NATO = war crimes and terrorism: August 2011

Mittwoch, 31. August 2011

Dienstag, 30. August 2011

‪Libyan NATO Massacre

http://mikro71.blog.de/2011/08/31/dringend-bitte-nachrichten-weiterverbreiten-verbrechen-nato-publik-11753049/

LIBYEN - SIRTE - BOMBENTERROR DER NATO!

29.08.2011 10:34

HELP!!! NATO is erasing Sirte with it's bombs since 3 days!!! People have no chance to get out of Sirte!!! Rebells surround the city and kill all people who try to flee!

Hilfe! Die NATO ist dabei, die Stadt Sirte von der Landkarte zu radieren!!! "Schon den dritten Tag in Folge fliegt die NATO die massivsten Luftangriffe auf die Stadt, aus der es keinen Ausgang mehr gibt. Die Stadt ist von Rebellen umkreist, hinter denen sich ausländische Spezialeinheiten befinden. Alle Männer, die versuchen, die Stadt zu verlassen, werden verhaftet und erschossen. Ihre Familien werden zurück in die Stadt unter Bomben geschickt. Es gibt praktisch keine Möglichkeit, die Leichen zu begraben." - das sagt ein Schreiben von heute früh, das die Zeitung Argumenty.ru bekommen hat. Der Schreiber ist ein ehemaliger sowjetischer und russischer Offizier der Spezialeinheiten, der sich gerade in Sirte befindet. Er gehört zur näheren Umgebung von Gaddafi. In die Stadt selbst haben sich bis jetzt keine Truppen, Rebellen oder Spezialeinheiten hinein gewagt. Heute Nacht gab es mehrere kleinere Provokationen, um die Stellung der Regierungstruppen zu erkunden. Zu dieser Zeit flog ein pilotenloses Spionageflugzeug über die Stadt, eine Stunde später flogen Bomben auf diese Stellungen. Aber die Loyalisten haben schon andere Positionen bezogen. Die NATO-Luftwaffe befindet sich fast rund um die Uhr in der Luft über der Stadt.

Bitte verbreitet diese Information über das Massaker, das die NATO seit drei Tagen in der Stadt Sirte verübt! Es ist dringend!

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In memory of the true Libya! Before the war crimes!

LIBYA: R2P has now become "Right 2 Plunder"

By Pepe Escobar
Global Research, August 29, 2011
ATimes.com
The white man's burden doesn't allow asking Africans what they think about the current Western/monarchical Arab onslaught on the northern shores of their continent. At least some are not beating around the bush. Over 200 African leaders and intellectuals released a letter in Johannesburg, South Africa, stressing the "misuse of the United Nations Security Council to engage in militarized diplomacy to effect regime change in Libya", as well as the "marginalization of the African Union". As for the Western "winners" in Libya, they are not even playing smoke and mirrors anymore. Richard Haass, president of that Gotha of the US establishment that is the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote a Financial Times op-ed blatantly stating, "The 'humanitarian' intervention introduced to save lives believed to be threatened was in fact a political intervention introduced to bring about regime change." As for those lowly bit part local actors - Libyans from Cyrenaica - Haass already dispatched them to the dustbin of history: "Libyans will not be able to manage the situation about to emerge on their own", and with "two million barrels of oil a day" at stake, the only solution is an "international force". Translation: occupation army - as in Afghanistan and Iraq. Welcome to neo-colonialism 2.0. Payback time So the US establishment is now as brazen as the wealthy right-wing nut jobs of the Donald "that thing on his head" Trump variety. Trump told Fox News, "We are NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization]. We back NATO in terms of money and weapons. What do we get out of it? Why won't we take the oil?" In geopolitical Groundhog Day mode, it's indeed Afghanistan and Iraq all over again - an orgy of looting, statue-smashing, eye-catching TV reality show segments, even street banners cheerleading NATO (imagine Americans thanking the Chinese for "liberating" New York by bombing). Not to mention prime corporate media idiocy. CNN has moved Tripoli east - to the eastern Mediterranean, somewhere near Lebanon. The BBC showed a Tripoli Green Square "rebel" celebration set in ... India, with Indian flags. Hail the total integration of NATO and Western/GCC media; GCC is the Gulf Cooperation Council, the six wealthy fundamentalist satrapies also known as the Gulf Counter-revolution Club. Considering that the GCC virtually orders the Arab League what to do, no wonder the league has recognized the dodgy, "rebel" Transitional National Council (TNC) as the country's legitimate government, even though it only represents Cyrenaica and even though The Big G Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is already at large, with a bounty of US$1.6 million on his head. Let's assume this is payback for Gaddafi calling Saudi King Abdullah "stupid" in the run-up towards the war on Iraq. It's also as if Libya now is only an Arab emirate-to-be, and has nothing to do with Africa anymore. The GCC financed and armed the "rebels". The African Union was almost universally against the NATO/GCC war. Ergo, as far as NATO/GCC are concerned, screw Africa; the only thing that will really matter - strategically - is an Africom/NATO military/naval base in Libya. Now for another Green Zone It's now common knowledge that British SAS, French intelligence, US Central Intelligence Agency assets, Qatar special forces and mercenaries of all stripes were parachuted as boots on the ground for months, planning and training the "rebels" and in close coordination with that philanthropic prodigy, NATO. That was never the UN mandate - but who cares? NATO/GCC paid the bills, NATO conducted the bombing and NATO/GCC will "stabilize" the mess, according to a 70-page plan leaked by the British to Rupert Murdoch's Times of London. Only fools would believe the predictable spin that the plan was drawn by the Transitional National Council (TNC) with "Western help". NATO wouldn't be so brazen - at least initially - to go for Caucasians on the ground, so the proposal of a 10,000-15,000 strong "Tripoli task force", resourced by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to take over, may be implemented sooner rather than later. The juicy question is - will they be Blackwater-trained foreign mercenaries (Jordanians, South Africans, Colombians) or Libyan tribals on a UAE payroll? And what next: a Green Zone remix near Green Square? This is almost as delicious as the TNC's ambassador to the UAE, Aref Ali Nayed, painfully regretting the plan's leak while Benghazi confirmed this is the real thing. It's now also common knowledge that the juicy reconstruction of everything NATO bombed will profit - who else - the "winners"; NATO/GCC nations (see Disaster Capitalism swoops over Libya Asia Times Online, August 25). TNC leader Mustafa Abdel Jail has confirmed it once again in Benghazi. Expect local - and global - fireworks as far as grabbing the loot is concerned. Without even considering the (still unexplored) oil and gas wealth, Libya's foreign assets are worth at least $150 billion. Libya's central bank, now about to be privatized, has no less than 143.8 tons of gold. Then there's at least a millennium supply of fresh water, which had started to be harnessed by Gaddafi via the spectacular, multibillion dollar Great Man-Made River (GMR) project. This is yet another solid answer to the question of why France has been so frantic to topple Gaddafi; French water companies are the world's largest, and the lure of privatizing a 1,000-year supply of fresh water is turning their executives, well, bubbly. So as a vast, potentially very profitable new market for European companies, right at the other side of the Mediterranean, Libya is the genuine article, adding a whole new meaning to the humanitarian imperialist doctrine of R2P ("responsibility to protect"); an Asia Times Online reader has christened it "Right 2 Plunder". Italian Premier Silvio "bunga bunga" Berlusconi has been swift, meeting in Milan with TNC's Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, right in front of the new Libyan flag (which is in fact the old monarchical flag) alongside the Italian and European Union flags. And to think that only a year ago the dashing Silvio was throwing a lavish party for his buddy - whose hand he was fond of kissing - Big G, complete with 30 Bedouin riders from the storm parading imported Libyan thoroughbreds. In 2008, Silvio and Big G signed a treaty to bury the bitter 1911-1942 colonial era, according to which Italy would spend $5 billion over 25 years investing in infrastructure such as highways and railways; thanks to the treaty at least 180 Italian companies subsequently got fabulous Libyan contracts and Italy became Libya's top trading partner. So inevitably, TNC's leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil had to assure Silvio that new Libya will have "special relationships" with all NATO/GCC war "winners"; and he did single out Italy. Next week will be the turn of Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the UAE's foreign minister, to visit Benghazi to gobble up a piece of the juicy reconstruction cake; the UAE is crammed with starving developers ready to roll after real estate prices went on free fall in the Emirates. And now for the road map Meanwhile, what if the Big G has got the gold? The former governor of Libya's central bank maintains that in Tripoli there is, physically, no less than $10 billion worth in gold reserves. So while British SAS soldiers in Arab civilian garb and brandishing the same Kalashnikovs as the "rebels" are scrambling for Gaddafi "dead or alive", Texas George W Bush-style, The Big G may be literally buying his tribal allegiance in gold. Not to mention that he does count on support from the Qaddafi tribe (cunning night hunters), the al-Magarha tribe (first-class snipers) and most of all Gaddafi's wife's tribe, the Warfallah (the largest in the country, with up to 2 million people). As much as the TNC has been relentlessly spinning that post-Gaddafi Libya will be pluralist and multicultural, signs point to Quagmire City. Arabs in the north absolutely despise Berbers in the south - and vice-versa. The people in Tripolitania absolutely despise Salafis in Cyrenaica - and vice-versa. With so much loot at stake, it's easy to visualize a road map going something like this. A weak TNC puppet government; shock doctrine neo-liberal troops alienating many who were used to free education, free health services and free housing; a guerrilla force against foreign occupation; Salafi-jihadis from other Arab latitudes joining the fray; desert towns developing as guerrilla bases; pipelines from the southeastern desert being bombed; a replica of Baghdad from 2004 to 2007; a surge; a non-stop civil/tribal war scenario; and Afghanistan 2.0 with a twin guerrilla front - the Gaddafi group against the rebels/NATO, and the Salafis against NATO, because the West will never allow Libya to become an Islamic state. Gaddafi is actually gambling that the joint NATO/GCC ops will turn Libya into the new Iraq/Afghanistan. Arguably NATO itself may love the idea. It will force it to be even more entrenched in northern Africa. It will allow the use of the same old imperial divide-and-rule tactics while Western companies exercise their Right 2 Plunder options. It will keep Americans and Europeans worried with yet another subplot of the "war on terror" even as recession eats away what's left of their savings. And it will keep the industrial-military complex and assorted weapons/security contractors with smiles on their faces. Iraq/Afghanistan all over again? Bring it on. Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.

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NATO's Ugly Face - by Stephen Lendman

Images don't lie, except NATO's fake ones produced in Doha, Qatar and perhaps elsewhere on Hollywood sound stages.

For months, NATO marauders and rebel killers gang raped Libya - murdering, destroying, ravaging on the pretense of protecting.

On August 22, Obama, a duplicitous unindicted war criminal, described the above images as "basic and joyful longing for human freedom."

On August 25, Secretary of State Clinton, another unindicted war criminal, said "(t)he events in Libya this week have heartened the world."

Let them and their conspiratorial allies go to Tripoli, Brega, Misrata and other ravaged Libyan cities and see for themselves.

Let them view streets filled with mangled corpses, blood, agony on the face of the living, destruction everywhere in sight, and human misery beyond what scales can measure.

Let them see firsthand the fruits of their victory. Let them taste, smell, and witness Tripoli's growing humanitarian disaster.

On August 27, Russia Today reported "widespread shortages of fuel, water and electricity, and humanitarian aid supplies are yet to reach the country. The situation on the ground is very close to a catastrophe."

"Tripoli is now facing severe shortages of running water, electricity, gasoline and medicine....The city's municipal services are paralyzed."

Destruction, garbage and maggot-infested corpses fill streets. Communicable and other disease outbreaks may follow, including from contaminated water, soil, and air.

Let them imagine hidden rage and the popular will to resist this and much more.

Let them consider what may, in fact, unfold ahead - continued resistance, struggle, and commitment for real freedom, not serfdom under NATO pillagers.

Not banker occupation. Not Big Oil plundering their resources. Not Washington, London and Paris deciding what's "best" for Libya.

Not settling for servitude under monstrous rulers there to destroy their life force, spirit, and will to say this won't stand!

Not surrendering on their knees. Choosing death on their feet instead, committed to struggle for real liberation. Willing to pay the price because the alternative is too grim to accept, and won't be.

Through at least August 27, independent journalists remained trapped, virtual prisoners, inside Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel, unable to provide real news and commentaries on this and other vital events in Tripoli and other areas.

Their reports are sorely missed. Hopefully efforts continue to free them safely to return home.

On August 26, the International Action Center headlined, "LIBYA - Resistance to US/NATO Conquest Continues," saying:

Despite NATO's full force and the worst kind of insurgent banditry, "heroic resistance to imperialist conquests" continues.

"All the corporate media (deception) claiming mass surrender," Gaddafi fleeing, his sons arrested, and other disinformation "turned out to be nothing but lies and psychological warfare."

As in Iraq and Afghanistan, "arrogant(ly) declar(ing) victory and 'mission accomplished' " won't end popular struggles continuing in "many forms."

Libyans "heroically withstood not only (months of bombing), but also....racist corporate media propaganda (portraying America and) NATO's military machine....as great white liberators."

Now they face pillaging on a grand scale. Responsibility to protect, in fact, disguises an opportunity to plunder, once killing and destruction end or at least subside.

Disaster capitalism is planned for Libya. Naomi Klein explained it in "The Shock Doctrine," exposing the myth of free market democracy. She revealed how neoliberal pillaging exploits security threats, terror attacks, economic meltdowns, natural disasters, and wars.

Ahead expect social services ended, public ones privatized, and freedom on the chopping block to be lost. Planned is a new Western version of Libya, replacing a socially responsible one under Gaddafi.

It was a key reason why he was targeted for removal so corporate predators could swoop in to pick apart Libya's corpse.

As a result, spoils will be divvied up among them. Then on to the next target, and ones after that until all Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia are colonized, occupied by one means or other, and plundered.

In fact, parasitic pillaging is Washington's idea of free market triumphalism, including privatizing public enterprises, regulatory freedom, tax cuts for the rich, impoverishing the rest, exploiting them, corporate handouts, and militarized control for enforcement.

It supports the Bilderberg notion of a global classless society - a New World Order with rulers and serfs. No middle class, no unions, no democracy, no equity or justice, just empowered oligarchs, freed to do as they please under a universal legal system benefitting them.

It's right out of Milton Friedman's play book, articulated in his 1962 book, "Capitalism and Freedom," saying:

"only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When a crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around...our basic function (is) to develop alternatives to existing policies (and be ready to roll them out when the) impossible becomes the politically inevitable."

Friedman believed that government's sole function is "to protect our freedom from (outside) enemies (and) our fellow-citizens. (It's to) preserve law and order (as well as) enforce private contracts, (safeguard private property and) foster competitive markets."

Everything else in public hands is socialism, an ideology he called blasphemous. He said markets work best unfettered of rules, regulations, onerous taxes, trade barriers, "entrenched interests," human interference, and the best government is practically none.

In other words, anything government does business does better so let it. Ideas about democracy, social justice, and a caring society, he believed were verboten because they interfere with free-wheeling capitalism.

He said public wealth should be in private hands, profit accumulation unrestrained, corporate taxes abolished, and social services curtailed or ended. He believed "economic freedom is an end to itself (and) an indispensable means toward (achieving) political freedom."

Applied to Libya, neither one is possible unless popular resistance prevents or regains what Washington and its allies plan to take, leaving nothing but servitude for Libyans.

That harsh reality has to be resisted, no matter what it takes or for how long. Hopefully, Libyans are up to the task. Given their rage against planned NATO occupation and plunder, very likely quitting is something they don't contemplate.

Perhaps it's the wild card Washington doesn't expect. A previous article headlined, It Ain't Over Till It's Over. Another was titled, Libya: Keep the Freedom Flame Alive.

Remember John Lennon's lyrics imagining "Nothing to kill or die for....Living life in peace, and "hop(ing) someday....the world will live as one."

So why not if enough in it try.

Accomplishing tough things take a while. The impossible takes a little longer.

Step one is ending Friedman's version of the best of all possible worlds, NATO, and corporate occupation of Washington.

Achieving that would be a major step toward freeing Libyans and perhaps finishing the job elsewhere for the kind of world everyone deserves.

It's there for the taking with enough commitment.

ثوار الناتو يحرقون مبني الخطوط الافريقية في طرابلس

‪NATO & Its Terrorists Achievements In less than 5 days In Tripoli‬‏

Montag, 29. August 2011

Mohanned Magam, Murdered by NATO's terrorists in Libya - English pravda.ru

Lizzie Phelan, Journalist LIBYA Death threats from CNN NATO

لقاء مع الاخ القائد

http://news.argumenti.ru/world/2011/08/122307?type=all#fulltext

Mikro Fon

‎29.08.2011 10:34
HELP!!! NATO is erasing Sirte with it's bombs since 3 days!!! People have no chance to get out of Sirte!!! Rebells surround the city and kill all people who try to flee!
NATO radiert die Stadt Sirt von der Karte!!! "Schon den dritten Tag in folge fliegt NATO massivsten Luftangriffe auf die Stadt, aus der keinen Ausgang mehr gibt. Die Stadt ist von Rebellen umkreist, hinter denen sich ausländische Spezialeinheiten befinden. Alle Männer die versuchen, die Stadt zu verlassen, werden verhaftet und erschossen. Ihre Familien werden zurück in die Stadt unter Bomben geschickt. Es gibt praktisch keine Möglichkeit die Leichen zu begraben." - das sagt ein Schreiben von heute früh, das die Zeitung Argumentyru bekommen hat. Der Schreiber ist ein ehemaliger sowjetischer und russischer Offizier der Spezialeinheiten, der sich gerade in Sirt befindet. Er gehört zu der näheren Umgebung von Gaddafi. In die Stadt selbst haben sich bis jetzt keine Truppen, Rebellen oder Spez-Einheiten rein...

Guerra in Libia: la finta conquista di Tripoli.

Gheddafi VS New World Order. FORZA COLONNELLO!

Sonntag, 28. August 2011

The "Liberation" of Libya: NATO Special Forces and Al Qaeda Join Hands "Former Terrorists" Join the "Pro-democracy" Bandwagon

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26255

Mittwoch, 24. August 2011

Eine Ahnung für das weitere Vorgehen der Terror-Nato!

Nach dem wir schon tagelang mit den „Siegesmeldungen“ der Rebellen(Ratten) über Libyen, dank auch von „ Al Jazeera“, bombardiert werden, angeblich sogar Colonel Gaddafi gesucht wird und das alles Propaganda der Nato-Länder ist, kann ich die nächsten Schritte dieser Verbrecher erahnen! In den nächsten Tagen wird die Meldung verbreitet, dieser „Übergangsrat“ hätte die Macht in Libyen übernommen! Um sich gegen die Rebellen und Soldaten, die Treu zu dem Staat unter Gaddafi stehen, zu wehren, bittet diese fiktiv neue Regierung um Truppenunterstützung der Nato.

Das Ziel wäre erreicht und die Barbarei kann von „Fachleuten“ aus Europa übernommen werden!

Das war und ist das Ziel der Nato gewesen, einen wirtschaftlich und finanziell unabhängigen Staat , der auch Erdöl besitzt, in die Finger zu bekommen!

Lutz Schindler

Tieckstraße

Dresden

Donnerstag, 18. August 2011

No, you will NOT re-arm the Libyan rebels

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/18-08-2011/118787-international_law_libya-0/

Montag, 15. August 2011

Stop illegal aggression against Libya Petition

Sonntag, 14. August 2011

http://pub.mathaba.net/2011/08/14/international-campaign-to-stop-the-war-in-libya/

Mittwoch, 10. August 2011

Libya : crimes of nato in Zliten [2/2][08-08-2011] الجزيرة : مجزرة زليتن

Libya : Tiji Today [08-08-2011]

Libya : crimes of nato in Zliten [2/2][08-08-2011] الجزيرة : مجزرة زليتن

'Killing civilians part of NATO war strategy in Libya'

NATO Missiles Target Libyan Hospital, Kill 50 Children

http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/08/nato-missiles-target-libyan-hospital-kill-50-children

Tripoli : results of bombing civilians [09-08-2011] الجزيرة : اثار قصف طرابلس

Khamis Gaddafi visited hospital in Zlitan 09. August 2011. [libyasos]

NATO killed 85 civilians. Libya, Zlitan, Ramadan massacre 08. August 2011. [libyasos]

Khamis Gaddafi visits victims in Zliten [09-09-2011] ركن خميس معمر القذافي

Sonntag, 7. August 2011

Libya and Universal Human Rights

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/07-08-2011/118668-libya_rights-0/

Samstag, 6. August 2011

Hat immer noch seine Gültigkeit!!

Freitag, 5. August 2011

مقابر ثوار الناتو الجماعية لابناء قبيلة المشاشية

Libya war: NATO Press Breafing Woman and two Children in Zlitan (August 4, 2011) [libyasos]

Libya war: NATO Press Briefing bombing Friday prayers [libyasos]

THE LIBYAN REBEL INFOWARS (IN 10 MINUTES) - UN of ANONYMOUS

Dienstag, 2. August 2011

BREAKING: Libyan rebels in total disarray; social momentum building against them; Qatari troops & armoured vehicles sighted on ground

TRIPOLI, August 1, 2011. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has seen no end to fighting inside Libya. NATO has intensified its bombardment of Tripoli and other major cities. Tens of thousands of fliers have been dropped by NATO from the skies asking the Libyan military to surrender.

The social momentum in Libya against NATO and its illegitimate Transitional Council has been picking up speed. Mass opposition to the rebels is building up in rebels’ stronghold Benghazi.

Following the assassination of General Abdel Fattah Al-Younes, the commander of the Transitional Council’s armed forces, further divisions within the rebellion have unfolded; the tide has changed dramatically in Benghazi.

The Obeide tribe, which is the tribe of General Younes, has taken arms against the Transitional Council. Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the chairman of the Transitional Council, faced gunfire in his hotel where he held a press conference announcing the death of General Al-Younes. Jalil claimed that the body was lost and made many contradictory statements. He stated that Al-Younes had been arrested for questioning and then was attacked and shot. In reality he was murdered by Transitional Council members tied directly to Washington. His son Ashraf Al-Younes has demanded that the legitimate government in Tripoli bring stability to Benghazi.

There are unconfirmed reports that the chairman of the Transitional Council, Mahmoud Jibril, has fled to Egypt to seek the protection of Field Marshal Tantawi and the Egyptian military junta.

At this point, revolts have broken out against the Transitional Council in cities until their control. Benghazi, Darnah, and Tobruk have all witnessed a social uprising of the local population against NATO and the armed gangs of the Transitional Council.

On July 31 clansmen from Warfallah joined the revolt against the Transitional Council in Benghazi. Some of them took up arms and others demonstrated demanding an end to the illegitimate rule of the Transitional Council. NATO helicopters intervened, directly targeting the demonstrators. According to reports, about 160 Warfallah clansmen were killed at a peaceful indoor gathering focusing on political actions and group efforts to oust the Transitional Council. The exact figures of those killed by NATO inside Benghazi are unconfirmed. Their bodies were not returned. They are believed to have been buried in unmarked mass graves.

Qatari troops are also on the ground and there is visual confirmation of Qatari armored vehicles inside Benghazi. A Qatari armored vehicle has also been caught on tape in Benghazi fighting against Libyans trying to liberate the city from NATO and TC armed gangs.

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya reporting from Tripoli is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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