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.
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.
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.
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.”
Organizaciones civiles de Libia responsabilizan a Francia, Turquía y Qatar del secuestro de 103 niños en la ciudad de Misurata, reportó Rolando Segura, enviado especial de Telesur en Trípoli.
El periodista comentó que las organizaciones civiles exigen investigar la operación en la que fueron secuestrados 103 niños en Misurata y además propiciar su regreso.
Bombs continued to fall on Tripoli today as Nato continued its mission to oust Colonel Muammar Gadaffi despite its member states’ economic crises and confusion over the leadership of its National Transitional Council (NTC) allies.