“Playground War – Libya” – Documentary (MUST WATCH)

Global Civilian for Peace
By Lizzie Phelan
     

The newly released documentary by Journeyman TV, Playground War – Libya, is an extremely important and heartbreaking insight into the realities of NATO’s war on Libya.

Shot in Sirte, the city that was obliterated during the last weeks of NATO’s bombing campaign, the interviewees who participated very bravely give an extremely honest account of the suffering being endured first and foremost by the primary victims of this aggression, Libya’s children.

It shows that the result of this war, like every war and intervention the west has been involved in, has been the division of people who previous to that intervention lived side by side as brothers and sisters, in peace and unity. In Syria, if western support for the insurgency continues, Libya and history shows that the result will be the same.

As a reporter that witnessed Libya transform from a prosperous, well developed country, that provided a good quality of life for its citizens – a fact that the children in this documentary allude to when they repeatedly remark that they wish life would return to how it was before the war – to a country destroyed beyond comprehension, to now being in Nicaragua, which went through a similar experience, the comments from one of the featured families that supported the western backed insurgency against the Jamahiriyah lead by Muammar Gaddafi, were particularly interesting. They remarked how the revolution that they had supported had delivered them no benefits, and that they too were suffering gravely from the war. In Nicaragua, many of the ordinary working class people that fought with the US backed “Contras”, against the FSLN government in the 1980s are now supporting and working with the FSLN government that was reelected in 2007. The reason for this is primarily that after having lived under 16 years of US backed neoliberal government during the 1990s and early 2000s, and like this Libyan family, far from receiving any benefits instead they suffered greatly, they have experienced first hand betrayal by the forces they once supported

It is a profound tragedy to see a similar process playing out amongst the supporters of the NATO campaign in Libya, and Nicaragua provides many lessons in terms of reconciling a bitterly divided society as exists in Libya today.

This video shows how children who understand little of the politics of Libyan history and the war, are of course naturally inclined to support the positions of their parents. It is essential for their future, not that the past is glorified but that they all receive an honest education about Libya’s history, the history of imperialism, and the political reasons that lead to the west’s support for the devastation that they are now living through. Only with such an education can they critically understand their parents positions, what they are living through (e.g. why the NTC will not deliver funds to rebuild their lives, as the local NTC official states in this documentary) and make judgments about what is best for their and their own children’s future.

There is one highly erroneous claim in this documentary, and that is that the “revolution”/insurgency “succeeded” in Sirte. The reality is, and this is well documented in press coverage from the time, that the insurgency did not succeed in Sirte, and this is why it was obliterated to the extent the documentary shows. It was impossible for the insurgency to succeed in Sirte, and it only was able to crush the support of Gaddafi after the most powerful military force on earth ever know to man, NATO, attacked the city and Green Resistance ruthlessly for almost two months.

The bravery of the participants in this documentary in speaking out honestly about their suffering, at a time when the gun rules, should not be underestimated. Hundreds of thousands of people have had to flee the country and are languishing in makeshift detention centres inside Libya, where torture is routine, simply for their political positions being known.


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Libya Update: 50 dead, over 100 injured in three days of tribal clashes in Libya

An injured Libyan soldier in the Sabha Hospital, March 27, 2012. 

Credit: PressTV  

Press TV
Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:11PM GMT

Three days of clashes between tribal groups in the southern Libyan city of Sabha have left at least 50 people dead and over 100 injured, reports say.


Of the total casualties, sixteen people were killed and another 60 were injured on Monday. 

The clashes escalated on Sunday between former rebels and gunmen from the Toubou people, a minority ethnic group.

Despite the deployment of 300 Libyan troops on Monday to quell the fighting, the number of casualties continued to rise, an interior ministry official said. Another 300 soldiers left Tripoli on Tuesday to assist, he added.  



The clashes were first centered around the airport but then moved to the Sabha city center. Sabha lies 750 kilometers (465 miles) south of the capital Tripoli.

The city of Sabha is facing a "dramatic situation,” said Colonel Mohammed Bussif, head of the national security in Sabha, pointing the finger of blame at "outlaws backed by elements from outside the country.”

Sabha's representative on the governing National Transitional Council (NTC) told the TV broadcaster that he was stepping down from his post to denounce government "passivity" and its "incapacity to react" to the situation.

The NTC has struggled to persuade the various militias who fought former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to lay down their arms and join the armed forces and police.

NTC officials said national army forces had been deployed in the city and were trying to restore order.

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Gaddafi`s black box: Former spymaster Abdullah al-Senussi captured but officially reveals devastating facts that the media willingly ignores

Libya's former head of intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi has been arrested in Mauritania.
Al-Senussi, is one of the most prominent figures under former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi`s regime and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, along with Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam.

Officials in Mauritania say al-Senussi entered the West African country on a flight from Casablanca in Morocco, using a false passport portraying him as being from Mali. But he made damaging declarations officially now that Gaddafi financed Sarkozy`s 2007 presidential elections and there are hard evidences to prove it. This is already in addition to published reports that French prosecutors already have hard evidences - documents in their possession that support the long going rumors Sarkozy won the presidency thanks to Gaddafi`s money.

But, the Al Jazzera video below that shows the report on al-Senussi`s arrest, his statements have been edited out for obvious reasons to keep the public in the dark and oblivious to the truth. Expect him to be tortured before if even handed over to the wolves in Libya to extract the last secrets of the regime that are most damaging to the global powers to never ever to see daylight. You know Sarkozy wants him dead now by any means necessary so he can`t have a platform to disclose any more secrets already damaging to France.




And now view the un-edited statements al-Senussi made through a translator...:



If Youtube deletes this video (as they most-likely will, click here to view another copy on Libya SOS)


Related Info:

• Gaddafi 'contributed €50m to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election fund'
• ‘Gaddafi poured millions into Sarkozy campaign’

NATO 'covers up' Libyan death shame (RT News)

RT NEWS
Published: 19 March, 2012, 14:07
Edited: 20 March, 2012, 01:24

People stand around the coffins of 28 people, who Libyan government officials say were killed after their houses were bombed by NATO forces, in Majar, south of Zlitan, 160 km (99 miles) east of Tripoli, August 9, 2011. (Reuters / Caren Firouz)

NATO has failed to investigate scores of civilian deaths incurred during its seven-month military campaign in Libya, Amnesty international says. NATO expressed its “regret” for civilian casualties but has taken no steps to initiate an investigation.

• View the report from Amnesty International, called Libya: The forgotten victims of NATO Strikes

"It is deeply disappointing that more than four months since the end of the military campaign, victims and relatives of those killed by NATO airstrikes remain in the dark about what happened and who was responsible" said Donatella Rovera, the Senior Crisis Response Adviser at Amnesty International on Monday.

“Legally, [conducting an investigation was] NATO’s responsibility. Some of the information is only in the hands of NATO,” she added, speaking to RT. “As for the new Libyan authorities, unfortunately, they have shown little or no interest in the plight of the victims of NATO strikes.”
Rovera stressed that if NATO is indeed dedicated to the protection of civilians, then it cannot simply “brush aside the deaths of scores of civilians with some vague statement of regret.”

The Libyan Health Minister of the National Transitional Council estimated that about 30,000 were killed during the conflict.

Amnesty International appealed to NATO on March 5, urging them to undertake a thorough investigation into the civilian deaths documented by the NGO. Furthermore, they asked for the findings of any subsequent investigation to be publicly disclosed and compensation to be given to the victims’ families.

Amnesty said that NATO had not even tried to contact the bereaved families of the victims killed in the strikes.

NATO’s response on March 15 did not account for any of the cases of civilian causalities raised by Amnesty International, but instead offered this statement:

“While NATO did everything possible to minimize the risk to civilians, in a complex military operation that risk cannot be reduced to zero. NATO deeply regrets any harm that may have been caused by those air strikes.”

Amnesty International published its findings in a report entitled “Libya: The forgotten victims of NATO Strikes” on Monday.

The document outlines the findings of the NGO’s investigations into civilian casualties of the NATO airstrikes, highlighting numerous occasions when “insufficient precautions were taken in attacks that targeted possible combatants staying at civilian homes.”

The investigation cites 55 named civilians, including women and children who were killed in airstrikes in Tripoli, Zlitan, Majer, Sirte and Brega. Moreover, the NGO found no evidence indicating the strikes carried out on private properties targeted homes being used for military purposes.

While the NGO accepts that NATO did take precautions to avoid civilian deaths, it underlined the fact that this did not absolve them from conducting full investigations. The object of the enquiries should establish whether international law was violated during the air strikes.

During its seven-month campaign that ended in the ouster of Colonel Gadaffi, NATO executed around 9,600 strike operations that destroyed 5,900 targets.

Coalition forces began their campaign in Libya in March 2011, saying they had a responsibility to protect civilians suffering in the Libyan civil war. The campaign backed by 19 different countries was headed by France, who worked closely with the UK and US.

Additional Info:
View the NATO crimes committed in Libya (WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES)

LIBYA Update (March 9, 2012) MUST WATCH

Brave Green Libyan Soldier tell his story and view of 'so-called revolution'

A rather moving story of what has happened to Libya and Libyans.
http://youtu.be/LKhzOczPck8
Uploaded by 108morris108 on Mar 8, 2012

In Libya the interim illeagal Prime Minister has thanked the US for what he called "tremendous support"' in overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi. But the new Libyan illegal authorities are facing an uprising of their own from a group of powerful tribal leaders who have declared partial autonomy in the east of the country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlL41yjSkH4
RT NEWS March 9, 2012

Political analyst Pepe Escobar told RT, that Washington is likely to take little interest in political developments in post-Gaddafi Libya. And Sara Marusek, a Beirut-based researcher for Syracuse University says that what's happening in Libya now, under a Western backed government, is exactly what prompted foreign military intervention in the first place.

Libya Update; McCain, founder of Al Qaeda emirate of Benghazi?

John McCain: Founding Father of the Terrorist Emirate of Benghazi

Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
Thursday, March 8, 2012

“I have met with these brave fighters, and they are not Al-Qaeda. To the contrary: They are Libyan patriots who want to liberate their nation. We should help them do it.” - Senator John McCain in Benghazi, Libya April 22, 2011.

Image(s) credit: Infowars

Image: And yet, the very courthouse McCain uttered his lies in front of is now flying the flag of Al Qaeda, while crowds have been photographed in the streets of Benghazi carrying it aloft since the fall of Qaddafi. Clearly, the senator from Arizona was “mistaken.” 
….

Even as McCain deceived the world with his comments in pursuit of overthrowing and destroying the sovereign nation-state of Libya, it was already a matter of record, according to America’s own West Point Combating Terrorism Center, that Benghazi, and much of eastern Libya known as Cyrenaica, served as an epicenter for global Al Qaeda recruitment. Militants hailing from the eastern region’s Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) would end up in both Afghanistan and Iraq fighting Western troops and participating in sectarian violence...

(click here to read the full article)

LIBYA Update (March 6, 2012)

Libya SOS
MAR 6, 2012; 23:12

What did a foreign-backed 'revolution' brought to Libya

Photo credit: Libya SOS

1. Loss of sovereignty, all unsatisfied regions want autonomy now,borders are 'legally protected' by foreign forces [Italian and French],foreign military bases on its soil, and airspace out of domestic control.
No one respects new puppet government, there are no legal police institutions, or national army, country is 'ruled' by different militias which are infighting among themselves.

2. Central bank is not independent anymore.

3. Country with NO foreign debt is now heavily indebted.

4. Infrastructure destroyed by friendly NATO bombs
[schools,hospitals,roads,airports,civilians buildings,government buildings].

5. Tens of thousands dead, and killings continue.

6. 55.000 wounded NATO-led rebels are treated outside of country, expences payed with Libyan money.

7. Thousands of tortured black prisoners in real and makeshift jails, some in cages forced to eat flag and jump like apes.

8. Rape and kidnappings became widespread occurance.

9. Drugs and weapons smuggling are widespread,sometimes as only means of income, unless you work in US NGOs which are popping up like mushrooms after the rain, in order to whitewash NATO's crimes.

10. Oil is in the hands of foreign forces.

11. Tripoli is ruled by Belhadj, former Al Qaeda commander, whose fraction is pushing for gender inequality Sharia laws.

12. Libyan Media is in the hand of Nato countries.

13. Wahabi's allowed to desecrate christian graveyards.

14. Retaliation on kids and woman "from the other side" are common occurance.

15. NTC military Checkpoints around towns where people are regularly harassed, as the only mean of keeping 'democracy in order'.

16. What else??

O yes, 'revolution' has brought freedom and democracy.

Please visit Libya S.O.S for all news on Libya

The U.S. & EU`s 'Revolutionaries' in Libya turning their backs or freedom? (Shocking Video)

Libyan NTC Islamists Destroying British and Commonwealth War Cemetery Benghazi (Shocking Video)
Here is the true face of the people NATO helped desecrating and destroying head stones in the commonwealth war cemetery in Benghazi Libya...



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Additional Readings

Western shock: Libyans destroy NATO ally war cemetery (VIDEO, PHOTOS) RT News March 4, 2012

The NTC`s form of Freedom, Democracy, Justice in Libya (Libya SOS)

MAR 2, 2012

Libya SOS.blogspot

View the NTC`s version of Freedom, Democracy, Justice currently in Libya where the whole media-establishment and world powers have forgotten since their 'job is done.'

View an archive of the NTC Rebel`s crimes by Libya SOS

Visit Libya SOS for all current news in Libya (only the honest truth & deception free)

So this is the FREEDOM, SOCIAL EQUALITY the global-powers and the NTC promised to the Libyans huh?

Libyan rebels cage black Africans in zoo, force feed them flags (SHOCKING VIDEO)
RT News
Published: 02 March, 2012, 13:54
Edited: 02 March, 2012, 17:56

Courtesy: YouTube user MLAktion

A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag.

“Eat the flag, you dog. Patience you dog, patience. God is Great,” screams a voice off-camera in the video uploaded to YouTube last week, which also made its way onto LiveLeak.com.

The torturers are also shown making the group of captive black Africans stand up with pieces of green cloth still in their mouths and apparently forcing them start jumping.

A number of people are shown standing outside the cage watching the atrocity.

After Muammar Gaddafi was killed, hundreds of migrant workers from neighboring states were imprisoned by fighters allied to the new interim authorities.

They accuse the black Africans of having been mercenaries for the late ruler.

In the course of the fighting to topple Gaddafi last year, sub-Saharan African migrants and refugees “became targets of stigma, discrimination and violence,” the human rights group Amnesty International said last month.

“At the beginning of the crisis, there was vastly exaggerated propaganda for which the highest level of the National Transitional Council should take some responsibility because they largely contributed to that unfounded propaganda,” said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty’s senior crisis response advisor.

Some of the black migrants managed to flee into neighboring Mali and Niger, but more than 5,000 were detained. They face mass execution, beatings, and revenge killings, according to an Al Jazeera report published back in September.

Before the Libyan uprising broke out, the country hosted about a million black African workers, many of them employed in domestic work, construction, trash collection and other low-wage jobs.

Human Rights Investigations (HRI) suspect Libyan rebels of ethnic cleansing of the black population of the country, particularly in the city of Tawergha.


Additional Readings

Libyan Revolution Update: Enjoying “Freedom” NATO-backed rebels cage black Africans in zoo cages - Infowars March 4, 2012

The Green lions are alive and well in Southeast Libya

Jalil and the Libyan army chief can say all they want, they can`t silence the truth, they do not have an effective control of Libya contrary to popular belief among the world powers, only to the capital of Tripoli and a handful of cities. The rest of the villages and tribes are still loyal to the old regime and Green revolution and will seize the appropriate opportunity to regain and assert control over the murdering thugs that now claim to be the government and sole representatives of the Libyan people. They will God willing bring back the glorious Libya from being a failed state.


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Southeast Libya ... and even more green lions ... (InomineX):


From: InomineX | Feb 28, 2012
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Current report out from Kufra, Libya: Libya SOS (Toubou)

Report Libya 18. February 2012.
Libya SOS Feb 19, 2012

A Libyan Toubou in Kuffra singing for Libyan Resistance

We are born here.

We live here.

We die here.

No to aggression.

No room for aggressors.

No room for invaders and imperialists.

Kuffra is not the place of agression.

The people here detest aggression.

Yousuf was killed by the aggressor he went to join.

The aggressor knows no peace.

This is our land, the history of eternity knows us.

Our soul lives in this sand, this is our land.

We will never and not will compromise.

[Translation by Stephen Gule]

http://youtu.be/kGjq2Gs1bjA

Uploaded by Altwear1982 on Feb 17, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGjq2Gs1bjA&feature=player_embedded

Visit Libya SOS for all current real news on LIbya - free of deception & NTC rats and importantly are pro-Green and the real representatives of the Libyan people. 

Libya making headlines now...Amnesty International reports mass torture and killings by NTC rebels and militias

It shouldn`t be a surprise to anyone who really knows the truth on the ground, that the rule of law isn't being followed in Libya, that mass killings and torture by the so-called 'revolutionary militias' of Libya are continuin as they started from the first days of the fake revolution in Benghazi, where Libyan blacks and others were hung, burned at the stake and strung-up on poles just outside the NTC buildings were the protests began - just look it up, its all there in plain view. And now this sham NTC government of Libya who is"internationally recognized" as the sole representatives of the Libyan people? Really? Under whose authority, the sham U.N.and Arab League? None of them are real Libyans, look it up again, its true. The world is just so ridiculous where the truth is so conveniently white-washed over in plain sight but we refuse to look beyond it.

If you want the honest truth on the ground, visit Libya S.O.S. and InomineX, my-metropolis.eu and educate and arm yourself with the truth - for the honest truth is very single weapon that is feared by all.


“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate, continued, and dishonest; but the myth: persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.”
– John F. Kennedy


Libyan militias 'out of control,' Amnesty International says
CNN News
By the CNN Wire Staff; Jomana Karadsheh
updated 6:14 AM EST, Thu February 16, 2012

credit: CNN/AFP/GettyImages

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
>NEW: Military council spokesman: "Systemic abuse and torture is continuing."
>Report: Militias torture detainees, target migrants and displace communities.
>The rights organization says the interim government has not effectively investigated.
>Officials have said they are working to stop abuse and integrate militias into a national force.

(CNN) -- Armed militias in Libya are committing human rights abuses with impunity, threatening to destabilize the country and hindering its efforts to rebuild, Amnesty International said Thursday.

Militias have tortured detainees, targeted migrants and displaced entire communities in revenge attacks, according to a report the organization released a year after the start of popular uprisings that eventually ended Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year rule.

"Hundreds of armed militias, widely hailed in Libya as heroes for their role in toppling the former regime, are largely out of control," the report says.

Detainees at 10 facilities used by militia in central and western Libya told representatives from Amnesty International this year that they had been tortured or abused. Several detainees said they confessed to crimes they had not committed in order to stop the torture, Amnesty International said.

At least 12 detainees held by militias have died after being tortured since September, the human rights organization said, adding that authorities have not effectively investigated the torture allegations.

"A year ago Libyans risked their lives to demand justice," Donatella Rovera, a senior crisis response adviser at Amnesty, said in a statement. "Today their hopes are being jeopardized by lawless armed militias who trample human rights with impunity. The only way to break with the entrenched practices of decades of abuse under (Gadhafi's) authoritarian rule is to ensure that nobody is above the law and that investigations are carried out into such abuses."
Libyan officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

A spokesman for the Tripoli Military Council told CNN on Wednesday that civilian leaders in Libya must do more to assert their authority, holding accountable militia members who perpetrate abuses.

"If the Libyan state is being built, these guys who committed this need to be brought to justice, whether they are revolutionary fighters or not, otherwise the whole world will ask, 'What changed in Libya?' The same systemic abuse and torture is continuing, and this is dangerous for the new Libya," council spokesman Anes Alsharif said. "The only solution is for the government to take over. You can not let these guys keep holding the prisoners."

Civilian authorities have been slow to step in, Alsharif said, even though some prisoners have been held for months without facing official charges.

"When you talk to the government they say, 'keep them, we don't have time yet.' and this is wrong," he said.

A process for government takeovers of prisons has begun, Libya's interim prime minister said in a televised address last month.

Libya's ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammed Shalgham, told the United Nations last month that Libya does not approve of any abuse of detainees and was working to stop any such practices.

Libyan Interior Minister Fawzy Abdilal told CNN this month that the country's interim government had not yet succeeded in integrating militias from different cities into a national security force.
Other organizations have also raised concerns about the militias.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders said last month it was halting its work in detention centers in Misrata because detainees were tortured and were denied urgent medical care.
Human Rights Watch said earlier this month that the torture and killing of detainees is an ongoing practice among Libyan militias and will continue unless the militias are held to account.


Additional News:
Price of ‘freedom’: Libya’s annus horribilis - RT News (16-Feb-2012)

So whats new in Libya...oh wait 12,000 US soldiers ready to drop in! Why?

LIBYA and the NTC: 12,000 U.S. troops to Libya
by Cynthia McKinney
Global Research,
January 13, 2012


It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya.


For those of you who have not followed closely the situation in Libya, the resistance to the rule of the National Transitional Council is strong. The National Transitional Council (NTC) cast of characters has about as much support on the ground as did Mahmoud Abbas before the United Nations request for Palestinian statehood or Afghanistan's regal-looking but politically impotent Hamid Karzai or for that matter, George W Bush after eight years.


The NTC not only has to contend with a vibrant, well-financed, grassroots-supported resistance, but the various militias of the NTC are now also fighting each other. I believe this "sociocide" of Libyan society, as we previously witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan before it, is part of a carefully crafted plan of destabilization that ultimately serves U.S. imperial interests and those of a Zionist state and its US agents who are bent on Greater Israel's suzerainty over huge swaths of Arabic-speaking populations. Pakistan is also on the list for neutering in Muslim and world affairs, saddled with its own unpopular civilian leadership that finds itself in the hip pocket of the United States for survival, often getting sat upon by its fiscal guarantor.


The "Arab Spring" has sprung and the indelible fingerprints of malignant foreign financed operations must be erased if the people are to have a chance to truly govern themselves. Unfortunately, these foreign-inspired organizations are present and operating in just about every country in the world. The threat is ever-present like sleeping cells--all that is needed is that the right word to "activate" be given. Both Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez can write tomes on the impact of the National Endowment for Democracy in the political life of their countries.


In other words, those who create the chaos have a plan and in the midst of chaos, they usually are the ones who will win. Those who wrote the plan of this chaos were affiliated with the Project for a New American Century--read A Clean Break if you already haven't. General Wesley Clark told us of the plan to invade and destroy the governments of seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. "These people took control of the policy in the United States," Clark continues. He concludes, "This country was taken over by a group of people with a policy coup: Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and . . . collaborators from the Project for a New American Century: they wanted us to destabilize the Middle East." Richard Perle, Bill Kristol publicize these plans and "could hardly wait to finish Iraq so they could go into Syria," Clark goes on. "The root of the problem is the strategy of the United States in this region. Why are Americans dying in this region? That is the issue," he finishes.


Now, from Libya, reports are that even while the Misrata rebels (NATO allies responsible for the murder of hundreds of Libyans, including Moatessem Qaddafi) attempted to scale the petroleum platforms in Brega (an important oil town in Libya), they were annihilated by the Apache helicopters of their own NATO allies. A resistance Libyan doctor-become-journalist reported yesterday that all of the petroleum platforms are occupied by NATO and that warships occupy Libya's ports. Photographs show Italian encampments in the desert with an announcement that the French are to follow.


Another news outlet reports that Qataris and Emiratees are the engineers now at the oil plants, turning away desperate Libyan workers. While long lines exist for Libyan drivers to get their gas, foreign troops ensure the black gold's export. Libyans lack enough food and the basics, the country has been turned upside down, and contaminated with uranium while the true number of dead and unaccounted for remains high and unknown. Thousands of young Libyans, supporters of the Jahamiriya, languish under torture and assassination in a Misrata prison where a humanitarian disaster is about to unfold because Misrata rebels want to kill them all and have already attacked the prison once to do so. An urgent appeal to contact the International Red Cross was issued yesterday to help save the lives of the prisoners. And finally, Black Libyans continue to be targeted for harassment and murder in Libya by US/NATO allies on the ground. Teaching hate, given the images of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan released yesterday, urinating on Afghani dead bodies, is not a difficult thing to do, it would seem. Videos are posted of Black Libyans being beaten, whipped, threatened, harassed, and humiliated. These videos remind me of the antebellum South--reminiscent of the days of slavery and The Confederacy. So, when I use the word "descend" to describe U.S. anticipated actions, I mean just that: U.S. troops are about to descend into the hell on Earth created by their President and the leaders of other countries who approved of, aided, or participated in the death of Libyan-owned society. A report from last night indicates that one militia, fearing other militias even invited foreigners in to protect them.


I hope the report that I'm reading from 12 January 2012 is not true. I hope our President has not sent 12,000 troops of occupation to Malta destined for Libya. Lucy Grider-Bradley (of our DIGNITY Delegation) just yesterday reminded me of the words of a high-ranking Libyan Jahamiriya Foreign Ministry representative who just happened to be at the Tunisia/Libya border office at the same time we were waiting there. He said, "Let the Americans come. We want them to taste our sandwiches. We will give them the same serving they got in Vietnam."


Please write to our President (at www.whitehouse.gov) and ask him not to send troops of occupation (or whatever "euphemism de jour" this Administration chooses to use) to Libya.


To save the lives of the young men in prison, please e-mail the International Red Cross at any or all of the e-mail addresses given below:


in Tripoli 218213409262 / Croix rouge
218919418066 / 218925236582
والبريد اللاكتروني : tri_tripoli@icrc.org


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U.S. Invasion of Libya Set for October

Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
June 15, 2011

Infowars.com has received alarming reports from within the ranks of military stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas confirming plans to initiate a full-scale U.S.-led ground invasion in Libya and deploy troops by October.

The source stated that additional Special Forces are headed to Libya in July, with the 1st Calvary Division (heavy armor) and III Corps deploying in late October and early November. Initial numbers are estimated at 12,000 active forces and another 15,000 in support, totaling nearly 30,000 troops.

This information was confirmed by numerous calls and e-mails from other military personnel, some indicating large troop deployment as early as September. Among these supporting sources is a British S.A.S. officer confirming that U.S. Army Rangers are already in Libya. The chatter differs in the details, but the overall convergence is clear– that a full-on war is emerging this fall as Gaddafi continues to evade attempts to remove him from power.

A caller identified as “Specialist H” working for mortuary affairs under USCENTCOM revealed...

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Alex talks with Colonel 6 about reports sent by members of the military to Infowars.com regarding an October ground invasion of Libya

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