- For over six and a half months, Libyans tied down the
world's mightiest military force despite overwhelming odds against them
and enormous loss of life and human suffering.
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- Established in 1949, NATO was never a "military
alliance for peace and security." It was for offense, not defense.
Cold War hysteria was contrived to incite fear and assure an arms race
for corporate dominance and enrichment.
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- Twenty years after Soviet Russia dissolved, NATO interventions
under US control threaten world peace and humanity, lurching from one war
to another.
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- Interdicting for corporate predators, it's a rogue killing
machine. Its mission isn't liberation. It's slaughtering, ravaging and
pillaging for power and profit.
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- Using a proxy cutthroat mercenary army, Libya was pounded
by relentless land and air assaults. A wasteland replaced a once peaceful
country. Daily attacks ravage it further.
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- Corpses pile up on other ones. Human misery is incalculable.
Death, disease and starvation haunt the living. Tens of thousands of Sirte
residents face ferocious daily terror bombing.
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- Food, water, medical supplies and fuel were cut off.
Indiscriminate mass killing targets civilians. Schools, hospitals, homes
and other nonmilitary sites have been destroyed.
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- NATO's war on Libya is one of history's great crimes.
Sirte is ground zero, facing genocidal slaughter and mass destruction.
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- Spread the word! Point fingers! Hold those responsible
accountable for unconscionable imperial barbarism!
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- Start with Obama, an unindicted war criminal multiple
times over, planning more wars besides others ongoing. Americans also sacrifice
liberties and benefits for them. The worst is yet to come.
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- The battle of Libya rages. Brave resistance fighters
won't quit. Killing alone sustains NATO control anywhere across the country.
Let up and lose it. Unreported by Western media, it's happening city by
city, town by town, and village by village.
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- Christof Lehmann's NSNBC provides regular updates Western
media and Qatari controlled Al Jazeera suppress, cheerleading instead of
denouncing NATO's imperial project across North Africa, the Middle East
and Central Asia.
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- On October 3, Lehmann said:
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- "Southern Libya is firmly under" loyalists'
control. "Fighting continues in Tripoli, North Eastern and North Western
Libya." Algerian tribal leaders joined "The War for the Liberation
of Northern Africa."
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- As a result, NATO plans expanding the war to Algeria.
Lehmann said reports he's getting are that "special operations units
and (others) belonging to the 82nd Airborne have been on the ground in
Algeria for 'some time.' "
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- On October 2, they "came under heavy attack and
received heavy casualties. A C-130 Hercules transport and paratrooper plane
were destroyed on the ground."
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- Other intelligence also "provided evidence that
Algeria was targeted by NATO....European Embassy chatter" suggests
Americans and Europeans are "being psychologically" manipulated
to believe Al Qaeda threatens the country.
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- Maybe Haqqanis as well, Washington's latest reason for
more war, perhaps against Pakistan where Joint Chiefs head Admiral Mike
Mullen claims they're tied to its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
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- NATO, of course, recruited Al Qaeda elements to fight
in Libya and elsewhere. The CIA created group is conveniently used as both
friend and foe, depending on where and for what strategic purpose.
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- Algeria's pro-Western government apparently willingly
cooperates. In contrast, ordinary Algerians, Libyans, Iraqis and Afghans
strongly resist.
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- Libya's puppet Transitional National Council (TNC) is
"in chaos." Most of its members deserted. About 80% of Tripoli
displays Gaddafi's green banner. It's the only national flag with one color
and no design, insignia or other markings.
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- Sirte and Bani Walid sieges "are breaking up."
Rebels suffered heavy casualties. Former Al Qaeda insurgent/now CIA asset
Tripoli military commander Abdelhakim Belhadj "describes the situation
as chaotic."
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- Despite omnipotent air power, "NATO is losing the
battle on the ground. (Engaging in) heavy clashes around both cities, (resistance
fighters) established contact with the military, Tribal and Volunteer Forces
that came to their relief."
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- Reports indicate "heavy infighting between TNC forces
in Misurata and Benghazi with numerous casualties."
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- On October 2, "heavy fighting erupted in and around"
Tripoli's Green Square. Libyan forces seized an ammunition depot. Fighting
raged at Tripoli's Mitiga and military airports. Tribal militia fighters
"secured several banks in Tripoli and began refunding money"
stolen by TNC thieves.
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- POWs were also freed from prisons. As a result, "The
Green Flag is flying over 80% of Tripoli." TNC puppet head Mustafa
Abdul Jalil is "desperate(ly calling) for unity (under) a new government."
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- Belhadj called his plea "ridiculous in the face
of the fact that almost 90%" of TNC members abandoned ship they see
going down.
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- Tripoli residents and resistance fighters won't quit.
On September 30, Human Rights Watch reported TNC militia groups making
arbitrary arrests, and abusing prison detainees across western Libya in
makeshift facilities.
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- Assessing conditions in Tripoli, 53 detainees interviewed
reported beatings, electric shocks, and other forms of abuse. Arrested
without charge, none were prosecuted before judges.
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- Since late August, TNC allied brigades and militias "arrested
thousands and held them without proper legal review." Those accused
without evidence of serious crimes experienced horrific treatment amounting
to torture.
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- Many arrested were Black African guest workers, accused
of being Gaddafi mercenaries or loyalists. An alliance of Libyan, Algerian,
Moroccan, and Polisario tribes called for liberating North Africa.
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- In 1980, Libya recognized the Western Sahara's Sahrawi
Arab Democratic Republic as do other non-NATO states.
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- TNC fighters fled Derna after taking heavy casualties.
About half of Al-Baida was freed. On October 3, reports indicated "heavy
street to street, house to house, and room to room fighting in Benghazi
with heavy casualties on both sides." Half the city is liberated.
TNC forces control its center.
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- A Tobruk TNC detachment sent to help "was literally
wiped out....In Sawiah, the green flag is hoisted over a liberated city."
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- In Zliten and surrounding areas, TNC representatives
and insurgents were told to leave or be "thrown out by the people."
After months of relentless NATO assaults, "an estimated 97% of the
Libyan population" stands firmly behind Gaddafi and the legitimate
Libyan government.
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- If close to true, Washington is "considerably worse"
off than in Vietnam.
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- On October 3, Sirte came under heavy ground and air attack.
"After heavy fighting, (it ground) to a halt this morning," suggesting
insurgents can't advance despite relentless air support. They're also vulnerable
to counterattack.
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- According to Russian intelligence, Tuareg tribal fighters,
demonstrated considerable desert warfare skills. Reports said 35 TNC tanks
and armored personnel carriers were destroyed.
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- "The Libyan Youth movement....declared war on the
TNC (and began) an assassination campaign" to eliminate anti-Gaddafi
elements.
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- Libyans now await the next onslaught. Tripoli residents
remain committed. Well armed by Gaddafi, they're able to strike back. As
a result, TNC forces manning roadblocks "came under sniper fire....resulting
in heavy casualties."
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- Libyans know their country was the pearl of Africa "worth
fighting for." It's theirs. They want it back and intend to get it.
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- Deaths and injuries mount daily as does mass destruction.
NATO turned Libya into an inferno, a hellish charnel house.
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- Never forgive! Never forget!
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- A Final Comment
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- America's media never met an imperial war they didn't
endorse and promote. Regurgitating official lies passes for news, commentaries
and analysis.
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- As a de facto propaganda ministry, The New York Times
leads the pack, calling massacres "liberation."
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- Despite genocidal slaughter and mass destruction, its
September 9 editorial headlined, "A New Start for Libya," saying:
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- "There are....signs of progress on military, diplomatic,
economic and political fronts....Plans have been drafted for electing a
constitutional assembly by early next year."
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- "Considering the situation six months ago, there
is reason to be encouraged."
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- Fact check
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- Washington and key NATO allies waged lawless imperial
aggression against a nonbelligerent country. Corrupted TNC officials were
bribed to establish a puppet regime.
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- Plans include leadership subservient to Western interests.
Occupying, raping and pillaging Libya is planned. Democracy won't be tolerated.
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- Libyans reacted heroically, fighting back to save what's
left of their country and rebuild. Protracted struggle lies ahead. Like
Afghans and Iraqis, Libyans won't quit until they're free.
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- The Times Libya - Revolution (2011) page offers a litany
of distortions and canards. Calling planned NATO aggression "revolution,"
it mischaracterized hired mercenaries as "rebels."
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- Gaddafi's response to imperial barbarism was called "extreme
violence," not self-defense. Western TNC puppet leaders are portrayed
as "a (legitimate) transitional government."
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- Gaddafi's Libya no longer exists. A wasteland replaced
a once peaceful country. Dead, dying and injured numbers mount daily.
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- New York Times correspondents, commentators and editorial
writers bear witness to what they know but won't say.
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- It's a Times tradition, presenting sanitized versions
of real news, information and analysis.
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- Its Libya reporting shows how low it sunk, calling a
charnel house "a new start."
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- It's why reliable online sources gain followers to learn
what NYT and other major media scoundrels won't say.
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- Make them a regular habit to learn what everyone needs
to know - the truth.
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- Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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- Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and
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