Why?
For Those Who Support the Libyan "Opposition"

By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey


June 02, 2011 "Pravda" --

Maybe those who refuse to call the Libyan Opposition terrorists and instead continue to accuse the forces of the Libyan Government of attacking innocent civilians - see the photos accompanying this piece - could answer some of the questions posed in this article. If not, then maybe they could ask themselves why they are supporting Islamist terrorists.

Under which United Nations resolution did NATO get the right to murder civilians? Why did NATO murder Colonel Gaddafi's son if their remit was to impose a no-fly zone to protect civilians? Why did NATO murder three of Colonel Gaddafi's grandchildren? Why has there been no accountability for the murder of innocent children? Why is nobody calling Cameron, Sarkozy or Obama a cold-blooded child murderer?

Why is NATO trying to murder Colonel Gaddafi? Why have the leaders of this act of butchery changed their tune, starting off by declaring that "This is not about removing Gaddafi" (Cameron) to now describing him as a legitimate target? Why is NATO targeting civilian structures, as it did in Iraq, with military hardware?

Why did the Libyan "Revolution" start on the frontiers where Revolutions had already occurred in Tunisia and Egypt and in Misrata where NATO military personnel deployed through the port? Why are NATO personnel on the ground when NATO is not allowed to deploy troops? Why are western mercenaries being deployed inside Libya?

Why is NATO taking sides in a civil war? Does NATO not know that it is illegal to get involved in an internal conflict? Does NATO know that the UNO cannot under any circumstances permit the use of force against a sovereign nation unless it is attacking its neighbours?

Why has NATO accused the Libyan government of using cluster bombs against its own population when: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yL7tAWLNyA&feature=player_detailpage

Why are 90% of the Libyan tribes on the side of Colonel Gaddafi? Why are the Benghazi based terrorists called "The Rats" by the population of Libya? Why are they for the most part anonymous? Why did they ask NATO to bomb the building where the records of their corruption were kept?

What is the role of Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi inside the rebellion? Does NATO know he has links to Al-Qaeda? Does NATO know he was arrested for fighting alongside Al-Qaeda against the American and British forces in Afghanistan? Does NATO know that he recruited terrorists to be suicide bombers in Iraq? Does NATO know where most of the suicide bombers in Iraq came from? Answer: Benghazi.

Why are French lawyers preparing to launch a case against Sarkozy for crimes against humanity?

Who was the first international leader to issue an arrest warrant for Osama bin laden and Al-Qaeda? Answer: Muammar al-Qathafi.

Who was the African leader who financed African satellites so that Africans would not be saddled with a payment of 500 million USD a year, every year, to use Western satellites? Answer: Muammar al-Qathafi.

Who was the African leader behind the African Union so that Africa could find the solutions to its problems? Answer: Muammar al-Qathafi.

Who was the African leader who launched an ambitions telemedicine programme benefiting all Africans? Answer: Muammar al-Qathafi. Who was the African leader who implemented a continent-wide e-learning programme? Answer: Muammar al-Qathafi.

Who inherited the poorest nation in the world and turned it into the richest in Africa? Answer: Muammar al-Qathafi.

Who has educated, fed and housed his people? Have Cameron, Sarkozy or Obama or any of those who support the Islamist terrorists calling themselves the "Rebels" implemented a free housing programme? Why not? If they are superior to Colonel Gaddafi, answer the question. Why do Libyans have housing for free and your citizens do not?

Why has NATO said nothing of the tremendous social programmes Colonel Gaddafi has implemented? Why has NATO said nothing of Colonel Gaddafi's education programme inside Libya? Why has NATO said nothing of Gaddafi's financing of pro-African progressive groups? Ditto cultural groups?

Why all the lies about Gaddafi attacking civilians?

Why did the Russian satellites reveal that at the time of the NATO lies about Gaddafi bombing his people, not a single flight was registered?

Why when SKY news took Saif al-Islam al-Qathafi to visit a bombed residence did such a residence not exist?

Why doesn't NATO tell the truth, that an armed insurrection was aided and abetted from abroad, that armed terrorists (see the photos) were sent to create havoc in Libya and that the Government forces first tried to negotiate and only then took up arms against them and fought not civilians, but terrorists?

Why has NATO not taken up any of the many offers of ceasefire presented by the Libyan government?

This war is illegal. NATO is guilty of war crimes. NATO should disengage now and allow the people of Libya to sort it out for themselves. NATO should be barred from the reconstruction process. NATO should be barred from Africa. The African continent should reconsider its position with those who are raping a son of Africa and sign contracts with the progressive members of the international community.

This entire debacle is about destroying the African Union and implementing AFRICOM - the take-over of Africa and its resources by the USA, and finding new markets for its lobbies. Those who support the Rebels against Colonel Gaddafi have fallen for the trap hook, line and sinker.

Time to launch a diplomatic offensive involving the African Union. NATO out. Libyan solutions for Libyan questions.

Photos: Armed bearded islamist terrorists? Why no! Look at them! They are poor innocent unarmed civilians. look at these unarmed civilians - on a tank!

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

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The War in Libya Growing More Illegal by the Day

By Glenn Greenwald

Waging a war for 74 days without Congressional approval is illegal enough. Doing so when there is a growing bipartisan movement in Congress to compel an end to the war -- rather than approve it -- is even worse. Continue

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What Does the ICC Stand For?

The Imperialist Crime Cover-Up

By Diana Johnstone

It certainly does not deserve its official title, since it studiously ignores truly “international” crimes, such as U.S. and NATO aggression or the many massacres of civilians that result.

June 03 2011 "Counterpunch" - -

Last May 16, Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, officially sought an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moammer Kadhafi for “crimes against humanity”. ...

...When NATO bombs a country to unseat a leader, the targeted leader must be treated like a common criminal. His place cannot be at the negotiating table, but behind bars. An international indictment handily transforms NATO’s military aggression into a police action to arrest “an indicted war criminal” – an expression that evacuates the presumption of “innocent until proven guilty”.

This is a familiar pattern.

On March 24, 1999, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia in support of armed Albanian rebels in Kosovo. Two months later, in mid-May, as the bombing intensified against Serbia’s infrastructure, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Louise Arbour, issued an indictment against Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity. All but one of the alleged “crimes against humanity” took place in Kosovo during the chaos caused precisely by the NATO bombing.

On March 31, 2011, NATO began bombing Libya, and this time the International Criminal Court was even faster. And the charges were even less substantial. Ocampo said that there was evidence that Kadhafi personally ordered attacks on “innocent Libyan civilians”.

In Libya as in the Kosovo war, the accusations are those made by armed rebels supported by NATO, with no discernable trace of independent neutral investigation...

...To sum up, in both cases an “international criminal tribunal/court” intervenes in the midst of a NATO bombing to accuse the leader of the country being bombed of “crimes against humanity” based on flimsy evidence provided by NATO itself or by its rebel clients.

Thus the International Criminal Court turns out to be a continuation of the ICTY, that is, an instrument not of international justice but the judicial arm of Western intervention in weaker countries. The ICC could well stand for Imperialist Crimes Cover-up.

It certainly does not deserve its official title, since it studiously ignores truly “international” crimes, such as U.S. and NATO aggression or the many massacres of civilians that result.

Rather, so far the only alleged crimes it has undertaken to prosecute have all been the result of internal conflicts taking place in countries on the African continent. In short, the ICC so far acts mainly as a way of putting political pressure on, or justifying military action against, weak governments the Western powers want to replace with leaders of their choice...

Just as NATO and the ICC continue to pursue Kadhafi on the pretext that he is “killing his own people”, in Afghanistan NATO armed forces continues to kill people who are not their own, with impunity.

The ICC has developed into one of the most blatant illustrations of double standards.

The United States manipulates the ICC without recognizing its jurisdiction, and having further protected itself by bilateral agreements with a long list of countries that provide immunity for United States citizens as well as by Congressional laws to protect U.S. citizens from the ICC.

Other NATO countries have recognized ICC jurisdiction, but there is no sign that they will ever be troubled by the international court.

Last Sunday, two notoriously nonconformist French lawyers, Jacques Vergès and former foreign minister Roland Dumas, announced that they intended to bring a lawsuit against President Nicolas Sarkozy for “crimes against humanity” in Libya.

At a press conference in Tripoli, Dumas deplored that the NATO mission to protect civilians was killing them, and said he was ready to defend Kadhafi at the ICC.

Meanwhile, the two lawyers intend to represent the families of victims of NATO bombing in litigation against Sarkozy in French courts. “We are going to break through the wall of silence,” announced Vergès.

There is more solid evidence of the civilian victims of NATO bombing, including the three baby grandchildren of Moammer Kadhafi, than of the “crimes against humanity” attributed by Ocampo to the Libyan leader. But the French public has been mesmerized by the propaganda portraying Kadhafi as a bloodthirsty ogre whose only desire is to “kill his own people”.

Since most people in the West know absolutely nothing about Libya, anything goes.

On Monday, as France and Britain prepared to send in combat helicopters to support the armed rebels and hunt down Kadhafi, NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced that Kadhafi’s “reign of terror is coming to an end”.

The real “rain of terror” is the rain of NATO bombs falling on defenseless Tripoli, with the clear intention of terrorizing Libyans into surrendering to the NATO-backed rebels.

And there is no sign of it ever coming to an end.

Diana Johnstone is the author of Fools Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions.

She can be reached at diana.josto@yahoo.fr

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We Are Terrorists

By Dahlia Wasfi

"...Our soldiers don't sacrifice for duty-honor-country, they sacrifice for Kellogg Brown & Root..." Continue