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Ex-terrorist says terrorists and NATO lost war

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2011

Ex-terrorist from Benghazi in France recognizes that NATO and the terrorists have already lost

Leo Vershinin

Pravda

11th August, 2011

In a TV interview, Dr. Rejeb Muftakhov Budabusa, judging by numerous paraphrases and a more or less detailed digest, made ​​a considerable impression on “all Paris” not having forgotten that in February and early March, he ardently advocated “peaceful demonstrations” in Benghazi and for “salvation from the punishment of Cyrenaica.”

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NATO reneges on its mission

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

11th August, 2011

After 150 days of bombing, NATO has razed numerous facilities while failing to achieve any convincing military results. This is largely due to its lack of strategic forethinking. In Libya, NATO assumed it could apply the same classic methods that were conceived for different settings. It is now stuck in a quandary. The greatest military alliance in history, which was initially created to confront the USSR and was then slated to become the world’s policeman, has fallen woefully short of its recycling goals.

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UN chief alarmed at Libya civilian toll

Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2011

“The Secretary General is deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number of civilian casualties as a result of the conflict in Libya,”

What then is an acceptable number of civilian casualties in an operation aiming to protect civilians?- how many civilians can you kill while protecting them?

PressTV

12th August, 2011

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the rising civilian casualties in Libya, saying there will be no military solution for resolving the conflict in the North African nation.

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A bewildering conjuncture

Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2011

Cailean Bochanan

11th August, 2011

Although everyday life seems to go on as normal, looting and burning notwithstanding, the worlds events are hurtling towards their denouement. Never has one flashpoint succeeded another with such breakneck speed and the prevailing feeling can only be one of bewilderment. This year has seen, so far, the Arab Spring, a new war against an Arab nation which has gone disastrously wrong for “the scourge of the world”, the new Tamberlaine, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a new stock market collapse, unpredented post-modern rioting ,the Norwegian terror attacks and the implosion of the Murdoch empire, amongst other prodigies. The question is: how are these events connected?

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“Cleansing” the Libyan people’s resistance

Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2011

Madhi Darius Nazemroaya

Global Research

10th August, 2011

TRIPOLI, Global Research, August 10, 2011 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conducted intensive attacks on Libyan civilians in the night of August 8 and in the early hours of August 9, 2011 from approximately 2:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. EET.

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L’OTAN tourne le dos a sa mission

Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

10th August, 2011

A 150 jours de bombardements, l’OTAN a rasé de nombreuses infrastructures, mais n’a toujours pas obtenu le moindre résultat militaire probant. Cet échec est imputable à l’absence de réflexion stratégique préalable. L’OTAN a cru pouvoir appliquer en Libye les méthodes standard qu’elle avait conçues pour d’autres environnements. Elle se trouve désemparée face à un cas particulier. La plus grande alliance militaire de l’Histoire, qui avait été formée pour affronter l’URSS puis avait rêvé de devenir le gendarme du monde, n’a pas réussi sa reconversion.

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Libya and Syria: humanitarian war is a “monstrous illusion”

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2011

James Peck

Accuracy.org

10th August, 2011

 

Peck is author of the new book ”Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights.” He was a Senior Editor at Pantheon Books for almost two decades where his authors included J. William Fulbright, Noam Chomsky, George Kennan, and Edward Said. He also worked in China for more than a decade as Executive Director of the US-China Book Publication Project. Peck is the author of “Washington’s China” and editor of ”The Chomsky Reader.” He said today: “The war in Libya today, and calls for intervening in Syria tomorrow, epitomize a tragic development in the human rights and humanitarian ethos: War and various other kinds of overt and covert intervention are being re-legitimized through Washington’s human rights rhetoric. Libya tells us everything we should not be seeking to do in Syria and why humanitarian war is a monstrous illusion.

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El premio nobel de la paz argentino 1980 condenó la agresión a Libia

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2011

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Very ironic: Tripoli calm while London burns

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2011

Black Star News

9th August, 2011

Imagine, if Libya was now in a position to drop arms to the “rebels” in London; Imagine, if Libya was in a position to send military trainers to the U.K., to teach the “rebels” in London; both France and Britain sent dozens of military “advisors” to Benghazi to train the Sarkozy “rebels.”

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The truth behind the U.S./ NATO war on Libya

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2011

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Libya: A Truth Forbidden

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2011

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