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Madsen - No Sign Of 'Rebels' In Western Libya
Western Libya Portrait Is
Not What Western Media Claim
By Wayne Madsen
WayneMadsenReport.com
6-5-11
TRIPOLI, LIBYA
-- Western media reports continue to indicate that Libyan
rebels trying to oust Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi from power, backed
by daily NATO air strikes, are gaining ground in western Libya. During
a six-hour drive from the Tunisian border to Tripoli, the Libyan
capital, this reporter saw no signs of Libyan rebel successes in
western Libya. In fact, I witnessed a spontaneous pro-Qaddafi
demonstration on the main Tunisia-Tripoli highway in a town about one
and a half hours west of Tripoli.
The green flag of
the Libyan Arab Jamahiryah not only adorn flag poles in towns from
Tripoli to the Tunisian border, but a number of private residences are
flying the green flag from their rooftops, on flag poles, and even
from outside of top floor windows in medium size and small towns alike
along the main highway.
There are some
telltale signs of previous fighting in the western part of the country
-- bullet holes in the walls of some buildings and even some more
extensive structural damage -- but there are no signs that the rebels,
backed by the United States, NATO, and the European Union, have any
substantial support in western Libya.
The one major sign
of the Libyan civil war lies not in western Libya but across the
Tunisian border where several refugee tent cities have been set up to
accommodate thousands of refugees, most of them black African guest
workers from sub-Sahara and Sahel nations who were set upon by rebels
who said the workers were "mercenaries"brought to Libya by
Qaddafi to fight on his behalf. In fact, there is a strong anti-black
racialist element within the Libyan rebel movement that used the
mercenary meme to justify heinous war crimes by rebel units against
blacks from other African nations, as well as native Libyan
blacks.
While many of the
refugee camps on the Tunisian side of the Libyan frontier are
sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross, one is
funded by the United Arab Emirates, one of the nations participating
in President Obama's "coalition of the willing" that is
waging a war on behalf of the Libyan rebels. From our hotel on the
Mediterranean coast, we expect to see and hear the attacks conducted
against military and some civilian targets a further few miles inland
in downtown Tripoli.
The EU and NATO
sanctions on Libya are being severely felt by Libya's civilians.
Petrol stations are rationing gasoline and long lines of cars sit
waiting for gasoline to be delivered to the pumps. The NATO, EU, and
U.S. policy of "collective punishment" of western Libya's
civilian population is being compares to Israel's collective
punishment of the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank. In fact,
many Libyans believe that Obama's crippling sanctions on western Libya
were crafted by Israel's lobby in Washington, which pressured the
Obama administration into adopting them.
NATO has conducted
nightly air strikes against western Libya, including downtown Tripoli,
since March 19. The attacks begin around 12 midnight local time and at
the time of this report we are expecting another NATO bombing of
Tripoli in a little less than an hour.       Above: Mostly
black African refugees, who fled Libya after U.S.- and NATO-supported
rebels committed war crimes against them merely because of the
color of their skin, live a sprawling refugee camps on the Tunisian
side of the Libyan border. America's first African-American president
supports a rebel movement that practices genocide against black
Africans, mostly guest workers who received salaries in Libya they
could never earn in their native countries in sub-Sahara and Sahel
Africa.
  Qaddafi's
portrait still ubiquitous in western Libya. Top is at a border
crossing office. Bottom is at the border frontier.
 The motorcade of
the U.S. peace delegation speeds towards Tripoli. The official Libyan
diplomatic protocol cars were able to breeze by dozens of Libyan
military roadblocks set up between the Tunisian border and Tripoli.
The delegation is headed by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and
will be joined by former Senator Mike Gravel and former US Attorney
General Ramsey Clark.
 Spontaneous
pro-Qaddafi demonstration on the main highway from Tunisia to
Tripoli.
 Crippling
sanctions on western Libya are resulting in long gas lines and
civilian hardships. The Obama administration stands accused of waging
Israeli-like "collective punishment" against the people of
western Libya, where Qaddafi continues to command widespread popular
support.
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