlling the press. As Chivers and Denton saw the bulldozed area on the road days later:
Either way, we know enough for now to know what’s needed next are these things: – The rebel authorities need to get those bodies identified,buried properly, and their families noted. – Wherever they live, CNN should ask these families how they feel about the condolences of the new “government of Libya.” – Find out if anyone else is missing. – Start pressing the rebels there for straight answers. Do they, or do they not, work for us? How many were killed in Qawalish and the other towns and hastily stashed around? Six only is suspiciously low. Update August 10: It seems Mr. Chivers and Denton saw the bodies first in the well, but not after they were removed. Between their removal and burial of whatever sort, it seems the bodies were laid out and observed by, among others, a reporter from the UK Telegraph. They reported on Jul 20, a day before I first got this thing up, a story completely in line with what the New York Times people saw. Five bodies werein the basin, no more (I forgot to check if they even mentioned the sixth guy buried under a tree). The five looked like government soldiers, and had been floating face-down. The body Chivers said “appeared to have been beheaded” was “cleanly decapitated.” The other with “his pants bunched down around his ankles” is confirmed with “the trousers of another had been ripped down to his ankles, a way of humiliating a dead enemy.” There is a photograph attached to the article of some men standing around looking, with only one of the victim’s hands visible in the foreground. The site was bulldozed, the Telegraph confirmed, the burial situation unclear, and an investigation was in order. What might prove more interesting than six killed soldiers is the separate Qala’a massacre, revealed August 7, from about 30 miles away at Qala’a. For this we have video, but no clear date or details, of 30-34 slaughtered civilians. Rebel supporters instantly asserted this was the government’s work, but some say the rebels did it. I think a wee bit of study is in order, and perhaps quite a bit, if needed. This puzzle might be easy to solve. Posted by Caustic Logic at 3:00 AM 4 comments
Labels: Az Zintan, Chivers CJ, Denton B, massacres, mercenaries, Nafusah mountains, NYT, Obama B, Qawalish
NATO Loots Libyan Gold As Tripoli FallsAs we reported 6 weeks ago, final assault was planned before September deadline Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.com Monday, 22 August 2011 Precisely as we predicted last month, NATO forces and their Al-Qaeda backed rebels launched a massive assault on Tripoli in order to wrap up the looting and conquest of Libya in time for crucial talks at the UN on Palestinian statehood set to begin in less than two weeks.  On July 8th in an article entitled, U.S. Wants Gaddafi Toppled By September, we reported, “The United States and France have set a deadline of September 2nd to topple Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, with NATO powers ready to inflict a crushing blow if Gaddafi refuses to step down peacefully.” That crushing blow is now in full effect as reports circulate of well over a thousand dead with thousands more wounded during weekend battles, led by by NATO warships and fighter jets as part of “Operation Mermaid Dawn,”which led to the capture of Gaddafi’s sons as Gaddafi himself reportedly went into hiding. RAF fighter jets were deployed to attack key regime targets while the media pretended the whole assault was an organic uprising by the Libyan people, endlessly replaying footage of celebrating crowds. In another report published on July 15, we stated that NATO powers and the rebel army would launch a final bombardment of Tripoli within 6-8 weeks if Gaddafi refused to step down, which is exactly what unfolded just shy of 6 weeks later. Barack Obama and David Cameron are now busy milking the spectacle with tough talk as if they led the assault personally. In reality, the conquest of Libya represents little more than another act of colonial looting on behalf of the NATO war machine, with Syria the next target in its cross hairs. The war was launched, with the gleeful support of the western corporate media, on the hoax that Gaddafi’s government was slaughtering “protesters” en masse. In reality, these “protesters” had commandeered military tanks and fighter jets. For weeks, the establishment press re-branded what was a civil war as a brutal series of crimes against humanity by Gaddafi’s regime, just long enough for the United Nations to pass a “no fly zone” resolution that instantly turned into a massive NATO bombardment overnight. Global central banks will now get to carve up Africa’s most oil-rich nation while simultaneously divvying up around 144 tons of gold bullion– which might go some way to repaying Hugo Chavez after his announcement that Venezuela is to nationalize its precious metals industry. Unless of course Chavez becomes the next head on the chopping block for another “humanitarian intervention.” The attack on Libya, spearheaded by Obama without Congressional approval, against the advice of his own constitutional lawyers, and on a promise that the conflict would last “days not weeks,” was a brazen illustration of how the so-called “war on terror” was a cruel hoax. From the very beginning, and in violation of their own resolution, NATO powers armed, funded and trained Al-Qaeda militants who had killed U.S. troops, setting them up to command the rebels in the march towards Tripoli. As the Wall Street Journal reported in a piece entitled, Ex-Mujahedeen Help Lead Libyan Rebels, Al-Qaeda terrorists who worked directly for Bin Laden were tasked with recruiting, training and acting as front line field commanders for the rebel army. The entire scope of the war was about capturing Libya as another launch pad for further empire building in the Middle East and north Africa, which is why PNAC neo-cons ordered “Peace Laureate” Obama to do it in the first place. The conquest was about securing the richest oil resources in the whole of Africa, it was about stealing 6 billion dollars in gold reserves, and it was about putting a halt to China’s efforts to virtually re-colonize Africa. Although Gaddafi was obviously an autocratic dictator, he did reinvest much of Libya’s oil wealth back into the country, transforming it into one of the most well-developed nations in the whole region, which is why a lot of the middle classes in major cities retained their support for the Libyan leader. All that is set to change now that NATO forces and the central banks that stand behind them will finally get the opportunity to properly plunder Libya for all it has. Living standards will plummet, corrupt strong men will take control with globalist blessings and run the country into the ground for their own good, so long as they allow NATO and US air force bases to be constructed throughout the land. Save for any last minute counter-attack by Gaddafi forces, the globalist war machine can now focus on toppling its next domino on the road to world domination. Rest assured, whether its Syria, Iran, Pakistan or anywhere else, a suitable hoax will be invented as a pretext for invasion and the western establishment media will slavishly create the perfect narrative for a bloody assault disguised as a humanitarian outreach. ********************* Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Tuesday, August 23, 2011Libya: NATO Psy-Op Collapses – Qaddafi Prevails Again http://www.activistpost.com/2011/08/libya-nato-psy-op-collapses-qaddafi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ActivistPost+%28Activist+Post%29&utm_content=FaceBook
NATO bluff called by Qaddafi; rebels’ victory facade crumbles.
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post Update: You can’t make this up – the International Criminal Court (ICC) now claims it never confirmed that Qaddafi’s son Saif Al-Islam was captured. Here is the Telegraph article quoting ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo as having indeed confirmed his capture. Here is a farcical Reuters report now claiming such a confirmation was never claimed. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo should resign, so should editors at both the Telegraph and Reuters and a myriad of other media agencies complicit in spreading this willful and malicious propaganda. August 23, 2011 – Once again a defiant Qaddafi has prevailed against the full might of NATO aggression including a murderous bombing campaign followed by NATO special forces on the ground supporting mobs of US/UK/French/Qatari backed Al Qaeda thugs which swarmed Tripoli over the weekend. “Illustrious” news agencies from the Qatari government’s AlJazeera, to the now exposed frauds at CNN, BBC, Reuters, AP, AFP have been caught perpetuating a concerted war propaganda campaign in order to break the will of both Libya and in particular Tripoli. ….
What follows next is unsure. With Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haas and others calling for an expedient landing of NATO occupation forces it seems they above all others knew just how tenuous the rebels’ hold on Tripoli was. As explained previously, the war in Libya goes beyond pilfering the nation’s material wealth, it is about establishing the Wall Street-London international order and its primacy over the nation-state. A NATO failure in Libya would infinitely complicate planned operations against Syria, Iran, and along Russia and China’s peripheries. While it appears that NATO’s last ditch murder spree has failed, with so much on the table, everything from continuous carpet bombing to a NATO land invasion under the guise of UN “peace monitors” or Haas’ NATO occupation forces are possibilities already being planned. What we do know is how desperate the corporate-financier elite are and how absolute their control is over the mainstream media. Such a large, wide scale disinformation campaign is only possible if each news agency, from AP, Reuters, BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera and others, are completely compromised by corporate-financier interests. The following lists shows that indeed many of these “news agencies” share consortium memberships with some of the largest corporate-financier interests on earth presenting an immense conflict of interest obviously producing astronomically duplicitous improprieties. Council on Foreign Relations Chatham House (Major Corporate Members) Chatham House (Corporate Members) Chatham House (Corporate Partners) Brookings Institution (page 20 of Annual Report) When we see Reuters sitting side-by-side oil giants like BP, Exxon, Chevron within the halls of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chatham House and then see reports gloating over Western oil companies moving in to replace Chinese and Russian investments in Libya, their duplicity and lack of independence in their reporting becomes glaringly obvious. These media organizations are in fact PR fronts for the Fortune 500 and their collective goal of implementing a global empire, nation to nation. For now, they are currently obsessed over Libya and the implications its conclusion will have on their future planned conquests, the next being Syria. It would be a good idea for those following the current NATO murder spree in Libya to abandon any trust in Reuters, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, and any of the “reputable” newspapers wasting paper and space on our nations’ newsstands, all of whose fates are tied directly to the corporate-financier interests pinning their hopes on a NATO victory in Libya. Instead, we must commit ourselves to vetting reliable alternative news sources as well as committing ourselves to the responsible of researching the news of the day on our own. Let this be proof positive as to how essential it is to boycott and replace everything eminating from the Fortune 500 including their army of professional liars also known as the “mainstream media.” For more information on Libya, please read through the Libya Archives. Tony Cartalucci’s articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report. News:http://libyasos.blogspot.com/p/news.html Day 154: 22. august 2011. Libya news [Battle for Tripoli]
23h/ French troops landed on the coastal highway of Tripoli!!!!!! URGENT!!!!! 23h/ NATO will be targeting residential compounds in Misurata rocket and then trying to stick the charge in the armed forces by accusing people of using Scud missiles to cover up and to mobilize people after failing in the battle of Tripoli 23h/ The CNN news said rebels control Tripoli and they are pointing at Tripoli in Lebanon. BY The truth about Libya –
 5.50pm: Defence expert Robert Fox is telling the BBC special forces from Qatar and the UAE, with US, British and French training, are responsible for the successful attack on Tripoli. “It has been a genuine Arab coalition ??? … I think it was the Qataris that led them through the breach. 22h/ International Criminal Court (ICC) now claims it never confirmed that Qaddafi’s son Saif Al-Islam was captured. [horror] http://alfatah69.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/international-criminal-court-icc-now-claims-it-never-confirmed-that-qaddafis-son-saif-al-islam-was-captured/ 21h/ Russia won’t recognize National Transitional Council – Lavrov. “Russia is ready to actively promote a political process in Libya, just as in other countries,” he said. “The Russian and Libyan peoples have traditions of friendship, years-long interaction, and we shall continue to act in this vein in the future as well.” https://rt.com/news/lavrov-russia-reaction-libya-795/ 21h/ MOSCOW, August 23 (Reuters) – The head of the Russian Chess Federation Kirsan Alaumajanov on Tuesday that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had told him by telephone that he was still alive and in Tripoli Faishh good does not intend to leave the city. The Alaumajanov, who visited Libya during the bombing campaign of NATO and met with Gaddafi that the eldest son of Mohammed Gaddafi spoke to him by telephone this afternoon. The Alaumajanov told Reuters by phone “gave the phone to his father, who said he was in Tripoli and alive and well and ready to fight to the finish… 20h/ “Volunteers number 600.000 from outside Tripoli , they come from the cities around Tripoli ready to fight . Believe me it’s under control , the only problem there is no TV but the people inside Tripoli know the truth”19h/ #Libya: UK readying occupation force for Libya…seeking UN resolution to introduce them as peacekeepers 18h/ Thierry Meyssan from Rixos Hotel in Tripoli http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/battle-for-libya-news-23-august-2011.html *** Tripoli is still under Libyan govt control: to rename Green Square is an unacceptable political act by google ?? Google-maps has already renamed the Green Square into Martyrs Square ??
 This is a real propaganda-war
17h/ Battle for Libya: news 23. August 2011. Saif Al Islam Gaddafi Interview in Tripoli, Speech of Dr Mousa Ibrahim to the press. 23-8-2011 http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/battle-for-libya-news-23-august-2011.html Saif Al Islam on Sqare in Tripoly with Libyans
13:20h/ News: Director of the General Authority for Libyan radio stations: building radio stations have been bombed, and any talk of rebel control is unfounded. 16h/ Over the past months the armed NATO-led terrorist movement in Libya has been illegally legitimized by terrorist supporting countries, and now also by Google Maps. http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628217
16h/ Rome, 23 August (AKI) -Libya: Gaddafi ‘unlikely to surrender’ says Rome ambassador. Libya’s embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi will either flee the country or will be captured but is unlikely to surrender, the country’s ambassador to Italy, Abdulhafed Gaddur, told Italian public radio Tuesday.
16h/ The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops in Libya after Qaddafi falls, according to the lawmaker. http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/top-u-s-admiral-admits-the-mission-involves-the-assassination-of-gaddafi/
15h/ NATO’s War Crimes in Libya. It’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misur ata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush the women to gang bang parties for NATO rebels—or else rape them in front of their husbands or fathers. When NATO rebels finish their rape sport, the soldiers cut the women’s throats. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/07/going-rogue-natos-war-crimes-in-libya/
15h/ Allies guided rebel ‘pincer’ assault on Tripoli – As Gaddafi’s forces took up positions to defend the capital, “the targeting shifted toward Tripoli over the last four or five days . . . and the target set [in the capital] became larger,” said a senior NATO official. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/allies-guided-rebel-pincer-assault-on-tripoli/2011/08/22/gIQAeAMaWJ_story.html
14h/ Breaking: Head of Al-Qaeda in #Benghazi said #NTC Abdul “NATO” Jalil does not represent them they reject idea of unity Force, DANGER, RT
13h/ Libya – NATO Wanted To Kill From Day One – Leonor and Morris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCVPYN_9J74
13h/ No celebrations in the future for NATO. The lies and disinformation have been flowing fast and furious. NATO is trying to use the media to create the false illusion of an impending NATO victory. For those of us who know better, it’s extremely annoying to say the least.http://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/21-08-2011/118807-No_celebrations_for_NATO-0/
12h/ Saif Al Islam Gaddafi Interview in Tripoli 23.08.2011 Rebel & Media Lies Exposed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo_E97BVbFM
10h/ LIBYA: The Real Deal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD6dEfuNhL0
10h/ Davey D interviews Don DeBar about the real on-the-ground situation in Tripoli. Prominent American Activist Shot By Sniper Fire in Tripoli, Internet Cut.http://www.infowars.com/prominent-american-activist-shot-by-sniper-fire-in-tripoli-internet-cut/
09h/ A Closer Look On Qatari Hollywood And The Mercenary Invasion of Tripoli http://alfatah69.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/a-closer-look-on-qatari-hollywood-and-the-mercenary-invasion-of-tripoli/
08h/ A order was given by so-called “journalists” to bring down Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan. The order was given to kill Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan!
07h/ Benghazi: Violent clashes and gunfire heard after the appearance of Saif Al Islam Gaddafi. Rebels go out on the streets saying “We want, we want Saif Al Islam and his father” and insulting the National Transitional Council ,calling them liars.
06h/ Meyssan is clear that some of the journalists in his hotel are agents of the US/NATO http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/tripoli-nato-is-not-winning-m16-cia-threatening-to-murder-journalists-trying-to-report-the-truth/
03h/ Saif Al Islam says that all the news was just propaganda and he asked the journalists to come follow him and see the city of Tripoli.
02h/ Saadi Qaddafi is in Tripoli accompanied with 1600 fighters from warfela tribe, 3000 from tarhuna Day 153: 21. august 2011. Libya news [Battle for Tripoli] 00:25h/ NATO is bombing in places in Tripoli, heavy clashes in Tunisian borders, Rixos surrounded by tribes! 24h/ “Good news. The situation is now very calm in Tripoli after intervention of Libyan army with tribes. The NATO lad rebels are very small groups which want to make trouble here and there and flee. But the western and arabic chanels exagerate to make people afraid. This is all the story.Be confident and optimist. All the children of Kadhafi are free and are now fighting. The Libyan television continues its broadcasting by only sound without images because of disturbance caused by stallites over Libya.”
22h/ An independent journalist sent us a memo: “Media are telling that the Libyan Government collapsed. NO. Saif al Islam was captured in Rixos, I’m in Rixos, and he was not here, so NO. The ICC tells that he is captured, but they’re lying! There is no one from ICC here…” http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628205State 21h/ Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi helped his son Mohammed flee house arrest on Monday, Al Jazeera television reported, as rebels sought to secure full control of the capital Tripoli. [COMEDIA DEL’ARTE IS countinue … He never be arrested]http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/22/us-libya-gaddafi-son-idUSTRE77L4Z620110822 21h/ WHAT HAPPENED IN TRIPOLI FROM 20th to 22nd of AUGUST – THE TRUTH !! http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-happened-in-tripoli-from-20th-to.html 20h/ Saif al islam live now on the Alray channel, God is great! 19h/ Missy Kel / I have received a message from Lizzie Phelan saying she has been blocked from her facebook and email. She said this is clearly to try and stop the truth from getting out about what is happening. She has also been informed by CNN journalists that she must stop saying in her Press TV etc updates that Al Qaeda is working with the rebelsbecause she will be accused of being a traitor.
18h/ Gunshots during RT live from Tripoli – Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya, who is stationed in a central Tripoli hotel with the international press, says the journalists are being targeted by the rebels and the NATO forces that support them. While he is speaking to RT, shooting can be heard. http://rt.com/news/tripoli-nato-gunshots-journalist-623/
18h/ ‘NATO not winning’: Gunfire heard during Tripoli live report .Rebels say they now control most of Tripoli, and have taken Libyan state TV off air. But some reports also suggest that opposition fighters have been looting private houses.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZ86eNaKhM 18h/ #Libya Breaking News: From my cousin he is personal guard 4 Saif Islam Gaddafi,all the Family of Gaddafi is fine,sons of Gaddafi is leading the battle,its not battle as the #media says no it’s only sum rats come from the east by #NATO helicopters,they put them in Tajura but Tajura is under control & Saif Islam was #speaking from Tajura 2 the #journalist.
18h/ Call to Tripoli in the heart of events moments ago. Green square is controlled by Libyan army. Media are fake. Fierce clashes in Gargalesh ( the hi society area of Tripoli ) where the residents proved traitors and raised the flag of shame.Libyan army and volunteers are cleaning the area. And in Tanjoura area clashes. but army has cntrol of the perimeter of the city.
Also Saif al Islam Al Gaddafi was in the port area earlier today in order to coordinate the defence from the rats that arriving with nato boats.
18h/ @rolandoteleSUR Journalists such as @lizziephelan received Death threats from CNN journalists for telling TRUTH Rebels in bed with Al-CiAda
17h/ Egypt, Jordan recognize the rebel National Transitional Council
17h/ Breaking news BBC: Our correspondent in the west of Tripoli says forces loyal to Col Gaddafi appear to have retaken ground that had been held by the rebels earlier in the day. The rebel unit he is travelling with has returned to the city but is several kilometres further from the centre than they were this morning and CNN http://www.myvidster.com/video/2472208/Libyan_rebels_retreat_to_regroup
17h/ Now online from honest eastern Libya confirms that the sons of the Arab tribes in Egypt and Benghazi honest Liberal will be crawling for Salloum and Benghazi
TRIPOLI – 22 AUGUST 2011.
What is called the “storm of Tripoli,” in fact, of course, a landing operation of French, British, and (probably) American special forces. One of the main goals – it is possible to say – were the leaders of Defense and the leaders of the legitimate authority. Once this is admitted even by prominent and very cautious representative of the administration of the Russian Federation, Mr. Kosachev, dispute this fact is impossible. After a serious panic in Tripoli, restored order with respect to the forces of brigade Khamis al-Qaddafi, and who came to his call volunteers, as citizens and residents of rural areas. In fact, the troops performed their mission: to perpetrate the capital of the maximum bloodshed and gave the picture. Now pockets of rebellion seems to be isolated. Rumors about the capture of Mohammed and Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, at least for the moment, should be considered fiction, neither one nor the other has not yet shown on TV, but about Muhammad at all became aware that an attempt to capture it (a group of Special Forces on a tip from correspondents Al Jazeera, who took him for an interview) had failed. In general, as it turned out, the roof of correspondents of “civilized” media (CNN about it is known exactly) based Western intelligence agents and aviakorrektirovschiki. The Colonel is alive and with Khamis collects militia. At dawn, he – in his helmet and with a gun – found on Green Square, where, as it turns out, the rebels did not exist. All the “civilized” journalists gave slightly reversed in the sense of fanfare. All of the leaders of “civilized” world, from Juppe and Obama to Rasmussen and Merkel are silent in a rag unanimously, without haste to declare victory, and if something out loud and express, the only requirement to the Colonel, “to leave his post.” Thats, there is no victory. Troopers s.hits and failed.http://www.politicalforum.com/latest-world-news/203653-tripoli-nato-amphibious-operation-suppressed.html
FAKE TRIPOLI IN DOHA – LIES MADE IN NATO REBELS ALJAZEERA CNN BBC France24 THE SUN …
 18h/ Libyan armed forces captain Hasan D
Monday, 22.08.2011 – 16:53 | “There is a battle, and no taking of Tripoli did not exist. The situation has changed for the following reasons: First, last week, almost all combat sorties of enemy aircraft were directed exclusively against our weakened Tripoli group. We were forced to divert forces to Misratu, Breguet and to cover South.
Secondly, the enemy came to the capital only because NATO ground operation started. Just last week we launched against large bands of foreign fighters from the so-called PMC (private military companies – Ed.), Which together with the rebels began to move under cover of air over land.
And on August 21 the enemy launched a combined attack by sea, land and air. The first attempt was the approach the ship from Malta on the pretext of evacuating foreigners, whom they tried to land directly at the port of Tripoli landing, but we fired him, and he walked away. Two days in a row are large-scale bombing, which we have not seen. Disrupted electricity, telephone service works with large faults.
And finally, the evening of August 21 helicopters landed troops of the enemy continuously SWAT NATO forces and foreign mercenaries. According to intelligence, in Tripoli entered raiding the British SAS, French GIGN and the Foreign Legion.
A morning of August 22 several hundred boats landed under cover of “Apache” along the coast of Tripoli, a major assault of the enemy, who quickly began to move forward. Among them were the British and French mercenaries and kaidisty who mercilessly kill residents and raping women. Measures are taken to destroy them. Captured and killed at least a few members of attack, with British papers. “http://www.politicalforum.com/latest-world-news/203653-tripoli-nato-amphibious-operation-suppressed.html
17h/ Qataris Killed in Tripoli As City Brought Under Control. Qatari soldiers in front of my eyes, big beards, and on my hands right now I’m holding a Qatari passport… there are a lot of them but Tripoli is under control, it’s all secure, everything is fine. http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628191
16h/ Rafael Fernandes reports:
There are currently French and English troops on the Libyan coast about 20 km from Tripoli trying to enter the city with the excuse of saving the Libyan people of the “claws” of Libyan leader when the army entered the city to defend the population. These troops have now found that they can not defend the Libyan people because the army has not entered Libya in Tripoli.
When the Libyan government became aware of the situation handed over weapons to the population of Tripoli and told them to defend against the rebels who came by sea. http://leonorenlibia.blogspot.com/2011/08/situacion-actual-en-tripoli.html
15h/State TV Libya until Tripoli ignores events. / 22.08.2011 14:20 /
Libyan state television channel “Al-Jamahiriya”, apparently, still in the hands of supporters of Muammar Gaddafi, is not paying any attention to events in the capital, reports “Interfax”.
According to her, at the present time, state television shows the transfer of Libyan cardiovascular diseases.
[ It was reported that the opponents of Gaddafi said on Monday that already control 95% of Tripoli.]
15h/ Olga Sokolova 22 August – In the city gangs entrenched at Marriott Hotel (now the building is burning ) in the west of Tripoli, and to create a panic tried to open fire on peaceful civilians. To do this, have been previously rented rooms with help of agenсies with a British passports under the guise of journalism and business (they wanted to repeat the situation that has already taken place in Benghazi).
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thats how it as done…but with british passports!?!
14h/ I have been in Tripoli for approx one month, it is not until THIS moment that the rebels are in the city that I and all the other journalists have not felt safe. Lord only knows what the masses of people in Tripoli who heroically supported their government are going through. Thinking of the many friends I have made here who have become family, I hope they are safe,.also this is the first time I have not been able to move outside of a hotel. Before the streets were safe to go anywhere in the capital [Lizzie Phelan]
11h/ it is not looking good guys. I think the situation has changed, I know some areas of the capital are definitely under rebel control, how much it is impossible for me to say. Anyway I am awaiting evacuation with all the other foreign journalists..Britain, France and the United States have unleashed a nightmare in this region that will backfire extremely. [Lizzie Phelan]
09h/ I have now from RELIABLE sources that the Libyan army is still in control of Tripoli. Al J footage of Green Sq was FAKE. Gaddafi went to Green Sq with one of his sons. Things much calmer now. Really need to sleep for a couple of hours. More info soon
Looks like govt strategy was to draw all the rebels into Tripoli, and allow them in essentialy, because hitherto they have been operation in sleeper cells, unknown to the govt/army. this way they were brought out in the light of day. Big tribes inc Wafalla, Washafana, Tarhouna etc came to Tripoli to support the army. RIP all the martyrs.
14h/ “The Russian military-diplomatic source, who is now in the Libyan capital, also confirmed this information on Skype “Argumentam.ru.” “Shops are closed, the streets of downtown police patrols and army units. But all was quiet, no shooting, “- he said. A source at the Embassy of Libya states that “staff who distribute the western television that the rebels in the heart of… celebrating a victory, shot in a special pavilion, which last month was built near the capital of Qatar, Doha.” “The pavilion was built almost exactly on the plan of Tripoli, but it can not account for all the destruction from the recent bombing of the city. And it shows, “- says an employee of the embassy.
13h/ Distribute the Western Television That the Rebels in the Heart of celebrating a victory, shot in a special pavilion, which last month was built near the capital of Qatar, Doha. ” “The pavilion was built almost exactly on the plan of Tripoli, but it can not account for all the destruction from the recent bombing of the city. And it shows,” – says an employee of the embassy
LOOK ON 1:30 ON THIS VIDEO THIS IS PICTURE OF STREET – IT IS NOT STREET?!!!!
12h/ The English daily THE SUN is reproducing edited pictures of the march of a million held in Tripoli on the 1st of July in support of Gathfi as though they are “the people of Tripoli celebrating the Liberation of the city from Gathfi.” The photo-shop fix was easy. Just enlarge and add in the black and red colours on the green flags. Check it for yourself and be aware of the deception!.this is amaizing?!? HOW THEY CAN BE LIER SOO BIG LIER ?!? look photo look colors ? SIMPLY IT IS NOT TRUEhttp://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3765727/Gaddafi-in-hiding-as-rebels-hit-Tripoli.html]
10h/ lManuel Ernesto De Brabandere: Suggestion, we should stop calling them RATS,!!! A rat is a decent animal compared with this GENOCIDES AND THIEVES!!! Let’s called that way GENOCIDES AND THIEVES it will be good for later on when they have to face an INTERNATIONAL PEOPLES COURT in a trial transmitted worldwide not like USA has avoid to do for more than 11 years to the innocent person that are in incarceration now violating all international rules.
Example Guantanamo, a military USA base illegally in the Republic of CUBA. We would like to read others opinions. I might be wrong. 09h/ Assassination Attempts Against Independent Journalists in Libya. Assassination attempts against independent truth media journalists operating in Libya, of which there are only 5 known to Mathaba, of which 3 have been targeted as soon as the NATO-led rebel advances on Tripoli http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628192 08h/ Truth journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya fired on at Tripoli hotel by NATO backed terrorists and snipers, threatened by CNN ‘journalist’ http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628168%3Frss 07h/ 21 agosto 2011 – El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, denunció este domingo que el imperialismo de Estados Unidos y sus aliados de Europa están perpetrando “una masacre” en Libia con el fin último de hacerse de las riquezas petroleras de esa nación. http://www.aporrea.org/tiburon/n187102.html Day 153: 21. august 2011. Libya news Midnight 21. August 2011.
August 20 Midnight – Tripoli Update – The Word on The Street
01h/ Ali Elsharif – Tamam Sir, the situation returned to control new in a number of areas where there have been confrontations and defeat the rats to the back, and the arrival of reinforcements thousands made up of all parts of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the return canals Libyan broadcasting after being bombed by NATO … 00h/ The Brother Leader Gaddafi (Qadhafi, Kadhafi) with his uniform and kalashnikof – in Tripoli [Al jamahiriya channel.] 23:30h/ Update on Tripoli from Lizzie Phelan, 21.08.11, NATO War On Libya & DR Moussa Ibrahim All news till 22h are in this post — Battle for Libya: news 21. August 2011. Tripoli under fire http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/battle-for-libya-news-21-august-2011.html
** Tonight NATO carried out heavy bombings of several districts in Tripoli.100 people were killed, civilians among them As a result, about . Rescuers are still working, which is why the exact number of the dead and wounded is still unknown. http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628160 22h/ #Libya: Tribes deny NATO-led rebels claim that they support civil war; say they will protect sovereign of Libya and their tribes’ pride. 22h/ #Libya: UK directing NATO-led rebels to provide them sensitive information about Libya that could endanger national security. 22h/ #Libya: US and UK Special forces seen on ground in Tripoli. 22h/ PoshBirdGabi (@PoshBirdGabi) [http://www.twitlonger.com/show/ch58of ] #ATTENTION #HUMANS: DO NOT BE FOOLED! YOU WERE WARNED AND NOW IT IS UNFOLDING. by PoshBirdGabi (@PoshBirdGabi) [http://www.twitlonger.com/show/ch58of ] There were reliable reports from Qatar to the Libyan people about the NATO crusaders plans to deceive the world with a hollywood style portrayal of a “rebel” victory (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LtLoros6Uk). It also filtered to us here in Canada (http://www.twitlonger.com/show/cfm2a1). Earlier this week, former CIA asset at the United Nations Susan Landauer also told us that we would experience a Main Stream Media (MSM) blitzkrieg claiming NATO “rebel” victories across Libya (http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1108/S00205/susan-lindauer-libya-gadhaffi-retakes-key-towns.htm). We have seen the truth of these predictions with our own eyes as the New York Times pumps out pure propaganda that Stephen Lendman challenges (http://wp.me/p1GGxO-Mw). Independent journalists are also taking note of this increase in pro-NATO pro-war media propaganda (http://wp.me/p1GGxO-IE). While this is happening, America tries to steal Libyan money at the United Nations. Their perfidity was challenged by South Africa (http://www.voltairenet.org/Washington-tried-to-snatch-1-5). Do NOT allow media lies to pull you into supporting another illegal, immoral, and simply vicious war based on nothing but lies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1fUKa1mjmA). 22h/ Egypt – Libya’s civil war so far has involved some serious urban fighting in towns such as Misrata, but most battles have been relatively small skirmishes.If Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi retains the loyalty of large numbers of security forces in the capital, the ragtag opposition forces could struggle and there would be little NATO air strikes could do without risking civilians. http://213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?action=news&id=20545&title=Libya+rebels+seek+to+avoid+Tripoli+battle
22h/Libya S.O.S. without internet access all day Day 152: 20. august 2011. Libya news 23h/ Basic points of the conference of Dr. Mousa Ibrahim about the facts and the situation on the gound today ( 20-8-2011) 1.Tripoli is safe, some claimed that the rebels were in airport.The jounalists were taken to the airport in order to verify the security of the area. 2.Zliten is in firm control of the Libyan armed forces. some rebels tried to come from misrata ( dafniyah) direction but they died in the gates of Zliten. 3.Brega is secure and safe under the Libyan armed forces. 4.Some pockets of resistance are in some west cities,especialy in surman city, but they face poplar resistance and they are eventually defeated. 5.The armed gangs have not made any progress at all.On the contrary they are now facing defeat or suicide. 6.Libya always wanted a political solution to this crisis bt the other part rejected any African Union or international peace effort and proposal. 7.Dr Al Baghdadi al Mahmoudi called the Secretary gerneral of the united nations and suggested that Mr. Ban kim Moon and a high delegation of the AU to come in Tripoli and investigate the NATO crimes against the citizens and the violations of resolutions and also to make a combined effort to bring peace without any external agendas. 22h/ Sukant Chandan –In Libya NATO *literally* bomb a path with their jets and apache helicpoters for the pro-nato slaves/rebels to then advance, only then to run back when Libyan army start to get them. For eg, last night AJE etc saying pro-nato rebels took Brega, bt now they saying Gadaffi’s people has taken Brega back. 22H/ Since the beginning of the NATO operation (31 March 2011, 06.00GMT) a total of 19,646 sorties, including 7,423 strike sorties,have been conducted.http://www.nato.int/nato_static/assets/pdf/pdf_2011_08/20110820_110820-oup-update.pdf 21h/ Libya / Tripoli: Inhuman NATO war crimes. Part 4 – Today. 19 August 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z8HpXq6AiQ 20h/ Rebels admitted losing the battle of Brega. This is only the beginning of the end of lies. The truth should always win because it is stronger. http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/international/libye-rebelles-obliges-se-retirer-brega-129376.html 20h/ Demonstration in Paris first week of september against Bombarding in Libya and against nato war crime. 19h/In addition to exposing the rapacity of the United States, this incredible episode demonstrates that the self-proclaimed “Free Libya” of Misrata and
Benghazi is not governed by the National Transitional Council (CNT), which is nothing but a facade, and a seriously cracked one at that. Eastern Libya is controlled by NATO and administered by the Libyan Information Exchange Mechanism (LIEM), an informal entity with no legal personality, which was established in Naples by the United States alone, although some of its employees are Italians http://www.voltairenet.org/Washington-tried-to-snatch-1-5 18h/ NATO warplanes are bombing Tripoli, as Western-backed forces affiliated to the Transitional National Council (TNC) continue to launch ground offensives with NATO air support to encircle the Libyan capital. The US press increasingly claims that the TNC will soon defeat the Libyan government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, against whom NATO has waged war, using the TNC as its ground forces, since March. The collaboration between far-right Islamist groups and the NATO countries further exposes the cynicism of the “war on terror” waged by the US and the European powers. While citing Al Qaeda as an absolute evil that justifies war and deep attacks on democratic rights, they can collaborate with similar forces when it suits their imperialist interests. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/liby-a20.shtml
17h/ #Libya: An estimated more than 55,000 people have been killed since NATO started bombing Libya.[ cdoebbler curtis doebbler]
16h/ NATO targets civilians traveling from Tunisia to Libya in blatant violation of international humanitarian and human rights law.
** AL QAEDA of Maghreb confirms that one of their heads was killed in the clashes that took place between zawiyah-sabartha.
16h/ BY Trajan ” A) A small group of rebels entered the refinery of Zawia but they have been chased away.
B) A small attack of about 8 cars tried a desperate attack from the southern areas of Zlitan in an attempt to force government forces to come out of Misrata to confront them but they were defeated and pushed away by the Tribes of Zlitan, with the volunteers from all over Libya
C) Rebels supply routes in the west have been cut so they can’t progress anywhere
D) The only major presence of rebels in the west is still Sorman with area controlled by rebels but in Sabratha there are pockets of them in some areas
E) There is fighting in Al Harsha west of Misrata and in Dafnia
F) There was intensified bombing on “military targets”– residential areas– in Tripoli. 27 dead-– witnesses say they bombed a mosque, homes, a medical warehouse, a heart clinic (used to treat wounded). The bombing does not have a military purpose, but phycological. NATO is using sonic-booms to frighten the women and children. they fly over a location and enter sonic speeds mimicking the sounds of bombs. Zlitan: rebels are trying to draw the army away from Misrata (this translation by Yelbihs,.)”[Thanks to Trajan K.]
14h/ Yesterday Nato aircraft invaded the airspace of Tripoli and more than 100 bombs Launched on the city. Even dropped bombs on the streets Trying to terrorize the Population of Tripoli. http://leonorenlibia.blogspot.com/2011/08/desde-libia2008.html?utm_source=LeonorLibya&utm_medium=twitter
13h/ PoshBirdGabi-Why was it relevant for him to point out that the soldiers were ALL BLACK??? Not(@YouTube youtu.be/gRg-yKunGLw?a)
Note the very happy brit reporter! no question here if her doubting what shes being told. Did NATO Kill off Libyan Soldiers that were fleeing on a Boat? (August 18, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRg-yKunGLw
12h/ Berlin under fire over “secret” participation in NATO’s Libya mission. Berlin’s official position is that no German troops are being deployed in Libya. But Bundeswehr soldiers are indirectly taking part in the conflict by providing target assessment for their NATO allies. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15331653,00.html
12h/ With the Libyan rebel movement insisting once again that they are on the cusp of “victory” in the seemingly endless civil war, US officials are warning that the regime is preparing for a “last stand” in the capital city of Tripoli. http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/19/us-officials-warn-of-gadhafi-last-stand-in-tripoli/
Day 152: 20. august 2011. Libya news
23h/ Basic points of the conference of Dr. Mousa Ibrahim about the facts and the situation on the gound today ( 20-8-2011) 1.Tripoli is safe, some claimed that the rebels were in airport.The jounalists were taken to the airport in order to verify the security of the area. 2.Zliten is in firm control of the Libyan armed forces. some rebels tried to come from misrata ( dafniyah) direction but they died in the gates of Zliten. 3.Brega is secure and safe under the Libyan armed forces. 4.Some pockets of resistance are in some west cities,especialy in surman city, but they face poplar resistance and they are eventually defeated. 5.The armed gangs have not made any progress at all.On the contrary they are now facing defeat or suicide. 6.Libya always wanted a political solution to this crisis bt the other part rejected any African Union or international peace effort and proposal. 7.Dr Al Baghdadi al Mahmoudi called the Secretary gerneral of the united nations and suggested that Mr. Ban kim Moon and a high delegation of the AU to come in Tripoli and investigate the NATO crimes against the citizens and the violations of resolutions and also to make a combined effort to bring peace without any external agendas. 22h/ Sukant Chandan –In Libya NATO *literally* bomb a path with their jets and apache helicpoters for the pro-nato slaves/rebels to then advance, only then to run back when Libyan army start to get them. For eg, last night AJE etc saying pro-nato rebels took Brega, bt now they saying Gadaffi’s people has taken Brega back. 22H/ Since the beginning of the NATO operation (31 March 2011, 06.00GMT) a total of 19,646 sorties, including 7,423 strike sorties,have been conducted.http://www.nato.int/nato_static/assets/pdf/pdf_2011_08/20110820_110820-oup-update.pdf 21h/ Libya / Tripoli: Inhuman NATO war crimes. Part 4 – Today. 19 August 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z8HpXq6AiQ 20h/ Rebels admitted losing the battle of Brega. This is only the beginning of the end of lies. The truth should always win because it is stronger. http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/international/libye-rebelles-obliges-se-retirer-brega-129376.html 20h/ Demonstration in Paris first week of september against Bombarding in Libya and against nato war crime. 19h/In addition to exposing the rapacity of the United States, this incredible episode demonstrates that the self-proclaimed “Free Libya” of Misrata and
Benghazi is not governed by the National Transitional Council (CNT), which is nothing but a facade, and a seriously cracked one at that. Eastern Libya is controlled by NATO and administered by the Libyan Information Exchange Mechanism (LIEM), an informal entity with no legal personality, which was established in Naples by the United States alone, although some of its employees are Italians http://www.voltairenet.org/Washington-tried-to-snatch-1-5
18h/ NATO warplanes are bombing Tripoli, as Western-backed forces affiliated to the Transitional National Council (TNC) continue to launch ground offensives with NATO air support to encircle the Libyan capital. The US press increasingly claims that the TNC will soon defeat the Libyan government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, against whom NATO has waged war, using the TNC as its ground forces, since March. The collaboration between far-right Islamist groups and the NATO countries further exposes the cynicism of the “war on terror” waged by the US and the European powers. While citing Al Qaeda as an absolute evil that justifies war and deep attacks on democratic rights, they can collaborate with similar forces when it suits their imperialist interests. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/liby-a20.shtml
17h/ #Libya: An estimated more than 55,000 people have been killed since NATO started bombing Libya.[ cdoebbler curtis doebbler]
16h/ NATO targets civilians traveling from Tunisia to Libya in blatant violation of international humanitarian and human rights law.
** AL QAEDA of Maghreb confirms that one of their heads was killed in the clashes that took place between zawiyah-sabartha.
16h/ BY Trajan ” A) A small group of rebels entered the refinery of Zawia but they have been chased away.
B) A small attack of about 8 cars tried a desperate attack from the southern areas of Zlitan in an attempt to force government forces to come out of Misrata to confront them but they were defeated and pushed away by the Tribes of Zlitan, with the volunteers from all over Libya
C) Rebels supply routes in the west have been cut so they can’t progress anywhere
D) The only major presence of rebels in the west is still Sorman with area controlled by rebels but in Sabratha there are pockets of them in some areas
E) There is fighting in Al Harsha west of Misrata and in Dafnia
F) There was intensified bombing on “military targets”– residential areas– in Tripoli. 27 dead-– witnesses say they bombed a mosque, homes, a medical warehouse, a heart clinic (used to treat wounded). The bombing does not have a military purpose, but phycological. NATO is using sonic-booms to frighten the women and children. they fly over a location and enter sonic speeds mimicking the sounds of bombs. Zlitan: rebels are trying to draw the army away from Misrata (this translation by Yelbihs,.)”[Thanks to Trajan K.]
14h/ Yesterday Nato aircraft invaded the airspace of Tripoli and more than 100 bombs Launched on the city. Even dropped bombs on the streets Trying to terrorize the Population of Tripoli. http://leonorenlibia.blogspot.com/2011/08/desde-libia2008.html?utm_source=LeonorLibya&utm_medium=twitter
13h/ PoshBirdGabi-Why was it relevant for him to point out that the soldiers were ALL BLACK??? Not(@YouTube youtu.be/gRg-yKunGLw?a)
Note the very happy brit reporter! no question here if her doubting what shes being told. Did NATO Kill off Libyan Soldiers that were fleeing on a Boat? (August 18, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRg-yKunGLw
12h/ Berlin under fire over “secret” participation in NATO’s Libya mission. Berlin’s official position is that no German troops are being deployed in Libya. But Bundeswehr soldiers are indirectly taking part in the conflict by providing target assessment for their NATO allies. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15331653,00.html
12h/ With the Libyan rebel movement insisting once again that they are on the cusp of “victory” in the seemingly endless civil war, US officials are warning that the regime is preparing for a “last stand” in the capital city of Tripoli. http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/19/us-officials-warn-of-gadhafi-last-stand-in-tripoli/
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IBYA’S FUTURE DEPENDS ON THE GLOBALIST’S ABILITY TO LIE LONG ENOUGH TO GET AN OCCUPATION FORCE IN PLACE24 WednesdayAug 2011 THE CRYS FOR NATO OCCUPATION ARE DEAFENING!http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/libyas-future-depends-on-the-globalists-ability-to-lie-long-enough-to-get-an-occupation-force-in-place/ Tony Cartalucci It was reported that Richard Haas, president of the Fortune 500-lined Council on Foreign Relations, had stated clearly that “Libya now needs boots on the ground,” NATO boots to be specific. Now joining the growing chorus of globalists calling for a full NATO occupation of Libya is Neo-Con degenerate, fellow Council on Foreign Relations conspirator Max Boot who recently wrote an editorial for the LA Times titled, “Libya’s problems are far from over,” where he emphatically states “peacekeeping troops” are an absolute necessity to head off what the media is already trying to brand an “insurgency” referring to the Libyan government’s defense of Tripoli. To compound Boot’s apparent contempt for his readership’s intelligence, he claims that occupation forces will be needed to secure Libya’s “weapons of mass destruction,” and give the Libyan rebels time to build up professional security forces – rebels who are admitted members of Al Qaeda, many of whom are fresh back from murdering American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Boot’s only regret regarding the disastrous and still failing US occupation of Iraq was that more troops were not committed, seemingly suggesting Libya will be “done right” and a massive force will be landed to ensure the nation progresses as Wall Street and London desire. Boot’s final insult to our intelligence is the claim that NATO currently appears to be refusing to commit to any such occupation force. In reality, NATO’s denials of such an occupation force are for perception-management purposes only. NATO troops are already on the ground, including SAS special forces, Qatari funded British mercenaries, Qatari and Emarati troops, and MI6 and CIA operatives. The UK has already admitted to having prepared at least 200 more troops to land in Libya at any given moment and arrangements are already underway to tap NATO members for additional troop commitments. The only complication for Boot and his degenerate co-conspirator Haas’ narrative is that Tripoli has not yet fallen. The rebels, even with NATO ground forces assisting them, are approaching now a full week of fighting to take the capital in operations that promised to be over “in hours not days.” The mainstream media has been perpetually assuring its dimwitted viewership that Tripoli is “virtually,” “almost,” “about to be,” “on the brink of,” “any moment,” falling into rebel hands. As rebels rush from one hallow photo opportunity to the other in an attempt to sell their “victory” to the world, the Libyan military forces have been hitting them from the southern situated Rixos Hotel, to the international airport in the far east of Tripoli. Quite clearly the capital is still contested, while other cities across Libya still remain firmly in government hands. While Boot, Haas, and the degenerate bankster-serving media propagandists assume the public has bought the narrative that Libya is now a “NATO victory” and the occupation force will merely be a prudent conclusion to their operations to “ensure stability,” the reality is that Qaddafi and the Libyan army cannot be defeated by the rebel forces alone. By rushing the rebels’ contrived government from Benghazi to Tripoli, declaring them the victors in the capital amidst a historically unprecedented disinformation campaign, and now beginning to portray the Libyan army as “insurgents,” they are in fact setting the stage for a ground invasion – not occupation – to deal the Libyan military a death blow. It is now confirmed that the ground operations against Tripoli that started last weekend were overwhelmingly a psychological operation attempting to belie NATO’s weakness. Outrageous propaganda and staged chaos following an unprecedented aerial bombardment by NATO was designed to panic and collapse entirely Tripoli’s defenses and utterly rout Libyan troops. Instead, troops weathered the chaos and as it ebbed, counterattacked with Qaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam leading the way. Saif had been “confirmed captured” by the Wall Street-London “International Criminal Court.” This is now exposed as obvious disinformation and the epitome of the sort of lies and propaganda employed by NATO in their desperate last-ditch bid to take Libya. It should be noted, that Max Boot was one of the many Neo-Con warmonger, corporate fascist globalist stooges that signed a June 2011 letter addressed to US House Republicans imploring them to ignore both the will of the American people and the contrived UN mandate in order to lend the rebels “more assistance.” Fellow signatories including William Kristol have been promoting a ground invasion and the forceful removal of Qaddafi from power since the beginning of NATO operations, making an open mockery of the very “international laws” Kristol and others presume the US should be enforcing upon the world. In war, when one relies on disinformation on the scale seen now used by NATO in Libya, it betrays their image of strength and the vitality of their campaign. If NATO and the rebels were truly as powerful and as capable as we are being told, there would be absolutely no need to obfuscate the facts on the ground in Libya to the extent that it is. Indeed, NATO’s latest attack on Tripoli was an absolute bluff which has been called by the Libyan people now in full resistance. The continued lies being peddled now by the media indicate a smokescreen being set up to give the rebel “government” enough time to squat in Tripoli and call in NATO troops. The very fact that Libya’s rebels are still meeting in Paris and Doha to complete their “transition” instead of in Tripoli exposes how ignominiously deceptive news of their “victory” is. Qaddafi has vowed to fight on for years – and seeing how he has been the only one telling the truth from the beginning, be it the fact that the rebels are Al Qaeda terrorists or that the rebels were paving the way for an inevitable Western occupation – we would be wise to believe him rather than the infinitely duplicitous Western media – who promised us “no boots on the ground” for an operation that was promised to end months ago. Order: Kill non-mainstream reporters in Libya, What U.S. is hidingAugust 22, 2011 – Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates.
Copyright Deborah Dupré 2011. All rights reserved. Targeted Killings of non-mainstream reporters in Libya ordered: Attempts to bury truth The Examiner learned in communications from human rights defenders and independent journalists throughout Monday that they were shaken with news of 1300 Libyans killed and 5000 wounded Saturday, plus, the U.S. allegedly ordered Targeted Killings of Voltaire Network reporters, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan, non-mainstream reporters in Libya covering the NATO war, while other independent reporters there are being fired upon and one, Mohammed Nabbous was killed Saturday according to ABC News. In an interview with journalist Don DeBar on KPFA radio, he reported most mainstream “news” about Libya has been untrue, as alternative news sites heavily report but are increasingly persecuted according to their recent reports.
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The reporter who may have known too much, slain and what the U.S. is hiding “The conflict in Libya has claimed the life of another journalist. A sniper shot Mohammed Nabbous, 28-year old resident of Benghazi and founder of its first independent TV news channel Libya Alhurra, on Saturday night,” reported ABC’sMark Colvin on Monday. As Naboous was filming attacks in Benghazi, he was shot, soon after the regime said it was honouring a ceasefire, according to ABC. “You may have heard Mohammed Nabbous on this program on Friday when he reported an attack on a power station outside Benghazi,” Colvin wrote. Within days of NATO bombings on Libya, Nabbous reportedly had a team of “citizen reporters,” shooting video reports all around Benghazi that he was posting on his channel Libya Alhurra. “He was also an important source for foreign networks like Al Jazeera, CNN and NPR who regularly interviewed him and rebroadcast his videos. We also relied on his video updates to confirm stories coming out of Benghazi,” stated Colvin forABC. The sense of despair expressed by Human Rights advocates and independent journalists from various points around the globe in communications to the Examiner on Monday as word spread about the recent NATO massacres on Libyans, unreported by mainstream news, and the targeting of independent reporters. Monday, cheers reported in some corners were not heard from human rights workers when mainstream reported Tripoli had falling under what independent reporters say, has been falsely reported on mainstream news. “What is needed right now is not despair on our part, but the dissemination of information, which NATO has decided is the most important battleground,” stated independent journalist, WBAIX radio announcer Don DeBar, formerly withNPR’s WBAI. DeBar told Dupré in communications early Tuesday that Nabbous, unlike painted by ABC, was “clearly a U.S. agent.” “He founded Libya’s version of al-Hurra,” said DeBar. According to Wikipedia “Alhurra (or al-Hurra) (Arabic: الحرّة, al-Ḥurrah [alˈħurra],[note] ‘The free’) is a United States-based satellite TV channel, sponsored by the U.S. government…” “The station is forbidden from broadcasting itself within the U.S. under the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act concerning the broadcast of propaganda.” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Nabbous and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhurra) DeBar elaborated on U.S. media propaganda wheninterviewed by Press TV on Monday, showing documented photographic samples:
“This has not made the media in the west at all – including on programs like Democracy Now! and Al Jazeera which is carried on progressive radio networks, if you can believe that, in the United States,” he told Press TV. DeBar wrote Tuesday, “Coverage of the situation in Libya over the past three days, while useless to anyone trying to understand what is actually happening in Libya, nevertheless provides an interesting peek into the modus operandi of the global media that has broad application for the decoding of its coverage of all of the issues that touch our lives.” (See:“Media Wars – Many Mouths, One Voice: Libya Coverage Provides a Peek Behind the Curtain,” Don DeBar, August 23, 2011) Targeted Individual reporters for Targeted Killings http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/kill-non-mainstream-reporters-libya-ordered-trapped-hiding-shot The Réseau Voltaire, (Voltaire Network), an international non-profit organisation independent news group, based in Paris, released a brief statement late on Monday about its two journalists in Libya targeted for killings. (Also see: “Obama targeted killings lawsuit spotlights American civilians,” Dupré, D. Examiner, September 2, 2010) “From the Rixos [Hotel], the order was given by so-called “journalists” from the U.S. to bring down Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan.” The statement was released in an short newsletter by Voltaire news group saying that the individuals who gave the orders “have been identified and their names will be released in due course.” Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is a Research Associate with the Centre for Research on Globalization, and Thierry Meyssan, is president and founder of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace Conference. Both Nazemroaya and Meyssan are entrenched in Hotel Rixos, the Voltaire news group reported in a written statement. The targeted killing threats of the independent journalists highlight President Obama’s signed Executive Order that the Center for Constitutional Rights defined as “an extrajudicial killing policy under which names are added to CIA and military ‘kill lists’ through a secret executive process and stay there for months at a time. This policy ‘is plainly not limited to imminent threats” the Center for Constitutional Rights had said in September 2010.
An interview conducted early Monday morning with Voltaire’s Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya showed him in hiding, and trapped in Tripoli. (See embedded Youtube.) “I’m confined in a place where I can’t move,” cleary unnerved and appearing to be in a very small space as he spoke, Nazemroaya said. He described, partially in graphic details, some of the traumatizing events he has seen including massacres by NATO and the children. “There have been massive, — atrocious, — criminal bombings” against the Libyan people he emphatically reported. “I didn’t sleep the other night because the bombings would not stop.” He asked how mainstream reporters can be reporting on what is happening out on the streets when they are in the hotel with him. The Réseau, (Voltaire Network), according to Wkipedia:
In an email, WBAIX radio’s Don DeBar, who has remained in regular communications with several independent reporters in Libya, covered Libya there on the ground in 2009, and then, the covered the war on Libyans since its onset, concurred with Nazemroaya about mainstream journalists there. “Most reporting is being done from inside or near the journalists’ hotels,” DeBar stated. “Outside the primary location, snipers have fired at – and in one case, shot – non-mainstream journalists.” According to DeBar, only reporters “embedded with the invaders” have been permitted to shoot footage outdoors. Libya’s media has had its power cut off, so is off the air he said. In his August 23 report, DeBar wrote:
On Press TV, DeBar stated about NATO’s war on Libyans, “This is the second stop for AFRICOM [Africa Command], the first direct stop for AFRICOM under Obama’s regime.
“AFRICOM came online about two months before he was elected but after Cote D’Ivoire – where they carried the elected president out of the country at gunpoint, the French did, the former colonial power – this episode began.
“And Libya has played – if you want to believe Nelson Mandela – Libya played a major role in ending apartheid in South Africa, and Muammar Gaddafi in particular played a major role in doing that. He has been active in building a communications infrastructure and a financial infrastructure owned by Africa in Africa.”
Peddling Libya War as popular uprising when Libya had human rights obsrerved, unlike Americans having rights violated
Press TV asked DeBar, “If the Gaddafi regime has totally fallen, or will fall, how likely is it that the Libyan people will actually go further towards independence and be freer people as a lot of them who have been in the streets, and they have been showing some of them today, are saying? What’s the likely scenario in your perspective?
DeBar answered, “The likely scenario is colonialism, and the reason for the invasion of Libya is that Libya was one of the places organizing against colonialism of the continent of Africa.”
Early Monday morning, when KPFA’s Davey D interviewed DeBar about the real on-the-ground situation in Tripoli, DeBar said the war on Libya was peddled as a popular uprising, but Libyans, unlike Americans, have no reason to rebel against their government. (See: Don DeBar, “LIBYA: The Real Deal” Youtube.) “Unlike Americans,” he said, “everyone in Libya owns their own home, a human right — as well as free education, free health care comparable to the U.S. hospitals, affordable and widely available food – unlike Americans have,” he said. DeBar said on Press TV:
In Tripoli, “relentless NATO bombings resumed around 10:20 Monday morning against certain objectives that independent reporters say is a massacre,” according to Voltaire. The fighting also resumed around the Rixos Hotel where some Libyan leaders along with the foreign journalists are entrenched. DeBar said he has been told by some journalists stuck in the hotel, who have been able to call around the city to the many residents they know personally:
Three states have offered diplomatic protection to the Voltaire Network team of reporters in Libya the news group stated.
“However, trapped in the city, they have no way of reaching the respective embassies.”
Turn of media events late Monday evening
On Monday, DeBar urged people to visit his Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/don.debar where he keeps a long string of information needing to be shared, “especially those in, or in contact with people in, Libya,” he stated late Monday.
In a dramatic turn of events late Monday night, The Washington Post published an article about the reporting contradictions.
“Forces loyal to the fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi struck back Monday against the rebel fighters who had swept euphorically into the capital the night before, forcing them to retreat from several strategic locations and tempering hopes that the battle for Tripoli was all but over.”
“The dramatic appearance Monday night of Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam at the Rixos hotel, where the Tripoli-based press corps remains trapped, contradicted the rebels’ assertion the day before that they had captured him and cast into doubt their claim of controlling 80 percent of the capital.”
DeBar told Dupré in a private email that his Press TV interview was recorded at 2:30 pm New York time on Monday, Auguest 22, 2011.
“At that time, I questioned the veracity of the claimed capture of Gadaffi’s sons and of rebel control of the city of Tripoli. It turns out I was right.”
“No, I don’t have a crystal ball – just good contacts on the ground who don’t lie or hold their tongues when they see horrible wrong being done. NATO – that’s Obama to the apologists – has done everything to keep this information from you, but the truth will out!”
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*No mention that Gaddafi has held no official position since 1977 and does not rule Libya.
*No mention of the majority’s support for the official Libyan government or the overwhelming evidence that the Libyan people love Muammar Gaddafi and honor him as the Leader of the Real Revolution.
*No mention that before UNSC Res 1973, the UN praised Libya for its human rights record or Libya’s impressive human development indicators.
*No mention of who these “protesters” are.
*No mention that UNSC Res 1973 violates International law.
*No mention of al-qaeda or the true history of the crisis.
*No mention of the media lies that resulted in UNSC Res. 1973 or the fact that Russian satelite images contradicted media claims that Gaddafi was bombing his own people.
*No mention of the fact that the UN had not substantiated insurgent claims through a fact-finding mission prior to approving NATO intervention.
*No mention of numerous independent fact-finding mission reports that contradicted mainstream media and NATO narratives.
*No mention that the official Libyan government representatives were barred from these critical UN meetings and were forbidden to speak or present evidence on their own behalf.
*No mention that the official Libyan government’s numerous requests for fact-finding missions were turned down.
*No mention that the official Libyan government’s repeated attempts at peace negotiations were overturned by the UN and ignored by “the rebels” and NATO.
*No mention that the official Libyan government were in the process of holding peace negotiations mediated by the African Union when NATO bombardments began.
*No mention that the official Libyan government’s repeated requests for ceasefires were ignored by the insurgents and NATO.
*No mention that this was an armed insurrection and never a “peaceful protest”.
*No mention of the lynching and ethnic cleansing of black Africans by the “rebels”.
*No mention of the numerous atrocities commited by these insurgents: lootings, beheadings, torture, rape, human trafficking and war profiteering,to name a few.
Who is behind this propaganda?
It did not come from the journalists stranded in Tripoli. They were detained in the Corinthia hotel, threatened with death if they dared to counter NATO propaganda. Further, had Tripoli fallen, not one journalist who had reported contrary to NATO’s psy-ops would have made it out alive.
Yes, NATO has created a horrific nightmare. There are bodies everywhere. The full death toll is unknown. But there are also many possible narratives that can explain these bodies besides the “NATO is victorious” spin mainstream media are spewing out.
Which casualties were “rebel” and which were civilian? I am hearing numerous reports of high casualties among the “rebels”, many from Qatar and the UAE.
What is clear is that the Tripoli civilians have been (and still are) putting up a fierce fight. They had stated that they would rather die that live under a colonial yoke. They knew the stakes were high. Uncolonized minds cannot accept infringements upon their freedom and dignity.
It is therefore not logical to conclude that Libya is firmly under the control of NATO forces when the only reports are coming from the hostiles themselves and their conspiratorial, blood-thirsty press.
Consider these latest tweets from Tony Cartalucci:
@LandDestroyerWTony Cartalucci
Benghazi rebel leader claims ““Even after the fighting ends we still need logistical and military support from NATO,” #Libya #Feb17 TRAITORS@LandDestroyerWTony Cartalucci
desperate #Feb17 Al Qaeda rebels begging NATO for continued aerial bombardments INCLUDING #Tripoli #Libya http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/29/libyan-rebels-ask-nato-keep-pressure/#.TlutFVCh3-A.twitter@LandDestroyerWTony Cartalucci
NATO’s new plan to break the people of #Libya STARVE the population http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8728752/Libya-crisis-Rebel-leaders-hoping-to-starve-Gaddafi-stronghold-of-Sirte-into-submission.html #Feb17 WAR CRIMINALS
Why do the “rebels” need NATO’s support if they have control and resistance has been quashed?
Why starve Tripoli residents to break them unless the resistance is ongoing and fierce?
Why do these traitors need NATO if the Libyan people have acquiesced to their domination?
The “rebels” are afraid.
They have no victory in Tripoli or any other region in Libya.
Keeping these facts in mind, I hold to the statements I made yesterday until a genuinely reliable source confirms otherwise.
While we await confirmation, please abstain from caving in to NATO psy-ops.
If we accept their lies, we are not giving our strength and attention to those who still stand and continue to valiantly resist.
~Alexandra
SOCIAL MEDIA AS A WEAPON AGAINST GOVERNMENT PSYOPS
MEDIA WARS: MANY MOUTHS, ONE VOICE
PSYWAR: THE FAKE FALL OF TRIPOLI
DR. SHAKIR WITH MISHAAN ALJABURI ON ALRAITV OUTLINING THE AGENDA BEHIND LIBYA PSYOPS
TRIPOLI: SNIPER ATTACKS AND A MASSIVE PSYOPS CAMPAIGN
MASS PSYOP PLANNED FOR TRIPOLI RESIDENTS
NATO WILL BE DEFEATED IN LIBYA
NATO HAS NO STRATEGY FOR CONQUEST IN LIBYA. THE JAMAHIRIYA IS UNASSAILABLE.
STATEMENT AUGUST 28, 2011
IT IS NECESSARY TO MAKE THESE POINTS CLEAR.
THE LIBYAN PEOPLE HAVE NOT BEEN CONQUERED.
THE PEOPLE WILL NOT BE RULED BY MONARCHISTS, TERRORISTS AND CRIMINAL GANGS.
THERE IS NO TRANSFER OF POWER BEING NEGOTIATED.
NATO HAS NO VICTORY.
- NATO’S LIBYAN WAR: OVER 20,518 NATO SORTIES. 7,732 STRIKE MISSIONS
- TRIBAL LEADERS AGAINST NATO AGGRESSION IN LIBYA
- MAJER MASSACRE: THE TRIBES FROM ZLITAN HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE IN TRIPOLI
- LIBYAN TRIBES GATHER TO TAKE BACK REBEL HELD MOUNTAINS
- THE WARFALA TRIBE DECLARE WAR ON THE ‘REBELS’
- THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE TRIBES OF LIBYA
- LIBYAN WOMEN SUPPORT GADDAFI
- GADDAFI’S FEMALE SOLDIERS
PLEASE CIRCULATE FAR AND WIDE
Im sure that there are 1000’s of people like myself, who are horrified at the genocide being commited by NATO in Libya, and I am sure that most people are like myself, and feel really helpless about the situation.
This morning I descided to take a more proactive approach.
I phoned Westminster and asked how I could have David Cameron charged with war crimes and genocide. They told me to contact my local conservative office and see if they could help!!!!!
Number for Westminister 020 7219 4272.
I called the foreign Office (020 7219 4272). I was told that all complaints about the actions of NATO in Libya should be made in writing to the Foreign Office. The lady I spoke to was very sympathetic, in fact so sympathetic that she admitted she to was horrified by their actions, still she could not help me, other than the advice to document and write to the FO. I will be doing this later today.
I phoned my MP, who will call me back when he gets into his office.
NATO HQ in the Hague Netherlands, do not have a contact phone number, but I will also be emailing them.
Lastly, I phoned the International Criminal Court (0031 705 158 515). I was told to document the charges against NATO, and email it to them. I have done this, and I would urge everyone to also do it.
If enough of us shout, they have to hear us, please circulate this note, and PLEASE PLEASE, take the 5 mins to copy and paste the email, and send it to the ICC.
This is such a small thing to do, but if thousands of us inundate the ICC with these charges, they will be forced into a corner, and they will have to act. NATO are acting as if they have immunity from all international laws, and the reason they get away with so much, is because we all give off but do nothing! They must be held accountable for their crimes.
Please feel free to re-edit, correct grammar or anything else you see fit to do. the following is the email I sent:
International Criminal court email sent 26/08/2011
Otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int
NATO members that have been participating in air strikes in Libya include France, Britain, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, and Italy.
I would like to make formal charges against the NATO alliance for war crimes committed in Libya.
France, Britain, United States, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and Italy are joint members of the NATO alliance, and have all broken their UN mandate, and committed a catalogue of war crimes in Libya.
Because of their influence over the main stream press in my country (UK), I cannot even give a full and complete list of their crimes.
But the following crimes are documented, and I demand that the ICC take appropriate action, and have the leaders of the NATO alliance charged with these heinous crimes.
13 May 2011: The murder of 11 Muslim Imams in Brega.
30 April 2011: The bombing of the Downs Syndrome School in Tripoli
30 April 2011: The bombing of a Gaddafi residence, murdering Saif Gaddafi, his friend and 3 Gaddafi children.
12 June 2011: The bombing of the University of Tripoli. Death toll not yet established.
22 July 2011: The bombing of the Great Man made Waterway irrigation system, which supplies most Libyans with their drinking water.
23 July 2011: The bombing of the factory which makes the pipes for the water system, and the murder of 6 of its employees.
8th August 2011: The bombing of the Hospital at Zliten. Resulting in the murder of a minimum, of 50 human beings, many of them children. The bombing of hospitals is against all international laws, and a most grievous crime.
9 August 2011: The bombing of the village of Majer, resulting in the murder of 85 civilians. 33 Children, 32 women and 20 men.
The persistent on going bombing of the civilian population in Zliten and Tripoli, death toll not yet established. NATO are committing genocide and I DEMAND that the ICC address this matter with urgency.
David Cameron has admitted that UK special services have assisted the terrorists on the ground, this is against the UN mandate which allowed NATO to intervene in Libya, and is a war crime.
Many of the rebels have been identified as Al Qeada members, NATO working with known terrorists is a war crime, and against all international laws.
It is also my belief that NATO lied about their reasons for invading Libya, I demand that the ICC investigate these lies, and hold the NATO alliance responsible.
I also charge the ICC with working with NATO to spread propaganda and fear among the Libyan people, namely by announcing that the NTC had in their custody Saif al Islam Gaddafi and Muhammad Gaddafi, the night the terrorists (NTC) entered Tripoli. This was lies, and clearly shows collusion between the TNC terrorists and the ICC.
Libya is not Afghanistan or Iraq, and NATO will be held accountable for their crimes in Libya.
As this is a matter of great urgency, I demand that the ICC address these charges immediately, as the genocide is on going.
I am not a lawyer, and I have no legal training, but as a citizen of the UK & EU I demand justice. NATO are acting illegally, UK tax money is financing this travesty, and under EU and international law the ICC must deal with the charges I have documented, with the utmost seriousness.
Yours Sincerely Sandra Barr
Documentary evidence of the crimes.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000524791925
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25221
http://rt.com/news/interview-libya-nato-intrusion-127/
The following link shows that before NATO decided to bomb Libya, the UN were going to bestow a humanitarian ward to Muammar Gadaffi!
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627240
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/ministerial-feedback-form this is the contact on line form for the British Foreign Office. I have emailed them and demanded David Cameron be arrested for war crimes.
A Libyan man shows the body of a child to journalists visiting the mortuary of a hospital in Zliten on August 9, 2011 as Libyan authorities accused NATO of a “massacre” of 85 villagers in Majer, 10 kms (six miles) south of Zliten, in air strikes in support of rebels.
The funeral of some of the murdered at Majer.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/libyan-mothers-martydrom-is-not-end-it.html?spref=fb
Libyan mothers- Martyrdom is not the end, it is only a beginning
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United Nations in the service of a banker elite as their private world political body and NATO as their private army? Mathaba is receiving plentiful evidence of this and the leaked “UN” plan for Libya is another death blow to the legitimacy of the now utterly defunct United Nations
By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, August 29 — After Inner City Press obtained and published the UN’s plan for Libya, complete with 200 military observers and the expectation of NATO maintaining a role, the plan’s author Ian Martin refused to answer questions, telling Inner City Press that “it’s an internal document.” Now that Inner City Press’ publication of the leaked report has spread, from Geneva to Doha to Istanbul to as far as The Australian, Inner City Press has asked the Office of the Spokesperson for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a series of questions: “On the Martin report, published on Friday, can you first provide UN description of what the document represents (esp in light of a statement by OSSG last week that is it “not a UN document”) and then state the basis for saying NATO has a continuing role, for saying that some deployments can be made without a specific mandate and more generally, on whose behalf and at whose behest this planning was done, if and when the plan was even going to be shown to member states, if so, which member states and when?” Several member states’ lead ambassadors at the UN have asked Inner City Press about the report, saying they’ve sent it to their capitals for analysis. At a Security Council lunch with Ban Ki-moon on August 26, Ban said he would brief the Council about it in the coming week (just as Martin has promised to belatedly give a press briefing). But even once the Secretariat moves to legitimate the plans by making some of them a public request to the Security Council, the question remains: on whose behalf, and for whose benefit, did the UN Secretariat engage in this planning? Beyond the ongoing split in the UN Security Council between the Westerners — European four plus US and its allies — and Russia and China, with IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) in the middle: there have been demonstrations in Libya against any international peacekeeping force. Inner City Press’ sources describe a fight inside Ban Ki-moon team as to which official would be sent to Tripoli, Martin or Al Khatib? It’s said that Martin is winning, and the Al Khatib may simply withdraw. Like Martin, Al Khatib jumped the gun and went to Benghazi with an already made plan: a five person structure, two from the rebels, two from Gaddafi, one from neither. It was rejected. Now Martin has developed a detailed plan, apparently without a mandate. Watch this site.
From the UN’s transcript of its August 26 noon briefing (the UN canceled its August 29 briefing) Inner City Press: …the [Ian] Martin report on Libya. It’s a 10-page document, and among other things, there is two things I want to ask you about… there is a statement, apparently it’s a UN statement saying that NATO’s role will continue to have responsibility after the fall of the [Muammar al-]Qadhafi Government, and saying that for this UN planning, including for 200 military observers, that no further mandate is needed from the Security Council. I wanted to know, what is the Secretary-General’s position on this, on those two statements? Acting Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq: As far as that goes, I wouldn’t comment on the text of this document, which was an internal document for the Secretary-General’s information and for the information of his advisers. The Secretary-General will be talking to regional organizations at 3 p.m. this afternoon to coordinate planning, and he will talk to the press after that. Inner City Press: how would you characterize this pretty detailed planning with the idea that Mr. Martin and Mr. al-Khatib went out to hear what the NTC [National Transitional Council] wanted or that on the video conference today he is going to hear? It seems to be a pretty detailed plan. Is this a preliminary plan? What adjective would you put on it, because it looks inconsistent with this outreach after the fact? Acting Deputy Spokesperson Haq: No, not at all. The sort of efforts that we have been doing and the sort of efforts that Ian Martin was in place here at the United Nations to do is to plan for a possible transition down the line. We are now at the stage where we need to talk with our various partners about that. But it helps to have concrete ideas about the way forward. And those are what, for example, Ian Martin and Abdel-Elah al-Khatib were talking with people in Doha. This is what the Deputy Secretary-General has been talking with people in Addis Ababa earlier today, and this is what the Secretary-General will discuss with the regional groups this afternoon. But Haq and Ban Ki-moon refused to take Press questions about the exclusively published report on the afternoon of August 26. Asked more directly, Ian Martin refused to answer questions, telling Inner City Press that “it’s an internal document.” The UN canceled its regular noon briefing on August 29. # |
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Some of the reasons why the truth is not getting out of Libya about the rebel massacres, the popularity of Qaddafi, the resistance to the invasion
by Alexander Grigoriev 29.08.2011 “I’m now under the impression that it is the Soviet TV I’m working at. Everything is censored, everything is to be approved by the London office. We’ve been filming Tripoli, the district controlled by the rebels: bodies of dead people in civilian clothes, unarmed, but bearing marks of torture. We sent the picture over to the office. Then we see it broadcast with the captions: “People of Tripoli killed by Gaddafi’s army”. According to him, “nobody is interested in what is really happening”. “In Tripoli, everything is upside down, it’s total anarchy. There are check-points everywhere, and IDs are checked so carefully that you are misled into thinking they might know English. But when you start speaking, they just stare at you blankly. There’s a soldierly European dressed as a local, attached to almost every squad. If the ID looks suspicious, he is asked to re-check it. And it is he who makes the final decision whether to let you in further, or turn you down. It’s somewhat surprising that none of them carry the usual M-16 rifle, but a Kalashnikov“, the reporter says. According to him, now it’s either jihadists, or armed European-looking people who are in command in Tripoli. “They seem to understand each other perfectly, though”, he adds. “Nobody takes care of the city, there are corpses in the streets already decomposing, but nobody takes them away. There is a spot virtually saturated with blood next to each of the jihadists’ check-points, but surely, you cannot film it. Nobody is going to buy such a picture. Yesterday we were about to go to Sirte, as the office had asked us to film the rebel victory over the Colonel’s native city. We were not let in, of course, there were the same “Europeans” standing there. But you could distinctly hear NATO aircraft flying, bombing. It seems like they’re leveling the city to the ground. So, what we did was, we asked some “clowns” in Tripoli suburbs to pose for the cameras for The office was happy. Our picture went on air with the caption “Battle for Sirte”, the reporter says. We would not name our colleague who is now in Tripoli. Judging by his words – and there is simply no motif for him to tell a lie – there might be more to it than the simple loss of a well-paid job. |
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Wounded Libyan soldiers at Mitiga Hospital in Tripoli on 28 August 2011
“I myself would die a thousand times for Qaddafi, even now,” said Faraj Mohamed, a 20-year-old soldier from Sirte, lying in a hospital in Tripoli as a prisoner of the Libyan rebels. “I love him because he gave us dignity, and he is a symbol for the patriotism of the country.” At moments when the rebel guards were out of earshot, Mr. Mohamed said he fought on, fearful of a future without Colonel Qaddafi. He warned what would happen if the rebels take over Libya: “Murder and killing and stealing and chaos.” “What is happening now is because of the rebels, not Qaddafi,” Mr. Mohamed said. Mr. Mohamed, his leg in a cast and a wound on his back, lay with five other captives in a prison unit of the Mitiga air base hospital, with an armed guard in the hall. The rebels call them prisoners of war, but Mr. Mohamed was the only one who admitted to fighting for Colonel Qaddafi. Two fellow patients said they were migrant workers, from Niger and Somalia, who had been falsely accused of being “mercenaries”. Another patient, a Libyan, said he had simply been shot in the street. “I am innocent,” he said. Another was handcuffed to his bedrail. Mr. Mohamed mentioned how many remember that when Colonel Qaddafi took power in 1969 Libya was a poor and almost entirely undeveloped nation of Bedouin herders whose oil wealth appeared to enrich mainly the foreign companies that exploited it. Qaddafi pursued development programs that helped turn Libya into a primarily urban country. He said Colonel Qaddafi had brought Libyans self-respect by kicking out foreign colonialists; under Colonel Qaddafi, Libyans celebrated a national holiday every year on the day the United States evacuated the air base that included the hospital where Mr. Mohamed was held. Then there was the special patronage — buildings, roads, schools, hospitals, jobs — lavished on Colonel Qaddafi’s two former hometowns, Sirte and Sabha. Sirte flourished as Colonel Qaddafi’s favorite place to hold conferences, Mr. Mohamed said of the Mediterranean port city that is his hometown as well. “Sirte really loves Qaddafi,” he said. “And they will fight for him.” But he also professed a high-minded fear that without Colonel Qaddafi’s strong hand to preserve order, the rebels would drag Libya into chaos. In a Tripoli neighborhood supportive of Colonel Qaddafi, Mr. Mohamed recalled, he met residents who “said they were scared the rebels would rape the women and kill the men.” Residents fought for the Colonel even after it was said rebels were inside his compound. Also Mr. Mohamed fought on until the next day, when his militia was in a battle and the rebels shot him. “I would sacrifice myself, I would sacrifice my family,” he said. “I would die for Qaddafi.” |
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Leader of the Revolution Sends Letter to Heads of State of Members of the Security Council Over the Massacre Committed by Nato
the Leader of the Revolution on Tuesday sent a letter to the heads of state of the countries members of the Security Council in which he held them responsible for the despicable massacre committed by Nato in which 85 civilians were killed in the area of Madjer on the outskirts of Zlitan Tuesday morning. The massacre which has no parallel in the history of wars.
The Secretary of the General People’s Committee al Baghdadi al Mahmoudi on Wednesday phoned the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Mon, to brief him on the massacres and systematic genocide against the Libyan people committed by Nato especially the latest in Majer, Zlitan which claimed the lives of 85 innocent civilians. On his part the UN Secretary General told the Secretary of the General People’s Committee, he would call an urgent session of the Security Council in the next hours, to discuss the indiscriminate bombing of residential areas, which kills civilians and destroy infrastructure.
Spokesman for the General People’s Committee, Dr. Musa Ibrahim made the following statement to reporters about the massacre of Zliten city committed by the Crusaders and led to the death of (85) martyrs.
Dr. Moussa Ibrahim has reposted his video after his original was censored on You-Tube.
http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-khamis-alive-libya/
The ‘rebels’ (heavily armed western backed coup plotters) have lied about pretty much everything – the Khamis story was their latest lie. Why on earth are we handing cash and arms to these people (and embassies) when the Libyan people DON’T WANT THEM? Please look at the channel Rayyisse on youtube and you will see the evidence of the nato raid that caused many civilian casualties, among them those people that Khamis is visiting in your picture. Please also google ‘leonorenlibia’ and read the real news that is not making it into our mass media. 80% of Libyans want Col. Gaddafi – who are we to force a bunch of corrupt ex-officials on them as a new government? how did this happen?
jaime August 10, 2011, 23:33
This criminal bandit organization, NATO, is resorting to bombing civilians (waterways, universities, hospitals, airports, journalist centres, etc…now farmhouses, to terrorize civiliams and destroy everything so that their henchmen can just move in to establish their domain. Lament for the destruction of a model nation of Africa.
Major Khamis Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday visited the wounded and injured in Zliten Central hospital who has survived after a massacre committed by NATO, bombed their homes in Madjer, Zliten and led to killing (85 ) civilians. During this visit, Major Khamis reassured the citizens of the elders, women and children who suffered varying burns, wounds. The wounded and injured renewed expressing their steadfastness and determination to defend their country and their city and not to waste an inch of the soil of Libya.
Libyan state TV has broadcast what it said was footage of Colonel Gaddafi’s son Khamis visiting people wounded in an air attack. Earlier rebels claimed he had been killed in a NATO air strike last week.
Libyan TV said the footage was recorded on Tuesday. Khamis al-Gaddafi is shown visiting a hospital chatting with people wounded in an air strike on farmhouses near the town of Zlitan, the comment said. It is the first visual evidence of Khamis being alive after the claims of his death.
Tripoli says 85 civilians from 12 families, including 33 children and 32 women, were killed on Monday night by NATO forces near Zlitan. NATO denied the allegations and said all the targets they bombed were military.
The rebels earlier said that Khamis, who commands elite loyalist troops, had been killed in a NATO strike. The government denied the report. Khamis was also wrongly reported dead in March.
Meanwhile, the head of Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, has sacked the entire executive committee which functions as a cabinet. It followed the assassination of Abdel Fattah Younes, the former interior minister, who commanded the rebel forces.
Nay Lin Maung August 11, 2011, 06:42
It is old methods to give wrong information about what is really happened in the Libya.
The war of the Libya is going to become or make judgement from the God.
Leak of a 70 page Criminal NATO Plan to Occupy Libya
UAE Would Occupy Tripoli in Post-Gadhafi Libya
by Jason Ditz
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25947
West Prepares New State Radio, Mass Arrest of ‘Fifth Column’ Opponents of Rebel Regime….
A 70-page plan detailing Western designs for the occupation of post-Gadhafi Libya, and apparently signed off on by the political leadership of the rebel Transitional Council in East Libya has been leaked, and paints a grim picture of the new regime NATO is planning on installing after the war.
The plan includes keeping large portions of the Gadhafian security apparatus intact, with a number of the leaders of the JAMAHIRIYA’s government left in position on condition of loyalty to the new, pro-West regime.
Even more controversial will be the “Tripoli task force,” a 15,000-man force operated by the United Arab Emirates which will, after Gadhafi is out of power, occupy the capital city of Tripoli and conduct mass arrests of Gadhafi’s top supporters.
The arrests won’t stop there, as of course they never do for a regime looking to stifle dissent. Indeed the plan also includes discussion of a new state radio network that will broadcast orders to the public to support the new government, and warning anti-Gadhafi factions that haven’t endorsed the new regime to stand down. The assumption in the report is that these factions, termed a “fifth column,” would also be arrested. The new state media will of course be necessitated all the more by the NATO attacks on the existing media.
The Transitional Council confirmed the authenticity of the report, and while the rebel ambassador to the UAE expressed “regret” that the truth had come out he said it was “important that the general public knows there is an advance plan.” It is a plan that likely won’t sit well with the TEBELS [terrorist “rebels”] who were demanding their reforms, nor those NATO members who acquiesced to the war on the assumption that is was a “humanitarian intervention”.
Libya and Universal Human Rights
Posted: 2011/08/11
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627922?rss
Humanity is at a crossroads. It has been coming for a long time and with Libya, it has arrived.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
Finally, the greyish mists which have been clouding our skies have lifted and what is happening is crystal clear… and humankind has a decision to make, and fast. The situation demands not voyeurism and comments, but action. Now!
Where NATO was and is, now becomes apparent. It was originally a defensive organization, fuelled by a collective fear of the Soviet Union (whose armed forces were essentially defensive). NATO then ran out of steam, and lost its reason to be, in the early 1990s, when the USSR entered into voluntary dissolution (not “collapse”) and after the Warsaw Pact was voluntarily dissolved. After all, what justification did a “defensive” organism have to exist after its “enemy” was no more?
It didn’t take long for corporatism to supplant market economy capitalism, the same time it took the new NATO to supplant the old. The tried and tested Socialist model had proved its worth, bringing societies into the front line of development, through excellent programs of education and free public services. Its job done, its societies decided to try out the new market economy model. What happened?
In ten years, the freedom to own your own business, the street corner merchant, the butcher, the baker, the market stall-holder have become, by and large, an anachronism. Where is your greengrocer, where is your butcher, where is your baker, where is your grocer, where is your fishmonger?
The answer is: the big space has destroyed them and the communities they served. Out went the human touch. And as far as NATO is concerned, out went human values, because exactly the same thing happened at a higher and more sinister level.
Those of us who covered the Iraq war knew by 2003 that NATO had already deployed Depleted Uranium (war crime) in Kosovo and in Iraq, causing the death or mutilation of hundreds of thousands of children. Those of us who covered the Iraq war were also privy to NATO’s tissues of lies.
For a start, the causus belli did not exist (Weapons of Mass Destruction). Secondly, there had been efforts by NATO countries to create such a justification for war (yellowcake uranium imported from Nigeria – when Niger is the producer; Colin Powell’s address to the UNO about Iraq’s weapons, when none existed; the UK’s evidence about the same, a thesis copied and pasted from the Net). Thirdly, NATO’s modus operandi inside Iraq served as a window on the true nature of the organization this clique of nations had morphed into.
Iraq: What really did it for me was the discovery that on the desk of Richard (also known as Dick) Cheney, a shopping list had been dropped, containing artefacts from Baghdad museums, drawn up by his cronies.
Then we discovered that the Afghanistan war was in fact nothing to do with the Taleban (who are being paid off handsomely not to attack by the way, and where NATO troops have been photographed guarding opium poppy plantations) but rather connected to the Central Asian energy resources.
So, we are confronted with a stark reality: either our dearly beloved and elected politicians walk hand-in-hand with the corporations which rule our planet (in which case they lose all legitimacy to govern) or else, there is a sinister and invisible echelon of controllers behind the political class which serves the interests of the lobbies, controlling our dearly beloved and elected politicians (in which case they lose all legitimacy to govern).
In Libya, we see that this is the case. Instead of western powers and news agencies praising Muammar al-Qathafi for his wonderful human rights record, namely:
Women’s rights – against Islamic law stoning women;
Homophobia – against the murder of homosexuals;
The veil – he called it a “tent”;
The UN report for which he was to receive a humanitarian prize in 2011:
Click to access A-HRC-16-15.pdf
We see that in Libya, these invisible cliques serving the interests of the lobbies are active, and more than this, are controlling western governments. From the outset it was obvious that the entire rebellion was stage-managed from outside (where did those flags come from?) and it becomes increasingly obvious that NATO countries and their allies are arming the terrorists (sorry, “rebels”).
The British dynamic duo, Cameron and Hague, started off by saying, quote: “This has nothing to do with Gaddafi staying”, then “It is up to the Libyan people but it would be better if he went” then” He has to go”. Lines on maps, “This is ours and that is yours, what?” and how about remembering what the BLACK AND TANS DID IN IRELAND?? So do not Cameron or Hague DARE to speak about terrorism… or Obama, for the IRA was funded primarily by NORAID in New York.
Libya: Then we have the bombing of handicapped children’s centres, the bombing of the Libyan water supply system, the bombing of the factory which produces the pipes to repair the system, the bombing of hospitals, and recently, the bombing of a children’s facility…and we can hear the corporate interests behind the scenes. As in Iraq “bring me the statue of…” we see in Libya the entire campaign is based upon “PHASE 1: Destroy the telecommunications systems (contracts already lined up); PHASE 2: “…need I say more?
Ladies and gentlemen, we are witnessing a clique of nations committing an illegal act of butchery. It was obvious from the start that NATO had armed the Libyan terrorists (sorry, “rebels”, sorry, “unarmed civilians”), it was obvious from the start that Muammar al-Qathafi’s African Union was up for grabs, because it meant that the energy lobby lost out, the banking lobby lost out, the arms lobby lost out, the telecoms lobby lost out…so instead of Africans paying BILLIONS of dollars to western corporations, they paid nothing for the same services.
This hurt. NATO swung into action. So now we see, NATO is nothing more or less than the military arm of the mega-corporations that rule the western world. Humankind has a choice: Accept: Yes or no?
If no, then there are things we can do:
1). In any court of international law, NATO’s acts in Libya violate the UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions. Therefore any State which does NOT bring a case against NATO is a snivelling coward and as such deserves the utter derision of the international community;
2). Given that the Governments of our planet have failed to implement international law, then let the people of the world take up the cause, now that our leaders have failed us;
3). The following countries have taken part in NATO’s act of butchery in Libya: Belgium: six fighter jets; Britain: 17 jets and two vessels; Bulgaria: one vessel; Canada: 11 jets and one vessel; Denmark: four jets; France: 33 jets and one vessel; Greece: two jets and one vessel; Italy: 16 jets and four vessels; Netherlands: seven jets and one vessel; Norway: six jets; Romania: one vessel; Spain: six jets and two vessels; Turkey: seven jets and six vessels; United States: 90 jets and one vessel. Qatar?
4). Renegotiate contracts with these countries, do not travel with their airlines and do not visit them, cut their companies out of your home country;
5). Civilian non-violent conduct: disseminate music and lyrics for our youth to sing, ridiculing NATO; T-shirts with the motto: NATO TARGET.
If humankind does not rise to the challenge and does not right what is clearly wrong, then there is a clear legitimacy for those of us who care, to take the matter up into our own hands.
Let us hope this isn’t necessary. We are going to sit back and watch? Or take up the flame which from time to time marked where we are and where we are going? If we do not, then future generations will judge us as that which allowed itself to be taken over by corporatism.
The generation that bent over, lowered its pants and…
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http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
Dispatch From Tripoli
Where Have Libya’s Children Gone?
By FRANKLIN LAMB
Tripoli, Libya.
Names and dates of birth of Libyan children missing from the orphanage at Misrata
The quality of life continues to degrade in certain areas of western Libya while public anxiety noticeably rises over missing Libyan children as the first week of an unusually stressful Ramadan passes.
The shortage of gasoline has become acute and despite government efforts to curtail price gouging, one taxi driver told this observer yesterday that while the usual price of ‘benzene’ was five liters (one gallon) for $.40 (forty US cents) he is now having to pay as much as ” 4 dinars for one liter of petrol!” That is roughly the equivalent of 13 US dollars for a gallon of gasoline, a huge price surge in a country long accustomed to cheap, heavily subsidized fuel. “Informal economy” (black market) fuel arrives in car trunks from the Tunisian border and its increasingly common to see fellows with a make shift funnel trying to get more benzene into their vehicle tanks than they splash and spill on neighborhood streets.
Walking around the “medina” off Omar Muktar Street near my hotel yesterday afternoon, the angst over deteriorating conditions is apparent. Shops, like homes, are now subject to rolling blackouts and quickly become hot and stuffy, discouraging would be customers from entering. Some food stores have to discard milk and other perishable items given the up to 11 hour power cuts that send temperatures above 100F. One gentleman on Rashid Street in downtown Tripoli said his family had not had power for five days and the pump that supplies water to his apartment building stopped working so they lack two essential utilities.
NATO’s arguable act of piracy earlier this week in commandeering the fuel tanker ship Cartagena off the coast of Malta that was bringing gasoline to Tripoli and sending it instead to rebel militia based close to Benghazi is yet again explained from NATO HQ as necessary for “protecting the civilian population of Libya.”
According to Libya’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim, “The age of piracy is coming back to the Mediterranean because of NATO.”
Some frustrated shop keepers just shutter their shops and seek relief at the beach or take a nap waiting for sundown and their Ramadan Iftar (feast) to begin. But lack of electricity even affects its preparation. ( note: 15 minutes ago NATO bombed the public beach near my hotel as three other bombs landed nearby—targets unknown)
Every time a bomb blast is heard, a chorus of passersby and kids invariably point toward the bomb site and watch the rising white or black smoke (the color depending on the type of bomb or missile) and some shout, “F— NATO! F—Obama!” Etc.
If a foreigner is confronted by angry citizens who may blame Americans for NATO’s bombing, a sure fire way to quickly reduce crowd tension is for the foreigner to make the peace sign and make a fist with his other hand and chant a few times: “Allah! Mohammad! Muammar! Libye! Abass!” (God!, Mohammad!, Qadaffi!, Libya!, that’s all we need!”) The locals appreciate the sentiment and pre-teens often join the popular chant and dance.
As of the morning of 8/7/11 NATO statistics show that since 3/31/11, NATO forces have launched 18,270 sorties, mainly against Western Libya, including 6,932 bomb/missile strike sorties. Last night (8/6/11) there were 115 sorties including 45 bombings of which 12 were in central Tripoli starting a 10 p.m.
To their great credit, some Congressional staffers on the US Senate Armed Services Committee who liaise with the Pentagon, have acted on constituent complaints and have criticized NATO’s incomplete description of its bombing of Libyan civilians.
For example earlier this week NATO reported its bombing of the village on Zlitan, about 160 miles east of Tripoli in the Western Mountains as follows: “In the vicinity of Zlitan:1 Ammunition Storage Facility, 1 Military Facility, 2 Multiple Rocket Launchers.”
However, still absent from this particular NATO report on its website is the fact that its bombing attack killed the wife and two children of Mustafa Naji, a local Zlitan physics teacher. Mustafa’s wife Ibtisam, and their two children, Mohammad 5 and Muttasim, were pulverized. Once again, NATO said it could not confirm the “accidental killings” but would investigate.
Where are the children?
Also of growing public and government concern in Western Libya is the whereabouts of 53 female and 52 male children aged one to 12 years and another group ranging from 12 to 18 years, both part of a government-run home for orphans and abused children that until February was operating in Misrata, now under rebel control. According to several reports over the past three months and testimony presented last Thursday evening to the international media gathered at the Tripoli Rexis Hotel, by the General Union for Civil Society Organizations:
The 105 children, part of more than 1000 missing, were “kidnapped” by rebel forces as they entered Misrata and went on a killing spree, some of which has been documented by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other groups. There is no question that the children are no longer in their sheltered facility. But from there what became of them remains a mystery.
The Libyan government claims the youngsters were kidnapped by rebels who went on a rampage in late February. Several reports from eyewitnesses claim that the children were last seen being put onto either a Turkish, Italian, or French boat. More than one witness claimed to have witnessed some of the children being sold in Tunisia. On his tweeter page, the local Russian Telesur reporter said that “several sources have affirmed that the 105 children were taken out of the country in a ship that could be Turkish, French or Italian.”
Libyan Social Affairs Minister Ibrahim Sharif told reporters in Tripoli this week that, “We want the truth and we hold those countries responsible for the well-being of these children who are neither soldiers nor combatants.” Sharif added that a rebel doctor captured by government troops testified that some of the orphans had been taken to France and Italy. Given Misrata’s history as a main North African slave trading port, a fact that today partially explains tensions among the one third of Libya’s population that is black and who are descendants of slaves and many of whom live in western Libya in villages now fighting the Misrata and Benghazi based rebels, concern is acute.
While Libya has had perhaps the most strictly enforced child protection laws in the Middle East and Africa, people here remember clearly that France was at the center of a scandal in 2007 when aid workers from the Zoe’s Ark charity attempted to fly 103 children out of Chad, to the south of Libya, who they said were orphans from neighboring Sudan. International aid staff later found that the children were in fact Chadian and had at least one living parent. People here fear a similar fate for the Libyan youngsters.
Also on people’s minds in Libya is what happened two years ago in Haiti when “orphans,” according to local authorities, were kidnapped. Given the epidemic of human trafficking in this region, especially of children, fears are well founded.
NATO has not replied to inquiries demanding information about the disappeared children nor has UNICEF, Save the Children or Secretary of State Clinton’s office. Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has agreed to demand that the White House order an immediate investigation and of course any human rights advocate could raise this issue in the West and demand an urgent inquiry from her/his government.
The Libyan government as well as both the Roman Catholic Papal representative Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, and Father Daoud of the Anglican Church of Christ the King, in Tripoli have demanded that the UN investigate and find the children.
As for the National Transition Council, its spokesman denied charges that they have sold the children and claim that the Libyan government in Tripoli have all the children and that they are using them as human shields at the now five times bombed Bab al Azizya complex in central Tripoli. No known human rights organization or journalist who has investigated this claim has reported seeing any sign of the children at Bab al Azizya. The General Union, noted above, has photos and names and ages of all the missing children and have widely publicized them.
More than a dozen social welfare organizations, women’s groups and Libya’s Lawyer syndicates have launched an intensive media and public involvement campaign to find the children who have now been missing for nearly six months.
Franklin Lamb is in Libya and can be reached at fplamb@gmail.com
SAPAI PUBLIC STATEMENT
par Frederick Douglass, jeudi 11 août 2011, 15:47
British (Government) colonial arrogance knows no bounds!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/frederick-douglass/sapai-public-statement/241495412557201
11 August 2011
Yesterday, the South Africans for Peace in Africa Initiative (SAPAI), a civil society platform which campaigns for the peaceful resolution of conflicts on the African continent, held a peaceful and lawful protest march to the Embassy of the United States of America and the High Commission of the United Kingdom in Pretoria, Tshwane to demand an immediate and unconditional cessation of NATO aggression against Libya.
The march was successful in registering the extreme disapproval of ordinary South Africans to the ongoing NATO aggression and will succeed to generate the necessary public debate about one of the continent?s pressing issues.
Such is the contempt that the British government has for South Africans that the High Commission refused to accept our memorandum of demands, forcing us to drop the memorandum in the Commission?s post box outside the building.
This conduct also illustrates the British government?s gross insensitivity to the solemn matter of the genocide of Libyan women and children whose condemnation the protestors sought to communicate. It is but a small window into which we can glean into the dark heart and mind of British policy towards South Africa and the continent as a whole.
Successive British governments have fine-tuned the practice of genocide as an essential tool to achieve its colonial objectives. They do so with the contempt and arrogance that colonialists are wont to exude. To cite but a few examples, we recall:
(i) The Hola Massacre in Kenya on March 3, 1959;
(ii) The December 1948 massacre of Malaysian plantation workers;
(iii) The April 13, 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in India led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer said that the massacre was necessary to produce a “moral and widespread effect?; and,
(iv) The wanton murder of Afrikaaner women and children in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 – 1902.
The current British genocidal campaign in pursuit of a neo-colonial regime change agenda aimed at ushering in a client bantustan state in Libya is consistent with a tradition established for well over a century.
The arrogance demonstrated by the officials of the British High Commission in Tshwane yesterday is characteristic of a system of government, which has long established consensus on killing as necessary to produce a “moral and widespread effect?.
It also exposes the lie about the British government?s commitment to free speech, one of the very freedoms it claims to be exporting to Libya.
SAPAI intends to hold another peaceful demonstration to the British High Commission again in due course to demand the immediate and unconditional cessation of NATO aggression against Libya and the immediate commencement of the African Union Road Map for Peace in Libya.
We call on all South Africans and Africans to join us in this protest march, to assert our hard-won right to protest and to defend the Libyan and African peoples? right to determine their destiny free from foreign interference.
We reiterate the timeless words of President Julius Nyerere who said: “No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.” (?A Peaceful New Year? speech; 1 January 1968)
Issued by the South Africans for Peace in Africa Initiative
http://www.sa4peace.org.za
For more information please contact David Maimela on +27 83 473 1938/ comms@sa4peace.org.za
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Aisha Qathafi’s Daughter Pleads for Dialogue
Posted: 01 MAY 2011/
From: Mathaba http://mathaba.net/news/?x=626596
Photo: Muammar Al Qathafi’s daughter, Aisha, 36
In a rare interview with the New York Times, Aisha talked about her three young children
[one, her little girl, who died shortly after this interview when NATO bombed her late-brother, Saif al-Arab’s house, where she was playing with her little cousins and uncle].
She said she liked to tell them bedtime stories about the afterlife. Now, she says, they are especially appropriate. She said she does so in order to
In the interview, conducted at her charitable foundation in Tripoli, Ms Al Qathafi, spoke for more than an hour late Sunday afternoon, just hours before NATO escalated its airstrikes with an attack on the Libyan leader’s compound in Tripoli.
Ms Al Qathafi, a Libyan-trained lawyer, offered a glimpse into the fatalistic mind-set of the increasingly popular family at the core of the battle for Libya, the bloodiest arena in the ongoing F-UK-US attempt to invade and control African resources.
She dismissed the rebels as “terrorists” but suggested that some former Al Qathafi officials who are now in the opposition’s governing council still “keep in touch with us.”
While she pleaded for dialogue, and dismissed the rebels as unfit for such talks, she hurled personal barbs at President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ms Al Qathafi disparaged the idea of electoral democracy.
During the interview, that was published under the heading: “From an Al Qathafi Daughter”, Ms. Al Qathafi, said the crisis had pulled the family together “like one hand.”
She said that she and her seven brothers
[one, Saif al-Arab, was Murdered shortly after this interview]
have a dialogue between them and exchange points of view before anyone takes a major step in their common defence. She acknowledged that she had seen news reports that her siblings had proposed easing their father from power in a transition under the direction of her brother Seif al-Islam, but she declined to comment on the details.
She also pointedly declined to answer when asked if Abdel Fattah Younis, a top rebel military official who was a long-time interior minister, was among the leaders who had kept in touch with the Al Qathafi family. (al-Younis was assassinated by rebel-al-Qaeda leaders at the end of July; but the rest of al-Younis’ family, particuòarly his son, remained loyal to al-Gadhafi.)
Talking about those rebel leaders, she said:
Ms. Al Qathafi focused on how the Western F-UK-US alliance would rue the chaos she predicted would engulf a post-Qathafi Libya. When pressed repeatedly on how her family could stay “in power”, she said more than once,
Ms. Al Qathafi seldom speaks in public, but has appeared in public twice since the bombings began, before cheering crowds at her father’s compound.
At times during the interview, she laughed at her fate, recalling how the United Nations, after “begging” her to be an envoy for peace in the past, has now referred her to the International Criminal Court. Her staff presented an illustrated biography entitled “Princess of Peace.”
She said her experience as a volunteer on Saddam Hussein’s defence team offered relevant parallels.
“The opposition in Iraq told the West that when you come to Iraq they will greet you with roses,” she said. “Almost 10 years later they are receiving the Americans with bullets, and, believe me, the situation in Libya will be much worse.”
She taunted both President Obama and Mrs. Clinton, saying that Mr. Obama had “achieved nothing so far” and laughing as she posed a question to Mrs. Clinton: “Why didn’t you leave the White House when you found out about the cheating of your husband?”
Even as she deprecated the American leaders, she repeatedly called for talks. “The world should come together at a round table,” she said, “under the auspices of international organizations,” Ms Al Qatahfi said during her interview with the NY Times.
At the same time, she ruled out any dialogue with the Libyan rebels who now control the eastern half of the country; its commercial centre, Misurata; and the western mountain towns of Zintan and Nalut, dismissing them as “terrorists” who “are just fighting for the sake of fighting.”
Her brother Seif-al Islam proposed, she said, a constitution to be dicussed among the People’s Committees when “this tragedy happened and spoiled things.”
[Mathaba: this report is second hand, so we cannot confirm if she actually said this. It does appear to be true, however, that in recent years Seif and his allies had kept Muammar “prisoner” from being his ‘revolutionary’ self and were looking for some modifications to the existing Jamahiriya system to “proposing a constitution”. Current events will scupper this and Seif has rightly rallied to his father.]
At the same time, she also derided the basic ideas of checks and balances and public accountability in an electoral democracy. “Let me say something about the Western elections that they say are a democratic system of ruling,” she volunteered, referring to handwritten notes she had prepared for the interview.
“In an election where one candidate won with 50 per cent of the vote and another lost with 48 per cent,” she asked, “Do you call this democracy? Just this one vote? What happened to the 48 per cent who said ‘no’?” Quoting from The Green Book.
She complained of the “betrayal” of Arabs whose causes her father had supported and the Western allies to whom he had turned over his weapons of mass destruction. “Is this the reward that we get?” she asked. “This would lead every country that has weapons of mass destruction to keep them or make more so they will not meet the same fate as Libya.”
Ms Al Qathafi predicted that without her father’s influence, illegal immigrants from Africa would pour into Europe, Islamic radicals would establish a base on the Mediterranean’s shores, and Libyan tribes would turn their guns on one another.
Citing unconfirmed Libyan intelligence reports, she asserted that the weapons-starved rebels had actually sold arms to the Islamist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. “When my father was there, see how safe Europe was and how safe Libya was?” she asked.
Ms. Al Qathafi initially dismissed reports of the handful of nights two months ago when terrorist-gangs took over some streets of Tripoli, burned GREEN BOOKs and torched police stations. She said that journalists had seen the evidence, She argued that the destruction proved they were not civilian protesters but “saboteurs.”
She also appeared to dismiss as FALSE witnesses, the accounts of Al Qathafi’s forces shooting unarmed demonstrators on the orders of Saadi al-Gadhafi, who was in Bengazi at the time ! [17 FEBRUARY “UPRISING”]
[Investigations proved afterwards that nine terrorists were shot, as they tried to steal weapons from the police armory; and that they themsevess were armed. Many were former prisoners who were released on 15 February. Others were al-Qaeda, formerly fighting in Afghanastan and Iraq along with outside mercenaries who, with the CIA and MI6, were planning the insurrection for months. Among them were some loyalists primed by Prince Mohammed al-Senussi who was living in exile in Great Britain, Most were not even citizens of the JAMAHIRIYA!]
As for her father’s state of mind, she said with a laugh that he was not worried at all. “He is as strong as the world knows him,” she said. “He is quite sure that the Libyan people are loyal to him.”
Her family still hoped, she said, to go back to its previous position, what she called “a return to normal.” But, she added, “of course we can expedite that if NATO will stop bombing us.” #
http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
NATO will run out of bombs and missiles and grow tired of murdering millions of people but Qaddafi will not be moved and resides in the hearts of billions…
Who Are The Tebels That The West Are Supporting in The Civil War in Libya?
Posted: 2011/08/06
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627873
Who are the rebels who promised the West they would kill Qaddafi and hand over Libyan resources to the West but have only dragged NATO into a war that history will show was the defeat of the Western military? Again for those who missed more detailed analysis in the past here at Mathaba, here is a very short pointer for you.
Their identities are not secret. Who they are and what they believe in is no secret. So why isn’t the press reporting the facts?
Cut, paste and search the names given below for yourself so that you don’t just have to believe what you read. Google is your friend, do a little minimal research after reading this article.
The Libyan Fighting Group (LIFG) also known as Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya is the most powerful radical faction waging Jihad in Libya against Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi’s regime. Shortly after the 9-11 attacks, LIFG was banned worldwide (as an affiliate of al-Qaeda) by the UN 1267 Committee.
LIFG was founded in the fall of 1995 by Libyans who had fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. It aims to establish an Islamic state in Libya and views the current regime as oppressive, corrupt and anti-Muslim (which is what makes it corrupt and oppressive to the rebels), according to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. LIFG claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt against Gaddafi in February 1996. (5 years before the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001).
“Fierce clashes between [Qadhafi’s] security forces and Islamist guerrillas erupted in Benghazi in September 1995, leaving dozens killed on both sides. After weeks of intense fighting, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) formally declared its existence in a communiqué calling Qadhafi’s government “an apostate regime that has blasphemed against the faith of God Almighty” and declaring its overthrow to be “the foremost duty after faith in God.”
This and future LIFG communiqués were issued by Libyan Afghans who had been granted political asylum in Britain…. (Gaddafi has been fighting against these Al Qaeda based rebels, the Rebels based in Benghazi for over 15 years).
As recently as February 2004, then-Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that “one of the most immediate threats [to U.S. security] is from smaller international Sunni extremist groups that have benefited from al-Qaida links. They include … the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.”
Derna is famous as the home of a large number of suicide bombers in Iraq. It is also deeply hostile to Gaddafi. “Residents of eastern Libya in general, and Derna in particular, view the Gaddadfa (Gaddafi’s tribe) as uneducated, uncouth interlopers from an inconsequential part of the country who have ‘stolen’ the right to rule in Libya,” US diplomats were told in 2008, in a cable since released by WikiLeaks.
The last 110 members of the LIFG were freed on 16 February, the day after the Libyan uprising began (the 1995 uprising not the 2011 uprising). One of those released, Abdulwahab Mohammed Kayed, is the brother of Abu Yahya Al Libi, one of al Qaida’s top propagandists. Koumi fled Libya and is said to have ended up in Afghanistan working for Bin Laden. Captured in Pakistan, he was handed over to the US and sent to Guantánamo Bay in 2002. In 2009 he was sent back to Libya….
ALSO SEARCH: Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (Libya) and the Safist Group for Preaching and Fighting.
From: The London Telegraph:
In an interview with the Italian newspaper >>Il Sole 24 Ore<<, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya".
Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".
His revelation came even as Idriss Deby Itno, Chad's president, said al-Qaeda had managed to pillage military arsenals in the Libyan rebel zone …
LIBYAN REBELS INCLUDE AL QAIDA – WIKILEAKS RELEASE ON GUANTANAMO BAY INMATES SHOWS "PROBABLE MEMBER OF AL QAIDA" NOW IS KEY LEADER OF LIBYAN REBELS
As Obama (acting without Congress's approval), France and the UK make it increasingly clear every day that they are trying to help the rebels overthrow Qaddafi by using NATO's overwhelming air power against the Libyan Government forces, Obama's unilateral decision to support the rebels in the Libyan civil war is looking worse and worse. The evidence is mounting that AL QAIDA is in a key leadership position among Libyan rebels.
Yesterday the Daily Beast revealed that a "probable" member of Al Qaida was a key rebel leader (based on Wikileaks releases) – "From Gitmo to Leading Libya’s Rebels"
"One notable Guantanamo inmate in the files is Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu, a captive in the prison for five years who had been deemed a 'probable member of al Qaeda' by the U.S. But now his relationship to America is more complex: Qumu, a native of Libya, is now a leading figure among that’s country’s rebel fighters against Col. Gaddafi. His Gitmo assessment says he has a 'non-specific personality disorder.'”
This is in addition to "Mokhtar" – another rebel leader recently killed by Qaddafi's forces that was described by a US intelligence official as at least a "fellow traveler" of Al Qaida, and who had been involved in extremist activity in Afghanistan and Libya since the 1990s (i.e. he probably has killed US soldiers in Afghanistan).
Those are just 2 of the more well-documented cases of Al Qaida among the rebels. In both cases it is actually US sources identifying them as Al Qaida.
As Mu'ammar Qaddafi pointed out, if the poor African without any means can cross into Europe in the hundreds of thousands illegally then how about the Al-Qaeda who are intelligent and with great recources (as we now know supplied and supported by the CIA)? The Libyan Government and with the guidance of Muammar Qaddafi, was capable of stopping all Al-Qaida and had them safely locked up in Libya or in exile in the USA. All that has now changed, thanks to the USA and NATO.
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April 6, 2004
Don’t Expand NATO!
by Rep. Ron Paul
Further expansion of NATO, an outdated alliance, is not in our national interest and may well constitute a threat to our national security in the future.
More than 50 years ago the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to defend Western Europe and the United States against attack from the communist nations of Eastern Europe. It was an alliance of sovereign nations bound together in common purpose – for mutual defense. The deterrence value of NATO helped to keep the peace throughout the Cold War. In short, NATO achieved its stated mission. With the fall of the Soviet system and the accompanying disappearance of the threat of attack, in 1989–1991, NATO’s reason to exist ceased. Unfortunately, as with most bureaucracies, the end of NATO’s mission did not mean the end of NATO. Instead, heads of NATO member states gathered in 1999 desperately attempting to devise new missions for the outdated and adrift alliance. This is where NATO moved from being a defensive alliance respecting the sovereignty of its members to an offensive and interventionist organization, concerned now with “economic, social and political difficulties…ethnic and religious rivalries, territorial disputes, inadequate or failed efforts at reform, the abuse of human rights, and the dissolution of states,” in the words of the Washington 1999 Summit.
And we saw the fruits of this new NATO mission in the former Yugoslavia, where the US, through NATO, attacked a sovereign state that threatened neither the United States nor its own neighbors. In Yugoslavia, NATO abandoned the claim it once had to the moral high ground. The result of the illegal and immoral NATO intervention in the Balkans speaks for itself: NATO troops will occupy the Balkans for the foreseeable future. No peace has been attained, merely the cessation of hostilities and a permanent dependency on US foreign aid.
The further expansion of NATO is in reality a cover for increased US interventionism in Europe and beyond. It will be a conduit for more unconstitutional US foreign aid and US interference in the internal politics of member nations, especially the new members from the former East.
It will also mean more corporate welfare at home. As we know, NATO membership demands a minimum level of military spending of its member states. For NATO’s new members, the burden of significantly increased military spending when there are no longer external threats is hard to meet. Unfortunately, this is where the US government steps in, offering aid and subsidized loans to these members so they can purchase more unneeded and unnecessary military equipment. In short, it is nothing more than corporate welfare for the US military industrial complex.
The expansion of NATO to these seven countries, we have heard, will open them up to the further expansion of US military bases, right up to the border of the former Soviet Union. Does no one worry that this continued provocation of Russia might have negative effects in the future? Is it necessary?
Further, this legislation encourages the accession of Albania, Macedonia, and Croatia – nations that not long ago were mired in civil and regional wars. The promise of US military assistance if any of these states are attacked is obviously a foolhardy one. What will the mutual defense obligations we are entering into mean if two Balkan NATO members begin hostilities against each other (again)?
In conclusion, we should not be wasting US tax money and taking on more military obligations expanding NATO. The alliance is a relic of the Cold War, a hold-over from another time, an anachronism. It should be disbanded, the sooner the better.
2nd June 2002
http://www.stopnato.org.uk/research/america.htm
Stop NATO!
Schizophrenic America
Cossack, punik1915@comcast.net.
Were it not so terribly dangerous and distressing, the sight and sound of America post-911, wailing and rending its garments over the “terrible, unimaginable loss” of that horrid day, it would be outrageously amusing.
Since 911, it has been virtually impossible to listen to any news broadcast that does not have at least one item about the casualties of 911, the babies born into the families of the victims, the terrible loss felt by those left behind. Now, it is not as though I am saying that such “human interest” stories are necessarily inappropriate. What is totally beyond comprehension (to the rational and reasonable) that all the millions (that’s right, millions) of relatives of the millions of casualties (collateral or otherwise) of US and US policies have no right to similar feelings of outrage, pain and loss.
From 1945 on, the US has accounted, directly and indirectly, for far and away more casualties worldwide than all the “axes of evil” and “evil empires” in the post-WWII period combined. Granted, America has not in every instance directly massacred all these myriad innocents. However, in addition to the carnage directly caused by the US the numbers of those who have perished at the hands of America’s “willing executioners” are huge and growing. It is totally beyond question that American foreign policy has repeatedly and continually groomed, schooled and supported many of the most repressive despots, dictators and regimes in the post-WWII world.
America’s schizophrenia comes from the fact that, possibly due to its deeply embedded racism, many if not most Americans believe that they are a species apart. Occasionally, at least in the minds of the American Anglophiles, this extends as well to the British (the white, Anglo-Saxon Britons that is) and, of course, Zionist Israelis. Most Americans are fully convinced of the innate goodness, generosity and benevolence of their nation and its entire work. This is merely a sign and symbol of the pitiable dearth of learning and erudition among average Americans.
Though America arguably has the best post-secondary education money can buy, the education of most Americans is so terribly narrow that, outside of their own narrow area of specialization, Americans are morons. Liberal education (along with just about everything else ‘liberal’) has become anathema in the US. As with just about everything else, Americans value only that which can directly be shown to be monetarily advantageous. Since a wide knowledge base presents no direct monetary advantage (an erroneous assumption widely accepted in the US, there is no demand for such education.
That American policies can only be positive and beneficial is taken for granted by most Americans. That totally ignores the fact that, if the rest of the world were to take America at its words and emulate (or attempt to) America’s profligate lifestyle, the world economy and ecosystems would collapse in remarkably short order. On the one hand, the pablum peddled to the somnambulant American public is that all of our various foreign interventions, incursions and invasions are undertaken to “spread democracy” and “American values” worldwide. However, the reality of American foreign policy is 180° in opposition to its stated aims. Examine the shameful behavior of the various proconsuls in the UN (American) satrapy of Bosnia. Yes, by God, we will teach these heathens what democracy is! When we disapprove of what is broadcast in that satrapy, the proconsul and his UN bullyboys simply seize or destroy the offending facilities and arrest or execute the personnel. When an election in that devastated region fails to produce the proper result, again the proconsul (with the obvious support of America) simply unilaterally overturns the election results and installs whatever pro-American quisling it decides is most amenable to American control and instruction. This is democracy?!?
Another conspicuous example of America’s schizophrenia is demonstrated in America’s stance on ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’. Accusations (baseless) of such ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’ formed the basis for America’s 79 day gang rape of Yugoslavia. However, ask any American (of course, Native Americans excluded) how America ‘developed’ from a fragile strip of 13 Atlantic coast colonies to a continent spanning entity. They will look at you in moronic bewilderment. When you suggest America itself may be the prime example in recent times of ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’, you will be verbally (if not physically) attacked, derided as ‘anti-American’ or, Heaven forbid, a ‘radical’. The fact that American politicians fall all over themselves to rush to the aid and defense of one of the regimes most obviously engaged in ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’ (Israel), simply does not seem to register.
This is not to say that genocide and ethnic cleansing should be tolerated or excused. However, if we are to be consistent and principled, then it is axiomatic that America is far overdue for a thorough and honest re-examination of its own history and behavior. Any such re-examination will be uncomfortable, distressing and disturbing to American who truly believes in the oft stated principles Americans repeatedly say they hold dear.
This page: http://www.stopnato.org.uk/research/america.htm
The Captains’ Blog
columnist: Skip Sanders
http://www.nolanchart.com/article6654_34_and_38__How_to_legally_dissolve_the_US_Federal_Government.html
Topic: Constitutional Issues
34 and 38 : How to legally dissolve the U.S. Federal Government
A Constitutional Explanation of how to legally dissolve the U.S. Federal Government.by Skip Sanders
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Thirty four (34) is the number of Legislatures from the several States necessary to call a States Convention or a Constitutional Convention. This also known as an Article Five(5) Convention, or a Convention to Amend the U.S. Constitution. With fifty (50) States in the U.S. Federal Compact today, thirty four (34) is the Constitutional number of legislatures from the several States needed to cross the threshold for such a convention.
Let’s look at Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution :
“The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. ”
Thirty eight (38) is the number of legislatures from the several States that is necessary to ratify and thus amend the U.S. Constitution after such a convention. This amendment could be “to dissolve”. By “dissolve” I mean the whole compact between the several States. Yes, the entire Federal Government and every thing it has or was created under it’s jurisdiction. This would include but is not limited too, the Federal Debt, the Federal Reserve Bank, the FDIC, the Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, etc. etc… Think of it as a Constitutional self destruct mechanism.
This would leave the fifty (50) several States and the numerous Federal Territories, sovereign and under their own rightful and direct jurisdiction. Of course each State or Territory would then be free to individually or in groups engage in new compacts and trade arrangements. That is up to them to decide at a further date.
I know this information is very powerful and the far reaching ramification of such a decision may be a little hard for the reader to grasp or understand at first glance. I openly admit that I am not capable of understanding all the possibilities or consequences of such a decision. That being said, please allow me to entertain some ideas that immediately come to mind.
The Federal Reserve and Federal Reserve Notes are gone. The National Debt under the Federal Governments’ promise to pay, evaporates Of course the IRS and all Federal Taxes. Social Security , Medicare and all that has been promised, owed or collected. Any claim to Federal Park Lands, highways, military bases, equipment, buildings, assets of any kind inside the several States. Any and all Federal agreements or treaties such as NATO, the UN, WTO, NAFTA,CAFTA, GAT and so on. I invite the readers to speculate and comment on any of the challenges or possibilities that could result if such a course was taken.
I will leave you with this final thought, “That which has been created can NOT be greater than the creator.” It is time for the people through their several State Governments assert their power over the Federal Government over which they created. 100% Legally with pen and paper!
Alexandra Valiente
12 août 08:18
This is a huge topic. If all the people of the world could disband their present governments and create people’s councils with direct democracy, there would be no more place for NATO, the UN, the global banking cartels, etc. There are no fast solutions. Real revolution takes time and needs to be well organized. For now the best thing we can do is remove our support for the existing system and let it collapse. While this is happening, create alternatives to replace the corrupt systems.
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=606
HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS
BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
30 March 2004
Don’t Expand NATO!
Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution. I do so because further expansion of NATO, an outdated alliance, is not in our national interest and may well constitute a threat to our national security in the future.
More than 50 years ago the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to defend Western Europe and the United States against attack from the communist nations of Eastern Europe. It was an alliance of sovereign nations bound together in common purpose – for mutual defense. The deterrence value of NATO helped kept the peace throughout the Cold War. In short, NATO achieved its stated mission. With the fall of the Soviet system and the accompanying disappearance of the threat of attack, in 1989-1991, NATO’s reason to exist ceased. Unfortunately, as with most bureaucracies, the end of NATO’s mission did not mean the end of NATO. Instead, heads of NATO member states gathered in 1999 desperately attempting to devise new missions for the outdated and adrift alliance. This is where NATO moved from being a defensive alliance respecting the sovereignty of its members to an offensive and interventionist organization, concerned now with “economic, social and political difficulties…ethnic and religious rivalries, territorial disputes, inadequate or failed efforts at reform, the abuse of human rights, and the dissolution of states,” in the words of the Washington 1999 Summit.
And we saw the fruits of this new NATO mission in the former Yugoslavia, where the US, through NATO, attacked a sovereign state that threatened neither the United States nor its own neighbors. In Yugoslavia, NATO abandoned the claim it once had to the moral high ground. The result of the illegal and immoral NATO intervention in the Balkans speaks for itself: NATO troops will occupy the Balkans for the foreseeable future. No peace has been attained, merely the cessation of hostilities and a permanent dependency on US foreign aid.
The further expansion of NATO is in reality a cover for increased US interventionism in Europe and beyond. It will be a conduit for more unconstitutional US foreign aid and US interference in the internal politics of member nations, especially the new members from the former East.
It will also mean more corporate welfare at home. As we know, NATO membership demands a minimum level of military spending of its member states. For NATO’s new members, the burden of significantly increased military spending when there are no longer external threats is hard to meet. Unfortunately, this is where the US government steps in, offering aid and subsidized loans to these members so they can purchase more unneeded and unnecessary military equipment. In short, it is nothing more than corporate welfare for the US military industrial complex.
The expansion of NATO to these seven countries, we have heard, will open them up to the further expansion of US military bases, right up to the border of the former Soviet Union. Does no one worry that this continued provocation of Russia might have negative effects in the future? Is it necessary?
Further, this legislation encourages the accession of Albania, Macedonia, and Croatia – nations that not long ago were mired in civil and regional wars. The promise of US military assistance if any of these states are attacked is obviously a foolhardy one. What will the mutual defense obligations we are entering into mean if two Balkan NATO members begin hostilities against each other (again)?
In conclusion, we should not be wasting US tax money and taking on more military obligations expanding NATO. The alliance is a relic of the Cold War, a hold-over from another time, an anachronism. It should be disbanded, the sooner the better.
Here is a great 1970 ARCHIVE on al-Gadhafi and Nassar of Egypt:
Does the international community exist?
11.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/11-08-2011/118726-international_community-0/
Does the international community exist?. 45109.jpegNATO is committing war crimes daily in Libya, the latest massacre of children and civilians in Zliten demonstrating its cold-blooded and reptilian callous disregard for human life as it proceeds to bomb indiscriminately in a desperate attempt to aid the terrorists it supports, knowing full well the TNC has the support of some 2% of Libyans.
And what is the international community doing? The people of the international community are doing a lot. They are networking, they are pooling resources, they are discussing how to get the war criminals in NATO and their political leaders into a court of law (taking the legal path and not the violent one, unlike NATO), they are collecting and passing on information.
In so doing, they are bypassing the controlled media through which NATO wises to pass its squeaky clean message of dastardly dictators siphoning off money for themselves and their families, the poor, poor people held down (sniff) and (tear) the children being killed and screaming in hospitals (right on cue, SKY shows a screaming boy…careful, hold the camera straight, make sure you don’t get that needle in, they might see he is having a routine inoculation).
In so doing, the international community, or those of us who want to find out what is really going on, are very well aware of the facts. After all, the uprising in Libya did not come in the capital city, Tripoli, where 2.7 out of Libya’s 6 million people live. It started along the borders, already controlled by NATO after the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and in the port city of Misratah, where NATO warships could ferry in terrorists and supplies at will.
We found out that around 100,000 foreign mercenaries had indeed been shipped and transported into Libya from the Eastern frontier and we found out that these were not Gaddafi mercenaries – after all, he has 99% of the Libyan armed forces with him. We found out that the supposed attacks by the Libyan Air Force did not exist and we found out that these allegations were behind the UNSC Resolutions spurring NATO’s action. Being false flag events, we know very well that UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) are under international law, void.
We discovered that the massacres being committed were by the terrorists unleashed and aided and abetted by NATO countries, primarily the UK and France, backed by Big Brother the US of A, we discovered that NATO was illegally involved in an internal conflict, we discovered that NATO was actively supporting the terrorist forces by bombing Libyan Armed Force positions ahead of attacks.
We discovered the heinous atrocities committed by these “rebels”, we discovered the flagrant disregard for international law demonstrated by an arrogant clique of criminals – the NATO countries involved – in arming these terrorists. We discovered NATO’s attacks against civilians, we discovered NATO’s war crimes, we discovered that NATO wantonly murdered the family of Colonel Gaddafi in a precision strike against a family home, occasioning the death of his son and three of his grandchildren while he was outside feeding the animals.
And what has the leadership of the international community done? Absolutely nothing. They have sat on their backsides either watching nonchalantly, or else they have suddenly become fascinated with their fingernails, the palms of their hands, their navels or their feet, swallowing silently like a sickening bunch of snivelling cowards, a useless collection of specimens which are the worst possible apology for human beings and for humankind.
This disgusting act of collective cowardice or worse, collusion, is entirely unacceptable and goes wholly against the grain of the collective will in the hearts and minds of the people of the international community, who stand shoulder to shoulder beside their brothers and sisters, the heroic people of Libya and their beloved Brother Leader.
Shame on those who could and should be doing much more to stop this. This said, it is the duty of every civilised human being to take this matter up through the proper legal channels. Let us continue networking to bring the NATO war criminals to justice. We have been abandoned by those we looked to to support us and to uphold international law but this does not mean we cannot take up the fight ourselves.
Does the international community exist? Yes, it does, and Libya has shown us what it is really made of – not the sickening turncoats whose pockets are lined by the corporate elitists to whose wills and policies they pander and grovel but rather, by the rank and file of humankind. More and more of us are coming together, like brothers and sisters, from the four corners of the Earth, learning from each other, interacting with each other and drinking deep from that cup which is human knowledge. We are black, we are white, we are yellow, we are brown, we are Moslems, we are Jews, we are Christians, we are monarchists, atheists, conservatives, communists, radicals, women, men, straight, gay…we are human beings.
And we are now the international community. We do not need those who have allowed Libya to happen and who are perpetrating the crimes. Libya has taught us that we have surpassed them and now, we can hold them accountable in the ballot box. Did you vote for NATO to control your foreign policy? Then why does it? Bring it onto the political agenda.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
Kucinich Renews Call for Accountability from All Sides of Libyan War
“To Whom is NATO Accountable? How Can They Continue to Cause the Deaths of Innocent Civilians Under the Color of International Law and not be Held Accountable?”
WASHINGTON – 11 August 2011 –
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon renewing his call that all sides should be held accountable in the war in Libya. This is one in a series of letters that Congressman Kucinich has sent to Secretary General Ki-moon concerning NATO violence in Libya.
See a signed copy of the letter here. The full text follows:
10 August 2011
The Honorable Ban Ki-moon
Secretary General
The United Nations
Fifth Avenue at 46th Street
New York, New York 10017
Dear Secretary General,
I write to bring to your attention recent developments in Libya and to reiterate my calls for accountability of member states of the United Nations (U.N.) and the top command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for actions taken in Libya pursuant to U.N Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973.
Reports continue to surface that indicate that continued military operations in Libya may have resulted in further deaths of innocent civilians. A recent article from Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that “Libyan authorities… accused NATO of a ‘massacre’ of 85 villagers in air strikes in support of rebels” in Zlitan, Libya, citing the deaths of “Thirty-three children, 32 women and 20 men from 12 families.[1]”
If such reports are true, it further highlights the increased risks to civilians that has occurred as a result of military intervention in Libya and is further evidence that continued bombing by NATO under the context of UNSCR 1973 is an inappropriate tool to protect civilians or force Muammar Gaddafi from power.
To whom is NATO accountable? How can they continue to cause the deaths of innocent civilians under the color of international law and not be held accountable?
The lack of even a public warning to NATO from the United Nations makes a mockery of UN Resolutions which are allegedly aimed at protecting innocent civilians from organized violence.
I reiterate my requests that the U.N. take immediate action to hold member states and their NATO extension accountable for actions in Libya that violate U.N. Security Council Resolutions that place innocent civilians at risk.
Sincerely,
Dennis J. Kucinich
Member of Congress
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Et tu NATO Brute!
11.08.2011
Et tu NATO Brute!. 45096.jpegby Jagdish Keshav
This is the question that dominates a right person’s thinking mind about the back-stabbing brutes called by the four-letter word NATO! In the present scenario, this four letter word has almost the same connotation to the other four letter word in its vulgarity!
In the forgotten sanctity of the UN Security Council, manipulative powers that rule the skies over bright skies of the northern fringes of Africa have perniciously acted to maim and kill the very people they were to protect,, at least according to their official will they left behind on the gleaming desks of the UN that says so.
In the abyss of an economic tumble and of the social unrest haunting their landscapes, the allied axis powers of evil are desperately attempting put a blindfold on the world’s vision of truth behind their severe bombing campaigns that is killing the children of a land that had pampered them as a privileged class.
All is fair in love and war it is said and the drums of war silence international laws! Yes deceit is the key-word, That is exactly what the brutes of the ex and the neo colonial powers are saying and blatantly so! Because deceit is allowed to be practiced during wars!
But hey! This is no war! It is an attack and an invasion of a sovereign land by these thugs who by trying to hide the filth in their own back-yards are trying to spread the stench elsewhere! All in the name of democracy, human rights, protecting civilians, protecting asses from the horses and what not!
As in the past history of certain powers, when their local economies went on a kamakazi nose dive, it became imperative for them to launch aggressive campaigns much beyond their borders in the hopes of shoring up industrial or arms production to boost their sagging economies.They may have been successful in their endeavours in the past, but the present scenario, where almost all countries are tagged to one another in the name globalization, ground realities could be different.
The social upheaval that is being witnessed in the UK needed a spark to ignite a restive community that has long lived in the shadows with their voices muffled. Anger, frustration at the lack of opportunities that faced them gave vent to this outburst that is being witnessed here.
The government indeed was always aware of the simmering discontent across the towns and inner-cities, kept mum, but again as usual in a show of bravado of a desperate power hanging onto its past colonial glory, showed an accusatory finger at Iraq first and now at Libya, accusing them almost of the same treatment it had quietly given to its own people living in the shadows!
And to talk of the other member of Axis, well the recent events showcase their intentions to divert the people of their land as well as others of the impending doom they are facing by joining their allies to ‘punish’ a benevolent land and a leader of crimes against humanity.
What do these evil mongers ultimately hope to gain? Well destroy a developed land, occupy it, install a puppet government to cater to their needs, their needs being the thirst for the vast oil and gas reserves Libya holds and become the perpetual master once again. Be the Lord of the Rings of oil and gas fields forever and ever till the sun sets once again on their empires!!
But this may be in their hallucinated dreams. Reality will be something else and hopefully in the near future that will become apparent. As the abyss of the economic crisis deepens, as the social unrest spreads across the once dominions of power and arrogance, truth and justice shall prevail. Hopefully for a long time to come!
Prepared for publication by:
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
Friday, 12 August 2011
Libya:Weapons Transfers to Libya – the French and Qatar Connections
Source: ISS, http://ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/2011/08/libyaweapons-transfers-to-libya-french.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FzqKG+%28i+On+Global+Trends%29
Weapons Transfers to Libya: the French and Qatar Connections
Guy Lamb, Senior Research Fellow, Arms Management Programme, ISS Cape Town Office
Arms controls continue to be flouted in the context of the Libyan armed conflict. Both France and Qatar have openly admitted to supplying arms to the rebels as a complementary strategy to the NATO-led air strikes. Such actions not only undermine the United Nations arms embargo regime, but may also violate contractual obligations between arms-exporting and arms-importing states.
When arms are officially exported from one government to another, the recipient government is usually required to endorse an end-user certificate. This is a written commitment from the arms-purchasing government that it will not transfer the arms to other parties, especially if such a transfer is in violation of a UN arms embargo. However, there is no international end-user monitoring and enforcement process in place. Monitoring is the sole preserve of the exporting state, but such monitoring is typically under-developed, with the US ‘Blue Lantern’ programme being the most advanced.
Qatar’s arming of the Libyan rebels is particularly problematic as Qatar imports the vast majority of its arms, and hence would have been required to endorse end-user certificates. Over the past five years Qatar’s main arms supplier has been the United States (in monetary terms), but it has also imported arms from many other states, such as France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands and South Africa. The key question to be asked is, to what extent has Qatar reneged on end-user agreements?
It was recently alleged in a Swiss television exposé that Swiss ammunition, which had been bought by Qatar, was re-exported to the Libyan rebels in contravention of the end-user certificate. Amateur video footage of Libyan rebels in Benghazi screened on the Rayyisse news website on 31 July 2011 showed what appeared to be a South African-manufactured Ratel (armed personnel carrier) sporting a Qatari flag being used the rebels. It is unclear how such a vehicle got into the hands of the rebels, as the South African government has not publicly reported the export of such military vehicles to Qatar. There are two possible scenarios: either the armed personnel carrier was clandestinely shipped to Qatar from South Africa; or Qatar sourced the military vehicle from another state (which is the more probable scenario). Governments with recorded holdings of Ratels include Djibouti, Ghana, Jordan, Morocco, Rwanda and Senegal. If Qatar had sourced the armed personnel carrier from one of these governments, then it is possible that there was an infringement of a South African end-user agreement. The extent of Qatari re-export of arms sourced from other states to Libya remains unknown at this point in time.
France is a major producer of arms, and is likely to have supplied the Libyan rebels with domestically produced arms. However, France has also imported arms from a range of other states, including Austria, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US. Should France’s military support continue it is possible that another state’s arms may be used in the Libyan conflict.
The response of states to the actions of France and Qatar have been mixed. France has been criticised by China, Russia and the African Union, and some states have suspended arms sales to Qatar. Many other states have not made any official statement or taken any diplomatic action. Surprisingly, South Africa, which has been highly critical of the NATO-led military campaign and has repeatedly argued that it is a responsible arms exporter, has been silent on the French and Qatar connections. In addition, there has been no statement on the status of current and future South African arms exports to France and Qatar.
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Libye – Importante percée des rebelles (vidéos)
Publié le12 août 2011 parAllain Jules
http://allainjules.com/2011/08/12/libye-importante-percee-des-rebelles-videos/
« Les rebelles avancent sur tous les fronts, notamment au sud, à l’ouest et à l’est », déblatèrent-ils. C’est du moins, ce qu’on nomme dans le jargon journalistique, le blizzard (vent). En effet, pour anesthésier les journalistes qui leur posent des questions, les responsables de l’Otan disent que tout va bien. Depuis 5 mois, c’est les mêmes salmigondis lancés à la face du monde. D’ailleurs, « les hommes de Kadhafi ne peuvent plus lancer d’offensives d’envergure ou attaquer les populations civiles » a déclaré le chef des opérations de l’Otan, le général canadien Bouchard.
On découvre effaré que les forces pro-Kadhafi luttent contre la population civile. Et pourtant, tous les civils tués dans ce conflit le sont par les bombardements de l’OTAN. Etonnant, non ? L’Express a annoncé, hier, que, les rebelles se rapprochent de Tripoli après avoir pris le campement de Bir Chouaïb, et qu’ils se trouvent à 25 km de Zaouïah, ville située à 50 km à l’ouest de la capitale. Les renégats de Benghazi ont aussi annoncé qu’ils sont entrés à Brega dans la zone résidentielle. Hier, à Brega, ce qui s’est passé c’est que les hélicoptères de l’OTAN ont bombardés longuement les positions kadhafistes. Bref, la même histoire sans image. Alors qu’on nous annonçait qu’ils avaient pris Bir Al Ganham, à 89 km de la capitale, l’assaut sur Tripoli n’a toujours pas eu lieu.
Pourtant, à Benghazi, rien n’est stable. La famille du général félon, Younès, a encore menacé. Il y a un gouvernement fantôme. Misrata n’est pas sous le contrôle de ces islamistes mais, on les annonce à Tripoli pour bientôt. La population civile de Misrata a tué hier, 200 rebelles en représailles. Mais, cherchez l’erreur ! Sans faire de propagande, puisque certains, pour priver les autres de parole, vous accusent tout de go de soutenir un dictateur alors que vous ne dites que la vérité. Ainsi, vous êtes désigné comme le thuriféraire du kadhafisme et tutti quanti, comme s’il y avait une logique une once de clarté dans l’agression contre la Libye et Mouammar Kadhafi.
Hier, je répondais à une radio allemande qui m’a sollicité. Le journaliste, assez virulent, n’a pas su répondre à une question simple que les zélateurs de la barbarie à leur tour, ne trouveront aucune réponse et s’aideront de subterfuges en bottant en touche. Je l’ai tancé sur le ouï-dire qui bat son plein, quant à son positionnement. Voici la question : « Avez-vous déjà vu, en image bien sûr, une ville libérée par les renégats de Benghazi où on aperçoit une foule en liesse puisque ce sont les libérateurs ? ». Il a eu l’honnêteté intellectuelle de répondre…non.
N’est-ce pas étonnant qu’il n’y ait personne pour se réjouir de la percée de ces nigauds qui découvriront qu’ils sont les dindons de la farce Otan bientôt ? Toujours est-il que sur le terrain, la seule chose qu’il faut retenir, c’est que, l’OTAN poursuit son dessein macabre. Zliten a encore subi, hier, de violents bombardements et c’est toujours les populations civiles qui trinquent, alors qu’on leur avait promis une protection. Il faut aujourd’hui se poser la question de savoir les « qui » protègeront les civils libyens contre l’OTAN ? Le titre de ce papier est donc fictif.
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http://allainjules.com/2011/08/10/libye-bravo-margie-sudre/
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Libye : Le blues de Sarkozy et de l’OTAN
http://allainjules.com/2011/08/11/libye-le-blues-de-sarkozy-et-de-lotan/
Publié le11 août 2011 parAllain Jules
Rasmussen et Sarkozy
Vous avez remarqué que les médias ne parlent plus de la Libye ? Et même de l’Afghanistan les guerres de Sarkozy ? Normal, l’échec est retentissant et, nos amis n’ont plus rien à se mettre sous la dent. Et pourtant, l’OTAN poursuit ses massacres. Sa dernière œuvre macabre s’est passée, hier, à Sabha. Sarkozy, lui, est resté se dorer au soleil pendant que les deux soldats récemment tués par des « tirs amis » en Afghanistan n’ont pas bénéficié, à Paris, ce jour, d’un hommage digne. MM. Nicolas SARKOZY et Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN, Secrétaire général de l’OTAN, sont des losers…Ambiance.
OTAN en emporte le vent.
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L’OTAN poursuit son génocide. Cette fois-ci, elle a largué huit bombes dans des zones civiles à Sabha, ville de l’ouest libyen. Pour l’instant, nous n’avons pas encore le nombre de morts. Une tragédie se joue en Libye, sous un silence étourdissant. Sabha était soupçonnée, dans les années 1980, d’être le siège où la Libye développait son programme nucléaire. Il y a sur place, une base militaire. En raison des bombardements, les familles survivantes ont quitté la ville, puisque, auparavant, l’OTAN a détruit toutes les centrales électriques et les stations de maintenance d’approvisionnement d’eau et de gaz. Ce n’est plus la guerre, mais du terrorisme simplement. Vous avez dit protection des civils ? C’est ainsi que les renégats de Benghazi nous annonceront demain, qu’ils ont pris la ville après d’âpres combats qui n’ont jamais eu lieu. Comment peuvent-ils eux-mêmes s’y installer alors que le minimum vital n’existe plus puisque les dépôts de denrées alimentaires ont aussi été détruits ?
C’est donc la résurrection de Kamis Kadhafi. Ça n’est pas le premier cas de désinformation dans l’affaire libyenne. Cela a commencé avec les annonces fracassantes de notre porte-avions envoyé sur zone, suivi de l’armada occidentale. C’était il y a cinq mois. On devait ramener le scalp de Kadhafi sous quelques jours. En fait trois porte-avions amenés pour la curée sont déjà rentrés et le Charles de Gaulle abandonne aussi l’affaire et ralliera demain piteusement Toulon, ce qui n’empêchera pas notre président d’aller l’applaudir alors qu’il revient bredouille, que le bateau et ses avions sont usés jusqu’à la corde et que l’opération a dévasté le budget de la Marine pour des années avec des centaines d’opérations aériennes, des largages de milliers de bombes, de missiles, qui n’auront servi à rien. Sinon à démolir la moitié d’un pays dont tous les économistes attestent qu’il se classait au troisième rang des états africains, où l’islamisme n’avait pas gagné et qui tentait d’aider nombre de pays d’Afrique à sen sortir. Certes son dirigeant n’a pas toujours été un ange. Mais combien sont-ils à pouvoir lui donner des leçons au sein des dizaines de dictatures d’Afrique. Sans compter le Moyen-Orient où la moitié des femmes vivent claquemurées sous leur voile intégral ou en Syrie où un chef d’État assassine chaque jour sa dizaine d’opposants en ricanant à la face du monde.
Mais l’Occident de la bien-pensance avait décidé de soutenir le camp des opposants de Kadhafi, en déroulant les tapis rouges à ses dirigeants autoproclamés du CNT de Benghazi qui viennent de révéler leur vrai visage ces jours derniers, une bande hétéroclite qui avait signé le pacte des loups. La victoire se faisant attendre, ils ont commencé à se déchirer entre eux. En assassinant leurs maitres de guerre, un général et ses deux colonels et pire, en se faisant hara-kiri il y quelques jours, la presse n’en a presque pas parlé mais le CNT n’a pourtant plus de gouvernement. Les voraces se mangent entre eux et personne au monde ne sait plus où sont le pilote et l’équipage du CNT. Et dire que toute cette troupe a été adoubée par les chancelleries du monde entier. Mais on a tous des excuses. La révolution libyenne était aux mains de Dieu, pardon BHL, enfin un peu « largué » ces temps-ci, obligé de se cantonner au rôle de garde-champêtre de service qui tambourine régulièrement que la bien-pensance occidentale parvient à vaincre Kadhafi, symbole de tous les maux, empêcheur de tourner en rond de toutes les pseudo révolutions arabes. Mais voilà, la révolution dévore ses enfants. L’histoire en a donné l’expertise à la France. Apprenons à ses adeptes à la manier avec circonspection et réflexion plutôt qu’à les pousser à se l’offrir au prix du sang.
Sarkozy, fermez le ban !
Le fleuron de notre Défense rentre donc de deux campagnes qui sont deux défaites. En Afghanistan, cet hiver, la campagne Agapanthe n’a absolument pas découragé les talibans et ceux-ci ont fait leur cinquantaine de morts au cours du mois écoulé au sein des troupes de l’OTAN dont plusieurs parmi nos soldats. On arrête d’ailleurs « les frais » et on rentre à la maison en laissant le pays aux mains des islamistes.
On avait donc confié à la « va-vite » à notre porte-avion le soin d’être le fer de lance de la coalition contre Kadhafi, le nouveau diable désigné à toutes les vindictes. L’affaire devait être pliée en deux temps et trois mouvements d’avions. Ca a duré cinq mois, on a effectué des milliers de sorties aériennes, des milliers de bombardements, des centaines de tirs de missiles les plus sophistiqués et on ne ramène pas le scalp de Kadhafi mais un bateau qui mettra un an à s’en remettre, des équipages épuisés et on détournera pudiquement le regard sur le déficit budgétaire colossal pour la Marine et la Nation que cette sinistre expédition a engendré. Et les médias restent discrets sur la destruction de cibles civiles en Libye et les victimes collatérales dans les populations.
Voilà le résultat « d’un coup de sang » de nos dirigeants, qui ont l’excuse de s’être fait conseiller par une nouvelle éminence grise écervelée, BHL, le nouveau maître de la bien pensance occidentale, qui n’en peut plus de faire adouber ses nouveaux copains de Benghazi qui ne sont qu’une bande hétéroclite de brigands n’ayant rien trouvé de mieux que d’assassiner leurs chefs de guerre et de se faire hara kiri dans la foulée. Car aucun média ne le dit encore de manière trop ouverte, mais le CNT de Benghazi n’existe plus et ses révolutionnaires fantoches s’entredéchirent après s’être auto-liquidés. La catastrophe militaire se double à présent d’une catastrophe diplomatique. C’est un cauchemar. Que diable allaient faire nos marins dans cette galère. Fermez le ban !
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Libye – Bravo Margie Sudre !
http://allainjules.com/2011/08/10/libye-bravo-margie-sudre/
Publié le10 août 2011 parAllain Jules
Margie Sudre
L’ancienne eurodéputée Margie Sudre, ancienne ministre, s’est rendue à Tripoli. Elle a constaté de visu, ce que nous disons et dénonçons depuis des mois. Et dire que ça fait polémique. Du n’importe quoi. Allez dons à Tripoli constater par vous-même les massacres de l’OTAN ! Une vraie femme d’honneur.
Elle a déclarée: « Nous avons rencontré des familles de civils bombardés par la coalition et constaté que les dépôts de nourriture avaient été touchés ». L’ancienne considère que « la communauté internationale a outrepassé le mandat de l’ONU« . Ajoutant: « il ne s’agit plus de défendre les populations civiles mais de les attaquer. Cessons de nous mêler de cette guerre qui ne nous concerne pas ».
Elle était accompagnée de l’ex-député européen Michel Scarbonchi. Les deux s’élèvent contre l’intervention de la France en Libye. Pour elle encore : « Nous avons été contactés par une ONG libyenne pour mieux nous rendre compte de la situation dans le pays. (…) Nous sommes arrivés en avion à Djerba, en Tunisie, puis nous avons roulé quatre heures en direction de Tripoli. Là, nous avons rencontré des familles de civils bombardés par la coalition et constaté que des dépôts de nourriture avaient été touchés. Kadhafi était au courant de notre présence, mais nous ne l’avons pas vu, certainement pour des raisons de sécurité ».
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Et là, que nous disent les va-t-en-guerre ? Que le voyage a été financé par la fille Kadhafi, Aïssa. Et alors ? Au lieu de saluer un voyage humanitaire, nous préférons soutenir une guerre dite humanitaire ? Les journalistes français sont devenus fous.
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Obol Bruno
12 août 11:02
The libyan crissis has help to expose the true colour of the West who have hidden their motives under umbrela of democracy and humanitarnsm etc for a long time.
It exposed how they use the press for manipulation, even their own people are not exempted from the whole thing.
It Has been an eye opener and exposed how vunerable we can all be; and that the world body of today is weak and can not stand in the way of the Coalision/Alliance.
it has clearly pointed out that regional blocks in the long run Is effective security for nations. Bodies like the African Union need to be strengthened in the new era; so as to protect its people.
This crises calls for new approach to solve the new challenges.
Ever since its creation, the United Nation has not been able to solve problems and has manage to create instability.
But with new changes today, this organisation is still out of touch with the mordern challenges.
With the emergence of the Coallison/Alliance who is willing undermine U.N. efforts to create stability, making the world is insecure like never before (especialy for weak nations, to be plundered for resources) as it has become the objective of western nations at the expense of destruction and human life,
What the libyan people are facining today is this kind of evil that is using all its machinery of organised lies throug their network of press.
Their millitary might and propaganda machine is used for one of its agenda: to control resources.
The UN can do nothing about it,
Their failure in Libya will give the world some relief.
We need to take the side that prolongs our security and safety for our children with a new alliance. NOT with al-Qaida, as is happening and which makes them even more dangarous.
That is why there is all this killings from Iraq to Libya.
Victory for the green colour [JAMAHIRIYA] is victory for the peace loving peoples; and a new chapter in world politics, where good does overcome evil.
Allain Jules
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Libye – Dans les méandres de l’horreur (marche le 13 août)
Publié le11 août 2011 parAllain Jules
http://allainjules.com/2011/08/11/libye-dans-les-meandres-de-lhorreur-marche-le-13-aout/
Pourquoi tant de haine pour l’Afrique ? C’est la question que pose mon ami AH- il se reconnaîtra-, sur Facebook. L’Afrique est le seul continent où les « grands » de ce monde estiment que rien ne peut se résoudre par le dialogue. Les Africains sont-ils des barbares qui ne peuvent qu’entendre le bruit et la fureur des canons ? Les mêmes qui ont commis l’esclavage, la colonisation, le néo-colonialisme veulent se lancer à nouveau vers une re-colonisation de l’Afrique. Sans vergogne, avec des prétextes fallacieux, ce sont les mêmes qui bombardent les civils Libyens qu’ils devaient…protéger. Ambiance.
Rien n’a changé. Il n’y a pas de génération spontanée. Lorsque vous leur demandez ce que l’homme africain leur a fait, pour toute réponse, ils vous accuse d’être anti-blanc. Et moi je rétorque: « mon père est blanc, puisque ma mère a convolé, en seconde noce, avec un blanc qui m’a toujours considéré comme son fils, et moi, je le considère et l’aime comme mon géniteur ». Anti-blanc moi ? Quand un noir est con, je le dénonce comme tel. L’Afrique a-t-elle tenté de conquérir l’Occident par la force ? Non. Alors, pourquoi l’Occident n’arrête pas de se mêler des affaires africaines, notamment comme il le fait actuellement en Libye ? Est-ce cela la civilisation ? La civilisation doit-elle passer par la barbarie ? Que nenni. Bono disait tout à l’heure à la télévision que « le sens de nos valeurs s’effondre. »
L’OTAN tue, bombarde, détruit un pays souverain et tout le monde regarde. Leurs sous-fiffres, les renégats de Benghazi, traîtres à leur Nation, pillent, tuent, violent, brûlent. Personne de sensé ou influent ne lève le petit doigt. C’est normal, il faut faire partir Mouammar Kadhafi, quitte à détruire la Libye, le seul pays qu’on attaque sans qu’il n’y ait au préalable, une once de négociation. Pourquoi ? Simplement parce que c’était programmé et il fallait juste un prétexte.
Vous l’aurez compris, la soi disant « communauté internationale » se contrefiche du peuple libyen. D’ailleurs, la nouvelle donne est maintenant de le terroriser, de le blâmer, de le punir parce qu’il a dit NON à la recolonisation et OUI à Kadhafi. Leur pays était en paix et par conséquent, le fédérateur qu’est Mouammar Kadhafi n’est pas une promesse du passé, mais une d’avenir malgré les esprits chagrins. Si les Libyens le veulent, ce n’est pas à nous, ici en France, qui allons leur imposer des marionnettes…
Un fou ne peut diriger un pays pendant 40 ans. J’avoue que beaucoup ne mesurent pas vraiment ce que Mouammar Kadhafi a fait ou fait en Afrique. Pour Al Jazeera, j’ai réalisé une étude factuelle que certains n’ont probablement pas consulté. Faites un tour, et vous comprendrez que la guerre contre la Libye est mise en place pour détruire l’Afrique. Ceux qui la soutiennent ne sont que les ennemis de l’Afrique. Le degré avancé de putréfaction de la classe politique, africaine comme occidentale est à dénoncer.
La Libye retournera-t-elle au Moyen-Âge par la faute de l’Occident ? Levez-vous et dites non, comme les Américains qui disent NON à cette guerre de prédation, avec une manifestation monstre à New York (Harlem), le 13 août prochain. Cette marche sera aussi réalisée en Afrique du Sud et dans d’autres pays.
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During the 20th century, we watched as the western countries (America, France and England) were committing crimes! They made them under the pretext of liberating the peoples!
These crimes are in truth be called crimes of the 20th century! Because the head of these countries were normal (as they called themselves), “democratic” people!
In the 20th century were committed the following crimes in the deaths of thousands of people! This and the Vietnam War, the Suez crisis, Bizertinsky crisis
U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic, Cambodia’s campaign, the U.S. invasion of Grenada, U.S. invasion of Panama, the NATO war in Yugoslavia! But the invaders have not stopped!
Since 2000 we have seen acts of aggression against the new sovereign: the war in Afghanistan, the Iraq war, the conflict in Waziristan, the French-Ivorian conflict!
In all, the West, as they put it, vbombili the Stone Age more than a hundred countries.
Quite recently, the pro-Western mercenaries attempted uprising in Libya, backed by several thousand residents of Benghazi!
This attempt raped continued, with foreign intervention in Libya! Rows of “rebels” replenished daily French arms and mercenaries Qatari!
Their goal – to overthrow the legitimate government! March 18 the UN Security Council passed a resolution to implement no-fly zone over Libya in order to protect the civilian population!
But we see as a cynical pretext aggressors suggest targets for residential properties! Daily under the bombs of the aggressors killed children!
Recently, in order to clear the way “rebels” had been wiped out an entire village. Killed 85 people! 33 children aged from 2 to 10 years, 32 women and 20 men!
NATO, for now, not even confirmed the killings of civilians! Now the Libyans are very bad! Not enough food and medicine! Daily bombing bakeries!
All this hides the Western media! Libya is the information blockade! Every day we get news in favor of the “rebels” who then can not find your confirmation!
The Libyans have asked us to break through this blockade! Therefore, it was formed Internet traffic ‘! NATO-STOP’.
The main objectives of the movement have the right coverage on the activities of the aggressors!
If you want to help the Libyans to join our movement!
Searching the Internet with any information that will fill up our archives and will help the Libyans, publish it in the blog! Look for the blog and share videos and photos of crime and insurgent invaders!
Enter the propaganda work among the Americans, French and British in the social networks! Spread the information that is on the site by all means!
We need to help the Libyans to win!
NATO bombs civilian airport and city of Sabha. There is no electrical power, water or goods for three days now. Animals and humans are dying
Ambassadors and Libyan prime-minister B. Mahmoudi visited massacred village of Majera
U.S. Invasion of Libya Set for October?
Posted: 2011/08/12
From: http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627934
Original posting date: 15th June 2011
by: Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com has received alarming reports from within the ranks of military stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas confirming plans to initiate a full-scale U.S.-led ground invasion in Libya and deploy troops by October.
The source stated that additional Special Forces are headed to Libya in July, with the 1st Calvary Division (heavy armor) and III Corps deploying in late October and early November. Initial numbers are estimated at 12,000 active forces and another 15,000 in support, totaling nearly 30,000 troops.
This information was confirmed by numerous calls and e-mails from other military personnel, some indicating large troop deployment as early as September. Among these supporting sources is a British S.A.S. officer confirming that U.S. Army Rangers are already in Libya. The chatter differs in the details, but the overall convergence is clear– that a full-on war is emerging this fall as Gaddafi continues to evade attempts to remove him from power.
A caller identified as “Specialist H” working for mortuary affairs under USCENTCOM revealed that there have already been American casualties inside Libya. He confirmed that at least 2 soldiers and 3 civilians have died from combat bullet wounds, something the media has yet to report, and needs to investigate and address.
Geo-political expert Dr. Webster Tarpley also told the Alex Jones Show today that wider war is being planned for Libya, while the count of simultaneous U.S. wars has reached five conflicts– including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen. The potential for an even greater spread of regional conflict could well provoke a World War III scenario, drawing in tenuous nations like Syria, Lebanon, Iran or even Saudi Arabia, according to Tarpley.
For his part, President Obama has brushed off demands to answer to Congress for continuing military action beyond the 60 day limit set under the war powers act. The engagement he first claimed would be over in mere days, Obama then dubbed a “kinetic action” rather than a war. Further, Obama has justified his commitment of American forces under a United Nations mandate, unconcerned by his own admission with the will of Congress. Now, with significant overlap in reports, we can confirm an apparent decision by Obama to support wider war and a longer-term involvement in Libya.
Leaked Plan of Western Governments for “Post-Gaddafi Libya”
Posted: 2011/08/16
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628019
reminiscent of the post-“FRENCH REVOLUTION” REIGN OF TERROR by Robespierre, Danton and St. Just:
By Tom Coghlan
Western governments have helped prepare a blueprint for a “post-Gaddafi Libya” that would retain much of the regime’s security infrastructure to avoid an Iraq-style collapse into anarchy.
The 70-page plan, obtained by London’s The Times, charts the first months after the fall of the Gaddafi regime. The document was drawn up by the National Transition Council in Benghazi with Western help.
Officials say the blueprint draws on lessons from the disastrous regime change in Iraq in 2003 and the rebel takeover in eastern Libya in March.
The plans are highly reliant on the defection of parts of the Gaddafi security apparatus to the rebels after his overthrow. This is likely to prove not only risky, but controversial, with many rebel fighters determined to sweep away all vestiges of the regime.
The document includes proposals for a 10,000-15,000 strong “Tripoli task force”, resourced and supported by the United Arab Emirates, to take over the Libyan capital, secure key sites and arrest high-level Gaddafi supporters.
It claims 800 serving Gaddafi government security officials have been recruited covertly to the rebel cause and are ready to form the “backbone” of a new security apparatus.
The blueprint contains plans for about 5000 police officers now serving in units not ideologically committed to the Gaddafi regime to be transferred immediately to the interim government’s forces to prevent a security vacuum.
The documents claim that the rebel groups in Tripoli and surrounding areas have 8660 supporters, including 3255 in the Gaddafi army.
A mass defection by high-ranking officials is considered highly likely, with 70 per cent of them judged to support the regime out of fear alone.
The authors of the report also believe the escalation of NATO attacks to an “unbearable” level is a strong possibility.
The NTC in Benghazi confirmed the authenticity of the planning documents, but asked that The Times withhold details that could endanger rebel supporters working in Tripoli.
The rebel government’s ambassador to the UAE and the head of the planning cell for the task force, Aref Ali Nayed, expressed regret the document had been leaked. But he said: “It is important that the general public (in Libya) knows there is an advance plan, and it is now a much more advanced plan.”
The document shows detailed planning for key security, telecommunications, power and transport infrastructure – as well as for the country’s famous classical ruins – to be secured in the hours after the regime’s collapse .
Rebel leaders express concern in the document that Tripoli’s population should not feel they are being “invaded” by troops from eastern Libya. Significantly, there are no plans to deploy rebel forces from the east in Tripoli. Instead “sections of Nafusa Mountain and Zentan freedom fighters” from the west would be moved to the capital and media messages would stress that there is “no external imposition on Tripolitanians”. Most of Tripoli’s interim security force would come from the city.
An internationally backed one-month program for the emergency supply of $US550 million ($532m) of gas and petrol to western Libya would begin immediately after the regime’s fall in an effort to restore normal life.
There is also a UN-supported program to deliver immediate humanitarian aid, including bottled water, by land, sea and air, with support from key Muslim countries such as the UAE, Qatar and Turkey.
In the first minutes after the announcement that Gaddafi is no longer in control, a pre-recorded program of announcements by rebel leaders and clerics would initiate the Tripoli task force plan, call for calm and warn against revenge attacks on regime supporters. An FM radio station has already been prepared for the purpose in a nearby country. In the event of Gaddafi being killed or deposed, “strategic communications” planning suggests the NTC and its Western backers would be prepared to negotiate with his sons or what are described as “regime captains”.
A series of lessons learnt from the takeover in Benghazi warns against the creation of multiple rebel groups in Tripoli and calls for a “clear plan to deal with a hostile fifth column”.
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http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
Barry Santoro’s pal, Nikky Sarkozy:
FIX-NICHOLS selected for extermination
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http://fixnichols.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/fascist-oligarchy-obama-is-a-dictator/
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Fascist Oligarchy? Obama is a dictator?
Well it appears this week Obama has decided that launching missiles and dropping bombs on sovereign nations does not qualify as acts of aggression, or acts of war. Seems to me that laws are written for a reason. We are supposedly a nation of laws, but how is that when the Executive branch only chooses to obey, or enforce laws of choice. How is it that this is possible? I guess they are above the law. First I would like to point out that until the Vietnam war, and the War Powers Act, Congress made the decisions about whether to go to war or not, just as the constitution instructs and demands. I suppose the compromise of the War Powers Act was not enough for Obama, now hes taking it one step further by simply ignoring the mandate of that law as well. People are so caught up with either the media circus and propaganda, or his blatant violation of The War Powers act, that they completely overlook the fact that the War Powers Act should be immediately repealed as it is itself unconstitutional . The Founding Fathers of this nation never meant for a president to have the dictatorial power to unilaterally declare war or launch any kind of military action against other nations without congressional approval. In our republic we are the sovereigns, every one of us, NOT the president, and NOT the federal government. So Ghadafi is a douche bag, a dictator and a tyrant. But that is his business. We do not take orders from the UN nor NATO. Well apparently we do now. Apparently these clowns think that orders from the UN super-cede the US Constitution, they are wrong. Ill just put on my tin foil hat, kick back and enjoy the show as the dollar collapses and the oligarchs who control the world plan world war three to distract us from their collapsing ponzi scheme, at least I can say I told ya so when the shit hits the proverbial fan. I dont think the War Powers Act will ever be repealed, its a bit like the frog in the boiling pot analogy. That flame was lit decades ago, and no one even bothered to do anything, and now the boil is a bit more noticable, and its too late.
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U.S. Invasion of Libya Set for October?
Posted: 2011/08/12
From: Original posting date: 15th June 2011
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627934
by: Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com has received alarming reports from within the ranks of military stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas confirming plans to initiate a full-scale U.S.-led ground invasion in Libya and deploy troops by October.
The source stated that additional Special Forces are headed to Libya in July, with the 1st Calvary Division (heavy armor) and III Corps deploying in late October and early November. Initial numbers are estimated at 12,000 active forces and another 15,000 in support, totaling nearly 30,000 troops.
This information was confirmed by numerous calls and e-mails from other military personnel, some indicating large troop deployment as early as September. Among these supporting sources is a British S.A.S. officer confirming that U.S. Army Rangers are already in Libya. The chatter differs in the details, but the overall convergence is clear– that a full-on war is emerging this fall as Gaddafi continues to evade attempts to remove him from power.
A caller identified as “Specialist H” working for mortuary affairs under USCENTCOM revealed that there have already been American casualties inside Libya. He confirmed that at least 2 soldiers and 3 civilians have died from combat bullet wounds, something the media has yet to report, and needs to investigate and address.
Geo-political expert Dr. Webster Tarpley also told the Alex Jones Show today that wider war is being planned for Libya, while the count of simultaneous U.S. wars has reached five conflicts– including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen. The potential for an even greater spread of regional conflict could well provoke a World War III scenario, drawing in tenuous nations like Syria, Lebanon, Iran or even Saudi Arabia, according to Tarpley.
For his part, President Obama has brushed off demands to answer to Congress for continuing military action beyond the 60 day limit set under the war powers act. The engagement he first claimed would be over in mere days, Obama then dubbed a “kinetic action” rather than a war. Further, Obama has justified his commitment of American forces under a United Nations mandate, unconcerned by his own admission with the will of Congress. Now, with significant overlap in reports, we can confirm an apparent decision by Obama to support wider war and a longer-term involvement in Libya.
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Obama Is Assembling His Youth Corps
Posted on 03 February 2010 by Eowyn|
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/obama-is-assembling-his-youth-corps/
One of the lessons from the Nazi and Communist totalitarian movements of the 20th century is that young people, because of their idealism and gullibility, are especially vulnerable to being exploited by demagogues. Nazi Germany had the Hitler Jugend; the Soviet Union had the Young Pioneers; Maoist China had the infamous Red Guards.
Another lesson from the 20th century is the importance and power of organization. In every place where a Communist Party won political power, it was due to its superior organizational skills and network.
Being an acolyte of the Marxist Saul Alinsky, Obama knows well the importance of organization. (Did you know that Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals, a how-to manual for “community organizers,” was dedicated to Lucifer? I kid you not. Alinsky praised the fallen angel for being “the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively he at least won his own kingdom.”)
That is why, after Obama was elected president, he not only kept his campaign troopers, Organizing For America (OFA), he made it into his personal outfit, not the Democrat Party’s. Now, the OFA orcs are fanning out to high schools across America for new recruits. The question needs to be asked: Why is Obama doing this? Why is he assembling this youth corps? To what purpose?
Pamela Geller has an exclusive on her blog, Atlas Shrugs, describing Obama’s organizing and recruiting in our high schools. (H/t Cecil Moon!) Geller writes:
An Atlas reader, Chuck, has a student in the eleventh grade in an Ohio High School. Her government class passed out this propaganda recruiting paper so students could sign up as interns for Obama’s Organizing for America….
Obama is using our public school system to recruit for his Alinsky-inspired private army [to, as] Organizing for America [puts it] ”build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda”….
The Ohio High School is Perry Local in Massillon, Ohio…. Obama is poisoning our public school system. He acts as if it’s his own private breeding farm. Once again academic learning and achievement is hopelessly abandoned, and supplanted by radical leftist activism from the leftwing Alinsky indoctrinators in the perverse public school system.
Children must be advised to expose this ugly propaganda. Children must tell their parents how they are being used and manipulated. Parents, warn your kids. Better yet, home school.
The recommended reading list for the internship program includes the following books:
Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky
Dreams of My Father, by Barack Hussein Obama
The New Organizers, by Zack Exley
Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy, by Rinku Sen
Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle, by Zack Exley, Huffington Post
Geller also reminds us about the creepy things our Obama-indoctrinated children already have done:
The Obama youth regiment brigade.
The freaky kids parades during the ’08 election.
Video after video of kids singing brainwashed tunes of Obama praise here and here.
The Obama Children’s Book containing illustrations of rainbows, sunbeams and an aura around Obama.
The goosestepping kids for Obama — a school project.
Below are some of the literature that the OFA recruiters use in high schools:
UNBELIEVABLED IGNORANT WORDS FROM JOHN ALLEN, JR: !!!! CHOCK-Full of stupidity..
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/liberating-christian-voice-arab-spring
http://ncronline.org/comment/reply/26152
QUOTE:
At the moment, Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, an Italian Franciscan who’s served as Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli in Libya since 1985, is flirting with adding his name to that list of unsavory accomplishments, under the following heading: “Muammar Qaddafi’s favorite guy in a Roman collar.”
Last Sunday, The New York Times* carried a feature on the Anglican parish in Tripoli, one of the few venues in the Qaddafi-controlled capital where dissent can be heard. (Both the Protestant and Catholic communities in Libya are tiny, composed almost entirely of foreign ex-pats.) In passing, correspondent David Kirkpatrick noted that the regime basically ignores the Anglicans, preferring to direct foreign visitors to Tripoli’s Catholic church instead.
Kirkpatrick wrote: “Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, in Tripoli for decades, appears to have made his peace with the Libyan leader. Bishop Martinelli has sometimes parroted uncorroborated state television reports about civilian casualties, and he has condemned NATO’s bombing as immoral and pointless. A few weeks ago, he told a group of foreign journalists that he thought Moammar al- Qaddafi will find a place in heaven. ‘Why not?’ he said, according to journalists present.”
Kirkpatrick more or less has Martinelli pegged. When asked once about Qaddafi’s approach to Christians, Martinelli replied by recounting how Qaddafi welcomed Italian nuns into Libya because two Franciscan sisters cared for his dying father. The impression was that Libya was a safe haven, overlooking the fact that one of Qaddafi’s first acts after seizing power in 1969 was to close the country’s churches. Over the years, Qaddafi has been more than willing to play the Islamist card when it serves his interests. (UNQUOTE)
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MY REPLY TO MR: ALLEN: http://ncronline.org/comment/reply/26152
Dear Mr. Allen, I have been
Submitted by Christella Bernardene Krebs (not verified) on Aug. 12, 2011.
Dear Mr. Allen, I have been following you for years, and I cannot believe you wrote what you did concerning Archbishop Martinelli and al-Gadhafi.
I thought you were well informed. Apparently on Libya, you are not—and that hurts. Al-Gadhafi, (who BTW is NOT a dictator, as he holds no political position of power what-so-ever in the democratic state of the JAMAHIRIYA) has always permitted freedom of conscience, and he is sincere about being friends with the Roman Catholic population in Libya. He will not forget the Catholic doctor and nuns (as you re-itterated) who took good care of his dying father. But, al-Gadhafi also has a keen insight into Jesus. On 30 DEC. 2009, Moammar Gadhafi publicly gave his interpretation of “The Sermon on the Mount”. He said to his audience of Church leaders and others:
[ http://algathafi.org/html-english/cat_01_02.htm ]
EXCERPTED FROM: “The Meeting of the Brother Leader with the Heads of Churches Present throughout the Great Jamahiriya, the Ambassadors of Friendly Countries, and Political, Religious and Cultural Figures in Libyan Society”
Amongst the Libyan people, al-Gadhafi is considered a MUJJADID (that is a great reformer) and builder (as his name suggests). I am a strong Roman-Catholic, yet I cry when I see false things said about Moammar al-Gadhafi—-
He is more precious than anything in the world today—There will always be some “young-bucks” who think they can do things even better than our beloved al-Gadhafi. They cannot conceive of what suffering and pressures he had had to endure and is continuing to endure. They skip totally his wondrous achievements. These “young insurpents” lack true humiltiy, understanding and love. They see no past; and they have no future vision…just what they think they are seeing right now…..pity.
All of the media reports that I had seen were/are false.
Moammar al-Gadhafi is a deeply religious (but truly non-fanatic) moral human being, who love his family and all humankind. He has written so much and given the world so much. BUT, it all has been twisted and distorted by the West. (Even in 1999, Pierre Salinger was in awe of the poetic beauty and mysticism of al-Gadhafi’s writings with the publication “Escape to Hell”, etc.)
And to quote Dennis South:
(UNQUOTE)
I could go on and on. So I ask: “WHY ALL THE LIES PURPETRATED AGAINST al-GADHAFI AND LIBYA” ?
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LAST LINES OF THE NY TIMES UGLY SPREAD [readable at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/world/africa/07tripoli.html?_r=2&hp ]
Father Daoud, an Egyptian trained in Britain, offered his own views, saying in closing his sermon.
In reply, a Mr. James Locke re-emphasized the propagated lies against al-Gadhafi; and called me his mouthpiece. In return, I wrote:
You, Mr. Locke, obviously
Submitted by Christella Bernardene Krebs (not verified) on Aug. 16, 2011.
You, Mr. Locke, obviously have no understanding of the JAMAHIRIYA.
al-Gadhafi never hijacked anything. The “Lockerbie incident” was proven to be a CIA False flag for the CIA’s drug-running operations.
al-Gadhafi is loved by his people, truly “loved by millions” and he lives in the hearts of millions! It is the lies of the West that say different….Have you ever seen the Friday Millions that come out in al-Gadhafi’s support? and he does NOT use people as human-shields; all that is Western propaganda. And the whole piece of WMD was an orchestrated fable to re-admit Libya into Western Trade. al-Gadhafi himself said on 07 AUGUST 2010:(quote):
(unquote)
Do you understand the meaning of “LEADER”? It is the beginning of the “title” : “LEADER OF THE ’69 al-Fatah Revolution”. al-Gadhafi truly holds no position of political power. The only “Power” is of the people through “The People’s Congresses” and “Popular Committees”.
AND, NCR Comment code:
Be respectful. Do not attack the writer.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/liberating-christian-voice-arab-spring#comment-245139
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Here was a good reply:
The US-led NATO war against
Submitted by Steve W. (not verified) on 13 Aug.2011.
27 JAN 2011
S Africans mobilizing support against NATO’s bombardment of Libya
Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:48AM GMT
Hassen Seria, Press TV, Pretoria
Africans are demanding an immediate end to NATO’s bombing campaign on Libya, saying the claims of wanting to save civilians, is merely a pretext for their own selfish goals.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/193377.html
The South Africans for peace in Africa initiative marched to the embassy of the United States and the British High commission here to handover their list of demands. They say academics across the continent, such as Professor Mahmoud Mamdani have also voiced their support for the campaign.
One of the main calls is for the African Union’s roadmap on Libya to be implemented and for Africans to be allowed to solve the Libyan conflict. Some say Nato’s intervention has just prolonged the war …
Protestors argue one key means of avoiding further bloodshed globally is to hold guilty leaders accountable.
The South Africans for Peace in Africa initiative says they are now working with civil groups in others parts of Africa, to launch a continent-wide campaign against Nato attacks on Libya. But they say it is also important that people in countries like the United States and other Nato member states stand up against their governments.
Allain Jules
L’information déjantée, au Kärcher, et la liberté d’expression dans sa quintessence
Libye : selon un ex-rebelle, ils ont perdu la guerre.
Publié le12 août 2011 parAllain Jules
http://allainjules.com/2011/08/12/libye-selon-un-ex-rebelle-ils-ont-perdu-la-guerre/
INTERWIEV DE LEV VERCHININE
(traduction française par Allain Jules)
Khamis Kadhafi à l’höpital de Zliten
Le Dr Rejeb Muftakhov Budabusa, ex-rebelle, dans une interview télévisée, à en juger par de nombreuses paraphrases et une approche plus ou moins détaillée, a impressionné le « tout Paris ». En effet, il ne faut pas oublier qu’il a pris part, depuis février et début mars, à des « manifestations pacifiques à Benghazi », tout en souhaitant ardemment « la libération de la Cyrénaïque. » Économiste reconnu appartenant à l’élite Benghazi, et a été l’un des dissidents les plus en vue. Il s’est ensuite rendu à Paris, où il s’affirme comme étant l’une des figures proéminentes des cercles immigrés anti-Kadhafi, et dès le début des événements. Le politologue Lev Verchinine l’a interviewé. Il a déclaré qu’il est « Intéressant d’évaluer la situation de ces derniers mois ».
Lev Verchinine: Que se passe-t-il en Libye? Révolte? Feudalisme ? Reflet d’une agression?
Dr Rejeb Muftakhov Budabusa : Franchement, la révolte a été inspiré par certains pays occidentaux qui ont maintenant l’intention de modifier la carte de la Libye et luttent in fine contre la Libye, avec leurs bombardements aériens. Cette guerre est injuste et illogique. Comme vous le savez, au départ, j’étais enthousiaste. Je me suis même félicité de l’intervention. Je suis originaire de Benghazi. Avant d’immigrer, je me suis opposé farouchement à la Jamahiriya. J’ai été à Benghazi juste après le début de la révolte. J’ai de bonnes relations avec de nombreuses personnes là-bas: les dirigeants (CNT ndrl). J’y ai des amis, mes anciens élèves et, beaucoup d’entre eux ont pris part à ces événements dits de « Février 17″ mais maintenant, presque tous s’y sont éloignés.
Ce qui s’est passé en février est la justification de l’intervention de l’OTAN. Mais peu à peu, de gens ont alors commencé à penser que, les événements eux-mêmes sont le résultat d’une manipulation par l’OTAN. Ils ont été déclenchés dans la violence, avec la création de groupes de militants, ayant l’espoir de lutter pour un monde démocratique. Mais, aucun des manifestants n’avaient un seul instant, imaginé que l’OTAN cherchait à intervenir sur notre sol. Soyons honnêtes, il y a comme une re-colonisation organisée de notre pays. En réalité, l’opposition même, a aujourd’hui réellement percuté, que l’intervention européenne n’est pas sincère. Mais, il me semble que, certains responsables libyens avaient été informés et avaient conclu un accord préliminaire avec les Européens. Ils savaient donc ce qui allait se passer.
Au début de la révolte, selon des participants et même des dirigeants, les manifestations étaient pacifiques. Les gens venaient se plaindre auprès des autorités, sans aucune agressivité. Ensuite, la foule, armée, a commencé à bombarder. C’est ainsi que quelqu’un a ouvert le feu sur une base militaire, puis un autre a mis le feu à une station de police, et tout a basculé. Dans la foule pacifiste, il y avait des gens bizarres avec des fusils qui ont commencé la violence dans les rues, puis les jeunes ont commencé à s’engager dans des unités de combat. C’était parti pour le début des combats. Aujourd’hui, beaucoup de gens le regrette. Le pire c’est que, le jour où l’OTAN a commencé à bombarder Benghazi, elle n’a plus fait quelque chose de juste ou de positif.
Lev V. : A-t-on, à Benghazi, une perception sur les «erreurs de l’OTAN» suite à la destruction des villes par les airs ?
Dr Rejeb: Eh bien, comment les gens peuvent le percevoir ? À Benghazi, vivent des gens normaux, qui comprennent tout. Auparavant, l’OTAN littéralement bien joué. Mais maintenant, il est clair que la protection de la population civile par les Européens est le dernier de leurs soucis. Personne n’a oublié le « 17 février », nous n’avons pas à rougir. Mais les gens ont commencé à percevoir le bon grain de l’ivraie, et se remémorent le début de la révolte. Les gens se souviennent notamment des détails, et réalisent qu’il n’y avait pas au préalable, une répression policière. Ils sont conscients de l’avoir provoqué. Ce sont eux qui ont attaqué des unités de l’armée. Mais, que peuvent faire les citoyens ordinaires maintenant ? Mais, ne vous méprenez pas, moi je pense que Kadhafi devrait se retirer de la vie active. Je ne vis pas en Libye parce que je pense qu’il n’a plus beaucoup de temps devant lui donc, je n’ai pas à le cacher. En revanche, je ne crois non plus que les dispositions actuelles, avec ces généraux en place, soient plus démocratiques. Mais, désolé, je ne veux pas que mon pays soit bombardé, pillé et humilié.
Même pour moi, un Benghazian, ennemi juré et opposant farouche au colonel Kadhafi, un Bédouin de Syrte, il faut se rendre à l’évidence, aujourd’hui, il est devenu un symbole d’unité nationale, le seul dont le nom réunie des milliers de personnes différentes qui sont prêts à se battre contre les agresseurs. Après la guerre, nous allons voir …En ce sens, l’Europe a mal calculé. Nous, les Libyens, sont calmes, paresseux, et faciles à vivre. Mais, nous n’acceptons pas d’être humiliés et insultés. Il (Kadhafi) arrive donc à capitaliser. Mais eux (européens), avec leurs propres mains, ont fait de Kadhafi, le nouvel Omar Al Mukhtar de 2011. Et, c’est quoi la finalité ? Ils nous ruinent, ils pensent que s’il quitte le pouvoir, c’est fini. Mais certaines personnes ne peuvent pardonner ou oublier. Beaucoup voient en l’Europe et ses dirigeants, l’avenir compromis de leurs familles .
En général, il y a ceux qui ne veulent pas se battre. Ceux qui restent indifférents, quel que soit celui qui gouverne ou commencent à sympathiser avec al-Kadhafi, parce qu’il se bat contre des agresseurs, plutôt que d’essayer de négocier. hélas, maintenant, sa popularité est grandissante, chaque jour davantage, plus que jamais dans ses propres rêves. La politique des nations démocratiques n’y peut rien.
Lev V.: A votre avis, quelle est la solution ?
Dr Rejeb : L’OTAN et les rebelles ont déjà perdu la guerre et ce qui arrivera demain, je vous laisse deviner.
Source: Pravda.ru
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Vilistia encriré:
12 août 2011
L’ONU…….L’esclave de l’OTAN met de l’eau dans son vin.
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Libye: Pour un règlement politique urgent de la crise
Ban Ki-Moon appelle à un règlement politique ‘urgent’ pour mettre un terme à la crise en Libye – Le secrétaire général des Nations unies, Ban Ki-moon, a renouvelé son appel à toutes les parties en Libye à s’engager dans un processus de règlement politique et il a déploré le manque de progrès dans les efforts visant à mettre un terme au conflit en cours.
Dans un entretien téléphonique, Ban Ki-Moon avait fait part mercredi au Premier ministre libyen, Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, de ses ‘profondes préoccupations’ sur l’absence absolue de progrès dans les efforts pour parvenir à un réglement politique négocié à la crise, malgré les efforts de son émissaire spécial, Abdel-Elah Al-Khatib.
Un communiqué sur l’entretien téléphonique transmis à la PANA jeudi à New York cite le secrétaire général qui affirme que ‘toutes les parties doivent s’engager à parvenir à un règlement politique’.
Il a également exhorté le Premier ministre ‘à répondre de manière constructive aux idées de l’émissaire spécial afin de parvenir à une solution à l’amiable’.
Ban Ki-Moon, qui se trouve actuellement en visite officielle en Corée du Sud, son pays, a également exprimé ses inquiétudes sur la perte de vies civiles innocentes du fait des combats et du manque de secours médicaux et de carburant, ‘ce qui complique davantage les secours aux nécessiteux en Libye’.
Les parties en conflit en Libye restent divisées sur la manière de parvenir à un règlement politique de la crise qui a poussé environ 630.000 personnes à fuir la Libye depuis février et déplacé 200.000 autres dans le pays.
Pana 12/08/2011
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Gaddafi’s call for a Free Palestine ~ on 13 February 2011
Posted on 05 August 2011 by Eccleza
“Fleets of boats should take Palestinians. They should wait by the Palestinian shores until the problem is resolved,” said Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi on February 13, 2011 – just a few days before Al Qaeda gangs from Benghazi called for a “Day of Rage”, which turned out to be a planned Western aggression against Gaddafi and the Libyan people.
“We need to create a problem for the world. This is not a declaration of war. This is a call for peace,” Gaddafi said in a TV speech given to mark the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad, calling Arab states which have relations with Israel “cowardly regimes”.
Gaddafi also issued a call to Muslim countries to join forces against Western powers. He said the world was divided into white, denoting the United States, Europe and their allies; and green for the Muslim world.
“The white colour has decided to get rid of the green colour,” Gaddafi said. “These countries should be united against the white colour because all of these white countries are the enemies of Islam.”
He said violent acts committed by Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network went against Islam because they killed innocent people. But he also stated there was a political explanation for the emergence of militant Islamists.
“Why did this movement emerge? Regardless of its behaviour, in my analysis this movement appeared in response to the American arrogance towards the Islamic nation and in response to its hegemony of the Islamic world,” Gaddafi said. “It was a response to the submission of rulers in the Islamic world, the subservience of rulers in the Islamic world to this arrogance from Europe and the United States.”
Gaddafi is respected in many parts of the world for his uncompromising criticism of Israel and Arab leaders who have dealings with the Jewish state.
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Gaddafi: “Stop the bloodshed, let Libya return as it was: free, dignified and peaceful”
Posted on 03 August 2011 by Eccleza
Gaddafi to the people of Tarhouna on 31 July 2011:
“Good afternoon sons of Tarhouna, the brave Tarhouna which routed the armies of Italy, which is ready now to crush the forces of NATO. We were determined to crush this unjust campaign and to face up to this war which was imposed on us. The war which is being waged with the aim of killing us and occupying our country. Let the West know that we are ready to die in millions but we will not surrender in disgrace.
Here are the people of Tarhouna in their millions. Who of the Libyan people did not go out to the streets to show support to the Leadership of al Fateh Revolution in defiance of NATO? Only less than 100,000 didn’t; they were forced to stay indoors under the threat of machineguns in Benghazi and Derna.
These millions went out in the streets. Who represents the Libyan people? Only the Libyan people represent the Libyan people!
These demonstrations silence the enemy, they irritate them to the point that they wanted to bomb Libyan TV so that my voice does not reach these millions, so no one can see these millions in the streets demonstrating and defying. They wanted to obscure the picture of the millions, they wanted to obscure my voice, but my voice is in your ears and in your hearts.
These masses, if they march to Misrata, in a matter of hours they would free the imprisoned families there. The children of Misrata were taken hostage by the traitors and mercenaries. They were exposed, even NATO now knows these traitors are behind what is happening in Libya now.
On this occasion I say to you that our soldiers, the soldiers of the Saiqa and the Al Fadil regiment, are fighting against the traitors and the mercenaries. The masses in Benghazi are in action. The 7 April Camp was liberated and the revolutionaries released.
Forward, you soldiers of Saiqa and you soldiers of Al Fadil! Let the masses go out in concerted effort with the brave soldiers, so Libya can return as it was: free, dignified and peaceful, so that the bloodshed can be stopped.
The families in Misrata, our people in Misrata are being slaughtered. Women’s breasts were being chopped off. Let the masses march, this is the Revolutionary Youth, the Revolutionary Women, these are battalions who trained on arms and who are ready to fight.
If such march will set off from Tarhouna with arms, Misrata will be liberated and the traitors and agents will be surrendered and caught. Let the masses of Tarhouna, Bani Walid and Zlitan march to save our people in Misrata. Forward! Forward!”
Source: FNC:
Fox News saw about 30 bodies lined up in white bags in the morgue at Zlitan Hospital.
Residents from the farming village of Majar dig in the rubble of a building hit by Monday’s airstrike looking for more bodies.
NATO said it hit four disused farm buildings being used as a military staging area for pro-Qaddafi forces and nine vehicles.
On Tuesday foreign journalists were taken to the scene of the airstrikes near the frontline city of Zlitan.
The bodies of around 30 people were buried in a mass grave in the nearby village of Majar
Coffins were lined up before being put in a local cemetery that was last used one hundred years ago to bury those killed fighting Italian occupation.
The bodies of the dead were buried immediately in keeping with Muslim traditions.
Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmudi (left) and government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim (right) took representative from foreign embassies to the bomb sites.
Twenty one year old Hamza Ali said he went to help with the rescue effort.
Surgeons at Tripoli Central Hospital said this girl was among those caught up in the Majar airstrikes.
Libyans Seek Refuge in Former Chinese Worker Housing Units
Source: Fox News
In the southern outskirts of Tripoli the Beijing Construction and Engineering Group had plans to build 15,000 new units, but the workers fled the country in March and abandoned the site. It is now home to 480 Libyan refugees.
Libyan refugees have been settled near a construction site at Sidi Sayah on Tripoli’s outskirts.
Chinese workers were building 15,000 residential units in the area.
Dozens of children are among the 480 internally displaced people housed at ‘New Tripoli’
A refugee family at Sidi Sayah near Tripoli.
Men break their Ramadan fast with fruit and soup.
Most of the families at the refugee camp come from the rebel-controlled city of Benghazi or the Western Mountains.
Most of the families are Qaddafi supporters who fled Benghazi.
The accommodation is basic, but many say they welcome the security.
Food is brought into the camp each day and heated on basic electric cookers.
A Benghazi doctor says he would have been killed if he had stayed in the east of Libya.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/world/2011/08/05/libyans-seek-refuge-in-former-chinese-worker-housing-units/#ixzz1Uqw2wuDK
Many in Tripoli Face Daily Hardships (and the Heat)
FOX NEWS
Residents living in Tripoli have seen their fuel supplies being heavily rationed, food prices rising conspicuously and the country’s electricity grid is failing, leaving many Libyans without power in daytime temperatures approaching 104 degrees. But some politicians, like Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, say, “We are happy that these Libyan cities and towns are getting so much attention daily by the world’s media – it will be good for our tourism industry.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/world/2011/08/07/many-in-tripoli-face-daily-hardships-and-heat/#ixzz1UqwRtF7F
Libyan PM al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi says there can be no solution to the Libyan crisis until NATO stops its bombing campaign.
Shoppers wait in line to buy bread in a Tripoli suburb.
In Souq al-Juma’ah many stores are closed, but local businessmen say people are still spending. The international media is taken to the Tripoli district of Souq al-Juma’ah to see the lights still on.
With gasoline in short supply other forms of transport are making a comeback in the Libyan capital.
The alleyways of Souq al-Juma’ah
In Souq al-Juma’ah electricity has been patchy for the past two weeks
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/world/2011/08/05/libyans-seek-refuge-in-former-chinese-worker-housing-units/#ixzz1UqswAM4N
13 août 08:57
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
A rally against NATO in Tripoli. Supporters of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi take to the streets in protest against a NATO air strike on a village east of Tripoli. The government says the attack killed dozens of civilians. NATO says it hit a legitimate target. They gather at the Hungarian embassy. Hungary is the only E.U. country that has retained diplomatic representatives in Tripoli. They call on the UN to intervene. SOUNDBITE: ) Ibrahim al Majeri, Head of Doctors Union in Libya, , saying: (Arabic) “Mr. Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary General, we are the families of the victims who were killed by NATO air strikes on Majar village, which killed 85 martyrs, most of them were children and women, we are appealing to you to take a firm stand against these crimes which NATO commits every day.” The demonstrators hand over the letter to representatives at the Embassy to deliver to the UN. NATO forces have been mounting regular attacks on Libya. The alliance says government forces are killing civilians trying to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule. Gaddafi denies the allegations and says NATO’s actions are aimed at stealing Libya’s oil.
SACP calls NATO to cease military action in Libya August 12 2011 , 3:05:00
http://www.sabcnews.com/portal/site/SABCNews/menuitem.5c4f8fe7ee929f602ea12ea1674daeb9/?vgnextoid=0b9821ecb1eb1310VgnVCM10000077d4ea9bRCRD&vgnextfmt=default
The SACP in the Western Cape has called on NATO to cease all military action in the embattled northern African state of Libya. A group of SACP, SANCO and PASSOP members picketed in front of the British Consulate in Cape Town, handing over a memorandum demanding that Western forces leave Africa to solve its own problems.
A small group of protesters gathered at the Consulate, singing and calling for an end to Nato air strikes. In the memorandum, the group stated, among others, that they condemn the role Britain is playing. They further state that they reject attempts to marginalise the African Union and peaceful political resolutions. Other demands include the immediate suspension of British participation in the armed aggression, to work with the South African government and AU to ensure talks to end the conflict and a review of the British government’s foreign policy.
SACP District Secretary Benson Ngqentsu says: “Britain, France, USA must ensure that they withdraw from bombing Libya. To us, an attack to Libya is an attack to South Africa. They must stop intervening in African issues, and as Africans we have the capacity to address these issues. We are not going to stop until this thing comes to an end.”
The British consul general, Chris Trott, accepted the memorandum and said he would deliver it to his government. The group says this is the first of several public protests to take place. They later dispersed peacefully.
Adil Naji writes:
Luigi Baccino 13 août 18:10
Live now on Internet the “Millions in Harlem March’ aims to stop US, NATO warmaking in Libya”:
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Millions March In Harlem Live Webcast 2pm – 4pm ET, 19 GMT
http://www.noi.org
Millions March In Harlem Rally to Stop U.S., NATO Warmongers
I watched it. Farrakahn went over by a half hour— But his speech was worth it and saved the day
He emphasised at the end, how brother-leader al Gadhafi is a MUJJADID, and how all should honor him. He and the others gave al-Gadhafi all their love and support. Allah is Great….
من روسيا الي المقاتليين الليبيين اليوم شخص يطلق على نفسه رئيس الاتحاد الروسي قد وقع على ورقة من الورق الذي لا يعني شيئا بالنسبة لروسيا. هذه الورقة سوف لن تؤثر على الوضع في ليبيا. كل الشر الذي يمكن أن يفعله هذا الرجل الذي قام به بالفعل.. وقد أعطى بالفعل أصدقاء قصارى جهدنا بعيدا للذئاب الرأسمالية. ونحن واخواننا من ليبيا لن نغفر له. نحن نرى ان تنتصر على حلف شمال الاطلسي ، لا يمكن أن يفوز على ارادتكم ولا يمكن كسرها ، وأنكم لن تخونوا زعيكم وبلدكم. واصلوا القتال وتذكر دائما أن كل يوم يأتي لكم ،أوثق وأقرب إلى النصر! وسوف نأتي للكفاح من أجل لكم جنبا إلى جنب. لا أعتقد بأن ليبيا بعيدا عن روسيا ، فمن هنا ، في قلوب الملايين من الروس. كونوا أقويا لا تثقوا بأحد يريد منكم أن تستسلموا ، أنتم بالفعل الفائزين والمنتصرين. أنسوا الرجل الذي يدعى ميدفيديف ، فهو لا شيء ، مكانه فارغ ، فهو لا يستحق الاهتمام . انه لا يمثل الشعب في روسيا على الإطلاق. خائن أصبح زعيم دولتنا ، ولكن أيامه تنتهي، لا يوجد لديه الدعم لا بين المدنيين ولا في الجيش. نرجو منكم أن تبقوا أقوياء ونحن على يقين بأنكم. انت لستم وحدكم ، الناس العاديين في جميع أنحاء العالم معكم، وجميع الذين لا تزال القلوب والنفوس. قتال حتى النصر! تعتبر تحية وأفضل من شعب روسيا! ______________________
To the fighting Libya from Russia Today a person calling himself the President of Russian Federation signed a sheet of paper which means nothing for Russia. This paper will not affect the situation in Libya. All evil that this man could do he has already done. He has already given our best friends away to the capitalist wolves. We and our brothers from Libya will never forgive to him. We see that you win over NATO, your will to victory can’t be broken and you will never betray your leader and your country. Continue fighting and always remember that every day you come closer and closer to victory! We will come to you to fight for you side by side. Don’t think that Libya is far away from Russia, it is here, in millions of Russian hearts. Be strong and don’t trust anybody who wants you to give up, you are already winners. Forget the man called Medvedev, he is nothing, empty place, he is not worthy of your concern about him. He doesn’t represent the people of Russia at all. A traitor became the leader of our state, but his days are numbered, he has no support neither among the civilians nor in the army. We beg you to stay strong and we are sure that you will. You are not alone, common people all over the world are for you, all who still have hearts and souls. Fight until the victory! Greeting and best regards from the people of Russia
Konstantyn Scheglikov 13 août 19:15
من روسيا الي المقاتليين الليبيين
اليوم شخص يطلق على نفسه رئيس الاتحاد الروسي قد وقع على ورقة من الورق الذي لا يعني شيئا بالنسبة لروسيا.
هذه الورقة سوف لن تؤثر على الوضع في ليبيا. كل الشر الذي يمكن أن يفعله هذا الرجل الذي قام به بالفعل.. وقد أعطى بالفعل أصدقاء قصارى جهدنا بعيدا للذئاب الرأسمالية.
ونحن واخواننا من ليبيا لن نغفر له. نحن نرى ان تنتصر على حلف شمال الاطلسي ، لا يمكن أن يفوز على ارادتكم ولا يمكن كسرها ، وأنكم لن تخونوا زعيكم وبلدكم. واصلوا القتال وتذكر دائما أن كل يوم يأتي لكم ،أوثق وأقرب إلى النصر!
وسوف نأتي للكفاح من أجل لكم جنبا إلى جنب. لا أعتقد بأن ليبيا بعيدا عن روسيا ، فمن هنا ، في قلوب الملايين من الروس. كونوا أقويا لا تثقوا بأحد يريد منكم أن تستسلموا ، أنتم بالفعل الفائزين والمنتصرين.
أنسوا الرجل الذي يدعى ميدفيديف ، فهو لا شيء ، مكانه فارغ ، فهو لا يستحق الاهتمام . انه لا يمثل الشعب في روسيا على الإطلاق. خائن أصبح زعيم دولتنا ، ولكن أيامه تنتهي، لا يوجد لديه الدعم لا بين المدنيين ولا في الجيش.
نرجو منكم أن تبقوا أقوياء ونحن على يقين بأنكم. انت لستم وحدكم ، الناس العاديين في جميع أنحاء العالم معكم، وجميع الذين لا تزال القلوب والنفوس.
قتال حتى النصر! تعتبر تحية وأفضل من شعب روسيا!
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To the fighting Libya from Russia
Today a person calling himself the President of Russian Federation signed a sheet of paper which means nothing for Russia. This paper will not affect the situation in Libya. All evil that this man could do he has already done. He has already given our best friends away to the capitalist wolves. We and our brothers from Libya will never forgive to him. We see that you win over NATO, your will to victory can’t be broken and you will never betray your leader and your country. Continue fighting and always remember that every day you come closer and closer to victory! We will come to you to fight for you side by side. Don’t think that Libya is far away from Russia, it is here, in millions of Russian hearts. Be strong and don’t trust anybody who wants you to give up, you are already winners.
Forget the man called Medvedev, he is nothing, empty place, he is not worthy of your concern about him. He doesn’t represent the people of Russia at all. A traitor became the leader of our state, but his days are numbered, he has no support neither among the civilians nor in the army.
We beg you to stay strong and we are sure that you will. You are not alone, common people all over the world are for you, all who still have hearts and souls.
Fight until the victory! Greeting and best regards from the people of Russia
Libya: The massacre, the cover-up. What is going on?
Posted: 2011/08/13
From: Mathaba http://networkedblogs.com/lDOM6
Why are the western media quiet about Libya?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
The mainstream western media are curiously silent about Libya. Why could this be? We reveal some shocking facts, telling you where NATO’s money is being spent. While community programmes and being cut back in Europe, did our readers know that up to 100.000 USD per aircraft per hour is being wasted massacring children in Libya?
I will tell you why the western “bought” media are quiet about Libya. They are quiet about Libya because NATO is committing more and more massacres of civilians and NATO’s darlings, the (mainly foreign) terrorists, are losing to Colonel Gaddafi’s forces on the ground. Towards 21.00 GMT on August 9, NATO aircraft committed a massacre of civilians in the village of Majer, near Zliten – 85 people lost their lives, including 33 children, 32 women and 20 men.
The international community looks on, the international media remain sullenly silent. And the truth about what is happening in Libya is shocking NATO to the core. That is precisely why in recent weeks, since the brilliant Libyan victory in the Battle of Al-Brega against NATO’s terrorists (it is claimed around 100,000 foreign bearded Islamist fanatics crossed over the frontier from Egypt just before mayhem broke out), a battle in which a smokescreen clouded the skies so that NATO’s jets could not (illegally) intervene in an internal conflict to protect the terrorists against Libyan government troops, NATO has been pouring more and more mercenaries into their fight.
It is also why NATO has been strafing civilian structures like the Libyan water supply system, targeting the electricity grid, to “break civilians” and destroying the factory making water pipes, because it is staring defeat in the face despite Cameron and Sarkozy and their sickening clique of cowards having spent hundreds of millions of their taxpayers’ dollars on this illegal campaign or murder, wanton destruction and criminal damage.
Cameron even has the audacity to speak out against “criminals” in his own country, when his own forces are committing massacres of civilians, destroying public and private property and slaughtering kids in Libya.
And why exactly is NATO becoming so hysterical? While at home people start to question why their community centres have been closed, why that hospital wing will not be opened, why spending cuts of up to 85% in education and training programmes have left tens of thousands of youths without a future, while NATO spends millions upon millions daily, things are going disastrously wrong on the ground.
Increasingly, more and more foreign mercenaries are captured and increasingly, it becomes obvious that a very large number of the terrorists unleashed by NATO are not even Libyans. And so desperate it is becoming, apparently, that the USA is secretly holding talks with the Libyan Foreign Affairs Ministry (according to an off-the-record statement from a Ministry spokesperson in a very senior position), whereby Tripoli is being told that if it renegotiates contracts worth 45 billion USD it currently holds with the Russian Federation and PR China, then Washington will act accordingly.
Wonderful solidarity from the country whose White House stated in a letter that it is good to involve NATO because it saves the American taxpayer money and saves the lives of US boys. Yes, they actually said that. Mind you, if the French pilots knew what their British colleagues said about them, hahahahaha.
The British authorities are also, apparently, frantically trying to save the enormous contracts they signed in the construction sector, now they see defeat staring them and their terrorist friends square in the face.
According to a documentary by the Serbian analyst Milovan Drecun (1), NATO’s bombing campaign has directly and negatively affected the livelihoods of some 3.5 million people in Africa because the construction projects in which 3.5 million foreign workers made their livings, have stopped.
In fact, the latest documentary, Forbidden Truth, by Milovan Drecun, military expert and political analyst, a war correspondent for 30 years, makes spellbinding viewing. He visited the front line in Libya and spoke directly to people who had fled the clutches of NATO’s terrorist forces.
It transpires that the massacres and killing were never by Gaddafi’s forces, but rather from terrorist elements with links to Al-Qaeda, liberals, counter-revolutionaries, thugs, common criminals, Islamist fanatics and opportunists, whose space is labelled “The Opposition” while the west continues to label the terrorists as ”rebels”. And NATO’s part in this has been massive. Until June 7, NATO flew 11,000 sorties, in which it murdered or injured 4,711 people – at least 856 of these were innocent civilians, 109 were children. At least 523 civilians were seriously injured and 3,332 received minor injuries.
So where is this legal and under which international law? Why does the international community sit back and watch, doing nothing? Why is Africa not considering a renegotiation of all contracts now, excluding the NATO countries taking part in this outrage?
Milovan Drecun also discovered that Muammar al-Qathafi has the support of all the tribes in Libya, the Libyan youth is by and large with him and he controls some 85% of the territory despite the collective best efforts of wanton destruction and murder by NATO countries.
Recently, the 2,000 sheikhs and representatives of the tribes held a meeting in which they decided there was to be no partition of Libya, that the west has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of Libya and that Libyans do not have the right to kill each other.
Bottom line: NATO has squandered MILLIONS of dollars which its member states could have used in development projects at home, it has committed massacres, NATO and its terrorist friends are the ones killing civilians, Gaddafi’s people are behind him and the terrorists are losing on all fronts.
Now if that isn’t a criminal, murderous failure of a policy by NATO, it is difficult to imagine what is.
Sources: Milovan Drecun
Miroslav Pletikosa (also translation)
(1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7A9jMnKf7w
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http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
Little water, no electric, but vast support for our brother-leader:
When will NATO stop murdering Libyan children?
14.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/14-08-2011/118738-nato_libya-0/
When will NATO stop murdering Libyan children?. 45120.jpegThe question is, when will NATO stop murdering Libyan children, when will NATO realise it made a monumental mistake in attacking Libya and siding with the “rebels” (most of whom are not even Libyan), when will NATO stop wasting hundreds of millions of dollars of its taxpayers’ money on bombing a country whose population stands with its leader?
NATO has a fundamental and underlying problem: it is a fraud, a phoney organization which has long surpassed the founding ideals of its existence. It was founded (wrongly) as a collective defensive organism quaking in its boots at the supposed Soviet threat. The Soviet military organization was essentially defensive, and despite massive superiority, did the Soviet Union ever attack? No, it did not. It spent, in the 1980s, 250 billion USD in aid programmes in developing countries, where western countries had practised slavery and imperialist policies.
And now? Apart from encircling the Russian Federation, apart from encircling the IR Iran, proving that NATO is not a defensive organization, meaning its “Ministers of Defence” are in fact “Ministers of War”, NATO in fact controls its member states’ foreign policy. Now how constitutional is that? Did the citizens of the member states vote for NATO? Then why is it controlling their policy? And spending their money?
Do the citizens of the UK know quite how much Prime Minister David Cameron is spending per week on bombing Libyan civilians, bombing the Libyan water supply and electricity grids to “break the people”? Find out, and see how you feel? It is utterly amazing.
Do the citizens of the UK and France know what the White House said before it tried to distance itself from this horrific violation of international law? Why, here it is: It is good to involve NATO because it saves US taxpayers’ dollars and saves the lives of our boys.
Yes, they actually said that.
Whatever the western media is reporting, PRAVDA.Ru has sources inside Libya and on the front line. I personally have been engaged with Africa and African policy for many years. I have an African daughter and I have an African son, I have contacts in all African countries and I have been actively engaged in African affairs for decades, not as a colonialist but implementing developmental approaches and documenting African cultures and lores for posterity.
So how can SKY News for example state that the “rebels” (what rebels? The vast majority of them aren’t even Libyans, and over 90% of the population supports the Jamahiriya) control al-Bregah, when in fact they are 195 kilometres to the East and all accesses to the city are heavily fortified? True, the terrorists make the two-and-a-half-hour drive from time to time and true, they get their heads blown off. Many of them are NATO backed mercenaries. Why does NATO arm terrorists? Why does NATO get itself involved in an internal conflict it started? Why does NATO back terrorists against the legitimate government of Libya?
Why doesn’t NATO admit that the Jamahiriya is far more democratic than the systems in their countries? Have the citizens of the NATO countries read the Green Book of Muammar al-Qathafi? Then they should.
How can the western media report that Benghazi is under “rebel” control when 75% of the city is now thankfully liberated from the scourge of these racists (why does NATO back racists? Is Cameron a racist? Is Obama a racist? Is Sarkozy a racist? Oh, the readers didn’t know the terrorists slaughtered black people in the streets and declared they want “black free” areas? Ever heard of Judenfrei? The Libyan terrorists are the same as Hitler’s SS in 2011. NATO supports them).
And as for the supposed taking of Zawiyah…the terrorists are 80 km. west of Zawiyah. The terrorists terrorised the citizens of Tawaregha on Friday and were cleaned out after the Libyan Armed Forces sterilised the area and liberated the citizens on Saturday morning. 190 terrorist elements were liquidated outside Tawaregha, including one leader and this is located at the west of Misurata, which is also largely under Libyan government control.
The Libyan government is firmly in control, has from the beginning implemented international law to the letter, while NATO has flouted it. If there isn’t a man or a woman in the international community with the guts to stand up and say what is right, then let the citizens of the world take up the challenge.
NATO is committing war crimes in Libya. Colonel Gaddafy is popular. NATO is killing civilians, and it is doing so on purpose. They murdered the three grandchildren of Muammar al-Qathafi. They are wasting millions of dollars per day in this war, which they are losing. They know they are losing it so they target water and electricity supplies to break the people.
Now if that isn’t evil, I don’t know what is.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
AFP, Mise à jour : 14 août 2011
Libye: Tripoli craint des raids de l’Otan à la frontière avec la Tunisie
Le porte-parole du gouvernement libyen, Moussa Ibrahim, a indiqué tôt dimanche qu’il disposait d’informations selon lesquelles l’Otan planifiait des raids sur Ras Jedir, un point frontalier entre la Libye et la Tunisie, pour ouvrir la voie à une avancée des rebelles.
http://news.fr.msn.com/m6-actualite/monde/libye-tripoli-craint-des-raids-de-lotan-%C3%A0-la-fronti%C3%A8re-avec-la-tunisie
Des rebelles libyens, le 12 août 2011 à Tuarga
AFP
“Nous disposons d’informations affirmant que l’Otan planifie des bombardements intensifs sur le point de contrôle frontalier de Ras Jedir pour donner l’occasion aux bandes armées (rebelles), dont certaines sont positionnées du côté tunisien, d’entrer en 1territoire libyen”, a déclaré à l’AFP M. Ibrahim.
Il a qualifié les intentions de l’Otan de “très dangereuses”, avertissant que ce point frontalier était un point de passage pour des “milliers de Libyens, dont des femmes et des enfants”.
“En le bombardant, l’Otan commettra un nouveau massacre”, a déclaré M. Ibrahim, mettant en garde contre un “acte illégal”.
“Nous saluons le gouvernement tunisien et nous l’encourageons à fournir plus d’efforts pour que la Tunisie ne se transforme pas en point de départ de l’agression sur la Libye”.
“Nous saluons le peuple Tunisien qui a empêché le déchargement d’un cargo d’armes” destinés aux rebelles libyens dans le port de Zarzis au sud tunisien, a-t-il ajouté.
Il a appelé la communauté internationale à intervenir pour arrêter l'”agression” contre la Libye et “l’Onu à dénoncer et à condamner le trafic d’armes vers la Libye depuis la Tunisie, ce qui représente des violations des résolutions 1970 et 1973 des Nations unies”.
M. Ibrahim a lancé également un “appel aux organisation internationales et aux médias” pour “intervenir et mettre à nu les complots qui se trament contre la Libye”, a-t-il dit.
Il a dénoncé par ailleurs des raids “intensifs de l’Otan sur tout le territoire libyen hier et aujourd’hui”, notamment dans la région d’Abou Kammech, situé à 10 km du point frontalier de Ras Jedir.
Le point frontalier de Ras Jedir est depuis plusieurs mois la seule issue vers l’extérieur pour le régime libyen, qui fait l’objet de sanctions internationales.
Le ministre tunisien de l’Intérieur Habib Essid avait démenti jeudi le passage, via la Tunisie, d’armes en provenance du Qatar pour les insurgés libyens, n’écartant cependant pas le risque de trafic d’armes.
“La situation sécuritaire est encore fragile” et les “patrouilles policières sont insuffisantes”, avait expliqué le ministre de l’Intérieur.
La Qatar, qui participe à l’opération militaire internationale contre le régime libyen, finance un des camps de réfugiés en Tunisie, qui est équipé d’un hôpital à Tataouine (sud tunisien) et dont l’accès est contrôlé par l’armée tunisienne.
Tripoli accuse implicitement la Tunisie de fermer les yeux sur un trafic d’armes financé par le Qatar, destinées aux rebelles du Jebel Nafoussa, au sud-ouest de Tripoli. Les armes transiteraient vers la Libye depuis le point frontalier de Dhehiba, contrôlé par les rebelles et situé à 200 km au sud de Ras Jédir.
..Pope calls for ‘revival’ of Libyan peace efforts
AFP – Sun, 07 Aug 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/pope-calls-revival-libyan-peace-efforts-111041186.html
Pope Benedict XVI urged the international community Sunday to “revive” their search for a peace plan for Libya, saying force was not the answer.
said the Pope.
Smoke billows from Tajura, a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli, as powerful explosions …
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MN writes:
I wrote:
Thank you MN. Seems like you and the Pope are the only sane ones here. God bless our MUJJADID brother-leader al-Gadhafi! It is total madness and disregard for humanity what NATO has done to the people of the glorious JAMAHIRIYA (LIBYA)…all the murder and destruction! Let us always be praying for the end of the NATO bombing and the withdrawal of all CIA/MI6, FRENCH, foreign mercenaries and al-Quada from Libya…
Nikita Visitsky wrote on 14 août 14:08:
World Community vs International Community
Posted: 2011/08/14
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628001?rss
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
This article explains the big difference between World Community and International Community and the confusion that is easy to lift over these words, but which many journalists still don’t understand and with an example of the current war on Libya
…We have clearly defined the “international community” as being the same as the “intelligence community”, i.e. just a handful of fascists that owe no national allegiance to the countries they rule over but instead owe an allegiance to an international Mafia, let us turn to the meaning of “World Community.”
Before we do so, a little more about the English language and the meaning of words. Hard as it is because English is a “devils” language because it is vague and unclear, which is why legal documents in English have to have sentences that go on for pages on end to try to define and prevent loopholes, in the case of the words “International” and “World” matters are very clear.
International by definition is not national. It would be fine if it was inter-national, i.e. between nations, or mediating between nations. But “International” is always taken to be non-national, above national, and as we all clearly know by now, refers only to the tiny groups mentioned above, because there simply is not other international “community”.
In the same way as there is no other intelligence “community” other than the gang of intelligence agencies which are behind most acts of terrorism in the world, and which are led by the usual trio: MOSSAD (Israel), MI6 (England) and CIA (USA).
So is there a world “community”? As yet, not exactly. However, it would be a more suited word to define what the masses of the world, the peoples of the world, agree upon. For example, the world community, as opposed to the international community, agrees on the need for peace, development, cooperation.
War on Libya: International Community vs World Community
NATO, the military wing of the “international community” is committing war crimes daily in Libya, the latest massacre of children and civilians in Zliten demonstrating its cold-blooded and reptilian callous disregard for human life as it proceeds to bomb indiscriminately in a desperate attempt to aid the terrorists it supports, knowing full well the TNC has the support of some 2% of Libyans.
And what is the world community doing? The people of the world community are doing a lot. They are networking, they are pooling resources, they are discussing how to get the war criminals in NATO and their political leaders into a court of law (taking the legal path and not the violent one, unlike NATO), they are collecting and passing on information.
In so doing, they are bypassing the controlled media through which the International Community wishes to pass its message of dastardly dictators siphoning off money for themselves and their families, while the poor are held down and the children being killed or sent screaming into hospitals.
In so doing, the world community, or those of us who want to find out what is really going on, are very well aware of the facts. Just ask anyone on the streets of Africa or Asia, even if they don’t watch tell-lie-vision. After all, the uprising in Libya did not come in the capital city, Tripoli, where 2.7 out of Libya’s 6 million people live. It started along the borders, already controlled by NATO after the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and in the port city of Misratah, where NATO warships could ferry in terrorists and supplies at will.
We found out that around 100,000 foreign mercenaries had indeed been shipped and transported into Libya from the Eastern frontier and we found out that these were not Gaddafi mercenaries – after all, he has 99% of the Libyan armed forces with him. We found out that the supposed attacks by the Libyan Air Force did not exist and we found out that these allegations were behind the UNSC (United Nations Security Council — the political wing of the “international community”) Resolutions spurring NATO’s action.
Being false flag events, we know very well that UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) are even under so-called international law (again, does that exist?), void.
We discovered that the massacres being committed were by the terrorists unleashed and aided and abetted by NATO “international community” countries, primarily the UK and France, backed by Big Brother the US of A, we discovered that NATO was illegally involved in an internal conflict, we discovered that NATO was actively supporting the terrorist forces by bombing Libyan Defence Force positions.
We discovered the heinous atrocities committed by these “rebels”, we discovered the flagrant disregard for their own “international law” demonstrated by an arrogant clique of criminals – the NATO countries involved – in arming these terrorists. We discovered NATO’s attacks against civilians, we discovered NATO’s war crimes, we discovered that NATO wantonly murdered the family of Colonel Gaddafi in a precision strike against a family home, occasioning the death of his son and three of his grandchildren while he was outside feeding the animals.*
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Libya, NATO and the sinister western media
16.08.2011
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Good riddance to imperialism
NATO’s lies we have seen before. We saw them in Kosovo as they protected Albanian mafia terrorists and controlled the drug trade, we saw them in Iraq with Saddam’s non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction, we saw it again with the invention of a casus belli against Libya which does not exist. But where do the media come into this?
As a permanent member of staff of Pravda.Ru, writing for the English version, I usually cover several sections which need material, be these World Events, Economics, Cultural Events, Society or even Sport; as Director and Chief Editor of the Portuguese version, I receive materials from our hundred or so correspondents spread out over the eight Portuguese-speaking countries and place the material they send me, occasionally writing an Opinion/Editorial piece in both versions.
Due to the sheer injustice of NATO’s Libya campaign, due to the barefaced lies upon which it is based, I feel obliged to write more of these Op-Ed pieces to counter the nonsense that NATO countries are spreading as a cover for their criminal acts of murder, attempted murder, wanton destruction of public and private property, occasioning criminal damage, strafing water supplies and electricity grids with military hardware. It doesn’t get much more evil than the purposeful precision-bombing of a house where three babies were murdered by a NATO pilot because they thought Colonel Gaddafi was there. He was. He was outside feeding the animals.
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http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/16-08-2011/118764-nato_media-0/
However, I never expected to see myself forced to get back into front-line reporting, finding myself obliged to re-enter the realm of what I term hoof-on-the-street journalism, fact-finding missions as opposed to the comfort of op-ed pieces based upon 35 years of experience. Yet due to the total lies, and, I am sorry, bullshit, in the western media, I find myself obliged to tell the truth, first because as a journalist that is supposed to be what we do; secondly because the name of the newspaper I write for, PRAVDA.Ru, means “truth” in Russian and thirdly, because not to do so is an insult to the brave young women and men, independent journalists, who are out there risking their lives getting us information. And what does the western “bought” media do? It twists the stories until they are unrecognisable and blows a raspberry in their faces.
I have written many lines about this war and by now everyone reading this column is aware that Colonel Gaddafi was to receive a humanitarian award from the UNO for his excellent humanitarian record in March 2011, that this “rebellion” was fuelled from outside (it started on the frontiers), that this “rebellion” is mainly fuelled by Islamist fanatics inside Libya or foreign terrorists, that many of those fighting the Libyan Armed Forces fought for Al-Qaeda, that Al-Qaeda runs through the ranks of the “rebels”, that NATO has committed countless war crimes, and that NATO is illegally and openly interfering in an internal conflict aiding the terrorists and bombing the Libyan Armed Forces.
The military situation
So now, due to the lies spread across the western media, I felt obliged to do the work of thousands of “bought” media outlets and sift daily through battle reports from my contacts on the ground. Some of these are the independent journalists I mentioned, others are reliable sources inside Libya, and present the real picture.
What the western media outlets collectively presented throughout this last weekend (August 14 to 15) was pure nonsense, unadulterated drivel and what must have been a collective orgy of NATO and their terrorist friends’ fantasies. We were presented with a scenario in which “Gaddafi is surrounded”, as from one day to the next, the Libyan Armed Forces lost territory it had been managing to control for six months. When we get down to facts we see that these western sources can never, ever be trusted again.
Let us start in the East. Al-Brega has not fallen at all. It is totally under the control of the Libyan Armed Forces (LAF). In fact, the LAF are currently conducting operations inside Benghazi itself, where the terrorist elements are in total disarray after fighting amongst themselves, stealing the money NATO has been giving them (what was that Mr. Cameron said about public spending cuts? He is spending tens of millions a week strafing kids in Libya and donating money to Al-Qaeda terrorists. For those who do not believe me, Google up one of their chiefs, Al-Hasidi). On Sunday another NATO helicopter was shot down.
In the centre, the city of Misuratah is around 95% under the control of the LAF, the terrorist forces there are surrounded and the port is under Libyan Government control. Any NATO vessel entering it will enter under the consent of the Libyan Government or else will be blasted into the water and we will see whether the Mediterranean fish really do like frogs or their Anglo-Saxon masters who say horrible things about them behind their backs. It is said that the CIA agent Khalifa Haftar has been captured in this operation. What was he doing there? Other rebels are trapped in Tawergha.
In the West, here NATO and its puppet press really had a heyday yesterday. The fact of the matter, after close consultation with sources on the ground, is that Al-Zawiyah, Gharian and Surman are firmly under the control of the Libyan authorities. This has been confirmed by independent journalists in the area, has been reconfirmed by sources in the Libyan authorities and has been reconfirmed by reports from tribal leaders in the area. The largest tribes, the Warfa’llah, Tarhouna, Zlitan and Washafana, are all firmly behind Colonel Gaddafi. Terrorist activity in the area is restricted to pockets of elements which are being liquidated as the areas they infest are sterlised.
The town of Sibrat, full of priceless Roman antiquities, was bombed by NATO. This is a crime against Humanity.
Further news
The terrorists have made a list of store owners, shops which sell beauty products for women, in Benghazi who they wish to decapitate. These are the pigs who NATO is protecting.
Qatar has been supplying the terrorists with weaponry; the French have boots on the ground, outside the auspices of UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011).
Why this campaign?
Because August 17 is the seventeenth day of Ramadan, the date of the Battle of Badr, in which the prophet Mohammed secured victory. One can understand the terrorists wishing to shape public opinion in their favour because they are increasingly desperate and impotent. But western news outlets doing their dirty work for them and lying to protect NATO’s war crimes?
These also amount to economic crimes – NATO has sent the Libyan oil industry back at least three years according to a spokesperson from Wood Mackenzie. Production had been 1.6 million b/d before the terrorist insurgency.
Get-out card
The pig-headed arrogance of the leaders of the European NATO countries involved may eventually be countered by an attack of intelligence on the other side of the Atlantic, where it is evident the White House is trying to distance itself from yet another foreign policy disaster and where the State Department no doubt sees its plan to destroy the African Union and re-colonise Africa with AFRICOM go up in smoke. Obama 1 Hillary Clinton 0.
Time to pull out, time to recognise the no-fly zone was successfully implemented, time to recognise that Muammar al-Qathahi was not killing civilians but rather, defending them from terrorists, and time to admit that the LAF are doing what they can not only to avoid all civilian casualties but also, even those among the rats. Can NATO claim the same?
Tripoli celebrates the victory in Misratah, wholly unreported by the western media:
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And what has the leadership of the world community done? Absolutely nothing, because the leadership of the world community is actually Qaddafi himself and others like him. They are under attack from the “international community”. And the silence of those governments around the world that have to pretend to their people that they are either national or part of the “world community” are exposed, for by their silence, they have shown they are actually part and parcel as tools of the “international community.”
In fact, most of them have agreements with NATO and carry on with the charade of the “United Nations” which is actually really the “United Governments.”
This disgusting act of collective cowardice or worse, collusion, is entirely unacceptable and goes wholly against the grain of the collective will in the hearts and minds of the people of the world community, who stand shoulder to shoulder beside their brothers and sisters, the heroic people of Libya and their beloved Brother Leader.
Shame on those who could and should be doing much more to stop this. This said, it is the duty of every civilised human being to take this matter up not through the proper legal channels, which are all controlled by the “international community” and thus ignored, but by setting up appropriate alternative channels. Let us continue networking to bring the NATO war criminals to justice. We have been abandoned by those we looked to to support us and to uphold natural law and sound principles but this does not mean we cannot take up the fight ourselves. Further down this page, you will be shown ways to do this.
Does the world community exist? Yes, it does, and Libya has shown us what it is really made of – not the sickening turncoats whose pockets are lined by the corporate elitists to whose wills and policies they pander and grovel but rather, by the rank and file of humankind. More and more of us are coming together, like brothers and sisters, from the four corners of the Earth, learning from each other, interacting with each other and drinking deep from that cup which is human knowledge. We are black, we are white, we are yellow, we are brown, we are Moslems, we are Jews, we are Christians, we are monarchists, atheists, conservatives, communists, radicals, women, men, children, we are human beings.
And we are now the world community. We do not need those who have allowed Libya to happen and who are perpetrating the crimes. Libya has taught us that we have surpassed them and now, we can hold them accountable in the ballot box. Did you vote for NATO to control your foreign policy? Then why does it? Bring it onto the political agenda. And this brings us to what we can do and need to do, to take responsibility and act, instead of allowing the “international community” of a handful of fascists a free reign to rule the entire world and prevent the flourishing of the world community which is united by the values of peace, justice, right, truth, sound progress & development.
Human Responsibilities
From what we have seen above and elsewhere, almost all governments, serve the global (banking) elite and the political wing which calls itself the “international community” but it nothing more than a small number of criminals which rule governments, which are themselves a tiny minority among the people of the world, but give themselves stature through their international government organisation, the so-called “United Nations Organization.”
They have their intelligence spy services, working for them, and against the people. They call those agencies around the world, the “intelligence community.” They have their military forces, including weapons of mass destruction, remote controlled missiles and drones, and have reached out around the world via thousands of bases even in countries where they are not officially recognized as such. That is mostly under the umbrella of “NATO”. They have their financial wing, the World Bank and the “International Monetary Fund”. They even have their quasi-religious or satanic orders, to satisfy their needs for self-importance and narcissism.
They have their “news media” networks, which carry out the functions some of which are exposed here: http://wiki.mathaba.net/Media and notice, that their agencies too are “international” and have their stories planted around the world’s national media networks, so that people in almost all countries of the world, get the same censored and twisted “news” passed off as fact and the same game shows and soap operas on TV to keep the masses in a stupor.
What do we have? As yet little, but it is there, and it is now a question of building upon it. Let us break down each area of power, and see what we have:
World Community
This has no power as yet. But the very organisational mechanisms that are required for it to happen are becoming clear. At http://www.PeoplesConference.org some of that becomes apparent as to the way forward, notice that “Structures and Assemblies” is not yet published, as the information and expertise is still developing, but needless to say it is People’s Conferences and People’s Committees.
People’s Conferences (or Popular Assemblies, whatever the terminology) is direct participation in democracy so that the people as a whole can gather and set the agenda items for discussion and form the policies on each issue by themselves. They then select people’s committees to carry out those decisions in the various fields, thus replacing government as we know it.
The United Nations Organisation which is a union of governments for the “international community” then will be replaced by a World People’s Congress which gathers all the grass roots decisions from around the world on those issues which are global in scope. Thus the world community has its effective legislative wing and can bring to trial those who have committed Crimes Against Humanity for example.
Intelligence Gathering
There is nothing good that comes from secrecy in government, as open and transparent systems are required. Currently all governments are opaque. If you are in Australia and wish to have a visit to you from someone outside the country, you have to apply to the government for a visa. You have no say. They can be the best Angel in the world, they will not get in unless the government grants a visa. Worse, you have no recourse to appeal, nor do you have any right to even know the name, qualifications, financial status, or anything else about the government official who has made the decision on behalf of all citizens, in a pure form of unaccountable dictatorship.
On the other hand, a People’s Committee is transparent and open, its members clearly known, their qualifications, addresses, and responsibilities which are only to implement the decisions of congress (conference) and thus, they are held only to account on implementing those decisions. No one can attack them personally, for they hold no power other than as executives, replaceable if they fail to carry out the decisions of the popular conferences which is where power lies. No one can assassinate an entire people in order to change policies, although they are trying to do that in Libya, but everyone can assassinate an entire government.
But when it comes to intelligence gathering, that too should be open and collective. A new web site and data base has been called for, to allow that to happen. Not an elitist one such as WikiLeaks which acted merely as a gate-keeper, but an open and transparent one where all records of crimes can be collected and then investigated.
Read News & Information: Publication & Distribution
This is exactly what MATHABA is — see http://www.mathaba.net/about — and operates unlike any other news agency. The people themselves work pooling their expertise and resources in order to research, publish and distribute news and information.
This article itself is an example of such collective effort, and why no journalist should publish an article on their own, but should work collectively. Otherwise there is no difference to being an individual blogger. All efforts for humanity must be collective, in order to pool expertise. In this manner, our production is then superior to anything found in the bought-and-paid-for money-slave-media (M$M) aka “Main Stream Media.”
Get involved in these projects. Register at http://www.PeoplesConference.org and study the materials there. Help to make the World People’s Conferences on Crimes Against Humanity a reality, and the launch of an on-line data base to collect all the information leading up to 8 major regional events around the world to highlight and process that data as well as to chart the way forward for the world community.
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International campaign to Stop the War in Libya
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
http://engforum.pravda.ru/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F238082-international-campaign-to-stop-the-war-in-libya%2F
Joined: 29-January 03
Posted Today, 05:59 PM
International campaign to Stop the War in Libya
By now the information coming out of Libya is clear for all to see, except western news agencies which continue to spread lies, but by now they are half-hearted key-words uttered without any conviction. The Libyan people, the Libyan youth, are, by and large, with Muammar al-Qathafi and they have the final say, not Obama, Sarkozy or Cameron.
UNSC 1970 and 1973 (2011) flawed and void
It is clear that UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) were based upon wrong information, that the Libyan Government was not attacking civilians but rather, armed terrorists, armed by the friends of those NATO countries attacking Libya today. It is clear that the Government of Colonel Gaddafi is taking all reasonable measures to limit civilian casualties and even taking measures to reduce casualties among the terrorists, it is clear the Libyan Government is following international law to the letter. Given that the “civilians” were the legal foundation behind UNSC 1970 and 1973 (2011) and given that no such civilians existed, then the foundation for these Resolutions is void.
NATO violation of international law on several counts
It is clear that NATO has violated, time and time again, International Law (UN Charter, Geneva Conventions and the UNSC Resolutions) in not having the consensus of the UN Military Council necessary for such an action, and also in attacking civilian structures with military hardware (since when is a water supply and an electricity grid a command and control facility?). NATO has also armed the terrorist forces (many of them foreigners) against Resolution 1973 and has supplied troops on the ground in the form of mercenaries, while conducting campaigns of lies through the media. NATO wantonly targeted a family home of the Gaddafi family, slaughtering Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi and three of the grandchildren of the Colonel. Under what rules of engagement was this act of murder carried out? None. This is a war crime.
For these reasons, since the UNSC Resolutions in force are void and because the NATO imperialist aggression against Libya breaches international law on many counts, we, the international community, take this matter up in our hands in the weeks running up to the forthcoming UN Security Council vote on Libya which coincides with a wonderful opportunity for peace, International Day of Peace (September 21).
We urge our brothers and sisters in the international community to take a decision: Stand with us, the citizens of the world, or else take a stand in favour of NATO, in favour of the murder of Libyan civilians, in favour of the slaughter of children, in favour of a breach of international law, in favour of wanton interference in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, aiding and arming terrorists to serve the interests of the lobbies which control NATO policy. Those who stand with us are our brothers and sisters. Those who stand against us are our enemies and are the enemies of Humankind.
The choice is crystal clear, and it has been made, right now. Where do you stand?
(name) optional
Citizen of the World Community, the Brotherhood of Nations
Action we can take
It is by now obvious that France, the UK and USA, permanent members of the UNSC, are wholly and completely engaged in NATO’s illegal act of slaughter. The People’s Republic of China, however, is not; neither is the Russian Federation, despite their abstention votes on UNSC 1973 (2011) and despite the recent signing of 1973 by the Russian representative at the UNO ordered by President Medvedev.
1. A mail campaign expressing international solidarity against NATO’s campaign (using your own text or this one from the top until the part “Action we can take”) sent to the Chinese authorities:
chinamissionun@gmail.com
english@mail.gov.cn
or the Russian authorities:
rusun@un.int
rusun.press@gmail.com
duty_press@aprf.gov.ru
2. Start and send petitions to the same addresses. Start these now because we have three weeks;
3. A campaign to reach the youth through culture, ridiculing NATO, through initiatives such as RAP songs with anti-NATO lyrics, paint-a-wall campaigns, where boards are put up in public places and people can write their messages, Our Kids Against NATO campaigns;
4. Legal Pro Humanity marches. I suggest an easy-to-remember slogan such as NATO? SHIT!
5. A T-shirt campaign, with the simple motto NATO TARGET;
6. Bring NATO into the political agenda. What Constitutional basis does NATO have to control your country’s foreign policy? Did you vote for NATO? Then why does NATO control your policy, spend your money and commit war crimes in your name?
7. Public awareness campaigns. Use social networks to spread the truth about Libya and what is going on, about NATO’s supporting of terrorists and its aggression against Africa in the name of the energy, banking, weapons, telecoms and drugs lobbies which want to control Africa’s commerce and against which Muammar al-Qathafi has been fighting;
8. Inform yourselves about the true democratic nature of the Jamahiriya. Read the Green Book, a manual for democratic governance written by Muammar al-Qathafi (who by the way is an open man):
http://www.mathaba.n…i/theory/gb.htm
9. Inform yourselves as to exactly how much of your taxes are being spent on bombing children and civilian structures in Libya, supporting terrorists who wish to set up a Sharia State; it is very considerable;
10. Your own initiatives (please share)
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627905
London bombs Libya using NATO while also turning on own citizens, while Qaddafi calls for peace and direct participatory democracy to reach England.
08 AUGUST 2011 [BTW, This is the same day NATO MASSACRED 88 civilians in the depot town on the outskirts of ZLITAN.)
One of the NATO states, Britain, is currently facing an uprising of Africans in London who are resisting the clamp down of the police forces which serve the government dictatorship in London and do not protect the citizens.
The community in Tottenham has told Mathaba that it is not the guns in the community that they are afraid of, but the guns in the hands of the police, which continue to shoot impoverished Africans and Latin Americans, who are only poor because their wealth has been stolen by the British royal family.
Meanwhile the African leader Muammar Qaddafi has called upon the masses in England to also form popular congresses and people’s committees, so as to seize power and turn England into a democracy and away from dictatorship.
Mathaba analysts have pointed out that the guns of NATO and its terrorist forces will be called upon to back the British state security police forces in order to bomb the British masses into submission if they do not accept the London dictatorship and its enforced economic and anti-human rights policies.
Muammar Qaddafi handed power over to the masses in Libya who rule themselves via people’s conferences and people’s committees in 1977 and wrote The Green Book to show others around the world how to exercise democracy and put an end to the vicious cycle of dictatorships and the bloody struggle for power. — Mathaba
_Here we even have a Mathaba news item covered by our reporter with Police in Tottenham carrying guns and faced down by the community who drove them away.
We have given numerous coverage to British Police shooting dead innocent civilians in Britain, if readers are not aware of those incidents they should do some more research. Many Black people in Britain have been shot dead over the years, and even a Brazilian technician while on his way to work was assassinated by British police.
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ALGERIA: Look familiar?
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Muammar Al Qathafi
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Il y a 17 heures
Muammar Al Qathafi apparait sur la photo de قوات الشعب المسلح الإلكترونية.
جرذاننا الأعزاء…..اليكم البيان التالي ، ، ، ، ، تقريباً قد تكفي عزيمتنا فقط للصمود لسنة وأكثر وإن شاء الله أكثر وأكثر وفي حال سقط النظام فلا بأس فالمقاومة لا تنتهي بسقوط مؤسسات نظام وإنما بقتل شعب كامل وهذا ما لن تستطيعون عمله أنتم والناتو أبداً ستمر السنوات وسيسأل الأحفاد سؤال مهم وسيسأل التأريخ أيضاً هذا السؤال لماذا أستمرت معركتكم مع النظام شهور أو قل سنوات تحت دعم وغطاء الناتو حتى أستطعتم إسقاطه بينما أحتاج النظام إلى أسبوعين فقط لإسقاط كافة المناطق الذي سيطرت عصاباتكم عليها هل هو نقص رجولة بكم هل لا تحاربون على حق هل قضيتكم قضية باطلة هل حب الإستشهاد عندكم كاذب هل أنتم مرتزقة أم ثوار هل أنتم جبناء إلى هذا الحد الا يكفيكم أن تسيروا في الأرض تظللكم طائرات الناتو حتى لا تبقي بصواريخها شيء تقاتلونه ومع ذلك جبنكم لا علاج له وتفرون فوراً هل تقاتلون أشباح هل تقاتلون عمالقة لا تضرهم الصورايخ هل صواريخ الناتو ورق يخدعونكم بها هل لا يوجد لديكم سلاح وسفن السلاح تصل إليكم من كافة دول العالم هل أنتم ليبيون أصلاً هل تعلمون ما الذي يريده الناتو بعد أن يسقط لكم القذافي هل أنتم ساذجون أم أغبياء أم عملاء هل تحسون بالعار الذي ستوروثونه أبنائكم هل بقى للقذافي شيء يحارب به بعد أن صرح الناتو إنه دمر كل جيشه هل تسعون نحو الإنفصال هل تشعرون بخيبة أمل أسيادكم وهم يرون جبناء مرتزقة لا يقدرون على شيء مهما ساعدوهم هل مهمتكم تشوية سمعة الشعب الليبي الشجاع بهذا الجبن والخوف حتى خجل منكم ثوار العرب هل تصدقون إن من يحاربكم مرتزقة وأنتم ترونهم صامدين في مدرعاتهم تحترق أجسامهم بالصواريخ فلا يفرون كثوار الناتو هل عرفتم من المرتزقة ومن المدافع عن قضية وحق هل سمعتم القائد عندما قال هل أهرب وأترك قبر جدي عبد السلام أبو منيار أول شهداء معركة الخمس هل رأيتم الشعب الليبي صامد في مدينة ويخرج بمئات الألاف تأييدا لقائدة هل هؤلاء هم الليبيون أم أنتم !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Il y a 17 heures
Brigadier General Coler, Brigadier General, à Libyan armed forces Habite à: Tripoli De Tripoli
Employeurs armed forces of Libya, Colonel Muammar avec Akaddafa Brigade Corner · janvier 1974 à aujourd’hui · Agharba ltdt Tripoli as the Libyan army
Hy-jacking of Civilian cars in Bengazi by TEBELS (Rebel-terrorists):
http://news.fr.msn.com/m6-actualite/libye-le-colonel-kadhafi-d%C3%A9fie-ses-ennemis-et-leur-pr%C3%A9dit-une-fin-proche
AFP, Last updated: Monday, August 15, 2011 05: 15
Libya: colonel Gaddafi defies his enemies and their predicted a “end close”
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi challenged again the rebels and NATO Monday, predicting them a “end close”, at the time where rumors had of his imminent departure from the country and in the wake of a breakthrough of the rebels in several cities, including in western Libya.
Des rebelles libyens, le 12 août 2011 à Tuarga
AFP/Archives
“The end of the colonizer is close to the end of the rats is close.” “They (the rebels) are fleeing from one House to another before the masses who hunt”, said Mr Kadhafi in a message broadcast “live”, according to Libyan television.
“The colonizer and his agents have more than to resort to lies and psychological war after all the wars with all weapons have failed,” said Gaddafi while Rumors spread on social networks and in some media reports of his imminent departure to abroad.
Libyan leader called on his supporters to keep high morale, to resist and to “prepare for the battle to liberate” the towns held by rebels, while the insurgency says have advanced in towns West of the country, as Zawiyah, Gharyan or Sorman.
Libyan television broadcast images “live” of the green square in the heart of Tripoli where hundreds of supporters of the regime were assembled, brandishing portraits of the “Guide” and Libyan flags.
Colonel Gaddafi described from time to time scenes on television to “prove” that he spoke live, he explained.
AFP, Mise à jour : lundi 15 août 2011 05:15
Libye: le colonel Kadhafi défie ses ennemis et leur prédit une “fin proche”
Le colonel Mouammar Kadhafi a défié à nouveau les rebelles et l’Otan lundi, leur prédisant une “fin proche”, au moment où des rumeurs faisaient état de son départ imminent du pays et dans la foulée d’une percée des rebelles dans plusieurs villes, notamment dans l’ouest libyen.
Des rebelles libyens, le 12 août 2011 à Tuarga
AFP/Archives
“La fin du colonisateur est proche et la fin des rats est proche. Ils (les rebelles) fuient d’une maison à une autre devant les masses qui les chassent”, a déclaré M. Kadhafi dans un message diffusé “en direct”, selon la télévision libyenne.
“Le colonisateur et ses agents n’ont plus qu’à recourir au mensonge et à la guerre psychologique après que toutes les guerres avec toutes les armes ont échoué”, a déclaré M. Kadhafi alors que des rumeurs se propageaient sur les réseaux sociaux et dans certains médias, faisant état de son départ imminent vers l’étranger.
Le dirigeant libyen a appelé ses partisans à garder le moral haut, à résister et à se “préparer pour la bataille pour libérer” les villes tenues par les rebelles, alors que l’insurrection affirme avoir avancé dans des villes à l’ouest du pays, comme Zawiyah, Sorman ou Gharyan.
La télévision libyenne diffusait des images “en direct” de la place verte au coeur de Tripoli où quelques centaines de partisans du régime étaient rassemblés, brandissant des portraits du “Guide” et des drapeaux libyens.
Le colonel Kadhafi décrivait de temps en temps des scènes sur la télévision pour “prouver” qu’il parlait en direct, a-t-il expliqué.
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We, the citizens of the world, are aware of the criminal actions of the clique of war mongerers fighting the Libyan government forces in violation of international law, committing acts of murder and attempted murder and supporting heavily armed Islamist terrorists goaded into action by agents provocateurs supported by these western nations;
We are aware of the tremendous work carried out by Muammar Gaddafi in favour of millions of people, especially in Africa and understand that he does not deserve a to be the subject of such a monumental crime and a manipulation of the truth;
We demand that the United Nations Security Council impose an immediate ceasefire, that an investigation commission be set up to find out exactly what started this conflict and that the war criminals responsible for this outrage be taken before the International Penal Court at The Hague to stand trial;
We understand that the future of Libya belongs to the people of Libya and that under international law, the Libyan authorities have every right to fight armed insurrection; however we call for an internal peace process to follow up the ceasefire immediately;
Furthermore we understand that the companies of the countries involved in this act of murder should be barred from the rebuilding process in Libya and call on the African Union to renegotiate contracts, signing them instead with the progressive members of the international community which have not been involved with this criminal act of aggression against a sovereign state.
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335. CHRISTELLA BERNARDENE KREBS Libya’s JAMAHIRIYA is a democratic SOVEREIGN NATION, you have no right bombing or invading it. You have no right to set-up your own government within it; and you must stop the bombing totally. Too many lives have already, senselessly been lost….A THIRDLY, the Libyan people are happy under their democratic JAMAHIRIYA. Do not destroy a beautiful thing that makes people happy and healthy, Gadhafi is neither a dictator, nor is he a tyrant. He is a wise mujjadid who LOVES HIS PEOPLE; and the people love him!
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Libya slams UN chief Ban Ki-moon over civilian deaths
Posted: 2011/08/14
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628021?rss
Libya on Saturday accused United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon of playing with words after he acknowledged NATO efforts to avoid civilian casualties a day after urging restraint over “unacceptably” high deaths.
“The [UN] secretary general has consistently called for restraint and caution to avoid civilian casualties. He of course recognises and appreciates NATO’s efforts to avoid civilian casualties,” UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters on Friday.
In a statement released by his office on Thursday, Ban Ki-moon had sounded the alarm over civilian deaths and called for new efforts to find a political solution between Libya’s Jamahiriya democracy and its founder Muammar Gaddafi and opposition tebels (terrorist rebels).
Ban’s statement ‘unacceptable’
Without specifically naming any side, Ban Ki-moon called on “all parties” to use “extreme caution” in the battle.
“The [UN] secretary general is deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number of civilian casualties as a result of the conflict in Libya,” said a statement.
Ban Ki-moon “calls on all parties to exercise extreme caution in their actions, in order to minimise any further loss of civilian life”.
But Libya’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Khaim told reporters on Saturday Ban Ki-moon’s statement was “unacceptable” for not singling out NATO for being responsible for civilian deaths in Libya.
The whole world knows that NATO has been bombing Libya non-stop since March and has caused thousands of deaths, many of them civilians, and others soldiers in the defence forces who are not engaged in any fighting.
“The only party that must be blamed for the loss of civilian lives is NATO,” he said.
The Secetary-General of the International People’s Conference Organisation (IPCO) meanwhile said that the United Nations has lost all legitimacy as an organisation, and a more apt name for it would be “United Governments” since it represents governments and not people, but even that is not accurate, he said.
“Even the governments around the world are mostly opposed to war but powerless to act against NATO and the UN General Assembly has no powers over the so-called Security Council which is a dictatorship of five nuclear powers, Russia, China, USA, Britain, and France. Four of those are white European states even if USA is mixed, and two are in Europe. Africa has no seat on the UN dictatorship council whilst Europe has three.”
The IPCO Secretary General called upon people to form a defensive alliance against governments because they have lost all accountability to the people, no longer represent the people but instead represent the bankers and large corporations which are motivated solely by profit and money and because only direct participatory democracy can be the answer to corruption, transparency and accountability.
The IPCO Secretary General said people can best do this by registering with IPCO and forming People’s Conferences in order to make policies, and nominating transparent People’s Committees to carry out those decisions.
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NATO Allows Libyan Refugees to Drown in the Mediterranean
Posted: 2011/08/14
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628015?rss
Libyan refugees near the Italian island of Lampedusa
By Peter Schwarz
According to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, 1,500 Libyan refugees have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of the war against Libya in March. On August 4, German newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported a death toll of 1,820 since the beginning of the year.
The victims are people from Libya and other African countries trying to flee economic hardship, political persecution or escape the war, risking their lives in the process. Penned into small, unseaworthy boats by unscrupulous traffickers, they drown or die of thirst at sea.
The distance between the Italian island of Lampedusa, the goal of most refugee boats, and Tunisia, the nearest point on the African coast, is just 130 kilometers. The distance to the Libyan coast is about twice as far.
This relatively small area of sea is currently filled by one of the largest navies in the world. About 20 warships from 10 NATO countries, including several aircraft and helicopter carriers, are supporting the assault on Libya. They are equipped with radar and other advanced technology and can easily detect any movement on the sea. The region is also constantly monitored by NATO AWACS aircraft, which can detect minute vessels.
In addition, there are the boats and planes of the Italian border police and the European border agency Frontex, which patrol the waters between Lampedusa and the North African coast in order to detect and send back refugee boats.
Vulnerable refugees therefore could have been easily detected and rescued. The many deaths were entirely avoidable. They are the victims of the failure to provide aid to those in distress—a criminal offence. NATO forced them to flee with its war against Libya and when it transpires that their escape route is a deadly trap, NATO has left them to their fate.
NATO has not merely “overlooked” the refugees. It has also refused to provide shipwrecked refugees assistance when alerted.
Just last week, such a case came to light, in which the culpability of NATO was so obvious that even the Italian government, which conducts its own persecution of refugees, felt obliged to protest and demand an investigation.
The Italian Coast Guard on August 4 retrieved a wrecked, 20-meter-long wooden boat with nearly 300 refugees from the waters south of the island of Lampedusa. The wreck had drifted at sea for a week with a faulty engine. Conditions on the boat were appalling. According to the survivors, 100 people had died of thirst and exhaustion, and had been thrown overboard. The refugees themselves were severely dehydrated, many in critical condition, and were flown to hospital on the Italian mainland.
As it turned out, the damaged boat had already been detected by a Cypriot tug, which sent an SOS signal but then proceeded on course. The Italian Coast Guard then alerted NATO. NATO refused to help the refugees, however, although one of its ships was just 27 nautical miles (50 km) from the stranded boat.
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has accused NATO of failing to provide assistance and requested an investigation into the incident. At the same time, he proposed extending the NATO mandate in such a way that NATO is made responsible for the rescue of civil war refugees. This is all smoke and mirrors, however.
Under current international law every civilian and military ship is bound under all circumstances to help the shipwrecked.
This is not the first time NATO has been accused of negligence. At the end of March NATO ships are alleged to have ignored distress calls from a damaged refugee boat from Libya. A military helicopter spotted the boat but merely tossed the victims water bottles and crackers. The refugees waited in vain for rescue.
According to the British Guardian newspaper an aircraft carrier in the vicinity also failed to respond. In the end, 61 people died of thirst.
The NATO operation against Libya bears the name “Unified Protector” and is officially justified as a mission aimed at the “protection of civilians” from attacks by the Libyan government. If any further proof were necessary, the fate of Mediterranean refugees delivers the final blow to this cynical excuse for an imperialist war. The life of refugees and civilians is the least of the priorities of NATO.
European governments also have no interest in helping the refugees. It would be easy to equip ships to track down and rescue the refugees in the Mediterranean, and such an operation would cost only a fraction of the daily costs of the Libyan war. This is politically undesirable, however, with EU countries fearful of an increase of refugees. The entire European refugee policy is aimed at deterrence.
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Denmark Extends NATO War Mission In Libya
Posted: 2011/08/14
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Denmark was to continue to contribute to a NATO-led mission bombing Libya to destroy the country so that the bankrupt European states can take over, two cabinet members said Thursday after talks with parliamentary leaders.
‘We agreed that Denmark should be patient and stand firm (in the mission to occupy Libya under the guise of protecting civilians by bombing them),’ Foreign Minister Lene Espersen said after the meeting with foreign affairs and defence affairs spokesmen from other parties.
Former foreign minister Mogens Lykketoft of the opposition Social Democrats and Holger K Nielsen of the Socialist People’s Party said it was unsatisfactory that Gaddafi was still in power. The claim that Qaddafi is in power is a nonsense given that he left power in 1977, unlike the Queen of England who controls every parliament in every country in the British Commonwealth.
Denmark’s Parliament, also run by a royal family in alliance with the Queen of England, earlier this year approved the deployment of six F-16 jet fighters. The jets were to remain until October 1, when the current NATO self-assigned mandate by Britain, France and the United States which they gave themselves at the United Nations Security Council expires, the parties attending Thursday’s meeting of fascist conspirators said.
Four of the jets take part in action, while two serve as backup planes. Denmark also killed Qaddafi’s youngest son and grandchildren as well as other family friends, by bombing their modest house in Tripoli. Muammar Qaddafi survived as he was outside in the yard feeding the grandchildrens’ deer. Years earlier he had correctly stated that the United States would be nice if it was a forest full of deer or donkeys, and not horrible nuclear weapons.
Danish “Defence Minister” Gitte Lillelund Bech, who also attended Thursday’s meeting, earlier this week visited the base in Sicily, Italy, from where the Danish jets operate.
Only one party, the leftist Unity List-the Red-Green Alliance, has been opposed to extending the operation of terrorism against Africa’s wealthiest state where all Libyans received unlimited free health care, higher education, a house and car, monthly share of the oil revenue by direct deposit to their bank accounts, and other comforts of life that those in Europe and America could only dream of.
Espersen said the parties also supported opening ties with the opposition Transitional National Council (TNC), a grouping of Al-Qaida-style islamist terrorists and corrupt officials who had defected from the government.
Earlier this week, the last two Libyan diplomats stationed in Denmark were ordered to leave the Scandinavian country because they represent the legitimate government of Libya which is a direct participatory democracy which NATO is attempting to overthrow, something that would only be possible by massacring the population since they themselves are all members of the “government”.
Neighbouring Norway, a NATO member like Denmark, last week ended its jet fighter deployment in the Libya operation even though Israeli rogue intelligence agents had set up a severe warning to the ruling party by massacring the youth wing which had also passed resolutions calling for the boycott of Israel.
The massacre was initially blamed on Muslims by the “western media” but when it turned out that he was a pro-Israeli fanatic and racist, the media went silent.
Up to a hundred people were killed or permanently injured in the massacre which was carried out by high powered weapons, and a fertiliser bomb. The Norwegian police failed to respond for some hours, which shows that the conspiracy also involved higher levels of the police force.
Police forces in western countries including those in Britain, Holland, Australia, the USA and elsewhere, are trained by “private Israeli security companies” made up of Israeli soldiers, and then outsource much of the work to those operatives who are then free to enact events such as the London 7/7 bombings and Breivik. #
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Libya: NATO is getting desperate, Misratah liberated from NATO/terrorists
16.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/16-08-2011/118752-nato_desperate-0/
Libya: NATO is getting desperate, Misratah liberated from NATO/terrorists. 45131.jpeg
For some time now it has become apparent that NATO was getting desperate. First, the persistent loss of territory by the criminal gangs of foreign terrorists they back, then the disarray within the TNC (a gang of opportunists), then the flagrant breach of international law, the war crimes, targeting the Libyan water supply and electricity grid…
It is by now patently obvious that NATO serves as the military wing of the invisible lobbies controlling the banking, energy, telecommunications, drugs and weapons lobbies which in fact dictate the policies of the majority of western states and all of its member states’ foreign policies, without ever having been elected. It is also becoming increasingly obvious that NATO serves as a club to further the interests not only of these lobbies but also any politician in trouble, who is a member of the club.
Why, when Bill Clinton got into a pickle with his penis and a dress in the Oval Office, lo and behold, NATO supported the horrific Albanian terrorists (KLA/UÇK) and created the Kosovo problem (drugs lobby). Now, leapfrogging the foreign policy disaster which was the criminal invasion of Iraq (energy lobby, weapons lobby, telecoms lobby), we have the protagonists the UK Prime Minister Cameron (who after one year has destroyed his own country with his pig-headed arrogance), the hugely unpopular French President, Nicolas Sarkozy and that failed one-timer insult to the international community, Obomber, the one who received the Nobel Peace Prize and turned against Africa.
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So, with three losers like these, it is hardly surprising the NATO campaign got off to a non-starter. After all, they had armed and aided a bunch of terrorists, most of whom are not even Libyan (100,000 Egyptian terrorists have been sent to the fray, many of them to their deaths) and they got it wrong. To be successful, a rebellion has to have popular support, it has to have the support of the youth, and it has to start in the heart of the capital city.
If it starts on the frontiers, already secured, and in cities such as Benghazi which has historic and endemic separatist quarrels with the capital Tripoli, suspicions are stirred up (as were mine). It is not very difficult for a journalist of 30 plus years, such as myself, with a history of contacts in Africa, these days armed with the most powerful weapon of all, the Internet, and books full of contacts, to network and discover quite how wrong NATO was on this account.
I was already aware of the enormous contribution of Colonel Gaddafi to Africa and to the building of institutions which freed this continent from the yolk of submission to the lobbies which control NATO. So with Africa behind him, and the bulk of his people behind him (estimates range from 80% to 98%, more than Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama combined) it was hardly surprising that NATO’s campaign was yet again going to be an utter disaster.
And ladies and gentlemen, here we have it: frustration turning into desperation and rather than admit defeat with honour, these cowards turn on the population. First of all, the no-fly zone morphed into an illegal campaign backing terrorists to the extent that the Libyan Armed Forces know very well when the terrorists will attack because the bell they ring is a NATO bombing campaign strafing houses. Secondly, the attacks on civilian facilities, just as they did in Iraq, bombing the Libyan water supply system and the electricity grids to, in the words of a NATO commander, “Break the population”. Now if that isn’t evil, I don’t know what is.
And finally, the media lies as the terrorists face a humiliating defeat and go back to their own countries (has NATO paid them yet? And with whose money?). More media lies, which is hardly surprising because this is how the campaign began: false flag events created UNSC resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) because Colonel Gaddafi’s forces were not attacking civilians, they were defending civilians from terrorists. Google up Libya+rebels+photo. Are these civilians?
And today we have SKY News claiming that the “rebels” (what “rebel” comes from a foreign country? Or are they “civilians”? In which case, what “civilian” carries heavy automatic weapons?) have made multiple gains in Al-Brega, in Al-Zawiya, in Surman, in Sebrata and in Gharyan.
In a word, BULLSHIT! The NATO/terrorists are nowhere near al-Bregah, they are trying desperately to retain control of Benghazi and Tobruk; in the west, (Al-Zawiya, Surman, Sebrata and Gharyan) the NATO/terrorist forces are divided into two groups but the population of these towns and cities is armed and does not want this scourge in their midst, after the carnage they created last time (raping, beheading, killing children and so on). Therefore when they appear on the outskirts, they are chased from house to house like rats.
Two parting shots. As Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy cut public spending at home, has anyone an idea of just how much of their taxpayers’ money they are wasting on bombing civilians and murdering children in Libya? No? Then it is better they do not know, for the author of this piece does not want to start any more problems than these countries already have.
Oh, and erm…Misratah has been taken 100% by the Libyan Armed Forces. In future any NATO vessel entering the port will have Libyan Government authority to dock or else we will see if the fish in the Mediterranean Sea really do like frogs and their Anglo-Saxon masters.
A final note: There is overwhelming evidence that the NATO countries involved in this terrorist campaign have broken every rule in the book, including clear violation of international law. These have been compiled in a report and are being sent to the competent international forums ahead of the UNSC vote in September. And those responsible are to be held accountable.
If international law exists, whether or not the clique of “leaders” of the international community wishes to uphold it or not, they number a few hundred, collectively. The world population is several billion strong.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
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MISRATA
The thriving city
Misrata, Libya
Misrata, Libya
Misrata, Libya
Misrata is very much a modern town, but represents one of the best examples of modern Libyan city architecture. Living standards here are somewhat higher than in many other Libyan cities. The steel mill and the newly expanded port have resulted in increased wealth and population.
Misrata has a handful of attractive sites of the more traditional kind. To the west is a sand dune which the locals call the world’s largest. The memorial tower Koztik, is impressive but a bit strange as it is placed on a sand dune that has been strengthened by a concrete carpet. The suq of Misrata has a good collection of carpets woven in this part of Libya alone. And around most of Misrata, there are large groves of date palms and olive trees. Unfortuantely the farms that were built by Italians immigrants earlier this century, are not well attended to, and the agricultural output from the Misrata region is lower now than some decades ago.
You can get a little chalet at the beach for US$6 for one night (official exchange rates), while those with money can find first class places. Misrata is even better as restaurants are concerned.
Transportation
Buses and taxis connect Misrata with Benghazi and Tripoli. There are air flights, too.
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QadhafiMuammar al Qadhafi was born in a beduin tent in the desert near Surt in 1942. His family belongs to a small tribe of Arabized Berbers, the Qadhafa, who are stockherders with holdings in the Hun Oasis. As a boy, Qadhafi attended a Muslim elementary school, during which time the major events occurring in the Arab world–the Arab defeat in Palestine in 1948 and Nasser’s rise to power in Egypt in 1952–profoundly influenced him. He finished his secondary school studies under a private tutor in Misratah, paying particular attention to the study of history.
Qadhafi formed the essential elements of his political philosophy and his world view as a schoolboy. His education was entirely Arabic and strongly Islamic, much of it under Egyptian teachers. From this education and his desert background, Qadhafi derived his devoutness and his austere, even puritanical, code of personal conduct and morals. Essentially an Arab populist, Qadhafi held family ties to be important and upheld the beduin code of egalitarian simplicity and personal honor, distrusting sophisticated, axiomatically corrupt, urban politicians. Qadhafi’s ideology, fed by Radio Cairo during his formative years, was an ideology of renascent Arab nationalism on the Egyptian model, with Nasser as hero and the Egyptian revolution as a guide.
In Libya, as in a number of other Arab countries, admission to the military academy and a career as an army officer became available to members of the lower economic strata only after independence. A military career offered a new opportunity for higher education, for upward economic and social mobility, and was for many the only available means of political action and rapid change. For Qadhafi and many of his fellow officers, who were animated by Nasser’s brand of Arab nationalism as well as by an intense hatred of Israel, a military career was a revolutionary vocation.
Qadhafi entered the Libyan military academy at Binghazi in 1961 and, along with most of his colleagues from the RCC, graduated in the 1965-66 period. After receiving his commission, he was selected for several months of further training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, England. Qadhafi’s association with the Free Officers Movement began during his days as a cadet. The frustration and shame felt by Libyan officers who stood by helplessly at the time of Israel’s swift and humiliating defeat of Arab armies on three fronts in 1967 fueled their determination to contribute to Arab unity by overthrowing the Libyan monarchy.
At the onset of RCC rule, Qadhafi and his associates insisted that their government would not rest on individual leadership, but rather on collegial decision making. However, Qadhafi’s ascetic but colorful personality, striking appearance, energy, and intense ideological style soon created an impression of Qadhafi as dictator and the balance of the RCC as little more than his rubber stamp. This impression was inaccurate and although some members were more pragmatic, less demonstrative, or less ascetic than Qadhafi, the RCC showed a high degree of uniformity in political and economic outlook and in dedication. Fellow RCC members were loyal to Qadhafi as group leader, observers believed, not because of bureaucratic subservience to his dictatorial power, but because they were in basic agreement with him and with the revolutionary Arab nationalist ideals that he articulated.
Although the RCC’s principle of conducting executive operations through a predominantly civilian cabinet of technicianadministrators remained strong, circumstances and pressures brought about modifications. The first major cabinet change occurred soon after the first challenge to the regime. In December 1969, Adam Said Hawwaz, the minister of defense, and Musa Ahmad, the minister of interior, were arrested and accused of planning a coup. In the new cabinet formed after the crisis, Qadhafi, retaining his post as chairman of the RCC, also became prime minister and defense minister. Major Abdel Salam Jallud, generally regarded as second only to Qadhafi in the RCC, became deputy prime minister and minister of interior. This cabinet totaled thirteen members, of whom five were RCC officers. The regime was challenged a second time in July 1970 when Abdullah Abid Sanusi, a distant cousin of former King Idris, and members of the Sayf an Nasr clan of Fezzan were accused of plotting to seize power for themselves. After the plot was foiled, a substantial cabinet change occurred, RCC officers for the first time forming a majority among new ministers.
From the start, RCC spokesmen had indicated a serious intent to bring the “defunct regime” to account. In 1971 and 1972 more than 200 former government officials–including 7 prime ministers and numerous cabinet ministers–as well as former King Idris and members of the royal family, were brought to trial on charges of treason and corruption. Many, who like Idris lived in exile, were tried in absentia. Although a large percentage of those charged were acquitted, sentences of up to fifteen years in prison and heavy fines were imposed on others. Five death sentences, all but one of them in absentia, were pronounced, among them, one against Idris. Fatima, the former queen, and Hasan ar Rida were sentenced to five and three years in prison, respectively.
Meanwhile, Qadhafi and the RCC had disbanded the Sanusi order and officially downgraded its historical role in achieving Libya’s independence. They attacked regional and tribal differences as obstructions in the path of social advancement and Arab unity, dismissing traditional leaders and drawing administrative boundaries across tribal groupings. A broad-based political party, the Arab Socialist Union (ASU), was created in 1971 and modeled after Egypt’s Arab Socialist Union. Its intent was to raise the political consciousness of Libyans and to aid the RCC in formulating public policy through debate in open forums. All other political parties were proscribed. Trade unions were incorporated into the ASU and strikes forbidden. The press, already subject to censorship, was officially conscripted in 1972 as an agent of the revolution. Italians and what remained of the Jewish community were expelled from the country and their property confiscated.
After the September coup, United States forces proceeded deliberately with the planned withdrawal from Wheelus Air Base under the agreement made with the previous regime. The last of the American contingent turned the facility over to the Libyans on June 11, 1970, a date thereafter celebrated in Libya as a national holiday. As relations with the United States steadily deteriorated, Qadhafi forged close links with the Soviet Union and other East European countries, all the while maintaining Libya’s stance as a nonaligned country and opposing the spread of communism in the Arab world. Libya’s army–sharply increased from the 6,000-man prerevolutionary force that had been trained and equipped by the British–was armed with Soviet-built armor and missiles.
As months passed, Qadhafi, caught up in his apocalyptic visions of revolutionary pan-Arabism and Islam locked in mortal struggle with what he termed the encircling, demonic forces of reaction, imperialism, and Zionism, increasingly devoted attention to international rather than internal affairs. As a result, routine administrative tasks fell to Major Jallud, who in 1972 became prime minister in place of Qadhafi. Two years later Jallud assumed Qadhafi’s remaining administrative and protocol duties to allow Qadhafi to devote his time to revolutionary theorizing. Qadhafi remained commander in chief of the armed forces and effective head of state. The foreign press speculated about an eclipse of his authority and personality within the RCC, but Qadhafi soon dispelled such theories by his measures to restructure Libyan society.
Allain Jules
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Libye – L’OTAN et ses milliers de morts.
http://allainjules.com/2011/08/16/libye-lotan-et-ses-milliers-de-morts/
Publié le16 août 2011 par
Allain Jules
Alors qu’on nous annonce, ici et là, que les renégats de Benghazi avancent vers l’ouest, le nord, l’est, l’ouest, le ciel, l’Eden, la lune, le ciel, la réalité est ailleurs. Le tout n’est pas d’arriver à Tripoli alors qu’on n’est incapable de pacifier les zones soi disant sous son contrôle.
Les pauvres ne peuvent avancer par leurs propres moyens (vidéo). Il faut donc que les criminels de l’OTAN bombardent massivement pour leur permettre de venir hisser leur drapeau. En ce qui concerne leur avancée héroïque que les médias dits « sérieux » nous abreuvent, Les nouvelles ne sont pas vraiment bonnes pour nos amis, en réalité. Mickey le philosophe, vous savez, le spécialiste du botulisme, et les mythomanes de Big Ben/ Benghazi sont de plus en plus confrontés aux islamistes. Ces derniers ont décidé de faire fermer tous les magasins de luxe de la ville (bijouterie, parfumerie etc). Comme à Derna donc, Benghazi devient à son tour un émirat islamiste ? Le CNT avait promis de faire de la Libye la petite France avec comme symbole le triptyque « liberté-égalité-fraternité ». Pauvres Libyennes !
La résolution 1973 s’est au fil du temps, vidée de sa substance par le bon vouloir des puissants. Le trait a tellement été trituré qu’il est clair aujourd’hui que nous assistons à un coup d’Etat de fait, contre le régime libyen. Ne dit-on pas souvent que tout pouvoir vient de Dieu ? Illégitime ou pas, personne n’a le droit d’aller ou de demander le départ d’un chef d’Etat étranger, même sous mandat onusien. Ce qui met en doute la parole politique et la discrédite. De Barack Obama à Nicolas Sarkozy en passant par David Cameron, les têtes-de-pont de ce conflit abscons, tous, sans exclusive, avaient indiqué que ce n’était pas pour faire partir Mouammar Kadhafi.
Des crimes de l’OTAN, parlons-en. Majer-sur-Glane: un nettoyage ethnique. Ici, comme à Oradour-sur-Glane, ce sont nos pères, frères, sœurs, enfants qui ont été assassinés comme des animaux. Figurez-vous que lorsque ces soldats de la mort bombardent pour faire avancer les islamistes de Benghazi, ils n’hésitent pas à tuer même des bébés dans leur sommeil comme ce fut le cas à Zliten. 85 morts tout de même. Fait avéré et prouvé. Des assassins qui se couvrent d’oripeaux élogieux alors qu’ils ne sont que des prédateurs sans foi ni loi prêts à s’allier au diable pour assouvir leurs bas instincts, étancher leur soif de pétrole.
Les Français ne sont pas des têtes de linotte, les Africains non plus et par conséquent, personne n’oubliera les noms de ces lâches qui s’attaquent à un petit pays sans défense sous prétexte de protéger des populations civiles. Les gens intelligents, malgré le déni de certains, comprendront qu’en leur nom, des Dracula sucent le sang d’innocents enfants libyens, pour le compte du Grand capital. Tous les riches sont pour cette petite guerre de rapine. Ils ont définitivement tué la Libye qui sera pire que l’Irak si cette œuvre diabolique de re-colonisation de l’Afrique aboutit !
Les milliers de morts de l’OTAN ce sont, aussi, ces émigrants abandonnés par eux, au large de la Libye. Des gens qui fuient la guerre que ces fous ont engagé contre un peuple souverain. Plus de 1500 individus. Mais, qui protègent-ils finalement ? Les islamistes de Benghazi ? Oui. Ils sont pareils, ne pensent, ne respirent, ne parlent que dollar et pétrole. Et les Libyens ? Le dernier de leur souci. Ce sont des individus qui ont perdu tout sens critique, tous sens d’humanité. Il n’y a plus de valeur morale chez ces gens assoiffés de sang. ici, en Europe, ils crient « plus jamais ça ». Ailleurs, ils perpétuent l’œuvre des nazis !
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Today the West is spreading FALSE rumours that “The Gadhafi regime is falling apart” as Interior Secretary al-Mabruk fled to Egypt!
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On top of that Mr. al-Mabruk did not defect. Mr. al-Mabruk went for a few hours to get medical treatment in Egypt and came right back. He even went on Libyan TV and told all the nation that rumors of his defection were lies! The “rebels” and the West are saying that Gadhafi is beginning to use chemical weapons and WMD in desparation; and are further calling NATO to stop the impeding destruction from such weapons by Gadhafi from him now using!!!INCREDIBLE LIES TO JUSTIFY MORE NATO ANNIHILATION!! (QUOTE) ” ì“Qaddafi troops are using his last gun. He’s crazy,” said Mohammad Zawawi, media director for rebel forces. “We’re scared he’ll use chemicals. That’s why we’re trying to end this war and we hope to end it with the least number of casualties.’
‘We can’t prevent the Scuds but we hope NATO can. NATO has the technology to detect them.’ ” (UNQUOTE)
SO MANY LIES in the MEDIA AND PRESS! so disgusting!
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article489497.ece
Qaddafi Calls Masses to Liberate Libya
Posted: 2011/08/16
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628039?rss
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi called on his followers to resist rebels and NATO forces, according to state media
Leader’s speech – 15/8/2011
par Lucie Heczková, mardi 16 août 2011, 22:28
Translated by:: (صقع عليك (احمد
The speech came after rebel fighters claimed they had taken Zawiya, a town west of Tripoli, and cut the coastal highway to Tunisia from the capital. They also claimed they took Tawarga, near the rebel-held western city of Misrata.
— Mathaba: note the western propaganda. The rebels have been claiming this and that for the past 5 months. NATO gives heavy bombing of a town forcing everyone to flee for a few hours, the rebels move in for photo shoots, claim they have taken a town, then the Libyan Defence Forces push them back out the same day. Today Libyan Defence Forces took control of Misrata again. Bloomberg failed to mention that significant fact but chose to quote the tebels (terrorist rebels) who have been claiming all along they are about to liberate Tripoli. #
Africa Must Challenge Military Occupation Of World By One Superpower
Posted: 2011/08/16
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628017?rss
Defend the homeland — Commentary in the New Era newspaper in Namibia, South West Africa
The youth leagues of Southern Africa’s former liberation movements should be commended for speaking out in defence of the homeland when so many of their leaders have gone to sleep.
Africa’s leaders have dropped their guard of the African revolution. Many of them have gone to bed, while others have joined their former colonial masters in pursuit of self-serving agendas.
Were this not the case, the African countries that sit on the United Nations Security Council, for instance, would not have – like sheep being led to the slaughter – bought into the west’s military adventure in Libya by voting for the enforcement of a so-called No Fly Zone over Libyan skies.
Ironically, as things stand today, the hands of the three African countries that authorised the mayhem in Libya cannot escape responsibility for the blood of innocent women and children that are being butchered by western countries in their quest to lay their hands on Libya’s oil and strategic location in a region so vital to their imperial and colonial interests.
When former British Prime Minister Harold Mcmillan made his famous “winds of change” speech, Africans were elated that finally, their destiny was sealed as a free and independent people.
But decades later, the continent is far from being out of the woods. Africa is still grappling with subjugation, albeit subtle, as a bunch of homegrown foremen that answers to Europe and America sits comfortably at the helm with support from their masters.
Africa is very much under threat as the imperial west seeks to reverse the gains of the continent’s revolutions that rebelled against western hegemony and mass exploitation and ushered in freedom and independence.
Europe and the United States of America have never forgiven Africa’s freedom fighters for daring to challenge their misrule and colonial occupation of the African continent.
Theirs has been work in progress in order to continue the subjugation of the continent and its people and access its wealth. The west, under the leadership of the United States of America, is pursuing an agenda of domination of the African people and indeed the whole world.
Or, why else would America spread its military tentacles far beyond its borders and so wide across the globe if not for an expansionist and imperialist agenda?
Estimates put US military bases across the world close to 700 in over 130 countries. At any given time, the US stations more than 250 000 troops outside its borders at these bases.
Notably, these military bases are mostly found in countries where the US has fought wars and conquered. These countries include Japan which has a number of military bases, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Guantanamo, Cuba to newly-conquered states like Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan as well as other Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. There are a few such military bases in Africa, including one in Djibouti. The French are also known to have some of their units permanently stationed in a number of countries in West Africa.
This situation speaks to a world that is essentially under military occupation by one superpower, the United States of America aided by small units of French and British forces also deployed in some parts of the world.
It is this militarisation of the world and particularly of Africa that the youth leagues of the former liberation movements strongly oppose. And they are right.
Southern Africa is not up for sale. So is the entire Africa. Africom or United States African Command is not welcome in Southern Africa and any country in the region that seeks to get the Americans in through the back door is playing a dangerous game.
The youth leagues of the former liberation movements in Southern Africa must therefore step up the pressure and remain resolute in their rejection of foreign influence in our region. They owe this to the freedom fighters of Southern Africa whose immense sacrifices brought about the peace that we enjoy today. Southern Africa must remain free. It should not be carved into anybody’s sphere of influence or pander to the rivalry of world powers. #
http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
Canada and the Libyan Rebels: Best Friends Forever?
Posted: 2011/08/15
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628009?rss
Canada bombs Libya since 23 March 2011
You might have been distracted by the riots in Britain, or the faux-scandal over NDP interim Leader Nycole Turmel, or the credit crisis in the U.S., or your vacation, but Canada is still dropping bombs on Libya with no end to the conflict in sight.
Kelly McParland of the National Post takes a second to remind us just how committed the Conservative government is to the mission, and in particular the rebel leadership group, the Transitional National Council. “Even though the outcome of the upheaval in Libya is anything but clear, Ottawa is putting all its eggs in the rebel basket,” for example by booting out Moammar Gadhafi’s envoys out of Canada, handing over their embassy and assets to the TNC, recognizing the TNC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people, and providing financial assistance to the rebellion – and that’s not including the combat support the Canadian Forces have provided. “Caution does not appear to be a major element of the Harper government’s foreign policy,” says McParland in one of the bigger understatements of the year so far.
One could also add “research” to the list of items missing from Libyan mission, given how fractious the rebel leadership has become, a point which The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn elaborates upon. “In a masterpiece of mistiming, Britain recognised the rebel government on the day when some of its members were shooting their own commander-in-chief and burning his body,” notes Cockburn, referring to the assassination of military leader, General Abdel Fatah Younes, over his alleged ties to Tripoli.
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the political leader of the TNC, responded to that by firing his entire government over the ties of a handful of members to the assassins. In addition, some reports estimate there are at least 30 distinct Islamic militias in Benghazi alone. “If this is how the rebels behave today, when it is much in their interests to make a show of unity, how will they act once they are installed in power in Tripoli?” Cockburn asks. Far be it from our elected leaders to know, although those shots of John Baird shaking hands with the TNC leadership are looking more and more likely to bite him in the behind.
Foreign policy blunders notwithstanding, the lack of progress in Libya doesn’t bode well for the future of NATO, writes J.L. Granatstein in the Ottawa Citizen. “In diplomacy as in baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out,” he says, with the failure to solidify gains in Afghanistan and the “static” situation in Libya as strikes one and two. A third misadventure would surely further sour relations between the major NATO powers.
With accusations flying for years over certain European members not carrying their weight (Germany, Spain, and Italy principal among them), and with defence cuts looming as part of austerity measures undertaken by the alliance’s governments, the treaty’s long-term stability is clearly up in the air. “No one yet knows where the next call for action might be – Syria? – but if NATO funks it again, then the pressure from Ottawa and, possibly, Washington may be irresistible,” says Granatstein. We’re unsure of what the disintegration of NATO would mean geopolitically, but at least it might keep Canada from being so trigger-happy.
Millions Supporting Al Gaddafi writes:
Around four o’clock, the inhabitants of many cities in Libya took to the streets to celebrate the fantastic news from the front – Misratah was released! The news was broadcast on Libyan television. It is expected that information.
Garijan – totally calm and under control of the Libyan army and state.
NATO bombed Sibrat, a small town full of rich cultural heritage from Roman times. Damage is estimated as priceless.
Control of the media takes on frightening proportions. Tries entering the panic to break the spirit of the Libyan army.
Arrives in a suburb of terrorists gain Adzadabije, 35 vehicles from Qatar. Aljalaá, a hospital in Benghazi, there are no more places where the dead. Terrorists fear of handing the bodies to families because they are afraid of their increasingly aggressive response.
Al-Qaida terrorists have made a list of 50 stores in Benghazi, their owners will be cut off heads, and shops burned. These are shops that sell beauty products for women.
Bob Caldwell
writes on 18 August 2011:.
« What they are doing to Libya and it’s people is totally unjust. They need to stop what they are doing and ask God for forgiveness.»
Adil Naji writes:
Its time the foreign media speak the truth.. Libya is a law abiding country.. It hasn’t violated any international law since the begining of the crisis..
Gaddaffi is a great man.. He’s winning all fronts without breaking any laws set to diminish his forces..
With reporters hosted in his country preaching lies against him he’s still in peace with them.. And they still have guts to call him a war criminal.. After the war all truth will be made available.. He’s world most loved leader.
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We now have yet another report, by Leonor, that Misrata has definitely been liberated.
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628053%3Frss
The man interviewing her points out that he has heard conflicting stories, one of which said that the Libyan Army had surrounded Misrata, but not taken it over. Leonor states that, yes, that was true that the Libyan Army had first surrounded Misrata, but then the Army went in and took it. Leonor states that the sources that she has used for information, throughout this conflict, have always been proven to be 100% correct. She said that if her sources are now incorrect, it would be the first time.
The interviewer, though a strong supporter of the Jamahiriya, expresses his frustration, due to the fact that he had been receiving conflicting reports. Leonor gives an example of the problem: She states that the rebels and NATO spread conflicting reports. As an example, she said that she had heard a rumor that the rebels had totally taken Sebha.
So, she called a friend in Sebha to ask what was going on, and to tell her friend that she’d heard that the rebels had taken Sebha. Leonor says that her friend told her that that is not the case at all; that they are safe and sound and at peace. Leonor said that the key to finding out what is actually happening in Libya is to find someone you can trust. She said, “Trust is first. This is the only way.”
Leonor says that, for the last 15 days there has been very strong fighting in Ijdabiya, and that many people are dying. She says that the Libyan Army has been stronger than ever there because it cannot allow the rebels to get inside Al-Brega, because it’s too important. She said that most of the rebels who were fighting in Ijdabiya have returned to Benghazi. On the left of the video, you will read text that says that the reason that most of the rebels fled Ijdabiya and went back to Benghazi is because the fighting was “hell,” which, of course, shows that the Libyan Army is not weak, as the Western press has been claiming, but is very, very strong.
So, we now have six independent sources that state that Misrata has been liberated:
A young Libyan Army solider
Dr. Moussa Ibrahim, the Minister of Information
Lizze Phelan
Representatives of 200 Libyan tribes at a press conference
Leonor
A Mathaba reporter inside Libya
Report from Leonor in Libya, 15th August
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628070
by Dennis South
Here’s a new video report from Leonor. She speaks about the complete “news” media blackout of events in Libya.
And here are a few other items that she talks about:
1. Three NATO ships were completed demolished by Libyan military forces, and there were heavy NATO casualties aboard those ships, but this has been hidden, of course, from the public. An Italian ship was also bombed by the Libyan Army.
2. Most of the fighters in Benghazi are not Libyans. In fact, the Libyan “rebels” are a minority. Most of the fighers are foreigners from Europe, Qatar, Egypt, Palestine, and South America. This is the brutal “game” being played by NATO and its sponsor countries, such as the U.S., France, and Britain.
3. There is a section of Tripoli, the capitol of Libya, called Tajura that NATO bombs relentlessly every single day. Also, Bab El Aziziya is still being bombed daily, without fail.
4. NATO is bombing everything now, including the homes of non-combatant Libyan citizens, bakeries, etc., in genocial madness.
5. NATO has bombed power stations, destroying electrical power for many places. Leonor says that the Libyan government then works very hard to get electricity back to the people, and it appears that it is successful doing that.
6. Very early in the conflict, university professors appeared on Libyan TV, from what I understand from her report, and explained to Libyan citizens precisely what NATO’s game plan would be. This turned out to be very important, because this helped the citizens to prepare for NATO’s genocidal barbarism.
7. Libyan tribes, she says, have been together only two times in history, in Libya’s past. But, earlier in this aggression, 2,100 tribes had a meeting for three days. NATO was flying low, trying to frighten them. But they were never frightened. They decided to elect a group of them, representing each tribe, to carry on the Jamahiriya in case of an emergency. This occurred at the beginning of the war, but this was withheld from the media. Yesterday they met again, to reaffirm their support for Gaddafi and the Jamahiriya.
8. Members of the Obeida Tribe–the tribe that Abdel Fatah Younis, now deceased former head of the “rebel” terrorists, belonged to–have taken 15 high-level NATO people and are holding them hostage. They say they will not release those people until NATO stops its bombing. France knows this, but is keeping it out of the news media.
9. In Benghazi, the people are against the terrorists, and you see many, many new green flags, as the people of Benghazi are becoming bolder in expressing their support for Gaddafi and the Libyan Jamahiriya.
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Ex-terrorist says terrorists and NATO lost war
11.08.2011
EX-terrorist in France recognizes that NATO and the terrorists have already lost
by Leo Vershinin
In a TV interview, Dr. Rejeb Muftakhov Budabusa, judging by numerous paraphrases and a more or less detailed digest, made a considerable impression on “all Paris” not having forgotten that in February and early March, he ardently advocated “peaceful demonstrations” in Benghazi and for “salvation from the punishment of Cyrenaica.”
He’s a fairly well-known, serious economist who belongs to the Bengazi elite, and was one of the most prominent dissidents. He then went to Paris, was no less a prominent figure in emigre circles, criticized Gaddafi, and in the early events was the representative of the “MSP” in France.
“Interesting to evaluate the past months,” he said today, to La Rex and political scientist, Lev Vershinin.
An interview by Lev Vershinin:
What’s going on in Libya?
Mutiny? Feud? Reflection of aggression?
Frankly, the revolt was inspired by some Western countries that now have to show the map and their fight against Libya now is in the open. This war is unjust and illogical.
As you know, I welcomed the event, I welcomed the intervention. I’m from Benghazi, before emigrating myself, I opposed the Jamahiriya. I was in Benghazi after the events, I have good relations with many there: the leaders, there are my friends, my former students, many of them took part in the events of February 17, and now almost all have moved away.
What happened in February was the justification for NATO intervention. But few would have thought then that the events themselves are the result of manipulation by NATO. It was triggered by violence, militant groups have been created, it was hoped to help the democratic world.
But none of the protesters imagined that NATO was seeking to intervene in order to, let’s be honest, to arrange a re-colonization of our country. In general, the opposition was not up-to-date and believed that Europe acts sincerely. But it appears that some Libyan officials had been informed, had a preliminary agreement with the Europeans, and know what’s going on.
I was told by participants in the events and their leaders the demonstrations were peaceful. The people there made many complaints to the authorities, but there was no aggression. And then the crowd began bombing, someone opened fire on an armed military base, someone set fire to a police station, and all seemed to roll into a ditch.
There were some strange people with guns who started the violence in the streets, young people began to engage in combat units, though an interesting game, and then the fighting started. Many, many people regret it, but from the day that NATO began the bombing of Benghazi nothing they did was right.
Was it perceived in Benghazi that there were “NATO mistakes” and destruction of cities from the air?
Well, as people may perceive it? In Benghazi normal people live who understand everything. Previously, NATO literally prayed, and now it is clear that the protection of the population by Europeans was the least of their worries.
No one has forgotten February, we have nothing to be ashamed of. But people began to think about it and compare. People remember the details, and realize that there was no special unwelcome police repression, they provoked, and then attacked army units.
But what can ordinary citizens do now? Do not misunderstand me, myself I think that Gaddafi should withdraw from active work. I do not live at home because I thought he did not have long so did not hide it. I would also like more democratic devices than the general that are in place now. But, sorry, I do not want my country bombed, robbed and humiliated.
Even for me, a Benghazian to the bone, Gaddafi, a Bedouin from Sirte, today has become a symbol of national unity, the only one whose name unites thousands of different people who are ready to fight against the aggressors. After the war, let’s see …
In this sense, Europe miscalculated. We, Libyans, are calm, lazy, easygoing people, but we cannot be humiliated and insulted. There it happens to click.
But they, with their own hands made Gaddafi the new Omar Al Mukhtar, 2011. And in the end? They ruined it, they think that if he leaves, it’s all over, but some people still cannot forgive and forget. Those who see the leaders of Europe are afraid for their families’ future.
And there are those who, in general, do not want to fight, those who, in general, no matter who is in the driver’s seat, start to sympathize with al-Gaddafi, because he fought against the aggressors, rather than trying to negotiate. Now his popularity is growing every day, more than he could ever even dream of. And the policy of democratic nations cannot.
And what’s the solution, in your opinion?
Both NATO and the rebels have already lost the war and what will happen tomorrow is anyone’s guess.
Credit: La Rex
Translated from the Russian by:
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
Susan Lindauer – Libya: Gadhaffi Retakes Key Towns
Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 9:51 am
Opinion: Susan Lindauer
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1108/S00205/susan-lindauer-libya-gadhaffi-retakes-key-towns.htm
Breaking News: Gadhaffi Retakes Key Towns
By Susan Lindauer and Joanne Moriarty
Is Gadhaffi losing? Au contraire. In total contradiction to the propaganda push on CNN, sources inside Libya say Gadhaffi soldiers have retaken a number of key towns.
In a surprise announcement, sources inside Libya say that most of Misurata has been taken back by Libyan forces last night and today. In the process, Gadhaffi soldiers have liberated 1250+ Libyan prisoners of war. According to tribal leaders, Libyan forces now control the port city.
Tribal leaders also declare that Zawia, Garyan, Sorman, and Sabratha are secure, in contrast to claims by foreign reporters in Tripoli and Djerba (Tunisia) that they have been seized by rebels. There are pockets of rebels in all of these areas, but they are isolated and surrounded by the Libyan army. Tribal families are fighting with Gadhaffi’s army to defeat the Rebels.
Whereas Gadhaffi had made an offer to slow down fighting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in a semi-cease fire, in fact Gadhaffi’s soldiers are fighting in full force. The Libyan army is fully motivated, and sources inside Tripoli say there is also an “electronic army of young people, who are computer experts.” They are mobilizing to track Rebel communications and positions, in a parallel competition with U.S. high tech surveillance from the sea.
Sources in Tripoli have thrown into question the defection of Nassr al-Mabrouk, the Deputy Interior Minister appeared alive and well on Libyan TV today. He apparently
went to Egypt for some surgery. In the interview, he reaffirmed his loyalty to Ghadafi. Claims of his defection are being compared to phony U.S./NATO claims of the assassination of Gadhaffi’s son last week.
There’s much talk that Khalifa Hefter was captured by Libyan forces. This would be a
big blow to the rebels and the TNC in the light of the death of Younis (rebel lead commander) who was killed by rebels working for al Qaeda. Khalifa Hefter was working as a CIA agent for some 20 years in Virginia, before the War started The U.S. dropped him into Libya to help lead the TNC and direct mercenaries on the ground.
Claims by CNN to the contrary, sources inside Libya insist that NATO is not winning and will not win. They say the Libyan people have shown tremendous solidarity, ironically instigated by NATO.
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Susan Lindauer covered the Libya House at the United Nations from 1995 to 2003, and spearheading negotiations for the Lockerbie Trial. She is the author of “Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq.”
al-Gadhafi Family picnic
Moussa Ibrahim:
Information that we negotiate with the rebels is not true.
This information is absolutely false and are part of the media war against us. Their goal is to confuse us, break our spirit and shake our courage.
lundi, à 12:56
NATO bombed Sabratha.
In the city of Sabrata preserved ancient Roman city, Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO).The blast of the bombs that NATO launched have done untold damage to the archaeological heritage of Libya!
lundi, à 18:07 ·
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Libya Video
Col Gaddafi urges Libyans to ‘get ready for the fight’
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi calls on the Libyan people to arm themselves to liberate the country from “traitors and from Nato
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/libya-video/8701632/Col-Gaddafi-urges-Libyans-to-get-ready-for-the-fight.html
9:39AM BST 15 Aug 2011
The speech, made over the telephone, was the first public address made by the besieged Col Gaddafi since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan two weeks ago.
He also predicted a swift end for “the rats” and the “coloniser”, referring to the rebels and Nato.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/template/utils/ooyala/telegraph_player.swf
Gaddafi:
“The Libyan people will persevere.
Get in the fight for the liberation of Libya, little by little,from the traitors and NATO.
lundi, à 12:48
Get ready to fight.The rebels are rats.Rebels flee from one house to another before the masses who are chasing them.
The coloniser and its agents can now only resort to lies.”
lundi, à 12:49
Gaddafi says the rebels are criminals and armed militants from the ranks of Al Qaeda.
lundi, à 12:54
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Video of Misrata as Libyans Re-Enter Their City After Months of Occupation by NATO and Tebels
Posted: 2011/08/17
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628053?rss
BUT, Mohamed Eb explains “that video is from Benghazi not Misurate, if you know some basic Arab then you can read at 1:11=> 1:19″ Marhaban Benghazi” which means Welcome to Benghazi Just wanted to clarify this anecdote.”
Stop the aggression in Libya also writes: “Yeah, from what I see from the above video, that YouTuber seems to be a joker.”
First video comes out from Misrata after Libyan defence forces liberated the city by 16th August from the terrorist rebels (tebels) with cloud providing cover from the cowardly white racists who bomb Libya from 10km up in the air in support of the tebels.
This video was taken by Libyan defence forces 2 days ago while they liberated Misrata from the tebels.
Meanwhile NATO news media and tebels are silent on this whilst actually still claiming they are “about to liberate Tripoli”, a claim they have made for 4 months now in what even their most avid supporters are coming to realize is fiction and delusion.
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From APRIL 2011
Imperial Dreams for Libya Post-Gaddafi
Posted: 2011/08/17
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627954?rss
Muammar Qaddafi is going nowhere and Mathaba Analysts have stated since the outset of this war on Libya, that NATO will lose, and Qaddafi will survive. All Mathaba firm predictions on collapse of US economy, Darfur, collapse of Soviet Union, and more, have been accurate. We are absolutely sure on this prediction too.
– by Stephen Lendman
A previous article suggested NATO’s Libya war is unraveling, having misjudged the commitment of Libyans to resist, fight back, and support Gaddafi. Access it through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/08/natos-libya-war-unraveling.html
Nonetheless, daily bombings continue intensively, averaging 51 daily strike sorties in the last week alone, targeting Tripoli and other Gaddafi controlled areas mercilessly.
Despite clear evidence of war crimes, NATO claims civilians and civilian targets aren’t struck. In fact, they’re targeted deliberately and repeatedly, killing hundreds and injuring many more as part of a campaign to cow targeted populations into submission.
In the last 48 hours, Tripoli power facilities were bombed, knocking it out to parts of the city. Earlier, Libya’s Great Man-Made River system and a factory producing pipe for it were struck to reduce fresh water supplies. A food warehouse was destroyed to decrease available amounts.
Three ground-based satellites were disabled, killing three employees and injuring another 15. Hospitals and medical clinics are targeted so less healthcare can be provided, and oil facilities are bombed, reducing available stockpiles. Numerous other civilian targets are also struck repeatedly, including infrastructure and residential neighbors unrelated to military necessity.
As stated above, it’s part of NATO’s terror bombing campaign to cow Libyans. So far, they’ve become more embolden, knowing the unacceptable alternative.
On August 8, AFP reported at least 85 civilians killed in Majer village near Zlitan in western Libya. Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim called it “a crime beyond imagination,” saying the dead included 32 women, 32 children, and 20 men from 12 families, massacred in cold blood.
NATO spokesman Col. Roland Lavoie called the farmhouses bombed (with civilian families, not belligerents) “legitimate target(s).”
He lied, saying “very clear intelligence demonstrat(ed) that ‘former’ farm buildings were being used as a staging point for (pro-Gaddafi) forces to conduct attacks against the people of Libya. We do not have evidence of civilian casualties at this stage….”
Reporting from Tripoli, independent journalist/activist Lizzie Phelan commented on how Libyans reacted to the massacre, saying:
“I watched their heartbroken and incensed loved ones bury the 33 children, 32 women, and 20 men NATO (called) ‘mercenaries.’ Most (people in) Zlitan….turned out for their burial, chanting furiously against NATO.”
“Person after person came to tell us how NATO was creating a generation of Libyans so filled with rage that they would see no recourse but to send themselves to martyrdom in revenge against the west.”
Farmhouses bombed were “some distance apart from one another.” They’d “been hosting scores of refugees from….Misrata, who fled from the horrifying (rebel) atrocities,” what NATO and western media never report.
In fact, many of those massacred came to help after bombing began. Follow-up attacks slaughtered them, unconscionable war crimes, including by pilots carrying out illegal orders.
“At the funeral, survivors said “they would sacrifice their lives for their leader Muammar Gaddafi.” Grief stricken children chanted, “The blood of our martyrs will not be forgotten.”
The attack followed a decision by National Transitional Council (NTC) head Mustafa Abdul Jalil to sack his entire executive committee, a sign of further disarray besides the assassination of rebel commander Adbul Fatah Younis and two of his aides last month, allegedly for holding talks with Gaddafi officials. If true, he wanted reconciliation to end the conflict.
For Washington, its NATO partners, and TNC puppets, however, peace and reconciliation aren’t options. As a result, Libyans can expect more attacks and/or destabilization to inflict relentless pain and suffering, even if fighting winds down to stalemate and Washington accepts a face-saving solution.
It may be no more than an unacceptable “Kosovo Model,” a fifth column resolution, giving anti-Gaddafi extremists a foothold to parlay toward total control.
Post-Gaddafi Planning [Mathaba: Only Problem: There Won’t Be A “Post Qaddafi” — God is the Best of Planners… Man Proposes, God Disposes]
On July 25, the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) convened a conference, hosting 50 government, diplomatic, and other experts to assess the Libya war and way forward. It concluded the following:
(1) No military solution is possible because rebels can’t take Tripoli or other strategic Gaddafi-controlled areas. Moreover, Libya’s military adjusted “to its degraded condition, and defections slowed to a trickle. While time is not on Gaddafi’s side, neither” does it favor rebels.
(2) “Even so, the post-Gaddafi era” already began. Washington and its NATO partners should adapt to it that way.
(3) Giving too much money to TNC officials is as bad as too little.
(4) Washington shouldn’t “become wedded to the TNC,” but should flexibly “accept a wide variety of outcomes. TNC officials perhaps are “fragment(ed) and out-of-touch with conditions on the ground.”
(5) The UN has some legitimacy in Libya. Gaddafi only fears Washington. A possible new Security Council resolution will be needed for Libyan reconstruction that will be considerable with parts of the country turned to rubble, mostly non-military sites.
On August 9, the Australian posted a London Times Tom Coghlan article headlined, ” Iraq haunts plans for post-Gaddafi Libya,” saying:
Washington, its NATO partners and TNC officials “prepare(d) a (70 page) blueprint for a post-Gaddafi Libya (that) charts the first months after” he falls, believing it’s a fait accompli. In fact, it may be more imperial arrogance, similar to Iraq and Afghanistan, besides America’s humiliating defeat in Vietnam and Korea stalemate.
Claiming the document draws from lessons learned, it relies on Gaddafi defections after he’s ousted or killed. Whether rebel fighters will accept them is uncertain, given disparate elements in their ranks.
A United Arab Emirates-supported “10,000 – 15,000 strong ‘Tripoli task force’ ” is planned to control Tripoli, “secure key sites and arrest high-level Gaddafi” loyalists.
Whether true or not, it claims 800 government security officials are already covertly recruited, ready “to form the ‘backbone’ of a new security apparatus.” Another 5,000 non-ideologically committed Gaddafi loyalists will become part of the interim government’s forces “to prevent a security vacuum.”
In addition, it claims rebels in and around Tripoli have 8,660 supporters, including 3,255 in Gaddafi’s army. Moreover, mass high-ranking official defections are “considered highly likely, with 70 per cent of them (supporting) the regime out of fear alone.”
Again, these unverified claims may be more propaganda than factual. Leaking to the Times, in fact, may be to entice defections. In other words, if Gaddafi loyalists believe others are deserting, and the regime appears near collapse, they may not wish to feel like rats on a sinking ship so will come over to avoid going down.
Notably, TNC planner Aref Ali Nayed expressed regret about the leak, but said:
“It is important that (Libyans know) there is an advance plan, and it is now a much more advanced plan.”
Perhaps so or maybe it’s propaganda intimidation to discourage resistance and encourage giving up on Gaddafi to end bombings and fighting on the ground. Why continue if defeat is imminent, but is it?
Evidence shows Libyans are winning. Rebels are in disarray, and though NATO bombing inflicted extensive numbers of deaths, injuries and destruction, popular support for Gaddafi is strong. Moreover, Libyans remain emboldened to resist, steadfastly unwilling to have their country colonized and plundered.
Nonetheless, other document details include:
— securing key security, telecommunications, power, transportation infrastructure, and other important sites;
— deploying Nafusa Mountain and Zentan fighters, not rebels, in Tripoli;
— having mostly Tripoli residents serve as interim security forces in Gaddafi loyalist areas;
— providing an emergency one-month $550 million to supply gas and oil to western Libya after Gaddafi falls;
— having the UN provide humanitarian aid, supported by the UAE, Qatar and Turkey;
— “a pre-recorded program of announcements by rebel leaders and clerics would initiate the Tripoli task force plan, call for calm and warn against revenge attacks on regime supporters;” an out-of-country FM radio station was set up for this purpose;
— if Gaddafi is killed, negotiating with his sons, called “regime captains;” and
— “multiple rebel groups” will be avoided, as well as having a “clear plan to deal with a hostile fifth column.”
A Final Comment
Despite intensive bombing since mid-March, Gaddafi remains firmly in control, enjoying overwhelming support with good reason. The alternative is too grim to accept.
As a result, whether the above document is factual, wishful thinking, or propaganda, imperial Washington is a long way from prevailing.
Nonetheless, make no mistake. Libya is Obama’s war. At the same time, America hasn’t won one since WW II. Hopefully Libyans will keep that record intact and retain their sovereignty, free from intolerable imperial dominance.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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Fridrich Hláva
Libya is going through the greatest attack of media lies ,half truths and baseless rumors therefore we hope that all the supporters to not pay any attention or allow the media to bring spirits down, in fact do not acknowledge reply or participate in spreading the lies even more by dignifying them by debating with individuals that might be helping to spread them. TURN A BLIND EYE AND A DEAF EAR. also rest assured that things are going well in Libya , VICTORY is on the horizon and within a few days the truth shall prevail. ♥ ♥
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Fridrich Hláva
don’t believe them my friend and all town musrata ezzawia+sorman tiji+zentan zleten it’s aall under control don’t busy it’s the truth
dear friend russian has changed 180° HIS OPINION agaisnt gaddafi look russia arabic he tolk only obout the winner of rebels like france24 or cnn+bbc. don(t busy my friend gaddafi have a good health and if they can’t do nothing they sayed disease
Fridrich Hláva This is an original message from a friend from Lybia… no comment to that.
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Diana Gariany
U.S. Marines fighting with rebels in Misurata.
Added by Diana Gariany on August 17, 2011 at 1:41pm
http://12160.info/video/u-s-marines-fighting-with-rebels-in-misurata?xg
A U.S. Marine talking on what they are going to do & how they are going to aid the rebels! oops I thought Obama said that no U.S. Army/Marine would put foot on the ground of Libya.
Here is the proof that American Troops are on the ground of the Libyan soil!
On a government-organized tour, tribal elders talk among themselves after expressing continued support for the government of Muammar Qaddafi in Tripoli on Monday. (Reuters)
On 15 August 2011 there was a meeting of various Libyan Tribal leaders coming from places in the Western Mountains. During this meeting the Tribal leaders spoke out against the NATO aggression in Libya and testify to their loyalty and support for al-Gaddafi.
Adil Naji writes: 17 AUGUST 2011
Verily we have come to the end of it, a war launched on false pretexts must cease to exist when the world realise it was fooled to be dragged into it.
The politicians in the west must put an immediate end to it, before you drag the world into the shame of our 21st century.. The world tied up in the decisions of the politicians we have put them with
Our votes to lead us- and we did not vote for them to kill humanity out of our borders.. As people we are obligated to pressurize them to quit.. Or we all are participating in the killings of innocent children in Libya.. Because this is an illegal war.. And we know its an illegal war.. Its humans that we kill for OIL to fill the gaps in our ever hungry banks.. We wonder at who’s benefit? We’ve always been poor anyways!! Riots in england have proved that we live under poverty,
And our leaders invading Libya are morally corrupt and want to steal but not because they want to make it better for us-
Even if it was yes, not at the expense of a human life
And we fund millions to stop animal cruelty we can’t even stop the killings of our own species.. The whole world is blind… Or the world has stopped to thinking rational..
Nato cannot justify this war as it was launched on false pretexts
Expose all Nato atrocities proofs on Libya so sensitive the global move to put an end to this war as people, our politicians do not want to decide that on our behalf so we got to use power vested in us as people.. Let the whole world know that they are killing humans to save their faces for us to vote for them again
Adil naji
English translation by Matthew Sherry, Ballwin, Missouri, U.S.A.
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1349081?eng=y
SANDRO MAGISTER writes 18 AUGUST 2011:
Vatican diplomacy itself has moved with extreme caution. Benedict XVI has spoken on it sparingly, and with great deliberation.
One eloquent precedent is that of Iraq. There the Catholic hierarchy was clearly on the side of Saddam Hussein. His dictatorship guaranteed the Christians a protection that – they feared – would disappear with the fall of the regime.
And in effect, this is what happened. Before the two Gulf wars, there were more than two million Christians in Iraq. Now they are estimated to be 400,000, constantly under threat.
The Holy See’s opposition to the two wars in Iraq is explained in part by this.
Today the striking cases are two: Libya and Syria.
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In Libya, the apostolic vicar of Tripoli, Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, has vigorously opposed from the beginning the war waged against Gaddafi by the Western powers, with the approval of the UN and the support of a few Arab countries.
At first, this war enjoyed the tacit assent of the Vatican authorities. But soon the pope and the Holy See began to insist that weapons give way to a political solution:
> The Vatican Joins in the Babel of Libya. With Silence (24.3.2011)
In the view of Bishop Martinelli, with Gaddafi Libya was the Arab country in which Christians enjoyed the broadest freedoms, except for that of converting Muslims to Christianity.
After an initial repression of Christians, Gaddafi made a conspicuous about-face. In 1986, he wrote to John Paul II, asking him to send him sisters and nurses for his hospitals. Today there are about eighty sisters in Libya, and more than 10,000 Catholic nurses, many of them from the Philippines. In the view of Bishop Martinelli, “these Catholic women, competent, kind, who treat the sick in a humane manner, are changing the mentality of the Libyan people with regard to Christianity.” Gaddafi boasted of this: when he was visited by a foreign politician, he never failed to take him to see the Catholic cathedral of Tripoli.
Because of this, both for the bishop of Tripoli and for the Vatican authorities, the exit of Gaddafi would clear the way for a future full of threats for the Catholics present in Libya. In their view, the ragtag opposition alliance does not promise anything good.
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MUAMMAR AL QADHAFI: THE CONSUMATE REVOLUTIONARY
01 Tuesday Mar 2011
Posted by Alexandra in AFRICA, LIBYA, THE GREEN BOOK
Leader of the World Revolution
“Man of faith and tradition, Muammar Al Qadhafi cannot be classified according to the criteria commonly admitted. If you search for him on the right you will find him on the left, since he preaches in many ways a renovation with the air of revolution. But if you look for him on the left you risk finding him on the right, because this sincere mystic is tied to more than one traditional value. It is not Qadhafi who is senseless; it is the terms, obsolete, and upon which are based the subjective judgements of foreign observers who are more interested in polemic than in the truth.”
– Prof. Francis Dessart
To the all exploiters and enemies of humanity, Muammar Qadhafi is the world’s number one ‘terrorist’. But to the oppressed, the exploited and the struggling peoples of the earth he is a teacher, guide, brother, but above all, the leader of a world revolution for a New Civilisation.
At the Second World Mathaba Conference held in Tripoli, Libya, on March 15th, 1986, just one month prior to the United States bombing raids on Libya, the spiritual head of the North American based “Nation of Islam”, Minister Louis Farrakhan introduced Muammar Qadhafi by stating that the Libyan Arab people’s collective need for freedom produced a leader who was born to serve the masses. Minister Farrakhan said that when a people is oppressed the need for freedom produces a longing which in turn produces a leader.
“The oppressor is always watching for that leader,” Louis Farrakhan explained, “…they know that the people will never be free until they produce a leader with the vision to create the revolution and see it through to its ultimate end.”
Such a leader is Muammar Al Qadhafi.
Muammar Al Qadhafi is more than just the Leader of the Libyan people. More than the Leader of the struggling Arab Nation. More than the symbol of hope and freedom for the oppressed of Africa, Asia and Latin America. For he is above all the Leader of the World Revolution. A man of determination and courage who is carrying the torch of real liberty not just for his own people, but for the people of the entire world. These are not just mere words or idle praises because unlike many of this century’s heads of state who have laid claim to the mantle of ‘revolutionary leader’, Muammar Al Qadhafi’s ACTIONS and LIFE have earned him the title of Leader of the World Revolution. Many men have apportioned to themselves the titles of Leader and Revolutionary but few reflect the great responsibilities of such appellations in even the smallest aspects of their lives. Muammar Al Qadhafi is a truly unique man, a man of a different calibre, a man whose example and thoughts inspire the struggling oppressed masses and haunts the oppressors. This is why he is loved by the peoples of the world but feared by the ruling exploiting cliques who know that his words and actions expose them for what they are.
Qadhafi’s Inspiration
In the desert heaven and earth meet. It was in the desert that God spoke to Moses, and in the desert the ancient revolutionary Prophet Elijah heard the “still voice of God” ordering him to face the tyranny of an oppressive ruler. In the desert, Christ prepared himself through fasting and prayers for a mission which was to shape Western history. In the solitude of the desert the Prophet of Islam Muhammad contemplated the order of creation and the sad state of his own people. In the desert Muammar Al Qadhafi was born, lived, dreamed and reflected. (Islam and the Third Universal Theory, Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, Ch. 1.) From an early age he appeared to be different from other children. He was serious, even taciturn; yet his stern countenance was always tempered with an inquisitive smile. He was an only son to a family who lived in the desert, far from the city and its demands and benefits. Young Muammar seldom played with his cousins; rather he was always lost in thought about one thing or another. (Gadafi, Voice From the Desert, Mirella Bianco, Page 4.)
When asked about how he was brought up Brother Qadhafi said: “It was difficult in terms of the circumstances and the environment under which I lived. Bedouin life is mobile; the strictness of upbringing therefore comes from the severity of these circumstances. But socially I was free. We were Bedouins enjoying full freedom and we lived amongst nature and everything was absolutely pure, in its true self, in front of us. We lived on the land and there was nothing between us and the sky.”
The eternal values and natural traditions of his Bedouin background helped to provide Muammar Qadhafi with a profound appreciation of the innate aspects of human existence. Brother Qadhafi himself has stated:
“Bedouin society made me discover the natural laws, natural relationships, life in its true nature and what suffering was like before life knew oppression and exploitation. This had enabled me to discover the truths that I have presented in the Green Book. It gave me a chance which has never been given to anybody else in my position. I have known and lived life in its very primitive stages. Because of that early life, a very simple life, I have lived life in its various stages right up to this modern age of imperialism when life became very complicated, very abnormal and unnatural. …I had a general idea how to make the masses free, how to make man happy. After that, things started to get clearer.” (‘Heart to Heart With Qadhafi’, New Africa, Feb. 1983.)
Even as a youth, Muammar Qadhafi earned the respect and admiration of his fellow secondary school students for his passionate interest in politics and revolutionary example. He used any political issue or significant event as a good occasion for a demonstration: the Algerian revolution, French testing of an atom bomb over the Sahara, the death of Patrice Lumumba and the dissolution of the Syrian-Egyptian union in 1961 are only a few examples. It was while at secondary school in Sebha that Muammar Qadhafi formed the first revolutionary committee out of a small circle trusted like-minded friends to whom he confided his revolutionary vision of a new Libyan society of freedom and independence. Among these young people were Abdul Salam Jalloud and others who have played a leading role in the Libyan Revolution. Single-minded and self-determined Muammar Qadhafi dedicated himself to the overthrow of the corrupt regime of King Idris and the establishment of the new society on the principles of justice, equality and a fair distribution of wealth.
Inspired by the Great Arab Revolutionary Gamal Abdul Nasser, Muammar Qadhafi in 1963 joined the military academy and the following year organised the Free Unionist Officers as a revolutionary force committed to the liberation of Libya and the achievement of Arab unity. Original members of the first revolutionary committee formed at Sebha secondary school, like Abdul Salam Jalloud, also joined the military, following the leadership and example of Muammar Qadhafi. However the Free Unionist Officers were not a vague independence party, but a highly disciplined, committed movement upholding moral strictness, Arab unity, freedom and social justice. One of their first axioms was freedom from any party politics.
Mirella Bianco after interviewing Col. Qadhafi’s childhood friends and close family members wrote: “it is in the desert that one must seek out the very essence of Qadhafi’s nature, of the spirituality, of the mysticism which have greater weight than any of his aspirations, and which influence even his political action… It is precisely this concept of liberty, the intangible freedom of desert people, – a freedom entirely one’s own and yet a submission to God, and God alone, – which underlies all the choices, decisions and actions taken by Qadhafi; even, and perhaps essentially, those of a political nature. To his way of thinking, there is no salvation for mankind or for the nations unless they believe in God and cling to those moral values which no coercion can enforce, and which can arise only from faith.” (Gadafi, Voice from the Desert, Mirella Bianco, P.4.)
September One
On September 1st, 1969 the months of planning and the years of dedication and discipline came to fruition. With one determined blow from the Free Unionist Officers the reactionary regime of King Idris collapsed and a new day dawned in the history of Libya, the Arab Nation and of the world’s struggling peoples. Not a military coup d’etat it was the beginning of a revolution the ramifications of which were to reach every part of the globe and touch the lives of all peoples. It was the beginning of a revolution which answered the inner call of humanity and was inspired and led by Muammar Qadhafi. Shortly before his death the father of Arab nationalism, Gamal Abdul Nasser, while speaking at a rally at Benghazi noted the world historic role that Muammar Qadhafi would play. The great Egyptian leader declared: “I am leaving you, I say to you: My brother Muammar Qadhafi is the representative of Arab nationalism, of the Arab revolution and Arab unity. My dear brothers, may God watch over you for the well-being of the Arab people. May you go from victory to victory, for your victories are the victories of the Arab people.”
The revolution which began on September 1st 1969 was unlike previous coups and so-called revolutions, it had as its aim not the glorification of another ruling clique or exploiting class but the victory of the dreams and hopes of the masses for final emancipation. On September 1st, 1969 a revolution dawned under the leadership of Muammar Qadhafi which answered the cry of the people and responded to the examples of the Prophets and Apostles of God.
Today, many years after the formation of the first revolutionary committee, the organisation of the Free Unionist Officers and 1st of September 1969, Muammar Qadhafi still holds to these sublime values and lives them as the Leader of the World Revolution. In the words of Vanity Fair journalist T.D. Allman: “If Kirkegaard was right, and purity of heart is to will one thing and one thing only, then Qadhafi was the purest-hearted military conspirator ever to seize control of a nation. He did not drink or smoke, there are no tales of youthful passion; he appeared to have no personal life at all.”
This purity of heart, single-mindedness, courage, dedication and self-determination are the cherished aspects of a revolutionary life and they can be seen in abundance in the life of the Leader Muammar Qadhafi. These noble qualities enabled Col. Qadhafi, with profound insight, to develop the principles of the Third Universal Theory and apply them in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Since the Bolshevik uprising in Russia the world had been locked in a struggle between the forces of Marxist communism and liberal capitalism. Revolutionaries who rejected both of these ideologies could find no leadership or coherent worldview which articulated their positions and was responsive to the real needs of the masses. This was only the case until the publication of The Green Book. Muammar Qadhafi has commented that: “It is not like writing an ordinary book. It was simply an attempt to explain the dialectic which exists between Marxism and capitalism. The world has reached a political and economic impasse, and humanity simply cannot accept this impasse and accept to die. There must be a way out. That way out is this new theory”. (‘Heart to Heart With Qadhafi’, New Africa, Feb. 1983.)
Qadhafi’s Vision
At a conference on Euro-Arab relations in Tripoli in May 1973, the Leader of the Revolution expounded on the philosophical aspect of the Third Universal Theory and its relationship to national and social liberation. In this speech we see the highly developed awareness of the Revolutionary Muammar Qadhafi and his acute appreciation of the complex inner needs of all the world’s peoples. It is worth recalling his words which are still very relevant to life in the 1990s. He said:
“Humanity now urgently needs a cry of justice which would return it to its senses and to its Creator… We need to go back to God and turn away from evil… Atomic bombs, missiles, biological weapons and aggression can only be the making of the Devil. The ideology we propose to the world is humanitarian but not made by men, nor is it a philosophy, but it is based on truth…. This is Gods law, always one, immortal, and unchangeable, a universal religion of truth which belongs to all mankind. The Third Theory offers an alternative to capitalist materialism and communist atheism and calls for the return of mankind to the Kingdom of God. Mankind was never in greater need to rearm itself with faith than it is now. We all know that all the philosophies and ideologies have failed to disprove the existence of God, and as the truth of His existence is self-evident, it is quite clear that society must be reorganised in every country of the world in accordance with the will of God and the precepts of His Prophets.”
Here we see the philosophical depth of the Third Universal Theory and how it has been drawn from the struggle of the masses for freedom and from the dynamic revolutionary precepts of the Messengers of God. “The Third Universal Theory, in simple terms, is a comprehensive formulation of the noble principles and moral values sent down from Heaven to the Prophets and Apostles to help guide people on the right path leading to happiness, stability and human tolerance. It is a worldview based on the concepts of justice, righteousness, moral fortitude, and respect for national existence. The Third Universal Theory has answers for the political, military and socio-economic problems facing human communities. For instance, popular rule is the political face of justice and righteousness. Socialism is the economic face of social justice, and the armed liberation struggle against colonialism in all its forms is the military face of peace and justice. These are principles that are able to guide every aspect of life. Since the problems of democracy and economic justice are closely connected with the whole well-being of society, we can, in the light of these principles, achieve right among peoples through people’s power, and a new socialist society, free from exploitation, oppression and wrong-doing.” (Jamahiriya Era of the Masses, Libyan People’s Bureau, Canberra, Australia. P.20.)
This is the world historical mission of the son of the desert Muammar Qadhafi to return to the natural precepts which alone can guarantee human fulfilment and establish justice in the society. As such Muammar Qadhafi’s message covers the political, economic, social and philosophical dimensions of life. In The Green Book he sets out fully the principles of the Third Universal Theory, a way which alone can lead searching humanity out of the capitalist/Marxist nexus. The main idea behind The Green Book is a return to the natural life and to natural forms of socialism and direct democracy – People’s Power – which places all authority, wealth and arms in the hands of the people. To quote from The Green Book: “Finally, the era of the masses, which follows the age of the republics, excites the feelings and dazzles the eyes… The Third Universal Theory heralds emancipation from the fetters of injustice, despotism, exploitation and economic and political hegemony, for the purpose of establishing a society of all the people where all are free and have equal share in authority, wealth and arms. Freedom will then triumph definitively and universally.” (The Green Book, Muammar Al Qadhafi.)
The Italian writer Mirella Bianco drew a comparison between Muammar Qadhafi and the Prophet Muhammed which is worthy of note. Both the Prophet and Qadhafi are Bedouins of a similar desert background. They both share, therefore, a common love for freedom, physical endurance, and an ideal of equality in society. They are both given to meditation, and share the belief that no real change in society could occur without a spiritual transformation. Both share a feeling of urgency in having to convey their vision of the universe to others. They are both teachers with unshakable certainty in the rightness of their convictions. They both possess unusual courage, and an indomitable determination to pursue their mission. Finally, they are products of similar moments of transition and change in human history.
A Revolutionary Life
In a rare interview with Western journalists in January 1986, only months before the U.S. terrorist bombing of Libya, the Leader of the Revolution spoke frankly about his life and how he had been misunderstood by the West. Meeting the journalists in his tent he told of how he admired former US Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and of other world leaders he admires like “Egypt’s late Gamal Abdul Nasser, India’s Mahatma Gandhi, Sun Yat-Sen of China and Italy’s Garibaldi and Mazzini.” (Really, I’m a Nice Guy, Kate Dourian, Tripoli, Libya.) He spoke of his favourite book The Outsider by British author Colin Wilson and others he likes such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Roots. Throughout this interview the profound thinking and innate humanity of Muammar Qadhafi shone through.
In March 1986 the British newspaper Daily Mail held an exclusive interview with the Revolutionary Leader. In the introduction to the article the writer commented: “It was hard to credit that this was the man President Reagan had condemned as the world’s number one terrorist. Colonel Muammar Al Qadhafi was simple and charming sitting by the bonfire outside his tent when I arrived to interview him. He told me: ‘I see the press as being the messengers between me and the world to tell them the truth.’”
The failed actor and failed President Reagan addressing a press conference in November 1985 was asked what he thought of Muammar Qadhafi. In a rare moment of sanity Reagan replied: “I just think that the man is a zealot. He’s pursuing a revolutionary cause that could affect a great many countries.” (US Targets Libya Again, The Green March, Brisbane, Australia, Feb-March 1986.) So this is Muammar Qadhafi’s “crime” in the eyes of imperialism. Muammar Qadhafi’s “crime” is actively working to build a better world for all humanity and outlining in his Green Book a way by which the masses on every continent can take power, wealth and arms into their hands.
At a time in world history when so-called revolutionaries are deserting principle and rushing to join the ranks of the bourgeoisie ruling circles, the Leader Muammar Qadhafi stands out as a symbol of steadfast commitment to revolutionary principles. As he himself has said: “I am a revolutionary in struggle. One doesn’t become tired when one is engaged in struggle. The struggle will continue. I will continue.” The life of Muammar Qadhafi is one of revolutionary struggle and sacrifice for the well-being and victory of the masses of humanity. Muammar Qadhafi’s inspiration, vision and life have earned him the title of LEADER OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION. Let us all resolve to march forward under his direction and encouraged by his example taking the message of the Green Book to a searching and seeking world.
Prepared by the Revolutionary Committee Movement, Australia
According to reports from reliable sources, the fake scenery of Tripoli is erected in Qatar, in particular Bab al-Aziz and Green Square. Losing, coalition is preparing a grand spectacle. It prepares to destroy the remaining radio and… television transmitters in Libya and block Libyan TV on the Internet to suppress truthful information. At the same time, the U.S. sends more drones.
Those who control the global media and the NATO bloc, are apparently convinced that they were able to deceive everyone and impose their vision of the war in Libya. That is why they believe that the play they will play in the desert of Qatar, with layouts of Tripoli, will be gotten away with. They will lie to the world, that there is an uprising in Tripoli, that the rebels demand from NATO to send peacemaker troops to destroy the remnants of the troops loyal to Gaddafi himself and his family. And at the same time, NATO will bomb Tripoli and all the cities of Libya, to kill as many as possible in order to destroy the most of the civilian infrastructure and cause a humanitarian catastrophe
If Gaddafi will go out to make a statement and reassure people, a bombing will destroy all who came to the square.
If you do not believe in this scenario, then think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden and Vietnamese village of My Lai and other victims of the countries that belong to NATO.
An anonymous source reports that nato will try his last card, it would seem that they have reproduced in the studio decors of Tripoli, including Babaziziya accurate and they are going to simulate a power Tripoli after causing a general blackout, cutting electricity and transmissions. The aim is to break the morale of the brave Libyans and fool them , to carry the city and the country into a chaotic state.
Why NATO Cannot Stop Until The Total Destruction of Libya
Posted: 2011/08/16
From: Mathaba
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This comment may not be what some want to hear, but it is a fact of history and psychology as well as taking into account the ultimate objective of NATO
The North Atlantic Terrorist Alliance (NATO) as the armed forces of the USA, Britain, France and much of Europe, will continue the bombing of Libya until all infrastructure is destroyed even if it means killing millions of Libyans.
The primary objective of NATO is the elimination of Muammar Qaddafi for the reason that this man does not bend to threats nor is he to be intimidated nor is he prepared to cede Libya for foreign interests, nor to open the gateway to Africa for foreign invasion.
Although at the start of the war at most 20% of the population were solidly behind him and perhaps 3% of the population opposed to him, our analysis shows that 95% of the population are now solidly behind him and much than 1% now opposed to him.
One of the solid reasons why NATO will not stop the bombing of Libya is because no matter how hard they try, Muammar Qaddafi is not running away, nor can they manage to kill him. And the fact of the matter is, they will not be able to, best not to ask how we know that but we do — and we have said so since March.
Therefore, just as the cartoon above shows, so it shall be. Just as someone who cannot understand why he cannot kill a fly buzzing around the kitchen, no matter how much he swats it left, right and center, and no matter how much insecticide poison he sprays. In the end, much more damage is done to himself than to the fly.
There are other reasons too: Libya must be totally destroyed because of the example that it has presented to the world. No one was looking at Libya before, but now everyone is. And that is a big problem. Because natural socialism, and direct participatory democracy work in Libya and are an example to the world.
The free unlimited health care, dental treatment, free housing, citizens monthly share of the oil revenue, the non-existence of any private central bank, all this in addition to the purest form of direct participatory democracy, must all be destroyed and all traces of it eliminated.
It is bad enough that The Green Book is now more famous than ever, and Muammar Qaddafi is more loved and renowned than ever before in all corners of the world, but the practical example of Africa’s most wealthy, safe and democratic nation must be destroyed.
There are other psychological reasons too. White people — and NATO is run by whites — NEVER back down and they never apologize for anything of any serious magnitude. They will apologize for silly things like touching you on a crowded bus, but they will never apologize for murder, deceit and genocide.
Another major factor is racism, pure and simple. The whites can never allow an African nation let alone the African Union to be shown to have been correct all along, nor can they ever accept an African plan as a way out for them — yet the ONLY way out for NATO is acceptance of the African Union peace plan.
Anyone who knows Libya and her history well, will know that this has been shown on at least 2 other major occasions in Libyan history: with the Italian colonialism and the resultant Libyan resistance led by Omar Mukhtar, in which the Italians had to kill half of the Libyan population but were still thrown out, and over the unjust white-imposed sanctions for a decade with the Lockerbie affair.
Those sanctions were being ignored by African nations once they found out that the whites were not serious about finding the real Zionist Jewish hands behind the bombing of the airliner but were hell bent upon holding Libyans as Muslims accountable for that act of terrorism no matter what, even though a way out for the Anglo-Americans was put forward by Libya and presented by Nelson Mandela.
However, the original plan which was Libyan and which was finally adopted by the whites (Britain and America) with a few minor changes so that they could claim it as their own plan, and show themselves once again to be the great white might is right powers and the Black Muslim African Libyans as being at their mercy.
This time around though the whites are in no position to dictate and do not have the time to put forward any plan which would essentially be the same as the African Union Peace & Security Council plan with minor modifications as a way out for them. Nor is the world willing to tow the Great White Lie line any longer. The west is finished and we all know it.
Whites have to accept that their days of privilege where they can travel the world with impunity and obtain visas freely to enter all countries of the world, while non-whites live as second or third class citizens no matter how pious they are, are fast coming to a close.
The days for whites to travel freely and unquestioned as to what their criminal records are, without showing their bank statements, proof of their status and whether or not they are going to return to their country, and the impunity of tourists of all types are fast coming to a close.
The world community must not all for world war three — yet again started by the white Europeans — to unfold without putting up a fight to put the whites in their place, and without defending the Libyan Jamahiriya by practical means. Those good whites among the vast majority of selfish, arrogant and ignorant ones, must now step forward and be counted and distance themselves from the selfish consumer society.
Some of the practical ways in which people around the world can work for peace, against the third world war and the resultant impending destruction of much of America and Europe, are to take actions that go beyond appealing for reason to those who are deaf, dumb and blind.
The key to be learnt and without which nothing will change and the disaster cannot be averted, is the taking of responsibility, getting organized, and getting active. Here are a few practical steps which you can take:
Make use of Mathaba.Net and take part in the publication and distribution of real truth news to reach more people — join with other good people in collective news editing at pub.mathaba.net so that the world may know the truth and more good people can come forward.
Find out and share the truth about Libya, and hold small or large meetings to share videos and discuss, study the Green Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms which came from the Libyan Jamahiriya where free Libyans proclaimed their human rights and shared them with the world so that all could be free. Work to make those rights a reality in your own community.
Study The Green Book and find out what true democracy is and get involved with direct participation in democracy by forming or joining a people’s congress in your area. Register with the International People’s Conference Organisation so that you will know of any developments in your area.
Help to prevent future crimes against humanity including wars, the destruction of the environment and dignified life, health and wealth, by helping to make it possible to bring past crimes to light and for those who committed them to be held to account — support the effort for World People’s Conferences on Crimes Against Humanity.
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NATO Massacre at Majer requires International Law Suits
Posted: 2011/08/18
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628074
Destruction in Majer, Libya, after NATO bombing on August 8
By Franklin Lamb
Located about 20 miles east of the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna, six miles south of Zliten, and off Libya’s southern coast across the Mediterranean from Rome, Majer was a picturesque village known for the fine quality of its dates and is claimed by locals to produce the best tarbuni (date juice) in Libya.
Family members, eyewitnesses and Libyan government officials claim that NATO’s airstrikes at Majer killed 85 people: 33 children, 32 women, and 20 men. Reporters and visitors were shown 30 of the bodies in a local morgue, including a mother and two children. Officials and residents explained that approximately 50 bodies were taken to other locations for family burial and most of the injured were rushed to hospitals at Tripoli.
At Majer, NATO chose to bomb three neighboring compounds and visitors examined a total of five bombed-out houses. There was no evidence of weapons at the farmhouses, but rather mattresses, clothes and books littered the area. One badly injured 15-year old young lady, Salwa Ageil Al Jaoud, had earlier written her name inside one notebook found amidst the rubble. She was later visited in hospital and attested, like the witnesses at Qana had, that there was no military presence in the homes that were bombed.
NATO used the same tactic that Israel used during the two Qana massacres. After the first three bombs dropped at around 11:00 pm (2100 GMT) on Monday, August 8, many residents of the area ran to the bombed houses to try to save their loved ones. NATO then instantly struck with more bombs, slaughtering 85 Libyans.
The badly burned and mangled bodies of two boys named Adil Moayed Gafes and Aynan Gafees were pulled from the rubble by family members deeply in shock. One anguished gentleman repeated the words, “There is no God but Allah, and a martyr is loved by Allah,” and soon others joined in.
Standing on a pile of rubble, Libyan government spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, declared, “This is a crime beyond imagination. Everything about this place is civilian!”
According to Libyan officials interviewed at the Rixos Hotel here in Tripoli last night, NATO attacked Majer “to try to help rebel fighters enter the government-held city from the south as it deepens its involvement and military command and control of one side in what has become a civil war hoping for billions of dollars in reconstruction contracts and special oil deals from its chosen team set up in eastern Libya.”
Seemingly borrowing a page from the Israeli army media office, NATO’s Carmen Romero, the NATO Deputy Spokesperson and Colonel Roland Lavoie, Operation ”Unified Protector” military spokesperson on August 9 told a joint Brussels-Naples news conference that “the village bombed contained a military assembly area and that NATO to date had no evidence of any civilian casualties but that NATO always takes extraordinary measures to assure the safety of civilians.”
It is predictable that as the evidence of the massacre at Majer becomes public and NATO is pressed to explain the killing of yet more Libya civilians, NATO, probably within the next 48 hours, will announce “an internal investigation” into the events at Majer while asserting in advance, as the Israelis regularly do, that their bombing was only directed at “legitimate military targets.”
Every Muslim and Christian Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, and every Lebanese citizen whose family members or loved ones were slaughtered during Israel’s two massacres at Qana, Lebanon, is reminded today of the indescribable loss suffered yesterday by their Libyan sisters and brothers at Majer, Libya.
The Majer massacre was perpetrated yet again with American weapons once more gifted by American taxpayers without their knowledge or consent and against every American humanitarian value shared by all people of good will.
As at Qana, the inventory of American weapons that has been provided to NATO and available for use here in Libya since March 29, sometimes indiscriminately, in order “to protect civilians” includes, but if not limited to, the following:
• B-2 stealth bombers from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base
• F-15Es currently based at the 492nd Fighter Squadron and 494th Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, Britain
• F-16CJ “defense-suppression” aircraft based at the 480th Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany
• EC-130 Commando Solo psychological operations aircraft from the 193rd Special Operations Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, Middletown, PA
• KC-135s from the 100th Air Refueling Wing currently based at Mildenhall, Britain and the 92nd, Air Refueling Wing, Fairchild AFB, WA
• C-130Js recently based at the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany
• A-10 attack fighters
• AC-130 gunships.
• The NATO attacks on Libya began with the bombing of claimed Libyan air-defense equipment using 110 American Tomahawk and Tactical Tomahawk cruise missiles. Tomahawks were also fired from British ships in the area.
• Also launched were bombing attacks using three American B-2 Spirit Bombers delivering 45 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) against Libyan air bases.
U.S. Navy ships being used by NATO “to protect Libyan civilians” include:
• The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Stout (DDG 55) and USS Barry (DDG 52)
• Submarines USS Providence (SSN 719), USS Scranton (SSN 756) and USS Florida (SSGN 728)
• Marine amphibious ships USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) and USS Ponce (LPD 15)
• Command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20)
• Support ships Lewis and Clark, Robert E. Peary and Kanawha
• AV-8B Harrier fighters, CH-53 Super Stallion helicopters and MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft aboard the Kearsarge and Ponce
• KC-130J tanker aircraft flying from Sigonella Air Base, Italy
• EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft of VAQ-132, based at Whidbey Island, WA and flying from Aviano Air Base, Italy (the above listed aircraft were diverted from Iraq at NATO’s request “to help protect Libyan civilians”)
• P-3 Orion sub-hunters
• EP-3 Aries electronic attack aircraft.
In addition to the above listed weapons, more than 50 types of American bombs and missiles are stockpiled for NATO use “to protect civilians in Libya” and their use to date is illegal under both American and International law because it has resulted in the killing, maiming, or wounding of approximately 7,800 Libyan civilians between March 29 and August 9, 2011.
A survey of NATO bombing sites, ground inspections, cataloged serial numbers from unexploded ordnance, examination of bomb and missile fragments at civilian sites in Western Libya, and consultation with Libyan military sources confirm what two US Senate Armed Services Committee staffers and international lawyers have postulated. NATO, like their Israeli allies at Qana, Lebanon, committed war crimes and crimes against humanity at Majer, Libya on August 8, 2011.
Specifically, NATO stands accused of committing the following crimes against the people of Libya according to a consensus from meetings with an increasing number of visiting international lawyers and human rights advocates who have come here from Europe, Asia and South and North America.
Applicable international law includes but is not limited to Article 3 of the Statute of The Hague International Penal Court, which clearly states that one criterion for indictment for war crimes is: “Attack or bombardment, by whatever means, against undefended cities, towns, villages, buildings or houses”. NATO’s continuous use of civilian targets for military purposes, a scenario which NATO wantonly and callously calls “collateral damage” fits this clause exactly and would be a cornerstone of a case accusing this organization of being guilty of war crimes.
Violation of the Geneva Convention IV, Article 3 (a): “To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons: violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds.”
These are similar causes of action that were filed against Israeli officials by American lawyers at the New York based Center for Constitutional Rights in Ali Saadallah BELHAS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Moshe YA`ALON, Defendant (466 F.Supp.2d 127 (2006)), a case that educated the international legal community and the public about the necessity to strip sovereign immunity from international outlaws and allow lawsuits in domestic as well as international courts.
The NATO massacre at Majer requires international law suits that achieve nothing less.
An Explanation of Current Events in Libya
Posted: 2011/08/18
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628078?rss
By one who knows Libya very well
by Ameer
Please take the following into consideration, this may help you see what the events during Ramadan really are.
– Given no Fact Finding Missions and no True Evidence of anything, the war started. All it needed was some news reports about “possible genocide may occur in Benghazi”, “Government is using Disproportionate force”, “Gaddafi said ‘We will cleanse our country from you rats’ which Obama keeps repeating as if Gaddafi meant the average peaceful citizen! “Demonstrations for the regime claimed to be against it”, etc.
Starting this Ramadan – A “smart war” is being conducted again. Media alone started the war and got the tebels (terrorist rebels) the recognition of 24 countries. During the past few months of war only 4 countries to recognized the tebels + 8 in NATO and Europe. It is clear that media is the true weapon.
The failure of the tebels means the collapse of the governments of Sarkozy and Cameron alike. And if they never capture or kill Gaddafi, they can not claim victory, so they will keep bombing Libya indefinitely until they are out of office. Sarkozi and Cameron have been silent during Ramadan and they are letting the Media do the work for them, they are the only forces bombing today and with the backing of US assets. The US at this point is the most tenacious player trying to pressure more countries to recognize the TNC especially in Africa. The cost of the war is above $1 Billion so far but that is something the Libyan oil can pay up in less than one week during production, so no problem – the TNC will pay when the coalition gets them a country.
There are hundreds of people who work around the clock to flood the media with reports against the morale or the ethics of the people’s government in Tripoli. They post so many fake news items about defections, tebel advances, recognition, strength, peaceful and wonderful agenda all over especially on Youtube and other Google search sites. And of course the major news follows them (which happened to be NATO countries news BBC, CNN, FOX, France, etc.) so that they can later claim they were misinformed by social media, as if that could be true since their job is supposed to be to find the truth. If these news agencies are running around with the tebels they are then their propaganda tools.
Here are a few points to keep in mind when it comes to all reports during Ramadan about presence of tebels or people’s government / Gaddafi loyalist groups in any city.
1. There are tebel elements in EVERY city in Libya, but this does not mean anything because they show up in their trucks and weapons and take videos and send them to Al Jazeera TV (hosted by the dictator of Qatar) and they claim the have liberated a town! They then go on to another town! What kind of political structure did they leave behind? A Mayor and Police paid by the TNC? Obviously nothing but some check point here and gang fighting there.
2. Misrata is too large a city to be controlled by the Tebels but the government doesn’t have control over a lot of it. Yes there are loyalists and troops in Misrata but the town is so large 500 sq/km that the port is miles far from city center and the residential areas are away from the city center etc. Anyone can claim to be in Misrata on any given day.
3. Al Zawia is too large to be controlled by the rebels, their presence there is temporary at best, and they left it already.
4. Al Brega is not just a city. It is 4 compounds that are miles apart; the Port, the Refinaries, the old residential area, and the new Resident Structures. Only the government can claim control of Al Brega because the presence of the rebels is not possible in two of the above areas and not supported by any proof.
5. The government of Libya will not show any videos of the presence of it’s soldiers anywhere in Misrata or Al brega or Zlitan for the protection of the army from NATO bombing.
6. There are not enough fighters on the Tebel’s side to counter the number of the fighters on Gaddafi’s side. The war of (Supporters + Fighters) numbers has been decided long ago no matter how much weapons Qatar buys for the tebels. In addition the problem the tebels have now is that they are stretched too thin and left not enough protection behind their front lines (Except in Benghazi). If the loyalist Libyans decide to end the war once and for all they can all rise against the tebels on September 1 and it’s over in one day as the tebels are very outnumbered in all towns they occupied recently.
I hope this explains some of the events taking place recently.
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U.S. OBTAINS IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION FOR NON-MEMBERS OF THE ICC FOR CRIMES IN LIBYA
01 Tuesday Mar 2011
Posted by Alexandra in AMERICA, LIBYA, NATO, UNITED NATIONS
EDITORIAL
Alexandra Valiente. Libya 360°. 3.1.11
U.S. sponsored terrorism in Libya is in direct contravention to International Law.
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE SUPRESSION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM
THE STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
THE ROME STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
On Februrary 26, 2011, the U.N. Security council passed Resolution 1970.
Fearing ICC prosecution resulting from disclosures of their own terrorist activities within Libya, not to mention other dangerous, incriminating revelations that would inevitably arise should Gaddafi testify at The Hague, the United States forced the United Nations to include the following clause:
6. […]nationals, current or former officials or personnel from a State outside the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya which is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of that State for all alleged acts or omissions arising out of or related to operations in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya established or authorized by the Council, unless such exclusive jurisdiction has been expressly waived by the State.
Mainstream media were quick to spin this into “African mercenaries ‘immune from prosecution for war crimes’”.
This was not a benevolent gesture made by the U.S. on behalf of mercenaries hired by Gaddafi to defend against the armed rebel hoardes. The U.S. is shielding only itself and those operating on its behalf.
The US is not a state party to the Rome Statutes of the ICC.
In essence, clause 6 provides immunity to the United States for its covert criminal engagement in funding, arming and training terrorist organizations and the CIA supported “Libyan opposition” assigned to overthrow Gaddafi (state terrorism) as well as immunity from crimes it is about to commit during imminent military intervention to complete the covert objectives.
Global citizens of conscience must be aware of the implications of this resolution and specifically clause 6.
When Israel conducted its odious 28 day criminal assault on innocent civillians in Gaza, where was the United Nations?
Where were the U.S. and NATO?
Where was the moral outrage?
The U.N. resolution to intervene and bring Israel to The Hague?
There is more than hypocrisy here.
It is evident that the United Nations has been subverted and supplanted by NATO and now only serves the globalist agenda.
Having successfully established yet another precedent that positions a rogue nation beyond the reach of International Law, immune to prosecution for crimes of terrorism, war crimes, crimes against peace and humanity, I fear for the next victim nations on the CFR-Brookings-Freedom House hit list.
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SALADIN wrote on 09 MARCH 2011 at 01:44
The 5 ‘Principles of War Propaganda’
1. Obscure one’s economic interests
2. Appear humanitarian in work and motivations
3. Obscure history
4. Demonise the enemy
5. Monopolise the flow of information
Three NATO ships demolished by the Libyan Army
Posted: 2011/08/17
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628070?rss
Report from Leonor in Libya, 15th August
by Dennis South
Here’s a new video report from Leonor. She speaks about the complete “news” media blackout of events in Libya.
And here are a few other items that she talks about:
1. Three NATO ships were completed demolished by Libyan military forces, and there were heavy NATO casualties aboard those ships, but this has been hidden, of course, from the public. An Italian ship was also bombed by the Libyan Army.
2. Most of the fighters in Benghazi are not Libyans. In fact, the Libyan “rebels” are a minority. Most of the fighers are foreigners from Europe, Qatar, Egypt, Palestine, and South America. This is the brutal “game” being played by NATO and its sponsor countries, such as the U.S., France, and Britain.
3. There is a section of Tripoli, the capitol of Libya, called Tajura that NATO bombs relentlessly every single day. Also, Bab El Aziziya is still being bombed daily, without fail.
4. NATO is bombing everything now, including the homes of non-combatant Libyan citizens, bakeries, etc., in genocial madness.
5. NATO has bombed power stations, destroying electrical power for many places. Leonor says that the Libyan government then works very hard to get electricity back to the people, and it appears that it is successful doing that.
6. Very early in the conflict, university professors appeared on Libyan TV, from what I understand from her report, and explained to Libyan citizens precisely what NATO’s game plan would be. This turned out to be very important, because this helped the citizens to prepare for NATO’s genocidal barbarism.
7. Libyan tribes, she says, have been together only two times in history, in Libya’s past. But, earlier in this aggression, 2,100 tribes had a meeting for three days. NATO was flying low, trying to frighten them. But they were never frightened. They decided to elect a group of them, representing each tribe, to carry on the Jamahiriya in case of an emergency. This occurred at the beginning of the war, but this was withheld from the media. Yesterday they met again, to reaffirm their support for Gaddafi and the Jamahiriya.
8. Members of the Obeida Tribe–the tribe that Abdel Fatah Younis, now deceased former head of the “rebel” terrorists, belonged to–have taken 15 high-level NATO people and are holding them hostage. They say they will not release those people until NATO stops its bombing. France knows this, but is keeping it out of the news media.
9. In Benghazi, the people are against the terrorists, and you see many, many new green flags, as the people of Benghazi are becoming bolder in expressing their support for Gaddafi and the Libyan Jamahiriya.
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No, you will NOT re-arm the Libyan rebels
18.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/18-08-2011/118787-international_law_libya-0/
No, you will NOT re-arm the Libyan rebels. 45161.jpeg
It has been brought to my attention that certain EU countries are desperate because they have backed the wrong side in the Libyan conflict, because they instigated a revolt in a country to topple a government to steal its resources and it has backfired…and no, you will NOT ship weapons to Libya, nor will you put boots on the ground.
In June, the French government admitted that it had shipped “light” weaponry to the Libyan terrorists fighting the Libyan Armed Forces (LAF) loyal to the Jamahiriya Government of Muammar al-Qathafi. Now there is talk by military analysts of more “light” weaponry being shipped to the few remaining terrorist-held areas, quoted by The Gulf Today, as including French Milan anti-tank missiles, Swedish Carl Gustav 84mm rifles (produced in Britain?), 68mm rockets and mortars and Maadi assault rifles from Egypt; this, in addition to the British, French and Italian military advisors helping the terrorists.
One presumes the “talk” of sending in heavy and more sophisticated weaponry now that the LAF are advancing on all fronts and the “talk” about a September invasion by NATO forces is only that, since there is no hard evidence either way. But knowing NATO and with NATO’s recent history…
However, under the UN Charter, any military action which comes outside a UNSC Resolution in any theatre of conflict must necessarily come from a separate Resolution in the UNSC and any military action must come after the Military Council is convened. This was not the case under UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) covering the Libyan conflict.
Let us examine international law governing this issue and let it be clear that any attempt to arm the terrorists in Libya against the Government and any attempt to place boots on the ground is illegal.
UNSC Resolution 1973 (2011), in its Chapter on Protection of Civilians, in paragraph 4. states:
“4. Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, and acting in cooperation with the Secretary-General, to take all necessary measures, notwithstanding paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011), to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory, and requests the Member States concerned to inform the Secretary-General immediately of the measures they take pursuant to the authorization conferred by this paragraph which shall be immediately reported to the Security Council;
In the Chapter on Enforcement of the arms embargo, Paragraph 13 of the same states:
“13. Decides that paragraph 11 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall be replaced by the following paragraph : “Calls upon all Member States, in particular States of the region, acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements, in order to ensure strict implementation of the arms embargo established by paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 1970 (2011), to inspect in their territory, including seaports and airports, and on the high seas, vessels and aircraft bound to or from the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, if the State concerned has information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the cargo contains items the supply, sale, transfer or export of which is prohibited by paragraphs 9 or 10 of resolution 1970 (2011) as modified by this resolution, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel, calls upon all flag States of such vessels and aircraft to cooperate with such inspections and authorises Member States to use all measures commensurate to the specific circumstances to carry out such inspections”;
Paragraph 16:
“16. Deplores the continuing flows of mercenaries into the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and calls upon all Member States to comply strictly with their obligations under paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011) to prevent the provision of armed mercenary personnel to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;”.
The law could not be any clearer. It is illegal to place any form of foreign military force on the ground (which has already been breached), it is illegal to ship weapons to Libya (which has already been breached). It is illegal to take sides in an internal conflict (the more so, one started from outside).
Rather than allow any country or group of countries to forge ahead and effect a massive breach of these terms, the UNSC should analyse what measures are to be taken to punish those who have broken international law.
Certainly any such action, in sending weapons to the terrorists and/or placing military personnel on the ground, cannot be allowed by the international community without a separate Resolution which passes through the UNSC and in any case this Resolution has to be justifiable.
As it stands today no expert in international law would state that there is any justification for this, and therefore, with the original conditions of UNSC 1970 and 1973 (2011) void due to being based on false flag events, due to NATO’s breach of law and commitment of war crimes in Libya, it is time for an exit strategy to what can only be classified as a monumental and catastrophic foreign policy disaster by the NATO members involved.
Declare the no-fly zone was successfully implemented, recognise that the LAF are not attacking civilians, they are defending civilians from armed terrorists and allow the Libyans to solve this problem for themselves, with international organisms if the Libyans themselves see fit.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
Allain Jules
L’information déjantée, au Kärcher, et la liberté d’expression dans sa quintessence
Libye – Kadhafi malade, prêt à quitter la Libye.
http://allainjules.com/2011/08/17/libye-kadhafi-malade-pret-a-quitter-la-libye/
Publié le17 août 2011 par Allain Jules
C’est la même rhétorique. Ils sont tellement prévisibles et risibles que ça dépasse l’entendement. Quand on n’arrive pas à battre un homme à la loyale, on l’accuse de tous les maux ou on l’empêche de s’exprimer. Quand on est incapable d’assumer ses mensonges, on en créé d’autres. Quand on veut démoraliser, on se lance dans une propagandastaffel inique. Quand on veut de se débarrasser de son chien, on l’accuse de rage.
Depuis ce matin, la nouvelle dialectique morbide et mortifère concerne la maladie très grave de Mouammar Kadhafi qui négocierait une sortie honorable pour lui et les siens avec un exil en Afrique du Sud. Relayée par France 24 que je suis en direct de mon bureau, il ne sera pas étonnant que, comme une trainée de poudre, tous les médias moutons et « mainstream » reprennent la pseudo information comme un seul homme.
Que ne vont-ils pas inventer ? Quand on dit la vérité, ils vous rétorquent que Mouammar Kadhafi le dictateur vous paie. S’il y a des gens qui ont profité de l’argent de Kadhafi et qui volent les avoirs libyens, il faut chercher de leur côté, pas du mien. Je n’ai, ni de près ni de loin, un quelconque contact avec le clan Kadhafi. Je ne le défends non plus mais condamne une guerre inique liée à du mensonge. Comme en Irak notamment. On sait ce qu’est devenue l’Irak.
Après avoir tourné le dos à sa mission, après avoir commis des crimes contre l’humanité qui ne seront jamais jugés, aujourd’hui, les mêmes désinformateurs reviennent et nous sortent une nouvelle version de la guerre en Libye. Pour eux, la pression tous azimuts de l’OTAN fait donc plier Mouammar Kadhafi. En 6 mois, sa santé s’est détériorée, il est aux abois…etc. Mais, croyez-vous que le Conseil national de transition (CNT ) pourra gouverner la Libye ? Surtout une Libye où rien ne sera plus gratuit ? En 6 mois, le CNT a dépensé plus de deux ans des économies libyennes. Les États-Unis ont volé les avoirs libyens par millions de dollars pour rémunérer les traîtres de Benghazi…
La seule et unique envie de faire partir Mouammar Kadhafi réside dans un projet inavouable, celui de faire main basse sur le pétrole libyen et non sur la soi disant protection des populations civiles. Et si la coalition diabolique veut par tous les moyens que lui et ses proches quittent le pays, c’est simplement parce qu’ils sont populaires. Ainsi, ils savent très bien que s’ils participent à la « démocratie », s’il y a une vraie élection, ils ne peuvent que perdre. Le reste n’est que verbiage vaseux et bien sûr, mensonge. C’est le retour des désinformateurs mortifères.
Allain Jules
L’information déjantée, au Kärcher, et la liberté d’expression dans sa quintessence
Libye – Dernières et vraies nouvelles
Publié le17 août 2011 par Allain Jules
http://allainjules.com/2011/08/17/libye-dernieres-et-vraies-nouvelles/
Kadhafi et Chavez
Le colonel Mouammar Kadhafi vient de déclarer ceci: «Je n’ai pas peur de ces avions larguant des bombes. Je n’ai jamais quitté la Libye où j’ai mon peuple et mon Dieu. » Ainsi, il répond à ceux qui font de l’enfumage actuellement, parlant de sa maladie et de son éventuel départ de la Libye.
Pour les dernières informations, notre honnêteté intellectuelle, notre besoin de vous dire la vérité et le respect que nous vous portons nous obligent à rectifier un détail sur notre post matinal. Ce matin, nous sommes allés vite en besogne en ce qui concerne la ville de Sorman. Mais, les nouvelles sont plutôt bonnes.
Sorman: Alors que nous annoncions que les renégats avaient été chassés, ils s’y trouvent encore mais, la ville est complètement quadrillée par les forces loyalistes et les insurgés sont sommés de se rendre. Ils négociaient vers 19h, heure de Paris, leur réédition. Sans doute, ils vont le faire tard ce soir ou demain. L’étau s’est tellement resserré autour d’eux, et l’OTAN n’y peut rien.
Le Parisien: Nous avons lu, effaré, l’infographie mis par Le Parisien ce matin. Les villes de Zaouïah, Gharian, Sabha et Tawergha sont contrôlés par….les fous de Benghazi. Tant mieux, ça fait sourire ce genre de déni. Que voulez-vous, ce n’est plus du journalisme. Ces gens ne travaillent que pour leurs petits intérêts. L’information est reléguée aux oubliettes.
Djebel Nafoussa : nouvelle bavure de l’OTAN. Elle tue par erreur, 10 mercenaires du Conseil national de transition (CNT).
Tripoli: actuellement, il y a des bombardements de l’OTAN. 6 mois après, on se demande bien ce qu’elle bombarde encore, sinon chercher à affamer les tripolitains et créer une crise humanitaire. Le peuple ne se soulèvera jamais contre Kadhafi.
TÉMOIGNAGE AFFIRMANT QUE KADHAFI N’A JAMAIS BOMBARDÉ BENGHA
ZAWAYIA, REBELS’ DEATH DANCE:
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Libye : expédition – le général Botul et l’amiral Sarkopinocchio
http://allainjules.com/2011/08/18/libye-expedition-le-general-botul-et-lamiral-sarkopinocchio/
Publié le18 août 2011 par Allain Jules
L’aventure ambiguë en Libye de ces deux hauts gradés de l’armée française se transforme en un fiasco retentissant. Personne n’a vu l’amiral Sarkopinocchio à Tripoli. Nous sommes le 18 août, et ses espoirs semblent s’envoler. C’était son rêve qui tourne finalement en cauchemar. Maintenant, on nous annonce la chute de Mouammar Kadhafi avant la fin du mois saint du Ramadan. En septembre, que diront-ils ? Quant au général Botul, il a simplement perdu son pantalon et est rentré nu à Paris. Ambiance.
C’est la douche froide. Savez-vous que Misrata c’est le poumon économique de la Libye ? Ils ne vous le diront jamais mais, les pro-kadhafi ont récupéré la ville intégralement. Même les renégats de Benghazi qui croyaient que le stratège de guerre et ministre français des Affaires étrangères, le général Botul, plus connu sous le nom de Mickey le philosophe, était un homme, se rendent finalement compte que c’est de la gnognote, de la bouillabaisse périmée. Ce gugusse qui a voulu faire de la Libye un champ de ruines, se rendra bientôt compte de sa bévue qui, hélas, lui sera comme d’habitude pardonnée.
Quand à l’amiral Sarkopinocchio, le fait qu’il ait voulu doubler Au Bas Mot le pantin américain, s’est vu signifier, par ceux qui paient les renégats, une fin de non recevoir lors des négociations à Djerba, en Tunisie. Depuis le retour de son porte-avions du nom du général qu’il a trahi honteusement, Charles de Gaule, qui, lui, savait que l’OTAN et l’ONU étaient des machins, a perdu son gouvernail d’Étambot. La tentative de vol à l’entôlage pour le compte d’une multinationale au détriment de l’Afrique, semble tourner court. Que c’est dure d’être des prostitués. Justement, la Libye ne l’a jamais été et c’est bien cette envie brûlante de la transformer en vase clos qui est entrain de tourner en catastrophe.
Finalement, se profile à l’horizon, une défaite annoncée. Mouammar Kadhafi n’ayant même pas encore utilisé son potentiel militaire, il risque d’avoir de grandes souffrances du côté des aventuriers de l’apocalypse. Oui, qu’ils aillent à Tripoli et ça sera le début de la fin. Après avoir tiré les marrons du feu tels des amateurs-ils le sont-, c’est finalement Au Bas Mot qui bénéficiera de tout. Real politik américaine. C’est lui le vrai stratège de cette guerre de re-colonisation mais, si Kadhafi reste, ce n’est pas gagné.
Bon, pour ma route, voici la confirmation de ce que nous vous avons annoncé depuis deux jours. Les renégats sont mis en déroute partout. Version officielle et propagande ? Ils le diront, mais ne pourront pas le prouver en image. Nous, chaque jour davantage, nous le faisons. Ils ont annoncé honteusement hier, que, les galopins de Benghazi avaient pris d’assaut la raffinerie de Zahouïa. Or, les mêmes nous disaient qu’ils avaient déjà pris la ville. Et la raffinerie ne faisait pas partie de la ville ? Cherchez l’erreur !
Obol Bruno writes 19 août 06:13
Let us send condolence to all the innocent Libyans who have been massacred by NATOin al-Zawiya.
This as been the western most dirties war; and exposed who they really are.
The world’s new terrorist aparatus is todays press: that through its owners and backers have become instrument used for creation of wars that threaten to wipe out the human race, and always setting a path of war.
Prior to the attacK on Iraq, the nytimes carried out a survey in the US; and found out that 85%of Americans believed that Saddam Husain was directly responsible for the Sept. attack on World Trade Center.
This was the time media Began manipulating world community tinto believinf Anything that the press says (because it still follows law and order, not knowing that we are nolonger in control of our system or rather its been hijacted by thugs).
The Libyan war really exposed them out as now good vs evil !
The West even wants to dupe the masses that it is the on on the good side!
For that, I let you decide but your eyes should be opened for wolf in a sheep’s skin.
But my brothers and sisters, I have the feeling that this evil will be buried in Libya; and the green will prevail.
It Has been the colour that represent nature and continuenty of life.,
My condolence goes to the Libyan goverment spokeman (DR. Moussa Ibrahim) who lost his relatives in NATO’s cowardly act in al-Zawiya. May their souls rest in peace.
18 août 20:25
The whole idea behind the false scud propaganda, is to make to world believe that “Gadhafi has WMD” therefore NATO must intensify its bombing. The TEBELS are also claiming that “Gadhafi is now using chemical weapons”!! This is so unbelievable and terrible at the same time. Remember, it was our brother leader who said in Dec 2010:
(QUOTE)”There is a lot of talk about the maintenance of world peace, preventing wars and saving the peoples from their scourge. If there is any truth to such talk, if it is not mere hypocrisy or the well-known electioneering propaganda, certain practical steps need to be agreed upon and implemented by the whole world. Foremost among those is the complete elimination of weapons of mass destruction; not the partial or gradual elimination but the complete one. This matter may be addressed in more detail in a future essay. However, seas are the topic of this essay. If we are serious about the maintenance of world peace, we must have the courage to take the following, simple step. Namely, to ensure that no military fleets are present in the inland seas and gulfs except those that belong to the littoral states. By that I mean the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Red Sea and the Arab-Persian Gulf.
If we are serious about building peace, if we take a genuine interest in peace, we must take this step. Peace us important for the world peoples. Peoples who are the cannon fodder and who die by the millions in wars yearn for peace. Tyrants, dictators and leaders like Hitler may not share that burning desire for peace.
The UN must adopt this proposal. Certain arrogant powers threaten the peace of the world, are inimical to the welfare of peoples and show no interest in their safety and security. All the entities that represent the conscience of the world and care for the safety of humanity are called upon to impose this proposal on those powers. They must take all the necessary measures to ban the presence of foreign fleets in inland seas until this becomes a general policy.
If this proposal is not formally adopted, peace-loving forces may find themselves compelled to close the straits of Gibraltar, Dardanelles, Bab El-Mandab Hormuz as well as the Baltic Sea to the foreign military fleets. Only the fleets of the littoral states and the civilian fleets should be allowed to navigate those waters.” (UNQUOTE)
al-Gadhafi is a man of integrity. He says what he really means; no one writes his speeches but himself. He does not speak just to flatter one faction; and then in another manner to gain support of another. He is honest to the bone and fearless. He is against WMD and all these evils. He does not mean to exterminate the earth just to “win”! He is defending the holy JAMAHIRIYA which he has given to his people and the world with the assistance of the Almighty. In defending the JAMAHIRIYA, al-Gadhafi and the loyalists are also defending God and the principles of God —NOT THE DEVIL! and he is defending LIFE, not death.
Friday, 19 August 2011
AL JAZEERA AND NATO PLANNING A MAJOR SCAM AND MASSACRE EVER
1. According to reports from reliable sources, the fake scenery of Tripoli is erected in Qatar, in particular Bab al-Aziz and Green Square. Losing, coalition is preparing a grand spectacle. It prepares to destroy the remaining radio and television transmitters in Libya and block Libyan TV on the Internet to suppress truthful information.
At the same time, the U.S. sends more drones.
Those who control the global media and the NATO bloc, are apparently convinced that they were able to deceive everyone and impose their vision of the war in Libya. That is why they believe that the play they will play in the desert of Qatar, with layouts of Tripoli, will be gotten away with.
They will lie to the world, that there is an uprising in Tripoli, that the rebels demand from NATO to send peacemaker troops to destroy the remnants of the troops loyal to Gaddafi himself and his family. And at the same time, NATO will bomb Tripoli and all the cities of Libya, to kill as many as possible in order to destroy the most of the civilian infrastructure and cause a humanitarian catastrophe
If Gaddafi will go out to make a statement and reassure people, a bombing will destroy all who came to the square.
If you do not believe in this scenario, then think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden and Vietnamese village of My Lai and other victims of the countries that belong to NATO.
and now the lies are growing worse; HEADLINES saying that plans have been arranged so the Gadhafi clan can safely be conducted to Tunesia “as were discussed with him last night” beause Tripoli will be taken over in lessthan a week!!! and that now all the other cities are” under the firm control of the rebels” and the CNT!!!! Boy are they pulling the wool…. It appears that NATO will try pulling this stunt this week. They bombed the power stations last night…but low and behold, electric back on in 6 hours!
”An anonymous source reports that NATO will try his last card, it would seem that they have reproduced in the studio decors of Tripoli, including Babaziziya accurate and they are going to simulate a power Tripoli after causing a general blackout, cutting electricity and transmissions. The aim is to break the morale of the brave Libyans and fool them , to carry the city and the country into a chaotic state …”
French: “Une source anonyme rapporte que le nato va tenter sa dérniére carte , il semblerait qu’ils ont reproduit en studio les decors de Tripoli , notamment Babaziziya avec précision et qu’ils vont simuler une prise de Tripoli aprés avoir causé un blackout général en coupant electricité et transmissions .Le but est , casser le moral des braves Libyens et les tromper afin de mener la ville , et , le pays vers un état chaotique …
VivaDjazair le 18 août 2011
I wan to say few things about fighting..
they (rebels )who are protected by NATO’s Airpower and Qatar/ UAE money are sadly positioning themselves between the pliers (trapped) …they come in 10, 20, 30 cars …. and it becomes a case of Libyan killing Libyan and it becomes the duty of our army and our volunteers to defend themselves.
they are now protected by British missiles, French battleships, German logistics and Qatar money..(what sort of Jihad or democracy are these rebels talking about ?
In the area of Misrata a group of rebels escaped the fighting and ran towards Alhaysha instead of surrendering their arms… they cause disturbance and terrorized locals for 2 to 3 hours until the Libyan loyal fighters arrived from various directions and killed many of them and took many prisoners but few escaped in direction of the seaside and in other directions.
The Same thing happened in Tiji and Badr, they came down from the mountain but he Army surrounded them and took many of their cars and various types of weapons.
In Zawia the situation is Stable but there were skirmishes in the western region
Sorman is still suffering from the existence of these gangs but we are working continuously to free it, and it wouldn’t be a difficult thing because the area has shown great loyalty to the country and support for our leader.
Sabratha’s situation is much better than Sorman with volunteers now assuring security in the center of the town and helping the locals.
So there are still scattered problems but the overall Situation is under the control of the armed forces and volunteers… this is natural because the rebels are scattered here and there and in weak numbers unable to control any city/ area but they can create a sentiment of fear amongst the people… no more and no less.
I reassure our Libyan citizen not to be upset when they hear reports from some news outlets, I warned you before about this matter…for example in Alhaysha although they spent only 2-3 hours there .. the first thing they did is use their SNG satellite uplink portable system to upload a video to the news outlet you all know ( Aljazeera ) about taking over the town of Alyahsha … but we all know that they were kicked out in a matter of 2 to 3 hours.
This is what they will be doing from now on in various places !.. all they can do is record videos…..they want to take us back to square one .. like they did back in February with all the media Lies.
I tell you all one thing ! our country is strong, our government is strong , our Army is strong… this situation is temporary for just few days and we will continue to struggle until all our country is liberated.
Questions … 1 about loss of electricity in some places
reply … NATO targeted main electricity Generators but our engineers worked tirelessly to restore electric supply to most areas within 4 to 5 hours… and are working on the few areas that still haven’t got supply
question 2 about trying negotiations … this has been covered in detail in the latest PM video of 18/08
NATO Bombs UNESCO World Heritage Site In Libya
Posted: 2011/08/19
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628101?rss
More Crimes Against Humanity being carried out by NATO while ‘western’ populations remain silent. Photo: Leptis Magna, Libya
NATO aircraft have bombed the unique ancient city of Leptis Magna in Libya on 17 August 2011, the Libyan official news agency reports.
Sprawling along the Mediterranean coast, Leptis Magna is a UNESCO World Heritage site famous for its antique Roman architecture.
The city was founded around 1100 B.C. and is often dubbed Rome in Africa. Five huge color mosaics dating to the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. have been found their recently.
In a strong condemnation of the bombing, the Libyan government accused NATO of not distinguishing between military and civilian targets and of grossly violating all international norms and conventions.
latest from Tripoli
https://www.facebook.com/notes/global-civilians-for-peace-in-libya/latest-from-tripoli/247465798621404
par Global Civilians for Peace in Libya, vendredi 19 août 2011, 12:25
This news just in from a sister in Tripoli-Tonight sadly, Dr. Moussa Ibrahim’s younger brother was killed in Zawia by NATO. An apache gunship fired on innocent civilians in the square at Zawia city – killing many unarmed civilians. The people of Zawia were in the square CELEBRATING the routing of the murderous NATO rebels out of their city by the Libyan army.
The people here are angry at the bombing of the electric power stations. They were all talking about it today. “How is NATO protecting innocent people by bombing power stations?” This is the desert, many people in the suburban areas of Tripoli suffered from noon until 10pm without electricity. That means HEAT, no water, no refrigeration, no light, no phones for emergency, etc., etc. NATO is now terrorizing the innocent people here, so we must understand that NATO is now the “North Atlantic Terrorist Organization”- they should be proud and the US should declare war on NATO as part of the “war on terror”
My sources tell me that there are few gangs in Zawia and that as soon as the Libyan army arrives they are defeated or they run away. He said when the army completely finishes the pockets in Zawia, they will head immediately to Sorman where all the runaway rebels have gone. He says they estimate that there are around 1000 rebels there but they are all very young (15,16,17,18) with no military experience, no organization and they fight amongst themselves. He said there will not be a protracted battle, this will end quickly. Without NATO’s rain of terror, this bloodshed would have been finished months ago.
The rebels are desperate, NATO is becoming more and more desperate, there is no humanity, just blatant, wanton killing.
There is no excuse, no valid reason for any of this. It is not about democracy, the tribal system in Libya is pure democracy. But, the bottom line is, the so called TNC, has no ability to bring the Libyan people together, no ability to run a government, put in place everyone will lose. There will be anarchy, there will be no contracts for foreign oil companies, no contracts for foreign construction companies. The TNC has less than 10% support here, I guess NATO will have to make a police state to keep their puppets in power.
The big oil companies had better wake up and lobby their respective governments if they ever want to come back to Libya.
A Political Court: The ICC and Libyan War Crimes
by John Rosenthal
08 August 2011 at 4:00 am
http://mathaba.net/go/?http://www.hudson-ny.org/2323/icc-libyan-war-crimes
Last month, and to much fanfare, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Muammar al-Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, and Libyan military intelligence chief Abdullah Al-Senussi. ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo had filed an application for the warrants in May. Among those celebrating the court’s decision was, of course, the Libyan opposition’s National Transitional Council (NTC), which promised to assemble a special commando unit to arrest Gaddafi. The head of the NTC Executive Council, Mahmud Jibril, even flew to The Hague to mark the occasion. The ICC website features a photograph of Moreno-Ocampo shaking hands with Jibril on the steps of the court.
Libyan government forces and alleged mercenaries in the pay of the Libyan government have been accused in media reports of deliberately killing civilians and committing other atrocities.**1 These charges are well known and they have served as the justification for Western military intervention in Libya under the mantle of UN Security Council Resolution 1973. Less well-known is the extensive and virtually incontrovertible evidence of horrific atrocities committed by rebel forces in territories under their control.
The evidence for the rebels’ contempt for the traditional laws and customs of war largely consists of videos that appear to have been filmed by rebels or rebel sympathizers themselves, either as “trophies” or for purposes of intimidation. One did not need to wait for Human Rights Watch tentatively to acknowledge abuses committed by rebel forces in four western Libyan towns, as it recently did. The video evidence of rebel atrocities has been readily available for months, almost from the very start of the rebellion, for example see here. Since that time, more such videos have emerged.
The evidence provided by these videos makes clear that the rebels’ conception of warfare has more in common with that of Al-Qaeda than that of the Geneva Conventions. The abuses documented in the videos could serve as textbook examples of precisely the sort of savagery that the Geneva Conventions were supposed to prevent.
The atrocities depicted in the videos include at least two beheadings, two public hangings, one lynching, several beatings, a summary execution of a group of up to 22 captured soldiers in the so-called Al-Baida Massacre, grotesquely inhumane and demeaning treatment of prisoners, and countless more minor violations of humanitarian law.
Although this evidence has long been available, it remains unknown to a larger public: the media, in both the United States and Europe, has as a rule simply ignored it.
Some of these videos should be regarded with caution — for example, a particularly grisly video that shows the beheading of what is alleged to be a pro-Gaddafi partisan, or, according to other accounts, a captured Libyan soldier. In the style of Al-Qaeda beheading videos, the clip is filmed as a close-up, rendering it impossible to identify location. According to the pro-Gaddafi Libyan website S.O.S. Libya, the victim is Hamza al-Gheit Fughi, but there is no way at the moment of verifying the identity of the victim, or that his murderer was a member of the rebellion or any of the other circumstances of the execution.
What is so striking about many of the other videos, however, is that they contain countless details that do allow places and contexts to be identified — for instance, in what might be considered the iconic clip from the first batch of rebel atrocity videos: a beheading video that is made especially chilling by the fact that the beheading occurs in a public square in front of a large crowd of cheering spectators. Dozens of spectators can be seen filming the proceedings on their cell-phones. The clip can be viewed here or here. The Dutch public broadcaster NOS has identified the location as the main square of the rebel capital Benghazi. At one point, a member of the crowd can be heard chanting “Libya Hurra!”: “Free Libya!”, the motto of the rebellion. As a man with a long knife begins to saw at the victim’s neck, cries of “Allahu Akbar!” ring out.
Another video that has surfaced contains many strikingly similar elements. There have been several reports of Libyan policemen being hanged from lampposts or bridges in the early days of the rebellion. The video in question appears to show one such episode. As in the Benghazi beheading video, a large crowd is on hand to watch the proceedings. As in the Benghazi beheading video, many members of the crowd can be seen filming the event on their cell-phones. As in the Benghazi beheading video, at the crucial moment – here, the hoisting of the body – there are cries of “Allahu Akbar!”
In the first twenty or so seconds of the clip, a large building with distinctive white cupolas and pointed golden arches can be seen in the background. What appears to be the same building can be seen in McClatchy and AP photos from the early days of the rebellion here and here. The location is Darnah.
About 150 miles to the east of Benghazi, Darnah is one of the strongholds of the rebellion – and a hotbed of Islamic radicalism. As discussed here, captured Al-Qaeda personnel records show that Darnah sent more recruits to fight with Al-Qaeda in Iraq than any other city or town and far more in per capita terms. Darnah is also the hometown of rebel commander Abdul-Hakim al-Hasadi. Al-Hasadi has admitted both to fighting against coalition forces in Afghanistan and serving as a recruiter for Al-Qaeda in Iraq. He told a French reporter that his goal is to “cut Gaddafi’s throat and establish an Islamic state.”
Another of the rebel atrocity videos shows various groups of men parading around the charred torso of what appears to have been a Libyan government soldier. As usual, a large crowd has gathered and members of the crowd are filming or photographing the proceedings with their cell-phones. The men exhibiting the charred remains wave the red, black and green flag of the Libyan rebellion and the flag can also be seen amidst the crowd. At one point, a man in a long black coat holds up a smaller clump of charred matter in one hand and flashes the victory sign with the other, again to cries of cries of “Allahu Akbar!” The clump of matter is said to be the dead man’s heart.
The original footage has since disappeared from YouTube. A version of it is still available here and a self-hosted version – without, however, the original sound – is available on the website S.O.S. Libya here. Different postings have identified the location as Benghazi or Misrata. But, as with the Benghazi beheading video and the Darnah hanging video, the documented proceedings take place in a public square and distinctive architectural features are clearly visible. The definitive identification of the location should pose no problem for a motivated war crimes prosecutor.
A video clip that emerged more recently appears to show a suspected “mercenary” being interrogated and harangued by a crowd that has gathered around him. A pistol is pressed to the man’s forehead and he is immobilized by a rope tied around his neck. A bearded man in the crowd waves a machete menacingly over his head. Although obviously of little use for the purposes of modern warfare, machetes appear frequently in the rebel atrocity videos. As in many of the earlier videos, the victim of this ill treatment is a black African. Accused indiscriminately, as a group, of serving as “mercenaries,” black Africans have been singled out for particular abuse in rebel-held territories.
Perhaps the chief prosecutor of the ICC has at his disposal equally hard evidence of war crimes committed by Libyan government forces. For the moment, it is impossible to say. According to the table of contents, Moreno-Ocampo’s application for the arrest warrants against Gaddafi and the other suspects includes a “summary of evidence” extending over an impressive 54 pages. The entirety of that evidence has, however, been “redacted:” the corresponding section of the published application contains nothing more than the word “redacted” repeated six times.
But what Moreno-Ocampo’s handshake with Jibril already makes clear is that the ICC is not an impartial judicial authority, but rather the partisan activist court that it was always designed to be by its most influential sponsors. On that last issue, see here.
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**1: Fake Messages Led to Libya war
19.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-08-2011/118803-Fake_Messages_Led_to_Libya_war-0/
Fake Messages Led to Libya war. 45176.jpegby Marinella Correggia
ARIS TWITTER, LIBYA WAR. HOW A FATAL TWITTER MESSAGE OPENS THE DOORS TO A MUCH WANTED WAR AGAINST LIBYA, THROUGH THE GATE OF UNSC RESOLUTIONS 1970 AND 1973.
The mother of all lies was sent to the world through a Twitter message by Al Arabiya, February 23th. A message which makes Qadafi out to be a Hitler, and even more outrageous and cruel: “the repression in Libya has already claimed 10,000 dead and 50,000 injured.”
It may be a ballon d’essai to check if the world was able to swallow it; it did: Even the progressive people in Europe said:
“We must stop the genocide.”
“Bengazi is like Guernica.”
But who is the source of this news? It was the terrorist rebels indeed (who kept repeating it): Al Arabyia says it received the news from “Sayed al Shanuka, Libyan member of the International Criminal Court, who was interviewed from Paris”
http://www.ansamed.info/en/libia/news/ME.XEF93179.html
February 24th, just one day after the “genocide news,” the International Criminal Court dismisses that man: “A clarification on media information regarding the ICC position on the Libyan situation is necessary. Various media sources have published information regarding the situation in Libya attributed to Mr Sayed Al Shanuka (or El-Hadi Shallouf), presented as a “member of the International Criminal Court” (ICC).
The ICC wishes to clarify that this person is neither a staff member nor counsel currently practicing before it, and by no means can he speak on behalf of the Court. Any declaration he made is given solely in his personal capacity.
The only official position to date is the ICC Prosecutor’s statement, published on 23 February 2011. The decision to seek justice in Libya should be taken by the Libyan people. Currently, the Libyan State is not a Party to the Rome Statute. Therefore, intervention by the ICC on the alleged crimes committed in Libya can occur only if the Libyan authorities accept the jurisdiction of the Court, (through article 12(3) of the Rome Statute).
In the absence of such a step, the United Nations Security Council can decide to refer the situation to the Court. The Office of the Prosecutor will act only after either decision is taken.”
http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/8974AA77-8CFD-4148-8FFC-FF3742BB6ECB.htm
But nobody seems to notice this official statement.
A few days later, March 3rd, it is Ali Zeidan’s turn, a self-appintewd spokesperson from the Libyan League for Human Rights which always, only from Paris, presents more terrifying data: 6,000 victims (3,000 in Tripoli, 2,000 in Benghazi, 1,000 elsewhere). But Zeidan’s denunciation is not published in the LLHT website, and by the way Zeidan is not the president nor the director: another fake source. Zeidan is indeed a spokesperson of Benghazi terrorists. And he is the same Zeidan who, on March 23rd, stated: “In future oil agreements, we will remember those who helpd us” (by bombing more!).
It is indeed this data, 10,000 or 6,000 victims in a few days of protests, plus those allegedly “injured by Qadafi,” which is taken as gold by the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
(But when in June the chief Prosecutor Ocampo issues a warrant for the three, the figure is no longer 6,000 but 208).
No matter, it is the huge figure which is used as the basis for the UN resolutions and for the war. The assumption is that if, in few days, “Qadafi killed so many people, what will happen if Libyan tanks enter Benghazi?” Indeed Dennis Ross, the White House political advisor, then stated: “Up to 100,000 people could be killed and everybody will blame us if we don’t intervene.”
This is what the UN resolutions and the war are based on…a twitter from a fake source.
(By the way, even in former wars in the past 20 years, there were fake smoking guns: incubators switched off in Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers; weapons of mass destruction, mass graves and girls crying in front of a camera that they escaped death or rape)
Prepared for publication by:
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
Additional Confirmation of Impending Tebel (Terrorist Tebel) Defeat
Posted: 2011/08/19
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628096?rss
Morris108 continues to broadcast truth about Libya with careful checking of facts filling in the gaping hole left by the presstitute news networks
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628096?rss
There are perhaps eight to ten reliable sources that, over the past six months, have provided us with accurate information about the conflict in Libya. One of them is a man who goes by the name of Morris. This report was given to him by a source that Morris describes as, “reliable and well-placed.”
In the video, Morris reads the report that was sent to him by his source. And here is a very interesting excerpt:
“Also, NATO most likely knows that there are many African troops, MANY (millions) armed and ready to come to Libya and throw out the rebels. They are being held back because the Libyans are doing this themselves but they [the African troops] are definitely in the wings if they are needed.”
There have been many readers of mathaba.net who have complained that the Africans are not doing anything. It appears that we all just have to sit tight and be patient. We cannot know precisely what is going on.
About Dennis South
I have been serving, for 43 years, the cause of helping to create a new, balanced and peaceful world.
I am in tears, God continue to bless this GREAT man. Strengthen him! He never desired war. He is a true man of love and peace. What horror the world has done to destroy this one God-protected soul. No one could know how heavy and precious his heart is. All he desired was for prosperity of his people and a future for a free Africa….All the West saw was money and greed and a means to add to their ugly power. he lived in a tent when others had their palaces. he dreamed when others had the PLAYBOY parties. He sacrificed to better a sick world….and the “world” lyingly blamed him for their evil deeds. He was always their black-sheep boy!
Now he is forced to fight; and fight he will…with all the mighty angels on his side.
GOD BLESS THE holy JAMAHIRIYA which al-GADHAFI was enabled to introduce with the Almighty’s help.
These unclassified documents on Libyan donations for the Hurricane Katrina disaster in which even the US govt were not as bothered to help.
http://www.scribd.com
18 JUIN 2007: (al-Jazeera of Qatar)
11 MARCH 2007:
11 MARCH 2008:
Mugabe: Britain should pay attention to its own fire and leave Africa alone
Posted: 2011/08/19
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628049?rss
NATO is a terrorist organisation — akin to al-Qaeda — because of its illegal bombing of Libya, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has said. Photo: Muammmar Qaddafi and Robert Mugabe
The 87-year-old Zimbabwean leader made his comments on Monday at a gathering to remember fighters who died in Zimbabwe’s fight against white minority rule.
In an hour-and-a-half lasting speech which was punctuated by attacks on the White West, Mugabe said NATO was bombing innocent civilians and called the continued targeting of Libyan leader Gaddafi and his family “against the international law”.
“You have mad people in Europe who defy national laws and want to rule other countries. Look at what they are doing in Libya and you start to wonder if these are not the same tactics used by the Taliban and Al Qaeda,” Mugabe said.
A NATO-led aerial bombardment of Tripoli and other government-controlled towns in Libya has left many civilians dead, including members of the Gaddafi family.
“They seek to kill Gaddafi,” Mugabe said. “They have in fact deliberately killed some of his children. Now when they do that deliberately, it is exactly what the Taliban and al-Qaeda do – what is the difference in terms of what NATO is doing?
“That’s why I say NATO has lost its legitimacy is now a terrorist organisation as well,” he added, to cheers from the crowd.
“If it defies international law it has no rules and goes out blatantly wanting to kill – that’s brazen murder, assassination, who then can respect it as a law-abiding organisation?”
In March, Mugabe accused the West of acting as vampires who are after Libya’s oil and of abusing the scope of a UN resolution backing a no-fly zone over Libya.
“We should not have made a resolution to allow these vampires all this room to go for our people in Africa and displace a government”, Mugabe said.
He warned that Western countries could attack any other African country if NATO was allowed to do as it pleased on the continent.
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http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
Karim Mehrak writes:
Maya Ramirez writes:
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In consolation, I, Christella Bernardene Krebs, write to DR. MOUSSA IBRAHIM:
May Our God/Allah console and confort you and your family. Your brother is counted now amongst the martyrs. Please remain strong.
There is a reason why the JAMAHIRIYA is special. The Libyan Jamahiriya is the first of its kind. The JAMAHIRIYA came about through Divine direction and it is a true respector of God—acknowledging a Higher Being in the workings and dealings of man. Unlike the USA which just added “under God” in 1957—The Libyan JAMAHIRIYA from its conception acknowledged God as its Creator. (A MUJJADID was raised up specially for this purpose.) There are no brothels UNDER THE JAMAHIRIYA or sex-clubs/bars. Unfortunately, all these Western evils have been introduced again into Eastern Libya by the puppet Bengazi regime imposed upon it. …and so, when This conflict is finally over, our “BUILDER” will have to cleanse the soil once again of those evils imported from the West which have verminised and infested the WESTERN NATIONS for so long. And I am sure he will be the one to reconsecrate the precious jewel lying on the Crown of Africa.
Keepthe Faith and endure. Our prayers remain with you, Dr. Moussa al-Ibrahim!
P.S.: You, Dr. Moussa, are the spokeman for God right now. Do not disbelieve this ever….
01 MAI 2008:
19 DEC 2010:
25 JUNE 2007:
Bombing of more civilian homes in Tripoli and more civilian deaths
American apache helipcopter flown by France, assasinated Moussa’s brother and other innocent civilians while celebrating Ramadan Feast in Zawiya:
Press Conference:
News on Libya by Waterput
http://waterput.yolasite.com/english/press-conference-moussa-ibrahim-august-19-2011-zlitan-in-green-hands
Press Conference Moussa Ibrahim, 19 August 2011 –
Zlitan in ‘Green’ Hands
Posted by Waterput on Saturday, 20 August 2011
Every day the spokesperson of the Libyan Government, Moussa Ibrahim, gives a press conference in Arabic. Since most of us in the Western Countries don’t understand a word of Arabic it can sometimes be difficult to get a grip on what is going on in Libya according to the Libyan Government.
Fortunately there are people willing to translate the briefings, or at least give a summary of events. I hope to be able to present these translations from this site. I could definitely use more people who speak Arabic and English to translate other video that are circulating on YouTube.
It seems to be that the Western media hardly talk to anyone who is a supporter of the Jamahiriya, but are heavily inclined to be embedded with the Rebel Troops, and spread words of Rebel spokespersons almost as fact. This is probably the result of the fact that the reporters are from NATO countries and from Qatar (Al-Jazeera), and that there are hardly any journalists who give an account from the other side of the conflict.
Together with the merciless bombing of NATO of all those who oppose their Rebels on the ground, it seems to make it all a very unfair and internationally illegal war. But since the stakes are so high, we hardly hear anyone complain. They prefer to repeat that Gaddafi is losing and has no support in the country, to hide the reality that many people DO support him and that NATO is creating situations in which the Rebels are allowed to kill off their fellow Libyans in street to street battles, with NATO slaughtering all opposition with their helicopters and war planes.
Every citizen that carries a gun to protect itself against the NATO Rebels seems to be regarded as a legitimate target to ‘engage’ (7, 9). Even CNN has made a report in which Micah Zenko expressed the illegal nature of the Mission Creep from ‘Protecting Civilians’ towards ‘Killing off Everyone who Fight Rebels’ (10)
On August 18 there was a press conference by the Secretary General of the Peoples’ Committee (the PM) who again pleaded for a ceasefire and an end to the violence because they don’t want more Libyan blood to be spoiled in this war (1).
What follows are the main points of the Press Conference on August 19, 2011 (2) with thanks for the translations by 123VivaJazair (3)
For the security situation the important developments as follows.
A) A small group of rebels entered the refinery of Zawia but they have been chased away (also see (13, report day before)).
B) a small attack of about 8 cars tried a desperate attack from the southern areas of Zlitan in an attempt to force government forces to come out of Misrata to confront them but they were defeated and pushed away by the Tribes of Zlitan, with the volunteers from all over Libya who are there and a small Army presence (5)… moussa says don’t believe the reports.. they are nonsense.
C) rebel supply routes in the west have been cut so they can’t progress anywhere
D) the only major presence of rebels in the west is still Sorman with area controlled by rebels but in Sabratha there are pockets of them in some areas
E) there is fighting in el harsha west of Misrata and in Dafnia
F) he said there was intensified bombing on “military targets”– residential areas– in tripoli. 27 dead– witnesses say they bombed a mosque, homes, a medical warehouse, a heart clinic (used to treat wounded). The bombing does not have a military purpose, but phycological. nato is using sonic-booms to frighten the women and children. they fly over a location and enter sonic speeds mimicking the sounds of bombs. zlitan: rebels are trying to draw the army away from misrata (this translation by Yelbihs, from (8).)
To give you an example of the two different ‘realities’ that are being spread. In (4) you can read about the Rebels that would have taken Zlitan, in the west of Misrata. In a Rayyisse video (5) you can clearly see the joy of the inhabitants of Zlitan after they were able to chase away the Rebels who are clearly very unwanted in this town. Who can blame them after the massacre that was committed by the airforce of the Rebels on 09 August(6)?
On 19 August 2011 we could see another example of the way NATO is upholding her one-sided weapons embargo, by allowing Qatari arms to enter Libya, but this time they were captured by the Green Anti-NATO Libyans (11). They have done this before which was reported on 05 July 2011 (12)
Press Conference, 18 August 2011 with Mahmoud Baghdadi
(5) Celebration in Zlitan after chasing away the Rebels
(7) http://waterput.yolasite.com/english/is-the-west-making-libyans-into-gaddafi-loyalists-worth-fighting-as-an-army-
Statement of the hon. Dr. Mousa Ibrahim about the situation as it is on the ground and the fightings that are taking place in the battlefields.( some main poits only )
1.In Zliten some members of armed gangs tried to infiltrate in order to drag our army out of Misrata; but the people of Zliten have taken care of the matter.
2.The criminal gangs of al Dafniyah tried to make progress in Zliten; but they payed a heavy toll on casualites.
3.The refinery of al Zawiyah is under Libyan army control.
4.Sabartha some skirmishes
5.Sorman most of the armed gangs in Sorman are trapped and have no escape.
6.Battle continues in the al-Ahar area out of Al-Zawiya but we have now the upper hand.
7. The Libyan goverment has made lots of deals, and is assured of having supplies for a long time to prevent humanitarian crisis.
CHOCK FULL OF LIES; BUT THIS SHOWS HOW EVIL THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT REALLY IS!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,781197,00.html
19/08/2011
The War in Libya
Gadhafi characterized the coalition air strikes as a terrorist attack against his country.
Are German Soldiers Secretly Helping Fight Gadhafi?
By Matthias Gebauer
DPA
A NATO bomb explodes in Tripoli, Libya, in June 2011. Are German soldiers secretly helping with NATO targeting?
Germany SHOCKED THE WORLD in March went it OPPOSED NATO action against Moammar Gadhafi. But recently released documents show that German soldiers serving in NATO units in Italy are helping to select targets for alliance airstrikes.
a Western missile attack struck Gadhafi’s residence at Bab Al Aziziyah in Tripoli, causing serious damage. The pictured destruction is in an administrative building which is part of Gadhafi’s residene. The building is located just 50 meters away from the tent where Gadhafi often greets guests on official visits.
People stand near the rubble after the missile strikes in Tripoli. Half of the round, three-story the administrative building was destroyed.
AFP: Libyan officials claim that 64 civilians have been killed in the bombings, but France, the first country in the coalition forces to strike Libya, is denying these claims. “There is no information of killed civilians that the French command is aware of,” government spokesman Francois Baroin told the Canal Plus television station.
Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told reporters: “This was a barbaric bombing which could have hit hundreds of civilians gathered at the residence of Moammar Gadhafi,” he said. “This contradicts American and Western (statements) … that it is not their target to attack this place.”
German soldiers are more directly involved in NATO air attacks against military forces of Moammar Gadhafi than was previously known. In response to a specific inquiry recently submitted by Hans-Christian Ströbele, a Green Party member of parliament, Germany’s government acknowledged that 11 German soldiers currently stationed at NATO facilities in Italy are performing duties including ones “in the area of so-called target selection” for NATO airstrikes. However, the Defense Ministry documents obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE also note that the German soldiers do not hold any “leadership or decision-making positions.”
The very skeletal information the ministry provided could become politically explosive. In early 2011, Germany openly opposed international military actions against Gadhafi, an act that triggered much criticism from around the world, particularly from the United States and France. It has already been known for weeks that, as part of Germany’s obligations as a member of the NATO alliance, its soldiers have been assigned to work as parts of military staffs actively involved in the Libya mission. Nevertheless, Ströbele believes it is scandalous that German soldiers are also participating in selecting targets for upcoming attacks. “With these activities,” he says, “we are secretly taking part in the Libyan war.”
The German participation that Ströbele‘s very precise questions first brought to light once again illustrate the difficult balancing act Germany’s government has to perform owing to its official stance toward the mission. Indeed, Germany’s position already became tenuous, if not hollow, when it emerged that — after having voiced such passionate opposition to the mission — Germany was also supplying bomb parts for the Libyan war. The new details only strengthen the beliefs of those who dismiss Germany’s refusal to participate in military actions as transparent political maneuvering.
Indeed, Ströbele compares this case to a previous one involving agents from the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence service. After the German government, then led by Social Democratic Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, voiced strong opposition to an American attack on Iraq, it emerged that BND agents stationed in Baghdad had provided militarily useful information to invading US forces in 2003.
Alliance Obligations
Sources within the Defense Ministry say that Ströbele has struck upon a very touchy issue. People familiar with the facts say that Germany has put itself in a Catch-22 situation by politically opposing military actions against Gadhafi. “Of couse you can reject a mission on political and moral grounds,” said one high-ranking government employee, “but being a NATO member gives rise to obligations that one can’t simply shake off.” According to the ministry document, the German soldiers and almost 250 additional ones from other NATO countries have been called upon to provide “the vital safeguarding of abilities to function and act.”
As the ministry sees it, saying no to NATO would be impossible and possibly even a violation of its obligations under the NATO treaty. Likewise, the ministry stresses that the Germans serving on the military staffs in Italy have in no way been directly involved in selecting concrete targets for bombing attacks. Instead, the German soldiers have been much more involved in assessing the overall military situation by analyzing images taken from airborne surveillance sources for their strategic value. Several government officials and military officers affirm that final target selection is being handled by nations actively participating in the war, including the United States, France and Great Britain. The fact that such tasks are so crucial lends credence to their statements.
Is a Mandate Necessary?
The details could also cause the German government a major headache. Ströbele has already considered filing a case against the government before Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court. As he sees it, without a mandate, the government is required to get parliamentary approval before undertaking such actions. Although having German soldiers serve on permanent NATO staffs is a routine matter, Germany’s parliament still has to sign off on it in the same way it does with the mandate for the involvement of German troops in Afghanistan. Ströbele argues that the fact that the NATO staffs in Italy were specifically formed for the Libyan war means that “a mandate would have been needed for (the German) soldiers.”
Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière has responded harshly to Ströbele’s criticisms.
he said. [ Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière SOUNDS CONSPICIOUSLY LIKE OBAMA’s EXCUSE]
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-65947.html
Two British Tornado jets taxi for take off from the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Marham. The Pentagon said Sunday that United States and United Kingdom military forces have fired more than 110 missiles, with French planes attacking pro-Gadhafi forces near rebel-held Benghazi.
AFP/ SAC Lisa Conway/ MOD
British military; At the Marham RAF base in Norfolk, workers prepare a Tornado GR4 fighter jet for deployment over Libya.
A British AWACS reconnaissance plane lands at the RAF Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus on Sunday. The base is used as the starting point for Royal Air Force deployments to Libya.
AXIS airstrikes over Tripoli
Supporters of Libyan leader Gadhafi show pieces of shrapnel from one of thousands of NATOs missile attacks.
US Vice Admiral William Gortney, during a Pentagon briefing, strategically guides NATO bombings.
between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah on Sunday. The attack has so far been led by the United States, with British and French fighter jets also flying sorties under US command.
Supporters of Gadhafi’s JAMAHIRIYA wave a flag bearing the visage of al-Gadhafi, in the residential neighborhood of Bab Al Azizia in Tripolis.
Other opposition figures voiced support for Ströbele’s position on Friday. Gernot Erler, a prominent member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), noted how the revelations had finally unmasked Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle’s “no” to German participation in the war as a tactical election maneuver, according to the German news agency DAPD.
Likewise, Jan van Aken, the parliamentary speaker on foreign policy matters for the Left Party, labeled the activities of the German soldiers as “veiled participation in war” and called for new regulations that would require parliament to also approve deployments of German soldiers to serve on assignments at NATO command centers. “Without a parliamentary mandate,” van Aken told the German news agency DPA, “the German soldiers must be withdrawn from NATO staffs.”
The yearly Camal Caravan (which this year NATO Blew-up to cinders):
NATO Bombing:
LEONOR in LIBYA:
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Leonor:
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From Libya…20/08
Yesterday NATO aircraft invaded the airspace from Tripoli and more than 100 bombs on the city. they threw bombs even through the streets trying to terrorize the population of Tripoli.
The Libyan Government says that it is not true that dead Abdullah Senussi, head of internal security of the Libyan Government. This information has been transmitted by the media of misinformation in this great game media and siege of the Libyan people.
The Libyan army has cut off access to Sabrata, Zawia and Surman rebels in an environment of more than 25 km, especially access from the Nafusa mountains. A very small group of rebels have been cornered in the interior by the Libyan people that are more defending the area. The Libyans are very angry with these aggressors who only steal and kill supported by NATO bombs Navy NATO no other aim than to plunder Libyan.
The Libyan army has destroyed 7 cars (they were Qatar/USA cars) of the Gharian NATO mercenaries. The Libyan army has arrested one of the most important leaders of the mercenaries in Gharian.
The Libyan people has captured a boat at Janzur on the Libyan coast on the outskirts of Tripoli. The boat was full of weapons.
Tonight at the Breha suffered bombardment very hard and continued by the armed organization NATO aircraft to help his mercenaries from land access to the area. They have not achieved their objectives and to the Brega continues under the control of Libya and the Libyans.
To the Ajelat completely quiet, controlled by Libya and the Libyans.
Some mercenaries of the armed organisation NATO moved close to Seret coming from the vicinity of Misratah, in the city of Abugren. The Libyan army and the Libyans have faced them and the entire area is now calm.
NATO and their mercenaries Qaeda are making very great efforts to Zliten. Despite the heavy bombing of NATO armed organization and perpetrated massacres, so they have failed. Zliten is still under control of its inhabitants, i.e. Libya and the Libyans.
The goal of the disinformation in the media are confused on the Libyan people.
Child’s drawing about Al Jazeera (school in Tripoli)
Journalists who Engage in War Propaganda must be Tried by International Justice
Posted: 2011/08/20
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628083
By Thierry Meyssan
The war propaganda has entered a new phase, involving the coordinated action of satellite TV stations. CNN, France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera have become instruments of disinformation used to demonize governments and justify armed aggressions. These practices are illegal under international law and the impunity of the perpetrators must be stopped.
The current processing of the information on Libya and Syria has marked a turning point in the history of war propaganda in that it uses new ways that have taken the international public by surprise.
Four powers – the United States, France, the UK and Qatar – have combined their technical means to intoxicate the “international community”. These are mainly CNN (which, although private, interacts with the Pentagon’s psychological warfare unit), France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera.
These media are being used to falsely attribute to the governments of Libya and Syria crimes they did not commit while covering the crimes that are committed by the secret services of the aforementioned powers and NATO.
We witnessed a similar situation, on a smaller scale, in 2002 when Globovisión broadcast live images of a popular revolution against elected President Hugo Chávez plus images of pro-Chavez activists gunning down protesters. This staged event had made it possible to mask a military coup orchestrated by Washington with the help of Madrid. However, after a genuine popular uprising aborted the coup and reinstated the elected president, legal and journalistic investigations revealed that the revolution filmed by Globovisión was in fact a case of visual trickery and that the Chavistas had never fired on the crowd, but were themselves the victims of snipers armed by the CIA.
We see the same thing happening today, but with a consortium of satellite channels which transmit images of nonexistent events in Libya and Syria. Their aim is to make people believe the majority of Libyans and Syrians want to overthrow their political institutions and that Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad have massacred their own people. On the basis of such media intoxication, NATO attacked Libya and is about to destroy Syria.
Now, after the Second World War, the United Nations General Assembly passed legislation to prohibit and punish such practices.
Resolution 110 of 3 November 1947 regarding “measures to be taken against propaganda and the inciters of a new war,” condemns “propaganda which is either designed or likely to provoke or encourage any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression. ”
Resolution 381 of 17 November 1950 further strengthens this condemnation by condemning the censorship of conflicting information as part of the propaganda against peace.
Finally, Resolution 819 of 11 December 1954 on “the removal of barriers to free exchange of information and ideas,” recognizes the responsibility of governments to remove barriers that impede the free exchange of information and ideas.
In so doing, the General Assembly has developed its own doctrine on freedom of expression: it condemned the lies leading to war and upheld the free flow of information and ideas and critical debate as weapons in the service of peace.
Words and, especially, images can be used to prepare the worst crimes. In this case, the intoxication by CNN, France24, the BBC and Al Jazeera constitute “crimes against peace.” They should be considered as being more serious than the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by NATO in Libya and by Western intelligence agencies in Syria insofar as they precede and make them possible.
Journalists who engage in war propaganda must be tried by International Justice.
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628127
Gaddafi Will Never Leave Libya
Posted: 2011/08/20
From: Mathaba
If the supporters of Libya and the Leader need NOT to worry about ONE thing: let Mathaba repeat for the last time: as said from day one and we KNOW this to be a PERMANENT FACT Muammar will NOT leave Libya. Any such stories are jokes. TWO: NATO will NOT win the war not matter how long it takes.
We would add a third message here, but knowing that most of you will not believe it, we are not going to repeat it. NATO know what that message is, and we told them from Day One of the war too about what they will not achieve.
But it is sad to see that people are still influenced by enemy media. Mathaba is the only media you can turn to to find out the EXACT thoughts of the Brother Leader. Other media can report facts here and there about current events, and we too rely upon many volunteers and reports and make those available for readers to make up their own minds.
However, when it comes to the leader’s thoughts, we have inside information that is valid forever — and which has remained consistent throughout and which we even staked our entire reputations upon it — three facts — two of which are mentioned above and the third known to those of you who follow Mathaba regularly or are Mathaba Gold members.
For the rest of you who have doubts, for the last time and on future occasions we will not bother to do this, is a debunk of the latest new lie that “Gaddafi has fled” and this time as the claim was Tunisia it has been debunked by the Tunisian Interior Ministry itself for those who don’t trust Mathaba.
NBC news has been spreading the rumor that Gaddafi has left Libya and flown to Tunisia with his entire family. But a spokesman for the Tunisian Interior Ministry flatly denied this rumor.
By Dennis South
All day long today (August 19th), the corporate news media has been flooding the public with their psy-ops (psychological operations) invented story that, “Gaddafi and his family has fled to Tunisia. A spokesman for the Tunisian Government has stated that neither Gaddafi nor any member of his family has entered Tunisia. The spokesman stated that the Tunisian government has been carefully monitoring the Tunisian border.
Can anyone guess who spread this rumor? GOOD GUESS! A tebel (terrorist rebel). The article says, “Earlier on Friday, Tunisian Radio Mosaique FM quoted a Libyan rebel source as saying that members of Gaddafi’s family fled to Tunisia to board a Venezuelan plane bound for Caracas.
Gaddafi is still in Tripoli, safe and sound!
Here is the link to the Xinhua New Agency article:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/20/c_131062135.htm
from THE TRUTH ABOUT LIBYA:
Breaking news:
Many people, including a woman, were killed on Friday in an air raid by NATO on the residential district of Al-Aqwakh in Tripoli.The air strike also hit a DRUG WAREHOUSE, a PRIVATE HOSPITAL for heart treatment, as well as a MOSQUE, Libyan government spokesperson Moussa Ibrahim said. NATO has pressed on with its campaign from the air and its warplanes pounded targets in the capital overnight.
Gadhafi’s government has blamed NATO bombings for scores of civilian deaths and said 27 people were killed in the most recent raids on Tripoli.
Young Libyan Computer Experts Form Electronic Army: tracking tebel communications and positions
Posted: 2011/08/20
From: Mathaba http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628085
The youth of the Libyan Jamahiriya have joined the war against NATO and the tebels
Do not believe everything you hear and see:
Rense.com reports “there is also an ‘electronic army of young people, who are computer experts.’ They are mobilizing to track Tebel (terrorist rebel) communications and positions, in a parallel competition with U.S. high tech surveillance from the sea.'”
This is a fascinating development! Unlike the young people of Egypt, who were totally unhappy with their leader, Hosni Mubarak, and turned their expert computer, Internet and electronic skills against him, the young people of Libya love their leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and they love their country, the Great Arab Libyan Jamahiriya, and are using their skills for Gaddafi and the Jamahiriya, not against them!
This development also demonstrates two things: 1.) the political astuteness of the youth of the Libyan Jamahiriya, 2.) the excellent job that the elders of Libya, as well as the teachers in the Libyan school system, have done in instilling political conciousness into the youth of the Libyan Jamahiriya, as well as technical skills that can now be used in the defense of Libya!
Without political conciousness, it is quite possible that the youth could have been deceived by some of the “color revolution” tricks that were played, and are being played, on countries by the use of social media, which the CIA has employed as a weapon in an attempt to disrupt and overthrow countries. This is not to suggest that all use of social media is tainted by the CIA, or that all youth uprisings are CIA inspired. Touche, and our hats are off to the Libyan elders for the excellent job they have done with the Libyan youth!!
By Susan Lindauer and Joanne Moriarty
Is Gadhaffi losing? Au contraire. In total contradiction to the propaganda push on CNN, sources inside Libya say Gadhaffi soldiers have retaken a number of key towns.
In a surprise announcement, sources inside Libya say that most of Misurata has been taken back by Libyan forces last night and today. In the process, Gadhaffi soldiers have liberated 1250+ Libyan prisoners of war. According to tribal leaders, Libyan forces now control the port city.
Tribal leaders also declare that Zawia, Garyan, Sorman, and Sabratha are secure, in contrast to claims by foreign reporters in Tripoli and Djerba (Tunisia) that they have been seized by rebels. There are pockets of rebels in all of these areas, but they are isolated and surrounded by the Libyan army. Tribal families are fighting with Gadhaffi’s army to defeat the Rebels.
Whereas Gadhaffi had made an offer to slow down fighting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in a semi-cease fire, in fact Gadhaffi’s soldiers are fighting in full force. The Libyan army is fully motivated, and sources inside Tripoli say there is also an “electronic army of young people, who are computer experts.” They are mobilizing to track Rebel communications and positions, in a parallel competition with U.S. high tech surveillance from the sea.
Sources in Tripoli have thrown into question the defection of Nassr al-Mabrouk, the Deputy Interior Minister appeared alive and well on Libyan TV today. He apparently went to Egypt for some surgery. In the interview, he reaffirmed his loyalty to Ghadafi. Claims of his defection are being compared to phony U.S./NATO claims of the assassination of Gadhaffi’s son last week.
There’s much talk that Khalifa Hefter was captured by Libyan forces. This would be a big blow to the rebels and the TNC in the light of the death of Younis (rebel lead commander) who was killed by rebels working for al Qaeda. Khalifa Hefter was working as a CIA agent for some 20 years in Virginia, before the War started. The U.S. dropped him into Libya to help lead the TNC and direct mercenaries on the ground.
Claims by CNN to the contrary, sources inside Libya insist that NATO is not winning and will not win. They say the Libyan people have shown tremendous solidarity, ironically instigated by NATO.
About Dennis South
I have been serving, for 43 years, the cause of helping to create a new, balanced and peaceful world.
Tripoli citizens unite against NATO
Posted: 2011/08/20
From: Mathaba Tripoli citizens unite against NATO
Posted: 2011/08/20
From: Mathaba http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628126
Tripoli: protest against NATO bombing
By Dr Franklin Lamb
Truth be told, some foreign observers, and certainly this one, having been based in Tripoli the past nearly eight weeks, have not taken very seriously occasional media predictions that Tripoli might soon be invaded by “NATO rebels” — though not by NATO country forces putting their boots on the ground.
The reasons include observations that the Libyan population is increasingly expressing anger over members of their families and tribes being killed by NATO sorties claiming to be “protecting civilians.”
It is said by many here that tens of thousands are ready to repulse invaders who try to enter Tripoli. Support for Colonel Kaddafi appears to reflect even Western polls such as the one referred to by the UK Guardian recently that Libya’s leader Colonel Gadaffi’s popularity had perhaps doubled during the current conflict. This morning’s Rasmussen poll claims that support for NATO-US involvement has plummeted to just 20 per cent among the American public due to among other reasons, NATO killing of civilians. It is even lower in several other NATO countries.
Until quite recently, life appeared fairly normal except for the scarcity of benzene for vehicles and some luxury food items and also some necessities such as baby formula, some medicines and reliable phone service. Earlier piles of household trash that began accumulating at some street corners around Tripoli in early March when up to 400,000 foreign workers fled West to Tunisia and East to Egypt began being cleared a couple of weeks ago as the municipality of Tripoli reorganized its severely and instantly depleted work force.
Except for the recent increase in NATO bombing sorties, Tripoli has been a fairly pleasant place to be.
On 8/17/11 things abruptly changed and no one knows for sure in which direction daily life is now headed. Starting just before noon, much, if not most of Tripoli was without power. At my hotel, one of only two in Tripoli with even sporadic Internet these days (even though parts of Tripoli regularly experiences South Beirut Lebanon type sudden cuts that can last for hours or days) the services abruptly stopped for all staff and guests. Initially some guests were stuck in the elevator and a few appeared to panic. Our hotel rooms, which for security reasons have windows which don’t open began to heat up fast, laptop batteries quickly died, the weak Internet vanished, and this observer, like others, was faced with the prospect of walking down and up eighteen floors to keep appointments in the street level reception area. Two of my Libyan friends, who work in one of the hotel restaurants called my room to ask me if I wanted them to walk up some lunch. Profoundly touched by their thoughtfulness, which seems typical of Libyans, I reminded them that I was fasting for Ramadan and in any case would not think of accepting their kind offer. Not long after, the hotel emergency generator kicked in and the elevator began working, but no power anywhere else inside the hotel.
At nearby Green Square, crowds began to gather by 2 p.m. and rally against “NATO rebels” and I was told thousands of Libyan citizens were ready to move to the edges of town, man checkpoints, and support army units and repulse any advances from Al Zawieh to the West, Gheryan and several villages from the South or Brega and closer villages from the East.
Prices at the local “Medina” (street market covering several blocks selling a large variety of goods and vegetables) adjacent to my hotel jumped up again according to two sisters who have become my friends and who shop with their mother every morning in preparation for cooking the daily ‘Iftar” meal which breaks the Ramadan fast at sunset. Over the past six months basic food prices have largely leveled off under government warnings to merchants not to even dream about trying to price gouge.
Some people are leaving Tripoli but it’s hard to estimate how many. Most people I have asked say they will stay, and they do not think “NATO rebels” can enter this well-armed and apparently well-organized city of still around 1.5 million people.
A delayed UN fact finding delegation, led by a spectular Palestinian woman from Nazareth in occupied Palestine named “Juliette”, finally arrived by plane after the UN demanded NATO allow their plane to land at Tripoli airport. The UN group, staying at our hotel, had been blocked from the main road between Tripoli and Tunisia. As of the morning of August 18, people are trapped in Tripoli from departing to Tunisia and no one is entering from Tunisia.
Libyan students at Tripoli’s Al Fatah University and even some government officials have told this observer that they have vowed to dig in and wage a “Stalingrad Defense” of Tripoli against the advancing “NATO rebels.” Certainly the neighborhoods are very heavily armed.
Some, including this observer, lack the heart to remind these dear students that at Stalingrad, the Russian citizens were holding out for the arrival of the Red Army that did indeed save many of them in the end. One does not sense that a Red Army is en route to lift the threatened siege of Tripoli. But maybe Tripoli’s defenders will not need a Red Army to lift a siege of Tripoli.
This week, a Libyan law student who for weeks has been helping man a neighborhood defense committee checkpoint near Airport Road left me the following note:
“Franklin, you asked me how we will defend our capitol Tripoli if NATO bombs a path so rebel forces can arrive here and try to enter our neighborhoods. We discuss this often among ourselves during the night. This is what we have to say to answer your question.
It is not private information that our defense will be from every buildings on every main street, square or roundabout. We can and will keep for as long as possible every meter that NATO forces try to take. Every apartment building, factory, warehouse, street corner, intersection, home or office building is waiting and supplied with guns of different types, RPGs and mortars. Snipers and specially trained small 5-6 man units are ready. Our defense will be a house to house battle. From every floor and from hole in the floor we will fight NATO rebels. Also from the sewers we will fight and every basement. If NATO enters a front door we will fight them for every room in the house and from the piles of debris created from them bombing us.
Dear friend Lamb. Libyans are a good and a proud people. You and I have spoken about Omar Muktar and our defeat of the Italians that cost us more than one-third of our relatives who fell in battle. Do you know my friend that during the Ottoman Empire centuries of colonization which was the only Arab or Muslim country to rebel again them? It was Libya. Only Libya. Led by her tribes. We stood up against the Turks and fought two 20 year wars against them. Do NATO and Obama believe they can defeat us? Your friend, Mohammad.”
Keeping a close eye on Benghazi — the real situation that other news networks will not report
by Marie Edwards
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628128
20 August 2011
In Benghazi homes are raided, neighbors dragged off, suspects executed. Many people are unemployed. Large companies, including German construction firm Bilfinger Berger, have pulled out of the city. Young men race around town with tires screeching, others strut around in public buildings brandishing their knives. At night, the streets are reminiscent of Sao Paolo gang wars, the only difference being that the youths here wear flak jackets.
Many young academics who were about to complete their studies and to get a good job are starting to get frustrated. One, who only talks on the condition that he remains anonymous, studied economics at the Gharyounis University. He was offered a job as a manager at Bilfinger Berger and would have earned good money. Now he’s unemployed. He says of the rebels: “They are under 30 and don’t have wives. They are proud of the weapons they looted from barracks. They don’t know how to control themselves. They quickly become aggressive. They’ve got these weapons and lose themselves.”
Militias in Benghazi possess sophisticated weaponry, ranging from antitank missiles to rocket-propelled grenades and people here speak of tribes settling old accounts and power struggles emerging. Sporadic gunfire can be heard daily in the rebel capital, and hundreds of men walk around town armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles.
Peoples concern in Benghazi focus on gangs wearing the army fatigues favored by the rebels, terrorizing citizens and robbing them at gunpoint. “It is not safe anymore to travel in some parts of the city,” says Dawud Salimi, 41. “Criminals are taking advantage of the instability for their own profit. Recently, they have targeted foreigners. A group of men wearing military outfits broke into the hotel room of a Western journalist, assaulted her and ran off with her electronic equipment”.
Across Benghazi city, armed squads are being dispatched to crack down on supporters of Libyan Leader Muammar al-Qadhafi. Thousands have been arrested in the night raids.
Under the cover of darkness, the Benghazi ‘protection squad’ gathered. Speaking in muted, tense tones, clutching loaded guns, the men began the hunt. In swift, silent convoy they drive across the city, targeting the homes of suspected loyalists.
The armed men drove to a farmhouse just outside Benghazi. The choice of target had been discussed back at their base, in an office strewn with handwritten papers, the intelligence on potential suspects.
Pulling up silently, muffling the closing of car doors, fingers on the triggers of the loaded guns, they set up their positions. Two men pointed their weapons, sniper like, through gaps in the outer walls. Faces covered with balaclavas, others snuck through the front gate and surrounded the farm. The only noise to be heard under the clear moonlit sky was the sound of guard dogs’ barks.
Drivers waited, the engines running. “This is very, very dangerous. Often there are guns battles,” muttered one driver.
The farm was empty. Disappointed, the squad returned to cars. Onto the next target. “They know we are looking for them. They cannot stay in one place. Often they bribe neighbors not to give us information,” says the squad leader.
Qadhafi supporters drive around in cars firing at pedestrians in order to spread fear, say the rebels. “There are thousands of them here,” said the gang leader of the night raid.
“We have many people – students, post-graduates, businessmen who still stand with Qadhafi. They are in hiding now, organizing themselves,” says lifelong Benghazi resident Sami Hassan, 37.
Rebels fear that “pro-Qadhafi” citizens in Benghazi are acting as spies for the Libyan government. “Don’t trust anyone, we are in a psychological war,” admits Council spokesperson Issam Giriani. “Even now, I know some are walking around us here, recording.”
Perhaps the accusations are true. There are signs that Benghazi has not given itself to the rebel’s cause. A table at an office in the court house is strewn with the weapons found on infiltrating attackers: Kalashnikov, assault rifles, and dynamite. “There have been many attempts at attacking the court house,” says Ibrahim Gheriani in charge of security.
Before being stopped in their tracks by NATO air strikes, Qadhafi’s advance on Benghazi emboldened some of his supporters show themselves. “In two days we will win, Muammar will be back,” a man told a reporter before slipping quietly back into the crowd.
The incidences prompted the crackdown by the rebel leader who announced that Qadhafi sympathizers had 24 hours to hand over their weapons. If they didn’t, they would be treated as murderers and enemies of the rebels. “Those with bloodstained hands will be punished,” says Issam Giriani.
Fed by fear, war breeds suspicion and mistrust. Determining loyalties in this fluid environment can be an impossible task. Some of the targets are suspects on dangerously loose criteria.
The regime loyalty of a person’s home town, a photograph of the Libyan leader in the wallet and family ties, are all considered ‘evidence’.
“This man is from Sirte. Most people from there are Ligen Thauria. His family is from there too,” says Hani in explanation of the midnight armed raid on the farmhouse.
The rebels have their own spying game. “Sometimes we use women; they go inside to the houses, perhaps pretending they are poor and need something. There they see if the person has guns, she tries to find them.”
Captives are taken to a military base. In the closed cement quadrangle courtyard lined by cells sit rows of captives. On the right are the foreign prisoners, thought by the rebels to be “mercenaries”. Lined on the left were dozens of black Libyans.
Their imprisonment is indefinite. “God knows when I will be allowed to go home,” says a black Libyan who says he was captured at a bus stop as he tried to get home.
Often the raids are run by adrenaline-pumped youth. Before going out, in the secret base where they gathered, the squad of youths joked, jumped, shouted; pumped with for the night’s hunt. “Most of these guys have been my friends since school,” said the squad leader. “Let’s go!” he said to the enthusiastic clacks of his gang loading their weapons.
Excited and power hungry the commander wielded his loaded Kalashnikov dangerously with a manic smile. His military training was cut short when he was kicked out from the college. “I had a fight with the colonel in college. He swore at me, kicked me out.”
The raids can be violent. Some members of this gang have been killed. “On the first raid, we went to find Qadhafi’s people who were trading guns said Hani. There was a forty-minute gun battle in which the squad lost one of its men. “We captured four guys and I killed one,” he said proudly. The night raids are growing in number and size. “We caught dozens last week,” said a squad organizer who works at the Benghazi rebel’s courthouse.
From the start of the conflict the rebels relied on its Western backers. The rebels have failed to broaden their appeal precisely because the key opposition leaders are perceived as exactly what they are: sellouts. The Libyan people know that the leading members of the rebels are imperial puppets.
Before the war social and economic rights were so widely developed that Libya hosted hundreds of thousands of foreign workers. And with all its wealth, Libya remained a socialist country. Muammar Al-Qathafi asked: “How can one not be a socialist and spreading the wealth of one’s country equally among its citizens?”
This was hard for Western capitalists to swallow and the opportunities for profit from a war with Libya were hard for Western capitalists to pass up. The objective of Washington and its allies consists in confiscating and managing Libya’s vast wealth and controlling its resources. So they initiated a foreign-propelled civil war in Libya.
But the rebels are unable to use the tactical advantage that NATO air superiority provides to them. Had the rebel forces support among the Libyan masses they would have claimed more territory. Few analysts believe that the Libyan leader’s loyalists can be easily defeated, if at all. Reports from Libya indicate the rising tide of massive support for the Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qadhafi by his followers, who have attended rallies and demonstrated their preparedness to confront the rebels and their backers.
The rebels are not loved, given the speech of Muammar Al-Qadhafi as he addressed his supporters of more than a million people in the northwestern town of Al-Zawiya not far from Tripoli. The crowd reached a deafening crescendo when he spoke in a recorded message.
Meanwhile the Libyan government forces have regained control of most of Libyan territory and in almost five months after the NATO aggression against Libya, key oil installations and, above all, the so far impregnable capital are firmly in the hands of the Libyan government.
The information war against Libya is gigantic. Oceans of lies and misinformation are poured on the heads of unsuspecting listeners and readers on a daily basis. Events in Libya are showing how monstrous Orwellian lies can be easily used to manipulate people’s minds in an age of information technologies. Frontrunners in manipulation are Qatar’s Al-Jazeera and the Western media outlets. The lies are so blatant, that one has to wonder why the paper is not rejecting the print.
The West’s blame for where it now finds itself in Libya has a long pedigree. The aggression against Libya parallels the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. The latter is still reeling from the wounds of the sectarian strife unleashed by Washington’s invasion and the former is the proverbial NATO failed state.
NATO is losing and they don’t like it–they better wake up, for the US taxpayer will not fund another huge atrocity against humanity. The truth is coming out.
About Marie Edwards
Marie Edwards is an expert on Libyan affairs and a project coordinator for Africa. She resides in New York and may be reached at ThePressPhoto@optimum.net.
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Falsified New York Times Middle East Reports
By Stephen Lendman – Posted on 20 August 2011
They appear daily like weeds on all topics. As a result, Times reports aren’t fit to read, let alone print. August 18 was no exception, publishing lies about Libyan insurgent victories.
On August 18, headlining, “Libyan Rebels Gain Control of Oil Refinery as Qaddafi Forces Flee,” Kareem Fahim’s article was pure Pentagon propaganda, duplicitously lying to readers.
Yet he said “(r)ebel fighters claimed complete control of a sprawling (Zawiyah) oil refinery, seizing one of (Gaddafi’s) most important assets after just three days of fighting and delivering the latest in a string of small victories that have suddenly put the rebels at Tripoli’s door.”
Reporting from Tripoli, independent Middle East/Central Asian analyst, Mahdi Nazemroaya refuted him, telling Progressive Radio News Hour listeners that:
— Gaddafi forces are winning;
— rebels are in disarray;
— the so-called National Transitional Council (NTC) is falling apart;
— Misrata was liberated from rebels;
— Tripoli is peaceful and calm, despite daily NATO bombing, willfully targeting civilians and nonmilitary sites;
— scattered fighting continues along routes to Tunisia and elsewhere;
— arteries between the two countries remain open;
— Intense Western propaganda wants to intimidate Gaddafi supporters to give up hope of prevailing;
— it’s had the opposite effect, in fact, galvanizing Libyans overwhelmingly behind Gaddafi, making him by far the most popular African/Middle East leader; and
— his forces control Gheryan, Sorman, Sabratha, and Zawiyah, its oil refinery and others; reports saying otherwise are lies; rebels are south of the city, not in it.
In an August 18 morning email, he added:
“Nothing has changed thus far. There is fighting in the area, but (rebels) do not have control. Bombings over Tripoli are very bad though.”
As part of NATO’s intimidation campaign, they continue daily, inflicting pain and suffering on Libyans unrelated to military necessity. As a result, they’re war crimes, what Times and other major media sources won’t explain.
Moreover, in times of war, the first casualty is duplicitous reporting, journalists lying for a living, prostituting themselves for a buck.
Daily The New York Times lies. So do other Western broadsheets, magazines, US television, the BBC, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting, and other mainsteam sources, showing their managed news lacks credibility.
For example, Fahim falsely claimed:
— Gaddafi forces “mounted (no) forceful counterattack;”
— signs indicate that the conflict “reached a critical moment, if not its final stage;”
— “the vital highway from Tunisia to Tripoli has remained closed, controlled by rebels;”
— thousands of refugees flee Tripoli daily to escape “mounting hardships” and “be safer in rebel-held areas;”
— rebels show increasing confidence;
— morale among Gaddafi forces is near collapse;
— daily defectors joins rebels; and
— rebels now control former Gaddafi held cities.
In fact, his article reads more like bad fiction than news. Independent reports refute him and others, including about other Gaddafi held cities claimed in rebel hands.
On August 17, writers Susan Lindauer and Joanne Moriarty headlined, “Libya: Gadhaffi Retakes Key Towns,” saying:
“Is Gadhaffi losing? Au contraire. In total contradiction to the propaganda push on CNN (and other Pentagon mouthpieces, independent) sources inside Libya say” Gaddafi, not rebels, is prevailing.
In fact, pockets of insurgents are in all these areas, but they’re “isolated and surrounded by the Libyan army.” In addition, most tribes, including major ones “are fighting with Gaddafi” against rebels.
His forces are motivated, not demoralized, as falsified reports claim.
On August 17, Scott Taylor’s Chronicle Herald article headlined, “Gadhafi Support Soars Amid NATO Bombing,” saying:
Libya’s insurgency “has been more of a media war than a full-scale armed clash.” In fact, despite an embargo, sea blockade, theft of Gaddafi’s assets, and ferocious daily bombing, “the ragtag collection of fractious” rebels haven’t managed “to make any serious headway against Gadhafi loyalists,” let alone topple him.
His overwhelming popularity is key, polls showing it about 85%. Moreover, over 2,000 of Libya’s 2,335 tribes support him, including the largest ones.
At the same time, Libyans revile NATO and cutthroat rebels with good reason. They’re destroying, not liberating Libya for well understood imperial reasons. As a result, popular sentiment is determined to resist.
On August 16, the Mossad connected DEBKAfile headlined, “Libyan rebel ‘gains’ smokescreen for talks in Tunisia to end war,” saying:
Claims about rebel advances and Gaddafi forces near collapse are pure propaganda, not facts because government and TNC representatives “have been meeting in semi-secrecy on the Tunisian island of Djerba….”
Fighting on the ground has been “tailing off and morphing into direct talks between the two” sides.
DEBKA sources explained “a step-by-step” process, involving Gaddafi yielding power in stages to a new government to include top positions for his sons, key loyalists, supportive tribes, and TNC turncoats. In addition, Gaddafi will remain in Libya, his personal safety guaranteed.
DEBKA also confirmed independent reports that TNC “leadership is being torn apart by infighting,” especially after its field commander, Gen. Abdel Fatah Younis was assassinated.
“By broadcasting false reports of victories, such as the conquest of….Brega (Zawiyah, and other Gaddifi held cities), the rebels hope to cover up their internal disputes and inability to win the war, while at the same time (hoping falsified victories will be) bargaining chips for the negotiations.”
The only so-called rebel gains, in fact, were made by “Berger tribes (that) reject any ties whatsoever with” insurgent forces.
Clearly, the scripted media victory claims are pure Pentagon propaganda – ball-faced lies with no credibility whatsoever. Reporters, commentators, and editorial writers regurgitating them function solely as imperial tools, disgracing their profession in the process.
miércoles 2 de marzo de 2011 ON THE yearly CELEBRATED ANNIVERSARY OF THE JAMAHIRIYA, when Gadhafi gave POWER OVER TO THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES IN 1977
Col Gaddafi: ‘Libyan people responsible for administering power’
Medical sources in Brega told BBC Arabic that 14 people had been killed in the fighting.
Our correspondent says an airforce plane had earlier tried to bomb the vast weapons dump on the outskirt of Ajdabiya 50km (30 miles) from Brega.
He says most people in Ajdabiya probably assumed at that point that Col Gaddafi’s forces were on their way and that there was little between them and the rebel capital Benghazi 100 miles away. But volunteers came pouring in from Benghazi and Ajdabiya.
In his speech broadcast on Libyan TV in a large hall in Tripoli, Col Gaddafi warned against any foreign intervention.
Col Gaddafi’s speech lasted a little more than three hours. His first big round of applause came when he told them it was becoming increasingly clear that Libya’s troubles came from a foreign plot.
A woman stood up and told him he was the sword of god and could not leave. He reminded them that since he has no formal position he cannot resign. The speech was not at all one of defiance, as he also offered an amnesty, called for a dialogue with Libyan intellectuals and a fact-finding mission from the UN.
Col Gaddafi was composed and confident. He seems now to have a strategy to deal with the uprising. Pushing back with what armed force he can muster into rebel-held areas and telling Libyans and his foreign critics that if he leaves Libya, Libya will face chaos and a failed state dominated by al-Qaeda, instead of a tranquil JAMAHIRIYA.
‘FALSE REPORTS’
He said the UN had passed resolutions condemning Libya based on “false reports” and he challenged the UN to investigate.
He condemned those countries that had frozen Libyan assets, saying: “The assets are the assets of the Libyan nation… We are the assets of Libya, not the American dollar.”
Muammar al-Gaddafi spoke as a crowd of supporters and officials chanted the slogan: “God, Muammar and Libya.”
The Libyan leader said he was “surprised” that his name had been mentioned abroad since he had handed over power “to the people” in 1977, eight years after taking power and there were no positions he could resign from.
He said he had been told that “hostile radios” outside Libya were focusing on him.
In an attempt to explain recent unrest, he said “shady members of al-Qaeda” had formed “dormant cells” in several cities.
In 2006 Libya was dropped from the US state sponsors of terror list …
The violence within Libya has led to a major humanitarian crisis on the Tunisian border, with tens of thousands of foreigners, most of them Egyptian, stranded and unable to get home.
Some 75,000 people have fled to Tunisia since unrest began and 40,000 more are waiting to cross, the UN says.
Britain, France, Spain and other countries on Wednesday launched emergency airlifts to evacuate those gathered at the border.
The World Food Programme announced a $38.7m aid programme for the 2.7 million people it says are engulfed in the Libyan crisis.
http://diariosdominicanos.blogspot.com/2011/03/libya-rebels-halt-gaddafi-attack.html
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WAR MOVIE:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885
episode is called –“Wag the RATS !” Writer and director – the CIA, Mossad, M6, Soros… ! Camera Operator – CIA, Mossad, M6, Soros … !
Courtesy of Photoshop
GLOBAL RESEARCH TV
Make No Mistake: NATO committed War Crimes in Libya
by grtv
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/08/make-no-mistake-nato-committed-war-crimes-libya
NATO massacre in Zliten, 8th/9th AUGUST 2011.
http://www.voltairenet.org/Journalists-who-engage-in-war
This Global Research video was produced and directed in Tripoli by a team of committed journalists, researchers and cameramen, who decided to defy the consensus of the Western media which consists in spreading lies and misleading public opinion.
This video reveals the crimes committed by NATO, as well as those committed by the Western media, which has decided to obfuscate the casualties and human suffering of the Libyan people and uphold the humanitarian fiction of NATO’s R2P mandate.
War propaganda is defined under international law as a war crime.
-Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, 12 April 2011
A large number of casualties occurred in the city of Zliten, in the district of Misurata. In Zliten, 85 people were killed including 33 children, 32 women, and 20 men as a result of NATO’s deliberate targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Many of the injured civilian victims are in critical condition and near death.
Zliten has been under constant NATO bombardment for several days. The recent NATO attacks started at about 11:30 p.m. EET on August 8, 2011. At least 7 civilian homes belonging to local farmers were destroyed, killing entire families. In all 20 families were the targets of the NATO bombings.
This video exposes the media’s role of covering up the truth. The mainstream media did not report about this properly or accurately. The media did this to whitewash NATO’s war crimes against the Libyan people.
BREAKING NEWS: NATO Massacres of Civilians Aimed at “Cleansing” the Libyan People’s Resistance
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
NATO Missiles Target Libyan Hospital, Kill 50 Children
Posted on 08/8/11
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/08/nato-missiles-target-libyan-hospital-kill-50-children
See video
Chossudovsky: “Humanitarian” War Against Libya
Posted on 05/4/11
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/05/chossudovsky-humanitarian-wars-against-libya-and-syria
See video
Libya Operation: Foreign Oil Interests Prompt Invasion
Posted on 03/3/11
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/03/libya-operation-foreign-oil-interests-prompt-invasion
See video
‘NATO bombs civilians!’: Report from Tripoli
Posted on 06/15/11
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/06/nato-bombs-civilians-report-tripoli
idea against the propaganda !
Anti-propaganda ! The government of Libya must to expel corporate “media” and to judge them for incitement to war !!!
(useful information + advice -please distribution of media in Libya,authorities and politicians) The Government of Libya to pay attention to this article ! http://www.voltairenet.org/Journalists-who-engage-in-war It reveals crimes against peace and war crimes of Zionist corporate media – referred to the UN Charter against propaganda for war and burn ! Advice (my opinion) – the Government of Libya, at a press conference to announce that we immediately drove Zionist corporate media responsible for the burning of the war with false reports and propaganda, and announced the initiation of lawsuits against – Reuters, BBC, CNN, FOX, France 24 Al Jazeera …. (there is sufficient evidence of their crimes against peace) ! Make it and it will make a big impact on public opinion in favor of the people of Libya in the whole world ! In Libya, only to remain impartial and independent media and journalists! Thus, propaganda must first break through the wall of information from the real media !!! Another important thing is for Libya to send information to independent media and journalists in all countries worldwide (find out who they are) – the truth about war and genocide against Libya and Gaddafi necessarily truth from 1969 to 2011 (against the demonization of his personality) – you will see that things will change in favor of Libya! Just first have to get rid of media terrorists because they are the greatest weapon of NATO (deprived them). Expel these “media” – afflicted them !!! These terrorists media, except that instigated this war (genocide) continue to pour “fuel to the fire) and contribute to a separate robbery (piracy and terrorism financing) Libyan sovereign – national assets and demonize the leader Gaddafi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjrBzIv7zis&feature=player_embedded#! Here is a link to some more information about crimes corporate “media” and why they should be expelledand humiliated (This is on just one terrorist attack in which NATO was brutally killed 85 civilians – among them 33 children, 32 women, and 20men ! And for five months of genocide?!) http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/08/make-no-mistake-nato-committed-war-crimes-libya Libyan War scenarios in this film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/ But today’s episode is called -“Wag the RATS !” Writer and director – the CIA, Mossad, M6, Soros… ! Camera Operator – CIA, Mossad, M6, Soros … ! Courtesy of Photoshop (example – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhCcGw5h6xM&feature=player_embedded ) ! Broadcasters – CNN, BBC, FOX, FRANCE 24, AL JAZEERA … ! Please send this post to the Libyan media and politicians to discuss the idea (egShakir), because NATO has blocked my access by IP address and can not write on the walls of many Libyan media sites, I can not write messages and have access to email addresses! The reason for this is that I write a lot of truths and periodically XXXXbook sent me messages that I write … .. “bad” things or “system” (CIA, Mossad, M6 and other global terrorists and parasites) recognizes my posts as “spam” !? Finally I sent amessage that I was blocked (to punish) 15 days to publish the wall of Nessbook! But the problem is that both are blocked forme all Libyan sites (major and more visits), including sending an email (I’m blocked by IP address)! I understand that I am not alone and now has a page of “blocked” (penalties) on Facebook!
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http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/17-08-2011/118775-Moon_the_incompetent_goon-0/
Moon the incompetent goon
17.08.2011
GADHAFI & Ban Ki-moon
Moon the incompetent goon. 45151.jpeg
Thursday, 31 March 2011
The [United Nations] Under-Secretary-General for Oversight Services put it so well:
“The [UN] Secretariat is “drifting into irrelevance.”
Now that beats all…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently expressed concern over the rising civilian casualties in Libya, saying there will be no military solution for resolving the conflict in the North African nation. It took him that long to figure it out?
“The Secretary General is deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number of civilian casualties as a result of the conflict in Libya,” a statement from Ban’s office said.
NATO airstrikes at Majer killed 85 innocent civilians, including 33 children, 32 women and 20 men. Journalists and visitors were shown 30 of the bodies in a local morgue, including a mother with two little children. Approximately 50 bodies were taken to other locations for family burial while the injured were rushed to hospitals in Tripoli.
Cowardly NATO scum, trash and garbage uses these super wonder weapons that require absolutely no courage to utilize: aircraft at 35,000 feet, ultra-long range artillery, cruise missiles, and guided missiles, weapons that kill at a distance, so that the mindless bastards doing the killing need not have to face the reality of what they are doing. It’s a virtual world of unreality with very real consequences to those at the receiving end.
It’s about time Moon the goon noticed the civilian deaths caused by NATO. It’s unfortunate that he doesn’t manage to see that it’s a repeated pattern of destruction: destroy civilians, destroy civilian infrastructure with military hardware: hospitals schools, television facilities, the water and electricity system…all vital to conduct human life.
When one destroys the necessities for human life, a clear pattern of deliberate genocide is formed. Did UN Resolutions 1970 and 1973 give permission to conduct a deliberate genocide? Of course not.
This is all happening in the month of Ramadan…just imagine in a Sahara country what would be the consequences for people with the water supply cut off? The temperatures are also excessive, adding to the misery.
Hower, misery is the name of the game for NATO. They delude themselves to think that creating civilian misery will help their cause, indeed, just the opposite is happening. The more misery they try to inflict on this sturdy, resolute, courageous people, the more their goal is alluding them.
Next month the UN will meet again to determine what happens next with these resolutions. But is this poor excuse for a human being blind, deaf and dumb? He could end the suffering now, but chooses not to.
What is stopping him from putting an end to it now?
No one can say that he is unaware of what NATO is doing. His heavy pockets seem to have caused this inability to engage his brain or conscience. Apparently neither are in working condition.
As he stands idly by, his pockets fatterning, every death, every act of destruction, becomes part of the responsibility of Ban Ki-Moon, the incompetent goon. He is guilty of complicity in war crimes, and he will be punished for his crimes. As will the leaders and enablers, pilots and paper pushers of NATO, not to mention the unscrupulous media that silences the truth and knowingly spreads disinformation.
Further evidence of NATO violations of the UN resolutions exist, as in no boots on the ground and no supplying weapons to either side. Both of these stipulations have been obviously and transparently violated by NATO. And where is Moon the goon? Silent, blind, deaf, dumb.
The United Nations was created for the purpose of defending peace, preventing war and aggression, defending human rights. However, being under the de facto control of the Evil Empire, it does the opposite. It instigates war, instigates crimes against humanity and enables massive human rights violations.
Either the United Nations needs a massive overhaul, or it needs to be disbanded since it runs counter to the purposes for which it was founded.
It was not founded to implement the concept of the “White Man’s Burden” to teach “backward people” read those who will not do what they’re told, how to be civilized.
Every empire thought itself indestructible and invincible. But as empires descend into brutality, barbarism and wanton destruction, they sow the seeds of their own demise.
The never ending wars of conquest and plunder can go no further. Napolean is about to meet his Waterloo. As civilization is lost and replaced with barbarism, the creative and positive sparks of humanity are extinguished, hence the global economic crisis.
I hereby charge NATO with gross violations of international law, international law that includes, but is not limited to Article 3 of the Statute of The Hague International Penal Court which clearly states that one criterion for indictment for war crimes is: “Attack or bombardment, by whatever means, against undefended cities, towns, villages, buildings or houses.”
I hereby call on Ban Ki-Moon, the incompetent goon, to do his job and stop the genocide, wanton murder, terrorism against the Libyan people and destruction of civilian infrastructure IMMEDIATELY. Otherwise, he should resign his position which he accepted under false pretenses.
NATO is nothing but the embodiment of everything it claims to be against, everything that it claims to hate. It is nothing but a war machine, a bully, a murder machine.
If they think they are going to get all kinds of lucrative recontruction contracts for their cronies, think again, it will never happen. The world community must reach out to the Libyan people and comfort, console and restore them.
When you are or become what you claim to hate, you have lost…the defeat of NATO is more than a military reality and a military certainty. Civilization cannot exist as long as NATO does. NATO RIH, rot in hell.
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
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Libya and the need for a UNIVERSAL JAMAHIRIYA
20.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/20-08-2011/118806-libya_order-0/
Libya and the need for a UNIVERSAL JAHAHIRIYA
It does not make sense to say let us wait for the end of the Libya conflict to discuss where we are and where we want to go – it makes great sense to discuss it right now, for the hearts and minds of the international community are seething with rage at what our planet has so obviously become, ruled by a clique of sinister invisible corporations.
The Libya conflict is wrong. It was launched under UNSC Resolution 1973 (2011) after the previous UNSC Resolution 1970 (2011), both of these being based on false flag events – lies that thousands of civilians had been slaughtered by the forces of the Libyan Government.
What happened next demonstrates, at best, the naivety with which humanity reacts and at worst – and I tend to fear this is the case – the horrific and sinister nightmare that our leaders over the years have allowed our international community to become.
The forces behind NATO had already drawn up a plan for the ousting of Colonel Gaddafi long ago, because his humanitarian and development projects in Africa had started to bite the lobbies which control our policy – the energy lobby, the arms lobby, the pharmaceutical lobby, the banking lobby, the drugs lobby. Rather than allow the African Union to take care of Africa’s problems, rather than facilitate matters for Africa and Africans, they were scared that the African countries would stand on their own two feet – and stop paying massive interest repayments for the loans provided to them.
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We do not have space here to back up the points with examples, for this is an opinion piece. Needless to say Colonel Gaddafi was to receive a humanitarian prize from the UNO in March 2011 for his work. Enter the armed wing of these lobbies, NATO. Enter the politicians who serve, it appears, to put a gloss on the product, a veneer which together with a nice tidy media package, shapes public opinion and provokes the collective unseen nod which gives the go-ahead to the project, however horrific it may be.
It is as horrific as a group of thugs taking their Pit Bulls, Rottweilers and Stafforshire Terriers to the local park, eyeing up a young girl taking her Cocker Spaniel for a walk, sensing it would make a great video to sell on the Net (“Bonzo, Tiger and Rambo Phuck Fluffy”), then setting their animals loose to tear “Fluffy” to bits, along with the terrified, innocent and defenceless screaming little girl. The park owner affirms to the press that the Cocker was really a lion in disguise which had been terrifying everyone in the park for months and the local newspaper reports that the girl is really a 23-year-old crack-addicted whore who has given AIDS to all the gentlemen in the village.
The community buys the story, shrugs and says, Oh well then, she had it coming didn’t she? Oh and by the way, what time is Big Brother on? Oh no! It’s on at the same time as The Simpsons on One and Spanking Sarah on Three!
The parallel could not be more exact. This is precisely what our international community has become, eleven years into the Third Millennium. For a start, there is no such thing as international law. The only notion that applies is that laws are obviously made to be broken. A hoodie in the UK can get six months for stealing a pair of trainers, but the Bullingdon Club could trash restaurants and get off Scot-free; a chav can get a criminal record for stealing a plasma TV, while the Member of Parliament he elected can get the same plasma TV screen by stealing using the taxpayers’ money, then say “Oh, sorry! If I have to pay it back, then I shall”.
The sinister clique of lobbyists who NATO serves as their armed wing, and who our elected representatives serve as the “marketing department” and nothing more, decide who is guilty and who is innocent. The Hague Tribunal, that insult to international law, even declares people guilty before the trial has begun, it kidnaps foreign politicians and detains them illegally before they die under custody (Milosevic), tries Serbs, a token Croat, Bosnian and Albanian, Africans of course…does it try anyone from NATO countries despite their horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity, breaches of international law, violation of the Geneva Conventions? No, it does not.
It is not surprising that the core of nations which forms NATO’s spine view the world from a top-down approach because they are former colonial powers who split up the international community by drawing lines on maps. “This is ours, and that is yours, eh what?”. The only difference these days is that it is not the leaders of nations deciding who gets what, it is the powerful lobbies which in fact control them behind the scenes, and in some “democracies”, put them there.
So, this is not democracy, for our representatives do not represent our will and our world is not ruled from an egalitarian perspective; indeed, the international “community” has two sets of weights and measures.
What to do? We can sit back and network on the Internet, working ourselves into an orgy of frustration and fury and impotence, or we can do something about it. If in Serbia and in Iraq, NATO broke every law in the book, then in Libya, new levels of cruelty have been reached, targeting family homes, murdering children and not even having the humanity to apologise (I suppose how does one apologise for an act which is carried out wilfully?), then targeting the water supply (since when is this protecting civilians?) and the electricity grid (“to break the population”).
Rather than fantasise about water-boarding the freaks who carried this out, in acid, along with their political bed-pals, we can concentrate on the UNSC Resolutions covering this case (see article attached below *) and take up the case with the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights, initiating cases against NATO as an organization, and against the individuals representing their countries’ participation in this criminal act, which occasioned the crimes of murder, attempted murder, crimes against humanity, war crimes, criminal damage, grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm of civilians, Breach of the UN Charter, Breach of UNSC Resolutions, Breach of the Geneva Conventions (see list below **).
After this, yes we must network and form a new international community. It is by now apparent that the UNO is a useful organization for humanitarian projects but useless at promoting international peace. The UNSC is a disgrace, being no more than a chamber through which interests are traded (you back this or do not use your veto and we will get you into the World Trade Organization, we promise not to arm your rebels, we will not back President X. any more, we will not object to your trading practices, ooh! and was it the safari in Kenya that your wife was interested in?).
It is also more than apparent that our dearly beloved and elected leaders, as a whole, while there are exceptions, have failed us wholly and completely because they have not represented the interests of the people of the world. If there are 204 sovereign states (recognised or not) then there are 204 heads of state, there are 204 heads of government, there are 204 Ministers of Defence, there are 204 Ministers of Foreign Affairs, in total 816 persons. The world population is 6,940,000,000 – six billion, nine hundred and forty million. These 816 persons, or even worse, a fraction of them, do not have any right to abuse international law and instigate conflicts acting at the beck and call of the corporative lobbies which control their policies, which affect us directly.
Therefore let us create a New World Order based upon collective human rights and values. Let us draw up a list of human rights and values which apply to all, including the precept of the respect for human life and the inviolability of the person, let us draw up a legal code which is applied to all, equally, with the same criteria and let us constitute an International Court of Justice which applies to all citizens of all signatory States.
Let us then start with those States which have applied themselves not to conflict (for example, the last five Prime Ministers of the UK have been involved in six wars, while the USA has been involved in tens of conflicts. What is it with Anglo-Saxons?) but to development and cooperation and let only those States which adhere to all the conditions and criteria for membership, be allowed to join. Let special rights pertain to the citizens of these countries – such as the universal right to the world’s resources, such as the right to a free education, such as the right to a job, such as the right to housing, such as the right to free healthcare. It would be very difficult to imagine such an international community including any of the States mentioned below, unless they underwent a fundamental and profound change.
The Libyan Jamahiriya is, in my opinion, an excellent model for political governance because it is the only one which takes into account the basic and fundamental secret underlying human relations among all peoples – the notion that the human being functions very well as a community and the further away you get from that, the worse it becomes.
Compare a small village anywhere with a large city anywhere. Yet this is not for me to decide, it is for the international community to take action and to draw the lines which describe where we wish to go. For sure, what we do or not today will be judged by our peers of tomorrow. They will look back at us and analyse what we have become – a community of cowards, of losers who speak a lot but do nothing, who allowed ourselves and our governments to be dictated to by a handful of invisible barons who represent the lobbies which in turn control our destiny.
Did you vote for NATO? Then why does it control your foreign policy? Did you vote for Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s and Fitch to control your country’s credit rating? Then why do they actively determine how much your pension will be or whether you get one at all? Did you vote for your Prime Minister? Then why is he implementing policies you did not vote for?
The model of political governance at a national level is a subject for debate and any universal implementation will be the subject matter for our descendants. However, we can clear the path by constituting an international United People’s Organization based upon the values referred to in this article.
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Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
* Where does International Law stand on this?
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/18-08-2011/118787-international_law_libya-0/
**
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Denmark) NATO Secretary-General; Charles Bouchard (Canada), Commander of Operations; Nicolas Sarkozy, Édouard Guillaud (France); Rinaldo Veri, Commander Allied Maritime Command (Italy); David Cameron, Sir Stuart Peach (UK); Barack Obama, Carter Ham, Sam Locklear (USA); Harald Sunde (Norway), Abdullah II (Jordan); Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani (Qatar), Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan (UAE); Sverker Goranson (Sweden) and the Defence Ministers Pieter de Crem (Belgium), Anuy Angelov (Bulgaria), Gitte Lillelund Bech (Denmark); Panos Beglitis (Greece); Hans Hillen (Netherlands); Gabriel Oprea (Romania);Carme Chacón Piqueras (Spain); Ismet Yilmaz (Turkey).
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Gaddafi‘s speech, Libya 21. August 2011. [1: 40 am]
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“Those who cheer the Nato planes that bomb during Ramadan, God damn their religion. [MAKE BELIEVEMUSLEMS] You dirtied the mosques, how can you pray there? Our country that was happy and comfortable in Ramadan, what have we done to France and Britain, & you want to give them our oil?
Libyan men want to kiss the head of Muammar (Gaddafi)!
What were you before the Fateh Revolution? You were occupied by Italians!
Go back to your families!
Where are you going? You are going to give Libyan oil to France? The [REAL] Libyans will never accept that.
You want France to rule you!
You want the donkeys of the Gulf [QATAR] to rule you!
What are we, Palestinians? Somalis!
Why have we become this way?
Who is standing with these people? Our tribes have been bombed…..
They call the [NATO] planes to bomb their [OWN] country!
“Come bomb my country!”
Look for those who have done this to Libya & remove them from Libya..
Who has caused this? He is known. [Jalil and HEFTER]
The traitor, the rat!
He isn’t Libyan. Look at the Libyans (on TV) kissing my photo now!
You’re destroying the accomplishments-the airports!
The Libyans are now beggars in Egypt & Tunis, t
Lord, Take revenge on those who have done this.
Did we lose our minds or what? Our men were fine!
What’s this “17 of February”? Our sons are now being wasted!
Now, they will say my speech is recorded from before: the lying channels….
Today is Ramadan 21st. And I am watching Bab Al Azizia right now.
Nato is collapsing, It is their last days.
They are killing children….
These are infidels, they kill you in Ramadan. It’s 1:40 am now!
These people want to burn Libya.
The roads in the mountains even surprised Europeans! as you used to go on the donkeys; and, “wow”, The Great man-made River!
The rebels are fleeing like rats from the mountains. The donkeys of the Gulf [QATQR] have given them weapons
to destroy our airconditioners?
A million people will rise to liberate Libya from them.
Look at the fireworks in the Green Square!!!
.Libya’s Gaddafi scorns rebel “rats”, blames France
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110821/wl_nm/us_libya_gaddafi
EmailPrint.. Reuters – Members of the Libyan community in Tunisia gather outside the Libyan Embassy in Tunis
21 August 2011 …
. Slideshow:Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi .
– Sat 20 Aug 8:00 pm ET
RABAT (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi congratulated his supporters for repelling an attack by rebel “rats” in the capital Tripoli, and accused French President Nicolas Sarkozy of trying to steal the country’s oil.
Gaddafi made the remarks in a live audio broadcast over state television early on Sunday, adding the rebels were “bent on the destruction of the Libyan people.”
(Reporting by Souhail Karam; writing by Richard Valdmanis; editing by Michael Roddy)
These reports of Tripoli’s invasion have proven false..
In an audio tape aired on state TV, Colonel Gaddafi congratulated his supporters.
Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan says the reports are an effort by NATO to create panic.
“The only gunfire that we are hearing is celebratory gunfire,” she said. “And the only explosions that we are hearing are NATO air strikes or NATO sound bombs, which are clearly designed to create a sense of panic in the capital city of Tripoli.”
Phelan said that the Libyan rebels created fake footage of themselves in Zawiya and Tripoli, and were aided in disseminating the footage by, among other media outlets, Al Jazeera. The Qatar-based satellite television station, she argued, has been at the center of the media conspiracy against Libya. The Western mainstream media, she continued, in turn picked up these reports and repeated them, creating a sense of panic among the Libyan people.
“Later on in the areas like Soug Jomaa, after the prayers, a number of armed gangs emerged, which are essentially sleeper cells of rebels inside the city, and began firing randomly and threatening ordinary people, that if they did not join them they would be assassinated,” she said. “They then took footage of the empty streets, which created the sense that they were in the process of capturing the city.”
Many people in Tripoli have been armed by the government and these people came out to defend their capital, she added.
“The government spokesman came out and insisted that the situation had been brought under control,” Phelan claimed. “As a result, now in Green Square the masses have come out because they feel safe again and they are letting off celebratory gunfire and fireworks. Muammar Gaddafi spoke to the masses live via phone, because there have been reports that he fled the country.”
Political analyst Mahdi Nazemroaya says that the gunfire in the Libyan capital is sporadic and disorganized, and that its main purpose is to break down the morale of the population.
“The main point of the attacks in Tripoli is to break down the morale here and cause panic,” he said. “The media here at the hotel where I am staying has been part of this disinformation campaign. They just want to feed the panic here and want the regime to collapse. They are fueling and feeding this psychological war against this country.”
Information Minister Moussa Ibrahim later put the trouble down to “small armed gangs”.
“Tripoli is safe, and completely under the control of the armed people committees and the volunteers and the honourable people of Tripoli,” the minister said.
“Some gunmen entered two or three areas of Tripoli. They were confronted and everything ended within half an hour.”
In an audio broadcast shortly afterwards, Muammar al-Gaddafi congratulated his supporters for repelling the rebels.
Engineer Abdul Haken in Tripoli: “The situation is under control”
“Those rats were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them,” he said.
“I know you are happy and I saw the fireworks in Green Square, I know that there are air strikes but the fireworks were louder than the air bombing.”
His son, Saif al-Islam, ruled out any possibility of surrender.
“I see ourselves as victorious, I see our position is strong,” he said in a speech on state TV.
He did, however, urge the rebels to open talks.
“If you want peace, we are ready,” he said.
The Libyan leader certainly has support in Tripoli, our correspondent says.
Pro-Gaddafi men and women have received weapons training in recent weeks, while checkpoints have sprung up across the city.
In his audio message, al-Gaddafi condemned “traitors” who were “defiling mosques” in the mainly Muslim country.
16 August 2011 Last updated at 16:21 GMT
Libya crisis: Defiance in Tripoli despite rebel advance
As rebels fight for key towns near Tripoli, there is still strong support for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli’s Green Square
It is close to midnight, as a light breeze blows in from across the Mediterranean, ruffling the palm trees in Tripoli’s Green Square.
Under the inky black sky, the square is bustling. Pro-Gaddafi music blares, distorting through old speakers.
A young boy leans out of the front passenger window of a car, the green flag of Col Gaddafi’s Libya fluttering proudly in his hands as it drives past.
And 23-year-old Omar Alia Rohoma is kissing a photograph of his leader.
“I love you,” he exclaims.
You would not know – in central Tripoli – that there is a war on.
‘Father for all Libyans’
The back window of Omar Rohoma’s car is completely filled with a picture of Col Gaddafi and one of his sons.
Weapons training certificate in Tripoli, Libya, 15 August 2011 Gaddafi loyalists receive certificates for attending weapons training courses
“He is a father for all Libyans,” says the young driver. “He is good.”
Is he worried about a rebel advance on the capital?
“No. As you see all people are happy. We are secure and safe. No-one is worried about the rebels. It’s all lies.”
It is not unexpected to get such a response in Green Square – pictures of Col Gaddafi hang around the entire place; green flags fly.
Government minders stand close by as people are questioned by journalists.
It would be wrong, though, to dismiss the support that clearly exists here for the current leadership. An intelligence official, captured by the rebels at the weekend, estimated that 97% of the population of Tripoli backs Muammar al-Gaddafi.
Many are willing to fight for him too.
‘Morale is high’
Government officials say weapons training is widespread – for loyalists of course. This week Col Gaddafi used an audio broadcast to call on his supporters to rise up and crush the rebels and Nato.
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Salem Amer in Tripoli cafe, Libya, 15 August 2011
Morale is high. We are fine, thanks to God”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14547986
There is still strong support for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli’s Green Square & everywhere’s else in Libya
Salem Amer Tripoli resident
Sabah Mustafa Mohammed Ibrahim proudly shows off a certificate that reads she “completed weapons and resistance training, June 19th to 29th, in small arms”.
She is probably about 45 years old and speaks with passion and conviction.
“I’m ready to take up a gun,” she says. “I will defend my country, and Muammar who has done so much good for us.”
In a cafe, Salem Amer heats milk before expertly skimming the froth off the top over two espressos.
He shakes his head, and smiles wisely when asked about Tripoli’s fate.
“Morale is high,” he says. “We are fine, thanks to God.”
A woman waiting quietly at the counter has a different view.
“I’m worried,” she says, almost in a whisper. “I don’t want colonialism to return. I’m worried about Nato.”
War taking its toll
There is a belief in Tripoli that Nato is attempting to take over Libya. The government line is that NATO is acting beyond its mandate to protect civilians.
Certainly its air strikes have helped the rebel advances in recent days. Without Nato, the opposition would not be in such a strong position.
Nato maintains that its action is designed to protect civilians from pro-Gaddafi forces.
What is hard to assess is how widespread the outwardly upbeat mood is in Tripoli.
The Libyan government insists its people are resilient, yet months of sanctions and war are taking their toll.
Planning to leave
Power cuts have become a daily occurrence in the capital, though there are signs of that improving in recent days.
Still, many homes and businesses are without electricity – and therefore water, which relies on pumps – for much of the day.
In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, a supporter of Muammar Gaddafi chants slogans from a car in Green Square, Tripoli, Libya, 15 August 2011 Gaddafi loyalists in Tripoli say that morale is high in the Libyan capital
The lack of fuel has been well documented. Doctors talk of a lack of oxygen and working equipment in the hospitals.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said recently that there is a lack of “vaccines, medicine, and other medical items”.
Quietly, some talk of making preparations to leave the city.
Others though, in Green Square, report the opposite – telling journalists that families are arriving in Tripoli having fled areas outside the capital where fighting is taking place.
The rebels have always maintained that if they can reach Tripoli, then opposition supporters across the city will rise up and help defeat Col Gaddafi.
It does not feel that clear-cut in Green Square.
If the members of Nato are hoping the events of the past few days herald the beginning of the end of this war, they may be in for a nasty surprise.
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“I’m ready at any time — awake or asleep — to defend the country. This is our weapon. Who in the world can distribute arms to his people if he does not trust his people? Show me a man or a president in the whole world who dares to arm his civilian people if these people are not genuinely loyal to the leadership. In the name of almighty God, I pledge to you, my dear leader, that I will sacrifice my last breath, my last bullet, my last drop of blood, last baby and child for you. Nobody can touch you. We will not allow them to harm you, and you are too superior to them and more dignified than them. This is my message to those traitors, wherever they are, and I defy them.”
Staged Atrocity possible in Libya, NATO Desperate
http://info-wars.org/2011/08/21/staged-atrocity-possible-in-libya-nato-desperate/
21 August 2011
by Declan O’Shea
Foreword by Declan O’Shea
The War in Libya started with a Lie; Fake Social Media Messages Led To War Against Libya – NATO is losing but the propaganda in the western media has become more and more absurd, the latest lie is that the rag-tag group of ‘rebels’ are closing in upon Tripoli – All reports by reputable correspondents from within Libya indicate overwhelming support for Gadaffi and without NATO support the so-called ‘rebels’ would be routed in a matter of weeks. Gadaffi has armed his people with approximately two million AK-47 assault rifles and other military hardware, including grenade launchers and shoulder-held missiles – If NATO troops invade on the ground there will be fierce resistance from the Libyan people, it will make the France-Algerian war of 1954-62 look tame in comparison. Judging by the level of disinformation and total fabrications in the western media (not only the western media; Iran is backing US-led NATO interventions in Sunni ruled countries) it appears that NATO is not prepared to admit defeat and may very well stage an event such as a false-flag massacre of civilians as an excuse to launch a ground offensive on Libya – another possibility is of course some bombings in Europe – False-flag bombings – at which NATO is very adept, having carried out the same in Europe during ‘Operation Gladio’ with their ‘stay behind’ armies. (Operation Gladio: CIA Network of “Stay Behind” Secret Armies)
No celebrations in the future for NATO
21.08.2011 | Source: Pravda.Ru
The lies and disinformation have been flowing fast and furious. NATO is trying to use the media to create the false illusion of an impending NATO victory. For those of us who know better, it’s extremely annoying to say the least.
They keep putting out reports that their terrorist clients have taken A, B and C, when it’s total fabrication. A few of the terrorists get together and take a picture, trying to make themselves look like there are more of them than there really are, they ship the picture to their masters and instant Hollywood, next thing you know the ragtag group gets chased away or better yet wasted by Libyan armed forces.
There are nightly poundings on Tripoli. Now there’s the added reports of heavy gunfire, with ragtag terrorists again trying to pretend that they are more in number than they are…quicky chased away.
They claim the capital is surrounded, cut off. The claims are total fabrication. They claim the government is about to collapse, again, total fabrication.
In the meantime, the western corporate media is pretending that victory is near for their terrorist stooges, when the truth is the country is getting more and more terrorist free every day. Rather than any concern about being surrounded, Tripoli comes out to celebrate continued successes and freedom. No one is ready to give up everything for colonial ambitions of the west.
You can almost sense the blood lust and the desperation of NATO, desperate for some kind of success, any kind of success, even if it’s make believe media created. So there will be no celebrations in Paris, London or Washington.
Confidence is high in Libya. People are banding together more than ever before since the threat to their way of life has never been greater. The aggressors, the invaders, the bombers have won no one’s hearts and minds.
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
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Hello World Wake Up To Libya Reality Of People’s Power
Posted: 2011/08/21
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628145?rss
The world media run by the unmentionables is putting out massive propaganda effort but the coming days will show whether independent Mathaba news media is right or hostile dependent news media is right
The desperation of the terrorists and their NATO protectors has reached a crescendo with even the Twitter account, long ago hijacked from Sayf Gaddafi, even being put to use to say: BYE BYE GHADAFIIIIIII…. GAME OVER
Even the Internet is awash with desperate comments from supporters of dictatorship, oppression and the western way of mass murder and pillage are embarked upon a delusional game to try to convince themselves and wish into being a victory which will not be.
Tripoli is safe and sound, most of Libya is now under democratic people’s government control, 95% of the people are solidly supporting the father of modern Libya and its revolutionary symbol, Muammar Qaddafi, and the direct participatory democracy he helped to bring about continues to live on.
China, Russia and others, watch. Watch carefully. The positions you have taken over the past many months, have been noted. All those who were working against Libya will come to see that it was a big waste of their time and energy. The assets that were stolen will cause even bigger losses to the “West”, and here is how.
Many nations around the world, starting with Venezuela, now realize that putting money and gold into western vaults, is like giving your national treasures to the king of thieves to guard. They saw how Africa’s assets were once again stolen by white Europe and America.
So now watch how the little remaining with your bankrupt nations will be taken away. And it is time for you to respect Mathaba. Here, we have told the truth not only about the Libya war from way back in March. Let us remind you what is clear for all to find in our articles, search the archives all of which are available in the Gold Subscribers area, or otherwise do a web search on Google with site:mathaba.net to find public articles:
NATO will LOSE the war in Libya: it will not be able to occupy the country
NATO will NOT be able to kill Muammar Qaddafi, not even physically
Qaddafi’s Green Book will spread around the world more than ever before
Muammar Qaddafi will NOT leave Libya
For those with longer memories, here are the only other guaranteed PREDICTIONS made by Mathaba:
In the 1980s:
— Africa will become united (African Union)
— The Soviet Union will collapse and be replaced by many nation states
In the 1990s:
— The Anglo-American economy will collapse, the dollar will become worthless
— Darfur war will come (7 years before any other media noticed the signs)
In the 2000s:
— Deviance in Libya from The Green Book will cause big problems
— 2011 will be a year of great importance to all future history
Aside from one prediction (concerning Qaddafi not being killed by NATO) none of these predictions were drawn by anything other than logical conclusions based upon the pooled expertise and information we have to hand and which passes through our network.
Currently the big one is the collapse of the western economy and the failure to kill Qaddafi, failure to occupy Libya, failure to WIN the war against Libya.
And, we repeat this today, 21 August (21 Ramadan) once again at the height of disinformation and wishful thinking or fears that the world “news media” networks lies are true. But this time we ask one thing from you ALL both friends AND enemies alike, and we stake the future reputation of Mathaba on this:
If we are proven right yet again, do NOT continue to watch other news networks, tune in to us, and SUPPORT us. We are TRUTH MEDIA. Time to appreciate us and our accuracy.
It is your life and future that depends upon having accurate information, truthful reports, and genuine predictions based upon sound data.
It does not matter if you love Qaddafi or hate him: we are all made of flesh and blood, we all need clean air, water and food to live. We all need truthful information. So, if Mathaba is truth news, and has even loudly criticized Qaddafi when we thought he was wrong (again search the archives) and have always spoken truth to (perceived) power, then where else do you want to turn for information, analysis and commentary?
And another prediction we have warned about but few of you have taken seriously due to your addictions:
Facebook will bring you problems if you continue to rely on it for your communications.
Instead, BE PREPARED. Even though it is in development and may not work well with some versions of Internet Explorer and old browsers, Register at social.mathaba.net and mathaba.info. #
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Franklin Lamb Libya Report, August 20th: “Time is against Israel”
Posted: 2011/08/21
From: Mathaba
Note: Rebels take parts of Zawiya now and again, make photo shoots, then run off again
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628147?rss
by Dennis South
“NATO is trying to stop the Arab and Islamic awakening, in my opinion.” (Franklin Lamb)
Warning: some parts of Franklin Lamb’s report might be disturbing to some Libya supporters. He disagrees with Dr. Moussa Ibrahim’s account that the LDF (Libyan Armed Defense Forces) have control of Zawiya, while Morris, his interviewer, who also has strong contacts in Libya, believes Dr. Ibrahim’s account. Mr. Lamb acknowledges that the majority of the Libyan people are strongly supporting Colonel Gaddafi and the Libyan Jamahiriya, and that the Libyan tribes are in full support also.
It must be kept in mind that Dr. Moussa Ibrahim is the Minister of Information as well as the chief spokesman for the only legitimate government in Libya, the Great Arab Libyan Jamahiriya. And there are two reasons, I believe, that his account must be taken as the true account. Firstly, he is the Minister of Information and the chief spokesman for the Libyan government which is not like other governments, but based on the people themselves, in people’s conferences. Secondly, every single one of his accounts has, within days, proven to be 100% correct, and that proves, solidly, that he is totally trustworthy. He has often stated, to the press, that he is committed to tell them the truth, bad or good.
And he has explained to everyone the pattern that repeats itself, due to NATO interference, in the fight over Libyan cities:
1. NATO insanely bombs a city, driving both the LDF and the citizens out of that city.
2. Then, the rebels march into that empty city and claim “victory.”
3. Then, after the NATO bombing ends, the LDF easily re-takes the city from the rebels, driving them out and killing many of them.
And if there is any truth (I doubt it) to what Franklin Lamb has said regarding Zawiyah, then it is because of the above-stated pattern that Dr. Moussa Ibrahim has so often, and so openly, explained throughout this savage NATO and tebel (terrorist-rebel) aggression. Those of us who are outside of Libya have the duty, in my opinion, to report the official version offered by the legitimate government of the Great Libyan Jamahiriya, and to consider that version 100% accurate, especially because of the brutally obvious fact that there does not exist any major independent media source anywhere in the world, except mathaba.net. The corporate-government media is a weapon of war against the people of the South. We’ve all witnessed six straight months of mind-boggling, daily lies.
In a report from another strongly reliable source, Marie Edwards, which has been, or will be, published here by mathaba.net, she says,
“Meanwhile the Libyan government forces have regained control of most of Libyan territory and in over five months after the NATO aggression against Libya, key oil installations and, above all, the so far impregnable capital are firmly in the hands of the Libyan government.”
Last, for those of us who are not able to have the privilege and honor of fighting on the physical battlefield, there must be no let up–not for a nano-second–on prayers and other spiritual exercises, as well as continuing to keep as many of the masses as possible properly informed–a job that will not be done by the corporate-government controlled media and their backers.
Look for a strong wind of change that will blow the demons out of Libya, and which will bring a thousand years of peace and prosperity to Libya. Look for a backlash against the northern countries, as well as an unstoppable, pulsating, invisible wave that will make its way, first, across the South, starting in Africa, and then amongst the oppressed citizens of the North, the eye of that liberating storm being Libya, and the pupil of that eye being Gaddafi. Ameen.
About Dennis South
I have been serving, for 43 years, the cause of helping to create a new, balanced and peaceful world.
Libya and the end of Western illusions
http://www.voltairenet.org/Libya-and-the-end-of-Western
by Thierry Meyssan
http://www.voltairenet.org/_Thierry-Meyssan_?lang=en
Five months into the bombing campaign, it is no longer possible to believe the initial official version of the events and the massacres attributed to the “Gaddafi regime”. Moreover, it is now essential to take into account Libya’s legal and diplomatic rebuttal, highlighting the crimes against peace committed by television propaganda, the war crimes perpetrated by NATO military forces, and the crimes against humanity sponsored by political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Just under half of Europeans still support the war against Libya. Their position is based on erroneous information. They still believe, in fact, that in February the “Gaddafi regime” crushed the protests in Benghazi with brutal force and bombed civilian districts in Tripoli, while the Colonel himself was warning of “rivers of blood” if his compatriots continued to challenge his authority.
During my two months’ investigation on the ground, I was able to verify that these accusations were pure propaganda intoxication, designed by the NATO powers to create the conditions for war, and relayed around the world by their television media, in particular Al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC and France24.
However, the reader who doesn’t know where he stands on this issue and who – despite the brainwashing of September 11 and Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction – is reluctant to accept that the United States, France, the UK and Qatar were actually capable of fabricating such lies, will be able to forge an opinion over time. NATO, the largest military coalition in history, has failed after five months of bombardments to overthrow the one it designated as a “tyrant.” Every Friday, a large demonstration in support of the regime is organized in a different city and all experts are unanimous in considering that Colonel Gaddafi enjoys at least 90% of popular support in Tripolitania and 70% across the entire country, including the “rebel” areas. These are people who every single day put up with the blockade, aerial bombardments and ground fighting. Never would they be defending with their flesh and blood someone who committed against them the crimes of which he has been accused by the “international community.” The difference between those in the West who believe that Gaddafi is a tyrant who fired on his own people, and those in Libya who believe that he is a hero of the anti-imperialist struggle, is that the former live in an illusion created by TV propaganda, whereas the others are exposed to the concrete reality on the ground.
That said, there is a second illusion to which the West has succumbed – and in the “Western” camp I now include not only Israel, where it has always claimed to belong, but also the monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Turkey which, though of Eastern culture, have chosen to embrace it -, the illusion to think that it is still possible to devastate a country and kill its people without legal consequences. It is true that, until now, international justice has been the justice of the victors or the powerful. One may recall the Nazi official who heckled the judges at Nuremberg telling them that if the Reich had won the war, the judges would have been the Nazis while those held accountable for the war crimes would have been the Allies.
More recently, we saw how NATO used the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to try to justify post facto that the war in Kosovo was “the first humanitarian war in History,” according to the expression employed by Tony Blair. Or again, how the Special Tribunal for Lebanon was used in an attempt to overthrow the Syrian government, then to decapitate the Lebanese Hezbollah, and probably soon to accuse the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Not to mention, the International Criminal Court, the secular arm of the European colonial powers in Africa.
However, the development of instruments and organs of international justice throughout the twentieth century has gradually established an international order with which the superpowers themselves will have to comply or which they will have to sabotage in order to escape their responsibilities. In the case of Libya, the violations of international law are countless. The main ones, presented below, were established by the Provisional Technical Committee, a Libyan ministerial coordination organ, and expounded at various press conferences by the legal adviser to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, French attorney Marcel Ceccaldi [1].
TV channels which, under the leadership of their respective Governments, have manufactured false information to lead to war, are guilty of “crimes against peace”, as defined by the relevant UN General Assembly resolutions in the aftermath of World War II [2]. The journalist-propagandists should be considered even more culpable than the military who perpetrated war crimes or crimes against humanity, to the extent that none of these crimes would have been possible without the one that preceded them: the “crime against peace.”
The political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance, who diverted the object and purpose of Resolution 1973 to engage in a war of aggression against a sovereign state, are personally responsible before international justice. Indeed, according to the jurisprudence established by the Tokyo Court following the Second World War, crimes cannot be ascribed to either States or organizations, but to individuals. Plundering the assets of a state, establishing a naval blockade and bombing infrastructure to cause people to suffer, attacking an army inside its barracks and ordering the assassination of enemy leaders or, failing this, terrorizing them by murdering their families, all amount to war crimes. Their systematic perpetration, as is the case today, constitutes a crime against humanity. This crime is imprescriptible, which means that Messrs. Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron and Al-Thani will be pursued by the law for the rest of their lives.
NATO, as an organization, is legally responsible for the material and human damage of this war. The law leaves no room for doubt that the organization must pay, even though it will surely try to invoke a privilege of jurisdiction to dodge its responsibilities. It will be up to the Alliance to decide how the bill for the conflict should be split among Member States, even though some of them may be on the verge of bankruptcy. This will be followed by disastrous economic consequences for their peoples, guilty of having endorsed such crimes. In a democracy, no one can claim to be innocent of the crimes committed in its name.
International justice will have to address more specifically the case of the Sarkozy “administration” – I use this Anglicism here to underscore the fact that the French president has been piloting his Government’s policy directly, without going through his prime minister. Indeed, France has played a central role in preparing for this war since October 2010 by organizing a failed military coup and then, as early as November 2010, by planning with the United Kingdom the bombing of Libya and the landing of ground troops on its soil, which was then believed to be feasible, and finally by actively conspiring in the lethal unrest in Benghazi which led to the war.
In addition, France, more than any other power, has deployed Special Forces on the ground – without uniforms, no doubt – and violated the arms embargo by supplying the insurgents, either directly or through Qatari airplanes. Not to mention that France has violated the UN freeze of Libyan assets, funnelling part of the fabulous cash from the Libyan Sovereign Fund to the CNT puppets, to the detriment of the Libyan people who wanted to guarantee the well-being of their children in the face of oil depletion.
These gentlemen from NATO, who hoped to escape international justice by crushing their victim, Libya, in a few short days so that it would not survive to pursue them, will be disenchanted. Libya is still there. She is filing complaints with the International Criminal Court, the Belgian courts (whose jurisdiction NATO falls under), the European Court of Justice, and the national courts of aggressor states. She is undertaking steps before the Council of Human Rights in Geneva, the Security Council and General Assembly of the United Nations. It will be not be possible for the big powers to extinguish these fires all at once. Worse, the arguments they will use to evade a court will ricochet against them in another court. In a few weeks or months, if they have not succeeded in destroying Tripoli, they will have no other way out to avoid humiliating convictions than to negotiate the withdrawal of the complaints at a very high price.
Thierry Meyssan
[1] Putting an end to the confusion that prevailed at the beginning of the war when various departments hired lawyers for different disorderly proceedings, Libya has appointed Marcel Ceccaldi in July to oversee all proceedings.
[2] “Journalists who engage in war propaganda must be held accountable”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, 16 August 2011.
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Thierry Meyssan
Thierry Meyssan French intellectual, founder and chairman of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace Conference. His columns specializing in international relations feature in daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last two books published in English : 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate.
Dr. Moussa Ibrahim August 21st Press Conference on NATO Massacre in Tripoli
Posted: 2011/08/22
From: Mathaba http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628179
When NATO has lost the war and the west has collapsed from the falsehood it is built upon, clear documentation will show the media war, never clearer and with more proofs than Libya. Another reason NATO does not want to stop so as to hope to avoid future prosecution for crimes against humanity.
Tripoli (mathaba) — The world is responsible and witness to the crimes being committed against Libyans in Tripoli, with NATO increasing bombing on and around Tripoli to offer support to rebels entering the previously peaceful city. The death toll last night 20th August was 376 dead and almost 900 injured. This includes NATO attacks on check points, army, soldiers and streets and neighbourhoods, others committed by rebels.
Confirmation from Libyan General People’s Committee for Health has meanwhile come to light with statistics showing that since midday 21st August up to 11pm, during 11 hours of violence, with now 1300 have been killed in Tripoli alone and 5000 injured and the hospitals cannot cope.
The world can see that a peaceful city where journalists were living for many months is being attacked by NATO and attacking the heart of a peaceful civilian city, an army that is in defensive positions, and is attacking volunteers who came out of their houses, leaving their mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers,
to defend their city and NATO gives direct air cover to these armed gangs who have no political project.
The rebels want revenge, filled with hatred, supported by tribal conflict and bitterness from recent years, to destroy this city, especially the tribes, citizens and neighbourhoods that are well known for supporting Muammar Qaddafi.
We expect the death toll to rise beyond anyone’s imagination. Supported by the might of NATO, without which the armed gangs would not be able to move a meter, face our army and tribes and families and volunteers, but because NATO kills anything that moves in front of the rebels, the rebels are able to advance.
We appeal to the world, to the heart of this world. People in my city are being killed, day in and day out, without any way out without any possible way for negotiations. We have talked before that you cannot condition peace, you have to sit down, talk and then discuss everything. Who has the right to take an agenda outside the peace talks, and say you cannot discuss this.
We said before we have accepted the African Union road map, we accept negotiations and talks, we can sit down with all parties, achieve peace and agree how to move forward for Libya, but no one wants to listen because all NATO cares about is to destroy the Libyan political system so that it can have a political system that will fulfil its own desires, not the desire of the Libyan nation, but the desires of NATO.
A most significant proportion of the Libyan people made their views very clear when they came out on the streets [with green flags and photos of Muammar Qaddafi], in their millions. Should these people not be heard, listened to and believed?
1300 dead, 5000 injured, in just 11 hours, our hospitals are unable to cope with such a disaster, the red cross is here in Tripoli while hoping to help, but the security situation is quite difficult.
We are very resilient and still very strong, we have thousands and thousands of fighters still remaining, who have nowhere to go but to fight, so this will increase and increase and the death toll will increase because each side is terrified of the other side if they will win. So let us suspend all military operations and violence.
NATO can order the rebels to stop immediately, we can order our troops and volunteers to stop immediately and then we sit. And the same as the rebels have their leader or leaders who will lead their negotiations and without them the rebels would be lost or destroyed, we too have our leader, Muammar Qaddafi. We need him to lead us for peace and a way out of this. If you take Muammar Qaddafi out of the equation a whole side will collapse and become an easy pray for the other side. That is why people are fighting for Qaddafi.
You cannot deprive millions of people of the leader they choose and they want and let them be easy pray for a vengeful, hateful side, disorganized, without a proper leadership, you saw them they killed their own commander of their army, they are penetrated with Al-Qaida elements, they are very tribal.
So we hold the world responsible. They have already committed crimes in Tripoli, they have burned houses in Tajoura, in Souk el Juma, in Tashnoun, in Al-Arada, they have kidnapped people, they have killed people walking in the streets who were ordinary citizens just because they were well-known supporters of the government, not military people but just normal civilians, they have attacked shops they have taken money from shops, and the fight is not over.
We are really fighting them and defeating them in many neighbourhoods, and yet although they haven’t suffered yet, they have already started their wave of crimes. If burning houses, burning cars, kidnapping people, killing people in the streets is not crimes, then what is. The world cannot claim that it did not know.
Since early morning you know you need to stop this disaster from taking place. As for us, we will fight, we have whole cities on our side, they are coming en masse from everywhere to protect Tripoli to join the fight, people have the right to fight for themselves, and their families and their property and their future.
People will not give up. I talk to people and ask why are you fighting and the answer is always: I have no other way out. I would want peace, to sit down, negotiate and stop this madness, if I don’t fight I would be killed, because I belong to a family that supported the government, or I belong to a tribe that made its voice clear, or I belong to a neighbourhood… so people are terrified and fighting out of fear, and the other side (rebels) are fighting out of fear as well.
NATO should not provide immediate and direct support for one side in a civil war. This is illegal and immoral. One side is killing and NATO is giving them support.
NATO will be held responsible, morally and legally, for the deaths taking place in Tripoli, this night, last night and in the coming nights. They cannot say that this was not expected to happen. They are rocketing our city and they have indeed killed many children, many men and many women. We will fight because we have the right to. We have the leader Qaddafi, he led us in this confrontation for dignity and our freedom from NATO’s agendas. Qaddafi should lead us for our peace, our democracy, and our negotiation. — mathaba #
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Truth Media Hero Dr Moussa Ibrahim: Disappointment With Western Media
Posted: 2011/08/21
From: Mathaba
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628159
Dr Moussa Ibrahim, spokesperson for the Libyan Jamahiriya Media
(mathaba) — Dr Moussa Ibrahim spoke today just days after the martyrdom of his brother who had gone to visit friends after hearing of them being in danger was murdered by a British Apache helicopter violating Libyan African air space in contravention of the No Fly Zone.
He said he is so disappointed in the West, as they formerly “behaved like they were my friends and I’ve been happy and glad about that. I thought I was part of a new international movement that believed in the truth… but in this conflict I saw a different West, I saw the West I read about in history books, the West of… killing and occupation, the West that came to this country 100 years ago and killed my grandfathers and uncles, the West that had no morals and no conscience…”
He said that the only difference is this “new West” is living in the illusion of morality and the illusion of conscience, it has this amazing media machine, that spins everything and makes the world live in an illusion. Dr Musa Ibrahim, the popular Libyan government media spokesperson who has earned the respect and love of a billion people around the world for his truthful reporting no matter the situation in Libya, said “we have honour, giving up means gangs will have our country, which means killings, killings, killings. The world has a short memory. The West needs to restore its morality. With the cover of NATO cowards can march forward.”
He also said that NATO has gone mad and aids terrorists, and he called to sit down and negotiate and try to find a solution in peace, yet another offer from the Libyan people’s government given from a position of strength, not weakness, as most of the country is back under government control after non-stop bombing by NATO since March 20. #
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Dr. al-Ibrahim must give the journalists and reporters staying in Libya an ultimatum (like he did in March with “al-Jazeera”): “Either you tell the truth or you must leave Libya.”
NATO Slaughter Of Libyan Civilians Continues
Posted: 2011/08/21
From: Source
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628165
By JoAnne Moriarty
You all should know that NATO is rabid to take Zawia so that they can stop ALL supplies to Tripoli. Today, Sky news reported a HUGE LIE about how everyone in Zawia is happy about the rebels (NOT EVER) and the rebels are in control of Zawia (not true). They are now openly admitting that they have foreign troops, weapons, etc., in their midst. This particular reporter was overheard discussing this lie and he stated that NATO had informed HIM that they will kill ANYBODY, to include civilians who get in their way of taking over the Libyan Government. NATO sent 17 bombs into civilian neighbor hoods the night before and they sent Apache gunships into the square in Zawia where the civilians were celebrating the routing of the rebel gangs out of their city. They fired on these unarmed citizens with the gunships and killed many, including the brother of Dr. Moussa Ibrahim.
According to our inside sources, Zawia is the rebels attempt at a “last stand”, they are in their death dance and NATO is frantic. They have lost Misurata, they have lost Zlitan, they are not in control anywhere in the west now. So, killing civilians is on the table. What I don’t understand is how they think they can take Tripoli when 2 million people here are against them? Most of the Tripoli people are armed now, this country is completely against these rebels, more than 90% – How in the hell do they plan to take over? Who will follow them? It will have to be a police state, NATO has become a terrorist organization, with the western news media in complete compliance.
NATO is using AMERICAN made Apache helicopters to kill innocent civilians who are celebrating the rout of the rebel gangs from their city, the crimes are multiple. First by US law no military weapons of any kind can be used by anyone in aggressive acts, so here is US hardware killing unarmed innocent civilians. Second, NATO was NEVER authorized to fire upon unarmed civilians. Third, the UN was never authorized to fire upon unarmed innocent civilians, so violation of both the UN and NATO charters have occurred. Also, when massive numbers of civilian deaths are involved then violation of International laws have been committed but worse than that is the violation of human rights that have occurred.
We have asked these people what they would do if Ghadafi was killed? They state that any chance there might have been in the past for reconciliation with these rebels has completely disappeared. At one time it may have been NATO against Ghadafi but now it is NATO against the civilians. All the Libyans we meet tell us that they are now fighting for their country and their culture. When NATO blows up a power plant, it does not hurt Ghadafi, it hurts the people, when NATO blockades fuel and food and medicine, it does not hurt Ghadafi, it hurts the people, when NATO bombs the civilian neighbor hoods, it does not hurt Ghadafi, it hurts the people, and the list goes on.
We came here on a fact finding mission and have learned things that have shocked us to our core. We are witness to numerous atrocities by NATO and these so called rebels being supported actively, in any way, by NATO. The treatment of Libyan civilians as if they are not human and have no rights, the blatant killing, raping, murdering and bombing of all kinds of civilians and civilian infrastructure removes any thought of legitimacy that NATO or these rebels could ever hope to garner. We stand as witness to the world and we scream to the world STOP THIS INHUMANITY, STOP THE KILLING, STOP THE SEIGE, on the innocent people of Libya. NATO and their illegal minions do not want to accept that 90% of the Libyan people DO NOT WANT THESE rebels in charge of anything. So, what next, kill 90% of the Libyans? Where is their mantra – “we want democracy?” – Now?
The people of the world need to open their eyes and stand up against these daily crimes against humanity and blatant attempt to over throw a sovereign government which is not permitted by an statute anywhere in the world.
Jimmy and JoAnne
20th August 2011
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Thierry Meyssan writes:
Al Qaeda forces (radical Islamists) entered Tripoli yesterday by the sea. These forces are supervised by NATO special forces. They have taken a number of mosques in which speakers are calling for an insurrection.
Other forces (the Bearded) run through the city shooting anything that moves.
Some Libyan officials have sought refuge at the Hotel Rixos to escape bombing targeted to kill them. The hotel is under attack, but defended by the army.
Al Qaeda forces are few and by themselves do not constitute a military threat, they are just looking to provoke chaos and hope for an uprising of the population.
Gaddafi has just called the people to arms and is organizing a retaliation.
Tomorrow will be a cleansing of the infiltrators.
Moussa Ibrahim speaks of 1300 people killed from 12.00 noon until 23.00 on August 21 with 5000 wounded. He expressed his fear that many families who are well-known people supporting Gaddafi are afraid that they will be killed by the Rebels to settle scores. They either need to fight or get killed.
He mentioned the killing of a civilian who was simply walking on the street. He was killed because he was a supporter of the Jamahiriya.
NATO has killed quite a lot of these 1300 people by bombing checkpoints and everything else that they have relentlessly bombed today.
He asks NATO to order their Rebels to return in order to prevent a massacre taking place in Tripoli. NATO is held responsible for this blood bath. They made sure the Rebels could enter Tripoli and settle the scores.
Let’s just hope it will not turn out as terrible as Moussa Ibrahim predicts, but his account seems logical. Both parties are filled with fear and hatred towards each other.
Libyan Leader Qadhafi Speech
Posted: 2011/08/21
From: Mathaba
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628172
Some excerpts from Muammar Qaddafi’s speech just now
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Apparently NATO is doing extreme heavy bombing and destruction (which they are blaming on “Gadhafi forces”). Saif and Mahamoud are ok and NOT being held. There are some al-Qaeda that are trying to cause havoc from the mosques. Hopefully they will be cleaned-out. The biggest problem is the 3000+ deaths and the 15,000 injured by NATO’s bombs. The few al-Qaeda snipers that are near the ROXOS HOTEL and CNN who is working with NATO and the Bengazi CNT, are forcing the journalists at gunpoint to write lies or die. Snipers will not permit the good journalists to leave. Hopefully this will be cleaned-up soon. JUST PRAY PLEASE!
The mainstream media are working with NATO to spread disinformation and waging a psychological war on the people of Tripoli.
The Libyan government has implemented a truly brilliant strategy and it has yielded the results they had hoped for. The tribes, true to their word, have come to Tripoli’s aid. A full report will follow later.
I have now from RELIABLE sources that the Libyan army is still in control of Tripoli. Al J footage of Green Sq was FAKE. Gaddafi went to Green Sq with one of his sons. Things much calmer now. More info soon. – L.P.
Mahdi Nazemrova, a reporter and political analyst in Tripoli, says that what the world is witnessing is NATO’s war against Libya. NATO is in control and the ‘rebels’ follow NATO’s lead. The ‘rebels’ sporadic attacks in Tripoli have been aimed to break down the morale and cause panic in NATO’s psychological war.
The mainstream media are an arm of NATO to spread disinformation. NATO has been bombing the civilian security checkpoints guarded by volunteers with the help of the mainstream media reporters locating them in Tripoli. The role of the mainstream media is to spread lies, acting as part of the NATO’s war machine.
The truth reporters, most independent reporters, are now being shot at and hunted by the snipers.
Watch the real report directly from Tripoli.
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http://cyaegha-c.livejournal.com/460657.html
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NATO troops in Tripoli
It’s no longer a surprise that a media war is being waged against Gaddafi and Libya. In March, all news were breaking and highly contradictive towards each other. A month passed until Libyans finally learned to disprove the lies, but while the news themselves grew relatively neutral, a new wave of misinformation was being prepared.
It arose in global media approximately on 15th of August, when a Saudi Arabia newspaper Asharq Alawsat told that Gaddafi is allegedly ill and ready to leave the country. Saudis, mortal enemies of Muammar Gaddafi, were, of course, such a reliable source, that all other papers followed.
In the same time news channels were choking with new victories of the insurgency. It looked like it took rebels a couple of hours to occupy a city, making poor Moussa Ibrahim steam from his ears, proving to journalists that it is virtually impossible. All this show was a careful preparation for the main course – the taking of Tripoli. But in spite of mercenaries parachuted from Misurata to the south, despite attempts to cut the road from Tunisia, despite the insurgents’ zerg rush on all fronts, much of the rebel success remained on the screen. And cities cannot be taken by illusion. Therefore, NATO decided to pursue the most risky way: beginning the ground operation.
To cover it up and in the same time spread chaos and panic among Libyans, a set of Tripoli’s Green Square, Bab al-Azizya and several streets was constructed in Doha, Qatar, and videos of successful uprising in Tripoli and its takeover by the rebels were being made. The directors used the same stratagem that their civilian counterparts in Vietnam War movies: to draw their supposed victories.
On the 20th of August, Twitter, the major supplier of nonexistent witnesses came to life, like a shelled hornet nest. Rebels reported about fights in the city center – with smartphones in the free hand, no doubt. Some have gone further and managed alone to fully capture the west of the city. With the blessings of the almighty Photoshop pictures of rebels against Tripoli and Zawya were shown. Making sure that the February script goes according to plan, and the audience does not seem to mind, the forces of democracy gave a sign to the “moles”, long located in the capital and waiting for this day.
The saboteurs ran recorded sounds of battle through speakers of the mosques, to mislead the citizens and give reporters the reason to write about the “audible gunfights and explosions”. Simultaneously, dozens of armed people from Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt leaked to several areas of the city, shooting and threatening Libyans. Several Apaches flew in and bombed. The premier of the Qatari film failed at the box office, and the saboteurs were quickly dealt with, but they turned out to be a distraction. NATO marines and mercenaries were arriving from the sea in small fast boats.
The slaughter began. Within 11 hours, 1300 innocent civilians were killed in Tripoli, and 5000 injured, as French Foreign Legion and Al Qaeda cut their way through. All this time, the bombings continued non-stop. Three Apaches flew over the city, firing their mini-cannons. The gangs of Al Qaeda were burning houses, looting shops and assaulting every woman in sight. Any prominent supporter of Gaddafi was targeted and their houses attacked first. The number of gangs is still increasing right now, coming in from the sea in the small NATO crafts, and directed by the Special Forces of all the aggressor nations. Right now, the situation is unclear due to power cuts and informational blockade.
These are news you will never hear from BBC or CNN: your taxes spent on mercenaries, that kill women and children in a country that never posed a threat to Europe or USA. And while you savor this wonderful notion, let us take a closer look on Qatari Hollywood:
Aristeidis Karamessinis
writes 22 août 09:48
Internet is back up and running in Tripoli. Confirmed by phone
Germany Sends Military Terror Forces Into Libya For NATO
Posted: 2011/08/22
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628184?rss
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The Grenz Schutz Gruppe (Border Guard Group) GSG-9 which is German so-called military elite special forces are now in Libya, German media has revealed.
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Tripoli (mathaba) — In an all-out final attempt to try to install a capitalist bankers government in Libya, terrorist rebels have entered the capital city after being dropped by sea during massive bombing by NATO clearing the way for them to enter to a blood bath.
The German government has officially sent in its GSG-9 forces in violation of Africa’s sovereignty under the guise of protecting German diplomats, however these forces are without any permission and there is no danger to the German diplomats, who are free to leave Libya.
This comes in a report by renowned German media publication “Der Spiegel”.
Mathaba analysts are predicting a victory for Muammar Qaddafi, because the NATO objective is to kill the symbolic hero of the Libyan revolution, who brought about one of the highest standards of living in the world, with a socialist and democratic government that is a model alternative to capitalism.
Unlike the bankrupt states of NATO — the USA, Britain, France, and much of western Europe — which are attacking Libya in a desperate grab for Africa’s resources, Libya being the wealthiest nation, in Libya all medical, dental, housing, electricity are provided to citizens free of charge from the oil revenue.
In capitalist countries such as Australia, poverty is rampant, with mining and national resources going into the coffers of private conglomerates to the tune of trillions of dollars annually, instead of being shared among the population as is the case in the Libyan Jamahiriya system.
The tebels with strong NATO fire support and bombing and aided by other foreign agents which GSG-9 is now joining, have entered the capital city which is directly on the shore line and unprotected from the sea, after NATO wiped out the small Libyan navy at the beginning of its attacks in March.
Having promised a 2 to 3 day operation to “get rid” of popular Libyan symbol and historic revolutionary Muammar Qaddafi, 6 months later the NATO forces, popularly known as the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization, have still failed to make advances in Libya in spite of an all out media war of disinformation.
After Libyan defence forces moved out of Tripoli to come to the aid of besieged towns and cities in outlying areas of the largely desert country, NATO saw its change to push the rebels forward and drop them into Tripoli on the night of August 20th, resulting in over 1300 deaths and 5000 injuries during the first half day alone, overwhelming the otherwise well-equipped hospitals.
The German report in Der Spiegel says that the situation is unclear and that the German GSG-9 troops claim they were sent in order to protect German diplomats and that the German troops are now already in operation in Tripoli.
The German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle had already violated Libyan sovereignty by flying into Benghazi in May, a city under occupation by Al-Qaida allied terrorists, without a visa nor permission, in a direct snub to Africa’s borders and the African Union peace road map, where he conducted talks with the TNC terrorist council.
In 2005, Der Spiegel reports, there was a private Germany company of “former GSG-9” members active in Libya, to assist for a short time Libyan security forces in the war against terror. The German intelligence office “BND” had “been informed” of the visit, thus giving it approval.
Now, the paper reports, the participation of German soldiers is in the war for Libya between the government and the rebel opposition. Eleven German soldiers work in the NATO fighting group although the German government officially denies any participation in fighting. German Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière defended the engagement as “normal course of work” and rejected a parliamentary inquiry.
Germany was initially strongly opposed to the French-US-British NATO adventure in Libya until the CIA made an attempt on the German leader Merkel, with an NEMP device almost bringing down the aircraft she was thought to be travelling on, inside Germany, which recovered loss of height just before hitting the ground, although she was on a different flight. After this she flew to Washington and received orders and did an about-face on the Libyan involvement.
The German Green party however have not ruled out a case in the legal courts to challenge the issue.
“Hour Zero Has Begun”
Since 6 months the rebels in Libya has been fighting with the help of NATO against the Libyan people (Der Spiegel says against Qaddafi). Now it appears that the crucial deciding juncture has been reached, the paper says, because the rebels have, by their own admission, entered the capital city for the first time.
In the night to Sunday, according to residents in many parts of the city there were hour long gun fights between rebels and the Libyan defence forces. Also after day break on Sunday there were shots to be heard, as reporters reported from the city center.
One rebel said by telephone with one of the journalists of Reuters, that snipers had taken up positions on the roofs of buildings around the Qaddafi complex. Many residents were injured. While he spoke, there were shots audible in the background.
“The zero hour has begun. The rebels in Tripoli have stood up”, said the vice president of the TNC terrorists, Abdel Hafis Ghoga. Britain also sees in the conflict a turning point according to foreign secretary Alistair Burt on Sky News.
NATO did not want to confirm that the rebels have pushed into Tripoli. NATO speaker Roland Lavoie, said on Sunday in Brussels, that the situation is constantly changing. It is difficult to know the position with accuracy he said.
A German report by the dpa news agency, Germany’s government news agency, said that Qaddafi had already left the city and will go with his family possibly to Algeria. Mathaba has denied this report, and confirmed that Qaddafi took his Kalashnikov and has gone to the front line of the resistance to give motivation to the population defending their nation and Africa against external aggression.
The German news agency claimed “well informed sources” for the false report which will lose credibility for Germany’s government news media.
Qaddafi gives defiant speech
Still in the morning, Qaddafi gave a speech on Libyan TV which was supplied with sound, urging Libyan patriots to stand firm. The attacks have been deflected and rebel fighter eliminated, he said.
According to Reuters news agency the fights appeared limited to a few isolated parts of the city, and have not at first spread around the entire capital.
Rebels however claimed that they are trying from the west and south to get further into the city. The sea, from which forces were dropped by small boats under NATO firepower, is to the north. Since 6 months the rebels have been protected and assisted by NATO, Der Spiegel pointed out.
NATO also continued to fly with increased bombings of Tripoli on the night to Sunday, and the rebels say that the coming hours are decisive.
Translation by Mathaba News Agency #
http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
21 August 2011
Carnage in Tripoli
Posted: 2011/08/22
From: Mathaba
Carnage in TripoliPosted:
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628176?rss
1300 innocent civilians were killed in Tripoli already within the first 11 hours plus over 5000 injured citizens.
Tripoli, Libya (mathaba) All the carnage was distant until night fell then the sea boiled over with small fast boats that dumped 10 or more Special Forces and Al Qaida killers at hundreds of point along the beach in and around Tripoli.
NATO at the outset of the war in March destroyed the entire Libyan navy which was peacefully sitting in the ports, and was thus unable to defend Africa’s northern shore.
The slaughter began at that moment last night 21 August. Small gangs and snipers which targeted 2 Mathaba reporters who both survived, inside the city proved successful in providing distraction and allowed the unfettered invasion from the sea and already hospitals reported 1,300 dead as NATO has bombed security checkpoints around the city to pave the way for armed gangs to enter Tripoli.
Killing hundreds of thousands of Libyans in the next few days may be the result of this full fledged attack on a sovereign nation by NATO, the military forces of Britain, Europe, the USA, Canada and supported by other fascist regimes as well as the deafening silence of the populations of those countries who have not given sufficient voice against the war against Africa which has raged now since 6 months.
1300 innocent civilians were killed in Tripoli already within the first 11 hours plus over 5000 injured citizens. Non-stop bombings and 3 Apache gunships firing their mini-cannons constantly are the killers along with gangs of Al Qaida supporters who are burning houses, looting shops and kidnapping every woman in sight in order to demoralise families. Any prominent supporter of Qaddafi was targeted and their houses attacked first.
The number of gangs have been increasing because they are coming in from the sea in small NATO craft directed by the Special Forces of the aggressor nations.
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Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan confirmed by Dr Franklin Lamb argues that Libyan government forces remain in de facto control of the city.
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628186
Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan who is in Tripoli says allowing the rebels inside the capital could well be a strategic move on the part of Libya troops who have corralled the rebels into a single location.
“What we have heard is that the strategy of the Libyan government and army was to permit the rebels into the city because previously they have been operating in a sneaky manner and it was very difficult to know who they were and where they were hiding, so that they could be dealt with in a direct manner,” the journalist says, adding that if this information proves true – it would be interesting to see what NATO undertakes to support the rebels on the ground.
Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya from the Center for Research on Globalisation is in Tripoli too, saying the situation is critical and the next several hours will be decisive.
According to journalist, the rebels have ordered snipers to control the area around the hotel where foreign journalist are staying.
“There is no security, the only security is journalists securing the perimeter [of the hotel] by themselves,” Mahdi Nazemroaya said, adding that the rebels have been checking the documentation of guests at the hotel, which has been abandoned by staff, and have discovered that some of the journalists using the hotel are not journalists at all.
Mahdi Nazemroaya says “Yugoslavian” tactics have been used, with NATO bombing out military and civil infrastructure to clear the way for the rebels.
“NATO did all the work here with the bombing and their leaders must be held accountable as war criminals for killing civilians,” he said.
Looters are already ripping off computers and screen projection units from the first floor of the hotel, going through rooms and grabbing whatever they can.
The journalists in the deserted hotel are panicky, hanging signs saying “TV” and “PRESS” wherever they can, including on themselves.
Journalists are hoping against hope that they will be evacuated from the hotel by international contingents from the UN, not NATO. Nazemroaya says crowds have gathered outside the hotel with the express aim of sowing panic and intimidating the press.
Another source from Tripoli, Dr Franklin Lamb, who was shot in his leg by a sniper on Sunday, says lots of people in Libya including himself suspect the Libyan government is “louring” the rebels in, allowing them to have some fun at the Green Square while planning a counter-attack to finally defeat them. He says the battle for Tripoli is not over and it is unsure who exactly controls Tripoli at the moment.
Dr Lamb also said NATO is blocking any attempts by rebels to negotiate with the Libyan government.
“We have talked to rebels who want negotiations,” he said. “They don’t want to kill their Libyan brothers and sisters. NATO has forbidden that. This is NATO’s campaign. They need Gaddafi dead or out of the country, so that they can claim a victory. In a sense, they are using the rebels as pawns. And when the thing is over, depending on which way it plays out, I think there will be enormous infighting.”
NATO is nothing more than assassins, murderers, terrorists and worse. Syria looks like a playground compared to Tripoli with bombs falling non-stop. #
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Propaganda War Attempting To Boost Rebels
Posted: 2011/08/21
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628171
Foreign news media networks BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Arabia, PressTV and others are once again spreading lies such as that the son of Muammar Qaddafi, Saif al Islam, has been captured.
They are also reporting on snipers to sow confusion and fear but they fail to mention that the snipers are western agents and are attempting also to assassinate truth reporters, in what is clearly a targeted campaign to prevent any media coverage of events and manage it via the above compromised media networks.
Libyan news web sites have been taken off the Internet in attempts to silence and prevent the government from being able to report to the world, given that foreign media residing in Libya have proven themselves incapable of doing so.
For this reason, over the past days and weeks there have been frequent attempts to take Mathaba News off line all of which have failed, with Mathaba remaining as the only independent news network on-line during the current crisis.
It is also the reason that the foreign agents operating in Tripoli have been tasked with eliminating independent truth news reporters Dr Franklin Lamb, Mahdi Nazemroaya and Lizzie Phelan, the first two of which have been shot at during the past few hours, but escaped the assassination attempts.
Several reporters and journalists with western agencies are working directly with NATO as intelligence agents, and a CNN journalist threatened Mahdi Nazemroaya wishing that he be killed by the terrorist rebels, after a sniper narrowly missed him while he was on the roof of the hotel.
He had gone onto the roof to put a large white sheet with PRESS written on it with tomato sauce (ketchup) so that NATO air craft would not have any excuse for bombing the hotel. However, NATO has a history of deliberately targeting journalists covering war zones. #
Confirmed by Leonor:
There are currently French, GERMAN and English troops on the Libyan coast about 20 km from Tripoli trying to enter the city.now!
NATO Slaughter in Tripoli: Operation Siren Signals Assault by Rebels’ Al Qaeda Death Squads
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http://tarpley.net/
Thierry Meyssan
TARPLEY.net
21 August 2011
Tripoli, Libya, Aug. 22, 2011, 1 AM CET– On Saturday evening, at 8pm, when the hour of Iftar marked the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the NATO command launched its “Operation Siren” against Libya.
The Sirens were the loudspeakers of the mosques, which were used to launch Al Qaeda’s call to revolt against the Qaddafi government. Immediately the sleeper cells of the Benghazi rebels went into action. These were small groups with great mobility, which carried out multiple attacks. The overnight fighting caused 350 deaths and 3,000 wounded.
The situation calmed somewhat on Sunday during the course of the day.
Then, a NATO warship sailed up and anchored just off the shore at Tripoli, delivering heavy weapons and debarking Al Qaeda jihadi forces, which were led by NATO officers.
Fighting started again during the night. There were intense firefights. NATO drones and aircraft kept bombing in all directions. NATO helicopters strafed civilians in the streets with machine guns to open the way for the jihadis.
In the evening, a motorcade of official cars carrying top government figures came under attack. The convoy fled to the Hotel Rixos, where the foreign press is based. NATO did not dare to bomb the hotel because they wanted to avoid killing the journalists. Nevertheless the hotel, which is where I am staying, is now under heavy fire.
At 11:30pm, the Health Minister had to announce that the hospitals were full to overflowing. On Sunday evening, there had been 1300 additional dead and 5,000 wounded.
NATO had been charged by the UN Security Council with protecting civilians in Libya. In reality, France and Great Britain have just re-started their colonial massacres.
At 1am, Khamis Qaddafi came to the Rixos Hotel personally to deliver weapons for the defense of the hotel. He then left. There is now heavy fighting all around the hotel.
Thierry Meyssan
http://jacques.tourtaux.over-blog.com.over-blog.com/article-ordre-a-ete-donne-par-des-journalistes-us-d-abattre-mahdi-darius-nazemroaya-et-thierry-meyssan-82159979.html
Held-up for safety in a mosque
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Libyan Highway in the West:
Open Letter to NATO Commanders and Political Leaders
21.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/21-08-2011/118809-letter_nato-0/
Open Letter to NATO Commanders and Political Leaders. 45180.jpegJust what exactly do you think you are doing in Libya? Did anyone elect you? Did you heed the Libyan Government’s call for a democratic election? Since when is attacking civilians with US Apache helicopters in your Rules of Engagement? How do you explain the wanton strafing of civilian structures with military hardware?
Why are you taking sides in an internal conflict which as you know very well, is against international law? UNSC Resolution 2131 (XX) of 21 December 1965, containing the Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States was backed up by Resolutions 31/91 of 14 December 1976, 32/153 of 19 December 1977, 33/74 of 15 December 1978, 34/101 of 14 December 1979 and 35/159 of 12 December 1980 on non-interference in the internal affairs of States. Why then is NATO actively engaged in supporting armed groups of youths, many of whom are not even Libyan?
Why is NATO using armed force to aid terrorist mercenaries shipped in from Egypt and Tunes against Libyan civilians?
Why did the Libyan uprising start on the frontiers and not in the capital city, Tripoli? Why is the vast majority of the capital city firmly behind Colonel Gaddafi? Why are most Libyans in other parts of the country taking a stand with the Government and against the groups of thugs you support with your military hardware?
Why do you support people who commit atrocities? Why do the people of the towns they “liberate” fight them off with guns? Why are they hated across Libya?
Why is NATO strafing civilians and civilian structures with military hardware, against Article 3 of the Statute of The Hague International Penal Court which states clearly that one criterion for indictment for war crimes is:
“Attack or bombardment, by whatever means, against undefended cities, towns, villages, buildings or houses”.
Another clause of the same Article 3 could also be invoked:
“Massive destruction of cities, towns or villages or destruction not justified by military necessity”.
The attack on Libya’s water supply network on Friday July 22 and the attack on the factory making pipes for the supply system on Saturday July 23 in al-Brega were not covered under “military necessity” in which case, under Article 3, this was an act of wanton destruction of civilian structures with military hardware. This renders NATO liable for trial by its own court, the ICC at The Hague;
Why is NATO aiding terrorists which by the definition of its own member states are on the list of proscribed terrorist groups?
There is evidence that armed groups fighting inside Libya include the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) which according to the British Government: “The LIFG seeks to replace the current Libyan regime with a hard-line Islamic state. The group is also part of the wider global Islamist extremist movement, as inspired by Al Qa’ida. The group has mounted several operations inside Libya, including a 1996 attempt to assassinate Mu’ammar Qadhafi” and for which reason is on the Home Office list of proscribed terrorist groups (1);
Why did NATO not aid the UNSC to reach a peaceful solution to this problem, something which the Libyan Government has been trying to achieve from the beginning? Under the UN Charter, Chapter VI, Article 33, member states must “seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice”.
Did NATO do this in the case of Libya? No, it used a false flag event, namely the massacre of civilians by “rebel” forces (the allegations must be investigated).
Why did NATO not convene the Military Staff Committee of the UNSC? Under the UN Charter, Chapter VII, Article 46: “Plans for the application of armed force shall be made by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee”. Such committee was never convened.
This is a violation of the UN Charter rendering Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) void, as indeed is the response by NATO;
Chapter VII, Article 51 refers to the right of States to defend themselves against armed insurgency:
“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security”
in which case NATO had no reason to attack the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
Why is NATO continuing to arm the terrorist elements in Libya, why is NATO placing boots on the ground, why are NATO forces making raids on the Libyan coastline, why are French contingents in the western mountains, why is the French Foreign Legion involved in the fighting, why is NATO not inspecting vessels ferrying weapons to the terrorist elements, all of these in direct contradiction of the terms on UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011)?
Why is NATO committing war crimes in its attempts to murder individuals? Without any formal declaration of war, NATO’s strikes against civilian structures come outside any possible conditions imposed by rules of engagement, in which case the armed attack against a civilian residence occasioning the murder of Muammar al-Qathafi’s son Saif al-Arab al-Qathafi and three of his grandchildren would occasion a case for prosecution; furthermore other strikes against structures where Muammar al-Qathafi was alleged to have been would constitute cases for prosecution for attempted murder;
Why is NATO violating the terms of the Geneva Conventions in Libya? Violation of the Geneva Conventions by NATO: Under the Geneva Convention IV, Article 3 (a): “To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons: (a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds:”
Armed attacks with military hardware against civilian structures occasioning murder, grievous bodily harm of actual bodily harm render NATO liable under this clause.
NATO does not represent the collective will of humankind, NATO is a criminal organization which commits murder and attacks civilians arming terrorists and involving itself in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, all against international law, NATO violates the UN Charter, NATO violates the UNSC Resolutions, NATO violates the Geneva Conventions. NATO therefore does not have the right to represent anybody; it is no more than the military wing of the lobbies which control the policies of its member states.
We did not vote for NATO, we do not want NATO. Either NATO listens to the collective will of humanity or else it will suffer the consequences of its actions. You can only spit in the wind for so long. No future development inside Libya will free NATO from prosecution for the crimes mentioned above and whatever development there may be, NATO will not “win” anything in this conflict. How can you “win” a game on an uneven playing field with three times as many players?
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
(1) http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/counter-terrorism/
proscribed-terror-groups/proscribed-groups?view=Binary …
Persons to be included in legal processes for indictment:
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Denmark) NATO Secretary-General; Charles Bouchard (Canada), Commander of Operations; Nicolas Sarkozy, Édouard Guillaud (France); Rinaldo Veri, Commander Allied Maritime Command (Italy); David Cameron, Sir Stuart Peach (UK); Barack Obama, Carter Ham, Sam Locklear (USA); Harald Sunde (Norway), Abdullah II (Jordan); Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani (Qatar), Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan (UAE); Sverker Goranson (Sweden) and the Defence Ministers Pieter de Crem (Belgium), Anuy Angelov (Bulgaria), Gitte Lillelund Bech (Denmark); Panos Beglitis (Greece); Hans Hillen (Netherlands); Gabriel Oprea (Romania);Carme Chacón Piqueras (Spain); Ismet Yilmaz (Turkey).
Fridrich Hlàva writes on 22 August 2011:
As a Lybian military has declared, it is obvious that the Lybian armed fo rces have a new victory. They willingly opened the “doors” to Tripolis to lure the RATS into Tripolis. The “rebels” had “swallowed ” this and and now they have lost 70 % of entire forces!! In this moment the GREEN SQUARE is fully under control of Lybian Army. In Gargalesh there were heavy fights – the inhabitants have fought the RATS-“rebels”. The Lybian Army is now cleaning Tripolis and other places. Following of the batle of Tadjur the Lybian Army is in full control over this town. Khamis Kaddafi is commanding his troops in Tripolis and Tripolis is out of danger!!!The local inhabitants actively join the volunteer troops. There are 35.000 volunteer proLybian fighters only in Tripolis. The RATS and Al Kajda members in Tripolis were anihilated and a large group of them has run away!! They were terminated by an enlarged troop of volunteers!! All who were running eastwards were destroyed. Now we have informations, that the antilybian rebels asked NATO to bomb Tripolis!!Sometime ago the RATS informed that they have captured Sajl Al Islam and MOhammed Kaddafi- both of them are safe and dong their duties. The antilybian forces have delivered no proves about capturing the sons of colonel Kaddafi- mobil phones they do have and they diod not made pictures about thecaptured Kadafi sons- so this is a comlete lie. It is very strange that they missed to show such a good news for them??!! Sajf Al islam has been seen in streets of the port. And there is a news that he will speak in the following hours coming. i
Fridrich Hláva 22 août 21:32
As a Lybian military has declared, it is obvious that the Lybian armed fo rces have a new victory. They willingly opened the “doors” to Tripolis to lure the RATS into Tripolis. The “rebels” had “swallowed ” this and and now they have lost 70 % of entire forces!! In this moment the GREEN SQUARE is fully under control of Lybian Army. In Gargalesh there were heavy fights – the inhabitants have fought the RATS-“rebels”. The Lybian Army is now cleaning Tripolis and other places. Following of the batle of Tadjur the Lybian Army is in full control over this town. Khamis Kaddafi is commanding his troops in Tripolis and Tripolis is out of danger!!!The local inhabitants actively join the volunteer troops. There are 35.000 volunteer proLybian fighters only in Tripolis. The RATS and Al Kajda members in Tripolis were anihilated and a large group of them has run away!! They were terminated by an enlarged troop of volunteers!! All who were running eastwards were destroyed. Now we have informations, that the antilybian rebels asked NATO to bomb Tripolis!!Sometime ago the RATS informed that they have captured Sajl Al Islam and MOhammed Kaddafi- both of them are safe and dong their duties. The antilybian forces have delivered no proves about capturing the sons of colonel Kaddafi- mobil phones they do have and they diod not made pictures about thecaptured Kadafi sons- so this is a comlete lie. It is very strange that they missed to show such a good news for them??!! Sajf Al islam has been seen in streets of the port. And there is a news that he will speak in the following hours coming. i
Qataris Killed in Tripoli As City Brought Under Control
Posted: 2011/08/22
From: Mathaba
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628191
Source in Tripoli says that world media is telling lies about the situation in Tripoli
Qatari mercenaries
MP3 File http://mathaba.net/data/audio/tripoli22aug.mp3
Right now I can see dead Qatari soldiers in front of my eyes, big beards, and on my hands right now I’m holding a Qatari passport… there are a lot of them but Tripoli is under control, it’s all secure, everything is fine. Libyan army, the volunteers are everywhere, families, I can see now women having the green flag…[indistinct] these Qatari people who are trying to come inside Tripoli and make it unsettled. But Tripoli is safe, the situation is under control. #
http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
CIA, MI6 ‘journos’ in Tripoli Rixos hotel, outside NATO loses ground
Posted: 2011/08/22
From: Mathaba
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628211?disqus
Rixos Hotel split in two after room was raided showing many of the journalists have been found to be foreign agents, including CNN journalists who are known to be CIA agents. Those agents have since threatened independent journalist Mahdi Darius who saw the documents and twice tried to kill him.
Journalists trapped in a Tripoli hotel say there are heavy explosions close-by, power is down, and there’s gunfire outside. Journalist Thierry Meyssan, who’s founder and chairman of online newspaper the Voltaire Network is in the Rixos hotel in Tripoli and says NATO forces are doing everything to back up rebels.
Speech of Dr Mousa Ibrahim to the press. 23-8-2011
Key points of speech.
1.As you… saw Libyan people resist and fight for they beloved Tripoli , the capital of Libya.
2.Libyan channel broadcasting equipement was bombedand also the radio broadcasting equipment.
3.Leader is safe and his sons are safe and all the leaders of Libya are safe ( he refers to tribal leaders and army leaders and ministers).Leader and son of the leader are leading the armed struggle.
4.we fight in both fronts in the military front and we also fight to meet the citizens daily needs , because the armed gangs are making people life difficult.
5.We want to pay tribute to the brave youth moujahedeen of Tarhouna,Bani walid,and zliten and al maghraga and zliten and sebha and five points and… ( sorry the translator didnt worte all the names of the tribes contributed) , that came to defent their capital and helped Libyan army to restore the control of the city.
6.Situation of Tripoli is under control. 80 per cent of Tripoli is firmly controled ( meaning other 20 per cent is control but clashes in some places.
7. We thank the people of tripoli that took controled and secured their neibourhouds in order no armed gang will penetrate for example Abu Saleem.
8.The situation in Tripoli will be back to normal in 3-4 days max.
9.We urge the people of Tripoli to come out of their homes and confort the armed gangs that ther only purpose is to loot and they have complete lack of organization.
10.Last night and tosay a big number of armed gangs was killed and this makes me sad because they are Libyans but they choose their way. They betraye Libya and they killed the Libyan people while Sarkozy and emir of qatar and obama are in ther riches and safety outside Libya.
11.When we refer to Crusaders we dont mean cristians in general. we refer to the rasist people that are after the riches of Libya and although they defeated they didnt want dialogue but they wanted to destroy Libya.
(please excuse the writer of this translation if i have forgot some things.)See More
Government has blocked this video this morning!
Saif Al Islam Gaddafi Interview in Tripoli 23.08.2011 Rebel & Media Lies Exposed
23 8 11 saif gaddafi debunks all the propaganda lies
Extraordinary News !! Seif al Islam al Gaddafi is free and well and he is taking journalists on a tour around tripoli !
This is a major blow to the lies of Aljazeera who mistakenly believed that the clip was about Seif al islam under arrest and were embarrassed but forced to admit the news and continue showing the clip
it’s the NTC themselves who said they arrested him and this will be a major slap in the face of those liars .
……… I will make a full translation of the clip later …. Good news More
on’t believe Mass Media Lies. You are being lied to all across the Globe!
Tripoli is under Government Control. NATO is an Evil Killer Machine.
A very happy Saif Al Islam Gaddafi talking to reporters in Tripoli earlier tonight.
Media and Rebel Lies Exposed. Major PR coup for Colonel Gaddafi.
RT Breaking News: One of Gaddafi’s sons, Seif al Islam, who was earlier reported to have been arrested, made a surprise appearance in Tripoli. Read more insane & contradicting media coverage here: http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-sons-rebels-detain-557/
Follow ignorant journos at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli and watch them make complete and utter fools of themselves here: https://twitter.com/#!/ChangeInLibya/rixos-libya More
Don’t believe Mass Media Lies. You are being lied to all across the Globe!
Tripoli is under Government Control. NATO is an Evil Killer Machine.
A very happy Saif Al Islam Gaddafi talking to reporters in Tripoli earlier tonight.
Media and Rebel Lies Exposed. Major PR coup for Colonel Gaddafi.
Saif Al-Islam shows up on TV after the media has said that he was caught by the rebels. LOL —— Saif says that all the news was just propaganda and he asked the journalists to come follow him and see the city of Tripoli. Saif was asked about the fact that the National Criminal Court wants him he answered : “screw them”
RT Breaking News: One of Gaddafi’s sons, Seif al Islam, who was earlier reported to have been arrested, made a surprise appearance in Tripoli. Read more insane & contradicting media coverage here: http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-sons-rebels-detain-557/
Follow ignorant journos at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli and watch them make complete and utter fools of themselves here: https://twitter.com/#!/ChangeInLibya/rixos-libya
Saadi Al Gaddafi just arrived to Tripoli with 1600 fighters from Bani Walid and 3000 from Tarhouna tribe.
Seems the rats will be exterminated from every direction. Dr.Yousef Shakeer talking in radio Bani Walid.
He firstly thanked the Bani Walid tribe that sent 20 thousand volonteers last night to purge Tripoli.
As stated before, Dr. Shakeer said that the rats falsly claimed that they captured him, but this only in their dreams !
alphasex5 il y a 4 heures
← Tahira Reports: 29th & 30th (Dr. Moussa Ibrahim reports), 31st & 32nd
Video of Saif Al-Islam, alive and well, speaking openly in streets of Tripoli. Media lies of his capture exposed! →
Tahira Reports: 33rd & 34th
Posted on 2011/08/23
http://pub.mathaba.net/2011/08/23/tahira-reports-33rd-through-36th-actual-video-of-saif-al-islam-alive-and-well-in-tripoli-speaking-openly-in-the-streets-media-lies-of-his-death-now-exposed/
By Dennis South
Thirty-third Report: In this report, there was formatting codes, or something, that I didn’t understand. I deleted them. Apparently someone from CNN named Matthew Chance spoke to Saif al-Gaddafi.
Matthew Chance:
Saif Gadhafi told me that he had been travelling around Tripoli in an armored convoy the whole time. Saif Gadhafi told me that their forces had broken the backbone of the rebel forces in Tripoli Libya
Just had face to face with Saif Gadhafi – he said word of his detention was a trick by rebels.
Official Explanation [of why Saif did not conduct a press conference at the Rixos Hotel]: Saif didn’t realize there was no electricity in hotel. Allegedly arrived & changed his mind — will update
11.30p local time in Rixos hotel — press conference with Saif al-Islam Gadhafi called!! But he was a no-show.
[NOTE: I think I see why I did not understand the codes. I believe they are Twitter tweets. Anyway, I removed those codes. Also, this might be the first time that any corporate news organ reported the truth about one aspect of this conflict]
Thirty-fourth Report:
AS WE SAID YESTERDAY,MEDIA WILL BE HUMILIATED.
WE SUCCEEDED. YOU WANTED MEDIA WAR? WELL YOU GOT IT ! HAHAH VIVA GADDAFI !!!
Saif Al Islam said: “Gaddafi is in Tripoli. He is alive and well and we are winning. The rebels have been lured into a trap and we will crush them.
Qaddafi Wins The Real War
Posted: 2011/08/23
From: Mathaba http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628213
The small 7 million population nation, now reduced to 4 million after 2 million migrant workers and refugees have left after terrorist and NATO sieges and another 1 million are cut off in the East with Benghazi under siege: 4 million Libyans are defeating NATO
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While NATO’s “2 or 3 day” war on Libya now rages on since over 5 months, pitting the world’s most powerful military which has flown over 20,000 missions into a “No Fly Zone”, killing tens of thousands and maiming many more, all in the name of “protecting civilians from Qaddafi’s air force”, an air force which has not flown a single flight throughout and was destroyed on the ground on day 1 of NATO’s attacks, against a million Libyans armed only with Kalashnikov’s.
Or are they? Yes, they are armed with the best assault rifle on earth, the Russian AK-47, manufactured in Libya since many years so as not to depend upon Russia which meantime of course, has come under the yoke of the “international banker community.” But, they are actually armed with something much bigger than any bomb of NATO including its nuclear ones. And with each bomb NATO drops and each missile if fires, Libya’s arsenal is strengthened: Truth.
Truth is the most powerful weapon of all. And since the outset of the attack on Libya in an attempt to feed the bankrupt bankers — every single one of the NATO countries except Germany which is attacking Libya is bankrupt — who have “seized assets” (a nice word for stolen) to the tune of $150 billion (one hundred and fifty thousand millions, try to imagine that number) and who knows where Libya’s 144 tons of gold are, hopefully not in the Bank of England vaults.
From the start of this attempt to take out Africa’s most popular hero but also the man who is responsible for setting much of Africa free — including South Africa — and who has continued to provide infrastructure investments in Africa’s future in the shape of health, education and communications — from the start of this war of aggression on Africa’s Crown, Libya, and her King of Kings, Qaddafi, this has been a media war.
It started with Twitter social media fake accounts tweeting that “Qaddafi is bombing civilians, ten thousand dead” and was picked up immediately by a coordinated media assault, with Qatar — the royal dictator of which is a sworn long time enemy of pro-democracy Qaddafi — with Qatar’s Jazeera TV, now beaming into all homes in the western world via Satellite as a sanctioned propaganda tool, taking up those tweets and reporting them as fact.
It did not stop there of course. The BBC, CNN in the service of MI6 and the CIA respectively, echoed Al Jazeera, thus giving it more credibility. We performed the same exercise here: someone tweeted from an account we control on Twitter, that the Queen of England’s Air Force is Bombing London. Mathaba took that up and posted news saying that tweets show that London is being bombed, and many other blogs loved it and immediately took it up.
What then happened with the conspiracy against Qaddafi by the Qataris, British and Americans, all wishing to settle old scores and seize the opportunity to revive the empty coffers of the bankers in London and New York, was that those same conspirators along with France, passed no less than a “UN Security Council Resolution” against Libya, calling for a “No Fly Zone”, which they alone of course, would violated day in and out forever more.
But it did not stop there. Unfortunately for the gangsters taking out Qaddafi did not take “2 to 3 days” as promised by NATO and London. In spite of tens of thousands of missile and bombs, Qaddafi refused to vacate his modest home, and, protected by the Creator who alone can take away life, has continued to survive although NATO murdered 3 of his grandchildren and his youngest son. Thus, something more needed to be done.
That something more, was, aside from dropping Libya off the nightly TV news after the first weeks when it became clear that NATO was failing in spite of all its fire power, was to concoct some more media plans. They decided to set up an entire live studio set in Qatar, a replica of central Tripoli, and to have the so-called rebels shown celebrating victory in Green Square. Unfortunately though, there are visible faults on the set. Jazeera broadcast those images “live” and once again have been shown to have created fake news. Not that most of their viewers know, but people are starting to wake up.
Moreover, a nice trap was set for the rats who had been out in the desert around Tripoli and hard to catch. Khamis Qaddafi’s elite brigade pretended to be weak, and the rebels passed right into the center of Tripoli under NATO massive bombing to clear the way forward. They even tried to settle scores with independent journalists at the Rixos, and, the CIA and MI6 agents working for CNN and SKY news, were outed. Thinking victory had come, those agents tried to take out the independents who had been telling the truth about Libya all alone. At least 3 were targeted but all 3 survived. But it gets worse.
Now that it is clear the “rats fell into a trap”, those in the ransacked Rixos, are holed up and have split into various groups, to avoid a confrontation, because, the CIA and MI6 agents working under guise of being journalists, have realized now that the plan to take Tripoli has failed badly. Not only that, but, here is why the victory is even sweeter:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1123951611001/saif-al-islam-we-are-winning/
those lying media networks, Jazeera, Arabiya, BBC, CNN, AFP, DPA, RAI, have now lost even more millions of viewers when they told big lies which were designed to create a result, but all of which failed: once again Khamis is not dead, Sayf Al Islam was not captured, and neither Mohammed. Pretending they were and that they broke free, is now the line of desperation, but is not believable either.
So, as Mathaba *alone* has promised not only in March when NATO started its attack, but also this past weekend when all the world media — the entire world media who dutifully echo western media in their reports: Malaysia, Thailand, China, Australia, Latin America, all except Cuba alone as the only country which is not echoing western propaganda (even Iran, China, Russia are) and North Korea which has no media — the entire world media stood against Mathaba’s reports throughout, which have always proven accurate and which have brought us even more readers than before.
Now, the world lying media networks, all under the hopeless control of a dying system, have lost millions more viewers, and we have gained millions more yet again. And so it will continue until the end: once again, we assure you all, Qaddafi cannot be removed, is not leaving, and the vast majority of Libyans are behind him. We say that as a non-Libyan international independent truth news agency because we have good information and we are not compromised.
Isn’t it time that you supported us? Unlike the compromised media, we are not in the pay of advertisers who would dictate terms, nor do we use Google ads which would bring in plentiful revenue give our reader numbers, out of principle as their ads are not appropriate nor quality, nor are we owned by any zionist media barons, nor are we funded by donations from political parties, or owned by intelligence services. It is you, the reader alone, who keep us functioning. So, DONATE NOW or SUBSCRIBE.
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NATO puts hit on French journalist
Thierry Meyssan, a French journalist and writer, 22 August 2011 at 5: 55 Paris and Libyan time was threatened by foreign sрies at the hotel Rixos in Tripoli who are there under the guise of being journalists. During the chaos that ensued on the weekend, files were exposed showing several of the western journalists to be spies for the British SIS and the American CIA.
In the middle of the day August 22 it was reported that there was a threat to shoot Thierry Meyssan and his companion. They got proposals for political asylum from five countries, but they could not get to these embassies. Since then, we did not have any news about them. NATO ordered killing Thierry Meyssan and three other honest journalists: Mahdi Nazemroaya, Julien Teil, Mathieu Ozanon.
The threat to kill Thierry Meyssan is thought to have nothing to do with Tebels: NATO is suspected, because the Americans wanted Thierry in 2001, because he wrote a book in relation to the 9/11 events at the towers in New York disproving the official US version of events.
Since 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy, himself a known CIA agent for America, removed his security, and thus Thierry Meyssan was forced to live in Lebanon.
Mercenaries of the armed NATO in southern Libya
Posted by Diana Gariany on July 26, 2011 at 6:39am
Mercenaries of the armed NATO in southern Libya
In the rapid movement made by the armed rebels moving NATO and Western mercenaries from Libya to the south and joining the criminals prosecuted by the law of the tribe of the Tbawe.
There were approximately 100 4×4 with mercenaries, people from France, Qatar and mercenaries of war. Katrun Tmessa managed to enter, and Tarbu Zwill, north of the Jabal Bin Ghanima. The Libyan army and civilian volunteers in a day have thoroughly cleaned all the cities of these mercenaries, and now the few that remain are caught between the Libyan army, the army and army Chat Niger.
According katrun citizens have not Tbawe, but they are all from the same tribe and are very brave. It seems very angry at being attacked by mercenaries and Tbawe and rushed like lions on them, fighting harder than himself Libyan army, until the army arrived and helped them.
South Libyans are so angry that the army seized the 2 of the Tribe Tbawe that sometimes comes on TV, handcuffed him and held him in the pic up with machine guns to take to Tripoli and learn more. Young people who knew him wanted to kill him and the army had to intervene and protect him. The army could not prevent someone from behind shoot him in the face and is now in the hospital.
http://leonorenlibia.blogspot.com/2011/07/los-mercenarios-de-la-org…
07 Aout 2011
Libyan recent history up tp 01 JULY 2011:
NATO’s Planned Bloodbath in Tripoli
Posted: 2011/08/23
From: Mathaba
NATO intends to get the bloodbath it wants through intensified terror bombing and low-level strafing of civilians and nonmilitary sites.
by Stephen Lendman
No matter that it grossly violates international and constitutional law, what Washington-led member states long ago trashed.
Through August 22, air operations included 19,877 sorties and 7,505 strike ones, with no elaboration of their intensity or deadliness. What is known is that powerful, high-explosive munitions are used, able to cause deadly force casualties and destruction.
In recent days, strikes intensified. Without them, rebels would disintegrate and collapse. Most of them are little more than ragtag mercenary hooligans, imperial tools, used for what won’t benefit them.
It’s largely true of all wars, especially America’s waged for conquest, dominance, plunder and exploitation, never for democracy or humanitarian reasons Washington doesn’t give a damn about and never did.
NATO is no different. Established in April 1949, a previous article said it calls itself a “political and military alliance for peace and security.”
In fact, it was more for offense than defense. Cold War hysteria was contrived to incite fear and assure an arms race for corporate enrichment. Napoleon once said, “Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.”
Until the Soviet Union dissolved, communism was the alleged enemy. Today it’s terrorism, as bogus now as then. Both, however, were used for hugely profitable imperial wars from Korea to Libya to numerous proxy ones, as well as trillions of dollars for military readiness – in fact, scandalous amounts in America without enemies for justification since WW II.
Strategically intervening under US control, NATO, in fact, threatens world peace and human survival. In November 2010, Robert Griffiths, general secretary of Britain’s Communist Party (CPB) said:
Under NATO, “(a) global military and reconnaissance infrastructure is being created to support US, British and western European big business interests, especially energy, financial and armaments monopolies.” What began “as a cold war provocation against a non-existent Soviet threat (now) invent(s) or exaggerat(es) threats from so-called failed or rogue states, Islamic fundamentalism and cyber-terrorism.”
Petre Ignat, general secretary of the New Communist Party of Romania, called for NATO’s disbandment, saying:
“We cannot and will not recognize such a murderous alliance, with such a horrible track record….which includes the murder of thousands of innocent civilians in places like Bosnia, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. We cannot and will not recognize an alliance which, through its aggressive policy of expanding East and setting up new military bases there, through its gross interference in other countries’ internal affairs, through its gross violation of international law, can only increase the likelihood of an inter-imperialist war between Western imperialism and emerging capitalist powers, like Russia.”
Its original member countries included America, the five (1948) Treaty of Brussels states (Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), Canada, Portugal, Italy, Denmark and Iceland. It’s now expanded to 28 states and dozens of partners, threatening world peace and stability.
Membership, however, is a bonanza for Western and Israeli weapons industries as current members and entering states must maintain modern arsenals to state-of-the art readiness, despite no enemies except ones Washington creates to wage wars.
Today, Libya is Exhibit A for NATO lawlessness, attacking a nonbelligerent country for colonization, dominance and plunder, not liberation. Libyans resolve to resist, doing what they can despite ferocious air attacks.
On August 22, government spokesman Musa Ibrahim said Sunday casualties included 1,300 killed, another 5,000 or more wounded. Local hospitals can’t keep up, yet casualties mount as street fighting continues.
The Australian AP quoted Hugo Chavez denouncing NATO’s war, saying:
Western powers are “destroying Tripoli with their bombs,” while street clashes continue. He added that bombs are “falling on schools, hospitals, workplaces, and farmland.”
“Let’s pray to God for the Libyan people….They’re practically demolishing Tripoli with their bombs” to take over another country. “It’s the excuse to intervene and seize (it) and its riches.”
Independent journalists on the ground are threatened and targeted. They’ve also been confined to their hotel, knowing exposure risks being shot by snipers. They’re marked men and women, making it essential they get help to leave. It’s too unsafe to stay.
In a morning email, Lizzie Phelan said:
“I am extremely exhausted, confused, a little scared, and I was feeling a little nervous about making the necessary political points (on Press TV live with this writer Monday morning) because of the present situation.”
Nonetheless, she felt buoyed being on air with a friend and supporter. She called it “massively reassuring and a timely reminder amidst my exhaustion of what we are fighting for.”
She also highlighted the death and injury toll. In the past two days alone, it surpassed Israel’s three-week Cast Lead slaughter. Moreover, much more is likely, besides the last six months toll, ravaging populated Libyan areas without letup.
What greater reason to indict NATO as a killing machine, a destructive US-led evil force everyone needs to understand, condemn, and struggle to abolish.
As long as this monster exists, no one anywhere is safe!
On August 21, Voltaire Network’s Thierry Meyssan headlined, “NATO carnage in Tripoli,” reporting on what he witnessed firsthand, saying:
On August 20, NATO launched “Operation Mermaid Dawn.”
“The Sirens were the mosque loud speakers which were used to launch Al Qaeda’s call to revolt against the Gaddafi government. Immediately ‘sleeper cells’ went into action. Organized in small, highly mobile, groups, they carried out multiple attacks.”
The overnight toll left about 350 killed, another 3,000 wounded. Early Sunday, conditions stabilized ahead of greater evening violence, supported by NATO drones, other aircraft, and “helicopters straf(ing) civilians in the streets with machine guns to clear the way for the jihadis.”
Ahead of the attacks, “a NATO warship….anchored just off the shore of Tripoli, delivering heavy weapons and debarking Al Qaeda jihadi forces, which were led by NATO officers.”
The Rixos hotel where Meyssan, other independent journalists, and Western ones stay came “under heavy fire.” By evening, another 1,300 dead and 5,000 wounded were reported. The toll keeps mounting.
UN Resolution 1973 empowering NATO to protect Libyans, in fact, facilitated their slaughter.
Heavy fighting is reported in Tripoli. Independent journalists are threatened with death, supported by NATO and rogue Western journalists. They’re known, so if exposed outside, they face execution. Mahdi Nazemroaya had a near miss. Franklin Lamb was wounded in the leg. He’s OK and recovering.
Nazemroaya said he “was putting up a sign on top of (his) hotel. (He) took the initiative to do that and write ‘Press’ (on it) – and a sniper shot at” him.
Other than during NATO bombing and strafing, he believes Libyans will fight to defend their country. The possibility of being NATO ruled is too intolerable to accept.
It’s an exploitive killing machine, wanting Libyans exploited, not liberated. At 5PM Monday Tripoli time, Franklin Lamb told Press TV that large explosions were heard nearby, likely 1,000-pound bombs, he believed.
On August 22, Nazemroaya’s Global Research.ca article headlined, “Western Media Complicit in NATO’s ‘Humanitarian Bloodbath,’ ” saying:
He and other foreign journalists are trapped in their hotel “as practically all the staff and security personnel have run for their lives.”
Calling the situation “critical,” he expected “the next several hours (to) be decisive.”
Despite ongoing intense NATO bombing and strafing civilians, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon brazenly called conditions in Libya “a hopeful moment,” shamelessly calling on Gaddafi to cease fighting and surrender.
A NATO tool, he opposes his right of self-defense, adding that he’ll tried by the International Criminal Court. In fact, it’s an imperial tribunal, a hanging one, convicting by accusation. At the same time, it absolves Western war criminals entirely, solely targeting their victims.
Nazemroaya said NATO’s using “Yugoslavian” tactics against Libya, “bombing out military and civil infrastructure to clear the way for the rebels.”
“NATO (heavy bombing and strafing) did all the work here….and their leaders must be help accountable as war criminals for killing civilians.”
At the same time, Washington and its NATO partners turn a blind eye to atrocities in Bahrain, Egypt under military junta rule, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, other pro-Western rogue states, and Israel’s crimes of war and against humanity against Palestinians.
Nazemroaya and other independent journalists are endangered. As a result, they need exit help to leave. Their lives are literally on the line.
He said “(t)wo of Gaddafi’s sons have been arrested with some reports suggesting the leader himself is in a specialist cardiac unit in a town 14 kilometers east of (Tripoli). Following a night of chaos in the capital, crowds have gathered in the city’s central square waving revolutionary flags.”
On Sunday, Gaddafi appealed to Libyans to deter the rebel offensive, saying:
“It is the obligation of all Libyans. It is a question of life or death.”
He’s made past similar appeals. It bears observing. At most, hundreds of insurgents (as few perhaps as three or four hundred) now terrorize Tripoli because of heavy NATO support. Without it, they’d be easily routed.
The situation remains chaotic, violent and fluid. Events are fast-moving. What appears one way can shift quickly to another.
Moreover, Gaddafi isn’t at issue. Libyans will decide their fate, not him, TNC turncoats, insurgents, or NATO, though a long liberation struggle may lie ahead.
Nonetheless, a shameless August 22 White House statement said:
“The people of Libya are showing that the universal pursuit of dignity and freedom is far stronger than the iron fist of a dictator.”
In fact, if justice prevailed, Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy, and other NATO war criminals would face international court prosecutions for waging war against humanity.
Ongoing ruthlessly for over six months against Libyans alone, it rages lawlessly out of control because justice humanity cries for is denied.
Unless gotten, people everywhere won’t be free. The stakes are that high.
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Rep. Denis Kucinich: NATO must account for Libyan deaths
Democratic Rep Dennis Kucinich is a
leading opponent to the US role in Libya
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Dennis Kucinich wants NATO held accountable for its airstrikes in Libya
U.S. Rep. Kucinich: NATO’s Libya Generals Should Be Hauled To Court
Posted: 2011/08/24
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By Reid J. Epstein
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US lawmaker fiercely opposed to NATO’s role in the Libya conflict called Tuesday for the alliance’s military chiefs to be held to account under international law for the deaths of Libyan civilians.
“Otherwise we will have witnessed the triumph of a new international gangsterism,”
Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich, a leading opponent in the US Congress to Washington’s role in the fighting, said in a statement.
Kucinich said that NATO forces had flouted UN Security Council resolutions in acting as “the air force for the rebels, who could not have succeeded but for NATO’s attacks” and had “illegally pursued regime change.”
“NATO’s top commanders may have acted under color of international law but they are not exempt from international law,” he said
Kucinich said
And Kucinich questioned the motivation behind U.S. intervention in Libya.
And Kucinich questioned the motivation behind U.S. intervention in Libya.
“NATO’s top commanders may have acted under color of international law, but they are not exempt from international law,” Kucinich said in a statement released by his office. “If members of the Qadhafi regime are to be held accountable, NATO’s top commanders must also be held accountable through the International Criminal Court for all civilian deaths resulting from bombing. Otherwise, we will have witnessed the triumph of a new international gangsterism.”
Kucinich, who in March suggested President Barack Obama’s authorizing of airstrikes on Libya were “an impeachable offense” and sponsored a July measure to defund the military effort there, criticized what he called an evolving rationale for the NATO offensive.
NATO has insisted that its attacks are in keeping with UN resolutions passed this year which allow military action to protect civilians in Libya.
But UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed alarm at the number of civilian casualties in the conflict, including those inflicted in NATO air strikes.
And NATO’s air attacks have drawn harsh criticism from members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa, who say the action goes beyond UN resolutions on Libya.
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– First, the French troops have just landed on the shore near Tripoli.
– NATO bombed Bab Azizia so heavily , NATO Killed thousands .
– Second, global media is preparing two pieces of false news in the near future: that al-Gaddafi forces bombed Libyan civilians, and the alleged death of Qadhafi in the NATO bombing.
Gaddafi said we withdraw from Bab Azizia on a Tactic after NATO bombed 64 times today , but we will fight until the end .
Gaddafi spoke to the people through Radio and he said that Bab Azizia under control , He leading the battle in Tripoli .
(God, please protect Our brave leader and all the good Libyan citizens of the holy JAMAHIRIYA—The only true Sovereign Nation under Divine precepts on the face of our planet!)
Telephone conversation with Gaddafi and his eldest son Muhammed:
par The truth about Libya – الحقيقة من اجل ليبيا, mardi 23 août 2011, 23:23
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From Tripoli.
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FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov communicated by telephone with Gaddafi and his eldest son Muhammed. Anna Kazakova has spoken with Kirsanom Ilyumzhinovym live “Kommersant” FM “.
– Do you believe in general in these messages, coming from Western agencies?
It is literally minutes ago Muhammed Gaddafi, Gaddafi’s eldest son, the president of the National Olympic Committee, yesterday, as ” Al Jazeera “showed, have been arrested, has been called. To him I asked: “How do you usually?”. He speaks: “It’s normal. Now in Tripoli, the father wanted to say a few words.” Then he translated Arabic, said that the father is grateful to all those who support this minute difficult Libyan people against the occupation army in NATO and that he will not leave the homeland, he will fight for freedom Libya.
– The conversation lasted about?
– Short, the second 30-40. Muhammed has apologized, said he will call back later. I understand, to the security that the rockets did not write down where they are not passing.
– One last time, as I understand, I communicated with Gaddafi Muhammedom August 1, and the situation in Libya was little else. Have you noticed the difference between Gaddafi Gaddafi today then?
– Did not see him, but his voice was quiet. Long ago I know, the second decade we have friendship, with humor, always quiet, always smiling. Sure, the voice was a little intense, but he has said everything is normal. “Do not worry, we break – as he has said, – members of special units NATO”.
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Roundup of Mathaba Reports From Tripoli on Tuesday 23rd – Addendum
Posted: 2011/08/23
From: Mathaba
Roundup of Mathaba Reports From Tripoli on Tuesday 23rd
Posted: 2011/08/23
From: Mathaba
With the colossal failure of the fake news conspiracy against Libya and its heroic leadership, the battle is going well against NATO.
Leader’s Family
Khamis Qadhafi is alive and leading the clean up in Tripoli. Mohammed Gaddafi is reported free, from all sources.
As for brother Saif Al Islam he is safe and leading the fight, but also took time to talk to foreign media to prove he is not captured.
He was to give a press conference at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli at 11.30pm but either changed his mind, as taking part in defence is more important at this stage than talking to foreign media.
He did tell media that he had been travelling around Tripoli in an armuored convoy the whole time, that the Libyan Defence Forces had broken the backbone of the rebel forces in Tripoli Libya and that word of his detention was a trick by the rebels.
Saif Al Islam said: “Gaddafi is in Tripoli. He is alive and well and we are winning. The rebels have been lured into a trap and we will crush them.
All the children of Kadhafi are free and are now fighting. The lying foreign media had claimed they were all dead then claimed they were detained and are now trying to save face by saying they escaped. They were never captured in the first place, all tricks.
Sister Aisha Qadhafi was shown driving around with friends, challenging the rats.
The terrorist rebels (tebels) are very small groups which want to make trouble here and there and then flee. But the Western and Arabic chanels exaggerate in order to attempt to make people afraid.
The brother leader delivered a speech to the heroic Libyan people and said that his children are all good and urged people not to listen to the “paid channels”.
Libyan Media
Media staff that had been claimed by rebels during the fake news offensive, Ms. Hala Misrati, Dr Yousef Shakeer, Dr Hamza, and Hanaa Shibani are safe and in perfect health. God is great.
All the foreign corporate media with the exception of Russia TV and Telesur are criminally insane. Almost nothing they report is true. We’ve been looking at their broadcasts all day, watching programmes, reading on-line newspapers. It’s insane. All lies. Mad World.
It is as if they are talking about a different Tripoli, perhaps the one in Lebanon, and they are using the fake studio set in Qatar which shows several faults, thus Jazeera has yet again been shown to be creating fake news. Why does western media continue to quote Jazeera when they know this, so they too are complicit in keeping their populations misinformed while world war 3 unfolds.
Dr Mousa Ibrahim gave a press conference today Tuesday, with the following key points:
The Libyan people resist and fight for their beloved Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
Libyan channel broadcasting equipment was bombed and also the radio broadcasting equipment.
The Leader is safe and his sons are safe and all the leaders of Libya are safe (he mentioned various tribal leaders and army leaders and ministers).
Leader and sons of the leader are leading the armed struggle
We fight in both fronts in the military front and we also fight to meet the citizens’ daily needs, because the armed gangs are making people’s lives difficult.
We want to pay tribute to the brave young mujahiddeen of Tarhouna, Bani walid, Zliten, al Maghraga, Sebha and five points and… ( additional places and tribes mentioned), that came to defend their capital and helped the Libyan army to restore control of the city.
The situation in Tripoli is under control. 80 per cent of Tripoli is firmly controlled, meaning that the other 20 per cent is controlled, but clashes still occured in some places.
We thank the people of Tripoli that took control and secured their neighbourhoods in order that no armed gangs will penetrate, for example, Abu Saleem.
The situation in Tripoli will be back to normal in 3-4 days maximum.
We urge the people of Tripoli to come out of their homes and confront the armed gangs which have as their only purpose looting and which display a complete lack of organization.
Last night and today a big number of armed gangs was killed and this makes me sad because [many of them] are Libyans but they chose their way. They betrayed Libya and they killed the Libyan people while Sarkozy and the Emir of Qatar and Obama are living with their riches and safety outside Libya.
When we refer to Crusaders we don’t mean Christians in general. We refer to the racist people that are after the riches of Libya and although they had been defeated, they didn’t want dialogue but they wanted to destroy Libya.
What is happening in Libya is to steal Libyan oil for Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama
Free people are still fighting
Libyan TV has been destroyed by NATO
AL RAY TV (Iraqi TV in Tripoli) will continue to spread the truth because we don’t have another TV for the moment
Al Gaddafi the leader and all his sons are fine
This brutal attack on Libya will end with a major victory for us and it’s time to defend Libya and we thank thousands of free people and tribes that are fighting in Libya
Even that NATO rebels are defended by NATO we will still defeat them
Tripoli now is better and 80% of the city is under the Libyan forces’ control
Today we destroyed full groups of NATO rebels
We will bury NATO in Tripoli and Sarkozi and Obama and Cameron will be watching us do that
All what some media are saying are lies
He started laughing about NATO lies that they captured Seif al Islam and he assured that he’s fine and all the military leadership is fine.
NATO Crimes
At the outset NATO intervened in the telecommunications and inserted text messages that were received on all handsets falsely claiming that there was a new “government” of the tebels.
At the same time all Libyan news sites and media were attacked and shut down but Mathaba prevailed due to our strong security systems.
NATO may have fired rockets at the Russian Embassy in Tripoli bringing world war III closer, though confirmation is required of this.
Several residences were hit by NATO bombs with no survivors.
The Libyan television continues its broadcasting at first there was only sound without images because of disturbance caused by NATO jammers.
Leader Qaddafi
The leader is urging all friends of Libya to remain confident and optimistic because when you are on the side of Truth, then you are with Allah (The God). And if God is with you, who can be against you?
Military Situation
The rats under the cover of NATO tried to land in Zuwarah with more than 50 dead and others injured. The Libyan army is holding the coastal road to cut the possibility of rats to retreat from tripoli or to bring new forces in there.
The rats also tried to attack Brega once again and were crushed by the valiant army.
We also want to congratulate the son of Brigadier General Abdullah al Sennousi and the son of the artist Ali Al Kilani that fell as martyrs while defending their homeland. Inna lillahi wa inna ilahi rajayoon, i.e., from The God we come and to Him we must return.
The trap was laid to move the fifth columnist traitors from the capital city, and it worked. Bodies of the rats are now everywhere and Mathaba coordinator witnesses Qatari bodies among them.
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Bani Walid Sent 20,000 Volunteers last night to protect Tripoli
Dr. Yousef Shakeer talking on radio Bani Walid, thanked the Bani Walid Tribe that sent 20 thousand volunteers last night to proect Tripoli. As stated before, Dr Shakeer said that the terrorist-rebel traitors (tebels aka “rats”) falsely claimed that they had captured him but that this was only in their dreams.
Saadi Qaddafi arrives with 4,600 fighters to protect Tripoli
Saadi Al Qaddafi just arrived in Tripoli with 1,600 fighters from Bani Walid and 3,000 from Tarhouna tribe.
Thousands at Green Square celebrated first step in Victory against NATO and rats
Thousands of people took part in the Green Square at a rally midday today in order to celebrate the first step of the victory against NATO and the tebels. The proud youth of the tribes that are bringing Libya glory for centuries came.
The ARRAY ( Iraqi tv ) channel is still the one and only way to hear Libya on the satellite for now after NATO destroyed Libyan TV stations which had remained open during 5 months of bombing. The channel is in Arabic. It is expected Libyan TV will resume broadcasting soon, otherwise Mathaba TV will be launched which will not be removed and not be able to be bombed.
Female Brigades Make Solid Ring Around Tripoli
Brigades of female mujahiddeen involved into the protection of Tripoli as volunteers made a solid ring around Libya’s capital city to protect the capital from the tebels, exceeded half a million. Now clean-up operations against tebels are taking place in Tripoli, which was subjected to over 1,300 deaths and 5,000 injured during the failed NATO-led aggression by tebels over the past weekend.
Another Million Man March planned
In Tripoli another million march is planned, after the international media networks failed to give coverage to past events which are however recorded on Mathaba and which brought out the largest marches in human history.
Benghazi: Fights Among Rebels
Tebels in Benghazi are fighting each other, as is usual during the past weeks since the Al-Qaida wing tried to impose its will. People are very angry now because of the lies and the deception.
The city of Benghazi is in chaos, with fighting under-way there.
Outside Volunteer Defenders Number 600,000 around Tripoli
Volunteers numbering 600,000 from outside Tripoli came from the cities around Tripoli. The capital city is now under control, the only problem there is no TV but the people inside Tripoli know the truth after witnessing the pillaging by the tebels and the non-stop bombing by NATO which has united the population. Life is normal more than one would expect in a war situation with banks working, shops open, and people still in The Green Square and in Bab Azizia which is subjected to NATO bombing since 5 months now.
Qaddafi Sons
Last night, Saif al-Islam spoke to the people, then went to the hotel Rixos, home to foreign journalists and invited them to ride with him in the night of Tripoli, to convince them that Tripoli is free.
The head of the tebel national council, TNC called the video a provocation, saying it was filmed before the storming of Tripoli. However, all the journalists confirmed that they saw Saif al-Islam. As reported earlier the reports that sons of Muammar Qaddafi had been arrested (Sayf, Saadi and Mohammed) were fabrications.
Tebels in Benghazi celebrated the victory of the rumoured capture of Qaddafi’s sons and the yet-again rumour of Khamis Qaddafi death, and after were shocked. They are outraged that they were “led by the nose” and now do not believe the TNC.
They hastily removed the victorious banners. Meanwhile, there are reports that fighting has been underway in Benghazi! Outraged people are demanding the resignation of the TNC. On the streets of Benghazi are shootings. Egypt’s army can not control the tribes of Salloum Ouh, who want to cross the Libyan border, carrying green flags
British-led assault on Tripoli smashed, British troops massacred by special unit of LDF
There was a march at night at the Green Square where Muammar Gadhafi appealed to the people. The Colonel said: “I and my children are healthy. We will stand up to win”! Tebels themselves now admirted that they bear a great loss.
It also became known officially that in the assault in Tripoli took part with British special forces. The 32th brigade managed to capture the conductor who was a tebel. He had a task to lead a group to avoid ambushes and roadblocks of government forces and the police and get the center of Tripoli. For this he had been promised a pay out. The saboteurs were however ambushed by special units of Libyan troops.
Several British soldiers (mercenaries of the British Queen) were killed, and many injured in the assault on Tripoli. They picked up their dead and retreated. Their persecution was not carried out. At this point, the conductor above mentioned was captured. It is known that the detainee will be handed over to court. This will be an open trial, the foreign media will be able to attend to secure his testimony, an official source assured.
Zouari, Misrata, Zlitan under Gaddafi control, six-hundred thousand militia protect Tripoli
At night tebels attacked Sabha. All the tebels were killed — more than a hundred people! Zouari, Misrata and Zlitan are under control of the loyalist popular forces with sworn allegiance to Muammar Gaddafi.
It was learned today that under the guise of NATO, tebels tried to seize Zouari. More than 50 tebels were killed and many wounded. Also the tebels tried to attack the Breguet, but the attack was repulsed.
As mentioned earlier, for the protection of Tripoli tribes put up 600 thousand militia and the city is in a ring of protection. Qaddafi is winning the fight to protect the Libyan people while NATO continues to bomb and faces increasing world wide isolation.
NATO puts hit on French journalist
Thierry Meyssan, a French journalist and writer, 22 August 2011 at 5: 55 Paris and Libyan time was threatened by foreign sрies at the hotel Rixos in Tripoli who are there under the guise of being journalists. During the chaos that ensued on the weekend, files were exposed showing several of the western journalists to be spies for the British SIS and the American CIA.
In the middle of the day August 22 it was reported that there was a threat to shoot Thierry Meyssan and his companion. They got proposals for political asylum from five countries, but they could not get to these embassies. Since then, we did not have any news about them. NATO ordered killing Thierry Meyssan and three other honest journalists: Mahdi Nazemroaya, Julien Teil, Mathieu Ozanon.
The threat to kill Thierry Meyssan is thought to have nothing to do with Tebels: NATO is suspected, because the Americans wanted Thierry in 2001, because he wrote a book in relation to the 9/11 events at the towers in New York disproving the official US version of events.
Since 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy, himself a known CIA agent for America, removed his security, and thus Thierry Meyssan was forced to live in Lebanon.
Rat guide for British Special Air Service taken prisoner — will stand trial
The landing in Tripoli in the past days of British Special Air Service (SAS) with a group of 17 servicemen, with all but the officer in charge of Arab origin, was reported. The report says their mission was to be guided by a sleeper cell to police stations and to attack them. Their guide was taken as a prisoner by green loyalist forces, and will stand public trial.
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Latest Updates From Inside Tripoli — Tahira Reports 35 Thru 44
Posted: 2011/08/23
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The low down on current events in Tripoli
By Dennis South
Thirty-fifth Report:
Dr. Yousef Shakeer talking on radio Bani Walid!! He firstly thanked the Bani Walid Tribe that sent 20 thousand volunteers last night to purge Tripoli. As stated before, Dr Shakeer said that the rats falsely claimed that they captured him but this was only in their dreams!
Tahira Reports:
Saadi Al Gaddafi just arrived to Tripoli with 1600 fighters from Bani Walid and 3000 from Tarhouna tribe. Seems like the rats will be exterminated from every direction.
Thirty-seventh:
Thousands of people are expected today at 10 am GMT in the Green Square in order to celebrate the first step of the victory against NATO and the rats. Proud youth of the tribes that brought Libya the glory in the centruries come.
This is the frequency of ARRAY ( Iraqi tv ) channel. the one and only way to hear libya on the satelite for now. ( channel arabic) inscallah our channels will beback as soon as possible.
Thirty-eighth:
Brigade of female moujaheed involved into the cleansing of Tripoli.
The volonteers that have made a solid ring around Tripoli to protect the capital from the rats exceed half a million.Now cleansing operations inside Tripoli, zenga zenga dar dar, to exterminate the last remnants of the traitors. Viva Gaddafi! Viva Green Libya! Truth & Victory! Always!!
Thirty-ninth: In Tripoli they are also planning another million march.
right now the cleaning and fighting ist going strong. also rats in benghazi ficghting each other, as usual. People are real angry now because of the lies and the deception. It was so funny when Saif suddenly appeared in terms of: fuck you all!
Benghazi is chaos, fighting underway there
Fortieth Report:
Volunteers number 600.000 from outside Tripoli , they come from the cities around Tripoli . Believe me it’s under control , the only problem there is no TV but the people inside Tripoli know the truth , Life is normal more than you expect , Banks working , shops , people still in The Green Square and in Bab Azizia .
from a friend/about happy Saif saying hello:
Meanwhile, Gaddafi’s sons are free! Tonight, Saif al-Islam, spoke to the people, then went to the hotel Rikos, home to journalists and invited them to ride with him on the night of Tripoli, to those convinced that the Tripoli is released!
The head of TNC called the video a provocation, as it was filmed before the storming of Tripoli. But there is a BUT! All the journalists confirmed that they saw Saif al-Islam. TNS has not provided evidence of arrest Saif. The second alleged arrests Qaddafi’s son, Mohammed, was also free.
TNS argue that somebody helped him escape! Rumors about the arrest of a third son Saadi in a simple way by themselves collapsed! At the same time by a representative of Gadhafi insist that there were no arrests !
Rebels in Benghazi celebrated the victory and after , were shocked . They are outraged that they were “led by the nose.” They do not believe TNC! Now hastily removed the victorious banners. Meanwhile, there are reports that fighting has been underway for at the Benghazi! Outraged people are demanding the resignation of the TNS. On the streets of Benghazi is shootings! Egipt’s army can not control the tribes Salloum Ouh, who want to cross the Libyan border, carrying green flags!
Meanwhile, there are reports that fighting has been underway at the Benghazi! A lot of rebels in Bengazi do not believe TNC! Egypt’s army can not control the tribes Salloum Ouh, who want to cross the Libyan border, carrying green flags!
British-led assault on Tripoli smashed, British troops massacred by special unit of Gaddafi’s LDF
Forty-first Report:
According to reports from FB (Facebook) there was a march at night at the Green Square (parade). Gadhafi appealed to the people. !, “Colonel said: I and my children are healthy. We will stand up to win”! Rebels themselves admit that they bear a great loss!
It also became known (officially) that in the assault in Tripoli took part British special forces. 32th brigade managed to capture the conductor who was a rebel ! “He had a task to a group to avoid ambushes and roadblocks of government forces and the police and get the center of Tripoli. For this he promised to pay about three hundred dollars!” We also know that the saboteurs were ambushed by special units of Libyan troops.
Several BRITHISH SOLDERS were killed, many injured in the assault ot Tripoli. They picked up deads and retreated. The persecution was not carried out. At this point, the conductor was captured. “! It is known that the detention will be given in court.! “This will be an open trial, it will be able to attend the foreign media to secure his testimony” – assured the government source.
Zouari, Misrata, Zlitan under Gaddafi control. Six-hundred thousand militia protect Tripoli
Forty-second Report:
At night rebels attacked the Sabha! All the rebels were killed–more than a hundred people! Zouari, Misrata Zlitan and are under controll of the forces of Muammar Gaddafi!
It was learned today that under the guise of NATO rebels tried to seize Zouari. More than 50 insurgents have been killed! Many wounded! Also, the rebels tried to attack the Breguet, but the attack was repulsed!
It is reported that for the protection of Tripoli tribes put up 600 thousand militia and take the city in ring of protection!
! Gaddafi WINS!
NATO puts hit on Thierry Maysson
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Forth-third: Thierry Maison, a French journalist and writer, 22 August 2011 at 5: 55 on the Paris and the Libyan-time from еру hotel in Tripoli Rixon.
In the middle of the day August 22 it was reported that it was ordered to shoot down Thierry Mason and his companion. they got proposal for political asylum from the five countries, but they could not get to these embassies. Since then, we did not have any news about them NATO ordered kill Thierry Meyssan and three other honest journalists: Mahdi Nazemroaya, Julien Teil, Mathieu Ozanon.
Who could have ordered the execution of Thierry Mason?
That’s what told me about it Miss Libyan “Order of the shoot they have nothing to do with Rebels: This is NATO. The Americans wanted Thierry in 2001, because he wrote a book that Al Qaeda has no relation to the explosion of the towers in New York.
But since 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy, the great friend of America, took off his defense, and thus, Thierry was forced to live in Lebanon. I read in an independent Spanish blog that SIA and MI6 were in Rixos hotel at night …
I hope they leave it up to their arrival .
Rat guide for British Special Air Service taken prisoner — will stand trial
Forty-fourth:
The article is in Russian. It is about the landing in Tripoli these days of British Special Air Service (SAS). A group of 17 servicemen, all but the officer in charge of Arab origin. their mission was to be guided by a sleepy cell to police stations and to attack them. Their guide was taken as a prisoner, and will stand public trial.
http://news.argumenti.ru/world/2011/08/121386?type=all#fulltext
maybe google translator can be of help.
some are held as prisoners now in Tripoli and will be taken to court. Hallelujah! 🙂
About Dennis South
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Via STOP THE WAR IN LIBYA. WE DEMAND IT
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The truth about Libya – الحقيقة من اجل ليبيا
https://www.facebook.com/TheTruthAboutLibya
RT,Reuters and others just now published:
“Witness” say dozens of grad missiles fired on Tripoli.
Do not believe in this.Gaddafi would never destroy,what he built for more than 40 years.This is probably just an excuse, so NATO can massively bomb Libya. They earlier in the night killed thousands in Bab Azizia–al-Gadhafi’s former residential area. They have been reckless like this since Saturday evening! They must stand trial for all the dead and War Crimes!
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Dr. Moussa Ibrahim arrived in Tripoli this morning to more than 6,500 new fighters.
Via Nessbook, Now, Dr. Musa Ibrahim on AlRai.
Moussa Ibrahim:
We destroyed a full group of rats in west Tajouraa and they were leading the operations in Tajouraa,in Tripoli.
4 Qataris, 1 Emirati and several Europeans were with them.
More than 65 rats killed in Tripoli during the morning hours.
Mousa Ibrahim Translated by اسكندر بيك
Libya will be Volcano , I tell you now , Volunteers still coming to Tripoli , I tell you that 6000 Volunteers just come now at this hours and they are inside the city .
rats entered Tripoli under the cover of NATO Hilocapters , More than 80% is free . i Salute all Tribes whom come here to Protect Tripoli .
big improve to you that they are failed to enter bab Azizia that NATO bombed Bab Azizia 64 times , and we went out of it because Bab azizia isn’t present anything but it will be symbol .
I tell Libyan people that Libya government still control everything . and we still can move to plan B or C or D , we still have many plans .
rats can’t represent anything real because they are under the cover of NATO ., and we are going to make it hell on them , they are not belonging to Libyans at all , they stole houses , they killed innocent people although their masters ordered them to be nice with people .
they tried to cut electricity , water on people , they want Destroy Libya to bring their companies .
i was with the tribes they made a command to lead the battle in Tripoli , lots of volunteers still coming here , some come by taxi , because the elder tribes declared the Jehaad , rats can’t continuous in this war but they still asking NATO .
today we captured 4 Qaters , one Emarati . and lots of foreigners in the hands of our army , also we captured 20 rats in some streets , also Khamis Gaddafi and some volunteers attack rats in Ayen Zara and they killed them all .
we have some martyrdom , but from the rats i can’t tell how many , but at the morning we killed 65 rats , and i can’t tell how many others go killed because some of the leaders of the battle didn’t tell me .
Rats attack the embassy of Algeria and they burnt it , we are asking all the organisations in the world to reject these gangs and don’t accept them as represent of Libyan people .
Brega and all other cities is free , They battle only in Tripoli . After that we will free all the Libyan . The task for our army now is easier because we killed all their leaders .
NATO bombed Libya TV and all the communications in Libya. We are fighting the biggest evil enemy in the world , but we our moral coming from Islam ,
We are hard fighters .
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Mousa Ibrahim Translated by اسكندر بيك
Libya will be Volcano , I tell you now , Volunteers still coming to Tripoli , I tell you that 6000 Volunteers just come now at this hours and they are inside the city .
rats entered Tripoli under the cover of NATO Hilocapters , More than 80% is free . i Salute all Tribes whom come here to Protect Tripoli .
big improve to you that they are failed to enter bab Azizia that NATO bombed Bab Azizia 64 times , and we went out of it because Bab azizia isn’t present anything but it will be symbol .
I tell Libyan people that Libya government still control everything . and we still can move to plan B or C or D , we still have many plans .
rats can’t represent anything real because they are under the cover of NATO ., and we are going to make it hell on them , they are not belonging to Libyans at all , they stole houses , they killed innocent people although their masters ordered them to be nice with people .
they tried to cut electricity , water on people , they want Destroy Libya to bring their companies .
i was with the tribes they made a command to lead the battle in Tripoli , lots of volunteers still coming here , some come by taxi , because the elder tribes declared the Jehaad , rats can’t continuous in this war but they still asking NATO .
today we captured 4 Qaters , one Emarati . and lots of foreigners in the hands of our army , also we captured 20 rats in some streets , also Khamis Gaddafi and some volunteers attack rats in Ayen Zara and they killed them all .
we have some martyrdom , but from the rats i can’t tell how many , but at the morning we killed 65 rats , and i can’t tell how many others go killed because some of the leaders of the battle didn’t tell me .
rats attack the embassy of Algeria and they burnt it , we are asking all the organisations in the world to reject these gangs and don’t accept them as represent of Libyan people .
Brega and all other cities is free , the battle only in Tripoli . after that we will free all the Libyan . the task for our army now is easier because we killed all their leaders .
NATO bombed Libya TV and all the communications in Libya , we are fighting the biggest evil enemy in the world , but we our moral coming from Islam ,
we are hard fighters.
STOP THE WAR IN LIBYA. WE DEMAND IT
Exposing The Truth
STOP New World Order
Stop the aggression in Libya
Stop bombing on Libya وقــف القصف علي لـــيــبــيــا
Millions Supporting Al Gaddafi
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Support for Muammar al Gaddafi from the people of Serbia
Big Protest In Rome Against NATO Aggression&Bombing Libya
A Call to the Anti-War movement and all who are still human
First, the French troops have just landed on the shore near Tripoli.They are now on the shoreline Highway.
– NATO bombed Bab Azizia so heavily , NATO Killed thousands .
– Second, global media is preparing two pieces of false news in the near future: that al-Gaddafi forces bombed Libyan civilians, and the alleged death of Qadhafi in the NATO bombing.
Leader Muammar Gaddafi is speaking to the Libyan people through local radio Tripoli.
Gaddafi Spoke to the people through Radio and he said:
Gaddafi said we withdraw from Bab Azizia on a Tactic after NATO bombed 64 times today , but we will fight until the end . BUT that Bab Azizia is under control , al-GADHAFI is leading the battle in Tripoli .
(God, please protect Our brave leader and all the good Libyan citizens of the holy JAMAHIRIYA—The only true Sovereign Nation under Divine precepts on the face of our planet!)
First, the French troops have just landed on the shore near Tripoli.
– NATO bombed Bab Azizia so heavily , NATO Killed thousands .
– Second, global media is preparing two pieces of false news in the near future: that al-Gaddafi forces bombed Libyan civilians, and the alleged death of Qadhafi in the NATO bombing.
Gaddafi: We will not stop fighting,until we win this war,or we die.
We resist aggression with all our strength.
Gaddafi Spoken to the people through Radio and he said that Bab Azizia under control , He leading the battle in Tripoli .
Today’s prisoners of war taken by the Libyan Armed Forces:
750 Benghazi terrorists , 3 Qatari, 10 French, 1 English, 14 Emirates, 2 Algerian, 45 Egyptian, 5 Greek, 2 Italian.
Aisha Gaddafi speaks to Media Channel Alray TV , she Said all what Media News is False.
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http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628235%3Frss
Pentagon evacuated, due to 5.8 earthquake: A message to all those working, in whatever capacity, against Libya
Posted: 2011/08/23
From: Mathaba
Destruction at Pentagon direct result of attack on Africa, powerful prayers around the world, for defeat of evil and victory of truth, leader Muammar Qaddafi
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628235%3Frss
by Dennis South
I’m going to say this, and people can believe whatever they wish. I will speak in certain terms, and you will simply have to read between the lines. Some of it you will not see, unless you read between the lines. For those of you who are attacking Libya, you’d better learn to read fast.
There are people–people whom I know personally–who have been praying and performing…spiritual rituals. One person, about a month ago, directly prayed that the Pentagon would be destroyed.
The “problem,” though, is one that will surprise you: The Mercy of God. God is slow to punish (That’s why I ain’t God! Because I don’t have that much mercy in me!)
Today, the Pentagon was evacuated. It was first told to me by my wife, who heard it on the radio and called me to tell me about it. She said it probably wasn’t on the Internet yet. I checked, and found these articles:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view.bg?articleid=1360830
http://www.wgem.com/story/15316817/pentagon-evacuated-after-58-earthquake-recorded-near-washington-dc
A Message to all those working against Libya, whether you push buttons inside the Pentagon, work inside the White House, or are deployed on the ground, in an anti-Libyan aggressive way:
I urge you to find another form of employment. It is not for me to sit here and appear arrogant, warning you. I do not say these things based on arrogance. I say these things because there is always, at any moment, the possibility that the “respite” that God gives to nations that have become corrupt, will come to an end.
It certainly is not for me to say when God’s patience will come to an end; when His Mercy–even His Mercy upon evil people–will come to an end. I repeat: All of you who are pushing buttons, firing machine guns, writing lies, dropping bombs from the sea, commanding aircraft carriers, flying airplanes, spying on Libya through sattelites, or who are involved in any form of war and aggression against Libya that is coming from outside Libya, or that is coming from inside Libya, I warn you to cease and desist.
NATO: Stand down. Withdraw immediately, before the countries that you represent face death and destruction from Mother Nature.
I have done my duty. I have been told to give you this message. I have given you this message. I advise you to take heed.
Earthquake hit, and is upgraded to 5.9 — Each 1/10th increment is large
Posted: 2011/08/24
From: Mathaba
Destruction at the Pentagon is a direct result of the attack on Africa. Powerful prayers around the world are asking for the defeat of evil, and for the victory of truth-leader Muammar Qaddafi.
By Dennis South
I repeat: The God that created everything gives respite, or a chance, for those who are evil to change their evil ways. His Mercy, though unlimited in His ability to extend that Mercy, does come to an end, when evil nations refuse to heed when the Messengers warn.
I am not a “capital-M” Messenger. I’m not anybody. But there are people who pray, and who’s prayers have been answered in a big manner, in the past.
I repeat: I urge everyone who is involved in using instruments of war and aggression against Libya, no matter what those instruments are, be they propaganda, pushing buttons at the Pentagon, psychological operations, commandeering aircraft carriers, flying airplanes, driving tanks, firing machine guns, or using any instrument of war and aggression, if any kind, against Libya to cease and desist.
The warning is not coming from me. I am just a tiny little messenger boy. The warning is coming from the God of Ages who gave similiar warnings in that past, to arrogant civilizations, and who destroyed those civilizations, the ruins of which you can visit, all over the world.
A special word to the countries that that have organized themselves, within NATO, to force yourselves and your desires upon Libya: Take the message of this earthquake in the U.S.
The U.S. is the worse of the evil nations. It’s punishment will come last, from Mother Nature. But yours: France, Germany, Italy, and whatever other nation is punishing Libya, your punishment may come first. It is because, you have been warned.
Read the signs. Look around you. Wake up. Take your hands off of Libya, forever. Selah.
About Dennis South
I have been serving, for 43 years, the cause of helping to create a new, balanced and peaceful world.
Bob Caldwell a commenté 23 AUGUST 2011:
Bob a écrit : « Christella, this morning as I was looking at the birds and the beautiful blue morning sky I had a deep feeling something very bad was going to happen today. I also don’t think this is over with. We also had an earthquake over here where I live. » « Evidently He is a very rightous man in the Fathers eyes and he is not pleased to what took place. »
« Does anyone believe this is just coincidense of how this took place at the very same time they tobbled Libya and over ran Gaddafi’s compound? »
« I believe this is just the begiining of problems here in this country. »
Bob Desnos a commenté aussi:
Bob Desnos a écrit : « GOD has comunicated something. but what ? »
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Gaddafi,Al-Rai TV:
“All Libyans must be present in Tripoli, young men, tribal men and women must sweep through Tripoli and comb it for traitors,” the Libyan leader said. “I have been out a bit in Tripoli discreetly, without being seen by people, and … I did not feel that Tripoli was in danger”
Olga Sokolova writes:
One of British Special group got ambushed by soldiers of the 32nd Brigade. Up to seven of the seventeen that were part of a subversive group, were killed. Turned out to be captured a resident of Tripoli agreed for $ 300 special forces to become a conductor for special forces . all killed were British soldiers of Arab origin. According to the head of the rebels voiced in Benghazi Mustafa Abdul Jalil for three days of fighting in Tripoli, killing about 400 militants and 2,000 were wounded.
Britain may send in their troops on the ground of Libya. Such a scenario around Libya, did not rule in the Office of Cameron. … According to the press service of the British prime minister, such a deployment … not excluded, if such a request will be made by the opposition of the TNC … In Libya already are operating officers of British special forces SAS, which … “support” tracing Qaddafi. As reported by the local press today, British military officers and intelligence agents from MI6 played a key role in planning the “Battle of Tripoli” !
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http://rt.com/news/death-victory-gaddafi-address-795-11-011/
‘Death or victory!’ – Gaddafi addresses the nation
Published: 24 August, 2011, 05:02
Edited: 24 August, 2011, 13:37
Colonel Gaddafi has addressed his nation to say the battle with “aggressors” will last “until the end”. Meanwhile, the rebels’ assault on the Tripoli compound brought no visible results and shelling goes on in Libyan towns.
Muammar Gaddafi said leaving his compound was a tactical move
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MUAMMAR al-GADHAFI has addressed the nation via Libyan radio, declaring that
The Libyan “Guide” is now leading the counter-attack assault upon Tripoli against NATO and the rats. He is on the front lines with his 2 sons, Mamhomoud and Saif. Khamis is with his fighting Brigade, after just handing out more rifles to protect the Rixos Hotel from CIA/MI6 snipers.. (THE LYING MEDIA claim that Gadhafi and his family have fled and are nowhere’s to be found, HAH!)
JAMAHIRIYA spokesperson, Moussa Ibrahim, speaking on Libyan television from an undisclosed location, warned the battle for Libya will turn the country into a volcano, lava and fire. He stressed that the country’s government can resist the attacks for months or even years.
“Libya will become a volcano,” he promised. He condemned the rebels and claimed that 12,000 tribesmen were converging on Tripoli to fight.
Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV says that the capital is being pounded by Gaddafi forces’ Grad missiles and mortars. Reuters also reports pro-Gaddafi forces attacking the town of Ajelat, west of Tripoli, with missiles and tanks. (ALL LIES, as al-GADHAFI and LIBYA HAVE NO SCUDS, MISSILES or any WMD: all western propaganda to legitimize their continous bombing of Tripoli, Misrata and other areas of Libya)
Meanwhile the National Transitional Council (PUPPET REGIME OF THE WESTERN ALLIES) reports that 400 people have been killed and more than 2,000 injured over the last three days of fighting. Alternative reports claim that more than 1,000 people have died in the violence and NATO air strikes.
Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and journalist, believes that whatever Colonel Gaddafi or the rebel leaders say, it is practically impossible to verify what is true or false at this point.
“But certainly what has been coming from the Western media has been proven to be lies,” he declared. “Gaddafi opened up the armories to the people of Libya, more than a million rifles and other arms have been handed out to the people of Tripoli. The claim that has been made by the so-called ‘progressive’ media of the United States is that Gaddafi is a hated dictator and that this is an indigenous rebellion. The dictator does not hand people guns and say: ‘Please, defend me!’”
The triple-lie of Tripoli
Posted: 2011/08/24
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628246?rss
The attempt of the world banking elite to wipe out democracy, socialism and resistance is facing severe problems: truth needs only a single day to shinte to undo a thousand years of falsehood
News media outlets across the globe simply echoed as usual the reports from the news agencies which are aligned to an anti-Gaddafi cause in the service of rulers who wish to keep their populations ignorant of the alternatives, and have painted a pretty picture of a war waged almost to the end since rebels reportedly surged into Tripoli over the weekend.
However, they had to do this largely by faking reports, and entire news broadcasts from Qatar’s Jazeera, by colouring in green flags with the rebel monarchist flag, an easy feet with photo editing tools, and even the faking of entire scenes at Green Square shot at a large replica of central Tripoli in Qatar. For those who are sceptical, it was not a difficult feat to show some faults on the replica, which missed some of the details of the buildings at Green Square. Now, many of those false reports and also very real ones coming from the ICC about Sayf Al Islams “arrest”, have now been deleted from RT.com and other sites, as the media in Russia too has come under pressure from its pro-bankster President.
Journalists and leaders alike are reporting that the end for Colonel Gaddafi’s regime is near, the rebels are taking control and the tyranny of the decades-long dictator is as good as gone.
But really now — what’s actually happening?
No matter what the mainstream media feeds as facts in an attempt to show a war that’s not a waste of resources, men and money, the reality of it is that the battle that is being waged against Gaddafi does not appear to be as far from over as most are led to believe. One would think so, however, due to misinformation represented with no regard for the truth and a public that deserves to hear it. However, wars are waged for bankers and their stooges in the conglomerates, the “money men” and their faithful servants and gate-keeper politicians. The public are to be kept ignorant, used as cannon fodder for the elite’s wars, and consumers of their worthless products, MacDonalds, gasoline, bottled water passing off as pure, tell-lie-vision commercials and game shows, and so on.
Monday afternoon in America, US President Barack Obama spoke to the country about the Libyan civil war. “This much is clear,” declared the president. “The Gaddafi regime is coming to an end, and the future of Libya is in the hands of its people.”
“For over four decades, the Libyan people had lived under the rule of a tyrant who denied them their most basic human rights,” added Obama. “Now, the celebrations that we’ve seen in the streets of Libya shows that the pursuit of human dignity is far stronger than any dictator.” (Obama forgot to add : Dictator who provided best standards to the country, jobs, wealth, easy life, no poverty, free health care, free education, free housing, plentiful food, clean water and list goes on and on. But yes probably the best “Dictator” that ever lived)
And while Obama did not say that the war is in fact at an end, he did say one thing for certain: “it’s clear that Gaddafi’s rule is over.”
This is the age we are currently living in, where war is peace, ignorance is strength and slavery is freedom.
Not only does Libya have the purest form of participatory democracy having moved from a dictatorship of a king in 1969, by passing the sham of political parties and moving to direct democracy in 1977, with Gaddafi resigning from all political power in 1979, but it also legislated the most advanced human rights in the world, directly from the people in their basic popular congresses, in 1988.
All this came about in no small thanks to the retirement of Gaddafi from political power, so that he could write The Green Book to show the world how it is done. As a movement was needed to discuss, adopt, and propagate the truths of the Third Universal Theory, he founded and led a green committees movement, which continues to spread around the world.
Obama’s speech came within hours of announcement that the second son of Colonel Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, had been detained by authorities. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for his arrest, which was then allegedly carried out by the Libyan National Liberation Army and announced by the National Transitional Council. Coupled with Obama’s assurance that the enemy’s empire was crumbling, the capture of the colonel’s son and main heir apparent would appear to be only a catalyst for the coup, signalling an end all too certain, along with SMS text messages sent to all Libyan mobile phones.
Hours after his supposed arrest, however, the younger Gaddafi rolled up to Tripoli’s Rixos hotel in a white armored limousine. The BBC described him as “pumped full of adrenaline”and “brimming with confidence.” He wore an army-green t-shirt as he flashed the V-for-Victory sign from both hands, entertaining reporters and supporters alike. “I’m here to refute all the rumors and reports,” he told journalists, and then announced that they would “hit the hottest spots in Tripoli.”
The National Transitional Council had issued a report earlier that the colonel’s son was captured, being held “in a safe location.” They even claimed that his brother Khamis was killed yet again, for more than the 9th time, and that Saadi and Mohammed were under arrest. It appears that Mohammad played a trick on Jazeera by calling them up saying he had given himself up, though that needs verification as I missed it. Needless to say, the entire lack of resistance to the advancing rebels on Tripoli and allowing them to go on a rampage for a few hours, resulting in the deaths of over a thousand according to hospital figures, with 5,000 more injured, was a trap so that they could then be surrounded and defeated. Libyans had grown tired of the cowards hiding out in the desert.
Further, allowing the rebels into Tripoli and also elite western troops from Britain, Germany, France and even the USA, along with Qatari mercenaries, provided the opportunity to finally confront and defeat them but at the same time expose the fact that there are immense violations of Africa’s sovereignty going on and a massive snub to the African Union which is the voice of all African states and has long had a working road map for Libya that had been accepted by all parties except the NATO rebels, and of course, NATO.
Saif’s response to questions about NATO rebels? Damn them.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi says it is an “electronic and media war in order to spread chaos and fear in Libya.” Are the rebellions really as raw as they are made out to be? “They are acting more as desperate militia. It is a de facto government but they haven’t grasped this yet,” Fawas Gerges, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at the London School of Economics, tells The Guardian.
Obama says the colonel is on the verge of collapse, but his own son tells reporters that “of course” he’s safe. The media makes it as if the rebel resurgence is ravaging his regime, but other reports suggest the opposite is true .
The mainstream media thinks otherwise. But what about those actually on the ground? Pepe Escobar, correspondent for Asia Times, tells RT that journalists from CNN and BBC “reporting” from Tripoli are “pathetic.” The story that they give to their audience is delivered from hotel rooms where they are held up, donned in bulletproof vests. The independent journalists actually on the scene, he says, are risking their lives to get the story straight, but few are willing to find an outlet for them to tell the truth.
Perhaps the biggest example of misinformation made available to the public was a release from Al-Jazeera TV on Monday. According to a news bulletin, a NATO war-plane shot down a scud missile fired from Muammar Gaddafi’s home city outside of Tripoli. The release is great for those wanting to hear that NATO and American allies are in control and on the side of the rebels, but for those wanting the truth, they are sadly in the dark yet again. Why?
Planes can’t shoot down scud missiles.
By Tuesday morning, news sources show Gaddafi’s compound billowing with black smoke, fires raging and rebels rejoicing in tears. They say the war is almost over and the end is near, and hey, they have the footage of a mansion on fire to prove it. But where is Gaddafi? Where is his imprisoned son today? What is NATO actually doing and will they lie about it before the sun sets tonight in Tripoli? And what about all the previously doctored images and videos, so many of which have been exposed on Mathaba that we are now tired of it?
From now on, we believe enough people know the truth, and know that we tell the truth. We will just report, and ask more of you readers to do your investigations and join the collective effort. Help out the sub editors at pub.mathaba.net and contribute funds so that our over loaded editors can do more and keep all systems running: http://www.mathaba.net/donate.htm
While time may tell what’s to become of the people of Libya, one thing is absolutely sure: this war will never end, until NATO gives up., and another surety is that the ideas of the leader and his movement contained at http://www.greencharter.com will spread far and wide.
Surely the so-called MSM media can’t be relied on for the facts, but with the future of the world and the lives of millions at stake, people will know the truth about Libya and share it, and more and more will study the educational sections of sites such as http://www.peoplesconference.org to know what is really behind events in the world, and will adopt the Green Charter as their platform.
And finally a question to all the parents in America. When your children are called to their “call of duty” to go and die for the banking elite, ask yourselves this: Are you sending your children to defend your country or to invade another simply to grab resources that won’t reach you but once again only the bankers who control your government?
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The West (LYING) is now saying GADHAFI HAS AND IS USING CHEMICAL WEAPONS, WMD and SCUDS! They say these lies so they can hide the fact that they and NATO are using depleted uranium tipped bombs on Libya. Also it would give them the excuse as to why they must bomb more and kill Gadhafi. They say it to make it look like Gadhafi made the destruction of Libya when it really was NATO and the WEST! IT IS ALL LIES!!!
GADHAFI in Dec 2010 said :
(QUOTE)”There is a lot of talk about the maintenance of world peace, preventing wars and saving the peoples from their scourge. If there is any truth to such talk, if it is not mere hypocrisy or the well-known electioneering propaganda, certain practical steps need to be agreed upon and implemented by the whole world. Foremost among those is the complete elimination of weapons of mass destruction; not the partial or gradual elimination but the complete one….” (UNQUOTE) (see full speech)
Gadhafi is a man of integrity. He says what he really means; no one writes his speeches but himself. He does not speak to flatter one faction; and then in another manner to gain another’s support . He is honest and fearless. He is against WMD & all evils. He wouldn’t exterminate the earth just to “win”! He defends the JAMAHIRIYA given to his people & the world with God’s assistance. Gadhafi thus defends God and the principles of God, NOT THE DEVIL! He defends LIFE, not death.
Leader of the Green Committees Movement Addresses the World
Posted: 2011/08/24
From: Mathaba
From the International Liaison Office of the Green Committees Movement
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628250?rss
From the international liaison office of the Green Committees Movement
Oppressed people around the world, the battle has begun. Do not despair, help is nigh. Do you realize that this is the Night of Power? What is the Night of Power? It is better than thousands of other nights, it is the destiny, when the heavens are open to receive your prayers thousands fold.
Watch what is happening now in America. Did we hit them with our missiles? No, they came and struck us, 64 hits on Bab Al-Aziziya which is now destroyed, and finally I had to leave my home, where they killed many innnocents. But I will never leave Libya and in this fight, it is either victory or death.
Those of you in United States of America. I am not your leader. If you are in that failed state you should be preparing to leave. Go to Venezuela. If you remain, you must follow my deputy, spiritual leader Minister Louis Farrakhan. Listen to him. He will tell you all you need to know about what is unfolding.
Those of you in Europe, you too should prepare to be drowned in events and calumny. Not enough of you have risen up. You will have to accept the consequences, the good among you should head to Africa. Go to west Africa. North Africa is not safe now that the region is all a battle field. In West Africa you will find homes and good work.
Those of you in Serbia, true friends of Libya, and you are with me. Do not despair of the rat flag on only one house out of one million. All of you can cut pieces of green cloth, measured exactly two by one in dimension, that is your flag, the flag of people’s power, of hope, of truth, of the future.
All you in the world who support truth, freedom, Jamahiriya, hang it on millions homes, cars. The green flag is yours and belongs to all the masses of the world. With the dawn of people’s authority and the end of governments, we chose the green flag and made its colour and dimension easy for all. Choose any green. Cut it one by two, exactly, and hang it everywhere, carry it with you.
Soon the green flag will fly all over the world, as governments collapse, they failed their people, I alone did more than all of them. They served different masters. They did not intend to serve the people, never. They are owned by others. They do nothing for you. Ignore them and they are gone. Prepare yourselves by forming committees, openly or in secret, set up your local mathabas to meet and share. Chart the way forward. The green flag belongs to you all.
The future is jamahiriya, everywhere. Masses self-governing societies. Basic popular congresses and people’s committees. Green committees to guide, defend, expose, call, show the way forward to people’s power. It’s all there in The Green Book, read it, copy it, share it. Use your own communication systems, don’t rely on the enemy. Make your own communications. Take back your resources to your hands, do not be afraid of power, possess it. It is your power, wealth and arms that the governments, banks and militaries stole from you.
You cannot ask others to represent you. You cannot entrust theives with your wealth. You cannot ask others to fight and die on your behalf, to defend you. This your human responsibility, when you do this, the world will be free, organized, jamahiri system, freedom and happiness, abundance of wealth for all.
The era of the governments is coming to an end and they are fighting their last gasp. They are desperate. But they are bankrupt, not only financially speaking, they are bankrupt in morals, religion, education, intellect, ideas, they have no way forward. They are on the stage of collapse. That collapse is good for the world peoples who are suffering because they are not free.
O all good people of the world, know that Islam is not what is being put to you by the ignorant who make a public show of prayer but in reality are serving the devil. Islam is submission to the will of Allah, the One God of all humanity. This is the night of prayer. Your prayers are being answered. You are the Muslims, all those who pray and do not associate partners with Allah.
People of Bosnia, many of you are misguided, Arabs, the useless and weak. The people of Serbia who are Christians and others would be closer to God. There is only one God. That God is with the truth wherever it is found, read Qur’an to know the truth, do not listen to those who would mislead you. If God is with you, who can be against you?
What Sharia are you looking for other than the one which we have since I was the first to bring Quran as the Law of Society in the Jamahiriya. Is it the sharia of injustice? Oppression? Cowardice? Murder? Insanity? Drugs? Is it the sharia that elevates the rat with his gun that allows torture, rape, theft? No! That is not the sharia, ignoring all that is in the Quran.
Prayers are being answered. More than forty armies have gone against me, only because I spoke the truth, because I would not let the thieves pass me into Africa. I have promised Africa I will not betray you. I promise the world, the millions who have me in your hearts, that I am fighting to the finish.
Do not believe their trumpets. Whoever listens to the trumpets is making a mistake. You have your own mathabas to go to for information and to meet and deliberate. Pay no heed to them. By now this should be clear to you. Fire is water, water is fire. Know that the future is yours, governments are finished, a new era of the masses is coming, as predicted in The Green Book.
I hear you. Many of your messages reach to me. I cannot answer you individually but I feel your pain. Some of you were so affected by the lies in the recent days that you even contemplated suicide. No! No never, suicide is not an option, when we are in front of great victory. The costs will be high but we must not waver.
I see you Africans around the world, even in Australia, your pictures reach me. I see you collecting money for helping East Africa. It is the whites who brought these problems and cut us off from helping our brothers and sisters. Thank you for you prayers. But keep your money. Instead use it to fight those oppressors.
Form among you green committees, meet in secret or in open. Proclaim your allegiance to the green charter. Study The Green Book. Register your people’s conferences, provide encouragement to others around the world, prepare for future world congress on crimes against humanity, you have six months to prepare.
March next year can be the biggest congress of the people, you can make it happen. Prepare already. Make a web site you must to make it, so all the crimes can be registered. While we fight to defend our nation, you fight on the battle field of truth, for the pen is mightier than the sword.
Some of you arrived to our western border, but had to return. You have families to take care of. Now the way is clear, but NATO will not allow for peace. They fear the example of the Great Jamahiriya. They can destroy our physical achievements but they cannot destroy the truth. The more they try the more we will be victorious, victory is with the people, never with the oppressors.
Thousands of you are waiting at various stations, I see you in Tanzania, in Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, and many other parts of Africa. How will you cross the deserts to Libya. Instead group yourselves where you are. The fight if it is not won in Libya will be coming to you. Prepare for it. Prepare traps for the invaders. You must defend your corners.
African governments are not strong. They control only a few centers of cities. They often provide no services and the people live without them. They will not stand in your way when the time comes. They are poor. They have been robbed by the racists, the colonialists, the white thieves from the north. Oppose them only if they oppose you. Be prepared. Build your mathaba. Defend your continent.
They can attack with their bombs, but we defend with truth. They can never fight us man to man. They are only cowards, sick, demented, hiding behind machines, they can never face the African one to one. African children can defeat any white mercenary, that is why they hide and destroy with hatred from far.
Do not let them use you. Be united. Build your defences for they are coming if they manage to pass Libya. If they destroy Libya then attack them from behind.
Avoid fighting if you can. The enemy wishes us all to be bogged down on their battle fields, that they want to engage us all in war. Afghanistan is now with us, Iraq is with us, Venezuela is with us. We want peace. We want justice. Work for conferences on crimes against humanity, use your mathaba networks, the mathaba are the headquarters of the green committees, go forth, victory is ours!
Russia won’t recognize the Libyan rebels
Posted: 2011/08/23
From: Source
In a strong indication that Russian intelligence agrees that both Qaddafi and the Libyan system of direct participatory democracy and national socialism are there to stay, Russia is not recognizing the so-called rebels
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628229
The crucial stage of the Libyan conflict could have been reached much earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated at a press conference in San Salvador.
“We have always wanted a quicker outcome, and it could have been faster, but a number of factors prevented this from happening, including Gaddafi’s position [who has the support of a huge majority of the Libyan people],” Lavrov said after talks Monday with his Salvadorian counterpart, Hugo Martinez. “Gaddafi insisted that negotiations were only possible through him.”
NATO’s actions were also an obstacle, the Russian foreign minister stated, pointing out that they far exceeded the mandate handed to the alliance by the UN Security Council and hampered and delayed the resolution of the internal conflict in Libya.
Russia will not recognize the National Transitional Council as the sole legitimate representative, he declared, explaining that such a move would not help matters.
Lavrov added Russia is prepared to actively promote a political process in Libya, saying Russia therefore considers the National Transitional Council “only as a party to the talks”.
“Russia is ready to actively promote a political process in Libya, just as in other countries,” he said. “The Russian and Libyan peoples have traditions of friendship, years-long interaction, and we shall continue to act in this vein in the future as well.”
Russia and China are unlikely to obtain any oil concessions if the rebels win, because both have had a long history of cooperation with the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. However, for this very reason, it would be to their advantage to recognize the rebel TNC if it had any good chance to come to power.
The events of the past few days however, which were NATO and its rebels last gasp attempt to take control of Tripoli and amidst big lying media fanfare. Claims by western media that 80% of Tripoli is under rebel and NATO control are also exposed when in fact only around 10% is not under total government control, with the remainder now being restored.
The rebels invasion which included many foreigners including Qataris, British and Americans being dropped from the sea are now being rounded up. The fact Russia at this point when NATO is claiming that Qaddafi is about to fall and Tripoli will be taken over by the rebels, which all fell into a big trap, is not willing to recognize the TNC speaks volumes.
Today even NATO has finally had to say they are “no longer interested in killing Qaddafi” and claimed that he is “irrelevant”. All along the western neo-colonialists and former colonialist powers which are trying to regain Africa’s wealth in a coming imperial redivision of Africa, have made impossible demands that Qaddafi should “step down” when he is in fact not the government of Libya nor holding any positions other than Leader of the World Revolution, Leader of the World Islamic Popular Leadership, King of Kings of Africa, Leader of the Revolutionary Committees Movement, and Teacher and Thinker of the Third Universal Theory. All these positions are natural evolutionary ones and not related to governments or policy making.
The Libyan people rule themselves via popular conferences and people’s committees and they hold the power, the wealth and the arms in their hands. Muammar Qaddafi as a symbol and leader lives in the hearts of all Africans and millions of others around the world, with his popularity growing by the hour for being able to withstand yet again, 25 years after the previous occasion, this time a near 6 month long attempt to assassinate him by bombs, missiles, bullets, and even to destroy his pure character by endless media lies. All this has backfired with more and more learning the truth about Libya, as well as about The Green Book, and that obviously there is something very different about this true people’s power in Libya.
RT.com and Mathaba
Latest Updates From Inside Tripoli — Tahira Reports 45 Thru 55
Posted: 2011/08/24
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/members/?sh_itm=aefc58a43f6eb83c8a604191a52ec3a2
The low down on current events in Tripoli
by Dennis South
Forty-fifth report: Yes!! 🙂
Latest from Libya:
Wait for some great news. Don’t believe Al Jazeera lies. We are hundreds of thousands and inshallah victory will be ours.
This is the frequency of ARRAY (Iraqi tv) channel. The one and only way to hear Libya on the satelite for now. (channel Arabic) inshallah our channels will be back as soon as possible.
*NILESAT* frequency : 11316 or 11393 polarity : vertical symbol rate : 27500 code rate :7/8
Forty-sixth Report:
ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE FAKE VIDEO OF WESTERN MEDIA.
First of all: a simple thing you can all check without any doubt. The imaging from the bastards of RT that said they got in BAB Aziziya are fake. One simple proof in pics. The airplane in Bab Aziziya has a flag of USA and writes USA. In this image footage from video and from all networks the signs dissapeared.. In last nights video with saif in Bab Aziziya the American flag and the USA name where written, suddedly today vanished. They should have hired a better scene maker.
There is also a video just now on youtube showing a guy wearing what’s supposed to be Gaddafi’s hat. The video is so fake, even a blind person would be able to tell it was set up. Lol here it is:
Judge for yourself.. lol
They are all idiots.
Forty-seventh Report:
Breaking News
People Marching in Tripoli supporting Gaddafi, Bab Aziziya Full of People, Tripoli is safe, life is normal , only Tajorah and Janzor have some rats, green flags filling the Green Square and every place in Tripoli, I swear tp God, I just received a call from my cousi,n he told me that he was in Bab Aziziya an hour ago and now he is at The Green Square. (3h ago)
Breaking News
I phoned with Libya through Thuria phone. Everything is fine, all what you see on the news is false.(1h ago)
Forty-Eighth Report:
BREAKING NEWS. (JUST NOW!!)
THE WEST AREA OF TRIPOLI IS CONTROLLED BY FORCES LOYAL TO MOUAMAR GADDAFI. COASTAL ROAD FROM TUNISA TO TRIPOLI IS NOT CONTROLLED BY THE REBELS!!!
REAL NEWS (SOURCE REPORTER OF GREEK STATE TELEVISION MOMENTS AGO) HE STATED THAT LOYAL FORCES ARE PRESENT FROM BORDERS TO THE WEST TRIPOLI SUBURBS!!!
Forty-ninth Report:
Gaddafi spoke to the people on the radio and he said that Bab al-Aziziya is under control. He [is] leading the battle in Tripoli. I heard it with my own ears. Masses of people cheering in the background! Victory is coming soon!
Fiftieth Report:
Telecom Libyana is gradually coming back in the capital Tripoli.
First communication by phone. Everything is under control. The traitors are confounded and victory is near.
(after that line went down, will call again later)
Fifty-first Report:
Brother Leader Mouamar Al Gaddafi in his speech to the people of Tripoli: “We will resist the agressors with or our strength and victory, God Willing.”
Fifty-second Report:
Moussa Ibrahim reporting/talking now. I’m sure the will be a translation soon. It’s so good to hear them all in such good spirit. I’m glad the channel is working again.
Can’t wait for everything to work properly again. All the telecommunication.
And I’m ever so thankful that this chanel here is working. Everything will be alright.
Fifty-third Report:
Gaddafi said we withdraw from Bab al-Aziziya on a tactic after NATO bombed 64 times today , but we will fight until the end.
Fifty-fourth Report:
Moussa Ibrahim: We destroyed a full group of rats in west Tajouraa and they were leading the operations in Tajouraa, in Tripoli.
4 Qataris, 1 Emirati and several Europeans were with them.
Fifty-fifth Report:
Mousa Ibrahim Translated by اسكندر بيك
Libya will be [a] Volcano, I tell you now. Volunteers are still coming to Tripoli. I tell you that 6000 Volunteers just came now at this hour and they are inside the city.
Rats entered Tripoli under the cover of NATO Helicopters. More than 80% [of Tripoli] is free. I salute all Tribes that came here to protect in Tripoli.
Big improvement for you that they [the rats] failed to enter Bab al-Aziziya. NATO bombed Bab Aziziya 64 times, and we went out of it because Bab al-Aziziya isn’t presently anything, but it will be a symbol.
I tell the Libyan people that Libyan government still controls everything. And we still can move to plan B or C or D. We still have many plans.
Rats can’t represent anything real because they are under the cover of NATO, and we are going to make it hell for them. They are not Libyans at all. They stole houses. They killed innocent people, although their masters ordered them to be nice to people.
They tried to cut electricity and water of the people. They want to destroy Libya to bring [in] their [Western] companies.
I was with the Tribes. They made a command to lead the battle in Tripoli. Lots of volunteers still coming here. Some came by taxi, because the elder tribes declared the Jihad. Rats can’t continue in this war, but they [are] still asking [for] NATO [help].
Today we captured 4 Qataris, one Emarati, and lots of foreigners are in the hands of our army. We also captured 20 rats in some streets. Also Khamis Gaddafi and some volunteers attacked rats in Ayen Zara, and killed them all .
We have some martyrdom. But from the rats I can’t tell how many. In the morning we killed 65 rats , and I can’t tell how many others got killed because some of the leaders of the battle didn’t tell me. Rats attacked the embassy of Algeria and burnt it.
We are asking all the organisations in the world to reject these gangs and don’t accept them as representing the Libyan people. Brega and all other cities are free. The battle is only in Tripoli. After that, all Libyans will be free! The task for our army now is easier because we killed all their [the rats] leaders.
NATO bombed Libya TV and all the communications in Libya. We are fighting the biggest evil enemy in the world, but our morale is coming from Islam. We are hard fighters.
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Izraeli-Qatari TV station Al-Jazeera has made one more qrotesqe attempt to deceive the public, much like they did since the beginning of the conflict in Libya. Major news outlets such as CNN, BBC etc are only copy-paste servants of Al Jazeera (Izrael and Qatar) when it comes to the news about Middle East.
Picture on the left side was taken on 02-May-2011, it shows a dead body of a younger male, the one on the right side is a photoshopped picture made to deceive the public into believing that Leader Gaddafi is dead, it was shown on Al Jazeera. This TV station has been at the forefront of the propaganda war against Libya. For those who can’t separate fiction from fact, here’s a little explanation. Propaganda can be classified according to the source and nature of the message.
White propaganda generally comes from an openly identified source, and is characterized by gentler methods of persuasion, such as standard public relations techniques and one-sided presentation of an argument (NATO side). Black propaganda is identified as being from one source, but is in fact from another. This is most commonly to disguise the true origins of the propaganda, be it from an enemy country or from an organization with a negative public image (Al Qaeda and Muslim brotherhood rebels in Libya, identified as Freedom Fighters). Grey propaganda is propaganda without any identifiable source or author. A major application of grey propaganda is making enemies believe falsehoods using straw arguments: As phase one, to make someone believe “A”, one releases as grey propaganda “B”, the opposite of “A”. In phase two, “B” is discredited using some strawman. The enemy will then assume “A” to be true. (Qatari-Hollywood-NATO scam staged at the moment) .
In the case of grey propaganda , lets say that the enemy of Al Jazeera is western public, Al Jazeera (AJ) wants that public to believe that the massacre happened in Tripoli (A). But first they are deceiving them with the “rebels conquered Tripoli” story. When it ‘turns out’ that the rebels are not that strong as everyone ‘thought’, a massacre will happen, which will probably be broadcast first through some more ‘independent’ TV station (e.g. RT, PRESS TV), a Strawman. Massacre leads directly to NATO ground invasion – which is the aim of the whole scam. What the NATO media is now doing with all this sensational false news , such as Gaddafi getting killed for the fifth time, his sons arrested etc, is called BUILDING UP THE MOMENTUM. They want to animate and heat up the western public, to make them cheer and take an unprescendend interest in Libyan ‘heroes’. So when the eufory of the public interest in the matter, reaches a PEAK, a massacre will happen. Western public will be furious and due to their dissapointed expectations will demand a help from NATO. Job done,Ground troops coming.
Methods used by them in their psychological warfare, involve false flag operations. Erecting a movie-set in a desert near Doha (Qatar) with a fake scenery of Tripoli’s Green Square (Libya) link was a start of NATO’s false flag operations called “Mermaid down” and “Bride of Mediterranean”.
We warned before of their start (link)
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/08/al-jazeera-and-nato-planning-major-scam.html
Libyan government has been warning people, so much evidence around, genuine Libyans on internet (not the “FBI-software-twitter” ones) warned of this and noone cares to take a look, please read our earlier blog posts.
Those false flag operations are a cover up for a ground NATO invasion! Those ‘rebels’ celebrating their ‘victories’ on a ‘Green Square’ are a deception, we showed the evidence earlier in our posts (AL JAZEERA AND NATO PLANNING A MAJOR SCAM AND MASSACRE EVER), take a look and you’ll see! In fact rebels are weak, and have no popular backing among the Libyans, they were shipped from Benghazi with the help of NATO into their deaths. NATO pushed them to a slaughterhouse on purpose, knowing that they have no strength to survive in Tripoli. They are just a distraction for a major event- undercover arrival of the NATO mercenaries to the shores of Tripoli.
One of the main things in this Hollywood-like script is the presence of NATO snipers, labeled for propaganda purposes as “Gaddafi’s snipers” on CNN, AJ, BBC etc. There are around 150 snipers set-up around Tripoli, shooting civilians, in order to cause a panic and chaos, which will be staged as one of the reasons for a ground invasion. They want to reproduce the success of another false flag “shooting at the protesters in Benghazi”, which led to the NATO intervention and start of war. The problem is that the Libyan government already warned people of the NATO snipers days ago, ordinary citizents of Tripoli know very well whose snipers are those, only the people outside Libya have no clue!
Well the only clue they can get is from truly independent journalists, such as Lizzy Phelan, Mahdi Nazemroaya and Frank Lamb. They are placed in the same “press” Hotel called Rixos, with the other journalists. Unfortunately for them and for their audience, hotel is full of fake journalists, or lets say –agents. CNN staff have directly threatened those independent journalists staying in the same hotel. Lizzy, Mahdi and Frank were shot at by NATO snipers, Frank (a fierce NATO-critic) was hit in the leg. While those brave free-spoken people fight for their lives in that hotel , one must remember that they also fight for me, you and other wanna-be-free people, they fight against the most powerful army in the world and their servants, which are there to steal the truth from us,to steal our freedom of thought.
Please inform everyone around you at what is going on.
As one great journalist Steven Lendman said:
“This NATO-led war is ongoing ruthlessly for over six months against Libyans alone, it rages lawlessly out of control because justice, humanity cries for, is denied.Unless gotten, people everywhere won’t be free. The stakes are that high.”
February 2011 in Libya
Leonor in Libya
Libya imperialist aggression and contaminated aggression
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=Internal&from=es&to=en&a=http://leonorenlibia.blogspot.com/
AFG. Historian, specialist in Middle East and Maghrib.
Apparently, the current situation of extreme confusion emanating of the news provided to us by the media at the service of the Western imperialism (EU and USA) and its armed wing NATO, we can deduce that – at last – imperialism is close to achieve military victory – the least-in their war of prey at Libya.
Today, 08/23/11, the mercenary troops in the service of NATO, the tribal clans of Benghazi linked to King Idris I, the guerrillas of Al Qaeda and the Liberals cut the legitimate Libyan State, in collusion with the indiscriminate bombing on civilians, hospitals, schools, cultivated land, hotels and water tanks and fuelsas well as heavy weapons, transportation, food, on the ground and military intelligence command provided by the Holy Alliance (USA, France, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, among others), it seems are ravaging the capital Trípoli. Some reports speak of 5000 dead and many more wounded by shelling of the Empire and the outrages caused by “Mujahideen freedom” in the service of NATO.
Historical background of an imperialist war for the colony and its resources.
This war imperial, asymmetrical, much reminds of other military interventions since World War II in the Maghrib and other parts of the poor third world. We ceñiremos to that region to contextualize. In the years 50 and 60, the actors do not differ from those French and English who tried to prevent the effective independence of the countries of the Maghrib and middle. In some cases, the parallels with the decolonization of Algeria and Tunisia are obvious.
While the second could be considered relatively “peaceful”, the 1st came to weapons, guerrilla warfare, the creation by the imperialism of the French of the OAS (Organization of right-wing settlers) and sending into the Casbah of Algiers of the French paratroopers, groups of elite bombed, occupied and killed with white letter granted by De Gaulle himself (which by the way)(called to the French freedom of histrionic manner during the nazi occupation, being afterwards, let me leave, a butcher murderer in Algiers). This happened in the late 1950s, early 1960s.
Also the bombardment imperial with aviation and maritime, with the landing of mercenaries and elite commands included in the country, subjected to a psychological warfare against the population and punishment lightning (blitzkrieg), attack infrastructure key in few days or weeks at most, with the objective quadruple maintains colonial reminiscences:
Terrorize the civilian population and, if possible, stand against their Government.
Destroying air facilities, fuel tanks, and therefore keep the attacked troops in areas well identified as easy prey.
Cut food and logistics supplies and easily accessible through mercenary indigenous troops (sepoys) and invasion Metropolitan colonizing power centers and sought-after resource areas.
Create awareness in the population, the army and in general, in the country is at the mercy of the aggressor, that is can decide when and as the fate of the country and be his Manager. It is stemming “racist” thought of the theories of Rousseau and the liberalism of the s. XVIII and developed during the s. XIX by capitalist liberalism.
From theory to praxis: the Egypt nasserita, progressive, socializante and denominational 1956 suffered this lesson of “Western civilization”. On July 26 of that year, Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, sea of first order at that time, and obtained resources earmarked for the economic development of the people. France and Great Britain were expropriated from the actions of the French Canal Company, and its multinational and collectivized subcontractors. Also of the Sinai Peninsula gas and oil wells were expropriated.
With the Zionist support, these two Imperial Nations launched a war against Nasser and Egypt with the described techniques. The strong opposition of the Egyptian people and the support of the Soviet Union at the UN, together with the warm American solidarity, have prevented the disaster.
Gadaffi today lives a similar situation.
Emanated from the rales of revolutions Pan-Arab Egyptian, Syrian, Tunisian and Yemenis, the movement of the free officers of Gadaffi toppled on September 1, 1969 the decrepit, corrupt and neocolonial oligarchy of King Idris I and established a Democratic Republic of socializante character (he always described as Socialist, but from a Marxist standpoint this attribute seems contradictory).
King Idris, agent Franco-British and Italian in the former colony following – I insist-, it remained in the country a huge naval base American and British; the gas and oil resources were controlled by up 15 foreign powers, which in turn ceded the exploitation to dozens of multinational companies; It allowed international economic exploitation through major banks and foreign financial institutions operating in the country, expoliando and speculating on the Libyan capital; He conceded the creation of infrastructures and the development of key sectors of the country to multinational Imperial; and gave Viceregal privileges to the tribe salusí of Benghazi, linked to the radical sunnismo, and later Al-Qaeda. Even the advisers of the Government of Idris I were foreigners.
Gadaffi and his free officers nationalized oil, re-established ties panarabistas Tunisia and Egypt, among other Nations; It regulated banking, nationalizing the most important; expelled the Imperial bases; ensured the population’s access to basic goods and services public; He redistributed State addressing root privileges of the caste salusí of Benghazi, creating the Jamahiriya (“State of the masses”), where professional, neighborhood organizations, workers and farmers discussed the future of the country and the political lines to follow. Notable is the advancement of the rights of women bearing in mind that the official religion is Islam.
It supports seamless all anti-colonial national liberation movements in Africa and Europe, is lined with Tito and Nehru in countries non-aligned. Fight hard against Apartheid in South Africa.
With comings and goings, and especially after the imperialist aggression of Ronald Reagan in 1986, and the Soviet collapse and pan-Arabism in general, Gadaffi evolves. Own contradictions of not having a social model and economic defined allow a liberal opening of the market abroad. They are the early 1990s.
Added to his eccentricities (many of them exploited since a view Eurocentric very superficial, since that some “eccentricities” are not such but Islamic culture) and its approach to the West, have a Gadaffi sympathetic for the Empire and not so much to the left. Backwards Gadaffi, stop giving support to the European armed groups and condemned “terrorism”. For able to move the capital, in the absence of markets, Gadaffi begins to invest in Europe, leaving to international companies operating in their oil, still maintaining public ownership of them, and ensuring control of transactions and the public nature of banking.
Nevertheless, compared to Libya in these tough times with “the Scandinavia of the Maghreb”, by the level of life, services, welfare, labour rights and women enjoying the State.
A classical imperialist war: oil, water, geostrategy.
From the end of the 1990s, Gadaffi returns to the anti-imperialist speech known to all. Renacionaliza the hidrocarbúrico sector, liberalized banking and even complains bitterly that he “would have done faster and more radical, but the vote of the Jamahiriya not her I won”.
Gadaffi looks Venezuela, China, India, Iran and the Alba countries. The situation after so many years of international loneliness begins to improve.
Gadaffi returns to give a blow of helm in international politics. Once revised hidrocarbúricas concessions and supplies and strengthened its presence in the African Union (AU), Gadaffi negotiates with China the export of oil, and gas to grow exponentially contracts for the exploitation to the detriment of the EU. China in turn sent a legion of technicians, operators and specialists to plan, develop and train Libyan tables in business, technology, infrastructure and services. In addition, provided you diplomatic avenues this nation (international contacts) on the Mainland to invest in the same. China in 2009 will be the 1st. investor in Africa, displacing the EU and the USA. Ends Libyan isolation, open also relations with anti-imperialist.
The enmity of the us with Libya has been warning since 1981.
However, the attack taken and decided in February 2011 includes several factors in order to confuse the possible response of the international Liberals.
Camouflage the true intentions of the same – that I will develop in a later article, this article is merely indicative and urgency-:
It is a classic colonial war because the objective is the possession of resources hidrocarbúricos, in this particular case, and huge reserves of water contained in the Libyan ground. USA and the EU, above all, need reserves of resources that are beginning to dwindle to be able to operate its industries and generating capital gains. Without raw there is no production – processing – and do not generate tangible capital.
Interwoven with 1. It is a colonial war by appropriating these resources described above, in addition to preventing access to the same to other powers in conflict of interest with the aggressor. In other words, us and the EU pretend avoid 2 things:
(a) that China – above all-Russia and/or the India get in terms of cooperation (or by any means) resources imperative need of the Western powers.
( b) Que Libya ally with China and others, and exercised in Ciccerone on the continent, thus avoiding the expansion of these Nations.
It is a classic colonial war because of the political and military strategies used in its development, identical to the case of Nasser, Lumumba and the Syria of today.
It is a classic colonial war used the purchase of indigenous population sectors unhappy (sepoys) by the Western powers aggressor, and stays from outside the country, a fictional Government in exile and his autocratic figures ready and willing to lead the country after has ended the coup. Also, if it is confirmed the fact that is pointed by some channels, part of the rebels are not Libyan Arab origin – mercenaries – it would be another statistic that either my thesis.
It is a classic colonial war since forces aggressor not hide their intentions with the aggression at any time, wield the cause of civilization and the imposition of “” Western democracy as a form of Governance – Occidentalism, Eurocentrism, social Darwinism, racism-; assault directly with their armies and weapons to the Libyan people; they are intended to provide solutions for “social education” of Libya without them (myth of the good savage of Rousseau) and do not conceal that the “oil” is part of the cause of the aggression.
It is a classic colonial war because despise from the Western view any opinion contrary to the legitimacy of the same in the own metropolis (us and EU). In addition, be hiding and minimizing the effects caused by war on the population and the Libyan country. E.g.: how many dead need to Libya so they use the same one the Lockerbie? How much is worth a Libyan in relation to a European?
It is a classic colonial war because the debate of ideas to support or oppose it based on the same concept: good or bad as Gadaffi. This is a point of view occidentalist, reactionary and antimaterialist.
It is a classic colonial war clearly shown in the active and passive resistance of the Libyan people for more than 6 months a far superior in all military aspects and propaganda aggressor. Here demonstrates the ability of rejection of the foreign impositions.
Notes for discussion: the left contaminated.
Let me me elaborate a bit on point 7 of the previous paragraph. In Europe and the West, the debate encona here: Gadaffi if or not, bueno-malo, neither NATO nor Gadaffi, ying and yang…Metaphysics, in short.
Even if a server is humbly present here and especially in other articles some aspects of the revolutionary Libya, is essential to banish – once and for all – the systematic and self-satisfied export of occidentalist thought to realities that have nothing to do with preconfigured and outline approaches to the Western left.
Gadaffi is a dictator and a murderer . Repeated ad nauseam by means of the bourgeoisie aggressor and accepted by the left Iberian – including the revolutionary – in general, except for few exceptions of some parties allegedly “outdated”. So accepted that any organization of “workers” gave good screenplay, speaking of Gadaffi in terms like “butcher of Tripoli” only 2 days after the “popular uprising” that sought to topple him. Any organization as real equated the idea that “Gadaffi bombing their people” without being able to see how the perfect excuse was manufactured from imperialism to take sides by some “popular insurgents”.
The absolute disengagement – not to say contempt-sources in order to provide a version contrasted by our polluted left, we can understand to be accepted uncritically the imperial version of the item. The causes of the “revolution” can be understood without knowing anything about the Libya social reality nor.
The town has erected against Gadaffi . Another false axiom. False implications could be drawn from the first confusing news. The parallels with Tunisia or Egypt were not real. Without dwelling, we can say that both Tunisia and Egypt have undergone some bread riots (subsistence), caused by the domestic shortage product of the capitalist crisis (hitting with more virulence to the periphery of the system) together with the crisis in the metropolis, that does not “help” both the colonised economies. On the other hand, Libyan reality shows us that all the socio-economic indicators this country has rates excellent, being the 1st country to income per national and personal càpita of Africa, among other factors, economic and social health and welfare which denies the alleged shortage and economic oppression imposed Gadaffi to the population.
The Libyan reality indicates the composition of the “up people”, is actually the following:
. Liberal soldiers deserted of Gadaffi – those who revolted from the barracks, Younis at the head-. Pushing the State coup.
B. To Al-Qaeda – sect Salusí. Native of Benghazi, protected by King Idris I in his time. Radical Sunnis with ties in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
C. Nostalgic monarchists of Idris I – with headquarters in London – from the Liberal Party. These are those of the tricolour (red, green, black). Since 1969 with the MI-6 and since 1981 with the CIA and Reagan are conspiring to overthrow by force to Gadaffi.
D. (Us and EU) NATO.
E. Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, created in the early 1990s by ex-combatants of Afghanistan, close to Al Qaeda, Bin Laden-financed in Afghanistan.
F. Involving mercenaries.
G. The Libyan Democratic Party. With headquarters in Washington, are more liberal in economic – further! – that the Liberal
The real people in arms is on the other side of these people resisting imperialist aggression for over 6 months.
In Libya there is no Communist Party nor organized labor movement alien to the Jamhiriya, and less capable of hitting a coup for the Government. Remember also, that the labour and popular movement participates in the Jamahiriya and the committees for the defense of the revolution.
Even if there are some worker or peasant clueless that he stood against Gadaffi, to see the composition of the CNT, created it will very much think before see his country become the paradise of the multinational of the sack and plundering, the reinstaurada monarchy, the privatization of basic services, and the official of the fundamentalist religion. Not to mention the recoil of the rights of women.
More serious is that no partido-organización has been rectified. And some of them still in their 13, demonstrating a great capacity for criticism and self-criticism. It continues in its 13 stating that “neither NATO nor Gadaffi”, are thus demonstrating to the world – not only to West–as some alleged worshippers of the Libyan people who must rid of Gadaffi to then get rid of imperialism.
The great falsehood is that there is no “Libyan people” to defend against Gadaffi. It has shown the falsity of the premise that indicates “rebel Libyan people”. There are political factions armed – even origin foreign-trained, trained and funded by the yankee-European imperialism to overthrow and recolonize a sovereign country openly anti-imperialist. There is a direct aggression of NATO. There is a people who are being subjected to the dictatorship of Capital, not worth the excuses, no half-measures to the reality that is imperialism.
There is Libyan people who defend saqueador imperialism, a reality Libyan – Jamahiriya-that regardless of our position on it, of understanding or misunderstanding, political support or criticism – must be defended because it is the way chosen by the people of Libya rid of the colonial power represented by Italy, Great Britain and the USA throughout its history, and it is a social organization infinitely more just, equitable, compassionate, progressive and revolutionary to the old ways autarchic Empire seeks to reimpose.
Before imperialism – causing asymmetric wars – not you can be fought from the political asymmetry: then take sides – even without seeking it – by the strongest.
Matter of urgency, in Barcelona to August 23, 2011.direct aggression of NATO. There is a people Who are Being Subjected to the Dictatorship of Capital, not worth the excuses, no half-measure to the reality That is imperialism.
There is Libyan People Who Defend robber imperialism, a reality Libya – Libyan-that our position on Regardless of it, of understanding or misunderstanding, Political support or criticism – must be Defend Because it is the way the people of Chosen by Libya rid of the Represented by colonial power Italy, Great Britain and the USA THROUGHOUT ITS history , and it is a social organization infinitely more just, equitable, compassionate, progressive and to the old Revolutionary Empire Seeks Ways to Reimpose autarchic.
Before imperialism – Causing asymmetric wars – You Can not Be Fought from The Political Asymmetry: Then take sides – Even Without seeking it – by the strongest.
The Libyan Soldiers: The True Heroes of NATO’s War
Posted: 2011/08/25
From: Source http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628268
The Libyan armed forces maintain their unit integrity and personal honor
By Glen Ford
NATO has proven it has the capacity to kill thousands of Libyan soldiers from the skies, but it cannot “convey honor and legitimacy” to the rebels under its killer wings. “They are little more than extras for imperial theater, a mob that traveled under the protective umbrella of American full spectrum dominance of the air.” The incinerated bodies of her soldiers have secured Libya’s place in history.
The Libyan armed forces maintain their unit integrity and personal honor, with a heroism reminiscent of the loyalist soldiers of the Spanish Republic, in the late 1930s
The story is not over – not by a long shot – but the saga of the Libyan resistance to the superpower might of the United States and its degenerate European neocolonial allies will surely occupy a very special place in history. For five months, beginning March 19, the armed forces of a small country of six million people dared to defy the most advanced weapons systems on the planet, on terrain with virtually no cover, against an enemy capable of killing whatever could be seen from the sky or electronically sensed. Night and day, the eyes of the Euro-American war machine looked down from space on the Libyan soldiers’ positions, with the aim of incinerating them. And yet, the Libyan armed forces maintained their unit integrity and personal honor, with a heroism reminiscent of the loyalist soldiers of the Spanish Republic under siege by German, Italian and homegrown fascists, in the late 1930s.
The Germans and Italians and Generalissimo Franco won that war, just as the Americans, British, French and Italians may ultimately overcome the Libyan army. But they cannot convey honor or national legitimacy to their flunkies from Benghazi, who have won nothing but a badge of servitude to foreign overseers. The so-called rebels won not a single battle, except as walk-ons to a Euro-American military production. They are little more than extras for imperial theater, a mob that traveled to battle under the protective umbrella of American full spectrum dominance of the air. They advanced along roads already littered with the charcoal-blackened bodies of far better men, who died challenging Empire.
The so-called rebels won not a single battle, except as walk-ons to a Euro-American military production
One thing is sure: the Americans and Europeans have never respected their servants. The so-called rebels of Libya will be no different. Washington, Paris and London know perfectly well that is was their 18,000 aircraft sorties, their cruise missiles, their attack helicopters, their surveillance satellites and drones, their command and control systems, their weapons, and their money, that managed to kill or wound possibly half the Libyan army. Not the rabble from Benghazi.
The rebels should not take too seriously being fawned over by the ridiculous hordes of corporate media tourists that have come to Tripoli to record the five-month war’s finale. They are highly paid cheerleaders. And, although it may appear that they are cheering for the rebels, don’t be fooled – at the end of the day, the western corporate media only cheer for their own kind. They are celebrating what they believe is a victory over the Libyan demon they have helped to construct in their countrymen’s minds. Next year, rebel, that demon might be you.
Or next year, it might be many Libyans, including those who were no friends of Col. Moammar Gaddafi. The Americans treat their native minions like children in need of supervision – and there is a certain logic to this, since whoever would entrust his nation’s sovereignty and resources to the Americans is, surely, either exceedingly stupid, or hopelessly corrupt. But Libya’s honor and her place in history has already been secured by a small African army that held out nearly half a year against the NATO barbarians.
Tariq Javed 25 août 12:32
Gaddafi has already won…..the traitors have been doomed…..they have earned a life time title of Nation Sellers and agents of enemies of Muslims.
Dr. Webster Tarpley Analysis: “This is an exercise in mass brainwashing”
Posted: 2011/08/25
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628284?rss
“Everything you see from here is a big lie. People have got to bear this in mind. It’s all fake. There’s a fake, Libyan town that’s been built in Qatar, and they can stage a Hollywood-style massacre in such a place, and say, ‘Now, it’s enough, Gaddafi has gone too far.”
Dr. Tarpley says: “This is an exercise in mass brainwashing. This is an attempt to brainwash world public opinion on the bases of fake dispatches from the BBC, Al-Jazeerah, and CNN…The first and most important thing is, don’t fall into the trap of believing their story. Their story is largely manufactured.”
Mad dogs let loose from Tripoli prisons—Hopefully they will not get the same chance given to prisoners in February (who joined the al-Qaeda/CIA ranks only to ravage, pillage and rape dear Libya).
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Libyan liberal tweets 25.08.2011….lots of nonlibyans in rebels ranks…white like Norwegians!
par Bodhibrian Souter, stationed at Abu Saleem :
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002710975243
jeudi 25 août 2011, 14:07
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Last tweet for today,while waiting martydom or victory,spread the message NATO bombing civilians in Abu saleem because they hold green flags
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Sad but I dont believe that serbs will survive, the rebels are lunatics in loose. they rape kill and loot everything with NATO aircover.
31 minutes ago
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Captured serbs are in the airport we try penetrate there. but nato overs the perimeter.
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May allah alow me to survicve one more day to save more lives, please spread the messsage, NATO is bombing Abu saleem ,killing civilians.
33 minutes ago
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STOP the nato bombing and we will manage to win. else we will be massacred by the NATO pilots. but its okey its martyrdom.
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i dont know how uch we will hold a horde of rebels with heavy weapons bomb abu saleem and same does nato .
34 minutes ago
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Where is that UN to stop the NATO bombing on scivilians of Abu saleem? why none cares? where are the arabs?
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nerves on tense. the resistance to nato and collaorators is hard. They bomb every possition. many bombs not rockets huge bombs.
35 minutes ago
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Call reporters to get stages in High Landanous and see the bodies before the rebels remove them. why nothing about the rebel crimes?
36 minutes ago
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This is not islam this s racism of usa KKK ,the rebels dnt rase allah only the americans.many carrying the rebel flag bear the american also
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90 per cent of people are locked behind their doors especially black skinned. the rebels calling all black Kaffour and shoot them on sight.
38 minutes ago
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some asking me for videos we dknt have cameras or phones we are not actors we are mujaheed.massacre from rebels in Tripoli.
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I saw a rebel raping a 10 yo girl. another holdng the girl. both rebels were shot, they dont deserve life.
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We killed 2 rapists and saved a girl last night behing enemy lines. A lot of not Libyans in the ranks of rebels. White like norvegian.
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The rebels kill anyone that is on a list with pro-gaddafi people. they have killing platoons.
42 minutes ago
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Last night we went behind enemy lines in high landanous to save a group of hostages. many houses looted in rebel areas. panic everywhere.
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Abu salim . heroic mujaheeds. we are ready to accept death now. nato bombs with cluster bombs from MI-6.many dead.
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pictured above is Jesus with his Uncle, Joseph of Aramathea before his preaching a which began at age 30.
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PAID WELL BY THE CIA/NATO:
they have invaded TRIPOLI by the SEA:
Leadership Still in Tripoli, Jamahiriya Still Controls 20 Cities
Posted: 2011/08/25
From: Mathaba
NATO has destroyed Libyan broadcasting stations, cut off the mobile phones of loyalists, and limited Internet to its own key locations under its control, in an attempt to stop the truth from getting out
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628281?rss
Dr. Moussa Ibrahim, the honest spokesperson for media for the Libyan Jamahiriya who has abided by his sworn mission to tell the truth both good and bad, said the legitimate democratic Jamahiriya government of the Libyan people still controls 20 cities and more areas of the country.
He also said “we will continue fighting till Gaddafi comes back to power once again in Libya. The entire leadership is in Tripoli. The lawful armed forces (army and volunteers) control the city.”
Despite constant NATO air attacks, the army captured 70 rebels including 4 Qatar commanders. Many dead and wounded soldiers littered the streets.
Now, the fight is for the Tripoli airport. Venezuelan Embassy was hit, then robbed.
He said the government is sorry Libyan blood was spilled but said taht they have no other way except defending the country and people by all means. They are ready for a cease fire as they always have been but the rebels do not want one as they are being pushed and controlled by NATO.
NATO is in big trouble
24.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/24-08-2011/118852-nato_trouble-0/
Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) of the UN Security Council were very clear in their terms: No foreign military personnel, no mercenaries, no weapons to the parties in conflict and inspection of vessels ferrying arms and soldiers. NATO has breached all four counts and now is liable for prosecution under international law.
Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) of the UN Security Council stated very clearly and categorically that there were to be no foreign troops on the ground in Libya, there were to be no mercenaries, neither were foreign powers to arm the parties to the conflict, as well as imposing the obligation on parties surrounding this to investigate vessels shipping in personnel or arms. NATO has not only failed on all four counts, it has categorically breached them all. NATO is guilty of breaching international law, and there will be consequences.
Quite apart from its obvious breaches of international law, NATO is liable for war crimes – strafing civilian structures such as the water supply system, to “break the population”, strafing civilian structures with military hardware, murdering civilians in their homes by precision-bombing children, strafing civilians using Apache helicopters from the USA (isn’t there a law in the US about that?).
The more this conflict goes on, the more sinister NATO becomes and the more those of us who knew Colonel Gaddafi’s projects and thanked him for his wonderful humanitarian policies (which irritated practically all the players in the western lobbies) are convinced that we have been right from day one, whatever the outcome. This is backed up by today’s message from Muammar al-Qathafi, Leader of the Green Committees Movement, in his address to the World Green Committees, in which he called on his supporters to stand firm, encouraged those who said they were depressed, exhorted people not to use violence if possible.
For those who accuse Colonel Gaddafi of terrorism, then let each and every one suffer the crimes that the Black and Tans did to innocent civilians in Ireland, and then come here look me in the face and speak of terrorism. For those who accuse Colonel Gaddafi of terrorism, show me one shred of tangible evidence.
Colonel Gaddafi spread knowledge, not fear. He spread e-learning programmes, he spread telemedicine programmes across Africa while others, from the countries NATO represents left what legacy? 500 years of slavery, of colonialism and pillaging and raping Africa of its resources.
Colonel Gaddafi, as I write, is not finished. He can and would, if given a chance, spread these social and developmental programmes further, if NATO was not so intent on killing him and destroying his country.
The world is at a crossroads. Today, August 2011, we are facing a monumental battle between the forces of evil against an innocent man and an innocent and heroic population. The world is watching Goliath trying to devour David, who fights back heroically against NATO and its Satanic forces of evil who are racists, who have decapitated people in the streets, murdered children (like NATO) raped women and looted.
There is fresh evidence that foreign mercenaries are being deployed by NATO – British, French, Qatari and UAE military personnel have been captured; the Libyan Armed Forces allowed the British to come and collect their dead and wounded as they fled screaming, while the Royal Air Force would have strafed them.
And a clear sign that NATO represents evil is the sinister new practice of deleting facebook accounts of independent journalists, the alleged threats by CNN staff against numerous independent journalists in Tripoli (under investigation) and the media blackout from Libya. However it is not sufficient. We have other ways and means besides Facebook.
There are other social networks. We have other means besides channels like SKY, CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera. There is an international movement to boycott them. There are also commercial consequences: a pan-African movement is being implemented to lock NATO countries out of Africa. You murdered Libyan kids? No place in Africa, no contract. Go steal your own resources, not ours.
And a new international community is being formed by the people of the world, who are flocking towards the Jamahiriya system of government (Read The Green Book *).
It is difficult to know what NATO wanted out of this. It was not peace, for they refused to negotiate. It was not democracy, for they refused to heed the call for elections. Could it then have been simply and only to steal a sovereign country’s resources by murdering its people?
Now what, ladies and gentleman, will posterity say to that? Messrs. Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy, and that sickening clique of cowards in NATO, you are in deep, deep trouble. And by God, are you going to pay for what you have done…
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/24-08-2011/118852-nato_trouble-0/
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
Gerald Perreira:
Please circulate as widely as possible the attached message from the Brother Leader to the oppressed and struggling peoples of the world.
We are used to White lies and deception and now we are witnessing it all over again in Libya, with journalists being openly threatened if they dare to inform the world about what is really taking place on the ground.
This is a well planned and highly coordinated psych-ops campaign. The extraordinary level of coordination between the imperialists and their media mouthpieces and their obvious desperation to ensure that the truth does not get out is further evidence of the deepening crisis facing White supremacy and its system of global capitalism. NATO and their mercenaries are not in control of Libya.
I said in my last article that the North Atlantic Terrorists will be defeated in Libya. The cry now is that they MUST be defeated. As the revolutionary leader Sekou Toure said “Imperialism will be buried in Africa”.
We simply cannot take this lawlessness any longer – we either unite or perish. The time has come to coordinate our efforts globally like never before. We no longer have to depend on their channels of information – we have our own which is why Muammar Qaddafi can address us today despite being under siege. We have paid far too much attention to ‘them’ over the years – the enemy is bankrupt – ideologically, philosophically, morally and now even financially. We must escape our own ‘conceptual incarceration’ – as Muammar Qaddafi says in the attached message – ‘ignore them and they are gone’.
On the verge of total collapse, the speed at which White supremacy disintegrates will directly correlate with our ability to organise international revolutionary opposition to the evil they are perpetrating worldwide. If history has taught us anything then it has taught us that the strength of White supremacy lies in its ability to unite across class, nation-state and ideologies when it comes to furthering their sinister agenda. Tony Blair from Britain’s Labour Party had no difficulty uniting with George Bush from the US Republican Party to attack Iraq though the two ostensibly adhere to different political ideologies. It has been so for centuries. Despite the fact that the Dutch, French, Spanish and English were actually at war with each other in Europe, they were able to fully unite when it came to putting down the uprisings and revolutions of captured Africans on their plantations in the Caribbean.
Let us now take heed of the Brother Leader’s message and unite and organise once and for all to realise our objective – to deal a final and decisive blow to imperialism and neo-colonialism. Let us put aside our differences and plan for the largest gathering of oppressed humanity at an International People’s Congress in March, 2012 as called for by Muammar Qaddafi. The power of the people united is not a cliche or an empty slogan – it is ours- if only we can make the psychological transition necessary to possess the power.
THE NORTH ATLANTIC TERRORISTS MUST AND WILL BE DEFEATED!
Tutashinda,
Gerald
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Gaddafi speech today 25-8-2011 Translated By اسكندر بيك
Via Millions Supporting Al Gaddafi
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Despite all his troubles and hardships, OUT OF PURE GENUINE LOVE FOR HUMANITY, Our Brother-Leader
has found time to comfortably write two impressive speeches to ease our fears in the last 18 hours: one to his people, and another to the World Green Charter MATHABA movement. He also toured around Tripoli with his sons when most people were asleep. He went to the fighting front and gave moral support to the Libyan Armed Forces ! He is well apparently, and the Guardian Angels are protecting him, do not disbelieve. IF ONLY THE WHOLE WORLD really knew this remarkable SOUL, then so much evil would be avoided…PRAISE be to God/ALLAH, that he brought forth such a man in these last days for mankind on earth.
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Top Comments:
” i believe gaddafi is probably the single greatest man to have ever lived not just a leader, in 40 years he took a bankrupt nation to debt free, a feat never achieved by any pope, president, king or nobel peace price winner in all of history, proving he above all men put all the income back into the country and his people, built the great river to green a nation and never built a gold palace for himself.same 40 years U.S bankrupt itself and afghanis, and U.S tell libyans their system is better? ”
willreasonprevail 1 day ago 13
” Thank you so very much for posting this
Wow, if he’s fighting to defend this, he’s indeed on a moral high-ground.
What twisted view have they gave about this man.
I feel ashamed for ever have buying in to the stories.
Dear brother Gadaffi , please forgive me, and accept my sincere apologies. ”
TheMatrixBreaker
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Do not you believe that Gadhafi’s whole heart and soul is being shaken? He suffers really! He is a man of peace. He does not wish to kill anyone; yet he must and WILL defend his JAMAHIRIYA and people.
Moussa warned that this would turn into a bloodbath if negotiation and dialogue were not accepted. He said this from DAY ONE!
More is at stake than “merely” Libya….The whole world-wide MATHABA is at stake. The “BUILDER” —OUR BROTHER LEADER MUAMMAR AL-QADAFI has not yet finished his legacy to the world.
Right at this moment, Tribal leaders from all around the nations within Libya are volunteering to rescue their country and keep it free from the AXIS. Like Omar Muctar, they ralley behind our brother leader. There is a fortress surrounding Tripoli. These troops from NATO are being dropped by HELICOPTER onto land. NATO is bombing away before they are dropped; so the Loyalist forces cannot “rush” against the NATO mercenaries being droped (carrying manned heavily armed-soldiers). Although the Loyalists are outnumbered, they have legions of angels backing them. Many are martyred; and we cry for them; but the good Lord has taken them into his bosom. When LIBYANS were freed from the Italians, more than one-half the nation’s population was lost.
In the early eighteenth Century, Corsicans fought the malfia-Genovese and won; but later trouble came with the sly French who were determined to keep Corsica for themselves.
Please, LORD, let this never become a PONTE NOVO, as in Corsica, when Pasquale Paoli fought France! and France took over a free and Independent people… https://theorbo1.wordpress.com/…
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The Truth about Gaddafi
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Understanding the Green Book & Libyan politics, the easy way
A video about the politics of Libya.
– Conversation with the leader of Libya orginally aired September 1991. Gaddafi voice over by Ed Fabry.
[the video all the world should see pass it on to every english speaking person in the world so they can know the truth]
– Original video:
Libya: Understanding the Green Book & Libyan politics, the easy way – May 22, 2011
http://www.wat.tv/video/libya-understanding-the-green-3pbd1_31wod_.html
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Is Gaddafi a dictator? Excerpts from his book on democracy
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Turmel: Gathafi’s Green Book: #1/5 Why doesn’t democracy work?
Turmel: Gathafi’s Green Book: #2/5 How direct democracy could work
Turmel: Gathafi’s Green Book: #3/5 Meets Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (Not)
Turmel: Gathafi’s Green Book: #4/5 Atlas Shrugged to too egalitarian socialism
Turmel: Gathafi’s Green Book #5/5: A socialist world
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– best translation of THE GREAT SPEECH OF THE GREATEST LEADER ! pt._01
– best translation of THE GREAT SPEECH OF THE GREATEST LEADER ! pt._02
…TO REMIND YOU.
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Therefore, today, tomorrow will begin Cleaning Berber villages. In principle, begin work as soon as possible may help to Tripoli, but had refused to allow Paris, but now I think that much of a difference there. However, the Berbers would be bad. Situation in Benghazi indeed difficult. In fact, chaos. The city took control of about 40 Islamic groups, including the Emirate Mujahideen Derna, most likely the most powerful, but not enough to subdue all. These groups are united only in their rejection PNS. In this sense, information about the temporary relocation of the puppets in Qatar do not believe much in the face of reality … “Operation Mermaid” – this is already talk openly, so that all that – in fact, had no clowns insurgents, the Mujahideen and AQIM, mercenaries, PMCs (private military companies operating under contract solely with governments and companies, approx. edition), Special Forces of Qatar and the UAE (recognized) and special units of France and the UK. The task assigned to the intervention group was held in part only in the center of the city, broke through, and no more, and then (this morning) started Khamis its fighters hit (a son of Muammar Gaddafi, about Edition).. The basis for this bold claim: the recognition of glavkrysa of “400 dead and over 600 revolutionary prisoners.” Around 16 hours there is a risk Tripoli real treatment “sirens.” In this sense, landing a few hours ago and the inclusion of 42 units in the battle of the Foreign Legion Regiment. Let Tripoli, in such circumstances, commanding the troops means the loss of Libyan almost all points of fuel and losing a single command that automatically translates his troops in the state of one of the armed forces. So tonight will be crucial, and possibly end. Having the public support citizens, it seems, is not necessary. Terror broke many previous nights. Supplement. Apparently (the number of tests), all (or at least three of whom I know), the sons of Colonel, although considered vermin and Liberals, with their father and will fight to the end. He also refused to leave the city, the brothers and the father of Aisha (Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of Colonel, approx. Edition)). As for Ms. Safiya , daughters and grandchildren of the colonel, who, in my opinion, “in an absolutely safe.” That is, at present, the accuracy of information that I guarantee. ” http://putnik1.livejournal.com/ 1336646.html # cutid1 golos-ameriki2 blogger said, “a man from Libya, whose son, a supporter of the Gaddafi government, was killed on the last day, there is a message that now go to Tripoli in heavy fighting. Gaddafi supporters and soldiers of his army exhausted, almost without sleep for several days, but will not resign. ” Source: http://ria-sibir.ru/viewnews/46278.html
The Libyan leader speaks to his people today:
ALSO (SIMILAR):
today, tomorrow will begin Cleaning Berber villages. In principle, begin work as soon as possible may help to Tripoli, but had refused to allow Paris, but now I think that much of a difference there. However, the Berbers would be bad. Situation in Benghazi indeed difficult. In fact, chaos. The city took control of about 40 Islamic groups, including the Emirate Mujahideen Derna, most likely the most powerful, but not enough to subdue all. These groups are united only in their rejection PNS. In this sense, information about the temporary relocation of the puppets in Qatar do not believe much in the face of reality … “Operation Mermaid” – this is already talk openly, so that all that – in fact, had no clowns insurgents, the Mujahideen and AQIM, mercenaries, PMCs (private military companies operating under contract solely with governments and companies, approx. edition), Special Forces of Qatar and the UAE (recognized) and special units of France and the UK. The task assigned to the intervention group was held in part only in the center of the city, broke through, and no more, and then (this morning) started Khamis its fighters hit (a son of Muammar Gaddafi, about Edition).. The basis for this bold claim: the recognition of glavkrysa of “400 dead and over 600 revolutionary prisoners.” Around 16 hours there is a risk Tripoli real treatment “sirens.” In this sense, landing a few hours ago and the inclusion of 42 units in the battle of the Foreign Legion Regiment. Let Tripoli, in such circumstances, commanding the troops means the loss of Libyan almost all points of fuel and losing a single command that automatically translates his troops in the state of one of the armed forces. So tonight will be crucial, and possibly end. Having the public support citizens, it seems, is not necessary. Terror broke many previous nights. Supplement. Apparently (the number of tests), all (or at least three of whom I know), the sons of Colonel, although considered vermin and Liberals, with their father and will fight to the end. He also refused to leave the city, the brothers and the father of Aisha (Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of Colonel, approx. Edition)). As for Ms. Safiya , daughters and grandchildren of the colonel, who, in my opinion, “in an absolutely safe.” That is, at present, the accuracy of information that I guarantee. ” http://putnik1.livejournal.com/ 1336646.html # cutid1 golos-ameriki2 blogger said, “a man from Libya, whose son, a supporter of the Gaddafi government, was killed on the last day, there is a message that now go to Tripoli in heavy fighting. Gaddafi supporters and soldiers of his army exhausted, almost without sleep for several days, but will not resign. ” Source: http://ria-sibir.ru/viewnews/46278.html
The Libyan leader speaks to his people today:
Gaddafi Speech today 25-8-2011 Translated by اسكندر بيك
People fighting everywhere , we are The vast majority , Tribes and people should crawl to Tripoli to protect it , women is fighting in the streets , We will never allow for our land to be for France . ……………………………..
Go Ahead , go ahead
Over One Thousand Invaders Killed
Posted: 2011/08/25
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628275?rss
Around 16 hours there is a risk Tripoli real treatment “sirens.” In this sense, landing a few hours ago and the inclusion of 42 units in the battle of the Foreign Legion Regiment.
At last reports last night, yesterday another estimated 1,365 foreign invaders and terrorist rebels were killed by the Libyan people and defence.
Most areas of Tripoli, including Abu Salim (where the RIXOS HOTEL, housing the journakists is) and the plateau green, and Aziziyah, were safe and under the control of the Libyan Army and the Revolutionary Guard. Violent clashes were occurring in Tajoura and some areas of the Friday Market (Souk El Jouma).
However, a new generation of young powerful Libyans who have understood the leader, and who have taken up his call, have been baptised by fire.
A battle in the center of Al-jamhoria in Tripoli was finished without casualties to the greens.
Many terrorist rebels were killed as well as foreign mercenaries.
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The Army of Mercenaries Now in Libya
Posted: 2011/08/25
From: Mathaba http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628298
Let us take a closer look at the army of mercenaries, which back in May still meant to be largely secret, has now been dropped into Tripoli by NATO ships
By Manlio Dinucci
Global Research, May 24, 2011 Il manifesto. translated from Italian – 2011-05-18
In Zayed Military City, in a training camp in a desert area of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a secret army is in the making.
This secret army of mercenaries, which is slated to be used not only in the Emirates but throughout the Middle East and North Africa, was created by Erik Prince, a former member of Navy SEALS who in 1997 founded Blackwater, the largest private military company on contract to the Pentagon in Iraq, Afghanistan and other war zones. The company, which in 2009 was renamed Xe Services (also in order to escape legal action for the massacres of civilians in Iraq), owns a large training camp in the United States, where more than fifty thousand “specialists of war and repression” have been trained. And Xe is in the process of opening other training camps.
In Abu Dhabi, Erick Prince, without appearing in person but through the joint-venture Reflex Responses, signed a first contract of $529 million (the deal was signed on July 13, 2010, according to the New York Times).
In several countries including South Africa and Colombia, they started recruiting mercenaries to form an initial battalion of 800 men. They are trained in the UAE by U.S., British, French and German military professionals, with a background in special forces and the secret services. The trainers are paid 200-300 thousand dollars a year, while the recruits receive about $150 a day.
Once the efficiency of the battalion has been tested in a “real action” scenario, Abu Dhabi will fund with billions of dollars a whole brigade of several thousand mercenaries. It is expected to set up a large training camp in the UAE, similar to that operating in the United States.
The main supporter of the project is the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who was trained in the British military academy Sandhurst.
Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed is a trusted Pentagon associate. He also supports military intervention directed against Iran. The crown prince and his friend Erick Prince, however, are the executors of the project, which was decided in Washington. Its purpose was revealed in documents quoted by the New York Times:
“[the secret army trained in the UAE will conduct] special operations missions to put down internal revolts, like those sweeping the Arab world this year”.
The secret army of mercenaries will therefore be used to suppress the people’s struggles in the Gulf countries, with interventions similar to those last March in Bahrain involving troops from the Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. These troops brutally crushed the people’s demands for democracy.
“Special operations missions” will also be conducted by the secret army in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia, to break people’s movements and to ensure that power remains in the hands of governments which support the interests of the United States and major European powers.
The secret army is also slated to be sent to Libya, where the U.S. and NATO have envisaged sending in both European as well as troops from the Arab World, theoretically to “provide humanitarian aid to civilians”.
Whatever the scenario will be – either a “balkanized” Libya divided into two territories under the control of Tripoli and Benghazi, or a situation of similar to Iraq or Afghanistan, geared towards overthrowing of the Libyan government – the US NATO military alliance is planning to use the secret army of mercenaries. The underlying objectives are:
to 1) protect the oil facilities in the hands of American and European oil companies, 2) to eliminate their opponents, 3) to keep the country weak and divided. Such are the “innovative solutions”, which the Xe Services (formerly Blackwater) is proud to provide to the U.S. government.
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Note: UAE is also the location of the propaganda station al-Jazeera TV as well as
the film set replica of Tripoli which was used by the BBC, CNN and world wide media, copying footage from Jazeera, to mislead a billion people in the world about events in the Libyan capital city the past weekend,
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628196
and thus adding new Crimes Against Humanity which those news organizations are now actually complicit in at a direct participation level and not only by wilful neglect and cover up.
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Latest Roundup From Libya – August 25 to 26
Posted: 2011/08/26
From: Mathaba
NATO rebels trapped in city, most of country still under Jamahiriya government
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628306
Sirte area has reaffirmed their solid loyalty to the African leader Muammar Qaddafi in fighting to defend her crown Libya from naked NATO aggression by the bankrupt trying to seize Africa’s wealth by force.
Hala Misrati (claimed by the rebels to be on that video) is now safe and in Sirte.
Press secretary of the Libyan Jamahiriya, Ibrahim Moussa, said that Muammar Gaddafi is in a safe place and still leads the struggle with the rebels, and his morale and spirit is as high as ever.
“Gaddafi’s really fighting for our freedom and independence,” – said Moussa.
“All the family members Gaddafi feel fine,” – said Moussa, adding that top military and political associates of Colonel remained with him. He also said that Gaddafi is capable of continuing the resistance “for weeks, months and years.”
The leader has called on Africans to set sights on enemy targets and take the battle to confiscate the assets of the enemy western states which are trying to recolonize Africa through Libya.
Things are not going well for NATO with mercenaries and terrorist rebels trapped in the center of Tripoli, surrounded by loyalist forces.
In the Night of Power, during the last ten nights of Ramadan, prayers are especially powerful. Millions of people around the world are praying for the defeat of NATO and the victory of Muammar Qaddafi and the Libyan people. Those prayers are having powerful effects.
Rebels are firing on each other too and killing each other amidst confusion and mistrust, because now they have realised that the Jihad in Libya led by Muammar Qaddafi is for Allah, Justice, Truth, and for the people who have the benefit like no other on earth as the national resources are shared and not stolen by private corporations. They have seen that NATO is the enemy and woken up to the plans and how they were misused.
They have seen that unlike what they were told Muammar Qaddafi and those leading the Jihad on the front lines, the extra-ordinary and heroic Libyan people are Muslims, mujahiddeen, saying La Ilaha il-Allah (there is no god but the One God) and that the commanders of the rebels are asking instead NATO for help.
They have discovered that all along this was Shariah, the Holy Quran being the Law of Society in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and not the big beards, selfishness, al-Qaida, American CIA, capitalism, they have started to understand that people’s power Jamahiriya is the manifestation of Islam.
With the Internet and communications cut off by NATO, they were able to tell many lies and entire TV news bulletin fabrications.
Readers are urged not to trust the lying media which are all using third and fourth hand reports but instead to turn to http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya for reliable reports and to sign up for daily briefings by email at http://www.mathaba.net/go/daily
The invincible web site of the green committees should be copied and spread, shared, no nuclear bomb can destroy it. Let the world know the human rights, freedoms and responsibilities of the Jamahiriya, turn the Libyan Jamahiriya into a Universal Jamahiriya, show these rights and freedoms obtained by the revolution. The site is http://www.GreenCharter.com and should be studied, links followed, shared, copied, change it as you like it is yours and green committees formed everywhere.
The flag of the Universal Jamahiriya, of freedom, justice, peace, truth, right, is the color green. Its dimensions are exactly one unit tall, and two units wide. Everyone should make this flag and hang it everywhere on their houses, cars, desks, anywhere, and not worry about other flags hanging that represent only governments.
Those governments which host embassies of terrorists flying any flag for Libya which is not as the above colour and dimensions are the enemy governments, against the people’s interests, serving bankers, gangsters, thieves, traitors, imperialists, zionists, reactionaries, racists, criminals, colonialists.
It had already been promised at the outset of the war on Libya by NATO that (1) they would not succeed in killing Muammar Qaddafi and (2) that they would not succeed in overthrowing the Jamahiriya because it is people’s power and (3) that it would be a long war.
At the outset of the invasion of Tripoli it had also been promised that (1) the “rats would enter a trap” and (2) that within a few days the foreign mercenaries would be defeated, even massacred in Tripoli.
As we can see today the truth is as we had advised, after all, we have the intelligence and facts and NATO does not. NATO only has a plan and a mission to plunder African resources, by hook or crook, as desperately bankrupt thieves.
As to the rebels, they are misguided, do not know that this is the Night of Power, that Allah is not with them but with the believers, who do not seek help from anyone other than Allah, and certainly not by force of arms, looting, robbery, and destruction.
The Brother Leader of the Revolutionary Committees Movement, Muammar Qaddafi, gave a speech to Libyans yesterday (English rough summary):
We are fighting… march, our tribes … march toward Tripoli, keep heading toward Tripoli as your grandfathers did in the Battles … here is the battle again, the same battles as your fathers had, come men and women to clean Tripoli this time.
Every street and area in Tripoli should fight and never surrender, the enemy will be defeated, NATO will be defeated by Allah’s will, and the tribes which are outside of Tripoli should march to Tripoli and control the area too.
Imams, tell people to go on Jihad at the front lines, this is the hour for martyrdom or victory, advance everywhere, NATO will withdraw, NATO cannot continuous forever, to hell with NATO, those who rape your girls in your houses…
Don’t give in to colonization, march on Tripoli to those rats, kill them! You marched with millions before, now march with millions again but this time for fighting, don’t be afraid of bombing, of stun grenades, don’t hand over Tripoli!
Tribes will march from everywhere, take control of all mosques, rooftops, institutions, shops and fight from them, there will never be a secure place for those rats!
People are fighting everywhere, we are the vast majority! The tribes and people should march to Tripoli to protect it, women are fighting in the streets, we will never allow for our land to be for France, nor for Italy, we will never be a colony again, fight them!
Libya is for you, Tripoli is for you not for those agents who beg to NATO, those are agents not from Tripoli, those aren’t sons of Tripoli!
Men and women, go out, fight them, follow them, masses march now, from everywhere to Tripoli! Go ahead! Go ahead!
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Tripoli City Center Not Under Rebel Control
Posted: 2011/08/25
From: Mathaba
Photographs coming out of the Corinthia Hotel show that rebels have barricaded themselves in luxury hotel grounds and are surrounded, unable to control even the city center by the NATO-controlled sea.
As the Internet has bounced back for the moment after some days off-line [a matter which rebels claim that they have restored the internet and given all users an extra $20.00 for their time loss!], a picture very far removed from what NATO and world media would like to claim, is emerging.
Even the city center directly on the coastal waters, is not under NATO rebel control, as evidenced by their being besieged and cowering behind erected cement blocks at the Corinthia Hotel.
The rebels, according to a source within NATO that spoke on condition of anonymity, are using the hotel as a base to fire upon the popular masses defending their country from the NATO-led invasion.
The Rixos Hotel had previously been considered safe from NATO bombing and had thus housed the foreign journalists as well as some western intelligence agents operating under the guise of CNN and the BBC.
After foreign mercenaries landed in Tripoli and aerial bombardment pushed a way forward for the rebels, the Rixos was used even at one point by government officials as a refuge from bombing, and the journalists there were prevented from leaving due to fights around the hotel for control of the area as well as sniper fire.
A Red Cross convoy had then arrived during a lull and rescued the journalists and moved them to the Corinthia Hotel by the sea yesterday, also in central Tripoli, with the aim of evacuating the foreigners by sea to Malta today.
However, the journalists and other foreigners are now yet again holed up, due to the rebels facing stiff resistance, using the hotel as a shelter and base, perhaps also hoping to flee to Malta to escape their fate in a hell fire they had not expected.
For an idea of what Tripoli is like, think of Adelaide in South Australia, a city by the sea, of just under 2 million people.
The only explanation of the inability of the rebels to take over Tripoli, is the armed population, and the popularity of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi as well as his family who are leading the resistance.
As the photographs below show, the Corinthia Hotel is now a hide out for the rebels who are now surrounded, after they had entered Tripoli looting and harassing along the way, supported by NATO which took down communications and all TV stations.
NATO’s Operation Mermaid, which was to take Tripoli by landing the mercenaries that had been trained and prepared in the UAE with a full mock-up of central Tripoli is a clear failure.
The replica of Tripoli in Qatar was also used to spread fake media reports on Jazeera, CNN and the BBC world wide.
The Qaddafi family, along with the Libyan citizens and defence forces, still control much of the city and have encircled the rebels and killed, according to government sources, over a thousand mercenaries.
It is evident that NATO does not control anything but the sea and are unable to even protect any ship to dock in Tripoli port, to evacuate foreigners.
A rebel source told Mathaba that they had not expected resistance from the population, as they had been living outside Libya and thought that Qaddafi was a tyrant and unpopular.
However, the Libyan leader rose in popularity after the NATO-led aggression against Libya, that was meant to assassinate him and over throw the popular government, failed to achieve any results with the expected 2-day operation now approaching 6 months.
Photographs by Rolando Segura, Telesur at Corinthia Hotel Tripoli:
Above: Corinthia Hotel grounds around 2pm, today Friday.
Rebels hiding in trees using hotel ground as defensive position, around 5pm.
Journalists take refuge amid clashes, before 5pm.
Above: Rebels managed to take control of Rixos Hotel as another refuge for them today.
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the Jerdan traitors and NATO Cross vicious Tripoli. 26 AUGUST 2011
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=226852827362754&oid=119255378091003&comments
Tahira Report 66th: Loyalist forces have NATO trapped
Sixty-sixth Report:
Contact with Alain Benajam of “reseau voltaire”(Thierry Meyssan are in Tripoli) publish Tripoli 3h ago : NATO is traped in center town , the city is surrounded by loyalist forces.
The truth about Libya – الحقيقة من اجل ليبيا
Many rats has been killed and many have fled the area after our armed people came with the tribes.
Tripoli is blocked now by our brave people.
Rats have nowhere to go.
Via Al Jamahiria –
All rats who got killed in Bab Azizia are from UK & France some rats from Qatar , we will kick them in the sea.
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FROM OUR BROTHER-LEADER 25/26 AUGUST 2011:
“I hear you. Many of your messages reach me. I can not answer you but i feel Individually your pain.Thank you Prayers for you.” – Gaddafi
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ALLAH sends America a strong message to the American Government, a sign of HIS power as HE shakes the center of American Government “power”.
The story was allegedly first posted to PC World News and then reposted to presscore.ca. It says that the recent earthquake near Washington, D.C. was the result of an underground nuclear explosion. It also reports the interception of CIA/MOSSAD nukes in deep underground tunnels on Aug. 23, 2011.
http://informationizpower.blogspot.com/2011/08/seismic-evidence-reveals-underground.html
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” When the earth is shaken with her shaking, And the earth brings forth her burdens, And man says: What has befallen her? On that day she will tell her news, As if thy Lord had revealed to her. Holy Qur’an 99:1-5
SEISMIC BLAST vs ATOMIC EXPLOSION:
Could that also account for the blast registered as an earthquake on 29 APRIL (FRIDAY evening) in N/W Libya–then withdrawn from all scales? It registered a 9.3—and many believed it was an extremely huge nuclear heavy-weight bunker-buster, one of the first of its kind to be dropped on Libya in NATOs efforts to kill Our Brother Leader.
‘West media reports on Libya false’
Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:34PM
Interview with Stephen Lendman, writer and radio host, Chicago.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195413.html
Fake video footages, sons of Gaddafi in rebel hands, rebels controlling Tripoli are all lies coming out of Libya as the situation in Tripoli becomes more chaotic, renowned writer and columnist Stephen Lendman says.
Press TV talks with Stephen Lendman, writer and radio host in Chicago for his assessment of the situation in Tripoli and shares an email from independent journalists being targeted for execution. Below is an approximate transcript of his interview. Lizzie Phelan, our correspondent, then responds to Mr. Lendman’s comments and contributes important information about the so-called revolutionary fighters.
Press TV: How are you assessing the situation right now in Tripoli?
Stephen Lendman: I know your reporter on the ground Lizzie Phelan and she is exceptional; she is right there putting herself in harm’s way sending back, as able, heroic reports.
I know conditions on the streets are very fast moving, very fluid, very chaotic, and very violent; I also know that anything reported by the major media, especially America’s major media – some of it is so shocking it’s shameless and it’s deliberately falsified. It even gives propaganda a bad name.
When they talk about a conflict like this Libya one that is just an outrageous American-led imperial war for conquest; absolutely illegal and with no humanitarian concern for the Libyan people, even the so-called rebels are not rebels they’re mercenaries; they have been hired.
Most of them may not even know what they are doing. They were paid; they were brought in mostly from outside the country; they’re probably being paid more than they ever go before so, you know, you need a job and you get a paycheck and you were told “We want to liberate this country from bad people”. And they go in and do what they’re told to do because they want to keep getting their paycheck.
About the so-called celebrations in the streets of Tripoli – I absolutely discount them. There were polls taken a week or two ago that showed across the country including in the eastern part of the country in the Benghazi area – wherever they conducted these polls, which is not an easy thing to do in any country at war so you can’t vouch for the absolute accuracy of this – but polls showed the longer the NATO bombing went on the higher approval rating Gaddafi got; and the last numbers I saw – 85 percent of the Libyan people approve of Gaddafi.
Earlier when Western media reported a rebel mass celebration in the streets of cities like Zawiyah, Misrata and others that were supposedly liberated by rebels – they never were liberated by rebels; these were lies.
Gaddafi forces took cover while NATO was bombing; rebel elements moved in; fake footage was shown on Western TV of large celebratory crowds with fireworks going off – these were lies.
As soon as the bombing curtailed, Gaddafi forces moved back in and the rebels scattered, afraid. Misrata, Brega and Zawiyah are each still in government hands and who knows what’s going on in Tripoli.
Just days ago there were supposed rebel’s mass celebrations of victories in Misrata while there were massive crowds in Tripoli 2 days ago celebrating government victories over the rebels. The vast majority of people in Tripoli especially detest the rebels. All the major tribes in Libya detest the rebels and detest NATO.
The idea that there would be a mass celebratory crowd in Tripoli now celebrating whatever is put across as a rebel victory – who knows what is really going on – I don’t think there has been any rebel victory I think it is very chaotic and violent, so we have to wait and see how this plays out. There may be lots of people in the street, but they’re certainly not supporting the rebels…
Can I read you something from an email from Mahdi Nazemroaya who is there in Tripoli with Lizzie Phelan, Franklin Lamb is also there… Mahdi’s overnight email said, “NATO landed insurgents in Tripoli harbor. They are attacking my hotel. I almost got shot. They are still lying a lot about claims of controlling the capital, but we are in danger”. Mahdi also asked about any help Press TV can supply to get him, Franklin and Lizzie out of the city; they need whatever help they can get and as Lizzie said on air just moments ago she is afraid to leave the hotel because she is a marked woman and Mahdi and Franklin are marked men.
NATO knows who they are and they are targeted. There is sniper’s on roof tops – who knows who is friend or foe. Franklin was shot in the leg – I think he’s OK. He was shot in the leg on Sunday and Marty said he was shot at and came very close to being hit. But he also said the rebels are armed guerilla gangs and mercenaries who are indistinguishable from Tripoli residents – they’re waging street warfare.
Press TV: So what you’re saying is that we cannot say what is really happening in Libya or what the situation is looking like; there is a bigger picture we must see on what the people are really thinking is happening to their country.
Tell us about the NATO role in all this, when you are saying this is something that the Western governments have been trying to achieve. What has been NATO’s role since those airstrikes started and now it appears they are going to continue those strikes?
Stephen Lendman: This is a Washington-led effort; this is Obama’s war. This is NATO’s war of which the main NATO partners are Cameron in the UK, Sarkozy in France and of course Obama – they’re the three main co-conspirators in this war.
If the bombing stopped the rebels would disintegrate and disappear – they wouldn’t last even 24 hours if the bombing stopped. It’s the bombing that is really doing everything and the bombing is killing an awful lot of civilians. I absolutely believe that NATO wants a blood bath in Tripoli.
Let’s say that hundreds of mercenaries came in; they landed on the shores of Tripoli and they look like any other Libyan – nobody else knows who the person next to them is.
All Libyans are armed; it’s not unusual to see a Libyan on the street with a weapon. So these people came in with weapons looking like other pro-Gaddafi Libyans and they intermingle.
I also believe that there were sleeper cells in Tripoli awaiting orders and who knows how many people might have been in them – there could have been dozens or even hundreds and they are scattered at points that NATO wants them positioned at including on roof tops shooting at people.
Just imagine going out on the streets anywhere and you hear gun fire and you sense that it’s coming very close to you – you would be very terrified. The residents of Tripoli don’t know what’s going on so they’re scared; they’re also mostly armed. Gaddafi handed out something in the order of two million weapons to Tripoli residents and others.
My understanding is they’re committed to defending their country against NATO against the rebels. So again, I discount everything coming through the major media. They even show stock fake footage – they make this stuff up.
Now, there is a big difference between Iraq 2003 – the Gulf War also – to what’s going on in Libya. You had the US military invade both times. The US military is far different to ragtag rebels – you can’t even begin to compare the two. So the situation is entirely different. Of course the US military had great air cover as well so Saddam didn’t stand a chance.
The Libyans are civilians and you’ve got Gaddafi’s military force, but if they come out visibly in the open NATO bombs them. So they have to be very careful and clever and disguise themselves. They have to disperse and use non-military vehicles and such so as not to look like a military target because they will be bombed immediately.
By the way, in Mahdi’s email he said to me that CNN – not directly to him, but through another person – threatened him and said that he personally would pay for opposing the war. Now if you can imagine that, a broadcaster threatening an independent journalist for reporting the truth about events on the ground… not the propaganda CNN, the New York times and the other major media report daily.
Lizzie, Mahdi and Franklin and there are reporters from various countries from South America and they are all being targeted. They could be targeted by the rebels and assassinated; they are very fearful and that’s why these people need help to get out…
I don’t for a minute believe that the Libyan people support what’s going on. Sure, there are elements of Libyans that may support this, but the vast majority, I am sure, are against this. They know what happened to the Iraqis and the Afghanis – they know what’s awaiting them if NATO wins this battle.
If they don’t want to be colonized and occupied and plundered and their lives made miserable because NATO has won this conflict, I think in the end they will put up a fight to defend their country – I’m hopeful…
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195942.html
‘NATO playing dirty tricks in Libya war’
Fri 26 Aug. 2011 6:25PM GMT
Interview with Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and historian, Washington.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195942.html
An analyst describes a massive psychological brainwashing exercise by NATO to have Libyans and the world believe that Tripoli has actually fallen.
Press TV talks with Dr. Webster Tarpley, author and historian from Washington, to further talk over the issue.
Following is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: You’ve called events playing out in Libya, “A carefully cynically planned military operation by the NATO high command; the US playing a very important role in it”. Could you expand on that for us?
Dr. Webster Tarpley: Well, if we just look at events that took place over the weekend in the auspices of NATOs Operation Mermaid Dawn or Operation Siren, we have first of all the carpet bombing of areas around Tripoli by the Royal air force; they’re now boasting about the efficacy of their missiles, their brimstone missiles; lots of civilian deaths there.
We had the apache helicopters being used to strafe civilians with machine gun fire if they got in the way of the advance of these al-Qaeda rebels.
We then had an amphibious landing of a series of warships – a NATO fleet that stood off the coast that looked something like, may be not like the Normandy invasion, but like the Raid on Dieppe (1942) or something like that. These were al-Qaeda fighters under European officers and when I say al-Qaeda that’s broadly including the Libyan Islamic fighting group.
You then had a prearranged signal – some renegade mosques gave out the call to prayer at the end of the fast “Down with Gaddafi” and that was the signal for death squads, which had infiltrated into the city, to rise up.
There was a series of fake SMS or text messages. You also had NATO bombing the Gaddafi television off the air.
You also had this amazing series of fake reports that Gaddafi had left the country; that Saif (Gaddafi’s son in command) had been captured; that Muhammad (Gaddafi) had been captured and other sons of Gaddafi; that Khamis had been captured after his brigade had mutinied and refused to fight. It was all fake.
And then to cap this thing off, most amazing, was this sound stage that NATO with the help of Doha and Qatar created the equivalent of a Hollywood set, which was designed to mimic the appearance of the Green Square.
Those green square buildings are very old, some of them go back to the Roman Empire – but they created that in Doha and if you look there is a very interesting comparison on the Internet where they show you what the Green Square really looks like and what this ‘fake set’ looks like and it’s quite similar, but there were enough giveaways to see that this was also faked.
So this is a tremendous campaign of mass brainwashing and psychological warfare and it had a stunning affect.
But… since they were not able to go all the way with this ‘rabble’ force that they have there is now a tendency over past days for the Gaddafi forces to regroup and fight back, but in a different way – not holding fixed lines; not trying to defend a compound or a city or anything else, but rather engaging in a warfare of movement; an urban warfare where the previous advantages of the al-Qaeda people – the Benghazi rebels have been vastly diminished.
I think the really big question is – How many rebels have been killed in these big operations? Their supply is not without end; I think there has been a tremendous casualty that has been inflicted on the rebels by Gaddafi forces.
And I wonder how long it will be before some of those rebels decide to go home; they’ve looted whatever they can loot; maybe they want to take their loot and go home – I think they’re going to melt away and the ones that remain behind are going to start killing each other because this is the nature of that beast.
Press TV: At first many US politicians were actually against Obama’s Libya involvement, but many have now seemed to have warmed up to the idea. What do they see the US getting in return for its “humanitarian mission” in Libya?
Dr. Webster Tarpley: They think we’re getting a facelift for American imperialism; that you can now come forward as the champion for human rights and so forth. This is absolute demagogy of the worst kind.
Victory has many fathers except this is no victory. Some of the people claiming paternity at this point are going to be denying it I think once they see what is happening here.
How should this be different from Afghanistan or Iraq? A foreigner coming from the other side of the world seeking to impose an alien law, in this case on a very proud people with a tradition of independence; remember they gave up a million casualties to get the Italians out; they’re the first ones in the world to be on the receiving end of poison gas. You can ask Field Marshall Graziani of the Italians how it is to pacify Libya – It’s not very easy at all.
These pretend fighters – this Benghazi rebel council; they’re armed forces are the least of it; they’re simply something to put on television. The heavy lifting was done by NATO; this was NATO NATO NATO with a few extras walk-on parts just to make this look plausible to international public opinion.
But I think militarily this will go on for a very long time. There is a big province of Fezzan in the south. Those people are black – they’re Libyans, they’re Arabs and they’re black – they’re not going to accept the yoke of that racist Benghazi council.
Remember, the Benghazi people distinguished themselves at least at the very beginning by lynching and massacring black Africans – be they from Mali or Chad or from wherever. Or if you were a black Libyan – being black in Benghazi was a capital crime because they would then say you’re a Gaddafi mercenary and take care of you.
SC/JR
Leader of the Green Committees Movement Addresses the World
“Americans Should Fight For Gaddafi”-[What you think?]
by Mumbly
youtube.com/watch?v=pnW1aZ0UGk8
wat.tv/video/americans-should-fight-for-4215f_31wod_.html
youtube.com/watch?v=pnW1aZ0UGk8
wat.tv/video/americans-should-fight-for-4215f_31wod_.html
The bitter truth ( LIBYA)
by Mumbly
Libya, things you should know.
by Mumbly
LIBYA: NATO LOST WAR [mirror]
. Al Jazeera Directed Tebels
by Mumbly
eaRTh[quake]-BLACK.HOUSE.PRESS ?
by Mumbly
2. ALIEN OCCUPATION FORCES
by Mumbly
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Leader of the Green Committees Movement Addresses the World
http://vimeo.com/28189634
From the international liaison office of the Green Committees Movement
Oppressed people around the world, the battle has begun. Do not despair, help is nigh. Do you realize that this is the Night of Power? What is the Night of Power? It is better than thousands of other nights, it is the destiny, when the heavens are open to receive your prayers thousands fold.
Watch what is happening now in America. Did we hit them with our missiles? No, they came and struck us, 64 hits on Bab Al-Aziziya which is now destroyed, and finally I had to leave my home, where they killed many innnocents. But I will never leave Libya and in this fight, it is either victory or death.
Those of you in United States of America. I am not your leader. If you are in that failed state you should be preparing to leave. Go to Venezuela. If you remain, you must follow my deputy, spiritual leader Minister Louis Farrakhan. Listen to him. He will tell you all you need to know about what is unfolding.
Those of you in Europe, you too should prepare to be drowned in events and calumny. Not enough of you have risen up. You will have to accept the consequences, the good among you should head to Africa. Go to west Africa. North Africa is not safe now that the region is all a battle field. In West Africa you will find homes and good work.
Those of you in Serbia, true friends of Libya, and you are with me. Do not despair of the rat flag on only one house out of one million. All of you can cut pieces of green cloth, measured exactly two by one in dimension, that is your flag, the flag of people’s power, of hope, of truth, of the future.
All you in the world who support truth, freedom, Jamahiriya, hang it on millions homes, cars. The green flag is yours and belongs to all the masses of the world. With the dawn of people’s authority and the end of governments, we chose the green flag and made its colour and dimension easy for all. Choose any green. Cut it one by two, exactly, and hang it everywhere, carry it with you.
Soon the green flag will fly all over the world, as governments collapse, they failed their people, I alone did more than all of them. They served different masters. They did not intend to serve the people, never. They are owned by others. They do nothing for you. Ignore them and they are gone. Prepare yourselves by forming committees, openly or in secret, set up your local mathabas to meet and share. Chart the way forward. The green flag belongs to you all.
The future is jamahiriya, everywhere. Masses self-governing societies. Basic popular congresses and people’s committees. Green committees to guide, defend, expose, call, show the way forward to people’s power. It’s all there in The Green Book, read it, copy it, share it. Use your own communication systems, don’t rely on the enemy. Make your own communications. Take back your resources to your hands, do not be afraid of power, possess it. It is your power, wealth and arms that the governments, banks and militaries stole from you.
You cannot ask others to represent you. You cannot entrust theives with your wealth. You cannot ask others to fight and die on your behalf, to defend you. This your human responsibility, when you do this, the world will be free, organized, jamahiri system, freedom and happiness, abundance of wealth for all.
The era of the governments is coming to an end and they are fighting their last gasp. They are desperate. But they are bankrupt, not only financially speaking, they are bankrupt in morals, religion, education, intellect, ideas, they have no way forward. They are on the stage of collapse. That collapse is good for the world peoples who are suffering because they are not free.
O all good people of the world, know that Islam is not what is being put to you by the ignorant who make a public show of prayer but in reality are serving the devil. Islam is submission to the will of Allah, the One God of all humanity. This is the night of prayer. Your prayers are being answered. You are the Muslims, all those who pray and do not associate partners with Allah.
People of Bosnia, many of you are misguided, Arabs, the useless and weak. The people of Serbia who are Christians and others would be closer to God. There is only one God. That God is with the truth wherever it is found, read Qur’an to know the truth, do not listen to those who would mislead you. If God is with you, who can be against you?
What Sharia are you looking for other than the one which we have since I was the first to bring Quran as the Law of Society in the Jamahiriya. Is it the sharia of injustice? Oppression? Cowardice? Murder? Insanity? Drugs? Is it the sharia that elevates the rat with his gun that allows torture, rape, theft? No! That is not the sharia, ignoring all that is in the Quran.
Prayers are being answered. More than forty armies have gone against me, only because I spoke the truth, because I would not let the thieves pass me into Africa. I have promised Africa I will not betray you. I promise the world, the millions who have me in your hearts, that I am fighting to the finish.
Do not believe their trumpets. Whoever listens to the trumpets is making a mistake. You have your own mathabas to go to for information and to meet and deliberate. Pay no heed to them. By now this should be clear to you. Fire is water, water is fire. Know that the future is yours, governments are finished, a new era of the masses is coming, as predicted in The Green Book.
I hear you. Many of your messages reach to me. I cannot answer you individually but I feel your pain. Some of you were so affected by the lies in the recent days that you even contemplated suicide. No! No never, suicide is not an option, when we are in front of great victory. The costs will be high but we must not waver.
I see you Africans around the world, even in Australia, your pictures reach me. I see you collecting money for helping East Africa. It is the whites who brought these problems and cut us off from helping our brothers and sisters. Thank you for you prayers. But keep your money. Instead use it to fight those oppressors.
Form among you green committees, meet in secret or in open. Proclaim your allegiance to the green charter. Study The Green Book. Register your people’s conferences, provide encouragement to others around the world, prepare for future world congress on crimes against humanity, you have six months to prepare.
March next year can be the biggest congress of the people, you can make it happen. Prepare already. Make a web site you must to make it, so all the crimes can be registered. While we fight to defend our nation, you fight on the battle field of truth, for the pen is mightier than the sword.
Some of you arrived to our western border, but had to return. You have families to take care of. Now the way is clear, but NATO will not allow for peace. They fear the example of the Great Jamahiriya. They can destroy our physical achievements but they cannot destroy the truth. The more they try the more we will be victorious, victory is with the people, never with the oppressors.
Thousands of you are waiting at various stations, I see you in Tanzania, in Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, and many other parts of Africa. How will you cross the deserts to Libya. Instead group yourselves where you are. The fight if it is not won in Libya will be coming to you. Prepare for it. Prepare traps for the invaders. You must defend your corners.
African governments are not strong. They control only a few centers of cities. They often provide no services and the people live without them. They will not stand in your way when the time comes. They are poor. They have been robbed by the racists, the colonialists, the white thieves from the north. Oppose them only if they oppose you. Be prepared. Build your mathaba. Defend your continent.
They can attack with their bombs, but we defend with truth. They can never fight us man to man. They are only cowards, sick, demented, hiding behind machines, they can never face the African one to one. African children can defeat any white mercenary, that is why they hide and destroy with hatred from far.
Do not let them use you. Be united. Build your defences for they are coming if they manage to pass Libya. If they destroy Libya then attack them from behind.
Avoid fighting if you can. The enemy wishes us all to be bogged down on their battle fields, that they want to engage us all in war. Afghanistan is now with us, Iraq is with us, Venezuela is with us. We want peace. We want justice. Work for conferences on crimes against humanity, use your mathaba networks, the mathaba are the headquarters of the green committees, go forth, victory is ours!
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*-source:
mathaba.net/news/?x=628250
Understanding the Green Book & Libyan politics, the easy way
youtube.com/watch?v=jdeLv5lFPuw
A video about the politics of Libya.
– Conversation with the leader of Libya orginally aired September 1991. Gaddafi voice over by Ed Fabry.
youtube.com/watch?v=iZQ2yp8BWc8
[the video all the world should see pass it on to every english speaking person in the world so they can know the truth]
– Original video:
Libya: Understanding the Green Book & Libyan politics, the easy way – May 22, 2011
wat.tv/video/libya-understanding-the-green-3pbd1_31wod_.html
Top Comments:
” i believe gaddafi is probably the single greatest man to have ever lived not just a leader, in 40 years he took a bankrupt nation to debt free, a feat never achieved by any pope, president, king or nobel peace price winner in all of history, proving he above all men put all the income back into the country and his people, built the great river to green a nation and never built a gold palace for himself.same 40 years U.S bankrupt itself and afghanis, and U.S tell libyans their system is better? ”
willreasonprevail 1 day ago 13
” Thank you so very much for posting this
Wow, if he’s fighting to defend this, he’s indeed on a moral high-ground.
What twisted view have they gave about this man.
I feel ashamed for ever have buying in to the stories.
Dear brother Gadaffi , please forgive me, and accept my sincere apologies. ”
TheMatrixBreaker 1 day ago 2
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Green Book – By M Qaddafi
only one thing I disgree with, Mr. PUTIN. You were correct about everything, except that al-Gadhafi is 100% innocent and a man blessed by God to do a work for this entire world.
(handshake)
(before table)
(praying w PUTIN)
(smiles w PUTIN)
WITH PUTIN:
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Is this some small punishment to the USA and CANADA??:
The entire sweep of the U.S. coast from North Carolina to New England was warned of widespread power outages and public transport shutdowns in the face of a hurricane of historic magnitude at the weekend.
As hurricane Irene began to bear down on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, bringing heavy rain and 9ft waves before its expected landfall early on Saturday, officials warned residents of some of the most densely populated parts of the country they could lose some of the essentials of modern life.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a press conference that the authorities would begin shutting down the subway system from Saturday – for the first time in its history.
Meanwhile, officials warned of widespread power black-outs – potentially lasting for days or even weeks in rural areas – because of high winds from the hurricane.
As many as 65 million people could be in harm’s way as hurricane Irene begins its slow crawl along the entire east coast.
Forecasters say the impact of hurricane Irene will be felt across a wide swath of Eastern Canada as the sprawling storm is expected to track through Maine and into northern New Brunswick by late Sunday and into Monday.
The Canadian Hurricane Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, says Irene’s strength is expected to diminish as it moves into the Atlantic provinces and eastern Quebec, but the storm is still expected to pack a mean punch.
ARCO – Open Letter To Brother Leader Mummar Gaddafi
Posted: 2011/08/27
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628331?rss
Solidarity Forever: A message from the Africa Resistance Coalition (ARCO)
Dear Brother Leader:
First, like to express my deep concern over the reckless war and wanton destructions of lives and properties sponsored by US-UK NATO machine and their rebel allies against the people of Libya.
I join millions of conscious minds all over the world to condemn, unequivocally, this reckless act of aggression by NATO and its western sponsors.
I observe most painfully that the world would be a better place if nations can develop the courage to speak and stand up against tyranny and aggression of one nation against another no matter who is involved. It is regrettable that most nations have taken the options of criminal silence in the face of open tyranny on the people of Libya.
Where is the conscience of the human race if a gang-up of US, UK, Italy France and their NATO war machine can commit with rude abandon the open crime against humanity on the soil of Libya without anyone to call it to order. It is most unfortunate that we live in a world where evil triumph over good.
I remain strong in the belief that these forces of evil shall be reduced to nothing, as I am confidence of the victory of good over evil.
At this very crucial period, I send my love and solidarity to the great people of Libya who hove refused to fall for the antics of imperialism, whose only interest is the God-given wealth of Libya.
Equally, I salute your exemplary leadership, your steadfastness in the face of open aggression. your stoic firmness and most importantly, your kind-heartedness especially the accommodating spirit from which many indigent African nations have benefitted. I make bold to register a vote of confidence in you, knowing how difficult it will be for NATO bombs to erase your unquantifiable contributions to the material and moral development of land and people of Libya and African continent.
Your carriage and spirit in the face of reckless NATO bombing is on example in courageous leadership. I receive with the spirit of African revolutionary the lesson of your leadership that the fight against imperialism can only be total, and he who must lead the fight must stand firm.
No one else deserves our vote of confidence.
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628331?rss
Sina Odugbemi
Coordinator, Africa Renaissance Coalition (ARCO)
8. Agbado Station Road, ljaye-Ojokoro, Lagos, Nigeria.
Tel: (+234) 08074581618, 08034723625, 019503101, 08037207856
Email: info@arcoafrica.org, democracyvp@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.arcoafrica.org
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628324?rss
Dennis South of MATHABA writes on 27 August 2011:
My loving brothers and sisters, who have all been brought together at Mathaba for this great cause: I ask that you desist begging the Arabs and the Africans to do anything. They will not. They hate Gaddafi with a deep passion. While perhaps the common African in the villages all love Gaddafi, the African leaders do not.
And I will tell you precisely why:
“The deem him their worst enemy, who tells them the truth.” (Plato)
There is a video at YouTube, but I could not find it to include in this article. Perhaps you have seen it. The video lists 10 reasons why everybody hates Gaddafi.
It shows what he said about the hypocritical, corrupt and conniving Arabs, and how they will turn against their own brother-Arab state for their own selfish ends. It showed Gaddafi speaking at the United Nations, telling them the truth about what an ineffective organization it is. It showed him, as I recall, speaking against the State of Israel.
And that video, in the beginning, makes the point that Gaddafi is hated because he tells the truth. Some say that he “insulted” people, such as when he wore photographs on his uniform of pictures of martyrs that had been killed by the Italians, while he was walking alongside Berlusconi.
Of course, he did not insult anyone. He told the truth. And, as Plato said, you will be branded an enemy when you tell the truth. By the way, do not say that Gaddafi “made a mistake” by being frank and speaking his mind, and that that is why he made enemies who are now siding with the devil. It was not a mistake for him to speak the truth. The mistake was made by those who didn’t listen to him and follow his advice.
And look what has happened. By telling the truth, he has turned the Europeans, the Americans, the Arabs, the Muslims against him. And, my brothers and sisters, as the Prophet Muhammad would have seen it, all those people form one community.
Who is Jacob Zuma? Who is he? Is he the President of South Africa, carrying on the tradition of Nelson Mandella? Within hours, this man turned his back on Gaddaf. And imagine it: Nelson Mandella stated that, in his darkerst hours, when he felt that all was lost for the liberation of black South Africans, it was Muammar Gaddafi who came to the rescue.
You either believe in sharing and caring, or you do not. You either believe in peace, or you do not. You either believe in the rule of law, or you do not.
This last 6 months, despite its horror, has been a Godsend for me, as an African-American. I tend to lean towards the distrustful side when it comes to “white” folks. I should not have to explain why.
But, because of my activity as an “information warrior,” these last 6 months, I have come to meet, many people who belong to the same community that I do. And these people are believers. And many of them are “white.”
“All disbelief forms one community.” These people are not disbelievers. They belong to to the community of belief, not the community of disbelief.
They are people like Susan Lindaur, former CIA asset who turned leftist lover of humanity; there’s Lizzie Phelan, international revolutionary; there’s Steve Lendman, Leonor, Morris, Mahdi Darius, Timothy Bancroft, Lisa Karpova, “Tahira,” Dr. Webster Tarpley, and many others, of all races, that have been working literally day and night.
These “white” brothers and sisters are of our community. They have proven themselves, beyond any doubt, to be of the community of believers, not disbelievers. We must put our hopes in each other, no matter what color, and in those who think as we do about the creation of a peaceful world.
In that way, we will not waste our precious time and energy dreaming about people, or nations, coming to the rescue of Gaddafi, or to the rescue of truth and light. They’re not coming.
We will now be in a battle, for the rest of our lives, in aligning ourselves with those who think as we do. We can teach, of course, what we believe, but we must do so first with those near us, such as our children, and then others.
But always have this firmly in mind, because as you go through life, this saying is going to help you be clear on just who are your friends, and who are your enemies: All disbelief forms one community.
About Dennis South
I have been serving, for 43 years, the cause of helping to create a new, balanced and peaceful world.
Libya Roundup, Friday, August 26th — Full Version
Posted: 2011/08/27
From: Mathaba
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by Dennis South
— The Gaddafi family, along with the Libyan citizens and defence forces, still control much of the city and have encircled the rebels and killed, according to government sources, over a thousand mercenaries.
— For those that don’t know the nature of Tripoli, please check the map in Google earth. As you see from reports of the media the rats are stationed in Gargaresh and in the area of hotel Corinthian.
— The reporters are reporting from there where they are trapped and in a distance of 400-500 meters from there. Also some BBC and CNN rat reporters move with some filming group of rebels in some areas and then leave just to make propaganda.
— All the areas from the coast till 10km inside that is Tripoli are controlled by Libyan army. When we, the Libyan army, move to take those areas the rats call for air cover from NATO and for artilery coverage from the NATO boats.
— Don’t worry brothers the resist against the NATO rats and the steadfast in all the Libyan terretory is beeing continued and victory soon.
— see this updated article from yesterday: Life of Independent Journalists in Tripoli. Very Critical Situation Independent journalists trapped at the Rixos hotel were evacuated Wednesday under the auspices of the Red Cross.
They were taken and housed at the Corinthia hotel. Since their arrival, armed gunmen have entered the premises of the hotel on various pretexts.
The hotel is in rebel territory.
The boat which was scheduled to leave for Malta Thursday at 6am EDT with the collaboration of the Red Cross, has, we are informed been delayed. The reasons for this delay are not logistical.
A state of chaos continues to prevail with intense fighting between Rebel and loyalist forces. We have also received a report to the effect that the Venezuelan embassy was ransacked by armed gunmen.
The threats to the lives of independent journalist including Global Research’s Mahdi Darius Nazemoraya prevail.
This is a media battle, a confrontation between the mainstream media which is NATO’s mouthpiece and those who are committed to Truth in Media.
The independent journalists are the target because they say the truth. The coverage of the war on Libya has centered on Gadaffi. Not a word has been mentioned regarding the devastation and loss of life caused by NATO’s bombings of civilian targets, including the intensive bombings of Tripoli
We ask our readers to spread the message far ands wide. The lives of those who speak thew truth is threatened.
from:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26205#.TlbaJ1SsmG4.facebook
— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-tGl1Z8UTo
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NATO Empire Madness War on Libya President Hugo Chavez Interview 25.08.2011
After meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Caracas, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez condemned the United States and European countries for NATO’s air strikes during Libya’s conflict, saying:
“They’ve destroyed a country!”…
[NOTE: No they haven’t. They have destroyed STRUCTURES. They have killed some human lives. But they have NOT destroyed the country. The country is in the hearts of the people!! They country is there, as long as they people continue to hold on–and they will–and have faith in their just cause. The country is there as long as they remember that Omar Mukhtar did not fight for 20 years for nothing. The countrys is there as long as they remember that they did not build the Jamahiriya for nothing.
The country is not destroyed. What you are seeing is a temporary ILLUSION. What you are seeing is a MIRAJE. The buildings and other structures were made from the MINDS of the Libyan people. Those minds still exist, so that means that the structures still exist–they are inside the minds of the Libyan people.
And once this war has ended in victory for the Libyan people, the Jamahiriya, and Gaddafi, the buildings and structures that are in the minds of the people will be taken OUT of their minds, and placed firmly on the soil of Libya! In fact, there are new buildings and structures–much superior to what existed before–that are in the minds of the Libyan people. Shortly, they will built on the soil of Libya!
26.08.2011 Putin Slams NATO: West Has no Legal Right to Execute Gaddafi
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26.08.2011 Putin Slams NATO: West Has no Legal Right to Execute Gaddafi
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared that the Western forces taking part in the military operation in Libya are not entitled to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi, as doing so is against international law.
— ‘Bomb explosion’ rocks UN office in Abuja this morning
http://nigeriansabroadlive.com/bomb-explosion-rocks-un-office-in-abuja/
Libyan Tripoly Chronicle on August 25, one of Libya’s young defenders of the Homeland
(You must read it from end to top, it’s copy of Tweet messages):
source http://mobile.twitter.com/libyanliberal
Last tweet for today,while waiting martydom or victory,spread the message NATO bombing civilians in Abu saleem because they hold green flags
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal Sad but I dont believe that serbs will survive, the rebels are lunatics in loose. they rape kill and loot everything with NATO aircover.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal Captured serbs are in the airport we try penetrate there. but nato overs the perimeter.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal May allah alow me to survicve one more day to save more lives, please spread the messsage, NATO is bombing Abu saleem ,killing civilians.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal STOP the nato bombing and we will manage to win. else we will be massacred by the NATO pilots. but its okey its martyrdom.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal i dont know how uch we will hold a horde of rebels with heavy weapons bomb abu saleem and same does nato .
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal Where is that UN to stop the NATO bombing on scivilians of Abu saleem? why none cares? where are the arabs?
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal nerves on tense. the resistance to nato and collaorators is hard. They bomb every possition. many bombs not rockets huge bombs.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal Call reporters to get stages in High Landanous and see the bodies before the rebels remove them. why nothing about the rebel crimes?
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal This is not islam this s racism of usa KKK ,the rebels dnt rase allah only the americans.many carrying the rebel flag bear the american also
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal 90 per cent of people are locked behind their doors especially black skinned. the rebels calling all black Kaffour and shoot them on sight.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal some asking me for videos we dknt have cameras or phones we are not actors we are mujaheed.massacre from rebels in Tripoli.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal I saw a rebel raping a 10 yo girl. another holdng the girl. both rebels were shot, they dont deserve life.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal We killed 2 rapists and saved a girl last night behing enemy lines. A lot of not Libyans in the ranks of rebels. White like norvegian.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal The rebels kill anyone that is on a list with pro-gaddafi people. they have killing platoons.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal Last night we went behind enemy lines in high landanous to save a group of hostages. many houses looted in rebel areas. panic everywhere.
1 день назад
LibyanLiberal Abu salim . heroic mujaheeds. we are ready to accept death now. nato bombs with cluster bombs from F-16.many dead.
— The African Union will not recognize the NTC as the legitimate Government in Libya.
— SALUTE TO THE HONOURABLE WOMAN SOLIDER who died for the love of her Nation The girl solider blew herself up in the Abu Salim nest of Gerdan and killed 30 of Colonial Terrorist Rats It is the largest inventory. On BBC they were telling lies, that the Colonial Terrorist Rats are all from Libia
— a weird one that has obviously been run through google translator:
In addition to the “Plywood City” in the Qatari desert, the alliance there are other options to hide the truth about their losses. At 9 UDC has 5400 beds. As part of the U.S. Navy hospital ship has 2 Mercy and Comfort which has 2000 beds. Thus, NATO may be placed on ships, 7400 wounded. Loss of life, the classical ratio of one to three would amount to about 2,500 deaths. About these losses will be no mention of any official reports or in media reports. Journalists and TV reporters they just can not see. So you can hide from the public at the time of their losses, which the ordinary residents of the United States and Europe would have to pay for the adventure of their rulers. However, when the average daily losses of 150 killed and 450 wounded operation should be completed within 15 days otherwise the flow of dead and maimed, for ordinary people suddenly flooded with the Libyan front does not just cause a storm of indignation, and the repeated efforts of the contrast before and after the “Rubicon”. Its magnitude can cause a powerful social and political cataclysm that will sweep away at least from the political scene instigators of war. Given that the incompetence and adventurism increasingly propagate among the political elite of leading Western countries can not exclude such a scenario. And to end the operation quickly will not work …
We live in scary times – times of change. Not only the Libyan people, but we, the Russians waiting for the path of struggle and suffering, but do not despair.
— The number of volunteers from the Iraqi resistance in 1500 are on their way to Tripoli
— These are the rats these are the destroyers of Libya . look what they have done! Are you happy people of othodox countries that you helped then and recorgnized them? ( greece,serbia,russia ) They even stole the hand fo saint George.
In the Libyan capital of Tripoli, 26 August robbed the oldest Orthodox church in North Africa, the temple of Saint George, built in the 1647th year. Robbery reported the Orthodox Metropolitan of Theophylact. The robbers stole the arm reliquary of St. George, old gospel, and the chalice icon mounted on wood.
Metropolitan Theophylact in a statement said that almost nothing remained of the church.
After the robbery, the thieves are called the commanding of the church and sought ransom for the stolen relics. Although informed the Metropolitan Police, because of the war in Tripoli, it is unlikely that anything will be done to recover the stolen holy Orthodox Church.
Rats attacking people of the book. And they say allaou akbar. they are kaffur all rats.
Vengeance in Tripoli:
Rebels settle scores in Libyan capital
UN urges restraint as the rebels wreak their revenge on ‘loyalists’
By Kim Sengupta in Tripoli
Saturday, 27 August 2011
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/rebels-settle-scores-in-libyan-capital-2344671.html
The Libyan Tebels have been meting out brutal treatment to sub-Saharan Africans in Tripoli, suspecting that they are Gaddafi loyalists
The killings were pitiless.
They had taken place at a makeshift hospital, in a tent marked clearly with the symbols of the Islamic Crescent. Some of the dead were on stretchers, attached to intravenous drips. Some were on the back of an ambulance that had been shot at. A few were on the ground, seemingly attempting to crawl to safety when the bullets came.
Around 30 men lay decomposing in the heat. Many of them had their hands tied behind their back, either with plastic handcuffs or ropes. One had a scarf stuffed into his mouth. Almost all of the victims were black men. Their bodies had been dumped near the scene of two of the fierce battles between rebel and regime forces in Tripoli.
FROM FRIDRICH HALàVA:
* Syrte: Despite the crimes of NATO who sees his foals unable to take the town, repelled by armed civilians who refuse their diktat, the British forces have lost patience and bombarded everything in the city, killing many civilians. NATO kills, committing atrocious …war crimes against humanity. At least 378 civilians have been murderd, but the city resists strongly.
* Brega: The rats cannot until now take this city. In order to make brave libyan soldiers accepting to stop resistance( since six months), They have launched leaflets in the city showing the Libyan Leader death, lying in his own blood. But the lies are quickly discovered. Viva brave Brega.
* Misrata: the city is still not under control of the renegade,(a defector from the RATS) and that is why NATO does not want to be broadcast images of the city and thus discourages foreign journalists to visit. They want to Focus on Tripoli in order to convince all the world that the war is over.
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Franciscans in Tripoli holed up as battle rages
Aug. 23, 2011
By Catholic News Service
UPDATE: ARCHBISHOP MARTINELLI IS SAFE IN ITALY:
http://ncronline.org/news/global/franciscans-tripoli-holed-battle-rages
Tripoli fighting continues, bishop stuck in Italy
26 Aug. 2011
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — As fighting continues in Tripoli and the search goes on for Moammar Gadhafi, the bishop of Tripoli is stuck in Italy but hoping to return to the North Africa nation soon.
“The fact that, as I have been told, some Libyans are trying to return home is a good sign because that means security conditions have improved in some parts of the country. This encourages me because, as soon as possible, I’ll go back, too,” said Bishop Giovanni Martinelli of Tripoli.
The Vatican’s missionary news agency, Fides, interviewed Bishop Martinelli Aug. 26 in Italy. Rebel forces claimed Aug. 22 that they had taken the capital and were hunting Gadhafi, but there were still reports of fighting between rebels and Gadhafi loyalists Aug. 26 in Tripoli.
“I’m anxious to return to Tripoli to be with the community and the priests,” he said. “Unfortunately, up to this point, I’ve been advised not to leave because the usual routes for returning to Libya have been blocked. But the fact that some Libyans are returning gives me hope that I can go back soon,”
the bishop said.
As for the future of the country, Bishop Martinelli told Fides, “until we know what’s happened to Gadhafi, it’s difficult to make predictions. The situation is still dangerous because there are loyalists ready to give their lives for him.”
Church sources who could be contacted said some Catholic leaders remained holed up in Tripoli as the battle for control of the capital raged around them.
Late Aug. 22, three Franciscan friars were barricaded in their home in a Tripoli neighborhood, where there was heavy fighting, the source told Fides, news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
“No one dares to walk in the street because people are shot on sight, even if it is not clear who shoots whom. Of course, it is dangerous for civilians to leave the house,” said the church source, who requested anonymity.
“Currently, the phone lines are cut and we cannot contact the friars,” the source said, but the last thing the friars said was that they could not leave the house because of the shooting nearby.
Earlier Aug. 22, a source told Fides that the situation on the streets was “a disaster.”
“We do not know how the situation is evolving because leaving the house means risking one’s life,” said the source, who asked to remain unnamed for security reasons.
The rebels have been fighting to wrest power from dictator Moammar Gadhafi for about six months. They launched their offensive on the capital the night of Aug. 19.
“Many fear a bloodbath,” the source said. “While part of the population has left town, many of those who have remained are in the situation ‘wait and see.'”
In February, a Franciscan priest who has worked in Libya for seven years told Catholic News Service that Christians were afraid Islamic fundamentalists would take over the country if Gadhafi fell. He said that, under Gadhafi, Christians had been protected.
OUR BROTHER LEADER FOREVER:
A young MUJJADID SPEAKS:
NATO Special Forces on Libyan Ground at a Shopping Mall
The David Icke Newsletter Goes Out On Sunday 28 AUGUST 2011
Gaddafi was being demonised by the Reagan-Father Bush administration (the Rothschilds) in the 1980s when the CIA and Mossad led a campaign to destabilise Libya that mirrors what has happened in 2011. Newsweek reported on August 3rd, 1981:
‘The details of the plan were sketchy, but it seemed to be a classic CIA destabilization campaign. One element was a “disinformation” program designed to embarrass Kaddafi and his government. Another was the creation of a “counter government” to challenge his claim to national leadership. A third – potentially the most risky – was an escalating paramilitary campaign, probably by disaffected Libyan nationals, to blow up bridges, conduct small-scale guerrilla operations and demonstrate that Kaddafi was opposed by an indigenous political force.’
Sound familiar? That was 30 years ago.
But so many just buy the lie no matter what the era or generation. As Adolf Hitler said: ‘Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.’ And his propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, said: ‘The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Hitler also said, with equal relevance: ‘What luck for the rulers that men do not think.’
NATO planes pepper-bombed Tripoli in support of the ‘rebels’ on the ground. Thousands of the very civilians that the UN resolution said should be protected were killed in the process. But we hear nothing of this in the mainstream media and precious little of the murder and executions of Gaddafi supporters by the ‘rebels’ throughout the conflict and after they entered Tripoli.
UNHCR BREAKS THEIR SILENCE ON THE REBEL KILLINGS OF BLACK AFRICANS IN LIBYA
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/unhcr-breaks-their-silence-on-the-rebel-killings-of-black-africans-in-libya/
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Posted by Alexandra in CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, ETHNIC CLEANSING, HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS, LIBYA ≈ Leave a Comment
HRI Mark
The UNHCR has finally blown the veil off the racist atrocities being committed by Libyan rebels:
GENEVA, August 26 (UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has issued a strong call for sub-Saharan Africans to be protected in Libya as reports emerge from Tripoli of people being targeted because of their colour as the city fell to rebel forces.
UNHCR spoke by phone on Friday to one scared African, Ahmed, a Somali who has been living in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and teaching at the university there, since 2007. He has stayed on in the city since anti-government protests in the North African country turned violent in February, leading to all-out war between the Muammar Gaddafi regime and rebel forces.
Ahmed said he did not feel directly threatened. But now, as rebels take over the city, he wants to leave. Since most neighbourhoods in Tripoli fell to rebels earlier this week, sub-Saharan Africans like Ahmed are again being singled out.
“If they see you are African, that you are black, they will target you,” said Ahmed, reached in his home. He said local residents, many of whom are armed, are in the streets, setting up roadblocks. “The situation is very difficult here,” he told UNHCR. “You can’t leave your home even for water.”
As a result, he and other Somalis in the community with whom they are in contact are running out of vital supplies. One group of Somalis was attacked when they tried to leave their apartment in another part of the city, he said, leaving one man injured. “It’s really very desperate.”
Sub-Saharan Africans, especially those from Niger, Chad and Sudan, have been targeted by both sides after it became known that some sub-Saharan Africans had worked as mercenaries for the Gaddafi regime. Many migrants fled to neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia. But several hundred did not.
They are trapped in the capital as, once again, people with black skin are being accused of siding with the dictator. “Anyone who is black, they say they are against them,” said Ahmed, who has family in the United States and a visa awaiting him in Tunis, if he can reach there safely.
The High Commissioner has urged restraint from rebel forces and Libyan civilians. “We have seen at earlier stages in this crisis that such people, Africans especially, can be particularly vulnerable to hostility or acts of vengeance,” he said.
“It is crucial that humanitarian law prevails through these climactic moments and that foreigners – including refugees and migrant workers – are being fully and properly protected from harm,” he stressed.
What has happened to the people of Tawergha? What has happened to the prisoners in the shipping crate? We ask our readers to insist the media cover what is really going on in Tripoli and stop the unforgiveable practice of the media and so-called human rights activists justifying the persecution of black people as “African mercenaries.”
REBELS ETHNIC CLEANSING AND LYNCHING
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/libyan-rebels-ethnic-cleansing-and-lynching-of-black-people/
LYNCHING IN BENGHAZI
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/lynching-in-benghazi/
al-QATHAFI with his Prayer beads
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Tripoli: Media blackout, why?
28.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/28-08-2011/118880-tripoli_media-0/
The NATO approach to freedom of expression is threatening independent journalists, closing social network accounts, blocking Twitter and hacking into websites. For some reason it must be. Despite these Fascist policies, those who have felt millions of people gathering around us, desperate for information, have a duty to say what is going on.
For all of those who have been contacting me daily, asking for new information, desperate to hear some news in the midst of NATO’s media blackout and lies about how the “Gaddafy regime collapsed”, in first place, God Bless you and in second place, indeed you represent the hearts and minds of the international community. Of that I have no doubt. From Manila to Moscow, Russia, where according to a recent poll 91% of the population supports Muammar al-Qathafi, from Sydney to Strasbourg, from Brasilia to Bangkok.
For all these good people, who respect international law and who abhor NATO’s act of butchery followed by thieving of a sovereign nation’s resources, even before the fight is over, who abhor NATO’s supporting of Al-Qaeda elements and backing of racist thugs who slaughtered Negroes in the streets, here is what I have.
It is impossible for me to sit at my keyboard outside Libya and declare that I am the guardian of the truth. Indeed, I have very rarely written anything other than opinion-editorial pieces on Libya because I do not have my eyes on the ground. The eyes on the ground I have used are independent journalists, who have now been silenced, and eye witnesses inside Libya.
These are either people I already knew there, after working for years in media covering Africa (I was a partner and international director of a media group covering the continent and built up many contacts and continue to be active in several Pan African projects) or else those I have contacted through the Internet, with families in Libya or those supposedly in Libya themselves. With the Internet you never know. Who appears to be perfectly credible could be some punk in a basement apartment in New York, or the girl next door having some fun. The secret is to filter and vet those who claim to be who and what they are…in this case, filter number one, do they speak Arabic? If not, thank you and bye bye. Filter two, what is their e-mail address? If it is anything connected with Libya, then my interest is aroused.
What we have to do is to respect all sources, treat them all as possibly credible but then confront what they say with the information we are receiving. Unfortunately, the western media has been a disgrace, so much so that I have cancelled SKY, BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera from my cable package because they might manipulate the truth and dupe themselves but they cannot call the international community stupid.
We all know very well what happened, and even before they tried it on, we were all informed about the “alternative Tripoli” built in Qatar and filmed there (some say India) and we have all seen the discrepancies between the different “Tripolis” we were shown.
I am not a dream seller. I know very well if I declared that Colonel Gaddafi’s forces had routed NATO and defeated the terrorists who ran amok in the Libyan capital beheading people in the streets, raping women and girls, torching buildings and looting (many of them foreigners) there would be a collective cheer so loud I would hear it from where I sit.
What I can say is the following. NATO’s media blackout, why? What are they afraid of? Why have independent journalists been threatened? Why have their social network accounts been hacked and closed and why have their Twitter accounts been blocked? As usual, we are dealing with pith-headed simpletons because obviously these days anyone who has a social network account has already informed the members of emails and alternative means of contact.
Secondly, if NATO’s campaign was going so well, then why are there thousands of mercenaries in Tripoli, from British to French to Germans to Qataris? Why is NATO arming the “rebels”? Why is NATO putting boots on the ground? Why is NATO bombing Libyan Armed Forces positions? Obviously it is not going well, because NATO has been unable to fight the fight using the original laws covering the conflict and adhering to the rules of engagement.
It is like a boxing match where one fighter, when losing, pulls a gun and shoots his opponent. Is that called winning?
Thirdly, in the absence of media reports due to NATO’s democratic blackout (freedom of expression, eh what?) what I can say categorically is that in Tripoli massacres are being perpetrated by the terrorist scourge NATO supports. This has been backed up by countless eye witnesses living inside the capital who have seen the most horrific violations of human rights – another feather in NATO’s cap. This raises the question, what on Earth were Cameron and Hague, Obama and Clinton, Sarkozy and Juppe thinking when they aided and funded these fanatics?
Quite where the lines are drawn is very difficult to say with any accuracy because reporting without sources makes this impossible. What the blackout has done is to give NATO and its mercenaries and, allegedly, thousands of special forces (violation of UNSC Resolutions covering this conflict), freedom to take the capital city before the TV comes back on and we are shown the result. I am receiving reports of carpet bombing by NATO aircraft aiding the terrorists against the Government forces.
The information NATO is giving is that the city has been taken. The information from the British Foreign and Commonwealth office is that the city has not been taken. The information from the ground is that it is far from taken. Indeed, South African President Jacob Zuma declared on Friday that most of it is in the hands of the Libyan Government – and there is only one Libyan government, that of the Jamahiriya, loyal to Muammar al-Qathafi. This would explain the media blackout.
This is the situation today. Tomorrow, nobody can say. Elsewhere, the NATO/terrorists occupy part of Misratah and are blocked outside al-Brega, while NATO has taken to frenetic and savage bombing attacks against Sirte.
Whatever the outcome, and to be frank, nobody can tell what will happen if this escalates (the Libyan Armed Forces have plenty of options at their disposal should they care to use them) the fact that NATO has resorted to breaking all the rules of engagement and all the laws covering this conflict says it all. True, in the end it could carpet-nuke Tripoli and invade it with 40 armies.
But is that winning? Does the boxer win his match if he shoots his opponent? Remember, the Libyan Armed Forces have, since the beginning, been defending themselves and the civilian population from marauding gangs of terrorists, whose massacre of civilians, including pro-Gaddafi forces, gave NATO its casus belli, just like Saddam’s WMD.
One final question. How will NATO explain the thousands of deaths its troops and its mercenaries are suffering? The thing is, whatever the outcome, Colonel Gaddafi’s forces stood and fought back. That makes him a hero and NATO a villain, and the history book will be implacable for Messrs. Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy and the snivelling cowards who did not have the guts to stand up to them.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
Fridrich Hláva 23:45 17 AUGUST 2011 writes:
1 – People’s armed forces still in control of the many places in Tripoli and the filter and the arrest of foreign special forces, and rats and the war in a way streets and fisheries.
2 – No Ntsu that NATO bombed heavily now on Tripoli and the armed people had no air cover is why the deal with our tactics and military plans difficult for NATO to spend on the armed people.
3 – Do not listen to biased channels that the military peace in the region of Brega, and withdrew to the Sirte .. People’s armed forces and its leadership and strong strategic military there.
4 – each of the following cities and that you know both cities of Tripoli and surrounded the center and south, and areas west of Tripoli is still with her leadership and her country.
5 – Thousands of volunteers have slipped into Tripoli.
6 – that NATO wants to overthrow the Libyan state before 08/31/2011 because they will not be Isttiau Amrro decision extension (opposition from other countries), but hard, and our army is strong and fierce and too many volunteers Mashallh.
And God Almighty, that victory is at hand with God’s help Bsamudna Delirious Avatar difficult period.
ADIL NAJI writes:
Rebels progress on Tv only not on the ground.. And guess what? They will have plenty of war crimes to answer to great people of Libya.. All are charged with treason
NATO, Terrorist Rebels Accused of War Crimes in Libya
Posted: 2011/08/19
From: Source http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628098
A school in Zlitan, bombed by NATO
By Alex Newman
The North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) is being heavily criticized for civilian casualties and a series of bombings apparently targeting essential non-military infrastructure in Libya, with some observers calling the actions war crimes. The Libyan rebels being supported by coalition forces have also been accused of wanton savagery and even crimes against humanity.
Most recently, a NATO bombing campaign near the Libyan city of Zlitan earlier this month reportedly killed almost 100 civilians — more than half of them women and children. The attack sparked a new wave of outrage worldwide as journalists and activists called for investigations.
Representatives of the Libyan government took a large group of foreign reporters to the site. They were reportedly shown bodies of women and children, including the remains of a baby. Multiple bombed out homes were also presented to international journalists.
“Today was yet another crime by NATO against civilians,” Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim was quoted as saying by Fox News about the attack, noting that over 1,000 civilians had been killed by NATO so far. “They are killing women and children. This happens every day. Help us to stop this madness.”
The Western military alliance defended the strikes, saying they were against “legitimate” targets. According to NATO spokespeople, the coalition believed the town was being used as a staging ground for pro-Gaddaffi forces and tribes aimed at repelling an upcoming rebel invasion of Tripoli.
But the victims cited in news reports said that was not the case. “NATO bombed us, for what reason? We did not do anything to them. We are civilian people,” a man who lost his daughter and his home in the strike was quoted as saying in The Australian newspaper. “Why did they kill us? We had peace in my house with our family. What did we do to the other countries?”
International law expert Franklin Lamb, writing in the Foreign Policy Journal from Tripoli over the weekend, accused NATO of committing a “massacre” after visiting the bombing site. Citing international lawyers, U.S. congressional staffers and human rights activists visiting the war-torn nation, he charged that NATO had “committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Other foreign reporters — particularly from Russia — have been fiercely critical of the NATO campaign for months. “Do those who planned this and other crimes have a right to live? I’m talking about the Bilderberg club. What would they feel if their families are also deprived of a quiet life, and then killed in cold blood?” wrote Russian columnist Konstantyn Scheglikov following the bombings, attacking the “NATO maniacs who do not like the resistance of the small North African country.”
Other reporters who toured the site offered similarly devastating analysis of what happened. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya with the Centre for Research on Globalization said civilians in Tripoli and other major Libyan cities were “bombed indiscriminately by NATO” in recent weeks.
“In Zliten, 85 people were killed including 33 children, 32 women, and 20 men as a result of NATO’s deliberate targeting of residential areas and civilian infrastructure,” he wrote, posting a dozen pictures showing the aftermath of the attack, which he called “photographic evidence of NATO war crimes.”
International human rights groups also had questions about the bombing. “NATO continues to stress its commitment to protect civilians,” said Amnesty International’s Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui in a statement. “To that effect, it should thoroughly investigate this and all other recent incidents in which civilians were reportedly killed in western Libya as a result of air strikes.”
In addition to the hundreds or even thousands of “collateral damage” deaths so far, NATO is also under fire for air strikes on civilian infrastructure. On July 25, the Associated Press reported that the international coalition bombed a hospital, leaving several doctors dead.
Another infrastructure attack that drew international condemnation was the bombing of facilities associated with Libya’s so-called Great Man-Made River system, a pipeline that delivers water to a large percentage of the population. The Pakistan Observer said the attack was “a clear war crime” and could easily lead to a “humanitarian disaster.”
On July 30, NATO warplanes also repeatedly bombed a Libyan television station, killing three and injuring 15. Surviving journalists blasted the attack and called for international support from other reporters.
“We are not a military target, we are not officers in the army and not a threat to civilians,” the Libya Broadcasting Department Employees said in a statement after the attack, which it called an “act of international terrorism” and a violation of international law. “We are doing our job as journalists in representing what from the bottom of my heart we believe is the reality of the NATO aggression and violence in Libya.”
Countless press-freedom groups including the International News Safety Institute and the International Federation of Journalists have demanded an investigation of the attack. But NATO defended the bombing, saying the TV station was being used to spread pro-Gaddafi propaganda.
A separate incident in early August involving NATO’s alleged failure to rescue ocean-bound refugees in distress has also been widely criticized around the world. According to news reports, up to 100 people died escaping Libya on a rickety boat after the engine died and nearby NATO ships failed to respond to SOS calls.
“The idea that NATO, with all its surveillance technology, was not aware of a boat of this size is a story that not even Little Red Riding Hood would believe,” charged Italian Parliamentarian Roberto Castelli. The government of Italy has requested an inquiry to find out why the refugees were apparently left to die.
The internationally backed rebels trying to seize power in Libya have also been accused of numerous war crimes and wide-scale barbarity — some of it too horrendous even to mention. Numerous gruesome videos have been posted online showing beheadings, lynchings and other crimes, proving that at least some of the allegations are true.
“The evidence provided by these videos makes clear that the rebels’ conception of warfare has more in common with that of Al-Qaeda than that of the Geneva Conventions,” explained John Rosenthal in a piece for the U.S.-based Hudson Institute. “The abuses documented in the videos could serve as textbook examples of precisely the sort of savagery that the Geneva Conventions were supposed to prevent.”
As The New American and countless other sources have reported, the NATO-backed rebels are, in many cases, led by self-described leaders of al Qaeda and other extreme Islamic groups that have boasted of battling American forces everywhere from Iraq to Afghanistan. Some of the leaders are even former U.S. prisoners who were held in Guantanamo Bay.
Suspicions about the rebels’ true motives and supporters were also raised when the self-proclaimed Interim Transitional National Council announced the creation of a new central bank weeks after the NATO invasion. It remains unclear whether the new monetary authority will follow the Gaddaffi regime’s state-owned model, or if it is to be privately owned like the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Though Western powers were arming the rebels well before intervention became official, the Obama administration and NATO publicly intervened in Libya in mid-March to enforce a United Nations resolution. Since then, the “mission” has morphed into “regime change,” with foreign powers hoping to oust dictator Gaddafi and install the rebels as the new government.
Without congressional approval, which Obama himself acknowledged in 2007 is required by the U.S. Constitution prior to foreign militarism, critics have charged that American involvement is itself illegal. And while the administration has already informed Congress that it would ignore any attempt to rein in the war, critics worldwide are still hoping that there will eventually be some accountability and justice if crimes were indeed committed.
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DEATH NOTICE: 27 AUGUST 2011
Ana Tsivdari writes on 28 August 2011:
Dear members, we have received news telling us that Mohammad Magam has martyred in Abu Salim.
Christella Bernardene Krebs
TO ALL: concerning our brother in Victory, Mohaŋŋeđ Magam:
VERY SAD NEWS.
Our brother was martyred in battle. He is now with ALLAH! Bless his soul and remember him please!!!
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Olja Olivera 28 Август г. 6:03
The truth about Libya – الحقيقة من اجل ليبيا
Our dear brother Muhaned Magam the martyr has passed away today in Abou Salleem’s bombing – Muhanned worked for Libya as a volunteer day and night to get Libya’s safety back, he worked with journalists and helped in preparation for the million man match in Tripoli, he was so happy that day. May Allah rest him in peace. We love you my brother, we are proud of you our hero.
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Sorry for my English, but I do not speak Arabian and you do not speak Russian.:) Let God help you to fight americans. Due your fighting you are figthing a devil(shaitan). We are with you!
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فارس من الجبهة Thank you my friend,, of cours all the libyan people know whats the big role that rusia play to help us,, and we are all thankful and greatful for that,,,i hope in sha allah we’ll celebrate our victory together with the russian people veru soon, sooner than u thought
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Miro Campara Inna lillahi we inna ileihi raji’un. – ‘We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.’,, Rest in peace brother.
Miquel Puertas The Lord is our shepard…:(…
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Christella Bernardene Krebs He will be missed and the videos of the Millions Marches will be his legacy. he will NEVER be forgotten. His name will go down in History. May Allah now give peace to his soul and victory to the holy JAMAHIRIYA!
The truth about Libya – الحقيقة من اجل ليبيا
خويا الغالي مهند -الشهيد باذن الله رحل عنا اليوم في قصف ابو سليم. مهند كان يعمل كمتطوع ليلا نهارا لاجل ليبيا و لكي تعود امنه . اشتغل مع الصحفيين و قام بتقديم المساعده لهم و كان من الناس اللذين جهزوا للمسيره المليونيه في طرابلس -كان سعيد جدا يومها . اللهم تغمده برحمتك و احتسبه شهيد عندك. نحن نحبك يا اخونا مهند يا بطل .
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Ana Tsivdari
We were hoping it’s not true, but some of our members have confirmed it. “Our dear brother Muhaned Magam the martyr has passed away today in Abou Salleem’s bombing – Muhanned worked for Libya as a volunteer day and night to get Libya’s safety back, he worked with journalists and helped in preparation for the million man match in Tripoli, he was so happy that day. May Allah rest him in peace. We love you my brother, we are proud of you our hero.
Оля Оливера 28 Август г. 6:03” R.I.P dear brother.
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Mohanned Magam, Murdered by NATO’s terrorists in Libya
Posted: 2011/08/29
From: Mathaba
One day we will be able to tell more of the story of this amazing Son of the Brother Leader Muammar Qaddafi a true Lion of Libya who will always be with us:
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628392
by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Mohanned Magam was 23 years old, a young Libyan anti-war activist proudly supporting his beloved Jamahiriya against the marauding gangs of terrorists and thugs unleashed by NATO against his Government, against his people, against Libya and ultimately, against Africa. His crime? None. But then again NATO’s terrorists do not need a pretext to murder.
This is one of the last messages sent by Mohanned to Mathaba, an independent news agency:
My name is Mohanned Magam, I’m from Libya. I was given your contact by a friend who says you are a friend of the Libyan people. We are making this appeal because we are suffering great hardships because of the daily bombing of our cities and the blockade of Libya by NATO forces. Too many civilians have already been killed, men women and children by NATO which is making our life harder with each passing day. So we are making this appeal to you to help us organise an event to raise public awareness about our suffering with a march around the world’s capitals against the aggression on Libya and to defend our unique Direct People Democracy in Libya. Please help us because we are dying day by day here. We ask Mathaba if it is possible to be involved in organizing this march and to let as many people as possible to know about this event. We would really appreciate your kind help and God willing we can help to stop this war in Libya.
Thank you very much.
Best Regards
Mohanned Magam
It is polite, it is polished, it is non-violent. He does not call for the blood-letting or “slitting the throats” of Negroes, like NATO’s terrorists do, he does not call for the implementation of Sharia law, like NATO’s terrorists do, he does not call for committing gang-rapes on defenceless women, like NATO’s terrorists do, he does not ask for children to be impaled on stakes, like NATO’s terrorists do. He calls for a political awareness campaign for the truth to be told.
Mohanned died this weekend for the truth. This truth NATO and its terrorists have tried to suppress from the beginning. And for Mohanned’s sake, let us tell the truth again loud and clear for all to hear.
The entire Libya campaign was based upon a false flag event when the NATO-backed Benghazi terrorists torched buildings, slaughtered people in the streets, ran amok and then staged a “massacre” by firing into a crowd (including Gaddafi supporters) and then blaming the “massacre” on Colonel Gaddafi. NATO’s military and media wings swung into action with a massive Saddam WMD(weapons of mass destruction)-style campaign of lies, as the UK entered its sixth war under five Prime Ministers, Sarkozy looked for a slice of Libya’s oil and who else, the USA was ready behind the scenes, using NATO “to save the US taxpayer money and to save the lives of American boys”.
The fact that the clique of NATO countries dismissed offers for peace several times, the fact that they dismissed an offer of a free and fair democratic election shows they were not on the side of peace and they were not on the side of freedom and democracy. They were on the side of lining their own pockets with Libya’s oil, which was patently obvious recently with their meeting to divide up the spoils.
Militarily, the “rebels” or “terrorists” or whatever they call themselves, are a joke because without NATO’s air power, they were winning absolutely nothing. Indeed, they were more famous for how fast they could flee than how well they could fight. Let them take no credit from this at all.
As for NATO, it entered this conflict under the rules of engagement and under the international law covering the case, namely the UN Charter, the UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) and the Geneva Conventions on war crimes. The fact that due to the heroic resistance of the Libyan Armed Forces and the People of Libya, like Mohanned, who stood up to the barbarous assault by NATO from the air and the obscene atrocities of its terrorists on land for six long months and were so successful that NATO had to resort to breaking all the laws mentioned above (court cases pending), says it all.
Message from a group of special persons who loved Mohanned
My dear brother Mohanned Magam the martyr has passed away today in Abou Salleem’s bombing – Mohanned worked for Libya as a volunteer day and night to get Libya’s safety back, he worked with journalists and helped in preparation for the million man march in Tripoli, he was so happy that day. May Allah rest him in peace. We love you my brother, we are proud of you our hero.
(Message passed to me by his dear friend Ksenija)
Today, a group of young people of all nationalities from a great number of countries, people who tried to help Mohanned, are crying tears of sadness for his passing on and they are shedding tears of desperation because NATO and its terrorists have just taught us, clear for all to see, that the people of the world are facing an Axis of sheer, pure and unadulterated evil.
Mohanned is not today with us, he is in a far better place. For the good people of the world, it becomes obvious that we must take a stand in the name of good over evil, fighting for God against Satan, for the Satanic forces have already been unleashed on the streets of Libya by their Lord, NATO.
Mathaba
Mohanned always found time to take care of everyone, he did not sleep for many months, he was always on the front line of the battle to protect people. He cared about us and took care and concern of our needs while paying no attention to his own. Always patient, never angry, a model of the Jamahiriyan Man.
His Greatest Day was at the massive Green March that he had sparked. That photograph he was so happy to share with me. That was the greatest day of his life. A couple weeks before his martyrdom in the Night of Power, during Ramadan, he found out that the Muammar Qaddafi’s favourite web site is Mathaba.Net.
He wanted to see my face when he told me that and with the link cutting constantly we tried for over half an hour tired as he was he wanted to see my face on revealing this information from a friend of his with the leader. Just a week before his martyrdom he became Mathaba News Coordinator for Libya.
There is much more to tell but now is not the time. Know only that I felt he had passed on days before he actually had, but all throughout I have felt peace and not shed more than a tear. I know that he is near to Allah, and that he died as a martyr, a heroic volunteer defending the people against the NATO rats.
He is with us all and always will be. He also was sure of victory, and that is still coming. He was also sure that there will be a TEN MILLION Man Woman And Child March around the world. Let us make sure his dream becomes a reality. He was also North Africa Coordinator for the World People’s Conferences on Crimes Against Humanity. Make sure that dream of his too will materialize.
Mohanned was doing so many jobs and one day we will learn more about the many wonderful things about this example to all humanity and his family and village in Western Libya can be rightly proud of this Lion Cub who LOVED the Brother Leader Muammar Qaddafi with his full heart and faith.
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Rebel Assassins Terrorizing Libyans
Posted: 2011/08/28
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628337?rss
by Stephen Lendman
…Washington, Britain, and other NATO countries partnered to oust Gaddafi. Insurgents, supported by air power, were recruited to do it. Western interests “most emphatically decided the fate of the Libyan people. (They) brought anarchy in the place of order….(They can’t) disown the consequences.”
From the start, Western leaders knew if they “toppled Gaddafi (they) would own the place. It was no good saying they “learn(ed) from Iraq. The lesson of Iraq was, don’t do it in the first place.”
Libya, in fact, is replicating it. NATO’s Operation Mermaid Dawn hoped to end it in Tripoli. “Mermaid” is Tripoli’s nickname. On August 20, it was launched from Sarim Street’s Ben Nabi mosque after Iftar, the breaking Ramadan’s fast.
Insurgents used mosque loud speakers to broadcast chants to Tripoli residents. NATO carpet bombing and strafing preceded and accompanied it to clear their way to advance unimpeded after initial loyalist counterattacks.
Activated sleeper cells around the city joined the fighting. Weapons were shipped in weeks in advance. Text messages urged residents to join insurgents. Battles raged. They still do. Likely protracted conflict will cause thousands of deaths and injuries, as well as destruction across Tripoli and other parts of Libya, besides the horrendous past six months’ toll.
The Big Lie accompanies the campaign, including a Potemkin village replica of Tripoli’s Green Square and Gaddafi compound in Doha, Qatar.
It was used to create fabricated scenes of euphoria, aired by Al Jazeera, an imperial co-conspirator. In fact, it was an elaborate hoax to convince residents Tripoli was in rebel hands. Perhaps seizure of Gaddafi’s compound was also exaggerated, reminiscent of Orson Welles’ famous 1938 War of the Worlds radio drama.
The hoax heard around the world sounded real enough to make millions think aliens had landed. Angry about public gullibility, Welles reportedly said, “If they’ll believe everything, I’m going to give them something (really) unbelievable to believe.”
Misinformation and the art of surprise work well enough to convince people of most anything. It’s especially effective tactically in wars. The jury is out on if it’ll work this time, given strong loyalist opposition to NATO occupation.
All along, the pretext used to intervene was to “protect civilians and civilian populated areas from threat of attack,” as stipulated under the General Assembly’s 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, adopting the responsibility to protect (RtoP).
A previous article explained paragraph 138, stating each nation must “protect (its) population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.”
Paragraph 139 delegates responsibility to the UN “to use appropriate diplomatic, humanitarian and other peaceful means, in accordance with Chapters VI and VIII of the Charter, to help protect populations from” these crimes.
Military force isn’t authorized, and the UN Charter prohibits it for humanitarian interventions. As a result, justifying it under RtoP is illegal. Doing so amounts to committing war crimes to prevent them.
The UN Charter’s Chapter VI calls for peaceful conflict resolutions. If they fail, Chapter VII authorizes the Security Council to impose boycotts, embargoes, blockades and severance of diplomatic ties – not war.
As a result, Washington’s led NATO intervention is naked aggression, supplemented by paramilitary assassins, terrorizing Tripoli residents and other Libyans they attacked, murdering Gaddafi loyalists.
After entering Tripoli, AP and Reuters reported massacres of his supporters near his compound, AP saying:
“The bodies are scattered around a grassy square next to (Gaddafi’s) Bab al-Aziziya (compound). Prone on grassy lots as if napping, (they’re) sprawled in tents. Some have had their wrists bound by plastic ties. The identity of the dead are unclear but they are in all likelihood activists that set up an impromptu tent city in solidarity with (Gaddafi) outside his compound in defiance of the NATO bombings.”
AP noted “the disturbing specter of mass killings of noncombatants, detainees and the wounded.” Some were “shot in the head, with their hands tied behind their backs. A body in a doctor’s green hospital gown was found in the canal. The bodies were bloated.”
Reuters reported 30 bodies “riddled with bullets….Five of the dead were at a field hospital nearby, with one in an ambulance strapped to a gurney with an intravenous drip still in his arm.” Two other bodies “were charred beyond recognition.”
The London Telegraph interviewed a surgeon saying hundreds were “coming in within the first few hours (of fighting). It was like a vision from hell. Missile injuries were the worst. The damage they do to the human body is shocking to see, even for someone like me who is used to dealing with injuries.”
He said most casualties were civilians. Tripoli’s three main hospitals are full of them. Unable to handle the volume, many suffer in agony or die untreated. Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) warned of a medical catastrophe. Already there’s a human one wrought by NATO and their rebel assassins on the pretext of humanitarian intervention.
What’s involved, of course, is planned colonization, occupation and plunder of Libya’s wealth and natural resources, including its Great Man-Made River (GMMR). Gaddafi rightfully called it the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” consisting of the largest global underground network of pipes and aqueducts, distributing water from an ocean-sized aquifer.
Along with free education, healthcare, housing assistance and other social benefits, Gaddafi supplied it to Libyans. NATO wants it privatized to make it costly or unaffordable henceforth, along with charging for everything formerly gotten free.
The opening comments of a previous article bear repeating, saying:
The US/UK/French-led war on Libya will be remembered as one of history’s greatest crimes. It violates the letter and spirit of international law and America’s Constitution.
The Nuremberg Tribunal’s Chief Justice Robert Jackson called naked aggression “the supreme international crime against peace….so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate (its) being ignored, because it cannot survive….being repeated.”
Post-WW II, it got worse, highlighted by what Washington, its NATO partners, and rebel assassins are doing across Libya. At the same time, they scandalously avoid calling it war, when, in fact, it’s that and more in the worst sense.
Make no mistake. For months, Libyans have been slaughtered and terrorized by vicious war criminals headquartered in Washington, London and Paris.
Unaccountable, they plan more conflicts across the region for total dominance at the expense of thousands more lost lives, as well as unspeakable human misery. It doesn’t get any worse than that.
A Final Comment
A morning email alert said the following:
“Although journalists reporting from the Rixos Al Nasr Hotel in Tripoli were relocated to the Corinthia Hotel, also in Tripoli, on Wednesday August 24, in an effort to increase their safety, independent journalist and Canadian citizen Mahdi Nazamroaya continues to express grave concerns for his life. Mr. Nazemroaya told friends on Thursday that his safety was now even more at risk with armed groups entering the Corinthia hotel. Mr. Nazemroaya is unable to leave the hotel.
The planned departure of a boat which would have brought journalists and migrants outside of Libya was delayed and the transfer of journalists to the boat in all safety remains uncertain.
The Canadian Government has yet to act to ensure that Mr. Nazemroaya is repatriated to his home country despite having ties with the Hungarian embassy in Tripoli. Friends and family continue to demand that the government take concrete action to ensure that Mr. Nazemroaya is escorted back to safety.
Mr. Nazemroaya is a recent graduate of the University of Ottawa where he also held a research assistant position.”
For further information:
Mireille Gervais
Director, Student Appeal Centre, Student Federation of the University of Ottawa
The lives of other trapped independent journalists are also at risk, including Lizzie Phelan, Franklin Lamb, Thierry Meyssan, Mathieu and Julien Ozanon Teil, because they’re unprotected at the rebel-held Corinthia Hotel.
As a result, assuring their safe passage out of Libya is urgent. So far, a chartered ship can’t dock because of fighting. The longer it’s delayed, the greater the risk. Further updates will follow.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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Lion of the Desert, by Sister Abide Bebe:
Smile my friend, smile
For the days of glory are ahead of you
From the sound of the waves beating on the shore
To the churning of the birds in the sky
You are hailed by nature
For the courage you put forth
And the determination you exhibit
The young arise and is fortified
In the thought, action and reaction
No one will go down without a fight
Lion of the desert
Your claws are out to resist
Defend what’s yours
No matter how weak you get
No matter how hard they scream
In the midst of despair and tears
I can see your smile
Smile my friend, smile
For the days of feast are ahead of you
Long march to victory
And to moments of glory
Where gestures symbolise sacrifice
We have long awaited this day
When the evil is brought down to its knee
And the Just is made stronger
For the people have not forsaken
The sound of the wind in a peaceful city of Tripoli
Smile my friend, smile
For the weak is not where the eye looks
But where the heart misses comfort
For all generations to come
You will remain
The Lion of the desert
The man that never backs down
Or look up to any other man
But Allah, Lord of the worlds
And if people find it unusual these days
To have faith and to believe
That all deeds lead to consequences
Way beyond the realm of this world
Then so be it
For we the indigenous people of this world
Have always known
There is a force behind the hiss of the wind
A force cuddled in the eyes of this man
The Lion of the desert
A force to reckon with
A force that never leaves way to evil.
Smile my friend, smile
For glorious days are ahead of you
The days where we count our blessings
And remember
It all began on a Sunday morning
With one man standing strong and believing
That good is always worth dying for
Smile, my friend, smile
For every letter of the word LIBYA
Symbolizes the will of a man
To protect and defend his people
No matter what it takes
The Lion of the desert never compromises.
CIA Operating In Tripoli
US “intelligence” has joined in the search for Muammar Gaddafi, a White House spokesman said in Washington on Thursday 25 August 2011.
He said CIA operatives, reconnaissance planes and drones were all being used in the operation. The CIA believes the embattled Libyan leader may be hiding in one of an estimated 40 shelters in the capital Tripoli and elsewhere in the country.
The Americans share the obtained information with the opposition Transitional National Council.
Meanwhile, US congressman Dennis Kucinch also has suggested CIA is playing a huge role in the rebellion against Gaddafi.
NATO Bombs Tripoli, Sirte; Marauding Mobs Ransack Libyan Capital
Posted: 2011/08/27
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628356
British warplanes have struck civilian areas in Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, and US aircraft keep swooping on Gaddafi-loyalists in the capital Tripoli as NATO focuses on popular armed green forces trying holding back waves of advancing terrorist rebels.
Meanwhile the maraudin NATO rebels are on a rampage in Tripoli ransacking foreign embassies and government offices and even the state museum and the Catholic Church, removing priceless antiquities and trying to sell them back to the Church.
Tensions remain high on the Tunisian border where the terrorist forces, backed by British and French commandos, on Friday overran the major Ras-Djdir checkpoint.
Muammar Qaddafi and his sons continue to lead battles in Tripoli which NATO and its rebels are unable to bring under control even though they have cut the water supply to the city in yet another Crime Against Humanity.
Around 600 Al Qaida assets have been freed from the prison by the NATO rebels and these are now also joining the fight, raping women and children and bringing about terror while the armed population are heroically resisting.
Foreign fighters have also joined in support of the green popular forces with many Serbians fighting against NATO in support of the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and in revenge for the same war that was placed on Serbia years before, and which Libya and Qaddafi had been lone voices in the support of the terrorized and massacred Serbian people when they were bombed endlessly by NATO.
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Rebels ransack the Historic Church of St. George in Tripoli
Posted: 2011/08/29
From: Source
The shrine of the patron saint, old gospels, chalices, cherubim and censers were stolen.
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628374?rss
The historic church of St. George located in Libya, in Tripoli, dating back to 1647, has been ransacked. The church is the oldest Orthodox church in North Africa.
The president of the Greek community, Dimitris Anastassiou transferred the news to the Metropolitan of Tripoli Mr. Theophylaktos, who has been in Greece since late June.
“I am feeling heartbroken for what is happening in Libya, this beautiful country which was destroyed and whose people are noted for their hospitality,” stated the Metropolitan of Tripoli, who settled in Libya in 1991.
”I was sad to hear the news from Mr. Anastassiou. The thieves stole the shrine of our patron saint which I had brought from Mount Athos. Old Gospels, chalices, cherubim, censers, one of which we had been given by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
Those who stole the holy objects contacted the president of the community and asked for money in order to return them. Mr. Anastassiou reported the incident to the police, but as things are at the moment, noone will deal with this matter,” he said.
NATO setting itself up for a great fail and a great fall
Posted: 2011/08/27
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628355
NATO, we told you to back off Libya; the more arrogant you are, the harder you fall
“We do not and will not accept any authority other than the authority that we chose with our free will which is the People’s Congress and People’s Committees”
By Michelle J. Santos
Dear USA, France, UK and NATO, before you lie to the world that you have authority and right to invade a sovereign nation, making the world believe that Libyans want you in Libya, I would like to reiterate what 200 tribes in Eastern Libya where Benghazi is located, issued on their proclamation on July 26, 2011:
“By this letter to the extraordinary African Summit, convening in Addis Ababa, the notables of the Eastern tribes of the Great Jamahiriya confirm their complete rejection of what is called the Transitional Council in Benghazi which hasn’t been nominated nor elected by Tribal representatives but rather imposed by NATO.”
“What is called the Transitional Council in Benghazi was imposed by NATO on us and we completely reject it. Is it democracy to impose people with armed power on the people of Benghazi, many of whose leaders are not even Libyan or from Libyan tribes but come from Tunisia and other countries.”
“The Tribal Council assures its continuing cooperation with the African Union in its suggestions aimed at helping to prevent the aggression on the Libyan people.”
“The Tribal Council condemns the crusader aggression on the Great Jamahiriya executed by the NATO and the Arabic regressive forces which is a grave threat to Libyan civilians as it continues to kill them as NATO bombs civilian targets.”…
“We do not and will not accept any authority other than the authority that we chose with our free will which is the People’s Congress and Peoples Committees, and the popular social leadership, and will oppose with all available means, the NATO rebels and their slaughter, violence and maiming of cadavers. We intend to oppose with all the means available to us the NATO crusader aggressors and their appointed lackeys”.
Did you understand that NATO MEMBERS: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany,Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania,Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
I suppose this is why all of you are SO desperate to do the transition last weekend. Instead of you backing down, now you know by doing this to Gaddafi and Libya, you have messed up the entire OIL business and will cause your people in your nations and around the world much more severe economic hardship.
I now have to explain to the planet the huge implications of this. If you stopped your little games you planned in 2010 and just used assimilation games, we wouldn’t have gone this far, wouldn’t we? Now, all of you 28 + the other countries who support all the media lies and propaganda by France, UK and USA have destroyed every diplomatic relations from here and the future.
The fact is, USA/France/Britain/NATO, you will lose this. We told you to back off Libya. The more arrogant you are, the harder you fall. It is not over yet.
http://www.mathaba.net/members/?sh_itm=e7f53e9cd7f104996424d7af6d50fa5f
Posted: 2011/08/27
From: Mathaba
— عاجل – عن قناة الليبية -الخلايا الثورية و حدات الشعب المسلح في المنطقة الوسطي عززت قوتها اكثر من ذي قبل و ان الجرذان حاولو تكرارا و ميرارا ان يدخلو الي البريقة و لكنهم لقنو درسا جيدا تجعلهم ينسون ماهي البريقة (جهنم). اما علي صعيد جبهة تاورغاء, بني وليد, سرت, فهي تنعم بالامن و الامام بعد ان قضي علي عدد كبير من الجرذان قرب كوبري السدادة في كمين محكم
الله اكبر فوق كيد المعتدي
Revolutionary cells and units of the armed people in the central region have strengthened their power more than ever before. They do not control Brega which has become a hell for them. Other areas are under Jamahiriya control. Rats are falling into traps everywhere. The God is Great and the aggressor plots are doomed.
Under the orders of NATO, rebels cut the water and electricity power not only to punish the city of Tripoli for not participating with their revolt but also to be able to do more atrocities against the people of Tripoli. Water tankers were stopped at check points and prevented from entering Tripoli. NATO/rats want to completely massacre all libyans who do not agree with them.
— US says it will block any attempt to investigate it or NATO for the widespread violations of international law they are accused of.
The military commander of the NATO rats in Tripoli is a well known Al-Qaida asset.
Further disaster caused by the NATO rats led by the Al-Qaida operative: the rebels have released their Al-Qaida friends from jail. Of the 690 they “freed” from the buslim prison, 540 are known Al-Qaida operatives. They are now on the rampage but the heroic green forces will battle them.
Pray for the heroic fighters during this Night of Power, Victory is Nigh!
British devils have pounded Sirte with cruise missiles, killing numerous civilians. They are attacking Sirte in the belief that the Leader might be there and because of the strong support for justice and people’s power, and the inability of rats to enter the area. Another reason is because they know that Qaddafi and his family are still in Tripoli even after near 6 month of bombing, and even after they flooded the city with mercenaries. They thus have not been able to show their victory celebrations of rats other than in fake broadcasts, which were exposed, and even showing protests in India claiming it is Green Square in Tripoli.
For this reason too they have bombed heavily the home town of Muammar Qaddafi so as to make the world think that he is there and run away from Tripoli, to hide the fact that the resistance in Tripoli is so strong, the rats are confused and firing on each others, and releasing Al-Qaida from jail. However, the Brother leader and his family are well and have actually remained in Tripoli, the sons are still fighting among leading battles.
The Brother Leader has said it is either victory and freedom, or martyrdom. He and his family will never run from duty to lead the people toward victory. He has asked all to remain steadfast. The loss of “diplomats” who have deserted their posts while still in relative comfort and who have thus betrayed the many martyrs is something their own weak souls will have to bear.
Real Friends
In difficult times you can see who is is your real friend!
Chávez stubbornly accused NATO and the United States of waging a war to grab the Libyan oil and he lamented that European banks had frozen the accounts of Libya’s international reserves.
European ‘democratic’ governments, not all of them, one knows who is who, are virtually demolishing Tripoli with their shelling and the allegedly US democratic government does it, because it feels like doing it.”
He added that “with no explanation,” bombs were falling down on houses, schools, hospitals and farms.
Powerful countries, the Venezuelan president noted, “are just producing a massacre.”
“They shell, they say, to save civilians’ lives. It is an excuse for meddling.”
Rebel Racism
After the lynching of Black people by the rebels, then we must gather that Obama must not set foot in Libya to greet the TNC, right?
Mahdi Nezamroaya and other independent journalist heroes
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Lizzie Phelan and Thierry Meyssan, and others have all been threatened for not towing the NATO/Al Qaeda rebel line in the western controlled media propaganda war on truth.
All the journalists were released from the Rixos hotel and while foreign media are saying that little has been heard from the independent journalists, Mathaba has been in contact with them in Corinthia each day until today. They requested not to disclose that we contacted as they fear for their life and want to get home. They have been in the Hotel Corinthia surrounded by rebels and gun fights for days on end.
They are heavily traumatized, paranoia setting in and distrust, each for himself. The phone lines are monitored so nothing could be said for fear of execution.
The initial attempt after being released from the battles around the previous Hotel Rixos and being brought to Corinthia, failed for them to be taken to Malta because no ship can dock as Tripoli is totally not secure wherever the rebels are, and the green popular forces are fighting to wipe out the invasion.
Today they have not been contactable so it appears they are finally underway to try to escape the fire caused by NATO and terrorist rebels and are expected to be in London by tomorrow and will certainly need psychological counseling and have said they will contact Mathaba again upon arrival.
CBC Canada report on Mahdi Darius:
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/1221254309/ID=2103783289
— A suicide bombing of Al-Qaida in the Maghreb (AQIM) has just hit the Churchill Military Academy in Algeria as this is the same academy where Muammar Qaddafi was said to have attended some military training, and because Algeria refused to recognize the terrorist NTC because of its Al-Qaida memberships. They had already destroyed the Algerian embassy in Tripoli.
— The TNC leaders are afraid to go to Tripoli, because there is a green popular armed resistance, but they are afraid also to stay in Benghazi, because the city has been taken by the Al-Qaida Islamists who they had tried to oust from their council, so they sit deservedly between a rock and a hard place, and between the frying pan and the fire.
Many acts of solidarity have been carried out in Serbia, Nigeria, Germany, Afghanistan and other locations around the world. The United Nations, dubbed United Satans by Africans, has been attacked in the Nigerian capital city Abuja. A bomb exploded killing many in the UN building which was targeted because of its aggression on Africa and snubbing of the African Union.
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Cannibals NATO and 50 000 thousand of them present and future victims
par Immanuill Grakk , dimanche 28 août 2011, 19:43
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NATO planned mass murder of civilians in Tripoli, Libya.
That’s what is stuffing in the media about the allegedly detained 50 insurgents thousands who are in the tunnels under the Tripoli. Believe it can be only one who had not heard of Goebbels. Had such an ace Gaddafi on his hands, tribal warfare in Libya would be complete. But there is no tribal war, there are operating quite modern cannibals.
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Tripoli does not give up. Every hour, every day, NATO members met with fierce resistance. And who would surrender if it is tantamount to signing his death sentence? But now we hear a new lie. Who benefits? That has similar information box stuffing? After all, before we had heard nothing about such a colossal kolichstve prisoners. No lines, no words. And now, only now it’s thrown into the media. Why?
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NATO plans to destroy the peaceful inhabitants of the city of Tripoli, who are resisting aggression – are fighting against NATO troops special forces and militants of al-Qaeda working together. Civilians are fighting against the enemies, and why NATO is not the first time decided to destroy the resisting people. Hear! Of course, all of them – including the elderly and infants – the media will write to the soldiers of al-Gaddafi, as it was in Majere, Libya Khatyn Libyan My Lai … All who oppose NATO – soldiers Gaddafi. We saw footage of children bombshell …
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But grown men, they are more comfortable to write in the insurgency, which allegedly killed by Qaddafi. Why not? It’s a lie pohlesche lies about Green Square, taken in Qatar or on Gaddafi soldiers killed in the village of Mazher (when they were burned or crushed by the members of 12 families).
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Their appetites are growing. Now they are ready to take away life 50 000. Or at 25 000. Because according to preliminary estimates in Tripoli really killed about a number of people during the first assault. * Then again, 25? Another storm? Another sweep of the city unwilling to submit to the occupation authorities? Another punitive operation against the resisting people of Libya?
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Yes. Nobody ostnovit kannnibalov. Yes. There will be a victim. Yes. Eternal glory to the heroes who have fallen and will fall for the freedom of their homeland.
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No. Tripoli will not be taken. No. The will of the people will not be broken. No. Twilight of the mind will not cover the world.
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WE WIN!
Death to the Incapable Until Revolution*
Posted: 2011/08/28
From: Mathaba
This essay is taken from “Escape to Hell and Other Stories”, translated from Arabic by Pierre Salinger; Published by John Blake Publishing Ltd.; Text copyright 1998 Stanké, New York
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Muammar Gaddafi
Poor incapable ones, how far you are from the bitter truth! You are truly envied, for you take the easiest of paths in life, and take on no hardships. You require no explanation or interpretation of anything that you care about. Everything is clear for you; there is no vagueness. You take on no responsibility for thinking about your lives, nor do you make any change in your customary and limited ways of behaviour. You easily decline anything involving difficulty, sparing your bodies and your consciences any effort. You fool yourselves extremely easily, and make light of any criticism of what you do or believe. Your opinions are fixed, and changes are never made to them. You deal negatively with any unaccustomed-to position. You never accept discussion about anything you believe; you are envied for this by those who have become weary from their envy, knowing the truth of what you do.
The truly strange thing in your lives is that you not only fail, but fail to learn your lesson. Any effect on you is not taken advantage of as a useful experience, no matter how much you fail you never change. No matter how much your beliefs betray you, this is never accepted by you. You are distinguished by your inability to recognize the truth, no matter how irrefutable. What is certain is that you will reject those results that do not agree with your fixed tendencies. You rely on an order of things and ideas that are not, of course, justifiable.
You make accommodations with all truths and lies as well, according to the prior beliefs that you espouse. For example, you hold the belief that magic, or a group of evil spirits, can steal the moon, and could even do so with the sun; the boldness of these hidden beings is quite dangerous! If experiments are performed in front of you that show that it is the earth’s shadow which sometimes falls upon the moon and obscures it, or that the moon’s shadow falls upon the sun and causes an eclipse, you do not believe it. Why? Because this is something that you do not desire.
In fact, nothing at all will change for you. Your lives are monotonous and calm; you are submissive until the end. You take the easiest of roads, even if it means total destruction. Impotence of action covers your world, which is dreary and boringly lived. However, despite your incapability, you are capable of accommodating your world with what changes can be made in accordance with your impotence. The hard lessons of the past are forgotten. You take the surface road, the one that requires no effort. You adopt the superstitions of the past, and reject others that do not conform to the pace of your easy, trusting lives, even if there are truths at stake. You never look for the truth; this is not your concern. Rather, you resort to what suits your state of inability to act, and no more.
The sellers of nothingness have encouraged you, plundering markets and setting up cemeteries where they sell you canned air. When you open such cans, the air flies out and mixes with the atmosphere – they explain this by saying that this item is both sold and bought. The sellers of cooked earth also encouraged you, as well as the drawers on the sand, the astrologers, writers of magic spells, and exorcists. You seek help from the dead, while the living among you are unable to help. You who achieved your dreams while asleep, your confused dreams [1], while you are unable to achieve anything while awake. When you fail in your lives, you postpone success until the afterlife. If you by chance are defeated through your own action, you explain this by saying that it was not really due to this action, so that you will not burden yourselves with the duty of resisting it. If you fail to defend yourself, you explain this by saying that it is outside your volition, the reason for it is an outside actor, so that the responsibility will fall upon another. If you fail due to a reason that you would not like to be external, or self-caused, then you say that it is luck.
Although the world of the incapable has no meaning and no effectiveness, is null and void and silly, and although they have no positive effect in life… and although they are of no consequence, and are parasitic and trusting in their everyday lives, irresponsible, and not serious, in their frail, comic world… in their empty, superficial world although they justify things, are apologists, and insignificant, and although they create nothing and change nothing… despite all of this, the world of these incapable ones is the richest, most fertile, most teeming, and full of literary meaning. For the world of this people has its culture; it has an ability to accumulate psychologies and narratives of literature, myth, and metaphysics. If it were not for this, the world would be completely material and utterly dry and calculating. It would be multiplyingly multiplied, addedly added, and divisingly divided; in structural terms it would be bottomed out and topped [2], and made convex and concave. Without the world of these impotent actors, the world will be at its wit’s end, connected and electrified and joltingly tense. Were it not for them, the human race would be active solely in a material sense, imprisoned between fixedness and mechanical movement, as if its hell were an inescapable prospect. The world’s dictionary would be full of lifeless terms and words… atomic and modulating, chronological and inclusive, gravitating, equilibrilizing, and non-existence.
But what is truly, truly beautiful for those incapable and impotent ones whose lives are drowned in a sea of myth, who draw invisible pictures when they so desire, who interpret the world of force, material things, and progress in the way that suits them. They are heedless, unembarrassed by the frightening, empirical world. They have filled the world with their amazing dictionary, filled with gelatinous definition and opening up limitless horizons. They have taken their imaginations farther than others, they have used their dictionary to name the world, they have explored the unending COSMOS [3] where logical and involuntary miracles exist. Then they make retreating actions to the unknown, unrecorded, and un-understood past, they revive this past in an attractive way; using it to interpret concrete existence in a mythical way. They find feeble meanings for it in material givens of this existence. From this sensitive point, the impotent ones succeeded in exploding the meaningless dialectical revolution. The theory of superstition is in force; logic flees from the equation. Knowledge becomes foolish and insignificant. Bellow a brilliant, rainbow-like ornamental halo, everything finds its explanation in impotent metaphor. But these metaphors are not serious, and thus thought out in scientific fashion. Thus, this is how the spirit of the incapable takes over the hearts of the masses, who then fall away from the positions of struggle and seriousness, toward positions of easy surrender using the logic of these very incapable ones, who do not recognize the law of the self, who do not believe in themselves.
Here, the defeats find their justification in the culture of the impotence, while setbacks are explained away as bad luck. Failing to perform is justified as a lack of will. The reasons for decline are said to involve necessity; the thing or person responsible disappears and it is understood without being believed (as in Quranic interpretation), and the pre- or post-reasoning becomes a storehouse of inexhaustible excuses used to avoid accountability.
The world of the impotent sits squatting on the straw of the life of illusion. Its law is one of the renunciation and defeat, submission to all forms of plunder and pillage. It is based on deliverance from the burdens of the ready-made and moral searches, to comprehend the humiliation and justify it. It is based on a readiness to undertake hereditary or future costuming in order to flee from the conflict of the present. The incapable are always biased toward the source of the incapability. They are forgiving of being struck and slapped, and they create sick and satisfying explanation for this. They blame opportunities and circumstances, luck and hidden things, their ancestors… Meanwhile, their newspapers are daily filled with crossword puzzles, horoscopes, and lottery drawings. The sensing of superstitions becomes quite a sensitive practice, and attempts to justify this and reveal mysteries become deep-rooted. Anxiety is overcome, and a false sense of balance is created by checking omens, and by believing them. Dreams are interpreted, totems, pagan gods, and ancestors are entreated for help.
It is compensated for when those impotent ones oppress those more unfortunate than them, including women and children; this is a way of oppressing a projection of themselves in a search for lost balance. Entertainment then takes on the meaning of wasting time and being absorbed; culture becomes superficial, telling and exchanging jokes takes the place of good literary work and criticism. Entertainment becomes the issue that takes the place of the truth; entertainment and absurdity link up, along with unnecessary needs, sterile dependence, and social conflict and strife. Moral decadence and decay result as well. They are all the sickness of these incapable people, and they find their explanation in the state of impotence that is lived by these people.
Revolution: when feelings of impotence penetrate every part of the life of the incapable, and they lose the feeling of impotence and the decline that it involves. When neglect, ignominy, and baseness fail to provoke, the life of the impotent reaches zero, a static level of silliness and marginality. The countdown to approaching nothingness begins, and one begins to feel the accumulated weight of this condition. The incapable are no longer able to carry out a revolution against themselves, except by having the chance to compare their lot with their opposites, by being incited [4] by someone, or by seeing the situation for themselves. The opportunity must be a good one if incitement involves visual accomplishment. It will be an especially good opportunity if the source of the impotence is befallen by an imbalance which encourages risk-taking. If the disequilibrium continues, is used properly, and is expanded by propaganda or further incitement, then the dead morale of the incapable will become filled with life.
Here, the revolution will first proceed into the self. The impotent person will begin to treat himself violently. he begins to humiliate and insult the self, until it becomes a ready-made sacrifice. He begins to present selves that the impotent have cheapened to the altar of impotence. This is the explanation for suicides, which become more frequent in the world of the impotent, for most trivial of reasons. These people enter a phase of wandering in the desert, with series of lone, aimless, unconnected actions. Usually, this self-destructive state is accompanied by sadistic initiatives against the other, and the sacrifice is of a cow, suicide for a word, murder committed over a mere tree, divorce over the sake of a meal. The false need to place borders among the impotent, from where they live to what they eat and drink, to the area of playpens, traffic and turning, the volume level, and the sound of footsteps. Regarding the source of the impotence, each impotent person imitates other impotent people. He practices all types of superficiality and hostility against them, trying to deceive himself, convince himself that he is not like them. This is the law of life of these incapable people on any level, whether individuals, groups, or countries. The life of the impotent will continue in this manner, as long as the circumstances remain the same.
But if it is the case that the impotent have a factor in their favour, which will help them achieve salvation, then their situation can be moved from the vicious circle toward movement in a path that is not circular. The shamefaced style of the incapable could be transformed into a violent revolution against the source of impotence, and it will be violent, because this source lives also in a state of chronic hatred and is moodily justified against the impotent. It does not exist in a psychological situation that allows him to comprehend the reaction, but makes it provocative and surprising. Therefore, neither party can be held responsible for the confrontation. Thus the revolution breaks out and let death come to the impotent until revolution.
* The more common type of revolutionary slogan in Arabic would be “Revolution until Death”
[1] See Quran, Sura 12, verse 44, and Sura 21, verse 5.
[2] These expressions are alliteratively stronger in Arabic, where they are used for effect, and not literal sense.
[3] Or ‘without cosmic boundaries,’ if we consider the expression borrowed from Quran, Sura 53, verse 14.
[4] In the sense of being politically instigated, ‘incitement’ would be the task of the revolutionary committees inLibya.
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THIS IS The truth, so stop the lies!
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We inform you that there is no order given from the Commander and leader of the Revolution for his supporters to withdraw from Tripoli or avoid fighting. This is a fake media news that was done in-order that the rats would be able to do more stealing in Tripoli.
Remain steadfast, and we will defend the homeland until victory.
Do not believe the media lies when they say something about our leader and his commands; only through “liberal youth” comes the real command.
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Muslims: The time is NOW — this opportunity will not come for a thousand years
Posted: 2011/08/29
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628381?rss
By Dennis South
Note to Muslims: I say this once, and please take heed: This opportunity will not come for a thousand years.
Muammar Gaddafi is the Mujjadid of the 15th Century of Islam. Up until this very moment, I was always carefull to call him “a” mujjadid of the 15th Century of Islam, because I did not feel comfortable viewing him with such distinction. But he is THE Mujjadid of the 15th Century of Islam.
So, I call upon Muslims who read this note to tell all of your friends that are CAPABLE, to make their way to Tripoli, and wherever else the mujahidden of Libya may need you. I ask the Muslims of Egypt to cross the border and TAKE CARE OF BENGHAZI, the source of this current pain.
I say to all Muslims to THINK: How many of you have DREAMED about having the opportunity to fight alongside a MUJJADID!? I did not say “mujtahid.” I said, MUJJADID. History is HERE — right now….
….You are now IN history. This is a profound statement, and it is a profound moment, and I will say it again:
You are now IN history. This — right now — is the time that YOU will go down in the Book of Allah! And that is all that matter. And, yes, perhaps your name will go down in the book of men; in the books of Islam that are written, if you bring Victory for Muammar al-Qaddafi, the Mujjadid of the 15th Century of Islam.
Perhaps some of you have forgotten your Islam: The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sallalaho alaihe wa salaam) said that, every 100 years a man would appear, within the Ummah, that would “revive the faith.” Go online, on the Internet, and you will find the names of those Mujjadids that have appeared, up through and including the 13th Centruy.
I do not wish to speak about who was the Mujjadid of the 14th Century of Islam. But there is this question: We are now in the 15th Century of Islam. Who is the Mujjadid of the 15th Century of Islam?
Muammar Gaddafi, that’s who! If you are not familiar with what he has done — the AMAZING Jamahiriya system of government, based on Islamic principles, that he has created, and that was THRIVING before the Crusader satans, who don’t HAVE a religion, decided to destroy that system — then read about it LATER.
So, I urge you, with all my heart, soul, and mind, to tell your Muslim brethern that, this moment shall not return. This moment shall not return. This moment shall not return.
Tell your Muslim brethern OF AL-QAEDA, that they are fighting against the WRONG MAN. And those Al-Qaeda members who are fighting for the CIA, against Al-Gaddafi, ARE GOING TO BURN IN A HELLFIRE THAT WILL BE SPECIALLY MADE FOR THEM, AND THEM ALONE, BY ALMIGHTY ALLAH.
For, not only have they turned their weapons against a GOOD MUSLIM, but they have turned their weapons against Allah’s Mujjadid of the 15th Century of Islam. There will not be another Mujjadid until another 100 years.
And if you doubt that Muammar al-Gaddafi is the Mujjadid of the 15th Century of Islam, then I have one question: WHO IS? Name him. Name me a man who has created an ENTIRE NATION, based on Islamic principles, during this century. Name me a man who has, for SIX SOLID MONTHS, withstood the onslaughts of the most powerful military alliance in human history.
Many of you Muslims have claimed that there can be no Islamic state unless there is Khalifat. Some of you spell it, “Khilafat.” OPEN YOUR EYES! Does your Mujjadid have to TELL you that he is the Khalifa!!!?? He has a STATE!!! He has a STATE!
The reason the entire world, including the CORRUPT Arab states, has aligned against him, is because they KNOW that Muammar al-Gaddafi is the Mujjadid of the 15th Century of Islam. The only people who DON’T know is YOU — the Muslims.
And PLEASE do NOT go to “the bearded ones”, as your Mujjadid calls them; do not go to the Islamic priests — the maulvis, moolahs, sheikhs, etc. They cannot lead you ANYWHERE. Have any of them created a state? HAVE THEY!
And Muammar al-Gaddafi, the Mujjadid of the 15th Century of Islam, created that state SINGLE-HANDEDLY. He did not steal his oil wealth, as have corrupt Arab-Muslim states. He has been GENEROUS to all of the citizens under his Khalifat.
Do not miss this opportunity, PLEASE, otherwise you will die in deep mental anguish. You will be sad beyond words, later on, when you realized that you missed the opportunity of your lifetime: to actually fight alongside Allah’s Mujjadid, that Allah sends only once every 100 years.
I know of no other way to make you enthusastic. I know of no other words to say. I have done my best, and it is now up to you to hit the sands of Libya, and win victory for Allah and His Mujjadid, or face Allah, IN HAPPINESS, as a martyr, where you will be able to testify: “Oh My Allah! I am here! I fought for your Mujjadid, and I am here!! I died a martyr, for you and your Mujaddid!”
The time is NOW.
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Message From A Black African: Our Brother Muammar Qadaffi Treated All Equal And Now They Are After Him
Posted: 2011/08/29
From: Mathaba
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628380?rss
“The criminal crusaders need to be tried, so that we can fight this One Last Revolution and defeat the evil ones once and for all.”
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628380?rss
By Mbarika Kazingizi
To my brothers and sisters who are vexed, like me, by the past and the present – I say: In Libya, this kind of evil did not exist. Our brother Muammar Qadaffi treated all equal and now they are after him. We will not stand aside and just watch when we are the ones being attacked. They would not have been this strongly after him if had hadn’t engaged in the re-building of Africa. It was him supporting us, not the other way round! His support, and any genuine support we can get, should be embraced.
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United Nations or United League of Hell
Posted: 2011/08/28
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628371
Formerly League of Nations
The time has arrived where we must understand the realities of the dark forces amongst us. When we look into our past we can clearly see that the dark forces have been operating as the ruling elite throughout modern times. All material wealth that has been created, has been borne by the blood and sweat of the masses.
The criminal element which exists today can only survive by manipulating the nature of the events as they unfold. All western influences thrive on human misery so that only a few can live in a materialistic life. Their goals are psychopathic as they have no conscience in their actions towards all life on this planet.
We as a collective have a right to live in peace, prosperity, love and to evolve into better humans as the creator has granted each and everyone of us.
The evidence is clear on this issue during this campaign by NATO in Libya. With this deliberate attempt to rape, pillage and destroy this country is irrefutable. The reality that we live in is a total illusion that makes sense in so far as exposing the fraud of the international community. All sources of truth journalism has shown the catastrophic consequences of belonging to this manipulated consortium.
The Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya is a true beginning for a new way of life. The dark forces that surround us have sold their souls to the master of hell. Their intent is to only be surrounded by a materialistic world so as they can only survive at the suffering of the souls from the light. In this way we as people from all faiths can never flourish and live in peace. The international community doesn’t exist nor do the terms that they inflict upon us. In fact they should be addressed as the force from the United League of Hell.
This occurring event taking place in Libya is a time of great significance to all the people of the world. It is a new age to start a new beginning, where we must be strong, wise and loyal to the advancement of social justice. The old has only developed new methods of control and destruction without any moral obligations to our creator.
Until now the ruling class has been those who have pilfered and plundered the entire earth.
Now is not the time to be angry but a time where your inner strengths must take over and to stop this once and for all. The battle in Libya is the new age of times, the dark forces must be shunned and never to have any influences at any place at any time. We must conduct ourselves so that we only work together. All dealings should be put in place where these dark souls cannot enter or be privileged to. It is imperative that we only work with like-minded people and countries that follow the same path.
The pain that is being inflicted is unbearable. I urge everyone to stand up and turn your backs on these evil entities that have caused so much suffering in the name of GREED. Open your eyes and see the truth; believe that what is in you and not what is with out you is the only path to follow. Life is truly beautiful and only those from the light can make that change, be part of it, start now.
http://www.boncherry.com/blog/2011/04/04/jesse-ventura-u-s-follows-roman-empire-when-attacking-libya-video/
Tonight, 9 pm ET, politician Jesse Ventura was featured on “Piers Morgan Tonight“. Ventura talked about recent political issue in the United States, including the 9/11 attacks conspiracy theory and also the country’s foreign policy towards Libya. Ventura also discussed his brand new book, “63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read“.
Jesse Ventura is best known for his arguments over the 9/11 attacks. He said government was involved in the tragedy. The former wrestler stated that the World Trade Center was demolished with explosives, not struck by a plane.
In August 2009, Ventura was revealed as the host of TruTV’s new show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. “Ventura will hunt down answers, plunging viewers into a world of secret meetings, midnight surveillance, shifty characters and dark forces,” TruTV said in a statement. The TruTV said the first episode of the show attracted 1.6 million viewers, a record for a new series on the network.
Check out the video of Jesse Ventura’s interview with Piers Morgan below:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/showbiz/2011/04/04/piers.morgan.ventura.libya.cnn
Jesse Ventura: US in Libya for Profit – on Dailymotion
http://www.dailymotion.com
Former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura says the Western intervention in Libya has been determined by corporate interests. Powered by http://www.newslook.com Producer : R
Qaddafi Wins The Real War
Posted: 2011/08/23
From: Mathaba http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628213
The small 7 million population nation, now reduced to 4 million after 2 million migrant workers and refugees have left after terrorist and NATO sieges and another 1 million are cut off in the East with Benghazi under siege: 4 million Libyans are defeating NATO
While NATO’s “2 or 3 day” war on Libya now rages on since over 5 months, pitting the world’s most powerful military which has flown over 20,000 missions into a “No Fly Zone”, killing tens of thousands and maiming many more, all in the name of “protecting civilians from Qaddafi’s air force”, an air force which has not flown a single flight throughout and was destroyed on the ground on day 1 of NATO’s attacks, against a million Libyans armed only with Kalashnikov’s.
Or are they? Yes, they are armed with the best assault rifle on earth, the Russian AK-47, manufactured in Libya since many years so as not to depend upon Russia which meantime of course, has come under the yoke of the “international banker community.” But, they are actually armed with something much bigger than any bomb of NATO including its nuclear ones. And with each bomb NATO drops and each missile if fires, Libya’s arsenal is strengthened: Truth.
Truth is the most powerful weapon of all. And since the outset of the attack on Libya in an attempt to feed the bankrupt bankers — every single one of the NATO countries except Germany which is attacking Libya is bankrupt — who have “seized assets” (a nice word for stolen) to the tune of $150 billion (one hundred and fifty thousand millions, try to imagine that number) and who knows where Libya’s 144 tons of gold are, hopefully not in the Bank of England vaults.
From the start of this attempt to take out Africa’s most popular hero but also the man who is responsible for setting much of Africa free — including South Africa — and who has continued to provide infrastructure investments in Africa’s future in the shape of health, education and communications — from the start of this war of aggression on Africa’s Crown, Libya, and her King of Kings, Qaddafi, this has been a media war.
It started with Twitter social media fake accounts tweeting that “Qaddafi is bombing civilians, ten thousand dead” and was picked up immediately by a coordinated media assault, with Qatar — the royal dictator of which is a sworn long time enemy of pro-democracy Qaddafi — with Qatar’s Jazeera TV, now beaming into all homes in the western world via Satellite as a sanctioned propaganda tool, taking up those tweets and reporting them as fact.
It did not stop there of course. The BBC, CNN in the service of MI6 and the CIA respectively, echoed Al Jazeera, thus giving it more credibility. We performed the same exercise here: someone tweeted from an account we control on Twitter, that the Queen of England’s Air Force is Bombing London. Mathaba took that up and posted news saying that tweets show that London is being bombed, and many other blogs loved it and immediately took it up.
What then happened with the conspiracy against Qaddafi by the Qataris, British and Americans, all wishing to settle old scores and seize the opportunity to revive the empty coffers of the bankers in London and New York, was that those same conspirators along with France, passed no less than a “UN Security Council Resolution” against Libya, calling for a “No Fly Zone”, which they alone of course, would violated day in and out forever more.
But it did not stop there. Unfortunately for the gangsters taking out Qaddafi did not take “2 to 3 days” as promised by NATO and London. In spite of tens of thousands of missile and bombs, Qaddafi refused to vacate his modest home, and, protected by the Creator who alone can take away life, has continued to survive although NATO murdered 3 of his grandchildren and his youngest son. Thus, something more needed to be done.
That something more, was, aside from dropping Libya off the nightly TV news after the first weeks when it became clear that NATO was failing in spite of all its fire power, was to concoct some more media plans. They decided to set up an entire live studio set in Qatar, a replica of central Tripoli, and to have the so-called rebels shown celebrating victory in Green Square. Unfortunately though, there are visible faults on the set. Jazeera broadcast those images “live” and once again have been shown to have created fake news. Not that most of their viewers know, but people are starting to wake up.
Moreover, a nice trap was set for the rats who had been out in the desert around Tripoli and hard to catch. Khamis Qaddafi’s elite brigade pretended to be weak, and the rebels passed right into the center of Tripoli under NATO massive bombing to clear the way forward. They even tried to settle scores with independent journalists at the Rixos, and, the CIA and MI6 agents working for CNN and SKY news, were outed. Thinking victory had come, those agents tried to take out the independents who had been telling the truth about Libya all alone. At least 3 were targeted but all 3 survived. But it gets worse.
Now that it is clear the “rats fell into a trap”, those in the ransacked Rixos, are holed up and have split into various groups, to avoid a confrontation, because, the CIA and MI6 agents working under guise of being journalists, have realized now that the plan to take Tripoli has failed badly. Not only that, but, here is why the victory is even sweeter:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1123951611001/saif-al-islam-we-are-winning/
those lying media networks, Jazeera, Arabiya, BBC, CNN, AFP, DPA, RAI, have now lost even more millions of viewers when they told big lies which were designed to create a result, but all of which failed: once again Khamis is not dead, Sayf Al Islam was not captured, and neither Mohammed. Pretending they were and that they broke free, is now the line of desperation, but is not believable either.
So, as Mathaba *alone* has promised not only in March when NATO started its attack, but also this past weekend when all the world media — the entire world media who dutifully echo western media in their reports: Malaysia, Thailand, China, Australia, Latin America, all except Cuba alone as the only country which is not echoing western propaganda (even Iran, China, Russia are) and North Korea which has no media — the entire world media stood against Mathaba’s reports throughout, which have always proven accurate and which have brought us even more readers than before.
Now, the world lying media networks, all under the hopeless control of a dying system, have lost millions more viewers, and we have gained millions more yet again. And so it will continue until the end: once again, we assure you all, Qaddafi cannot be removed, is not leaving, and the vast majority of Libyans are behind him. We say that as a non-Libyan international independent truth news agency because we have good information and we are not compromised.
Isn’t it time that you supported us? Unlike the compromised media, we are not in the pay of advertisers who would dictate terms, nor do we use Google ads which would bring in plentiful revenue give our reader numbers, out of principle as their ads are not appropriate nor quality, nor are we owned by any zionist media barons, nor are we funded by donations from political parties, or owned by intelligence services. It is you, the reader alone, who keep us functioning. So, DONATE NOW or SUBSCRIBE.
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America’s symbol cracks in earthquake
Posted: 2011/08/27
From: Mathaba
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628304
Washington Monument – a phallic masonic symbol of America’s power – is the only structure closed for repair works.
(Mathaba)
The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Washington D.C., didn’t cause widespread damages or injuries, but it did put cracks in the Washington Monument.
Interestingly, as the symbol of the capital and America’s power, the Washington Monument is the only structure damaged by the earthquake in Washington D.C.
The monument will be closed indefinitely for repairs. But all other monuments that were temporarily shut down for inspections after the earthquake, including the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, are now open for business.
The quake occurred during the “Night of Power” which is the last 10 days and nights of Ramadan, and during the launch of the ground invasion of Libya by U.S. and other NATO allied mercenaries.
Muammar Qaddafi who is leading the resistance for defending Africa’s wealth from the bankrupt western states invading Libya, is a devout Muslim who refused to allow Libya to be tainted by capitalism.
All national resources were shared among the population of Libya thus giving them free health care, free education, all expenses for treatment or education abroad if required, free house, free electricity, $60,000 on marriage, and $500 deposited from the remaining wealth into each Libyan’s account.
People around the world have been praying for his people’s victory and for the demise of NATO as a blatant terrorist force having waged wars around the world killing millions in order to plunder resource rich nations.
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LIBYAN SOLDIERS: THE TRUE HEROES OF THIS NATO WAR
http://www.voltairenet.org/The-Libyan-Soldiers-The-True
by Glen Ford
While NATO has proven its capacity to kill thousands of Libyan soldiers from the skies, it has failed to convey respectability to the marauding “rebels” under its wing, posing as freedom fighters. The latter, however, should not get too used to their spot in the limelight, which is sure to wane when their usefulness as NATO stooges eventually dries up. Meanwhile, for this author, the incinerated bodies of her soldiers have already secured Libya’s place in history.
The story is not over – not by a long shot – but the saga of the Libyan resistance to the superpower might of the United States and its degenerate European neocolonial allies will surely occupy a very special place in history.
For five months, beginning March 19, the armed forces of a small country of six million people dared to defy the most advanced weapons systems on the planet, on terrain with virtually no cover, against an enemy capable of killing whatever could be seen from the sky or electronically sensed. Night and day, the eyes of the Euro-American war machine looked down from space on the Libyan soldiers’ positions, with the aim of incinerating them. And yet, the Libyan armed forces maintained their unit integrity and personal honor, with a heroism reminiscent of the loyalist soldiers of the Spanish Republic under siege by German, Italian and homegrown fascists, in the late 1930s.
The Germans and Italians and Generalissimo Franco won that war, just as the Americans, British, French and Italians may ultimately overcome the Libyan army. But they cannot convey honor or national legitimacy to their flunkies from Benghazi, who have won nothing but a badge of servitude to foreign overseers. The so-called rebels won not a single battle, except as walk-ons to a Euro-American military production. They are little more than extras for imperial theater, a mob that traveled to battle under the protective umbrella of American full spectrum dominance of the air. They advanced along roads already littered with the charcoal-blackened bodies of far better men, who died challenging Empire.
One thing is sure: the Americans and Europeans have never respected their servants. The so-called rebels of Libya will be no different.
Washington, Paris and London know perfectly well that is was their 18,000 aircraft sorties, their cruise missiles, their attack helicopters, their surveillance satellites and drones, their command and control systems, their weapons, and their money, that managed to kill or wound possibly half the Libyan army. Not the rabble from Benghazi.
The rebels should not take too seriously being fawned over by the ridiculous hordes of corporate media tourists that have come to Tripoli to record the five-month war’s finale. They are highly paid cheerleaders. And, although it may appear that they are cheering for the rebels, don’t be fooled – at the end of the day, the western corporate media only cheer for their own kind. They are celebrating what they believe is a victory over the Libyan demon they have helped to construct in their countrymen’s minds.
Next year, rebel, that demon might be you. Or next year, it might be many Libyans, including those who were no friends of Col. Moammar Gaddafi. The Americans treat their native minions like children in need of supervision – and there is a certain logic to this, since whoever would entrust his nation’s sovereignty and resources to the Americans is, surely, either exceedingly stupid, or hopelessly corrupt. But Libya’s honor and her place in history has already been secured by a small African army that held out nearly half a year against the NATO barbarians.
Glen Ford
Source: Black Agenda Report
Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report (BAR) the journal of African American political thought and action.
“Mongrel”: Historically, and from Obama’s Mouth
Obama, US Continue To Reap Trillions and Condemn Africa To Climate Catastrophe
Voltaire, international edition
Libyan TV Anchor Dr Shakir Interviewed By Syrian Al-Rai TV Via Phone
Posted: 2011/08/29
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628386?rss
Sayf-al-Islam al-Qaddafi a Libyan Hero fighting among the Tripoli Resistance
All the people that have betrayed Gaddafi in Tripoli were the people who were close to him, people with money, the people who kept him away from reality for the past years and withheld information, those who were having wrong motives, agendas and conspired with the enemies of freedom.
The Libyan leader is now surrounded by the good people who are not after money or the misuse of his name but who are aware of the historic battle and necessity of defending Libya, Africa and the world, and also the aims of those who are carrying out the brutal aggression and media lies.
The current events are prophecy and are well understood within that context of the status of the world. The true believers, the good people, the bad people, the [foreign] government agendas, are now clear.
Tripoli is far from under rebel control, although battles for some quarters have suffered heavy losses, in conditions that included bombing by NATO, massacres by rebels, and with water supply and electricity and communications cut off in many areas by the enemy as cowardly way that nothing any more surprises.
NATO bombed Bu Saleem heavily, an area close to the Gaddafi compound, all who are fighting in that area are volunteers and residents of that place. Many of our volunteers defending freedom were martyred. They are replaced by yet more volunteers, and the “rats” (NATO allied terrorist rebels) have faced even greater losses including their Al-Qaida commander. [Photographic evidence further below].
Sabha in the south of Libya has a few battles in that area but it is shining for Libyan forces. Sirte and Bin Waleed are together fighting off rebels. The Libyan resistance has to show the rebel flag often to decieve the invadors, or otherwise they are bombed by NATO.
Algeria realizes that the Libyan terrorist rebels are the same Al-Qaida terrorists which have been responsible for the deaths of as many as 200,000 people in Algeria of the past many years. It therefore is not going to recognize the TNC tebels.
Algeria also realizes that if NATO controls Libya for AFRICOM the U.S. Africa Command which Libya refused to join then it will be next in line for a bloodbath this time not only from the terrorists in Algeria but supported by NATO WMD.
Thus Algeria already came under terrorist attack killing a reported 20 people at a military training facility near to Libya, and its embassy in Tripoli was destroyed by the NATO tebels.
Interview with Dr Yusuf Shakir, a Libyan TV presenter, via Syrian TV on 26th August via a phone call, because the Libyan TV has been destroyed by NATO:
Dr Yusuf Shakir: “As we warned you in the week before the ground invasion, which we also warned was going to happen with mercenaries, they have created fake visual effects and we told you they will send you email messages.
“And now the scenario is to tarnish the image of Muammar Qaddafi like the Egyptians have done in the old days to Abdelhamid Bakouche who was in the opposition.”
Michaan Aljabouri: “The Americans spent one trillion dollars in Iraq and they couldn’t extinguish the Iraqi resistance, they used to spend one billion dollars a day.
“They gave money left and right to fake contractors, fake projects so the people can just pocket the money, but despite all this the Americans couldn’t win the hearts and minds of the people. The frozen money that was given didn’t benefit the Americans in anything.
Dr Shakir: “The Europeans and the Americans will not be giving the money to these people, never, the rebels will not even smell it! [The $160 billion stolen from Libya in banks around the world]. Do your remember the first things the Americans have done when the entered Iraq and took ownership of the Iraqi oil, they didn’t give it to the Europeans or any of their allies [who are now fighting the fight for them in Libya to steal Africa’s resources].
“The thieves will fight each other on how to divide the cake. NATO will bring back the reconstruction issue, oil issue, will bring them many problems. The fact is that the Americans and Europeans’ banks do not have the $160 billion dollars at their disposal to give back.
“In Iraq’s case the situation was well understood, America was on the brink of a depression, so they decided to remedy that through war to benefit their arms industry. But who paid for the war? It was the Gulf (Arab) states, Japan. They all made their contributions. Kuwait for example sold its investments abroad to pay the American price of the war, but now the money for this [Libya] war’s costs is already frozen by America and Europe.
“As for our people I can tell you that the gates to hell will open. Ask yourself how could Tripoli have fallen if their side (the NATO rebels) are screaming for help in Misrata and elsewhere? This media blackout they brought to us, we exposed already in their interventions and now are people are in total darkness. They (NATO) want to affect their minds, but this will end soon.
“If they are really in control of Tripoli then let them come and have their meetings here in Tripoli.” [Of course the western leaders, NATO and rebels, would be in front of TV cameras in Tripoli claiming victory. Yet they cannot even step foot in Tripoli, aside from their mercenaries who are being wiped out.]
The head of the armed rebels killed in Tripoli. Al-Qaida’s Abdel Hakim Bel Hadj
Michaan Aljabouri: “They will not go to Tripoli because the fighters will turn their lives into hell.
“Tell me Dr Shakir, how do you evaluate the calls for reconciliation? Many are now calling for that now, is there an opportunity for reconciliation between the NATO side and the Libyan legitimate government?”
Dr Shakir: “We extended our hands to them from day one as you well know. The rebels own agenda isn’t in their hands, they are like Ahmed Chalabi [the Iraqi politician]. The Libyan people want reconciliation, unity and a stop to the bloodshed of their children but NATO talk about landing forces and use new [fake news] headlines to frighten the population, when in fact the Americans, French, English, Qataris were already on the ground from day one.
Proof of foreign mercenery in Benghazi at the funeral of Younes
“The way they do it is through an American or a European official first issuing a statement and then the media starts working people’s minds. So for reconciliation it is available but who refused it? These people don’t have their agenda in their hands. This loony Sarkozy wanted to celebrate French Revolution day [last July 14] with the fall of Qaddafi.
“So now the blood of our children has become a trump card to be used in American, British, and French elections. Imagine that our blood is so cheap that one British journalist said “Libya isn’t worth one ounce of British blood”.
“NATO have thier soldiers and mercenaries on the ground. When the crisis calms down you will see these mercenaries of Al Qaida and elsewhere and every kind, Qataris are fighting Libyans, even Jordanians.”
Michaan Aljabouri: “We have been told that there are Qatari and Emarati deaths in Libya and since you are one of the people following the situation tell us why we haven’t received pictures of their bodies yet?”
Dr Shakir: “Soon you will have many things, right now there is difficulty in going out and sending material. But have faith that in this Holy Night that The God will grand us victory. Libyans are resisting and to you all our thanks, The God will give you the best reward. Our nationality is resistance.”
Michaan Aljabouri: “Our identity, nationality is our resistence! I told them that despite Sayf al Islam [al Qaddafi] is a friend of mine, I never boasted about this friendship before nor have spoken about him to the media or TV because there was no need to. But now there is a need to boast about his resistance and our friendship because he is fighting invaders, because he is courageous, he is a Man!
“Today I do not speak about the qualities of the leaders but today I am proud that the resisting leader Muammar Qaddafi has chosen this TV station to air his speeches and that he has presented his personal thanks to this TV station on its struggle.
“You and us our nationality is “resistance”, nothing else! And we are not interested in any other details about Nationhood or anything else for it is greater than all that. We are resisting against injustice, against invasion, against arrogance and defending our land, therefore we are in the same trench.
“You and I are brothers, I hope Allah [The God] grants us stability and victory, my brother you haven’t told us yet when will you join us in this TV program?”
Dr Shakir: “Soon I hope, we will try in a few days. But by The God’s will Damascus [the location of the Alrai TV broadcast program] the capital of resistance, Damascus the last bastion they wanted to fall but remained stable as did its president (Assad) and its people.
“The conspiracy has been discovered and they understood the lesson and may God protect it and grant the young president (Assad) victory. And I hope that I will do another intevention with you tomorrow or after tomorrow.”
Michaan Aljabouri: “You are welcome to intervene with me or with anyone presenting this program, you are even welcome to present your own program from this TV station any time you want if that’s possible. We are proud of you and proud of all those who are resisting and continuing to defend their country.”
Dr Shakir: “Can you imagine that we don’t resist when our leader refused to leave Tripoli and he and his family are fighting like other Libyans? How can we leave? It would be a shameful thing to let down our leader [as the Ambassadors and even Dr Salem Zubeidy have done and those others who are weak when their is no money] wehn he is conducting operations… that is the battle of glory that he was talking about. So let the horns blow and in the days to come I hope you will hear good news. Thank you and greetings to Syria’s resistance.”
Aljabour: “I thank Dr Shakir and I ask The God to grant us stability and patience and that we can protect this voice and stand with our resisting brothers in Libya, we and them are resisting and we are in the same trench.”
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http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28982.htm
NATO commits massacre at Sirte razing the city to the ground
Posted: 2011/08/29
From: Mathaba
3 days of non-stop bombing away from the public eye — urgent appeal to humanitarians to force NATO to stop massacre
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628388
For the third day in a row, NATO aircraft are conducting massive missile and bomb strikes on the city of Sirte, home town of Muammar Gaddafi, not allowing anyone to escape. The city perimeter is surrounded by rebel check points, behind which there are special forces units from Britain, France, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.
The exit from the city is completely blocked. Neither women, nor children are allowed to leave. Men, captured attempting to leave the town together with their families, are shot. Their families are sent back into the city under bombing. There is practically no way to bury the corpses, stated in a letter that was received at Argumenty.ru this morning. The writer is a former officer in the Soviet and later Russian special forces, who is now in Sirte.
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THE NATO WHORE & HER RAT-offspring are Murderous ORCS; and not fit to be called part of the human-race.
Who will submit to demonic monster bots?
The most horrible thing about this, is that the Press and NATO are reversing the culprit and claiming our pure MUJJADID and noble Libyan-armed forces are responsible for the deaths and destruction! They are saying “GADHAFI has stockpiles of nerve gas and chemical weapons.” That “he is using cluster bombs and nuclear scuds,” When the reality is that Loyalists have nothing of the sort; and the people have little more than old Kasmikovs…BUT LIBYANS do have will power and a clean sense of morality and a love of LIFE which the TEBELS and the West totally lack. The RATS/NATO are godless, and fight aggressively on holy days. The RATS/NATO have no conscience. The soil is contaminated with depleted uranium, the water once the purest in the world, is now poluted…and death resembles scenes of the 30 years war in 17th Century Europe.And somehow, all the peoples of the West are acting like the Three Monkees. They see nothing and do nothing. The cries go unanswerd, as if nothing is going on at all…and it is all dismissed as “GADHAFI-PROPAGANDA”!!! The WEST is so full of lies, they can no longer know the truth, or even care to know the truth any longer. This cannot last. A HIGHER-FORCE will not permit this to continue.
VICTORY to the Glorious HOLY JAMAHIRIYA: The only nation upon this whole planet which is under God’s holy principles. The Guardian Angels will remain about al-Gadhafi, as he is a truly noble and righteous man who is the Instrument of the Most High
“Gadhafi” is getting blamed for all (what is really) the NATO bombings and the TEBEL atrocities of mass murder since Saturday evening last week! We all know that it was NATO and the mercenaries and rebels who caused the murder, mayhem and carnage; but the news propaganda is twisting it all to make it look like the loyalists, “knowing that it was their end” who then went on a killing spree, which has prompted NATO to “come to the rescue” of the remaining citizenry left alive in Tripoli !! (Massacre of Khellet Ferjan)
THOU SHALT NOT LIE ! Has the West totally forgotten God’s COMMANDMENT!|
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The “Liberation” of Libya: NATO Special Forces and Al Qaeda Join Hands
“Former Terrorists” Join the “Pro-democracy” Bandwagon
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26255
by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, August 28, 2011
Extensive war crimes have been committed. NATO has blood on its hands. The heads of government and heads of state of NATO member countries are responsible for extensive war crimes
The “pro-democracy” rebels are led by Al Qaeda paramilitary brigades under the supervision of NATO Special Forces. The “Liberation” of Tripoli was carried out by “former” members of the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG).
The jihadists and NATO work hand in glove. These “former” Al Qaeda affiliated brigades constitute the backbone of the “pro-democracy” rebellion.
NATO special forces with “boots and the ground” pass unnoticed. Their identity is not known or revealed. They blend into the Libyan rebellion landscape of machine guns and pickup trucks. They are not highlighted in the photo ops.
Special forces composed of US Navy SEALS, British Special SAS Forces and French legionnaires, disguised in civilian rebel garb, are reported to be behind major operations directed against key government buildings including Gadhafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli.
Reports confirm that British SAS were on the ground in Eastern Libya prior to the onset of the air campaign. Special Forces are in close coordination with NATO air operations. “Highly-trained units, known as ‘Smash’ teams for their prowess and destructive ability, have carried out secret reconnaissance missions to provide up-to-date information on the Libyan armed forces.” (SAS ‘Smash’ squads on the ground in Libya to mark targets for coalition jets, Daily Mirror, March 21, 2011)
NATO special forces and the CIA sponsored Islamic brigades under the command of “former” jihadists constitute the backbone of combat capabilities on the ground, supported by the air campaign, which now includes Apache helicopter raids.
The remainder of the rebel forces include untrained trigger happy gunmen (including teenagers) (see photo below), which serve the function of creating an atmosphere of panic and intimidation.
What we are dealing with is a carefully planned military intelligence operation to invade and occupy a sovereign country.
Killing the Truth. The Role of the Western Media
The Western media constitutes a major instrument of war. NATO war crimes are obfuscated. Popular resistance to the NATO led invasion is not mentioned.
A narrative of “liberation” and “opposition pro-democracy rebel forces” is instilled in the inner consciousness of millions of people. Its called the “NATO Consensus”.
“The NATO Consensus” which upholds the “humanitarian mandate” of the Atlantic alliance cannot be challenged. The bombings of civilian areas as well as the role of a terrorist militia are either trivialised or not mentioned.
Killing the truth is an integral part of the military agenda.
Realities are turned upside down.
The lie becomes the truth.
Its an inquisitorial doctrine. The NATO consensus dwarfs the Spanish Inquisition by a long shot.
The criminal invasion and occupation of Libya is not mentioned. The lives of independent journalists in Tripoli who report on what is actually happening are threatened. The catch words are “Liberation” and “Revolution” with NATO’s mandate limited to R2P (“Responsibility to Protect”).
Liberation or Invasion? By camouflaging the nature of the military operation, not to mention NATO atrocities, the Western media has contributed to providing the Transitional Council with a semblance of legitimacy and international recognition. The latter would not have been forthcoming without the support of the Western media.
NATO special forces and intelligence operatives on the ground are in permanent liaison with military planners involved in coordinating NATO strike sorties and bombing raids on the Libyan capital.
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Intensive Bombing Raids over Tripoli
On August 27, NATO acknowledged the conduct of 20,633 sorties since March 31st, and 7,768 strike sorties. (These figures do not include the intensive bombing raids conducted in the two weeks prior to March 31st). Each fighter jet or bomber carries numerous missiles, rockets, etc. depending on the ordnance specification of the aircraft.
Multiply the number of strike sorties (7768 since March 31) by the average number of missiles or bombs launched by each of the planes and you get a rough idea of the size and magnitude of this military operation. A French Dassault Mirage 2000, for instance, can transport 18 missiles under its wings. America’s B-2 Stealth bombers are equipped with bunker buster bombs
France’s Mirage 2000 used in Operation Odyssey Dawn against Libya,
USAF Stealth B-2 Bomber used in Operation Odyssey Dawn
Pursuant to NATO’s humanitarian mandate, we are informed by the media that these tens of thousands of strikes have not resulted in civilian casualties (with the exception of occasional “collateral damage”).
Not surprisingly, already in mid April, three weeks into bombing campaign, the Atlantic Alliance announced that “NATO planes flying combat missions over Libya are starting to run out of bombs” (UPI, April 16, 2011);
“The reason we need more capability isn’t because we aren’t hitting what we see — it’s so that we can sustain the ability to do so,” one NATO official told the Post. “One problem is flight time, the other is munitions.” (Ibid)
The bombing raids over Tripoli were intensified in the course of the last two weeks. They were intended to support ground operations led by NATO special forces and the Islamic paramilitary brigades. With limited NATO ground force capabilities, NATO strategists decided to intensify the bombing raids.
Global Research’s Correspondent in Tripoli, whose life is threatened for revealing NATO war crimes described a shift in the pattern of bombing, starting in mid-July, with increasingly intensive air raids leading up to the ground invasion on August: 20th:
“Until approximately 2:35 a.m EET [July 17], the strident noises of fighter jets over Tripoli could be heard. The bomb blasts triggered an atmosphere of fear and panic over the entire city, a poignant psychological and emotional impact on tens of thousands of people, from the young to the elderly. It also alerted people and brought them out onto their balconies while they witnessed the bombing of their country.
One of the explosions resulted in a huge mushroom cloud, pointing to the possible use of bunker buster bombs. … There was something unusual in the pattern of this NATO bombing operation.
The bombings tonight were not like other nights. The sounds were different. The smoke plumes were different. In previous bombings the smoke would usually go up vertically like a fire, but tonight the smoke plumes were horizontal and hovering above Tripoli with a white cloud in the horizon.
People who were not directly affected by the bombs, within a radius of 15 kilometres experienced burning eyes, lower back pain, headaches.” (Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, NATO Launches Bombing Blitzkrieg over Tripoli hitting Residential Areas , Global Research, July 17, 2011)
The mass killing of civilians in a Blitzkrieg environment as well as the creation of a generalized atmosphere of panic is intended to curtail the population’s resistance to the NATO-led invasion.
The Death Toll
According to sources from our correspondent in Tripoli, the death toll in the course of the last week (20-26 August) is of the order of 3000. The hospitals are in a state of turmoil, unable to come to the rescue of the wounded. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirms that medical supplies are in short supply throughout the country.
In recent developments UNICEF has warned of shortages of water due to the NATO bombing of water infrastructure throughout the country. “This could turn into an unprecedented health epidemic “ said Christian Balslev-Olesen of UNICEF’s Libya Office.
NATO warplanes deliberately targeted the peaceful vigil of tents in front of the Gadhafi compound in a gruesome massacre. The mainstream media acknowledges the massacre, while stating that gun wounds are the cause of death in crossfire between loyalist and rebel forces. The victims are :
“The identities of the dead were unclear, but they were in all likelihood activists who had set up an impromptu tent city in solidarity with Gadhafi in defiance of the NATO bombing campaign. (Forbes.com, August 25, 2011)
We are not dealing with collateral damage. Extensive war crimes have been committed. NATO has blood on its hands. The heads of government and heads of state of NATO member countries are war criminals.
The Central Role of Al Qaeda Operatives in the “Liberation of Tripoli”
According to CNN, in a twisted logic, the terrorists have repented: “former terrorists” are no longer “terrorists”.
The LIFG is said to have been disbanded.
Following their disavowal of violence, these former LIFG leaders created a new political organization called the Islamic Movement for Change, which according to CNN “is committed to working within a future democratic process”. “The Libyan Islamic Movement for Change (Al-Haraka Al-Islamiya Al Libiya Lit-Tahghir), is made up of former members of the now defunct [CIA supported] Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)” (Reuters, August 26, 2011)
In a contradictory about turn, former “bad guys” (terrorists) are heralded as “good guys” committed to “combating terrorism”. The “former” members of the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) are now portrayed as “pro-democracy activists” who “have assumed leadership positions in several rebel brigades”.
Labels have been switched: the CIA supported Al Qaeda affiliated LIFG has been transformed into the CIA sponsored Islamic Movement for Change (IMC), which supports the pro-democracy rebellion.
When was the LIFG disbanded?
In a bitter irony, the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) was listed until June 2011 by the United Nations Security Council as a bona fide terrorist organization. On June 21 2011, The Listing of Terrorist Organizations, conveniently vanished from the UN Security Council website pending the revamping of the website. (See annex below)
The LIFG entry was included in the (updated March 24, 2011, accessed April 3, 2011) United Nations Security Council “terror list” as follows
QE.L.11.01. Name: LIBYAN ISLAMIC FIGHTING GROUP
Name (original script):
A.k.a.: LIFG F.k.a.: na Address: na Listed on: 6 Oct. 2001 (amended on 5 Mar. 2009)
(The LIFG Listing is on p. 70, http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/pdf/consolidatedlist.pdf, (accessed April 3, 2011, no longer accessible)
Other information: Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) was concluded on 21 Jun. 2010. The website is down and is currently being revamped
Who Leads Libya’s Islamic Brigades?
Recent reports confirm what was known and documented from the outset of the “rebellion” in mid-March: The key military command positions of the rebellion are held by the “former” commanders of the Libya Islamic fighting Group (LIFG)”.
The commander of the assault on Tripoli is Abdel Hakim Belhadj, (also known as Abu Abdullah al-Sadeq, Hakim al-Hasidi). He has been entrusted, with NATO’s approval, of “one of the most powerful rebel brigades in Tripoli [which] took charge of successful rebel efforts earlier this week to storm Gadhafi’s Bab al-Azziziyah compound, further bolstering his prominent position in rebel ranks.” (CNN, op cit)
“Sadeeq was a well-known figure in the jihadist movement. He fought the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan and helped found [with the support of the CIA] the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group there.” (Ibidt)
But Saddeeq, according to CNN has repented. He is no longer a terrorist (i.e. a bad guy) “but a powerful voice against Al Qaeda’s terrorism”. (Ibid, emphasis added)
“In 2009, Sadeeq and other senior LIFG leaders formally repudiated al Qaeda style terrorism and disbanded their campaign to overthrow the Libyan regime.
The breakthrough was the result of a two-year dialogue with the regime brokered by Benotman [a former LIFG commander now in the employ of the London based Quilliam Foundation with a mandate in conflict resolution. CNN interviewed leading figures of the LIFG in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli in September 2009, shortly before the group’s leaders were released. Although they were then behind prison bars, the leaders’ disavowal of violence appeared genuine. (Ibid)
According to DebkaFile (Israeli intelligence online report), the “pro-Al Qaeda brigades “led by LIFG Commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj constitute the dominant force of the rebellion, overriding the authority of the Transitional Council. They are in control of strategic buildings including Gadhafi’s compound.
“The LIFG chief [Abdel Hakim Belhadj] now styles himself “Commander of the Tripoli Military Council.” Asked by our sources whether they plan to hand control of the Libyan capital to the National Transitional Council, which has been recognized in the West, the jihadi fighters made a gesture of dismissal without answering. (Debka, Pro-Al Qaeda brigades control Qaddafi Tripoli strongholds seized by rebels, August 28, 2011 )
Abdul Hakim Belhhadj received military training in CIA sponsored guerrilla camp in Afghanistan. He constitutes a CIA “intelligence asset” in the Lybian war theater. An earlier report suggests that he has some 1,000 men under his command. (Libyan rebels at pains to distance themselves from extremists – The Globe and Mail, March 12, 2011)
The US-NATO coaltion is arming the Jihadists. Weapons are being channelled to the LIFG from Saudi Arabia, which historically, since the outset of the Soviet-Afghan war, has covertly supported Al Qaeda. The Saudis are now providing the rebels, in liaison with Washington and Brussels, with anti-tank rockets and ground-to-air missiles. (See Michel Chossudovsky “Our Man in Tripoli”: US-NATO Sponsored Islamic Terrorists Integrate Libya’s Pro-Democracy Opposition, Global Research, 3 April 2011)
A “Democracy” run by Terrorists
Reports also confirm that large numbers of terrorists imprisoned in Abu Salim jail were released by rebel forces. They are now being recruited by the former LIFG Islamic brigades, led by “former” jihadists pro-democracy commanders.
So all ends well in the smooth transition towards a democracy run by terrorists.
NATO’s Islamic Jihad
There is indications that NATO, in coordination with Western intelligence agencies (including Israel’s Mossad), is involved in recruiting Islamist fighters. Israeli intelligence sources confirm that NATO in cooperation with Turkey, is now directly training and recruiting in several Muslim countries a new jihadist generation of “Freedom Fighters”. The Mujahideen after undergoing training are slated to participate in NATO’s “pro-democracy” “humanitarian” military campaigns. The Israeli report by Debka pertains to Syria, which is next in line on the NATO military roadmap:
“Our sources report, is a [NATO] campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels… ” (Debka File August 15, 2011 http://www.debka.com/article/21207/ )
The NATO led invasion and occupation of Libya is using Islamic fighters as the backbone of an alleged transition to democracy.
Concluding Remarks
The tragic events of 9/11 have played a key role in developing a massive propaganda campaign geared towards justifying a “war on terrorism” directed against Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda.
In a bitter twist, throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, the Western military alliance is using Islamic brigades, trained and groomed by the CIA, MI6 and Mossad, to wage its “Global War on Terrorism”.
The war on terrorism constitutes a broad consensus instilled in the minds of millions of people, What is not known to Western public opinion is that the West’s holy crusade against Islamic terrorism rather than targeting terrorists actually includes terrorists in his ranks, i.e Al Qaeda “freedom fighters” have been integrated into the ranks of US-NATO led military operations.
Rest assured, in the case of Libya, the rebels are “the good guys”: they are “former” rather than “active” members of Al Qaeda.
The Western media has not reported on NATO war crimes. It has casually dismissed NATO atrocities: 8000 strike sorties represents more than 50,000 missiles and bombs dropped on the Libyan people.
There are various ways of concealing the truth. From the outset of the air campaign, the media has denied the existence of a war. Its causes and consequences are distorted. In turn, an effective propaganda campaign requires targeting people’s mindset in newspapers, network TV and online.
People must be distracted from an understanding of the war on Libya. Atrocities committed by NATO with the support of the United Nations is rarely frontpage news. How best to camouflage the truth? By redirecting news coverage on Libya towards a number of trivial “talking points”, including the size of Gadhafi’s swimming pool, his female bodyguards, his cosmetic plastic surgery, etc. The Guardian, August 23, 2011)
Not included in the journalist’s “to do list” is the coverage of the three thousand men, women and children who lost their lives in the course of a weeklong Blitzkrieg bombing of Tripoli using the most advanced weapons systems in human history.
Against this background of lies and fabrications, the lives of several independent journalists including Global Research’s Correspondent Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya trapped in Tripoli were threatened, for saying the truth.
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“Our Man in Tripoli”: US-NATO Sponsored Islamic Terrorists Integrate Libya’s Pro-Democracy Opposition
– by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2011-04-03
Concepts are Turned Upside Down: The US-NATO military alliance is supporting a rebellion integrated by Islamic terrorists, in the name of the “War on Terrorism”…
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Note:
The Libya Islamic Fighting Group was listed until June 10th as a terrorist organization.
The United Nations Security Council, confirmed that the LIFG is bona fide terrorist: organization.
The LIFG entry was included in the (updated March 24, 2011, accessed April 3, 2011) United Nations Security Council “terror list” as follows
QE.L.11.01. Name: LIBYAN ISLAMIC FIGHTING GROUP
Name (original script):
A.k.a.: LIFG F.k.a.: na Address: na Listed on: 6 Oct. 2001 (amended on 5 Mar. 2009)
Other information: Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) was concluded on 21 Jun. 2010
(The LIFG Listing is on p. 70, http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/pdf/consolidatedlist.pdf, (accessed April 3, 2011) Under the UNSC rules disbanded terrorist organizations are removed from the list in conformity with a delisting procedure. The LIFG has not been removed from the list). United Nations Security Council: Consolidated List established and maintained by the 1267 Committee with respect to Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden, and the Taliban and other individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them (updated March 24, 2011).
The above entry was on the UN Security Council’s list of terrorist organizations until June 10th. A new UNSC resolution was passed on June 10 and The Listing of Terrorist Organizations updated on March 24, 2011, conveniently vanished from the UN Security Council website pending the revamping of the website:
IMPORTANT CHANGES TO THE COMMITTEE WEBSITE PURSUANT TO SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1989 (2011)
On 17 June 2011, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolutions 1988 (2011) and 1989 (2011) as successor resolutions to resolution 1904 (2009). By adopting these resolutions, the Security Council decided to split the Al-Qaida and Taliban sanctions regime. Resolution 1989 (2011) stipulates that the sanctions list maintained by the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) will henceforth be known as the “Al-Qaida Sanctions List” and include only names of those individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with Al-Qaida.
Pursuant to these decisions by the Security Council, this website is in the process of being updated. In this interim period, any remaining references to the Consolidated List on this website should be considered as references to the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.
Now open admission of what was shown by errors in the images and which became discovered and shown at Mathaba a week ahead of the invasion: the TV footage was faked at a Qatar replica of central Tripoli, proving again that this war was started and continued by news media.
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628394?rss
by Dennis South
The English translation appears at the top of the screen. Pay attention to it. If you read slowly, then pause the video when the text appears on the screen. An NTC rebel is interviewed, and he openly admits that the “Fall of Tripoli” never occurred, but that it was a ruse used in order to gain more recognition from other countries.
This ruse caused 11 more countries to recognized the NTC. They have no fighting ability on the ground. But they certainly have learned the art of deception very well from their deceptive satanic masters–and at the price of the lives of Libyan babies.
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628359?rss
Posted: 2011/08/30
From: Mathaba
This horrific invasion and slaughter at the Crown of Africa by her former colonialist powers intent on plundering at the command of the Rotschild Bankers must stop
by Stephen Lendman
When is war not war? It’s when committing cold-blooded murder is called the right thing. When major media scoundrels cheerlead it, and when most people believe it because they’re too indifferent, uncaring or lazy to learn the truth.
NATO’s rape of Libya is too ugly for proper words to describe….(Proper journalism) where responsibility can be placed where it belongs. Where right and wrong can best be explained. Where repetition can arouse public outrage. Where proper analysis in advance perhaps can prevent all wars.
None are liberating, lawful, or virtuous. All are shamelessly exploitive. Libya’s one of the worst – unscrupulously benefitting powerful interests criminally, ruthlessly, and diabolically.
It doesn’t get any worse than that. Ask Lybians. They’ll explain.
…Their [THE NY TIMES] unstated message is war is good, the more the better when America wages them.
Sadly, that’s the state of managed Western news and opinion. It’s a shocking indictment of its support for wealth and power, no matter how lawless and harmful to billions exploited ruthlessly, shameless, and repeatedly.
Final Comments
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reports continued fighting in Tripoli, inflicting many casualties.
Moreover, many injured can’t be treated because of ongoing violence, inadequate staff, and enough supplies and capacity at local hospitals.
In addition, “numerous arrests” were made, “including foreign nationals.” Their welfare is very much at risk, especially those singled out for revenge.
Fierce fighting also continues around Misrata and elsewhere. The end of conflict is nowhere in sight. Brega “look(s) like a ghost town.”
In different areas, people are endangered by unexploded ordinance, as well as shortages of food, clean water, drugs, other medical supplies, and spotty or no electricity.
Washington-led NATO turned Libya into a hellish inferno – step one before occupying and exploiting its resources and people. Months ago its wealth was stolen. Ahead will be its future if Libyans don’t struggle and win their freedom.
On August 26 on Russia Today (RT.com), journalist Pepe Escobar said Abdelhakim Belhadj, a former Al-Qaeda insurgent/now CIA asset commands rebel forces in Tripoli.
He explained that he was trained in Afghanistan by a “very hardcore Islamist Libyan group.” Earlier he was captured in Malaysia, detained and tortured in Bangkok, then transferred back to Libya and imprisoned.
In 2009, he made a deal for freedom, in return for serving Western interests, Escobar saying:
“I can say almost for sure with 95% certainty that this is the guy” heading insurgents in Tripoli.
It shows how Washington both demonizes and uses Al Qaeda advantageously, including bin Laden. He was a longtime CIA asset until his death in December 2001 – not from Obama’s staged raid.
Notably, Al Qaeda was a 1980s CIA creation during the Soviet-Afghan war. Moreover, Washington both supports international terrorism covertly and battles it by imperial wars and persecuting Muslims for their faith.
It’s part of the fog to scare people enough to believe waging wars remove threats that, in fact, don’t exist. So they have to be invented to enlist public support, unaware of the harm caused abroad and at home.
Only war profiteers benefit, not taxpayers they steal from or victims they attack. At the same time, corrosive militarism, financial wars, and other destructive policies destroyed America’s soul. Its future as a free country is next.
So focused on bread and circus distractions, most people don’t notice. How else can Washington get away with murder!
Law Professor Francis Boyle’s morning email said the following:
“After Six Months of fighting by the most powerful military alliance in the history of the world, Ghadafy has now become the Greatest African Warrior since Hannibal against the Romans – predecessors to the Americans.”
“Generations from now, people will sing songs, write poems, and compose odes to Ghadafy all over Africa, the Arab World, the Muslim World, and the Third World long after Obama is dead and disparaged and discredited.”
Sic transit Gloria mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world)!”
Keep Libya’s freedom flame alive no matter how imperial monsters try to destroy it!
We’re all Libyans now! Their struggle is ours!
It’s high time we matched their courageous spirit against the world’s most pernicious/destructive force.
Bowed perhaps, they’re not broken! Isn’t that enough to raise our consciousness enough to support them!
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Muammar has been severely affected by the killing of baby Hana (in 1986 by the USA); and never recovered his sadness from it and this allegation of her being alive as a doctor, is deliberately evil, hatefully satanic, and a personal attempt to further hurt him.
Rebels loot the al-Jamahiriya National Museum in Tripoli
Posted: 2011/08/30
From: Source http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628395?rss
By Vladimir Radyuhin
Libya’s priceless historical heritage is in danger of being destroyed in the same way Iraq’s cultural riches perished during the United States invasion, warned a Russian expert on West Asia.
Nikolai Sologubovsky, orientalist, writer and film maker, said massive looting and destruction of ancient artefacts was underway in Libya.
“The al-Jamahiriya National Museum in Tripoli has been looted and antiquities are being shipped out by sea to Europe,” the scholar told Russian television.
The National Museum houses some of Libya’s most treasured archaeological and historical heritage. The collection includes invaluable samples of Neolithic, pre-historic, Berber, Garamantian, Phoenician, Punic, Greek, Roman and Byzantine culture.
Mr. Sologubovsky, who spent several months in Libya this year as a correspondent for a Moscow tabloid, said cave paintings in Acacus Mountains that go back 14,000 years were being destroyed by looters.
“They press silk cloth soaked in special chemical solution against rock frescoes and the paint sticks to the cloth and comes off the cave wall,” he said.
The scholar accused NATO forces of destroying some of the most spectacular architectural sites included in UNESCO’s World Historical List.
“NATO aircraft have bombed Leptis Magna and Sabratha,” said Mr. Sologobovsky, who is deputy head of a Russian committee of solidarity with the people of Libya and Syria set up earlier this year.
Leptis Magna was one of the most beautiful cities of the Roman Empire and Sabratha was a Phoenician trading post. Both are more than 2,500 years old.
Earlier this summer, the government in Tripoli asked Egypt and other neighbouring countries to block the smuggling of artifacts from Libya, but the looting continued unabated. Egypt’s own cultural treasures were plundered when looters ransacked archeological sites and stole a statue of King Tutankhamun and dozens of other precious objects from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo during the “Arab Spring” revolution.
The United Nation’s cultural body last week warned international art dealers and museums to look out for artifacts that may have been looted from Libya.
UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova said in a statement that dealers should be “particularly wary of objects from Libya in the present circumstances”. She called on Libyans, their neighbours and art dealers to protect the “invaluable cultural heritage”.
Mr. Sologubovsky said the UNESCO appeal came too late, too little.
“Plunder of Libya’s cultural heritage has been going on since February. I’m afraid it faces the same tragic fate as Iraq’s antiquities, which were plundered by the victorious U.S. military,” said the Russian scholar.
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Other new today: Very early this morning (30 AUGUST 2011) Aicha gave bith to a beautiful baby girl in an Algerian hospital..Congradulations and come back to LIBYA ASAP…All our LOVE X X X X
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Support for leader of the revolution Muammar Gaddafi
Breaking news:
A battalion lead by Khamis Gaddafi attacked the emirate army* that is stationed in Azzawiyah and inflicted them heavy losses. – Al rai tv
Il y a 8 heures ·
Many NATO mercenaries from QATAR and UAE were killed or captured as Prisoners of War, by Khamis.
NATO admits UK and France troops have been in Libya the whole time
Posted: 2011/08/30
From: Mathaba
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628399
A former member of the SAS told RIA Novosti last week that UK special forces had been in Libya “since day one” of the insurrection.
Mathaba published this information a few months back various articles, and also that the Franglo-American Attack on Libya Was Prepared Many Months in Advance.
The rebels, who entered Tripoli a week ago, have offered a $1.3 million reward and amnesty from prosecution for anyone who kills or captures Gaddafi. The offer is being scoffed at with derision by Qaddafi loyalists who have told Mathaba that they would not sell their principles for all the gold in the world.
Meanwhile, NATO’s actions in Libya have begun to draw sharp criticism even among Western politicians, who have been accused of being “rent boys” for the Rotschild’s banking family elite.
In a statement, U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich said NATO had, all long, pursued regime change in Libya, in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
“NATO acted with impunity. The NATO command recklessly bombed civilians in the name of “saving civilians”. Usurping the United Nation’s traditional role, NATO looked the other way as the arms embargo was openly violated by UN member nations,” Kucinich said.
“NATO’s top commanders may have acted under cover of international law but they are not exempt from international law. If members of the Gaddafi regime are to be held accountable, NATO’s top commanders must also be held accountable through the International Criminal Court for all civilian deaths resulting from bombing.”
Currently, the rebels are trying to advance toward Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte east of Tripoli, but are continuing to meet resistance from the popular leader’s loyalist forces. The population of Libya are armed, because in the “Jamahiriya” people’s power system, they exercise direct participatory democracy via People’s Conferences, national wealth is shared to all accounts, and all are armed in case of invasion, which has led to the current bloodbath in Tripoli with well over 30,000 dead in this first week of the invasion alone.
Meanwhile, Algeria has closed a 1,000-km stretch of its border with Libya and put troops and police there on high alert, an independent Algerian newspaper said.
Al-Watan newspaper said that troops, police and customs officials received relevant orders late on Monday.
Algeria has not yet recognized the National Transitional Council (NTC) as a legitimate power in conflict-torn North African state.
Algerian authorities have repeatedly called against international interference in the domestic conflict in Libya expressing fears that the instability in Libya may be used by al-Qaeda to strengthen its positions in the neighboring countries.
Algerian media have reported on several occasions that there were many criminals and members of al-Qaida and other radical Islamist groups among the Libyan rebels.
Images of Racism, Massacres and Brutality by “NATO rebels” emerging
After a week where communications are largely cut off by the NATO forces and the Al-Qaida allies in Libya, terrible images are now emerging. Mainstream television coverage however focused on a BBC “journalist” showing the inside of a security headquarters with signs on the walls in English (Libya uses only Arabic for all signs and the population all are Arabic speakers), and files on terrorists and criminals.
Viewers are wondering whether anything different would be found in British security and intelligence headquarters, aside from signs in Arabic on the wall saying “Her Majesty The Queen” — several sarcastic comments have been forthcoming on alternative media networks concerning the blatant contrived coverage of the now fully discredited western media networks.
The below images for example, are not being shown at all on TV news bulletins around the world:
CYNTHIA McKINNEY:
LIBYA – Resistance to US/NATO Conquest Continues
Global Research, August 27, 2011
International Action Center
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26231#.Tl05F6jvGDw.facebook
Under the most incredibly difficult conditions – including NATO bombing, mercenary landings, Special Forces operations and the destruction of civilian infrastructure – the heroic resistance to imperialist conquest in Libya has continued.
All the corporate media lies claiming mass surrender, the fleeing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, the arrest of his sons and more have turned out to be nothing but lies and psychological warfare. After 159 days of bombing, incredibly, the resistance continues.
The continued resistance also exposes the lie of the so-called democratic “rebel” forces – forces that have been set up by Britain, France and the U.S. to facilitate the imperialist invasion of the oil-rich country. Meanwhile, arms have been distributed by the Libyan government to the whole population – something a hated dictator would never do.
As in Iraq and Afghanistan, an arrogant declaration of U.S. victory and “mission accomplished” does not mean an end to local people’s resistance, which takes many forms. The Libyan people have heroically withstood not only half a year of bombing, but also a hail of racist corporate media propaganda seeking to portray the U.S.-NATO military machine, both preposterously and once again, as great white liberators.
While resistance continues in Libya, we in the center of U.S. imperialism must continue our resistance to the criminal war there – even as the prolonged economic war against poor and oppressed people continues within the U.S.
An IAC-organized truth tour featuring former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney – who traveled to Libya to be an eyewitness to the U.S.-NATO attack – has built major opposition meetings in 21 cities across the country. At each meeting, which was undertaken by a local coalition of forces, hundreds of anti-war and anti-imperialist and community activists attended.
These meetings against U.S. war in Libya have been the largest series of anti-war meetings held in years. At the same time, the IAC has been in the streets, organizing protests across the country.
The U.S. war in Libya is a first aggressive step in the expansion of wars of colonial conquest in Africa. It means new U.S. threats against Sudan and Somalia. It means more belligerent targeting of other countries in Middle East, especially Syria and Iran.
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Terrorist false flag operation in the works?
31.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/31-08-2011/118912-Terrorist_false_flag_operation_in_the_works-0/
Murderous terrorists on the rampage
The Undeclared War
by Konstantyn Scheglikov
The undeclared /silent/ war aimed for total elimination of the Libyan people continues. Libyans refused to serve former colonists. They obtained their freedom and they won’t give it up.
Since August 21st, joint squads of NATO and Al-Quaeda, with the support of air force and marine artillery, try to gain control of Tripoli, along with continuous attempts to take over other Libyan cities. The NATO strike force takes part in all attacks. In spite of all the above mentioned, resistance to fascist aggression in Libya only increases.
NATO continues massive air strikes for total destruction of Libyan cities. The goal is to wipe out Tripoli entirely as a punishment for resistance. All this aggression is hardly covered by western mass media.
Recently two “media bombs” struck Libya: first with about 50,000 rebels in underground tunnels beneath Tripoli and second-about Gaddafi’s planned terrorist attack on September 1st.
During guerrilla war when enemy air forces control all air space, it is impossible to host so many fugitives and transfer them anywhere in the city. Moreover, after all the atrocities committed by NATO and Al-Quaeda slayers, no one will capture them-hatred towards killers and dismemberers is enormous even with mostly calm and peaceful people. NATO will declare their collateral damage exactly as planned to pass it off as “Gaddafi regime atrocities.”
WWII started on September 1st 1939. Now it seems that the war in Libya is transferring to another phase. Ramadan is over and Muslim people now can fight with full strength.
Following that, NATO and Al-Quaeda gangs will be kicked out of these districts in Tripoli that they still hold because those hitmen don’t control the entire city. They only loot, destroy and kill. NATO simply gifted the city to these looters by appointing Abdul Al-Khakim Belkhadge as their keader calling him Tripoli’s “military governor.”
It is not a secret that this man is one of the heads of a terrorist group closely linked to Al-Quaeda. But soldiers and officers of NATO themselves also do a fair share of looting and killing. We know their capabilities thanks to reports from Afghanistan, Iraq, Abu-Greib and Guantanamo prisons.
NATO enforced the release from Tripoli jails of no less than 10,000 inmates–triggermen and criminals. They supplied them with arms and a chance for looting and elimination of civilians, creating total havoc. It is one of the leading methods of “war” practicced by the West.
This is always the method they use in combat-someone else does the dirty work, while they foment and encourage this activity in every victim country selected as targets in various conflicts
These criminals and triggermen are led by Al-Qaeda, which was given a blank cheque. And now Al-Qaeda triggermen under NATO cover and an information blockade are butchering everyone in Tripoli they can reach.
NATO encourages these actions. They are incorporated into NATO’s War-Leading Doctrine-to terrorize the habitants. NATO considers that this way they can force Libyans to surrender as well as betray others. But turnbacks are in a minority.
Militiamen and the Army are combating, they are deceiving NATO and Al Qaeda triggermen. Gaddafi himself and his sons and his squadrons move all over Tripoli, being unseen by the rats.
NATO is planning to commit a terrorist attack in Tripoli. What will it be, carpet bombing or mining buildings, we will know on September 1, 2011. They will destroy the city and its civilians, and they will destroy al-Qaeda militants to give a version of this attack as though it was committed by Gaddafi.
One can wonder whether al-Qaeda militants know that their masters from the CIA would not hesitate to sacrifice them and all those who had been released from prison and went into town to rob and kill. Will they be destroyed, mixed with the ground or burned?
Did you know that a terrorist attack in Tripoli by the hands of the Libyan army and militia is not possible at all? Unlike NATO, Gaddafi and his supporters will never kill innocent civilians. In fact, until now, despite the murders, not a single act of terrorism was enacted in Europe. Libyans can’t kill women, children and the elderly. Only those who call themselves civilized can.
NATO stops at nothing to carry out the seizure of natural resources and the territory of a once independent country. And only international support for this country can stop it.
To win over NATO, fortitude and the desire to win is enough, plus allying against this enemy of mankind. Our voluntary participation in the war against the terrorist threat will help Libya to win and see what happens next.
I think that after all the crimes committed by NATO, NATO functionaries should be called warlords, and their soldiers and officers – called gunmen, who are after all, outside of the law, and therefore they are legitimate targets for any reasonable person who wants to live in a free world, not a police state.
While confronting the Nazi aggression in Libya, we are just beginning to discover its true scale. The Libyan people have already tasted the delights of forcible democratization in combination with bombs and ethnic cleansing. And they said: “No!”
No pasaran! The enemy will not pass!
Conclusion
As we learned from media reports, NATO will try to get a UN Security Council resolution to legitimize the present situation with the introduction of these new groups of terrorists under the pretext of Al-Qaeda seizing power in Libya.
Of course, NATO troops will not distract al-Qaeda from slaughtering the local population after the resolution. Even now, they actively cooperate with each other. NATO transfers all the captured Libyans into the hands of al-Qaeda militants, who behead them to intimidate local residents.
All this is happening with the approval of NATO functionaries who think that other people, besides Westerners, are subhuman. They have infected their employees with this notion too, including soldiers. That is why NATO troops commit grave crimes against humanity in all countries where they are present.
NATO should not get the UN Security Council resolution on the occupation and destruction of the Libyan people, not under any pretext.
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Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
Images Emerging From Tripoli Show Carnage And Abuses By NATO Rebels
Posted: 2011/08/29
From: Mathaba http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628383
The photographs emerging from Tripoli after the Al-Qaida terrorists invaded with the support of NATO air strikes and bombing the way clear for them, show a carnage with an estimated more than 30,000 dead and mounting. NATO must immediately heed African Union demands and withdraw.
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by Stephen Lendman
View it yourself!
Images don’t lie, except NATO’s fake ones produced in Doha, Qatar and perhaps elsewhere on Hollywood sound stages.
For months, NATO marauders and rebel killers gang raped Libya – murdering, destroying, ravaging on the pretense of protecting.
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On August 22, Obama, a duplicitous unindicted war criminal, described the above images as “basic and joyful longing for human freedom.”
On August 25, Secretary of State Clinton, another unindicted war criminal, said “(t)he events in Libya this week have heartened the world.”
Let them and their conspiratorial allies go to Tripoli, Brega, Misrata and other ravaged Libyan cities and see for themselves.
Let them view streets filled with mangled corpses, blood, agony on the face of the living, destruction everywhere in sight, and human misery beyond what scales can measure.
Let them see firsthand the fruits of their victory. Let them taste, smell, and witness Tripoli’s growing humanitarian disaster.
On August 27, Russia Today reported “widespread shortages of fuel, water and electricity, and humanitarian aid supplies are yet to reach the country. The situation on the ground is very close to a catastrophe.”
“Tripoli is now facing severe shortages of running water, electricity, gasoline and medicine….The city’s municipal services are paralyzed.”
Destruction, garbage and maggot-infested corpses fill streets. Communicable and other disease outbreaks may follow, including from contaminated water, soil, and air.
Let them imagine hidden rage and the popular will to resist this and much more.
Let them consider what may, in fact, unfold ahead – continued resistance, struggle, and commitment for real freedom, not serfdom under NATO pillagers.
Not banker occupation. Not Big Oil plundering their resources. Not Washington, London and Paris deciding what’s “best” for Libya.
Not settling for servitude under monstrous rulers there to destroy their life force, spirit, and will to say this won’t stand!
Not surrendering on their knees. Choosing death on their feet instead, committed to struggle for real liberation. Willing to pay the price because the alternative is too grim to accept, and won’t be.
Through at least August 27, independent journalists remained trapped, virtual prisoners, inside Tripoli’s Corinthia Hotel, unable to provide real news and commentaries on this and other vital events in Tripoli and other areas.
Their reports are sorely missed.
On August 26, the International Action Center headlined, “LIBYA – Resistance to US/NATO Conquest Continues,” saying:
Despite NATO’s full force and the worst kind of insurgent banditry, “heroic resistance to imperialist conquests” continues.
“All the corporate media (deception) claiming mass surrender,” Gaddafi fleeing, his sons arrested, and other disinformation “turned out to be nothing but lies and psychological warfare.”
As in Iraq and Afghanistan, “arrogant(ly) declar(ing) victory and ‘mission accomplished’ ” won’t end popular struggles continuing in “many forms.”
Libyans “heroically withstood not only (months of bombing), but also….racist corporate media propaganda (portraying America and) NATO’s military machine….as great white liberators.”
Now they face pillaging on a grand scale. Responsibility to protect, in fact, disguises an opportunity to plunder, once killing and destruction end or at least subside.
Disaster capitalism is planned for Libya. Naomi Klein explained it in “The Shock Doctrine,” exposing the myth of free market democracy. She revealed how neoliberal pillaging exploits security threats, terror attacks, economic meltdowns, natural disasters, and wars.
Ahead expect social services ended, public ones privatized, and freedom on the chopping block to be lost. Planned is a new Western version of Libya, replacing a socially responsible one under Gaddafi.
It was a key reason why he was targeted for removal so corporate predators could swoop in to pick apart Libya’s corpse.
As a result, spoils will be divvied up among them. Then on to the next target, and ones after that until all Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia are colonized, occupied by one means or other, and plundered.
In fact, parasitic pillaging is Washington’s idea of free market triumphalism, including privatizing public enterprises, regulatory freedom, tax cuts for the rich, impoverishing the rest, exploiting them, corporate handouts, and militarized control for enforcement.
It supports the Bilderberg notion of a global classless society – a New World Order with rulers and serfs. No middle class, no unions, no democracy, no equity or justice, just empowered oligarchs, freed to do as they please under a universal legal system benefitting them.
It’s right out of Milton Friedman’s play book, articulated in his 1962 book, “Capitalism and Freedom,” saying:
“only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When a crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around…our basic function (is) to develop alternatives to existing policies (and be ready to roll them out when the) impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”
Friedman believed that government’s sole function is “to protect our freedom from (outside) enemies (and) our fellow-citizens. (It’s to) preserve law and order (as well as) enforce private contracts, (safeguard private property and) foster competitive markets.”
Everything else in public hands is socialism, an ideology he called blasphemous. He said markets work best unfettered of rules, regulations, onerous taxes, trade barriers, “entrenched interests,” human interference, and the best government is practically none.
In other words, anything government does business does better so let it. Ideas about democracy, social justice, and a caring society, he believed were verboten because they interfere with free-wheeling capitalism.
He said public wealth should be in private hands, profit accumulation unrestrained, corporate taxes abolished, and social services curtailed or ended. He believed “economic freedom is an end to itself (and) an indispensable means toward (achieving) political freedom.”
Applied to Libya, neither one is possible unless popular resistance prevents or regains what Washington and its allies plan to take, leaving nothing but servitude for Libyans.
That harsh reality has to be resisted, no matter what it takes or for how long. Hopefully, Libyans are up to the task. Given their rage against planned NATO occupation and plunder, very likely quitting is something they don’t contemplate.
Perhaps it’s the wild card Washington doesn’t expect. A previous article headlined, It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over. Another was titled, Libya: Keep the Freedom Flame Alive.
Remember John Lennon’s lyrics imagining “Nothing to kill or die for….Living life in peace, and “hop(ing) someday….the world will live as one.”
So why not if enough in it try.
Accomplishing tough things take a while. The impossible takes a little longer.
Step one is ending Friedman’s version of the best of all possible worlds, NATO, and corporate occupation of Washington.
Achieving that would be a major step toward freeing Libyans and perhaps finishing the job elsewhere for the kind of world everyone deserves.
It’s there for the taking with enough commitment.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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NATO and their rebels continue to reject African Union Peace and Security Council solutions
Posted: 2011/08/31
From: Mathaba
Libyan resistance
The news came as the NATO-allied militants, which were under the command of known Al-Qaida assets and foreign military special forces from Europe, have also been pounding the home town of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of Sirte, with massacres being reported from the bombing of the city.
NATO gave the town’s defenders until Saturday to surrender before wiping it out in the massive bombing including cruise missiles fired from British war ships violating African territorial waters..
However, the popular resistance leader Col Muammar Gaddafi is holding out with his exact whereabouts never known to NATO while the democratic legitimate government of Libya’s spokesman, Dr Moussa Ibrahim, rejected the ultimatum.
“No dignified honourable nation would accept an ultimatum from armed gangs,” he said in a telephone call to the foreign media on Monday night.
Mr Ibrahim reiterated Col Gaddafi’s offer to send his son Saadi to negotiate with rebels.
“It is not a civil war, it is not a conflict between two parties, it is the people who are defending themselves against the naked foreign aggression and attempt to occupy Africa’s wealthiest state and destroy the achievements and example of direct democracy, natural socialism and the armed defensive people”, director of the World Center for the Studies and Researches on The Green Book and the Third Universal Theory told Mathaba.
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the Assistant Secretary of the International People’s Conference Organisation, said.
This is widely seen as an attempt to legitimize armed gangs who seized power on behalf of a handful of bankrupt western states and to consolidate the destruction of Libya’s civil institutions and all memories of what has been built over the past 42 years, which turned Libya from the world’s poorest country to one with among the highest standard of human rights and living indexes in the world.
An estimated 80% of Tripoli’s population is without water and sanitation, due to being cut off and resisting the rebel occupation of the capital city, which has left more than 30,000 dead over the past 10 days alone since the start of the ground invasion launched from the sea via NATO special forces. However, the governments of the occupying forces claim that it is “Qaddafi forces” cutting supplies.
Ultimatum
On Tuesday, the UN Security Council, which is dominated by the aggressor states of Britain, France and the USA, let Britain release 1.86bn dinars ($1.55bn; £950m) in frozen assets totaling over $150 billion, to “buy aid for Libya” but an attempt by France and Germany to release an additional $8.6bn remains blocked by China and Russia as it is illegal to give these assets to any other than the legitimate and legal government of Libya, the General People’s Congress of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
Diplomats said that Russia was holding up Germany’s request to release about 1bn euros ($1.4bn) in seized assets and France’s move to unfreeze about five billion euros ($7.2bn) to buy humanitarian aid, Agence France Presse reports.
As terrorist rebel fighters converge on Muammar Qaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte after 5 days and nights of non-stop bombing, shooting all men who tried to leave the city at check points manned by European special forces along with the terrorist allied rebels, and gave the town’s defenders an ultimatum, telling them that they had until Saturday to surrender or face military force.
This has been rejected outright by the Libyan democratic government as nothing less than a withdrawal of all foreign troops and cessation of bombing, and addressing the African Union Peace and Security Council road map which was put forward and accepted earlier this year, but which the United Nations Security Council and the belligerent western states of NATO refuse to acknowledge.
It has also emerged that Col Gaddafi’s wife and three of his adult children fled to neighbouring Algeria in the early hours of Monday morning for preservation of the family, while the other sons remain in Tripoli fighting with the resistance against the foreign occupation.
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s whereabouts remain unknown to outsiders, with suggestions he may be in Sabha, Sirte or Bani Walid being made by western news agencies guessing. He could even be in Benghazi. He is surrounded by good people, away from those who were motivated by impure intentions. The evil-ones have been totally removed from his inner-circle.
Below: map showing the cities occupied by foreign special forces and terrorist rebels:
Rebel atrocities and ability to control Libya
Posted: 2011/08/31
From: Mathaba
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Mass graves, racist atrocities, prisoner abuse in rebel controlled areas
When a young soldier loyal to Colonel Moammar Gadhafi tried to surrender to rebel forces, he was shot down in a spray of bullets.
The rebels bandaged his legs and put him in a makeshift prison, at a former elementary school, where many others have stories that suggest the rebels fail to maintain order and respect the laws of armed conflict as they still try to control Tripoli.
Even western human rights groups have expressed “concern” about the behaviour of the rebels who stormed the city last week under NATO air cover and massive bombings, which have also razed Sirte to the ground.
More than 30,000 Libyan civilians have been massacred in the first week of the NATO-supported ground invasion, led by Al-Qaida and European special forces working side by side.
At least a dozen mass graves have been discovered so far in Tripoli, and reporters noticed many more bodies lying beside the road. However, their reports when sent to their news organizations are edited to claim that it was “Qaddafi’s forces” even in areas controlled by rebels.
The mass graves show Libyan defense force soldiers and pro Qaddafi civilians whose hands were tied behind their backs with plastic cuffs and executed.
Every new report of atrocities inflicted by the rebel’s side adds to concerns about whether they can ever keep control of the country.
The Jamahiriya continues to hold major towns, such as Sirte and Sabha with major areas in Tripoli still under government control while trouble for rebels is also now brewing in Benghazi.
Rebel atrocities are also causing concern among the foreign supporters of the transitional council; not only do they cause public-relations headaches, experts say, but the international role in arming and training the rebels also means responsibility for their actions.
“Individuals within the NATO command structure could be exposed to allegations of aiding and abetting,” said Stuart Hendin, a University of Ottawa scholar who specializes in armed conflict and human rights.
At least a few rebels appear to have kept their prisoners safe, giving them enough food, water, and medical care.
But tension prevailed in the rooms full of men, ordered to sit in tight rows, at the small wooden school desks previously occupied by young children at Victory School in Tripoli. Men with Kalashnikov rifles yelled at them: “Where is Qaddafi?” Outside, guards argued with each other and sprayed bullets at random in a tussle for control of an automatic weapon.
Some prisoners seem reluctant to speak about their experiences; one man gestured at a wound on the top of his head, and explained: “I fell while walking.”
A prisoner named Ali Hamid Abdulrahman, 22, said he worked as grocery clerk until Thursday, when he met a gang of rebels who beat him unconscious with sticks.
Munir Abdel Hafez, 28, says he served in the Libyan army until he was captured two days ago. He was so terrified of the rebels and what they would do that he tried to kill himself with two hand grenades, he said, but didn’t have time to pull the pins before they shot him. Another prisoner, Abu Bakr Ibrahim, 22, who described himself as a janitor, said rebels broke into his apartment in the early morning darkness and arrested him, splitting his head open with a rifle butt and accusing him of being a mercenary.
Most of the prisoners had dark skin and sub-Saharan features, as the rebels are punishing Black Libyans and other Africans for having benefited from the Jamahiriya which gave Blacks equal status, something Libyans particularly from the East and other Arabs resented.
One of the guards at the makeshift jail, Captain Gemal Al-Aib, 44, acknowledged to western media that poorly disciplined rebels may have injured some captives on their way to prison. Those were clearly the lucky ones, as the many mass graves in rebel controlled parts of Tripoli testify.
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Widespread racist murders in Libya at the hands of rebel forces revealed
Posted: 2011/08/30
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The rebels entered Tripoli, and so did their atrocities
By Madison Ruppert
The mainstream media is already engaging in widespread damage control in an attempt to mitigate the fallout of the reality of the situation in Libya and the withering NATO-sponsored narrative of post-Gaddafi Libya.
They are called “Gaddafi loyalists”, “Sub-Saharan mercenaries” and other phrases all pointing to the unfortunate reality that every single black person is now considered by the rebels to be a mercenary hired by Gaddafi.
The Libyan rebels and those carrying water for them in the Western media are now attempting to conceal the fact that they are now committing crimes against humanity in the active targeting of innocent black Libyans.
Some call the attacks “reprisals” or “revenge” but in reality they are hateful murders carried out by the al Qaeda-affiliated, Western backed and trained rebels.
These killings are irrefutably tied to the wildly racist and wholly unfounded claims that Gaddafi hired Sub-Saharan African mercenaries to murder his own people during the uprising.
Unfortunately for the painfully ignorant rebels and their Western compatriots, this is simply not true and has never been verified in any way.
As I covered in my article about the “waves of disinformation” emanating out of Libya, even the New York Times now is forced to admit that there is no substantiation for the claims whatsoever.
The rebels have alleged that they captured these so-called mercenaries but quite conveniently they have never been able to show a single international journalist these captured fighters.
Why? It is pretty simple: there are no black mercenaries that were being used to kill Libyans. In fact, there have been no verified instances of Gaddafi ordering the targeting of peaceful civilians in Libya.
This aspect of the false narrative was debunked so long ago that it seems most of the mainstream media has dispensed with it altogether.
However, the representatives of the undemocratic, racist (notice there are no black Libyan rebel leaders, interesting, isn’t it?) and thoroughly corrupt National Transitional Council continue to peddle these tired lies.
I was watching the Qatari propaganda outlet Al Jazeera earlier today and I witnessed a fascinating exchange between a homogenous panel of “experts” discussing the future of Libya and the relations with the African Union.
One member of the panel was a spokesman for the illegitimate Libyan NTC. This individual parroted every single thoroughly vetted and discredited rebel claim that they have been making since the first days of the conflict.
These included “mass rape”, enormous numbers of civilians allegedly killed by Gaddafi and the hiring of Sub-Saharan mercenaries to fight the people of Libya.
Despite the fact that all of these claims have remained unsubstantiated and some have been completely discredited altogether, the moderator and a professor at Oxford University all nodded in agreement and sat silently by while the rebel spokesman continued to spew pure propaganda and lies.
I was quite disgusted by this lack of journalistic integrity on the part of Al Jazeera. Then again, I shouldn’t be surprised that a station funded by the first Arab nation to drop bombs on innocent people in Libya would be propagandizing the ignorant members of their audience.
Regardless, I always seem to expect that non-Western news outlet might have a bit more integrity and honesty but I am continually disappointed.
The reality of the situation in Libya is ugly and every day that goes by it looks more like it is turning into another Iraq or Afghanistan.
The West seems to have a knack for turning people against themselves based on imaginary divisions of skin color, national origin or religious sect.
In Libya it is an especially dangerous situation because it is quite obvious by now that much of the rebel forces have been successfully convinced that black people are automatically Gaddafi mercenaries, even though this is completely untrue.
One must wonder who is directing these operations on the ground and perpetuating these myths. Could it be the many Anglo-American Special Forces troops that are admittedly on the ground in Arab disguises?
One cannot say that this is occuring with any amount of certainty, but one can say, based on historical precedent that this is likely the case. Take, for instance, in 2005 when undercover British soldiers were arrested by Iraqi police for allegedly murdering an Iraqi policeman. This is just one of many examples of similar events occurring in Iraq and elsewhere to raise tensions and destabilize the region.
While there is currently no evidence that proves foreign agents are behind inciting this racist violence, one can safely say that based on the past it would be hard to imagine that Western forces are not encouraging such actions.
The British news organization the Independent has published an article today that revealed some of the instances of this tragic race-based violence in Libya.
One man named Ahmed Bin Sabri told the Independent as he pulled back a tent flap, “Come and see. These are blacks, Africans, hired by Gaddafi, mercenaries.”
Speaking of the dead bodies put on display by Bin Sabri, the Independent aptly points out, “Why had an injured man receiving treatment been executed?”
Bin Sabri merely shrugged in response and the Independent writes, “It was seemingly incomprehensible to him that anything wrong had been done.”
This lack of understanding seems to be widespread among the Libyan rebels and their supporters across the world. It seems as if the rebels can do no wrong and when they are guilty of crimes against humanity they are merely advised to restrain themselves.
Why are the rebels not treated with the same hostility that Gaddafi and his forces were regarded with? Why is NATO not bombing rebels now?
If they actually had any intention of following the United Nations resolution that allows them to be there which mandates the protection of Libyan civilians, they would be attacking the rebels now.
But, of course, they are not. They will not, as the rebels have already made it clear that they will serve their Western masters that have allowed them to come to power through the establishment of a private bank and their sales of oil.
Interestingly, the Independent article still paints a somewhat biased picture of the aftermath of the “revolution” in Libya.
In Gaddafi’s latest broadcast he warned that the people of Tripoli would be targeted by revolutionaries and that women would be raped in their homes. The Independent calls these “unsubstantiated, as are similar claims by his official apologist, Moussa Ibrahim.”
I think that this is a little bit too early to make such generalizations. We have indeed seen that the Libyan rebels are targeting the people of Tripoli, so how exactly are these claims unsubstantiated?
In the next paragraph they claim that Gaddafi “has repeatedly unleashed appalling violence on its own people.”
Actually, these claims are just as unsubstantiated as Gaddafi’s, but since this is a Western media outlet one wouldn’t expect them to point that out, I guess.
However, one must give them credit for pointing out that “the mounting number of deaths of men from sub-Saharan Africa at the hands of the rebels – lynchings in many cases – raises disturbing questions about the opposition administration, the Transitional National Council (TNC) taking over as Libya’s government, and about western backing for it.”
This is an important passage because the West has indeed openly supported the non-democratically declared Libyan government without hesitation.
Other parts of the world, on the other hand, have not been so quick to endorse the murderous band of criminals affiliated with al Qaeda that the media lovingly calls the rebels.
Take the African Union, for example. They refused to recognize the Transitional Council until the violence ceased. The aforementioned segment on Al Jazeera included the rebel spokesman excoriating the AU for their prudent “wait and see” approach.
This shouldn’t be surprising as the rebels are attempting to draw together as much support as possible before the world begins to realize that their forces are committing and have committed war crimes throughout the uprising.
Tripoli is not the only city that has been marred by racist violence at the hands of rebel forces in Libya.
Amnesty International has reported that similar acts of brutality have been committed in the coastal city of Zawiyah. They have reported that black Sub-Saharan African migrant workers have been killed there just as they have throughout Libya since the uprising started.
The rebel attempts at explaining why they have been summarily executing black people who they suspect to be mercenaries are laughable at best.
When the Independent posed this question, “if the men had been killed in action, why did they have their hands tied behind their back?” A rebel fighter from Misrata named Mushab Abdullah said, “Maybe they were injured, and they had to be brought to this hospital and the handcuffs were to stop them from attacking. And then something went wrong.”
The rebels are clearly lacking guidance and sound decision-making skills. Just look at the case of Ahmed Safar Warfalla, a man accused of spreading Gaddafi propaganda. He told the Independent, “They accuse me of a crime, but this is what I did” […] taking out a copy of the Koran from his pocket and pointing it to the sky. “Allah and Libya,” he shouted. “They have Nato technology? This is Arab, Muslim technology. We shall not be defeated.”
I was unaware that the Koran was Gaddafi propaganda but apparently even the rebel militia realized that this claim was a bit farfetched and allegedly decided to let Warfalla go free, because, “the man is mad”.
To be fair, Amnesty International has also reported that pro-Gaddafi forces have killed detainees at two camps in Tripoli where 160 prisoners attempted to flee. Amnesty International says that they have “uncovered evidence” of this and that 23 prisoners were able to flee successfully.
A bunker in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte came under fire from cruise missiles launched by RAF Tornado GR4 bombers, about which a rebel spokesman said, “Maybe the mercenaries there will run away.”
Again, the rebels seem to hold on to the delusion that there is no way a single Libyan could actually support Gaddafi and thus the only people still loyal to the now-underground leader are mercenaries. This is far from the truth and has been proven as such time and time again.
Even the Washington Post admitted that some of the deaths in Tripoli do not seem like normal battlefield deaths.
They report, “not all of them looked like ordinary battlefield deaths.” Speaking of the dead bodies left in the wake of the attack on Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound in Tripoli. “Two dead men lay face down on the grass, their hands bound behind their backs with plastic cuffs.”
I’m not sure how that could be anything other than a summary execution but I’m sure a rebel could come up with some legitimate explanation about how “something happened.”
The Amnesty International researcher for Libya, Diana Eltahawy told the Washington Post that many of the Sub-Saharan African detainees in Zawiyah were migrant workers who were “taken at gunpoint from their homes, workplaces and the street on account of their skin color”.
The Washington Post claims that the civilian leadership of the rebel forces are attempting to stop their forces from committing “revenge attacks” but this is just silly seeing as they continue unabated and have no sign of ending any time soon.
The fact that the attacks are largely based on skin color does not bode well, as it is not as if one day their skin color will change and they can go back to business as usual.
All of this racially based hatred among rebels is not going to go away on its own. The hypocritical treatment of these murders is just another point in case proving that NATO and the West have no interest in protecting civilians but instead are interested in regime change and putting stooges in power who will serve their Western masters like Gaddafi would not.
More alternative news at End the Lie
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Notes From Tripoli
http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb300811.htm
By Franklin Lamb
30 August, 2011
Countercurrents.org
Tripoli Journal in Which Franklin Lamb Shields a Nigerian from Rebel Racists and Dreams of Chadian Ladies
Tripoli: My roommate left our hotel and hopefully Libya last night for his village near Arlit, Niger thanks to the assistance of one of Tripoli’s Christian Churches. I shall miss him a lot.
It was a recently formed human rights group from the Coptic Orthodox (Egyptian) Church in Tripoli, working to protect blacks from the still lawless Tripoli streets that enabled my roommate to depart this hotel. The Coptic Church, according to their Prelate here, has the largest Christian communion in Libya with normally 60,000 parishioners and has roots in Libya going back hundreds of years before the Arabs spread westward from Egypt.
Mohammad departed none too soon since “security personnel” arrived at the Corinthia Hotel close to 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon, with gunmen and two “Generals” in fine new uniforms complete with epaulets. Their surprise visit was to check the hotel rooms for Gaddafi supporters. They claimed they had received “reports.”
The Copts did a good job in getting Mohammad to safety. Most observers here agree that for the immediate future there will be a whirlwind of wild speculation, accusations and even some serious examination of Moammar Gaddafi’s leadership of Libya these past four decades. One fact however is incontrovertible to this observer and it is that under Gaddafi, Christians, whether Roman Catholic, Anglican Catholic, Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox or Greek Orthodox — the main Christian sects here — have been well treated and allowed virtually complete freedom to practice their beliefs and to celebrate their traditions with some restrictions placed on campaigns to proselytize Muslims of which they have not been any since the Mormons and the “Way of the Cross” evangelicals left some years back.
Most of the churches here currently have volunteers working to help their Muslim sisters and brothers during this cataclysmic period. My friend Mohammad is one whose life they may have saved.
Mohammad and I have been secretly sharing my room for more than a week since I accidently discovered him hiding and trembling in the hotel’s garden bushes shortly after the rebel entrance into Tripoli. It was easy to calm Mohammad down and I brought him a shirt from my room, as his was filthy.
Mohammad is a black African, devout Muslim, and one fine man. When I saw him looking up at me and trembling my thoughts instantly turned to a 21-year-old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and the date could have been June 21, 1964. That was when Neshoba County’s law enforcement and the Ku Klux Klan hunted blacks to kill and did kill James and his white companions Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
The reason Mohammad was hiding outside the Corinthia hotel is that he feared for his life as so many, if not most, black Africans and black Libyans (roughly one third of Libya’s population) do these days. Bands of young rebel “freedom fighters” are still roaming some of Tripoli’s streets, itching it seems, to kill some “African mercenaries”, meaning, it appears, any black man they can find. Although the apparently politically contrived rumors of African mercenaries raping Libyan women which helped NATO get the UN Security Council to green light its bombing and regime change campaign, have been debunked as fake by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and a UN fact finding group, some of the macho young rebels in Libya still insist the smear campaign is true.
Mohammad explained to me that he was never a fighter for anyone in Libya but rather that his employment background, like his father, uncles and brothers, was in Niger’s uranium mines which only the past few years have begun to recover from the late 1980’s collapse. Mohammad’s brother Said was killed in the Tuareg Rebellion of the 1990’s and his father sent Mohammad to Libya to work in construction.
I agreed with Mohammad that he could stay secretly with me until we could get him into safe hands. The hotel has never been the wiser to my knowledge although my friend Ismail, who works behind the front desk when he is not doing a dozen other jobs during his frequent 16 hour shifts, probably suspected something was going on because he would give me knowing glances as I disappeared toward the elevator with a table cloth covering a big plate of food and contrary to hotel rules of no hotel kitchen food in the rooms. Luckily Ismail is a black Libyan and, if he knew, he did not rat us out.
With no security at our hotel until the day before yesterday and now packed with journalists, Mohammad took extra precautions and never left room # 1185 except for one night when someone from the Coptic Church came to meet with him in another room and I gave his floor spot to a French activist from Beirut whose boat to Alexandria was delayed again.
Housekeeping, no longer exists at this hotel, and so no one has entered my room for almost two weeks since the staff fled. In any case Mohammad and I had a good cover story ready in case events demanded one. Mohammad, we would explain if caught, was a driver for the Italian Embassy before the Italians temporarily pulled up stakes back in March.
I got pretty good at fixing plates of food for Mohammad from the nightly “Iftar buffet.” Because we are both fasting for Ramadan, smuggling Mohammad food only once a day was easy enough, especially as some of the new hotel guests, being journalists from the Rixos Hotel or rushing here to cover the “Fall of Tripoli”, are now in the habit of fixing their dinner plates and sitting around the abandoned hotel restaurants. This way they have more space and privacy from the cramped conditions in the rapidly deteriorating “dining room” or their working area.
Personally, this Ramadan, the Iftar feast no longer has appeal for me because we have the very same food every Iftar which now comes almost entirely from cans. At noon today, the Hotel Front Desk posted the most recent Dear Guest Notice. It reads: “Dear Guests: Please be advised that there will be no lunch today due to absence of water supply in the Hotel. We hope for a water delivery this afternoon and hope to serve dinner tonight at 18:30. Thank you. The Corinthia Hotel Management.” No water arrived and when I and an American lady who works for the Sunday Times returned from driving thru Tripoli’s center, at 7:50 p.m. just in time for Iftar, mine consisted of walking through the dining area picking leftover food bits from plates where diners had eaten and left.
Before Mohammad left, he helped me with my infected leg and told me about a nearby Dr. which made me happy since no others have been available this past week. But as dear readers may come to understand, I soon became reluctant to seek treatment from the doctor who Mohammad recommended although by very great coincidence I have known her wonderful granddaughter, an Arabic-English language interpreter named Aya, for several weeks.
My most recent best bet for immediate medical assistance was my new friend Dr. XX, “Consultant Urological Surgeon” from the British Medical Center here in Tripoli (formerly the Swiss Medical Center until Hannibal Gaddafi had that unfortunate problem with Swiss authorities last winter and his Dad wanted to abolish Switzerland and all things Swiss), hence the fast name change on the Clinic building. Dr. XX is from New Delhi but studied in England and now normally resides in Sheffield, England. He spent the past year working here in Libya, loves the people and the country and was most willing to help me. The problem was that he had to rush to catch the boat out of here for Malta yesterday. Anyhow, he said I had a couple of days left before I would possibly have major leg problems and he gave me the phone numbers of two of his colleagues, one an Indian dentist. So far the phones still don’t work well in Tripoli.
Just a word of background about Dr. Fatima, recommended by Mohammad now that I am resigned to get treatment late today, come what may, following my brief meeting with the good Dr. this morning.
Dr. Fatima is very thin, quite tall, has an unusually large head and a red scarf covers part of her face which is stained blue. Aya explained that while Dr. Fatima is by background Muslim, her Saharan tribe retains some pre-Islamic rites and customs and is genealogically connected with the Delvar Nar. Yet Aya also told me that Fatma’s tribe claims that they are linked with the Angels mentioned in Luke 24:4 where Christ’s apostle describes the scene at Jesus’s tomb when two angels appeared to Mary. Anyhow….
Aya says Dr. Fatima is capable of teleportation, telekinesis and ESP and while I don’t need any of that stuff just now, but could later, Dr. Fatima fortunately is also expert in Saharan medicine including leg infections. So the good news is that I am very soon to be in experienced medical hands. I have no doubt about that and I shall always be grateful to my friend Mohammad for the referral.
The down side may be what Aya told me about what her grandmother must do to make me well. This may be the tough part for someone who nearly collapses if some nurse even hints that she wants to stick a needle in me. Aspirin is about the only medicine I have ever taken because my half German sainted Mother did not believe in her large brood getting sick and we all minded her over the years.
Dr. Fatima’s “clinic” is in the Medina not far from my Hotel and the area is coming back to life as some citizens are beginning to peek out and emerge from their homes. Hundreds of shops and outdoor tables with all kinds of new and used goods have been closed for more than a week. Even the lovely Chadian hospitality ladies who I have good reason to believe rent themselves from dirt floor rooms off the ancient streets of the medina for ten Libyan dinars an hour (about $8) or 16 dinar ($ 12.80) for two hostesses, (three additional dinars per hour for air conditioning in the room ) have vanished. This fact alone, according to one of the guys from the UN delegation that ten days ago got permission from NATO to fly from Tripoli airport to Tunis for R & R and to assess their “findings,” is reason enough for the UNSC to immediately end NATO’s carnage in Libya.
I admit to being a little apprehensive because Aya told me one of the Chadian ladies, who recently returned and works as a nurse for Dr. Fatima, must first slice my wound in narrow lines and then rub and wash it thoroughly with Saharan sand and some nasty looking green paste of Sarahan vegetation and insect fluids.
While I sat thinking how that is going to feel, Aya seems to have read my expression and assures me that everything will be ok because her granny also makes a strong alcoholic drink out of Saharan cactus and I will drink some and feel fine.
“Well, why not we just use that drink rather than sand to cleanse the wound”? I ask. Aya gave me one of her, “You stupid American!” glances that communicates, “Please don’t bother to question we who know what’s best for you!”
Aya also promises me that after my “treatment” the now returning Chadian ladies will take care of me for the expected three-day recovery period. I immediately feel better.
If fate rules that these next few days in fact comprise my last chapter, and never having had much interest in being with virgins, the company of these angels will certainly be as close to Heaven as this hayseed from rural Oregon will likely get
Franklin Lamb is in Libya.
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Ajoutée par Blackseetornado le 1 mars 2011
First US Marines are in Libya. This is a handy video from Mohammad in Daryanah/Libya. 25 km east of Banghazi. I take this video at 17.00 European time via MSN. He said the Marines are come in the morning. Neerly 250 of them. Nobody knows that the US Army go in Libya…..
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Une base militaire israélienne en Libye près des frontières algériennes – on Dailymotion
http://www.dailymotion.com
Une base militaire israélienne bientôt aux frontières de l’Algérie ! – Document ultra-conidentiel…. Une base militaire israélienne bientôt aux frontières de l’Algérie ! – Document ultra-conidentiel….
Les services secrets ukrainiens ont obtenu un document ultra-confidentiel, avant même sa diffusion sur la chaîne de télévision officielle libyenne Al Jamahiriya et sa publication par le journal israélien Yediot Aharonot. Ce document révèle la signature d’un accord conclu entre le Conseil National de Transition libyen (CNT) et Israël, pour l’installation d’une base militaire israélienne aux Monts Verts en Libye, au cas où les insurgés arriveraient au pouvoir. Le document en question, portant l’entête « Israel Defense Forces », note qu’en contrepartie Israël s’engage à obtenir la multiplication des frappes aériennes de l’OTAN contre les forces gouvernementales libyennes, et l’adhésion de pays arabes à la cause du CNT libyen.
http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/05/19/2499744_une-base-militaire-israelienne-bientot-aux-frontieres-de-l-algerie-document-ultra-conidentiel.html
A military base of the Israelis will soon be on the borders of Algeria! -Document ultra-conidentiel….
The Ukrainian secret service has obtained an ultra-confidentiel document, before even broadcast on television of the official Al Jamahiriya network, and its publication by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot. This document shows the signature of an agreement concluded between the National Council of Transition Libyan (CNT) and Israel, for the installation of an Israeli military base in the green mountains in Libya, where the insurgents have come to power. The document in question, which goes under the heading “Israel Defense Forces”, notes that in return, Israel is committed to give many multiplications of air strikes through NATO against the Loyalist Libyan Government forces, and also give consession to the Arab countries fighting with the cause of the Libyan CNT.
http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/05/19/2499744_une-base-militaire-israelienne-bientot-aux-Frontieres-de-l-Algerie-document-ultra-conidentiel.html
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We are sad to announce the martyrdom of Abdul Quadir al-Baghdadi Secretary General of People’s Committee for Education who was slaughtered with a knife in a suburb of Tripoli at the hands of rebels and NATO heretics…
NATO’s peaceful and sustainable political solution: turn Tripoli into a slaughterhouse
Posted: 2011/08/31
From: Mathaba
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=628427
Human rights investigations
HRI, 28 August 2011
NATO has been described as the rebel air force, but it is more accurate to describe the rebels as NATO’s ground forces. The National Transitional Council has little independence and NATO controls the rebel ground forces, arms them, trains them, provides advisers, provides massive fire support and decides on strategy. NATO controls the air and sea and little moves on the ground without NATO’s permission.
As the rebel fighters took Zawiya, NATO faced a last-minute appeal from the Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim for a negotiated solution. The precise circumstances that led to the decision to proceed with the attack on the capital, with the inevitable humanitarian disaster that followed are uncertain, but the decisions made will be subject to examination.
It is worth having a look at the footage of Muammar Gaddafi touring the capital, to appreciate what a beautiful, well-developed city Tripoli had become and also to understand some of the obvious popular support he enjoys in that city:
Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama and the NATO high command share the belief in the efficacy of violence combined with vigorous prosecution of the information war is the best way forward. NATO, of course, has no interest in fulfilling UN Security Council Resolution 1973 which established the no fly zone and mandate to protect civilians with
“the aim of facilitating dialogue to lead to the political reforms necessary to find a peaceful and sustainable solution”
In making their decision the western leaders would have been encouraged by the enthusistic participation of the western media in producing pro-war propaganda, who faithfully and uncritically report information provided by NATO, government spokespeople and intelligence sources. Anything which may seriously threaten the pro-war narrative is either not reported or downplayed (e.g. rebel atrocities, ethnic cleansing of Misrata and Tawergha, RAF massacre in Zlitan, peace initiatives, support for Gadaffi regime from Libyan people).
Support for Admiral Stavridis’ information war was also provided by ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo who has been a very enthusiastic participant in NATO psy-ops.
In any case, in an attack coordinated by NATO, rebels from the Western Mountains entered Tripoli from the west and ships delivered fighters from Misrata, fresh from ethnically cleansing Tawergha, into the city. NATO airstrikes were launched against the residential area of Abu Salim.
The short-term results from a humanitarian perspective were predictable: widespread destruction, looting, a collapse of public services, executions, widespread death and destruction and the deaths of hundreds of civilians (particularly black people), militia and fighters on both sides. As AP reports:
The streets where rebel fighters bombarded snipers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi were strewn with bullet-ridden corpses from both sides Thursday. Streams of blood ran down the gutters and turned sewers red.
The long-term consequences of this are unpredictable, but Sirte on the coast and Sabha in the south-west are next to be turned into slaughter-houses and how long guerrilla warfare and other violence will continue is anyone’s guess.
HRI supports the African Union’s continued attempts, to find a peaceful and sustainable solution which is inclusive of all parties to the conflict.
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Libya, the Truth and the international community
31.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/31-08-2011/118919-libya_truth-0/
Today, August 31, we are on the eve of the September 1 Al-Fateh Revolution which brought Muammar al-Qathafi to power in a bloodless coup which installed the world’s first Jamahiriya, or government through People’s Congresses. The tremendous support behind Colonel Gaddafi in the international community is a telling comment on where people stand.
Muammar al-Qathafi is, in one word, a genius.
His Jamahiriya system of government is perhaps the purest form of governance and its sheer simplicity means it can be implemented in any society, anywhere on Earth. In essence, it is government based on people’s congresses – government by the people for the people, in a world in which the resources belong to all, equally. It is the real village, implemented globally, understanding that the human being functions best when living and cooperating in small communities.
Now that paragraph will taste of poison for the clique of corporate elitists who gravitate around the centres of power, using the media and NATO to manipulate public opinion and where possible, implant their regimes and that paragraph also explains the Libya story in a nutshell.
And we also see in this crisis exactly where our world stands. International law exists but is not implemented. NATO has broken all the rules in the book in Libya and has rendered itself and its representatives liable for prosecution – something which is at present in the pipeline. On one side of the divide, the Satanic and dark forces of NATO and on the other side, those who see themselves as the guardians of what is right and good and just. It is good versus evil, it is God versus Satan, it is about implementing international law.
For those who justify NATO’s act of aggression by calling “Gaddafi” a “dictator”, some home truths. Muammar al-Qathafi was to receive a humanitarian prize in March for his record, he was the one to speak out against the more conservative practices in Islam, who spoke out against the killing of homosexuals or the stoning of women. The Jamahiriya system is the antithesis of a dictatorship. What dictator educates his people and pays for them to study abroad?
Libya’s literacy rate improved from ten per cent to ninety per cent under “Gaddafi” and under his guidance the country rose from the poorest in the world to the richest in Africa. Those who understand anything about geopolitical events know that this is an amazing achievement, in itself, within four decades.
Colonel Gaddafi also leaves his legacy, which is the Green Book, which explains his philosophy and his political system – one which should at least be fundamental reading in all schools and one whose Legacy will be eternalised by the Internationalisation of the Jamahiriya, something which is already taking place and which has tens of thousands of followers around the world. Tomorrow, there will be millions.
Colonel Gaddafi can also sit back and look at his enemies today and laugh. True, he has been fighting, and continues to fight, against the most powerful military organization in the world for six months and any progress his enemy made, was done by breaching the rules of engagement, each and every one of them. So that is hardly “winning”. But he is the dream-maker behind the African Union, he stands for African Unity and against imperialism, he stands for a united Africa, Africa for Africans, African problems solved by Africans for Africans, and African resources for African people. More than this, his pan-African projects saw Africans freed from the yolk of imperialist tyranny, having their own funding for their own programmes without having to depend on western sources which provided goods, yet with enormous tails of interest payments attached.
What his enemies want we saw very clearly – an international “conference” was called last week in which lines were yet again drawn on maps and in which the colonial powers literally divided among them Libya’s spoils, even before the conflict is over. As for the “rebels” themselves, what are they and what do they want?
Western sources took delight in the freeing of prisoners without bothering to research what they had done or why they were there. Serial rapists, murderers and common criminals now parade as “rebels”, a movement which included a bunch of political opportunists carefully groomed by the French, British and Italians, a few liberals, Islamic fundamentalists (as we shall soon see more clearly), a lot of mercenaries from abroad and in essence, a load of day-trippers who raced into a conflict with machine gun blazing in the morning before driving home to have dinner at night.
Looters, rapists, murderers. Terrorists, yes – civilians, no. Militarily capacitated by a savage and murderous NATO bombing campaign, these people may or may not eventually dismantle the Jamahiriya in Libya but they will not destroy it as a system. The Legacy is well protected and Muammar al-Qathafi knows this.
That is why Muammar al-Qathafi can look back with satisfaction over what he has achieved and why Messrs. Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy will spend the rest of their pathetic, wasteful and vapid lives looking over their shoulders or wondering who it might be every time there is a ring at the doorbell, leaving no legacy at all except a failed attempt to govern their own countries, while they stood behind the most blatant and flagrant violation of the law in recent history. And, worse, they and their NATO machine have the blood of Libyan children on their hands. If they had an iota of decency they would hear these screams ringing in their ears all night every night and the more they tried to block them out, the louder they would become.
That is why so many people in the international community support Muammar al-Qathafi. Those of us who have actually been to Libya and who have knowledge of the country understand very well where the hearts and minds of these people are – with what is right and just and good.
As for the hearts and minds of NATO and those who support them, well, there are always those who will sell their souls to the Devil. However, there is something higher than us, and to whom we will inevitably present ourselves for judgement when the day comes. Muammar al-Qathafi knows where he is going, and I suspect Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy, deep down, know where they are going too.
For those with any doubts after a bombardment of lies from the western media, research Green Book, Jamahiriya and Gaddafi projects in Africa.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
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# 42d ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBYAN REVOLUTION OF “FATEH OF SEPTEMBER 1ST” / WITH THE LIBYAN PEOPLE AND MUAMMAR GADDAFI: LIBYAN RESISTANCE TO US/NATO CONQUEST CONTINUES !
SEPTEMBER 1, 1969 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
ELAC-RESISTANCE – ALAC – MEDD-RCM – PCN-NCP
Under the most incredibly difficult conditions – including NATO bombing, media and psychological war, mercenary landings, Special Forces operations and the destruction of civilian infrastructure – the heroic resistance to imperialist conquest in Libya has continued.
All the Western NATO’s media lies claiming “mass surrender”, the “fleeing of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi”, the “arrest of his sons” and more and more have turned out to be nothing but lies and psychological warfare. After six months of bombing, incredibly, the Libyan Resistance continues.
The continued Resistance also exposes the lie of the so-called democratic “rebel” forces – forces that have been set up – of Secret services “Libyans” in exile and Islamists, including Al Qaida djihadists – by Britain, France and the U.S. to facilitate the imperialist invasion of the oil-rich country. Meanwhile, arms have been distributed by the Libyan government to the whole population – something a hated dictator would never do.
As in Iraq and Afghanistan, an arrogant declaration of U.S./NATO victory and “mission accomplished” does not mean an end to local people’s resistance, which takes many forms. The Libyan people have heroically withstood not only half a year of bombing, but also a hail of racist NATO’s media propaganda seeking to portray the U.S.-NATO military machine, both preposterously and once again, as great white liberators.
While resistance continues in Libya, we in Europe, in the center of U.S./NATO imperialism, as in Russia and in Africa must continue our resistance to the criminal wars in Libya, Eurasia, Middle-East and Africa.
The U.S. war in Libya is a first aggressive step in the expansion of wars of colonial conquest in Africa, Middle-East and Caucasus. It means new U.S./NATO threats against Algeria, Sudan and Somalia. It means more belligerent targeting of other countries in Middle East, especially Syria.
With Gaddafi and the Libyan people,
RESISTANCE, mobilization !
ELAC-RESISTANCE / Euro-Libyan Action Committees
ALAC / African-Libyan Action Committees
MEDD-RCM / Movement for European Direct Democracy (Paneuropean Network of the Libyan Revolutionnary Committees Movement)
PCN-NCP
WARNING !!!
Many of the wounded and dead areas in the Sirte and Bani Walid remai…ned under the rubble as a result of the brutal bombing of the crusader alliance could not get them out or punishment taken by the people not to stop the bombing and targeting aircraft and helicopters Crusade everything that moves …That the people of Sirte and Bani Walid calling the world’s humanitarian appeal for help to stop the bombing cowardly unjust to remove the civilians detained under the rubble before it is too late, especially as the number in the hundreds …Spread the news all the pages in all languages …
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# WHY WE SUPPORT GADDAFI’ S REVOLUTION AND TODAY THE LIBYAN RESISTANCE!
By Luc MICHEL
ELAC-RESISTANCE – ALAC – MEDD-RCM – PCN-NCP
In the evening of 31 August 1969, nearly without effusion of blood, a small group of officers succeeded in overthrowing the plutocratic and philo-American regime of the old king Idriss SENOUSSI. The conspirators are 12 in number. They present themselves as members of a “Council of Command of the Revolution” (CCR). At the head of the CCR, a young 27-year-old captain (he will be promoted colonel a few days later), Muammar Gadhafi. The CCR was to structure itself into a political experiment of direct democracy: “The Third Universal Theory”. Inspired both by PAN-ARABISM inherited from NASSER, by a reformist Islam, anti-fundamentalist, and by a popular socialism, the “Third Universal Theory” (THE GREEN BOOK of Gadhafi) is a great synthesis of a revolutionary Nationalism and of a self-managing Socialism.
Three decades later, the Revolution is accomplished! Master of its destiny within the framework of a direct democracy, the Libyan people is happy and lives in the dignity.
Far from the flashy luxury of oil-monarchs, allies of Washington, far from the Arab mass poverty, the wealths of oil come directly to them. In a world where pullulate generals-presidents and marshals-dictators, GADHAFI is still a colonel. And his revolution, theorized under the name of “Third universal theory” in his GREEN BOOK, inspires the revolutionaries of the four continents.
Under the impulse of the Jamahiriya, the State of masses, Libya became a Great Nation at the people’s service. Organized in “popular committees” and in “popular basis’ committees”, the direct democracy is at the order of the Libyan politics. In that way, Libya demonstrates faced with the western presumptuousness and imperialism that the true democracy is not there where “one” would want to let believe it, that parliamentarism of the capitalistic government is an anti-democratic fraud. Besides, Libya is in the vanguard of social progress in a region where the multinational and the capitalistic trusts enrich oil-kingdoms and regimes subservient to the USA and anti-democratic. Libya is not only an example for the whole Arab people and the African masses, but also for all real democrats.
The “Third Universal Theory”, reveals a political realist, not a FANTASY. In fact, the democratic principle is purged of defects, peculiar to the uncertainty of the different theoreticians of the revolution… The “GREEN BOOK” is a tool of a real socialism and for the right of nations to self-determination. The Libyan Jamahirya, that “republic of the masses”, which broke with the fetishism of bourgeois parliamentarism, is a pilot-experiment, in particular for the supporters of the Direct Democracy in Europe, Africa and in Latin America.
That is what the society of “the homo Oeconomicus” cannot stand and it is why the dictatorship of the new Carthage and its western lackeys apply towards the “Arab Libyan Jamahiriya” a policy of constant aggression.
In a big media bazaar, the “LOCKERBIE” and “UTA DC10” affairs were in this context a foul pretext to penalize revolutionary Libya, unique direct Democracy. The country has been hit during more than ten years by an unjustified embargo, intended to break its people and to plunge it into poverty, insidious genocide renewed afterwards in Iraq. Nothing changed it!
And the one the western propaganda qualifies as a “terrorist” became the wise man of Africa, towards whom turn the elites of a continent tired of neocolonialism and civil wars fueled by imperialism.
After NASSER, Gadhafi wanted to organize and to structure only a Great United Arab Nation. It is necessary to specify that at the conclusion of each of the Union treaties proposed by Libya, imperialism exerted financial and political pressures on the contacted countries. But for 15 years, in front of the enormous difficulties of the Arab project, the African unity had become the new work of the Jamahiriya. And the first successes have been already materialized.
Because the guide of the Libyan Revolution, after having ploughed the sea to tempt to make the pan-Arab unity, the dream of his youth, turned himself pragmatically towards the Pan-African unity and fought with success for the ” United States of Africa “. A project and no more a dream, turned towards the 21st century and oriented towards the binding with the European union and towards peace and unity between the peoples of the Mediterranean.
This was intolerable to the American-Zionist imperialism and the new world order made in US / NATO.
TRIPOLI IS INDEED A TRIPLE CHALLENGE FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND THE U.S. HEGEMONY.
First, an ideological challenge.
Here reigns a system of Direct Democracy where the people took over its administration. This is intolerable in a world where America intends to impose parliamentary democracy, including and starting in the Arab world. This is the famous project of “Greater Middle East”, where George Bush failed. Obama is making another attempt at it.
The second challenge for Libya is a geopolitical challenge.
Libya is a bridge between the European unification and the unification of Africa. It is a peaceful bridge. Gaddafi’s vision, is not the war of civilizations. Gaddafi’s vision is the vision of the dialogue of peoples and cultures. In a world where America wants to impose its law again, this worldview is unbearable.
Finally, Libya is an Arab challenge.
Although Colonel Gaddafi has since the 90s moved towards the African unification, he is still a strong moral conscience in the Arab world. When U.S. imperialism with its Persian and Zionist allies occupied Iraq, Colonel Gaddafi was the only one of the Arab heads of state to have had a dignified and combative attitude. At the martyrdom of President Saddam Hussein, the only legitimate president of Iraq, Libya declared three days of national mourning. It raised martyr Saddam Hussein to the dignity of a martyr of the nation like Emir Omar Mukhtar, the head of the Libyan resistance to imperialism and Italian fascism.
The answer to this triple challenge was the coup of NATO on February 15, 2011, and after its failure, the military aggression and from August 21 the direct invasion.
But Gaddafi and the Libyan people did not collapse and resist. Despite six months of bombing and war carried out directly by the forces of NATO and the United States and their Islamist-monarchist militia auxiliaries of the pseudo- NTC.
It is this untameable man and the Revolution that he guides that we have supported without fail since a quarter of century, in the good and the bad days. Because GADDAFI is with the CHE the figurehead of the revolutionary committed in the anti-imperialistic fight. Because his fight for the dignity and the peoples’cause is ours. And also because the “Third universal theory”, doctrine of the Pan-African unity, with its “direct democracy” – of which the application in Libya is a precious pilot experiment –, and our “European Communitarianism”, doctrine of the European unification that announces the universal state, are sisters and stem from the same will of justice and equity, carried by the same will of national and social liberation.
The Libyan Revolution is 42 years old. It is fighting for its very existence.
It has seen coups, aggressions, conspiracy. But it is the march of history and it fights!
We are with it, no matter what will happen. RESISTANCE!
With Gaddafi and the Libyan people,
RESISTANCE, mobilisation !
Luc MICHEL
ELAC-RESISTANCE / Euro-Libyan Action Committees
ALAC / African-Libyan Action Committees
MEDD-RCM / Movement for European Direct Democracy (Paneuropean Network of the Libyan Revolutionary Committees Movement)
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Tripoli: Media blackout, why?
28.08.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/28-08-2011/118880-tripoli_media-0/
The NATO approach to freedom of expression is threatening independent journalists, closing social network accounts, blocking Twitter and hacking into websites. For some reason it must be. Despite these Fascist policies, those who have felt millions of people gathering around us, desperate for information, have a duty to say what is going on.
For all of those who have been contacting me daily, asking for new information, desperate to hear some news in the midst of NATO’s media blackout and lies about how the “Gaddafy regime collapsed”, in first place, God Bless you and in second place, indeed you represent the hearts and minds of the international community. Of that I have no doubt. From Manila to Moscow, Russia, where according to a recent poll 91% of the population supports Muammar al-Qathafi, from Sydney to Strasbourg, from Brasilia to Bangkok.
For all these good people, who respect international law and who abhor NATO’s act of butchery followed by thieving of a sovereign nation’s resources, even before the fight is over, who abhor NATO’s supporting of Al-Qaeda elements and backing of racist thugs who slaughtered Negroes in the streets, here is what I have.
It is impossible for me to sit at my keyboard outside Libya and declare that I am the guardian of the truth. Indeed, I have very rarely written anything other than opinion-editorial pieces on Libya because I do not have my eyes on the ground. The eyes on the ground I have used are independent journalists, who have now been silenced, and eye witnesses inside Libya.
These are either people I already knew there, after working for years in media covering Africa (I was a partner and international director of a media group covering the continent and built up many contacts and continue to be active in several Pan African projects) or else those I have contacted through the Internet, with families in Libya or those supposedly in Libya themselves. With the Internet you never know. Who appears to be perfectly credible could be some punk in a basement apartment in New York, or the girl next door having some fun. The secret is to filter and vet those who claim to be who and what they are…in this case, filter number one, do they speak Arabic? If not, thank you and bye bye. Filter two, what is their e-mail address? If it is anything connected with Libya, then my interest is aroused.
What we have to do is to respect all sources, treat them all as possibly credible but then confront what they say with the information we are receiving. Unfortunately, the western media has been a disgrace, so much so that I have cancelled SKY, BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera from my cable package because they might manipulate the truth and dupe themselves but they cannot call the international community stupid.
We all know very well what happened, and even before they tried it on, we were all informed about the “alternative Tripoli” built in Qatar and filmed there (some say India) and we have all seen the discrepancies between the different “Tripolis” we were shown.
I am not a dream seller. I know very well if I declared that Colonel Gaddafi’s forces had routed NATO and defeated the terrorists who ran amok in the Libyan capital beheading people in the streets, raping women and girls, torching buildings and looting (many of them foreigners) there would be a collective cheer so loud I would hear it from where I sit.
What I can say is the following. NATO’s media blackout, why? What are they afraid of? Why have independent journalists been threatened? Why have their social network accounts been hacked and closed and why have their Twitter accounts been blocked? As usual, we are dealing with pith-headed simpletons because obviously these days anyone who has a social network account has already informed the members of emails and alternative means of contact.
Secondly, if NATO’s campaign was going so well, then why are there thousands of mercenaries in Tripoli, from British to French to Germans to Qataris? Why is NATO arming the “rebels”? Why is NATO putting boots on the ground? Why is NATO bombing Libyan Armed Forces positions? Obviously it is not going well, because NATO has been unable to fight the fight using the original laws covering the conflict and adhering to the rules of engagement.
It is like a boxing match where one fighter, when losing, pulls a gun and shoots his opponent. Is that called winning?
Thirdly, in the absence of media reports due to NATO’s democratic blackout (freedom of expression, eh what?) what I can say categorically is that in Tripoli massacres are being perpetrated by the terrorist scourge NATO supports. This has been backed up by countless eye witnesses living inside the capital who have seen the most horrific violations of human rights – another feather in NATO’s cap. This raises the question, what on Earth were Cameron and Hague, Obama and Clinton, Sarkozy and Juppe thinking when they aided and funded these fanatics?
Quite where the lines are drawn is very difficult to say with any accuracy because reporting without sources makes this impossible. What the blackout has done is to give NATO and its mercenaries and, allegedly, thousands of special forces (violation of UNSC Resolutions covering this conflict), freedom to take the capital city before the TV comes back on and we are shown the result. I am receiving reports of carpet bombing by NATO aircraft aiding the terrorists against the Government forces.
The information NATO is giving is that the city has been taken. The information from the British Foreign and Commonwealth office is that the city has not been taken. The information from the ground is that it is far from taken. Indeed, South African President Jacob Zuma declared on Friday that most of it is in the hands of the Libyan Government – and there is only one Libyan government, that of the Jamahiriya, loyal to Muammar al-Qathafi. This would explain the media blackout.
This is the situation today. Tomorrow, nobody can say. Elsewhere, the NATO/terrorists occupy part of Misratah and are blocked outside al-Brega, while NATO has taken to frenetic and savage bombing attacks against Sirte.
Whatever the outcome, and to be frank, nobody can tell what will happen if this escalates (the Libyan Armed Forces have plenty of options at their disposal should they care to use them) the fact that NATO has resorted to breaking all the rules of engagement and all the laws covering this conflict says it all. True, in the end it could carpet-nuke Tripoli and invade it with 40 armies.
But is that winning? Does the boxer win his match if he shoots his opponent? Remember, the Libyan Armed Forces have, since the beginning, been defending themselves and the civilian population from marauding gangs of terrorists, whose massacre of civilians, including pro-Gaddafi forces, gave NATO its casus belli, just like Saddam’s WMD.
One final question. How will NATO explain the thousands of deaths its troops and its mercenaries are suffering? The thing is, whatever the outcome, Colonel Gaddafi’s forces stood and fought back. That makes him a hero and NATO a villain, and the history book will be implacable for Messrs. Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy and the snivelling cowards who did not have the guts to stand up to them.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
31 August 2011 Last updated at 21:35 GMT
Landale Online: How UK unit starved Gaddafi of fuel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14740054
By James Landale
Deputy Political Editor, BBC News
Libya produces 2% of the world’s oil supplies
Continue reading the main story
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The BBC has learned that David Cameron set up a secret unit within Whitehall to mount covert economic operations against Colonel Gaddafi.
The so-called “Libya oil cell” helped block fuel supplies to Tripoli while ensuring that petrol and diesel continued to get through to the rebels in the east.
Whitehall officials said the unit – made up of a handful of civil servants, ministers and military figures – played a crucial role in starving the regime’s war effort of fuel while making sure that the rebels could continue taking the fight to Gaddafi.
The unit was the brain child of the international development minister, Alan Duncan.
Discreet operation
The former oil trader convinced the prime minister in April that part of the solution to the conflict lay in oil. He persuaded the national security council that Gaddafi would defeat the rebels unless they got access to fuel and he was deprived of it.
So the secret cell was established in two discreet operations rooms in the Foreign Office where intelligence about oil and fuel movements was gathered and information and advice provided to the government and Nato.
The unit was headed up initially by a senior admiral, and then later by a senior government official, both of whom attended national security council meetings.
The cell advised Nato to blockade the port of Zawiya to prevent smugglers bringing in tankers full of fuel for Gaddafi’s war effort.
They helped identify which oil tankers that Nato should interdict. They also helped locate other routes the smugglers were using to get fuel into Libya overland from Tunisia and Algeria.
The cell also provided intelligence to the rebels so they could cut off the supply of crude oil from the Nafusa mountains to Gaddafi’s refinery at Zawiya.
‘Tap turned off’
It also ensured that the sanctions regime against Libya was redrawn so that the rebels could get access to fuel from overseas.
And it encouraged London-based oil traders to sell fuel to the rebels in Benghazi by trying to minimise the risk they would take by having to wait for payment. It also ensured that the oil traders knew who to contact within the rebel hierarchy.
One Whitehall source said: “If you didn’t have the fuel, you couldn’t win the war. So our aim was to starve the west of fuel and make sure the rebels could keep going.
“Gaddafi had lots of crude but he couldn’t refine it. So he had to rely on imported fuel. And we turned off that tap.”
It emerged last night that Mr Duncan had once worked with Vitol, the oil company that provided fuel to the rebels. But Whitehall sources said there was no conflict of interest because the Libya oil cell had no commercial relationship with the company.
Mr Duncan was not available for comment.
NATO Tries To Explain Why They’re Still Bombing The Hell Out Of Libya
Posted: 2011/09/01
From: Mathaba http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628439?rss
The emperor stands in front of the world without clothes
by Karen Marlow
and MAXIMILIAN C. FORTE
Libyans are celebrating their Eid al-Fitr anniversary which times exactly with the 42nd anniversary of the Libyan Al-Fateh Revolution where Colonel Qaddafi overthrew a corrupt monarch and threw out foreign colonialist bases, with Tripoli now under partial occupation by foreign mercenaries and NATO rebels serving as ground troops for the western banking elite — but that doesn’t mean NATO has toned down its bombing campaign.
Quite the contrary, in fact airstrikes are up from two weeks ago.
Spokesperson Oana Lungescu and Colonel Roland Lavoie spoke yesterday at a NATO press briefing and vaguely explained what the hell they were still bombing
From an air component
Number of NATO strikes on Libya per day since August 14
“From an air component perspective NATO is still very much involved in monitoring the situation and intervening with “extreme care and precision” when and where we identify threats against the population, including surface-to-surface missile systems, multiple-rocket launchers, air-tracking radars and anti-aircraft guns. For example, just a few days ago NATO aircraft had to strike at command-and-control facilities in Tripoli from where attacks against the population were directed.”
This is the same command and control center NATO hit over 70 times that was obliterated several months ago.
As recently as yesterday our aircraft struck several surface-to-air threats and multiple military vehicles in the vicinity of Sirte, which is considered as a strong bastion of Muammar Qaddafi and was his birth place.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he wants NATO to end the war, though Poland refused to be involved in the first place so it’s unclear how much weight that request will carry.
And as Time points out that fighters around Qaddafi’s birthplace, about 225 miles from Tripol, should be expected to fight fiercely until the end.
Numerous talking heads have taken to celebrating this war as a “success”. They believe this is a “victory of the Libyan people” and that we should all be celebrating. Others proclaim victory for the “responsibility to protect,” (R2P, now also dubbed: “Right to Plunder”) for “humanitarian interventionism,” and condemn the “anti-imperialist left”. Some of those who claim to be “revolutionaries,” or believe they support the “Arab revolution,” somehow find it possible to sideline NATO’s role in the war, instead extolling the democratic virtues of the insurgents, glorifying their martyrdom, and magnifying their role until everything else is pushed from view.
I wish to dissent from this circle of acclamation, and remind readers of the role of ideologically-motivated fabrications of “truth” that were used to justify, enable, enhance, and motivate the war against Libya—and to emphasize how damaging the practical effects of those myths have been to Libyans, and to all those who favoured peaceful, non-militarist solutions.
NATO has provided a shield for the insurgents in Libya to victimize unarmed civilians in areas they came to occupy. There was no hint of any “responsibility to protect” in these cases. NATO assisted the rebels in starving Tripoli of supplies, subjecting its civilian population to a siege that deprived them of water, food, medicine, and fuel. When Gaddafi was accused of doing this to the international media were quick to cite this as a war crime. Save Misrata, kill Tripoli—whatever you want to label such “logic,” humanitarian is not an acceptable option.
Leaving aside the documented crimes by the insurgents against black Libyans and African migrant workers, the insurgents were also found by Human Rights Watch to have engaged in “looting, arson, and abuse of civilians in [four] recently captured towns in western Libya”. In Benghazi, which the insurgents have held for months now, revenge killings have been reported by The New York Times as late as this May, and by Amnesty International in late June and faulted the insurgents’ National Transitional Council. The responsibility to protect? It now sounds like something deserving wild mockery.
The Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) or rebels, offered France 35 per cent of its oil sector in exchange for recognition of its authority, France’s Libération newspaper reported on Thursday. The source quotes a letter sent by the NTC on April 3rd to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, a mediator between Paris and Benghazi in the Libyan conflict. France recognized the NTC on March 10 as sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people. Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told RTL radio station that he knew nothing about the agreement.
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Saif Al Islam Speech Translated by اسكندر بيك
I’m speaking to you from area around Tripoli , I just like to assure all Libyan brothers today i went to Azizia we met people there and we met with Warshfana Tribe , and from Aldawahi alarbaa , and some areas around Tripoli , i meet lots people , we are fine , and we still fighting , and the victory will be declared , also we heard that Warfalla Tribe had a meeting because rats threaten this tribe, & they had decided and declared that they will fight rats , to hell NATO to hell rats , although NATO is killed many innocent people , And Fezzan still resist also they had meeting and decided that we will never give up and about the rats who threat people in Sirte City then ok come welcome to Sirte there is 20 thousand volunteers ready to fight you , also the leader is fine and we are all fine don’t worry about us , Also i have message to the people in Albeida and Toubrok and Zliten and Tripoli i tell you to move now , don’t miss this chance , attack rats now , you have to fight them day and night , everyone is Gaddafi , Everyone is Saif Islam , Everyone is Khamis , Also about Bab Azizia you are lairs because bab Azizia is destroyed completely because they attack it 64 times , Enter or exist from it doesn’t meaning anything , but this only to make people confused , i tell you that your army is fine and tribes still fine , i called all tribes and all the answer is go to hell we will never give up , NATO will leave soon , and big improve is the rats we killed on Alshat road is mercenaries from France , Italy , UK , Qatar and we will kill them , and all people who give up to rats they did it on purpose to protect their family , about NATO you are the must stupid people , even people who said that they are the leaders in Tripoli is from al-Qaeda and you support those members. Today i went to Tribes of Warshfana & as all ways i didn’t find any rats in way. they are afraid , and even some areas in Tripoli i didn’t find any rats , I tell Bosliem And Alhadba prepare yourselves for Victory or Martyrdom .
Saif Al Islam Gaddafi:
We assure you we are okey and we are contucting victories in the fields of the fighting and soon we will be in the Green Square.
I personally visited some areas in the outskirts of Tripoli and i saw the armed gangs fleeing,and people dont need to worry because they are cowards and without morale and commandmend.
We have the news that in Bani Walid there was a meeting of the elder of the tribes and they did not accepted the blackmail of the armed gangs and they are ready to confort the rats.
The libyan people should go out in the street and to confort the armed gangs and not to be afraid because army is in okey condition and the tribs are solid and loyal.
Sirte is ready to fight the masses of criminal gangs that are now under the Nato cover gathering near sirte to make assault. but people there are pride and will fight.
The nato mercenaries are figting only for the money. We the Libyans are fighting for our country and we will win because we fight for our land.
Also he said that Nato countries were manipulated in this war by the us and they were abandoned.
The victory is near and we fight until victory or martyrdom.
Thanks to Libya Liberal Youth to publish the facts for Libya tomorrow
Rebel forces arrested Gadhafi’s foreign minister, Abdelati Obeidi, at his farm in Janzour, a suburb west of Tripoli, a Reuters correspondent reported.
WARNING !!!
Many of the wounded and dead areas in the Sirte and Bani Walid remained under the rubble as a result of the brutal bombing of the crusader alliance could not get them out or punishment taken by the people not to stop the bombing and targeting aircraft and helicopters Crusade everything that moves …That the people of Sirte and Bani Walid calling the world’s humanitarian appeal for hel…p to stop the bombing cowardly unjust to remove the civilians detained under the rubble before it is too late, especially as the number in the hundreds …Spread the news all the pages in all languages …God is the greatest of all sinful aggressor and each treacherous ingrate
Allibiya TV – قناة الليبية
نتيجة لقصف الناتو استشهد اليوم 450 شهيد من منطقة العجيلات ان لله وان اليه راجعون………….
Allibiya TV – Channel Libyan
As a result of NATO bombing, died today from the 450 martyrs Ajaylat to God and to Him we return ………….
This city has 4500ppl, NATO kills 10% of the citizens!!
Where is the “protection of civilians”? or protect terrorists, mercenaries to kill supporters of legitimate governments and leaders of Libya!? Civilians die and “Friends of Libya” in …. Paris drinking champagne!
Bodhibrian Souter
al_Jamahiriya Aïsha
My father-in-law has just returned to say is safe for us to go to the #Green Square. Green flags are everywhere. #Qadhafi, #Tripoli, #Libya.”
Muammar Gaddafi appealed to the people live over STUDIO BACK.
“We have prepared a backup studio and distribution channels of television signals in almost the entire country. In particular, even in Benghazi will receive a steady signal. Of course, the first transfer will be the performance of live
leader Muammar Gaddafi’s Jamahiriya. We also plan to make public acknowledgment of some financial documents that shed light on the reasons for intervention by France and Italy. Also shows videos and photographs of extrajudicial killings by the rebels and jihadists from “Al-Qaeda.” We have now prepared the airwaves and private conversations of politicians in Europe who share their land in Libya, “- said” Argumentam.ru “source close to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, in charge of propaganda in his father’s shadow government.
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Deserts Lion
Urgent:
Appeal for help ..
the city of Tawargha expose to racial and ethnic displacing campaign by NATO rebels of Misurata as punishment for its legendary steadfastness in face of collaborators and traitors, the armed gangs has burning of the houses and displacing of the families and abduction of the men and get them to unknown places and intimidate the women …. So let us to rescue Tawargha, please share it and spread it to all over the world!
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France and Turkey: as predicted many months ago by Mathaba, Turkey will be the bulk of the foot soldiers as a former colonial occupier of Libya with the largest NATO army in exchange for more “benefits” in the European Union, and France with Britain as two other former colonial occupiers of Libya will supply the NATO command, since they are whites and non-Muslim while the Turkish cannon fodder are not. The USA, via its Zionist Stated Department – Hilary Clinton probably wrote much of this “UN” document – will continue to call the shots from behind the scenes. #
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UN Libya plan for ‘Troops on the ground’, Invasion of Libya, NATO Crimes In Libya
Posted: 2011/09/01
From: Source
Leaked plan for UN military forces in Libya shows the United Nations real agenda
Seif-Al-Islam Al-Qaddafi: Full Speech Eve of September 1
Posted: 2011/09/01
From: Mathaba
Speech given on the eve of September 1st, 2011, 42nd anniversary of the Libyan Revolution
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=628435?rss
Mathaba translation of Seif Al Islam’s phone call
2011-08-31 Al-Fateh Revolution Evening
I’m now speaking to you from the outskirts of Tripoli.
I would like to reassure our brothers everywhere that now just gone noon; we passed by Al-Azizya.
We met the youth over there; we also met our brothers in Wershefana, we also met some people from Nawahiy El Arbaa.
We also visited the areas adjacent to Tripoli, we have seen people today in high spirits, and we also met some youth from the inner areas such as those from Abu Sleem and also those from El-Hadba.
They reassured me of the situation on the inside, I would like to reassure people that we are present, everything is fine and the struggle is on-going and that victory is near.
Today our brothers also relayed me a message that there was a big tribal meeting in Werfalla & Bani Walid in which they decided: to reply to the verbal threats that were received from the armed rebels and rats that said that they must surrender or we will use military force to storm into Bani Walid. They took a majority decision: “to hell with you and to hell with NATO this is our country we live and die on it”.
Werfalla is not scared of you or your allies (NATO), we are foregoing with the struggle and resistance until victory, despite NATO hitting several houses inside the city and killing whole families inside the city, but they have buried their martyrs and this has only increased their resolve.
As for the area of Fezzan; this is completely united with all its tribes in its loyalty to the leader. They also had a collection of meetings today, with the same conclusion: that no one is scared and that no one will surrender.
They also said that our grandfathers and parents fought the Italian colonial forces when they were bare footed and naked, not today.
As for the threats against Sirte, they have replied to them: try and enter Sirte, you think that entering Sirte is a walk in the park. Sirte has more than 20,000 armed youth fully equipped to defend it and are ready. We have bypassed Sirte by several stages we are on our way to victories and claiming areas and they’re talking of taking over Sirte!
This is a media campaign to distort public perception and to create chaos and confusion.
We would like to also tell the other cities that we are defiant and that the leadership is in good health and that the leader himself is well and that we are happy and that everything is normal (drinking tea and coffee) and that we are in our country defending it.
There is also another message to our brothers in; Tobruk, Al Bayda, Benghazi, El Marj, Zlitan, Tripoli that they should be prepared to move now, any place that is infested with rats then you shouldn’t stand there you need to attack them, checkpoints should also be attacked and destroyed, you need to bleed them day and night until this country is cleared from these armed rebels. All of you are responsible and your leadership is responsible for you.
All Libyans are Muammar Al-Gadaffi; all Libyans are Saif El-Islam, all Libyans are Khamis Muammar, wherever you find the enemy you must strike! The enemy is weak and they have sustained great losses and they’re healing their wounds.
Bab Al-Azizya to those liars is a military base that has been razed with 64 NATO sortie missions over the last seven months and this military base is open to the masses. We have withdrawn our military personal from there in anticipation of NATO airstrikes there on a daily basis, entering and leaving Bab Al-Azizya doesn’t mean anything at all, everyday there are festivities and musical acts going on there and people have set up tents there. It has been razed to the ground and all military equipment has been moved elsewhere.
These armed rebels are trying to create psychological warfare, scare and confuse people. I would like to tell people not to be afraid and that the military is well, the arm depots are in good form. All the tribes that have received threats; Tarhoona, Khums, Bani Walid, Sirte, Wershefana, Nawahiy El Arbaa, El Ejilat all the tribes I have contacted personally and have affirmed that we have received threats: “you either surrender or we kill you” and their response was “that this is our country which we will not neglect and that we will fight till the last bullet”.
Everything is fine Alhamdulillah, and victory is forthcoming very soon Inshallah. This is our country they’re the ones that will be exiled and will have to leave along with their stooges NATO, France etc. should pack their bags and leave. The best proof of this is that these convoys of traitors and armed rebels was destroyed on Al-Shaat Street in Tripoli, the people of Tripoli know this story, the presence of foreign mercenaries and fighters that aren’t even Arab amongst this convoy that was destroyed.
They have brought British Special Forces to fight alongside them that has been admitted by them and Italians and French and other entities that are fighting with them for money, as for us we are fighting for the sake of Libya and for the people of Libya and on our land.
As for our brothers that have made taped confessions, they’ve rung me later on to say that their daughters and wife’s where taken hostages under gun point and that these confessions where under duress. That they were told to either say what they were told or be that their family would be filtered off (killed). This doesn’t mean anything; they’ve stormed into a few key figures in the Libyan Government whilst away on their farms, who’ve woken up to these armed rebels surrounding them and they were taken as captives and where told “you either say as we do, or we will kill your sons and daughters”. This is one of the dirty tricks of the armed rebels who have no manners.
As for NATO, you are the dumbest alliance in the world and that you are stupid people, even the individual that you have installed and is persistent on operations in Tripoli, was he not in Al-Qaeda? , wasn’t he captured by the CIA and handed over to Libya then we forgave him and that he is a worldwide wanted terrorist. He is there now with his terrorist accomplices and friends leading operations, you stupid people are now backing these snakes and hopefully they’ll backfire on you.
In conclusion I would like to reassure you, and to confirm to our people that this stuff is true that during my visit to Wershefana, Nawahiy El Arbaa and Al-Azizya the rats were nowhere to be seen and that the checkpoints were vacant. I would like to tell our people that are afraid and scared indoors not to be so and to go out and to resist and to face the enemy, day and night , day and night the people of Abu Sleem And El-Hadba and the martyrs of Sidi Abdul Jalil and 2nd of March district and the other neighbourhoods to organise and arm themselves and to continue the fight and that we are coming to liberate Green Square God willing (Inshallah) and that we are fine and “victory or death” and God is great (Allahu Akbar).
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—before the huge massacres and total anihilation of Zlitan
To cover their murderous tracks, NATO bombed Zlitan to smithereeens the next day and following week Then NATO placed the blame on Loyalist troops! saying they did not do the bombings!
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Today’s anniversary speech of Muammar al-Gadhafi:
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SAADI al-Gadhafi’s interview today:
NATO Shocking Terror against civilians
01.09.2011
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/01-09-2011/118929-NATO_Shocking_Terror_against_civilians-0/
Libya is all green, they say NO to terrorists
NATO Shocking Terror against civilians
01.09.2011
Libya is all green, they say NO to terrorists
A massacre, a genocide, a razing of a town to the ground. Their crime? None. The only way NATO terrorists can take the town is if they kill everyone.
The city of Sirte, hometown of Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi, is under siege from NATO barbarians. So far in the 4 days plus campaign, over 1,400 civilians have been killed. The campaign is being waged for two purposes.
The first purpose is to murder Gaddafi and his entire family. Witness the fact that since they assumed he was in his compound in Tripoli, it has been the target of daily bombing attacks. One such attack killed one son and 3 young grandchildren.
The second purpose is to squash, destroy, murder, eliminate and put down all resistance to a NATO terrorist takeover of the country. The Libyan people refuse to give up their freedom and be subjugated to imperialist, colonialist crusader plunder and slavery.
A thousand people alone were killed in a bombing by NATO aircraft during the prayer of Eid al-Fitr on this Tuesday morning (31st). The believers were killed by 12 rockets within a few minutes!! NATO has not cared the least that this has been Ramadan for Muslim believers.
A massacre, a genocide, a razing of a town to the ground. Their crime? None. The only way NATO terrorists can take the town is if they kill everyone.
The city of Sirte, hometown of Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi, is under siege from NATO barbarians. So far in the 4 days plus campaign, over 1,400 civilians have been killed. The campaign is being waged for two purposes.
The first purpose is to murder Gaddafi and his entire family. Witness the fact that since they assumed he was in his compound in Tripoli, it has been the target of daily bombing attacks. One such attack killed one son and 3 young grandchildren.
The second purpose is to squash, destroy, murder, eliminate and put down all resistance to a NATO terrorist takeover of the country. The Libyan people refuse to give up their freedom and be subjugated to imperialist, colonialist crusader plunder and slavery.
A thousand people alone were killed in a bombing by NATO aircraft during the prayer of Eid al-Fitr on this Tuesday morning (31st). The believers were killed by 12 rockets within a few minutes!! NATO has not cared the least that this has been Ramadan for Muslim believers.
As NATO pounds and murders all within the city limits, the stooge NATO client terrorists of the National Transitional Council on the city’s perimeter murder anyone who tries to escape from the carnage within.
They lurk in wait on the outskirts of a city that will not surrender. They have declared that if they cannot take power, they will kill everyone is no one left.
A George Orwell’s novel:
-war is peace
-slavery is freedom
Protecting civilians is killing civilians by bombs, mercilessly strafing everyone that moves from helicopter gunships, letting loose a gang of criminals to terrorize, murder, mutilate, hang, rape, behead, destroy, burn.
This is NATO’s idea of a government, and freedom and democracy? This is pure Satanic evil at its worst. NATO and the CIA need to stop prowling the world, colleting human excrement, terrorists and criminals to dump into Libya!
This is a violation of every single international law, every single part and parcel of the UN Charter, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions and human decency.
NATO and their terrorist stooges possess no decency, no humanity or compassion, nor any semblance of legitimacy. They are cowards, and inept cowards at that. They are led by nothing more than dimwitted simpletons with no conscience and evil, black souls. One might surmise they are possessed by devils and demons from hell.
In order to implement their plans for conquest, besides barbaric violence, their only other weapon is lies and disinfomation, such as the bogus claims of having taken over Tripoli and the “fall” of the Libyan leader, which has not and will not happen.
Meanwhile that fool Ban Ki-Moon pretends to be doing a job he should never have accepted, because he is totally incompetent. That might be said of the entire UN organization, which has been degraded to a mere rubber stamp for imperialist powers.
Three of the 5 main countries are totally worthless if one seeks peace, dialogue, justice or fairness.
Sirte was transformed into a showcase of public works by Muammar Gaddafi. It has low mud houses as well as fine brick houses. Built also was a complex of hotels and government offices. There are towers of white stone neatly landscaped and black glass that could be found in any western city. When you get inside, the decorative style has been described as pure Arabian Nights.
Will there be anything left of this once bustling town before NATO savages are satisfied? Every action of NATO has been totally illegal according to international law and the UN Resolutions 1970 and 1973: not taking sides in a conflict (internal civil war) no boots on the ground, no supplying weapons to one side, meddling in the internal affairs of a country, wanton murder and attempted assassinations.
Will some honorable country, group of countries, human rights organization or international lawyers please step forward and stop this murderous campaign? What kind of people live on this planet if they allow this to continue? NATO is like a rabid dog that has to be put down.
They have threatened independent journalists and overseen a massive campaign of racial murders against any black caught in their path.
Cameron, Sarkozy, Obama…you are butchers, murderers, criminals. Your names will be listed on the same page as Hitler and the Nazis and under the same context, with the same scorn, derision and contempt.
You and every single individual that followed your orders: remember Nuremberg and may you have your Nuremberg war crimes trials for these outrageous crimes against humanity.
Will your eternity in hell have been worth whatever earthly gain you made?
On this FATEH OF SEPTEMBER 1st. we salute the great Brother Revolutionary Leader, Muammar Gaddafi, and the brave, heroic, courageous, resolute, honorable Libyan people. To freedom and victory!
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
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The most important from Gaddafi speech,today:
I know you libyan people need encoutragment to fight.
Dont belive the media the situation is not the one presented. I am okey and there is steadfast.
There are many internal fights now between the different group of rats, the NTC and the NATO alliance. We need to hold up and fight.
We have to fight. There are many tribes that are holding the figths now and there will be no surrender and no peace with the rats.
Especially in the cities of Sirte and Bani Walid the people will never lay down the arms.
I urge you to make traps and kill the rats , in every location you find them and trap them.
Steadfast and we will be victorious.
Balance of power is now leveled as all tribes are now armed.
Continue fighting even if you don’t hear my voice!
We won’t surrender ,we are not women ,we will keep fighting!
لن نسلم انفسنا مرة اخرى ونحن لسنا نساء وسنواصل القتال