I want to save this chess game for me [ just like notes] while Libyan children dying, and many Libyans have become homeless. Obama vs Romney?
Despite a carefully narrated version of events rolled out late this week by the CIA claiming agents jumped into action as soon as they were notified of calls for help in Benghazi, security officials on the ground say calls for help went out considerably earlier -- and signs of an attack were mounting even before that.
New Libyan government is“a major step” in creating a stable Libya says Italy. [01.11.2012.]
Source: RT com The besieged Libyan city of Bani Walid has been plunged into chaos. RT sources say that the former Gaddafi regime stronghold is under attack by militias bolstered by foreign mercenaries, and they used banned weapons like white phosphorous.
It has been reported this Dr Meleshe Shandoly has been killed today in Bani Walid by Alqaeda with a knife because he is from Warfalla tribe and sits on a council.
The city is still fighting, its defenders are gradually sweeping rebels.
After the NATO (most likely USA) special forces attack on the night of October 25 and 26 the defenders had to pull back further into the city, into Dahra and Souk districts.
Other territories were ravaged by May 28 Brigade bandits which is comprised of local criminals and Libya's Shield Brigade band where the majority are mercenaries from Egypt, Tunis, Qatar and the Saudi Arabia and other countries. Besides local al-Quaeda militants joined in the ravaging.
The bandits which rob and burn housed, kill civilians, had been since October 26 destroying any evidence of that night attack.
The sum which Gaddafi and his associates had in bank accounts, and which the West, in fact, has stolen – $ 150bln – might have been enough to reconstruct the Libyan infrastructureafter the damage caused by the bombs – if not fully, then, at least, partially. But now, that money has disappeared.
“It would be wrong to say that only the West has stolen the money of the former Libyan regime. It is known that those people who fought against Gaddafi and who are now in power in Libya have conveyed many trucks literally stuffed with money abroad.”
“When the West threw bombs on Libya, Western politicians said that this allegedly was done to help Libyans oust the tyrant and establish democracy in their country. Now, it has turned out that these words were mere demagogy. The real aim of the West was to try to steal Libya’s riches.”
=Life and death in Bani Walid, LIbya - resident of BANI WALID Amid worrying news reports from Bani Walid in Libya, our colleague Mona Mahmood has been talking to Abd al-Nasser Alim, a resident in the city. What is happening in Bani Walid is beyond the imagination. It is a tragedy.The so-called Libyan army, which are in reality a bunch of thugs, are behaving like locusts. They are attacking everything in their way.
= The Apotheosis of St. Christopher of Libya by Maximilian Forte Even a gentle breeze against a U.S. flag is enough agitation of their patriotic molecules for it to start raining praise. Patriotic, militaristic, imperial“Americans” simply cannot get over themselves–but that’s not the worst part. The worst part is they expect the rest of us to genuflect. Any time one of theirs dies in a war of their choosing, they automatically ascend to heaven as“heroes”. American + death = hero. They are exact replicas of the fundamentalists with whom they lock horns: death is always martyrdom. http://libyasos.blogspot.gr/2012/10/the-apotheosis-of-st-christopher-of.html = Hillary Clinton Sends Lackey to House Committee to Cover Her Involvement in Benghazi Attack Stevens was involved in arms deals with the NTC who supports the Salafi extremist movement in Saudi Arabia as well as selling weaponry to the Muslim Brotherhood. Ironically, these factions sent their men to murder Stevens at the gated-villa in Benghazi after Clinton reduced security and told the Libyan forces to stand down. Since this attack, Clinton has been working hard to cover her tracks and involvement in creating the perfect scenario that would facilitate the attack which occurred. The State Department initially said that cryptic warnings of an impending attack on Benghazi was relayed, yet devoid of a time frame and therefore ignored. http://www.4thmedia.org/2012/10/13/hillary-clinton-sends-lackey-to-house-committee-to-cover-her-involvement-in-benghazi-attack/
Stevens was involved in arms deals with the NTC who supports the Salafi extremist movement in Saudi Arabia as well as selling weaponry to the Muslim Brotherhood.
=Daily video LibyaSOS & frineds http://paper.li/Libya_SOS/1317257547#!media
= Hunger strike called for prisoners held without charge and languishing in militia jails in Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata starting on 1 Oct
= As a result of "democratic elections", Libya is ruled by Magarief and Abushagur, while Jibril got the overwhelming majority of the votes. Cool [LibyanReality]
= A French agent behind the death of Gaddafi
Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra, has reported, citing diplomatic sources in the Libya capital Tripoli, that a foreign assassin killed Qaddafi, and that the assassin was likely to have been French.
= October 2011 SIRTE [a) NATO said that they dind't know where is Colonel? b) Gaddafi had satellite phone with him this day! c) NATO knew Gaddafi was in convoy ] MI6 agents and CIA officers on the ground were also providing intelligence and it is believed that Gaddafi was given a code name in the same way that US forces used the name Geronimo during the operation to kill Osama bin Laden.
Since the fall of Tripoli in August, intelligence services have been searching for Gaddafi across Libya and beyond using agents, special forces and eavesdropping equipment. US and British special forces had trawled through Gaddafi’s former desert stronghold around Sirte and the south of Libya without finding him.
Seems like 1/4 of Bani Walid residents are refugees now. Bani Walid shows the world again how much NATO/EU [Nobel Laureate] & USA /Obama [Nobel Laureate] are hypocrites.
= A number of Bani Walid residents are now movingto refugee camps in Sirte and Zliten, Tripoli ...
Approximately 5,000 families have already fled Bani Walid, many of whom have relocated to Tarhouna, roughly 89km north
Relief workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross estimated yesterday that as many as 5,000 families, or some 25,000 people, had fled Bani Walid into the Urban area alone, with the total figure believed to be much higher.
The ICRC have said that Urban and Temesla Wadi Mansour are the main transit points for civilians fleeing their homes, and that ICRC staff together with Libyan Red Crescent volunteers are distributing plastic sheeting, mattresses, blankets, kitchen sets and hygiene items to the many displaced in Urban. Yesterday, the ICRC set up a temporary base in Tarhuna to help facilitate its humanitarian operations.
Libyan state TV showing refugees from bani Walid in Tarhouna. Some severely criticising GNC and NTC gangs
October 20th is now a memorial day in honor of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
Gaddafi day : HONOR AND RESPECT to Muammar Gaddafi!
- "Gaddafi day"- to honor the memory of the leading pan-African, pan-Arab and fiercely anti-colonialist, who challenged Western hegemony for decades.
-"Gaddafi Day" - to honor the dignity and pride of the leader who, unlike his African peers has begun Pharaonic work to develop its country, nationalizing Libyan companies that were managed previously by Western multinational companies.
- "Gaddafi day" to pay tribute to this great African leader, activist of the African discours, who has repeatedly intervened across the continent to find solutions to conflicts, problems of development, issues of the future of the continent, which has made him a key figure and respected both by his peers and by the African people.
- "Gaddafi day" to greet the progressive and emancipatory vision of the leader, who worshiped the Libyan women, up to the appointing them to decision-making positions in all areas of his country, and did not hesitate to entrust them responsibilities in the army and security.
- "Gaddafi Day" to honor the martyr, one more martyr of the Western ferocity, whose tragic murder was committed to prevent the collapse of the colonial war of aggression conducted by Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron and their accomplices in the Persian Gulf, which has now resulted in a "Salafist Islamisation" of the African continent and an invasion of fanatical hordes funded by theocracies such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
- "Gaddafi day" to remind the West that Africa has not forgotten that the great leader was assassinated on behalf of oil interests, gas and geopolitics, and he will definitely go down in history as a martyr of the white barbarism and cynicism.
I have never seen nor heard so much "UNCONFIRMED NEWS" and "UNCONFIRMED SOURCES".
The Media´s love them... [@RajaChemayel]
English Translation - Moussa Ibrahim audio message 20.10.2012 In the Name of God, the Great, and in the name of Fatah the great. Salute to all of you, freedom fighters of Libya. I am Dr. Moussa Ibrahim and I am talking to you today...after watching the country under the criminals of NATO...
Bani Walid sources: 20 killed in fighting 75 wounded includ women and children.
GNC's news agency says 14 national army killed 200 wounded
by Diana Bauer Crimes against humanity.
Please trust us that the attached file is the reality.
I am inviting you to visit Bani-Walid to see the size of crime.
As you may heard that for more than 20 days Bani-Walid City under siege,no food,fuel,medicine, electricity, communications.
Shocking picture of Girl died due to Carpet bombing by North Misrata Brigade
In addition to this, the armed groups (Ganges) firing Bani-Walid with different types of weapons (even chemical gases).
This battle results in many injured people, damaged houses and many people have been killed (most of them are children, women).
The question which raised her is: where are the world organizations(UN, EC, Arab league, HRW and so on).
The UN should take the responsibility for such humane crimes. where is the internation crime court? where is the security council?
Where is the EC?
The attached file shows crimes against the humanity, please see it and help us by delivering such materials to the right organizations.
This is a link for a very important video, would you please see it.
Bani Walid has been under an illegal siege for one week and the world is nowhere to be seen. RT if you're fed up with hypocrisy over #Libya. [ahmabd55]
Children are victims in Libya
Report:
Random shelling is very heavy on Bani Walid today. Several houses collapsed on the families inside. "Cousin says as families evacuate, they try to grab bodies laying out in the street & deliver to hospital on their way."
The people of Bani Walid have been abandoned by the government and thousands of militiamen are eager to 'liberate' it .
New Proof of Mass Murder at Gaddafi Death Site - A Year On, No Progress on Inquiry Into Deaths
By Human Rights Watch
WARNING Report contains disturbing images and video
Information Clearing House" - (Beirut, October 17, 2012) – New evidence collected by Human Rights Watch implicates Misrata-based militias in the apparent execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi one year ago, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The Libyan authorities have failed to carry out their pledge to investigate the death of Gaddafi, Libya’s former dictator, his son Mutassim, and dozens of others in rebel custody, Human Rights Watch said.
The 50-page report, “Death of a Dictator: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte,” details the final hours of Muammar Gaddafi’s life and the circumstances under which he was killed. It presents evidence that Misrata-based militias captured and disarmed members of the Gaddafi convoy and, after bringing them under their total control, subjected them to brutal beatings.
They then executed at least 66 captured members of the convoy at the nearby Mahari Hotel.
The evidence indicates that opposition militias took Gaddafi’s wounded son Mutassim from Sirte to Misrata and killed him there.
“The evidence suggests that opposition militias summarily executed at least 66 captured members of Gaddafi’s convoy in Sirte,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. “It also looks as if they took Mutassim Gaddafi, who had been wounded, to Misrata and killed him there.
Our findings call into question the assertion by Libyan authorities that Muammar Gaddafi was killed in crossfire, and not after his capture.”
Among the most powerful new evidence is a mobile phone video clip filmed by opposition militia members that shows a large group of captured convoy members in detention, being cursed at and abused. Human Rights Watch used hospital morgue photos to establish that at least 17 of the detainees visible in the phone video were later executed at the Mahari Hotel.
Under the laws of war, the killing of captured combatants is a war crime, and Libyan civilian and military authorities have an obligation to investigate war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law.
A Human Rights Watch research team was nearby when Gaddafi’s convoy engaged in its final battle with opposition forces, on October 20, 2011.
Following the battle, the research team visited the site and found more than 100 bodies, most killed in combat. Two days later, the Human Rights Watch research team found the decomposing remains of at least 53 people at the nearby Mahari Hotel, some with their hands still bound behind their backs.
Volunteer workers at the scene told Human Rights Watch that relatives of some additional dead had recovered their bodies prior to the Human Rights Watch visit.
To document fully what had occurred on October 20, Human Rights Watch interviewed officers in opposition militias who were at the scene, as well as surviving members of the Gaddafi convoy at the hospital, in custody, and in private homes.
Human Rights Watch also reviewed a large number of video recordings made by opposition forces on their cell phones, some of which show captured detainees at the site of the final battle. Using Sirte hospital morgue records, Human Rights Watch researchers were able to establish the identities of 17 people last seen alive in custody whose bodies were recovered at the Mahari hotel.
Bodies of apparent execution victims found at the Mahari Hotel in Sirte on October 22, 2011, the day after the final battle with the Gaddafi convoy. An estimated 66 captured members of the Gaddafi convoy were apparently executed at the site by opposition fighters
Among those executed was Ahmed Ali Yusuf al-Ghariyani, 29, a Navy recruit originally from Tawergha. In a phone video that is believed to show him in captivity after the battle, militia forces beat, kick and throw shoes at him, and taunt him about being from Tawergha, a town seen as being loyal to Gaddafi. Al-Ghariyani’s body was later found at the Mahari hotel, and was photographed by hospital staff and buried as unidentified body number 86.
He was later identified by family members from the photographs taken by the hospital staff.
Ahmed Al-Ghariyani's body as photographed by Sirte hospital volunteers, between October 21 and 22, 2011. Al-Ghariyani, a navy soldier from Tawergha, was recorded in custody of opposition fighters in Sirte on October 20, 2011.
A review of the available evidence regarding the deaths of Muammar and Mutassim Gaddafi calls into question the official account by the Libyan authorities, who claim that the two, as well as all others who perished at the scene, died during fierce crossfire.
Video footage shows that Muammar Gaddafi was captured alive but bleeding heavily from a head wound, believed to have been caused by shrapnel from a grenade thrown by his own guards that exploded in their midst, killing his defense minister, Abu Bakr Younis.
In the footage, Muammar Gaddafi is severely beaten by opposition forces and stabbed with a bayonet in his buttocks, causing more injuries and bleeding. By the time he is filmed being loaded into an ambulance half-naked, he appears lifeless.
Video above embedded in this report by ICH, did not appear in the original item.
According to the evidence collected by Human Rights Watch, Mutassim Gaddafi was also captured alive at the scene of the battle, trying to break out of the siege by opposition forces. He was wounded and then filmed being transported by members of a Misrata-based opposition militia to the city of Misrata, where he was again filmed in a room, smoking cigarettes and drinking water while engaged in a hostile conversation with his capturers.
By the evening, his dead body, with a new wound on his throat that was not visible in the prior video footage, was being publicly displayed in Misrata.
“In case after case we investigated, the individuals had been videotaped alive by the opposition fighters who held them, and then found dead hours later,” Bouckaert said.
“Our strongest evidence for these executions comes from the footage filmed by the opposition forces, and the physical evidence at the Mahari Hotel, where the 66 bodies were found.”
Map detailing locations along the path of Muammar Gaddafi’s convoy’s attempted escape from Sirte.(Image from HRW report)
Human Rights Watch met with Libyan transitional officials immediately after the killings to inform them of the findings, and has repeatedly met and written to Libyan officials to urge a full investigation and accountability for these crimes.
Despite initial pledges by top Libyan officials that the events would be investigated, Human Rights Watch has not seen any evidence that any actual inquiry is under way or has been carried out.
The International Criminal Court was given jurisdiction by the United Nations Security Council to investigate and prosecute war crimes committed by all sides in Libya after February 15, 2011, if the Libyan authorities are not able or willing to investigate or prosecute.
“One of Libya’s greatest challenges is to bring its well-armed militias under control and end their abuses,” Bouckaert said. “A good first step would be to investigate the mass executions of October 20, 2011, the most serious abuse by opposition forces documented so far.”
“Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends,”the president said, quoting scripture.
… “Because of these patriots, and because of you, this country that we love will always shine as a light onto the world.”
In an effort not to seethe further at the absurdity of U.S. imperial hagiography, with all of the execrable conceit of State Department spokespersons who construct hierarchies of good and bad humans which translates into an ordering of those who deserve to live and those who deserve to die, and their unlimited ability to project their own sins into fantasies of the other, I thought: why not help the U.S. State Department improve on the deification of its belligerent agents?
Bani Walid DOCTOR: "HOSPITALS Don't Have More Medicines to treat the injured people; LIBYA Gov. Is BLOCKING all - PLEASE HELP!!"
Home to Libya’s largest tribe Warfalla tribe, Bani Walid has been the safest cities in Libya since the war ended last October.The local population attribute this to the fact that no militias are able to enter the city from outside and only its own people volunteered to protect it.
Indiscriminate shelling targeted the homes of civilians in Bani Walid city 11-10-2012
At least three inocent civilians were killed when GNC/ Misrata gangs shelled a Bani Walid, local media reported on Thursday. The dead included an eight-year-bold boy who was killed by GNC rockets, late Wednesday when a rocket hit his family‘s house in the town of Bani Walid, said the independent Libyan news agency Solidarity Press, citing a media source inside the town. The town‘s hospital treated several people injured in the "indiscriminate" shelling carried out by tanks and artillery, added the source.
With the Misrata militia 40 Kilometers away - their firing is pretty inaccurate - and the ability to hit them - when you cannot even see them is difficult - if not impossible. The last 30 seconds of the video has graphic images.
Bani Walid today: The shelling. Number of deaths and who died is whats not clear. Abdullah, 12, burnt after a missile exploded at home on Sunday in Bani Walid. Dr not sure he will survive if not transfered
Abdullah, 12, burnt after a missile exploded at home on Sunday in Bani Walid. [@mathieu_galtier]
It was confirmed that Syria’s Ayn El Isa village was in the control of the rebels for 10 days when the mortar shells were fired to the Turkish town Akcakale and killed 5 Turkish civilians.
Conway Hall 25 Red Lion Square, WC14 4RL London by SONS OF MALCOLM
Just over one year on from the his martyrdom at the hands of yankee drones and a french airstrike, this is an event to look at back at the contribution to the world struggle against white supremacy, imperialism of Muammar Gaddafi who, as a leader of a small country of the Global South, contributed more than any other to our international struggle.
There will be video clips of Gaddafi's speeches and interviews, music and spoken word.
SPEAKERS:
Chair: Sukant Chandan
Dave Roberts - peace activist, anti-imperialist socialist and a decades long friend of the Libyan Jamahirya
Mohamed Hassan - former African diplomat and expert on African, Arab and Global South affairs
Libyan from Sirte
Dr Abdal Aziz - Libyan patriot and expert on Libyan affairs
This is a free but ticketed event, please send your confirmation of your place to sukant.chandan@gmail.com This event is a private event and will have security, any disruption to this event is unwelcome.
