The ultimate fiasco is unfolding before us. NATO are keeping dangerous company with these CIA, salafist networks or is it the CIA, Salafist networks which are keeping dangerous company with NATO. Of course, NATO kept similar company in Kosovo, but at that time they were still able to spin everything to order. Now there game is falling apart- time for Hague to answer for himself in the House of Commons: was he warned about the criminal connections of these groups before he appointed them as Libya’s official representatives? Anyway he can only look away in horror as these words are written on the wall

“We want Muammar to come back! We want the green flag back!”

Guardian

30th July, 2011

The gunmen who shot dead the Libyan rebels’ military chief Abdul Fatah Younis were members of an Islamist-linked militia allied to the campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, according to a National Transitional Council minister.

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“Mahmoud al-Nacua, the newly appointed diplomatic envoy of the NTC in London, refused to comment.”

Not even a tribute to their military commander or condolences to his family.

“Misrata’s military spokesman joined the city’s ruling council in emphasising that its army units did not take orders from Benghazi.”

The West and our own William Hague recognise the NTC but not the rebels in Misrata.

“In Brussels, Nato officials stressed that they were not fully in the picture on the circumstances of the murder, and that the military alliance did not want to be seen to be speaking for the opposition to Gaddafi.”

The opposition to Gaddafi is the “sole legitimate government” of Libya according the British government and most of the other NATO powers.

A “fractious coalition” is a very diplomatic term for this crowd.

Guardian

29th July, 2011

The fractious coalition fighting to oust Muammar Gaddafi was plunged into disarray on Friday as the mysterious death of the rebels’ army commander sparked anger from his powerful tribe and distrust among those loyal to the cause.

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General Abdul Fattah Younes killed

Black Star News

28th July, 2011

Gen. Abdul Fattah Younes, the Libyan “rebel” commander has been killed, most likely by his own compatriots, some of whom he engaged in a power-struggle with in April.

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Of course, it’s not all spin- there is also spin off. Who could have thought there could be a growth area in Britain’s economy?- never write off the war sector.

This is Exeter

29th july, 2011

THE crisis in Libya has given a major boost to Rolls-Royce’s operation in Bristol over the last six months.

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The question is which faction was it that William Hague was supporting: was it the Younis faction or those who are now celebrating his death? It doesn’t appear to have anything to do with Gaddafi’s men so why retaliate by bombing Tripoli?

Rebel General Shot Dead in Libya

ABC News

29th July, 2011

Libya’s rebels say their top general commanding the campaign against the regime of Moamar Gaddafi has been shot dead by assailants.

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Friends of McCain, standard bearers for democracy in Libya, recognised by 30 nations as sole legitimate representatives of the Libyan people, this rabble in disarray look certain losers: only a failing empire would place their bets with this lot.

Kim Sengupta and Solomon Hughes

Independent

29th July, 2011

One of Washington’s most influential senators has warned Libya’s opposition administration that they risk alienating US and international support unless they take “decisive action” to halt human rights abuses by rebel fighters.

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Sergei Balmasov

Pravda

27th July, 2011
The head of the British Foreign Ministry William Hague, following his French counterpart, Alain Juppe, has noticeably softened his stance in relation to Muammar Gaddafi. They no longer demand that he appears before the Hague tribunal. They graciously allowed him to stay in Libya. However, on the condition that the Colonel relinquishes his power.

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Unfortunately NATO are bad losers: what wild, criminal schemes will they come up with next?

Craig Murray

27th July, 2011

Gaddafi now controls 20% more territory than he did before we started this odious bombing campaign. He has been able to hold more and better attended rallies of more genuine supporters in recent days than he ever could before we started bombing. Exactly as I predicted, the effect of NATO bombing has been to rally nationalist support around Gaddafi, whom we have stupidly put in a much stronger position than he was when he only faced genuine internal rebellion.

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This is a realistic assessment of the situation on the ground. Obviously NATO is not negotiating from a position of strength: they have the option of either escalating the war, invading Libya and overthrowing Gaddafi or giving way to his demands. As in the stand- off over the US debt crisis we seem to be facing the ineptitude of western elites but this ineptitude is based in hubris, in the inability to accept the end of empire. The absence of a leadership in Anglo-america able to put forward the necessary programme, ending all military campaigns, closing all overseas basis, sanitising the financial system and replacing it with one geared to national investment and reconstruction means that there can be no orderly end to empire. Rather it is becoming like the retreat of an undisciplined rabble army hitting out wildly as they give ground.

Kim Sengupta

Independent

27th July, 2011

Fresh diplomatic efforts are under way to try to end Libya’s bloody civil war, with the UN special envoy flying to Tripoli to hold talks after Britain followed France in accepting that Muammar Gaddafi cannot be bombed into exile.

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A NATO terrorist attack has hit a water pipes factory in al-Brega, murdering six guards, this being the factory which makes pipes for the great man-made irrigation system across the desert which brings water to seventy per cent of Libyan homes, according to sources in Libya. The factory was hit after the water supply network was destroyed on Friday.

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