When Gaddafi’s regime fell, the Libyan rebels quickly set up new infrastructure, including a CENTRAL BANK and an OIL company. These moves — as well as lingering questions about the nature of the rebel movement — have fueled numerous conspiracy theories. But is there any grain of truth to claims that contradict the prevailing narrative?
It’s the end of Matt and Ben’s week on Libya, but the guys still have loads of stuff they didn’t get the chance to explore. Listen in to Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know and learn some quick facts about Libya’s oil reserves, some rumors that didn’t make it into the show, and some updates about their blogs.
More than two decades later, the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland is still officially considered the work of Libya. For decades Libya had been at odds with Western powers, and was often considered a rogue state that sponsored terrorism, so it was no surprise that Libya would be a prime suspect in this tragic event. However, a growing number of people argue that Libya wasn’t actually responsible — and that Western intelligence agencies know the real culprit, but kept the information secret. Why?
1 – All forcibly displaced families need access to return to Bani Walid, in their home town and to prevent bandits infiltrated the city made the looting and burning of houses in Bani Walid …
2 – The whole family Warfalla rejects the claims of the “government” to move them to a field in the Tahwerga, first because we will not abandon our city and second by Tahwerga has its own inhabitants who were cruelly forced out of their city .. .
3 – Calling all DD.HH organizations and civil organization of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and United Nations to cooperate fully and return of people to their area of the city of Bani Walid …
4 – The whole of the Warfalla tribe and noble families in all areas of Libya to act in unity and strength against what is happening in Bani Walid- ethnic cleansing and expulsion of residents who the traitors, thieves and mercenaries from Misurata conducted in the city of Bani Walid
5 – The Tribe Warfala in all regions of Libya requires establishing committees to collect a sum of money in 150 dinars,at least for each family Warfala, and there is no prohibition for those who want to pay more than this amount. This confirms that they have not waived their tribe, and deserve praise for their willingness to work with us. Remember that these funds will be used for the rehabilitation and construction of the city of Bani Walid, mother, and we hope that Congress “national” rule on the restoration of Bani Walid after demolished houses over the heads of its inhabitants .. .
6 – Invoke the nobles and elders of Libya, who have seen the tragedy of Bani Walid, especially the elders of the western mountains to urgently take immediate steps for the release of members of the Board of the Tribe Warfala, including Sheikh Mohammed Barghouti, who was kidnapped by mercenariesof Congress “National” and elements of “security l serving government”
Tribal Social Council Social Warfala Friday 26/10/2012
- Green Resistance condemns the deathof Mohammed Nasrallah Seer of the tribe of the sons of Sheikh Zlitenafter being tortured in prisons illegalmilitias government.
Thousands of civilians of Bani Walid forced out of their city
Civilian survivors of the tribe of Bani Walid Rafla displaced
After the genocide orchestrated and silenced by the invading powers
Dr. Hamza Tohamani – Nations addresses the world
A Civilian from Bani Walid who was kidnapped by mercenaries from Misurata accounts: managed to escape and was subjected for 3 days to cruel torture and said that he witnessed hundreds were subjected to torture and then disappeared.
NATO’s military campaign in Libya is remarkable, among other things, for the following two reasons.
First – the damage that the air raids by the Western anti-Gaddafi alliance caused to Libya is estimated to be 7 times bigger than the damage which bombing by the Nazis caused in Europe during WWII.
Second – Muammar Gaddafi and his associates had, in total, $ 150 bln on bank accounts in various parts of the world. After the beginning of the Libyan revolution, the West froze these accounts. Now, this money has disappeared somewhere.
Russian expert in Eastern affairs Anatoly Egorin tries to analyze these two cases in his recently published book, titled “The Ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. A Libyan Diary. 2011-2012.”
Speaking about the damage which Western bombing attacks caused to Libya, one may probably say that every war causes damage. This is true, but the amount of damage can be greater or smaller. It may be doubted that the ousting of Gaddafi, however tyrannical he might have been, was really worth the damage which NATO bombs caused to Libya – to say nothing of the fact that introducing a no-fly zone over a country and then bombing it is, to put it mildly, not very consistent.
However, the sum which Gaddafi and his associates had in bank accounts, and which the West, in fact, has stolen – $ 150 bln – might have been enough to reconstruct the Libyan infrastructure after the damage caused by the bombs – if not fully, then, at least, partially. But now, that money has disappeared. Why and where? Here is what Anatoly Egorin says:
“The West most likely decided right after the very startof the anti-Gaddafi rebellion in Libya to do whatever possible to prevent Gaddafi from staying in power. His and his associates’ bank accounts were immediately frozen. Or, it would be probably better to say that it was only officially announced that they were frozen, but in reality they were stolen. Nobody can say for sure precisely who stole this money and where it is now. There is only some vague information that it was allegedly pocketed by the bankers themselves and that these bankers allegedly tried to launder this money in offshore zones.Attempts to find this money are now under way, but I doubt that it will ever be found.”
“However,” Mr. Egorin continues, “it would be wrong to say that only the West has stolen the money of the former Libyan regime. It is known that those people who fought against Gaddafi and who are now in power in Libya have conveyed many trucks literally stuffed with money abroad.”
The Head of the International Association for Democracy in Libya Fatima Abu An-Niran confirmswhat Mr. Egorin says:
“The chaotic situation in Libya enabled everyone to steal anything that lay in his or her temptation’s way. The West was quite aware of that, but didn’t try to stop it. I can back my words with facts, and the former head of Libya’s Central Bank can also confirm this.”
“The $ 150 bln on Gaddafi’s and other former Libyan leaders’ bank accounts is not the only money that was stolen during the period of anarchy in Libya,” Ms. an-Niran continues. “Lots of money was trafficked and is still being trafficked abroad by the Libyan “revolutionaries” themselves. To a large extent, the situation in Libya still remains chaotic. The new authorities seem to be incapable of controlling the situation in many of the country’s provinces. These provinces are in fact controlled by groups of bandits who do whatever they want with those who try to resist them.”
“When the West threw bombs on Libya, Western politicians said that this allegedly was done to help Libyans oust the tyrant and establish democracy in their country,” Ms. an-Niran says. “Now, it has turned out that these words were mere demagogy. The real aim of the West was to try to steal Libya’s riches.”
True, it looks like now that Gaddafi has been ousted, the West doesn’t care anymore about what is happening in Libya.It also looks like the current Libyan leaders care more about staying in their posts – or occupying higher posts if possible – than about trying to return the $ 150 bln which mysteriously disappeared back into their country, which now badly needs restoration after the war.
ALGERIA ISP / Elmokawama According to Akhbar Libya, to Laejilete,Walid Souissi the rebelwas killed by the Green Resistance in the region Jadida.
In the city of Zawiya, a shell fell on a housekilling a pregnant woman and destroyed their car parked near the house.
A video filmed in the operating room of the rebels at the launch of the invasion of Tripoli. A rebel in contact with NATO that the needle on the areas to bomb.
By Christof Lehmann — nsnbc. Yesterday, on 19 March 2012, Amnesty International was calling on NATO to “investigate the killing of dozens of civilians during it`s air campaign last year and to provide reparations to the people affected”. Amnesty further stated that “adequate investigations must be carried out and full reparation provided to the victims and their families”. NATO rebutted Amnesty International`s call for an investigation and compensation for the “dozens” of civilians, and in doing so, NATO has entered an elegant propaganda dance macabre. A propaganda dance macabre, designed to dominate and more importantly direct the public and political discourse away from the true dimensions and proportions of the war crimes that were committed under NATO command as well as command responsibility.
The “human rights organization” that is branding itself as “watchdog” is obviously attempting to make even well intended humanitarian minded members of the worlds public belief, that NATO`s Operation Unified Protector, authorized by UNSC Resolution 1973 has resulted in 55 documented cases of named civilians, including 16 children and 14 women that were killed in air strikes in the capital Tripoli and the towns of Zliten,Majer, Sirte, and Brega. The amnesty narrative must make the heart of every NATO propaganda expert jump faster. Possibly, Amnesty is positioning itself for a Nobel Peace Price, where it would be in perfect company with Barak Hussein Obama, Henry Kissinger and other humanitarian avatars. After all, Amnesty International USA has Suzanne Nossel at the helm. A Hilary Clinton aide for International Organizations Affairs.
Reality Amnesty-Style is depended on the all important methodology. With the correct methodology it is possible to reduce a genocide to 55 documented cases …
Since the beginning of the U.S.-NATO war of regime-change against the Libyan government of Col. Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, tensions have escalated both inside the North African state and throughout the region. During the months of May and June, fighting among various sectors within Libya has erupted while the much talked about elections have been put off until July 7.
These elections have been subject to the political designs of the imperialist-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) regime which was installed as a result of the bombing, naval blockade and intelligence coordinated military assault on Libya between February and October. Since the seizure of Tripoli in late August 2011 and the bombings and assassinations in Sirte, Libya has been in turmoil with decentralized and undisciplined militias vying for control of the situation on the ground.
Members and supporters of the Jamahiriya, the system of governance instituted during the revolutionary period between 1969 and 2011, are banned from participating in the elections. A recent law prohibiting through threats of prosecution any “praising” of Gaddafi and the political system that prevailed in the country for over four decades has been purportedly repealed, however, Libyans know that thousands of people remain in prison and exiled as a direct result of their political beliefs.
Laws, militia checkpoints and the excesses of the putative newly-constructed national army are designed to suppress popular opposition to the NTC regime. Discontent among the people– even those who were swept up into the war against the government–is at an all-time high.
Since last October, the NTC and other anti-Gaddafi forces have been blamed for the inefficiency in the public sector,the widespread corruption which has resulted in billions of dollars being stolen from both private industry and the fragile government, and the general lawlessness prevailing throughout the country.Libya has descended from having the highest standard of livingon the African continent to burgeoning poverty and social discord.
The capture, torture and indefinite detention of Seif al-Islam, the son and heir apparent to Muammar Gaddafi, has drawn the attention of Libyan solidarity activists around the world. Captured in late 2011 by rebels, Sief is being held reportedly by the Zintan militia that functions independently of the NTC leaders in Tripoli.
In early June four members of an International Criminal Court (ICC) delegation visited Seifto interview him in relationship to the outstanding warrants issued by the Netherlands-based entity early on in the war of 2011. The ICC has never really objected to Seif being put on trial by the NTC, but their intervention in Seif’s case has resulted in a diplomatic embarrassment for the imperialist camp.
Although the U.S. nor Libya are signatories to the Rome Statutethat established the ICC,the imperialists utilized the indictments against Muammar Gaddafi and other Libyan leaders including Seif, in their attempt to isolate the government and create a stronger rationale for the overthrow of the former system. The continued detention of the ICC delegation brought about the visit of Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on June 18 in an attempt to win the release of the two women and two men being held by the Zintan militia.
Carr met with NTC Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib where the Australian offered to facilitate the dispute between the western-backed regime and the Netherlands court representatives. “I made strong representations for the immediate release of the Australian Melinda Taylor,” the diplomat said.
“But I now have a deeper understanding of Libyan (NTC) perspectives and concerns with the way the ICC has responded, Carr continued.
The ICC, along with the United Nations Security Council as well as the titular head of NATO, has called on the rebels to release the delegation. The two women in the delegation were accused by the militia, who were said to have been present during their discussions with Seif al-Islam, to have leaked sensitive documents.
The detentions ofSeif al-Islamand the ICC delegation are reflective of the lack of a political or legal system within the country. Nonetheless, the diplomatic response to these provocations has no resemblance to the attacks leveled against the Gaddafi government during 2011 when thousands were killed and millions displaced and driven into exile for their refusal to bow to the dictates of the U.S.-NATO alliance that devastated the oil-rich nation.
Security Situation Deteriorates
Over the last few weeks the violence in Libya has escalated in Benghazi with the attempted assassination of the British ambassador on June 11 when his vehicle was attacked by rocket-propelled grenades. The following day the International Committee of the Red Cross had their offices bombed in Misurata resulting in one death and several injuries.
The U.S. Consulate was also attacked on June 12 when a bomb was placed outside its building. This attack was claimed by an Islamic resistance group supposedly in retaliation for the drone assassinations of Al-Qaeda(**=> It’s Parent’s are CIA + MOSSAD) members in Pakistan.
On the same day as the bombing outside the U.S. Consulate, a militia group at odds with the NTC regime in Tripoli was able to take control temporarily of the airport saying that one of their commanders had been detained by the western-backed leadership. The NTC was able to regain control of the airport within a few hours.
In the South of the country fighting is continuing as a result of attempts by the Zintan militia to take charge of the region which did not support the U.S.-NATO war. It was reported that 14 people were killed over a three day period starting June 11 when members of the El-Mashasia ethnic group resisted the forces from Zintan.
The current situation in Libya and other states throughout the region, including Mali and Niger, illustrates clearly that the military and political intervention by the western imperialists only brought about mass killings, poverty and forced removals. Those who supported and cheered-on the waragainst Libya starting in February 2011 are silent today in relationship to the horrors taking place inside this once prosperousand stable country.
These events point to the necessity of maintaining an anti-imperialist perspective in relationship to U.S. and NATO foreign policy. These imperialist states operate exclusively based upon their own material interests which are aimed at securing maximum profit for the exploitation of African resources, labor and national assets.
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On November 2, 2010 France and Great Britain signed a mutual defence treaty, which included joint participation in “Southern Mistral” (www.southern-mistral.cdaoa.fr), a series of war games outlined in the bilateral agreement. Southern Mistral involved a long-range conventional air attack, called Southern Storm, against a dictatorship in a fictitious southern country called Southland. The joint military air strike was authorised by a pretend United Nations Security Council Resolution. The “Composite Air Operations” were planned for the period of 21-25 March, 2011.On 20 March, 2011, the United States joined France and Great Britain in an air attack against Gaddafi‘s Libya, pursuant to UN Security Council resolution 1973.
Have the scheduled war games simply been postponed, or are they actually under way after months of planning, under the name of Operation Odyssey Dawn? Were opposition forces in Libya informed by the US, the UK or France about the existence of Southern Mistral/Southern Storm, which may have encouraged them to violence leading to greater repression and a humanitarian crisis? In short was this war against Gaddafi’s Libya plannedor a spontaneous response to the great suffering which Gaddafi was visiting upon his opposition?
Members of the United States Congress are wondering how much planning time it took for our own government, in concert with the UK and France,to line up 10 votes in the Security Council and gain the support of the Arab League and Nato, and then launch an attack on Libya without observing the constitutional requirement of congressional authorisation.
Libya was attacked, we have been told, because Gaddafi allegedly had killed 6,000 of his own people. But is this true?It should be remembered that in 2006, a full 18 years after the Lockerbie bombing, the US lifted sanctions against Libya,which was welcomed back into the international fold.
Now, as Gaddafi faces armed internal opposition backed by a UN Security Council resolution and faces powerful external opposition backed by the military of the US, the UK and France, he is told he must give up power. But to whom? What is the end game?
The US has been dancing around the regime change issue,(since that is not sanctioned by the UNSC Resolution) but as in most cases one has to watch where the bombs are falling to determine whether or not regime change is the policy.
The newest argument for regime change is that if he is not ousted Gaddafi can be expected to attempt Lockerbie-type retaliation against the west in response to the attacks seeking to oust him.
This bloody enterprise is beginning to sound a lot like Iraq: “Saddam was killing his own people, will kill his people, or will kill us if we don”t get him first.”
So did the Bush Administration pump up the fears of the American people that we were next, that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and had the intention and capability of attacking the United States.
The Iraq war begins its ninth year at a long term cost to US taxpayers of in excess of $3 trillion.The intelligence making the case for the war was “sexed up”. President Bush and Vice President Cheney made a false case for war. An expensive lie. In the name of saving the people of Iraq, we bombed the country, invaded, changed the regime and it is still a carnival of death. In the end it was China, not involved in the war, which received a multi-billion oil deal.
The war in Afghanistan, with no end in sight, has already run a decade and will inevitably cost trillions.
The war against Libya will cost the US $1 billion for the first week.
But we in America are being assured that since Nato is taking over, our role will change. In addition to funding the Libyan war from our own Pentagon resources, the US provides 25% of the funding of Nato, the UK 9.1%, France 8.72%. For all intents and purposes the coalition is handing control of the war over — to itself.
As the funding switches to Nato, we in the US will get the Libyan war at a 75% discount, and our allies in the UK and France will have to pay considerable sums from their own treasuries for a war which is sure to cost billions.Of the 28 members of Nato, I think of Iceland which provides 0.0450 of Nato’s military budget. If member nations are assessed accordingly, poor Iceland, whose economy has imploded, LINK FOR REST
LIBYA EU MP Exposes “Humanitarian”War: Preplanned, Atrocity Lie, Illegal, Shreds UN Charter
Video is on legitimacy of UN resolution for military action that violates UN charter. The UN charter says military intervention is legal if a state violates the peace & international security, none of which happened in Libya. In addition there is no international rule allowing military intervention for the protection of civilians.A proposed law like this should be examined & discussed before being approved as law but no rule like this presently exist. The EU MP adds there was no atrocity commited in Libya as we have found out from documents.Claims of 10,000 dead Libyan as reported the evidence of this is not found. The former EU MP further adds that this was a preplanned aggression between France & Great Britain who signed an agreement in Nov 2, 2010 in which there was plans for war game, Southern Mistral, which mirrors events that took place in Libya on March 20, 2011.
Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter
by Dr. Webster G. Tarpley March 22, 2011
On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovereign state of Libya. Acting under UN Security Council resolution 1973, US naval forces in the Mediterranean on Saturday night local time fired 112 cruise missiles at targets which the Pentagon claimed were related to Libya’s air defense system.But Mohammed al-Zawi, the Secretary General of the Libyan Parliament, told a Tripoli press conference that the “barbaric armed attack”and “savage aggression” had hit residential areas and office buildings as well as military targets, filling the hospitals of Tripoli and Misurata with civilian victims. Zawi accused the foreign powers of acting to protect a rebel leadership which contains notorious terrorist elements. The Libyan government repeated its request for the UN to send international observers to report objectivelyon events in Libya.
The attacking forces are expected to deploy more cruise missiles, Predator drones, and bombers, seeking to destroy the Libyan air defense system as a prelude to the systematic decimation of Libyan ground units. International observers have noted that US intelligence about Libya may be substandard, and that many cruise missiles may indeed have struck non-military targets.
Libya had responded to the UN vote by declaring a cease-fire, but Obama and Cameron brushed that aside.On Saturday, France 24 and al-Jazeera of Qatar, international propaganda networks hyping the attacks, broadcast hysterical reports of Qaddafi’s forces allegedly attacking the rebel stronghold of Bengazi. They showed a picture of a jet fighter being shot down and claimed this proved Qaddafi was defying the UN by keeping up his air strikes. It later turned out that the destroyed plane had belonged to the rebel air force.Such coverage provided justification for the bombing attacks starting a few hours later. The parallels to the Kuwait incubator babies hoax of 1990 were evident. Qaddafi loyalists said Saturday’s fighting was caused by rebel assaults on government lines in the hopes of provoking an air attack, plus local residents defending themselves against the rebels.
At the UN vote, the Indian delegate correctly pointed out that the decision to start the war had been made on the basis of no reliable information whatsoever, since UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon’s envoy to Libya had never reported to the Security Council. The bombing started shortly after a glittering Paris summit “in support of the Libyan people,” where Sarkozy, Cameron, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Harper of Canada and other imperialist politicians had strutted and postured.
Token contingents from Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia were supposed to take part in the attack, but were nowhere to be seen, while some Arab states were expected to provide financial support. The minimum estimated cost of maintaining a no-fly zone over Libya for one year is estimated in the neighborhood of $15 billion – enough to fund WIC high-protein meals for impoverished US mothers and infants for two years.
From no-fly zone to regime change
The alleged purpose of the bombing was to establish a no-fly zone and to protect a force of CIA-sponsored Libyan rebels composed of the Moslem Brotherhood, elements of the Libyan government and army subverted LINK FOR REST
LIBYA “Humanitarian” War Based On False Evidence; International Law Is A Tool For Political Aims
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Lies Behind the “Humanitarian War” in Libya: There is No Evidence! (Video) The Immense Criminal Enterprise Known as “Responsibility to Protect.”
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post
Meet Dr. Sliman Bouchuiguir, the man behind the verified pack of lies used to justify NATO’s intervention in Libya. This amazing piece of investigative journalism reveals not only how tenuous these fabrications were, but have produced Bouchuiguir himself admitting flagrantly that the allegations he made were contrived, baseless, unconfirmed, and designed specifically to give the necessary requirements for NATO’s intervention.
Furthermore, Bouchuiguir reveals his ties to both the Libyan rebel “National Transitional Council,” particularly NTC Prime Minister Mahmoud Jabril (also spelled “Gibril”) whom he cites as a source for his allegations, and the US government-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
These associations paint a dark picture of the depths of depravity from which this war was prosecuted from. This is the justification for a “humanitarian war” where self-serving foreign interests masquerading as “international institutions” arrange for a disgruntled opposition vying for power whom they are supporting, funding, arming, and whose leaders they are harboring, to manage the perception of a given conflict to provide a predictably slanted pretext for “international intervention.”
This immense criminal enterprise, referred to as “responsibility to protect” or “R2P” is a subject now being covered in depth at colorrevolutionsandgeopolitics.blogspot.com, and a subject the public must be educated on, as “R2P” is the pretext these same interests are attempting to use against Syria and beyond.
Please visit the website of the makers of this documentary, here. For an in depth, documented look at the subject matter, please see Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya’s excellent article titled, “Lybia: Human rights impostors used to spawn NATO’s fraudulent war.”
The names change but the methods remain the same. In Iraq the imperial war facilitator was Ahmed Chalabi. In Libya he goes by the name of Soliman Bouchuiguir,a shadowy human rights figure whose baseless allegations against Gaddafi were endorsed by the UN system and its affiliated human rights agencies without the slightest verification. Each one in his own way, Nazemroaya and Teil shed light on a failed system of international law and justice, which has made itself complicit in NATO’s war crimes in Libya. Voltaire Network | 17 October 2011
The war against Libya is built on fraud. The United Nations Security Council passed two resolutions against Libya on the basis of unproven claims, specifically that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was killing his own people in Benghazi. The claim in its exact form was that Qaddafi had ordered Libyan forces to kill 6,000 people in Benghazi. These claims were widely disseminated, but always vaguely explained.It was on the basis of this claim that Libya was referred to the U.N. Security Council at U.N Headquarters in New York City and kicked out of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
False claims about African mercenary armies in Libya and about jet attacks on civilians were also used in a broad media campaign against Libya. These two claims have been sidelined and have become more and more murky. The massacre claims, however, were used in a legal, diplomatic, and military framework to justify NATO’s war on the Libyans.
Using Human Rights as a Pretext for War: The LLHR and its Unproven Claims
One of the main sources for the claim that Qaddafi was killing his own people is the Libyan League for Human Rights (LLHR). The LLHR was actually pivotal to getting the U.N. involved through its specific claims in Geneva. On February 21, 2011 the LLHR got the 70 other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to send letters to President Obama, E.U. High Representative Catherine Ashton, and the U.N. Secretary-General Ban-ki Moon demanding internationalaction against Libya invoking the “Responsibility to Protect”doctrine. Only 25 members of this coalition actually assert that they are human rights groups.
The letter is as follows:
We, the undersigned non-governmental, human rights, and humanitarian organizations, urge you to mobilize the United Nations and the international community and take immediate action to halt the mass atrocities LINK FOR REST
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LIBYA War Crimes: “Democracy” Comes To SirteBy Barrel Of Gun In “Humanitarian”War For Civilians
Sirte destroyed by NTC-NATO offensive in Libya By Chris Marsden 18 October 2011
The Libyan town of Sirte has been all but destroyed and its inhabitants turned into homeless refugees. This situation has gone largely unreported, but those press reports that have emerged paint a picture of a city being reduced to ruins by attacks of the National Transitional Council (NTC) “rebels” and NATO bombing raids against which it has no defense.
“After weeks of intense fighting, Moammar Gaddafi’s home town appeared Saturday to have been largely destroyed, with most of its population fled and holes the size of manhole covers blown in apartment buildings and the ousted leader’s showcase convention center,” writes the Washington Post of Muammar Gaddafi’s coastal hometown of around 100,000 residents.
Once considered to be a showpiece of urban development in Libya, Sirte has been the target of NATO bombing and NTC attacks since shortly after the fall of Tripoli in late August. In the last ten days, it has been the object of an intensified offensive. The Post states that “the damage wreaked in Sirte raises the question of whether its residents will go quietly into the post-Gaddafi future—or retain a smouldering anger that could fuel an insurgency.”
The Telegraph in Britain, which backs Gaddafi’s ouster, nevertheless comments that Sirte, which once had “a brilliant panoply of university and hospitals,with a glittering seafront and a marble-lined conference centre to host leaders from around the world,” is now “a squalid ruin.”
“Rebel fighters gazing at the devastation concede it is difficult to see how much of it could ever be repaired and made habitable again,” it notes. “The shattered remains of housing blocks and the wreckage of once comfortable homes…are more reminiscent of the grimmest scenes from Grozny, towards the end of Russia’s bloody Chechen war, than of anything seen in Libya so far. And the area around the grid of streets where anything between 200 and 500 loyalists are still holding out have become a killing ground, with loyalists, civilians and forces of the new Libyan government dying by the day.”
Former residents who have returned “found almost every house and building either damaged by a rocket or mortar, burned out or riddled with bullets. Water floods the streets and the city’s infrastructure is in tatters,” writes Reuters.
These events shatter the pretences on which the NATO war against Libya was launched—i.e. claims thatthe possibility that Gaddafi might carry out mass reprisals against protesters justified a NATO intervention to disarm him. Far from planning reprisals against defenceless protesters, the Libyan army soon faced a war in which they were outclassed by NATO forces intervening to support the “rebels.”Reports from Sirte now suggest that the NTC forces are now carrying out collective punishment in the city.
Reuters comments: “the ferociousness of the bombardment of Sirte and the burning of homes that belong to Gaddafi family members and supporters has raised suspicions that some fighters loyal to the NTC are looking for reprisals.” It cited residents returning to Sirte and accusing NTC fighters “of demolishing and looting homes, shops and public buildings.”
“They envy and hate us because Muammar is from here. But we are just civilians. The revolutionaries are coming here for revenge and destruction,” said a Sirte resident.
Another resident, Abu Anas, states: “What’s happening in Sirte is revenge, not liberation. When someone comes and takes your personal car and destroys your home, this is not liberation.”
NTC forces “clearly feel no need for restraint in bombarding the Gaddafi loyalists. That’s especially true of the many fighters from Misurata, a city to the west scarred by a bloody siege by Gaddafi’s troops in the spring,” the Post comments.
Numerous reports indicate that the NTC forces are looting the town.“Orders from the National Transitional Council to outlaw looting have done nothing to deter the rebel stragglers gutting abandoned buildings,” the Telegraph states.
Reuters reporters saw NTC fighters “roaming the streets of Sirte with chairs, tyres and computers on the backs of their pickup trucks. Brand new BMW and Toyota cars were seen being driven away by the fighters and being towed outside of the city.”
Associated Press reporters “also saw trucks carrying equipment from Sirte’s airport, including red-carpeted mobile staircases, baggage carts, airplane towing vehicles and security screening equipment, all apparently meant for Misurata’s badly damaged airport. Smaller pickups were loaded with rugs, freezers, refrigerators, furniture and other household goods, apparently taken by civilians LINK FOR REST
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The truth about the Libyan leader
HUGE PRO GADDAFI RALLY in Tripoli – Raw Footage
Translation of Gaddafi speech today, translation by Karim Budabuss: The leader is talking now. He is saying that this is a historical day, and he is challenging Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama to switch on their TVs and watch the crowds and he is saying that they will find out that they are delusional because they entered a war which they never win, he also says if you continue targeting our houses we can do the same coz Europe is not far away but he said lets not do this and watch the crowds , kids and women. They are not here because i ordered them to, it is they are free will. in this war you are not facing me you are facing these crowds. I am nothing, if you want peace with Libyans, it is up to the crowds. If you want any thing , negotiate with the crowds. The regime is not Gaddafi regime, it is a Libyan regime . Even if many got scared, defected and escaped, the Libyans will remain, and each coward will be replaced with a hero. Is it a democracy to bomb the civilians, we don’t want a democracy which comes with bombs. The socialist Jamahyria will win, the real democracy which serves the people. I advice you to stop bombing, and stop becoming mercenaries for some rebels. The Libyans said their words, they marched, their tribes made it clear that the future is for Libyans, the oil is for Libya, Libya is ours. You are delusional, a group of traitors convinced you that Libya is easy to get, you hired mercenaries , propaganda, psychological war all that didn’t allow you to make any progress on the ground. Turn on your TVs and watch the longest Libyan flag 4.5 km, I didn’t make this flag, people donated to make this flag. Those rebels are no different from who betrayed Libyan during the Italian invasion. Libyan people go in millions without weapons to liberate the regions under rebel control. You Libyan people are the only one who can finish this war with a victory. If they want to negotiate we welcome that, otherwise we are continuing and they are definitely losing no matter how many weapons they drop with parachute to the rebels. We will not betrayed our history nor our children and their future. The glory is for you brave Libyans, the struggle will continue.
Anti-Gaddafi fighters gesture to the crowds in front of a Kingdom of Libya flag during celebrations in Benghazi on 23 October. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters
Nato claimed it would protect civilians in Libya, but delivered far more killing. It’s a warning to the Arab world and Africa.
As the most hopeful offshoot of the “Arab spring” so far flowered this week in successful elections in Tunisia, its ugliest underside has been laid bare in Libya. That’s not only, or even mainly, about the YouTube lynching of Gaddafi, courtesy of a Nato attack on his convoy.
The grisly killing of the Libyan despot after his captors had sodomised him with a knife, was certainly a war crime. But many inside and outside Libya doubtless also felt it was an understandable act of revenge after years of regime violence. Perhaps that was Hillary Clinton‘s reaction, when she joked about it on camera, until global revulsion pushed the US to call for an investigation.
As the reality of what western media have hailed as Libya’s “liberation” becomes clearer, however, the butchering of Gaddafi has been revealed as only a reflection of a much bigger picture. On Tuesday,Human Rights Watch reported the discovery of 53 bodies, military and civilian, in Gaddafi’s last stronghold of Sirte, apparently executed – with their hands tied – by former rebel militia.
Its investigator in Libya, Peter Bouckaert, told me yesterday that more bodies are continuing to be discovered in Sirte, where evidence suggests about 500 people, civilians and fighters, have been killed in the last 10 days alone by shooting, shelling and Nato bombing.
That has followed a two month-long siege and indiscriminate bombardment of a city of 100,000 which has been reduced to aGrozny-like state of destruction by newly triumphant rebel troops with Nato air and special-forces support.
And these massacre sites are only the latest of many such discoveries. Amnesty International has now produced compendious evidence ofmass abduction and detention, beating and routine torture, killings and atrocitiesby the rebel militias Britain, France and the US have backed for the last eight months – supposedly to stop exactly those kind of crimes being committed by the Gaddafi regime.
Throughout that time African migrants and black Libyans have been subject to a relentless racist campaign of mass detention, lynchings and atrocities on the usually unfounded basis that they have been loyalist mercenaries.Such attacks continue, says Bouckaert, who witnessed militias from Misrata this week burning homes in Tawerga so that the town’s predominantly black population – accused of backing Gaddafi – will be unable to return.
All the while, Nato leaders and cheerleading media have turned a blind eye to such horrors as they boast of a triumph of freedom and murmur about the need for restraint.But it is now absolutely clear that, if the purpose of western intervention in Libya’s civil war was to “protect civilians” and save lives, it has been a catastrophic failure.
David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozywon the authorisation to use “all necessary means” from the UN security council in March on the basis that Gaddafi’s forces were about to commit a Srebrenica-style massacre in Benghazi. Naturally we can never know what would have happened without Nato’s intervention. But there is in fact no evidence – including from other rebel-held towns Gaddafi re-captured – to suggest he had either the capability or even the intention to carry out such an atrocity against an armed city of 700,000.
What is now known, however, is that while the death toll in Libya when Nato intervened was perhaps around 1,000-2,000 (judging by UN estimates), eight months later it is probably more than ten times that figure. Estimates of the numbers of dead over the last eight months – as Nato leaders vetoed ceasefires and negotiations – range from 10,000 up to 50,000. The National Transitional Council puts the losses at 30,000 dead and 50,000 wounded.
Of those, uncounted thousands will be civilians, including those killed by Nato bombing and Nato-backed forces on the ground. These figures dwarf the death tolls in this year’s other most bloody Arab uprisings, in Syria and Yemen. Nato has not protected civilians in Libya – it has multiplied the number of their deaths, while losing not a single soldier of its own.
For the western powers, of course, the Libyan war has allowed them to regain ground lost in Tunisia and Egypt, put themselves at the heart of the upheaval sweeping the most strategically sensitive region in the world, and secure valuable new commercial advantages in an oil-rich state whose previous leadership was at best unreliable. No wonder the new British defence secretary is telling businessmen to “pack their bags” for Libya, and the US ambassadorin Tripoli insists American companies are needed on a “big scale”.
But for Libyans, it has meant a loss of ownership of their own future and the effective imposition of a western-picked administration of Gaddafi defectors and US and British intelligence assets. Probably the greatest challenge to that takeover will now come from Islamist military leaders on the ground, such as the Tripoli commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj – kidnapped by MI6 to be tortured in Libya in 2004 – who have already made clear they will not be taking ordersfrom the NTC.
The once savagely repressed progressive Islamist party An-Nahda won the Tunisian elections this week on a platform of pluralist democracy, social justice and national independence. Tunisia has faced nothing like the backlash the uprisings in other Arab countries have received, but that spirit is the driving force of the movement for change across a region long manipulated and dominated by foreign powers.
What the Libyan tragedy has brutally hammered home is that foreign intervention doesn’t only strangle national freedom and self-determination – it doesn’t protect lives either.
NATO underreported civilian killings in Libya airstrikes: HRW
Smoke billows from the site of an explosion across an area in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, targeted by NATO airstrikes, June 7, 2011.
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the NATO military alliance of underreporting civilian casualties during its campaign against the regime of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
The rights organization accused NATO of failing to acknowledge the scope of collateral damage caused by its airstrikes, urging the alliance to compensate civilian victims and launch a probe into the deaths of the civilians killed in the aerial attacks.
“Attacks are allowed only on military targets, and serious questions remain in some incidents about what exactly NATO forces were striking,” said Fred Abrahams, a special adviser at HRW and principal author of the latest report of the organization on NATO’s Libya campaign.
The report claims to be the most extensive investigation into the death toll of NATO air assaults, presenting a higher death toll estimate than the one given in an Amnesty International report released in March.
The HRW report described NATO’s failure to thoroughly investigate the cases of civilian deaths as “deeply disappointing.”
NATO has, however, argued that it took unprecedented care to “minimize risks to civilians” and it had no presence on Libyan soil to confirm the deaths. (****This is how NATO protects civilians)
“We deeply regret any instance of civilian casualties for which NATO may have been responsible,” said NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu in a statement. (****I am sure NATO regrets that they didn’t kill all Libyan Civilians)
NATO began a military campaign against Libya in March 2011 after the UN Security Council approved a resolution, authorizing force by whatever means necessary, except a ground invasion, to “protect civilians” in Libya. (****Not a DAY before the oil export contracts were expired)
From March 19, 2011 to October 31, 2011, NATO warplanes reportedly carried out some 26,000 sorties, including over 9,600 strike missions.
It is necessary that men should understand things as they are, should call them by their right names, and should know that an army is an instrument for killing, and that the enrollment and management of an army...is a preparation for murder - Tolstoy
