Video: Siege of Bani Walid: Foreign fighters, phosphorus bombs and nerve gas – RT sources

27 October, 2012RT

The besieged Libyan city of Bani Walid has been plunged into chaos. RT sources say that the former Gaddafi regime stronghold is under attack by militias bolstered by foreign mercenaries, and they used banned weapons like white phosphorous.

The sources denied reports of the last few days that Bani Walid was retaken by the Libyan government. Residents said that militia forces have continued their assault, while preventing the refugees who fled from reentering the city. 

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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 January 2012: "Pro-Gaddafi" fighters retake Bani Walid

25 January 2012Information Clearing House

US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes
By Ray McGovern
America’s newspaper of record won’t even report accurately what Israel (or the CIA) thinks on this important issue, if that goes against the alarmist conventional wisdom that the neocons favor. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30358.htm

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Blatant state takeover behind EU and US Libyan operation

9 October 2011 — Blatant state takeover behind EU and US Libyan operation — RT

Having taken over Libya, NATO exposed its hypocrisy towards protecting civilian lives, letting the revolutionary forces to shell loyalist cities and assault them despite great losses among civilian population.

­For over two days now, Libya’s interim rulers have been waging one of the biggest assaults yet on the most-important remaining Gaddafi strongholds, the cities of Sirte and Bani Walid.

Libyan revolutionary forces claim they have seized parts of convention centre, which served as a key base for Gaddafi loyalists in his hometown of Sirte.

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Battle for Libya ‘far from over’ — RT

7 October 2011 — Battle for Libya ‘far from over’ — RT

As the latest assault on Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, is underway and there are no signs that NATO is going to leave Libya anytime soon, the conflict in North Africa seems to be far from its end.

Reports say the interim government’s troops have now largely taken Sirte, but are still meeting pockets of heavy resistance.

Hundreds of vehicles are pouring into the outskirts as the city is pounded with heavy shelling.

Though thousands of civilians have left the city, many more are thought to have remained.

The assault comes after Colonel Gaddafi, in an audio message, urged Libyans to resist the interim leaders.

‘The battle is far from over,’ says activist and journalist Sukant Chandan.

It is now clear to the world that civilians are being targeted in Sirte, he says quoting the AFP reports on civilian casualties. ‘Nevertheless Sirte is still resisting.’

He points out that the media have stopped talking about another Gaddafi stronghold, Bani Walid. ‘Basically the pro-NATO rebels in Libya have given up taking Bani Walid,’ he believes.

There are no signs whatsoever that NATO is going to leave, Chandan says. ‘NATO just said that it will intervene even further if relationship among the rebels continues to worsen.’

By vetoing UN resolution on Syria, ‘China and Russia have admitted that they were fooled over Resolution 1973 on Libya and they are not going to be fooled again,’ the journalist states.

According to Chandan, Syrian President Bashar Assad is doing the right thing for any leader of the ‘Global South.’ He explains that if NATO attacks Syria, Assad will start bombing Israel, get Hezbollah bombing Israel, and Iran will target Western interest in the Gulf.

‘This is the only way to face the world bullies which is NATO,’ he claims.

Battle for Libya ‘far from over’ — RT

7 October 2011 — Battle for Libya ‘far from over’ — RT

As the latest assault on Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, is underway and there are no signs that NATO is going to leave Libya anytime soon, the conflict in North Africa seems to be far from its end.

Reports say the interim government’s troops have now largely taken Sirte, but are still meeting pockets of heavy resistance.

Hundreds of vehicles are pouring into the outskirts as the city is pounded with heavy shelling.

Though thousands of civilians have left the city, many more are thought to have remained.

The assault comes after Colonel Gaddafi, in an audio message, urged Libyans to resist the interim leaders.

‘The battle is far from over,’ says activist and journalist Sukant Chandan.

It is now clear to the world that civilians are being targeted in Sirte, he says quoting the AFP reports on civilian casualties. ‘Nevertheless Sirte is still resisting.’

He points out that the media have stopped talking about another Gaddafi stronghold, Bani Walid. ‘Basically the pro-NATO rebels in Libya have given up taking Bani Walid,’ he believes.

There are no signs whatsoever that NATO is going to leave, Chandan says. ‘NATO just said that it will intervene even further if relationship among the rebels continues to worsen.’

By vetoing UN resolution on Syria, ‘China and Russia have admitted that they were fooled over Resolution 1973 on Libya and they are not going to be fooled again,’ the journalist states.

According to Chandan, Syrian President Bashar Assad is doing the right thing for any leader of the ‘Global South.’ He explains that if NATO attacks Syria, Assad will start bombing Israel, get Hezbollah bombing Israel, and Iran will target Western interest in the Gulf.

‘This is the only way to face the world bullies which is NATO,’ he claims.

Libya: DR. MOUSSA IBRAHIM, OCTOBER 1, 2011 – FULL TRANSLATION OF INTERVIEW

1 October 2011

Genet Tadesse – DR. MOUSSA IBRAHIM, OCTOBER 1, 2011

Broadcaster: “With us on the on the line is Dr. Moussa Ibrahim, the official spokesman for the Libyan Government. Doctor, I want to begin by saying Thank God for your safety. The media channels of lies and deceit have said that you attempted to flee wearing women’s clothing, wearing a neqab (female headdress covering face). Do you think it is an attempt to slander and muddy the image of the resistance and jihadi fighters like yourself?”

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Civilians under NATO bombing – Bani Walid eyewitness to RT

3 October 2011 — RT

Civilians fleeing Bani Walid and Sirte say the two Libyan cities fighting off the revolutionary forces are turning into a trap. The eyewitnesses told of no food, no medical aid – and no care for civilians.

­Sirte is under random bombardment by the NTC forces, a woman who asked that she be identified as Selma told RT. Just a day ago, Selma fled from Bani Walid, one of the last pro-Gaddafi strongholds fighting off the attacks of the revolutionary forces. She says a mere declaration of loyalty to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi could cost your life there.

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NATO’s client regime in Libya confronts divisions as military offensives stall By Peter Symonds

15 September 2011 — WSWS

The military push by Libya’s NATO-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) to take control of the remaining pro-Gaddafi strongholds appears to have stalled. NTC militias have encountered strong resistance in their advances on Bani Walid, about 150 kilometres south-east of Tripoli, and coastal city of Sirte, the birthplace of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

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Dmitri Sedov – In and Around Libya

15 September 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation

The sliding of the civil war in Libya into a new phase tilted considerably the balance of forces in the country. Some of Gadhafi’s supporters continue to mount stiff resistance in Bani Walid, Siret, and Sabha and at least so far manage to keep attackers out of the strongholds. A few days ago they even launched an offensive against a refinery sited in the Mediterranean city of Ras Lanuf.

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NATO’s “Victory” in Libya Genocide and Rebel Infighting by Tony Cartalucci

13 September 2011 — Global Researchlanddestroyer.blogspot.com – 2011-09-12

Desperate to declare NATO’s mission in Libya a victory ahead of the September 19, 2011 deadline on their contrived UN Security Council resolution, already violated in every conceivable manner possible, NATO planes in tandem with NATO special forces obliterated Tripoli ahead of swarms of Libyan rebel troops led by notorious Al Qaeda thug Abdulhakim Hasadi (aka Balhaj.) Three weeks later, NATO’s proxy Libyan representative, long-time globalist and servant of the West Mahmoud Gibril Elwarfally, touched down at Tripoli’s airport, one of the few enclaves held by rebels in the city, to give the impression that his “National Transitional Council” (NTC) actually controls the capital and therefore the country.

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