Bharat Rakshak

Sarkozy and France's almost animalistic urge to screw Libya was disgusting and grotesque.

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is facing a fourth month without the diesel cargoes needed to power tanks as he endures an 11-week air campaign led by NATO.

No vessel delivered the fuel to Qaddafi-controlled ports since February, according to five oil-product traders and three shipbrokers interviewed by Bloomberg. The country, once Africa’s third-largest crude producer, normally got four shipments a month, they said. One vessel holds 34 million liters (9 million gallons), enough to fill all Libyan tanks 18 times over, based on data from IHS Jane’s, a military analysis company.

The United Nations froze Qaddafi’s assets and those of companies linked to the regime, including Libyan National Oil Corp. in February. The measures make it harder for Qaddafi to buy fuel from neighboring countries, said Charles Gurdon, a London-based managing director at Menas Associates, a political- risk consultant.

The Libyan regime faces dwindling finances and shrinking fuel supplies, according to Farhat Bengdara, who ran the central bank before defecting.

“They tried to import fuel by any means, but they couldn’t,” Bengdara said in an interview in Dubai on June 13. “The end is very close.”

Donatella Rovera, senior crisis response adviser for Amnesty, who was in Libya for three months after the start of the uprising, says that "we have not found any evidence or a single victim of rape or a doctor who knew about somebody being raped".

A warning: these videos are graphic and horrific. They’re posted at obamaslibya.com and FederalJack.com, because it’s got hefty security around its site and rock solid courage to speak truth to power.

FederalJack will not back down, and will update the videos on obamalibya.com as new footage arrives.

* The first video shows a Libyan rebel beheading a Libyan soldier. If it looks like Iraq, well golly, the highest percentage of foreign fighters in Iraq (and Chechnya and Afghanistan) came from Eastern Libya. Unhappily for NATO, there’s no avoiding that this video was shot in Libya: The men are speaking a Libyan Arab dialect with its own distinct accent.

* The second video shows gruesome footage of a Libyan rebel cutting up the rotted flesh of a dead soldier and forcing it into the hands of Libyan Prisoners of War, who are lined up in a row so they must eat it.

* Another video shows a group of Rebels sodomizing a civilian with a pistol.

* Another shows a crowd of Rebels hanging and beheading a Libyan soldier.

* Another video shows CIA operatives working side by side Rebel forces, driving around in trucks— proof that U.S. forces are already on the ground and active participants in the atrocities.

* Another video shows several dead Libyan soldiers with their throats cut, lying in the back of a truck. The killings violate the Geneva Conventions of War, which protect enemy soldiers after capture. In the excitement, NATO Rebels encouraged a frightened on-looker to video the butchery and claim that Gadhaffi’s forces were responsible. Afterward, the man with the video grabbed his family and fled the Rebel stronghold. That’s how the video reached the fact-finding group in Tripoli.

ALL VIDEOS CAN BE VIEWED HERE - http://www.obamaslibya.com/

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Libyan rebels have shut off a pipeline in the Western Mountains region that supplies crude from an oilfield in the south to the Zawiyah refinery near the capital Tripoli, a rebel spokesman said on Monday.

"Rebels have turned off a pipeline in Rayayna, which is used to ship oil from the Awbari oilfield in the south to the Zawiyah refinery," rebel spokesman Juma Ibrahim said by phone from the Western Mountains town of Zintan.

By Alex Spillius, Washington and Aislinn Laing in Johannesburg
26 Jun 2011

In the first such admission, Adm Samuel Locklear, commander of the NATO Joint Operations Command in Naples, said that efforts had been stepped up to target the Libyan leader, despite declarations by the Obama administration that "regime change" was not the goal.

The admiral's comments were revealed by Representative Mike Turner, an Ohio Republican and member of the House Armed Services Committee.

Mr Turner has opposed the military intervention from the outset was among those who voted in the House of Representatives last week to deny President Barack Obama the authority to wage war against Libya.

Another motion to stop funding for the war failed.

He told Foreign Policy magazine that he came away from his conversation with Adm Locklear convinced that Nato was acting beyond remit of the United Nations 1973 resolution on Libya, which allowed for enforcement of a no-fly zone and the defence of civilians and against Col Gaddafi's forces.

I believe the scope that Nato is pursuing is beyond what is contemplated in civil protection, so they're exceeding the mission," he said.

The admiral also repeated a comment he made last month that a "small force" might be needed on the ground in the initial stages after the fall of Col Gaddafi's regime.

Mr Obama has been adamant that US ground forces will not be deployed, and is under pressure from anti-war Democrats and Republicans keen to check his power.

"The president hasn't come to Congress and said any of this, and yet Admiral Locklear is pursuing the targeting of Gaddafi's regime, Gaddafi himself, and contemplating ground troops following Gaddafi's removal," said Mr Turner. "They're not being straightforward with Congress... It's outrageous."

Frustrated at their inability to break the military deadlock, Nato commanders in late April expanded the campaign with strikes against military command facilities and other buildings used by Col Gaddafi and his top aides.

Officials have so far taken a wink and a nod approach to such attacks, maintaining they are not part of a strategy of regime change.

"We're picking up attacks on these command-and-control facilities," one official said "If he [Gaddafi] happens to be in one of those buildings, all the better."

Robert Gates, who stands down as US defence secretary at the end of the month, said: "We are not targeting him specifically, but we do consider command and control targets to be legitimate targets wherever we find them."

Leaders of the African Union reiterated calls for a ceasefire to be observed by all sides, including Nato, and an interim government to be established following negotiations President Jacob Zuma of South Africa said signatories to the UN resolution had not intended "to authorise a campaign for regime change or political assassination".

"On the ground, there is a military stalemate which we cannot and must not allow to drag on and on, both because of its horrendous cost in civilian lives and the potential it has to destablise the entire sub-region," he said.

The African leaders communique said welcomed a statement that Col Gaddafi would not interfere with negotiations to end Libya's four-month conflict.

Col Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, said Adm Locklear’s views had not been accurately reflected on “either US ground troops or the targeting of any individual, including Col Gadaffi”.

“The admiral clearly understands and has repeatedly emphasised the stated objectives for the military mission as set forth” in the resolution, he added.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ddafi.html

UBanerjee wrote:^ Do you really think other countries are populated by naive suckling babes?

There are no "allies", there are interests.

Neshant wrote:

UBanerjee wrote:^ Do you really think other countries are populated by naive suckling babes?

There are no "allies", there are interests.

Obviously any fool knows that by now.

Libya rejected the warrants issued for Gaddafi, 69, his son Saif al-Islam, 39, and the head of Libyan intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, 62, for atrocities committed in a bloody uprising that began mid-February.

The ruling is a "cover for NATO which is still trying to assassinate Gaddafi", said Libya's justice minister, Mohammed al-Gamudi.

Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaaim said the ICC "functions as a European foreign policy vehicle.

"It is a political court which serves its European paymasters," he said, adding: "Our own courts will deal with any human rights abuses and other crimes committed in the course of conflict in Libya."

ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo sought the warrants as thousands died in fighting and an estimated 650,000 people fled the country with Gaddafi clinging to power despite NATO strikes easing the siege of key rebel cities.

Haiba Abdul Qassem was wearing open-toe high heels and heavy makeup, and had a tattered AK-47 slung over her shoulder on a recent afternoon as she vowed to take up arms for Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.

“I will defend myself, I will defend my country and my leader,” the 39-year-old nanny said as other women in her marksmanship training session shot wildly in the air. “We are an armed nation. Everyone in this nation has weapons.”

With Libya’s conventional forces stretched thin along front lines east and west of Tripoli, government officials say they are scrambling to train volunteers, many of them women, for the looming fight for the capital and other Gaddafi-held areas.

“We are training people in all places under our control,” government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said. “What they are going to fight is a nation. Every Libyan, every mother — the symbol of mercy and love — will become a bomb, a killing machine.”

Guma el-Gamary, a spokesman for the rebels, dismissed the government’s stated plan as a propaganda ploy. “When they tried to distribute weapons in the past, they ended in the hands of the freedom fighters,” he said, referring to the rebels trying to oust Gaddafi. Gamary, who is based in London, said rebels have been smuggling weapons into Tripoli for months.

Qadhafi regime holds talks with rebels amid stalemate
Atul Aneja

The daughter of Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi has confirmed that talks to end the country's civil war are underway between regime representatives and the Benghazi based opposition.

Aisha Qadhafi - increasingly the face of the regime, has told France 2 television that the Libyan authorities have been holding “direct and indirect negotiations,” with the opposition. She stressed that the embattled government in Tripoli was ready “to ally with the devil and that is the armed rebels,” in order to “stop letting Libyan blood”.

Analysts point out that in terms of public profile, Ms. Qadhafi appears to have now eclipsed the Libyan leader's son Saif Al Islam, who has been targeted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), for possible war crimes.

Ms. Qadhafi, during the course of her interview, stressed that her father would not leave Libya. “This word departure, departure, departure ... what I find strange is where do you want him to go? This is his country, his land, his people,” she said.

“Where would he go? There is something you don't understand and you will never understand. My father is a symbol, a guide.” she added.

In her verbal assault, the Libyan strongman's daughter focused on the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and sought to carry her message directly to the French people. “I send a message to the mothers and wives of [French] pilots that are bombarding us,” she said. “Your husbands are not protecting civilians, but killing children and our people to satisfy Sarkozy who thinks the more Libyans he kills the more votes he'll get in elections.”

Ms. Qadhafi's intervention on the airwaves comes amid reports that France has, in Western Libya, airdropped weapons to arm opposition fighters. On Wednesday, France confirmed that it had air dropped weaponry for the opposition fighters in Libya's western mountains. The decision to air drop weapons has been taken after 90 days of air strikes failed to dislodge the Qadhafi regime.

France's decision has deepened its differences with Russia, China and the African Union (A.U). Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that France had committed a “crude violation” of a U.N. weapons embargo on Libya imposed by the United Nations Security Council. Mr. Lavrov said that Moscow had sought further details from France. “We are awaiting a response. If it is confirmed, it's a flagrant violation”, of the resolution, he said.

Without naming France, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hong Lei, called on “the international community to strictly follow the spirit of the relevant resolution of the U.N. Security Council and avoid taking any action that goes beyond the mandate of the resolution”.

On Thursday, A.U. Commissioner Jean Ping, said that distribution of weapons to Libya would cause “destabilisation” of African states.

“What worries us is not who is giving what, but simply that weapons are being distributed by all parties and to all parties. We already have proof that these weapons are in the hands of al-Qaeda, of traffickers,” Mr. Ping said.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/internatio ... 150747.ece

Mohammed told AFP why he is certain 30-year-old's Ahmed's fate was sealed while green flags were waving on the other side of the capital and as Kadhafi dished out threats against Europe, NATO and Libyan "traitors" on Friday. Ahmed's execution, he said, was punishment for his family's refusal to take part in the rally, a vital show of strength by the Libyan leader amid a five-month-long uprising that has pushed the regime to the brink of collapse. "Four or five days ago a member of one of Kadhafi's revolutionary committees approached my brother's family in Tripoli," the 50-something Mohammed told AFP on Saturday, his voice ringing with anger and mourning. "They told him: 'We have your son, he is being held at Abu Salim prison. If your family does not come out to demonstrate on Friday you will never see your son again'."

"The bullet wounds were fresh. He was shot this morning, even the blood was still warm," Mohammed said from the safety of Benghazi, after reaching his brother using clandestine communications earlier in the day. Mohammed said he knows of at least two other families in their neighbourhood of Tripoli who also received their sons' bodies on Saturday morning. Both had also refused to attend the Kadhafi rally.

"There is nothing but air and God in Tripoli," he said. "You are either with Kadhafi or you starve." "I just want the world to know how Kadhafi works," added Mohammed, explaining his reasons for speaking out. Despite the dangers "we are obliged to put this out in the open," he said.

Theo_Fidel wrote:Well now we know why those streamers were so straight, apparently SOP, on pain of death no less...

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Libyans 'executed' for shunning Kadhafi rally: relative

Neshant wrote:Judging by the tens if not hundreds of millions NATO countries have killed throughout their history, Gadaffi comes out looking like a saint.

Neshant wrote: He may be a dictator in his own country controlling warring tribes but it is his own country.

Neshant wrote: Foreign powers would like nothing more than to install their own dictator subserviant to their interests.