*French & British Empires initiating WWIII with firebombing of millions in Libya

[larsonstdoc]

UN rejects emergency meeting sought by Libya


AFP


March 21, 2011

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTx2qLIAaj2mpZBmwBfAQf5uWowg?docId=c2b284d2590449f7bbd4bf505db4c5aa


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Monday rejected a Libyan request for an emergency meeting to halt what it called "military aggression" by France and the United States, but the council will get a briefing on Libya Thursday from the secretary-general.

Council members held closed-door discussions in response to a letter dated Saturday from Libyan Foreign Minister Musa Kousa who claimed that "an external conspiracy was targeting ... (Libya) and its unity and territorial integrity."

According to the letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Kousa accused France and the U.S. of bombing "several civilian sites" in violation of the U.N. Charter and called for "an emergency meeting in order to halt this aggression."

The Security Council late Thursday adopted a resolution authorizing military action to protect civilians from attacks by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces and imposed a no-fly zone over the country. On Saturday, U.S., French and British forces launched airstrikes against Libyan air defenses, tanks, armored personnel carriers and other military hardware.

India's U.N. Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri said the resolution requires Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to report to the Security "within seven days" on the implementation of its provisions, which also include a more robust arms embargo and additional Libyan individuals, companies, banks and other entities subject to travel bans and asset freezes.

"That seven days is on Thursday, so people didn't want to get into a discussion on who represents whom and what the letter is," Puri said. "They want to have a discussion on substance which will be on Thursday."

One of the sticky issues if the council had agreed to an emergency meeting would have been who would speak for Libya. The entire Libyan mission to the United Nations, including the ambassador and deputy ambassador, is supporting the opposition and has called for Gadhafi to step down.

MORE

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTx2qLIAaj2mpZBmwBfAQf5uWowg?docId=c2b284d2590449f7bbd4bf505db4c5aa

  Cowards--closed door sessions--where the exchange of ideas AND MONEY occurs.

  There is no money in ending this mess created by Soetoro, Sarkosy, Clinton and Co.

[bigron]

Bombing Libya to “save Libya”: The forces behind this war


By Brian Becker, National Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition

March 21, 2011

http://uruknet.com/?p=m76072&hd=&size=1&l=e

[larsonstdoc]

Things starting to go bitter... One USAF F-15 down.. now more...

Breaking: Emergency landing in Cyprus (Larnaca) for 2 Mirages and accompayining C17 en-route to Souda (Greece) for odysseydawn (larepubblica.it)

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2011/03/22/dirette/diretta_libia_22-13933126/?ref=HREA-1

  Hey shipgeek is this Italian (language)?

[shipgeek]

  Hey shipgeek is this Italian (language)?

La Repubblica. Yes, Italy.
Soft-lefties anti-Berlusconi.
Yet they approve the war.

[larsonstdoc]

La Repubblica. Yes, Italy.
Soft-lefties anti-Berlusconi.
Yet they approve the war.

  Thank you.  It is a great thing  that some people at Prison Planet Forum know other languages.

[shipgeek]

A lot of activity at Malta (Luqa) airport.
Listening right now. War plus civilian aircrafts.

Tansmissions hard to hear at times.

 

[bigron]

Statement on the potential use of depleted uranium in Libya


International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons

A US AV8B Harrier

March 21, 2011

http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/396.html


At the time of writing there is no definitive evidence that depleted uranium munitions have been used in joint US, UK, French and Italian attacks on Libya. However there is potential for them to be used and ICBUW reminds belligerents of their obligations under IHL.21 March 2011 - ICBUW

ICBUW is concerned that the current use of US Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier ground attack aircraft could lead to DU contamination should their cannon be deployed against ground targets. ICBUW is also concerned that the potential for contamination may increase significantly as the conflict develops if US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt ground attack aircraft are deployed.

The majority of platforms that fire DU are land-based, although some air and sea-based platforms have also been developed. The only air-based platforms currently in service with the countries currently involved in the conflict are the US A-10 Thunderbolt and the AV-8B Harrier.


AV-8B Harrier

The AV-8B Harrier is fielded by the US Marine Corps, and is known to have fired around 11 tons (9,979kg) of DU during the 1991 Gulf War. The AV-8B fires 20mm ammunition from a rotary cannon mounted in a twin pod on the underside of the aircraft. A range of ammunition is available for this cannon, and the DU based round, the PGU-20/U Armour Piercing Incendiary (API) round is said by some sources to have been taken out of service. However, recent US federal procurement documents describe it as being in the Department of Defence’s inventory, so its use in the current conflict cannot be ruled out.

A US Marines press release on the 20th March stated that AV-8B Harriers from the 26th Marine Expeditionary unit, based on USS Kearsarge attacked ground forces and air defences in Libya. While dropping aerial munitions is more likely to have taken place than the cannon being used in strafing runs, it remains possible that these aircraft have deployed, or will deploy, DU weapons.

A10-Thunderbolt

The A-10 fires a mixture of DU-based armour piercing, and non-DU high explosive rounds from a rotary cannon mounted below the cockpit. The A-10 is the platform responsible for most of the DU fired in Iraq in both 1991 and 2003, and all of the DU fired in the Balkans.

At present there are no reports that the A-10 has been deployed in the current hostilities, but its cannon was designed for attacking armoured vehicles, so it is a possible contender for future deployment.

However, the A-10s slow speed and short range mean it is not likely to be deployed in this phase of the conflict. At present, air attacks are being undertaken from long distances and forces loyal to Moammar Ghadaffi are thought to be in possession of considerable quantities of man portable surface to air missiles, to which the A-10 is vulnerable.

Bunker busters and cruise missiles

It has long been alleged that DU, or even enriched uranium, is used in US 'bunker busters’ and other large air-launched bombs and missiles. ICBUW has followed-up all allegations of this sort in detail, and is yet to have found compelling evidence to substantiate these allegations. While cruise missiles have been fitted with dummy DU warheads to simulate nuclear warheads during testing, and some ground penetrating nuclear weapons have utilised a DU warhead, ICBUW believes that claims for the widespread use of uranium in these applications remain highly speculative.

As such, ICBUW does not have any reason to believe that any weapons of this sort containing DU have been fielded in the current conflict.

Legality of the use of depleted uranium

Although the French, British, US and Italian actions have approval from the UN Security Council, the mandate under resolution 1973 is for the protection of civilians. Furthermore, all belligerents are bound by the conventions of International Humanitarian Law, including the obligation to protect civilians from harm during conflict. The use of weapons such as depleted uranium, which cause long-lasting contamination and present a hazard to combatants and non-combatants alike, run contrary to these obligations, and should not be countenanced in any conflict, particularly by parties who claim their motivation is the protection of civilians.

ICBUW repeats calls for warring parties to affirm publically that they will not use DU weapons in this conflict, and urges all sides to abide by their obligations under International Humanitarian Law to protect civilian life.

ICBUW will continue to monitor the situation closely


http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/396.html

[shipgeek]

McCain lies.

McCain: Libyan hit averted 'horrible blood bath'

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain says the military strikes against Libya were necessary because there would have been "a horrible blood bath" under besieged strongman Moammar Gadhafi without international intervention.

The Arizona Republican and 2008 presidential candidate tells CBS's "The Early Show" the no-fly zone the U.S. and its NATO allies implemented is working and it's time for "a no-drive zone."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42207795/ns/politics

 

[bigron]

Call for Action against the Bombing of Libya!



All-African Peoples’ Revolutionary Party

March 22, 2011

ARTICLE, PICTURES, VIDEO & VERY MANY LINKS HERE :

http://a-aprp-gc.org/?p=2130





 

[shipgeek]

Listening to Malta Airport feed. Quite some traffic. Very busy with war and civilian movements.

All war planes under NATO call sign.

 

[Suriel]

China calls for immediate cease-fire in Libya, after days of allied airstrikes
Published 11:13 22.03.11
Latest update 11:13 22.03.11


China was one of five countries to abstain from last week's UN vote to allow all necessary measures to stop Gadhafi's assault on rebel-held towns.
By The Associated Press


BEIJING - China called Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire in Libya where the U.S. and European nations have launched punishing airstrikes to enforce a United Nations endorsed no-fly zone.

"All parties must immediately cease fire and resolve issues through peaceful means," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regularly scheduled news conference, citing unconfirmed reports that the airstrikes had caused civilian deaths.

read more @ http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/china-calls-for-immediate-cease-fire-in-libya-after-days-of-allied-airstrikes-1.351113

[No2NWO]

NATO Steps Up to Seize Gadhafi’s Guns, Maybe More

Overcoming internal divisions, the NATO military alliance said on Tuesday that it’s going to enforce the U.N.-backed arms embargo against Moammar Gadhafi. Will it take charge of the no-fly mission, Operation Odyssey Dawn? That’s… iffy.

A brand-new statement from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of NATO, says that Adm. James Stavridis, NATO’s military commander, to “conduct operations to monitor, report and, if needed, interdict vessels suspected of carrying illegal arms or mercenaries.” It sounds like a largely sea-based mission: Stavridis is “activating NATO ships and aircraft in the Central Mediterranean.”

So does that mean the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle or the Navy amphibious ship Kearsarge are now under Stavridis’ control? Those ships are supporting Odyssey Dawn. That mission is supposed to transition over the coming days to a different international command. And while the French are pretty hawkish on going after Gadhafi, Rasmussen’s statement stops short of saying Odyssey Dawn will become a NATO mission.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/nato-steps-up-to-seize-gadhafis-guns-maybe-more/

[HAZMAT]

I doubt it because they are controlled also but, I would just love it if china or russia stepped in and stopped all of this. I am sure if they both threatened to intervene we would go back crawling to our bases.

[ghost hacked]

I doubt it because they are controlled also but, I would just love it if china or russia stepped in and stopped all of this. I am sure if they both threatened to intervene we would go back crawling to our bases.

China has been flexing it's naval power muscle as of late. That 40 tonne missile frigate near Libya is an example of that.

[Brocke]

Operation EL DORADO CANYON 1986 Libya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgqDT2mlENo

After years of occasional skirmishes with Libya over Libyan territorial claims to the Gulf of Sidra, and years of vulnerability to Libyan-supported terrorism, especially the Abu Nidal group behind the Rome and Vienna airport attacks of December 27, 1985, the United States contemplated a military attack to send a message about support for international terrorism. In March 1986, the United States, asserting the 12-nautical-mile (22 km; 14 mi) limit to territorial waters recognized by the international community, sent a carrier task force to the region...


El Dorado Canyon: Reagan’s Undeclared War With Qaddafi



America’s war on terrorism did not start on 11 September. Long before the overt war in Afghanistan and the covert war against al-Qaida, U.S. forces struck at one of the hotbeds of terrorism in the world. On 15 April 1986, in the dead of night, American strike aircraft roared into the very heart of Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya, attacking carefully selected targets and nearly killing the "brother leader" himself. Code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, the raid was in direct response to Qaddafi’s support of a terrorist act against U.S. service personnel stationed in Europe and was a result of President Ronald Reagan’s pledge to respond to terrorism with "swift and effective retribution."
http://www.isbnlib.com/isbn/1557509832/El-Dorado-Canyon-Reagans-undeclared-war-with-Qaddafi

[Freeski]

What is Obama's endgame in Libya?
March 20, 2011|By David Gergen, CNN Senior Political Analyst
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-20/opinion/gergen.washington.libya_1_obama-administration-saudi-ties-arab-league?_s=PM:OPINION

After conversations with top players in Washington last week, mostly as I accompanied a group of Zuckerman Fellows from Harvard on a field trip, here are some brief reflections on the mood there toward events in the Middle East:

• The head-snapping change in policy toward Libya has everyone guessing where the Mideast is heading, whether the U.S. has a good handle, and most of all, what President Obama is trying to achieve.

• One irony, as a female friend put it, is that for years many of us believed that if only more women could gain power, the world would surely become more peaceful. Yet, we now see that the three people who talked Obama into using force against Libya's Moammar Gadhafi were all women -- Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power. Leading male advisers were opposed. Perhaps we should be less surprised than we are. Remember Margaret Thatcher? And Golda Meir? And remember, too, that both were seen as successful leaders for most of their time in office.

...

• Meanwhile, the administration privately -- and rightly -- stresses that even as we hit Libya, we must keep a strategic focus on Egypt and Saudi Arabia, long seen as our most powerful Arab friends in the region.

[shipgeek]

He should have sent his war planes into Zimbabwe to remove Mugabe.
He is much much worse than Khadaffi only I think Zimbabwe has no oil.

Kabila in Congo would be another candidate.
He also is much worse than Khadaffi.

[Freeski]

Operation EL DORADO CANYON 1986 Libya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgqDT2mlENo

After years of occasional skirmishes with Libya over Libyan territorial claims to the Gulf of Sidra, and years of vulnerability to Libyan-supported terrorism, especially the Abu Nidal group behind the Rome and Vienna airport attacks of December 27, 1985, the United States contemplated a military attack to send a message about support for international terrorism. In March 1986, the United States, asserting the 12-nautical-mile (22 km; 14 mi) limit to territorial waters recognized by the international community, sent a carrier task force to the region...


El Dorado Canyon: Reagan’s Undeclared War With Qaddafi



America’s war on terrorism did not start on 11 September. Long before the overt war in Afghanistan and the covert war against al-Qaida, U.S. forces struck at one of the hotbeds of terrorism in the world. On 15 April 1986, in the dead of night, American strike aircraft roared into the very heart of Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya, attacking carefully selected targets and nearly killing the "brother leader" himself. Code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, the raid was in direct response to Qaddafi’s support of a terrorist act against U.S. service personnel stationed in Europe and was a result of President Ronald Reagan’s pledge to respond to terrorism with "swift and effective retribution."
http://www.isbnlib.com/isbn/1557509832/El-Dorado-Canyon-Reagans-undeclared-war-with-Qaddafi

Good flashback. I didn't know at the time that France and Spain had said no to using their airspace.

[iks83]

I doubt it because they are controlled also but, I would just love it if china or russia stepped in and stopped all of this. I am sure if they both threatened to intervene we would go back crawling to our bases.

I fear that is exactly the goal. First they dont veto it so that they later can act all outraged and then go join the fun as intervention of the intevention. Then NATO and the US will go HOW DARE YOU! And then things really get interesting.

[Dig]

YALE 2/3/11 REPORT: Libya water resources must be annexed for good of Africa
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=204239.0

**UN regime changes in Tunisia/Egypt/Libya to create ARAB WATER WARS!!!!!!!
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=204049.0

NATO invasion to destroy the 26 year/$20B water project Gaddafi just finished
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=204237.0

[cardio]

ODDESY DAWN

I just noticed that sounded like Kubriks "Space Oddesy" which is kind of a NWO spirtual blueprint.  New World Religion.  Dawning of a New Age -  The Age of Aquarius -  Worship of the Stars / Heavens   (The attacked on the 1st day of Spring / were ordered  by New World Orderists to attack on the "Ides of March" and attacked during a SUPERMOON.

Dawn -  "The Dawn of Man (from 2001:  A space Oddesy) and "Dawning of the Age of Aquarius"    

Attacking another Muslim Country  (They call old world Relgion) to bring in the NEW (worship of stars, creation)  DAWNing of (Age of Aquarius)  Aquarius =  Water Carrier constellation / The want to be the Water Carriers.

NWO Order plans to be the WATER CARRIERS /  UN total control of M.E. and North Africas Water /  Water Taxes and Slavery of the "Old World" "3rd Word"  through water  /  Qaddafi just finishing $20 Billion - 26 year water self-reliance plan!!!!!!!!

[shipgeek]

With all the bombs and cruise missiles dropped on Libya since the attacks started there is probably not much left that they can bomb.
The next step is to kill Khadaffi and his whole family.
How many civilians killed in the attacks? That we will never know. The number of civilian deaths will be rigged.
This war is disgusting.

[Brocke]

RAND Corporation Discussion: Fred Wehrey and Charles Ries Discuss Conflict in Libya

March 7, 2011

AUDIO
http://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2011/03/07/fred-wehrey-charles-ries-discuss-conflict-libya.html

Fred Wehrey, senior policy analyst, and Charles Ries, senior fellow and director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy, spoke with RAND media relations director Jeffrey Hiday about the conflict in Libya, including various options for international engagement.

[shipgeek]

Netherlands to join NATO operation against Libya

The Netherlands is sending F-16 fighter planes, a minesweeper HNLMS Haarlem and a refuelling plane to help the international military operation in Libya. The Dutch government met on Tuesday evening to take decisions over Dutch participation in a NATO mission in Libya.

The Dutch operation will last three months and will cost 20 million euros. Six F-16s will be involved - two of them as reserve planes. Two hundred Dutch troops will be deployed. The HNLMS Haarlem is already in the Mediterranean for a NATO exercise.

Earlier today, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced that NATO would enforce the weapon embargo against Libya. It is the first time all 28 NATO countries have reached agreement over the crisis in Libya. A unanimous decision is needed for NATO to take action.

NATO also has plans for monitoring the no-fly zone above Libya. At the moment a coalition of international forces is enforcing the no-fly zone.

http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/netherlands-join-nato-operation-against-libya

 

[shipgeek]

AFRICOM photo stream. Look at these killer aircrafts!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/africom/5552115529/in/photostream/

 

[feeditup]

china creepin in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE1BA85atic

[shipgeek]

china creepin in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE1BA85atic

Only there to rescue/protect their own people.
They would have veto-ed if they were truly against the war.
They abstained. Abstaining is not saying no. Veto-ing is.
China has too much to gain with the US not to veto this war at the UN Sec. Council.
They're hypocrits.

[feeditup]

China calls for immediate cease-fire in Libya

BEIJING –  China called Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire in Libya where the U.S. and European nations have launched punishing airstrikes to enforce a U.N. no-fly zone.

India, too, expressed concern over the campaign, repeating a mantra of both Asian giants that the violence in the North African country was an internal affair.

All parties must "immediately cease fire and resolve issues through peaceful means," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regularly scheduled news conference, citing unconfirmed reports that the airstrikes had caused civilian deaths.


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/22/china-calls-immediate-cease-libya/

[bigron]

Middle East
Mar 24, 2011 
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MC24Ak01.html 
 

THE ROVING EYE

The 'optics' of Odyssey Dawn


By Pepe Escobar

To follow Pepe's articles on the Great Arab Revolt, please click here.
http://atimes.com/atimes/others/Pepe2011.html


Odyssey Dawn, at least for now, is the first United States Africom war. The Pentagon, via Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, dispelled any doubts as he stressed that the "leading edge" is American. Homer is played by General Carter Ham, out of his headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany (no African country bothered to host Africom). And Ulysses - in what looks and sounds more like an Iliad than an Odyssey - is commander of Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn Admiral Sam Locklear, on board USS Mount Whitney somewhere in the Mediterranean.

 
The White House and the Pentagon war planners bet their "unique capabilities" on a mini-remix of the "shock and awe" of the Iraq war. The problem is Colonel Muammar Gaddafi appears to be neither shocked nor awed; he may be angry - as in his photo op this Tuesday at the Bab al-Aziziya compound - but he hasn't cracked up. And his regime is fighting back, not turning against the colonel.

Still, Washington is publicly projecting the illusion of being desperate to get rid of this war sold as a "limited mission". But communications are jammed. As in the masters of war having a hard time to, in Pentagon lingo, "transition it to a coalition command".

Washington should have evaluated the "optics" before evoking Homer. Forget about mission creep (ongoing), friendly fire (it will come), collateral damage (already happened), axis of evil (a perennial favorite); the new Beltway neologism of choice is "optics". As in US military types and pundits carping that the "emotional optics" of cruise missiles plus coalition briefings reminds everyone of Iraq 2003. Or widespread fears about the "optics of waging war" in yet another Muslim country.

Optical illusions

Even among the "allies", the "optics" is positively of the basket case variety. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an ungodly mess. Turkey wants dialogue - not bombs. Germany is against a NATO intervention - stressing only bombing won't do. France - clinging to neo-Napoleonic President Nicolas Sarkozy's megalomania - wants to keep the illusion it is in command.

Scared that France would usurp its place as Libya's prime trading partner and scrambling not to let Mediterranean policy be dictated in Paris, the Italian government of Gaddafi pal, Prime Minister Silvio "Bunga Bunga" Berlusconi, reluctantly joined the "coalition" (and now, in private, Bunga Bunga is viciously trashing Sarko). Italian energy giant ENI has invested US$50 billion in Libya; thus ENI is keen on getting rid of Gaddafi after the colonel threatened to open Libyan oil and gas to BRIC members Russia, India and China.

The top four BRIC members (South Africa is the fifth) wisely skipped the whole Odyssey. Brazil called for a ceasefire and dialogue. China expressed "deep concern" and warned of a "humanitarian disaster". India said "no external powers should interfere" in Libya. And Russia, via Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, dismissed the "allow everything" resolution.

The same applies for the 53-nation African Union (AU). The AU wants a diplomatic solution. Gaddafi has plenty of historical allies among AU countries. It helps that he pays most of the AU's bills.

Algeria - also a member of the Arab League - said the intervention was "disproportionate". In Chad, President Idriss Deby remains in power to a great extent due to Gaddafi's deep pockets. Deby returned the favor sending mercenaries and weapons to Tripoli. There's more; if the no-fly zone is not extended to southern Libya (it covers just the north and the Mediterranean coast), Gaddafi is still able to receive military and manpower help from Chad, Mali, Niger and Algeria (see Fly me a Tuareg on time Asia Times Online, March 8, 2011).
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MC08Ak01.html
It has not dawned on Odyssey Dawn's planners that a coalition without explicit AU support means the AU is free to keep helping Gaddafi's regime.

Then there's the meat in the coalition's kebab - the Arab League. Washington ordering the embattled kings of Morocco and Jordan and the wealthy emirs in Doha and Abu Dhabi to engage as "allies" - besides the astonishing grotesquerie of these dictators posing as humanitarian saviors of democracy - does not mean the Arab League is fully on board Odyssey Dawn.

Oh yes. Unless we count the then they were six, then they were four, now they're only two Qatar Air Force Mirage 2000 - plus a C-17 cargo plane - to be deployed probably this coming weekend as the glorious Arab League fighting contribution to the "coalition".

No endgame

The "coalition" never even came close to exhausting "all necessary measures" stressed by United Nations resolution 1953 to seek a diplomatic solution before the American Ulysses started Tomahawking Libya. What all these unwilling, no-coalition countries are essentially asking is for an international team - Arab League, African Union, United Nations - to go to Tripoli and negotiate a package; a real ceasefire, mechanisms to protect civilians, and a political process leading to elections.

As if the faulty "optics" was not enough, Odyssey Dawn is not a full success - apart from having prevented a hypothetical massacre in Benghazi. The horrible accounts from Zawiya and Misurata tell of civilians being attacked by tanks and armored vehicles, as well as militias - Gaddafi's "irregulars" - in jeeps and pick-up trucks. This proves that no-fly - which for the moment basically translates as shock and awe lite - is not protecting a whole lot of civilians.

United States President Barack Obama now seems to be sure he has successfully tweaked the "optics". The official spin is that Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Sarko have all agreed that NATO should play "a key role" in Odyssey Dawn. Like in projecting the "optics" that it won't be in charge of the military wing of no-fly - when it eventually will (the 28 NATO members must approve it unanimously). Such optical saturation leads to what was obvious from the beginning; this will "transition" from a "coalition of the three willing" (US, Britain, France) to a NATO war.

If the Pentagon really applied its fabled "unique capabilities", the whole Gaddafi regime would be reduced to rubble in minutes. But that's a "limited mission" conducted by a "coalition" - not "regime change", although that's exactly what the president, the Europeans and most Arab dictators want. Talk about an "optics" red alert.

The Washington establishment is beaming that for the first time "the Arab public" is supporting an American intervention. Beware of the "optics" you pick. The "Arab public" is also making the connection that if Gaddafi shoots his own people and then gets bombed by the West, why should not the same thing happen to the dictators in Yemen and Bahrain? The "Arab public" can also clearly identify which methods Washington and the Europeans are using to try to appropriate the great 2011 Arab revolt to themselves.

For the moment, with so much fuzzy "optics", no think-tank dares predicting what the "coalition" will come up with if no-fly does not stop Gaddafi. Arming the rag-tag but very brave and ultra-motivated "rebels" - something already in effect - is mandated by UN resolution 1953. Washington, London and Paris pray that soon the rebels may switch from defense to attack, march over Tripoli, topple the tyrant and provide everyone with a Hollywood ending.

It won't happen. The transitional council in Benghazi asked for a no-fly zone - not a foreign intervention. What Odyssey Dawn is providing is most of all heavy bombing of Tripoli - on the other side of the country. The people of Tripoli are starting to see this as the beginning of a new colonial war. This means that a post-Gaddafi political transition cannot possibly be peaceful. Perversely, Odyssey Dawn is laying the groundwork for the partition of Libya. Balkanization looms.

Any decent military analyst worth his single malt on the rocks knows nobody wins a war from the air. The humanitarian yearning is a smokescreen (why Libya and not Yemen, Bahrain, Gaza?) This is more like a new, very dangerous war theater in the Orientalist-named MENA (Middle East, Northern Africa), a warped Odyssey with no endgame and no end in sight. Now you see it, now you don't.



Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).

He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com.


http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MC24Ak01.html



 
 

[shipgeek]

Air strikes silence Gaddafi guns at besieged city
By Maria Golovnina and Michael Georgy

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Western warplanes silenced Muammar Gaddafi's artillery and tanks besieging rebel-held Misrata in western Libya on Wednesday after a U.S. admiral warned his armour was the next target.

Breathing defiance, Gaddafi earlier said Western powers who carried out a fourth night of air strikes on Libya to protect civilians under a U.N. mandate were "a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history."

Gaddafi's tanks had kept up the shelling of Misrata, killing dozens of people this week, and residents said a "massacre" was taking place with doctors forced to treat the wounded in hospital corridors. Snipers fired at people from rooftops.

"The allied planes bombed twice so far. At 12:45 (2245 GMT Tuesday) this morning and then again less than two hours ago," a resident, Saadoun, told Reuters by telephone from Misrata.

"They (pro-Gaddafi forces) haven't fired a single artillery (round) since the air strike."

At least two explosions were heard in the Libyan capital Tripoli before dawn on Wednesday on a fourth night of strikes, Reuters witnesses said. The roar of a warplane was heard above the city followed by a barrage of anti-aircraft gunfire.

Prior to the Misrata strikes, Rear Admiral Peg Klein said warplanes would be sent out to attack Gaddafi's tanks.

"Some of those cities still have tanks advancing on them to attack the Libyan people," said Klein, commander of the expeditionary strike group aboard the USS Kearsarge off Libya.   

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http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE72M00B20110323

 

[Sheepleprod]

France has a 6 million strong Muslim population.  Look for False Flag's in France....  France also considered itself a player in keeping things in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and other N African countries somewhat under wraps.  This is a planned operation.  Yemen is next

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/23/eiffel-tower-evacuated-suspicious-package/

Eiffel Tower Evacuated after suspicious package found

[Dig]

'We are not at war,’ says Fillon
http://www.france24.com/en/20110322-france-not-war-libya-fillon-prime-minister-gaddafi-military-intervention-un-resolution
Latest update: 23/03/2011 

Three days after the start of the international military mission over Libya, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (pictured) defended France’s involvement in Libya during Tuesday's parliamentary debate.

[bigron]

DO READ THIS IMPORTANT ARTICLE



Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their Patrons?

By Prof. Peter Dale Scott
 
Global Research, March 25, 2011
The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 13 No 3, March 28, 2011. 



Peter Dale Scott's Libyan Notebook 
[Editor's Note: Author's selected quotations and analysis]

Preface

The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle East. What began as a memorable, promising, relatively nonviolent achievement of New Politics - the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt - has morphed very swiftly into a recrudescence of old habits: America, already mired in two decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sporadic air attacks in Yemen and Somalia, now, bombing yet another Third World Country, in this case Libya.
 

READ HERE

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23947

[Dig]

DO READ THIS IMPORTANT ARTICLE



Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their Patrons?

By Prof. Peter Dale Scott
 
Global Research, March 25, 2011
The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 13 No 3, March 28, 2011. 



Peter Dale Scott's Libyan Notebook 
[Editor's Note: Author's selected quotations and analysis]

Preface

The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle East. What began as a memorable, promising, relatively nonviolent achievement of New Politics - the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt - has morphed very swiftly into a recrudescence of old habits: America, already mired in two decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sporadic air attacks in Yemen and Somalia, now, bombing yet another Third World Country, in this case Libya.
 

READ HERE

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23947

The author is a 9/11 truther who has a lecture showing many connections between the JFK assassins and the true 9/11 trilateral terrorists.

[Dig]

French plans to topple Gaddafi on track since last November

According to right-wing Italian journalist Franco Bechis, plans to spark the Benghazi rebellion were initiated by French intelligence services in November 2010. As Miguel Martinez from the progressive ComeDonChisciotte website observes, these revelations which have the blessing of the Italian secret services should be interpreted as the sign of internal rivalries within the European capitalist camp.
Voltaire Network wishes to point out that Paris promptly paired up with London in its scheme to overthrow Colonel Khadafi (Franco-British expeditionary force). This plan was recalibrated in the context of the Arab revolutions and taken over by Washington, which imposed its own objectives (counter-revolution in the Arab world and landing AfriCom on the Black continent). Therefore, the current coalition arises from a diversity of ambitions, which accounts for its internal contradictions. The timeline of events which set the stage for the military intervention against Libya is presented below.

Timeline of events

October 6, 2011
Nouri Mesmari turned himself to the French secret service and according to the Italians; he masterminded the revolution against Gaddafi. The document was leaked to Italian newspaper Libero.

Mesmari is referred in the documents by the French secret service as ‘The Libyan Wikileak’ because he gave them all the details within the regime and gave them an account of who’s who within Libya and who they should contact and what not.

With all the inside information, by mid January, the Italians say that the French had paved the way for the beginning of the revolution against Gaddafi.

October 20, 2010
Nouri Masmari boarded a Libyan Arab plane directed for Tunis accompanied by all his family. The day after, they were en route to France, claiming that he travelled to Paris due to health reasons. He stayed at the Concorde Lafayette Hotel.

In Paris he never met any doctors. In subsequent days he had several top secret meetings with high secret service French agents and other top government functionaries close to Nicolas Sarkozy.

November 16, 2010
A long car cade of official cars is parked in front of the hotel Concorde Lafayette whilst in the Mesmari suite; an important meeting is taking place. It is a long meeting.

November 18, 2010
A French ‘commercial’ delegation leaves for Benghazi. In the delegation there are officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and representitives from Cam Cereals, France Export Cereals, Cargill, Glencore, France Agrimer, Soufflet, Louis Dreyfous, and Comagra. Among the delegation, posing as government officials, there are French secret service agents and military staff. Their ‘business’ was meeting army officers indicated by Mesmari who will be ready to defect from the Libyan army.

While in Benghazi, contact is made with Libyan air defence colonel, Abdallah Gehani, who was indicated by Nouri Mesmari as an army officer who is ready to collaborate to topple Muammar Gaddafi. Gehani had good contacts in Tunisia too.

It is a secret operation but the Libyan regime suspects that a double game was being played and that something was about to happen.

November 28, 2010
An international warrant of arrest is issued by the Libyan government for Nouri Mesrami. Foreign Minister Musa Koussa is held responsible for the defection of Mesrami and his passport is withdrawn by the authorities.

December 2, 2010
French authorities announce that they have arrested a collaborator of Gaddafi. Word reaches Gaddafi that Mesrami is on house arrest at the Concorde Lafayette Hotel and is furious that his former friend and colleague asked for political asylum in France, where he still resides to this date. In fact during the first week of the uprising in Libya Mesrami gave interviews to Al Jazeera from a Paris studio.

Muammar Gaddafi sends messages to Nouri Mesrami to win him back saying that he forgives him for what he did and invites him back to Libya.

December 16, 2010
An emissary of Gaddafi, Abdallah Mansour head of state media, is arrested at the Hotel Concorde Lafayette trying to contact Mesrami.

December 23, 2010
A delegation of Libyans arrives in Paris for meetings with Mesrami and other French officials. The Libyans are Ali Ounes Mansouri, Farj Charrant and Fathi Boukhris. These three men will be known later together with Ali Hajj as leaders of the revolution, that started from Benghazi.

The Libyan delegation together with Mesrami and French military and secret service personnel dined at an elegant French restaurant at the Champs Elisée.

Decmber 25 – 31, 2010
Between Christmas and the start of the New Year, the French have every details and inside information available and in the compilation of the Maghreb Confidential document, it is stated that “the situation in Benghazi is boiling”.

Januray 22, 2011
Colonel Abdallah Gehani is arrested by the chief of the secret service in Cerenaica Aoudh Saaiti. Two days later the Colonel is transferred to a prison in Tripoli and accused with treason with the aim of holding back any dissent. But it was too late, the ball was already rolling and as the first signs of the revolution were seen a few days later after a prominent lawyer, Fathi Tarbel was arrested. The protest soon turned into clashes and as army officials deserted, the rebels advanced a took over important cities but so far they failed to take Tripoli.

The French government lead the airstrikes over Libya, was the first European state to recognise the new Libyan National Council and establish diplomatic relations. Since the Italian government was made aware of the documents, it started to take the back seat on the Libya crisis, and Prime Minister Berlusconi said that Italian military planes will not be engaged in airstrikes and that he hopes that it does not end into a war.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article169069.html

[chrisfromchi]

Obama Advisor: 'Invade Israel'

Samantha Power

Cass Sunstein's wife.

[bigron]

Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey



By John Pilger


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28194.htm

May 26, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- -- When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven “into the gutter from which they should never have emerged”.

The language of colonialism may have been modified; the spirit and the hypocrisy are unchanged. A new imperial phase is unfolding in direct response to the Arab uprising that began in January and has shocked Washington and Europe, causing an Eden-style panic. The loss of the Egyptian tyrant Mubarak was grievous, though not irretrievable; an American-backed counter-revolution is under way as the military regime in Cairo is seduced with new bribes and power shifting from the street to political groups that did not initiate the revolution. The western aim, as ever, is to stop authentic democracy and reclaim control.

Libya is the immediate opportunity. The Nato attack on Libya, with the UN Security Council assigned to mandate a bogus “no fly zone” to “protect civilians”, is strikingly similar to the final destruction of Yugoslavia in 1999. There was no UN cover for the bombing of Serbia and the “rescue” of Kosovo, yet the propaganda echoes today. Like Slobodan Milosevic, Muammar Gaddafi is a “new Hitler”, plotting “genocide” against his people. There is no evidence of this, as there was no genocide in Kosovo. In Libya there is a tribal civil war; and the armed uprising against Gaddafi has long been appropriated by the Americans, French and British, their planes attacking residential Tripoli with uranium-tipped missiles and the submarine HMS Triumph firing Tomahawk missiles, a repeat of the “shock and awe” in Iraq that left thousands of civilians dead and maimed. As in Iraq, the victims, which include countless incinerated Libyan army conscripts, are media unpeople.

In the “rebel” east, the terrorising and killing of black African immigrants is not news. On 22 May, a rare piece in the Washington Post described the repression, lawlessness and death squads in the “liberated zones” just as visiting EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, declared she had found only “great aspirations” and “leadership qualities”. In demonstrating these qualities, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the “rebel leader” and Gaddafi’s justice minister until February, pledged, “Our friends … will have the best opportunity in future contracts with Libya.” The east holds most of Libya’s oil, the greatest reserves in Africa. In March the rebels, with expert foreign guidance, “transferred” to Benghazi the Libyan Central Bank, a wholly owned state institution. This is unprecedented. Meanwhile, the US and the EU “froze” almost US$100 billion in Libyan funds, “the largest sum ever blocked”, according to official statements. It is the biggest bank robbery in history.

The French elite are enthusiastic robbers and bombers. Nicholas Sarkozy’s imperial design is for a French-dominated Mediterranean Union (UM), which would allow France to “return” to its former colonies in North Africa and profit from privileged investment and cheap labour. Gaddafi described the Sarkozy plan as “an insult” that was “taking us for fools”. The Merkel government in Berlin agreed, fearing its old foe would diminish Germany in the EU, and abstained in the Security Council vote on Libya.

Like the attack on Yugoslavia and the charade of Milosevic’s trial, the International Criminal Court is being used by the US, France and Britain to prosecute Gaddafi while his repeated offers of a ceasefire are ignored. Gaddafi is a Bad Arab. David Cameron’s government and its verbose top general want to eliminate this Bad Arab, like the Obama administration killed a famously Bad Arab in Pakistan recently. The crown prince of Bahrain, on the other hand, is a Good Arab. On 19 May, he was warmly welcomed to Britain by Cameron with a photo-call on the steps of 10 Downing Street. In March, the same crown prince slaughtered unarmed protestors and allowed Saudi forces to crush his country’s democracy movement. The Obama administration has rewarded Saudi Arabia, one of the most repressive regimes on earth, with a $US60 billion arms deal, the biggest in US history. The Saudis have the most oil. They are the Best Arabs.

The assault on Libya, a crime under the Nuremberg standard, is Britain’s 46th military “intervention” in the Middle East since 1945. Like its imperial partners, Britain’s goal is to control Africa’s oil. Cameron is not Anthony Eden, but almost. Same school. Same values. In the media-pack, the words colonialism and imperialism are no longer used, so that the cynical and the credulous can celebrate state violence in its more palatable form.

And as “Mr. Hopey Changey” (the name that Ted Rall, the great American cartoonist, gives Barack Obama), is fawned upon by the British elite and launches another insufferable presidential campaign, the Anglo-American reign of terror proceeds in Afghanistan and elsewhere, with the murder of people by unmanned drones – a US/Israel innovation, embraced by Obama. For the record, on a scorecard of imposed misery, from secret trials and prisons and the hounding of whistleblowers and the criminalising of dissent to the incarceration and impoverishment of his own people, mostly black people, Obama is as bad as George W. Bush.

The Palestinians understand all this. As their young people courageously face the violence of Israel’s blood-racism, carrying the keys of their grandparents’ stolen homes, they are not even included in Mr. Hopey Changey’s list of peoples in the Middle East whose liberation is long overdue. What the oppressed need, he said on 19 May, is a dose of “America’s interests [that] are essential to them”. He insults us all.

www.johnpilger.com


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28194.htm




   

[bigron]

NATO Transforms 'Humanitarian Intervention' in Libya into 'A Feast of Blood'



by K. Gajendra Singh


May 26, 2011

http://uruknet.com/?p=m78110&hd=&size=1&l=e


In another orgy of high-tech violence against a weak nation ( Libya's defense outlay is less than $ one billion, while the nations attacking it reach around $ one trillion) ,under the cover of an ill-conceived and mis-drafted UNSC resolution 1973 .NATO , not authorized by the resolution , is being used for regime change and to destroy another independent country as was Serbia, Iraq and others ( http://tarafits.blogspot.com/2011/04/euro-us-bombing-for-libyan-oil.html )

Moscow and Beijing which could have vetoed the ambiguous resolution did not do so for its own reasons, perhaps , sensing it would be another crucial nail in the Fall of the US led West , following the quagmire in Iraq and an unwinnable war in Afghanistan from which the West now wants out but with Washington wanting to leave behind its troops and bases .

Learning from experience , India which abstained on Resolution 1973 has come out more openly against Euro-US mayhem against Libya's civilian population with Western Special Forces on the ground in support of an opposition created for control of Libya's oil and its strategic location .

At Addis Ababa , after the just concluded India-Africa summit , where in India has offered assistance to African nations amounting to $ 5 billion, on Libya the Addis Ababa Declaration declares;

"We take note of UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973 on Libya and stress that efforts to implement them should be within the spirit and letter of those resolutions. In this regard, we call for an immediate cessation of all hostilities in Libya and urge the parties in the conflict to strive towards a political solution through peaceful means and dialogue. We express support for the African Union High-Level Ad Hoc Committee initiative and the African Union roadmap for the peaceful and consensual resolution of the conflict."
Below is a statement by Cynthia Ann McKinney , a six terms former US Congresswoman (D) and a member of the Green Party since 2007 and the latter's Presidential candidate in 2008. She was just recently in Libya.

NATO: A Feast of Blood


While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in response to the Soviet Union's survival as a Communist state. NATO was the U.S. insurance policy that capitalist ownership and domination of European, Asian, and African economies would continue. This also would ensure the survival of the then-extant global apartheid.

NATO is a collective security pact wherein member states pledge that an attack upon one is an attack against all. Therefore, should the Soviet Union have attacked any European Member State, the United States military shield would be activated. The Soviet Response was theWarsaw Pact that maintained a "cordon sanitaire" around the Russian Heartland should NATO ever attack. Thus, the world was broken into blocs which gave rise to the "Cold War."

Avowed "Cold Warriors" of today still view the world in these terms and, unfortunately, cannot move past Communist China and an amputated Soviet Empire as enemy states of the U.S. whose moves any where on the planet are to be contested. The collapse of the Soviet Unionprovided an accelerated opportunity to exert U.S. hegemony in an area of previous Russian influence. Africa and the Eurasian landmass containing former Soviet satellite states andAfghanistan and Pakistan along with the many other "stans" of the region, have always factored prominently in the theories of "containment" or "rollback" guiding U.S. policy up to today.

With that as background, last night's NATO rocket attack on Tripoli is inexplicable. A civilian metropolitan area of around 2 million people, Tripoli sustained 22 to 25 bombings last night, rattling and breaking windows and glass and shaking the foundation of my hotel.

I left my room at the Rexis Al Nasr Hotel and walked outside the hotel and I could smell the exploded bombs. There were local people everywhere milling with foreign journalists from around the world. As we stood there more bombs struck around the city. The sky flashed red with explosions and more rockets from NATO jets cut through low cloud before exploding.

I could taste the thick dust stirred up by the exploded bombs. I immediately thought about the depleted uranium munitions reportedly being used here--along with white phosphorus. If depleted uranium weapons were being used what affect on the local civilians?

Women carrying young children ran out of the hotel. Others ran to wash the dust from their eyes. With sirens blaring, emergency vehicles made their way to the scene of the attack. Car alarms, set off by the repeated blasts, could be heard underneath the defiant chants of the people.

Sporadic gunfire broke out and it seemed everywhere around me. Euronews showed video of nurses and doctors chanting even at the hospitals as they treated those injured from NATO's latest installation of shock and awe. Suddenly, the streets around my hotel became full of chanting people, car horns blowing, I could not tell how many were walking, how many were driving. Inside the hotel, one Libyan woman carrying a baby came to me and asked me why are they doing this to us?

Whatever the military objectives of the attack (and I and many others question the military value of these attacks) the fact remains the air attack was launched a major city packed with hundreds of thousands of civilians.

I did wonder too if the any of the politicians who had authorized this air attack had themselves ever been on the receiving end of laser guided depleted uranium munitions. Had they ever seen the awful damage that these weapons do a city and its population? Perhaps if they actually been in the city of air attack and felt the concussion from these bombs and saw the mayhem caused they just might not be so inclined to authorize an attack on a civilian population.

I am confident that NATO would not have been so reckless with human life if they had called on to attack a major western city. Indeed, I am confident that would not be called upon ever to attack a western city. NATO only attacks (as does the US and its allies) the poor and underprivileged of the 3rd world.

Only the day before, at a women's event in Tripoli, one woman came up to me with tears in her eyes: her mother is in Benghazi and she can't get back to see if her mother is OK or not. People from the east and west of the country lived with each other, loved each other, intermarried, and now, because of NATO's "humanitarian intervention," artificial divisions are becoming hardened. NATO's recruitment of allies in eastern Libya smacks of the same strain of cold warriorism that sought to assassinate Fidel Castro and overthrow the Cuban Revolutionwith "homegrown" Cubans willing to commit acts of terror against their former home country. More recently, Democratic Republic of Congo has been amputated de facto after Laurent Kabila refused a request from the Clinton Administration to formally shave off the eastern part of his country. Laurent Kabila personally recounted the meeting at which this request and refusal were delivered. This plan to balkanize and amputate an African country (as has been done in Sudan) did not work because Kabila said "no" while Congolese around the world organized to protect the "territorial integrity" of their country.

I was horrified to learn that NATO allies (the Rebels) in Libya have reportedly lynched, butchered and then their darker-skinned compatriots after U.S. press reports labeled Black Libyans as "Black mercenaries." Now, tell me this, pray tell. How are you going to take Blacks out of Africa? Press reports have suggested that Americans were "surprised" to see dark-skinned people in Africa. Now, what does that tell us about them?

The sad fact, however, is that it is the Libyans themselves, who have been insulted, terrorized, lynched, and murdered as a result of the press reports that hyper-sensationalized this base ignorance. Who will be held accountable for the lives lost in the bloodletting frenzy unleashed as a result of these lies?

Which brings me back to the lady's question: why is this happening? Honestly, I could not give her the educated reasoned response that she was looking for. In my view the international public is struggling to answer "Why?".

What we do know, and what is quite clear, is this: what I experienced last night is no "humanitarian intervention."

Many suspect it is about all the oil under Libya. Call me skeptical but I have to wonder why the combined armed sea, land and air forces of NATO and the US costing billions of dollars are being arraigned against a relatively small North African country and we're expected to believe its in the defense of democracy.

What I have seen in long lines to get fuel is not "humanitarian intervention." Refusal to allow purchases of medicine for the hospitals is not "humanitarian intervention." What is most sad is that I cannot give a cogent explanation of why to people now terrified by NATO's bombs, but it is transparently clear now that NATO has exceeded its mandate, lied about its intentions, is guilty of extra-judicial killings--all in the name of "humanitarian intervention." Where is the Congress as the President exceeds his war-making authority? Where is the "Conscience of the Congress?"

For those of who disagree with Dick Cheney's warning to us to prepare for war for the next generation, please support any one who will stop this madness. Please organize and then vote for peace. People around the world need us to stand up and speak out for ourselves and them because Iran and Venezuela are also in the cross-hairs. Libyans don't need NATO helicopter gunships, smart bombs, cruise missiles, and depleted uranium to settle their differences. NATO's "humanitarian intervention" needs to be exposed for what it is with the bright, shining light of the truth.

As dusk descends on Tripoli, let me prepare myself with the local civilian population for some more NATO humanitarianism.

Stop bombing Africa and the poor of the world!




http://uruknet.com/?p=m78110&hd=&size=1&l=e


 

[Rebelitarian]

Let's see the Brits and the French pave the way for WW3.

and

America passes an extension of the Patriot Act.

Co-incidence ??!??   

[shipgeek]

Me thinks this one will not be WWIII.

WWIII will be somewhere about "NATO" (US of A) and Pakistan.
India will get in at some point or other then it will be the big clash.