Posts Tagged ‘Libya’
Colonel Gaddafi’s Greatest Quotes: In Photos
COLONEL Gaddafi is portrayed as a delusional lunatic. Well, that is pretty much how he presents himself. But the gangster is no fool. This is the man whose regime ordered the bombing of a disco in Germany and a plane over Lockerbie, and murdered a British policewoman on a British street.
With Gaddafi still in power, Libya was welcomed back into the bosom of the West’s family of nations by Tony Blair, that shiny-eyed healer who wears his god on this sleeve but no blood on his hands.
Historians will one day argue over who was the more self-serving: Blair or Gaddafi. They will then debate if Victoria Beckham is posher than Rebecca Loos and if you can take two bottles into the shower.
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Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2)
Libyan Embassy Shuts In London: Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi May Soon Wish He Was In Scotland
THEY’VE closed the Libyan Embassy in Knightsbridge, London. Foreign Secretary William Hague announced that Britain is formally recognising the opposition National Transitional Council as the “sole governmental authority” in Libya. The French did it while back. But what triggered the move now?
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Posted: 27th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
Photos Behind Of Gaddafi’s Libya: How The People Love Him
THE Associated Press has been on the government tour of Libya. We’ve got the photos. You will see images of children play on a see-saw on a beach in Tripoli in Colonel Gaddafi’s land flowing in oil and money.
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Posted: 20th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
It Was Pimply Hacker-Heros Anonymous Who Really Freed Egypt!
THE hacker nerds Anonymous really are everybody’s favourite freedom fighters right now. Forget the fact that they are largely greasy-haired 19 year-olds fiddling with themselves in dark rooms in Oregon, some sections of the media have elevated them to the status of wavy-haired Che Gueveras. Those kids aren’t just watching tentacle porn! – They’re liberating oppressed peoples!“Anonymous represent the untameable wild west of the web, a world where geeks teach the corrupt and powerful a lesson.”
Posted: 21st, May 2011 | In: Technology | Comment
Libya: How Does Killing Gaddafi’s Grandchildren Comply With UN Brief?
THE US has previously killed Colonel Gadaffi of Libya’s wife and daughter at Al Azzizah. Now Nato has killed some other members of the ruling family:
A Nato air strike in Tripoli has killed the youngest son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, a Libyan government spokesman has said.
Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, 29, was killed along with three of Muammar Gaddafi’s grandsons, according to reports.
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Posted: 1st, May 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
John McCain Talks Utter Bollocks On Libya: Nation Listens
WITH Barack Obama looking confused on Libya, it is left to John McCain to explain to the rest of the world just how rubbish it would have been had he beaten The One and become American President:
“I believe that with sufficient and efficient, sufficient and efficient use of airpower, we can bring Gadhafi to his knees. ”
“It’s ideal terrain and situation for doing so. Have no doubt, though, that he and his forces are adapting to this situation by hiding in houses and doing various things that prevent the airpower from being so effective. But I’ll tell you, when you’re flying around at 25,000 feet, it’s pretty hide – it’s pretty easy to hide from them.
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Posted: 24th, April 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Does Blackburn Rovers El Hadji Diouf Hold Key To Peace And War In Libya?
BLACKBURN Rovers winger El Hadji Diouf, now on loan at Glasgow Rangers, tells Algerian magazine Le Buteur:
“Gaddafi is a man I’ve always admired. I’m telling the truth. I know him and I know Seif, his son. They are my friends. But frankly I don’t really know what is happening in Libya, but it must be very hard for Gaddafi and his family. I say that, Inch’Allah (Allah willing) victory will go to whoever is right.
“I don’t know who is right and who is wrong but it’s a shame to see so many victims.”
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Posted: 20th, April 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
RAF Wages War In Libya From Four Star Hotel In Bari
RUMOURS are that the RAF is fighting the war in Libya from the Grand Hotel D’Aragona in Bari, Italy. The lads are staying in austere conditions:
A very intimate, relaxing atmosphere and the friendly management ensure that all guests are more than adequately catered for during their stay.
The place has an Olympic swimming pool and a children paddling pool. The rooms boast a balcony, free Wi-Fi access, Sky TV and ample free parking.
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Syria’s Application For Libya’s Old Seat On UN Human Rights Council Is Not A Sick Joke
WHICH country will fill the seat on the UN Human Rights Council vacated by Libya? Might it be…Syria? We kid you not. Now Lebanon produces an extract from the Syrian application form:
The five-page document makes some breathtaking claims. It says that Syria has “worked consistently on advancing the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
This is at best delusional, at worst a lie. It goes on to say that the “promotion and protection of human rights are of highest importance to Syria,” another flabbergasting assertion, and that “Syria’s candidature to the Human Rights Council signifies its commitment to respect and to support the inalienable and indivisible nature of all human rights, both on the national and international levels.
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Posted: 17th, April 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
Libya’s Rebels Are A New Model Army: Photos Of A Fashionable War
WHAT we know about the “rebels” in Libya is not much. All we can be certain of is that they are not fond of Colonel Gaddafi. Other than that, they are either freedom fighters, chancers, a North African version of the racist BNP, or agents of Al-Qaeda. Thanks to these photos we can see what they look like. And they look good, like models in a fashion shoot for a new range of urban warrior, with 1970s retro hints and shades of Mad Max.
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Posted: 13th, April 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Former CIA Analyst Michael Scheuer Reveals Obama’s Libya Plan
A former CIA analyst called Michael Scheuer tells CNN what is really going on in Libya. You don’t see enough genuine opinion and expertise on the news…
spotter: Zero
Posted: 5th, April 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
British Police Train Bahrain Cops In ‘Community Policing’ And Kettling: Libya Burns
HAS the Government and the UN made pirates of the Allied forces? The rebellion in Bahrain is being squashed by police trained by the UK’s National Police Improvement Agency. (Pass the kettle.) As we learn on the NPIA website:
Three full-time advisers are working with the Bahrain police to offer assistance in the modernisation of the Bahrain Police Force.
Their focus is to develop and integrate the following within the Directorate of Public Security in the Kingdom of Bahrain:
Criminal Investigation
Forensic Science
Operational Duties
Community Policing
Nice, eh?
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Posted: 3rd, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
Musa Kusa Holds The Establishment Who Knew To Ransom Over Lockerbie
LIBYA and Musa Kusa’s defection reads like a bad April Fool’s joke.
‘Tell us the secrets of Lockerbie,” orders the headline bannered across the Glasgow Herald today.
The Herald has led the campaign to get to the bottom and at least some of the truths/versions – for there will many – of the exact double-dealings which caused, on 21 December 1988, the deaths of 270 in the skies over and on the ground of the once quiet backwater Scottish rural market town Lockerbie.
Once again Scotland’s legal system is thrust into the foreground as The Herald tells us
“SCOTTISH detectives and prosecutors are to interview Libyan defector Moussa Koussa about his involvement in the Lockerbie bombing.
“Colonel Gaddafi’s former foreign minister, who flew into the UK on a private jet on Wednesday, was a senior intelligence officer at the time of Britain’s worst terrorist attack in 1988, which claimed the lives of 270 people.”
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Posted: 1st, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
The Truth About Libya’s Musa Kusa: How The 270 Were Betrayed
MOUSSA Koussa, aka Musa Kusa – crazy name, crazy guy – has defected from Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya. He is the former Libyan Foreign Minister now living in the UK in a secret location.
The media looks at a defector wanted by police in connection with the Lockerbie bombing and the murder of Pc Yvonne Fletcher.
A short bio:
Kusa, 61, is widely suspected of masterminding a string of terror attacks. He was a high-ranking leader in Libya’s notorious “external security bureau”, the Mathaba, which has been repeatedly linked to the 270 murders at Lockerbie.
It’s believed he was also behind the bombing of a French jet that killed 170 people in 1989, as well as a 1986 blast at a German disco that killed two American servicemen and a woman from Turkey.
And many believe he knows who killed WPC Yvonne Fletcher, gunned down in 1984 by two assassins firing from inside the Libyan Embassy in London.
Kusa was himself de facto ambassador to Britain in 1979 and 1980. But he was kicked out after openly backing the IRA – and announcing plans to murder two Libyan dissidents on British soil.
The IRA Years:
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Undated handouts of victims of the Omagh bombing. They are (top row, from the left) 12-year-old James Barker, Esther Gibson, Sean McGrath, Gareth Conway, Elizabeth Rush, Fred White, Lorraine Wilson and (bottom row, from the left) Veda Short, Alan Radford, Bryan White, Brenda Logue, Deborah Cartwright, Geraldine Breslin, and Oran Doherty.
The Nicknames:
Branded a “superstar of terrorism” and “envoy of death”, the list of atrocities linked to Libyan Musa Kusa send shivers down the spine. Described as the “black box recorder” of the regime…
The Cowardly Old Man:
Libyan spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said Mr Kusa had permission to go to Tunisia as he was sick with diabetes and high blood pressure, but the regime was surprised to learn he had flown to London.
“People are saying ‘So what? If someone wants to step down that’s his decision’,” Mr Ibrahim said. “He is tired and exhausted. He is an old man. His heart and body cannot take the pressure.”
He Fled Us To Be With Us:
A senior Whitehall source said of Kusa, 62: “He came over because he thought we were going to bomb him. It was quite simple. He was scared and acted out of self-preservation.”
The Money:
MUSA Kusa’s interrogation will last from two to three years as MI5 officers ¬painstakingly squeeze every bit of ¬information they can from him.
But it may be well worth it to him, clinching a huge financial deal and a safe haven here or possibly in the US.
One source told the Daily Mirror that it was highly likely a secret Cabinet committee meeting in a few years would agree a package for him, perhaps worth several million pounds. But whatever his demands, no promises or even a hint of an offer will be made to him for at least six months.
He’s One Of Us, says Paul Pillar:
But I think his decision reflects more than just a calculation of odds about the outcome of the current Libyan civil war. Kusa is an urbane, polished man who would not look out of place as a minister or ambassador in the service of a western government. He has a western education, in the form of a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University. He is not the image of a revolutionary or a subversive; he comes across as a polite and pragmatic diplomat. Whatever thuggish history may be in his past, it is hard to picture him as representing the current thuggish elements of the Libyan regime. In this moment of trial, anguish, and uncertainty, probably something inside told him that he belongs in the west.
The Immunity:
In his statement Mr Hague said:
His resignation shows that Qadhafi’s regime, which has already seen significant defections to the opposition, is fragmented, under pressure and crumbling from within. Qadhafi must be asking himself who will be the next to abandon him.
We reiterate our call for Qadhafi to go. Musa Kusa is not being offered any immunity from British or international justice.
Who now speaks for the 270 people murdered at Lockerbie?
Frank Duggan, president of the Victims of Pan Am 103 group, said: “He should not be treated as a witness but as part of the criminal enterprise that brought down the plane.”
“He knows who ordered it, who made the bomb, who paid for it, who transported it to Malta and how it was put on the plane. He knows the details of (bomber) Megrahi’s release from the Scottish prison, including the role of the British officials,” he said.
Jim Swire’s daughter Flora was killed in the mass murder:
Mr Swire, who met Mr Kusa during a visit to Libya in 1991, described Mr Kusa as “extremely frightening. More frightening than Gaddafi himself”. He said: “He was clearly running things. If Libya was involved in Lockerbie, he can tell us how they carried out the atrocity and why. I would be appalled if by now the Scottish police are not in England interviewing Mr Kusa. It is a great day for us.”
We’re the good guys:
But Mr Cameron hailed the defection of Kusa as a ‘serious blow’ to the ‘crumbling and rotten Gaddafi regime’.
Change the words around and you get:
But Mr Gaddafi hailed the defection of Kusa as a ‘serious blow’ to the ‘crumbling and rotten Cameron regime’.
That’s hard on Cameron. The difference between democratic Britain and Libya is that the Tony Blair-led Labour administration that fixed it for Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to escape justice and live out his days in freedom has gone. But the overriding message remains unaltered if the British Government does not get justice for the 270 and continues to lie and connive to sacrifice truth for money.
Says Cameron:
“Let me be clear, Musa Kusa is not being granted immunity, there is no deal of that kind. The point I would make about the dreadful events over Lockerbie, that investigation is still open and the police and the prosecuting authorities are entirely independent of Government and they should follow their evidence wherever it leads and the Government will assist them in any way possible.”
THEY WANT JUSTICE!
Susan Cohen, 72, of Cape May, New Jersey, who lost her 20-year-old daughter Theodora in the bombing, added: “He should go to jail, he has to be put on trial and he has to see justice. Britain has to take responsibility for this guy and do the right thing. This time Britain has to mean it.”
Tory MP Robert Halfon adds:
“I think what has happened is comparable to Rudolf Hess coming here during the Second World War. The fact is that this man is most likely a war criminal, allegedly been responsible for the deaths of British citizens, allegedly the organiser of the Lockerbie bombing. He needs to go to the international court to face trials for war crimes. There’s no way the British taxpayer should be subsidising one of Gaddafi’s henchmen to live in the UK.”
Posted: 1st, April 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
Libya: Obama’s Humanitarian Crisis Is Back In The US
PRESIDENT Obama is not at the London conference to talk about solving a problem like Libya. But Hillary Clinton is. As Obama says, there is a “looming humanitarian crisis.” Well, yes. When the far Right-wing rebels we’re backing hit Tripoli, then Gaddafi and his forces will be in a deep brown crisis.
As for a humanitarian crisis, get a load of that table on the left. Yes, it is in 000s.
Back in London, lots of politicians are vying to see whose vested interest will get the biggest say on Libya. Want to know which forces of good were there? Here you go. We’ve highlighted a few of the choice ones:
International Organisations
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Posted: 29th, March 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
Libya: How Iran And Syria Got Away With Mass Murder In Lockerbie
LIBYA – billed on the BBC TV news as a cosy “Conflict” and not a proper war, is a pathetic escapade based on emotion and greed. The anti-Gaddafi forces are called the “rebels“. But the real rebel looks more like Gaddafi. Madame Arcati takes a look:
WHILE Britain, America, France and other mighty nations play space invader games over the Libyan Desert, nudge-winkingly plotting the overthrow of the unloved Gaddafi, my mind keeps turning back to Private Eye‘s late and celebrated investigative reporter Paul Foot and his well-argued alternative view of the Lockerbie atrocity.
In 2004 he wrote in The Guardian: ‘The Lockerbie bombing was carried out not by Libyans at all but by terrorists based in Syria and hired by Iran to avenge the shooting down in the summer of 1988 of an Iranian civil airliner by a US warship.’
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Posted: 29th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (4)
Libya – The War: Allies Are Fighting For Al Qaeda And Other Good Eggs
LIBYA – The war: The good news for Gaddafi is that just with the war without meaning a week old, it’s bene kicked off the front pages by news that petrol prices are still high (Daily Mail), Elizabeth Taylor has died (everyone), Alan Titchmarsh has bulbs for sale (Daily Express), there another march by those with State-worker pensions to end “Tory Cuts” (Daily Mirror), a photo of Ashley Cole spitting (Daily Star) and the i’s insightful headline: “Why it’s ok to like eggs again.”
Meanwhile, you might laugh that despite this tabloid’s assertion that the Brits are in charge of the German-style blitz, no-one is:
FRANCE, Britain and the US have agreed NATO should play a “key role” in the command of military operations in Libya, but uncertainty remains about who will lead coalition forces.
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Is Libyan TV Biased In Favour Of Gaddafi? Let’s See
LIBYA – The War: If you thought our media was biased, take look at how the Libyans do it on state TV. The news anchor, blessed with gravitas-giving silver hair and a photogenic AK47, declares:
“In the name of Almighty God, I pledge to you, my Dear Leader, that I will sacrifice my last breath, my last bullet, my last drop of blood, last baby and child for you.”
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Posted: 23rd, March 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Libya War: Paedo King Gaddafi On Run From Murderous Americans With 40 Virgins
LIBYA – The War: Paedo King Gaddafi on run with 40 virgins. Anorak’s look at the war in the news:
The Independent (front page): “Bombed but not broken”
We see a man stood amid rubble. He is holding aloft a photo of Colonel Gaddafi in his youthful vigour. The message is clear: the Indy has a respect for Gaddafi’s fighters who are now, in the face of superior fire power, the rebels.
Daily Mirror (front page): “With friends like these”
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Posted: 23rd, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Lynsey Addario: Sexually Abused American Journalist Provides Reason For War
LYNSEY Addario was held captive by pro-Gaddafi forces and along with three other American journalists – Tyler Hicks, Stephen Farrell and Anthony Shadid – beaten and threatened with being decapitated and shot.
Well, yes. This is war.
Addario is no fool. She’s a photojournalist with the New York Times, capturing in focus those moments that the camera phones can’t. She was captured at Ajdabiya. A Libyan punched her in the face.
“Then I started crying and he was laughing more.”
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Libya War New Round-Up: Gaddafi Is a Peado And We’re Running Out Of Pilots
LIBYA – war with Gaddafi: Anorak’s look at story in the news:
Facts:
The House of Commons endorsed the action by a margin of 557 to 13 after the Prime Minister reassured them: “This is not going to be another Iraq.”
The front pages:
i: A licence to Kill Gaddafi?
Killing the leader of foreign country becomes matter of public debate.
The Independent: “The Disunited nations”
The Times: “Gaddafi uses human shields to foil attacks”
Daily Star: “Gadddafi’s human shelf of kids”
This is equipped with photo of Gaddafi stood behind two children, who are each holding what looks like a new toy. Tomorrow, look out for allegations that Gaddafi is a paedo, Muslim, gypsy, Asbo, benefits cheating scumbag. He’ll be wearing a Burberry baseball cap, wearing Argo gems and holding an angry dog on lead in the park by Friday.
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Libya: Allies Warm Their Cosy Assets On Gaddafi’s Lap
WHILE I couldn’t care less about the fate of togaed Gaddafi and his open-necked colleagues, I am intrigued by the new language of the UN’s war against Libya. ‘Military assets’, ‘naval assets’, ‘intelligence assets’: I don’t recall any ‘assets’ during the Iraq invasion when the the lingo of the fairground for mass destruction gained common currency (‘shock and awe’ etc).
My assumption is that someone in PR dreamt up ‘assets’ for the ongoing purpose of sanitising and propagandising instruments of war. ‘Asset’ is a word that customarily belongs to business and investment: it connotes something of economic value. In the general sense, an asset is a valuable item. Rather than focus on the purpose of a tank, rocket, submarine, what have you, someone has decided instead to emphasise value; and to have something of value one must own it. So, all these killer assets are first and foremost property – it is this euphemistic line of thinking that our leaders would have us follow when we listen to the news. Think assets, think house, car, garden… Tomahawk Rocket? Almost cosy.
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Libya: If The Rebels Win Who Will They Kill?
LIBYA: Issandr El Amrani wonders what will happen if the BNP-likened Libyans “rebels” defeat Gaddafi, who has tried to shoot them into submission?
Once empowered, the insurgents will naturally want to go all the way and topple Qadhafi. I totally support them in that endeavor. But we don’t know much about them, or how they might behave towards non-combatants that back the Qadhafi regime. I’m sure any violence against civilians by insurgents will be ignored by the intervention force in the fog of war, but this is possible only to a certain extent before it becomes embarrassing, particularly as UNSC Resolution 1973 gives a mandate to protect civilians from everybody, not just the Qadhafi regime. Sometimes the good guys can be bad guys, as we saw in Darfur (both in terms of the stalled peace process and in terms of the actions of certain Darfuri groups).
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Posted: 21st, March 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
Libya: Jingoistic News Of The World ‘Photoshops’ Tomahawk Missiles
LIBYA: You know how the News of The World led with the jingoistic front-page headline that the Libyans loyal to Gaddafi (as well as anyone else in the area who might be collaterally damaged) were being “BLOWN TO BRITS”?
We were told:
A British submarine blasted a string of 20 Libyan air defence units after launching a storm of 112 deadly accurate Tomahawk missiles
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Libya: The Nazi Allies Fight For Arab Fascists Against Gaddafi’s African Union
LIBYA – the war: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the war on Colonel Gaddafi in teh news: The Sun, Independent and Mail all lead with news of the “blitz” on Colonel Gaddafi’s troops.
This jingoism follows the Times’ headline, which harped to those dark days leading to the Second World War: “The Storm Gathers.” You want perspective? Don’t read the papers.
The Blitz was, of course, when the Germans and the Nazis terrorised the British. Good to know that 60 years on our newspapers are praising Our Boys for blitzing an enemy.
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