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Once derided, Gaddafi’s warnings about jihadists now used to justify Mali intervention

Posted by seumasach on January 21, 2013

Stephen Gowans

Voltairenet

21st January, 2013

Always on hand when needed, cameleontic jihadists serve as enemies in Mali, friends in Syria, and air force in Libya.

In today’s New York TimesSteven Erlanger justifies the French intervention in Mali on these grounds:

• It responds to “a direct request from a legitimate government.”
• It combats “the spread of radical Islamists, some of them foreign jihadists, strongly connected to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.”

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Laurent Louis : Le député belge qui dit un peu trop la vérité

Posted by seumasach on January 18, 2013

Allain Jules

18th January, 2013

Avec la fougue de la jeunesse, une logique réelle et sans langue de bois, le député indépendant belge Laurent Louis, 33 ans bientôt, s’oppose, seul contre tous les autres parlementaires, à la participation de la Belgique à la guerre au Mali. Il dénonce la manipulation internationale, le mensonge de la lutte anti-terroriste, le soutien des Occidentaux aux djihadistes en Libye, Tunisie et Syrie et dévoile les véritables raisons, selon lui, de cette opération militaire néo-colonialiste.

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Libya: Failed Nato mission exposes U.S. Generals

Posted by seumasach on November 22, 2012

Horace Campbell

All Africa

15th November, 2012

The extramarital affair cited for the resignation of CIA chief Gen Petraeus is insignificant by far compared to his belonging to a section of US military and intelligence elite pursuing a complex right-wing global agenda.

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Coup and counter-coup in Washington

Posted by seumasach on November 19, 2012

Webster Tarpley

PressTV

19th November, 2012

This year, a cabal of generals evidently believed it could secure the White House for Mitt Romney by staging the Benghazi incident and using it as the signal for a cold coup under cover of elections — probably including computer-generated election fraud — to bring down Obama. They guessed wrong.

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Press TV: US military planned mutiny on the Bounty to topple Obama

Posted by seumasach on November 13, 2012

Admiral Gaouette was part of a group of military officers who have been under suspicion for planning a “Seven Days in May” type overthrow of the US government if President Obama is re-elected.

Gordon Duff

Veteran’s Today

31st October, 2012

The Obama administration has had American military, both on domestic and foreign bases on high alert since October 1. However, there has been no known terrorist enemy threatening the US. The enemy is called “domestic” but its origins are far from American.

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Libya, Bani Walid report(22nd October)

Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2012

Libya SOS

23rd October, 2012

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.

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Siege of Bani Walid: Foreign fighters, phosphorus bombs and nerve gas

Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2012

RT

27th October, 2012

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.

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Paris: Rally condemning massacre in Bani Walid

Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2012

Rassemblement pour dénoncer les massacres de Bani Walid

Dimanche 28 octobre 2012 à 15 heures

Devant la Fontaine des Innocents

Place des Innocents

PARIS – LES HALLES

La Voix de la Libye

24th October, 2012

 

La  situation désespérée de la ville libyenne de Bani Walid assiégée depuis plus de deux semaines, sous un silence médiatique complet, nous interpelle.

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“Los combates en Libia son instigados desde el extranjero”

Posted by seumasach on October 24, 2012

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US blocks Russia’s draft statement in UN on peaceful resolution of Bani Walid violence

Posted by seumasach on October 24, 2012

RT

23rd October, 2012

The United States has blocked a draft statement, proposed by Russia, on the resolution of violence in the Libyan town of Bani Walid, which has been under siege for weeks. The statement called for a peaceful solution to the conflict.

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Urgent! Update from Bani Walid

Posted by seumasach on October 24, 2012

Leonor Massenet Arbona

Ojos para la Paz en Libia

24th October, 2012

URGENTE: las bandas internacionales y los grupos islamistas están arrojando gases venenosos y bombas con una intensidad inimaginable para entrar en la ciudad. La situación es de auténtico terrorismo inimaginable por ningún gobierno y sin embargo occidente deja que ocurra.

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