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French lawyer to prosecute NATO for 'crimes' in Libya
Global Research, May 8, 2011
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A complaint will be filed in the coming days in Brussels, Belgium, against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for 'crimes' committed in Libya, including the killing of the Libyan leader's son and his three grandchildren, French lawyer Philippe Missamou, announced Thursday to PANA. 'This is a complaint for war crimes and crimes against humanity. I am filing it in Belgium because it is the headquarters of NATO. The Belgian court is competent to assess this complaint,' said the lawyer, who is known for handling political issues. He openly accused NATO of violating the rules of armed conflict in its actions in Libya particularly the protection of civilians.
'For instance the attack of the residence of the son of Libyan leader: it is absolutely not a military objective. It's a murder that should not go unpunished. We will use all legal means to obtain redress', said Missamou.
'What is happening in Libya has nothing to do with events in Tunisia and Egypt. In Libya, we are witnessing an armed insurrection. Insurgents loot, kill, burn. It is the duty of the Tripoli regime to respond by all means. What do we want authorities to do? Idly standby? It's unthinkable,' added the lawyer.
Several organizations from the diaspora, including the Federation of African Workers in France (FETAF), and the Association of Guineans residing abroad (AGRE), have recently expressed their outrage about the NATO air strikes on Libya.
The heads of these organizations have mainly sought a cease-fire while demanding immediate acceptance of a political solution under the auspices of the African Union (AU).
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NATO will stay in Libya after Colonel Gaddafi is toppled to take advantage of the natural resources and to put an end to the independent banking system, says an analyst.
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In Libya, more NATO air strikes have reportedly struck the capital Tripoli - following a defiant broadcast from Colonel Gaddafi. Meeting in Washington, Barack Obama and NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen agreed to continue bombing, as long as the Libyan leader puts up a fight. But as RT's Lauren Lyster reports, the motivation of the U.S.-led Alliance is under scrutiny
Baku: Libyan leader Muammar Kaddafi declared a large-scale conscription in the country due to the probability of NATO ground operations, the Al-Sharg al-Awsat newspaper said referring to a Libyan high-ranking official. The Libyan official said his government expected that NATO will begin ground operations in Libya and they are ready to meet any scenario relating to that development. "The Libyan government is taking measures to conscript women and children as well”.
The source said NATO air strikes couldn’t force Kaddafi to leave power and this situation leads the NATO leadership to ground operations. “We have reliable reports about the NATO’s plans to begin ground operations in Libya”.
According to military experts, Kaddafi has more than 800,000 troops and on the eve of the NATO ground operations the Libyan leadership is arming the population to increase the number of its troops. Recently Libyan television broadcasted the training of Libyan women in special military camps.
Zimbabwe Says Days Of The US Dollar Are Numbered, Pushes For Gold-Backed Local Currency
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/15/2011 16:00 -0400
Ben Bernanke Global Economy Hyperinflation Reserve Currency
Topping off a weekend of surreal news is the announcement from the Central Bank of Zimbabwe that the country is now evaluating introducing a gold-backed Zimbabwean dollar, and, in keeping with the Salvador Dali feel to the past 48 hours, that the "days of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency are numbered." Yes. Zimbabwe, the same place that two years ago sported a brand new crisp Z$100 trillion bill. What is just as odd is that this news comes less than a week after Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized US economic policies, saying that the paper currency created by the American government is taking a heavy toll on the global economy. While Zimbabwe, which now transacts almost exclusively in foreign currencies such as the USD and the South African Rand, is actively considering ways to return its own currency into circulation, the man who has up to now served as an inspiration and a role model to Ben Bernanke, Gideon Gono, said the country should consider adopting a gold-backed currency. “There is a need for us to begin thinking seriously and urgently about introducing a Gold-backed Zimbabwe currency which will not only stable but internationally acceptable,” he said in an interview with state media... That giant ripping noise you hear is the Chairsatan tearing down each and every 20x10 poster of Gideon Gono, lining the hallways of the Princeton Economics department.
From News Zimbabwe:
THE central bank says the country must consider adopting a gold-backed Zimbabwean dollar warning that the US greenback’s days as the world’s reserve currency are numbered.
Government ditched the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009 after it had been rendered worthless by record inflation levels and adopted multiple foreign currencies with the US dollar, the South African Rand and the Botswana being the most widely used.
“We need to re-think our gold-mining strategy, our gold-liberalisation and marketing strategies as a country. The world needs to and will most certainly move to a gold standard and Zimbabwe must lead the way.”
Gono said the inflationary effects of United States’ deficit financing of its budget was likely to impact other countries to leading to a resistance of the green back as a base currency.
We wonder what took Zimbabwe, a country rich in natural resources, so long to figure out that it was nothing but a puppet in the hands of western monetary interests:
“The events of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis demand a new approach to self reliance and a stable mineral-backed currency and to me, Gold has proven over the years that it is a stable and most desired precious metal,” Gono said.
“Zimbabwe is sitting on trillions worth of gold-reserves and it is time we start thinking outside the box, for our survival and prosperity.”
Curiously, the same can be said for Russia, and, soon enough, after it will have bought every last resource and global extraction company, China.
By now it is far too clear that it is an "Onion" world out there. Will it be all that surprising if Zimbabwe is the first country, following its brief and painful detour into hyperinflation, to introduce a gold-backed currency?
A week ago we presented the idea floated by once hyperinflationary Zimbabwe, oddly jeered by most, that the country is seeking to move to a gold-backed currency, adding, somewhat surrealistically, that the "days of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency are numbered." And if anyone should kno
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has asked judges to issue an arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi and two other senior regime members suspected of crimes against humanity.
The other two names on the list are those of Gaddafi’s eldest son Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanousi.
They all are accused of planning and conducting widespread and systematic attacks against civilians.
The International Criminal Court prosecutor’s office has claimed that it received several phone calls from people close to the three, from inside the current Libyan regime, offering information to forward the prosecutions.
Meanwhile, General Sir David Richards insisted that killing Gaddafi in an airstrike would be "within the rules". Richards says coalition forces should start expanding the range of infrastructure targets, meaning electricity, water supplies and power stations.
Britain's military chief is also pushing for the NATO-led coalition to start bombing a broader range of targets in Libya.
According to polls, seven out of ten Britons fear that Libya could turn into another Iraq. Protests are expected in London against what many believe is turning out to be disastrous intervention.
Attack Helos in Libya Mean Deadly Days Ahead — For Everyone
By David Axe May 24, 2011 | 8:50 am | Categories: Rogue States
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The two-month-old civil war in Libya is about to get a lot deadlier, for both sides.
In a bid to break a weeks-long stalemate in Libya, France and the U.K. have simultaneously made a portentous decision. Both countries are deploying tank-busting attack helicopters from their respective amphibious ships, currently sailing off the Libyan coast.
“What we want is to better tailor our ability to strike on the ground with ways that allow more accurate hits,” said French diplomat Alain Juppe.
There are three British Army WAH-64D Apaches (pictured above) embarked on the assault ship HMS Ocean, with up to three more on the way. The choppers were recently re-certified for shipboard use, as a partial replacement for the Royal Navy’s recently-retired aircraft carrier and Harrier jump jets.
An unspecified number of French army Tiger choppers were reportedly among a dozen choppers aboard the assault ship Tonnerre.
The British and French gunships are equipped with rockets, guns, guided missiles and sophisticated day and night sensors. Both types, plus their American counterparts, have proved to be some of the deadliest weapons of the Afghanistan war. But in the open terrain of North Africa, against an opponent armed with anti-aircraft guns and heat-seeking missiles, the helicopter gunships could prove as vulnerable to ground forces as ground forces are to them.
That’s a lesson the U.S. Army learned the hard way in Iraq in 2003, when Iraqi troops unleashed a barrage of ground fire on an aerial armada of 32 Apache gunships passing over the city of Najaf. One Apache was shot down and its two-man crew captured. Most of the rest of the helicopters were damaged. The Army aborted the mission and quickly changed its helicopter tactics to include flying faster and higher.
Despite the new methods, the U.S. has lost scores of gunships to crashes and enemy fire in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.
The French and British choppers could face similar dangers. Though NATO succeeded in destroying many of Qadhafi’s fixed, long-range Surface-to-Air Missile systems in the early hours of the bombing campaign that began on March 20, the Libyan regime’s small, mobile SA-6 and SA-8 missiles have proved more difficult to find and kill. These weapons, plus the countless shoulder-fired missiles in Qadhafi’s arsenal, pose a “high risk” to NATO aircraft, according to the Pentagon.
“There’s even more risk using helicopters as they are easier to shoot down, and it’s a serious political problem if you have casualties or people captured,” Daniel Keohane of the E.U. Institute for Security Studies told Reuters.
Perhaps even more disconcerting is that NATO didn’t seem to know the French helos were showing up.
“At this stage, we have heard that they have got a ship with helicopters in the Mediterranean,” a NATO spokesman tells the Los Angeles Times. “They’re not part of us.”
If that lack of coordination continues, it’s almost a surefire recipe for friendly fire.
On the other hand, no warplane is more adept than the attack helicopter at flying low, searching close, finding and killing dug-in ground troops. Gunships, particularly American Apaches, are easily the most called-upon and most devastating weapon on the NATO side of the Afghanistan war. With adequate protection, the right tactics and — most importantly — a willingness to accept losses, the British and French choppers could make a big dent in Qadhafi’s remaining forces.
The decision to deploy attack helicopters was a long time in coming, a clear sign NATO appreciates the major escalation that the move represents. As early as April, analysts were saying helicopters might be necessary to root out Qadhafi’s most determined defenders. The British Apaches began preparing for sea operations in early May. In the meantime, the Royal Navy tried less risky methods of hitting Qadhafi’s troops, including gunfire from the destroyer HMS Liverpool.
As Britain and France up the ante in Libya, the U.S. continues to resist playing a larger role. U.S. Air Force A-10 attack planes and AC-130 gunships already represent the alliance’s most precise ground-attackers, short of helicopters. Plus, “we continue to provide the majority of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pointed out.
But the Pentagon, notably, has not volunteered its own Apache and Cobra attack helicopters for ultra-dangerous Libya duty.
Photo: British Ministry of Defense
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African Union set to urge end to NATO Libya strikes
By Otto Bakano (AFP) – 3 hours ago
ADDIS ABABA — African leaders Thursday geared up to demand an outright end to NATO air strikes on Libya, accusing the West of sidelining African nations in efforts to end a conflict on their home turf.
"Some international players seem to be denying Africa any significant role in the seach for a solution to the Libyan conflict," African Union Commission chief Jean Ping said late Wednesday at a summit here.
"Africa is not going to be reduced to the status of an observer of its own calamities," he warned the African leaders gathered for the special summit given over to conflicts on the continent, notably to Libya and Sudan.
He said that the AU would call for an end to NATO operations in Libya and demand that its roadmap be used as a basis for a resolution to the conflict.
"This summit must send a clear unambiguous message to our partners, both bilateral and multilateral on the need for them to recognise and support Africa's ownership of efforts to restore peace on the continent," Ping said.
The leaders expect to wrap up their summit later Thursday.
The pan-African bloc has called for a ceasefire and set up a high-level mediation team, but its efforts have had little impact on the ground as Western powers continue with air raids against Moamer Kadhafi's regime.
Ping earlier Wednesday reiterated that "only a political solution can lead to a lasting peace" in Libya, telling the summit: "The situation in Libya remains a serious concern for us, for the future of Libya itself as well as for regional countries."
The ceasefire plan put forward by the AU that included a transition period to organise elections, was accepted by Kadhafi himself but rejected by the Libyan rebels who insisted on Kadhafi's departure first.
The AU's proposals for resolving Libya's months-long crisis, including the mediation team made up of African heads of state, have largely been snubbed, most recently even by South Africa.
Before the talks even opened in Addis Ababa Wednesday, the office of South African President Jacob Zuma said he would visit Tripoli for talks with Kadhafi next week.
Presidency sources said the talks would focus on Kadhafi's "exit strategy."
Libyan rebels have not warmed to the AU's overtures either, wary of the ties between the continental body and Kadhafi, who is one of the bloc's main financiers.
However Ping insisted that "the roadmap proposed by the AU has all the elements for a solution. We need to be given the opportunity to effect it."
Libya has been mired in a bloody conflict pitting Kadhafi's forces against opposition rebels since the eruption of massive anti-government protests in mid-February.
An international coalition intervened on March 19, launching air raids and missile strikes under a UN mandate aimed at protecting civilians from Kadhafi's forces. NATO took command of the air campaign on March 31.
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To NATO’s rocket attack on Tripoli last night, McKinney cries, ‘Stop bombing Africa and the poor of the world!’
Update: In an email sent at 2:31 p.m. Pacific Time, Cynthia wrote: ‘They’re bombing Tripoli again tonight – as we speak. 5 so far.’
by Cynthia McKinney
Speaking on Libyan state TV May 21, 2011, former Congresswoman and presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney declares: “I am an African whose forbears were stolen from the continent. And therefore, I claim the entire continent because I don’t know exactly from what part of the continent I come.”
While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in response to the Soviet Union’s survival as a Communist state. NATO was the U.S. insurance policy that capitalist ownership and domination of European, Asian and African economies would continue. This also would ensure the survival of the then-extant global apartheid.
NATO is a collective security pact wherein member states pledge that an attack upon one is an attack against all. Therefore, should the Soviet Union have attacked any European member state, the United States military shield would be activated. The Soviet response was the Warsaw Pact that maintained a “cordon sanitaire” around the Russian heartland should NATO ever attack.
Thus, the world was broken into blocs, which gave rise to the “Cold War.” Avowed “Cold Warriors” of today still view the world in these terms and, unfortunately, cannot move past Communist China and an amputated Soviet empire as enemy states of the U.S. whose moves anywhere on the planet are to be contested.
The collapse of the Soviet Union provided an accelerated opportunity to exert U.S. hegemony in an area of previous Russian influence. Africa and the Eurasian landmass containing former Soviet satellite states and Afghanistan and Pakistan along with the many other “stans” of the region have always factored prominently in the theories of “containment” or “rollback” guiding U.S. policy up to today.
With that as background, last night’s NATO rocket attack on Tripoli is inexplicable. A civilian metropolitan area of around 2 million people, Tripoli sustained 22 to 25 bombings last night, rattling and breaking windows and glass and shaking the foundation of my hotel.
A civilian metropolitan area of around 2 million people, Tripoli sustained 22 to 25 bombings last night, rattling and breaking windows and glass and shaking the foundation of my hotel.
I left my room at the Rexis Al Nasr Hotel and walked outside the hotel and I could smell the exploded bombs. There were local people everywhere milling with foreign journalists from around the world. As we stood there, more bombs struck around the city. The sky flashed red with explosions and more rockets from NATO jets cut through low clouds before exploding.
I could taste the thick dust stirred up by the exploded bombs. I immediately thought about the depleted uranium munitions reportedly being used here – along with white phosphorus. If depleted uranium weapons were being used, what effect on the local civilians?
Women carrying young children ran out of the hotel. Others ran to wash the dust from their eyes. With sirens blaring, emergency vehicles made their way to the scene of the attack. Car alarms, set off by the repeated blasts, could be heard underneath the defiant chants of the people.
Sporadic gunfire broke out and it seemed everywhere around me. Euronews showed video of nurses and doctors chanting even at the hospitals as they treated those injured from NATO’s latest installation of shock and awe. Suddenly, the streets around my hotel became full of chanting people, car horns blowing. I could not tell how many were walking, how many were driving.
In today’s London Telegraph, Richard Spencer writes from Tripoli in “Libya: NATO’s most ferocious air strike on Tripoli”: “NATO’S frustration with the pace of events in Libya was felt first as a subterranean rumble, then as the shriek of jets, and finally the sharp blast of high explosives. … ‘The whole ceiling was just vibrating,’ said Ola Remi, 30, a Nigerian who lives in a house next to the impact zone. ‘The whole area, all the houses, shook.’ … Tripoli has got used to the sound of bombs. But the NATO attack in the early hours of Tuesday morning was of a different order. … ‘If the rebels win they will kill us,’ said Joy Badmos, 37, a Nigerian who has lived in Tripoli for 15 years running a family fashion design business. ‘We have seen on state TV how the rebels are killing Africans.’ The fear has created a fragile atmosphere,” writes Spencer, designed to have “‘a massive psychological impact on Gaddafi’s regime,’” according to a British Royal Air Force commanding officer. The Sidney Morning Herald reports, “Estimates of the death toll in Libya in three months of conflict range from 15,000 to 30,000.” - Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Inside the hotel, one Libyan woman carrying a baby came to me and asked me why are they doing this to us?
Whatever the military objectives of the attack – and I and many others question the military value of these attacks – the fact remains the air attack was launched a major city packed with hundreds of thousands of civilians.
I did wonder too if the any of the politicians who had authorized this air attack had themselves ever been on the receiving end of laser guided depleted uranium munitions. Had they ever seen the awful damage that these weapons do a city and its population? Perhaps if they’d actually been in the city under air attack and felt the concussion from these bombs and seen the mayhem caused they just might not be so inclined to authorize an attack on a civilian population.
I am confident that NATO would not have been so reckless with human life if they had been called on to attack a major Western city. Indeed, I am confident they would not be called upon ever to attack a Western city. NATO only attacks – as does the U.S. and its allies – the poor and underprivileged of the Third World.
Only the day before, at a women’s event in Tripoli, one woman came up to me with tears in her eyes: Her mother is in Benghazi and she can’t get back to see if her mother is OK or not. People from the east and west of the country lived with each other, loved each other, intermarried, and now, because of NATO’s “humanitarian intervention,” artificial divisions are becoming hardened.
NATO’s recruitment of allies in eastern Libya smacks of the same strain of cold warriorism that sought to assassinate Fidel Castro and overthrow the Cuban Revolution with “homegrown” Cubans willing to commit acts of terror against their former home country.
More recently, Democratic Republic of Congo has been amputated de facto after Laurent Kabila refused a request from the Clinton administration to formally shave off the eastern part of his country. Laurent Kabila personally recounted the meeting at which this request and refusal were delivered. This plan to balkanize and amputate an African country – as has been done in Sudan – did not work because Kabila said “no” while Congolese around the world organized to protect the “territorial integrity” of their country.
I was horrified to learn that NATO allies – the Rebels – in Libya have reportedly lynched, butchered and then killed their darker-skinned compatriots after U.S. press reports labeled Black Libyans as “Black mercenaries.” Now, tell me this – pray tell: How are you going to take Blacks out of Africa? Press reports have suggested that Americans were “surprised” to see dark-skinned people in Africa. Now, what does that tell us about them?
The sad fact, however, is that it is the Libyans themselves who have been insulted, terrorized, lynched and murdered as a result of the press reports that hyper-sensationalized this base ignorance. Who will be held accountable for the lives lost in the bloodletting frenzy unleashed as a result of these lies?
Which brings me back to the lady’s question: Why is this happening? Honestly, I could not give her the educated, reasoned response that she was looking for. In my view the international public is struggling to answer “Why?”
What we do know, and what is quite clear, is this: What I experienced last night is no “humanitarian intervention.”
What I experienced last night is no “humanitarian intervention.”
Many suspect it is about all the oil under Libya. Call me skeptical but I have to wonder why the combined armed sea, land and air forces of NATO and the U.S., costing billions of dollars, are being arraigned against a relatively small North African country and we’re expected to believe it’s in the defense of democracy.
What I have seen in long lines to get fuel is not “humanitarian intervention.” Refusal to allow purchases of medicine for the hospitals is not “humanitarian intervention.”
What is most sad is that I cannot give a cogent explanation of why to people now terrified by NATO’s bombs, but it is transparently clear now that NATO has exceeded its mandate, lied about its intentions, is guilty of extra-judicial killings – all in the name of “humanitarian intervention.” Where is the Congress as the president exceeds his war-making authority? Where is the “conscience of the Congress?”
NATO has exceeded its mandate, lied about its intentions, is guilty of extra-judicial killings – all in the name of “humanitarian intervention.” Where is the Congress as the president exceeds his war-making authority? Where is the “conscience of the Congress?”
For those of you who disagree with Dick Cheney’s warning to us to prepare for war for the next generation, please support anyone who will stop this madness. Please organize and then vote for peace. People around the world need us to stand up and speak out for ourselves and for them because Iran and Venezuela are also in the cross-hairs.
Libyans don’t need NATO helicopter gunships, smart bombs, cruise missiles and depleted uranium to settle their differences. NATO’s “humanitarian intervention” needs to be exposed for what it is with the bright, shining light of the truth.
Libyans don’t need NATO helicopter gunships, smart bombs, cruise missiles and depleted uranium to settle their differences.
As dusk descends on Tripoli, let me prepare myself with the local civilian population for some more NATO humanitarianism.
Former U.S. congresswoman McKinney speaks on state TV in Libya
by the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) May 22, 2011 – A former U.S. congresswoman slammed U.S. policy on Libyan state TV late Saturday and stressed the “last thing we need to do is spend money on death, destruction and war.”
The station is fiercely loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and her interview was spliced with what appeared to be rallies in support of the embattled Libyan leader.
“I think that it’s very important that people understand what is happening here. And it’s important that people all over the world see the truth. And that is why I am here … to understand the truth,” former Rep. Cynthia McKinney said during a live interview.
“It’s important that people all over the world see the truth. And that is why I am here … to understand the truth,” former Rep. Cynthia McKinney said.
She said she was invited to Libya by the “nongovernmental organization for fact-finding,” adding that she intends to bring more people to the country soon so that “they too can understand.”
NATO warplanes have been pounding military targets since March after the U.N. Security Council approved a resolution to protect civilians by any means necessary, as Gadhafi’s forces try to quash a nearly three-month revolt against the leader’s roughly 42 years of rule.
Gadhafi’s government has repeatedly urged the international community to send fact-finding teams to Libya to report what’s happening on the ground.
At one point during the interview, state TV cut to what it said were live airstrikes, hitting Gadhafi’s compound.
“Is that a bomb?” McKinney asked.
“I want to say categorically and very clearly that these policies of war … are not what the people of the United States stand for, and it’s not what African-Americans stand for,” she told state TV.
“These policies of war … are not what the people of the United States stand for, and it’s not what African-Americans stand for.”
The former Georgia representative also slammed the economic policies of U.S. President Barack Obama and said the government of the United States no longer represents the interests of the American people.
“Under the economic policies of the Obama administration, those who have the least are losing the most. And those who have the most are getting even more,” she said. “The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.”
Separately, McKinney appeared on state-run Press TV this week in Iran. She was reported to be in Tehran attending the International Conference on Global Alliance Against Terrorism for a Just Peace.
This story first appeared on CNN World.
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...The incorrect reports that Spain sold the MAT-120 to Libya.
We have found the reports that Instalaza, the Spanish manufacturer of the MAT-120, has admitted selling these weapons to Libya turn out to be baseless. In fact Instalaza have denied selling these weapons to Libya.
The munitions found in Misrata were dated 2007 (batches 02/07 and 03/07) and the Spanish government ceased issuing any export licences on 11 June 2008.
The false reports that these munitions were sold to Libya rest on a misreading of the Spanish Government’s National Reports export data for arms exports – and this is a misreading which has been contained in media reports since a 15 September 2008 article in Solidaridad. It seems likely that the organisers of the bombing of Misrata read these reports and assumed that Libya possessed the MAT-120.
The Spanish government reports show licenses were issued by Spain for exports to Libya in category 4, which includes bombs and missiles, in 2007 and an export was made in 2008 in this category. The amounts were for 3 licenses in 2007 valued at a total of 3,823,500 Euros and actual exports under 2 licences of 3,839,21 Euros in 2008. There is no detail in the reports on these shipments and what they consisted of or who the companies were (although detail is separately given on dual-use equipment in 2008 – radars and lab equipment).
Of the countries to whom Spain sold category 4 munitions in 2007 and 2008 only three countries are involved in the Libyan conflict and have not signed up to the cluster munitions treaty – and those countries are Libya, Qatar and the USA. But everyone has rushed to blame Libya based on a misreading of this report.
However, analysis of official Spanish government documents shows Spanish company Instalaza didn’t export cluster weapons to Libya in 2007/08. ...
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War is a Double Edged Sword such is accepting outside help! The Western Corporations will expect to be well served by their actions!!
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Irene Swift Get real Aron it is not always about money.
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Auston Garner Aron, this is a support group for Libya, not a hate group for the west...
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Aron Dawson Whole of Libya? Remember people are involved on both sides! Get Real? Sorry my words not Real enough?
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Danielle Laurent Western corporations were very well served by Kaddafi . Heard about what did happen to the libya souvereign fund wisely trusted by kaddafi in Carlyle, Halliburton , Societe generale and so on ? Trying to sound informed and cynical, you are just foolish and naive
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Auston Garner Your attitude is very real...say goodbye
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The Iranian news agency Press TV yesterday published a story that will, if the information is correct, turn upside down the whole picture we possess from Libya. The highly controversial article is translated by People and reproduced in full below.
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Report claims soldiers may be British, possibly SAS – which would break UN resolution over any 'occupation force'
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 11:54 pm Post subject:
Libya says Nato air raids 'killed 700 civilians'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13611132
The Libyan government says Nato air raids have killed more than 700 civilians since bombing began in March.
Spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said more than 4,000 people had been wounded, but gave no evidence to confirm his figures.
Nato has denied killing large numbers of civilians, saying its air strikes are to protect Libyans from Colonel Gaddafi's forces.
Four powerful explosions were felt in the centre of Tripoli on Tuesday night, Libyan state media reported.
Planes were heard flying over the capital, but it was not possible to determine the targets of the raids.
Speaking at a news conference in Tripoli, Mr Ibrahim accused Nato of killing and injuring hundreds of Libyan citizens.
"Since March 19, and up to May 26, there have been 718 martyrs among civilians and 4,067 wounded - 433 of them seriously," Mr Ibrahim said.
He said the figures did not include military casualties.
Foreign reporters in Tripoli have not been shown evidence of mass civilian casualties.
Asked why not, Mr Ibrahim said casualties had not been concentrated near the capital but scattered across the country.
He also denied that South African President Jacob Zuma, who met Col Gaddafi in Tripoli on Monday, had discussed an "exit strategy" with the Libyan leader.
"If Gaddafi goes, the security valve will disappear. His departure would be the worst case scenario for Libya," he told reporters.
Moussa Ibrahim denied that Col Gaddafi had discussed a strategy for his departure
A statement released by Mr Zuma's office after he returned to Pretoria said Mr Gaddafi would not leave Libya, despite growing international pressure.
"Col Gaddafi called for an end to the bombings to enable a Libyan dialogue," the statement read.
"He emphasised that he was not prepared to leave his country, despite the difficulties."
After initially backing Nato's involvement, Mr Zuma and the African Union have called for a halt to air strikes, arguing that Nato has overstepped its UN mandate to protect civilians. _________________ www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org www.rethink911.org www.patriotsquestion911.com www.actorsandartistsfor911truth.org www.mediafor911truth.org www.pilotsfor911truth.org www.mp911truth.org www.ae911truth.org www.rl911truth.org www.stj911.org www.v911t.org www.thisweek.org.uk www.abolishwar.org.uk www.elementary.org.uk www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2149 http://utangente.free.fr/2003/media2003.pdf
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GOP Pulls Libya War Powers Resolution from the Floor Because it Might Pass
June 1, 2011 - by Donny Shaw
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The House Republican leadership is worried that Congress might stand up to the Obama Administration and assert its constitutional prerogative as the only brach on government that can declare war. The House was scheduled to vote this afternoon on a a privileged resolution from Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10] directing the President, pursuant to the War Powers Act, to remove U.S. armed forces from Libya. But the House leadership has pulled it from the floor because, according to Republican aides who spoke with Fox News, “it became clear that it might succeed.”
“[Republican leaders] hadn’t seen much of a threat from [the Kucinich bill]. He’s kind of this marginal figure and having his resolution go down narrowly would be no big deal and might even send a message to the administration,” said one of the Republican aides. “But once they saw that there was substantial support, they were like, ‘Whoa.’”
Under the War Powers Act of 1973, if a President authorizes military action without approval from Congress, they must terminate the action within 60 days unless they get specific approval from Congress, or unless there is a national emergency due to an attack on the U.S. In the case of Libya, they 60-day period has come and gone without any action from Congress, yet, in a direct violation of the law, U.S. military involvement in Libya continues. In fact, it has now been extended for another 90 days.
The Obama Administration argues that Libya is not a U.S. mission. It’s a NATO mission, they say. But as Kucinich points out in a letter to supporters of his resolution, the U.S. is still in charge. “The fact remains that we’re bombing another country and we pay, by far, the largest percentage of NATO’s military bills,” he says. “This is a war that we’re leading – and it’s a war that violates our Constitution and the War Powers Act.”
According to a new poll, the public seems to back Kucinich and his allies. When asked by CNN pollsters who should have final authority for deciding whether the U.S. should continue its use of military force in Libya — Congress or President Obama — 55% of respondents answered Congress.
House Republicans have been actively working to expand presidential war powers. They recently added language to the annual Defense authorization bill that expands presidential authority to use military force without consent from Congress against virtually anybody suspected of being a terrorist, anywhere in the world (including domestically), indefinitely. Obviously, the growing support for Kucinich’s resolution is a significant challenge to their unilateral-executive-war-power agenda. So, it’s been postponed, supposedly “in an effort to compel more information and consultation’ from the Administration,” but actually just to give the Republican leadership more time to twist arms.
Pictured above are U.S. special forces on the ground in Libya.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:03 pm Post subject:
From Cynthia McKinney (I have to print it all, as email not website):
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Cynthia McKinney and the Dignity delegation visit victims of US/NATO bombings at a hospital in Tripoli, Libya, June 4, 2011.
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From Wayne Madsen (www.waynemadsenreport.com):
June 5-6, 2011 -- TRIPOLI, LIBYA. NATO war crimes in Libya exposed
In the current NATO war on Libya, the citizens of European and North American NATO countries are being treated to the largest propaganda blitz by their governments in cahoots with corporate media outlets since the U.S.-led invasions and occupation of Iraq. The situation on the ground in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, could not more different from what is being portrayed by Western news networks and newspapers.
The NATO missile attack that killed Muammar Qaddafi's son, Seif al Arab Qaddafi, on April 30, was an attempt to kill Muammar Qaddafi himself. This editor visited the devastated home where Seif was killed, along with his friend and three of Muammar Qaddafi's grandchildren. The only reason why Muammar Qaddafi survived the blast was that he was away from the main residence tending to some animals, including two gazelles, kept in a small petting zoo maintained for his grandchildren. Muammar Qaddafi escaped the fate of his son and grandchildren by only about 500 feet. The residence was hit by bunker buster bombs fired from a U.S. warplane. One of the warheads did not detonate and was later removed from what remained of a bedroom in the home. Libyan authorities do not have the technical capabilities to determine if the warhead contained depleted uranium.
NATO and the Pentagon claimed the residence was a military compound, yet there is no evidence that any military assets were located in the residence that was flanked by the homes of a Libyan doctor and businessmen. The Qaddafi residence actually is owned by Qaddafi's wife. The neighbors' homes were also badly damaged in the U.S. air attack and are uninhabitable. Only a few hundred yards away from the Qaddafi compound sits the embassy of Cote d'Ivoire.
The presence of a foosball table and swing set in the yard of the Qaddafi compound belies the charge by the Pentagon that the home was a military target. However, considering that Qaddafi was present in the compound during the attack, it is clear that President Obama violated international law and three Executive Orders signed by three past presidents -- Ford, Carter, and Reagan -- in trying to assassinate the Libyan head of state. In fact, while Obama's order to kill Qaddafi was being carried out, the President of the United States was preparing to yuck it up with Washington's illuminati and Hollywood's glitterati at the White House Correspndents' Dinner in Washington.
Obama's order to kill Qaddafi is reminiscent of George W. Bush's order to kill Sadaam Hussein at the outset of the U.S. war against Iraq, an assassination order that was also a violation of international and U.S. law.
Above, tracing the footsteps that Muammar Qaddafi took from his wife's residence to his grand children's petting zoo at the rear of the backyard. Moments after Qaddafi left the residence for the mini-zoo, NATO missiles struck the residence in a residential and diplomatic quarter of Tripoli, killing his son and three grandchildren. There are still small body parts lying underneath the rubble of the residence.
The U.S.missiles struck the Qaddafi home at 8:09 pm Tripoli time. The clock was frozen at the time of the attack.
Debris from one of the US missiles that was used to try to kill Muammar Qaddafi.
The remains of a bathtub blown several hundred feet away from the Qaddafi home into the yard.
Colonel Qaddafi's wife's handbag and some of her clothing blown several hundred feet from the bedroom of the home.
The Pentagon insists that the Qaddafi residence was a military command center. Perhaps the Pentagon mistook the above equipment for what the Pentagon brass trains on every day.
The garment Colonel Qaddafi was wearing in the living room before he left for the backyard mini-zoo.
A piece of reinforced concrete was propelled through the living room wall from the adjacent bedroom area of the Qaddafi house.
One of the fortunate but still traumatized survivors of the children's petting zoo.
Putting into context what occurred at Mrs. Qaddafi's home and the aftermath, let one say that there is an unprovoked and surprise enemy missile attack on a secondary U.S. presidential residence, say Camp David. The world's major media then claims that the attack was justified because the U.S. president was committing unsubstantiated war crimes, all reported from sketchy sources. A group of independent journalists and human rights activists drive to Camp David and are welcomed by a plainclothes member of the Secret Service's Presidential Protective Division.
The Secret Service official then proceeds to show the delegation one of the bombed out bedrooms of the main residence and points out that one of the pulverized bedrooms is where the president's daughter was killed in the attack. The delegation is then shown the First Lady's singed handbag thrown several hundred feet away in the explosion. Although the President was taking a walk away from the main residence, the delegation is shown a windbreaker bearing the presidential seal lying on the couch of the destroyed living room. A room said contain military command and control systems is then found by the delegation to have a destroyed pool table and a shattered pinball machine. The attacking nation claims that the Camp David compound was a security threat. But the American people rally to support their president and his family after the attack. Now, you can begin to understand how the people of Libya feel after the U.S. attack on Mrs. Qaddafi's house that killed her and her husband's son and three grand children, along with a family friend.
SOME VIDEO FROM TRIPOLI:
Cynthia McKinney and her delegation visit victims of US/NATO war at a hospital in Tripoli - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYoXwH5bu0E _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
Wonder what's taken them so long to 'See the light?'. But very welcome all the same.
Pity some 'non-traceable' SAM's don't find themselves into Mujahadin hands to defend themselves against murderous infidel invaders (like the US, without worrying about 'traceability', flooded Russian-occupied Afghanistan with 'Stingers' , turning the tables and the result of USSR invasion-occupation).
Perhaps the Iran regime has thought about the problem, and has a more-than-adequate supply of shoulder-launched SAM's, ready to flood the area in case of attack on Iran.
Without total air supremacy, US World Domination plans are likely to flounder. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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