Libya
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MILITARY ESCALATION: NATO chief calls for more planes to bomb Libyan targets
NATO members should supply more warplanes to bomb Libyan military targets, the alliance’s secretary general said on Thursday, increasing pressure on states to contribute more to the mission. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 15, 2011
15 July 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s Air War In Libya: 15,193 Sorties, 5,721 Strike Missions Venezuela Condemns NATO’s Military Aggression Against Libya Britain Deploys Warship For NATO Libyan Operations China, Russia Refuse To Attend Libya Contact Group Meeting In Turkey Clinton In Turkey: U.S. Missile System In Turkey – Or Caucasus? Continue reading
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NATO will be Defeated in Libya: The Libyan Resistance Movement. A Defining Moment for Africa By Gerald A. Perreira
The argument in Libya has been won by the Al Fateh revolution. There is now a glaring truth confronting the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) – Muammar Qaddafi has handed out over one million kalashnikovs to the Libyan people. If he was the brutal dictator that NATO would have us believe him to be, then… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Video Update — Two More Eyewitness Libya Videos
Although US drones are flying in, and US bombs are falling from Libyan skies, the president insists that the US is not waging war in Libya. The facts however, say otherwise. This week’s Black Agenda Video update includes two members of US citizen fact finding delegations, the Bay Area’s Dedon Kamathi and Atlanta’s Lucy Grider… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info Turkey Urges Support for ‘Road Map’ to End Libyan Conflict Fox News AP ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey will seek support for a “road map” to help end the Libyan crisis when countries backing NATO’s military mission gather in Istanbul to increase the pressure on Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. US Secretary… Continue reading
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Full-Scale NATO Ground Invasion of Libya is likely soon: Andrew Gavin Marshall
Andrew Gavin Marshall from the Centre for Research on Globalization says that a ground invasion is quite likely, and that the process is already underway. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 14, 2011
14 July 2011 — Stop NATO U.S., NATO Triple Size Of Afghan Air Base Near Iranian Border Afghanistan: Dozens Of Western Troops Injured By Huge Blast Afghanistan: Six NATO Soldiers Killed, French Death Toll At 69 U.S. Building New Detention Centers Across Afghanistan Moldovan Defense Minister To Visit NATO Headquarters Kosovo: NATO’s 12-Year-Old Archetypal ‘Success… Continue reading
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PressTV – ‘1,108 Libyans killed in NATO attacks’
Libya’s prosecutor general has said that NATO airstrikes have killed more than 1,100 civilians and injured thousands of others since the end of March. Continue reading
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Libyan rebel ethnic cleansing and lynching of black people « Human rights investigations
Further specific evidence has emerged that there is a strong racist element within the rebel forces, including at command level, and it is the stated intention of these forces to ethnically cleanse areas they capture of their dark-skinned inhabitants. Continue reading
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Libyan rebel ethnic cleansing and lynching of black people « Human rights investigations
Further specific evidence has emerged that there is a strong racist element within the rebel forces, including at command level, and it is the stated intention of these forces to ethnically cleanse areas they capture of their dark-skinned inhabitants. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 13 July 2011
13 July 2011 — williambowles.info Libya campaign duration cannot be predicted, Liam Fox warns Telegraph.co.uk The duration of the Libya campaign cannot be predicted Liam Fox has said, suggesting that military commanders could be preparing for the conflict to last for months. The campaign was originally mandated for 90 days but it is now approaching… Continue reading
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Rights group accuses Libyan rebels of abuse
Libyan rebel forces have been responsible for looting, arson and the abuse of civilians in their push toward Tripoli, Human Rights Watch alleged on Wednesday. Continue reading
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“Gaddafi is a survivor” — RT
NATO is surrendering in Libya. The alliance did not realize that the operation would take so much time and effort, Stephen Brown, contributing editor to FrontPage Magazine, told RT. Continue reading
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“Gaddafi is a survivor” — RT
NATO is surrendering in Libya. The alliance did not realize that the operation would take so much time and effort, Stephen Brown, contributing editor to FrontPage Magazine, told RT. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 13, 2011
13 July 2011 — Stop NATO 117-Day War: France Extends Libyan Military Mission Poll: 68% Of Israelis Back NATO Membership, 60% NATO Troops In Palestine Georgia: Base To Be Used For Training NATO Militaries Afghanistan: NATO Air Strike Kills Four Civilians In Kunar Province Latvia: French NATO Jet Scrambled On Intercept Mission Commentary: End U.S.… Continue reading
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France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed By Franklin Lamb
Tripoli — One of the jokes heard at this week’s massive pro-government Friday post prayer rally at Green Square is about how each morning Libya’s leader, following early morning Fajr prayers dons his formal uniform, complete with those huge epaulets, and salutes the small NATO flag he tapes to his bathroom mirror as he moves… Continue reading
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“Libyan campaign was staged to start conquering Africa” — RT
The NATO-led intervention in Libya and the unrest in Syria are both steps in a decades-long plan by the US and its allies to completely reshape the face of Africa, believes independent journalist and peace activist Thierry Maysan. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 12, 2011
12 July 2011 — Stop NATO U.S., French Security Guards Violently Disperse Syrian Protesters Afghan War: French Death Toll Reaches 63 U.S. Marines: AFRICOM ‘Adding Muscle’ To African Counterinsurgency Campaigns Japan: U.S. Army To Open New Battle Systems Center For Afghan-, Iraqi-Style Wars Australia: 22,000 U.S., Canadian, Local Troops In Full-Spectrum War Games Serbia: U.S.,… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 11 July 2011
11 July 2011 — williambowles.info FEATURE-Libya’s ragtag rebels discover discipline in battle Reuters By Nick Carey EAST OF ZLITAN, Libya, July 11 (Reuters) – Midway through the morning, as Grad rockets whooshed through the branches of trees overhead, some of the young men of the 1st battalion Al Marsa regiment began to sing. A slow,… Continue reading
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Libyan PM urges UN intervention to stop NATO military attack
11 July 2011 TRIPOLI, July 10 (Xinhua) — Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi has urged UN intervention to stop NATO military attacks against the north African country, local media reported. Al-Mahmoudi made this appeal when meeting Saturday with Abdel Elah al-Khatib, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy for Libya. NATO’s intensive airstrikes have caused… Continue reading