- After covering Libya's rape since last winter in dozens
of articles, no forgiving or forgetting is possible for one of history's
great crimes.
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- Nor is ignoring those responsible, condemning them forthrightly,
and explaining why all wars are waged.
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- NATO outdid Orwell on this one, killing truth by calling
war the responsibility to protect - by terrorizing, attacking, and slaughtering
civilians like psychopathic assassins.
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- As a result, honest historians will redefine barbarism
to explain NATO's savagery. It includes ongoing crimes of war and against
humanity for the most malevolent reasons.
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- When is war not war? It's when committing cold-blooded
murder is called the right thing. When major media scoundrels cheerlead
it, and when most people believe it because they're too indifferent, uncaring
or lazy to learn the truth.
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- NATO's rape of Libya is too ugly for proper words to
describe. Only honest images can do it, and lots of them.
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- Instead, the Big Lie substitutes for honest journalism,
especially on television where real (not fake) visuals can show mangled
bodies, mass destruction, and other evidence of NATO crimes.
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- Where civilian deaths can be shown graphically in living
color. Where responsibility can be placed where it belongs. Where right
and wrong can best be explained. Where repetition can arouse public outrage.
Where proper analysis in advance perhaps can prevent all wars.
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- None are liberating, lawful, or virtuous. All are shamelessly
exploitive. Libya's one of the worst - unscrupulously benefitting powerful
interests criminally, ruthlessly, and diabolically.
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- It doesn't get any worse than that. Ask Lybians. They'll
explain.
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- Leading America's Pack Journalistic Lying
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- The New York Times is America's lead propaganda instrument,
its reports getting enough global coverage to make a difference.
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- From the start, it cheerled war with Libya. It played
the same role in Afghanistan, Iraq, and all previous US wars, deceiving
its readers by dishonest journalism, commentaries, and editorials.
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- August 26 was no different. Two articles among others
stand out. David Kirkpatrick wrote one headlined, "As Qaddafi Forces
Retreat, a Newly Freed Imam Encourages Forgiveness," saying:
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- Pro-NATO Sheik Abdul Ghani Aboughreis helped incite last
winter's uprising "with a fiery Friday sermon at the Mourad Agha mosque.
His words sent thousands of demonstrators pouring into the streets. (His)
mosque and neighborhood became a center of revolt and resistance...."
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- After six months of shamelessly supporting death and
destruction against his own people, he now encourages "forgiv(ing)
each other, to make sure to leave it to the law and not take revenge on
each other."
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- As in all his Libya war articles, Kirkpatrick left unexplained
months of crimes of war and against humanity, committed by NATO and paramilitary
killers.
- Instead, he highlighted alleged evidence of ongoing Gaddafi
loyalist crimes.
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- In times of war, both sides commit them, but whatever
government forces did pale compared to NATO's savagery and its hired assassins.
Kirkpatrick and other Times writers failed to notice.
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- Anthony Shadid and Kareem Hahim were no better headlining,
"Grim Evidence of Fighting's Toll Becomes Clearer in Libya,"
saying:
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- "As the fighting died down in Tripoli on Friday,
the scope and savagery of the violence during the nearly weeklong battle
for control of the capital began to come into sharper focus."
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- Evidence he cites is a shameful Amnesty International
report (based on freed Al Qaeda and other paramilitary prisoners), saying:
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- AI "uncovered evidence that forces loyal to (Gaddafi)
have killed numerous detainees held at two military camps in Tripoli on
23 and 24 August."
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- Perhaps so if other insurgents freed them, attacked Gaddafi
forces in the process, and they fought back.
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- Instead, AI said:
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- "Loyalist forces in Libya must immediately stop
such killings of captives, and both sides must commit to ensuring no harm
comes to prisoners in their custody."
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- Like UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, AI tries to have
it both ways, ruining everything it gets right by reports like this - equating
horrendous NATO crimes with lesser ones committed by Gaddafi forces, perhaps
many less than imagined. The fog of war makes it hard to know precisely.
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- Instead, Shadid and Hahim's article was shamelessly one
sided. While citing clear evidence of rebel-committed atrocities, their
article claimed:
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- -- Tripoli violence is now subsiding when, in fact, it
rages;
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- -- rebels say Gaddafi loyalists killed their own, an
absurdity on its face;
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- -- it's hard "to ascertain the fate of....dead men"
in hospitals, as well as chaos committed inside; AP and Reuters reported
it resulted from rebel-committed terror;
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- -- Gaddafi's "cloak of secrecy (and) mercurial rule"
are being revealed, leaving unexplained why Washington and its NATO partners
wage all wars;
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- -- slogans are being displayed, saying "Libya is
free" and "Misurata is steadfast," though still Gaddafi
controlled, it's believed, what Shadid and Hahim ignored, as well as not
debunking claims of Libya's freedom; and
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- -- documents in Gaddafi's compound "seemed to show
that (his) adopted daughter Hana, who was supposedly killed at age 4 in
(1986), was alive (and) working as a doctor;" the key words "seemed
to show" both Times writers implied were proof, adding that Tripoli
Central Hospital workers claimed "a spacious and well-appointed office"
there was hers.
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- Throughout the conflict, Times articles, op-eds and editorials
backed it. Their unstated message is war is good, the more the better when
America wages them.
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- Sadly, that's the state of managed Western news and opinion.
It's a shocking indictment of its support for wealth and power, no matter
how lawless and harmful to billions exploited ruthlessly, shameless, and
repeatedly.
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- Final Comments
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- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reports
continued fighting in Tripoli, inflicting many casualties.
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- Moreover, many injured can't be treated because of ongoing
violence, inadequate staff, and enough supplies and capacity at local hospitals.
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- In addition, "numerous arrests" were made,
"including foreign nationals." Their welfare is very much at
risk, especially those singled out for revenge.
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- Fierce fighting also continues around Misrata and elsewhere.
The end of conflict is nowhere in sight. Brega "look(s) like a ghost
town."
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- In different areas, people are endangered by unexploded
ordinance, as well as shortages of food, clean water, drugs, other medical
supplies, and spotty or no electricity.
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- Washington-led NATO turned Libya into a hellish inferno
- step one before occupying and exploiting its resources and people. Months
ago its wealth was stolen. Ahead will be its future if Libyans don't struggle
and win their freedom.
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- On August 26 on Russia Today (RT.com), journalist Pepe
Escobar said Abdelhakim Belhadj, a former Al-Qaeda insurgent/now CIA asset
commands rebel forces in Tripoli.
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- He explained that he was trained in Afghanistan by a
"very hardcore Islamist Libyan group." Earlier he was captured
in Malaysia, detained and tortured in Bangkok, then transferred back to
Libya and imprisoned.
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- In 2009, he made a deal for freedom, in return for serving
Western interests, Escobar saying:
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- "I can say almost for sure with 95% certainty that
this is the guy" heading insurgents in Tripoli.
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- It shows how Washington both demonizes and uses Al Qaeda
advantageously, including bin Laden. He was a longtime CIA asset until
his death in December 2001 - not from Obama's staged raid.
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- Notably, Al Qaeda was a 1980s CIA creation during the
Soviet-Afghan war. Moreover, Washington both supports international terrorism
covertly and battles it by imperial wars and persecuting Muslims for their
faith.
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- It's part of the fog to scare people enough to believe
waging wars remove threats that, in fact, don't exist. So they have to
be invented to enlist public support, unaware of the harm caused abroad
and at home.
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- Only war profiteers benefit, not taxpayers they steal
from or victims they attack. At the same time, corrosive militarism, financial
wars, and other destructive policies destroyed America's soul. Its future
as a free country is next.
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- So focused on bread and circus distractions, most people
don't notice. How else can Washington get away with murder!
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- Finally, the fate of independent journalists trapped
in Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel remains unclear. They're still in harm's way
because a chartered ship for their safe passage out either hasn't arrived
or it's too unsafe to reach it.
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- Further updates will follow.
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- In conclusion, Law Professor Francis Boyle's morning
email said the following:
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- "After Six Months of fighting by the most powerful
military alliance in the history of the world, Ghadafy has now become the
Greatest African Warrior since Hannibal against the Romans - predecessors
to the Americans."
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- "Generations from now, people will sing songs, write
poems, and compose odes to Ghadafy all over Africa, the Arab World, the
Muslim World, and the Third World long after Obama is dead and disparaged
and discredited."
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- Sic transit Gloria mundi (Thus passes the glory of the
world)!"
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- Keep Libya's freedom flame alive no matter how imperial
monsters try to destroy it!
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- We're all Libyans now! Their struggle is ours!
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- It's high time we matched their courageous spirit against
the world's most pernicious/destructive force.
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- Bowed perhaps, they're not broken! Isn't that enough
to raise our consciousness to support them!
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- Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and
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