Day: March 22, 2011

Libya Newslinks 21-22 March 2011

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22 March 2011 20:02:23 — creative-i.info

22 March 2011

Libya is Kosovo revisited (kind of) By William Bowles

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22 March 2011

No doubt much self-flagellation is currently taking place amongst the Western ‘left’, or at least it should be given their atrocious reading of the Libyan ‘revolution’.

Right from the very beginning of ‘Operation Odyssey Dawn’ something just didn’t smell right about the Libyan ‘revolution’. From the outset this was no peaceful, civilian insurrection such as those taking place elsewhere in the region. In other words it started life as a civil war heavily disguised—with Western help—as a ‘peoples’ revolution’, but one armed and dangerous. Continue reading →

Operation in Libya – now live at Twitter — RT

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22 March 2011 — RT

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Military pilot in a helmet with a Twitter page in the background. The search bar showing 'Operation in Libya' search request

A former Dutch officer has intercepted radio conversations between military pilots who are ensuring a no-fly zone over Libya, and posted the findings on his Twitter account.

­The Twitter account reveals various information – including the time of the coalition forces’ flights, the location of the jets in the air, frequencies the pilots are using to talk to each other and what they can see below. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, military pilots must communicate their whereabouts during operations like Libya’s ‘Odyssey Dawn’ to avoid collision with civilian aircraft.

Any skilled radio fan can intercept this kind of communication. The former Dutch officer told the newspaper he wanted to supply prompt information on what is going on in Libya before this information gets filtered by the mass media.

Is Robert Fisk a Psychologist? By Kim Petersen

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21 March 2011 — Dissident Voice

Much of what journalist Robert Fisk writes strikes a congruent cord with me; however, there are patches of his writing where he brays discordantly. In his recent article,1 Fisk launched into an ad hominen-laced tirade against Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Writes Fisk, ‘Gaddafi is a fruitcake and … he probably does occasionally chew carpets as well’ and ‘Gaddafi is completely bonkers, flaky, a crackpot on the level of Ahmadinejad of Iran and Lieberman of Israel…’ Yes, Fisk did add in Lieberman, but the implication is that Arab rulers are flakes while flakes do not become rulers in Israel.

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Libya: Keeping up appearances By William Bowles

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21 March 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation

“The US has signalled that the international community should “go beyond” a no-fly zone in Libya, suggesting military intervention for the first time.”” — “West should ‘go beyond’ no-fly zone, US says” — The Daily Telegraph, 20 March 2011

So why is there no ‘no-fly zone’ over the Ivory Coast, or Yemen, or Bahrain or indeed any country where the state is killing its citizens? What makes Libya different? Could it be that the hysterical propaganda campaign concerning Gaddafi’s human rights abuses in the Western media is related to the following, with the head of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen telling his Polish audience:

“When I look at central and eastern Europe I’m extremely optimistic about the future we can achieve in North Africa” — ‘NATO: Libya Military Intervention: Model For North Africa‘, Reuters, 17 March 2011

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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 March, 2011: In a New Crime, IOF Kills Two Children in Central Gaza

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21 March, 2011 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

17 Palestinians Injured In A Series Of Air Strikes In Gaza
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of air strikes on Monday night after midnight and on Tuesday at dawn, wounding seventeen residents, including two women and seven children.

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Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley

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22 March, 2011 — Global Research – http://tarpley.net/

On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovereign state of Libya. Acting under UN Security Council resolution 1973, US naval forces in the Mediterranean on Saturday night local time fired 112 cruise missiles at targets which the Pentagon claimed were related to Libya’s air defense system. But Mohammed al-Zawi, the Secretary General of the Libyan Parliament, told a Tripoli press conference that the “barbaric armed attack” and “savage aggression” had hit residential areas and office buildings as well as military targets, filling the hospitals of Tripoli and Misurata with civilian victims. Zawi accused the foreign powers of acting to protect a rebel leadership which contains notorious terrorist elements. The Libyan government repeated its request for the UN to send international observers to report objectively on events in Libya. Continue reading →

Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley

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22 March, 2011 — Global Research – http://tarpley.net/

On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovereign state of Libya. Acting under UN Security Council resolution 1973, US naval forces in the Mediterranean on Saturday night local time fired 112 cruise missiles at targets which the Pentagon claimed were related to Libya’s air defense system. But Mohammed al-Zawi, the Secretary General of the Libyan Parliament, told a Tripoli press conference that the “barbaric armed attack” and “savage aggression” had hit residential areas and office buildings as well as military targets, filling the hospitals of Tripoli and Misurata with civilian victims. Zawi accused the foreign powers of acting to protect a rebel leadership which contains notorious terrorist elements. The Libyan government repeated its request for the UN to send international observers to report objectively on events in Libya.

Continue reading →