LIBYA: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency

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Syria: Amnesty Calls on UN to stop the US, Qatar and Turkey funding and arming Syria Rebels

Amnesty page : "There has been cases of the Syrian rebels (FSA) abusing prisoners, in on case 16 prisoners were executed by the rebels who then attempted to lay the blame on the Syrian Army, a story which Qatar state  media Al jazeera reported without question"

Video +18 !

Evidence:

The last moment of martyr Omar Mukhtar [History repeat itself]

Mukhtar was tried, convicted, and sentenced to be executed by hanging [by Italians] in a public place. The fairness of his trial has been disputed by historians and scholars. When asked if he wished to say any last words, he replied with the Qur'anic clause:

“Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.”

"From Allah we have come, and to Allah we will return."

Omar Mukhtar led the rebellion against occupation of Libya 

Gaddafi & The Truth About Libya [ Documentary]

Libya: The Aftermath of War

United Nations, July 2012 - Libya is contaminated with hundreds of thousands of explosive remnants of war that threaten the safety of civilians and aid workers. If these bombs are not properly managed, they could end up in the wrong hands, jeopardizing Libya's recovery and international security. The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) is currently on the ground to help clear this threat.

Did you read the UN report about unexploded bombs & danger that Libya has no money to take care of?
Don't worry World. USA backed government will pay with blood and oil of Libyans.
Thanks to NATO and NTC puppets, today Libya is dangerous place ... very very dangerous place.
War is great business: first - you are selling weapon, after you are cleaning the same weapons ... and all of that with money of native people.

Playing God in Iraq, Libya, Syria: the evils of interventionist wars

It is a reminder that we have no right to play God.

by Jonathan Cook

IN a traditional cowboy movie, we know what to do: we look for the guy wearing the white hat to be sure who to cheer, and for the one wearing the black hat to know who deserves to die, preferably gruesomely, before the credits roll.

If Hollywood learnt early to play on these most tribal of emotions, do we doubt that Washington’s political script-writers are any less sophisticated?

Since 9/11, the United States and its allies in Europe have persuaded us that they are waging a series of “white hat” wars against “black hat” regimes in the Middle East. Each has been sold to us misleadingly as a “humanitarian intervention”. The cycle of such wars is still far from complete.

Clinton must to be proud [Graphic]

These are "the progressive forces" of NATO's Libya.

Hitlary Clinton must to be pruod of  her clients.

Nato's darlings killed and robbed deads.

Does anyone  believe that these wretches can do anything good in their miserable lives?


Prisoners of War killed "because of lack of jails"
http://twitvid.com/ZEQCV

SHOCKING VIDEO: Feb17 mercenaries storming neighborhoods in Zawiyah,beating & killing anti-NTC residents

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2012/03/shocking-video-feb17-mercenaries.html

(V) Martyr blood of Varffala in Libya (+18) -->

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/beheading-in-name-of-democracy-in-libya.html

(V) RIP HEART and play with it -->http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/peaceful-protesters-from-benghazi-rip.html

(V) Massacre ni Benghazi (+18) --> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/v-massacre-ni-benghazi-18.html

(V)  Rebels #Feb17 - Libya will never forget your crimes against Libyans (+18) ->http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/09/rebels-feb17-libya-will-never-forget.html

(V) Libya Mass graves: Libya Rebels Dumping Hundreds of Bodies in Cemetery  - > http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/09/libya-massgraves-libya-rebels-dumping.html 

McCain Claims US Armed Libya Rebels To Make Case For Arming Syrians

Short review : Libya at Jun 2012

-  As the US Consulate bombing makes clear, even in Benghazi, the centre of the NATO-led uprising , the situation is unstable. Construction in the city is at a standstill since almost all of Libya’s 3.5 million foreign workers left last year. Unemployment is rife and those jobs that remain go to lower paid migrant workers from Bangladesh and Sudan.

 - The Berber tribes in the west of the country have complained of official indifference and neglect by the NTC.

 -  Armed gangs are fighting for control of the smuggling routes into Chad and Sudan, leaving hundreds dead. 

 -  Clashes around Tripoli have frequently led to closures of the border with Tunisia.

-  Last month, Amnesty International cited the case of 20 detainees who were stripped and beaten repeatedly until they became unconscious, then revived and beaten again in Ain Zara Prison. They were left for two days on a concrete floor without mattresses or blankets.

-  The Guardian cited a horrific example of surgeon Salem Forjani, who was sent to Tripoli’s main medical centre by the health minister to remove the hospital director, who was accused of misusing public funds and having close links to "the Gaddafi regime".

 Forjani was kidnapped, detained and tortured by the SSC. After five days, he was released without charge. The health minister could get no explanation from the NTC. The NTC neither arrested the kidnappers nor launched an investigation as the minister requested.

-  On Wednesday, the US Consulate in Benghazi came under bomb and grenade attack, although no one was injured.

 - Many of NATO-led NTC armed gangs have yet to disband or be integrated into the national army, itself little more than another militia. 

There have been constant reports of fighting between these armed groups as they carve up Libya’s towns and cities into “zones of influence.”

- The continuation of these conflicts exposes as a lie the justification for the NATO-led war for regime-change— that it would bring democracy and human rights. Rather than “liberation”, the country faces violent break-up and civil war.

Their real intention in Libya was to install a pliant administration that would enable them to secure control of the country’s lucrative oil reserves, bolster their geo-strategic position in North Africa, and increase their penetration of the entire African continent. 

 - The NTC is  handing out security contracts to private companies from the NATO countries 

 - Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) has postponed elections scheduled for June 19 amid continuing militia clashes, kidnappings and arrests.

The NTC has expanded from 9 to 86 members, but no one even knows who they are or how they are appointed. Its meetings are held in secret, its votes are not published, and its decisions are announced only irregularly on television broadcasts.

 -  NATO’s war on "the Gaddafi regime" was only the herald of a US offensive to bring Africa under its control. 

Immediately after Gaddafi’s lynching, the US announced it was sending troops to four more African countries-- the Central African Republic, Uganda, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

AFRICOM, the US military's African command, is set to carry out 14 major joint military exercises in African countries in 2012, an unprecedented number.

This could not have been achieved without Gaddafi’s ouster. 

Gaddafi was an obstacle to US penetration of Africa. He wielded considerable influence through the African Union (AU), playing a major role in establishing it in the 1990s, serving as its biggest donor and chairing the organization in 2009-10. Libya also provided about $150 billion of investments in Africa and had proposed an African Union Development Bank that would have reduced Africa’s financial dependence on the West.

Full article : Libyan elections postponed amid mounting violence 

Press Conference Dr. Mousa Ibrahim [ 15./ 16 / 18 September 2011. ]

Dr. Moussa Ibrahim speech 18. September 2011. 

Gaddafi spokesman denounces Cameron and Sarkozy Libya visit

Yesterdays conference of M.Ibrahim:
What comments do you have on the visit of Sarcozy, Cameron and Levy to Libya? _ 
This visit have many meanings. First of all, it was carried out under tight security situation in Tripoli because they came in military planes and were surrounded by huge military defence, and they moved from M’eteega Airport to the hotel where they made their conference using helicopters because they know perfectly that the Libyan fighters and moujahidin are found everywhere in the city. 

As we said earlier, they came to collect the fruits of their seeds. They are afraid of the race of USA and other NATO nations toward the Libyan cake as they see it, so they hurried to Tripoli to make their deals with the traitors, and to guarantee their grasp over the Libyan oil first, then the Libyan rebuilding, and there they are talking about rebuilding the country they destroyed, with the infrastructure, the schools, the hospitals, the houses, the factories with the Libyan money, so they are gaining when they are destroying, and they are gaining when they are rebuilding…and they are certainly not rebuilding the country. 

Also, every colonial country has its men and agents. The role of these countries is to enforce the position of their agents, and to present political figures which are considered to turn in their orbit. For these reasons, I assure you and all the free people in Libya and the world, the war is far from finished, and we are still able to resist and win. I know what I am talking about and I know why we will win. 
I am asking all the honourable people of Tripoli to make a civil disobedience and stop going to their works, in order to delay hugely this project whose goal is to remove the independence and identity of Libya for years. This negative resistance and civil disobedience will help our fighters composed of young volunteers and the Libyan army in Zawya, Zliten, Sorman, Sibrata, Jufra and Ghat, to continue in their fight and to rearrange themselves, in preparation for the march very soon. 
So, this visit made by Sarkozy and Cameron is an announcement for the start of this colonial project. For this reason, the country sovereignty and freedom is in danger, and every Libyan citizen has a sacred role and a compulsory duty of carrying on his own duty on his personal level by not complying with the colonialists and the traitors. 
I would like to reassure the Libyans that the armed gangs are now weak, divided, large groups of them have given up fighting, large groups have left Libya with many spoils, and other groups have stopped fighting because of too much blood shed. We have many thousands who are fighting for the country. We have the ammunition, we have the money, we have the heart of the people, we have the national legitimacy, religious legitimacy, the moral legitimacy, the cultural legitimacy, and we have no other road but the victory, with the will of Allah. 

But the people have to stand for the honor, the jihad, and the civil disobedience and negative resistance, so they can help us to go on forward and bury this colonial project against the Arabism and Islam in Tripoli, so we can protect Algeria from falling, because I assure you, after Libya, they will come to Algeria, Syria, and finally Saudi Arabia.
_ All those who are calling us wish you victory. Also, the Arabs from the other countries wonder how you are doing inside Libya and are wondering whether you need any help. Do you need any kind of humanitarian help from the Arab countries?

_ If you could see the wonderful sights I am having about the people here, you would feel very reassured both you and all the viewers. There are thousands of young volunteers, who are fighting on different fronts, and we welcome anyone who would like to stand by our side, and I can give you the information and the ways to contact us so you can inform those who want to contact us according to worked plan. 

However, I ask our Arab brothers to help us from their country by standing in front of their government and demand them to stand by the Libyan legitimate government and to bury this colonial project, to demand the sheikhs to stand by our sides… [STOP THE WAR IN LIBYA. WE DEMAND IT]

Dr Moussa Ibrahim inerview on Al Rai TV [16. September 2011.]

Spokesman for the Libyan government d. Moussa Ibrahim some minutes ago.
Key points of his phonecall.
1) All attempts aimed at penetrating our front failed and we have the ability to continue for months and months, although the fierce attack and bombing by nato is unbelievable
2)  Qatar today wants to make its people not look extremists , they said they were libera...ls like Mahmoud Jibril, backed by France and Britain, the biggest ally of the groups that destroy and kill in the name of religion.(crusaders )
3)  Algeria is also targetted because its a major economical power in Africa and has vast resources and also follows the anti imperialistic and humanitarian way in politics and refuses to bow to the dogs of imperialism.
4)  We know that there are differences between the countries of NATO, Turkey, France and other demons, but they have found common ground to divide Libya for their economical profil.
5)  Is not a conspiracy against Libya alone, the conspiracy is against Egypt, Algeria, Libya,all the countries that have made a vast economy and that have a lot of natural resources *

Al Jamahiria - mass / Nessbook

Spokesman for the Libyan government d. Moussa Ibrahim : there is no demonstration on Sunday did not invite any demonstration only want our people in every city civil disobedience and Almkot in their homes and messages that are calling for demonstrations next Sunday is a lie and an ambush of rats NATO for the killing and capture of Libyan free honorable therefore call upon all our people not to believe these messages are metal and we are anything we want from our people and our citizens, we will announce it through the channel of Iraqi opinion

  
* Libya Liberal Youth to publish the facts for Libya tomorrow - > https://www.facebook.com/pages/Libya-Liberal-Youth-to-publish-the-facts-for-Libya-tomorrow/135809009826863 

RAPE of LIBYA : GREAT MAN MADE RIVER reason for NATO attack

BREAKING NEWS- IMPORTANT- NATO  are targeting the pipe factory of the Great Man Made River in the city of Brega, where pipes are manufactured to compensate for damaged pipes of the river, THE ONLY SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER and irrigation for  4.5 MILLION the people of Libya!!! IMMINENT HUMANITARIAN DISASTER!!!!! ALERT!!!ALERT!!!!

July 22 2011.  A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply pipeline. It will take months to repair. Then on Saturday they hit the pipeline factory producing pipes to repair it. Sine when is the water supply pipeline itself a legitimate target? 

Map of Great Man Made River

The Libyan  leader  Moammar Al Gaddafi informed members of the Security Council in his message that the alliance decided to carry out mass murder against the Libyan people by targeting their only drinking water source, where billions were invested and without it life stops in Libya. He wondered what's the relation between this factory and the protection of civilians that NATO claims it is carrying out? 

  Muammer Al Gaddafi Visiting The Project

 

A unique Libyan project, the "The Great Man Made River" has brought water from under the Sahara Desert and  Madeit available to various historically parched areas which can now be cultivated and developed into a breadbasket for the region. The US-led international banking consortium is of course poised to seize this most valuable asset now that it is coming to fruition. Wars will be fought over access to water throughout the Arab land in coming years. Control of water could become even more decisive than petroleum reserves in decades to come.

Schematic map of the project. Designed in five phases, which eventually combine to form an integrated system, it is an estimated 25 years from completion.

 

The Great Man Made River is a network of pipes that supplies water to the Sahara Desert in Libya, from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System fossil aquifer. It is the world’s largest irrigation project. [1]

It is the largest underground network of pipes and aqueducts in the world. It consists of more than 1,300 wells, most more than 500 m deep, and supplies 6,500,000 m³ of fresh water per day to the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Sirt and elsewhere. Muammar al-Gaddafi has described it as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”[2]

 

 

Gaddafi-Central Bank used $33 billion, without interest rates, to build the Great Man - Made River   ith three parallel pipelines running oil, gas and water supplying 70% of the people (4.5 of its 6 million) with clean drinking and irrigation water. This provides adequate crops for the people and would be a competitive exporter of vegetables with ISRAEL and Egypt.

 The Great Man made River

Project facts:

These are some Facts and Figures about GMRA :
- Approximately 500,000 pre-stressed concrete cylinder pipes have been manufactured to date.
- Approximately 500,000 pipes transported to date.
Pipe transportation is continuous process and the work goes on day and night, distance traveled by the transporters is equivalent to the sun and back.
- Over 3,700 km of haul roads was constructed alongside the pipe line trench to enable the heavy truck -- trailers to deliver pipe
to the installation site Phase I Total Length 1,600 Km.
Phase II Total Length 2,155 Km.
- Volume of Trench Excavation 250 Million Cubic Meter.
- The amount of aggregate used in the project : 30,000,000 Ton.
Enough to Build 20 pyramids the size of the great pyramid of Khoufu.
- Total Weight of Cement used 7.0 Million Tones.
- Total Length of Pre-Stressing Wire 6.0 Million Kilometers
This would circle the Earth 280 times.[3]

  Thousands of Pipes Were Used

The SECRET MOTIVE: why the UN declared war on Libya. DESTABILIZATION. They did NOT attack Gaddafi, They attacked Africa’s Fresh Water Supply.

“The West refuses to recognize that a small country, with a population no more than six million, can construct anything so large without borrowing a single cent from the international banks.”

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“The goal of the Libyan Arab people, embodied in The Great Man Made River project, is to make Libya a source of agricultural abundance, capable of producing adequate food and water to supply its own needs and to share with neighboring countries. In short, the River  is literally Libya’s ‘meal ticket’ to self-sufficiency.”
“the river is  new lesson and an example in the struggle to achieve self-sufficiency, food security and true independence. No nation that depends on a foreign country to feed its people can be free. The Great River is a triumph against thirst and hunger. It is a defeat against ignorance and backwardness. It reflects the determination of Libyans to resist colonial pressure, to acquire technology, to develop, to improve their lives, and to control their own destiny in accordance with their own free will.” [4]

 LIBYA WATER

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Since when is a water pipes factory in al-Brega a legitimate target to impose a no-fly zone to protect civilians? Sine when is the water supply pipeline itself a legitimate target?

NATO SONS OF DEVIL MAKE THIS IN LIBYA  !!!

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this maybe as close as we ever to get the real reasons why Libya gets a NFZ that i doubt any other countries will have to put up with..all constructed without borrowing a cent..thats must really piss off the usury loving roths..now..if you have time..go and look where the attacks are taking place..and remember they hit a “southern” compound of gaddafis..why would he have a south compound in the desert?..maybe they were instead hitting the GMR stations?..food for thought methinks..  [5]

Libya war: fossil water 

and The Great Man Made Riverer Libya reason for war

Sources:

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Manmade_River

[2]http://chaoticfate.blogspot.com/2011/03/real-story-of-why-un-went-to-war-with.html

[3]http://libyanpeoplesbureau.com/manmaderiver.html

[4]http://chaoticfate.blogspot.com/2011/03/real-story-of-why-un-went-to-war-with.html

[5]http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/libyas-great-manmade-river-is-this-the-real-reason-to-attack/

Eyewitness: Great Leonor in Libya

Leanor's Blog is at http://leonorenlibia.blogspot.com

Libya WAR CRIME: CATASTROPHIC VIOLATION OF THE 'NO FLY ZONE'

--ATTENTION- ONE MORE CATASTROPHIC VIOLATION OF THE 'NO FLY ZONE' AND S.COUNCIL RESOLUTION !! ... 

This airplane is not shot down nor forcedly landed on the ground! It's one more violation of the UN resolution. In NAFUSA MOUNTAINS airplanes regularly land on the ground. "Runway for training" have regularly seen cargo planes with ARMS from Tunisia.. this airplane has markings of the rebels. And this is supposed to be NORMAL FOR NATO????

(V) NATO BOMBING CHILDREN IN LIBYA

Description: Tens od civilians killed on 31st of March in Gharyan city in western Libya.

Man: "After Fajr prayer -in the dawn- I went to wash and then I went to pray in another room, there was a huge shake in the building, I ran to the other room again where my baby was sleeping I found the romm full of smoke and I found my baby throw to the other side of the room and a bomb shell beside him."
"Part of the shell was stuck to his face but I took it off him then I ran ti the hospital with him. The doctor say that he also has 3 fractures in his left leg , in the thigh, and he has bleeding also on the other side. Look at his face, we could hardly take the shell off his face here. Doctors say that he has to stay like that rapped for two weeks, but God only knows what will happen."
"Part of the shell was stuck to his face but I took it off him then I ran ti the hospital with him. The doctor say that he also has 3 fractures in his left leg , in the thigh, and he has bleeding also on the other side. Look at his face, we could hardly take the shell off his face here. Doctors say that he has to stay like that rapped for two weeks, but God only knows what will happen."
Note: the child passed away .

Men in the hospital: may Allah protect Gadaffi and make him win ,we are not going anywhere , we will stay beside him.

Lady1: May Allah give him victory and help him, Muammer, he is the father of all of us, may Allah reward him happiness.

Lady 2: Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest ,he will take revenge. Allah and Gaddafi and Libya only.

How amazing it is that the citizens of these countries sit on their backsides happy that their leaders are committing murder and do nothing. The one who is murdering children is NATO. And the apathy of its citizens would point towards the fact that they either think it is OK, or just don't care.

 A final question to Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy: How would you feel if your kids and grandchildren were murdered in cold bloody by a terrorist? Apparently, you couldn't care less...

Libya - Eyewitness: We have so much documentation

[original: http://coto2.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/moriarty-nato-is-destroying-libya/]
COTO BREAKING NEWS: Eyewitness account describes the evidence that NATO’s invasion of Libya constitutes multiple war crimes. This is a military coup which the Libyans will resist for as long as they live.  For more info, see Lindauer’s recent piece, Going Rogue: NATO War Crimes in Libya.

By Joanna Moriarty

TRIPOLI:  We have so much documentation that it make your head spin. We spoke with 250 rebels who were released by the Tribal Leaders with the blessings of Ghadafi, the stories they tell of the atrocities that they did are horrifying we have them on tape. We also have many rebels that are documented admitting all the atrocities that they themselves committed. But, here is one truth that is irrefutable – the 2000 tribes of Libya are the actual government here, if anyone does not know this then they do not know Libya.

These tribal leaders released 150 rebel prisoners 3 weeks ago, 10 days later another 250 were released. There were about 20 foreigners that witnessed this magnificent show of forgiveness, we have this on tape. There is another release of 200 prisoners in these coming days.

Go to Benghazi and you will not find one single prisoner because they have all been killed. This is a hard fact. Anyone that says they interviewed prisoners in Misurata is a liar. The Misurata prisoners that were released said that they were paid 2500 dinar for every soldier they killed and another 1000 dinar for burning the bodies. This is why there are no prisoners, so who is believable 250 prisoners on tape or someone who will not even give his name and makes statements that are unbelievable and unverifiable.

Here in Tripoli, the people say, please tell them to come to Tripoli and speak to us but they will not come because they don’t want the truth. They would like to ask these liars to PROVE what they say, they say none of their lies can be proved.
Yesterday was Ghadafi’s birthday, they bombed the H*** out of this place yesterday, many many people crying and big damage, but they are not breaking the back of these people. They had parties and shot off fireworks for 3 hours, we were invited to a wedding because they wanted to show us how life continues here and they celebrate life every day.

NATO is not bombing the rebels in the East. NATO is working for the rebels. People don’t dare complain about the rebels. They are scared for their lives and their family lives. We have met many people who have escaped these place with their lives, but most don’t want their names out because they have family left there and if they show their face or publicly speak about the rebel atrocities then the members of their families that are left will be killed. We know this from first hand, one of our group had this exact problem and could not be filmed, his father called him and said the rebels saw him on TV and if he spoke out one more time against them they would kill his brother one by one and then begin with his other family members.

Today we went to the Roxis hotel. There was a large group of women and children holding signs up that said “tell the TRUTH”, “thank you Qatar for killing our people”, “thank you NATO for destroying our country”.

WE love the leader of our revolution, M. Ghadafi. I stopped and took photos and the women came up to me instantly, they thought I was a reporter as all the reporters stay in the Roxis Hotel. They were quite angry and said, TELL THE TRUTH, we want to see the TRUTH outside of Libya we are sick of the lies. One lady had a very small boy with her (maybe 3 years old) he was dressed in a military outfit, he was black, she said you see my son, even our children will fight against this terror, we will never accept NATO or the rebel RATs. [Note: the Libyan people call the rebels "rats."]

This is literally everywhere in Tripoli, tonight thousands were on First of September street in support of their revolutionary leader.

In all the time (5.5 years) we have come here we have never heard of oppression by Ghadafi, the people have great respect and love for him. They all wear green and wear photos of him around their necks, believe me the Western news is so far from the truth they are on another planet. 
 We have never seen anybody beaten, harassed, in prison, in fact we have been days and never even seen a policeman unlike our trips to Cairo where armed guards are on every corner, with tanks around Mosques on Fridays. Believe us, before this mess, it was safer in Tripoli than in Houston.

This is not the Libyan way, they don’t pass out Viagra, this is from the Western mind – I may explode before long, cannot suffer fools lightly and these people have mouths that are not connected to souls.

The final two verifiable truths about the atrocities committed by NATO and the Rebels and the US and UK are:

1. The leader of a tribe of 1 million Libyans living in Benghazi was brutally murdered in his home by the rebels after a kangaroo court which was broadcast in the news on TV here in Libya by Dr. Shakeer. The million people tribe wanted to retaliate against all the rebels, the other tribal leaders and Ghadafi told them please do not kill all these people as there has already been too much bloodshed in Libya. Does this sound like a tyrant?

2. Two days later another pro Ghadafi person was murdered, his head was cut off 

 and placed at the door step of the security office in Dharna (he was a tribal leader) the outrage by most of the population in Dharna was expressed in demonstrations of disgust against the rebels and at the end of the day, the green flag of the legitimate government of Libya was flying. The three major tribes in Dharna proclaimed that they had had enough of the death at the hands of these rats and the Council of Shame as they call the revolution council in Benghazi.

All of these facts are true and verifiable by video and by affidavit of those present, this liar cannot prove one thing that he is saying.

The word of some paid CIA mercenary is not worth ****.

Susan believe us when we say, we have huge amounts of documentation, we are collecting it every day. We must file war crime charges against Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron, and NATO.

Question the Libyans constantly ask is: “Who are these countries to dictate who our leader should or should not be, we will pick our own leader, we ask for a vote, let us vote and then you will see who should be our leader.” NATO will never dictate to us, if they impose their puppet leader upon us, we will have another revolution and throw him out, he will not last one week.

The biggest population is Libya as you know, is in the west, the more NATO rains down destruction upon them the more they back Ghadafi. These are a strong and resilient people, they have an ancient culture and they are an endangered species. Misinformation is the tool of the West not Libya. We have nothing to gain by helping these people (except our souls). One cannot stand by and witness this type of tyranny without doing everything possible to stop it.

God Bless them, I pray they will survive this siege that is upon them.

This is an email from Tripoli resident, Joanne Moriarty, sent to Susan Lindauer earlier today, June 8, 2011, which Susan provided to COTO Report and which we are leaving unedited.

Battle for Libya: Moscow is playing on two looms in Libya

by Miroslav Lazanski
Tripoli 07.07.2011
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Tripoli- The green national flag of Libya is fluttering in the hot desert wind. The border crossing Ras Jedir, between Tunisia and Libya,unbearable heat and a big crowd. There is about 113 degrees in shade, columns of cars and trucks, all pushing horns and trying to bypass the queue.

     Unlike two months ago, all the customs officers and policemen are wearing new uniforms, they are doing their job very professionally. I enter Libya by foot, waiting to be "sniffed" by the member  of the secret police. Because, he is in charge and he is the one doing everything necessary for the journalists coming to Libya.
     So, just as I have passed the guard's post, one unknown man in civilian clothes waved at me. He approaches me, and the only thing that makes me suspect he is from the secret police, is a little walkie-talkie he is discreetly holding in his hand. Without saying a word, he takes my passport and goes somewhere. What a wonderful feeling it is to remain on the sand, in the hot sun and without a passport in the country who's at war, and your passport was taken away by an unknown man in civilian clothes. Who by the way, didn't show you any official identification.
     The waiting dragged on for about three full hours, until the mini bus, carrying the journalists who were just leaving Libya, arrived. By the way, on the border crossing Ras Jedir, the number of those leaving and those who are coming back to Libya is almost the same. Noticeable is a large number of families with children going back to Libya. There are a lot of trucks carrying white sacs with flour, the cult of flour, or bread, is characteristic for the Arab world. I was surprised by the trucks carrying bicycles, Libya is now massively importing bicycles, he shortage of the fuel turned Tripoli to a genuine Amsterdam.

     The road leading from the border to Tripoli is partially coated with new asphalt, on the side of the road there are a lot of watered flowers. We drive trough Subrata and Zawia , the towns the rebels said were  scenes of fierce battles. I can not see any trace of those battles, on the contrary those towns look very orderly and peaceful, with many people out on the streets strolling.

     In the mini bus, beside me there are a couple of western journalists, as well as a correspondent of the China's state agency. The western journalists take turns in Libya every ten days, regular shift. They find it a normal duration of one "mandate" in these circumstances of coverage. Even with the Internet, there are still world renowned names of journalism.
   Tripoli at dusk, appears quite leisurely, just the kilometers of cars in line for the gas. People leave their cars in line for three or four days in order to fill the reservoir with gas. despite the war and shortages, the gas in Libya got cheaper, so that now 100l of gas cost about 5 EUR.
   Despite the fact that Libya, prior to this war, was one of the biggest exporters of oil, it is now importing gasoline, because the oil processing capacity is very modest. Only operating oil rafineries are those in Zawia and Brega. Exports of oil has virtually stopped, because almost all oil pumping stations, including the "124", have been destroyed. There can be no oil transport without those oil pumping stations.

   At the begining of the war, the rebels have seized ten storage tanks with 8.000.000 barrels of oil, near Benghazi  and Twareg, in the following 40 days they were pumping 130.000 barrels of oil a day, which means they have sold more that 13.000.000 barrels. If they sold one barrel for at least 70 dollars, then their profit would have been 160.000.000 dollars.
  Leaders of the rebels in Benghazi claim they have received only 100.000.000 dollars from the oil sales, so now, many people ask themselves- how did the rest 60.000.000 dollars turn into smoke? So, the lack of unity among the rebels has a very tangible dollar dimension. Some rebel leaders are openly accused of stealing the oil money. By the way, Russian airplane bringing humanitarian help landed the day before yesterday in Benghazi, and yesterday another Russian aiplane with humanitarian help landed, in Tripoli this time. Moscow is playing on two looms.
   On the military level, the situation is almost the same as it was two months ago. Gaddafi can not regain the lost territory, the rebels, even with the great help from NATO, do not progress as much as they are telling the public. After all, who wants to fight at 113 degrees in shade, and with the Ramadan approaching.
  Gaddafi has totally adjusted his troops to the conditions of NATO domination of the airspace, their use of drones and satellite reconnaissance. There are no major troop movements, everything is camouflaged, the army can not be seen anywhere.

  The night before last, the NATO's airplanes just flew over Tripoli, I haven't heard a single explosion, but jesterday in the morning the doctors from the "Zanzour" rehabilitation center told me that some white coloured reagent was trown from the air, that caused people to experience the burning and sat on cars just like snow, so it had to be cleaned with the windshield wipers.
  When I asked them if they gave it for analysis, they said no, because no one ordered them to do so. Nothing is done here, withouth the specific order. There are 1.700 employees in that rehabilitation center, 150 of them are working, the rest of them recieve salaries, and does nothing.
  On the political level, the government now agrees with many of the terms by the rebels, which the government itself previously proposed. As it is, Gaddafi's son Saif al Islam keeps repeating and proposing referendum, new constitution ( there is no constitution now) and elections under international supervision, the only thing not accepted is for Gaddafi to leave Libya.

  The secret negotiations are held at the same time in several European cities, some here here in Tripoli claim that everything is already agreed, and now they are working on technical details. Ramadan is close and no one is looking at a spectacular victory.

Resource: Politika
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Libya news [backup libyasos] 03. july - 05. july 2011.

Day108: 05.07.2011.

 

 

21h/ NATO-rebels are fighting for pipelines of water and oil to Israel...
'The future regime will work with other democratic countries, inclusive Israel'.

20h/ Rebels in east Libya will receive a fuels tanker on Tuesday into Benghazi, trade sources said, indicating the rebel government is still able to secure vital fuel supplies despite a lack of financing.

17h/ “People [in western Libya] were depending entirely on food assistance for their survival,” the spokeswoman for the WFP, Emilia Casella, said on Tuesday, pointing to field assessments conducted by the UN body. - > http://www.presstv.ir/detail/187750.html

15h/ African Union Says ICC Prosecutions Are Discriminatory. The African Union says it will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Some African leaders mistrust the international court. -http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/-African-Union-Says-ICC-Prosecutions-Are-Discriminatory-125012734.html?utm_source=voaafrica&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=en&utm_content=twitterfeed

13h/ ROSTOV-ON-DON, July 4th - RIA Novosti, Yulia Nasulina. The lesson of chess will be included in the mandatory program in 20 Libyan schools starting from October 1st this year, told the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to RIA Novosti by telephone .

12h/ NATO faces pressure from outside the alliance. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei V. Lavrov said Monday that his nation and NATO "so far don't see eye to eye" on how the alliance is implementing the U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the campaign in Libya, the Russia 24 TV network reported.

Lavrov particularly criticized the reported French airdrops of weapons, saying they would violate a U.N. arms embargo on Libya

12h/ Senior European and American officials insist that there has always been such dissent over NATO campaigns and that the players who count remain firmly committed. The alliance formally agreed last month to extend the mission, originally planned for 90 days, for three more months.

But officials and outside observers acknowledge that pressure is growing for the coalition to deliver a knockout blow. If not, the Western powers, under acute economic stress and struggling with other military obligations, might have to negotiate an exit on terms that could leave Gadhafi some leverage.

11h/ Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini scolded the coalition over the accidental killing of civilians and called for a cease-fire - a step that U.S., British, and French officials say would allow Gadhafi to regroup.

11h/   Norway, whose small air force has carried out a disproportionate 10 percent of the strikes with six fighter planes, last month became the first country to set an end date to its role.

The government has been facing calls for withdrawal from its leftist coalition partners. Norway's Defense Ministry said it would reduce its contribution to four fighters and withdraw entirely by Aug. 1.

10h/ In the Netherlands, Defense Minister Hans Hillen complained last week of "mission creep" and suggested that the campaign's advocates were deluded to believe they could crush Gadhafi.

"People who thought that merely by throwing some bombs it would not only help the people, but also convince Gadhafi that he could step down or alter his policy were a little bit naive," Hillen told reporters in Brussels, Belgium.

10h/ France and Britain, which have led the way on the campaign, are bearing the brunt of the military burden and costs, and they are eager to bring the war to an end. Their officials have been looking for ways to intensify the campaign and bring it to a close, parting company with the Obama administration, which has been urging patience.

10h/ What is Nato doing in Libya? Drive through any town in rebel-held Libya and the slogans from the early days of Nato's offensive are plain to see. "Thank you USA, Britain, France", "Thank you Nato".

09h/  Government spokesperson Mussa Ibrahim said the two boats were intercepted at about 02:00 GMT on Monday after loading their cargo from a Tunisian-flagged vessel and as they headed for Zanzur, some 30km from Tripoli. Ibrahim said the weapons were "of Pakistani manufacture" and had been destined for the armed forces of Qatar in the Gulf.

08h/ The Obama administration faces pressure from Republicans as well as antiwar Democrats.

NATO’s Libyan War: 13,728 Sorties, 5,170 Strike Sorties

Day107 : 04.07.2011.

23h/  Weapons from Qatar. A ship which carried weapons to rebels  was captured by Libyan army. -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9bUDdDVRE&feature=youtu.be
22h/  SOCHI REPORT Russia and NATO have failed to reach a consensus on missile defence plans in Europe, with the Alliance standing firm on its position.- >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpJH84yiXAM&feature=youtu.be

21h/   Libyan bishop condemns NATO bombing campaign. “Bombing is always an immoral act,” said Bishop Giovanni Martinelli --> http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10880
*     Report: Ground Invasion of Libya Within Two Weeks - >http://www.infowars.com/report-ground-invasion-of-libya-within-two-weeks/ 

20h/  Libya's government said on Monday that its forces have intercepted a boat in waters off Tripoli loaded with weapons bound for rebels fighting to oust Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi.

"After the French arms air-dropped to the rebellion, we are witnessing a new form of arms shipments by sea, and we have intercepted a ship carrying weapons and ammunition," Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaaim told reporters.

"We denounce these deliveries because their aim is to provoke clashes between Libyans and chaos in the country.

"We have repeatedly warned the West that these weapons could fall into the hands of Al-Qaeda," Kaaim said without elaborating on the weapons, their origin or destination.

The authorities plan to take foreign journalists to see the boat.

France admitted on Thursday it has been delivering arms to Berber rebels in the Nafusa Mountains southwest of Tripoli, insisting they were only meant to defend peaceful civilians from Qaddafi's forces.
18h/  ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria have joined South Africa in officially declaring interest in hosting the 2013 African Nations Cup finals, which look increasingly likely to be moved from Libya due to the ongoing rebellion against Legaly Libyan Army.

17h/  Sochi - Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev hosted a trilateral meeting with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and South African President Jacob Zuma in an attempt to pressure the Western alliance into halting air raids and launching peace talks in Libya. “I would like for them to hear, both from me and possibly from you Mr. President, our opinion about what is happening in that country and how peace can be achieved there,” said Mr. Medvedev.
17h/  Moscow supports the African Union's peace proposals and wants it to take a leading role in the settlement efforts. Both denounced French arms drops to Libyan rebels. “Any supplies of weapons are a violation of the [U.N. Resolution 1973], as also is the sending of military instructors,” said Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after the Russia-NATO Council meeting.
13h/ Germany has agreed to supply munitions for the NATO air-strikes in Libya. The move comes despite Berlin not originally backing the operation, and some suggest peer pressure has caused the shift in its position. -- > http://rt.com/news/germany-libya-shells-nato/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=Russia+Today+[EN]
12h/ West sent commandos to kill Gaddafi – son

The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has claimed that Western forces have deployed commando units in Libya to target his father. Muhammad Gaddafi spoke Monday with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the World Chess Federation chief and former president of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia. According to Muhammad Gaddafi, the eldest son of Libyan strongman, the commandos are staying in Tripoli. He also told Ilyumzhinov that his father is all right and does not plan to leave the country Libya he loves more than his life. The World Chess Federation head arrived in the Libyan capital on Sunday night.
12h/ Libya will be on the agenda at talks between Russia and Nato on Monday in the southern Russian resort of Sochi. Russia has criticised the bombing campaign, saying the mission has lost its original focus on protecting civilians and now aims to remove Muammar Gaddafi.

12h/  Saif al-Islam to NATO: "You don't have any chance to win. Zero chance. To tell my father to leave the country, it's a joke. We will never surrender. We will fight. It's our country."

11h/ Turkey's banking authorities Monday seized control of Libyan-Turkish bank A&T in line with UN sanctions against the regime of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Gaddfi, an official statement said.  

10h/  After the 17th AU Summit held in Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea, on Thursday, the AU handed its proposals to delegates of Libya's two conflicting sides attending the AU conference, urging the two sides to follow AU's road map to halt hostilities and start talks immediately.

In its peace plan, the AU suggested that the timeframe for negotiations between the Libyan government and rebels should be limited to a maximum of 30 days unless the parties to the talks decide otherwise, and that the international community should help to facilitate the process.
The AU proposals also include enforcing an arms embargo inside Libya till the end of the transitional period and implementing necessary reforms to meet the legitimate demands of the Libyan people, including organizing elections under international monitoring.
However, the AU proposal does not touch upon the departure of Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi, which is the precondition set by the Libyan opposition to achieve a ceasefire.

10h/ Libyan rebels rejected Sunday an African Union (AU) peace plan to end the ongoing conflicts in the North African country, insisting that any settlement should be based on the immediate resignation of Libyan leader Muammar Al Gaddafi.
09h/ Out of the 28 NATO members, only eight are actively participating in the Libyan campaign.

Day 106 : 03.07.2011.

24h/  400 French soldiers arrived in Benghazi?!?

23h/  American Muslim Alliance
From Strategic thinking to concrete Actions
The indictment at International Criminal Court against Col. Muammer Qaddafi and his family appears to be ill intentioned and is the work of imperialistic design. We support the rule of the Law but not on the behest of those who are not even the signatory to international Court. The worlds human body is well aware of the scheming and conniving of same old Colonial powers and Oppressors of Africa. We condemn the armed rebelliousness anywhere regardless it is in Libya or Pakistan. We believe in non-violence democratic struggle only and we do condemn any foreign intervention in to the internal affairs of any country including Libya. The incitement of armed rebelliousness is a crime and all those who have caused this human tragedy and ethnic cleansing of Dark skin Libyans and atrocities committed against supporters of the state of Libya are the one should be prosecuted.

Muhammad Salim Akhtar
National Director,
American Muslim Alliance
1010 Vermont Ave NW, #1002
Washington, DС 20005

June 27, 2011

20h/  In Tripoli, 3 NATO aircrafts were shot down.
19h/ Russia warns?!  NATO against violating international norms--> http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/03/52716693.html
19h/ DAMASCUS: The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates continues the evacuation of Syrians living in Libya.  
19h/ Turkey recognizes National Transitional Council as legitimate representative of Libyans in exchange for "pacifying" the Kurds.  

--------- a letter from BERLIN  - "Yesterday (02. july 2011.) we have made in Berlin our 4. manifestation "NATO-stopp bombing Libya!" A lot of organizations in Germany are demanding the same , as we (members of organizations and parties of Germany, which are demonstrating all 2 weeks under the big World clock in Berlin for the ending of NATO-bombardements),but they are doing this in a written form and will not demonstrating under open ear, as we do. We love you and further on ( also in buses and trains !) we are spreading the truth about Libya and the NATO-crimes against Serbia. With greatings of solidarity!" ----------video18.jun 2011 - >http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=99TtUY5zh6U

*   It is patently clear nowadays that the ICC is a tool in the hands of NATO - a cynical tool which bases itself on the pseudo-precept that it follows the law, a manipulative organism which twists legal principles and applies them with two weights and measures. What is amazing, is that those behind the ICC and NATO think that the public will believe them.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28471.htm

20h/  Tomorrow will be a meeting between NATO and Russia.One of the major theme of the meeting will be "The crisis in Libya" and NATO's responsibility for the implementation of resolution 1970 and 1973. Moscow still believes that the only chance for stabilizing the situation in Libya is immediate ceasefire and the beginning of a dialogue between the conflicting parties.
19h/   Villages around the capital Tripoli are preparing for a possible NATO ground invasion, which could happen in the next few days or weeks.The people are very well informed about NATO's goals and clearly that the target is their land and oil.L ibyans will stand and defend every house, every street and will use all available weapons.
18h/ Libyan Ministry of Health published a document about the victims of NATO attacks. Current statistics of civilian victims of NATO bombing of Libya:

18h/  Libyan army,for the first time since the war, attacked the rebels with helicopters. With the support of artillery, a large counter-offensive began, the most powerful Libyan military action since the war began,in city Bin Jawad.
15h/  Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya today. He says his country has given the rebels' Transitional National Council $200 million, two-thirds as a loan and one-third as a grant.
*    NATO-led rebels say their Western mangers have told them Libyan leader can stay in Libya if he resigns; reject fair & free elections
14h/   The African Union says its members will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, arguing that the measure jeopardizes efforts to negotiate a peace deal in the war-torn nation.The warrants are "for crimes against humanity," including murder and persecution.Gadhafi has made clear he would not recognize the court's authority.
*       Ghana - We know that Italy has been reluctant in directly participating in the destruction of Libya’s infrastructure and bombing of residential areas, which has killed civilians and reduced to absurdity the West’s claim of being in Libya to solve humanitarian problems.http://vibeghana.com/2011/07/02/libya-at-long-last-commonsense-is-creeping-in/
12h/ Apart from Qatar, none of the Arab League countries has directly involved itself in the military campaign despite their moral support for it. NATO has been egged on by the US’ Obama, Britain’s Cameron, and France’s Sarkozy—all of whom are politically immature and don’t yet know how to handle the first major task in office without creating more problems therefrom.
11h/ President Jacob Zuma will attend a meeting of the International Contact Group on Libya in the Russian Federation today.

11h/  the US is now engaged in hostile actions in at least five Muslim countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Libya. Own up to the fact that War Powers legislation, created to ensure accountability between the executive and legislative branches, is being discursively disregarded and disembowelled. And own up to the fact that the "responsibility to protect" is increasingly about protecting economic interests, and not primarily civilian innocents. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/02/libya-usforeignpolicy
11h/ TRIPOLI, Libya - NATO said yesterday that it has begun increasing its airstrikes on military targets in the western part of Libya

10h/ What America Stands for in Libya- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28441.htm

06h/ NATO tackles threat of attacks in western Libya -http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-AC6739AB-4C3328EF/natolive/news_75942.htm

04h/ Cockpit footage of strikes on Libya targets -http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8556887/Cockpit-footage-of-strikes-on-Libya-targets.html