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NATO Enters 72 Days of Bombing Libya While Britain Looks For Exit Strategy Posted: 2011/05/28 From: Mathaba (mathaba) After 72 days of bombing Libya, and once again the most expensive failed assassination attempt in history, as 25 years earlier, NATO has failed to kill the symbol of the Libyan revolution and African King of Kings, Muammar Qaddafi. This morning NATO carried out a daytime attack on Libya, signalling a further increase in bombing to day time too. In recent weeks NATO has increased its frequency of night time bombings that have been killing and injuring much of the population of the cities under attack including Sirte and Tripoli. NATO has been waging an increasingly desperate and illegal war with aerial bombardment, drone and missile strikes on Libya that has already destroying thousands of lives and also much of the civilian and public services infrastructure. School children are now scattered through the streets of Tripoli during the day time and these attacks may indicate that NATO has no intelligence information, are deliberately trying to frighten children, or are at a stage of desperation after failing to kill the symbol of the Libyan revolution. Since the beginning of the conflict, NATO bombs have killed dozens of children, including babies, and three baby grandchildren of Muammar Qaddafi. Aisha QaddafiAisha, a lawyer specialized in international law, the only daughter of Muammar Qaddafi, had granted an interview with Western media days before the attack on her house, saying that in the evenings told bed time stories to her small children in an attempt to prepare them for the worst. One of the babies killed in the NATO air strike on her house was her own baby and the others of her siblings, one of whom, the youngest son of Qaddafi, was also martyred. Foreign media coverage of the attacks played on western TV channels, have often misrepresented images of protesters in the streets protesting against the attacks claiming they were demonstrators celebrating the attack on Qaddafi's house, despite the images showing them wearing green and carrying green flags, a clear sign of supporters of the Libyan government. Now with 72 days of bombing Libya, countless failed attempts to assassinate the Muammar Qaddafi, have once again proven to be the most expensive assassination attempts in history, as with the 2-day bombing by NATO 25 years before which killed Qaddafi's baby daughter. The Libyan population is increasingly confident that a joining of forces across the entire country is the best way to resist the attempt of new foreign colonization. Letters sent to the NATO command by rebel groups warn that they no longer trust the fallacy of "humanitarian aid" propagated by the allies and some have of them have been calling for an end to the bombing, also stating that their own families have been attacked by NATO bombing. The actions of bombing the whole country, has caused outrage that reaches far beyond the Libyan population. Rebel groups which include senior government officials which were facing investigations for corruption as well as Al-Qaida islamists who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, are not united among themselves about how to conduct their already weakened opposition. The World Green Book Centre, a centre for scholarly research on democracy, was also bombed by NATO completely destroying the main building and leaving only the library standing. Around eight people were there and there is no information if any of them survived as the building was destroyed in the attack. Adam King, an Australian director of the Green Book Centre, said that the attack makes a mockery of the claim of the NATO western countries to be promoting democracy in Libya. He said that this criminal act should be condemned by all educational establishments worldwide. King also said that Libya's response should be to establish Green Book Centres around the world, so that NATO can try to bomb them in Canada, Bolivia, Austria, South Africa, India, Malaysia and Australia or anywhere else that believes that The Green Book has a right to be read. A British reporter for Qatari satellite TV network Jazeera, which has provided no information on the demonstrations taking place in Qatar against the dictatorship there, and has largely turned a blind eye to the massacre of hundreds of peaceful demonstrators in Bahrain, said talks in Tunisia between the deputy foreign secretary of Libya and the British Secret Intelligence Service, were aimed at finding an "exit strategy" for Qaddafi. However, an informed source has told the Mathaba News Agency that is appears that the British are seeking an exit strategy for NATO, and that there is absolutely no question that Qaddafi will not leave his home in Libya. Unreasonable demands have been placed by the colonialist powers for Qaddafi to "step down" although is not in government. This was confirmed by the Libyan ambassador to Brazil, Salem Omar El-Zubeidy, in a meeting with the Brazilian press held in Rio de Janeiro last week. Zubeidy said that Gaddafi is a Libyan citizen with the role of an old counsellor, a symbol of the Libyan revolution, since he overthrew the corrupt monarchy of King Idris in 1969 and handed power to the people eight years later, in 1977. Since then, Libya is governed by a system of direct participatory democracy based on popular conferences, the ambassador affirmed. During the first week of clashes between the rebel opposition forces and government troops in Benghazi in February, the foreign media had claimed that there were more than six thousand dead and that massacres were taking place, without any TV channel at any time being able to show so many bodies. Russia confirmed, by revealing footage from its military spy satellites, that on all the days in question that it had been reported Libyan air force jets were bombing civilians, no flights at all took place, and that there were thus no massacres by the Libyan air force as had been reported. Russia revealed that it could see that air force flights only carried out bombing of remote desert ammunition storage in order to prevent them from being seized by rebels. Most developed countries and indeed all those that comprise the foreign NATO war coalition, have their own satellites that can pick up at any time any movement anywhere on the planet. And yet none of them could show the world, any image that proved that Libya was massacring its population. Further more, in spite of repeated requests by the Libyan government since February for the United Nations or other international organizations to send fact-finding missions to Libya to ascertain whether or not any massacres had taken place, the U.N. has failed to take up the call, instead passing resolutions to allow the western powers to enforce a no-fly zone on Libya. Governments and organizations around the world, and especially the African Union of 53 member states, have condemned the over-stepping of the resolutions by the same countries which enacted them -- Britain, France and the USA -- which did not allow for the bombing of Libya's infrastructure with the resultant incalculable civilian casualties. The 53-members state African Union with some 37 heads of state having held a meeting this week to again discuss the Libya crisis, has unanimously condemned the NATO attacks on Libya and called for an immediate cessation of attacks. # [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
